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Three C ► llier's Editors Were My Friends;
`A Strong Moral Force in American Life'
"Who Killed Collier's" is the
title of an article written by
Holis Alpert for the Saturday
Review of Literature. The writ-
er analyzes the causes of the
demise of this popular magazine
founded by Peter Collier nearly
a century ago and which, in
its day, was a most widely cir-
culated and influential organ
of public opinion. If Alpert
finds the right answer, his for-
tune is made.
It was my privilege to know
and to enjoy the friendship of
at least three outstanding jour-
nalists who served as editors of
this periodical. They used to
call the work of such men on
the magazines as the "higher
journalism." But whatever the
designations, they certainly were
a determining moral and intel-
lectual force in American life.
First in my recollections
comes Noman Hapgood, histori-
an, essayist and dramatic critic
who, for many years, conducted
the theater department of the
old Commercial Advertiser (lat-
er merged with the New York
Globe). Hapgood belonged to
an old-time literary family, and
one of the early translators of
novels from the Russian was
Isabel Hapgood, a kinswoman of
Norman Hapgood. His bothers
Hutchins Hapgood, was equally
well known as a journalist and
author, and Jewish readers
know him best for his sympathe-
tic study of the Lower East Side
and its cultural assets called
"The Spirit of the Ghetto" (il-
lustrated by a then unknown
art student, now Sir Jacob
Epstein, most famous sculptor
in the world). I knew Hapgood
while he was dramatic editor
of the Commercial Advertiser
and also later when he was edi-
tor of Collier's Weekly, and
when his editorials in that mag-
azine attracted the widest at-
tention.
Jewish readers should re-
member him best as the man
who in 1911, before the boom
for Woodrow Wilson had de-
veloped, said in an editrial
that, "but for the accident of
birth," the man most fitted
to become the Democratic can-
didate for President and to
become President of the Unit-
ed States was Louis D. Bran-
deis. He was a close friend
and associate of Brandeis in
many public enterprises and,
owing to this and to his lib-
eral philosophy and sympathy
with the Jewish people, he be-
came an ardent supporter of
the Zionist movement. Be-
sides helping the cause of
Palestine he rendered further
service to the Jewish people
by a series of scathing exposes
of the scurrilous "Protocols
of the Elders of Zion," these
articles having appeared in
Hearst's International Mag-)
azine at the time when the
Dearborn Independent was
carrying on its campaign of
slander against our people.
As friend and supporter of
Woodrow Wilson, Hapgood
became his Ambassador to
Denmark during the second
Wilson Administration.
Another man of a different
type was Mark Sullivan with
whom I worked on the Boston
Evening Transcript. He was
then a young lawyer, a grad-
uate from Harvard, temporari-
ly writing special articles for
this paper. He was to go into
law, but could not resist the
lure of journalism. He later be-
came the m o s t widely-read
Washington correspondent, his
column of comments on political
and government affairs appear-
ing simultaneously in hundreds
of American newspapers. Sul-
livan was my friend first in
Boston and then in New York
where he became editor of Col-
lier's Weekly. He wrote a fa-
mous set of books called "Our
Time; The Turn of the Cen-
tury," and when inscribing the
first volume to me, he kindly
refered to our old association
in the ealier years in Boston.
While Sullivan was my good
friend and, had other close as-
Urges Lebanon Withdraw from Arab
League; Make Peace with Israel
"Now is the time to state
quite frankly that Lebanon
should . . .withdraw from the
Arab League and make peace
with her only stable and reli-
able neighbor: Israel."
With these words, the Leba-
nese Gazette, published in De-
troit by Checri S. Kanaan, is-
sued a direct call for Ameri-
cans of Lebanese descent to
work for closer ties with the
Jewish state.
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I Security Council Histadrut Slates
Rejects Demand Israel Folks Tour
ninth annual Folks Tour
by Syria on Hula of The
Israel, sponsored by the His-
ship to Israel, France and the
entire West) in the nearest fu-
ture, without further hesita-
tion."
