B. G. R. Says cz4 z Friday, June 7, 1957 ti 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. . 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 Call or Write for Information: Arab League, thus causing a MUNI MARK considerable setback of Pan- Arabism and of the entire Mos- 3200 FULLERTON lem-Communist conspiracy in Detroit 38, Mich. Africa and Asia. TO. 7-7665 "It is Lebanon's national in- or Camp Office UN. 4-0730 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. Be Fair To Yourself . . DON'T BUY ANY CAR... 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