Election Over, GOP Ready to Drop "Liberal "Mask
OLIVER, BRYCE
Election Over, GOP Ready to Drop "Liberal "Mask NAM to Flood U.S. With Tory Pamphlets By BRYCE OLIVER Sews Commentator at WEVD, New York THE election of former Senator Daniel C. Hastings of...
...And the United States, with due regard for changed conditions, is repeating her stand of 1823...
...But imperialism didn't pay...
...and "Pattern of Progress," and "What Is Industry...
...Pan-Americanism U.S...
...KROCK fell back on the weak defense that Hopkins hadn't protested before and that, anyhow, he knew that Hopkins had talked about taxation and election to friends...
...Quite apart from outside enemies, these topics are of world importance...
...PAN-AMERICANISM CAN SET EXAMPLE FOR WORLD ¦"THE United States went through,a period of * imperialist aggression with reference to the republics to the South...
...On December 9, at Lima, Peru, Secretary Hull, Alf Landon and the other members of our delegation will sit in with representatives from ten South American republics, the five little countries of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and some of the other island nations of the West Indies...
...It's port of the plan to attack Roosevelt head on...
...The latter is the clinching sermon to prove that political tampering with industry is bad for the people and that everything that helps industry is good for the people...
...and, to counter the closing of the Chinese market to (hypothetical) American exports by imposing very real restrictions against Japanese imports into this country...
...Both of them might have repeated it by way of explaining to some dumbbell just how a popular government could defeat a stubborn minority in the end...
...One of the bitterest fights in political history is impending in Congress and the reactionaries are now confident that they have the coalition votes to stop "that fellow in the White House...
...One of their purposes was to back Spain in an effort to recover her colonies...
...Their people are sitting down together and talking sense...
...Visits back and forth, news stories in our labor papers, cooperation en specific points—such things will help...
...Nor is this all...
...On the continent of Europe they are accepted as equals, A German salesman treats them with respect and pays due regard to their local customs...
...And it is on this basis that the program of the sessions is planned...
...We think of them as greasers, half-breeds, inferiors...
...On relief, there is gathering a ninety horsepower drive to decentralize administration by the appointment of bi-partisan administrative boards in each state to handle the situation in forty-eight different ways...
...DRIVE URGES LAISSEZ FAIRS POLICY TPHE program will be launched at the annual convention of the * National Association of Manufacturers at New York this week...
...Our movies, such as they are, are popular there as everywhere...
...Dewey to put up any money were Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of General Motors and, accord-, ing to income tax returns, highest - paid man in the United States...
...At least it had been printed before, without raising any yelp of anguish from Harry Hopkins...
...The Future of America," attempting to prove that this should be left in the hands of the philanthropic industrialists...
...If Germany gets back a colony on the West Coast of Africa, H will immediately become a half-way station for a Gar-, man airplane service...
...There are no alternative sources of scrap on any appreciable scale...
...In view of construction already under way to generate capacity for the new yarn, the* United States is in a position for the first time |to meet each new Japanese move with a countermove...
...our exports have not enjoyed a market there on any substantial scale since before the World...
...V We have long pointed to the boundary line between the United States and Canada as a demonstration of peaceful relations...
...When the delegates sit down together at Lima, they will consider peace machinery, economic relations, communications, cultural rein- . tions and many other matters...
...If there were, Japan and Germany would never have risked coming here for supplies...
...There is nothing new in the formula...
...The mam object was political,- to fight Fascism in the various countries...
...Among those who made it unnecessary for Mr...
...inferior foreigners are...
...In this case, the closing of the mythical Open Door in China will be greeted with a protective tariff in behalf of Yarn 66...
...The • Anglo-Saxon race feeling is a part of it...
...No other country has accumulated a sufficiently large reservoir of scrap from years of mass production of steel products to supply present armament needs...
...Our returned travelers think "they are just too picturesque...
...THE first commodity under consideration in this connection is scrap iron and steel...
...from that of America...
...Wo don't want to...
...But we must not expect quick results...
...We now have a new Holy Alliance of Fascist states, and they are rapidly moving toward such control of South America as they can achieve through trade and propaganda...
...If all the boundaries to the Sooth can be added to this one to the North, the demonstration will be overwhelming...
...Lima had a University a century before Harvard was founded...
...The people down there are mostly Indian, native red...
