Letters to the Editor:
Letters to the Editor: Plaam inclnd. full bum and uldrcu. Wm will withheld h«ta if reqsntcd. DEMOCRATIC NATIONS STOOP TO "EXPEDIENCY" Editor of The New Leader: Those in the seat of power in...
...he is near despair until h* himself of a solution—he sends for Stalin, . . . * » • •T*HE devitalization of Lenin into a kindly but rather" ineffectual *¦ old lady is not accidential...
...If you'll do ft...
...REMEMBER A FREE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION of EUGENE LYONS' "MOSCOW CARROUSEL" GOES WITH EVERY NEW YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION AT $1.50...
...Irf the matter of dictatorships, bowing to "expediency" is not sufficient...
...New Jersey...
...We see the bearded ami the mustachioed shadows go through an elaborate pantomime of love and gratitude, with Bearded dishing Out thanks aid affection and Mustachioed at the receiving end: Lenin pels Stalin on the back, embraces him, kisses him . . . Peer Lenin...
...E. E. Mallett...
...True, he was lilt to his wife and loved children, and he had a sense of humor oat occasionally took a whimsical turn...
...The National Office reports quite a number of contributions received and the states have been assigned quotas...
...I had seen that picture and marveled at the sheer auesdjy of its producers in perverting elementary historical materjgV Even more...
...squinting, eccentric Grandpa Lenin as depicted by his successors in the Kremlin and announces that "there is something cleaning and noble about it, as there is something fine and touching about * visit to Lenin's tomb...
...DEMOCRATIC NATIONS STOOP TO "EXPEDIENCY" Editor of The New Leader: Those in the seat of power in the-democracies of the world have been guilty of the most atrocious betrayal and still persist in that betrayal of the concepts of a free people...
...J And who discovered the secret...
...There1 were difficulties of application, he added, but indicated- satisfaction at the administration of the law despite the many difficulties...
...On the other hand, burning this output might also prove to be a mistake, as within a year Moscow may order them to •crap the present "party line" and return to "armed insurrection to overthrow the bourgeois state'' and all the other tripe they marketed for two decades...
...Any severe pressure against the Cardenas Government would play into the hands of foreign and domestic reaction...
...Bat this must also be supplemented with financial contributions...
...in national convention they oppose "any clique, group, circle, faction or party which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine, weaken' or overthrow" American democracy...
...Therefore, American workers should protest against intervention, should it be proposed...
...Here it is: "One major measure was to force by law a drastic reduction in wages...
...THE MEXICAN CRISIS gREAKING of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Mexico is another source of worry...
...Hundreds of labor newspapers, in this country and in Canada, reprint oar copy every week...
...We knew that you can go out this week sad...
...Those in whose hands have rested the reins of our government have not opposed with the fortitude and vigor consistent with issue, nor compatible with the high office occupied—as heads of a great democracy—the insidious attempts to sabotage free institutions and to establish an alien and hostile philosophy...
...HE gives^is enthusiastic approval to a portrait of the Bolshevik leader "As a man who might easily have played third base for the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...on the Soviet screen, according to the New Masses...
...To distinguish it from the revolution of reality it should be rechristened "the Forsythe saga...
...In your neighborhood there are hundreds of party members, labor leaders, liberals, progressives, and radicals who mooch a copy of The New Leader wherever they can, or pick it up on newsstands, or go to the libraries, or...
...Frederic Heath...
...The whole thing is just too, too cosy...
...we saw red . . . literally and figuratively...
...And it has all beer* done under the pet and shopworn subterfuge of those who betray principle — the subterfuge of "expediency...
...Tbt thought implicit in every foot of film is: what would nice old Jisssf have done without Stalin ? Thus "history catches up with romance in the Russian Revolution...
...In solemn state convention in Indiana the Communists adopted a program opposing all "subversive movements" directed at the overthrow of American democracy...
...i WE'RE in a tough spot...
...If II take 1.000 subs to keep recently acquired feature writers, columnists, foreign correspondents and technical workers...
...All true liberals should now rally behind President Roosevelt...
...Another measure was to force a drastic reduction in government spending...
...WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS COME years ago the eminent ecclesiastical authority, Ifcg *^ Bruce Barton, wrote "The Man Nobody Knows *a bioaL raphy of Jesus Christ...
...There is political method h» thf burlesque madness...
...The peso is on the decline, Mexican "oil exports have declined 85 per cent, and General Cedillo, leader of a private army in San Luis Potosi, is suspected of leading a fascist movement...
...Despite the puzzle, our- professor is certain of the weight of two factors, i.e., wages and jobless relief, and they are "weighted" in favor of our reactionary corporation magnates...
...The Son of God was recreated m that volume in the image of its author: He emejjged at a clean-shaven, cigar-smoking, go-getting Rotariaa whs "sold" His new line of spiritual goods with all the pep ^ punch of a Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn, Inc., advertising campaign, with the Disciples as sales force...
...We too often think of the problem as one identified with the larger cities, but our story showed that it is more or less general in urban communities, while no less than 2,000,000 migrants in rural regions live in destitution and unsanitary conditions that are a menace to life and health...
...a deliberate distortion for specific political purposes by people who know better...
...save by unconditional surrender to the forces of bigotry and regimentation...
...The "party line" has changed bat it is still credited...
...Provide them with a stable and "weight" their tjusens with oats and baled hay...
...Somehow he missed that so-subtle scene after the revehrtfau where Lenin and Stalin are on view for long minutes behind • window shade, two silhouetted figures, like levers in tear* jerkers of the earliest movie days...
...and the next, and the one after, that, and pick np a con-pie of sabs easily...
...a whimsical and much too human frost Behind him, doing the real work, giving the revolution its stamiBS, is Stalin...
...Australians have tested it, says the professor...
...The occasion for the essay was the Soviee|hn...
...KEEPS US INFORMED Editor of The New Leader: Your excellent weekly has continued to keep us well informed with it...
...German ships carry American bombs to Franco while the Republic cannot get American arms...
...We're not waving a flag...
...That such conditions survive in the twentieth century is bad enough, but that they continue while millions of workers are idle is'a national shame and disgrace...
...Principle and faith cannt be bartered—are not the subject of bargaining—and do not stoop to "expediency...
...Forsytbe's "Babushka" Lenin bekmm with the George Washington of the cherry tree, the Mussolini Win pitches ball with frolicsome peasant lassies, the Stalin who kisses a little flower girl for cameramen on Red Square...
...Illinois...
...of his enemies for balls, and the umpire who ssjlp call a foul against him would be strangled by the Cheka...
...Or the section where Lenin finds that things have #SSt wrong because of the perfidy of those "traitor*" whom he later S« at the head of the Communist International and the Red Anuf, Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev...
...I marveled at their abysmal bad taste in tarmac Lenin into a nervous, sentimental, downing eccentric Win...
...Britain's protest against Mexican nationalization of British oil property was rebuked by the retort that Britain had not paid her own debts to the United States...
...THINKS LaFOLLETTE THIRD PARTY UNTIMELY Editor of The New Leader: I have always respected the LaFollette brothers, but I think that their "third party" is untimely and out of place...
...Editor of The New Leader: Best wishes...
...This diet will enable them to explore more mysteries of the multi-featured mechanism" that have baffled unfortunates who are not learned economists...
...We must have 1,000 new yearly subs within the next thirty days or face increased printing costs with a curtailed newspaper...
...ever increasing ability to give us news, world-wide in its scope and invaluable hn its fair treatment of politico-social-economic problems...
...He conceded that arms and munitions could be obtained here by third powers for use in Spain, but that it is no more possible to embargo shipments to Italy and Germany than to Britain and France...
...This would run counter to the Monroe Doctrine...
...Before a holocaust of irremediable proportions shall descend upon humanity—and all peace and freedom loving peoples—democracies of the world stand firm— throttle ere it throttles you—those crazed assailants of the ideals and institutions of democracy...
...M. Miller...
...Forsythe also missed that so-subtle scene where Lens, having arrived in Petrograd, 1917, is about to start the revolution...
...Millonaires like the "last pirate of the Mediterranean," Juan March, sons of the old landed grandees fighting in Franco's armies, and others of the old ruling class wjll rule...
