davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Ruso News Magazine Tells an Old Story, but New Way

have no overcoatS or warm gloves,
or about working women who have
to 60 without stockings in frosty
weather and the many London
families that shiver in poorly
heated flats because they can buy
only half the coal ration owing to
the high price of coal. which is
beyond the means of the workers
family"
A loving woman herself,
the doctor noticed that the average
Englishman is very much concerned
about peace. Then she goes in for
the kill. There are very few
schools and hospitals being built
in England now, although airdromes
for American Jet bombers are being
erected with feverish haste all over
the country. The ordinary English
man wants to know why"
Mrs. Pritt's View
She talked with an Englishwoman
about this very thing. The woman,
identified as "Mrs. Pritt, wife of the
well-known barrister," said: I'VE
allow the Americans to lord it over
us in our own country, to build air
dromeS and to. drag England into
war"
Even Iceland appears to be a
catspaw in the diabolical schemes
of the United States. Composer A.
Khachaturyan, w h o e Sabre
Dance" pulsed forth from a million
capitalistic juke boxes, visited this
little country and found to his dis
may evidence that washington
does not hide the fact that. it re-
CARDS that country as convenient
airbase for war against the Soviet
Union and the peoples democ-
racies"
AS for the reasons for this fan
tastic enmity, we return to Mr..
Tarle's article. 81 am" says Mr..
Tarle, positively unable to find
either in the past or in the present
any justification for that at-bottom
artihcially fostered animosity which
is poisoning the international
atmosphere today"
Mr.. Tarle is too modest. Perhaps
he is just looking the wrong way.
He may we'll have written the
editorial in News" about Develop
mentS in Korea" This speaks of
"the iniquity of war against a
small nation that was defending its
independence 1t sees Korea as
"an object lesson to hankerers after
colonial conquest and advocates of
power politics" To accuse your
enemy of doing what you have done
is an old trick, still vicious.
Americans aren't likely to buy it.
In fact, if News" is meant to be
bear-hug for the West, it just
won't do. 1t looks like the same
old r-trap. If this is love, We'll
take vanilla.
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What is this thing called News?
Is the brand-new Soviet-language
publication truly as advertised,
love letter from Moscow to the free
world? Or is it a lace-frilled dag
ger designed to cut the democra-
cies apart-perhaps timed particu-
Iarly to coincide with the show
down guns-or- butter debate in
Britain?
The object Of all the speculation
is a slim (32-page) magazine, bound
in dulcet blue-green, printed on
semigloss paper and supposed. 1t
says here, "to promote, to the best
of our ability, closer understand
ing between the peoples of the
Soviet Union and the Anglo-Saxon
world" Modestly proclaiming itself
"a fortnightly searchlight on world
events" it sells for 10 cents copy.
Try and find a copy in this coun-
try though.
The table of contents of the first
issue gloWs with names eminent
in Russian music, science and lit
erature: Shostakovich, Landsberg,
and Tarle. It's prose is calm and
masterful. It's tone IS somehow
plaintive, with only an occasional
snarl for American Big Business.
More in sorrow than in anger, it
appeals to the Western World
rather in the manner of the teach
er who knows there are some aw-
fully rough boys in the back of
the room, but who intends to win
through to their better natures.
For the miSled masses of America
and Britain, there are buckets of
crocodile tears.
Past and Present.
The showpiece in this months
number is an article by Eugene
Tarle, member of the Soviet Acad-
emy. a leading Soviet historian
with a reputation for agile propa-
ganda. His contribution, "Past and
Present." is a scholarly summary of
the history of Anglo-Russian rela-
tions. 1t begins on an aggrieved
note: ''My mind can conceive no
rational excuse for the highly
strained relations that have arisen
between the two great Anglo-Saxon
powers and the Soviet Union"
With that air of outraged virtue
which re-echoes throughout News"
Mr.. Tarle goes on: IF it was pos
sible in spite of all disputes and
differences to refrain from direct
preparation for war in the days
when Tsarist Russia was indeed
pursuing a provocative policy, why
is it not possible to adopt the course
of establishing peaceful relations
today, when absolutely no danger
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exists Of an attack on Britain's
frontiers by the Soviet Union?"
