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...TEMPERING OF RUSSIA-Ilya Ehrenburg-Knopf...
...Ehrenburg's most impassioned reports are purportedly based on diaries and letters taken from German corpses and prisoners. Some of these writings are arrogant, some bestial, some pathetic-but to Correspondent Ehrenburg they are one & all evidence of an utterly "brutalized" culture led by "an epileptic and ignorant Führer...
Nazi soldiers, reports Ehrenburg, meticulously note down the number of children they have shot, the prisoners they have tortured. Side by side with obscene French pictures they carry sentimental photographs of their wives and children. They are "libertines, Sodomites, perverts" who think nothing of wearing the bloodstained underwear of the juvenile victims they have raped. German women represent the "greedy, drooling snout of a German hyena." Ehrenburg, the Soviet's most widely read writer, believes that Russians have been vastly hardened and strengthened by their conflict with the invaders, but he doubts that the Germans can ever be educated...
...reports are the Soviet Union's most reliable and most colorful. Since all Russians get military training, all correspondents have military rank. Most of Red Star's are majors, who wear no insignia to distinguish them as newsmen. Red Star's star correspondent is greying Ilya Ehrenburg, 53, whose dispatches are frequently cabled to the U.S. Pravda and Izvestia also run his highly colored, hate-filled dispatches...
...Ehrenburg is not a Communist Party member, but is nonetheless one of the Soviet Union's best-paid, most honored writers-winner of a Stalin prize, the Red Banner of Labor, and, last week, the Order of Lenin, Russia's top civilian honor. Incredibly prolific, he writes pamphlets, radio broadcasts, recently published a volume of lyric verse. His only rival in popularity is stocky Mikhail Sholokhov, 39, author of And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) and The Don Flows Home to the Sea (TIME, Aug. 4, 1941). Pravda has been serializing his new epic They...