Letters To the Editor
Letters To the Editor Opposed to Limiting Rights Of U. S. Fascists Editor of The New Leader: Letters to the editor are usually a waste of time unless one has an imposing name. But it is high...
...From Spiritual* to Swing, f re» Marx to MarshstaHows...
...However, it is obvious to every intelligent person that this is not the case...
...When they came to us with letters of introduction (usually from people we couldn't remember) it was enough to show them night life and weal color...
...Small wonder some of them—or so we thought—got mental indigestion...
...Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin are examples of this law of dictatorship...
...29, and, in its final form, in Le Populaire of Dec...
...1939 period of 1153.386,512...
...I have no more relish for "the leadership principle" than you, whether it comes m black, red, or brown...
...They were intent on higher things...
...For infringing on Moscow's monopoly of purging, these minor terrorists have been purged by the higher dictatorship...
...Or a judicial manufacturer of injunctions made to order ? Or would you suggest that we hold trials by jury to determine whether or not a particular person or group does or does not believe in dictatorship ? Would we have tribunals to determine whether a particular government in Europe is dictatorial, > temporarily dictatorial, or truly democratic...
...But what is democracy...
...If it happened to Jimmy Durante, the jury would have to award him th eFederal budget • • • Money Without Jews is an idea Hitler got from reading in a mirror the title of Mike Gold's book, "Jews Without Money...
...Incidentally, the editor merely raised the issue and did not presume to express a final opinion on that matter...
...Neither is it based on the two drafts of the minority (Faure) resolution as published in Le Popu-laire of Nov...
...Indications are that the Senate will not increase the appropriation...
...CLIVEDEN RESET It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind—and Lady A it or being a lady has her mind made up to change it, particularly about dictators...
...He sees a bearded worker learning to read, but doesn't realize that he will be allowed to read only what the political bosses think good for him...
...A low-cost newsprint made frees straw has been developed by Dr...
...F. W. Hochstetter, s Pittsburgh chemist Now the yellow -press can print its jaundiced junk on appropriately tinted paper...
...that five victims were "tried" and executed in the Moldavian Autonomous Republic...
...Farmingdale, N. J. Louis Horowitz...
...WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS ll/E foreign correspondents, settled in European capitals, cooU " tell that the summer months were upon us again without reference to the calendar or the temperature...
...Right now, the LaGuardia administration is trying to remove dozens of dead-head jobholders from the city payroll...
...The conservative and reactionary who accept democracy in other fields answer yes...
...But it is high time that somebody took exception to your proposal for denial of civil rights to advocates of dictatorship here and abroad...
...On all other resolutions of domestic policies, national problems, attitude toward the Daladier government, etc, there was no difference in the positions of the Twin Leaders...
...Leo Godowski, the great composer, went to Russia a couple of years ago with every wish to approve its new set-up...
...The struggle grows out of the injection of rival "ideologies" into the union...
...Esrl Brewder Bves there...
...hbrk Kniaoy...
...Fascism, sir, is a challenge to us who love democracy, to make democracy work...
...Who, pray, would decide whether one is entitled or not entitled to civil rights...
...Will he contribute...
...The enemy press of Prance— capitalist and Communist — was filled with such alarmist and vicious reports...
...The above letter follows the reasoning of Roger Baldwin in The New Leader of July 30, 1938, to which the undersigned replied...
...The Americans are a great people and Brazil's true friends," ssys Foreign Minister Oswald* Aranha, "snd Brazil reciprt-cates...
...The pattern of life, the atmospheric pressures, are so similar in Italy, Germany and Russia that the high-minded tourist of the investigating breed behaves about the same in all three places...
...Not until a cooperative democracy takes over industry and organizes it in accord with the ideals of democratic Socialism will democracy make its final conquest Anti-New Deal A.T...
...Even the first part of the caption is not entirely correct...
...19517-Nov...
...It seems to be obvious, and perfectly plain, that the only defense of democracy is its appeal to the masses...