The reasSuranceS, of course, are
specifically directed at Britain.
Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet
RusSia's first Ambassador to Wash
ington, is completely at loss to
explain why Americans and Rus
slams aren't getting along too well
either, 1t has always been his
understanding that mutual admira-
ton (they for our creative energy.
we for their culture) has flourished
between the two countries. Let US
resume our wartime honeymoon, he
says in effect.
Dmitri Shostakovich, hitherto
better known as a composer, repre-
sents himself as hearing voices
from America-"the voice of the
ordinary American who is not en-
ployed to spread propaganda for
steel and oil kings, who does not
attend press conferences held by
the Secretary of State and whose
opinion, incidentally, is never
printed in the newspapers nor
broadcast over the innumerable
American radio networks"
What War Is
Mr.. Shostakovich doesn't believe
the ordinary American knows what
war means. He undertakes to tell
him. Does he (the American) want
his quiet home on the banks of the
Hudson or in the Mississippi Valley
to be reduced to- ashes, his children
to be burned alive by gasoline
bombs, his wife to be driven insane
by grief?"
Without his private pipeline, Mr..
Shostakovich would not know how
the ordinary American feels. For
the man in the street, following our
shameful Intervention" in Korea,
was forbidden to express freely his
views on what was taking place
forbidden under threat of jail. :"
Besides, according to v. Martynov,
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By Mary McGrory

any American who goes to Moscow
and apparently the place is
sWarming with sightseerS these
days-can observe for himself what
a paradise it is, with the workers
well-clothed, Well-fed and we'll
housed, and the iron curtain" a
libel of the capitalist press. Leon
Straus, vice president of the Fur
and Leather Workers Union, gave
an interview to Trud to that effect.
Mr.. StrauS was enchanted with the
Soviet. 1t is worth noting that his
union was one turned out by the
CIO when it was housecleaned of
Reds.
Fellowship of Science
Although Soviet scientists are
j wont to claim invention of every
thing from the Mccormick reaper
to television, Academician Grigori
LandSberg puts in a plug for the
Fellowship of Science" and piously
calls attention to the fact that "a!l
advances in science have been the
product of the collective effort of
scientists of many different coun-
tries"
These stories, however. are mere
window dressing. News" really
takes the gloves off with Common
wealth and Common Sense" by A.
Losev, a remarkable concoction of
treacle for Britain and venom for
America. In reading this article.
one has a feeling one is coming
pretty close to an understanding
of what the magazine really is al!
about.
Mr.. Losev reasonably puts forth
that the commonwealth is not an
Objectionable thing in itself" The
Soviets, concerned as they are with
their own peaceful construction de-
velopment," could not conceivably
wish it's observation-disclosures. to
be sure, it has become "a seat of
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trouble, a factor Of disorder and
instability, a source of constant
worry for its neighbors no less than
for the commonwealth peoples and
the British themselves
Being a wholly objective and to-
tally disinterested spectator, how
ever Mr.. Losev cannot help
pointing out that commonwealth
economics are not only being dis
rupted but directly absorbed by
United States Big Business Here
again. fairness compels the author
to say that "the ordinary Ameri-
can citizen has no part in this.
But the American millionaires have
very much So"
Mr. Losev conceives 1t as his
duty to ask the British what might
be construed as a leading question:;
What else is the new network of
American war bases all over the
commonwealth but a croWbar with
which to lever the commonwealth
from it's hinges-in addition to be-
ing an instrument to foster a
world ware"
NY English Visit
BY coincidence, DR., Nina Djavak-
hiShvili- -Konakhidze makes exactly
the same point in an article in
nocently titled My English Visit
The doctor went to England to
attend celebration of Interna-
tional Womens Day on March 8.
Although-like some other con-
tributors to News" an absolute
rank amateur in politics and for
eign affairs, she was saddened by
the fate of democratic peoples.
She noticed many homeless people
on the streets of Liverpool, the
anemia in the life of the town, the
poorly dressed children"
She read story about an Angora
cat that was fed nothing but cream,
But nowhere in the papers could
she find anything about "those
children in London suburbs who
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emily was hurting the Russian bloc
more than it was hurting the West.
