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...Next Best Thing." Said an Allied diplomat: "This is the next best thing to giving us bases." Moscow's tone was tough and belligerent. The Government's Izvestia said that Japan had promised to cancel the Sakhalin concession early in 1941, failed to keep her word. Said Izvestia scornfully: there were some Japanese politicos who had bet on Hitler's victory, "but the Red Army's successes and the developing war operations of our allies have played their role. A sobering up had to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sobering Up in Sakhalin | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...Compromise. Part, if not all, of Stalin's letter was presumably conveyed to the Polish Cabinet. Concerted attacks in Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star indicated its contents. Said Pravda: "The Polish emigre Government, having fascist politicians in its makeup ... is living in the phantom world of a Hitlerite mirage. ... It has completely cut itself off from the real Polish people." Obviously there had been no change in the Russian attitude that 1) it will not deal with the present Polish Government; 2) the Curzon Line in eastern Poland is an immutable demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wedlock & Deadlock | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...schedule the Kremlin's diplomacy decided last week that the time had come to drive a wedge among Catholics. They chose Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet Government, as the instrument, and a recent Foreign Policy Association report on Vatican policy as a handy starting point. Wrote Izvestia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Devious Diplomacy | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Knowing readers spotted a clue to the attack in Izvestia's inclusion of Poland among the countries supposedly dissatisfied with Vatican policy. The Russians' clear meaning was: while we are arranging a "suitable" postwar Government for Poland, will Catholics who share our distrust of clericalism please urge the Vatican not to use its enormous influence with Polish Catholics against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Devious Diplomacy | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Izvestia's bid brought swift, hot retorts from many a U.S. Catholic, cold disapproval from many a non-Catholic. Sharpest comeback was from Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "As Soviet Russia has already served notice that America and Great Britain may not interfere in the question of Poland, so now it serves notice on religion that it may not interfere in the question of Europe. From now on we may expect . . . a separate peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Devious Diplomacy | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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