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October 1, 1935

Robert Fitzgerald, Esq.,
Epping Forest,
Annapolis, Md.

Dear Bob:

Unfortunately, I have sent the manuscript
on to Robert Linscott at Houghton, Mifflin who was
unusually eager to see your poems after I had lectured
him on them, for an hour one evening.

I will see what I can find out about the
opportunities here at FORTUNE although I don't believe
they are very brilliant from what I have heard around
the office.

As soon as the poems come back, I shall send
them to you with a letter telling you how very much
I admired them and making one or two suggestions which
I hope you will forgive me for imposing upon you.
I will say this much now -- that reading them pulled
me out of some months of depression as to the state of
the arts in this country.

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LETTERS DEPT (Spears)

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To the Editors:

I have just finished reading the splendid article "The Christian Churches in the War." It is one of the most wholesome and challenging statements of the "here and now" position of Christendom generally that I have seen.

I am particularly interested in finding out who *is* the author. I would judge him to be an extremely well informed and scholarly layman, with leanings toward Catholicism but with a kindly and yet acute understanding of modern Protestantism. The lucidity of expression, the scholarly approach, and the neutral position would lead me to suspect that someone like William Hooking had written the article.

Robert R. Spears Jr.

General Theological Seminary, 175 Ninth Ave.
New York City

(Note: this seems to come from a student. - Constable.)

LETTERS DEPT (Burnes)

4/7/45

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To the Editors:

Without any thought of your being unfair it is my contention that your statements in the War should be more qualified with regard to Catholic opinion. Having a dubious premise leads to a false conclusion at least in part. I found many such. Perhaps the same may be true from the Protestant point of view -- I am not in a position to judge.

One glaring example of the above, and in there really are many, is the one about the Church and Father Coughlin. -- Evidence of a lack of knowledge concerning one of the Church's fundamental contentions regarding Bishops and their see is present. Conclusions about the Pope seem wrong to me in various places throughout the article.

Even poor Father Coughlin is in fact called anti-Jewish by your inference -- He had the nerve to tell the truth about the speech, and quote it verbatim, that was made in Holland about 1936 at the international convention of Jews. I think Father Coughlin made mistakes the same as we do but he is no more anti-Semitic than you are.

Your article may seem very masterful to you but my experience of twenty-five years dealing with Protestants and Jews prompts me to conclude that while it may seem to be masterful it lacks the very thing that leads to unity -- namely a sympathetic understanding with all suspicion put aside.

J. F. Burnes

Blessed Sacrament Church
231 North Marsalis Avenue
Dallas, Texas

LETTERS DEPT (Phelan)

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To the Editors:

I am writing to commend your article "The Christian Churches in the War (March). I especially appreciated the calm, objective attitude of the writer -- must he remain anonymous? -- and his sympathetic understanding of the various religious outlooks he so ably discussed.

(Rev) Gerald B. Phelan

President
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
59 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, Canada

LETTERS DEPT. - (Farnun)

4/7/43 mw

To the Editors:

Will you kindly convey from me to whoever was the
writer of the article in your March issue entitled "The Chris-
tian Church in the War, my very deepest appreciation.

Two things about the article greatly impressed me --
its fairness and its marvelous comprehensiveness. Right-minded
people in the Church do not object to just criticism, for we get
a great deal of it, but it is naturally a joy to us to have the
Church so fairly evaluated.

Were my nephew, Russell Davenport still connected
with FORTUNE, I would be inclined to think that he wrote the
article. Whether the actual writer will be flattered or other-
wise by this comparison, I do not know, but I consider it a
compliment!

St. Mary's Church
Asheville, North Carolina

Arthur W. Farnum
Rector

LETTERS DEPT. (Gray)

4/7/43 mv

To the Editors:

I have just finished reading "The Christian Churches In the War," and I must commend the article for its comprehensiveness, sanity, and clarity. It was one of the best things of the sort I have seen, and I know it will be helpful to have this honest appraisal of the facts.

