HARRISON E. SALISBURY - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/20/1991 - HFSID 225448

HARRISON E. SALISBURY
1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, Salisbury responds to a question about the 1991 Gulf War
Typed Letter Signed: "Harrison E. Salisbury", 1p. 6 ¼ x7, personal letterhead. Taconic, Connecticut, 1991 April 20. To: Mr. Stanhope. In full: "A very big questionyou pose. I am glad I m answering it about a month late because we now have better perspective. Yes, it was a successful war in the military sense. But let us remember that we defeated a 3rd or 4th rate country with the armament we built up against Russia. Would we have been so successful against Mocow? Perhaps. But not with thattiny toll of lives and quick time interval. Now we see the costs of lack of thinking of consequences. The public is reassessing. And well it should. It is easy to fire a bullet. But hard to undo its damage. I fear Iraq willhave a nasty taste in our mouths for a long time tocome. Best regards," Harrison E. Salisbury (1908-1993) won his Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1955. Salisbury was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after WWII and was the first well-know journalist to oppose the Vietnam War (after he visited North Vietnam in 1966). He was interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film In the Year of the Pig. Well published, some of his books are: American in Russia (1955), Behind the Lines-Hanoi (1967), Without Fear of Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (1980), and his last Heroes of My Time (1993). One horizontal mailing fold. Very lightly creased. Fine condition.