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...Hollywood. In Russia, Forrest, Ackerman and McGill had strong toasts and heavy talks with Moscow's leading editors, who for the first time were all gathered at a dinner for foreign visitors. The U.S. visitors listened politely to an angry diatribe by Russia's cantankerous Reporter Ilya Ehrenburg (whom the editors describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books...
Snug in her cozy Suffolk home, small, bright-eyed, merry Lady (Dorothea) Gibb read an article by famed Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...
Back from Author Ehrenburg came an adamant reply: "Respected Lady Gibb, you are just mistaken in charging me with particular vindictiveness. As a son of my people ... I am voicing our common sentiment. You say, strange lady, that evil cannot triumph. That is true because ranged against evil are human beings...
Last week Lady Gibb learned that Ehrenburg's letter to her had been printed in the Red Star, had started a furious correspondence from Red Army men & women. Sapper Pikalov was moved to strike off a poem titled War on Lady Gibb...
...heavy hatred, an indistinguishable hatred, a personal hatred, a hatred which still moves the Red Army and the Soviet people forward." On June 23, 1942, Mikhail Sholokhov wrote a terrific news paper story called The School of Hate, setting the pitch for the hate propaganda, of which Ilya Ehrenburg became the strident genius. The Russian people still feel that hatred and are very much afraid that the British and the Americans may be "sentimental" toward the Germans. The writers still feel and express the hatred...