My dear Madeline Doty,
I wrote to Roger Baldwin about the future ↑of↓ PAX. He replied that the fund would give us $100.00 a month for the next two years. He sent me a copy of a letter to Mrs. Taussig which I am sending on to you, although you have doubtless heard from the National Board before this.
I wish I could persuade you to reduce the publication to four pages giving most of the space to the affairs of our own Sections. I think this would be very much better than trying to raise extra money for it each month and in the end leave the International Office in a much better position when the grant stops altogether. As you know many of the Board members felt that as it was inevitable that the general peace news would reach the Sections too late to be of much value, and that it was better to keep the paper smaller and concerned with our own affairs.
I know that you will be disappointed not to have a larger sheet but in the long run the Board is responsible for the publication of the official organ and must be consulted as to the kind it wants. The whole plan of the American Section paying for the printing of PAX has not been without its difficulties, I found that the Europeans were a little mystified about it and that it had not, perhaps, been sufficiently discussed with them before we undertook it. If, without making a definite break, the paper could be made smaller I think we would be in a much better position all around. I am awfully sorry to suggest anything that you do not like, but I do hope that you will consider it seriously.
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