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traditions and during the past three or four years has reassumed its proper place and performed its great function. I had known, however, since 1950 that ultimately the entire office would go to Washington and that I could not go along. This spring final preparations were made and I became a director of the main family corporation rather than Publisher of the New Republic (I still am Publisher of ANTIQUES and Treasurer of CRAFT HORIZONS, both doing extremely well) Next month the rest of the New Republic's New York connections will be ended.

Though anticipated it has been a shattering experience to be divorced from what was my life's work. I am however amazingly fortunate in that I remain very close to the paper and can look forward to its safe continuance in younger and highly capable hands. It has been the transfer of the baton