The Press: Left Hand, Right Hand

The dictators had hard words for TIME last week:

¶ In Moscow, Pravda called it "the widely circulated, most reactionary American magazine."

¶ In Madrid, the daily Informaciones erupted in a front-page editorial, titled TIME and a Lady. Excerpt: TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack...

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