Diocese of Connecticut
207 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut

Walter H. Gray, D.D.
Suffragan Bishop

LETTERS DEPT. (Palmer)

4/7/43 mw

To the Editors:

I put aside everything to give a careful reading to your article on "The Christian Churches in the War." As a representative of liberal Protestantism I feel that one of the most difficult problems before us is the formulation of a clear and prophetic statement representing the viewpoint of consecrated Christendom as to the moral and religious principles which will form the foundation of the postwar world. Such a statement demands a unity which unfortunately does not exist even within the fold of Protestantism. The Roman Church seems in one or two very unfortunate aspects to be separating itself even more notably than hitherto from all liberal thought. . .

Certainly Christendom needs as never before a united front. We can never forget the prayer of our founder that "we may all be one." The tragic insistence of the present day impels us to feel that we _must_ be one. We must find a means of resolving our differences as Christians and uniting upon broad policies of religious humanitarianism.

Your discriminating article may help somewhat in achieving the great end so desperately needed.

The Leicester Federated Church
Leicester, Massachusetts

Kenneth L. Palmer
Minister

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EDITORIAL OFFICES

July 17, 1945

Dear Robert:

Copies of both editions of the Japanese issues have been dispatched to you with the idea that you will deliver them to JICPOA in person with the customary credit to you for your loyal and intelligent interest in all matters pertaining to the defeat of the enemy. No charge. You are a promising young man.

Reports about you come more frequently now than when you worked on the floor below, and the accounts of the returning travelers are unvaryingly favorable. By now perhaps, advanced copies of my works on the Pacific have arrived and you will have had an opportunity to read them with the cruel objectivity I once administered to your first faltering efforts to become a business editor. They were at least an honest effort.*

Life here rushes on -- with its mostly meaningless speed and tumult, and occasionally I play with the notion of donning lincoln green and becoming a forester, a profession for which I have always entertained profound respect if not sheer envy.

Lieut. Robert Fitzgerald
Office of Chief Censor
CINCPAC Adv. Headquarters
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, Calif.

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EDITORIAL OFFICES

May 3rd. 1943.

Dear RF:

I do hope you are well enough to read,
especially stark prose about yourself. Is it
my fault if you emerge as a lonely scholar,
talking to us in ancient Greek and reading,
not the funnies like any normal American,
but an illuminated manuscript?

Seriously, if this contains any errors
of *fact*, would you have someone telephone me
Tomorrow, as we close tomorrow night. Otherwise
I think it's okay.

Hope you're better.

RC

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Now and then the readers of FORTUNE ask that we disclose the name of the author of a certain article. In most instances the answer would be not one but several names: that of the researcher, writer and editor. Sometimes, however, the article represents the final conclusions of a single mind. One such article was "The Christian Churches and the War" (March). Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of the denominational Christian Century, admitted astonishment that a writer for a lay magazine "knew enough to write such an article."

Gerald B. Phelan, President of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, probably the most vigorous centre of Catholic thought in the world today, wrote FORTUNE: "I trust that you will not consider it an impertinence that I write you unsolicited to commend the recent article on the Churches in these days of war. . . I especially appreciated the calm, objective attitude of the writer -- must he remain anonymous? -- and his sympathetic understanding of the varied religious outlooks he so ably discusses."

The author is Robert Fitzgerald, thirty-two, TIME editor, poet and classical scholar. He is a student of medieval Latin, and can speak ancient Greek (ORIGINAL VERSION). He grew up in Springfield, Ohio, was educated at Chate, Harvard and MIT. His Colloquium at Cambridge. His first job, in 1935, was reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1935 he published Poems (Arrow Editions), and came to work for TIME. He is the author, with Dudley Fitts, of two adaptations from the Greek, Euripides' Alcestis and Sophocles' Antigone and, solo, of an English version of Cedipus at Colonus (Harcourt, Brace). Recently he is writing a book. Currently, he is a member of a group preparing TIME's "Background for Peace" reports.