Twenty Years After-And There Is No Peace
Twenty Years After—And There Is No Peace fnVENrV years after the end of the World War there * is no pec?C- The nations are piling up staggering armaments. Industry in all nations continues...
...Twenty yeam after...
...S. hag*** J. A. Viliatier and P. Brsflo*Keep in step with the tag* of labor—Read The JP Leader regularly...
...If Stalin announced that water ran uphill, they would call anyone who said it didn't a Tretskyit...
...Only' in Connecticut is an advance registered...
...Give out, gentlemen...
...R.S.V.P...
...Such an agreement, the Germans declare, would make it possible for Germany to purchase large quantities of American wheat, tobacco and cotton...
...We note that Mike Gold has fallen silent and that the Daily Worker, which has been complaining because the daily papers do not take the spy trial very seriously (except for those of Mr...
...WHAT should be the attitude of the American " government...
...iLITTLE LORD DEWEY THE recent Republican candidate for Governor of New York -* Thomas E. Dewey, recalls Little Lord Fauntleroy of our youth...
...the triangular agreement would enable the Reich to supply Great Britain with manufactured goods, the proceeds of which would cover payment to the United States...
...There the democratic Socialists polled an amazing vote in support of their gubernatorial candidate...
...INCOMES AND BALLOTS NOTHING is more obvious in American party struggles than the impact of economic groups and class interests in elections, and nothing is more strenuously denied than this influence...
...Mark Twain complained of journalists who market "petrified truth...
...T'HIS was the basis of the Hull Foreign Trade * policy, a policy which has only been partly realized but has already'been to the advantage of the consumers and the workers...
...Hand: d_- of millions of wage workers have no jobs, no ir.com...
...and declare that the "fiction" that water runs downhill is s capitalistic lie and a Trotskyite-Bukhsrinist-Hitlerite-Hesrat plot There are socially conscious writers who do not suffer the aaaa dilemma which Chamberlain describes...
...For this novel poses the question of revolutionary morality squarely...
...The author, writing of some early forms of violence in labor struggles, turns to the strike of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs in 1894...
...One no sooner happens on a notion that the movement itself tabu it...
...The struggle for human liberation will go on teti] f| dictatorships are only a hideous memory of a saTstea of that glorious struggle and Democracy will be master of the world...
...Silone'a orieasntea seems to be anarchist...
...i : 1 Theodor Plivier's two fine novels, The KaiserVjCosEntm The Kaiser Goes, The Generals Remains were written get at* "third period" Communist Party orientation...
...But Germany lacks foreign currency to pay for such purchases in the American'market...
...The same kind of doubts which paralyse Chamberlain's friend constitutes the basis for Silone's last and Ma finest work, Bread and Wine...
...Both governments want to make another treaty with the dictators, notwithstanding the manner in which past treaties have been torn to pieces...
...Thousands of innocent persons were listed as Communists and the names turned up on each faker's list...
...He does not seem to find one because he is floundering around in questions that cannot be answered inside the Stalinist nw**ment except by an all-saying yea and an abidement of fen* • a beloved leader...
...Has the change in the European scene made a positive foreign policy unnecessary for the United States ? .To answer this question in the affirmative would simply be selfdeception...
...producers plan to quit the Italian market by January...
...A PETRIFIED FALSEHOOD r\URING the period of American post-war "prosperity" numerous fakers collected millions of dollars from frightened Babbitts to fight ah impending Bolshevik rising...
...LOOKING AT THE WORLD By TOWr SENDER...
...The German workers, through a very low wage income, have to pay the costs of' that dumping...
...Science is outlawed and the scientist is jailed...
...Art and literature are transformed into prostitutes chained in Nasi and Fascist brothels...
...The issue of foreign trade with totalitarian states, therefore, confronts us with the necessity of making our choice: Concessions to the fascists or maintenance of our principles, > WHERE THE NEWS ENDS ly JAMES T. FARRELL Author of "Studs Lonigan," "No Star Is Lost...
...The survey of political opinions by the American Institute of Public Opinion illuminates this fact...
...Why not decorate him...
...Lyons pointed out that now, radicalism is gained the easy way—by faith and revelation...
...To quote Edmund Wilson, tide M *»y when "accuracy of insight, whoa courage of jedgan* are worth all the aaaaea in all the booksWHY NOT DECORATE ADOLF...
...the ideals for which liberators hsve sacrificed and perish* over the centuries are not dead...
...A diplomat was once quoted as saying: "I've got a jewel case full of ribbons and stars and things given me as tokens of respect for my skill as a liar...
