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After covering the U.N. General Assembly, Izvestia Correspondent Victor Poltoratsky wrote for his paper the kind of ill-natured piece about New York City that visitors have been writing ever since Dickens. From Moscow last week, New York Timesman Drew Middleton cabled a retort...
...Moscow does not look like a big rolling mill, which is the way Izvestia's writer described New York. Once you get outside the center of the city, it looks like the biggest village in the world. . . . The truth is, the town is a little big for its britches. When the Bolsheviks made it the nation's capital, the population jumped by hundreds of thousands. . . . There just isn't any place to put most of them without doubling up, so the family that has a room of its own is well...
...exploited, he has none for the problem itself, and no answer but the one which he repeats with a certain mechanical frequency reminiscent of the prayerwheel spinners. Most conspicuous is the handling of the history of the southern problem, which is handled not at all. Readers of "Izvestia" now stand convinced that America has been indicted of crimes it ignores with true capitalistic brutality and neglects to remedy in the manner of courtiers at old St. Petersburg. Logically, the Russians must conclude that the only salvation lies in overthrow al and the consignment of white southerners to American Siberias...
...must rely on "Lzvestia" for all contact with America will not be benefited by this pre-occupation with its maladies and Ehrenburg's textbook remedies. And if friends of peace left that the visit of the Russian writer ushered in a a period of greater understanding, the articles in "Izvestia" will cause a cold shower of disappointment...
...whole Soviet Union had a holiday last week to celebrate the tenth anniversary of "the only thoroughly democratic constitution in the world." All papers carried huge pictures of Stalin; the document's seven other top founding fathers went unmentioned.* "Our greatest happiness," explained Izvestia, "is being able to live under the sun of the Stalin Constitution, each article of which is sacred...