The Press: Drawing the Iron Curtain

As Russian expert for the anti-Communist weekly New Leader, Contributing Editor David J. Dallin gets his information chiefly from Russian newspapers and magazines. Like Russian specialists on other U.S. newspapers and magazines, Dallin gets his view of things behind the Iron Curtain by piecing together bits of news and information in Soviet periodicals. Recently, Dallin reported an alarming discovery; Federal Government bureaus had seized such magazines as Bolshevik (which changed its name this month to Kommunist) and Ogonek, thus depriving Dallin and others of an "important source of knowledge and weapon in the cold war."

Last week the American Civil Liberties Union...

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