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...announcement, .made the same week in satellite Czechoslovakia, that 34,000 men will shortly be dropped from the Czech Red army. But Communist delegations from Czechoslovakia. Albania, Bulgaria. Hungary. East Germany, Mongolia, Korea, Poland, listening intently to Khrushchev's words, found a message there. The applause, according to Tass, was "tempestuous and prolonged...
...Recent developments, and especially the outcome of the [Big Four] conference at Geneva, bear witness to the fact that a certain relaxation of tensions has taken place," said the official Tass statement. The Russians explained their new move as an attempt to "establish confidence among nations." Whether the Kremlin would keep its promise there was no means of knowing, since the Iron Curtain makes inspection impossible. Tass went on to say that the 640,000 would be sent back "to their places of residence" and be "ensured employment in industrial establishments and collective farms," i.e., they would...
Last week the Russians also permitted CBS Radio's correspondent Bill Worthy to begin broadcasting directly to the U.S., the first regular short-wave news broadcasts from Moscow since 1947.* From the official Russian news agency, Tass, have come stories about the possibilities of increased cultural and sports exchanges with the West. Tass also has carried glowing accounts of the touring Russian agricultural delegation in the U.S. (TIME, August 1), but has not published dollars and cents figures on the income and wages of U.S. farmers and farmhands. In an article on the tour, Pravda said: "There is need...
Censorship was also slightly relaxed; visiting newsmen were allowed to telephone their stories from their hotel rooms. Russia's official news agency, Tass, was also easing up. Tass allowed the Moscow Associated Press and United Press bureaus to buy its service so that they could read Russian news as it came off the teleprinter in their own offices. But reporters permanently assigned to Russia still found their movements carefully held in check. And most of the newcomers were reporting little that was new. Even Columnist Stewart Alsop, who arrived in Russia last week after "writing personally" to Khrushchev...
...Four conference had spread around the world. One of President Eisenhower's preconference conditions was met when the French Parliament completed ratification of the Paris agreements (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Moscow Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin turned on his propaganda machinery and granted an interview to a Tass reporter. Said Bulganin: "The Soviet government takes a positive attitude to the idea of a great-power conference as expressed by the President of the United States, if [such] a conference would contribute to the lessening of tension in international relations." In Washington Bulganin's announcement was greeted with the cool...