BOOKS AND WRITERS
TARTAK, ELIAS L.
By ELIAS L. TARTAK BOOKS AND WRITERS Japanese Civilization in China ANOTHER book* by a so-called "secret agent," and an ex-Japanese agent, at that, ft is enough to put the reader on his guard....
...on Europe's map and spa reluctantly turning from a cr>pyon)tr»i*iott on social reforms to the arms race which grips the .iotUmii) Strictiiy obsessed tPeakjaa certfawjag sasr exist between . Uei^wftyi S W^s^eiif ?^efi2&A*rk *u**a ficbtiae never huna ever the Social >i^ajBB*w^e^S^p| ¦^ewKx...
...Of all the Scandinavian nations, Denmark is in the most difficult position...
...His inability to see things clearly is perhaps best expressed by his wife and one of the editors of his "Letters," Ella Winter: "When his son Pete was born, late in life" (Steffens was already sixty years old), she writes in her introduction, "Steffens found himself in possession of an unexpected new way to express his reflections...
...There's practically no Danish army, since it has only some 15,000 men on its roils with some 55,000 men in reserve...
...By ELIAS L. TARTAK BOOKS AND WRITERS Japanese Civilization in China ANOTHER book* by a so-called "secret agent," and an ex-Japanese agent, at that, ft is enough to put the reader on his guard...
...His trump care will be the argument that if th< two organizations fight each othei before Congressional committee...
...The C.I.O contends that if contracts are not voided in accord with a majority vote it will be placed at a disadvantage...
...The day before he died, he wrote, 'I thought I had to make my son at home in the strange world I had invited him to visit.'" * * » JUSTICE AND THE SOVIETS FYID he...
...More than that, however, they are a revelation of the American liberal soul, perplexed, bewildered, curious but without any solid conviction OS direction...
...Steffens had an insatiable curiosity...
...Richard J. Beamish, member of the Pennsylvania commission, said this week that Hopsonr and his Associated Gas and Electric System have "completely surrendered" because the government agencies "built a ring of fire around them...
...As proof that they have given up their four-year fight against the government investigators "and regulators, Beamish cited two remarkable developments: Important Concessions 1—Hopson and five of his relatives stepped out of the "service companies'* which "milked" Associated operating companies of $18,534,072 in the past few years...
...The Aland Islands are considered the key to the Baltic and vital to Germany if the Nazis would break up a blockade of its northern ports...
...It is obvious her* that with the C.I.O...
...There, after some free-lancing a* a "secret agent," he joined the "intelligence service" of the Manchurian overlord, Marshall Chang Tso-lin,— and in that service he stayed until the marshal's mysterious death...
...He became the much celebrated muck-raker...
...The letters of Lincoln Steffens...
...But the reader is soon enough convinced of the truthfulness of the book in so far as it deals with the Japanese, since the book gives only a more coherent and systematic picture of what the world has of late come to know through piecemeal, but authentic report...
...It is reported that the opposition may agree to a convention in April...
...What Amleto Vespa tells of the Japanese methods of "occupation" is reading for people with strong nerves...
...He thought a great deal in terms of explaining the world to one who was divinely ignorant...
...Co...
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...3^^' IhaaiUlBjHr gNlnimt northern European countries.^But the^widestroyed hUm national peae* and security in northern Europe...
...Trad* With Orient w* ¦ * WASHINGTON, D. C—Japan's *-ar on China ha* slashed United States trade with these two lis tie** yj more than $211.000,0pa, the Commerce Department iapart...
...The series of gruesome deeds and events in which tile author was, for several years, compelled to participate leave the reader speechless with horror and disgust...
...when he saltan the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee and had Associated spend $1,000,000 on fake totagi am* and other vicious propaganda against the Holding Company Act Associated is still trying to block governmental inquiries of various kinds, and Hope— ha* net announced that he will testify before tiie Securities aad Exchange Commission, which he recently defied to get anything out of him about Associated* financial skullduggery...
...The Navy is only for coastal policing and the air "force" has some 65 planes...
...OSLO, Norway^^hough*titt*Sca?»avian nations and Finland have an ^b^MJm treaty with Germany—signed 20 yftws a« Ifrey have read the Nazi fca^rfurnfinja...
...Finally, in desperation, he chose the easier path and fled to Europe...
...Last week the nuns of two large convents were Dusted from their buildings and schools, which were seized by the Government...
...Like many American liberals, drunk by his own vision of a mythical society, surfeited and comfortable, he watched with indifference the parade of Soviet agony...
...V/ It *eems that Vespa enjoyed his service under the eld overlord of Manchuria, and, if the book is to be believed, the author's services were in the nature of ordinary police work...
...surprising...
...Hopkins' Difficult Task It is practically impossible tc reconcile the two views so long a; there are rival federations aad r is recognized that Secretary Hop kin* ha* a task that will give bin many headaches...
