Where the News Ends

...In the darkest moment of the war, we have for tkt first time a right to hope for a better peace...

...But every report from acroM our wide land suggests that they know better...

...Daladier's habitual indecision, the hard long winter and the flaws in the treaties which link England and France to a number of countries in the Balkans should also come in for their share...

...Neither one or the other were ever members of a cabinet presided over by M. Leon Blum...

...The double '. ensign bearing the swastika and the hammer and sickle flies over Europe and Asia from Vladivostock to Dublin...

...Nightmares fromjwhich civilization will not wake unless Nasi might is broken once and forever...

...But his anti-parliamentarism and his attitude towards labor make him subject to caution...

...k » | I - JT may well be that no European power or com* bination of powers will dare t# attack the United States in the immediate future...

...But that is another story...

...Their utterances would have some weight on both sides of the line in Europe...

...The pro-British, anti-Nazi group won out and resisted easily Bonnet's counter-attack...

...Victory for the democratic forces will cost more g blood tears than was pictured in the moat pessimism imaginings...

...Ignoring all this, let us say that it is jpnly a war between two gangs of cutthroats^ | j Of course, all this sounds a bit silly at this late date when Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg have been overrun within a week and at a' time when the Nazis stand a fair chance of turning the Maginot Line...

...But in the dictatorial lands, he continued, all of this stops, for men's minds are mobilized for OsW ends...

...Still, without firing a shot the totalitarian powers can conquer from within...

...Now, what is the Allies' exact position in respect to the Bolsheviks...

...The first real attack, however, came from the reactionary pro-fascist group in the Senate...

...In the meantime, it is fortunate for us and for the world that the President and Secretary Hull in their unofficial utterances speak truly for America as a nation of dvihzeo people...

...I come now to the most important and persistent error, of Mr...

...always the Fifth (Nazi) and the Sixth (Stalinist) Columns...

...moment Nazi .concentration camps, the persecution of Catholics, Jews and other minorities in the Third Reich...

...It means leadership by men ready to put the last drop of energy behind the...

...There must be no place in it for partisanship or personal ambition...

...Canada will no longer be a friendly nation sharing with us three thousand miles of unfortified frontier...

...Against Soviet War On the other hand, I.unhesitatingly approve the fact that the Allies did not send a military expedition to Finland, for it would have ended in all probability in disaster for the Allied cause...

...Americans will be shouldered off ;the sidewalks in Yorkville in New York, in Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities where there are strong Nazi strongholds...

...Our government officials would »ot have to limit their expressions of opinion to unofficial utterances...

...Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, defined that position very clearly in his London speech on April 10th...

...But let us assume it...

...It is for an un dicta ted peace and against imperialism...

...Blum countered the move with such admirable cleverness, the attack ended in the route of Pierre Laval, Georges Bonnet and company...

...There is no end to our riches...

...And I'd sooner live under an unbalanced budget than under an unbalanced fuehrer...

...i And this will come upon us because -one imperialism—the wrong one—had destroyed, another...

...When their people go into the cabinet it means more than national unity...

...These spokesmen of ours are in no position to suggest, a program for America in world affairs...

...Gentlemen, you don't know what taxes are until you've been taxed by a fascist government...

...I must make it clear at this point that I have not consulted with the editors of this publication before writing this column...

...Central America, and ^particularly Mexico, will become the springboard for g every anti- : American, anti-democratic adventurer, financed by those who hate us, envy our natural riches and who hold our way of life in opisn contempt...

...Faure's opposition is not based on any preconceived prejudice to Socialist participation in a "bourgeois" government He is opposed to Paul Reynaud's war policies...

...And all because the wrong imperialism won...

...We are in a position to construct battleships and still find time and means to help solve the evils of sharecropping...

...As for Mr...

...After a period of rehabilitation they will be moved to a permanent colony, BRITISH LABOR IN WAR AND PEACE J^S the war goes into the tragic stages of a death grapple, the brightest silver lining on the horizon is the emergence of the British Labor Party as a factor in world affairs...

...Roll Out the Pork Barrel" must cease to be the political national anthem...

...Our local Fascists and Communists will become strutting victors the day that thf Allies are crushed in defeat...

...The fate of the United States rests today in the hands of President Roosevelt...

...They advocate giving credits to Britain ana France—so that we can send more planes and trucks and munitions...

...It would facilitateoft...

...The Balkans come' within the orbit of the National Socialist economy...

...Only courage, energy and a new and dynamic way of thinking will save us...

