Walter Duranty quotes
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“There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.”
-- Walter DurantySource : "1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2009.
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“There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”
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“Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.”
-- Walter Duranty
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“To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.”
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“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”
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“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?”
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“If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century,”
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“Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.”
Source : David Wong Louie (2000). “The Barbarians are Coming: A Novel”, Marian Wood
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