Robert Lovett





 

 

 


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Robert Morse Lovett was born in 1870. He moved to Chicago to work for the New Republic. While in the city he became a resident in the Hull House Settlement. Lovett taught at Hull House and one of his students, Oscar Ludman, later published the highly acclaimed book, A Stepchild of the Rhine (1931).

Lovett, for many years the editor of The Dial, joined with Agnes Smedley, Norman Thomas and Roger Baldwin in 1919 to establish the Friends of Freedom for India.

Lovett, who later became professor of English at the University of Chicago, published his autobiography, All Our Years, in 1948. Robert Lovett died in 1956.

 


 

(1) Robert Morse Lovett, quoted by George Seldes in his book You Can't Print That! (1929)

The Fascist regime is a complete repudiation of all that has been gained in the last two centuries in political democracy, and control by the people of their common interests... a return to the age of the despots without the enlightenment and toleration which individuals among these manifested. The danger to all Europe from such a dictatorship is evident. The crusade which President Wilson preached against governments not responsible to the will of their own people, has direct application to the dictatorship of Mussolini.

The peace of the world rests on the mutual goodwill of free peoples. Italy is today a menace to that peace, a heavy liability to the cause for which Wilson called on his countrymen to fight. It is disheartening to find Americans who were most active in insisting that such a call should be made, now supporting with their influence and their loans a regime so hostile to all that this country assumes to represent.

 

 

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