...Here you are not merely in a world of peasants, of peons...
...For, unlike England, it will suffer not at all if it is lint out of the Chinese market...
...This group gave the Republican standard - bearer $18,000...
...backers are done with compromise...
...and that third member of the axis, the Chamberlain Government, would feel more secure than it now does about its fancied American arsenal...
...No, the boys are willing to let Jackson slip through for the sake of appearances, but they are laying with loaded shotguns for the appointments to the Supreme Court and the Department of Commerce...
...Oddly enough, it is not expected that there will be any great hullabaloo if the President wishes to appoint Bob Jackson to succeed Homer Cummings as Attorney General...
...If such legislation is favored by the next Congress, countries like Germany and Japan will feel the pinch quickly and acutely...
...Taxes and You," a condemnation of taxation for planned economy...
...The labor papers from this Latin American world scream with theses from Marx and Lenin...
...The answer will eons in his appointment to the Supreme Court...
...We do now have, in the Department of State, n Division of Cultural Relations, and the hand of it, Dr...
...a steamer, chartered by the miners, will carry the donation to Barcelona...
...f Brothers and sisters are not picturesque...
...This means that the G.O.P...
...There will be no genuine good neighborliness with such nationalities until we leant to live as equals with our own citizens who happen to be black...
...For the G. O. P.'s whitehaired boy had behind him plenty of America's . bestknown foes of the New Deal, who skimmed the tops of their coffers to put on a drive for a Tory administration in the empire state...
...They are like French or Spanish labor leaders raised to the nth...
...Superior Attitude to South America Bans Real Friendship By WILLIAM E. BOHN PiJO matter what isolationists say—the United *^ States is inevitably moving ahead to play its part in the world struggle against Fascism...
...The decision to send the fuel was made by the Executive Committee of the Mineworkers' Federation at a meeting of the body in London...
...candidates in New .York and almost .put over a Republican Governor by appealing to on-the-fence liberals, would have been dangerous to progressive chances in 1940...
...The folks down there ure different, and we turn up our noses at them...
...Hopkins, like every other politician since Washington, accepted the principle that the only way to overcome opposition to reform is to tax it...
...But the long-winded columnist, seeing a chance to get solid with "the upper crust" (who run every time they see him open his mouth to start talking) repeated the conversation in his own words: "We will tax and tax and elect and elect...
...First, it will shut out all foreign...
...In other words, Krock was defending his report on the "David Harum" platform: "It may not be gospel truth but it's sure enough jury truth...
...And now, a new wave of scrap exports is beginning...
...The only way to evade war is to build positively for peace...
...At that time President Monroe, with the backing of Great Britain, declared that the unholy Holy 'Alliance had better keep meddling hands out of this hemisphere...
...Therefore any effort to oppress or control the destiny of any American republic would be considered "as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States...
...But no one can disguise the fact that it means a line-up of good neighbors against bad neighbors...
...N.A.M...
...If we are to achieve respect for our neighbors, we must do more than go down and buy pottery snd come back to tell about the bedbugs...
...One thing that is conspicuously lacking is broadcasting in Spanish and Portuguese from this country...
...power...
...Carringtoa, will sit in at Lima...
...She has a million of her own people on the ground with their own schools and newspapers...
...The New Leader is just the paper in which to take it up, and the Social Democrats and trade unionists of the United States are the people most likely to do something about it...
...Small wonder...
...John D.Rockefeller Jr., Lammot DuPont, Abbie A. Rockefeller, F. D. Barton, and the Union League Club...
...There must be study of the Spanish and Portuguese languages, of history and cultures...
...BRITISH MINERS DONATE COAL TO LOYALIST SPAIN LONDON.—2,000 tons of coal will be shipped to Loyalist Spain by miners of Great Britain...
...The United States depends upon Japan for no other commodity...
...He was too reactionary for even the "Wowsers* of the Diamond State, and his selection by the G(rand) O(ld) P(revaricators), in preference to the New York progressive, Kenneth M. Simpson (whose political thought is in line with Bull Mooser Gilford Pmchot), is a death blow at Republican alliance with progressivism...
...Jackson's thunder about the Sixty Families raised a storm of Tory protest last winter but the reactionaries who run the works believe that Jackson's thunder is worse than his lightning...
...We cant do what Germany is doing...
...The reason given was that "the political system of the allied powers is essentially different...
