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...action-packed years as A.F.L. representative in Europe, Irving Brown has become one of the Americans that Communists know best-and hate most. In Belgium Communists call him "the grey eminence of the yellow international," in Italy "Scarface, the notorious American fascist racketeer," in Prague "the chief union splitter." Tass has accused him of everything from forging Cominform documents to shipping German virgins to Africa "to amuse young Americans."* Last week Brown was in Washington reporting to A.F.L. leaders on how he had earned such Red epithets...
...deal," first trumpeted in Moscow's Trud and later echoed by Tass, was the 3-3 ice-hockey tie between the U.S. and Canada. The result, as it happened, assured Canada the Olympic title, moved the U.S. to second place (up from fourth) and forced Czechoslovakia into a third-place play-off-which it lost to Sweden. The Russians, looking after Little Brother Czechoslovakia, figured the tie was no mere accident. In effect, they were crying that ugly three-letter word all too familiar to Western sport fans...
Moscow's Tass news agency announced the execution of A. I. Osmanov and I. K. Sarantsev, said to have received "special training from U.S. intelligence officers in topography, the use of weapons and parachuting." Osmanov and Sarantsev, said Tass, had been flown from Greece in a U.S. plane and dropped in Moldavia last August, for the "organization of acts of diversion, terror and espionage," after which they were to have crossed the Soviet Armenian border and reported to U.S. intelligence officers at Kars, Turkey...
...state of the Korean truce negotiations. Later, the wire services were allowed to send the President's remarks over the tapes, for editors' information only. Among those who heard Truman's off-the-record talk, and presumably forwarded it to their bosses: Jean Montgomery of Tass, the official Russian news agency, and the New York Daily Worker's Rob F. Hall...
...grandmother and an engineer, a pale, thin woman of 47 with drawn-back grey hair, austerely dressed in a rough tweed suit, shapeless black hat, flat-heeled shoes and rayon stockings. With her was a smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat, accompanied her on a visit...