THE WORKERS ABROAD
THE WORKERS ABROAD LONDON.—The leader of the German Labor Front, Dr. Ley, announced through the London Evening Standard end the Nazi Berliner Tageblatt that he intended to invite Sir Walter...
...He and Sir Robert Vansittart and probably also Sir Samuel Hoare, although that is not certain, were determined from the first to make sanctions ineffective and to drop them and come to terms with Mussolini as soon as the electoral victory had been won...
...PUBLIC FAILED TO SEE THROUGH BALDWIN IJE was believed, no doubt rightly, to be a sin* * cere believer in the principles of the League of Nations and in a system of collective defence and, for that reason, people refused to recognize that neither Mr...
...OUCE AND SELASSIE WERE INFORMED BEFORE Sir Samuel Hoare left for Paris telegrams were drafted in the Foreign Office instructing Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador to Rome, and Sir Sidney Barton, British Minister at Addis Abbaba, to- communicate the plan to Mussolini and the Emperor of Ethiopia respectively...
...But is it all right to steal the liberties of a whsfe people, their civic liberties, their freedom of speech...
...They didn't send their opponents to concentration camps in the thousands, And, last but not least, they didn't execute their "daily dozens...
...What is certain is that its 70 foHo-sise pages set forth for sharp and immediate visualization such a proct-oietfjjj images of the newer China as no text could rival...
...Eden's resignation, has made camouflage no longer possible...
...t:;'~^be Brouckere, whom Smeral several times takes personally to task, replied to him as follows in the*Brussels "Peuple" of March 8th, 1938...
...Wat we ever know...
...Josephson's intentions were unquestionably serious and scholarly, though he brought to his ""Politicos" no sad of his customary research and a good deal of a somewhat peculiar marxism—this column must admit that it read the book with pleasure, but'without any particular moral indignation...
...He has just published an article entitled, "The Moscow Trial and the Second International," in which he tries, 'with all the arts of a consummate Jesuit, to slander "the leadership . of the Second International...
...Ley, announced through the London Evening Standard end the Nazi Berliner Tageblatt that he intended to invite Sir Walter Citrine, Mr...
...There are 699 different trade unions{,of which 477, with an aggregate membership .of 1,970,563, are organized m, nineteen trade union centers, and 222 unions, having 248,496 members altogether, are outside any central organization...
...It seems to be an earnest and well-thought out tH^H sion of this vital problem...
...a series of similar capitulations to the bluff and blackmail of Europe's Fascist dictators...
...BELGIAN SOCIALISTS DIVIDED ON ETHIOPIAN ISSUE BRUSSELS.—Socialist opinion here is sharply divided over the foreign policy which is being pursued by the coalition cabinet^, whose prime minister is Paul Spaak, former leader of the left-1 wing Socialists who has veered to extreme right during past years...
...It was rather fun...
...Our class consciousness should be aroused...
...He was allowed to go because he was no longer needed as a decoy duck, Mr...
...With -cmSJBJ and maps, it is on important as well as a thrilling contempatw document...
...The first pre-requisite of common action is a very different conception of human dignity and of the respect one owes one's self...
...The Comintern recently selected Bohumir Smerd\ to take charge of...
...CZECH TRADE UNIONS QUT of a total population of 15,500,000 persons, the number of workers, in the Trade Unions of Czechoslovakia amounts to 2,219,059, which is 49.87% of all wage-earners...
...Under the . circumstances, Dr...
...It is absurd to talk, as some people in England are talking, about "going back to Mr...
...Greenwood and other English trade union leaders, to visit Germany...
...LAVAL KNEW OF BRITISH FLANS KM LAVAL knew this and said at Geneva in September, 1935, to more than one person that British policy would change after the General Elections...
...TPHE real author of the "Hoare-Laval plan" was * Sir Robert Vansittart, then Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and now Chief Diplomatic Advisor to the British Government...
...In short, of our "bosses...
...And he shirks nothing...
...LETTERS OF AN OLD BOLSHEVIK, Anonymous...
...Though the Fisks were plenty tough, and the Homestead strike wai bloody enough...
...Eden has been obliged to advocate was destructive of both...
...It is almost touching in its innocence...