...Solow as a pervert and reproached The New Leader for making no editorial comment on Mr...
...From month to month and year to year his attitude toward the personal values of his protagonist keeps Euctast ing with the movement of radical values, of radical moraiitj, in a world of Moscow trials, undeclared wars, 'Trojan-horse' taeuct and political 'timing' that frequently works out into two-tumi* Are the communists right...
...Why the silence...
...America, therefore, needs international commercial relations...
...The elections constitute a danger signal to the organized workers...
...These treaties are commercial pacts in which each partner to the treaty grants the other concessions in the form of reductions of tariffs so that specific articles can be imported at lower costs...
...Is opportunism justified, and if so, when?—and under what condition*' Should one be a direct-actionist, or is the Fabian attitude the proper attitude for a young writer of good will...
...It send* him into history, philosophy, economics, political theory, banal culture...
...Many great books have been written oat of doubt...
...They have aa internal conflict within themselves, and this internal conflict is eftae given oblique expression in unguarded conversation...
...Ramon Sender's Seven Red Senimi has a chief protagonist who is an anarchist...
...THE personal confusion which John Chamberlain mmiln a * characteristic of a weak-sistered Stalinist, one via bat conscience but not the courage to break loose...
...The treatment of power polities in Shaeaen** reads like concrete illustrations made from Machiaveti't '* Prince...
...Abominable as the Versailles Treaty was, its harsh features were being abandoned by negotiations under the Weimar Republic Reparations had been wiped out, Germany had been .admitted to the League of Nations on a basis of equality with all other nations, the Rhineland had been evacuated, and the Saar plebiscite was held under conditions that did not evoke even the hostility of Hitler...
...Japan, turning bandit, seizes Manchuria and now desolates China...
...Unless they close ranks and establish peace the future is not bright for Labor and Democracy...
...There are others who prefer petrified falsehood...
...Tab wot* welcome Mr...
...Only a journalistic prostitute could write that line, for if he bad consulted the exhaustive report of President Cleveland's strike commission he would have found no evidence whatever of * 'communistic'' influence in the strike and that the violence was primarily due to private detectives employed by the railroad companies to discredit the strikers...
...HIM PRODUCERS MAY OMIT DUCE MARRET LONDON.—IT Dace's restrictions on American films have become so serious that U.S...
...To cite random instances: Malraux's Mm.'rW embodies within its very story, support for the Trotokyist istsn* and thesis oh the Chinese Revolution, even thought Malrasx Ms> self is not a Trotskyist...
...The government interferes, pays—and subsidizes!—the German manufacturers and sells the coffee, very often on foreign markets at lower prices than world market prices...
...Sean Q'Casej*S g*f plays, June and the Pay cock and The Plough and the Stars *•* written out of disillusionment after the defeat of the Irish C*** Army in 1916, the Irish Civil War, and the personal diaiilow* ment of O'Casey...
...Twenty years after...
...LJITLER is in the position of a brutal keeper of a prison...
...But if the totalitarian states insist up adoption of their system and should it be to some extent successful with Great Britain, would this Adiministration still maintain the attitude it has had in the past...
...THIS form of trade cannot be carried on without thorough regimentation by the government...
...The duality of mind of writers who stick to Stalinism is familiar to anyone who has known a number of them, A friend of mine once said that all Stalinists are TretekriUe when they are drank...
...The moral confusion resultant is endless...
...WHEN one looks at novels and plays which contain a oolites...
...He said that the trouble with the Stalinist writer a that he has to defend too many lies...
...He can say what he pleases to its inmates but they cannot answer tarn, no matter how much he lies...
...It might be paraphrases' by the decline from Lenin and Trotsky to men such as lad Browder and John Strachey...
...The meeting arranged Lysthe Russian Sodea* Groups of New York...
...The fast that the hero is a hero or a villain is not always a crociai matter...
...Whatever may be the reasons for this setback, we believe that one lies in the fatal division in the organized working class...
...To de that...
...The German government has used the method of subsidizing and dumping, in the South American states, for instance, in order to take markets away from the United States...
...These are the hysterics and the zealots...
...TWENTY years after...
...He declared it the government's task to eliminate excessive and economically unjustifiable barriers for world trade...
...I might cite as an mshmra, Ignazio Silone...
...The formal outlook of the writer in a novel or a play is frequently not the most important feature of that work...
...It used to be that radicak gained their position the hard way, and the radical movement was an education in itself...
...Liberty may be in ehst* in the dictatorial nations but it has never surrender...
...It is the way of seeing life that is important...
