Daniel Aaron's chapter on Dos Passos, footnote 15

15. For the Communist comment on the affair and their appeal to Dos Passos to detach himself from the "revolutionary butterflies," see *NM*, X (Feb. 27, 1934) pp. 8-10, X (March 6, 1934), pp. 8-9. By the "queer company," *The New Masses* editors meant the group of early defectors from the party position who had before been the chief contributors to *The Manorah Journal* (Eliot Cohen, Anita Brenner, Lionel Trilling, and others). Isidor Schneider placed them among "the intellectuals who have turned left in the last few years and have since turned right, and further left and roundabout." Some of the signers of the letter, he noted, had been members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners but had resigned to set up a rival committee. *NM*, X Feb. 27, 1934), p. 24. For Dos Passos's reply, see ibid., p. 6.

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