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From The New International, Vol. XIV No. 4, April 1948, p. 98.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
In accordance with the NI’s post-office registration (ten issues a year) we skip the May and June numbers, and the next issue you will see will be dated July ... As a matter of fact, however, that issue will appear only the usual month after the present one, since we are now quite a bit behind our publishing schedule ... By getting the July issue out at the beginning of June, we will catch up ...
Our aim, of course, is to continue publishing each issue during the month before the date line – a consummation devoutly to be wished .... The lateness of the NI’sappearance up to now has undoubtedly hindered its newsstand sales especially, and we intend to leave no stone unturned in order to get over this obstacle to the expansion of the magazine’s circulation ...
One of the above-mentioned stones will be turned beginning with the next issue ... The magazine will be run off on a newspaper press in a revised technical setup ... In fact, it’s the kind of stone that kills two birds, lowering costs substantially as well as making for prompter publication ... The size of the page will come out a wee bit smaller, but there will be even less difference in the word capacity ... And that’s enough of these technicalities for this month ...
Erber’s king-size article on The Stalinist Road to Power in Czechoslovakia last month went over big, as we expected ... Undoubtedly the most illuminating account this side of the ocean, everybody agrees ... He follows through in this issue by bringing the story up to the coup d’etat itself ... And basing ourselves on the importance of the Czech events for Marxists, we also present a concentration of discussion articles viewing the question from several angles ... McKinney’s views on the civil-rights program (Can Capitalism End Jim Crow? in this issue) is also calculated to raise some discussion, we think ... What do you think? ...
We’d like to call our readers’ attention to the excellent quarterly published at the University of Chicago by the Politics Club there ... Called the Student Partisan ... It’s fifteen cents a copy, and we’re sure many of our own readers will want to get it ... Write to Politics Club, University of Chicago 37, Ill. ...
Comrade Arthur Stein of New York has been regularly covering forums, adult evening schools and colleges ... Sold forty copies of the NI in December, thirty-two in January, sixty-one of the February issue ... The New York local of the Workers Party sold fifty-one copies at Arthur Koestler’s lecture at Carnegie Hall ... They would have sold more if they had taken more copies with them ... Comrade Ted Enright, of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (usually called L.A. for short), has also been doing a swell job of selling ... We don’t want to belabor the point but what conclusions do you draw? ...
Next issue will carry an important article by our contributor Andrzej Rudzienski on the Ukraine – the resistance movement there and its historical background ... Other articles in preparation include discussions of Russian economy, the Marshall Plan, and Professor Charles Beard’s recent book on how Roosevelt took us into the war ... The next chapter from Victor Serge’s opus deals with the civil war in 1918 and the Bolshevik policy with regard to the Constituent Assembly ...
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