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...warning to those who put their faith in "liberal" elements in Communism, Zhdanov made another statement in 1939. Two months before the Hitler-Stalin pact, Zhdanov published an article in Pravda giving it as his "personal opinion" (Red leaders usually use the protective "we") that Britain and France were not dealing honestly with the U.S.S.R. He noted contemptuously that: "My friends do not agree. They still think that when commencing the negotiations on a pact for mutual assistance with the U.S.S.R., the British and French Governments had serious intentions to create a powerful barrier against aggression in Europe...
...Gushed Pittman: "Millions of American Negroes and peasants would be glad to get a chance to go to the polls and have police and soldiers protect them." At a post-election press conference, U.S. and British newsmen questioned Premier Groza mercilessly about the excesses they had witnessed. When a Pravda correspondent finally got a chance, he asked the Premier a question that was a perfect illustration of the abyss in thinking between East and West. The question: "To what do you attribute this extraordinary defeat of reactionary forces...
...most significant confession it had ever made of the inadequacy of its state-monopoly trade system, Communist Russia started beating the drums last week for something suspiciously like the profit motive. Pravda proclaimed that the "monopolist" position of state stores was hurting trade and lowering production. It demanded "healthy competition." Andrei Zhdanov, the Politburo's rising spokesman, said that consumer cooperatives must be encouraged. The Kremlin promptly did so, with five capitalistic incentive devices...
Burden on the Masses. Taking his cue from Generalissimo Stalin's recent statement (TIME, Oct. 7), one Dr. Lund, a Moscow radio commentator, last week ironically offered his sympathies to U.S. taxpayers: "Keeping this huge $16 billion military budget . . . will mean a terrible burden on the masses. . . ." Pravda reported that unemployment was growing in the U.S., that only "huge Government expenditures on war needs" along with slow demobilization kept it in check...
...writers like Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, J. P. Marquand and John Hersey could afford-as the Moscow Radio charged last week-to "stay out of touch with the life of their people and the problems which moved all freedom-loving humanity," but Soviet writers, warned a Pravda editorial, must dispense with the "nonsensical theory of a postwar breathing space and the right of literature to relax from ideology...