Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Izvestia's editorial was the immediate cause of the break, and the U.S. attitude toward Russia was an encouragement for Brazil's action. But more important than either were the goings-on of the Communists in Brazil...
Retort Discourteous. What sparked the Brazil-Soviet break was a rude affront to touchy national honor. Last fortnight Moscow's Izvestia said, in a generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...
...dropped a million leaflets over the rocky, sunbaked, guerrilla-infested hills of Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace. Premier Sophoulis' leaflets offered amnesty to all who would turn in their guns. But in the northern hills "the word" had come by Radio Moscow, straight from the editorials of Pravda and Izvestia: no compromise; the fight goes on. Only a few hundred had trooped in from their hideouts to accept the amnesty which "liberals" in Western countries had demanded. Scoffed the Communist organ Rizospastis: "We welcome the leaflets which make badly needed tobacco wrappers, notepaper, fire starters and other essential if unmentionable...
Pound of Abuse. The Literary Gazette, Pravda and Izvestia all published anti-Marshall cartoons. They all took the party line of previous Izvestia cartoons that Uncle Sam, egged on by Wall Street and the press, was trying to grab the world...
Molotov had dealt his French comrades, and Communists everywhere, a cruel blow. The Moscow press offered hollow comfort by declaring that the long-expected U.S. depression was at hand, that the Marshall Plan was merely an attempt to capture markets for the U.S. But Izvestia reminded world Communism of the larger, long-range issues. At Monticello last week, Harry Truman had in effect declared that there was an ideological war on between democratic philosophy and its totalitarian enemies. Izvestia belligerently agreed: "The greatest achievement of world culture-Leninism-illuminates our road. ... A fighting, militant ideology, irreconcilable and merciless...