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...your issue of Oct. 5, you report the failure of the plan to give the name Lidice (after the martyred Czech village) to the Canadian town of Frelighsburg. You state that Premier Godbout of Quebec rapped the knuckles of the Lidice Lives Committee, and of its executive chairman, Clifton Fadiman. As a member of the Lidice Lives Committee, and as the individual who visited Godbout and had all details of the affair in hand, I feel qualified to give you the facts...
Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...
...executive chairman: Fadiman) got a little tap on the knuckles from Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec. The town of Frelighsburg, Quebec, announced the committee, would change its name to Lidice. But Frelighsburg had not been informed, and shortly Premier Godbout announced simply: Frelighsburg will be Frelighsburg and Clifton Fadiman will be Clifton Fadiman...
...CLIFTON COWAN Doddsville, Miss...
...Yorker Critic Clifton Fadiman ("It seduces us to rest on the oars of our own moral superiority...