Where the News Ends
HARRISON, CHARLES YALE
Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison ALTHOUGH- the question undoubted:}- will keep ¦*%Vtbel historians busy for generations to come, •Archibald MacLeish knows exactly where to...
...But now we are told that we should have remained silent...
...If Hitler fooled the worke/g* lomats, then Stalin betrs.vtd wj peoples of the world...
...They have rid $AJ{, selves of Communist eenMK There are few fascists m m midst Let America learn ftJJ Europe's tragedy...
...If 'Bridges goes, the front man . foifV t8e job of turning the warehouse workers over to the longshoremen's outfit will be Arthur Osman, Cow head of the Wholesale'/ijlnnioyes Union...
...There, he spoke with such party liners as Max Yergan, president of the National Negro Congress...
...Wars are not made by books, nor are they prevented by them.' One cynical, betraying politician can do more to undermine a country than all its novelists put together...
...We sincerely hope that the President will hasten to remedy the situation arising from his action...
...We called upon men to live in peace and not butcher each other...
...last generation fought in strikes and in an attempt to advance social progress...
...When the old men met at Versailles, they discussed not freedom or democracy—but oil, colonies, markets and indemnities...
...The "Daily Worker" true to its tradition of perjury proclaimed England a fascist country...
...He's rapidly discovering that he's not the shrewd politician he thought he was . . . that the C J...
...And although youth was told that the war was one to end all wars, the peace treaty in 1919 told another story...
...J I believe that a victory P Hitler would mean the dest* * civilization...
...Thus, in his opposition to some of the greatest novelists of our times, Mr...
...and C.I.O...
...Speaking offiasJiy on a great occasion he...
...What has taken place « that » free democracy imposes upon itself a discipline and a determination that Hitlerism shall be defeated...
...on the Commission of National Defense appointed by him this week...
...FIFTH COLUMN KING J^Q matter how it is interpreted the treason of Belgian King Leopold has- serious implications for America...
...Both the A.F.ofL...
...The remark might just as well have been made about the CIO, but the garment workers are not considering entrance into that body...
...MkcLefsh has done, is an act of intellectual treachery...
...Because it is necessary for all civilized men to join in the effort to crush Hitlerism does not make the last one a holy crusade...
...What Mtv MacLeish overlooks, I think, are the political forces which affect modern war...
...But the fault is not ours...
...Emile Vandervelde fought manfully against this illusion up to the day of his death...
...should be represented on -the defense commission...
...If you look carefully at the sponsors, you 11 And Dorothy Parker, who's not too busy...
...There's internal dissension in the C.I.O...
...This was predicted by theme emiliar with his long association with Communist leaden a New York...
...the name of the American Labor Party...
...Those in control of the War, Navy and Labor posts are elated to go...
...counsel of the Smith Cpmmittee to Investigate the National Labor...
...Soon or late we shall have a united federapec of labor...
...This is a formative period when new combinationare made and new pledges given...
...quite a-way to change worlds...
...This warning was broadcast nationally with the intimation that an isolationist policy would be a healthy attitude for big business...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL QUT of the ether last week, broadcast from a German 5? short-wave station, came charges of "British sabotage plans against the rescue ship President Roosevelt, which left for Ireland last Friday...
...Morris Watson, vice-president of the American Newspaper Guild, and Joseph Cadden, National Secretary of the American Youth Congress...
...If the Belgian people cannot stand up for liberty and independence,'some rough* and-ready thinkers .may easily jump to the conclusion that Europe isn't worth thinking about The answer to them comes from Premier Pierlot and the Belgian cabinet...
...On the executive committee are dear little Martha Dodd—who saw so much atrocity inside Germany, she has become conditioned even to tbe Stalin-Hitler partnership— Herman S h u m 1 i n, Ferdinand Smith of the N.M.U., and Lyman Lyman Bradley of N. Y. U. Executive Secretary is Fred Biedenkapp, imported from Buffalo, Where he was CP...
...executive committee is urging an official declaration for a general strike in case of U. S. intervention...
...WRITING of PM...
...Strange fascism, is ft- not, when immediately the leading British fascist is arrested...
...The appointment of Sidney Hillman, vice-chairman of the CI.O., as the member of the commission to handle employment problems, should have been balanced with the inclusion of a representative of the A.F.ofL...
