WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
LYONS, EUGENE
WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS F the piled-up horror and ugliness of the news comiar.lflH Nasi Germany since the anti-Semitic riots got under s i r jH has been one redeeming element....
...After that...
...Our own time we h a d in t h a t back-line would have been glorious had we trot seen on the by-passing roads hundreds of c a r s with fleeing people everyiday...
...The New Deal has done much to prevent a vast' human catastrophe since 1933, but it is obvious that its best achievement is not satisfactory and that industry has permanently Uprooted a large section of the working clasa We face a situation similar to that of the old Roman Empire when « large proletarian population was kept alive by public distribution of breed...
...A little pump priming and they felt good, so good that they again took up the American Plan, adding to it that government should give up its intervention in industry...
...ibange when General Syrovy's successor takes the govemmenl into its hands...
...Then we moved forwards and occupied a fortified line...
...The Catholic p a r t y which did not change...
...We refuse to p l ay his d i r t y game...
...Now for the first time in their history they yield to union erganizatoin...
...SAYS DENNEN ARTICLE SHOULD BE READ BY ALL Editor of The Neto Leader: J u s t a word of p r a i s e in general but in particular for Leon Dennen's o r t i c l e in t h e Nov...
...Only those of us who have had to contend w-.tfc totahtajfc censorships can appreciate fully how much plain guts HtaSh tell the gruesome story of Germany on Black Thursday aatV-m days that followed—to tell it in clean-edged words despite saZ censors...
...The flag is tucked away in moth balls, the American Plan is carted to the tomb, and other marked concessions are made...
...Willard L. Thorp declares that twotenths of I per cent of all corporations possess about 52 per cent of all corporate assets...
...More significant was its settssesat soul, the sense of revulsion it s t i r r e d in normal uninfected asatta " The r e p o r t e r s conveyed all of t h a t so fully, so amy, that m reader across the ocean could fail to understand not only wssttism happening—but what the correspondents felt about it...
...For myself I don't hesit a t e to u r g e upon you t o r e p r i nt it in t h e n e a r future...
...Add a third fact—the laboring millions lost about 120 billion dollars in wages and salaries during the depression...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. Benjamin Daublin...
...Soldiers Incredulous We simply wouldn't believe it...
...Emil Hacha, the president of t h e Supreme Court of Administration...
...There are hopes that, as we a r e a country with important exports, every government will be concerned with us, have a r e g a r d t o it...
...THOMAS PRAISES THE NEW LEADER Editor of The New Loader: Let me c o n g r a t u l a t e you on t he a t t r a c t i v e paper The New Leader has become...
...In t h e following days, *hw the e x t e n t of their defiance must have been brought s*SM » t h em by the German Press Department, they ant sat softpedal or back-water...
...In this country capitalism sank to its lowest depth in March, 1933...
...but we a r e not t a k e n in by it a n d know that our readers all not be t a k e n in...
...And i t was f r om the inside t h a t the American correspondents viewed and savored the events and wrote their dispatches...
...Even the pram ssmar r e p o r t e r s , men like Louis Lochner of the Associated rant and Oechsner of t h e United Press, whose technique is neceanr&v different and who have less margin for i n t e r p r e t i v e witling I S the special correspondents, came through with honor, fa* erst of the s t o r y was not in t h e surface facts alone but m the satjt of medievalism under the f a c t s . The record of stores atnSssei, innocent men a n d women beaten and herded into prises*, *fwgogues p u t to t h e t o r ch and m a s s sadism officially *timolaU4—mtt was only t h e body of t h e story...
...I n to our solitude came rumors I about many people having been killed in t h e Sudeten areas, whom the Henlein terrorists armed in the Reich had shot in ambush...
...We send t h i s , " t h e i r dispatches said in effect, "because it's offcial...
...Nobody can tell how t h i n g s wil...
...B e n e s h a d been forced to resign, because Hitler did not want him anymore and threatened to continue in occupying the country as they said...
