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...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
...Pravda hurried to Molotov's defense. Said the official organ of the Soviet Government: Byrnes is a "provincial prince" who "forgot he [was] not at a meeting in the State Department on the affairs of Panama and Honduras, where he could remove his coat and put his feet on the table...
...dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
...daily torrent: full texts of speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, Government handouts, technical and business reports, verbatim pickups from A.P., U.P., the New York Times. They need not bother to slant their stuff; Moscow takes care of that. But neither Moscow's " big-circulation tour-page dailies, like Pravda and Izvestia, nor any other Soviet paper prints much more foreign news than many small-town U.S. dailies...
...never really understood why there are always such long lines of people in front of the newspaper kiosks. Copies of Pravda and Izvestia are posled every-where for anyone to read. Observation ou the train, however, shows that newspapers provide not only the intellectual nourishment for the people, but wrapping, toilet and cigaret paper as well...