Evening star., 1947-05-04
U. 5. Papers Spread
SANDER Against Reds,
Soviet Magazine Says
By the A.seeioted Press

MOSCOW, May 3.-New Times,
the Soviet magazine on interna-
tional affairs, said today that some
people in the United States spread
organized slander about our country
through their hirelings in editorial
offices of numerous papers and
magazines"
Discussing the interview between
Prime Minister Stain and Harold
e. Stassen, former Minnesota Gov
ernor, concerning the press and Gen.
sorship, made public here April IA
the Soviet magazine said some for
eign press comment on this talk was
IAN obvious effort to secure for ir-
responsible journalists the right tc
print wild inventions about oul
country"
Qn the interview, Mr.. Stain
said some American news cor
respondents had "an i'll mood"
toward Russia and 'it will be diff
ficult in our country to dispense
with censorship"
(He cited a news story in 1914
that Mr.. Stain had struck Mar
shall Timoshenko during the Big
Three conference at Teheran and
other stories in the autumn of
1945 while Mr.. Stain was on a
vacation that Foreign Minister
Molotov forced me to 20 on
leave"
CMr. Stain said these were
rash and slanderous fabrica-
tions,' depicting the Soviet Union
as a sort of geological garden"
and "of cour Sc our people got
angry and they had to resume
censorship"
The United Press which said
in dispatch from London in
1914 that Mr.. Stain struck Mar
shall Timoshenko, subsequently
sent a telegram of apology to the
Soviet Union.)
New York Times Writer Cited.
New Times singled out Anne
O'Hare Mccormick for her comment
in the New York Times on the in
terview, saying, she apparently
knows no more about the habits
and customs of our country than
Columbus sailors did about radio
The magazine said Mrs. McCor-
mick recognized the examples cited
by Mr.. Stain were 'inexcusable' but
that here is where her sober discus
sions end
New Times declared meanwhile
it is we'll known that such CORE
spondents calmly sit in their jobs
sometimes receiving special increase;
in pay for falsely reporting events.
Criticizing the Americ al press, the
magazine said, Soviet leaders are
subject to broad public discussion
But it is true the Soviet press doe!
not give as much space to the per,
sonal affairs and personal life of it
prominent people as the American
press does"
New Times said American news
papers filled their pages describing
the ties and suits of this and tina
prominent leader, thus distractin.
millions of readers from serious so
cial questions vitally i important II
the American people"
Korean Stand Mentioned.
+, In other comment the maeazin,
said the official American assur'
ances that the goal of United State.
policy is to aid the Korean people
mould an Independent democrati,
state is not confirmed by fact
1T is evident" the magazine said
from recently published letters ex.
changed between Molotov and (Sec.
retary of State) Marshall on the sit.
uation in Korea that the efforts o1
Soviet representatives in the john
Soviet American Commission tx
reach fulflllment of an important
point in the Moscow agreement or
formation of a provisional govern
ment encountered direct conterac.
ton from the Americans"
This comment evidently was
prepared before publication of the
latest note of Secretary Marshall,
holding firm to the United States
contention that no representa-
tives of Korean democratic par
ties and social organizations
should be barred from consulta-
tions because of views they may
have expressed about future
Korean government. A dispute
on this point broke up commits
sion meeting a wear apo1