Invalid: Walter Duranty's 1932 Pulitzer Prize

01/14/2007 | Mark Pelech

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Invalid: Walter Duranty’s 1932 Pulitzer Prize

By Markian Pelech

On November 21, 2003, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced its failure to revoke the Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty for his articles of 1931 about the Soviet Union , claiming that “there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in this case.”

A review of Duranty’s prize-winning articles in conjunction with Columbia University Professor Mark von Hagen’s report on the articles for The New York Times shows sufficient evidence of deception to invalidate Duranty’s Pulitzer.

The Pulitzer Board declared deception the criterion for invalidating Duranty’s prize. Deception has been proven. Walter Duranty's prize is invalidated, regardless of the Board's future action.

For the full text of the review, refer to http://duranty.pelech.org/duranty2007/invalid.pdf.

Markian Pelech may be contacted at markpelech@yahoo.com.

[Cicero]

Thanks, and good luck to you. I became aware of Stalin's crimes in Ukraine all the way back in the 50s, when I took a course on the Soviet Union at Harvard with an unusually good teacher. But it seems as if the American establishment, which consists mostly of leftists, hates to admit what those times were really like. People still flock to see movies like "Reds." People still admire cowardly killers like Che Guevara. I especially wish you luck in exposing the truth about the Ukrainian famine and what lay behind it.