The News Reel
RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD
By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel To have achieved the ineffabfe scorn the decent people* ^Wet the earth; to have evoked snch. a atorm of universal', con-fcnmation as has never been'visited...
...And he made the hinge only because he knew France to be locked in a desperate grapple for life with'a foe much greater...
...The French workers' standard is still 40 hours...
...There are now enough ships to carry food stuffs as long as the navy is sufficiently powerful to crash the blockade...
...milk by 350,000,000 gallons...
...The British Parliamentary Labor Party has reorganized its leadership...
...Nothing is any concern of ours until the dykes and dams are broken and the flood is pouring down our cbimneys...
...Dewey himself— which is putting it emphatically...
...but for all the discerning comment of the American press and all the enlightenment that has come from it, I must still think the full measure of the instruction will not be apparent until another generation...
...foretold...
...We lore our China—but O You Profits...
...Theh—sometimes slowly, sometimes in a catastrophic rush—one by one they were among the missing...
...Hours beyond the forty-markiare paid at sixty per cent of the standard rate, tke other forty per cent goes to the State as a contributioii to the National Security Fund...
...For a last moment the Dutch kids turned to Popeye, Charlie Chan and the other comic strips...
...and if, as a result of a too even balancing of forces among ' these four, a dark-bone should win the nomination, it is not...
...It was not alone the sharply defined fact that a triumvirate plans to rule the world, but the overwhelming evidence forced upon us of the essential depiavity...
...The Republicans may be tempted to recall the other Roose...
...Australia "trained 416,-809 men or .one-twelfth of its population, and sent 331,761 to Europe and Asia Minor...
...The half-baked youth into whose heads the Mussolini government has sedulously instilled the amoral creed of the gangster may have run about the streets of Rome cheering for a war so soiled and sordid, hut it is hard to thinly they represent the serious adult thought of the country that produced Mazzini and Garibaldi, Aurelio, Safii and Manin...
...If they are thus compelled to talk sense...
...On this, issue the Republican platform will probably be as insincere as Mr...
...The Pan-American maritime organization is in direct competition with the International Transport Workers Federation, an affiliate of the International Federation of Trade Unions, now cooperating with the Allies...
...This led Punch to print a cartoon on the subject...
...chief ,islnow m Mexico City meeting scores of Stalinite "representatives" 6f South American "unions" which have joined the new Pan-American Workers Federation...
...The Democrats will probably be more considerate of the reasonable susceptibilities of our sister republics...
...The others received three-year sentences and fines., What would have been their, punishment had they engaged in tke same activity in ? ermany ? Would they even have had a trial...
...A MONG the four leading *Re-*^ publican aspirants theri is little to choose...
...For this he secures the pre-war wage rate...
...The lesson is profound...
...see farther below the surface of things than it Could a generation ago, and a good many who wibuld otherwise like to vote RepubEcan will perceive that when these rnen say a good word for social:and labor legislation they are talking for Buncombe and that, onde in office, they would try to scuttle the policies which they dare...
...There has been talk of a separate peace...
...By Dick Rfeynard Workersl Abroad TTTTTH Paris in shelling distance^ of heavy German artillery—and " all official France tense over "a possible shortage of munitions and machine replacements—the French ¦Communist apparatus has intensified its undercover "peace,propaganda Comintern efforts are centered on the factories wttere it feels that the longer' extremely arduous working day has made the employees resentful against the demands of the military...
...Faced with the almost inconceivable destruction of the French army, British leaders are implementing plans made early last year—and modernized by the new war government—to feed the islands if Germany and Italy can successfully throw a blockade around England inside the-vast outer patrol of the Allies...
...Britain's farm produce amounts to nearly $1,»00,000,000 a year...
...An administrative committee has been formed to run the party during the war...
...Lees-Smith, M.P., is now acting chairman of the Party, filling the vacancy left by Clement Attlee, now Lord Privy Seal...
...Their statements immediately paralleled the Comintern's foreign policy...
...Why...
...John.L...
...Tie Oifeet yhrely Booty •jk'BOUT this cold-blooded assassination is but one phase that did not seem to a disgusted world a new low level "in treachery...
...That is the crazy logic of isolationist militarism — let our neighbors' houses bum, but try meanwhile to fireproof our own...
...to the front...
...it will not even"ite<d the personal popularity of President Roosevelt to assure a Democratic victory on the fifth of November...
...He was jailed, term to last five years...
...Did we...
...The impossible destruction of the French army may be announced any day...
...He might have gone much farther .<ro a basis of historic fact...
...Meanwhile efforts are being made by the coalition war cabinet to put Britain jobless back to work...
...most- intelligent...
...When mankind shall have won its way out of all delusions about despotism, it will read clearly in this filthy performance what deadly perils and cess-pools may engulf it whenever it is tempted to throw over its ideals and try a slide back into the pre-historic...
