Word: izvestia
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...Moscow the sensitive Russians anticipated British and U. S. criticism by blustering that Russia would continue to follow an "independent policy." Said Izvestia: "There are in Britain and the United States some leading statesmen who believe that the United States . . . may sell to Britain everything . . . whereas the Soviet Union cannot sell to Germany even cereals without violating the policy of peace...
...very few of the U. S. S. R.'s 170,000,000 inhabitants the Battle of Britain last week was a faraway thing-as faraway, but as interesting, as an unusual conjunction of planets. On the third and fifth pages of their Pravda or Izvestia, Muscovites who cared could read of the battle's progress, in dry little paragraphs like items of scientific rather than popular interest. Bigger news which those papers evidently expected to stir the proletariat were developments in the East, especially in the five central Asiatic republics. In this remote corner of Asia, where...
Turkey and Russia acted last week like two small boys working up to a fight by insulting each other's big brother. In Moscow, Izvestia let out a blast declaring that Turkey was "fully drawn into the orbit of Anglo-French influence," accusing Turkey of trying to swing a Near Eastern bloc against Germany. What really got on Izvestia's nerves was the report that the Turks are building a new railroad toward Erzurum, back of the Russo-Turkish frontier...
...indignant editorial in the Comintern newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") usually denotes the Soviet Government's extreme annoyance, one in the Government-owned paper Izvestia ("News") indicates growing impatience, an official protest demonstrates complete exasperation...
After almost a month of ineffectual grumbling, early this week the Kremlin got so mad at Finland that in the space of 24 hours the Pravda degree was reached and passed, the Izvestia stage was skipped and the white heat of the official protest had arrived...