Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between New York and Moscow, words like "slave" and "phony" flew back & forth. The New York Times's pugnacious managing editor and Sunday columnist, Edwin L. (for Leland) James, and the Communist Pravda's choleric co-editor, David losifovich Zaslavsky, were locked in battle...
...council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy), Economist Alexander P. Morozov (ECOSOC) and Lieut. General Alexander P. Vasiliev (Military Staff Committee). Gromyko works as hard as any man on his team. "Oh," says Mme. Gromyko with a nice sense for the hierarchy of toil, "Andrei does...
...Moscow, Pravda called it "the widely circulated, most reactionary American magazine...
...Moscow, for instance, there are eight daily papers and each is supposed to represent a definite state organism. Pravda is the voice of the party's Central Committee; Izvestia, the organ of the Government. Red Star is the Army newspaper; Red Fleet, the Navy newspaper...
...This is a poor return for the amount of information about the U.S. disclosed daily in its free press, but it means even less to the average Russian reader. In general, he may doubt the word of his lesser newspapers, but when Pravda or Tass (the news agency) speaks, he feels that he is listening to the voice of his Government and is inclined to believe. There are exceptions, of course. I once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators...