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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...
...Moscow, for instance, there are eight daily papers and each is supposed to represent a definite state organism. Pravda is the voice of the party's Central Committee; Izvestia, the organ of the Government. Red Star is the Army newspaper; Red Fleet, the Navy newspaper...
Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
Some sensitive souls insisted on thinking that the new U.S.-Canadian defense agreement (TIME, Feb. 24) was something it was not. Moscow's Izvestia said the agreement had "clearly aggressive characteristics." A Moscow radio commentator cried: "There are [U.S.] troops everywhere [in the Arctic], and in such places as ... Churchill they experiment with jet-propelled planes." Such sniping was not confined to Russia. Saskatchewan's socialist Agriculture Minister Isidore Nollet, U.S.-born and a U.S. veteran of World War I, complained that there were U.S. troops stationed at North Battleford, Sask., and that they should be told...