Show NEWS ami THE BV released by western newspaper union TALK WITH STALIN CALLED PUBLICITY GESTURE washington Bl musings upon reading harold interview with generalissimo stalin stalin assures stassen press abroad distorts soviet news my goodness gracious stalin assures us we are always wrong again Is there any news in that calls herald tribune outstanding newspaper 1 I hope he never calls me an outstanding journalist because then I 1 will know I 1 am wrong nw now ac credits its correspondent aha I 1 see the trib got its man into moscow permanently and by permanently I 1 do mean at t future pleasure says he tried ending censorship got bad results when I 1 never heard of it A man with so much to conceal must necessarily have cen I 1 sor ship MOSCOW SCOW stassen talk with stalin subject russo american Ameri caa press relations two people who are experts on the subject while stassen making fact finding tour ill bet the only facts he got in moscow were those given by people for their own purposes stalin says he tried relaxation of censorship with unsatisfactory results because the american newspaper made the soviet government out to be a zoological garden in other words if the american newspaper will print what stalin wants and never make a mistake he might relax censorship and he is to be the sole judge of when a mistake n has been made RUSSIAN ACCIDENTS stalin replied that the refusal to admit a permanent new york herald tribune correspondent had been the result of an accident in our policy 11 of 01 course they never make mistakes in russia they only make accidents me und an atheistic gott which is me tool too but sometimes stalin cannot be so sure his atheistic sett self gott does not lead him into er ah what shall we say accidents it is an outstanding newspaper he said gosh these russians are certainly learning how to get publicity in the united states they take the leading republican journal r which incidentally is really what that newspaper Is and they salve themselves up to a two column top head and a completely detailed story on page 1 two days after the interview no newspaperman could get one the soviet government actually began to correct the accident and approved the admission of a permanent correspondent of the herald tribune well well well it had nothing to do with the accident the tribune made in accepting the full page ad of the communist party carrying the patent medicine propaganda so raw the party was not even allowed to palm it off on a congressional committee and inviting republicans to send in their contributions to pay the cost of the ad and so on and so on how long how long at the risk of making an accident myself because I 1 am only a newspaper man of 28 years experience watching how these things work from the inside I 1 would say the explanation might be found in these following facts CAMPAIGN LAGGING I 1 presidential campaign has not been going well the rather obvious reason was that the government and its popular foreign policy so popular it has been approved by both parties did not leave stassen much room to popularize himself so he went to russia willkie came up to popularity that way once but things were different then the soviet government then was not so obvious to so many people it had not yet disclosed its intents and purposes in actions before the U N in london in paris and yes even in moscow conferences however stassen must have had bad an experienced publicity adviser who knew that he be was not getting much play in the american press he was just one 0 I 1 a large number of presidential candidates and what bat he said was not as important as what some of the others were doing but tact fact finding in europe would give him the play the trouble with this game ia N we all played it before think ing people would have to forget so much to believe it again in tact fact they would have to forget all they know to be true now here in this very case stalin did what he always has done before i he never relaxed a bit to stassen or the american press or deviated the slightest bit from his censorship or purposes he kept all he wanted and nd got the american press to play up its own faults it all worked out his way we get nothing the trib got its correspondent back but bu I 1 wonder it if it would not have been better tor for him to be out as all he will get is the stuff clique wants him to print I 1 think both stalin and need new press agents |