The Freeman (Vol. 2 No. 6 - December 17, 1951) (Magazine)

Orange, Connecticut: The Freeman Magazine, Inc.. Offered is the December 17, 1951 issue of "The Freeman" (Vol. 2 No. 6) edited by John Chamberlain, Henry Hazlitt, and Suzanne La Follette and published by The Freeman Magazine, Inc. out of Orange, Connecticut. A magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 11-1/4" and containing 32 pages including front and rear covers. Containing articles, editorials, and book reviews. Highlights include: Europe Turns to Freedom by William Henry Chamberlin ("Mr. Chamberlin discusses the postwar trend to free enterprise in Continental Europe, and finds it the essential means to economic recovery"); Emmett Lavery's Strange Crusade by Oliver Carlson ("One of Hollywood's screen writers, Emmett Lavery, has just revealed that he was engaged in fighting movieland's subversives at the time when almost everyone else thought he was their faithful friend and ally"); The Weapon of Taxation by Towner Phelan (which begins, "In 1819 Chief Justice [John] Marshall said: 'The power to tax is the power to destroy'"); Pattern for Confession by Alice Widener (which begins, "Sometimes the truth is spoken in a negative way in the form of a denial, or of a confession made under strange circumstances. And so it is perhaps natural that now, when Americans stand aghast at the progress of Communist tyranny in a world they fought to free, an important truth has been told them in the form of a confession made by a muddleheaded man with his back against the mountainous wall of his own mistakes. That man is former Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. The strange circumstance was his urgent need, on October 5, 1951, to answer a charge made before the Senate Internal Security Committee that seven years ago he gave President Roosevelt advice on China that followed the Communist Party line"); What's Happening to Our Magazine Fiction? by Frances Beck; Laurels for Borrowers by Edward Dahlberg (on writers who publish books and essays on Herman Melville). Former owner's name to front cover; periodic light underlining to text and check marks to margins in pencil. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1951.