...It is official pointing at things which we all knew...
...country's most impertant advisors to big business;.' ¦ Kiplinger's Washington Letter—icto telling corporation executive's here that "It's getting clearer that more and more business profits will be taken by the government . . .Fundamental readjustments in thinking about private profits will be necessary as this country heads into a new era of planning to cope with the drastically changed conditions in a new kind of world...
...Toe Stalin when he took the bloody .hand of Ribbentrop is responsible for the situation of the world to-day...
...The "Herald Tribune'' told us Churchill had been given the same power as that held by Hitler...
...OUST MARCANTONIO *T*HERE is in Congress today a man who heads the Communist International Labor Defense, who is always wilel*cheered by Stalinite meetings, endorsed by the official Communist press, who is known to New Yorkers as the leading front for a multitude of CP...
...Churchill is no dictator, and the power which the British Government has, was given him by a Parliament freely elected by...
...This Committee has been exposed so completely even the most stalwart transmission belters refuse to lend their names to it The new group therefore is almost entirely made up of Party members while the sponsors have a sprinkling of "innocents...
...r spective Governments who Wjj* orders in Council not -eeajP they have minds of slaves' WW* ever steps the British peeeh are imposed on them by the *P to win against barbarism in atP* that the world may again b» w* to work and to play...
...And then came the period of disillusionment...
...It was impossible to walk the streets of Paris or Vienna, for example, without being' aimost: mobbed by hordes of desperate prostitutes...
...All of this doesn't mean anything...
...Anti-war novels, including my own, were pubGcly burned in the streets of Berlin^ ; VKowi.if anti-war novels are capable of destroying the will to fight, is it not curious that seine ofthe most powerful and effective literature of war disillusionment was written and had its greatest success in Germany and Austria...
...Not a fake Supreme Soviet elected by peasants and workers who were refused free discussion of issues, nor by brutal and slavish Reichstag...
...The unkingly betrayal is of a piece with the neutrality policy which Leopold advocated and which was adopted by the nation in 1936...
...The flood of war literature in the twenties was an expression of despair of those who had been called upon to fight for the greater glory of those who later where to be found in the Cliveden sets of all countries...
...When the war ended, unemployment was widespread...
...It is only natural that the 4,250,000 members of the A.F.ofJL, who consider themselves as representing the majority of the organized workers of the nation, will resent the slight to themselves and to their organization...
...Everybody ought to come to the rescue of the New Leader end make it more powerful and fatIowa...
...Relations Board is peeved with us...
...They wrote what ail .of us after the war would have written if we could...
...activities...
...Germany in 1914 was a democracy...
...Not because the Allies after Versailles suppressed and humiliated the struggling Weimar Republic and thus helped Hitler into the saddle, but because of LaUko's "Men in War...
...That man is Vito Marcantonio...
...Ralph Ingersoll is reported planning a drive for national circulation, competing with the coast-to-coast syndicates as well as with Gotham's dailies...
...put his finger on the vital spot...
...The British people together with the French people are fighting not because they love war...
...And recent European history sustains the validity of this remark...
...The New Leader has become a necessity far me end my family and is a beacon of hope in those terrible days...
...Men like Barbusse, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Remarque, and others, says the newly appointed Ifijthrian of Congress, were writers of great talent, integrity and honesty...
...Herbert Morrison, Clem Atlee, Bevin, Greenwood, Lord Halifax and the other members of the British Cabinet ere men who are human, who have a deep understanding of human values...
...Letters To the Editor No Fascism Seen in New British Laws From ROBERT GREVILLE To the Editor: When the report was made here of the new defense measures in Britain, the headlines announced some wilful distortions of what had taken place in that country...
...TALKING of the waterfront re*- minds this column that Harry Bridges* plans to raid the C.I.O...
...Mystery is just how the GOehbels' branch office learned by Tuesday 3 p. m. that Curran—who made no public statement — suspkioned attempted ,sabotage...
...Every headline in the newspapers today is proof that mankind has refused to listen to us...
...HAKE NEW LEADER MORE POWERFUL From Simon McKeesporf To the'Editor: I wish I could spare more than five dollars to mail to you for the renewal of my subscription and a donation...
