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...Pravda ("Truth") is the name of the Party's own paper, the ultimate and august authority of Russian journalism, whose daily two-column front-page editorial is read at dictation speed on the Moscow radio so that editors in distant towns will please copy. There are no comic strips in Pravda (or in any Russian paper) and there is no department-store advertising; since the war began there have been four pages instead of six or eight; the editor is a professor of Marxist political science; Pravda has the austerity of Truth and it is a rare Russian...
...belonged to the Party. As Schoolmaster to the Russians, the Party taught them to read and guided their reading in those lessons-agricultural, industrial and military-necessary for the primary grades in a new Socialist state. It was not judged important that ordinary people should learn, through Pravda or any of its emulators, anything complicated about life elsewhere. The New York Times's correspondent, G. E. R. Gedye, found, in 1940, that Russians were really unable to differentiate between the regions of the outside world. For many Russians the word Zagranitza (beyond the frontier) had an astronomical connotation...
...Russians themselves point to these promises as the definition of their war aims. Last week Pravda quoted Joseph Stalin's speech of Nov. 6, 1941: "We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the seizure of foreign territories or the conquest of other peoples. . . . Our first aim is to free our territories and our peoples from the German Nazi yoke. We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the imposition of our will and our regime on the Slavic and other enslaved peoples of Europe who are waiting for our help...
...more certain of the Allied game in Yugoslavia than the Allies can of theirs. The Russians, who consider that they have a right to the Baltic States and Bessarabia, do not like to hear Americans question that right. When Columnist Constantine Brown did just that last week, Pravda answered angrily: "Why should he not make a generous present of California or Alaska to the United States? Do there not exist curious people who are ready to present to the Soviet Union parts of the latter's own territory...
...Moscow, have their most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing two fawn-fast girl runners, Venus...