REPORT ON RUSSIA
Sir,-Having read in your issue of September 20 the most recent result of your scavenging in the refuse/tip of antiSovietism, I can only say that while Russell’s contribution was stale this latest is smelly. : Stealing a sentence from G. B. Shaw I would say that the editorial which accompanied "Report on Russia" was "the pompous oracle with nothing to say, the noodle’s oration, the twaddler’s pulpit platitudes," and I trust that this letter does not fall within Shaw’s final category of "the ranter’s tirade." The first inexactitude in the article (and your editorial) is that’ of calling the U.S.S.R. "Russia." Without being unduly formal may I point out that the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is only one of the 16 republics in the Soviet Union; thus it is no more correct to call the U.S.S.R. Russia than it would be to call the U.S.A., Texas. There can be no point in attempting to refute the mis-statements of Atkinson. Let me only add that yaur objectivity is seriously called in question by the very concoction of hacked-up paragraphs torn from context in which you present the material of Atkinson, Zaslavsky, and The New Yorker. If you really desire information on the Soviets which you can pass on to your readers, I suggest that you negotiate for and publish in serial form some wellinformed and objective treatise such as that of S. and B. Webb. This course would ensure that for several years one: portion at least of your publication was free from some of the nonsense which too frequently clutters its pages.
MAX
BOLLINGER
(Uoper Hutt)
(We af half-way with Stale. Guess which
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 28
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276REPORT ON RUSSIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 28
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