...Both he and Hitler may yet fight it out over the dead bodies of millions, over the smoking ruins of homes, colleges, seats of learning and art, amidst disease and anarchy...
...Yet, I do not think that my desire to see the defeat of Hitler in any way invalidates one line of "Generals Die in Bed...
...And so we are asked to believe that Hitler's victories in northern France are the results not...
...He's leaving his newly formed Workers* Party...
...Changl W slogan from "the price of lawj is eternal vigilance" W***~ of liberty is immediate [0tmm Altman Joins In Repudiating Isolationists From Jack Altman a . • ' i To the Editor: I have sent the followinx a* ter to the Keep America Cnt m War Congress...
...Gallagher the Communist in Britain said the same thing...
...Trotskyite leaders in this country are giving credence to the rumor because some of them had known Harte under another name as a former member of the Communist Party, He joined the Socialist Workers Party only a year ago, offered his services for guard duty and even paid his own expenses...
...Had there been a frank facing of danger and a bold front against dictators by a democratic defense league, there-' would have been a chance of victory...
...This generation is fighting on the battlefield...
...She, too, is on the sponsors' list * * * WHATEVER message P.M., the " new nickel afternoon picture tabloid, will have, won't remain exclusively the property of New Yorkers...
...This, in turn, is bound to accentuate the bitterness and hostility between the rival labor camps...
...MacLeish wish me to say that it is lovely, gentle and ennobling...
...was giving definite leadership...
...IHAVE repeatedly stated that each generation must fight for freedom.unless it is to disappear from the face of the earth...
...apparatus doesn't lend itself to exploitation...
...About the war, about the comin| election, about labor unity, about union racketeering he sta} things that were clear and significant...
...If they prevail, Lewis will be forced to forget his third party talk in a hurry...
...Effective defense against the Nazi peril outside end the Communari Fifth Column within cannot be organized if the civil war in labor is permitted to continue.' Anything that promotes labor unity is positive...
...He went aboard to cheek things'himself...
...King Leopold's defalcation at a moment when the withdrawing of the Belgian divisions spells tragedy for the Allied forces is but a continuation of an isolationist policy which he had* advocated and which the nation adopted nearly four years ago...
...the people...
...He's getting'the usual build up by party machinery—most recent boost being star billing at the Mid Manhattan Chapter of the New York Peace Association Memorial Day Meeting...
...And to those of us who returned from the front it seemed as if all the world were dancing insanely on the graves of ten million slain youths...
...It is true that we have failed...
...It seems that the fascist countries are suffering from too much totalitarianism, while the democracies are afflicted with too much liberty...
...Not because of the incredible stupidity, if not outright treachery, of the generals who twiddled their thumbs in the face of Hitler's onslaught, bat because of "Generals Die m Bed...
...Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison ALTHOUGH- the question undoubted:}- will keep ¦*%Vtbel historians busy for generations to come, •Archibald MacLeish knows exactly where to fix responsibility for the weakened condition of the democracies...
...His expulsion from the American Labor Party, accompanied by a public repudiation, would inform the nation that he doesn't represent the A.LP--and that the fifth column reaches into Congress...
...In the House of Representatives he alone voted again* a defense appropriation...
...Editorials LABOR AND DEFENSE IABOR unity in the present grave situation is eeeeririal not only to labor but to the very life of the nation...
...Hunger stalked the streets of nearly all European cities...
...That because Britain believes in freedom, it will no longer tolerate enemies who wish to destroy that freedom even if those enemies are British subjects who have taken a foul advantage of freedom of speech and the press...
...Dear Friends: Please take my name of fls list of your sponsors bscssit 1 cannot agree with your'iseJstJO' ist policy...
...charge of taking sides in the tragic labor schism and compromise his claim to wise and constructive leadership...
...But to accuse us of having played into the hands of the enemies of freedom, as Mr...
...Dubinsky deserves full credit for using the prestige of his organization for the benefit of the entire American labor movement...
...You can suppose with Maurice Maeterlinck that his "German blood boiled up...
...Retail and Wholesale Employes Union only has been postponed by the Congressional move to deport him...
...and of all people, Olin Downes, music critic for the New York Times____ Somehow Lynne Fontanne, who did such excellent work for Finland, has been snared...
