Word: ehrenburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial freedom that U.S. correspondents in Moscow...
...magazine Friday. An amiable State Department employe, Bill Nelson, had come along as friend and interpreter. Self-invited, but welcome, was the New York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once, watching Negro field hands, he turned to Grafton, wisecracked: "Uncle Sam, meet Uncle...
...still a bit perplexed at your story on Ilya Ehrenburg [TIME, April 29]: "Robert Glass . . . tossed them [the Russian newsmen] a tough one: would any Russian newsman have the right to write an article demanding Stalin's removal? Ehrenburg coolly sidestepped. . . . 'Categorically no! . . ."" Just what, in TIME'S estimation, might be a direct answer...
...that stopped right there. Ehrenburg's sidestep, as quoted in TIME: "Sometimes we have all found ourselves in a position where you couldn't tell what would be done...
...Ehrenburg was strong, too, on the subject of Fascism. "We don't want to impress our ideas on anyone," he said, "Those in the United States who attack the Soviet are really not anti-Russian; they are pro-Fascist and anti-American. We must agree on the answer to one question: 'do we want Fascism?' Fascism is a cuit of brute force which says one nation is better than another because of the color of its skin or the shape of its nose...