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...inspired peace conference was held in Paris last year, Endicott went along. Said he: "It looked to me just like a big missionary convention." This year, for another Communist peace meeting, the Russians flew him to Moscow, gave him the full caviar-and-ballet treatment plus an interview in Pravda in which he said that Canada was a police state infested with U.S. spies. (He claimed later that Pravda reporters had misquoted him, but added a hasty explanation that Soviet reporters, like all reporters, sometimes make mistakes.) Back in Canada, Endicott was a logical choice to escort the "Red Dean...
...factual as any Associated Press report; the Russian dressing is added later. At least once a day, he also mails a fat envelope to Tass. Todd, who has visited Russia three times but cannot read Russian, professes not to know which of his stories are printed in Pravda and other Soviet newspapers, or what changes are made...
...impudent fellows received a proper lesson," added Pravda, and in the next breath the Moscow radio reported the award of the Order of the Red Banner to four Soviet air force lieutenants "for excellent fulfillment of their duty...
...Stalin "bloc" of deputies (there were no other candidates) to the Supreme Soviet's Council of the Union were 110,788,377 patriots (99.73%), while 300,146 others (0.27%) were listed as having voted against the Stalin bloc by drawing a line through the names. Crowed Pravda: "What stirring and decisive figures they are! . . . The Soviet people unanimously approve the wise Stalin's foreign policy . . . Only under Socialism are the people the masters of their fate...
...masters two years ago (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), he had been slowly nuzzling his way out. He had publicly recanted his "bourgeois formalism" and promised to do what was expected of him. Ten months later, he finally got a friendly pat and a few kind words from Izvestia and Pravda for his score for the movie Young Guard. Last week, he was the top Soviet composer once again. For his oratorio, Song...