...In his experiments, Dr...
...Ches...
...A politically off-color joke frequently holds more reality than thirty yards of Hitler's or Stalin's speeches...
...It has been announced that Station WQXR will broadcast "static-free" programs...
...Woodward died last September 10th...
...The Senate has Just confirms...
...Not all the new creches and machines, not even the gaudy Moscow subway, could fool him...
...But I would suggest that you stop looking enviously at their tactics with an eye to applying some of their policies in the defense of democracy...
...But not the teachers...
...And no amount of borrowing from Fascist tactics will save it...
...Pan-American Union Will Job) World's Fair____So, Uncle Snarl critics have organised a union...
...There purgers are being purged because they were too loyal in carrying out the purging...
...F. Geschickter produced cancer in 26 rats by giving varying dosages of estrogen, one of the femsle hormones...
...The Department of Justice perhaps...
...We hate to be ungrateful in face of such flattery but w* suspect that the Minister is after some sugar for his coffee...
...But the purging process has gone even farther than this in Bolshevik Russia...
...In Wisconsin the Republican Governor has a solid Democratic bloc behind him and his leaders in both houses...
...Thousands of dead-heads have been appointed — even elected — to office before...
...31, published a picture of Paul Faure, secretary-general of our sister party in France and for almost 20 years its principal builder and outstanding organizational leader...
...Not Pro-Munich But the crucial sin of the caption —and the anonymous correspondent' on which it seems to be based—lies in the claim that Faure "urged support of the Munich pact...
...it seems to me, is to cast the views be brings back in the subjunctive mood...
...What is worse, these dead-heads are able enough to endorse their pay-checks...
...Shall we let our" politicians determine whether that action is dictatorial before they permit civil rights to the friends of British Labor in America...
...I respect your determination to do something about Fascism and Communism...
...Shall it stop at the entrance to industry...
...THE DEMOCRATS SPLIT THE vote in Congress on the President's request for $675,000.000 to finance relief until June 30 recorded an alliance of conservative Democrats and Republicans that has all the appearance of a new political alignment By a vote of 226 to 137 the appropriation was reduced to $725,000,000...
...Certainly not on Faure's articles and speeches in the extensive discussion on the "road to peace" which preceded the 98 special "state conventions" of the party and their culmination in the extraordinary national convention of last Christmas...
...tarias countries, is at the mercy of officials, propagandas and, is many cases of his own fond preconceptions...
...In the totalitarian countries the dictators have a monopoly of facts, which are carefully rationed out for propaganda purposes...
...This Federal Commission is investigating to learn whether the A G. ft E. is hurting public welfare...
...Spain is another Munich, a republic delivered by democratic timidity, cowardly compromise and stupidity to the Fascist Black International for butchery...
...Colleagues in Rome snd Berlin with whom I compared notes on the subject are not much kinder...
...Moscow practically says to all other purgers, "We will tolerate no killers outside our own clique...
...If the struggle were waged over wages, hours and other conditions of vital interest to the members, which union officials had neglected, there might be some justification for these dangerous demonstrations...
...In Republican Ohio thousands of state employees are being discharged and Democratic Oklahoma is taking the same course...
...It will drift to a split and more dual unionism with loss of power for the membership and increase of power for the exploiters DEMOCRACY'S NEXT CONQUEST J7VERYBODY is for democracy in the United States, except some small totalitarian bands, including the Communists— if we forget their "principle" of Leninism which raises falsehood to the status of a major virtue...
...Organized workers have accomplished much in carrying democracy into industry, but there are still large areas in which autocracy is dominant and where democracy is fought by plutocracy...
...Robinson-Reubens, now languishing in a Kremlin dungeon...
...The look in a native's eyes often tells more about his country than rows of statistics and weeks of visiting "model" institutions...
...New York City...
...Concretely, there is a better example...
...Other tourists might come to admire the scenery Or to taste the European fleshpots...
