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...onetime newsman for Pravda and Tass, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob M. Lomakin is an expert on the Russian press. Last week at Lake Success, U.N. Delegate Lomakin enlightened U.N.'s Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...
...borrowing from the totalitarian primer. Reporters of the Soviet agency Tass can still travel where they please in the U.S. The State Department was merely applying its immigration laws. Since the U.N. is an international no man's land, reporters accredited to it can come & go there as they please. But beyond the bounds of U.N., U.S. immigration laws, which bar foreign Communists, still apply...
...Tass echoed his speech: "The Soviet people is successfully carrying out its postwar Stalin Five year Plan. This insures a steady rise of the material and cultural well-being of the Soviet people. . . .* Other European countries are now engaged in [similar] plans. . . . The Soviet Union . . . more than once offered resistance to attempts at foreign intervention...
...This is a poor return for the amount of information about the U.S. disclosed daily in its free press, but it means even less to the average Russian reader. In general, he may doubt the word of his lesser newspapers, but when Pravda or Tass (the news agency) speaks, he feels that he is listening to the voice of his Government and is inclined to believe. There are exceptions, of course. I once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators...
...other message from Moscow was less conciliatory. Tass, the Soviet news agency, denounced "General Douglas MacArthur for "crude interference" with the Orthodox Church in Japan-i.e., refusing to cooperate in a Soviet effort to take over the Japanese Orthodox Church. A year ago the Japanese church, which has 35,000 members, asked Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, head of the U.S. church, to send a spiritual leader to Japan...