I.F.Stone --- What did he know and when did he...
Myra McPherson, formerly of the WashPost has written an adulatory biography of super-liberal hard-Left icon I.F. Stone. ( AllGovernments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone Scribners-Lisa Drew, $35.00)
She cites and gets blurbs (mostly) from the logical suspects of the journalistic Left: Studs Terkel, Robert Scheer, Helen Thomas, Bill Moyers, and more.
She bitterly dismisses The Venonona Papers --- which mantained that Izzy Stone was receiving monies from the USSR. I think there is more to it than that.
She denounces Neo-Cons and the "hard-Right."
That's her privilege.
But there is damning fact she tries to gloss over --- but can't.
Stone did not break with the USSR until the mid-1950s. That was about fifteen years after the notorious non-aggression pact by Hitler, Stalin and Mao, probably the greatest mass murderers in history.
That was was the cut-off point for decent people. The Soviets had resorted to murder since the time of Lenin. But this was of another magnitude entirely.
The Nazis and the Soviets proceeded to divide Poland between them. Then the "Nazzis" (as Winston Churchill --- who should have been "The Man of the Century, not Einstein) attacked the Soviets. Nice Guys.
What did I.F. Stone know, and when did he know it?
Not much, and too late.
Ben
She cites and gets blurbs (mostly) from the logical suspects of the journalistic Left: Studs Terkel, Robert Scheer, Helen Thomas, Bill Moyers, and more.
She bitterly dismisses The Venonona Papers --- which mantained that Izzy Stone was receiving monies from the USSR. I think there is more to it than that.
She denounces Neo-Cons and the "hard-Right."
That's her privilege.
But there is damning fact she tries to gloss over --- but can't.
Stone did not break with the USSR until the mid-1950s. That was about fifteen years after the notorious non-aggression pact by Hitler, Stalin and Mao, probably the greatest mass murderers in history.
That was was the cut-off point for decent people. The Soviets had resorted to murder since the time of Lenin. But this was of another magnitude entirely.
The Nazis and the Soviets proceeded to divide Poland between them. Then the "Nazzis" (as Winston Churchill --- who should have been "The Man of the Century, not Einstein) attacked the Soviets. Nice Guys.
What did I.F. Stone know, and when did he know it?
Not much, and too late.
Ben
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