Response by Nicholas Murray Butler

Butler, Nicholas Murray

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“…He said that survey research-Ackerman's particular interest-"has been pretty well discredited." 135 Ackerman described the planned study to journalists, too, and several of them expressed misgivings. Time Inc. lacked "the capacity, ability, facilities [and] integrity" for such a project, said James W. Brown, publisher of Editor & Publisher.…”

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“…He asked for a meeting. 146 Butler instructed Ackerman to put the project on hold. "Plainly," he said, "there are a good many things to be considered which do not lie on the surface."…”

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“…"Plainly," he said, "there are a good many things to be considered which do not lie on the surface." 147 He also told Sulzberger that he had instructed Ackerman to hold off. 148 It was evidently a high priority for Sulzberger.…”

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“Busybodies With Time on Their Hands”: Accountability, Research, and Resistance

Bates

2023

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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In a common pattern, journalists reject outside criticism and denounce the critics. Resistance to criticism sometimes follows a second pattern, one largely overlooked by scholars: Journalists kill a large-scale research project before it gets under way and thereby prevent criticisms from even being articulated. This monograph examines four major research projects that got canceled in the face of opposition from the press: studies of international news in the early 1920s, public opinion about the press in the late 1930s, press accuracy and ownership in the late 1930s, and coverage of a presidential campaign in the mid-1950s.

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“…He asked for a meeting. 146 Butler instructed Ackerman to put the project on hold. "Plainly," he said, "there are a good many things to be considered which do not lie on the surface."…”

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“Busybodies With Time on Their Hands”: Accountability, Research, and Resistance

Bates

2023

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“…"I should deplore anything that delays the establishment of relations with our German friends," he insisted, adding that he had met Chancellor Gustav Stresemann and other political and cultural leaders. 47 The Endowment chose to align itself with the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik. Since 1920, this semi-independent, liberal educational institution had attempted to transform Germany's political culture.…”

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Nicholas Murray Butler, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Search for Reconciliation in Europe, 1919–1933

Winn

2006

Peace & Change

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The mission of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) changed in fundamental ways in the 1920s. In the wake of the Great War, Nicholas Murray Butler, the CEIP's second president, decided that the institution's prewar focus on research and legalism was insufficient to meet the threat posed to "civilization" by continued war and revolution. Under his leadership, the CEIP became an active proponent of Wilsonianism, a more intrusive form of American internationalism. This article examines Butler's understanding of the purpose of conservative peace institutions in revolutionary times. It also aims to contribute to our understanding of the role of nongovernmental organizations in international relations and the development of cultural relations.

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“…Butler's committee dissolved itself in December 1924 in order to make way for Hoover to pick up the task. 42 Hoover's intervention lays bare the competing visions of US power abroad that were exposed by the Louvain controversy, and indeed by other interwar US projects in Europe that 'aimed at reconciling conflicting imperatives.' 43 Republican Presidents and the US Congress in the 1920s eschewed formal political involvement in Europe publicly, but privately and informally, US officials and economic elites intervened in all manner of European affairs.…”

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The Louvain Library and US Ambition in Interwar Belgium

Proctor

2014

Journal of Contemporary History

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This article analyzes the ordeal that became the 'Louvain Library Controversy' in order to demonstrate competing visions of postwar memory and reconstruction that emerged in the 1920s. As a country trying to mediate between the claims of its larger neighbors (Germany, France, and Britain), Belgium provides an excellent window into the climate of postwar Europe and US intervention. I argue that the controversies that surrounded the Louvain Library reconstruction reflect three main themes that plagued European-US relations in the 1920s: first, US pretensions as Europe's cultural protector; second, US economic power over debt and reparation questions; and last, the question of reconciliation in the wake of war. For Belgium and other European nations, the experience of being the object of aid for the United States of America led to a reassertion of sovereignty and autonomy in the face of external interference, exposing the gaps between Americans' assumptions about their roles and responsibilities in Europe and Europeans' sense of their own role in rebuilding their world. For Americans, the controversy demonstrated the perils of US 'generosity' and its price in postwar Europe.

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Response by Nicholas Murray Butler

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“Busybodies With Time on Their Hands”: Accountability, Research, and Resistance

“Busybodies With Time on Their Hands”: Accountability, Research, and Resistance

Nicholas Murray Butler, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Search for Reconciliation in Europe, 1919–1933

The Louvain Library and US Ambition in Interwar Belgium

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