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Nine days after President Eisenhower challenged Moscow to prove peaceful intent by deeds, not words, the masters in the Kremlin replied-with 5,000 words. They spoke through a long, front-page editorial in Pravda, Izvestia, and other leading papers; inside, on page 3, appeared a belated, full translation of Eisenhower's address (TIME, April...
After talking over the Russian editorial with Eisenhower, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty gave the U.S. reply: "The Pravda editorial cannot be considered a substitute for an official action by the Soviet leaders. Maybe this editorial is a first step toward something concrete. If so, the free world will continue to wait for the definite steps that must be made if the Soviet leaders are sincerely interested in a cooperative solution to world problems...
Having so crisply and accurately described Stalin's reign, Pravda added that of course it didn't mean Stalin: "The circumstances of wartime made possible certain peculiarities in the methods of leadership which in certain degree were justified." But, it continued, "leaders cannot take a critical statement aimed at them as a personal offense...
...very least, Pravda's little sermon represents 1) a step in the unmaking of the Stalin legend, 2) one more indication that Russia is not now ruled by one man, i.e., Malenkov, but by a directorate. In New York, the Daily Worker, which has been having the devil's own time trying to find a party line to follow, significantly hedged its bet last week. After an initial hesitation, the Worker had firmly called the new regime "the Malenkov government." Last week, in a classically awkward phrase, it urged Eisenhower to meet with "heads of the Soviet state...
...Hundreds, perhaps thousands,of minor Red flunkeys were sent to the wall, but instead of getting better, the mess got worse. Tiflis newspapers exposed such "grave economic crimes" as "embezzlement of socialist property," "windows and doors that have fallen to pieces," "bedbugs breeding in our hotels." Then Pravda joined in with a story of "connivance" and "protectionism" in the Georgian party cadres; it charged last June that Georgia's Communist leaders did not know the names of the Marx and Lenin classics, never read the papers, and could not name a single book by a Soviet author...