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...Europe and Korea should go back home where they came from. In the next, he implored the rest of the world to "help the American people out of the isolation in which they are being kept." But it was Ringmaster Stalin's favorite literary gymnast, Author Ilya Ehrenburg, who brought down the house with a faultless demonstration of how to say one thing while meaning another...
...respect the American people," cooed Ehrenburg, suppressing the other Russian line about the germ-spreading American cannibals (TIME, June 30). "We respect their genius, their achievements in science, their inventiveness, their industry." As for the "happy-go-lucky American character," Ehrenburg admitted that it does have a "certain charm." "It is time the plain American should understand that Russians are not massing to deprive him of his little Ford, that the Chinese have no intention of meddling with his television programs, that Koreans do not lust after Mr. Smith's refrigerator...
...Campesino," he was called-The Peasant-and all over the world the leftist press worked overtime to make him a dazzling symbol. Ilya Ehrenburg, one of Russia's top journalists, fawned over him. Picture posters of him were tacked up all over the U.S.S.R. Then something happened, and The Peasant lost his hero's rating. El Campesino's Life and Death in Soviet Russia tells what happened, and it was really quite simple. The Peasant went to Russia, saw Communism in practice and kicked over the traces...
Russia's Ilya Ehrenburg, detecting a disbelieving smile on the face of Per Monsen, an anti-Communist Norwegian editor, popped up and heatedly likened the alleged U.S. germ warfare to Nazi exterminations, then listed friends he had lost in Nazi camps. Monsen rose quietly, said he learned about Nazi camps from several years spent in them and that he had also lost friends, "not only in Nazi camps but in camps of different origin." Ehrenburg sat down...
...Products of Peace. Apart from Russia's Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, the Class A guests were mostly from the wobbly-neutral Asian states: India sent 14 men, headed by one Pandit Sundarlal and including Nehru's lackluster brother-in-law, Huthi Singh; Indonesia sent three delegates, Burma seven...