...out saying so in that many words, the film implied that he Wat a well-meaning but rather ineffectual little man, the kind whs would have been helpless without a straight strong personality to lean upon...
...Why?, We Must HavelOOO NewSubs Within the Next Thirty Days U7HEN, several weeks ago, we thought we had the ball rolling and subscriptions were coming in, we gave this choice editorial spot over to copy you'd read sooner than you'd read an urgent appeal for help...
...That is not peace...
...Members in New York and other states have received letters requesting personal contributions...
...That is disgraceful and shameful enslavement...
...Peace will be achieved only by firmness—not by vacillation—not by stooping to "expediency...
...Robert Forsythe, in The New Masses...
...After all, according to the new textbooks, two men numt the revolution...
...Letters to the Editor: Plaam inclnd...
...Plaintively he asks his comrades, "Where is Stalin...
...Building down Lenin is one way of budohf up Stalin...
...A DEPRESSION CURE NEIL CAROTHERS is a learned man, a Professor of Eco-• nomics, and that rare bird who has a cuTe for the depres-sion...
...The action was not unexpected, as on April 18 the Pope sent his blessing to Franco, whose program lor a totalitarian dictatorship is well known to readers of press dispatches from Spain...
...Such depressing nonsense mirrors the minds of these set-Bolsheviks who are revising the Russian Revolution and ha ked-ers in the image of their own twittering pettiness...
...Even if that is so—Humanity, progress and idealism has been set back a hundred and more years...
...Of course, the President is bound by the law...
...v We suggest that the program be first tried on these learned economists...
...Lenin is redness1 to a genial old fellow who loves the kiddies and makes funny fsea, but has sense enough to entrust the revolution to Soso Stalin, tin revolution itself is reduced to opera bouffe...
...t^ IF Lenin can be visualized playing baseball, he would be USSK * the head...
...BUT . . . whan our accountant finished winding up the fiscal year's financial reports...
...The Soviet author-ities made the film with tongue in cheek, as it were...
...Detroit...
...Forsythe accepts their political burlesque with a senou mien and comments upon it as "history catching up with roraanet in the Russian Revolution...
...History, in short, it cleaned up and prettified and adjusted to make it fit for their pan-house parlors...
...We think we have the best labor newspaper in the country...
...MUST READ THE NEW LEADER Editor of The New Leader: I would not be without The New Leader, as I think it is the finest labor paper in America...
...This brought the Australians out of the depression...
...However, when the time does come for a new Party, it should be a national American Labor Party like the one over in England, not a loose, vague "Progressive Party...
...It's the functioning of this team in the eiOJsn days of 1917 that the film "Lenin in October" dramatizes...
...as a fatherly, kindly man W*> gave his life for the people...
...And Stalin, indeed, is depicted throughout as the rigid, Ulliwf ing, somewhat mysterious but always indispensable leader...
...Stalin is found and the day is saved...
...In the meantime, Mexico is facing a financial crisis and industrial depression...
...Revolutionary history-, Mr...
...Moreover, the press was taken over by Franco last week...
...Thousands of you readers have proven this by renewing your subs every year...
...Under orders frorry Moscow, it offers its affection to Democracy after having denounced her as a prostitute of the ruling classes for twenty years...
...HOUSING DRIVE HPHAT the national drive of the Social Democratic Federation for regional conferences to give momentum to a greater and more satisfactory housing program was not started too soon is evident from our Washington story last week revealing the shocking housing conditions throughout the nation...
...This is no rah-rah appeal...
...Tennessee...
...We need help and we can tarn to no one but you who have been reading the paper for years...
...The free and democratic peoples of the earth have witnessed the inept, insincere and vacillating action on the part of their leaders in meeting the questions and dangers of the day...
...Accustomed to making precise statements, it is evident that the President was painfully vague and not confident of his position...
...would be much easier to achieve...
...The New Leader is a positive joy and gets better right along...
...recently on view in New York and other American cities...
...If American investors, who are also affected, want intervention, let them risk their own hides...
...You can do H...
...seen the film will finb it hard to credit—that "there is not On maudlin or affected or overplayed scene in the film...
...Dan B. Fisher...
...They should give until it hurts and assure the success of our national housing drive...
...We must wipe out that deficit...
