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.
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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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