Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski met death in a plane crash (TIME, July 12), Soviet Russia's official Izvestia had good things to say of him. The late Polish Premier and Commander in Chief "understood and appreciated the full significance of the struggle of the Soviet Union against Germany, for the common cause of all freedom-loving peoples." It was to be regretted that Sikorski's "desire for a strengthening of the friendship and collaboration between Russia and Poland was frustrated...
...Moscow newspaper Izvestia, in an editorial broadcast to the Russian people by Government radio, said: " Without a second front, victory over Hitlerite Germany is impossible...
...editor is a professor of Marxist political science; Pravda has the austerity of Truth and it is a rare Russian who sets himself up as a better judge of that absolute. It has a daily press run of at least 2,000,000 copies, considerably more than that of Izvestia ("News"), the organ of the Praesidium of the Supreme Council; four times that of Red Star, the Army newspaper...
Answer to Frankness. The Russian reaction was prompt and compliant. Izvestia printed recapitulations of U.S. aid to Russia recently made by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward Stettinius Jr. A Moscow radio announcer broadcast similar material at a convenient speed for stenographers to take it down-a tip-off that provincial papers were expected to print it. Ambassador Litvinoff in Washington said: "Supplies received through Lend-Lease have been an enormous help and as such deeply appreciated by the people of the Soviet Union, who are fully aware of its extent...
...most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing two fawn-fast girl runners, Venus and Zena, usually...