Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloudy afternoon at the sleepy town of Tosong, just south of the mountainous 38th parallel, I renewed an old experience. I watched again-as during last May-the routine phenomenon of people escaping from the Soviet north (2,000 daily...
Other bouquets went to the Rev. Dr. William Howard Melish of Brooklyn, chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, to members of N.C.A.S.F. and half a dozen allied groups. Among them: retired Harvard Professor Ralph Barton Perry, ex-Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies, Atom Scientist Albert Einstein, onetime California Attorney General Bob Kenny (now national vice-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America...
Moscow put on the biggest show. Atop Lenin's Tomb, peace-loving Generalissimo Joseph Stalin reviewed the greatest annual military show on earth. For some five hours, more than a million Red soldiers, sailors and workers marched by. While more than 200 Soviet warplanes swooped overhead, cavalry clattered and giant tanks clanked. The militant note was also struck by Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Government's snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried...
Until then, the censorship holiday on conference news had gone fairly smoothly. But when the censors read about the interview in cables (it was not reported in the Soviet press), they began bearing down. Many dispatches were delayed; some were rejected outright. "The one fact they [the censors] saw in stories of the Stassen interview," cabled Carlyle Holt of the Boston Globe, "was that Stalin approved censorship...
Excerpts from the script were carried in the Moscow News, only English language daily newspaper in the Soviet Union. The play, written by Nikolai Virta, has not yet appeared on any screen