Mark Sullivan: former editor Collier's Weekly reports the peace conference

              1919

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Mark Sullivan FORMER EDITOR COLLIER'S WEEKLY
Reports The Peace Conference


Mark Sullivan Reports and Interprets the Peace Conference
MARK SULLIVAN is to report the Peace Conference and interpret it to the American people from the platform.

The securing of Mr. Sullivan for this important contribution to the forming of an intelligent American opinion regarding the great issues at stake in the conference, has been acclaimed by leaders of thought throughout the nation—statesmen, journalists, business men—as a master stroke of policy and service.

Seldom has an announcement of a series of addresses called forth such a whole-hearted commendation from men whose standing gives their words authority.  Their expressed confidence in Mr. Sullivan's ability to see wholly, and report with clarity and sanity, the proceedings of the conference, constitute an extraordinary approval of the man and his work, and justify the statement that Mr. Sullivan's addresses on the events of the Peace Conference will take rank with the most constructive service ever rendered by the platform.



What Col. House Says:
COMMISSIONER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Louis J. Alber Esq.

2443 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

Dear Mr. Alber:

It gives me pleasure to state that I believe Mr. Mark Sullivan has unusual qualifications for the work of interpreting the Peace Conference and its objects to our people.

Mr. Sullivan's well known and aggressive Americanism will enable him to be of much service.

Sincerely yours,
 House

Paris, December 30, 1918.



The Speaker's Unusual Equipment
Mark Sullivan has an unequalled knowledge of American statesmen, American politicians, and American politics.  All this he acquired during the ten years that he served Collier's Weekly as its Washington Correspondent and as its Editor.

In addition to this, Mr. Sullivan has a large acquaintance among English and French statesmen.  He was one of the thirteen Americans chosen during the Summer of 1918 by the British Government, to go to England and France and get an inside view of the Allied War Machine.  The party included President Van Hise, of the University of Wisconsin, Editor Sedgwick, of the Atlantic Monthly, Editor Shaw, of the Review of Reviews, Editor Bok, of the Ladies' Home Journal, and eight others.  They were entertained by the King and Queen in the Royal home at Sandringham, by Lloyd George, by President Poincaire, of the French Republic, by Mr. Arthur Balfour, by Count Northcliffe, the Earl of Marr, and many other leaders in the British and French Government.

Mr. Sullivan's facilities for getting an inside picture of the Peace Conference and of all the dramatic and important events public and private, that will happen in and about the Conference, will be very unusual.



What Leading Statesmen, Writers and Editors, Have to Say Regarding Mr. Sullivan's Peculiar Fitness For This Work:
EDWARD J. WHEELER Editor Current Opinion

I know of no one better equipped with intelligent insight into political conditions and the power of vivid expression than Mr. Mark Sullivan to interpret to the American public the developments of the Peace Conference about to assemble in Paris.  He has clear vision, a wide horizon and a sane democratic poise.

NORMAN HAPGOOD Former Editor Harper's Weekly

I have known Mark Sullivan for a good many years and have followed his work as a student of American politics.  His interests are so thorough and so widespread in the larger political questions, that his report of what happens at the Peace Conference at Versailles should be of unusual interest to the American people.

WILLIAM HARD Editor The New Republic

Mr. Sullivan is known all over the world now as a brilliant journalist but he is much more than a brilliant journalist.  He can see both sides.  He has poise and judgment.  He is a follower of ideals but he does not run after dreams.  He is a safe and sure guide on the road which the world will take upward.  In discussing international affairs he speaks with the greatest understanding and kindliness for all nations, but he brings to the subject a great fund of solid common American good sense.  Those who listen to him will hear a man whose mind has been sharpened by many years of personal acquaintance with great men and with great problems here and abroad, but who remains simple and sound and charming in his way of thought and in his personality.

ALFRED HOLMAN Editor The Argonaut

I will not resist the impulse to commend your judgment and good fortune in the matter of Mr. Mark Sullivan's engagement.  No other man in the country, in my opinion, is better—or indeed as well—equipped to interpret to the American people the work of the Peace Conference with the conditions upon which that work will have been based.  There is no other American whose judgment I would accept with greater confidence.  Mr. Sullivan will see things with the broadest vision yet from the American point of view; and he cannot fail in his presentments to reflect the powers of a penetrating and honest mind.

