February 26, 1927
Dear Miss Addams:
The first copies of our FASCIST NUMBER of Survey Graphic are just here from the binders. One goes to you under separate cover. Nine months work have gone into the project. I feel we were as fortunate in enlisting Mr. Lindeman as collaborating editor as we were in enlisting Dr. Locke for our Harlem Number.
Our approach was, of course, to get at the meaning of Fascism for Americans. While the trail led, therefore, in the first place directly to Italy and we have had the collaboration of Italians of the first rank, the heart of the issue is the group of articles by writers representing the whole gamut of American thought; no less than by those whose treatment was rigorously objective. Two contributors made special journeys to Italy. Etchings, drawings, maps, cartoons, fugitive pamphlets and first hand facts were gathered. The number [has] cost $2500 above our regular number of Survey Graphic. The run is of 34,000 copies.
These annual racial numbers have become the distinctive contribution of Survey Associates in the field of international understanding. We have received today contributions of $650 toward the special cost of this Fascist Number. Dealing with so controversial a subject matter, it seemed best to defer appeals until we had our rounded work to show. I am hopeful that we can raise a good part of the extra cost and perhaps hold such contributors another year for our Foreign Service Fund.
Have you any suggestions of people before whom I could put our Fascist Number project or people who might as a whole through it become interested in Survey Associates? In addition, I should be glad to have the names of any friends you think might be interested in getting the issue.
Sincerely,
Editor
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