Word: ossorgin
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...committee which advises but does not demand that certain books be removed from sale. This discreet method would indicate that perhaps the censors are aware of the force of public opinion on these questions. Nevertheless such comparatively innocuous books as "Harriet Hume" by Rebecca West and Michael Ossorgin's "Quiet Street" have been handled rather gingerly by some booksellers within the past year. Such dictatorial acts as the suppression of the numbers of Scribners containing certain installments of "A Farewell to Arms" will probably not be repeated, but it is too much to be hoped that the censors, self-appointed...
...Author Ossorgin has no words to say in judgment, nothing explicit either in praise or blame; but through the tortured lives he writes about he says very plainly that Russia is a great country and that Russia is still alive...
...Author. Michael Ossorgin, 52, Russian intellectual and member of the nobility, was banished by the Tsar for Liberalism, by the Bolsheviks for the same reason. Since 1922 he has lived in Paris. Says he: "Above all else I value freedom, but I have drunk deep of prison life. I dislike newspapers, yet I have been a journalist for 30 years...