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tainly have alI"kinds of credit coming to you
for the first-rate job you're doing with the
magazine. 1 hope that before long it may
be possible for you to enlarge the magazine
so as to print more of the excellent young
writers-particularly short story writers–
whose outlets are damned few these days."
(Editors' Note: Before we enlarge 'the
magazine, however, we would like to be
more certain than we now are of the exist–
ence of this reservoir of untapped talent.)
Andre Breton writes us : "I am planning
to found in Paris a magazine along much
the same lines as yours, and 1 am filled with
confidence and hope in their common des–
tinies."
Julian Symons, editor of
Twentieth Cen–
tury
Vene,
writes from London to our col–
league, F. W . Dupee: "I thought the review
of British periodicals very interesting and
good ... About William Carlos Williams:
do you know that
nobody
in England ( out–
side the circle you call "Bohemian") th inks
well of W.C.W. or of Marianne Moo re or
Cummings or Ezra. Just as you think Prok–
osch has been 'inBated over here', so it
seems to
US
that these old bulls of the Right
and Left, reactionary as
poets
whatever may
be their nominal political standing, are
'inBated' on the U. S. ..."
George Novack, secretary of the Amer–
ican Fund for Political Prisoners and Ref–
ugees, Room
1609, 100
Fifth Ave., New
York City, requests
US
to print the follow–
ing appeal for funds: "The growing tide of
reaction in Europe has forced thousands of
revolutionary workers to Bee their homes . .
Denied relief by bourgeois and Stalinist–
controlled relief organizations because of
their political beliefs, harried by the gov–
ernment, they lead a precarious existence.
Many, driven to desperation, have turned
to suicide as the only alternative to slow
starvation, .. . The American Fund for
Political Prisoners and Refugees has been
organized to aid these revolutionists, by
furnishing relief for them and their fam–
ilies, helping them fight deportation to fas–
cist countries and securing visas and trans–
portation to countries
wh~
offer them the
opportunity to work. We call upon all
friends of democratic rights to help us aid
the most persecuted people in Europe."
S. S. Olans, Dorchester, Mass., writes of
Meyer Schapiro's "Looking Forward to
Looking Backward" (July): "Mumford is
not a Marxist, neither was Veblen. Does
that mean we must dismiss him? . .. Mum–
ford's use of the word organic
is
not quite
so fuzzy as Schapiro makes
it
out. In a world
scarred by all kinds of dualisms, abstrac–
tions, and unbalances, emphasis on the or–
ganic
is
a welcome reaction." . . . On the
other hand, Daniel Patterson, Cleveland,
finds Schapiro's criticism of Mr, Mumford
an excellent service to the left wing. "It was
necessary to point out that Mumford has
f!1ade a profession out of putting down in
muddy prose the dreams that can only come
trL'e
in a classless society."