...That system has been successfully defiei tm beaten so f a r a s i t s application t o t h e American press is eoaesrssi I am convinced that correspondents in Rome and atoseS»^S London and Tokyo, will be h e a r t e n e d by w h a t transpired in • * • » . They will d r aw s t r e n g t h for t h e i r own r u n n i n g fight against j»Jp agenda pressures, a g a i n s t official t h r e a t s and temptations, sgoh* the danger of smugness and cynicism...
...Hacha has since been elected president — Editor's Norte...
...Will this mean reemployment for all except about 2.000,000, the rough figure for that year...
...then another sharp descent to January of thi* year...
...There are stsrke which can only be told, emotionally speaking, from the inskk- est...
...Find Homes Rained We knew that we had fulfilled the role of t h e d o g which is intended to help his master, but not one who could expect help himself...
...Tfctr made no s e c r e t of t h e i r own horrified disgust...
...Maybe, some of them said, those in t h e front lines wouldn't go back and t h e whole t h i n g would start again and then the governments of France and Britain would be unable to stop t h e i r own nations whjfh would want to help us...
...The most probable candidate for the presidency is supposed to b e Dr...
...The men looked gloomy then, but when the s un had risen a nd the air got clear again the people seemed t o have forgotten all soi-TOW and t he men hasted full of energy to reach the centres oi mobilization...
...The words quoted were a little slip in his speech which reveals that the fascist-communist way of thinking will find expression however much a faithful Commissar may try to avoid it...
...But could we have expected more t h a n t h a t since we knew t h e policy of Great Britain and F r a n c e in Spain, China, Abyssinia, Palestine etc...
...Even if we return to the production level of 1929 the estimates of the number of future unemployed range from 7.000,000 to 9,000.000...
...Following the end of the World War it formed a united front with special capitalist organizations to break the whole labor movement of the United States...
...They hazard no predictions...
...6th issue...
...THE WORLD DO MOVE" * JCOR nearly fifty years the National Association of Manufacturers has been a militant anti-union organization...
...The collapse of the whole industrial system in 1933 made the N.AM, humble for a year or two...
...They wanted government help to get their enterprises going...
...It is, though, 1 matter of fact that no governmen will be able to exist which ioes not have the approval oi Hitler...
...Taeje p o r t e r s whom . I have named and their colleagues hat* pfoVigsi an example of clean, uncompromising foreign eorretpoaesUst t h a t will make newspaper history...
...f I t is t r u e t h a t in t h e l a s t t r e a t y, they have taken away from us hundreds of villages which a re purely Czech where t h e people will be under a regime of denationalization, but in addition to thai they compel our c o u n t r y t o giv< large stripes of land free to theii companies who will belong t o t h em There shall be German road' police in our country" and t< Germans there shall be free pass' age on those roads as if they wert crossing Germany...
...Organized workers should raise the question at their meetings...
...11F All Americans with sense enough to appreciate the iss» tance of courageous reporting in a world snarled hi cssta...
...Although Czechoslovakia was the last obstacle on t h e way of Nazi imperialism to fight a successful war a g a i n s t the western democracies, an obstacle on the way to Rumanian oil-fields and t o t h e Ukrainian and Yougoslav wheat, they did t h i nk of nothing but the r e d bogy which beautiful Adolf Was swinging before their eyes...
...I refer to the spirit, of the Aassoaj correspondents in r e p o r t i n g those appalling everts—their smsjm and courage in giving us t h e news straight, i t s b r u t a l i ty undtiBI by official lies...
...to power...
...PITY A COMMUNIST FUEHRER...
...Editor's N RENEWAL ESSENTIAL DESPITE DEPRESSION" Editor of The New Leader: Depression notwithstanding I find it impossible to hold off my renewal...
...They know that if t h e r e is one group whom the Men chieftains now h a t e more than they hate t h e Jews i t is the Aaarican correspondents who pilloried them before the world's snUk opinion...