...Germany can successfully blockr ade England only if the Reich can cut from London the raw materials, foodstuffs, specialized manufactures, planes and pilots streaming in from Canada, Africa, India, New Zealand and Australia...
...If that is the line-up—the Republican Party paying lip-strViA' to social legislation but actually aiming to sabotage it the Demo-' cratic Party demanding that the task of perfecting the New Deal be entrusted to its friends...
...But then, if they had they wouldn't be so funny...
...President Roosevelt described it as a stab in the back given to a neighbor...
...In substance, however, both parties will advocate an armament policy which, if not qualified in the right way, will point straight to policing the Western Hemisphere, coast and inland, from Alaska and Greenland clear to Cape Horn, it will not be a question of what the politicians or statesmen intend, but of what the United States must and will do a few years later if we fail to do something else right now...
...In-a general way, prediction is fairly soft...
...li was done without pretense or disguise, italy had no wrongs to rtdress, real or imaginary...
...apples from 4,000,000 to 10,500,000 cwts...
...of the triumvirs...
...Well, look at the shipping hsts and see...
...If President Roosevelt wishesj to head the Democratic ticket' he can hardly be thwarted of -his desire...
...The German pilot fenw down and says, "We're coming over here soon, John, to blow you to pieces...
...All We're caught fighting war efforts, spreading defeatist propaganda, and "otherwise engaged in activities of'a nature to hinder national defense...
...to fVonco Jt Was Five Years— THHE international Trotskyite .press is in a dither over the ar-rest and sentencing of nine of "its-people in France...
...Staliaites Set Up * • Pan-American Network r\ANGERS to the United States inherent in the unhampered ac-" tivities of the German and'Soviet apparatus operating now in Mexico have been fully aired in the daily press much to the chagrin of President Car-dams, who is now imposing a covert censorship on American newspapermen...
...Politics, Inc...
...Katheryn Lewis has been present at most meetings—with- her father's blessings—as an official representative of the CIO which has promised the Curran outfit full cooperation...
...The British have just begun to mobilize their Empire forces...
...This maintains the same .standard of living as that fit pre-war years...
...Wheat production has remained the same...
...the polls...
...Several hundred thousand of these have been put'into factories since' the invasion of the lowlands and the fall of the Chamberlain government...
...development of American political intelligence, that is really shrewd politics...
...With brutal and illuminating candor it was admitted that all she wanted was a chance at the loot when sharing would be perfectly safe...
...f j Ominous words...
...CG.T...
...Yet it is not premature to speak of the political line-up for the November election...
...It consists of— Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Sir Charles Edwards, A. V. Alexander, Hugh Dalton, D. R. GrenfeU, G. H. Hall Herbert Morrison, Tom Williams, Wedgwood Benn, M. Laws on, Lees-Smith, Philip Noel-Baker, Pethick Lawrence, E. Shinwell, Mr...
...All the Englishmen to whom I mentioned the matter Bade virtually an identical reply: : :"Ah, well—re-arming issshe...
...T^HE Democrats have the ad-* vantage of meeting in convention a fortnight later...
...while their mothers turned to the fashion section...
...Both will shout for the expenditure of more and more billions on armaments...
...They have been, conferring for days- Present is John Lewis' daughter Katheryn,: about whom Alsop 'and Kintner have some delightful stories in "America's White Paper...
...In terms of both man power and economic potential the Dominions are far better prepared than in 1914 to defend their own territories and to assist the mother country...
...The present inclination of the Republican Party is to declare that we must not lift a finger to save the European democracies...
...the Democrats urging that we defend America by aiding the Allies,'snd the Republicans proposing that we wait until our friends have been Beaten and our enemies have doubled their rtrength^»if that is "the line-up...
...C"^ Before us is the May 6th edition—awake to all the dangers, vigorous in its editorial policy, unhesitatingjn its criticism of the Nazi Reich, and yet not forgetting the youngsters and the' women, for there still was peace in Holland that hour, four days before May 10...
...To call him the most intelligent of that quartet i» no extravagant praise...
...was a day when a commentator en foreign news would * find his desk piled high with German, Dutch, Czech...
...be neutral as between police and gunmen until triumphant gangsterdom reaches the block where we live...
...And to that, exactly that, i we are headed, shoved now along the downward road by the country that once was called "mother of the souls of men.P j -:- ¦ *—~ W» face Hitler ¦ i\ Next la South America I IF the Short-Gircuited Ones were not so short-circuited, they 9 would see that their only*-logical course now is to vociferate (for the immediate jettisoning: of the Monroe Doctrine...
...the Roosevelt of today is at any rate too civilized a man to regard Latin Americans as "lesser breeds without the law...
...Since 1913 meat production has increased 8,500,000 cwts...
