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After Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, was secured last week, LIFE Photographer Hank Walker headed for the Russian embassy. There, to his surprise, he found two complete periodical files -of Pravda and TIME...
Harold Stassen's letter to Joe Stalin was clearly marked R.S.V.P., but last week, instead of a note from Uncle Joe, Harold Stassen got his answer in a three-column harangue in Pravda, written with Pravda's usual Old World grace and civility. Stassen's offer to talk things over, said Pravda, was insolent, ridiculous, dirty, and fantastic. Stassen was obviously a "crazy political speculator," and his letter a "self-seeking, self-advertising trick." Why, Stassen's letter "demands no more & no less than that the Soviet Union change its policy," said Pravda, and what could...
Equally rough was Pravda's reply last week to President Harry Truman's San Francisco speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Not Russia but the U.S., fumed the Kremlin mouthpiece, had blocked the path of peace. Truman's statements to the contrary were "rude, ridiculous pretensions [that] could originate only in the mind of a warmonger...
...Times had sent Salisbury, ex-foreign editor of the United Press, to Moscow nearly two years ago on the theory that some "news" out of Russia is better than none. But week after week, as the Times printed long -and censored-dispatches from Salisbury which more or less echoed Pravda and Izvestia, the Times had worriedly wondered whether its readers should not be warned about such "news." Wouldn't readers otherwise grant it the same respect they did to factual, uncensored stories...
Before the attack on Inchon General MacArthur issued to his troops a conventional statement explaining the military purpose of the operation (TIME, Sept. 25). Last week Moscow's Pravda "translated" his statement into Communist Russian: "Before you is a rich city. In it are many sweets and wines. Take Seoul and all the girls will be yours. The property of the inhabitants belongs to the victors and you can send it home in packages...