RUSSIA: Nipples

David Josefovich Zaslavsky is the Westbrook Pegler of the Russian press. He has slashed at General Douglas MacArthur, Military Critic Hanson Baldwin, the late Wendell Willkie, William C. Bullitt. Last fortnight Zaslavsky slashed at Soviet bureaucrats. His theme: the scarcity of nipples in Russia.

"We said to the Chief of the Production Section of the Technical Department of the People's Commissariat of the rubber industry: 'We are interested in the nipple.'

"The Chief looked at us thoughtfully, seriously, benevolently, and asked: 'Nipple? What aspects of the nipple?' We answered: 'The nipple in...

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