WALTER DURANTY’S PULITZER is now under scrutiny given the well-established fact that he knew of — and deliberately covered up — Stalin’s genocides. Arnold Beichman surveys the issue and reports this quote from Duranty:

What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated.

Perhaps the Times should simply return the Pulitzer. And maybe apologize.