Nor is there any appreciable in
terest in the current efforts of
Russia's representatives, here and
there, to cozy up to other members
of the diplomatic corps. The social
relations of Russians abroad have
too long followed an irregular pat
tern of freeze and thaw for any
special significance to be attached
to this thaw.
Assuming Russia is really trying
to bring the Korean fighting to an
end, Informed thinking on, this side
as to her motives now runs along
these lines: In the first place, like
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Second Breakdown

1t was the second time the Com
muniSts had backed down at Kae-
song. It had begun to look as if
they might really want to bring
the fighting to an end.
4. In Moscow, the Russians started
publishing an English language
magazine, chastely titled News"
designed for overseas distribution
and dedicated to the proposition
that nations can Cooperate in
peace and concord no matter what
political structures and social sys-
TENS there may be-"
In the initial reaction in this
country, News" was written off as
a strictly-for- export item. But when
Izvestia, the Russian daily. made a
big point of chronicling for its Rus
sian audience the birth Of the new
publication, the experts sat up and
took notice. Izvestia even reprinted
an entire article from the first issue
of News, in which historian Eugene
Tarle argued that there is no rea-
son for friction between the Rus
sian and Anglo-SaXon worlds.
s. The final piece of evidence
which seemed to back the idea that
Russia might be "waging peace"
seriously resulted from the COM
plant of Herbert Morrison, British
Foreign Minister, that Russian
papers never fairly report the views
of non-party-liners. Pravda, official
voice of the Russian Communist
Party leadership, Immediately Of
fered to print word for word any
article Mr.. Morrison might submit
as statement of his views on for
eign affairs. Mr.. Morrison recovered
from the shock quickly enough to
complete the piece last week, and
1t presumably now is in the hands
of the printers in Moscow.
How Washington Reacts
This is the sum and substance of
the Russian peace offensive. Here
is how It's various components lock
at present to people here who have
had long experience in observing
Russian diplomacy at work:
The first piece of alleged evidence
the moves to restore at least a
measure of EaSt-West trade in
Europe-is taken as simple matter
OF economic self-interest. Cold-war
strangulation of this trade appar-
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But the harder he bletU, the
more closely did the traUeler tUrGp
his coat around him. At last the
Wind had to gi0e up II, disgust
"Then the sun came out from be-
hind the cloud and began to shine
do1On on the trdUeler 1Uith all his
power. The traUeler felt the suns
genial tparmth, and as he grew
warmer and 1DGrmer he began to
loosen his coat. Finally, he ,OaS
forced to take it of altogether"
Aesop's old fable provided con-
venient text for Secretary of State
Acheson in his Detroit speech last
Tuesday. The traveller, Of course,
was the free world. The wind was
the open Communist aggression in
Korea. The sun was a newcomer
on the scene-Mr. AcheSon called it
a false propaganda peace cam
paign" The lesson was that we had
hll DcUGCI hCCP Jul DILL 10 OAA'
AS American officials studied the
elements of Russia's So-called peace
offensive last week, they became
more and more convinced that
there was less to 1t than met the
eye.
Five 'Friendy' Moves
What had Russia done which led
to speculation that the men In the
Kremlin might have new, genuine
peaceful intentions? Five things:
/. In Europe the Russians had
moved, through the long-Spurned
Office of European Economic Co.
operation, to discuss the possibility
of resumption of at least part OF
the traditional East-West European
trade flow. They had made a SIM
liar move in Berlin, aimed at re-
laxing restrictions on interzonal
commerce.
2. In a number of world capitals
Russian-bloc diplomats had begun
defroSting their social relations
with some representative of the
West The Mayor of Moscow paid
a surprise visit to Paris, which was
celebrating it's 2,OO0th birthday. He
even had a nice little talk with
Pierre de Gaulle, the Mayor OF
Paris and Gen. Charles de Gaulle's
brother.
