Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes had dropped a million leaflets over the rocky, sunbaked, guerrilla-infested hills of Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace. Premier Sophoulis' leaflets offered amnesty to all who would turn in their guns. But in the northern hills "the word" had come by Radio Moscow, straight from the editorials of Pravda and Izvestia: no compromise; the fight goes on. Only a few hundred had trooped in from their hideouts to accept the amnesty which "liberals" in Western countries had demanded. Scoffed the Communist organ Rizospastis: "We welcome the leaflets which make badly needed tobacco wrappers, notepaper, fire starters and other essential...
Purpose of the meeting, as reported in full by Moscow's Pravda: to coordinate Communist forces against U.S. imperialism and wreck the Marshall Plan, which the congress called a U.S. device for the economic and political control of the world. They charged that the U.S. and Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German...
Pound of Abuse. The Literary Gazette, Pravda and Izvestia all published anti-Marshall cartoons. They all took the party line of previous Izvestia cartoons that Uncle Sam, egged on by Wall Street and the press, was trying to grab the world...
...your Sept. 1 issue . . . you set down that the editor of the official Soviet publication Pravda in effect received his information (regarding the American press) from me. This is untrue. . . . You state that the editor's name is Zaslavsky. I do not know him, do not believe I have ever even met him, and no communications of any kind have ever passed between...
...Pravda assailed General, Marshall for creating a "diplomatic war" in the U. N. arena, and joined with the Russian press yesterday in blasting U. S. foreign policy in line with last week's speech by Andrel Y. Vishinsky before the U.N. General Assembly...