Word: tass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of impudence," cried tall, gimlet-eyed Lord Vansittart, 68, in Britain's House of Lords last week. Bristling with rage, the onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office told his peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina...
...time when all the countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set out for the suburbs to hunt wild rabbits, starlings, squirrels, hedgehogs and polecats." Viscount...
...years, Laurence Todd, a native-born U.S. citizen and onetime Hearstling, has been Washington bureau chief for Tass, the official Soviet news agency. Last week Larry Todd, now a tall, ruddy-cheeked 66 and still an undeviating party liner, had a new and less imposing title: senior correspondent. Moscow had decided that the Tass bureau in Washington, like its offices in other world capitals, should be headed by a citizen of the U.S.S.R. Todd's successor: short, curly-haired Mikhail Fedorov, a Russian-born aircraft worker who joined Tass after...
...Ominous Specific. From Moscow came the most remarkable reaction of all. For more than 24 hours after President Truman's announcement, the Russians maintained silence. Then Tass released a deadpan communiqué deploring the "alarm among broad social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that the West had, just possibly, been fooled. "In the Soviet Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic...
...Bellolampo raid caused shrieks of rage in the Italian press. Communist papers featured a Tass dispatch calling Giuliano the tool of imperialistic foreign elements who wished to make the island a base for military operations. Minister of Interior Mario Scelba flew to Palermo and cleaned out the whole Montelepre police command. Himself a Sicilian, Scelba began a wholesale transfer from Montelepre of native Sicilians...