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EXH IBITION • STEVE
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THE NEW GALLERY
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without indicating that he was re–
porting solely on the Communist
press." He had ignored the hun–
dreds of tributes paid to Gide,
among them the eloquent and mov–
ing notices by such different writers
as Mauriac and Sartre, thus creat–
ing an image of Gide that supports
the Stalinist attempt to vilify
him
and destroy his reputation.
Mr. Werth's opinion of Gide
is
of very little importance. Mter all,
Mr. Werth
is
the foreign corres–
pondent who not so long ago con–
trived to explain away the latest
Soviet purge of the arts as a mere
peccadillo, of no real weight in
evaluating the Stalin regime. What
is important, however, is that Mr.
Werth's piece should have been
published in the editorial pages of
a magazine that still lays claim to
being an organ of American liber–
alism. This claim has of late years
become more and more hollow,
and the printing of Mr. Werth's
impudent slanders clinches the
case against
The Nation
convinc–
ingly presented by Granville Hicks
in
a recent article in
Commentary.
At bottom only pro-Soviet bias can
account for a magazine like
The
Nation
publishing Mr. Werth's
calumny of a dead writer whose
entire life and work was a search
for honesty.
So far as we know, this is the
first time a liberal magazine has
used the sexual habits of an im–
portant writer as a literary criter–
ion. Obviously, however, Gide's
"crime" was not homosexuality-
