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A NEW CREDO OF FREEDOM 79
Declaration of Principles had been submitted as a possible declaration
for the national group under the aegis of the New York Division.
In another draft letter there is no mention of the Independent Clubs;
instead recipients are invited to join the Educational Committee of
the “ ‘Intellectual Aristocrats’ of our country, who will formulate a new
credo of freedom, a faith for living, as complete, defi nite and consistent
as the ideologies of our totalitarian enemies.” 25
Although the name and structure of the group remained inchoate,
Rand grew increasingly clear on its purposes. Her group would offer
a positive counterpoint to the New Deal, on an intellectual and philosophical
level. They would be “the new teachers of a new Individualism.”
She consciously modeled her ideas on the methods of the left: “The New
Deal has not won by bread alone. Nor by hams and baby blankets. The
New Deal won by eight years of beautifully organized, consistent, systemic
collectivist propaganda.” 26 Her organization would counter this
tide of leftism with its own publications, speeches, intellectuals, and
ideas, making the case for individual rights and limited government. All
Rand needed to make it happen was money, which had yet to materialize.
After months of appeals the organizers had received faint interest
but no committed fi nancial backers.
The problem was that in the political climate of mid-1941 Rand,
Pollock, and Emery’s efforts were doubly marginal. As opponents of
Roosevelt they fell clearly outside the liberal order. Yet because Pollock
was adamant that the group steer clear of “any crowd opposed to our
aiding Britain” they were also cut off from the sources that were pumping
funds into isolationist organizations. What Rand wanted to do would
have been diffi cult at any time: create a group that was ideological yet
practical, principled yet political. Her task was all the harder because her
group cut across established lines of party politics. 27
Around this time Rand’s employer, Richard Mealand, once again
inquired about her book. Always hesitant to accept favors, Rand had not
considered asking Mealand for further help after Little, Brown turned
down the book. A fi rm believer in her talent, Mealand was insistent and
pressed Rand for the name of another publisher to approach. This time
Rand suggested Bobbs-Merrill, which had recently published Eugene
Lyon’s The Red Decade, an exposé of Stalinist penetration in America. She
guessed the fi rm might be favorable to a novel about individualism.
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