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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until they found one going to Brno. We shook hands all round and off I went in a 1927 Oldsmobile. There's also a lot of nonsense about press freedom. On a local news-stand on in a hightype kavarna (coffeehouse) you can buy "or read everything from Pravda to the Readers Digest, including, if you have the time, all the English continental editions and the good, gray Time magazine. The Herald Tribune, despite some emotional tiralies against CRS by Josef Alsop,"is as available as RudePravo, a local daily. Czecli papers do not ordinarily go in for strong criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russians Scarce, Troubles Many | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

Readers of Pravda, which means "Truth," get their truth about the United Nations from two correspondents: Boris Izakov and Yuri Zhukov.* Veteran Correspondents Izakov & Zhukov sign their stories together: "We work for the same paper, and we don't want to compete with each other." Last week they had a hot piece of news for their readers : Newsweek, they reported, admitted that U.S. newsmen at the U.N. were dishonest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Is Truth? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Pravda team relayed a Newsweek poll of U.N. correspondents, which had found that 62% do not believe that the U.S. delegation's policy at Lake Success has strengthened the U.N. Then Izakov & Zhukov quoted Newsweek as saying: "A study of the data of the questionnaire shows that apparently the majority of American correspondents at the Assembly are not sincere in praising the American position in their daily correspondence." There was only one thing wrong with this "quotation." Newsweek never said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Is Truth? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Extraordinary & Infamous." The Kremlin feels that it must change the minds of Italian (and other) workers even if that means taking away the spaghetti. Moscow's Pravda made that point clear when it devoted two pages to an explanation of the Little Comintern by Andrei Zhdanov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Three Quotes | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Three Quotes | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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