Memo

From The New International, Vol. XVI No. 1, January–February 1950, p. 2.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

With this issue of The New International we appear, as you see, in a new format. We believe that our readers will appreciate the greater convenience – in carrying while reading and in fitting the NI into bookshelf space – of the new size. Although format is a minor matter in a periodical such as ours, we hope that it will find favor among our readers.

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We are somewhat less happy to report that with this issue we are also starting bi-monthly publication. Our regular readers are aware that The New International has been unable, during the past year, to maintain its planned frequency of publication. Many difficulties have contributed to upsetting our schedule, among them our unwillingness to publish an inferior magazine in content and makeup.

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We hope to return to ten copies a year, and eventually to monthly publication just as soon as possible. In the meantime, we can guarantee our readers regular appearance of the magazine, and what is even more important, an improved magazine. We believe that the additional time we now have for preparation, and a strengthened editorial board, will result in extending the quality of the magazine. We are confident that this, in turn, will increase both the circle of our literary contributors and of our readers.

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Because of rising costs we are compelled to do what all periodicals and newspapers, with infinitely greater resources than we ever hope to have, have done – raise our rates. With this issue the cost of a single copy of The New International will be 35¢. The subscription rate will remain the same, $2.00 per year. Present subscribers will receive their full quota of issues and all new subscribers will be accepted under the rate indicated above.

L.G. Smith, Business Manager

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