Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...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...