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Reuter went back to Berlin in 1918. A letter from Lenin recommended him as "a man with a brilliant and lucid mind-but a little too independent." Reuter soon broke with the Reds and returned to Socialism. Pravda called him a warmonger...
...Pravda listed him third among the Soviet bigwigs attending a recent Chinese exhibit in Moscow; he was also No. 3 in the communique announcing new Soviet concessions to East Germany and on the list of Presidium members attending the last Supreme Soviet. Current ratings: Malenkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Marshals Voroshilov and Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich (Stalin's brother-in-law). Still unheard from: Lavrenty Beria, once No. 2, now in jail awaiting trial as a traitor...
...only kind of story that correspondents knew they could usually clear through censorship without a hitch was one taken directly from the Russian press. But even then, the censor would sometimes delete "Pravda says," making it sound like the correspondent's own opinion. Every phone the newsmen could use was tapped; there was always loud clicking on the line. Two English-speaking A. P. secretaries were mysteriously hauled off to jail and oblivion. In addition, correspondents were never given even elementary information by the Russians. "If they announced a new appointment," says Gilmore, "and you didn't have...
...that Malenkov himself has criticized the shoddiness of Soviet consumer goods, Pravda is washing some of the tattered laundry out in public, complains that Soviet rayon underwear does not survive a single laundering, that men's shirts fall apart...
...Pravda's chilling announcement, in which the words "the great Stalin" were mentioned only in the concluding paragraph, Malenkov's name was mentioned not at all. The fiction of anonymity persists. Great play was made with another phrase: "The collectivity of leadership is the highest principle of the leadership of our party [and] corresponds to the well-known statement of Marx on the harm of . . . the cult of personality." To which a skeptical reader of Russian rhetoric might answer: "All leaderships are collective, but some leaderships are less collective than others...