...The result of such a procedure is that the masses of the consumers make the best use of their income, that their purchasing power is the most efficiently used, their welfare increased...
...The sound principle in foreign trade is: Manufacture within the nation those goods which can be produced there under the most favorable conditions, -and sell the excess to other countries in exchange for goods that these countries can produce under more favorable conditions than we...
...In the long - run, imports have to be paid for by the proceeds ' of exported goods...
...AH aorta at mskn arise...
...3. Millions of farmers and peasants are impoverished wh.le foodstuffs glut the countryside...
...Hitler has earned a carload of saxnilar tokens...
...This means possibility of a deadlock for two years in that body, during which .reaction will follow up its success with a still greater drive for the conquest of power...
...saast have political iAeration...
...The other factor in the system, which makes it really one of international understanding, is the principle of the "most favored nation clause...
...There is no country in the world which could live entirely on the basis of self-sufficiency, not even the United States of America...
...He looks the part and he spoke it in the recent campaign...
...A middle group between these two is divided almost 50-501 . why this correspondence between political opinions and incomes...
...We can note this if we consider of the change in the character of the Communist movement during the last fifteen to twenty years...
...Labor's independent political movement there has nearly ten years of experience behind it and yet it has also suffered defeat...
...The democratic nations cower before dictatorial bullies whose appetite for plunder increases with every robber raid...
...Mike Gold of the Daily Worker immediately devoted a full column to denouncing Mr...
...It was one of the great industries of the period...
...It was written as a counter-revolfoesatj novel, and sent to the Czar with a letter from the author The main problem facing the socially r—ariose wrltsf » not necessarily that of making np his mind about a nemm* thory aad program, aad of political tactics...
...JTOUR weeks ago Herbert So low wrote for The New Leader his first article on the Nazi spy trial...
...The totalitarian state only negotiates bilateral treaties, contracts between two states for certain quantities, not free quantities, as in democratic states) of goods to be exchanged in the literal sense of the word...
...ist movement of the world is bleeding from gbenb wounds inflicted by the fascist powers in Europe Sot, no matter how dark the picture—and h is dark...
...Marxism makes a man think...
...The President, in a recent message, emphasized that the nation may succeed this year in selling more than twice the valve of America's foreign sales five and six years ago...
...Dewey is Fauntleroy grown up...
...The Berlin terrorist knew this when he told his followers last Sunday that "Germany before us did nothing else but negotiate for fifteen years and loot everything through so doing...
...The democratic Labor sad Ssth...
...There may be vast and powerful interests ready to work for the support of the totalitarian states' demand...
...It certainly did not help and probably did much harm...
...Extreme nationalism as the dominating idea of the totalitarian states also rules their foreign trade policy...
...Italy shoots Ethiopia into submission, Germany seises Austria and dismembers Czechoslovakia...
...Industry in all nations continues depressed...
...A number are dual personalities...
...both Italy and Germany war on the Spanifh Republic and in no instance has there been a declaration of war...
...Hearst) has let four weeks go by without editorial comment on Mr...
...He cannot font the hook because he is all at sea concerning the motivating phflaophy behind it...
...at * J* R ** in the Rand School 7 East 15**Room 603...
...In it, Silone asks can a man retail the.moral and intellectual integrity of his own being and reman in a revolutionary party...
...He was of the aristocracy, he was "dean" and "respectable," a contrast with other boys bom of the "rabble...
...The engine manufacturer who exports machinery to Brazil, for instance, has no use for coffee with which Brazil is prepared to pay...
...W its 4a zealots, the case is different...
...Meanwhile they pay a high price, and they may recognise too late that their calculations were shortsighted and to their own detriment...
...Will there then still be democratic partners to combine with...
...Mr...
...Former Socialist Deputy in Reichstag Commercial Pacts Open Way to InternatT Harmony Can We Afford To Accept Nazi Trade Methods...
...Solow'a fourth article...
...An official agency of the fascist government has a complete monopoly of all movies that come into the country, and has already acted to cut the quantity of U.S...
...The same is true for other merchandise and raw materials, and Germany's methods may very often prevent American farmers from selling part of their crop...
...lav internal conflict is a result of the totalitarianixation of ths movement and the totalitarian cast of mind which it team U> implant in its followers...
...This is not quite true, bat s leaser are...
...It *is the Stalinist dilemma...
...it means that any nation that is ready to sign a trade treaty with the United States, such as was outlined above, will enjoy the benefit of all concessions that this country has made to any nation under contract—of course, provided this nation is prepared to grant the same favor to the United States...
...A greater problem is that * Icourage of perceptions...
...He was the model child which every mother wants her boy to be...
