change the sentence which you found
offensive to read " ... and supported
by the Party" a fair way to resolve this
difference.
Synopsis:
Lionel Abel,
The Int ellectual
Follies,
page 46: "When I met Rahv
and Phillips they were regarded by the
Party as experts on questions relating
to ideology and literature and they had
been entrusted by the Party (in fact by
Alexander Trachtenberg who was
Rahv's political mentor) with a
magazine,
Partisan Review,
which at
the time I met them was a Communist
organ paid for by the Communists."
S. A. Longstaff,
"Partisan Rel/iew
and the Second World War,"
Salmagundi
No. 43, Winter 1979,
page 108: "In its earlier incarnation
this most durable of literary magazines
was actua ll y sponsored by the
Communist Party through the auspices
of the New York John Reed C lub .
What the Party's cu ltural directorate
had in mind in helping the original
Partisan Rel/iew
get started in the bleak
Depression was an organ that would
focus and discipline the scattered
energies of the proletarian literary
movenlent. "
Terry A. Cooney,
The Rise oj the
New York lrltellectuals: Partisan
Rel/iew and Its Circle,
page 96: "Yet a
break with the Party endangered those
tenuous channels of support that had
kept the magazine going even after it
became officially independent in 1935.
The editors had received Party–
related support to keep the magazine
afloat.. . As they broke from the
Communist Party they looked for
Socialist Party support.
Alexander Bloom,
Tile Prodigal
Son,
page 61: "The original funding
for the magazine came from the
sponsorship of a lecture on literature
and dialectical materialism by the
English Communist, John Straclley ..
. which netted eight hundred dollars
and kept them going for a year. ... "
Page 67 : ". . . after the change
Trachtenberg threatened to kill the
magazine ...
William Barrett,
The Truants,
page
3: " .. . the magazine had been started
a few years earlier under the auspices of
the Communist Party ... after it left
it 'languished in limbo' ."
Carol Gelderman,
Mary McCarthy:
A Life,
page 81: "Phillips and Rahv
founded
The Partisan Rel/iew
in 1934
as a New York John Reed C lub
publication. In 1935 the Communists
j ettisoned the John Reed C lubs,
thereby giving
The Partisan Rel/iew
its
independence. From this point on its
relationship with the Communist
Party deteriorated."
Diana Trilling,
The Begirming oj the
Journey,
page 287: " In 1937 William
Phillips and Philip R.ahv, fresh from
their break with the Communists,
took over the previously controlled
Partisan Rel/iew."
Alan Wald,
The New York
Intellectuals,
page 81: "Even before the
American Writer's Congress was held,
most of the J ohn Reed C lubs had
been dissolved, which effectively
eliminated must of the material
support for
The Partisan Rel/iew."
Carol Brightman,
Writing
Dangerously,
page 128: "The magazine
was an arm of the Communsit Party's
John Reed C lub. "
James Gilbert,
Writers and Partisans:
Professor Wreszin notes at least some
