[DPB101]

In 1933, Duranty wrote an article for the New York Times calling the dispatches of the Welsh newspaper, The Western Mail, incorrect and the paper's investigative reporter, Gareth Jones, "hasty" in his reporting on the Holodomor.

The Western Mail is still in business and published this article today on Duranty and Jones:

Justice at last for critic of Stalinism? (Welsh paper vs New York Times Walter Duranty)

[Susannah]

Now that would be something if a NY Times reporter from that era lost his Pulitzer Prize!

[NormsRevenge]

bump it Up!

[Grampa Dave]

This is truly amazing re this remark:

UP's Eugene Lyons was telephoning the dire news of the famine to his New York office but the was ordered to stop because it was antagonizing the Kremlin. Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune reporter, turned to Duranty and asked him what he was going to write.

Duranty replied: Nothing. What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated.

This was at a time when peasants in Ukraine were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 a day.

At this time the NY Slimes is ignoring the mass murders of 6 million innocent Iraqis by their buddy $oddomite, so they can play up the non issue of no WMDs "yet"!

[Tall_Texan]

"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." --New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18

All the other Duranty quotes appear to be outright lies and yet this is simply an old expression I've heard in other contexts many times. How is this quote a lie?

[aristeides]

In her exposé "Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty, the New York Times's man in Moscow," S.J. Taylor makes it clear that Carr Van Anda, the managing editor, Frederick T. Birchall, an assistant managing editor, and Edwin L. James, the later managing editor, were troubled with Duranty's Moscow reporting but did nothing about it. Birchall recommended that Duranty be replaced but, says Taylor, "the recommendation fell by the wayside."

Looks like Duranty was being protected by the publisher. Did Arthur Hays Sulzberger have some business interest in Stalin's Soviet Union?

[The Real J Fate]

Do you have any idea where I can find the text of Duranty's articles in the New York Times?