...Do they both simply play for time...
...Eugene Lyons commented in this column on a change in tat character of the radical movement...
...w Edmund Wilson, writing in The New Republic, characterised it clearly...
...Twenty years after...
...This week we print Mr...
...What da young writer in question here is troubled with is a way of saw life...
...Cute of the greatest of all political novels m, I belief*- 9* toevsky's The Possessed...
...THE ELECTION RETURNS JT is useless to deny that Labor lost in the elections last Tuesday in New York State and, in general, throughout the nation...
...Solow'a article, which had gently hinted that somewhere behind the Gestapo spy ring might be a shadow of its blood-brother, the G.P.U...
...It is not, thus, doubt which in itself paralyzes the writer...
...Tell us what you know about Gustave Gunther Rumrich and the rest...
...There is a hunt for notions to rationalise ones pailkia...
...This, he writes, was the "next violent outburst of communistic origin...
...He never chewed gam and never said damn...
...It cannot be explained on the basis of intelligent and foolish, educated and illiterate'voters, for both are found in all groups...
...content, one finds that they can be of great value and •r**J[ worth, and yet one can disagree with the formal orientation at the author...
...Twenty years after...
...The most striking and regrettable defeat is that of Governor Benson of Minnesota...
...Far roll, Inter natinally famoes aether, h) WRITING on literature in Harold E. Stearns' syapoaan, America Now, John Chamberlain states: "The dilemma of tat socially conscious writer is illustrated by el young novelist of ay acquaintance who has been trying for years to finish a bosk atom the San Francisco waterfront strike of 1984...
...It revealed that 72 per cent of the income group receiving $40 a week or more is opposed to ti>e Roosevelt Administration while 73 per cent of the group receiving up to $20 per week approves it...
...Speakers are Or...
...According to Secretary Hull, however: "With the world today confronting two roads, one leading to the final catastrophe of a new World War and the other to the benefits flowing from peaceful relations between nations, the United States is exerting its maximum influence toward helping mankind select the path to pence...
...Solow's articles, which have surely been attentive enough to the Stalinites' favorite Current topic, espionage...
...The shadow has taken on substance...
...The psychologies state produced is, to use a dramatic term, a "running situates.' There are other varieties of Stalinists who are not beset with ths * problem...
...films allowed, limit their subjects to themes which fit in the fascist pattern, aad exclude pictures featuring Jewish players...
...Editor's Note: Eugene Lyons, who normally wrffe this column, is of present on a nation-wide extern tear...
...Are they really democratic...
...More than a week ago, unofficial reports from Berlin said that the German Economics Ministry is anxious to explore the possibility of a triangular trade agreement between the United States, Great Britain and Germany...
...Frank O'Connor and Hugh Hunt, hat writers, defend terrorism in one of the finest of recent Irish JB*v The Invincible...
...It has brought the fight into the political field, and there is little doubt that many voters became disgusted with the mutual claims, charges and counter-charges, of rival union organizations...
...The debate in the public press has often been repelling...
...COLLABORATION of the democracies seems ^ for the moment out of the question...
...With the present British and French governments there is no chance far collaboration on the basis of solidarity for a common principle of government and international relationship...
...Three fascist powers are united * in a solidarity of aggression, breaking down all the orderly and peaceful procedures between nations, while the* democratic nations divide and disagree on psora, to check the new barbarism...
...G.P.U...
...Besides rubber and several metals not found in American soil, there are a number of goods which have to be imported...
...This is false...
...He has invited a number of prominent wrUen to pincn-hH for Mat until his rafara...
...John Chsmbsrlain is here describing the dilemma, not necessarily of the "socially-conscious writer," but of the Stalinist writer, or the writer who is afraid of the Stalinist literary cops and hatchet men...
...Hull's plan consists in negotiating repicrocal trade treaties with other nations...
...Of course, there has never been a clear-cut division of all voters on each lines, but that economic interests and feelings do register and sometimes on an extensive scale is an important historical fact...
...RUSSIAN SOCIALISTS _ HONOR LATE KARL ?MffS** A ammonal meeting fa haaar* Earl Kautsky will be held laosa* November 14, 1938...
...The Chicago Tribune has begun a "history" that recalls this earlier enterprise...
...After centuries of evolution towards democracy the barbaric creed of dictatorship settles like a black pall over a large section of Europe...
...He was the darling of his mama...
...The tide of reaction is rising and it will be so strong in the next Congress that the 168 seats assured the Republicans in the next House, added to 100 "independent" Democrats, will be able . to block needed Labor legislation...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 46
