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Answering a speech by Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet writer, who charged the American and British press with "war-mongering," monopolistic practices, and promoting war with Russia, Professor Chafee labelled the 1930 "divide-Europe" agreement between the Soviet and Germany as "real imperialism...
...reply to Lomakin, Chafee deplored repeated Russian accusations of American "imperialism" and asked, "Does it not constitute real imperialism to agree to kill a nation?" In addition to misrepresenting the United States, Soviet publications have repeatedly indulged in name-calling he said...
...when the meetings got down to the brass tacks of Professor Chafee's draft of an agenda, Expert Lomakin did not go along. On the nub of press freedom-elimination of peacetime censorship-Consul Lomakin was adamant. He proposed that the coming conference (in a European city to be selected later) be specifically prevented from considering such a step. He argued that censorship was exercised normally only against newsmen who were not acting in good faith and whose reports were designed to create misunderstanding and friction between nations. "Naturally," said Lomakin, "no Government can stand for that...
Zechariah Chafee patiently countered: to omit censorship from its discussions would leave the conference "playing Hamlet without a Prince of Denmark." Lomakin smiled. Chafee conceded that some U.S. newspapers might slant the news or be guilty of inaccuracies and omissions, but Government selection of what is news "could be equally wrong." He smiled wryly at Lomakin as he quoted Russia's Leo Tolstoy: "The thought of censorship hangs over me like a cloud, and the years slip by with nothing done...
...subcommission promptly voted-nine against Lomakin-to put the censorship problem on the agenda. They seemed almost sorry to do it; he was such an agreeable Russian...