Freeland League - I.N. Steinberg, 1946-1947

Personal correspondence with Professor Charles Fairman, Stanford University, regarding biographies of Supreme Court justices. Konvitz commented that he has been interested in studying the work on the Supreme Court of Mr. Justice Harlan (January 17, 1947). Correspondence with Doctor I.N. Steinberg, Secretary-General of Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization, regarding Konvitz's involvement in the work of the League. Konvitz contacted Professor F.F. Hill, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Cornell, with reference to recommendations of personnel to serve on an Expert Commission to select, in Surinam, a suitable area and prepare the economic plans and financial estimates for settling Jews from Europe (July 18, 1947). Steinberg discussed the work of the Freeland League and the possibility of settling Jews in Surinam (July 17, 1947). Detailed correspondence between Konvitz and Steinberg relating to what action should be taken with respect to the German state after the War (January 28, 1947). Konvitz, in arguing in support of his review of a book by Victor Gollancz, emphasized the necessity of not "pushing Germany into the arms of Russia."