Word: tass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parallel: "White House reporters are responsible to the White House . . . and if they weren't, they wouldn't be reporters for long." Miss Small would be interested to meet Lawrence Todd and Robert Hall, who have covered White House press conferences for many years. As correspondent for Russia's Tass News Agency, Mr. Todd writes for Pravda and Izvestia; Mr. Hall covers for the Daily Worker. Neither of these reporters, we would suggest, is responsible to the White House...
...State Department counted red Russian noses in the U.S., last week reported that the Soviet embassy staff in Washington, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, plus assorted Tass correspondents, Amtorg men, children, wives and babushki totaled 410. Total U.S. citizens-diplomats and dependents (113), correspondents (5), fur buyers (12), etc. -now in the U.S.S.R...
...Pentagon. It was also a way of telling the Russians what was what. When Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Washington newsmen were discussing the U.S. decision to draw a defense line in front of Formosa, Japan and the Philippines, Johnson looked around and asked: "Is the Tass man here?" Mikhail ("Mike") Fedorov of Russia's Tass news agency quickly turned and walked away, shaking his lowered head in evident embarrassment. "He heard what you said," a newsman told the Secretary. Replied Johnson: "That's all right. I wanted him to hear that we had drawn the line...
...Wavering. Long Moscow's only correspondent in Washington, Todd now shares the load with Mikhail Fedorov, 31, Tass's Ivan-come-lately Washington bureau chief (TIME, Nov. 21), who covers the White House, the Pentagon, Treasury and other agencies, and with Pittsburgh-born Jean Montgomery,*fortyish, who reports for Tass from Capitol Hill. To newsmen who wonder why Todd works for Russia, Todd has a carefully double-negative reply: he would not be working for the Russians if he did not believe they are for a peaceful world...
Despite his own pro-Russian opinions, Todd sends dispatches to Tass headquarters in New York (for relay to Moscow) that are as factual as any Associated Press report; the Russian dressing is added later. At least once a day, he also mails a fat envelope to Tass. Todd, who has visited Russia three times but cannot read Russian, professes not to know which of his stories are printed in Pravda and other Soviet newspapers, or what changes are made...