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First Line of Defense. In St. Paul, legislators first defeated, later passed (77 to 44) a bill legalizing the sale of vodka, despite Representative F. Gordon Wright's warning that "the bill is nothing but Communist propaganda . . . Pravda [will] tell all the people behind the Iron Curtain that we have taken a liking to their national drink...
...replied in a counterattack that went on for months. In the 200-odd dailies that carry his column, and over his Sunday-night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell called the Post everything from a "pinko-stinko sheet" and the "New York Ivan" to the "New York Posterior," the "New York Pravda" and the "Compost." He also suggested that the Post's staff was riddled with subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms, e.g., "Cherry Coke Wexla," "James Jake Ivan Wechsler," "New York Post's General Pinko," and "Pinko Punko." In reply...
...scientist's little sons had ingenuously piped: "Are we now in Russia?" Last week, after more than four years of rambling speculation about his whereabouts, Bruno Pontecorvo, 41, could at last publicly answer the youngster's query, "Yes"-with a vengeance. In a bristling letter to Pravda, Pontecorvo wrote that he had left England because of "the sugar-coated blackmail of the police," found asylum in the U.S.S.R., where his brain had dwelt on "atomic energy for peaceful aims." He also sprang a surprise: he had won a secretly awarded Stalin Prize last year. Later, Pontecorvo, proud occupant...
Last week, the postal department revealed that it had been holding back delivery of Pravda and Isvestia, Moscow's two daily newspapers, as well as publications from other Communist countries. The postal service said only diplomatic and foreign agents could legally receive the mail, but added the recognized educational institutions and libraries would also receive their publications...
Certainly no American Communist is likely to change his political views because he tails to receives his morning "Pravda." Nor will those wavering between capitalism and communism lose interest in the latter as a result of the Post Office's action. Indeed, such people can only view the Government's censorship at tending to confirm the soviet charge that the United states is a police state. To assume on the other hand, that a loyal citizen would be susceptible to a few pieces of Communist propaganda shows an amazing lack of confidence in both the stability of American institutions...