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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 4, November-December 1939
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Page Fourteen -- Science Fiction Collector -- the convention, and even admitted that that was their aim! This is a confounded tissue of lies! I challenge Moskowitz to produce the proofs of this! The facts of the matter are just the opposite. My Convention Committee, which was the legitimate and original sponsor, realizing that Sykora was determined to control the Convention or else destroy it, decided in the Autumn of 1938 (which was when New Fandom was first organized) to withdraw from any active opposition or condemnation. We realized that such action would destroy the convention and before and above anything else, we wanted that the World Convention (which was after all, my brain-child) to go through and be a success. So that after it had become evident that Sykora would accept no compromise, no arbitration, no half-measures, after he had abandoned his own Newark Committee, after he had destroyed the GNYSFL which had assumed Convention control work, after he had announced New Fandom, my group and committee withdrew from the field. This decision we held to. Olon F. Wiggins, who is not now nor ever was, under my orders, or in any way responsible to me, broke from this attitude in the Spring of 1939, but he received no support from me or mine, as he himself can testify. I thus challenge Moskowitz to prove his infamous lies. I can for my part prove what I say about refusing to fight against the Convention and against New Fandom. Now for the actual events of the Convention day. The one fact which overbears everything else, Moskowitz has not given. That is that Will Sykora let the truth out of the bag when he arrived at the hall. He did not arrive till noon. When he did, both Doc Lowndes and myself
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Page Fourteen -- Science Fiction Collector -- the convention, and even admitted that that was their aim! This is a confounded tissue of lies! I challenge Moskowitz to produce the proofs of this! The facts of the matter are just the opposite. My Convention Committee, which was the legitimate and original sponsor, realizing that Sykora was determined to control the Convention or else destroy it, decided in the Autumn of 1938 (which was when New Fandom was first organized) to withdraw from any active opposition or condemnation. We realized that such action would destroy the convention and before and above anything else, we wanted that the World Convention (which was after all, my brain-child) to go through and be a success. So that after it had become evident that Sykora would accept no compromise, no arbitration, no half-measures, after he had abandoned his own Newark Committee, after he had destroyed the GNYSFL which had assumed Convention control work, after he had announced New Fandom, my group and committee withdrew from the field. This decision we held to. Olon F. Wiggins, who is not now nor ever was, under my orders, or in any way responsible to me, broke from this attitude in the Spring of 1939, but he received no support from me or mine, as he himself can testify. I thus challenge Moskowitz to prove his infamous lies. I can for my part prove what I say about refusing to fight against the Convention and against New Fandom. Now for the actual events of the Convention day. The one fact which overbears everything else, Moskowitz has not given. That is that Will Sykora let the truth out of the bag when he arrived at the hall. He did not arrive till noon. When he did, both Doc Lowndes and myself
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