that
is
merely a cheap alibi-but
the fact that he was among the
first writers drawn to Communism
who saw through its mythology and
reported truthfully on life in the
Soviet Union.
1
His break, which
came in a period when it took con–
siderably more courage and inde–
pendence of mind than it does at
present, is the "crime" for which
the Stalinists and their apologists
among the liberals cannot forgive
him.
And there is a curious twist
of irony in the circumstance that
at the very same time that
The
Nation
found it necessary to pub–
lish Mr. Werth's defamation of
Gide it slapped a libel suit on
Clement Greenberg for writing and
The New Leader
for printing a
letter analyzing the political line
of Mr. Del Vayo, the foreign editor
of
The Nation,
during the past few
years. This letter was strictly poli–
tical
in
tone and content; it made
no references to Mr. Del Vayo's
private life or possible motivation
of a personal character. Yet
The
Nation,
which is continually en–
gaged
in
nothing if not in contro–
versial political comment, refused
to print Mr. Greenberg's letter,
choosing to frame its reply by way
of legal action. Mr. Greenberg ac-
1.
It
is worth nating that Gide's
homosexuality, of which, as
is
well
known, he made no secret, did not in
the least bother the Communist chief–
tains when, in 1936, he spoke at
Gorky's funeral in Moscow and re–
viewed a parade
in
the Red Square in
the company of members of the Polit–
buro.
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