Word: tass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such at least was the story-not inconsistent with the methods of Japanese police -sent out last week over the wires of Tass, the official Soviet news agency. Tass backed up its torture tale by declaring that the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo has been ordered to protest the treatment given the captain and crew of Refrigerator No. 1. Since Russians and Japanese are still arguing over their bitter full-dress battle on the Manchukuoan border earlier this month, the affair of Refrigerator No. 1 did little to promote the amicable spirit needed for a settlement...
This week, just as Soviet citizens were busy celebrating "AntiWar Day" (Stalin's name for the anniversary of the declaration of war by Imperial Germany in 1914 upon Imperial Russia), they were quietly informed by the Soviet official news agency Tass that the defeated Japanese forces had nevertheless "occupied Soviet territory to a depth of six miles." Next, Japanese official press wires reported that 50 Soviet bombing planes had appeared over Korea this week, bombed several villages and railways. Five planes were shot down before they could get back to Russia...
...Political Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered New Bolshevik Butenko. In Moscow this news electrified Old Bolshevik Litvinoff. Showing his Stalinist zeal, he ordered rushed off three hot notes in succession to the Rumanian Government, demanded that they rescue Butenko from Fascist toils, finally ordered...
...Rumania because he had felt the hot breath of the Soviet Secret Political Police on his neck, and then provided a pretty good reason for their propinquity by going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have been applied in Italy to extort statements hostile to Stalin from a Russian of some sort...
Mighty Fallen. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, supplied U. S. newsorgans with the full 9,000-word indictment against the 21 prisoners. If cabled from Moscow at press rates this would have cost $1,000. It is what the Soviet Government wants to have believed, amounts to this...