A beautiful example of how to kid the censors was given by the New York Time's erudite Brooks Atkinson, who tucked his tongue in his cheek, pecked out a deadpan cable from Moscow:
"Amid rejoicings in the Moscow press over the virtues and glorious achievements of the Soviet Union, a foreigner on a gloomy Sunday morning cannot help contemplating with a heavy heart the imperfections and errors of the U.S. As evidence of the happy unanimity of electors in the U.S.S.R., the newspaper Pravda today points out that in the last U.S. presidential election...
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