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...Bellamy's Equality and a speech by Eugene V. Debs, young Todd joined the Socialist Party in 1904. At 29, he was a Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became a full-time Tassman in 1933. Todd insists he is not a Communist Party member, but makes clear his belief that Russia can do no wrong...
...Questions. At press conferences, Tassman Todd never questions Secretary of State Dean Acheson, though he does question State, Department press aides Mike McDermott and Lincoln White. He never goes "upstairs" (as do most correspondents) to consult State Department officials about specific problems or individual stories...
...reporters had also never seen in action a Russian quite so engaging as Jacob M. Lomakin, ex-Tassman, now consul general in New York City. A near-facsimile of cinemanful James Cagney, ebullient Consul Lomakin had no battery of deadpan advisers; behind him at each session sat a pert and pretty Russian blonde. Unlike icily aloof Andrei Gromyko, Lomakin chatted easily with those near him. He called the other delegates "fellow experts," and he uttered such un-Soviet statements as "We don't need to be consulting Moscow all the time," and "I will go along with what...
...agency's U.S. boss is black-haired Vladimir Pravdin (translation: "Man of Truth"), veteran Tassman now vacationing in the U.S.S.R. with his family. Acting director for the summer is slim handsome, secretive Alexander Alexandrov 32 who has spent three of his nine Tass years in the U.S., says he is not a Party member...
...hurl their inevitable charge of a capitalist plot to form an anti-Soviet western bloc. When a reporter for Moscow's Tass News Agency asked Léon Blum whether he really wanted to resurrect the Second International, Blum replied he did not understand the question. The Tassman rushed from the room, in a huff, slamming the door...