LOOKING AT THE WORLD
SENDER, TONY
LOOKING AT THE WORLD By TONY SENDER Former Socialist Deputy in Reichstag Nazis Untroubled By United States Paper Protests Tories Must Learn Peace Can't Be Won By Bribes STRONG protests from...
...After the mass vandalism and mass murder against the Jews was staged, the Berlin government established a new Nazi propaganda agency in the United States under the guise of the German University Service, 580 Fifth Avenue...
...Conscious of their superior strength due to numbers and knowledge that all of the brutal power of the dictatorship supports them, Germany has staged this most disgusting trait of human beings for several Weeks...
...jThey are afraid of being persecuted by their erttwhfle patrons, and of having to shift for themselves after beteft*** care of by an organisation that provided them with a ¦eiM'sJ and nursed their literary reputations...
...A few years more, they thought, and Russia will etjstQf Astf surpass the most advanced capitalist countries...
...isj writers who are known to be opposed te the bureaacrsts dictatorship in Moscow and to its representatives sbrtai This G.P.I" of the Bind is attempting—through totiifm, calumny...
...Do we live under the same fatal delusion as the statesmen of those big European nations which still have democratic constitutions ? When will the world have the courage to see things exactly as they are...
...Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Streichcr and other high chiefs of ^he dictatorship...
...and it is personal to tot sense that, though disillusioned with Stalinsm, they ars'sasw frightened to quit...
...Even aWjto" Cowley, who only recently did a "job" on the exconimuaiett^fj heresy-ridden "Partisan Review," is no longer conceaasf flj suspicions that there is something crucially wrong **"jffl§ "party line...
...That there was Nazi spying is certain . . . but the trial did not bring out the whole truth...
...The bully s cowardice generally cornea to the surface when he meets his equal and aa a rule he cringes and whines when beaten to his knees...
...One can no more expect these P^Q and newly-varnished democrats to relent in their Stalrotoa ^7 one can expect bankers to advocate the socialization of Though the difference in the relative profits is ei»UJe<**3B» psychology is nevertheless the same...
...Which means nothing else but the intention of "preparing" the traveler before he leaves and also putting him in contact with the "right kinds of people" on the other side...
...The new German agent's letter indicates as one of the purposes of his agency: "Those traveling to Germany independently or on private fellowship will find it much easier to avoid mistakes, unnecessary expense or loss of time by being properly informed before leaving the United States...
...He has Jevrvse* evoemntet wrfreri f© piscb-srf for him...
...Furthermore, at that test Soviet propaganda had succeeded in persuading a good mtay people that the effort to build Socialism in one country was set on its way to realization...
...Will the United Slates insist on supporting the claims of American capitalists wheat property is taken over by any Latin-American nation ? The Latin-Americans are anxious to know the answer, and they have a right to demand one...
...Did the French statesmen read the Nasi Bible, in which the Fuehrer said that France always will be the deadly enemy of Nazi Germany and must therefore be annihilated...
...Judge Knox characterized Rumrich as "an unmitigated liar," and a responsible State official has made about the same estimate of the discredited G-man, Turrou...
...If we don't do it by peaceful means—economic, diplomatic, financial—as long as it is still possible, we may be drawn into the final catastrophe...
...INTERNATIONAL BLACKMAILERS THOSE who think that there can be any peace with dictatorships received another shock last week when Mussolini's "Parliament" staged another venture in blackmail, his rubber •tamps yelping for the seizure of Tunisia and other French territory at a time when Chamberlain and Daladier were trying to "appease" the blackmailers Mussolini's kept editors followed up by yawping for these seizures which brought proFrench rioters into the streets of the French North African protectorate and attacks on Italians...
...The United States has an institution of its own for the purpose of organizing the student exchange with other nations, including that with Germany...
...If they had any delusions about the peaceful intentions of the Berlin-Rome Axis, the last day of the Italian Chamber did everything to awaken them...
...WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By PHILIP RAHY [?*••>•• Lyoes is oa roar...
...During and provoked by a speech of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, the Italian deputies clamored for French Tunisia, Nice, Savoy and Corsica to become parts of Fascist Italy...
...The two fascists have a fine division of work—one gangster keeps the cashier interested in a talk while the other prepares to break the safe...
...Either we sent pool our vast economic power with the power of the democratic peoples or we will "paddle our own canoe...
...Evidence has accumulated tending to show that somehow Stalin's OGPU was linked to Rumrich...