...which the Division of Economic Research could be crippled, he would know that Saposs had always stood for a better break for the working man, but had long fought the Communists, "Karl Marx Doctrine" notwithstanding...
...Because the last war was fought'for pro/its and markets does not make Hitler less hateful today...
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT will * definitely make changes in his cabinet before he runs for office again...
...The representative government of Belgium speaks for the people, and that government is still in the fight...
...Rift in the Socialist Party over the official "non-interventionist" position has spread into all sections of the group, turning the recent convention "majority" into a distinct minority...
...because it has put his recent utterances in a very unfavorable spot where the public is concerned...
...He assumes to spesi ir...
...It was all the fault of the war novelists...
...They know in their hearts if they still have any, that a Hitler victory means centuries of bondage for all the peoples of Europe...
...Anything that tends to fan dissension in the ranks of the organized workers is a blow at democracy and the security of the nation...
...Toland insists...
...Not' because of the vast loans which Threadheedle Street made to the Nazis, but ' because of Dos Passos' "Three Soldiers...
...The great defense effort now being launched by the government in Washington will be seriously impeded if labor remains disunited...
...T'ROTSKYITE circles have al* most forgetten their recent slivering in the excitement over tie attempts to machine-gun the Void man...
...If there is a Hitler in the world, war comes...
...Not because of British aid to Mussolini for more than a decade, but because of Aldington's "Death of a Hero...
...Obviously he M only for a political philosophy inimical not only to orgahictci labor but to our entire philosophy of political freedom...
...But the fantastic notion of maintaining little islands of democracy in a sea of dictatorship and violence betrayed these nations into weakness and piece-meal defeat...
...Or you can say kindly, as home Swedish commentators do, that he couldn't take it, suffered a breakdown at the thought of death and destruction...
...It must be sadly recorded that not all of his Socialist comrades supported him...
...Discussing the role of the anti-war novel at a recent.meeting of the Adult Education Association, Mr...
...If labor cannot set its own house in order, what hope is there that it may play an honorable part in politic* and industry...
...The C.P.'s North American Spanish Aid Committee has begun a drive for $160,000 to "save the Spanish people...
...candidate for Lieutenant-Governor and Con> gressman at Large several campaigns ago...
...But for us the great lesson of this tragedy is the futility of isolationism...
...I have no doubt that Browder and Co...
...Talk in some newspaper circles is that he will support the New Deal candidate, continuing, however, his constant criticism...
...MacLeish unwittingly finds himself an ideological bedpartner of none otter than Adolf Hitler himself...
...Speculators , waxed fat...
...THERE are reports that the * agitation against the "fifth column" has scared John Lewis...
...To many Americans this betrayal comes as a double shock...
...I therefore pP sides ih the greet conflict nr* raging and hope and trust"w* work for the victory of racy...
...MacLeish was busy undermining the bulwarks of American democracy by playing along with the Communists, I urged that this country have done with its shilly-shallying and declare war on Germany...
...PXPECT a new anti-French smear campaign...
...over the war position taken by six of its important unions, spokesmen for which are Lee Pressman and Len DeCaux...
...ofL...
...The struggle against terrorism, dictatorship and dishonesty in the trade unions is the very heart of the hghf tat democracy...
...ACTION of the British Labor Party in conscripting industry as well as men has frightened one of this...
...CLEAN UNIONISM •THE NEW LEADER sees as one of the most t niiTfcm% events of the time the bold addrese of President Davie" Dubinsky at 'the opening of the fortieth anniversary convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers, we are all used to the stuffed-shirt oratory of labor leader*—, about;.the glories of the working class and the greatness of our country...
...From the Moscow Daily Newt to Friday to Germany...
...As it stands now Saposs has been retained but most of his assistants have been fired, which cripples the division anyway...
...In outlining his reasons for hesitating about re-eateriaf the American Federation he said a few plain words abeat the side-stepping role of the leaders of that old and power ha* organization...
...But if the learned (?) counsel had troubled to look into Saposs' background, instead of into methods by...
...The easiest way—and' the worst way—-to explain it is to impute purely personal motives...
