Word: izvestia
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...sympathizer with Soviet Russia and yet, in fairness to it, I wish to inquire whether you have any source of proof or good authority for the following statement (TIME, Dec. 19, p. 13, col. 1), ''The official Soviet reply was . . . flatly to deny that Izvestia speaks for the Government (which all Soviet newsorgans...
TIME'S statement is amply proved by the nonexistence in Russia of a single newsorgan hostile or even neutral to the Government. All without exception are State yes-papers and Izvestia (according to the 1932 Political Handbook of the U. S. Council on Foreign Relations, p. 167) is the "official organ" of the Soviet Government...
...diplomatic reasons the State always denies responsibility for statements in the Soviet Press, but in the case of an anti-British article in Izvestia cited by Subscriber Horowitz, the State instructed the Soviet Ambassador in London to present to His Majesty's Government apologies from Izvestia's Editor Comrade Gronsky...
...Bogus Documents." While Egypt was failing to make Turkey apologize. Great Britain demanded that the Soviet Government apologize last week for statements recently made in the Moscow Izvestia ("News"). Specifically Izvestia has charged that the British Intelligence Service is preparing "bogus documents" to prove that Dictator Josef Stalin, acting through the Moscow headquarters of the World Communist Party (Third International) had something to do with fomenting the British "Hunger March" on London (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). A British motive for its alleged propaganda, according to Izvestia, was a desire to prevent a rapprochement between U. S. and Soviet Governments...
...official Soviet reply last week was flatly to refuse apology, flatly to deny that Izvestia speaks for the Government (which all Soviet newsorgans do). Not backing down in the least, Izvestia hailed Persia's defiance of Britain last week declaring, "Its repercussions in the East will help deepen the cracks in the shattered structure of a decrepit British Empire...