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...President's "bold new program" (see col. I) caught nearly everyone by surprise. Pravda's first reaction was a noncommittal two paragraphs on the inaugural; Henry Wallace called the whole speech almost "a declaration of war." Most foreign observers were delighted; most U.S. Congressmen were confused...
...page anniversary issue, Manhattan's Daily Worker last week marked its 25th birthday as the oldest Communist U.S. daily. There were greetings from such sister publications as France's L'Humanité, Britain's Daily Worker and Poland's Trybuna Ludu. (Russia's Pravda tactfully refrained from sending any message.) But there was no office celebration, and little to celebrate. Circulation was at a low 24,700 daily and 67,000 Sunday, finances were as shaky as ever. And sallow, hard-bitten Editor John Gates, who had trained for journalism by fighting with...
...Marshall Plan at Harvard in June 1947, Acheson first outlined the basic doctrine in a speech at Cleveland, Miss. Before returning to private law practice in July, Acheson charged that Moscow was blocking "the whole course of recovery and the international pursuit of happiness'." He was denounced in Pravda for "a gross and rude slander...
Last week mighty Pravda (which claims 2,000,000 copies daily) gave three of its 24 columns to a claim that the principle of conservation of matter,* attributed by Westerners to Lavoisier (1775), was really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin...
...Hanlon, and the Sun's richly sentimental reply: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus . . ." Last week, Sun Funnyman H. I. ("Hi") Phillips jumped the gun on the editorial with a concoction of his own: a letter from a Virginia who asks the editor of Moscow's Pravda, "Is there a Santa Claus? . . . (Papa says, 'If you see it in Pravda...