To the Fund for the Republic, it seemed a solid journalistic coup. The Fund, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation, had signed up the Washington Post and Times Herald's famed cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), to make 26 15-minute TV films of news comment illustrated by his cartoons, had allocated $200,000 to put on the programs.
Then the Fund for the Republic ran into trouble. The American Legion denounced it, charged that it was telling Americans that Communism was no serious threat to the nation. Herblock, a Fair Deal Democrat whose best target is the Republican right wing, is also a prime...
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