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...weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning to use Germany against the West, were made suspect by current Soviet policy and pronouncements. Three days after Stalin's statement, Pravda called for an "offensive against the ideology of the capitalist world...
There could no longer be any doubt last week-the Soviet Government was again engaged in a nationwide purge, less publicized, and as yet less bloody, than the Great Purge of the '30s, but raking Soviet life from top to bottom. Pravda claimed for the move "political significance of the first importance." The long, grim decree, announcing the purge, bore an ominous joint signature: Premier Joseph Stalin (for the Soviet Government) and Secretary Andrei A. Zhdanov (for the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party...
...Moscow, last week, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda almost blew a gasket over George Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. It charged that Messersmith had told American Legionnaires in Buenos Aires that a Russo-American war was inevitable, that he was trying to get Argentines, regardless of "ideology or past sins," into a bloc on the side of the U.S. In his best diplomatese, Ambassador Messersmith denied having made the statements. But Pravda could have saved its breath. If there ever were a Russo-American war, there would be little doubt which side anti-Communist Argentina would...
...Communist paper print an article entitled "Allow Us to Err"? A newspaper in the Ukraine, where the new Soviet purge is at its peak, dared to do so last week. "Absurd," thundered Pravda. "This theory of the right to err really means . . . the right to be free from criticism. . . . Workers' officials who are unable to review their work critically are unable to go forward and are cowards and provincials...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...