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Right through last month Soviet newspapers continued to print columns of birthday salutations to Stalin. Under the heading "Flow of Greetings," Izvestia recently printed birthday best wishes from the workers of the Kilyazinsk fish cannery, of the Azerbaijan S.S.R., from the physical culture workers of Minsk and from the employees of Kharkov's vinegar factory...
...sent Salisbury, ex-foreign editor of the United Press, to Moscow nearly two years ago on the theory that some "news" out of Russia is better than none. But week after week, as the Times printed long -and censored-dispatches from Salisbury which more or less echoed Pravda and Izvestia, the Times had worriedly wondered whether its readers should not be warned about such "news." Wouldn't readers otherwise grant it the same respect they did to factual, uncensored stories...
After three months as a refugee in his own country, Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, had come home to Seoul. He found his official residence littered with the midden of the routed Communist army, including back copies of the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. When the litter had been cleared away, a close inspection of the presidential mansion showed that the Russian civilians billeted there during the Communist occupation had left behind all of Rhee's most valuable and showy possessions. Mrs. Rhee had not fared so well; the Russians, headed north into the winter, had made...
...Izvestia, the Communist house organ which has often belabored him for "groveling before the West," Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich obligingly picked his own "rogue's gallery of warmongers": Novelists John (Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck and oldtime Socialist
Said Jessup: "While I was [in the Far East] I was attacked by two sources-Izvestia and Senator McCarthy. Anyone who believes in the concept of guilt by association might draw some startling conclusions from this fact. However, I do not believe in the concept of guilt by association. I do believe that anyone who, without adequate proof, levels a charge of conscious or ignorant support of Communism ... at an official of the United States Government, is irresponsible...