...450...
...Chamberlain's capitulation to Mussolini's blackmail is only the latest of...
...The idea Very well...
...Whether this was the inspiration of the forthcoming Photo-History issue No...
...no violence—under any conditions, '• "M ' * •' The same problem, in connection with a recent book, "The Mont Basis of Politics...
...There are friends who seem to think they can...
...Eden's presence in the British Cabinet that has made is possible to blind the "greater part of the public in England and even in other countries to the real nature and aims of British policy...
...And its nunianism is a bit too mechanical, instead of being organic...
...There Us grim humor to the very title of the book...
...By ROBERT DELL 1\/|M...
...25 cents...
...CHINA REBORN...
...lie opinion was so strongly in favor of them that he feared that he would be beaten in the General Election if he did not adopt them...
...How could I go to Germany to enquire into conditions thero while my comrades are in concentration camps, p r e v e n ted from any expression of trade union opinion ? "Before I accepted any such invitation I should want to see evidence that trade unionists in Germany are allowed to express themselves freely in public or m private on any question that concerns the workers...
...Of the leaders of the L.S.I, there is one who is no longer with us...
...A certain cynical hilarity, if yon wish...
...If, before the trial, anyone had so despised us as to believe us capable of such abominations, it would be sufficient for him to read tap report of the proceedings, the information which is coming in from all quarters, in order to realize the utter falseness—I might say unreality—of the charge...
...The General Election was held on November 14th, 1935, and resulted in a great victory for the Baldwin Government...
...by Naomi Mitchison, exercises our British colleague C. A. Smith, the reviewer of Naomi Mitchison's book,.<4||3 Aldous Huxley comes in for mention...
...He and M. Laval had conversations on that and the next day, and agreed on the text of the plan...
...During the World War he put the journal that had been confided to him at the disposition of the tenor of the Hapsburg Government...
...They only cheated the public treasury...
...After being defeated by a vote of 73 to 17 the veteran Socialist leader threatened to bring it before the national party congress when next it meets...
...This column hastens to put As hook on its "must" shelf for later, more extensive treatment...
...who has occupied an important position in the Comintern since its inception in 1919, resigned from the Communist Party last week...
...Baldwin nor Mr...
...Very British...
...It has been Mr...
...After all, these people only stole railroads, forests, mines, vast tracts of land...
...Who poisoned Gorki...
...The only difference between this latest surrender and those previously made to the representations of both Mussolini and Hitler is that Mr...
...Photo-History No...
...For more than two years he has been used involuntarily by his pro-Fascist colleagues as a sort of decoy duck...
...It is a logical sequent* or parallel to his well-known "Robber Barons...
...After all, they didn't steal the liberties of their country...
...On the Moral Basis of Politico ¦Tie* pleasant coincidence...
...V '¦ "Again, it is not an unheard of thing that in the very news-' paper in which he coldly regards my comrades or myself as guilty of these crimes, Smeral proposes to us . . . common action...
...Since the cabinet is composed of Socialists, Catholics, and Liberals, some elements in the SJV felt- that a solid front in the government during the pres.en...
...Eden's policy...
...And a few oil welht We can hear the unanimous reply coming in an indignant chores* Of course, not...
...The latest issue of our British nssafl * sake, the London "New Leader," of March 18, has just reaslsfl us...
...And the author's - ringing'"No...
...The Committee of Eighteen of the League of Nations had been convened for November 29th to deal with the extension of the embargo on exports to Italy of coal, iron and steel, but, on the pretext that this date would be inconvenient for M. Laval, the British and French Governments obtained a postponement...
...Meanwhile, an expert of the British Foreign Office and an expert of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs set to work in London about a week after the General Election to draft a plan on the lines proposed by Sir Robert Vansittart and communicated to the Count de Chambrun in the previous September...
...Harcourt, Bract sod Co...
...Is it legitimate to bribe or accept bribe* in politics...
...Somehow, however, the effect on tab column is rather Gilbert-and-Sullivanesque...
...Should the activities of political parties observe any ethical standards...
...international emergency was essential...
...LOUIS DE BROUCKERE • * • COMMUNIST LEADER...
...All treat these attacks with contempt...
