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Vishinsky had threatened "unpleasant consequences" if Yugoslavia were elected. But this week Pravda grudgingly wrote that Russia would nevertheless "continue without change in the direction...
Target for the Week. In a week of Red tantrums after the verdict, Judge Medina became the target for every type of Communist attack and abuse. Paul Robeson vowed that he would get Medina impeached. The Soviet newspaper Pravda carried a cartoon of Uncle Sam swinging a bludgeon labeled "Medina...
From Alma Ata, in the remote Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakstan, came news last week that mountain-climbing members of the "Lokomotiv" sports club had discovered a new peak in the Zailisky Ala Tau range, near the Chinese frontier. They named it, reported Pravda, after the "prominent Negro singer and progressive public leader, Paul Robeson...
...Communist fatherland, Bolshevik bosses were also having trouble with men who coddled the worker. "Some managers," Moscow's Pravda whined, "are prone to show off their lavishness and kindness at the expense of the state, under the guise of awards and presents. They encourage all kinds of . . . soirées and banquets on any and every occasion-or even without any reason whatsoever...
...fact that Moscow frowns on modern art too (Pravda calls it "decayed, formalistic, bourgeois") gave Dondero no pause. He concluded his blast with the suggestion that U.S. artists be screened just as lawyers (and Russian artists) are: "Why should our highest art organizations have any different standard of membership than our bar associations? [For the bar] a candidate must pass the strict requirements of a character committee...