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...Pravda Speaks. These troop movements explained why the pact was made, as well as how it would work. To wishful thinkers who thought it was not worth the paper it was written on, the Communist Party's Pravda had some rude words to say. "All arguments of the British and American press lead one to conclude that . . . the pact . . . disturbed the plans of London and Washington politicians." Citing Washington reports that the U.S. had hoped to lure Moscow into keeping Japan from attacking Singapore and the East Indies Pravda added: "The 'ungrateful' Soviet Union failed to appreciate...
...Pravda also took the trouble to deny that Germany had put pressure on Russia to sign, stated flatly that the Kremlin had refused an invitation to join the Axis last November. In other words, Russia was playing a lone hand, with the object of keeping out of trouble. If by keeping out of trouble Russia got others into trouble, that would be so much the better...
...veteran journalist with a captain's commission in the Yugoslav Army, Dr. Petrovitch has been haranguing his countrymen from across their borders ever since 1939. Before then he was Paris correspondent for the Belgrade Pravda and so bitter about the Nazis that Berlin put on the screws to have him silenced. Unable to send dispatches, he suggested that the French permit him to short-wave his stuff twice a day. When the Nazis moved into France, Dr. Petrovitch fled to Vichy, making talks from towns along the line of retreat. Finally Petain ordered him to shut up, whereupon...
Composer Shostakovich has been on & off the careening bandwagon of the Soviet music party line. When he was off, his work was denounced as "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric, tuneless and Leftist" by Pravda, which probably spoke for Musicritic Stalin. Shostakovich's fifth symphony, a thoughtful and tuneful glorification of the October Revolution, got him back on the bandwagon. Since then (1937) he has worked in the Leningrad Conservatory. The symphony which Philadelphia heard last week sounded as if Shostakovich's seat were secure-even though the symphony lacked a choral apotheosis of Lenin which the composer...
...front page of Moscow's Pravda appeared a photograph of two blandly smiling statesmen. The caption: "Comrade V. M. Molotov and Mr. A. Hitler in the new Reich Chancellery...