...The best is that these transactions have never taken place, that they were never planned, and that it never entered into any of our heads, either to undertake them or even to imagine them...
...4 STATEMENT IT LOUIS DE BROUCKERE ¦"¦¦HE Communist newspapers, and in particular the Brussels "Voix d» Peuple," publish a long article by Smeral in which there is a good deal of talk about me and in which a large number of questions are put to me...
...The Politicos9 is a veritable mine of information on the seamy side of American politics, from 1860 to 1900...
...The Innocent Politician as a Thief f^O doubt, Mr...
...announces the publication of Gorkfi posthumous novel: "The Specter"* (significantly enough...
...It is a useful book, nevertheless...
...Neville Chamberlain nor the majority of Mr...
...The moral basis of politics ? Has politics say' ethical basis...
...The Appelton Century Co...
...They completed their work in about a fortnight, their draft was adopted by the British Cabinet, and on Saturday, December 7th, 1935, Sir Samuel Hoare arrived in Paris with the final' draft in his pocket...
...Again, one wonders: did these fellows, senators, members of cabinets, presidential candidates—ever asked themselves the question of "tile moral sank of politics...
...Can such incredible questions be taken seriously...
...Every concession has been followed by an increase ia their extortions...
...As seen as the news' reached London that Books - * 1 a e e CI H d W I t 0 T it ¦ By BUM L TARTAR...
...Neville Chamberlain having decided to come out openly on the side of the Fascist dictators...
...And wrtfc the boodle they bought expensive gowns and "sunbursts" for their wives...
...Aai —last but not least—is it all right to frame up your political opponents, and to apply to them "the highest measure of social protection," in plain words, to shoot a few dozen of them, the "daily dozen" ?, The reply to this, I am afraid, would not be so unanimesa It depends on who does the shooting, doesn't it, my very dear friends ? When we are shot at, then it's bad, unethical...
...Had he made it plain then that he would resign rather than agree to the plan, he might have prevented its adoption by the British Government and, if he had been forced to resign, he would have been in a much stronger position than he is now, for he would have carried a large number of Conservative Members of Parliament with him and would probably have brought down the Baldwin Government...
...Citrine, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress and President of the International Federation of Trade Unions, when he heard of the invitation, said: "I have not received any invitation to visit Germany...
...Eden has been in a false position ever since November, 1935, when, as Minister for the League of Nations' Affairs in the Baldwin Cabinet, he agreed to the "Hoare-Laval plan," as it is commonly but erroneously called, and thus acquiesced in the capitulation to Mussolini in the matter of Abyssinia...
...r •THE POLITICOS, by Matthew Josephson...
...Is it Sj right to lie...
...Is it really possible that the Minister of tile Interior of Soviet Russia and the head of the State Secret Political Police, Henry Yagoda, should have ordered the poisoning of Gorki...
...We should be indignant, furious...
...He has never had and could not have a policy of his own...
...Unmasking English Policy British Tories Sacrifice Europe To Insure Profits PLACE CLASS INTERESTS BEFORE WELFARE OF COUNTRY— ALUANCE WITH NAZIS AND FASCISTS CUTS FRANCO OFF FROM EASTERN FRIENDS AND ALLIESCHAMBERLAIN SEEKS TO DRAG FRANCE IN...
...a leader of the French CP...
...The "Letters of an Old Bolshevik,"* translated and published several months ago by the Rand School Book Store, tell a more convincing story of Gorki's death and of the whole background" of the mass extermination of Lenin's disciples and lieutenants...
...are about •» publish a special edition of the "Letters" in England...
...Was Gorki poisoned...
...slander and disgrace, your political opponents...
...Very well...
...On Gorki AND now another and more sinister problem in "the moral bask of politics...
...Apparently, not much...
...lem: Does the end justify the means—all means and any measaft Ia violence justified in political and social life...
...But its style a somewhat too pompous and solemn for its subject...
...nor should I accept one if I did receive it...
...QUITS PARTY DARIS.—Protesting against the wholesale extermination of the *ejd Bolsheviks and the "treason" trials in Soviet Russia, Charles Rappaport, one of the foremost Communist theoreticians and speakers...
...and launch a war...
