Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow's preparations were the most unusual. Pravda suddenly broke out with a full and reasonably objective account of President Eisenhower's last-week press conference, and in an editorial conceded that Ike was a peace-loving fellow, and "receives with satisfaction" his announcement that he would like the "Cold War" to be changed to a "battle for peace." Included in Pravda's summary were the President's remarks that there can be no real peace in the world until the satellite nations are freed,* stranger still. Ike's comment, when he was asked about...
...Breaking the Soviet press's seven-month practice of soft-pedaling attacks on religion, the Leningrad Pravda charged that the celebration of religious holidays by collective farmers is causing vast damage to Russian agriculture, declared that the people are "not in need of religion...
Prompted by an unprecedented press campaign (in which Pravda devoted a third of its space to Nehru, including a Page One picture, a rare compliment to a non-Communist foreigner), the crowd released white doves, threw bouquets into Nehru's lap, or broke the sidelines to heap strings of lilacs on Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (no kin of the late great Mahatma, who is described in the latest Soviet Encyclopedia as an enemy of the people...
...weeks ago the Kremlin called a conference of its top industrial managers to read off a formidable list of wastages and failures. Commented Pravda: "Many enterprises that systematically fail to reach their targets ... are concealed behind the attained overall targets in [other] branches of industry." The solution was characteristically bureaucratic: two new economic commissions were formed, one to deal with present planning, the other to deal with the future. Management of a number of key industries was broken up to decentralize...
There is no doubt that the Kremlin will accept the general idea of a conference. But the plan put forward by Pravda this past weekend bears little resemblance to the meeting the State Department had envisioned. Where the Western powers had proposed short sessions, lasting at the most three or four days, in which the four heads of government would merely uncover the areas of dispute from which further negotiations at lower level would proceed, the Russians are asking for a conference of unlimited length, to reach final decisions on the world's problems...