Tovarich Non Grata
I don't find it surprising that M. Michel Tatu, the correspondent of Le Monde in Moscow and widely considered one df the best-informed re- porters of the Russian scene, should have been the subject of a violent attack in' Pravda. For a Western correspondent in Moscow to be well- informed is an offence in itself. The attack, a grossly personal one, was launched by Mr. Yuri Zhukov, who frequently heads 'delegations' abroad, and whose mixture of caucus-managing and professional bonhomie my colleague Queequeg well remembers studying last sum- mer at Selsdon Park. The occasion was a meet- ing of American, British, Polish, and Russian journalists to discuss—more hopefully than pro- ductively-111e principles of co-existence.' It occurs to me now that it would be a useful gesture of international press solidarity if British journalists were to make it quite clear that in future they would prefer not to see Mr. Zhukov heading the Russian delegation to any such assembly in this country.
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