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Things Went Black. Three hours later, the Russian consulate in New York invited newspapers to send men to an unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
...next day, still the victim of the villainous drug, she had permitted a man in an automobile to take her to Reed Farm. Cried Consul Lomakin: "She did not know why she went with him! . . . Many people were around her. They watch...
...onetime newsman for Pravda and Tass, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob M. Lomakin is an expert on the Russian press. Last week at Lake Success, U.N. Delegate Lomakin enlightened U.N.'s Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...
...delegate, Harvard's sharp-witted Prof. Zechariah H. Chafee Jr., a member of the Commission on Freedom of the Press and author of a two-volume study of the press, waited 40 minutes for Lomakin to talk himself out. Then Chafee slyly quoted from a State Department document detailing the Russian-Nazi plan to gobble Poland in 1939. "To agree to kill a nation," asked Chafee calmly, "does not that constitute real imperialism...
Britain's Archibald Mackenzie let Lomakin have the other barrel. "[He] complains of a slanderous campaign . . . against the Soviet Union. Does he read his own newspapers? Do the Soviet papers dispense soothing syrups? If Hearst is wrong, the New York Times or the Washington Post or someone else will correct it. But who corrects Pravda?" Jacob Lomakin said nothing. For Pravda and Lomakin take orders from the same boss...