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...laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem of why the 'red writer' preferred buttons to zippers . . . on my trousers...
...speech struck home in Moscow. Marshall and Dulles could read those reactions in the words of Ilya Ehrenburg, Moscow journalist: "Don't these misters understand that if we stood up before the armies of Hitler we shall not shake before a dozen rattling speeches...
...loving Generalissimo Joseph Stalin reviewed the greatest annual military show on earth. For some five hours, more than a million Red soldiers, sailors and workers marched by. While more than 200 Soviet warplanes swooped overhead, cavalry clattered and giant tanks clanked. The militant note was also struck by Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Government's snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging...
While the first issue does contain an ill-considered article on the alleged demise of power politics, there are no notable weaknesses among its political pieces. Outstanding are Frederick Houghteling's review of Hya Ehrenburg's recent series of articles for "Harper's" and a report on the current civil war in China, by Allen Barton. Unlike most American reviewers of the Ehrenburg series, Houghteling sees correctly that despite Ehrenburg's criticism of America, his articles contain a message of hope for this country. For, says Houghteling, Ehrenburg could have written as frankly as he did of American prosperity...
Americans might profit from this intelligent, if unoriginal, view of their cultural well-being. But the Soviets who must rely on "Lzvestia" for all contact with America will not be benefited by this pre-occupation with its maladies and Ehrenburg's textbook remedies. And if friends of peace left that the visit of the Russian writer ushered in a a period of greater understanding, the articles in "Izvestia" will cause a cold shower of disappointment...