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From The New International, Vol. XVII No. 2, March–April 1951, p. 34.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Although we have been aware of the important job the NI is doing for Marxist clarification in these days of world crisis, we have been particularly gratified at the concrete evidence on this score which we have received recently.
About a month ago we sent out a form letter to all our foreign readers. We wanted to clear our mailing lists of dead addresses, and of people who do not wish to receive the magazine any longer. We requested that all our readers return a small form, indicating whether or not they are able to make some payment for the magazine, and whether they wish to continue to receive it.
Here are a few excerpts from the many replies we have received to date:
Great Britain: “Inside the State Capitalist tendency there is a very great sympathy for the ISL. The New International has greater influence today than for many years in this country. We are using the NI for the purpose of drawing comrades to our Third Camp attitude.”
Argentine Republic: “I am an Argentine Socialist, and a member of the Socialist Youth Organization of this country. I had seldom seen such a good Socialist magazine. Although I didn’t share some of your points of view – your position on the Korean war – I must recognize that I substantially agree with the rest of it. I was delighted to find something on Comrade Leon Trotsky ...
South Africa: “I have been discussing NI with one or two fellow thinkers and we feel that we must let the NI have a much wider circulation in S.A. ... We intend advertising these papers in a manner so as to make sure they reach to politically minded people both in and outside the Non-European Unity Movement ...”
Holland: “As business manager of a Socialist Weekly Paper before the war, I have experienced over years how difficult it is to manage such a paper with many financial troubles. So I quite understand the meaning of your letter about payment of the subscriptions ...”
We want to thank all our friends for their kind letters. A number of them have found it possible to send in some money, though in many countries currency restrictions make this extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible.
We would like to urge those readers outside the United States, who have not yet replied to our circular to do so at once. The next issue of the NI will not be sent to people who have not replied.
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