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May 4, 1963 Jack I:

    Thanks for paperback and the copies of laudatory reviews - I see even Granville Hicks gave you a plug in underllined:  Sat. Review!  A belated, but deserved reward.  I believe you said Murray Kempton didn't treat you well in his book.   I see he is now an editor of underlined:  The New Republic - a fuddy-duddy magazine, that I never cared for - I don't like the "timid" approach to democracy. for I have discovered over half a century of living, that the "liberals" do not really believe in democracy.
     Is Aaron still in Warsaw?  If so, I'd like to write him - I pick up underlined:  POLAND magazine now & then because it seems to me Poland is where we were during the WPA days - and Poland has free expression in the Arts, which the Soviet Union doesn't seem to have - altho we restrict our artists and writers just as much as the Soviet Union - and officially we like the same art the Russians do.  The Polish Embassy sent me gratis a book of Children's art in Poland - I wish I were in Poland now, with my children.  

Best. Jack II.