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...author is a certain shady newsboy named White," snarled Pravda when a condensation of this book appeared in the December 1944 Reader's Digest. "The book itself ... is the usual stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its smells, calumnies, ignorance, and hidden anger." U.S. Reds were equally outraged by what balding, square-jawed Bill White, son of the late, great William Allen White, had to report of his six-week trip through Russia with Eric Johnston. And even non-Communist friends of the Soviet sharply criticized him for attempting to measure by U.S. standards a very different...
...London émigré Government. It is possible that among this group and even among others there will be many people ready to take upon themselves the responsibility for the future fate of Poland and participate in a reorganized Polish Government." Two days later, Moscow's Pravda attacked Mikolajczyk for criticizing the Yalta agreement on Poland and thereby aligning himself with "Polish reactionaries who have placed themselves outside the ranks of the United Nations...
This week a powerful voice echoed General Chou. Growled Moscow's Pravda: Chungking's recent governmental reforms were "no more than a reshuffling of the cards." China's war effort lagged because Chiang Kai-shek had failed to solve Chungking's "internal political crisis" and "democratize the state...
Three Asterisks. The Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, rebutted Pravda's criticism of Pope Pius XII's Christmas statement of Vatican policy (TIME, Jan. 8). The rebuttal itself was not notable, but its tone was: it departed from L'Osservatore's custom by referring to Marshal Stalin by name and title in an editorial. It called Russia a "great country," and drew a friendly parallel between the Pope's and Stalin's ways of dealing with some matters. The editorial concluded with three asterisks, the signature of L'Osservatore...
...high time for Russia to help her Allies with a "second front" in Poland. Quick as an echo last week came the reply of Russia's own army journal, Red Star: such talk bears "the Goebbels trademark." Izvestia chimed in: "Small-caliber strategists. . . ." Russia's mighty Pravda (circulation: 2,000,000) had already paid its blunt respects: "This journal looks ugly...