NEWS “TUCKED AWAY” IN RUSSIAN PRESS
(10 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 5. A. Washington dispatch from the Soviet news agency, Tass of 57 words reported the signing of the Atlantic Pact on the back page of all Russian newspapers. The Tass agency said the Foreign Ministers of all the signatory countries made short speeches “trying to present the aggressive military bloc, created by the treaty violating the United Nations statute and directed against the U.S.S.R. and the countries of national democracy, as an allegedly ‘defensive measure.’ ” Reuter's says the Russians are reported to be studying the full text of the speeches. Tho'general Russian view is that they contained nothing particularly surprising, but represented an obvious attempt by the Western States to justify taking a step directed against the Soviet Union.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 7
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