...AST October, a syndicated Washington columnist, whose accuracy is scarcely on a par with his excessive garrulousness (heavily punctuated with the pronoun, "I") bent his ear obligingly as a couple of Hopkins' friends, in the National Press Club, discussed the Hopkins' formula for cramming a little cooperation down the neck of the reactionaries...
...Without scrap there is no steel, and without domestically made steel, there ii no military security...
...So heavy was the foreign movement, that at one point in 1937 this country appeared to be on the verge of a serious scrap famine...
...fund in New York were released this week...
...They point out that Jackson made a million once and wants to do it again...
...We hope—selfishly —to derive good from this policy, but it is the sort of good that comes from cooperation, the sort that goes both ways...
...But America's newly assured self self-sufficiency has changed the situation radically...
...We must get some understanding...
...As long as white Americans look dam on Negroes, they will also be uppish to Mexicans and Brazilians...
...It will be their move...
...So the N.A.M...
...NOW Krock has about as much regard for his colleague as the next columnist, but it suited his purpose to quote this particular invention...
...It would have pointed to an important drive for the liberal votes, with the Liberty Leaguers instructed to lurk in the deepest shadows...
...trade Secondly, it will demand recognitkm from the rest of the world of Japan's conquest...
...Our snobbishness is compounded of all sorts of things...
...That Japan buys from American industry 80 per cent of her oil, more capital goods than she makes herself, haW of her steel and so on down the line of military necessities is now a matter of public record...
...At s natter of fact, the American Gavernment is immune to such blackmail...
...Why should it, considering its unimportance...
...Individually they are named "The American Way," hinting that the present administration is not...
...The coal gift, the Executive explained, is being sent to bake a 6.000 ton shipment of flour being shipped from the United States...
...They believe they have the New Deal on the run and from now on the teeth will be bared...
...But you never respect picturesque people...
...That silk is a standard-ofliving necessity to the American people is self-evident...
...In this struggle there can be no isolationists...
...And the identity of the bad neighbors is no secret...
...By virtue of our unique position as steel producers, we are coming to enjoy a world scrap monopoly...
...At School, Not at Work," crediting the manufacturers instead of progressive politicians with the decrease of child labor...
...In fact, the groundwork already has been laid for the Commerce appointment, which is expected to be Harry Hopkins...
...A new Monroe Doctrine will be worked out...
...IN working class ideas and organization the cleft * is as deep as anywhere...
...For-the present, all that we can have it mutual patience and the effort to understand...
...But it proposes to refuse Japan's demand for recognition in China...
...That sounds fine...
...stalwarts brought the elephant's campaign chest in New York State alone up to $230,366...
...About the equally urgent question, "What can be done to stop this nefarious traffic without of course provoking war...
...We spent millions trying to demonstrate our friendship with bayonets, bat the returns on the investment wore negative...
...Difference in nationality, " culture, and government gave plenty of excuses...
...The parallel with 1823 is too clear to be missed...
...And the rapidly expanding Japanse steel industry is of course our leading junk yard forager, taking 50 per cent of 1937's 4,000,000 ton export total, although even Germany is parting with gold in her, desperate need to buy scrap for her starving steel furnaces: Germany and Italy between them have boughx about 100,000 tons here in the last few weeks...
...The victory of Hastings is a victory for the candid reactionaries who can't face the fact that the Republican resurgence in November was due almost entirely to the loud *yelps of Republican candidates that they were just as- pi egi—sivs as the next fellow—and a durn sight more "American...
...The American Standard of Living," a direct appeal to the "upper crust...
...The National Broadcasting Company is making a beginning, 'but there is nothing adequate even planned...
...The difficulty- is that such a project in this country would have to be in tbe hands of a private group, and no organization has been formed to look after it...
...Neutrality, relief and labor relations—in the order named— are the focal points of the coming legislative struggle in Congress between the New Deal and the Republican-Democratic Coalition...
...many contributions from other G.O.P...
...The members of the Holy Alliance were c'.cfashioned absolute monarchies...
...This involves trade, roads, airplane service, radio broadcasts, travel, and now and then a little neighborly advice about how to stop a quarrel...
...Understandably, agitation for an embargo on scrap exports is reviving...
...He may have said it to Herbert Bayard Swope or John Hertz...
...Prepared to Cripple Japan's Finances, Munitions By ELIOT JANEWAY THE Far East has ceased to be just another war-ridden place "out there"—in political no-man's land...
