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...began, managed to get himself accredited as a war correspondent, and launched gaily into political punditry. Hebert is a Catholic and an antiCommunist; apparently his French Canadian isolationist-pacifist sentiments led him into echoing the Communist appeasement line on Korea almost as faithfully as though he were writing for Pravda...
Ally's 52-year-old editor, Archibald Johnstone, a onetime London newsman and free-lance writer, who was regarded by friends in Fleet Street as an idealistic left-winger, walked out of his Moscow office one day, never came back. Later, Pravda published a letter from Johnstone announcing his resignation, both as editor and as a British citizen, because of the anti-Soviet bias of British "warmongers." A few months later, Assistant Editor Robert Dagleish also resigned via a letter to Pravda and cast his lot with the Soviets. Lean, keen-eyed W. Richard Jones, assistant news editor...
Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune sounded so much like the Communist press that the Washington Post lamented that people might soon label it "the prairie edition of Pravda." Cried the Trib: "Mr. Truman's statement on Korea is an illegal declaration of war . . ." But the New York Compass, which has often walked the Communist line, this time jumped off. It blamed the Reds and got a characteristic reward from its former friends: Compass Columnist I. F. Stone was accused of "slimy Titoism...
Marx Said So. By 1950 there were many among the new generation of Bolsheviks who thought that Russian was good enough for them. A learned controversy in Pravda last month aired views for & against the Marr theory. Last week Stalin personally ended the argument with an 8,000-word statement on language. He was no philologist himself, Stalin admitted modestly, but he was, he thought, an authority on "Marxism within philology...
...years Dmitri Shostakovich had been trying to "reconstruct" his composing to make his music fall more sweetly on the Kremlin ear. It seemed that was not enough. Last week he was told how fast he should compose. Complained the Soviet Composers Union in Pravda: Shostakovich had not worked hard enough to finish his new opera on the 1917 Russian Revolution, October. While comradely criticisms were being passed around, piped Pravda, the Composers Union had shown too much "complacency" about the whole matter itself...