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This was too wonderful for Pravda to ignore. Attracted by the propaganda value of the President's words, Pravda ran a Madison Fourth of July story too. With a gloomy air of Slavic triumph, it implied that the whole thing proved that the U.S. -just as it had been predicting-is cooked. "What," it asked, "is left of the notorious American democracy after 175 years...
...Spike. The radio announcer was reading from next day's issue of Pravda. In June, Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison had challenged Pravda to print, in full, an appeal from him to the Russian people (TIME, July 9). After keeping the Morrison statement on the spike for a while, Pravda last week printed it. The statement was also printed in other Russian papers, giving it a circulation well up in the millions...
...Warmly expressed this nation's "friendship and good will" and peaceful intentions toward the Russian people in a congressional resolution forwarded with a covering letter from President Truman. Chances of the Kremlin passing this news ungarbled to Pravda readers: zero. But Voice of America will broadcast it to the U.S.S.R...
There was a catch to the Pravda offer. Morrison would have to guarantee that Pravda's reply would be carried in full in the British press. "Pravda assumes that I can negotiate on behalf of the British press and pretty well tell them how to use their space," said Morrison. "I can't. Our press is free." But he allowed himself a chuckle over Pravda's rare display of humor. "I am all for a bit of humor," said he. "More of it would do good behind the Iron Curtain...
London's Laborite Daily Herald and Liberal News Chronicle promptly offered to print any Pravda reply in full, and the Foreign Secretary stood by eagerly, if not expectantly, for a telephone call from a Russian correspondent. It was not often, after all, that a man got a chance to inject a little pravda into Pravda...