LOOKING AT THE WORLD

...in short, a return to the old drunken and unrestrained capitalism that staggered into the ditch after a long carouse and dragged millions of useful workers after it...

...a*- ' ' e -. • "AUTHENTIC RUMORS" fill the country again...

...It test the initiative in calling the gathering and mobilizing group* Br the free-speech test...

...No subsidies for cooperatives but subsidies for shipping corporations...

...Adams points out in the second volume of me "March of Democracy" that economic laws operate in surprisingly regular cycles no matter which party is in power...

...Many a m o ng i them were inmates of Nazi jails and con-c e n t r a t ion camps after having fought in the underground move-m e n t against the most dangerous enemy of all mankind...

...set up a court of 2 5 persons representing business, labor and agriculture to take credit control out of the hands of politicians...

...Unless it is effectively counteracted, democracy may lose by default., i# I have witnessed dress rehearsals of Fascism ia Italy befare Mussolini came to power, and ef National Socialism in Germany before the triumph of Hitler...

...Reactionary groups in the A.F^fW^s fs Catholic Church, among the war veterans brought out the ants and filled them with a self-righteous "patriotic" ardor...

...The fact is neither dictator trusts the other...

...Threatened with ,.deportation, and without a country to which to go, their situation became precarious, and the parents naturally worried...

...Even the little, children bear within their hearts still the deep confidence in a great cause...

...Here it is: "Every American recovery has been Republican...

...An American cartoonist vividly portrays this by picturing Hitler and Mussolini embracing each other, each gripping a long dagger and ready to plunge it into the other...

...But it had no business waiting until nearly eleven o'enet that night to call it off...

...There is no comradeship to be found here— the one who does not play the gentleman, does not rank among them...

...Some of our friends found here their last home forever—we snail not aee them again...

...MANY of these victims of persecution, dispersed all over the world, have a hard fight with new surroundings, new languages and often with cruel nature...

...Wipe Out Fake Neutrality...

...Railroad masters should be helped, but government should refrain from train-length, full-crew and six-hour day proposals...

...The esSfcsny* Sftflfited: We should also be united in solidarity of aim and action...

...am "democratic'' grounehv includes Roosevelt himself, if he persists in ignoring the utetheO of the vice-chairman of the National Democratic Committee...

...On the other side, disorganization and rambling ana, worst of all, indifference...

...It isn't guesswork any lengen to predict that the bombs will never see the inside of Nazi Germany bat will be res hipped to Cadiz in insurgent Spain, where they will be reloaded and distributed to air bases from La Linea, near Gibraltar, to Majorca and possibly the French border...

...May 7. If ever the nightmare fear of as American variant on fascism comes true, that evening wiB figure in our history as an ominous dress rehearsal...

...Wee are not emigres...

...let us recover America now...

...It prpykjaa another important reason why the divided unions SsBjsw put an end to their'suicidal fighting and pool their combined resources to meet the heavy artillery of the enemy...

...Oar presence is welcome, ear homeland is Madrid...

...ings in Jersey City is that thousands of people organized itno a public demonstration support his policy...

...Yes, we know, refugees are welcome nowhere...

...year...

...The ytrjf of the disease is in our national veins...

...On one side, political corruption and eaVial terrorismM high arood of bloodthirsty defiance: a spirit ef holiday thai drew everything ignorant, know-netstag and hoodlum to the . surface, chip on shoulder and gun en hip...

...That includes those who have been sttaav ing the New Deal and the C.I.O...

...Some day certainly we too will find again a homeland...

...The International Labor Defense, under Communist coaUsi certainly cannot be proud of its leadership in this episode...

...We suggest that Hague,advise thewenactznent of a city ordinance requiring all dissenters to wear muzzles when walking the streets and issuing licenses to those whose ideas have been investigated and found to be harmless...

...A greeting from one of many German fighters that went to the front to fight international fascism in Spain, may end this report of the homeless wanderers: ' "Here in Spain we are not considered as a burden...

...JOW many of them are lonesome and isolated, *^ have to struggle with new languages, new occupations, turbulent nature, often a tropical climate and in the country that used to be their homeland, an old mother dies in solitude—And, nevertheless, they have not given up the hope that some day th*y will rebegin the task they once had started: To build a new future together with like-minded friends...

...Hitler declared, "It is my unshakable will and also mv political testament to the German people to consider inviolable for all tune the frontiers of the Alps erected between us by nature," to which Mussolini must have answered under his breath, "baioney...

