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...previous visit to Moscow last February, I dined one night with members of the Foreign Office and a few journalists. . . . Paul Lapinsky, at that time foreign editor of the newspaper Izvestia, the official organ of the Central Executive...
...days before this anecdote was published in the U. S., in the U. S. S. R. Moscovites were gasping at an editorial run in Izvestia which offered an explanation, privately held by many an observer, for Stalin & Co.'s purge of line jumpers. In an article headed "Panic Raisers," Mikhail Suvinsky daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial...
...days later Izvestia officially admitted its editorial "error," labeled the Suvinsky editorial "essentially an enemy's outburst. . . . The author of the article, who crudely distorted facts and made completely wrong and politically harmful conclusions, has been removed from Izvestia...
...exasperation use poison gas for the first time in Spain's present war. The White's blatant "Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help. In Spain the Red Militia were coached to greet Italian deserters from the Whites with open arms, cries of "Hurrah for the Italian People...
...youths. All this must gratify every Russian Orthodox, but it infinitely pains every Old Bolshevik. Since J. Stalin, although he was a theological student at the Orthodox Seminary in Tiflis during his youth, has not yet actually come out for religion, having merely buried his wife in consecrated grounds, Izvestia last week took the chance 'of printing an editorial which screamed warning that Russian priests are "taking advantage of the new Constitution" to stage a religious revival and will attempt to run priests as candidates in the next Soviet election...