Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Journal flatly accused Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin of holding up the war by getting sidetracked in politics. Though the U.S. as a whole certainly did not agree with the Journal's unnamed editorialist, many a U.S. citizen grinned. Here was a critic irascible enough to balance Pravda's human snickersnee David Zaslavsky, who last week added U.S. Journalist W. L. White to his list of victims (see FOREIGN NEWS...
David Zaslavsky, Pravda's journalistic revenge weapon, exploded again last week. This time his target was Author William L. ("Bill") White (They Were Expendable, Queens Die Proudly), who accompanied U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric A. Johnston on a tour of Russia last summer. Zaslavsky's blast was touched off by White's forthcoming book, Report on the Russians, excerpts from which appear in the December Reader's Digest. Sample passage...
Warning from the East. Moscow's Pravda sounded a warning: "Strange reports are coming from Belgium. . . . Patriots consider that Belgium will be finally freed when she is rid of her fifth column . . . inspired by General van Overstraeten [Chief Aide-de-Camp, close friend and adviser of King Leopold] ... an active agent of Nazi Germany. . . . The fact that he is at liberty while patriots are being disarmed is ... remarkable...
...Paris, plump, balding Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, onetime pastry-cook's apprentice, now boss of the French Communists, echoed Pravda: "There are some hundreds of people in France who must be shot and some thousands who must be removed from their posts. By creating delays, some émigrés in the Government . . . risk falling into the plight of the Belgian Government, whose émigrés also learned nothing. The Pierlot Government ... is doomed sooner or later by prostituting itself and calling on foreign aid against the people...
...Moscow Pravda attacked the efforts of the French and Belgian Governments to disarm the Resistance groups: "Europe is winning release from a nightmare. Is it not obvious that the most important question facing the liberated country is complete elimination of any remnants of Fascist influence...