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Above is pictured "A meeting of the educational council of Harvard University, America's greatest university." At least that's what "Krokodil," the Russian humor magazine contends in its September 30 issue, on sale at almost no local news stands...
...show is not as pointless as it looks. It gives the Russian people the illusion that they are actually participating in their government. A recent issue of the Soviet magazine Krokodil printed a song that expressed the mood which the "elections" are supposed to create...
...Krokodil, a humor magazine, did not seem to think it was being funny. Neither did the Russian people who, never having known anything better, believe that the show that they will enact next Sunday is really an election as well as a holiday...
...Wall? Washington believed that the story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...
Behind the Iron Curtain last week, the business of being funny had struck a depression. Moscow's leading humorous weekly Krokodil had been called on the Kremlin carpet for "not fulfilling its purpose." In Poland, a Satirists' Congress was told sternly that jokes involving sex and mothers-in-law were no longer considered funny, though humor could still be drawn from the petty bourgeoisie, the bureaucrat and the speculator. Elsewhere, however, people swapped yarns just as they had before. Here & there TIME'S correspondents paused to listen...