...Germany is moving rapidly end effective in Brazil...
...The Brazilians don't like it Bat the campaign goes on...
...Arthur Krock repeated his colleague's invention in his own column, giving it the appearance of first-hand reporting...
...But now the DuPont laboratories have perfected their new substitute, Yarn 66, which is far superior to rayon, and apparently serves all the purposes of silk...
...Here are two continents which have gone crazy...
...THE battle against Fascism is a battle of ideas...
...We can establish in Jhis hemisphere a spirit that will make it possible to get on without war...
...The selection of Simpson, who hooked the American Labor Party for his G.O.P...
...You are in a world the leaders of which are primarily intellectual feudists...
...somehow the marines did not prove good salesmen...
...Call it the Good Neighbor Policy...
...The German propaganaa department furnishes news services, movie reels, radio btmij casts...
...We can have a Pan-American Union, but it will be many years before it will be useful to have a Pan-American federation of - labor...
...But when the columnist emphasized it in his syndicated column he worked better than he knew...
...There is intellectual armament to he piopnrsd and intellectual strategy to be worked out...
...Two coming appointments are the principal targets—the appointment of a Justice of the Supreme Court and a successor to Commerce Secretary Daniel C. Roper...
...And, more to the point, the power of blackmail as between Japan-and the United States is an American monopoly by virtue of Japan's strategic and complete dependence upon American industry for the means of modern warfare...
...Men and Machines," a concealed plea for freedom of action on employment...
...Now it so happens that Hopkins probably did say something of the kind at the racetrack...
...The congress was obviously under the leadership of the Communists...
...Backward, tarn bnea^rS^frtinWta ^flight" is the battlecry of Ole' Dan Hastings, Washington errand boy for the far-flung du Pont interests...
...Japan is about to set up a puppet Government in China which will do three things...
...THE great block against better relations is * something that nobody discusses...
...Japan can sell her silk nowhere else...
...But whether "gospel truth" or "jury truth," Krock did a good job of whetting the knives for the Wall Street Democrats who plan to line up with the Republicans in a fight on Hopkins...
...The opening gun in the program is to defeat Roosevelt on the appointment front...
...Finally, since Japan is near bankruptcy, it wiO attempt to blackmail England and the United States into lending it money in order to "safeguard" their respective intends Je China...
...Will the President seek peace or will he be intransigent ? This is the question of the Tory press...
...But Hopkins did protest about the Krock repetition...
...With Tory Pamphlets By BRYCE OLIVER Sews Commentator at WEVD, New York THE election of former Senator Daniel C. Hastings of Delaware to the executive committee of the National Republican Committee, meeting at Washington this week, was an answer to a New Dealer's prayer...
...The Administration has for many months been sensitive to growing public realization that American industry and American law are very largely responsible for Japanese military aggression in China...
...Travel isn't enough...
...Hundreds of thousands of expensive booklets have already been printed and the nation is going to be bombarded with pamphlets entitled, "You and Your Industry Series...
...But everything else that was said and done went to show how different the workers south of the Rio Grande are from those north of it...
...Our artists are imitating Diego Rivera —but who among us knows anything about South American literature or music...
...P"IRST of all, this means silk...
...there has been less agreement...
...With Japan's captoe of Canton, the Far Eastern crisis enters a new phase, one in which the United States is directly concerned...
...We do not have—and do not wans a government propaganda department...
...Statistics revealing contributions to the G.O.P...
...no expense Thomas E. Dewey this week announced that he spent nothing in his recent gubernatorial campaign...
...has gone in for politics in a big way...
...It is prepared to see the English Government go through with its present intention of recognizing Japan's puppet Government and lending her money in order to buy her off as regards future aggression...
...It gives this country the power to deprive Japan of strategic commodities without worrying about Japanese reprisal...
...j We have excellent flying Servians to Santa America, and there are frequent broadcasts from the South American countries to the United States...
...leader's theory is more important that the poor members' hunger...
...So—-even before President Roosevelt came into office—we turned to the Good Neighbor policy...
...When delegates from the trade union federations of all these lands met in Mexico City recently and formed a LatinAmerican federation, John L. Lewis was there to make a speech...
...Conscious of the strength of its position, the Washington Administration is about to embark upon a program of isolated action in the Far East...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 49
