•…Journalists, on the other hand, are allowed
to write, but the
censorship has turned them into masters of euphemism and understatement. Hence
they give “famine”
the polite name of “food shortage” and “starving to death” is softened down to read as
widespread mortality from
diseases due to malnutrition.”
•
•…May I in conclusion congratulate the Soviet
Foreign Office
on its skill in concealing the true situation in the U.S.S.R.? Moscow is not
Russia, and the sight of well fed people there tends to hide the real Russia.