Lasky was born in The Bronx of New York City and schooled at City College of New York , where he wrote for the student newspaper , '' The Campus . '' He continued his education at University of Michigan and Columbia University . He briefly considered himself a Trotskyist but at 22 moved away from communism entirely because of disgust with Stalin . He began working for the '' New Leader '' in New York and was editor from 1942 – 1943 . Lasky wrote an editorial during this time criticizing the Allies for failing to address The Holocaust directly in their World War II efforts
The Holocaust
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Melvin J. Lasky