Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servicemen affected, I was appalled at the shortsighted and presumptuous action of U.S.O. President Barnard (TiME, Jan. 31) in halting further distribution of the pamphlet The Races of Mankind on the grounds of its being "controversial." Since when has a good dose of healthy "controversy" been anything but salutary? ... I shall do my damndest to obtain ., copy...
...fairness of the reporting in this pamphlet should have been a source of great satisfaction to those who truly struggle with this great problem. It could have been objectionable only to those whose minds were set upon a definite course of action and who were accordingly selfishly resolved to disregard any facts bearing on this question. The weak stand taken by President Barnard disqualifies him for his position. He has sanctioned the governing of the many by the few. DOUGLAS P. ADAMS...
Such troublous facts and troubling doctrines were making double trouble last week. They were set forth in The Races of Mankind, a 46-page, 10? pamphlet published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc., designed to fit a serviceman's pocket and to fight Nazi racial doctrines. The pamphlet was brightly written by Columbia Anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, and brightly illustrated (see cut). But U.S.O. President Chester Irving Barnard had called the pamphlet controversial and ordered the Y.M.C.A. to stop distributing it in U.S.O. clubs-after 50,000 copies had been sold...
Disgusted Donors. Bulk purchasers of the pamphlet, in addition to the Y.M.C.A., included the National Smelting Co., the Junior League, the Federal Council of Churches, the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Said the liberal, nonprofit Public Affairs Committee, which publishes The Races of Mankind: "We have had no complaints; many servicemen have written for extra copies for buddies." The Y.M.C.A. said it would distribute its remaining 10,000 copies to civilian groups. Other reactions were not so measured...
Newsmen thumbed through a new official pamphlet, stopped short at one pregnant paragraph, read it again. No, their eyes had not deceived them. The U.S. Army (in Guide to the Use of Information Materials) had given its own startling view of what the U.S. public should know...