Word: pravda
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...course of a speech to British newspapermen, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison saw a nice chance to twist the ring in Pravda's nose. "I should feel more hopeful for the future," said Morrison, "if our Prime Minister or I were asked for an exclusive interview with Pravda, and if we could then be sure that our words would be reproduced . . . faithfully . . . Now, Pravda, what about...
...Very well," said Pravda (which is Russian for truth) on its front page one day last week, "Pravda is ready to give space to Mr. Morrison's words, which will certainly be reproduced exactly and fully ... Of course, Pravda's circulation will suffer, but Pravda is willing to make this sacrifice...
Last week Manhattan's anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader, published more evidence of Mann's political activities. It was a letter to Stalin's cultural commissar in East Germany, Poet Johannes Becher. More worshipful of Russia's boss than Pravda, Becher turns out such drivel as: "How happy must be the letter 'i' as it is permitted to form a letter in the name of Stalin." Cries he in his "Hymn to the Soviet Union...
Russia's Communists dropped an official tear for capitalism's kids last week as the U.S.S.R. celebrated International Children's Day. "In the U.S.," intoned Pravda, "children are exploited to an unprecedented degree, but the Soviet government has removed for all time the waifs of the past...
...Argentine newspapers. Last week Associated Press came under heavy fire for picking up a Rio report that Perón had arrested his atomic energy expert, Dr. Ronald Richter (TIME, May 28). One Perónista newspaper raged at A.P. as "anti-Argentine." Another, in a curious echo of Pravda's familiar vocabulary, blasted the agency as a practitioner of "gangster journalism" and an agent in a "persistent and infamous plan to attack the Argentine republic...