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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 4, November-December 1939
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Science Fiction Collector --- Page Fifteen had brief conversations with him in the building hall. He told each of us the same story (and told others too): that the decision to bar us from the Convention was made w̲e̲e̲k̲s̲ ̲b̲e̲f̲o̲r̲e̲ by the New Fandom Council in meeting. Thus it was not in his power, nor in that of Moskowitz or Taurasi, to reverse that decision. "It's out of my hands," he said. "I'm sorry and I suppose you're sorry, but that's the way it is." Thus all Moskowitz's fine blather about pamphlets and promises is so much hokum. The decision to e̲x̲c̲l̲u̲d̲e̲ us was made by New Fandom weeks before the Conventionday. This was an Exclusion Act and nothing else. I̲t̲ ̲w̲a̲s̲ ̲a̲ ̲c̲a̲r̲e̲f̲u̲l̲l̲y̲ ̲p̲r̲e̲m̲e̲d̲i̲t̲a̲t̲e̲d̲ ̲a̲c̲t̲i̲o̲n̲.̲ Nothing that we could have done or said would have made a bit of difference. At the time this decision to undemocratically violate their advertisements and notices was being made, the Futurian Society was making overtures to the QSFL to bury the hatchet and dissolve fan feuds. If they wanted promises and guarantees from us so as not to jeopardize their convention, that was the time to have taken us up on our offer. When Moskowitz puts words in my mouth to the effect that we had arrived brought nothing with us, he lies. Michel and Pohl who had arrived later brought with them the five mimeographed pamphlets which were lost and stolen. These pamphlets said nothing about the Convention, New Fandom, the QSFL. The yellow pamphlets were printed by David A. Kyle, and we did not see them until the morning of the convention. Nor did we sponsor them, plan them, or expect them. When Michel gave Kuslan a copy of one of them, he had only just read it for the first time himself. He had received it from Dale Hart whom he met in the hall entrance. So his handing it to Kuslan was as purely innocent as would any individual first in the possess-
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Science Fiction Collector --- Page Fifteen had brief conversations with him in the building hall. He told each of us the same story (and told others too): that the decision to bar us from the Convention was made w̲e̲e̲k̲s̲ ̲b̲e̲f̲o̲r̲e̲ by the New Fandom Council in meeting. Thus it was not in his power, nor in that of Moskowitz or Taurasi, to reverse that decision. "It's out of my hands," he said. "I'm sorry and I suppose you're sorry, but that's the way it is." Thus all Moskowitz's fine blather about pamphlets and promises is so much hokum. The decision to e̲x̲c̲l̲u̲d̲e̲ us was made by New Fandom weeks before the Conventionday. This was an Exclusion Act and nothing else. I̲t̲ ̲w̲a̲s̲ ̲a̲ ̲c̲a̲r̲e̲f̲u̲l̲l̲y̲ ̲p̲r̲e̲m̲e̲d̲i̲t̲a̲t̲e̲d̲ ̲a̲c̲t̲i̲o̲n̲.̲ Nothing that we could have done or said would have made a bit of difference. At the time this decision to undemocratically violate their advertisements and notices was being made, the Futurian Society was making overtures to the QSFL to bury the hatchet and dissolve fan feuds. If they wanted promises and guarantees from us so as not to jeopardize their convention, that was the time to have taken us up on our offer. When Moskowitz puts words in my mouth to the effect that we had arrived brought nothing with us, he lies. Michel and Pohl who had arrived later brought with them the five mimeographed pamphlets which were lost and stolen. These pamphlets said nothing about the Convention, New Fandom, the QSFL. The yellow pamphlets were printed by David A. Kyle, and we did not see them until the morning of the convention. Nor did we sponsor them, plan them, or expect them. When Michel gave Kuslan a copy of one of them, he had only just read it for the first time himself. He had received it from Dale Hart whom he met in the hall entrance. So his handing it to Kuslan was as purely innocent as would any individual first in the possess-
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