...tarianism cannot be ignored or underestimated...

...The analogies with whet happened in New Jersey are not pleasant to contemplate...

...If they do not trust each other, neither do they trust the masses of their respective countries...

...you differently—fascism is a mass movement wherever it Bent headway...

...Heil Hague...

...Banish the'bad thoughts should they again creep into your minds...

...It means the restoration of company unions as well...

...CAMPAIGN SLOGAN JF the Democratic Party has become a precarious collection of discordant elements, the Republican Party is by no means a charming symphony...

...Add to this the fact that few outside their respective countries except their stooges trust them, it is evident that fascism is bluff and bombast and that the dictators are deceivers who deceive no one—not even themselves...

...The President of the...

...ee-tainly by that afternoon...

...If we could stay here, we would not burden you any more...

...A G.O.P...

...Former secretaries of the labor movement, of Trade Unions, not only had to take up new trades, but came as settlers into the jungles—a strange and difficult task for the untrained, middle-aged men...

...HEIL HAGUE" ll/HAT is significant of Mayor Hague's suppression of meet...

...hopefuls to read history...

...As I have no friends here, I must always remember the beautiful hours I spent in your community...

...The simplification of the .anti-fascist propagandists wn would make it appear as something imposed from above is Mis Fascism is always stirred up down below, among ma»set irifc grievances, masses in the grip of fear, "rv"f unemployed ari hopeless youth, among people bursting with hatreds and neenar only a convenient occasion to work them off...

...The elaborate precautions taken to protect Hitler enroute to Italy and in Italy recall the extensive measures to guard Mussolini enroute to Germany and in Germany last year...

...There is little doubt that this is largely due to the propaganda machine of big capitalist organizations...

...The whole trend is a warning to the organized workers...

...But the country will be our true homeland, free of capitalists and dictators...

...THE RISING TIDE OF REACTION THE U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the big central agency of the leading capitalistic organizations of the nation, is now in the open against every legislative measure not in accord with their interests...

...America's democratic instinrji are not yet atrophied...

...If owners of an industrial enterprise cannot operate it, government should not compete with it to absorb workers locked out by.the idle} enterprise...

...stop spending arid pump-priming...

...There is a letter from two little boys, separated from their emigre parents in Czechoslovakia because this little country cannot offer any longer a future to the many Nazi victims that flocked across the borders...

...THAT ROMAN HOLIDAY DACK of the entertainment of Hitler by Mussolini and despite its gorgeous display, its bombast and pledges of "lasting friendship'' by the dictators, was comedy of a high order...

...They stick together in a collective cpmmunity, do the work in common, clear out the forests, build the houses, till the soil and are soon starting factories...

...We believe that Mr...

...Basic issues of democratic righto en never local...

...Our country!* provide a sanctuary for the dignity of man that is being JJsjPi- j across the ocean, for the accumulated treasures of the h«B»* spirit that are being disowned by the Old World in Use nam* « specialized phobias of race, class and nation...

...They could not stand this forced idleness any longer and would have done anything to escape it...

...revise taxes to aid business...

...the "treat-'em-rough" hooliganism of the Mitchel Palmer period just after the war...

...If Herbert is a candidate »t the next national Republican auction, we suggest a slogan: "Hoover and Hunger...

...It was to the presence of tens of thousands of ordinary citizens...

...False boastfulness ia advance sad vtar pejasc at the last moment turned the anti-Hague deuaSsSUsfhs into an ugly fiasco...

...1« has resisted every attempt to strap his mind into a denominstios* uniform, because he regards the artist as a custodian at the en-science of mankind...

...President Roosevelt has intimated that he is against Nye's resolution...

...Those who have a vested interest in ignorance know tieeeh wp and play on them...

...convert currency into bullion...

...He feels that precisely today, when H* concepts of justice and freedom and ordinary fellow-fsehng hs« been rejected and are being ridiculed both at the extrsjas Us* and the extreme Left, those who value those concepts dare set compromise but must fight horror under whatever beguiling ls»» it may be peddled...

...we do hope for another world, a world of peace and free labor...

...t WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS THERE is little to relieve< the starkness of the tmalf episode centered in Journa'l Square, in Jersey City, hjjt Saturday night...

...A recent poll by the American Institute of Opinion also shows that sentiment is turning against the Labor Relations Act, especially in the states where strikes have been frequently waged...

...Some of them settled in the desert of Columbia...