...He was treated as a distinguished guest, cared for and flattered and invited to teach in the highest musical institutions...
...There is a strong movement on foot to libel the Spanish government as dictatorial...
...It carries the innuendo that one of the most important leaders of French Socialism is a "pro-Munich Socialist...
...Finally, we note that Benjamin Stolberg in his recent book on the C.LO...
...To a certain extent, in view of its precarious position, it probably is...
...the Soviets did build creches for babies and did establish model prisons...
...ajap raised this issue by saying that democracy does not require democratic tolerance of its destroyers...
...Hew much truth there was in these reports could be gleaned from the Faure address before the convention, delivered prior to the taking of the vote on the two rival resolutions concerning the "road to peace...
...For the Russian-born Natasha Gorin, arrested on the West Coast for espionage, the Soviets should return the almost forgotten' Brooklyn-born matahari, Mrs...
...On what is this misleading statement based...
...But I would suggest that your proposition, if once taken up by the politicians, would be a deadly plague on us all...
...He had gone beyond facts, to the essence of the country...
...Either the ideologists will be isolated or this union will reap what others have reaped that have suffered from this infection...
...He sees a nice home for babies in Moscow, but knows nothing of the hundreds of thousands of peasant babies starved out and liquidated in recent years...
...Similar trends are seen in various states...
...It seems clear, and, if I remember, The New Leader has many times repeated, the present set-up in America cannot, and has no right to, protect itself by driving discontent underground...
...If that does not imply torture more agonizing than physical beating up of helpless men, the word has lost its meaning...
...But it is precisely in this phase of civilization that democracy has not been fullfilled...
...To apprehend the character of dictated regimes and the quality of the "happy life" they advertise to the outside world, calls for intuition, for artistic sensitiveness, rather than arithmetic and footwork...
...The corporation's action, if allowed to pass, will stand as another indication of how government probes can be hamstrung by corporate lawyers while the companies shout that the New Deal is breaking the lav...
...Frank P. Corrigan of Ohio as Ambassador to Venezuela...
...Herr Bruening, of late eminence, once applied the dictatorial Article 48 of the German Constitution to defend democracy, and thus neatly paved the way in the national psychology for the subsequent rule of Hitler...
...Leon Blum's foreign views were not discussed at the convention...
...But he sensed the fear in men's hearts, the pain in their eyes, the oppressive weight on any politically straitjacketed nation, whether the straitjacket be painted red, black or brown...
...THE AUTOMOBILE WORKERS QNE cannot be sure what is happening behind the scenes in the Automobile Workers Union, but when large groups of members form into rival bands and each marches on the na-tionaf headeajerters to support or to oppose this or that policy or official we may be sure that internal conditions remain unhealthy and that the settlement made by the CIO last fall settled nothing...
...the Italian trains did run on schedule...
...Shortly after the November elections there was talk in Washington of "reconciliation" between political factions, organized capital, finance, workers and farmers that was to lead to a new "era of good feelings," but clashing economic interests are vetoing this mushy substitute for serious thinking...
...One could also find their echo every day in the Paris cables to our metropolitan press...
...In hearings before the Monopoly Investigating Committee at Washington, the Bell Telephone Company admitted that it had kept an improved type of tube off the radio market because the tube had such long life as to cut the profits of the manufacturers...
...Godowsky's highly de* veloped intuitions...
...Defend the Soviet Union" and "Long Live the Diet* torship of the Proletariat" '• • • Hereafter, Osanaseaaet eesnfafV station commentator* will eefns* the walls only with seeh apprevei streamlined ¦MbhsUths at* "George Washington only visiter Yankees...
...unemployment has been largely eliminated in Germany...
...He finds out that the Italian trains are more efficient but has no inkling of the efficiency of the Black TerroT...
...The least be should do...
...democratic tolerance of the terrorists in the nations ruled by the dictatorship helped to bring the latter to power...
...Your proposal to curtail civil liberties would be used very effectively, with pleasure and dispatch, by Mayor Hague in Jersey City...