...He charged that his opponents formed a faction "to serve as the instrument for effecting the objectives of the Communist Party in the U.A.W.A...
...Martin Faces Hostile Soord In Detroit President Martin of the Automobile Worker* seems tc have surprised his hostile hoard by recommending that it call a specie...
...Repetition of the Viennese anti-church order is expected throughout Germany, as a prelude to immediate nationalisation of afl church property: All of which of course mean* the end of Church activities, the expropriation of monasterial property, and the liquidation of-the monastic orders...
...Finland Rearms . Although less penetrable to German attack than the three Scandinavian p a t i e n s Finland, which has just taken action against its local taaneta by curtailing the activities of the Patriotic pasty aad its 14 members of Parliament, is nevertheless preparing for attack* from the South...
...A SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN, by Amleto Vespa...
...Nans Ousted The offensive against the Roman Catholics has been impending far some time for in official circles Catholics from the Pope down era regarded as "White Jew*.*' - The Viennese decree comes shortly after a series of arrests of nuns and priests and the seizure of :hurch property...
...He traveled in Germany, Austria, England, France, Italy...
...Three days previously Delaware had issued a charter of incorporation to the National Federation of labor authorizing it "to establish keal branches . . . throughout the United States and in foreign countries...
...he began to look at men, at American cities, at corruption, at Big Business...
...Perhaps he meant his ardent and blind championship of the Soviet "people...
...Armies Rejuvenated Sweden is Hmueintitng* its tiny bat efficient army of 665,000 men-there are 400.000 r—orves ready— and its navy of 67 battleships, cruisers and submarines run by a personnel of §,000...
...Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, $10.00...
...In many rural area* all denominational schools have been abolished or transformed into Nazi public schools...
...Boston* 1938...
...On September 28, 1937, the board denied the organization approval" for a certificate of incorporation wider the laws of New York...
...Nazis Order Catholics to Prepare for Expropriation Long Expected Drive Against ZURICH...
...Lincoln Steffens has the distinction of being one of the few great American reporters who carried feelings over into their judgment of men...
...Having pronounced judgment he refused to look farther...
...PACIFYING" MANCHURIA fYF Chang Tso-1 in the author speaks with praise...
...GENEVA.—The arrival of MS9 brought tiie I*teraaa*aal Labor Office here its first ¦martosji di-1 rector, John 6. Win*at, farm...
...a '• CHINESE "IRREGULARS" •THROUGHOUT all that time, the author kept * up his connections with tile Chinese "irregulars," Manchurian and Chinese rebels Who gave no quarter to, and expect none from, the Japanese...
...A* a young man, the author had, after some adventures in such far-off corners of the earth *s Mexico, South America, A us-' tralia and Tibet, drifted into Manchuria...
...In certain provinces the authorities have forbidden school teachers from giving instruction Ik either the Old Testament or the Epistles of St...
...Martin expressed his dissatisfaction with the settles**** last fall when C.I.O...
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...The Japanese Vespa hates most thoroughly...
...Ha became a newspaper man...
...for fab life...
...Edited by Ella Winter and Granville Hicks...
...Therein, it seems to me, lies the tragedy of many American liberals and of Lincoln Steffens in particular: All his life he sought justice only to condone before his death the most monstrous injustice of our time...
...ENDS COMPANY'S JSE OF VIGILANTE HOBS LOS ANGKl.FS^Tke Nstiaasl Labor Relation s Board last week mded the use of vigilante* by tiw Red River Lumber Company, which had frequently formed terrorist ¦nabs to smash aajea drives...
...Not only does he hate their deeds in Manchuria and China, but he despises the whole stock...
...Utilities King Seen Quitting Battle to Evade U. S. Laws WASHINGTON, D. C—Has Howard C Hopson,, archenemy of tre Utility Holding Company Act and of government regulation in general, surrendered to the Federal Power Commission and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission...
...A few days ago, these service companies were turned over to toe Associated System, aad all work done by them for the operating companies hereafter is to be on a "non-profit" basis...
...The amendments deal with nine matters the most important being proposal* to strip the beard of the power to set aside union contracts and making it mandatory for the board to hold craft union election...
...Removing all doubt that the anti-Semitic nwnisssi m the Reich are to be followed shortly by m anti-church expropriation drive, the Hitler government skat week, through a decree issued in Vienna, ordered all Churches of Christ to be inventoried by tie hut day in January...
...It is, however, an unusual book and, certainly, offers stirring reading...
...he dreamed of going to China, to Mexico—always conscious, however, as he wrote to one of his friends, that "There is more matter in America, virgin and beautiful than in any other country...
...He chased men and ideas in an attempt to educate himself but never succeeded...
...a*d -.ales to China slumped fro* about 148.000.000 to about $31.000^08...
...Paul...
