Word: monat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magazines sponsored by the U.S. Government have usually met with limited success abroad. The reason is that Europeans and Asians view any government publication with suspicion. A notable exception is Germany's Der Monat (the Month), a monthly with a Harper's format that was launched six years ago by the State Department as a "weapon against Communism and Naziism." Although its circulation is small (30,000), Der Monat has become the most respected and influential magazine in Germany, helped spark a renaissance in German intellectual life, which was stamped out by the Nazis. Read largely by intellectuals...
Nevertheless, more than 3,500 copies a month are smuggled into East Germany. One German couple, sent to a Red prison after the Communists discovered copies of the magazine in their East zone apartment, made straight for Der Monat's office to replenish their confiscated copies after they escaped...
Ford Grant. Der Monat owes its prestige to the State Department's wise decision to give virtually a free hand to its New York-born editor, Melvin J. Lasky, 34. By filling the magazine with the work of the world's leading writers, he has convinced German readers that Der Monat is much more than a mere mouthpiece of U.S. policy. Last week Editor Lasky took the final step to establish the magazine's independence. He severed its official U.S. ties completely, and got a $175,000 Ford Foundation grant to continue publishing, hopes to make...
...Monat establishes the link by printing articles by such writers as T. S. Eliot. Bertrand Russell, Joseph Schumpeter, Benedetto Croce, Arthur Koestler, Sidney Hook, Aldous Huxley and Reinhold Niebuhr. Articles, all translated into German, cover every subject, from the relationship between Christianity and Western civilization to the real place of Wall Street in the U.S. economy. 'George Orwell's biting anti-Communist satires, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, were translated into German only in the pages of Der Monat...