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...write this book," he said weeks ago, before the Kremlin clamped down. "These 40 years of storm were calling for an incarnation." In his token submission to Nikita Khrushchev and Pravda (TIME, Nov. 10-17), Pasternak recanted not a line of his book, expressed not a moment's regret that it has been published outside Russia. To a German reporter who saw him for a few moments after the Nobel announcement and the resulting political storm, Pasternak said: "I am sorry, I didn't want this to happen, all this noise . . . But I am glad I wrote this...
...time when embarrassment is general among Party litterateurs because of the incorrigible Pasternak, the new book seems like the perfect tonic for the authorities. Pravda, Kommunist and other Russian periodicals have given it long, laudatory reviews; but more important, perhaps, the novel's overwhelming success will undoubtedly be taken as the people's mandate to chill the intellectual climate several degrees below freezing. Pasternak's case has already prompted the Kremlin to tighten the reins, not only in Russia, but throughout the Communist world...
When Washington declared that it would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live...
...cannot endorse such clumsy allegations," even though "I finally gave up the prize" because of them. He even managed, by pointing out that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize five years ago (long before Doctor Zhivago had been printed and read in the West), to signal to Pravda's readers his answer to the charge that the award was a purely political...
...Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman reported last week: "This decision not to publish Pasternak has caused a first-class sensation in Moscow. Indeed, I found every Russian anxious to talk to me about it and discuss the pros and cons." The sensation would continue, and Pasternak's recantation in Pravda was bound to widen the Russians' curiosity about the great work they were not allowed to read. Years ago Poet Pasternak had warned...