...How does an Italian become a Japanese "secret agent" in Manchuria...
...However, ii will not be easy for either side U refuse to confer with the- Secrete r; of Commerce a* tins would be t rebuff to tike President aad nesthei side desires to risk being accused of sueh stubbomess...
...Finally, the author had to run...
...Pennsylvania commission examine the book* df the service companies, to find out how much money they have milked from subsidiary operating companies in that state...
...Secretary of Labor Perkins had faced the problem and had proposed a committee to work out peace proposals but she made nc headway...
...The story is an unusual one...
...i it, i * »__j 1.1-_ jriM Yy Asaaa isvaaos But despite their size, the Finns and Scandinavians are preparing for their defence against their common brown-shirted southern enemy...
...Finnish and Swedish experts have just left Stockholm, where they agreed en the fortification of the vital 6.534 Aland-Islands...
...The sompany signed a pledge to cease use of vigilante*, and will afcto re-I instate 19 employees who bad b**Tl fired for unionization activities...
...Denial of the application by the Board was made on the ground that the phoney organization is "not wholly altruistic" in its purposes "or solely designed for the promotion of the mutual betterment" and protection of workers while its name would tend to create confusion in that applicants might be induced to join it in the belief that they were jorrrmg the A. F. of L. White Flag...
...Wber Hitler is read}- to march, hell first qawpie T^aniflb industry and: &gr.-culture by shutting the Reich to Danish produce...
...As a young man Steffens went to Germany to study philosophy...
...Little, Brow...
...Because he saw and understood the failings of human beings he could champion with equal ardour the causes of suck diverse type* as Tent Kooney, the McNamara brothers, Edward A. Pilene and Thomas Lament...
...aha are bitter enemies of ska Catholic aad Protestant churches...
...op-posing the amendments the President is anxious to get the rival labor chiefs to a conference table to prevent a nasty row between them over the Labor Act...
...Scandinavians Bolster Defense Against Nazis tfa* A^fa*^ fcwaaJoa ffai'ttfy...
...Aside from the courageous Pastor Martin Niemoller, 12 members at the Confessional Church's govern-ng body are in concentration ramps, 130 removed from then-posts, aad 40 forbidden to sisnds...
...The Japanese, Vespa tells us, have come to China, not just to rule and to exploit, but to destroy and crush the population into utter degradation and submission...
...H. J. Thnperley, the Far Eastern representative of "The Manchester Guardian" and "Christian Science Monitor...
...How he escaped and succeeded in extricating his family from the clutches of the Japanese, forms one of the most'stirring chapters of the hook...
...Some commerce between this country and China is now being diverted through British aad Freaeh Torts, but the amount is sett to be -elatively small aad is net yet rejected in trade statistics...
...The Nazis know the value of the beautiful Norwegian forests...
...span's sales dropped' from more ban $192,000,000 to less than 5115,000.000, and China's from nore than $98,600,000 to about 143,060,000...
...mm_of the U. & Sec...
...He was given the choice between joining the Japanese secret service or seeing his family "hurt...
...It is difficull to see how a truce eaa be effectec in the legislative field if the fighl on organisation issues continues ir the various states...
...The veracity of the book is vouched for by Mr...
...It'was under this charter jkat the organization sought to /lo sminess in New York...
...convention by March 1. He had opposed a special convention and the opposition ha* delayed action...
...Weil informed circles hare actually believe that the Reich will march into Southern, German populated Danish territory soma tiass saftias tsgtomsar 198»^ Moreover^ the ^Danes^are mg power of the German peopk who usually buy some 60 per cent of Denmark's food exports...
...In other sections the government permits only "authorized sermons...
...United State* sale* to the two latkms in the first 11 aiiaehs Of 1988 dropped off about $7»,OO(M»0 'rem the same period is 1987...
...He liked learning for the sake of learning...
...He accepted the safer course...
...The Swedes doat intend handing ever their valuable forests, lumber aad paper industries, wheat fields, iron mine* and steel mills to the Reich without a fight Even little Norway, with it* army of 46,000 men and 315,000 reserves, and nary of 1,200 officers and sailors, i* rapidly modernizing and widening its defensive powers...
...Wholesale murder, rape and extortion are, according to Vespa, the emerydmy methods of the Japanese "*fa»*»»*T*i—**-— of Manchuria...
...H.L.R...
...Although the second volume is almost •¦^ entirely to or about "Pete" there is little indication that he left to* his son a clear idea as to what this world is all about...
...During the pre-Munich "crisis," a German fleet was reported ready to steam on the Finnish Islands, which are inhabited by some 30,000 Swedes...
...That this phoney "union" obkuned a charter in Delaware is Z9...
...Humanitarian though he was he could speak of "Socialist Construction," the Five-Year Plans, the Successes of the Moscow Art Theatre (successful long before the October Revolution), ignoring completely the Soviet Man, the "creator" of the "Socialist Fatherland...
