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Warning from the East. Moscow's Pravda sounded a warning: "Strange reports are coming from Belgium. . . . Patriots consider that Belgium will be finally freed when she is rid of her fifth column . . . inspired by General van Overstraeten [Chief Aide-de-Camp, close friend and adviser of King Leopold] ... an active agent of Nazi Germany. . . . The fact that he is at liberty while patriots are being disarmed is ... remarkable...
...Moscow Pravda attacked the efforts of the French and Belgian Governments to disarm the Resistance groups: "Europe is winning release from a nightmare. Is it not obvious that the most important question facing the liberated country is complete elimination of any remnants of Fascist influence...
Last week Moscow's Pravda slapped down groups among the London Poles and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, both at once. Governor Dewey was attacked for his Pulaski Day speech in Manhattan in which he urged a fair deal for Poland. The Poles were lashed for "dirty, blackmailing machinations...
...Said Pravda: "It must be noted that certain political figures in the U.S., instead of exposing these provocateurs, give them full support to inflame their adventurist ambitions. The speech of the Governor of New York, Dewey, at the Pulaski Day demonstration bore precisely such a character...
...Pravda and Red Fleet, famed Soviet Author Leonid Sobolev tackled the Get thee behind me, Satan problem with humor. He warned Red Army men who had seldom seen luxury goods in Russian shopwindows, that "a lot of outward tinsel will dazzle your eyes." He warned them "not to believe in the deceitful phantoms of a false civilization." Some of Sobolev's "deceitful phantoms": sleek automobiles, bright advertisements, well-to-do homes with shutters mysteriously drawn to hide "cheap luxuries," fat businessmen with gold watch chains looped across their well-fed midriffs...