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Many of you will be receiving calls from moment in the next month or two. We are embarking on a major effort to enlarge our readership, and we hope to recruit as many subscribers as we can to lend a...
...Of all the "there are two kinds of people in this world" statements, the one that comes closest to the truth is the one that concludes, "those who agree with Anne Frank, and those who do not...
...In early November, Dr...
...So when you are called, we hope you won't regard it as an invasion of your privacy, but as a message from a member of the extended family...
...You agreed to this condition and I could not imagine that you would publish the interview without having found the time to submit the text to me for review...
...Goldmann some weeks later: "The basic condition I had made when granting you the interview was that the manuscript would be submitted to me for correction since during a long and frank conversation one is bound to say things which, on second thought, one would formulate differently for publication...
...Others are, of course, free to disagree, but my own feeling is that we set ourselves a new standard here...
...For which we thank you in advance...
...Goldmann, and, I fear, we committed an inadvertent error which we are happy now to correct...
...We congratulate both men, and wish them both well...
...Chag sameach...
...We are embarking on a major effort to enlarge our readership, and we hope to recruit as many subscribers as we can to lend a hand in the effort...
...It is not the maudlin sentiment of an adolescent, a gooey piece of cheap pap...
...Finally, there's still time to take advantage of our special toll free phone for ordering moment subscriptions...
...Presuming silence as consent, we went ahead with publication, and received the following letter from Dr...
...Her heart broken, her faith remained intact...
...So far, from the ad itself, from the reprint of the coupon in the magazine, and from assorted friends, we've received about $7,500, as against a net expenditure of $10,000...
...And I think the reason I feel that way has to do not only with the range of the articles we print this month, but, specifically, with the fact that we have an article about Anne Frank's father...
...The kind of growth we are hoping for will increase our ability to undertake special editorial projects of interest—and value, we hope—to all of us...
...And, speaking of thanks, we are grateful to those readers who saw fit to lend us a hand in covering the cost of our September New York Times ad in the matter of the National Lawyers' Guild...
...Anne herself bequeathed it to us before she was taken to the Kingdom of Darkness, but even there, I like to think, she saw her own light reflected in those around her, and so retained her certainty...
...As a result, and due also to inaccurate transcription on your part, there are a number of misleading statements, passages which I would have deleted, and one completely mistaken paragraph—at the bottom of column one of page 49—due, possibly, to my haste in speaking but which should obviously have been corrected: As you know, I never met Nasser...
...In September, we printed an interview with Dr...
...I referred to Hammarskjold, who was at that time the mediator between Nasser and Ben Gurion, and to whom Nasser addressed the remark, 'All right, but if they're only on my side of the border, then I must have the right to recall them.' " We deeply regret our error...
...it is a highly controversial and not very widely accepted perception that summarizes brilliantly the essential Jewish perspective...
...It's not too late...
...Nahum Gold-mann stepped down from his position as President of the World Jewish Congress after many years of service...
...You'll find the information regarding this offer, valid only until December 31, on page 7 of this issue...
...Just about anything that deals with Anne Frank is bound to affect me in this fashion, for I have long believed that Anne's most famous sentence, the one we quote on this month's cover, may well be the most important statement of belief of our century...
...It was not easy to conceive it in an Amsterdam attic, and it is not easy to cling to it in a Brooklyn slum or in a Las Vegas nightclub...
...In the case of the Goldmann interview, something happened—or failed to happen—in the mails between Newton and Paris, and deadline time arrived without the clearance we had asked for...
...Although I have long since learned that our readers are so diverse that it is impossible to predict which articles in any issue will be best liked, or which issues will be most warmly received, I cannot resist expressing my own enthusiasm for this issue...
...His successor is Phil Klutznick, a distinguished member of the community and, as is Dr...
...Goldmann, a special friend of moment...
...Normally, the transcript of such an interview is checked with its source before publication...
Vol. 3 • December 1977 • No. 2
