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...prize catch of the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace. The others were such familiar faces as the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...
...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...
...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...