...We are therefore putting to the U. S. attorney who prosecuted the Nazi ring, a group of questions, candid answers to which can harm no honest man...
...It is not the open Stalinists, of course, who are most oaasa> ous, but rather their ''liberal" allies and apologists...
...The arrest of the spies and their convictions resulted from the Rumrich spy "confession" and the Turrou "investigation...
...To be sure, there were some prejudices against Jews just as there have ( been in the United States, but it never became a deliberate government policy hese or in Germany until Nazi barbarism transformed that nation into a slave state...
...This is a* true of tat politics of writers as it is of the politics of trade unioDiau ft is not the logic of Stalinism which "converts" mteJlestuatt, although a converted intellectual usually flatters himself into thinking that nothing else affected him...
...We hope to print the answers soon...
...An attempt by Moscow to foist an OGPU-organized Robinson-Rubens-Rumrich ring onto anti-Stalin radical shoulders, has been forecast...
...But the game cannot go on forever...
...I know personally of *jH9 novelists and journalists, still officially listed as ''WatofiWT movement," whose impulse to speak out has been checked tmeSM again by careerist calculations...
...rtlllwmpi the task' Stalinist groaping among the intellectuals is growing, statfc cannot be said that the cunning and unscrupulous strategy of tmf Communist Party has failed to manipulate te its °"fta4*sS8 the loyalties of hundreds of influential people in the akP journalism, and in the universities...
...But it would be a fatal delusion to think that protests, as long as they remain in the form of words, motions, and protest meetings, would make any impression on those < who organized the pogroms and are still organizing their JBw \\m\ continuation...
...Will the world look on until most of the 600,000 have been sacrificed...
...Almost every AW ^m1R^k day another person informs ma *t, me °' deaths in a concentra^HMMpi H tion camp...
...THE WHOLE TRUTH...
...Did these two government witnesses hide something...
...THE PRICE OF ISOLATION CENATOR BORAH as the dean of the Foreign Affairs Com^ mittee of the Senate has done much to shape the foreign policies of the United States and when he regrets that the United States may join the "hysterical" race for world armaments we are interested...
...a few years...
...says James Farrell, "used te open pseffcWw* now it doses them...
...The really courageous man never uses his strength against the helpless and the weak...
...DUGGAN, the director of the Institute of " International Education—the American office for international student exchange—stated that no other foreign country has established a / special agency for the work until now done satisfactorily by the American office...
...etc...
...J| In addition, there is the horde of paid functionaries "j...
...you must have the courage to resist them...
...They lack the r#*3 energy to tear themselves loose from a newly-occupied hoaw^ which their vanity has become involved and in wludt, st IP* for.the moment, it is pretty respectable to live...
...There is no simple reply to these questions...
...The latter involves a staggering cost because if we do not cooperate to check barbarism abroad we will have to meet it on this aide of the Atlantic...
...to the "New Masses...
...He does not doubt for a moment that the exclusive purpose of this new agency is the spread of propaganda...
...You cannot bribe dictators into peace...
...Even as millions were starving and tfct bureaucratic caste was finally coming into complete posseuiee of the economy and the political administration, the Wft-sdaded intelligentsia in this country was under the impression that Stsfti was at last making good his promise to turn backward goads into an industrial paradise...
...The hour of the two great empires has struck if they continue in their fatal delusion...
...gaV'g *** under its inspiration that the puerile attempts to patet "pare' proletarian pictures and to write "pure" proletarian literate* made artists and writers forget the most elementary facte ssest their mediums...
...He is recognized as a coward at heart...
...Letters were sent out to 300 American college and university presidents demanding extension of the exchange of students between this country and the land of the pogroms...
...Despite our direct challenge, made four weeks ago, the Communist Party makes no reply to these charges...
...and overt as well as covert pressure—to direct cultural opinion in America into totalitarian channels, * » » HOW is it, I have often heard it asked, that so many arisen, otherwise intelligent, appear to be unable to ses tkmqgfc the flimsy promises and rationalisations of Stalinism te tht terrible reality underneath ? It would seem that Stalinism has tuft, cientiy exposed itself so that even a moderately informed sents could no longer be taken in by its propaganda...
...It is social m the sense IsStf reflects a panicky mood, an inability to see any fores that easp possibly avert fascism except the Stalinist movement, te however, their confidence is waning...
...j^E cannot close accounts in the Nazi spy case without underscoring the many peculiarities1 reported by Mr...
