Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as it must to all U.S. critics of Soviet Russia, came the strictly personal rejoinder. It was made by Pravda's David Zaslavsky, who had previously bludgeoned away at such other U.S. citizens as the late Wendell Willkie, New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin and William L. (Report on the Russians) White...
Congresswoman Luce made no reply. But the Bridgeport (Conn.) Sunday Post (circ. 40,243), best newspaper in her home district, rose valiantly to her defense, roared back at the Russian giant: "Pravda . . . practically froths at the mouth. But it gives no answer to the carefully collated, factually documented articles which Mrs. Luce has been inserting in the Congressional Record...
Russia was believed to have an eye on both last week-by direct demand on Turkey for special rights in the Straits, and indirectly, through Yugoslav pressure on Greece, for control of Macedonia. Turkey's eastern frontier was also inflamed (see below), while Moscow's Pravda underlined the withdrawal from Iran of U.S. troops (which had been supplying Russia with Lend-Lease) by a blast against the Iranian Government. Farther east, the overheated Russo-Chinese relations promised to cool as, after a fortnight of negotiations in Moscow, China's Premier T. V. Soong flew east to Chungking...
Embarrassed Composer Prokofieff explained: "I... tried to preserve the spirit of Tolstoy's . . . language." As Pravda gave the performance a mild but official chiding ("A text ... for reading ... is not always good when sung"), U.S. music lovers virtually abandoned all hope of hearing War and Peace next season...
...first time were all gathered at a dinner for foreign visitors. The U.S. visitors listened politely to an angry diatribe by Russia's cantankerous Reporter Ilya Ehrenburg (whom the editors describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books as Upton Sinclair's Brass Check (1919) and from Tass News Agency, which carries 13,000 words a day from America...