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...fine May Day spirits (see FOREIGN NEWS) Moscow's Pravda crowed: "Ardent sympathies toward the Soviet Union are alive and growing in the hearts of millions of workers abroad." To celebrate the occasion, it passed out nosegays to its "sincere friends...
...Kremlin's masters tell the Russian people that the West has forgotten their great sacrifices in the war. In an eloquent Pravda article, Leonid Leonov, a Russian novelist, cried: "Under [Russian] ground, 7,000,000 warriors lie buried, the men who defended the world against the dark forces. . . . The more easterly the meridian on which blood is shed, the cheaper the blood." In fact, the West does not forget-or hold cheaply-the Russian people, dead or living. It would know more about them except for restrictions imposed by the Kremlin's masters. Last week TIME Correspondent Samuel...
...from Astrakhan. Pravda issued a pronunciamento: "In 1947, the prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best...
Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...
...tour ended up in Pravda's paneled, carpeted conference room, a Hollywood version of a Wall Street office. There, over glasses of tea, the U.S. visitors got down to what was on their minds. About those complaints, now - do Pravda's readers ever criticize the paper for its attacks on the Western powers? Replied Editor Pospelov: "Yes - they say we should make them stronger." Who appoints the paper's editors? "The Communist Central Committee." What happens when the Communist Party disapproves of a Pravda article? Replied ace Commentator Boris Izakov: "Nothing. That does not happen very often...