Dodd's Memorial

The late ex-Ambassador William E. Dodd would no doubt have approved the motives of his 35-year-old son, William Jr., in setting up a William E. Dodd Foundation to foster his Jeffersonian ideals. But he might have wondered at some streamlined Jeffersonian aspects of the memorial which that Foundation subsidized last week.

It was a 24-page leftist newsmagazine called U. S. Week. Published in Milwaukee, its subscription rate was $1 for 40 weeks. Editorial talent came mainly from ex-employes of the leftist Manhattan tabloid PM. Among them were Associate Editor Richard O. Boyer (ex-PM foreign correspondent) and National Affairs Editor Leo Huberman (ex-PM labor editor). William Dodd Jr., foreign news editor, led off with a straight pro-Soviet interpretation of the present rift between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists in China. Martha Dodd was represented only indirectly--her husband, Alfred K. Stern (member of the Communist fellow-traveling American Peace Mobilization and the New York Conference of Inalienable Rights), is U. S. Week's vice president.

Editor is 42-year-old Doris Berger, blue-eyed, greying, twice-married daughter of the late Socialist Congressman Victor Berger. Mother of three children, fun-loving, tennis-playing Editor Doris Berger Welles Hursley wrote an editorial "On Being an American." In it at least the elder Dodd might have detected some traces of the kind of Jeffersonianism which he expounded.

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