Ilya Ehrenburg's "thanks-and-good-bye" letter to the U.S. (TIME, July 8) was thickly spread with applesauce. Soviet Russia's visiting Ehrenburg, who turned off all criticisms of Russia by criticisms of the U.S., had moved even the leftist Nation to complain of this "talented but transparent propagandist." Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann: "Surely somewhere in the recesses of [Ehrenburg's] conscience, since he is a highly educated man, a still small voice must be saying that he does not, did not, and cannot write as honestly about his own country as he writes...
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