...The addresses of representative Babbitts at the conference were all militant, indicating confidence in the tremendous propaganda drive the big shots have been making for many months...

...Often they must have had the feeling., of being outcasts—society did not seem to want them any more...

...AND who would not be touched by this letter from the other little Red Falcon boy from Bombay, India, who tries to adapt himself to completely new conditions and tells of his first Christmas hi this new world :"My Christmas gifts are the sun, the lake and the most beautiful tropical sky which do not tell me that it is Christmas...

...if there was lss derail 111 and courage say-f where it certainly was not ia evidence, } The ominous element in the picture was not in the presence ef Msyor Hague's police and political hangers-on...

...Mussolini knows it, and Hitler knows that he knows it . The fascist correspondent of the New York Times in Rome confirms this view when he writes that "Italians still feel that they were tricked and betrayed" by Hitler's conquest of Austria which brought Nazi military power to the Brenner Pass...

...It yearns for unity but the depression and its problems are as much a mystery to them as to the average Democrat...

...The alignment of forces was dear enough on Saturday morntei...

...However, for four years they had enjoyed the hospitality of our friends in Czechoslovakia and this country's high unemployment deprived them of the right to work...

...it is against Federal legislation on hours and wages and would refer it to the states...

...Bat the blood we have shed, will kelp as to build a true, a genuine homeland...

...Certainly...

...The plea that management and workers should work together for common purposes without government interference snenne to go back to the period before the Labor Relations Act When management and strikebreaking agencies worked together to suppress free .organizations of the working class...

...United States, because eftm reforms he has pushed thrsngn Congress and the U forms he urges today, has earned the reputaU...

...Mann represents, mere than any other lrdaf writer, the humanist attitudes, the championship of those eieia**-tary decencies that have been outlawed in nest-war Europe...

...favors a long term program to aid the railroads, and believes that management and labor "should work together without recourse to the Federal Government on those things of common concern...

...Had they consulted James Truslow Adams, a Republican and notable American historian, the youngsters would have rejected this slogan...

...ET your friends to 811 out long je^-, ^* we have already sent thousands of names to % State Department under our previously publisher shah) ¦tent...

...But the little fellows, brought up in the Red Falcon movement, did not lose courage and wrote their people: "Don't lose courage, dear mother and dear father...

...That Hague and his supporters would feel at home in Hitlers Germany and Stalin's Russia is evident Thousands of people are permitted to demonstrate for Hague's ideas, others not for their own...

...Tjhjfft|hs of democracy seem too smug, too apathetic, to meet Thf rhalliisn There is too little awareness that fascism—not, peeSheatvY W -European forms but in wholly A mew can adaptation* ia menace...

...ka mmmm&BWm K*L*m\^ ^S^SA keep that iissnmtliie and neiadenei, he must b. tea* by you, the American people, through letters, taUa*«Z and visits to your Congressmen, that he cannot sees with that group hi America which is anxious to see a fascist victory in Spain...

...This should be a matter of genuine pride t» every American...

...Later the bombs will make a small news item reading—"Air Raid Kills Forty in Midnight Bald Husks Hi if," or •KfrOdren and Metroes BJwra to BtU . Every time sossebody ia Italia* Spam ia maimed or killed by an American-meniS t»a^ the d-oPenta, or the Atlas Powder Company of fe^lnjifiii...

...Let aa one tel...

...No one who fails to protest against the state of affairs in Hague's domain will have the moral right hereafter to speak d democracy and freedom...

...Thatdg-tinent has reverted to medievalism in its thinking and it* attftas* —a medievalism that is literate, mechanised, modernised, B«M* that reason more repulsive...

...I do not think that they arc neglected intentionally — many people in our days are too much preoccupied by their own s o r r ows and cannot be annoyed with other peoples' tragic plight...

...Of leading significance is the proposal to reduce relief expenditures by one-third to balance the budget which means that our depression outcasts should contribute one-third of their meager relief to make Federal finances balance...

...Of course—if we were to lose courage now what would happen...

...Whether that sanctuary will in fact be sssdsnasned deeea* on the vigor of our democratic institutions and tike earnest*** with which we defend them...

...Government nursing of railroad owners and nothing for the railroad workers...

...They are as blind as the owners of slave property were before the Civil War...

...revival of production, work and thrift...

...It includes reestablishing of confidence and morals...

