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Last week, to the intense interest of every government in the world, Pravda, the newspaper of the Russian Communist Party, announced the dissolution of the Communist Third International (Comintern). Meeting in Moscow on the 15th day of May, four days before the arrival of Joseph E. Davies (see above), the Executive Committee of the Third International had proposed its own dissolution. The proposal had the force of a decision freeing Communist parties throughout the world from direction by Moscow. The Executive Committee urged the workers of Fascist or Fascist-occupied countries to be saboteurs and the workers of the United...
...year ago a powerful German siege army, reinforced to 14 divisions, for the third and last time in eight months attacked the Russian naval base of Sevastopol. Not long after the assault began, a young playwright, Boris Voyetekhov, arrived as special correspondent for Pravda. His book (The Last Days of Sevastopol; Knopf; $2.50) on Sevastopol's final struggle, tells the story of one of the great delaying actions that have defeated German strategy in Russia...
Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe." King George VI of England suggested that the day of defeat was past and gone. "The debt of Dunkirk is repaid," he said. Joseph Stalin, congratulating Roosevelt and Churchill, said: "I wish you further successes," and Pravda, in Moscow, talked as if those successes would be accomplished very soon: "The time is approaching when jointly with the armies of our allies we shall break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
Ankara reported vast German concentrations along the Eastern Front, predicted unprecedented carnage. The Russians, again on the defensive after their winter drives, brought up Siberian reserves, braced themselves for the shock of yet another great German offensive. Moscow showed confidence, but no complacency. Pravda remarked soberly that although the Luftwaffe had lost 5,090 planes during the winter, still "the enemy's air fleet is very strong and a potent weapon in the hands of the German command...
Within the classroom thus secluded, Teacher on occasion used all the psychological aids to pedagogy that have proved effective with bird dogs and masses. When the "Fascist Beast" was unchained on the side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times...