...It follows that the future of our relations with Russia should, by necessity and before everything else, depend oil the degree of effective assistance Russia intends to give to Germany far any reason whatsoever...

...Frjtz Kuhn will be a hero...

...But the Labor Party has a peace policy as well as a war policy...

...Letters To the Editor Paris Correspondent Scores Harrison, Schlamm, Reynard From BEN PROCTER To the Editor: J Several errors concerning French political personages and misinterpretations *of political actions have appeared recently in the columns of your paper...

...I do not speak for any organized political party, but I am certain that I voice the thoughts of millions of Americans when I urge the creation of an efficient, nonpartisan administration for the four years following 1940...

...F>R the first time in our history we shall be completely encircled by hostile, ruthless, wellarmed forces...

...It is our whole way of life, the sort «¦ . decency which men have been struggling for since ^rr.^ Middle Ages...

...AS" ; there are the elements of living which are threatened wjP destruction...

...But it is also true that they are rapidly waking up to the world-wide importance of what is happening is Europe...

...licly prior to that speech...

...It proposes to put international relations on a civilized basis...

...national thinking and help prepare us for the part wbicayre moat play after the war is ended...

...And now let us further assume that the worst has happened...

...It depends on learning, thinking, teaching...

...If the Republicans are wise, they-will nominate only local candidates...

...AMERICANS are told that they are isolated from the shock of world affairs...

...In addressing the American Scientific Congress Is* President was especially happy in rinding the phrases *» express the nature of democracy...

...The war if at a 4E, cial point, and we afe neutrals...

...God and geography have placed us Americans in a position where we still have a little tune for idle speculation...

...Der Weckruf will be published daily and its columns will no longer be filled with Baron Munchausen, ftage-German prose...

...Harrison is so overwhelmed by his righteous indignation that he forgets war is a match of brute force and not a polite debate in some public forum...

...The British commonwealth of nations—or the Empire, call it what you will-*is carved up among the Axis -powers...

...I also must approve the Allies' extremely circumspect attitude towards Soviet Russia, which is "where I disagree totally-with Mr...

...Every labor union will face thejfate of the Italian, German, Russian...

...Each newspaper headline these days is the obituary of a nation...

...We here in America will look especially to Bevin and Morrison to -get things done...

...Of course, we shall aid the Allies—if it is not too late...

...One imperialist combine was defeated by another...

...The United States, rotten with treason, will become ah island of stammering democracy...

...The Socialist leader had offered them posts in December, 1937 and again in March, 1938...

...This is the darkest period of the bitterest struggle which modern men have expert enced...

...They should announce to the nation as soon as possible that while' they differ on domestic issues with the President, the gravity of the international situation makes it inadvisable for the nation to vitiate its energy in a bitter partisan election...

...war and keen to preserve democracy and civil liberuei at home...

...The dual union, the jurisdictional strike must be outlawed by labor itself...

...The consequences of such a catastrophe for the democracies would follow in logical and rapid succession...

...Under their leadership British workers will produce and transport the planes, the tanks, the shells that will stop the Hitler forces...

...will become more and more defiant in her demands in the Pacific...

...In addition to •swallowing five countries since the beginning of | the war—count 'm, my isolationist friends, count 'em-pin addition to all this, let us assume thai the Nasi military and political machine has inflicted an overwhelming and decisive defeat upoh the Allied armed forces...

...Daladier's cabinet lacked homogeneity...

...But in the end victory will be achieved...

...They could speak out in line with what P***" tically all of our citizens are thinking...

...Others, on the contrary* want us to draw closer...

...It coincides with the statements both Blum and Reynaud made pub...

...From that day 8 forward the life of "every free American institution will stand in grave danger of extinction...

...The idea of changing from neutrality to non-belligerency springs up over the entire continent It is suggested in Chile and Argentina as well as in Kansas and Illinois...

...Dos Passos Settles Spanish Refugees In Ecuador Forging ahead with, its plans to resettle destitute Spanish Refugee families, the New York World Resettlement Fund, of which Oswald Garrison Villard is national chairman and John Dos Passos national secretary, recently announced that the first contingent of families will be on its way to Ecuador within the next month...

...private caucus of the Socialist parliamentary group, Faure and 28 others voted against the government The French Socialist Party is a disciplined democratic party...

...The plan was successfully initiated and carried through by John Dos Passos, who reports that he has received the most enthusiastic aid from the Ecuadorian government The settlers, expected to number 50 to 60 tarn' ilies the first year, will go directly to an improved farm where adequate housing is now being prepared, for them...

...In order to clarify the political situation in this country the President should declare at once that it is his intention to run for a third time this November...

