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Brotherhood Week. Here came memories stretching way back to high school and college days when I had tried to formulate the same conviction: that it would be hard to find a truer measure of greatness for individual or nation than the extent to which the brotherhood of man is made the final test of action. As far as I know myself, that conviction has never changed.
But ways of daily life have changed mightily, and it is a satisfaction to realize that, like so many of my fellow citizens, I had a little share in some of these changes. For instance, I always kept up my interest in commercial aviation. But it was a real surprise, not long after the plans for this book were known, to receive a letter from one of the aviation leaders, saying: "When you come to the years 1924 and 1925 don't forget to let the world know that you were among the leading crusaders for American aviation. I don't think you know, or ever did know, exactly how much the industry at that time needed the kind of support you gave it." But how vivid is my memory of the vision, initiative, and perseverance of the men who built this colossal American industry. It again came back forcibly when Major Lester D. Gardner, one of these old friends, received the well-deserved Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1947. We all owe a debt to him and to other pioneers like Charles Lawrence, Sam Bradley, Glenn Martin, Chance Vought, and A. P. Loening— those friends of the middle twenties.
A free and responsible press has always seemed to me one of our strongest civic bulwarks. I have always counted on the press as an ally and have seldom been disappointed. Two things recently brought this home to me once more.
In 1947, Frank B. Noyes, the then eighty-three-year-old president of the Washington Evening Star, received a notable tribute that reflected credit on the press as a whole. The members of the Associated Press adopted a resolution praising his fifty-four years of service on its Board of Directors and its predecessor, the old Illinois Corporation. Mr. Noyes was honored as the last surviving founder of AP and its first president— from 1900 to 1938— to whom the Association and the public owed a great debt. The event interested me all the more because the man elected to succeed him as a director was my friend Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, whose father, Harry Chandler, had helped to correct an early wave of unjustified press attacks on Hollywood.
About the same time another bit of evidence came to me in an exchange of letters with Seymour Berkson, managing editor of INS, who sent me a copy of his article which had appeared in Editor and Publisher — "A Working Program for Freedom of the Press." Copies of the article had been sent to the State Department and to the chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N.O. I welcomed this opportunity to discuss once