Word: ehrenburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where Are the Cheers?" The speakers produced their well-worn libels with the pride of a paterfamilias displaying yellowed family photographs. Some of the veterans seemed bored; Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss...
...llya Ehrenburg, strong-arm boy of Communism's literary goon squad, got roughed up a bit himself. llya, charged the Yugoslav Writers' Union in a classic piece of Marxist doubletalk, had himself been wavering from the party line on art. In one of Ilya's recent articles, he had expressed certain "esthetic sympathies" and had supported ideas "with which leading Soviet critics and also our own do not agree...
...speech Ehrenburg admitted that "there is much good in Americans," then went on to recast Fadeev's insults in cleverer form...
...First Duty. The U.S. is preparing for a "barbaric war," Ehrenburg cried. Up rose New York's Dr. Bryn J. Hovde, director of the New School for Social Research. He said that the Russian talk was the kind governments use to justify a "premeditated military attack." If the Communists really believed all of Fadeev's charges, snapped Hovde, "then my own people can only judge itself terribly threatened and unite in preparation for the worst." Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor, whose BBC contract was canceled because he was too "pro-Russian," told the Russians: "The first duty of intellectuals...
...congress screamed to an end, the proCommunists introduced a resolution blaming the Western powers for provoking war. Some of the Western delegates would not vote for it. Feather-Smoother Ehrenburg snarled: "Idiots! Imbeciles...