Word: ehrenburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...respect the American people," cooed Ehrenburg, suppressing the other Russian line about the germ-spreading American cannibals (TIME, June 30). "We respect their genius, their achievements in science, their inventiveness, their industry." As for the "happy-go-lucky American character," Ehrenburg admitted that it does have a "certain charm." "It is time the plain American should understand that Russians are not massing to deprive him of his little Ford, that the Chinese have no intention of meddling with his television programs, that Koreans do not lust after Mr. Smith's refrigerator...
...Soviet people want peace, not because they are fainthearted and weak, but be cause they are truly generous. They want peace with America, with the America of the Progressives, the Republicans and the Democrats." In the U.S., Ehrenburg went on, the people are allowed to choose be tween Democrats and Republicans, be tween psychiatry and physiotherapy, be tween vacations in Florida and the Rock ies. But not between war & peace...
...olive branch disappeared and out came the stick. Unlike the Russians, Ehrenburg told a cheering audience of some 2,000, the Americans are led by "a little group of madmen dreaming of a new war ... If this handful of criminals decides to impose the American way of life [on the world] by force of arms, that way of life will collapse like a pack of cards...
With these peaceful words, Contortionist Ehrenburg took his seat and the trained seals flapped their flippers thunderously...