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Like any other news service, Tass, the Russian agency, has reporters in most world capitals. There the resemblance stops. Tass's chief clients are Russian newspapers, its reporters are frequently Communists, and they often seem more interested in keeping the Kremlin in formed than they do about making a Pravda deadline. For this reason, their presence at off-the-record press conferences has sometimes worried officials of Western nations who prefer to keep their confidences off-the-record from Moscow...
...Moscow statement, wrapped up in a brief dispatch by the Tass news agency, noted coldly that various reports about a possible lifting of the Berlin blockade had been spread in the "foreign press." To refute incorrect rumors, Tass deemed it necessary to set down "the facts as they are." Russia's U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik and U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had been conducting talks on the subject of Berlin. According to Tass, the first of these conversations had taken place last February, the last almost two weeks...
...West seemed ready to agree to another Big Four conference, and to lift its counter-blockade. But it was not willing to abandon its plans for Western Germany. Day before the Tass announcement, the Western Powers reported full agreement with the West Germans on their proposed constitution. West Germany was closer to statehood than ever before (see below...
Overnight, Columnist Coffin's shot in the dark was heard around the world. Diplomats in Paris talked it up. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano came out strongly for a meeting between Harry and Joe. Moscow papers gave a significantly big play to a Tass dispatch quoting Coffin's prediction...
...Lomakin began going places in 1939. He had graduated from a Moscow technical school as a "management engineer," had written articles on Marxist economy, and taken a course on how to become a foreign correspondent. In 1939, when he was 35, Jake was sent to New York as a Tass correspondent. Two years later he was made vice consul in New York City, and a year later, consul general in San Francisco...