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Larry Todd, Washington correspondent of the official Soviet news agency Tass, and Rob Hall, Washington correspondent of the Communist New York Daily Worker, may sit in the Senate and House press galleries, take all the notes they want. But as "Government propagandists," Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty, who cover Congress for the State Department's Voice of America, may not. If they can find seats, they may sit in the public galleries, but like other spectators, may not take notes. In reporting debates they must rely on their memories, or wait for the next day's Congressional Record...
...Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, last week refused to answer a reporter's question about the H-bomb's "ultimate cost." Said McMahon: "We have in this room a representative of a news agency [Tass] that transmits every word of what I say to the Soviet Union . . . I'm tired of making it any easier for them than I have...
...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...