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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...
...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...
...Livingston, Ala. the dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial freedom that...
...line magazine Friday. An amiable State Department employe, Bill Nelson, had come along as friend and interpreter. Self-invited, but welcome, was the New York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once, watching Negro field hands, he turned to Grafton, wisecracked: "Uncle Sam, meet Uncle...
People everywhere asked Ilya how the differences between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could be resolved. Maybe, they suggested helpfully, by trips such as his. Said he: "Tourists learn nothing. You could begin by educating your children to be friends of the Soviet Union...