ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT
about The PROGRESSIVE ... and the people who make it EXPERTS in magazine circulation have told us that The Progressive has a phe-nomenal rate of renewal. Nevertheless, some subscribers do cancel...
...ROBERT FARR, JANE STAFFORD, and MARJORIE VAN DE WATER write for Science Service, a non-profit organization devoted to popularizing science...
...We happen to be convinced from all the evidence available that power politics and imperialism, whether practiced by Russia, Britain, or the United States, or any other nation, for that matter, can only lead to a new crisis and new bloodshed...
...Similarly, those whose minds are made up that Germany is the source of all our woes and wars will not abide our attacks on plans for a harsh peace of dismemberment...
...He is director of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, a citizens committee for improving movie standards...
...Currently the two greatest sources of friction are Russia and Germany...
...RICHARD L. NEUBERGER has had a life-long admiration for the late Sen...
...OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, the distinguished dean of America's liberal journalists, knows Europe as few men do from many years of first-hand observation and study...
...In many cases a clash, of opinion is responsible...
...Two of his articles in The Progressive, "We Have Got To Lick Churchill Too," have brought in record reader comment, and his piece in the Dec...
...McALISTER COLEMAN is a veteran labor reporter and, as you might guess, an alumnus of Columbia University, where he knew Randolph Bourne and many others...
...And we happen to be convinced, too, that the democratic forces of Germany, real or potential, must be given an opportunity to build a working republic if we are to prevent the emergence of the same conditions which spawned Hitler and Nazism...
...ERNEST L. MEYER, whom some people still confuse with Milton Mayer, is on the foreign desk of the New York Daily News...
...He wrote Ulysses S. Grant and The Place of the South in American History...
...In both cases The Progressive is motivated by the same urgent desire—to prevent another war...
...Nevertheless, some subscribers do cancel their subscriptions, and we've always made it a point to get their reason if possible...
...25 issue, "Christmas For Little Julie," was a sellout...
...PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE, now with Gen...
...MILES McMILLIN is an Assistant Editor of The Progressive in charge of the features on public power and cooperatives...
...While Dick was opposed to America's involvement in this war, he volunteered after Pearl Harbor, served nearly two years with the Army in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic, and is now on a special Army assignment with the State Department in San Francisco...
...WALTER MAGNES TELLER owns, runs, and lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania...
...Among his books are The Myth of the Total State...
...Hesseltine, who shakes the stuffing out of the book, Pine, Stream and Prairie by James Gray, on Page 8 of this issue, has a deep interest in regionalism...
...nor is our attitude toward Germany the product of any special love for the German people, which we have never had...
...JAMES S. HAMILTON is an expert on the film industry...
...MILTON MAYER is one of the most colorful and controversial of The Progressive's contributors...
...In a period like this, when so many people are physically fatigued and emotionally spent, it is difficult to drive home the fact that our attitude toward Russia is inspired by no animus toward the Russian people, which we have never had...
...Dick is an acknowledged expert on the great Pacific Northwest projects, Bonneville and Grand Coulee, and his book, Our Promised Land, is full of appreciative comments on Sen...
...WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE is a professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin who has become well known to readers of The Progressive during the past 2 years for his articles and book reviews...
...For many years he was a newspaperman in Wisconsin, which still ranks high in his heart, and he spends as many week-ends as possible in Westport, Conn., at a cottage built by himself...
...He is a former field worker for the Farm Security Administration and has been active on local farm committees...
...With Stephen B. Kahn he wrote Integrity, a biography of Norris...
...He has a cabin on the Oregon coast and his hobbies are hiking and fishing...
...Often an editorial is critical of policies pursued jointly by the Big 3, as at Teheran or Yalta, for instance...
...KATHER-INE RODELL has written extensively on South America for The Progressive...
...The fever-heat generated by the atrocity stories has magnified this division in recent weeks, leading some subscribers to conclude that there is no difference between the Nazi gangsters and the mass of the German people—which is precisely what they are supposed to think now that peacemaking time has arrived...
...She wrote South American Primer and has an article on Argentina in the current Common Sense...
...George Norris, whom he knew well...
...Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Manila, has served in the Pacific theater for nearly 3 years and has participated in 6 major engagements...
...Farr is the featured science expert, Miss Stafford the medical writer, and Miss Van De Water the psychologist...
...Milton is on the staff of the University of Chicago...
...LOUIS CLAIR is the pseudonym for a young European writer now living in the United States...
...He and P. Alston Waring wrote Roots in the Earth, which Stuart Chase calls "the best book on American farming I have read...
...COL...
...That picture of Mr...
...He recently returned from a lecture trip to the University of Puerto Rico and will make a lecture tour on the West Coast in June for the Quaker Friends Service Committee...
...Norris' work...
...The editorial may be equally sharp in discussing the roles of Britain and the United States, as well as Russia, but the followers of the USSR conclude that the editorial is Red-baiting in character and anti-Russian in purpose...
...He was formerly a special reporter for the Portland Oregonian, a member of the Oregon legislature, and an outstanding worker for public power and conservation...
...GUENTER REIMANN, economist and writer, was active in the anti-fascist movement in pre-Hitler Germany and in the anti-Nazi underground after leaving Germany in 1933...
...He returned to Germany for a special trip in 1938...
...This is inevitable, of course, in the case of a publication like The Progressive which deals in such large measure with controversial subjects...
...Coleman, who wrote Men and Coal, has spent most of the Winter and Spring on Martha's Vineyard, the island off Massachusetts, writing a history of the common man's contributions to American history...
...Hesseltine, by the way, is one which he took himself...
...Admirers of the Soviet Union have been emphatic in their denunciation of our stand on the Kremlin's foreign policies...
...ELEANOR LATTIMORE lived in the Far East for many years and wrote The Making of Modern China with her husband, Owen Lattimore...
...Although he has lived in Wisconsin nearly 10 years, he still has his rich Southern voice...
...Most readers like or dislike him intensely, with no ifs, ands, or buts...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 20
