Word: tass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tass denied that any negotiations were in progress. So did Ambassador Ivan Maisky in London. This was, quite possibly, literally true. A credible explanation of what was going on came from a German source in Stockholm. Said this informant...
...into German hands. One day last week an unknown young Russian diplomat, Alexander Mihailovich Alexandrov, said to have been chief of the Balkan Division of the Foreign Commissariat, turned up in Sofia as Counselor of Legation, reportedly charged with giving Boris moral support in refusing German demands. Another day Tass, the official news agency, issued a gruff statement: "If German troops really are present in Bulgaria and if the further dispatch of German troops to Bulgaria really is taking place, then all this occurred and is occurring without the knowledge and consent...
...become important, especially if the Burma Road should be cut again. In winter the frozen, level tundra is ideal, since vehicles need not follow a narrow bombable ribbon. Much of the way runs through Russian territory, which the Japanese dare not touch. For understandable reasons, the Soviet news agency Tass denied that there was any such supply route...
...Pact, was replaced by V. G. Dekanozov. Dekanozov was formerly Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and accompanied Mr. Molotov to Berlin. When United Press quoted Hamburger Fremdenblatt to the effect that Hungary's adhesion to the Axis was reached "with the cooperation and full authority of Russia," official Tass announced sharply: "This report does not correspond with the facts in any extent...
...Stalin continued his game of seeming to keep both sides guessing. Some observers believed that it was merely to deepen the democracies' puzzlement about Russia's relations with Germany that the official Tass Agency rudely called Berlin a liar when Nazi Government quarters announced that Moscow was informed of all Axis moves. The Soviet press, including the Army organ Red Star, continued to praise the R. A. F., belittle by implication Hermann Göring's air-war machine...