...eJsV - • * • THE Chinese have a proverb that "one picture is worth a thee* * sand words...
...It became an issue at the General Executive committee of the Socialist Party, where Vandervelde bitterly opposed it...
...To sum these up, Smeral asks me whether I knew that Dan and the leaders of the International had come to an agreement with Chernov and his friends, with the German and Japanese police and with the main Fascist powers, to ruin the U.S.S.R...
...Here they pass before us: the Babcocks, the Ameses, the Blsi&fV the Hennas, handing out these United States to the Goulds, Hflb and Carnegies, getting their own bread buttered—and in i sniiiusaT landing in jail...
...Ley has preferred not to send his invitation to the British trade union leaders...
...It has been clear to us at Geneva again and again since 1935 that he did not like the policy that he was obliged to advocate...
...While the "Barest" dealt with the Cookes, Daniel Drews, Goulds, Hills, Carnegks, "Fisks, and other who so merrily, almost innocently, plundered whole empires from the Civil War to the beginning of our century —the "Politicos" • tells us of the politicians who almost as innocently helped the "barons" to help themselves to railroads, lead grants, mining grants, fabulous contracts and what not...
...But even a Smeral does not dare-to accuse Arthur Henderson of having had relations with any espionage service...
...Now, though Mr...
...THE MORAL BASIS OF POLITICS, by Naomi Mitchison...
...The other members of this leadership during the fifteen years of existence of the L.S.I, are Emile Vandervelde, Louis de Brouckere, Joseph van Roosbroeck and Friedrich Adler...
...Although Holland's bid was rejected, the recognition of Ethiopia was urged by the cabinet...
...Speaking on behalf of the Labor Party in the House of Commons on February 22nd, Greenwood castigated the political meth• «ds of dictatorships ia the sharpest terms yet heard...
...It is quite possible that Mussolini also knew it then...
...The "Letters of an Old Bolshevik" have attracted wide'sttsation here and in Europe...
...For five years the British Gove r n m e n t has been trying to buy off gangsters and bullies with results that might have been foreseen...
...He has thus had excellent training with which to carry on today the dirtiest jobs of Stalinist justice...
...The controversy came into the foreground recently after the Belgian government had received a bid from Holland for a joint recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...ANTHONY EDEN'S resignation was an important event, not because it indicated any fundamental change in British foreign policy, but because it has effectively unmasked that policy and revealed its true nature to many who had hitherto been blind to the real significance of events "during the last four or five years...
...Our readers may remember that this column gave sonweMfl .to Aldous Huxley's "Ends and Means," to the book's central pra...
...No, we must read "The Moral Basis of Politics...
...But when w« dt the shooting, then it is the "ends and means," isn't it...
...4, "China Reborn,"* this cohaue does not know...
...THE COMMUNIST SLANDER CAMPAIGN IN WESTERN EUROPE *|*HE Communists of Western Europe, who can feel in their bones * the irreparable harm done them by the Moscow Trials, acting op orders received, accompanied the account of-the court proceedings by a flood of calumnies in their press against the Socialist parties and, in particular, against the Labor and Socialist International...
...I do not know anything about these transactions...
...To steal a railroad or two...
...4. 2S cents...
...The vaijf title is so British...
...The Allen and Unwin Co...
...Rand Sehoti Book Store...
...And so, in its own way, it is...
...Between the two books there is a story of the plundering at a whole continent with its infinite resources...
...There are at least a hundred good reasons for this...
...According to the Old Bolshevik . . . but yen most reed a»k dramatic booklet which foretold so many things which have cots* tragically true within the last few months...
...THE SPECTER, by Maxim Gorki...
...Josephson meant his book to be a serious historical treatise...
...Eden's colleagues in the Government have ever really believed in either, and that the policy that Mr...
...this job...
...On the basis of the review, Miss Mitchison's book arouses 'WM curiosity...
...Baldwin had agreed to sanctions at the end of August, 1935, only because English pub...
...D. AppUton-Century Co...
...At least, not until some particularly nasty scandal would blow the lid off, and land seme sf them in jail, or drive them out of politics...
...It is more a group of interesting chapters than a compact, well organized book...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 14
