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When the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact passed its first anniversary last week, Tokyo noted the day in stony silence, Moscow with a stern warning. "It is necessary," said the Communist mouthpiece Pravda, "that the Japanese military and Fascist cliques, whose heads have been turned by military success, realize that their prattle about an annexationist war in the north may cause damage, first and most of all, to Japan herself...
...Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back in '36, in his pre-fifth-symphony days, he was considered a decadent by the Commisary of Culture, and publicly reprimanded by Pravda for being a callous, shallow, "modern," who destroyed the old formal bases of art just for the fun of it. Soon afterwards, however, he had a startling change of heart, dropped his former pan-European artistic ideals, and became overnight the musical exponent of the new social gospel. The politicians were quick...
Moscow was patient, with the patience of a child awaiting Christmas. For more than a month the people had scanned communiques that were optimistic but vague. There was the daily assurance of gains on all fronts, but localities and specific actions were not mentioned. There was the terse Pravda estimate of Adolf Hitler's staggering losses on the eastern front: 300,000 dead between Dec. 6 and Jan. 15, 6,000,000 casualties in the first five months of war. There was the heartening report of the Red Navy: 81 Axis warships and 276 auxiliary vessels sunk in seven...
Last week in Pravda Comrade David Iosifovich Zaslavsky, Soviet Russia's leading foreign news editorialist, snorted at the U.S. for declaring Manila an open city...
There was so much of importance in abeyance that waiting for the little things -for the factory whistle, for the streetcar, for Pravda with its reassurances-had be come almost intolerable...