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...typical of contemporary Soviet journalism that Ehrenburg, the propagandist, spends nearly half of the article of an emotional treatment of the southern problem. He is neither objective nor accurate. The author is apparently one visitor from the land of millennial equality who stumbles onto the back alley of America and peers into an ignored and white-washed rotten area that seems to bother no one around. The great intolerance of orthodox Stalinism is then demonstrated in the author's Legree treatment of anyone south of the Ohio river--an intolerance of human beings who attempt to solve their problems...
...Poland's traditionally virulent anti-Semitism increases his unpopularity (Berman is a Jew), but his power is enormous. No document moves in. or out of the Premier's office without his O.K., and foreign diplomats, when stymied elsewhere, go to him for decisive action. A foreign visitor once called him: "A Harry Hopkins without a Roosevelt." The comparison applies to Berman's behind-the-scenes role, not to his objectives...
...Russian writer Turgenev, entertaining a visitor one day in 1855, kept the conversation in whispers for fear of waking Count Tolstoy, who was asleep in the next room. "He's like this all the time," Turgenev explained. "He has come from his battery at Sevastopol, is staying with me, and has gone off on a tangent. Sprees, gypsies, and cards every night; then he sleeps like the dead until two o'clock...
...When explaining America and American customs to a foreign visitor," Professor Shapley told his audience, "there are two situations of which one must be deeply ashamed; one is the pogroms that the hypothesis of 'white supremacy' tolerates and even encourages, and the other is the operation of the Wood-Rankin Committee which simulates the medieval inquisition and the modern Gestapo...
...concluded the tall, friendly colonel, the soldier deserted because he was afraid and lacked self-confidence. The seventh-graders nodded sagely, then piped up as their teacher called for comment on the visitor's story...