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While agreeing with the President's principle, the British did not like his blunt oversimplification. Moscow's Pravda pooh-poohed talk of limited national sovereignty or abolition of big-power vetoes, reiterated Russian belief that the future of UNO depends on "unanimity of the great powers in passing on the most important resolutions." Pravda, however, displayed no doubt of essential Big Three collaboration. Neither did Harry Truman. Asked if he shared the fear that Russian failure to cooperate would lead to war, the President unhesitatingly said he did not think so, added that he would discuss the matter...
Snow melted as it fell and clouds lowered on Moscow's greatest anniversary celebration of the Red Revolution. Across the Moskva River an electric sign half a block long gleamed: SLAVA VELIKOMU STALINU ("Glory to the great Stalin"). Pravda said: "Thousands of [Stalin's] portraits swam over the columns of the demonstrators and his name, pronounced by millions of lips, went soaring above the harmony of the songs, above the powerful, continuous thunderclap of hurrahs...
Combat Journalism. Pravda has not mellowed with age. For the 10,000th issue its dour, bald, 66-year-old editor, David Iosifovich Zaslavsky (who that day received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class) wrote another lecture on freedom of the press...
Such talk moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...
...familiar name to Pravda readers, usually characterized more fully by Zaslavsky as "idiot" or "newspaper gangster...