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Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...
Britain's Bevin had the same story. Moscow's Izvestia barked that these explanations were "not in accordance with reality," added that all who disagreed with Molotov refused "to recognize the real situation." The same old quarrels about meanings were on again...
Pravda is printed on 21 rotary presses (mostly U.S.-made) in a bright, airy plant as big as two Manhattan city blocks, hits the Moscow newsstands in midmorning, along with the other two of the Big Three, the Government's official Izvestia and the Army's Red Star. Other Pravda editions are printed (from mats delivered by plane) the same day in Leningrad and Kuibyshev, the following day in Baku and Rostov...
...Izvestia, in an editorial splashed across its front page, denounced the royal action as "not spontaneous." Charged Izvestia: the King acted under U.S. and British pressure, later admitted to the Soviet representatives that he had no complaint against the Groza Government. "Really," said Izvestia, "it was a straight case of the Allied representatives going to the King and telling him their governments would not recognize Rumania nor conclude a peace treaty unless the Groza Government was let out. . . ." London talked back just as toughly...
...Izvestia denied angrily that the bomb had brought the Japanese surrender, credited the Russian declaration...