...would have been- considered war-mongering moonshine...

...Hugh Dalton is Minister of Economic Warfare...

...Anyone who reads the newspapers will find scant support for •caremongers who pretend that it is President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull or someone else in the administration who u stirring up American anger at the ruthless rape of the little lands of Europe...

...To continue the split in the face of what threatens us is tantamount to treason...

...Georges Handel, Minister of Colonies, are intelligent conservatives but sincerely republican...

...In the...

...The Allies' tactic—both the English and French governments, I repeat, are in perfect agreement on this point—is to take one enemy on at a time...

...For very specific reasons too lengthy to explain here, they could not (not would hot) accept...

...And almost without being aware of it, we shall become a third-rate power...

...And when that day comes, the men of Labor, will sit around the table where the outlines of the new Europe will h drawn...

...They cant afford to prance about like Don Quixotes looking for enemies everywhere...

...It means, moreover, that when the war is won, at least a few of the men who ait at the council table will have minds that range beyond the vindictiveness of Versailles...

...England and France are crippled, humbled, broken...

...Overlook, if you can, the Hitler destruction of every last vestige of freedom, ;its murder of liberal and labor leaders, its annihilation of the superb German trade union movement...

...Germany is the principal enemy and that is enough of a task just now...

...Ernest Bevin, of the Transport Workers, will be Minister of Labor...

...Austriaflfand CzechoSlovakian unions...

...I quote Lord Halifax: _ ¦* "Some people would have us declare war on the Sov|et Union...

...In a properly administered economy, the United States possesses all the natural and human resources with which to maintain a high standard of living and yet at the same time prepare adequately for the threatened attack of the dictators...

...Harrison would have the Allies attack both Germany and Russia together...

...Contrary to Hitler's method of attacking the weakest first, they have preferred to concentrate all their energy in a death struggle with the strongest and most dangerous one...

...Faure Opposes Reynaud I hope Dick Reynard will not take it amiss if I say he has interpreted wrongly the vote of the Paul Faure group (The New Leader, April 6th...

...the Republican National Committee and organized labor...

...But they will no longer be upstarts...

...Pro-Nazi organization will be fed real money by the Berlin pipe-line...

...Calls for the amendment of the Johnson Act are corning from Congressmen, from newspapers, and from widely scattered groups of citizens...

...The practical effect of this would not be great But it would keep the record straight...

...The West Indies will become air bases within three or four hours' flight from oijr industrial solar plexus...

...We do not look at the question solely from the angle of the immoral attacks the Soviet Union made on Poland and Finland, but rather in the light of what, to my mind, should be our principal effort: the defeat of Germany...

...However, the important thing to be decided upon now is how to prepare for the struggle against the Axis powers...

...It is no longer a question of whether we should- aid the Allies...

...He has not one chance in, a thousand of ever becoming a cabinet minister and no one over here has ever mentioned such a possibility...

...J , Japan will cease parrotting "sorry, please," and...

...IHOPE .it is not too late to learn from England's bitter experience...

...Schlamm, he should realize, being himself a European, that Nazi Germany is today the mainstay of totalitarianism...

...We are in a new era in which the long threatening has come to pass...

...But I think Mr...

...These are not war-monger...

...The party program was clear, and the criticism of Britain's international policy was constructive...

...The last democratic legislative assembly vanishes from the Eastern Hemisphere...

...The Quebec fascists will be in control, fostered by the Nazi victors...

...Schlamm stated...

...We shall be subjected to increasing demands and threats...

...Unity in the ranks of labor must be effected at once...

...Alaska was once Russian, and Stalin will suddenly discover "blobd brothers" in the vicinity of Nome...

...Prime Minister Churchill said in his moving address delivered before the House of Commons on Monday, "On aim is victory...

...ARE WE NEUTRAL...

...Then^" in truth, we shall become a nation of isolationists in the fullest, most tragic sense of the term...

...fh...

...It will be able to afford tae best journalists that.money can buy—and they ean be bought...

...We had better bestir ourselves...

...Pelley will become a statesman...

...The day that Hitler'marches into London and Paris will witness an upsurge of every tinpot local Fascist fn America...

...He spoke well, for Britain and France are in a life-and-death struggle on behalf of all mankind...

...Castor oil, shootings, concentration camps for the CIO as well ;as the AFL...

...Its members will include Democrats, Republicans, Labor and Socialists...

...I am no admirer, as you know, of Mr...

...Secretary HuJI, speaking before the International La* * Society, stressed the importance of international order under law...

...Last month, stuff like this...

