Correspondence with Oswald Garrison Villard

Scope and Content

Correspondence with Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949), journalist, author, and reformer, relating to an expression of thanks by Godkin for a contribution by Scott to a Liberal symposium on the aims of the Allied Nations, with discussion of the symposium. Also included is the suggestion that the Manchester Guardian should comment upon the [admission by Brigadier General James Charteris over spreading a false story that Germany were utilising the bodies of dead soldiers in order to obtain fats during the First World War], and confirmation from Scott that it has already done so.

There is a request that Scott include his signature on a message of support and congratulation for Villard on the 10th anniversary of his editorship of The Nation, which is granted. Also included is a personal message of congratulation from Scott. There is correspondence relating to the provision to Villard of a letter sent to Scott by Edwin Lawrence Godkin, journalist and editor, on the political situation in America, with discussion of Godkin, and of the American press.

GDN/A/V7/3 is an editorial on false propaganda used by Britain in the First World War in The Nation, 1925.

GDN/A/V7/4 is an article entitled 'Tells of British War Propaganda; General Charteris Says He Started Story of Boiling Dead Germans for Fat' in The New York Times, 1925.