“PRAVDA” AND SPEECH BY BEVIN
FURTHER COMMENT BY MOSCOW PAPER LONDON, January 23. The Moscow newspaper “Pravda” prints the British reply to its comment on Mr Bevin’s speech on December 22, in which the paper alleged that he renounced the British-Russian treaty of alliance. “Pravda,” in a leading article, asserts that a comparison with the official text of Mr Bevin’s speech does not disclose the least difference between them. “Pravda” claims that it gave the right interpretation to the sentence from the speech, because Mr Bevin. in answering Labour Party dissidents from his policy, had not emphasised that Britain was connected with Russia by a treaty of alliance in war and on post-war co-operation and mutual assistance. In the sentence which “Pravda” quoted he had said the opposite. “Pravda” adds: “We did not and we do not engage in guessing what Mr Bevin wanted to say, but we acquaint, our readers with what he did say and with its meaning. This is the duty of newspapers and ‘Pravda’ discharged this duty.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25092, 25 January 1947, Page 2
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