UCCA continues campaign to revoke Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize (11/02/03)

UCCA continues campaign to revoke Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize

by Tamara Gallo

NEW YORK - The UCCA campaign to strip Walter Duranty of his 1932 Pulitzer Prize has now targeted the chairman and publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., via a mass e-mail drive designed to persuade The Times to disavow Duranty's prize. The public can join this campaign by logging on to the UCCA's website at www.ucca.org and e-mailing Mr. Sulzberger.

In addition, the UCCA is recommending that the community continue to e-mail the Pulitzer Prize Board from the UCCA website, inasmuch as its decision on whether to revoke Duranty's Pulitzer is expected in mid-November.

The campaign to revoke Duranty's Pulitzer is timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide. In early February the UCCA initiated a community-wide letter writing drive to the Pulitzer Prize Board urging it to revoke Duranty's prize.

The UCCA's Kyiv Bureau also solicited letters from various influential Ukrainian citizens. Letters were sent to the Pulitzer Board from National Deputy Hennadii Udovenko, former president of the United Nations General Assembly; National Deputy Pavlo Movchan, chairman of the Prosvita Society; Prof. Volodymyr Serhiichuk, director of the Ukrainian Studies Center at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv; and Ihor Lubchenko, chairman of the Journalists' Union of Ukraine.

The UCCA also co-sponsored the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association's worldwide postcard campaign directed to Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. The UCCLA has now begun a postcard campaign directed at the publisher of The New York Times. (A reproduction of the postcard appears on page 6 of this issue.)

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