EDWARD BOK Editor Ladies' Home Journal

I am very glad to know that you have secured Mr. Mark Sullivan to speak to audiences with regard to his experiences at the Peace Conference.  Mr. Sullivan is to my mind one of the most observant of our first journalists, has a very orderly mind and the added faculty of being able to tell what he sees in a most interesting way.  An audience is fortunate to have the opportunity of hearing Mr. Sullivan, and I am sure he will give satisfaction wherever he appears.

GOVERNOR HENRY J. ALLEN Publisher Wichita Beacon

I know of no man in America who has better qualifications for interpreting this event to the American people than Mr. Sullivan.  He has been a trained observer all his life, is a keen student of events, and he understands how big the hour is.


F. W. KELLOG Publisher San Francisco Call

Mr. Sullivan is one of the best trained newspaper men I have ever seen.  He has a way of going directly to the heart of his subject, and has a keen appreciation of what the American people want to know.  His long experience as a writer of political events is a splendid foundation for constructive criticism and intelligent understanding of the great problems that are now being considered by the allied governments in Paris.  I am impressed with the great service that you are doing the American public in securing Mr. Sullivan's services.  He will intelligently interpret the Peace Conference to every audience that he addresses.

WILLIAM MARION REEDY Editor Reedy's Mirror

There is no one who can make multitudinous details more interesting than Mark Sullivan.  He does this because he is a human being himself who writes for and talks to the same kind of folks.  He may be wrong or he may be right as to his views but there is no question that he has sound reason for holding them.  If anybody can give us the inside of the Peace Conference and give it to us in most effective and entertaining form, that man is Mark Sullivan.

ALEXANDER P. MOORE Editor Pittsburgh Leader

I consider Mark Sullivan one of the best posted magazine and newspaper writers in the United States.  Mr. Sullivan is intensely American, a man of high ideals and is safe and sane on any question that he discusses.  He has a wonderfully analytical mind and his viewpoint in connection with the Peace Conference will be most interesting.

EX-SENATOR ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE

Mr. Sullivan is a seasoned and experienced journalist of great ability.  He is a trained observer, has an instinct for fairness and is gifted with a balanced, level-headed judgment.  To his other remarkable qualities is added a high and true ethical sense.  Lectures by Mark Sullivan upon the historic events now transpiring which he is studying at first hand will be as valuable as they are sure to be entertaining.

ROBERT LINCOLN O'BRIEN Editor The Boston Herald

I know of no man whose point of view will be more wholesome, whose observations will be keener, and whose capacity for telling his story will be greater, than Mark Sullivan.  He is an intense and thoroughgoing American.

FRANKLIN K. LANE Secretary of the Interior

I have your note of December 12th.  Mark Sullivan is an independent, clear-headed, self-owned American of wide sympathies and understanding.  And he knows how to say what he knows.

HON. MEDILL McCORMICK

There are few men in America who can tell the story of the Peace Conference as Mark Sullivan can tell it.  He is a trained observer, a student and a thorough-going American, who in Washington, Paris and London has come to know the men whose judgment helps to shape the great events of these days.

IRVIN S. COBB

I know of no man in all America who is better fitted than Mark Sullivan to see what is now happening in Europe, to write about it at the time, or to tell about it afterward from the public platform.  Mr. Sullivan is that gifted and unique combination—a trained reporter of events, a keen and incisive writer, a finished and graceful public speaker and finally, a whole-souled one hundred per cent American from tip to tip.

HAMLIN GARLAND

Mark Sullivan is one of the best informed and clearest writers on political topics in America today.  I am awaiting with the keenest interest the comment he will make on the Peace Conference for I know it will be fearless and forceful.  His resume of it after he returns will be especially valuable to American audiences.

BOOTH TARKINGTON

If Mark Sullivan is to lecture on the subject of the Peace Conference, I want to hear him.  Knowing Mr. Sullivan's way of writing and his way of talking, I know not only that he will know all that is to be known on the subject, but he will also know how to tell it so that even I can understand it.



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