GRATIFIED .AND CONSIDERABLY SURPRISED _
The first issue of World Outlook appeared last September 27, Thatts not very long ago. Yet our weekly news service has had a success much beyond our expectations,
It is true that the need for a service of this kind had long been felt and we were certain that it would prove useful,, But we must confess that we hadntt expected such an enthusiastic response,
Of greatest interest to us is the number of individuals, particularly students, who have sent subscriptions together with jetters of praise, Our idea was a service of limited circulation, used mostly by independent radical, socialist, labor, and colonial~liberation newspapers, The response in this area has been good;and from the number of World Outlook items that have appeared in many countries, some of them in newspapers or magazines of rather large circulation, we consider our undertaking to be a success, But the response of persons who want World Outlook for themselves as a source of news and ideas has surprised us. Many of them heard about World Outlook either indirectly or by word of mouth and sent in a subscription.
From our mail bag in the past couple of months, here are some typical comments: .
Delhi:, "I have been immensely pleased with World Outlook, The need for it has been, so to say, crying out for some time, I wish it all the success in its great work,” _
Irag: “We are making big use of World Outlook, It is a great job
Mexico: “We express our thanks and our congratulations for the interesting news and valuable analyses contained in World Outlook,"
Germany: "The impression of World Outlook is really excellent."
Denmark: "This effort is. very useful,"
Toronto: "I went through back issues of World Outlook in order to write an article on Algeria, I was really surprised to see how easy it was to put together the material for a very good article covering the high spots. Those who have been writing the Algerian material have been doing a tremendous job."
Bombay: “World Outlook is serving a role that reminds me of Inprecorr in the twenties." _
Colombo: "I look forward to World Outlook, I have cycelostyled Germaints article '*Back to Lenint for sale,"
Puerto Rico: An “interesting publication."
New York: “I am binding World Outlook for permanent file copies.
St. Paul, Minnesota: “We are tremendously interested in World Outlook here, It is very useful, especially the material on Algeria, The answer by Pierre Frank to Izvestia pleased me mightily. And Germaints answer to the Peking Review defense of Stalin was excellent,"
Madison, Wisconsin: "It makes the pourgeois press seem unneces~ sary. .. . .Your presentation and analysis of the Algerian Revolution has finally brought clarity to an extremely complex question. . . . would like to have a complete file. . _"
Bloomington, Indiana: ny am long overdue in- sending y you a note of appreciation for the publication of World Outlook, Over here we are quite enthusiastic about it,”
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We could quote many more similar comments, Most impressive of all to us, however, has been the number of subscriptions, since we are only too conscious of the fact that for many persons, especially students, ‘the expenditure represents a financial sacrifice. This income, we report with the greatest: pleasure, has made World Outlook self-sustaining up to now, That, we believe, has few precedents for this tyve of service in the radical movement.
Our thanks to all of you who have demonstrated in this most concrete way what you think of World Outlook, For our part, we will do our best to meintain the high standard in news reporting and analysis which we sought to meet in undertaking its publication,
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IN COMING ISSUES
"The Black Muslims of America” -- 2 series by Evelyn Sell, World Outléok correspondent who has been reporting from the vantage point of Detroit on the Freedom Now struggle in the United States,
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An appreciation of Deutscher's biography of Leon Trotsky by J. B. Stewart, who is unusually quelified to speak on cer~ tain sectors of the material covered in the monumental work,
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And, of course, continued reports end articles by 1} Marxist journalists and theoreticians on all continents,
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