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Suddenly Moscow's Pravda published an open letter to Tito from Yugoslav Ambassador Stanoye Simich, severing his connection with Peter's Government and proclaiming his allegiance to Tito. Long ready to make the switch, Simich now explained...
...Compromise. Part, if not all, of Stalin's letter was presumably conveyed to the Polish Cabinet. Concerted attacks in Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star indicated its contents. Said Pravda: "The Polish emigre Government, having fascist politicians in its makeup ... is living in the phantom world of a Hitlerite mirage. ... It has completely cut itself off from the real Polish people." Obviously there had been no change in the Russian attitude that 1) it will not deal with the present Polish Government; 2) the Curzon Line in eastern Poland is an immutable demand...
...good will and men with schemes to push pondered last week the riddle of the bear that walks like a man. From the wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
First Blood. Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many...
...semi-Asiatic, often inscrutable bear had lifted a warning lip at the lion. Guesses were a dime a dozen, but few fitted the known facts. Practically no one believed that Moscow had merely played another card in the complex game of Poland's postwar frontiers. Pravda's bad-mannered belch clearly had some deep but hidden bearing on inter-Allied relations for war & peace...