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...FREDA GINSBERG...
...have here in the Nation is no more than a half-truth, perhaps no more than a tenth part of the truth. From the Nation one gets the impression that individual liberty today must rely for its defense on a heroic and beleaguered little band marshaled by [Nation editors] Freda Kirchwey and Carey McWilliams...
...Soviet power which today breeds the anxieties which McCarthyism turns to its advantage . . . [Nation Editor Freda] Kirchwey disapproves of resistance, for she believes that Soviet power is an expression of the 'emerging forces of popular revolt'. . . In the literature of appeasement before World War II, there was at least a note of genuine tragedy. It was never, as I recall it, argued that the wave of the future would wash us clean...
...Teheran, New York Timesman Michael Clark, 32, son of Freda Kirchwey, editor-publisher of the Nation, was called on the carpet by Iran's Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi. He clutched a copy of the Times containing a Clark dispatch which said that Premier Mossadegh's "remarkable go-to-o vote of confidence in the Majlis" on his return from the U.S. was helped by "incipient terrorism, i.e., the threat of assassination held over Mossadegh's opponents." Cried Fatemi: "Intolerable insults against the government...
...your May 21 Press section under the heading "Exit from the Nation" you ran a report which conveyed an inaccurate impression . . . Without arguing the merits of [Editor Freda Kirchwey's] libel suit, I want to state that my decision to resign as executive editor of the Nation antedated the libel suit brought against Mr. Clement Greenberg and the New Leader, and no connection between the two actions should be implied...