...from the ranks of the intellectuals—editors and staff contrjpj...
...What is the moral of this experience ? Is peace possible as long as the two systems—democracy and dictatorshij)—exist next to each other...
...5 last few weeks several of the prominent fellow -trawler* IB clearly indicated their intention to break loose...
...Built on fear and illusion, the cultural front will never its first real teat...
...HORRORS OF FASCISM HIDDEN TO VISITORS TYR...
...The mobsters are merely the active agents of the ruling Nazi chiefs...
...This leftism also took its toll in the arte...
...Worker'' moves no one bat the sheep-like rank and filer oi the Party, the seemingly reasonable columns of a Heywood Brotnv effectively conceal the truth from thousands of readers who art in no position to get at the facts themselves...
...Thea g wait fc» long before the invincible Soviets, both by example assay srats aid, will inaugurate the world revolution...
...Both agents and chiefs remind one of O. Henry's most loathsome man who would burn an orphan asylum in order to collect the insurance...
...Even an Idaho statesman should be able to understand this AN IMPORTANT ISSUE AT LIMA jyjUCH water has passed over the dam since President Theodore Roosevelt seized Panama, brandished the Big Stick, and declared that the United States would police the Western Hemisphere...
...It is obvious last Still embarked on the policy of the popular front not beeeaee sfjaj strength of the Soviet Union but because of its weakness, sag it is no longer a question of challenging the powers that be...
...Moreover, Amhm the last few years the Stalinists and their friends, under wS& form disguises, have managed to penetrate into the office* of publishing houses, the editorial staffs of magazines, and the test, review sections of conservative newspapers...
...Why do we continue to send boys and girls to the land of the pogroms ? What do we expect them to learn in a land where the search for truth for truth's sake is prohibited...
...This goofy perspective gave rise to an er.thmiapaV lsluia which took account of nothing save revolotigai'ti^gi'ss* mongering...
...How little the Hitlerites are disturbed by paper protests is shown by a new important step to increase Nazi propaganda in this country...
...Max Lerner...
...Announcements have it, that they will be all driven into the shun districts, . deprived of all electricity...
...Not until the underlying mysteries are solved, will we have that "whole truth" about totalitarian espionage here, for which the oath of trial witnesses calls, but which no prosecution or defense lawyers seemed able or anxious to wring out of Rumrich or Turrou...
...Signs are multiply*** ji the cultural front is entering its period of disintegration...
...It is difficult for most people to be cw»*s| and then de-converted, si...
...Hitler, we are suddenly told, always sought nothing but the best relations with the French...
...The most revolting exhibit of this mob brutality is that of the German Nazis' hunting down of Jewish men, women and children, including the sick, the crippled an4 the aged...
...who is another **2 guished" fellow-traveler, has made it clear that he fttekf sg little of the kind of-"democracy" which Stalin's new *S*""'IB grants to his subjects...
...So desperate are H»^gy^m^^ the afflicted that they can no ^^^J^H^ longer mourn any more about "^Ej the loss—better to be dead I than exposed to the unbear^—B\ I able tortures of the conceng\\ B camp...
...How it it, tses, that despite the political disasters which it has caused, sad despite its demoralizing effect on progressive literary and art mcvemena Stalinism still commands the support of intellectuals whom est would have expected to have been among the first te tars amjs/ from it...
...Thus in the early years of this decade, when the mteUectesh first began streaming into the Stalinist movement, it was not tat beauties of the Marxist philosophy which attracted then bst rather the circumstance that the party calling itself Marxist wis backed by the Soviet Union...
...This wee* we — rfrs» , Philip Roe*.] THE surprising thing about the Stalinist cultural front n us* * so far no big cracks have appeased in it...
...This winter the citizens of this imaginary classless ssdtcf will be lucky if they get enough to eat...
...I This writer has met students in several col-] leges who were exchange students in Germany, and was amazed at the effect of Nazi propaganda on their young minds...
...If the United States renounces diplomatic coercion and the threat of military might in support ing such claims this will do more toward cementing solidarity in this part of the world than anything else...
...LOOKING AT THE WORLD By TONY SENDER Former Socialist Deputy in Reichstag Nazis Untroubled By United States Paper Protests Tories Must Learn Peace Can't Be Won By Bribes STRONG protests from all classes of the people of the United States were uttered against the appalling barbarism of the ruling gangsters in Naziland...
...The new agency probably will not be restricted to students but will do its work among Americans generally...
...That is the staggering price to be paid for isolation...