...He would have no difficulty applying it to his requirements...
...The British and French "non-intervention" policies and the American policy of "neutrality" have deprived the republic of arms while Hitler and Mussolini have provided Franco with the military aid without which Franco would long ago have been driven from Spain...
...With the frame-ups in the infamous Moscow "trials" before Communist leaders in other regions of Russia, some leaders decided to stage frame-ups on their own account with the result...
...If your proposal were law, it is not hard to see where there would be a powerful attempt, backed probably by the Catholic hierarchy, to suppress the friends of Spain...
...Earl Breeder ordered s scrubbing sense, headed by Clarence Hathaway, * remove from the walls of all public lavatories yesterday's ComtnS-nist slogans...
...Professional "leaders," some not even members of the union, want top control of the union in order to regiment the union into an ideological lock-step like that of prisoners in a chain gang...
...However, we will still have Father Cengs-Hn with us • • • In 1919, atheist Benito Musteline wrote a book called, "Gel Doesn't Exist," and twenty year* later he and Hitler are itchiaf to prove it with the blessings ef a Detroit cleric...
...TTHE chief trouble was that these visiting teachers looked for * facts...
...THE fact-finding tourist, alas, lacks Mr...
...The Munich pact is mentioned in these long documents only in passing as a "breathing point that must be utilised for the struggle to insure s Issting peace . . ." "Twin Leaders" Agree It should be noted that your regular Paris correspondent, Benjamin Protter, had in the same issue and on the very same page of The New Leader, an article on the controversial issue in the French party and there was not a word that would justify the calumnies of your anonymous correspondent...
...Supposing a Labor government in England is compelled to take arbitrary or high-handed action to protect itself...
...In the third instance, the Associated Gas and Electric System flatly refused to allow the Federal Power Commission access to its records, and announced that it will not permit examination of its books until ordered to do so by the Supreme Court...
...He goes through a model Soviet prison colony, and leaves without a hint that at least two million prisoners, virtually serf of the state, are in concentration caasse The innocent teacher abroad, especially in the author...
...Even in cancer —it's eherehez la femme...
...Shoals' Frank P. have any of his pike namesake's traits, the Ambassador may find himself reporting for duty in Vancouver...
...If our friend sincerely believes, for example, that Nazis who in New York have practiced terrorism against their opponents are entitled to the benefits of democracy he should contribute funds to protect these and other terrorists and the Civil Liberties Union will accept the contributions...
...Just as significant is the fact that the action was taken in the name of "economy" regardless of whether the sum voted would not be sufficient to meet the requirements of relief...
...This is realized by exile, imprisonment or bloody purging of all dissenters...
...Incidentally, the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, in reporting this incident speculates on how some of the "confessions" have been obtained in past Moscow "trials" He doubts whether physical torture has been employed to extort confessions but declares, "The worst treatment of which I am convinced is the packing of too many prisoners into too small a space and the constant (questioning for many months sometimes...
...And he was saddened and revolted...
...Radio, Telephone, and Gas are the three industries concerned, specifically through the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Associated Gas and Electric Company, and finally a cross-licensing set-up that involved the Bell Telehphone Laboratories, the Radio Corporation of America, and the General Electric Company...
...Moreover, ownership is still undemocratic, and millions of workers are exploited by workless absentee owners through their corporation agents...
...Singly and in herds they came, hungry for information, prepared to masticate and swallow an entire conn try or the entire continent in a few weeks...
...Lost Nose's Value Set at $35,000 by Jury...
...We Knew it by the seasonal arrival of those of earnest, eager, excited American school teachers...
...When a large number of Democrats unite with Republicans to repudiate such a major recommendation of their chief we may be sure that their party organization is cracking wide open...
...For instance on her 59th birthday a few days ago she said, "Britain does not want war, but we can never tell what will happen, because dictators are like lunatics at-large...