...AND i t came through magnificiently...
...OLD-STYLE INDIVIDUALISM JJ^EMARKS of an Iowa farmer before the National Association of Manufacturers presented a classic example of old-style farmer thinking...
...Our soldiers were in a great mood, ready to fight t h e Nazis...
...Until now, a s you know already, three parties are left...
...Coming events cast their shadows before...
...No reliable authority will answer ye...
...The open shop was wrapped in the American flag and called the American Plan...
...Consider also the tremendous concentrations of capital and power in this period...
...He is a man of conservative thoughts, but a very lawful man too, a n d of g r e a t • scientific erudition...
...Since then the trend has again been upward with a halt for the past several weeks at a level reached late in 1935...
...All that we now realized...
...The world do move...
...Naturally I still differ with some of your policies, but I like to see t h e paper...
...In t h a t night all changed...
...Shall we be content to drift or shall we recognize that our present industrial system is no longer adapted to the crying needs of humanity...
...ships aad befuddled by propogandaa should take their hats sff to American newspapermen Jike Ralph Barnes of the MB York Herald-Tribune, Otto ToUachas of the New York Tmm Sigrid Schnltz of the Chicago Tribune, Wallace R. DcastjS the Chicago Daily News and others suddenly called osea a report the German saturnalia of race hatred It » as s m*V leage such as t h e foreign press corps in a censored mmjflmf ship faces in milder forms day after day, bat which it fassiii that day of unleashed terror starkly and beyond the psssssaky of evasion...
...Drift settles nothing hot the certainty of reaching an abyss...
...Not more than five days passed when the mobilization came...
...Every time a foreign correspondent buckles under to a fseept Press Department, every time an American editor fails to seeps* a courageous reporter abroad—the system of polluted new* Js...
...Hacha Candidacy Welcomed When I came back again—how we had wanted to come back—the consequences of the new regime showed themselves...
...This was followed by a zig-zag upward trend to June...
...Crazy hopes arose...
...What are we going to do about it...
...Some went on leave and came back as ruined men who had lost their occupation as those who fled from the occupied regions might have together with the demobilised and with others who were no soldiers at all have taken their places...
...And 50 it was everywhere, as I was later told by friends who served on different places...
...The New Leader will cooperate in presenting the data on which the above observations are based and will welcome letters from its readers...
...Then came weeks when we were *ent back and forward gain, quitt i n g and occupying our fortified lines again...
...Being human they are under the compelling temptatjmjsf remain on good terms—or a t l e a s t on t o l e r a b l e terms—with ta* mar...
...Assume that industry recovers to the level of 1929...
...This is old-style individualism with a vengeance, a case of arrested development which, fortunately, is not typical of all small farmers...
...A SOCIETY for the prevention of cruelty to Communists' should be formed and first aid should be extended to Earl Browderr their American Fuehrer, who is compelled to perform the magic feat of approving dictatorship and democracy at the same time, in the same place, and in the same speech...
...That took guts, lots of it...
...We were ready to give even our lives for t h a t , but probably did we not count to our allies much more than the colored people who must fight for their privileges...
...The "experts" promise continued recovery throughout the next year...
...His putting 1 out is a victory over the extreme ' fascist tendency of H i t l e r ' s friends 1 especially...
...The outlook , for our future development is r a t h e r vague...
...This Last episode is a great tietory...
...They had come to defend their country and i t s freedom and they were not allowed to do so...
...In the Berlin dispatches there w a n mm) of the pussyfooting formulas of concealment, Bene of la* smelly compromises with s totalitarian despotism, whtsh sisgraced journalism in Russia at critical moments, asm SS ta* concealed famine of 19S2-S3...
...We had invested billions of Kc saved from the mouth of the poorest to safeguard our liberty and the freedom of French a nd British people...
...He cannot decide to join one or the other or even to cooperate with his own group of owners of small acres because he is "too damned dumb...
