Why the Swan Song?

One Editor Shalt Thou have and He Up From the Ranks and espoused of Joseph. His House shall be ordered as The House has been ordered for thirteen long years and its tradition shall encrust his outlook. Let his lineage be in the Popular Front and his allegiance to the Socialist Club in whose hands rests the key of knowledge and the source of all radical thinking. May he be Meek in viewpoint but strong in the face of any other pressure group temptation. If proof be needed of his character let him march for Indonesia, praise Gottwald and ignore the death of Masaryk. If his mind is divided into parts let one be red and the other anti-fascist. One master shalt he serve and with one voice, and one viewpoint he shalt husband whether it be in the land of your fathers or over the oceans and this shall be called "The Role of the Soviet Union and the New People's Democracies in the Salvation of the World." Let Tito be an anathema—after 1948—and Mao the light in the East. And if he be rightly chosen then the line shall prosper and the changes be more easily glossed over, for in him you have the voice of your Party and he must be made obedient unto it. Watch him well. Set guards and keep him true. Other Editors I have had who were of my persuasion but they have been lost and we have cast them out as deviationists, warmongers, imperialists, fascists, titoists, chauvinists, Trotskyites let their defection undermine our house built on the sand.

For One Editor Shalt Thou Have and One Only and He Shall Serve you rather than his University.