...They have been, he said, derelict in their duty to the labor movement "by permitting individuals who should have had no place in our movement to occupy important positions in national and international unions sari discredit the entire labor movement" This is not...
...It's reported that about half the CJ.O...
...She left recently on the S3...
...Tbe Social . Democratic minority in the Reichstag was a strong and effective one...
...Herlp millions of men and woaaaapj lieved that the Soviet Og would never make e poet |P Hitler at the very moment jBP the Nasi monster was premJ|P» a European cemetery . The British Trade Uniemyg Labor Party and the Cc-omTjgP Movement are intact and will w main so...
...After all, the troth it not retroactive...
...He resents being called a labor baiter, and in a sharp note to us says "it is quite apparent to me that you have not read tbe record of this committee, particularly Mr...
...Failure to do so would inevitably subject him to the...
...Millen 'Brand...
...Carol King, who defended Harry Bridges...
...But in the present world situation, they have left the younger generation ideologically helpless against an aggressor ready to impose bis will upon us...
...and C.I.O...
...Currencies were inflated...
...There is no dictatorship in Britain such as you have in Germany, or m the Soviet Union, because the men who have been given the great responsibility of defeating Hitler have all their lives been in closest co-operation with the best of human endeavor...
...Saposs' testimony, and the article he wrote in 1936 while an employee of the United States government...
...If he didn't advocate the Karl Marx Doctrine in his own article, then I don't understand the English language...
...He's son of a local millionaire...
...experience, it was disastrous as education for a generation which would be obliged to face tbe threat of fascism in its adult years...
...There is a rumor— and we pass it on only, as such— that Sheldon Harte, missing guard on the Coyoacan estate, was a stoolpigeon...
...Workers lose their rights" says the Daily Worker...
...CDMUND M. Toland, genera...
...While still looking through the microscope, we'll pass along another authentic report...
...With regard to racketeering the president of the LLC W.U...
...We have often been told that collective security leads to war...
...War is still cruel, hateful, unbelievably brutal...
...Does Mr...
...Collective security would have given the small nations a chance to fight unitedly and with a chance of success...
...Democratic Leaders But in fact, you have in Britain a spectacle of a democratic nation of men and women who love freedom and peace, realizing that you cannot beat off gangsters of tbe Nazi type except by the complete mobilization of all forces...
...together with the British Communist Party leadership would take part in seeing that Morrison and Bevin, Attlee and Laski were shot as "counter-revolutionaries...
...During his rise to power, storm- troupers raided theatres showing Remarque's film...
...reminds us "of the magazine Friday, which is sending none other than Anna Louise Strong to Europe to find out what 'the "common people think of the war...
...We had been betrayed and we felt that those who came after us should not suffer the same fate...
...For the Nazis, too, were unrelenting in their attacks on postwar literature...
...And as early as last September, when Mr...
...of the...
...mudslinging...
...Fascism and Bolshevism, Hitler and Stalin as political figures, were still in the womb of time...
...And as corroboration the *&ewa" commentator quietly quoted Joe Curran, "famous American labor leader, president of all the American seanierfs unions, who telegraphed to the authorities that he had'evidence there are three British Secret Service agents among the crew of the President Roosevelt and that they are preparing to commit an act of violence on the vessel's return voyage.'' Cutran's attorney, William L. Standard, later admitted to a DaOy News reporter that there Had been talk in the National MerHtme Union's office of British "secret service agents" aboard the Roosevelt...
...As the first victim of attack in the first World War Belgium has a sentimental significance...
...drooling policies of Chamberlain at Munich, but of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front...
...The movement for neutrality led by the King was of a piece with the same sort of Utopian isolationism in Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden...
...Manhattan for Italy, the Balkans . . . and GERMANY...
...There was a notable absence of such flapdoodle fret* DubinSky's performance...
...Professor James Burnham, after leading a split hi the move- ment, is now reported to have completely divorced himself from Trotskyite politics...
...They are supporting theft...
...The King is a traitor...
...We are grievously disappointed at the action of President Roosevelt in failing to give representation to both the A.F...
...We spoke out of bitter experience...
...MacLeish said: "However noble it may have been as literature, however true as a summary of...
...We might concede the latter point without argument, if Mr...
...Scrapping is intense and will soon break into the open...
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