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  • New Push Afoot To Revoke a Tainted Times Pulitzer

    06/10/2003 11:08:24 PM PDT · by LdSentinal · 5 replies · 166+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | 6/10/03 | Eric Wolff
    Bowing to a letter writing campaign from Ukrainian- American groups, the Pulitzer Prize board has quietly convened a subcommittee to investigate revoking the award it gave to New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty in 1932. "We’re just going to look into a variety of complaints, just look into everything," said the administrator for the board, Sigvard Gissler. Inspired by the 70 th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine — the winter of 1932–33, when Stalin’s FiveYear Plan deliberately starved Ukrainian peasants into submission, killing millions — the Ukrainian groups have mobilized 45,000 letter writers to call the board’s attention to the...