The new friendlineSs made itself
most felt, so far as Americans were
concerned, in Berlin, Vienna and
Tokyo-capitals of conquered mu-
tual enemies of World War II. No
such trend has been noticeable in
Washington. Early this spring a
second secretary Of the Russian
Embassy here attended a cocktail
party IN the home of a second Sec
retary of the Netherlands Embassy
That is about as far as things seem
to have progressed on this side of
the Atlantic.
3. Through Jacob Malik's sur
prise move in the United Nations,
Russia had set the stage for talks
which might lead to truce In the
hot war in Korea. Last week at
Kaesong, as the negotiators reached
agreement on points to be covered
in the truce talks, the outlook for
peace in Korea frightened some
what. This agreement on the
agenda was made possible when the
Communists quit insisting that the
withdrawal of all foreign troops in
Korea must be condition of any
armistice.
Cn-l D.
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Kremlin masters had proved their
willingness, on this one occasion,
to let the Russians know they were
at least capable of thinking of the
West specifically Brittany without
loathing, they remained adamantly
unwilling to let the Russians know
that the West specifically America)
was capable of thinking of them
without loathing. Thus they have
yet to publish in any form Presi-
dent Truman's recent message ex-
pressing American friendship for
the Russian people.
At first there was a tendency to
suppose that the new line" simply
had not had time to establish itself
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fully publicized In Russia, have had
occasion in the interim to note a
number of other strange facts.
In the first place, they have OBJ
served, to the extent that Mr.. Tarle's
article could be considered friendly
to the West, it IS the only such
article yet to have appeared in the
Communist press. For the Russian
public it was, as some one once
called the poetry of the rascally
Francois Villon, "a rose growing out
of a dunghill" single moderate
word inserted nonsensically in the
middle of a steady and continuing
stream of vituperative abuse.
In the second place, while the
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reports Of It's contents, written
before News" actually reached this
country, conveyed an impression
that its message was strictly sweet
ness and light. This it appears. is
not precisely the case Not only
does News" contain it's share of
the customary poison-penning, but
its general tone leads to a distinct
suspicion that the magazine really
is designed for Britain-to convince
oul principal ally that tagging
along with the United States is
dangerous and unnecessary.
State Department experts, pom
dering the strange fact that the
birth Of this friendly" organ was
Evening star., 1951-01-10
Lamond Heights Plans
Forum on Schools

The Lamond Heights Citizens
Association last night made plans
for an open forum discussion next
month on school and educational
programs here.
The group has invited DR.
Hobart M. Corning, District School
superintendent, to speak an6
answer questions. which will be
put to him by members and by
invited residents of nearby areas
who have problems to thrash out
with the District school system.
In other action. the body voted
to petition the Postmaster General
for a postal substation in the
neighborhood. There is none in
the associations area now nor in
that of adjacent sections, it was
said.
"We used to have one," said
Joel P. Sharon, president, but
they used to shuttle it around sc
much that no one knew where
it was" He added that it finally
wound up in a part of a Local
butcher shop and then was elm
mated altogether"
The group voted to allow Sic
toward expenses of its members
attending the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations annual dinner
in March; to pay the additiona.
SIS dues asked by the Federation
last fall. and to contribute $25 tc
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club
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Thomas Circle Group Told How 10 Survive Attack

flashlights, a first-aid kit, blan-
kets. water. sand and a radio to
receive broadcasts telling when
the attack is over.
During it's business meeting the
association voted for the elm
ination of the District sales tax
on all items up to so cents.
The meeting was held in the
home of the president, Mrs. Ella
Thompson. 1886 Sixteenth street
NV.
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Members of the Thomas Circle
Citizens Association were told
last night what to do to survive
an atomic attack.
Miss Sarah Allison. volunteer
speaker from the Bureau of Civil
Defense. told members in case of
attack to turn off all fires. heat
ing units and even pilot lights in
the house and then lie face down
on the basement floor, nearest
the outside wall of the house, and
stay there until the all-clear sig
nal is sounded.
Miss Allison added that it would
be well to have the basement
equipped with such items as
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Prof. Cox to Lecture Here Twice Tomorrow

Prof. Gertrude Cox, head of the
Institute of Statistics at the Uni
versity Of North Carolina. will
lecture here twice tomorrow as
part OF series sponsored by the
Agriculture Departments Com
mittee on Experimental Design.