In the same issue of the news-
paper, anniversary greetings to
the President and people of
Israel on the occasion of the
Jewish state's ninth year of in-
dependence as a nation were ex-
tended by Lebanese friends and
by the newspaper itself.
George Zuckerman, author of
The editorial, which covers the award winning film, "Writ-
incidents which led to and fol- ten on the Wind," is completing
lowed the Sinai campaign, "Woodgate" for Universal-In-
states:
ternational studios.
"The turmoil of the last six
months has proven once more r
that there exists in this area
only two modern, civilized re-
publics: Lebanon and Israel.
The reason for their high deg-
ree of stability and civilization
is quite obvious: both are non-
Moslem republics.
"The conclusion of a de jure
peace (which has never ceased
to exist de facto) between Leb-
anon and Israel would alleviate
Lebanon's present plight of
isolation among the hostile
Arab-Moslems, bring her closer
to her trusted -friends and nat-
ural allies — the French, and
give concrete meaning to Leb-
anon's acceptance of Eisenhow-
er's doctrine for peace.
"It would also take the wind
out of the tattered sails of the
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Merest as well as historical duty
to (extend a hand of friend-
sociations with representatives
of the Jewish groups, he was
rather restrained and selective
in his preferences, with perhaps
a strain of nativism which mani-
fested itself in his reservations
on the subject of immigration.
But he was helpful and kindly
in many ways, and he did not
mind it at all and had a good
laugh when a secretary in the
Jewish Congress made the mis-
take of addressing one of my
letters to him as to "Mark Solo-
mon." He once gave me a letter
of introduction to Albert D.
Lasker, then head of the United
States Shipping Board, but that
did not work out very well be-
cause Sullivan introduced me
as an ardent Zionist and that
did not take with the great ad-
vertising mogul who had no
interest in the cause. However,
the introduction Sullivan gave
me to Theodore Roosevelt, with
whom he had been closely as-
sociated in the Progressive
Paty, assured me an excellent
reception and a memorable in-
terview in 1914.
One of the special writers for
the Boston Evening Transcript
was a most attractive and genial
young man by the name of
Richard Washburn Child, who
was another Harvard graduate,
filling in time between choos-
ing a career. In the course of
a notable career as a magazine
writer he became editor of Col-
lier's Weekly and we were thus
thrown together again after the
years of our earlier association
in Boston. Child was an out-
and-out Republican, had worked
for the election of Warren
Harding and became his am-
bassador to Italy.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann was in
this country and in Washing-
ton when Child's appointment
was announced. I thought it
would be useful if he met Dr.
Weizmann before leaving for
his post in Rome. He readily
responded and personally called
at the New Willard Hotel and
asked for Dr. Weizmann. A
blundering English secretary did
not recognize his name and
asked him what he wanted in a
rather impatient way. So R. W.
Child walked away without see-
ing the Zionist leader. I learned
later that, due to another sug-
gestion which I sent by mail to
Reb Chaim, the two men met
in Rome later on. So my effort
was not entirely wasted.
—Bernard J. Richards
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—
The United Nations Security
Council rejected a demand by
Syria for an order to Israel to
dismantle a Bailey bridge built
as part of the Lake Hula swamp
reclamation project in the Gali-
lee area.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., chief
of the American delegation,
took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to push for greater UN
authority in the area.
The Security Council decided
to a-wait a further report from
Col. Byron V. Leary, acting
Chief of Staff of the UN Truce
Supervision Organization. Col.
Leary had ruled that "despite
the possible military value of
the bridge," he did not think
he would be justified in asking
for its removal.
Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold told the Council
members he would ask that the
new report would be submitted
within a month.
Lodge feels that while the
United States supports Col.
Leary's findings, it also feels
that a number of other ques-
tions have been raised and
should be answered. He said
he felt an up-to-date report on
current conditions in the de-
militarized Israeli-Syrian zone
should be made by Col. Leary.
Pointing out that the Israel-
Syrian Mixed Armistice Coin-
mission has not met since 1951,
Lodge called for reaffirmation
of the authority of the MAC.
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