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Soviet Russia has joined the trend towards elimination of academic freedom, the Red newspaper "Pravda" reported last week. Accompanying the present "housecleaning" in official Communist circles is a purge of Russian academics...
Alerted by a reader's tip, the Post found to its horror that Boston's Public Library was providing its patrons with Russian magazines and newspapers, e.g., Pravda and Izvestia and the Communist magazine New World Review, as well as with books by Lenin, Vishinsky and Karl Marx. The Post, overlooking the fact that the books and periodicals are standard reference material for serious students of the Soviet system,* criticized the library board for having "Red propaganda" on the shelves, demanded that the books be removed or plainly labeled "Propaganda -Communist." Publisher Fox himself led the attack with...
...statement was true enough, but hardly news; former U.S. Ambassadors in Moscow had undergone similar treatment. Furthermore, it was not in character: Kennan rarely talks this freely to newsmen. Kennan could hardly have been surprised at the Russian reaction to his remarks. Pravda promptly blasted him as an "ecstatic liar."* Kennan may have had an idea that the Kremlin would ask for his recall; although an important Communist congress was to open in Moscow this week (see FOREIGN NEWS), he did not hurry back to his post, instead went to visit his daughter in Switzerland...
...year's silence. Bolshevik, the party's leading double-dome magazine on matters of Communist theology, published a 50-page memorandum from Stalin. Its very title gave promise of the grey gobbledygook that was to come: "Economic Problems of Socialism to Participants in Economics Discussions." But Pravda acclaimed Stalin's message as "the greatest event in the ideological life of the party and the Soviet people," and printing presses began rolling out 1,500,000 copies. The rest of the world began scrutinizing every leaden syllable to find out 1) what Stalin thinks, or 2) wants...
...turn for the better. Last fortnight Kennan told reporters in Berlin that his stay in Moscow has been one of "icy cold" isolation, little different from the treatment he got in Nazi Germany back in 1941 when he was interned as an enemy diplomat. The U.S. Ambassador, snarled Pravda in reply last week, was an "ecstatic liar ... an enemy of the peace and [hence] of the Soviet Union...