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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 4, November-December 1939

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Science Fiction Collector --- Page Thirteen

more than before. He is correct in saying there were persons who wanted that convention to fail. It's announced, publicized purpose was to reform the ISA and to make a new Convention Committee. Both these purposes were directed solely out of the selfish desires of William Sykora. They were opposed by the former members of the ISA who objected to his falsifications on the topic, and opposed likewise by the legitimate original Convention Committee. But Moskowitz does not mention this fact. He would have his readers believe that the Convention was just a sweet get-together for "old time's sake."
     The pamphlet "Rejected" should be reread by Sam for cataloguing of the alleged name calling of the convention sponsors. I have just read it and I think he does me an injustice in assuming that I have slung at him all the names I could think of. There is reprinted there, a choice bit of vicious writing by Sam though that he may have mistaken for mine. The circulars passed around were circulated at the very end of the Convention, when it had already broken up. His remarks there are irrelvant.
     He then says that that the Michelists gained the floor in the afternoon and nearly precipitated a riot. This is the rankest nonsense. In point of fact, the arguments against the Sykora-proposals were lead primarily by David A. Kyle, non-michelist, non-Communist, non-Futurian. Neither Michel, Pohl, nor myself took the floor that afternoon.
     Moskowitz next charges that the Wollheim faction called the New Fandom Convention group every name they could create, used every device in their power to wreck

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Science Fiction Collector --- Page Thirteen more than before. He is correct in saying there were persons who wanted that convention to fail. It's announced, publicized purpose was to reform the ISA and to make a new Convention Committee. Both these purposes were directed solely out of the selfish desires of William Sykora. They were opposed by the former members of the ISA who objected to his falsifications on the topic, and opposed likewise by the legitimate original Convention Committee. But Moskowitz does not mention this fact. He would have his readers believe that the Convention was just a sweet get-together for "old time's sake." The pamphlet "Rejected" should be reread by Sam for cataloguing of the alleged name calling of the convention sponsors. I have just read it and I think he does me an injustice in assuming that I have slung at him all the names I could think of. There is reprinted there, a choice bit of vicious writing by Sam though that he may have mistaken for mine. The circulars passed around were circulated at the very end of the Convention, when it had already broken up. His remarks there are irrelvant. He then says that that the Michelists gained the floor in the afternoon and nearly precipitated a riot. This is the rankest nonsense. In point of fact, the arguments against the Sykora-proposals were lead primarily by David A. Kyle, non-michelist, non-Communist, non-Futurian. Neither Michel, Pohl, nor myself took the floor that afternoon. Moskowitz next charges that the Wollheim faction called the New Fandom Convention group every name they could create, used every device in their power to wreck