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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 4, November-December 1939
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Page Sixteen --- Science Fiction Collector ion of such an alarming work on meeting a friend. The "Wollheim group" did not attempt to force an entrance in the morning. Nor did I see or come into contact with the police. Taurasi may or may not have called them. The fact is most of the excluded were not present to have noted them. In the afternoon, while sitting in front of the building, we asked the officer assigned to the street whether or not the police had been called. He said he knew nothing of such a call. Moskowitz says he turned the five sets of booklets over to the police. This is an unmitigated lie. Michel and myself made investigations at the Police Department, both at Headquarters downtown, and the local precinct. There is no record whatsoever of such pamphlets ever passing into the possession of the police! Further, the law requires in such a case that the officer give the finder a receipt carrying his badge number and precinct. I wrote the Sam Moskowitz asking him for this information, which he must have had if he was telling the truth; he never answered me. I did refuse to give Moskowitz the blind pledge of subservience he asked of me. Why should I be singled out from all fandom for such a pledge? I was not the individual who had created trouble at any other convention, and certainly why should I give my pledge to this confirmed liar and sneak and his equally sneaky friends. Further he meant that promise to be binding on my friends. Unlike Sykora, I do not dictate to my friends and have no control over what they do. Hence I could make no promise of safe action for them. Let him ask all, or none.
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Page Sixteen --- Science Fiction Collector ion of such an alarming work on meeting a friend. The "Wollheim group" did not attempt to force an entrance in the morning. Nor did I see or come into contact with the police. Taurasi may or may not have called them. The fact is most of the excluded were not present to have noted them. In the afternoon, while sitting in front of the building, we asked the officer assigned to the street whether or not the police had been called. He said he knew nothing of such a call. Moskowitz says he turned the five sets of booklets over to the police. This is an unmitigated lie. Michel and myself made investigations at the Police Department, both at Headquarters downtown, and the local precinct. There is no record whatsoever of such pamphlets ever passing into the possession of the police! Further, the law requires in such a case that the officer give the finder a receipt carrying his badge number and precinct. I wrote the Sam Moskowitz asking him for this information, which he must have had if he was telling the truth; he never answered me. I did refuse to give Moskowitz the blind pledge of subservience he asked of me. Why should I be singled out from all fandom for such a pledge? I was not the individual who had created trouble at any other convention, and certainly why should I give my pledge to this confirmed liar and sneak and his equally sneaky friends. Further he meant that promise to be binding on my friends. Unlike Sykora, I do not dictate to my friends and have no control over what they do. Hence I could make no promise of safe action for them. Let him ask all, or none.
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