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...Tory M.P., onetime Minister of Health in Neville Chamberlain's cabinet...
Suzanne LaFollette, now in her 50s and freelancing, was one of the three journalists who once more revived The Freeman. The others: John Chamberlain, 47, author (The American Stakes), onetime book reviewer for the New York Times and Harper's and editorial writer for LIFE until his resignation last week, and Henry Hazlitt, 55, longtime (1934-46) editorial writer for the Times and contributing editor of Newsweek...
...Plain Talk. Co-editors Hazlitt, LaFollette and Chamberlain, old friends, have long had the idea for the magazine, but lacked the financial backing. A year ago they teamed up with Alfred Kohlberg, a wealthy New York linen importer and stout supporter of Chiang Kaishek. At the time, Kohlberg was backing the anti-Communist monthly Plain Talk...
After hearing the LaFollette-Hazlitt-Chamberlain plan, he decided to fold up faltering Plain Talk and transfer the 5,000 unexpired subscriptions to The Freeman. He became treasurer and helped to raise $130,000 (of which Kohlberg contributed 10%). Names of other supporters were a resolutely-kept secret...
Something Positive. The Freeman's editors plan to break away from the rigidly anti-Communist diet of Plain Talk, "go on to something more positive." Says Chamberlain: "The fight [against Communists] has been won domestically . . . You don't have to keep telling people that Communists have techniques of getting into organizations and are pretty good at spying . . . We want to revive the John Stuart Mill concept of liberalism. We feel we're rescuing an old word from misuse." Among those who did their bit to help rescue the old liberalism in the first issue were George Sokolsky...