Prof. Cox will speak first at 10
am. at the Plant Industry Station
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at Beltsville, Md, and then at 4
pm. in the Jefferson Auditorium
in the Departments South Build
ing.
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Many Indians in New Mexico
still occupy villages where their
ancestors lived more than 400
years ago.
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District Man Fined SIS
For Attacking Detective

John A. Gamache. 81, Of the
1900 block I street NV, yester-
day was fined $25 for assaulting
Precinct Detective Louis A. Fochett
Of the Vice Squad in Lafayette
Park early Sunday.
Gamache. a State Department
employe, pleaded guilty before
Municipal Court Judge Andrew j.
Howard, ir.
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Official poster marking the 41s birthday. s<sst
President Truman will IL outstanding Boy
White House Feb opening the
Scouts of America Boy Scout Week will be observed Feb to II
of the nation than
leaders. Strengthen Liberty" is the birthday theme
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morning when he questioned Harry
Andrews, age II, Of 400 Elm
Street, N. w.
A veteran of the Southwest Pa
cific campaign, the sergeant is a
member Of the Regular Army. He
has about eight years total SER
vice to his credit, including one
year overseas.
Sgt. Anderson plans to open a
recruiting section in the Butler
Street YMCA to receive applicants
for the Army and Air Force. He
explained that there was an ex-
pressed desire to recruit Negro
servicemen of what he called a
"higher caliber." The Army hopes
to interest such men by opening
local recruiting sections.
There has been large amount
of Indignation reported taking
place in the armed forces. All
branches of the service, and many
ranking positions are available to
Negro enlistments who are able to
qualify. For this and many other
reasons the sergeant feels hopeful
that Negroes who are able to do
outstanding work, and fill import
ant positions will be enlisting in
the various branches of the armed
services in the near future.
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Der of the Mt. Olive Baptist
Church, where he served as chair
man of the Usher Board. He was
member of Moses Lodge No.
III, Stringer Masonic Grand
Lodge, and Junior Warden of
Royal Arch.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Katie Mae Robinson, his father,
Mr.. Walter Robinson, brother,
Willie Earl Robinson, and sis
ter, Miss Ruth Mae Robinson.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday, at l o'clock at the Mt.
Olive Baptist Church, with the
pastor, Rev. J. White, as the of
ficiating minister.
Active pallbearers will be mem
bers of the Masonic Lodge.
Honorary pallbearers will be
members Of the Mississippi Col
ored Funeral Directors Associa-
ton.
The funeral arrangements and
preparations for burial were made
by j. A. Moore, and Frank D..
Ehrman, of Frazier e. Collins
Funeral Home in Jackson. Burial
will be in the Mount Olive Gene
terV,
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Negro Veterans .
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joined in the fight were the I'M
proved Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks of the World. the
Fraternal Council of Negro
Churches in America, the NAACP,
the United Cafeteria Workers, the
American Legion, the American
Council on Human Rights, and
special organization called the ID.
G Citizens Committee Against
Discrimination at the Bureau of
Engraving.
A few of the prominent citizens
who also lent their support to
this movement were DR.. J. Finley
Wilson, Mrs. Theresa Robinson,
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, the
Rev. William Jernigan, Paul Rob
eson, Charles P. Howard, Cong
William Dawson, A. Clayton Pow
ell, Jr., Ex-Congressman Vito
Marcantonio, Senators Herbert
Lehman, William LANCER and HUI
bert Humphrey.
This is step in the right d.
rection. But there is still much
to be done at the bureau before
it becomes a shining example of
fair employment practice" states
Mrs. Margaret P. Gilmore, chair
man of the UPW at the Bureau of
Engraving
my union will now concern it
self with bringing about increased
opportunities for hundreds of Ne
gro women who have been so long
Disseminated against in this
agency solely because of their
COLOR" she declared.
Thomas Richardson, chairman
of the Anti Discrimination Com
mittee of UPWA who also actively
engaged IN the campaign stated
that This victory is all the more
important because the plate print
ing craft is one of the skilled
crafts in America which until to-
day has never permitted entrance