The Press: Thanks & Goodbye!

Russia's No. 1 Propagandist-journalist, slight, greying Ilya Ehrenburg, had spent two months in the U.S., encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts:

"This is a great and complex country. . . . It is easy to sing her praise, it is not difficult to be satirical about her, but the most difficult is to understand her. . . .

"The...

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