The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
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By Joseph Freeman

DESCRIBED yesterday how on arriving
much more tolerant attitude toward arts
behind in movement at that time extremely secaan on
these questions
Almost Immediately began to study gather the
first book arts and letters by American writer
objects wanted to make available
the facts about Soviet
wanted contribute what could toward break
ing n literary movement at home
such book facilitated by request which received
that write small volume for their
series on the Soviet Union They sent me an ADVANCE n %
revolutionary charges namely that those who
the Union in its
that instead of receiving Moscow
gold sitting rewriting official Soviet dope was
Soviet
But while we are on the subject literary
nquison think is duty to disclose the unhappy eno OF ne
asked to do The editor OF the series
university professor who made the alarming
discovery that Communist
considered nadvssbs to have book %. on
intended reach could keep the
advance, 1 send my manuscript
THE professor was making concession bourgeois prejudice
literary has right to pub
Eve carret Gradys the i-
partial Of the Soviet Union is the
Communist write "prejudiced"
was not say this is Literary inqustion" submit that
have not noticed that the
Soviet Unions literary raised their voices in pro-
control of art and literature winch prevails IN
capitalist
The professors generosity American gold enabled
buy Soviet writers continued collecting
that somewhere in the United States might ma
unaeaby opposed to hearing what Communist might
found the ignorance about
and the hostility thick This state
intelligent people less sympathetic to the
took account they happened to be engaged IN
catering bourgeois taste
For instance in China to New
York theatre accompanied produce sent me by the
author Moscow director Meyerhod T
vonous notes to how the play ought TO De pro
turned down Three years latern
theatre produced Roar China
other things the suspicious attitude which prevailed
publication of the book which eventually became
Vanguard Press liberal than others was will
book0p
Communists like Lee stmonson Babete
others
wanted to add chapters writer's that
rather than second hand impress
literature like At first publishers agreed to
this and began correspond Esenstem and others for
special contributions to Voices Of October
THE literary prosecuting attorney
rather busy in those days Besides speed was noe one
characteristics passed in frt attempts
contributions and in the end only Serge Esenn
For most I drop October altogether
editing spare busy newspaperman In the
book through to the publisher
advanced not by Moscow but by the American
The book finally appeared Kuniz Louis
on Men in the author
which dealt with painting and co-ahor with me OF the
chapter with the theatre wrote the chapter which
background of Soviet literature well as the chapters on the cinema
and
that chapters vyacheav
polonsk publisher
sympathetic Uss reversed earlier position and felt
book would make better impression were written en-
nrely Americans
wow attention the vyacheav
N editor critic Grand Inquisor
the exact mathematical center
prosecuted writer's and that Poonsky
victim of its persecution
Scribe NOT mention that first chapter in Voices
which and fafs throughout his da
n SO many at the bottom Of %:
based analysis Of ten Of
published the Mir
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Is to 58 In other
which at the exact center
of the literary nquton which was prosecuting ronky frankly
acknowledges onsky 80 page
the literary Eve Carrot Grady OF the
but that cited him at ALL They would
doubt had followed we'll known
literary plagiarng Polon giving him credit
all.
book under his name was
which the Modern Monthly yelling
about capitalist nqsion about which the anti Com
nothing
shall tomorrowS not the only falsication OF
which Monthly is guilty
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