...The Pan-American Conference in Lima will deal with one important question growing out of our past imperialism which will test the Good Neighbor policy...
...PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NAZI COWARD THE bully who strikes down a helpless man or who abuses a child or a woman is execrated in all civilized communities...
...Instead of the previous enthusiasm, it is now fear wfckk f*» vents many of the converted literary men from breaking seas This fear is of a mixed kind...
...Rather than investigate on their own the remtiea sf art to politics, they handed themselves over, body sad seal, te the guardian* of the "party line" in culture...
...If we are to try to answer them, we must first take into consideration the fat that a political struggle is not a competition of logical tijiiiaS but of social forces and material interests...
...ft THERE are other factors, of course, both of a psychoisgisa «to political nature...
...Opposing any effective policy of assuming responsibility for world stabilization and peace through international cooperation, the only alternative is to join the armament race...
...i BUT today this Messianic leftism is no more...
...But they don't only torture Tony Sender those who are in the ¦ camps or the Gestapo cellars—both women and children are continuously objects of more refined, more brutal vexations...
...Soviet Russia Today," and all *»• jJJ-3 the "progressive" and up-to-date organs of twentieth Americanism, including the "Daily Worker," the "FreJasfaX »f 'Midwest Record...
...The answer is: There will be a permanent war scare, which must finally end in war, if the countries with democratic constitutions continue* flattering the dictators and granting them concessions...
...Have Chamberlain and Daladier forgotten the exchange of telegrams between the two dictators in which Hitler promised Mussolini that he would not forget what II Duce had done for him ? And II Duce now is presenting the bill which will be footed by the Fuehrer...
...il And in his new book...
...This psychology holds true of a mob of bullies who hunt the weak in packs...
...To make the farce complete, Daladier's friend Neville Chamberlain is visiting Rome to make his friendship with II Duce still closer...
...Emerson's law of compensation will yet assert itself in Germany, and when the Whirlwind destroys the Nazi slave state the innate abasement of the bullies will be revealed in their cowardly flight before the avengers of real German culture and civilization...
...Nobody, set even the "friends" and "sympathisers," takes leataualyaw longer the claim that a classless society is evolving in the Soviet Union...
...Naturally, such people sw Sgj in inventing rationalizations to mask their real molieta " are the types who specialize in fault-finding when the diseaaaf veers to the other left-wing groups, but who contrive to jPgl the vices of Stalinism only in the vaguest and most innoesat toBPf "Radicalism...
...There could be no more appropriate accompanying music to the signing of the pact in Paris...
...What really mc« lua, however, is not the logic of rational thought but tap logic of social power...
...The new program is double-faced: on the sae aaadj* warm over the leftovers of the hitherto spurned toil** democracy, and, oa the ether, to apply desperate terrorist measures in order to keep the lid eswa oa the exploited Betas masses...
...L.'..i And it is with closed eyes that the intellectual tafiltoi f Stalinism follow the precepts of the "beloved leader...
...ITALIAN DEMONSTRATION BLOWS LID OFF DALADIER and Ribbentrop have met in Paris to sign an agreement expressing their will for peace...
...j if there have, been no open protests in Germany it should dm be forgotten that such protest would invite torture in a concentration camp for those who express it...
...While % hysterical and monotonous lying of a Mike Gold in the "Dag...
...The result has been that a kind of unofficial censorship » now menacing the intellectual freedom of these let...
...If the mobsters are bullying cowards the same thing may be said of Hitler...
...We should not forget that under the Weimar Republic such atrocities did not occur...
...and, as a Stalinst once told an, "one-sixth of the world's real estate is nothing to assess- at" It was the depression, of course, which forced the intellectaek to go shopping in the political market: yet what caused teem to stop at the Stalinist stand was not the bright display of ideologist) goods but the state-power behind it...
...And it will be the people who have to pay for the statesmen's fatal delusion...
...Nelson P. Mead, President of City College, made the fact known and exposed it to public opinion...
...The Idaho Senator has been an outstanding isolationist...
...The blackmailers know and respect only one argument—the fist—and one might as well try to appease a crazed drug addict by reading him an essay on ethics as to expect paranoiacs like Hitler and Mussolini to act like normal human beings...
...On die other hand, in our reaction against this horror there is danger of ascribing responsibility for it to the Germans in general and this would be to repeat the old war myth that all Gmmans are "Huns...
...Herbert So low, for which no official explanation is forthcoming...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 50
