Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of getting the news of Russia-and getting it out of Russia-is, as you know, a major concern of the U.S. and the world press. A corollary of this problem, the Soviet press itself, is the subject of a recent report by Craig Thompson, now home from a two-year tour of duty for TIME & LIFE in Moscow. The following excerpt from it may interest...
Moscow had big literary news: Soviet citizens are going to get more to read this year than ever before. If the state-owned presses stay on schedule, 1947 will be the biggest year in Russian publishing history: 23,000 titles, totaling 430,000,000 copies, in the Soviet Union's 100-odd languages and dialects. Every book is fit for Russian eyes and minds: Glavlit, the Government bureau in charge of such things, had seen to that by hand-picking each title...
...writing will reach Soviet readers in small, carefully measured doses this year. Considered safe for reprinting are the works of Washington Irving, O. Henry, Jack London and Communist Theodore Dreiser...
...Roosevelt (As He saw It), Erskine Caldwell, whose short stories about the seamy side of Southern life will top all other U.S. offerings with a 100,000-copy edition. Said the director of one Moscow publishing house last week: "We didn't see anything else that would interest Soviet readers...
Wallace, here for a speech tomorrow night, told a news conference that Soviet expansion across Europe would be a threat to world peace and Russia should be told there is a point beyond which she could not go. That point, he added, is near control Turkey or the approaches to the Middle East...