...Why should the have more pity for a country which nobody had known...
...Lucy J. Work...
...The United National P a r t y consisting of all the rightist and a g r e a t e r part of the Benes party...
...Chvalkovsky, our former ambassador in Berlin and Rome, who is strongly supported by t h e authority of Hitler...
...The following sentence from t h at article is a gem and will stand with the best of t h e m : "The g r e a t est crime of t h e Communists is t h a t they have banished t r u t h from t h e Socialist movement and t h e r e by destroyed the soul of Socialism...
...I t is Mr...
...The Communists a r e not allowed to perform any activity...
...1937...
...David Perry, their plumed knight of forty years ago, must have thrown down his Harp when the news reached him...
...American journalism, and t h e American people, have cause for pride in t h e i r foreign press r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s in German...
...Many of u s had left them a t home practically without income, left to a small government subsidy...
...In ether words, there has been ass enormous permanent displacement of labor during the depression period...
...But another disillusion came when we learned t h a t the events of Munich were received in both Britain and France with great enthusiasm, the people believing t h a t peace was saved now...
...Our boys were terribly disappointed...
...The-continuou* battle of ftw j o u r n a l i sm a g a i n s t censorships and other pressures has in rasaV years had i t s ups and i t s downs...
...Batista on his return from the United States...
...I t may well be t h a t on account of the election many will not give t h i s article the a t t e n t i o n t h a t it deserves...
...The Fuehrer wants to sell the Communist dictatorship to Uncle Sam as a partner in fighting fascist dictatorship, but sadly observed in a speech to the faithful that this is difficult "because .the United States is not yet united and of one mind.'' If the Fuehrer had his way he would get this "one mind" as Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini got it by way of the concentration camp...
...They know, only too i n t i m a t e l y , that- this hsSred «sn make itself manifest in a thousand crude or subtly indirect WSJ...
...Your paper has always been the best source of information and pleasure to all those interested in democratic socialism...
...The women also ceased crying...
...PklEXT year will be the tenth anniversary of the industrial crisis...
...seen from a moral distance, above t h e battle, such stories mms no sense...
...During the d a y we distributed t h e rest of ammunitions and observed the s k y wondering when the mighty army of t h e a i r would pass over us...
...For all corresponMss)|ji meant a s h a r p a n d uncompromising defiance of Nazidom, its tissb parent shams and cynical denials...
...Others had sorrows about their homes in the occupied region which day by day was growing larger by f a r exceeding the principles established in Munich...
...As Batista is credited with brutal crushing of the Cuban labor movement to make it of "one mind," we are moved to tears by this affectionate meeting of minds in Havana...
...The Social Democratic Federation must enter this rich held of service by holding educational meetings, printing leaflets and pamphlets, interpreting the rich sources of information that portray the appalling trends of American industry, and formulate a program based (upon the staggering facts now available even in government publications...
...He's for one and against the other in Russia and for one and against the other in the United States...
...But all in vain...
...Today a new candidate has been put out...
...The New Year should be a year of devoted service dedicated to an awakening of the masses to current trends and the development of a program based on this evolution, not on emotion, hysteria and wishful thinking...
...Mstkatoitj fbsf t r a n s m i t t e d Goebbels" mealy-mouthed explanations and sneering, tongue-in-cheek denials, but t h e y did n o t help him in his game...
...VALUABLE PAPER" Editor of The New Leader: I like to receive your valuable paper, and think it is t h e best labor paper in America—informative, educating, and instructive and enlightening...
...J. Prague...
...Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...Another slip was exhibited in the Daily Worker of December 7, which published a picture of James W. Ford, Earl's crony, in Cuba with Cuban Communists welcoming Col...
...The former parties were forced to dissolve and unite in a new party...
...LAUDS EDITORIAL' ON AID FOR REFUGEES Editor of The New Loader: The editorial in The New Leader of November 26, " N o Talk of Immigration Quotas Now — While Millions Suffer," d e s e r v e s t he g r e a t e s t possible praise and t he widest distribution...
