Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded, and the jukebox-in magnificent synthesis of American degeneracy-contains not only jungle jazz but liquor. Said one real U.S. newsman who saw the play: "There are only...
...with a dizzy round of sightseeing tours. Forty of them inspected the Kremlin (BUT NARY A GANDER AT JOE, headlined the New York Daily News). Side trips to Leningrad, Stalingrad and other cities were coming up. And a wide-eyed party was escorted through the nine-story plant of Pravda, Russia's biggest (circ. 2,500,000) newspaper...
British Foreign Secretary Bevin* wrote straight to headquarters to ask why Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, had interpreted a stray sentence of his to mean that Britain had ditched her Russian alliance. Replied Stalin: "It is now clear that you and I share the same viewpoint with regard to the Anglo-Soviet treaty." To Bevin's reiterated offer to extend the alliance from 20 to 50 years, Stalin answered: "Before extending this treaty, it is necessary to change it." Bevin will discuss possible changes with Stalin when he visits Moscow in March...
...Russians replied on the double. Said Pravda: "The question arises, what prompted Dulles to disdain elementary decency to give vent to a wrathful speech against the U.S.S.R...
Reviewer Ilienko, however, had failed to discover where the real critics of Russia were. Snarled Major General Glaktionov in Pravda: "The review of Ilienko . . . distorts the historic truth. . . . One might conclude that the war was fought with Turkey alone, but as is known from history, the war against Russia was wanted by an Anglo-French coalition which Turkey entered...