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Russia's No. 1 Propagandist-journalist, slight, greying Ilya Ehrenburg, had spent two months in the U.S., encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts...
...llya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist (but a deplorer, he says, of censorship) who has been trying on the U.S. for size, turned his professional attention to Canada, discovered the same deplorable state of affairs there. "In two days in Canada," he reported in Toronto, "I have seen the good and the bad-the good is your people, and bad are your newspaper articles...
...American-Soviet Music Society gave visiting Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg five earthy old U.S. ballads for Soviet composers to work from. Ehrenburg promised five Russian-written chamber music pieces based on the songs, in time for U.S. performance next season. He also agreed to send five old Russian folk songs for U.S. composers to put in new bottles...
...bigger cities, Ehrenburg had press conferences. As often as not, Ehrenburg asked most of the questions. His practiced polemics were a delight to polemical Sam Grafton but something of a puzzle to Southerners. His reply to questions about Soviet aggression was typical: "That is like asking a wounded soldier who has come home whom he intends to attack next." Initially the answer created sympathy; on second thought it seemed suspiciously oblique; on further thought it seemed to be no answer...
Sometimes his fellow travelers were embarrassed by the questions people asked Ehrenburg: Was he a Red or White Russian? Did he favor buttons or zippers for his trousers? Why are Russians so dirty? Ehrenburg was surprised by schoolchildren who could name no Russian cities...