| Description | Correspondence with Bruce Bliven discussing President Roosevelt's attitude toward Japan; current projects lists; internal communications about a supplement planned in Mar 1938 on progressive views of American national defense (defence) policy; the Foreign Policy Association and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's visit to the United States; Mrs Stan Harding; the approach of war, Anglo-American co-operation, and American Isolationism; business affairs including the composition of The New Republic's editorial board, and staff writers. Letters from 1940 mention Bliven's meetings with Henry Luce and Michael Straight in furthering Anglo-American co-operation. Includes several lists of guests invited to dine at The New Republic.
The folder also includes an article co-written with Leonard Elmhirst on the need for a co-operative American-British agricultural policy (with a commentary letter from State Department economist Herbert Feis). A follow-up article written by Bliven is entitled 'What Comes After the War?' Records generally reflect Bliven's increasing editorial direction favouring US war preparedness. Letters in 1941 relate to Michael Straight; George Soule, and the Elmhirsts' influence on editorial policy at the magazine; the National Planning Association.
Weekly reports and letters about TNR activities are addressed to Dorothy Elmhirst. There is a memorandum, 30 Apr 1941, Editorial Publications Inc. Revised Program (sic) for Severance of ASIA magazine. |