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With notebooks at the ready, seven top Russian journalists landed in Manhattan last week. They were the first Russian writers to tour the U.S. since Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, Izvestia correspondent, rambled through with two colleagues from Pravda and Red Star...
During the Geneva Conference, Pravda and Izvestia ran pictures of the Big Four, along with factual accounts of what Western leaders had said at the conference, including such strong language as President Eisenhower's remark that "international Communism . . . seeks ... to subvert lawful governments." Eisenhower's proposal for aerial inspection of defense installations, as well as his report to the U.S. people after he returned from Geneva, was printed in full in Russian papers...
...cultural and sports exchanges with the West. Tass also has carried glowing accounts of the touring Russian agricultural delegation in the U.S. (TIME, August 1), but has not published dollars and cents figures on the income and wages of U.S. farmers and farmhands. In an article on the tour, Pravda said: "There is need to further strengthen the friendship, cooperation and mutual understanding in all fields [between] the two great countries." Russian papers have also been printing daily stories about the U.S. farm delegation touring Russia. The reports include statements from the Americans (which the Communist press does not.try...
...deep frown is visible not far behind the smile. Although many Western newsmen have been granted temporary visas to Moscow in the last two months (TIME, July 4), at least half a dozen recent requests for visas have not been acted upon. Last week Pravda slipped into its familiar theme song that the "common people" of the West want peace, but their wishes are often frustrated by the "ruling circles." And London's Communist Daily Worker made a shocking revelation: "Children on farms in the U.S. customarily work very hard, and some boys and girls...
...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...