PROPAGANDA IN CROSSWORDS.
Crossword puzzles have made their first appearance in Soviet Russia. The Moscow evening paper " Yetchernyaya Moskva" now publishes one every Tuesday. Most of the clues are straightfOrward and simple, but soinetimes the composer femembers that he is not working for a ''bourgeois" press, and seasons his clues with a little pro. paganda. For example one clue reads, "That in whieh the workers of the U.S.S.R. have long ceased to believe. " The answer to that is "God." Another clue is, "A modern cannibal." The solution is, "Fascist." And "Old nanie for domestic worker" comes out as "A servant-' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 4
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