Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More power to you for reporting the truth. Keep it up. Perhaps more Southerners will realize, as I have, what must be done...
Carrot & Stick. "Our new policy, in truth, is a policy of maximum and minimum objectives. Now that they are confronted with an accomplished fact, the Soviets are giving evidences of sore temptation to join with us and the British on terms we can agree to. This is natural, for we have both a carrot and a stick to move them. The carrot is reparations, desperately needed to supplement the war-damaged Soviet economy. The stick is the Ruhr, the greatest industrial area in Europe, which the Kremlin policy-makers deeply fear to see under the complete control of the Western...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...
That was last July. A few weeks later, Ce Soir briskly backtracked: "The story was politically unjust . . . offensive to [a] high personality [living] in deportation and forced residence. The necessary remonstrances have been sent to our correspondent. Our rule on Ce Soir is professional conscience . . . respect for the truth." This routine Bolshevik backflip meant merely that Ce Soir's editors had been "officially informed" of what they should have known all along: Tunisia's Communist Party, culled from 110,000 French and 95,000 Italian residents, had rekindled among 2,300,000 Moslems and Bedouins the fires...