Original typescript of an article, starting "How fares the United States under the bold schemes of President Roosevelt?"

Sir Winston Spencer CHURCHILL (1874-1965)

Original carbon copy article, starting “How fares the United States under the bold schemes of President Roosevelt? This is a question which we ask ourselves from time to time in this island with a curiosity born both of sympathy and interest. Our economic life as a world-wide trading community is profoundly affected by the fortunes of the other great branch of the English-speaking peoples.  Their prosperity is our refreshment. Their joys feed our hopes.” [No place: undated but April 22, 1935, see lot #7]. 6pp. article with manuscript corrections.

Churchill writes with approval about the America that F.D.R. is creating with his 'New Deal'. 

Provenance: William Hillman (1895-1962); with a Litchfield auction house (c.1997-2005); purchased by the present owner.

William Hillman was born in New York City in 1895. His career as a journalist started in 1915, and from 1926 onwards he worked as a foreign correspondent for Universal Service and Hearst Newspapers in Paris, Berlin and London. From 1934 to 1939 he was Chief of Staff, Foreign Correspondents, for Hearst Newspapers, also reporting directly to Mr. Hearst.

He subsequently did a lot of work for President Truman, and the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum in Independence, MO, have a large holding of his papers (but largely concerned with this latter part of his career from 1951 until his death in 1962 , with a few items going back as far as 1934). See https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/personal-papers/william-hillman-papers

Yale also have some of Hillman’s papers, part of the Than Vanneman Ranck papers (see https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3673 ). These are probably more relevant as they concern the workings of the Hearst organization.

Hillman stored his files and papers in a barn that was ‘local’ to his New Milford, Ct. property. In effect these ‘disappeared’ when he died and only ‘re-surfaced’ in the 1990s. The dispute over their ownership was not sorted out until 2005, and they were subsequently put up for auction in Litchfield, Ct. The present lot is from this ‘New Milford group’.