Esau's Hands

Russia's puppet press went too far. After one look at the article in which a Soviet newsman compared President Harry Truman to Adolf Hitler, the U.S. State Department took a hand. In Moscow; Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith presented a stiff protest to the Russian foreign office: "I cannot recall that Dr. Goebbels, of unsavory memory . . . ever stooped to greater ridicule and vituperation. ... I would never have believed that a Soviet writer.would permit himself, or be permitted, to draw an analogy between the President of the U.S. and our recent common enemy."

In a you're-another reply, Foreign Minister Molotov charged the U.S. press with daily "lying and slanderous articles regarding the U.S.S.R. and its statesmen." The Russian Government, he said disingenuously, "cannot bear the responsibility for this or that article, and so much the more, cannot accept the protest you have made." Translated from the Russian, that could mean only one thing: Russia's rulers meant this one for the record.

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