...The recent Poultry Show soans-how reminds us thst Coughlia • set to lay another rotten egg e> some radio nestwork next Sunday-» * • We got this hot from the 9m floor at headquarters...
...By Ben Belsky Charades and Barricades DERHAPS the United States ought to make the gallant gesture and offer to exchange feminine spies with the Soviet Union...
...Paul Faure and the other friends of the minority resolution have stated repeatedly that had France followed the Socialist foreign policies of Blum's two cabinets there would have been no Munich pact and the victories of the Nazis would have been impossible...
...Unless the democratic powers make hasty amends for their truckling to the terrorists of Rome and Berlin, all hopes for Spanish democracy will perish in the next few weeks...
...They carried notebooks, dug busily into piles of official figures and asked endless questions...
...The Bell outfit has licensed the tubes, which has fifty times the life of and uses less power than the ordinary variety, to the RCA and General Electric oufits, which are not manufacturing them because the profits would be endangered...
...and T. Nets $153,385,512 in 1938 The poor, long-suffering, altruistic, and sadly misunderstood trusts—to hear their anti-New Deal spokesmen tell it—were revealed in three major instances this week as having kept an invention from the public to guarantee huge profits, Federal attempts to ex- < amine their books, and made tremendous gains despite all the "bureaucratic interference...
...SPAIN AFTER MUNICH T*HE fall of Tarragona is the hardest blow suffered by the Spanish Loyalists in the war waged by the fascist General Franco against the republic, a war supported by Hitler, Mussolini and the Papacy, who have been indirectly aided by the policies of Great Britain, France and the United States...
...Indeed, Americans generally have a curious fixation op facts, under the curious illusion that a lot of isolated facts add up to truth...
...But these official truths and half-truths, when totalled arithmetically rather than humanly, summed up to distortion...
...We repeat that we do not believe in liberty for terrorists to destroy liberty.—Editor.] Sets Distortion In Caption on Faure Picture Editor of The New Leader: The New Leader, in the issue of Dec...
...What's so amazing about that...
...If this was true in other capitals, it was doubly true in Moscow, which wss my own vantage point in observing the tourist animal generally, and its pedagogical subspecies in particular...
...The isolated items made available to the tourist might be true...
...That chaos follows need surprise no one...
...The question is, what has it to offer...
...Up in North Adams, Mass., townsfolk read with amazement when the governor appointed William H. Woodward as local public administrator...
...The victims, however, appear to have1 been inconspicuous persons, and instead of strengthening the' Moscow clique the purge merely satisfied the grudges of the petty terrorists of the interior...
...The impression thst remained with me (I say it in a whisper) is not excessively flattering to the teachers, considered as a whole...
...In Republican Rhode Island hundreds of public employees are also being discharged and Michigan's Republican Governor with the aid of conservative Democrats is to sponsor legislation to curb trade unions...
...Either it must guarantee life, liberty, and security to the people, or it cannot stand...
...The caption said that Paul Faure had unsuccessfully opposed Leon Blum's foreign policy at the French Socialist convention and "urged support of the Munich pact...
...One thing is sure...
...Letters To the Editor Opposed to Limiting Rights Of U. S. Fascists Editor of The New Leader: Letters to the editor are usually a waste of time unless one has an imposing name...
...While Bell was revealing how it had safeguarded profits by keeping consumers ignorant of improvements, A. T. ft T., of which Bell is a subsidiary, announced a net profit for the Nov...
...This is as though a physician had been celled, to treat a serious case of illness but had decided to delay visiting his patient until after his funeral 1 PURGING THE PURGERS A DICTATORSHIP, whether black, brown, red or yellow, must inevitably concentrate power into the hands of one man and -a few loyal sycophants...
...Curiously enough, it is reported in Washington that the embargo against shipment of arms to Spain will be lifted within three weeks...
...Having invested their meagre savings and their precious vacation months, they were determined to bring back Knowledge, Statistics and Culture...
Vol. 22 • January 1939 • No. 3
