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...another fretful area of big-power relations, Tass reported that during his recent Kremlin conversations, Field Marshal Montgomery proposed an Anglo-Russian exchange of officers similar to that between the U.S. and Britain. Stalin said this was "desirable" but at present "not quite appropriate...
Sneered the Soviet news agency, Tass: "[New York papers] seek to present the attack as usual for the New York way of life. However . . . the attempt was of a political character. . . ." Snarled Ukrainian Chief Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky: "Political banditry. . . . If the authorities cannot protect us, either it will be necessary to have our own agents . . . or maybe to pay income tax to somebody like Al Capone for protection. . . ." In a bristly letter to Secretary of State Byrnes, Manuilsky charged a "premeditated attempt" on the two men's lives...
...official-and only-Soviet news agency, Tass had dutifully reported the spankings which have lately stung many a Red backside, from the shoemakers to Shostakovich. Last week, it was Tass's own turn to go to the woodshed...
...trouble with Tass, said a critic in Moscow's Culture and Life, is that in covering the "main events of international life [Tass dispatches] contain much foreign and special terminology which is not understandable by an ordinary collective farmer." Culture and Life didn't say so, but the inference was that Tass had picked up such bad habits from its capitalistic brothers...
...when Victor was freed (on 20 million CN dollars bail, or U.S. $6,000), he gave little credit to the prayers of his own followers or of John's. The Soviet news agency Tass, jubilantly reporting the Archbishop's "liberation" and a service celebrating it, said Victor told "thousands of believers": "Behind us like a cliff stands Soviet power...