- Felix Morley
Felix Morley (1894 - 1982) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist from theUnited States .Morley was born in
Haverford, Pennsylvania , his father being the mathematicianFrank Morley . Like his brothers, Christopher and Frank, Felix was educated atHaverford College and enjoyed aRhodes Scholarship to Oxford,England . He obtained aGuggenheim Fellowship to study theLeague of Nations inGeneva ,Switzerland , which resulted in his book "The Society of Nations" (1933) and aPh.D. from theBrookings Institution .From 1933 to 1940, Morley worked as editor for the
Washington Post , winning, in 1936, the paper's firstPulitzer Prize , for his "distinguished editorial writing during the year." The Pulitzer Prize came after theFranklin D. Roosevelt 'sNational Industrial Recovery Act was nullified by theU.S. Supreme Court . Morley had written that " [Roosevelt] turned his back on the traditions and principles of his party and gave tremendous support stimulus to the move for a complete political realignment in the United States."cite news |first=Martin |last=Weil |title=Felix Morley, Scholar, Educator and Journalist, Dies at 88 |publisher=Washington Post |page=B4 |date=1982-03-15 ]In 1940, Morley left journalism for a post as President of
Haverford College . He also supportedWendell Willkie that year as presidential candidate. Morley said he lost faith in Roosevelt after his 1937 Court-packing Bill, and said that Roosevelt had a "debonair attitude of pulling tricks out of a bag."cite news |title=Felix Morley Backs Wilkie |publisher=New York Times |page=18 |date=1940-09-31 ]Morley was one of the founding editors of "
Human Events " in 1944, although he would leave the magazine in 1950 for its aggressive military stance towards theSoviet Union . [cite book |last=Nash |first=Georg H. |title=The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, Since 1945 |edition= |year=1998 |publisher=Intercollegiate Studies Institute |location=Wilmington, Del |isbn=188292620X |pages=p. 112] He also had resigned from Haverford College after the War, and continued his journalistic work atNBC and for "Nation's Business ". He published his memoirs, "For the Record", in 1977. Other books he published after the War were "The Power in the People" (1949), "The Foreign Policy of the United States" (1951) and "Freedom and Federalism" (1959). Also published, in 1956, is hisutopia n novel "Gumption Island".References
External links
* [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/01_01/morley.pdf American Republic or American Empire] "
Modern Age ", Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 1957.
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