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...election was held anyway. From the sidelines Opposition Leader General Nikola Petkoff urged all good Bulgars to stay away from the polls. The balloting was brisk. The Soviet Tass news agency reported that the vote in one Sofia district had run as high as 99%, the election as a whole had been held "quietly and in an organized manner...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, the communiqué by no means insured free access to the Russian-dominated zone. The Russians themselves, with a fundamentally different conception of the role of the press, had only a handful of Tass men in the Balkans. Nor could they understand why the U.S. and British governments had transmitted applications for scores of reporters to enter the area. U.S.-Russian understanding on a free press was still unfinished business...
...same time Moscow, which last week reported similar atrocities from Macedonia, announced that the National Front Government of Federal Macedonia had protested to the Yugoslav Government that "fascist" Greek organizations, supported by units of the Greek Army, were carrying on a reign of terror. The Macedonian organization, said Tass, official Russian news agency, described the terror as comparable in savagery to "the most horrible in the times of Turkish enslavement...
...through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books as Upton Sinclair's Brass Check (1919) and from Tass News Agency, which carries 13,000 words a day from America but "does not give any real picture...
...editors, who disagreed with, but liked, the Russians, did not blame Tass alone for such distortions of the U.S. scene: "One of the chief complaints we found from our diplomats and information staffs was that our own news services, A.P., U.P., and I.N.S., were doing the same thing, sending out items they thought would be used and displayed . . . to build up their services, without regard to whether people . . . were getting a picture of America. . . . Too often it is race riots, murders, Hollywood loves, divorces...