...NO sooner had Secretary of State Cordell Hull, at-the advice and insistence of the "career boys" in the Department, finished telling the country that those altruists,' the American munition ¦alrw-ffr were not sending war material to either Italy or Germany, when the news broke in every honest newspaper in the nation that the Gemaan freighter Frankenwald had loaded ¦ 20,000 aerial* bombs, the last of four huge tliipiatsili, for transportation to Bremen and Hamburg...

...But dear father and dear mother, don't lose your head, don't capitulate...

...It may well be that America, because of its advantage^* geographical isolation and economic resourcse and blendsM wSS* and peoples, will fall heir to that civilization...

...Do year share new...

...From South Africa, from Argentine, from Bolivia, from Brazil, Chile or Paraguay—the letters all express not only the courage of the middle-aged men and women, driven around the world and attempting often under the most adverse conditions to rebegin life, but also the very deep gratitude they all feel for the unexampled hospitality and comradeship their friends in Czechoslovakia had granted them...

...Young Republicans of New York in state convention last week tried to help the elders with a slogan...

...One of the letters of this group comes from a young Red Falcon child reporting the working of a great volcano in the neighborhood which made their newly built houses shake "like a puddingheap...

...Thomas Mann's assumption of American citizenship as** symbolic importance that will become more significant with eesr...

...The Americanize tier of Tastssi Mana thus is not unrelated to the tragedy ia Jersey C*U...

...Of course, we are still children, but we already know a lot...

...f| It can't be laughed off or explained away Hght-henrte«*E It confirms an American aptitude for maneuvering the men in support of dark, dictatorial, anti-democratic purposes: an aptitude often demonstrated in the past—in Huey Long's Louisiana, in vigilante activities during tease* strike situations, in Ku Klux and Black Legion antics, fcj...

...The Chamber demands either the repeal of the Labor Relatione Act or its amendment along the lines of the Republican platform declaration of 1936...

...reduce relief expenditures one-third and apply the savings to balancing the budget...

...Present indications are that Senator Nye's proposal to lift the embargo on Republican Spain/ win be defeated...

...European civilisation is in a period of decline...

...Should that youthful slogan come to him for approval, he will face the painful necessity of vetoeing it, incidentally advising the young G.Q.P...

...but children alf o meet the immigration difficulties in the British democracy...

...And in spite of the most painful experiences ofThese victims of their conviction—they have not capitulated...

...Adams is one of the brain trust selected to draft a policy and program for the G.O.P...

...So they migrated further...

...I saw before my eyes those thousands of men, women and children, wandering around from from country to country, often treated as undesirables, hunted by the police of many nations, looking only for some place in the world where they would be permitted to work, to enjoy again the feeling of human dignity—to give their young, innocent children the chance to live an honest life...

...But the creeping paralysis of totafc...

...It is too difficult for you to go anywhere in the world with two children...

...Del., are making the administration and the American people guilty of the murder of men, women and chfldren fighting for democracy, as$ttre sajd 80th Century civilization in the front lines in Spain...

...and still these outcasts are, or at 1 e a s. t were, the fighters for a great common cause...

...It had every right, it seams to me^ji ¦! it off because of the odds against them and the likelihood of hless-shed...

...against government competition with private enterprise, even with enterprises that are not operating...

...HELP WIPE OUT Flan NEUTRALITY...

...Hitler knows that he played a dirty trick on his pal by seizing Austria...

...A country of the workers and the farmers with a genuine Refugees' Letters Reveal Struggle For New Beginning democratio government...

...LOOKING AT THE WORLD By TONY SENDER Former Socialist Deputy in Reichstag Nazi Victims Cover World in Search of Homes WHEN I laid this little collection of letters from five continents aside, I was very deeply moved...

...By that delay it left hundreds, periMW thousands, of supporters who went to Journal Sonars ha jleiB> —a few of them went to the hospital with broken beads...

...That includes supporters of Roosevelt, whether ia Labor's Non-ParuaM League or in the Communist Party, who fall to press the WssV ington government for action for fear of emberassing Mr Itoeeeeat /1 is not a local issue...

...THOMAS MANN has announced his intention of becoraiox » American citizen...

...He also declares that the "most severe and most numerous periods of depression" have occurred in Republican administrations from the Civil War to the Great Collapse in 1929...

...HOOVER AND HUNGER |_|ERBERT HOOVER offers an J 1 -point program to beat the depression...

...T'HE two little boys, twins, came to England...

...amend the Labor Relations-Act, and stop criticizing our Sacred Cow, business...

...against any Subsidy to help farmers and favors subsidies for a merchant marine...