The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-04-15

tors meant that the Soviet govern
ment did not intend to pursue a
policy Of ani-Semitic persecution,
which they had feared from the
time the doctors were arrested.
AT the office of Pravda itself,
we watched the process Of publ
cation Of this four-to-eight page
newspaper which is probably one Of
the most powerful influences in
molding the thought and opinion of
Soviet citizens. We exchanged
views with Rom2nehikov, director
of the printing and publishing ac-
tiyities associated with Pravda. In
addition to the newspaper, with
circulation Romanchikoy said was
ga million copies daily, the Pravda
plant publishes newspaper for
young Communists, l6 magazines
and periodicals, ranging from the
Soviet Woman to Crocodile, the
humor magazine, and many books,
pamphlets and reprints.
The printing plant, said Roman
chikov, a stocky man who used
many impulsive gestures as be
showed us through the establish.
ment, works day EnG night The
daytime work goes INTO the books,
magazines and booklets; at night,
Pravda is printed. Half the edition
is published in Moscow, the other
half in IL Of the largest cities Of
the country, such as Leningrad,
Kiev and Lvov.
Airplanes carry the mats for
Pravda's pages from Moscow to
the other publication points so that
the entire nation can read the same
newspaper simultaneously.
With payroll Of 5000 workers.
Pravda has its own apartment
house for them, a rest home near
Moscow. a sanitarium in the Cau-
casus, and a technical school teach
ing a four-year course in printing
for youngsters who have completed
the middle school. the Pravda
spokesman continued. He added
that the printing machinery We
saw in the plant was manufactured
In the Ukraine, the paper Vas sup
Piled BY Soviet mills. and the type.
setting machines, many Of them
bearing the name Linotype, made
in Leningrad.
In a discussion Of political mat.
tiers which followed our Prsvda
visit. we asked RomanehikOv
whether he thought the Russian
government would be willing 10
Join il an exchange Of visits By
newspaper people, students and
others, between Russia and the
United States. We also asked him
II be thought communism and cap
italism could exist peacefully SIDE
BY side for an indefinite period
To the second question, perhaps
the most inporians put 10 any
Soviet official duging oar visit.
R0manchikoy replied that co-exES.
tence was ecrfasnly possible II both
sides were willing II cooperate Oh
q friendly basis. The implication
was--cF so several ca Us through
that Russia was wiling ID cooper
ate bat the Z S. perhaps vas nos
We told him that no people il the
world desired peace more thaa TIE
people II the Ualted States ard
that they had demonstrated their
willingness 10 cooperate Scr peace
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