...Washington, D. C. Alfred Dietst t e r has asked that we do not disclose his name because t he situation in Czecho Slovakia, as he states, "is subject to different changes and I wonld not like to c r e a t e an easy prey for would-be hunters...
...forced a t home by t h e H i t l e r s , Mussolini* and Stalins is "naelsl also to America...
...Who then could know that the two allied governments feared nothing so much as having Hitler beaten by them, that he had succeeded in convincing them that his defeat would mean Communism in Germany and the end of French and British capitalism as well...
...The sun had not yet risen and I could see men and women, the l a t t e r weeping, s t a n d i n g in groups in t h e mist of the dawning...
...The National Party of the working people formed by t h e Social Democratic P a r t y and by some splitters of the Benes party...
...The soldiers and officers, als of us we thought now of our families...
...The correspondents on t h e firing line and the ostttsrsiSt home have demonstrated their independence and thereby strsafttened themselves for t h e skirmishes still to come...
...It was early in t h e morning when I went on inspection...
...It was a pity to see a wonderful army over which Hitler would have stumbled to b e in a such sad s t a te of mind...
...The German influence which is growing from day to d a y finds i ts expression not only in t h e definite statement of our boundaries but in t h e a u t o s t r a d a s which Germany forces us to suffer to be built by i t s companies...
...There are moments when the SE touted "objective" reporting is inadequate...
...BUT when the t e s t came, they forgot sslf-iatiristy mtf kicked official formalities out of the way, ami SUM • * story without fear or faltering...
...We expected the w a r to s t a rt any day b u t still hoped that now when our government in agreement with the French and British had shown a resolute and firm a t t i t u d e , Hitler would never dare to attack us...
...To the Editor Czechs1 Plight Described in Prague Letter Editor of The New header: A few d a y s a f t e r H i t l e r ' s Nuremb e r g address I joined the Czech army for e x t r a o r d i n a r y exercises...
...Only two p a r t i es remain at present: the National P a r t y and t h e National Workers' Party—Editor's Note...
...Owning over 200 acres, the statement is typical of the small owner who works and lives in a mystic zone between owners and workers...
...Then came the mournful night of t e 29th of September when we heard t h a t C h a m b e r l a i n and Daladier had passed their judgement over our miserable country...
...These correspondents must emtinue to live in Berlin, to m a i n t a i n constant contacts with the Man regime...
...And now it appears that henceforth even at the peak of any future recovery the United States will have a jobless population of from 7.000.000 to 9.000.000 workers, a permanent class dependent upon government assistance to keep its members and dependents alive...
...Overlooked ana nearly lost uTS turmoil, it w a s there ail the time and today stands oat jam sharply in retrospect...
...There as* t h i n g s which the camera, and automatic camera-like i«a*t*hny cannot possibly catch...
...Two suet roads will cross from North tc South and one f r om West to E a s t the latter being of important* even for o u r country...
...This people, the Jews, whose contributions to t h e world have been fundamentally spiritual, intellectual and with the gift of sound economics, would be honored and loved by a decent world, and are so r e g a r d e d by decent people...
...Next week the election of the new president will take place...
...My sincere appreciation...
...The contributions of Eugene* Lyons have added a final touch of life and color that make The New Leader a wellbalanced and completely satisfactory journal...
...While the Labor Movement divides into factions and each fights the other, and others of us walk in our sleep, this appalling prospect rises in the background to haunt us...
...Norman Thomas...
...For m a n y a correspondent it meant the sacrifice, hi s> day, of official friendships and news sources aad comfortable 44 j u s t m e n t s built up d u r i n g many years...
...We farmers are too damned dumb' to form a partnership even between ourselves,'* he said and added that there would be no partnership between the farmers and manufacturers or with workers...
...George Kalmanowitz...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 51
