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...broadcast, attributing the report to the official Soviet news agency Tass, said the Russian Premier is suffering from loss of speech and paralysis. It added that his right arm and leg are paralyzed, he is breathing with difficulty, and his heart is affected...
Reporters began to line up a full hour and a half before the start of President Eisenhower's first press conference last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In all, 294 newsmen were on hand, including Tass Correspondent Mikhail Fedorov. The crowd was so big that only newsmen with White House press cards were admitted, thus closing the conference to editors, publishers and other visiting firemen who may have hoped...
Correspondents for Tass, the official Russian news agency, often behave more like Communist agents than reporters. But, though some U.S. newsmen suspect Tassmen, many of whom have little journalistic training, of being spies, they are rarely caught at it. (In Canada, one Tassman skipped home in 1945, just before he was named as a member of the Canadian spy ring.) Last week in The Netherlands, a Tassman was jailed on espionage charges...
...Tass correspondent in The Hague, Leo C. Pisarev, 37, was different from other foreign correspondents. He lived with two Russian Embassy families, spent much of his time cultivating minor government officials and took his "contacts" to the best-restaurants. Recently, he began concentrating his entertaining on a low-salaried government employee. Pisa-rev's questions about Dutch classified information were so insistent that the government man went to The Netherlands' security police. From then on, the Dutch employee regularly reported Pisarev's questions to them...
...Salvador, got their figures by culling and comparing a mass of sources, including Russian newspapers. Two years ago, for instance, Russia created a stir by announcing that all Japanese and German P.W.s had been sent home, except for "a few thousand" awaiting trial for war crimes. At that time, Tass put the number of Germans repatriated at just over 1,000,000. Five years earlier, the Russians had admitted taking more than 3,000,000 German prisoners. That left close to 2,000,000 still captive or dead in Russian hands. Some 370,000 Japanese are similarly lost...