...The, retort stung because of its truth, bat it is hardly likely that Britain will stage a naval demonstration in Mexican waters...
...By stooping to "expediency" we are asked to believe that a generation of peace would thereby be achieved...
...If there would be more papers like The New Leader in the United States, a national A.L.P...
...He iSf profoundly serious, hard, ruthless, immensely energetic, ready tl stake millions of lives on one throw of the dice...
...PARTY LINE IS STILL CROOKED f\RAMATISTS in search of material for good comedy should r not overlook the Communist Party...
...do H now...
...The "Bolshevism" symbolized by the jumping-jack Lenin ef this film is a Sunday School picnic, where a somewhat haftf but loveable Lenin beams benevolence on his nice proletarian children...
...again a powerful democratic Socialist and Labor newspaper...
...The' Nee Masses review of the picture breaks that record...
...DISCOVERED...
...Lanfa is shown as the "front...
...to the avowed apostles of hate and to the enemies of democracy...
...The daring Mr...
...We know that there are several- hundred in each city in the country, members of our own organization who are not on The New Leader's mailing lists...
...you II give is the chance to basse...
...With blood purges and international rioting the order of the day, sanctioned by most of the world's nations, this country, now more than ever, needs a powerful New Leader...
...But still you people do nothing about increasing our circulation...
...Meantime...
...It'll take 1.000 subs to do it...
...Australia's "ablest economists," says the professor, although economists "know that our economic system is a puzzling, complex, multi-featured mechanism" and even they find it impossible "to assess with certainty the weights of the various factors" involved in a depression...
...FoTsythe looks at this amuttW...
...We know ear feature writers, reporters, foreign correspondents and make-up men are good...
...N. Ferber...
...Note that profits and dividends were not jqachad Cut wages and government spending—jobless re-lief—and there you are...
...But these were secondary characteristics, the lighter side of a strong and implacable 'aha The Lenin who made history, Lenin in October and in the hank years that followed, was iron-willed and fanatic, disdainful H human life, tough and merciless—as unlike the "fatherly knap man" who grimaces eccentrically and chucks chins in this cineae caricature as possible...
...POLICY REGARDING SPAIN ABOUT the weakest and most unsatisfactory statement yet made on a public question by President Roosevelt was his recent replies to questions by reporters on neutrality...
...On the other hand, the United States under this doctrine is expected to look after such claims, but if it does it would violate its "good neighbor" policy...
...But I was wrong...
...Milwaukee, Fisc...
...The Social Democratic Federation has already obtained the cooperation of housing experts in various sections and it remains for the affiliated organizations to begin serious work in arranging conferences...
...Now if they can only burn their programs, leaflets, pamphlets and files of the "Daily Worker," they may get away with it...
...He could, but has net, recommended its repeal...
...Keep the flag of a genuine Labor and Socialist movement flying...
...In the matter xif dictatorships, you have #ot and you cannot achieve peaf-e of any appreciable duration—save by complete surrender to an enforced peace, under the aegis of totalitarianism and absolutism...
...Lenin in October...
...But he can't get started because the genius of the revolution fa sot around...
...I was reminded of that vulgarization recently in reajtas an essay on Lenin by that eminent authority on Rusnjs...
...acting as a cleansing agent in his tomb, can't protest against these indignities to his memory...
...THE S.D.F...
...The workers, the vast majority being Catholic, will become the mudsills of the "Christian" totalitarian regime...
...Forsythe actually says—and those who mm...
...Or those un-maudlin scenes, dragged out like taffy, where LmW) postpones his revolution and devotes himself to putting a eeawajh to sUep...
...FRANCO RECOGNIZED '¦"HE Vatican has recognized General Franco and thus approved armed insurrection against a republic to establish a fascist dictatorship...
...that is to say, without Stalin., Vulgar misrepresentation, I thought as the picture un»IlsaV could scarcely descend any lower...
...We want those readers...
...do everything to read the paper, but never subscribe because nobody ever approaches to tell thorn that for $1.50 the New Leader will bo delivered to their homo, neatly and completely wrapped, for a whole year, and that a copy of Eugene Lyons' "Moscow Carrousel" will be seat along free with the sub...
...Mr...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 21