...Ia 1932 the Japanese became masters of Manchuria, and Amleto Vespa was compelled to "work" for them...
...Kk-x>rts to Japan declined from about ^280.000.000 to $211,008,008...
...The wuvenu ware the School Sisters of Weis and the Augustine Nuns of Salzburg At the same time nurses belonging to confessional orders were ousted from, Austrian hospitals am) sire being replaced by Nasi...
...When it came, however, to understanding and assimilating the numerous ideas with which he toyed during his long and, in many ways, fruitful life he was like the talented youth who in his adolescence gives every promise of creative distinction only to betray that promise when he reaches maturity...
...New stuff, new style, new man and new work...
...Secretary Hopkins, it if said, may attempt to work out s legislative truce between the twe organisation* if he is unable tc present aa acceptable formula foi getting the two organisation* intc s peace conference...
...If the "Letters" ever achieve the status of aa Ameiiiaii classic, as Carl Sandburg suggests in his preface, it will he not because Steff ens was a dssp thinker whose thought could guide the future generations of Americans but because he was a lovable character, a gentle man in love with humanity and always alert to new ideas •ad new people...
...It will be recalled that just prior to 43m November pogroms, the Reich ordered all Jews to list choir assets in government ossces...
...It is believed by informed circle* here that tkis decree comes aa a sudden "apart" to influence the Nasi "extremist" clique, led by Himmler and Von Ribbentrop...
...For Steffens, too, like a drowning man, seized upon the "Soviet Experiment" and refused let go of it...
...In their drive to dechristianise Germany the National Socialists ire not neglecting the Protestants...
...As the reader will remember, the marshal's train waa exploded by a mine, and his Japanese friends were suspected in having had a hand n the marshal's sudden demise...
...when workers petition for them and to select their representatives by a majority vote...
...Hopkins Seen as Peace Mediator of Labor Split Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Three events this week ieatured the split in the ranks of the organized workers: the publication of the American Federation of Labor's program for amending the Wagner Labor Act, the selection of Secretary of Commerce Hopkins by President Roosevelt to bring peace between the A. F. of L. and the C.I.O., and the meeting of the executives of the Automobile Workers Union .in Detroit where it became evident that President Martin controls .only four of the board's 24 votes...
...The local airplane factories which have built the Finnish Air Force of 150 planes are being overhauled for mass production, sad the army of seme 85,000 men is being rapidly increased...
...The announcement of the A. F. of L.'s amendments was followed two days later by the selection of Secretary Hopkins as peace-maker...
...and that the members would have to decide whether they were to have . a anion serving than or one serving an outside force...
...Finland then mobilized 4000 men to protect them, and Sweden readied an expeditionary fosee...
...jhtgd Jsioad* M*W • rata Compaisory MlHtary Servre* far 30,OOP Swedes...
...With unutterable naivete, the author of "Secret Agent of Japan" believes that Mussolini doesn't know of his allies' crimes in China...
...The Bewildered American Liberal By LEON DENNEN THE letters of Lincoln Steffens, even more than ids famous autobiography, give a fresh close-up of the panorama of American history, particularly of the numerous reform movements, from 1889 to 1936 of Which the author was at all times an interested observer and at various periods also an active participant...
...imports from the two nations ilso showed a large drop -daring he 11-month period, the decline oteling mere than SUCMMtt...
...leaders reinstated members of the board who had been expelled...
...There is no crime from kidnapping for extortion of money, organizing the white-slave and narcotic traffic, murdering thousands of innocent people for pa^BdsSS OX^Stksn-dating the population—but the Japanese authorities have practiced it on a wkolnnle aad meat systematic scale...
...Although the Stockholm conference decided on a plan for limited remilitarization, including compulsory army service, of the Islands, the real importance of the discussions lies in the fact that this mark* the first test of North European cooperation in international politics...
...As a matter of fact, however, few observers believe he is completely out of Associated now, or that he has entirely changed the attitude he showed in 1936...
...I have seen," he proclaimed pontifically, "the future and it works...
...He studied in five universities and then returned to America only, as he himself expressed it, to "unlearn" all that he learned...
...both are likely to suffer...
...Fake "LaborUnion" Gets Delaware License, Denied Charter in N. Y. " ALBANY, N. Y.—Denial of approval of the application of the National '-Federation of Labor, Inc., of Delaware, for authority to do business in New York State, has been announced by Chairman William J. Picard of New York State Board of Standards and Appeals...
...The deeper, however, he probed into the mysteries and complexities of American life the less he understood...
...That state is a ¦•tony ruled by the duPont dynasty and the state government for many years has reflected the power of thjs great corporation...
...Jap Invasion Cuts U.S...
...Security Board...
Vol. 22 • January 1939 • No. 2