...It means "to teach the truth as we ate it and by learning a litde here and a httle there, and ljT teaching a little here and a little there to allow the normal processes of truth to keep growing—for the well-being * our fellow men...

...Chamberlain...

...With Albert V. Alexander, Km Lord of the Admiralty, this gives Britain six Labor men in the cabinet and Sir Walter Citrine stands close behind them as liaison officer...

...Herbert Morrison, who planned greenbelts for London's poor, must now put his whole mind on men and metal to destroy German soldiers...

...the French premier, is not a Liberal, as Mr...

...The British Fleet is scuttled or taken over by Hitler...

...Herbert Morrison, known and loved by Labor in America, has the post for which nature fitted him—as Minister of Supply...

...It is not just Norway, Denmark...

...A status as non-belligeraf...

...For th.ere are...

...Holla«d tm* are threatened...

...Only at this late and tragic time have the British come around to putting men of energy and initiative at the head of vital departments...

...At the same time he should inform the country that his new government will consist of all shades of political opinion...

...would give them greater leeway...

...Outstanding tabor statesmen must take an active part in the new government...

...Schlamm's interpretation of the events leading to and following the recent cabinet crisis...

...Reasonable Wage schedules and working conditions must be agreed upon...

...Nazi puppet regimes are set up in the Hague, Brussels, London, Paris...

...If Hitlerism conquers in this war, it is more than a likelihood that both William Green and John LV, Lewis will find tffemselves in the same concentration camp...

...That did not prevent Paul Faure from taking a slam at the government and the Socialist members of the cabinet in his weekly organ, the Pays Socialist, which is the organ of the minority group...

...They are people who have reached the conclusion that the more we help the Allies the better our chance of escaping the blood-bath...

...And the newly found bedfellows of the Nazis, the Communists, will become still more devious and truculent...

...Paul Reynaud and M. Georges Bonnet are fundamentally different in character and opinions...

...The whole block of 155 votes as the majority decides...

...ABOR at once must prepare a plan for cooperation with the government in the crisis...

...The workers of Britain felt far more deeply than other classes the threat of dictator, ship and from the beginning have been impatient with appeasement and apathy...

...The fight of the Labor parliamentarians against the Chamberlain government was pushed to success without ever descending to the level of a struggle for party advantage...

...This is no time to think of industrial or craft unionism...

...We can- build bombers and low-rent housing...

...Chamberlain's stubborn and partisan embrace of the British cabinet in the face of almost ceaseless criticism and hostility contributed more than anything I can think of to assist Hitler since last September...

...They will have all the prestige of Hitler's victory behind them...

...It is true that Americans do not want to go to war...

...Paul Reynaud...

...AH the social victories which the American people won under the New Deal will-be scrapped...

...Lord Halifax's declaration is clear...

...Respect for national independence, the keeping of the plighted word, freedom from the threat of coercion*—thf* he named as the very rudiments of world civilization...

...This is no time to think of taxes, balancing the budget, or the preservation of capitalism...

...Schlamm and M^Harrison...

...In the light of what Nazi bestiality achieved in the Low Countries to talk of neutrality in thought or in deed is stupidity of the saddest sort...

...What is now a trickle wjlj become a freshet...

...We shall be compelled to trim,' retreat and apologize...

...Failing this, the Republicans must be prepared for a wave of national resentment in November...

...Today it is the stuff from which international nightmares are woven...

...Clement R. Attlee and Arthur Greenwood represent Labor in the new inside war cabinet...

...Schlamm honors him too much by putting all the blame on his shoulders for the Allies' hesitation during the first six months of the war...

...We shall be hemmed in from all sides and the enemy within will become more brazen and insolent...

...And before all else, every American, whatever his political convictions, must be-convinced that only a united nation can survive the present international catastrophe...

...Henri de Kerillis is personally sympathetic, more so, in fact, since his recent conversion to an anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist policy...

...American industry in Canada will be given the hobnailed fascist boot...

...Both he and ^Mr...

...And when he talked of time-tables, saying that Europe is now closer to San Francisco than Julius Caesar was to Spain, he was giving a much needed lesson i» f*^ graphical realities...

...Paul ReynaudV Georges Mandel, Leon Blum and Blum's protege, Georges Monnet, blockade minister, have always been 100 per cent in favor of the FrancoBritish alliance...

...If national socialism is destroyed in Germany, both Fascism and Stalinism will not remain standing for very long afterward...

...That is the principal reason all four have always been violently attacked by Communists also why the People's Front was doomed in May, 1936, barely a fortnight after its immense electoral success...