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...House of Unions, once a nobleman's club, 2,000 party members heard Nikolai Mikhailov, Moscow district party leader, read out the communiques of the Plenum and the Presidium. One of Communism's great wolves had fallen, and the lesser wolves were tearing at his carcass. Reported Tass: "Speakers at the meeting spoke in wrathful indignation of the foul enemy of the party and the Soviet people-the international imperialist agent Beria," and the audience cheered...
...news of Beria's downfall reached the outside world in a dawn broadcast from Radio Moscow, followed by an official Tass announcement. Then the speculations began. PURGE DECIDES POWER BATTLE FOR MALENKOV, headlined the Detroit News; MOLOTOV RISES AS PURGE PERILS MALENKOV, headlined the New York World-Telegram, which later front-paged...
...Vienna, where correspondents from the Russian news agency Tass have always steered clear of Western newsmen, Tass-men have started wining & dining U.S. reporters in nightclubs, sending them gifts of caviar and vodka...
Black Borders. On the news of Stalin's death, the wire services not only beat their own correspondents again, but they also got the news to their clients two hours before the Russian people heard it. The London bureaus picked up a broadcast by Tass, the official Russian news agency, to provincial papers, telling them how to play the death story when it was announced. Tass ordered front pages bordered in black with a portrait of Stalin in military uniform filling three columns on the right side of the page then listed five stories (official death notice, funeral arrangements...
This was the text of the broadcast, which attributed the report to the Soviet news agency Tass...