Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Moscow's Pravda slapped down groups among the London Poles and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, both at once. Governor Dewey was attacked for his Pulaski Day speech in Manhattan in which he urged a fair deal for Poland. The Poles were lashed for "dirty, blackmailing machinations...
...Said Pravda: "It must be noted that certain political figures in the U.S., instead of exposing these provocateurs, give them full support to inflame their adventurist ambitions. The speech of the Governor of New York, Dewey, at the Pulaski Day demonstration bore precisely such a character...
...Pravda and Red Fleet, famed Soviet Author Leonid Sobolev tackled the Get thee behind me, Satan problem with humor. He warned Red Army men who had seldom seen luxury goods in Russian shopwindows, that "a lot of outward tinsel will dazzle your eyes." He warned them "not to believe in the deceitful phantoms of a false civilization." Some of Sobolev's "deceitful phantoms": sleek automobiles, bright advertisements, well-to-do homes with shutters mysteriously drawn to hide "cheap luxuries," fat businessmen with gold watch chains looped across their well-fed midriffs...
...also on the Turkish frontier. A fortnight ago Pravda had lambasted Turkey for not jumping into the war. Now Russians were harping on an old familiar chord-internationalization of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The last time Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu saw Moscow was in 1939, when Russia vainly tried to persuade him to close the Straits to other powers. Premier Saracoglu had not had a very pleasant visit in Moscow. Well might he wonder last week if he would not soon again be a guest in Spasso House...
Harder Words. Two days later PM echoed Pravda in a three-page editorial by leftish Max Lerner, who could "not escape the slightly nauseating job of dissecting the rotten cadaver of Bullitt's piece." "Why?" he asked rhetorically. "Because this "is the first time that anyone with a veneer of respectability, in a respectable paper, has uttered a direct call for a war between England and America on one side and Russia on the other...