...Clines, Mr...
...no doubt be a Rooseveltian...
...Despite the increasing influence Canda's future will exert on the United States, little is known here of her politics, and even less of her Socialist movements...
...Tit that event, this countryf will be ruthlessly and implacably faced with this choice—eith.tr at the point of the pistol to surrender abjectly a policy followed and cherished for a century and '•' quarter, or fight to keep it.' Of course, it is in a way a pity the 'Short-Circuited have no lucid intervals...
...Finland is virtually controlled by the Soviets, Sweden by the Nazis, and the Swiss are under a semi-military rule...
...The six-day work-week is being dropped now, many factories operate three shifts of eight hours, worUing without days off...
...That's against the damn* French...
...the world...
...It is a pretty good b^t that tbe Republican presidential candidate will be either Mr...
...I Wish the chief of them all would now explain how he thinks it would be possible to sustain any form of civilized or tolerable existence in a world where there would be no faith but in brute force, no peace but in slavery, no promise, treaty, covenant or contract of the least validity, and no moral standard above the jungle...
...The Labor Party of New Zealand is united in its aid to England...
...Anti-Nazi editors were shot immediately the Nazis occupied Amsterdam, United States diplomatic sources learned...
...We Matt Face < Tie Issue Now /\NE effect in this country,, noted by Senator Pittman, was to annihilate the last remaining excuse for indifference to the real and momentous issue that mankind confronts...
...In addition there is now a lump sum payment for the birth of the first child...
...Crazy logic, yes—but that is what most of the Republican politicians now propose...
...Shipments from the United States represent a problem apart from any analysis of • the Empire's economic strenth...
...According to the London Economist, by May 1 the number of registered unemployed had fallen from 1,121,000 to 970,000, the lowest level reached since 1920...
...By that time the demand for sanity in thought and courage in action may have proven loud enough to convince even the isolationist, militaristic, and reactionary elements among them that in this case good statesmanship "Would also be good politics...
...Communist railroad workers were transferred to farm work...
...We thought we were going to stop thus our shipments of the materials with which Japan was blowing China to pieces...
...The strategic importance in war-time, of a well disciplined aeries of unions stretching from Detroit to Buenos Aires, reaching into the vital industries snd land and sea transportation, is incalculable...
...i™ Our Scrap Iron Boilt Italy I I IN the midst of natural resentment it was hardly a sedative to * read that we are and long have been shipping full cargoes of .scrap iron to Italy, and that all we shipped will presently be bombs "rained upon the hard-presseil Allies or maybe shattering the airplanes we sent to help them, t Help the Allies for sentiment but the Italians for good solid profits seems to be our motto...
...Which might naturally' prompt one to ask why on earth, amid much righteous fanfare, we denounced the trade treaty ¦ with Japan last January...
...Yet strange and unaccountable may ;be the spectacle presented by any people when they cast aside the garments of reason aria* experience and go abroad in the skin clothes of the paleolithic...
...This may have been recently increased...
...Willkie is the frankest and apparently also the...
...But world history, ruthlessly inconsiderate of partisan interests, has pushed other issue...
...If not qualified in the right way"—that brings us to the real ' issue upon which tbe two major...
...Only in the British and French empires are the parties free to organize and criticize...
...But the - British Empire—a world-flung series of powerful national units still holds key positions on every continent...
...On the front page are two large pictures—May Day in Stack-holm—marching with street-wide flapping signs—"for freedomjuf the working class...
...and that is tbe line their convention may be expected to follow, unless public opinion developes much, faster within the next few days than we dare to hope...
...Today—for the last time there came Het Volk, beautiful (allow us the word, for such it was) Dutch Social Democratic daily which employed some 800 people in its various departments...
...and sugar, from none produced to...
...Joe Cuiran, NJl.U...
...Amman, Rhys Dairies, Garro-Jones, J. Griffiths, Arthur Henderson, Tom Johnston, and D. Kennedy...
...But there has been nothing written on the new Pan-American Maritime Federation secretariat which was set up by the Stallnites in Havana, Cuba under the guidance of one Edward Gordon, National Maritime Union representative there...
...Were this the only issue, the Republicans could go strong on viewing with alarm and the Democrats could point.with pride till tbe cows come home—and the pointers with pride would probably win...
...Forewarned, But | i Jfot Forearmed |T is likely that no democracy ever was warned of anything until I* it banged its nose against the mailed fist of an accomplished fact I remember now that^sev^n years ago or more, the London j iftfl published a series of startling articles, based on indubitable testimony gathered on the'spot by its emissaries and reporters, I revealing Germany's secret re-armament, to what extent and to *»hat end...
...a post office employee...
...In the word of one military man here, "the war may really not start for a year...
...Voluble indeed have been hitherto some of the Apostles of Submission...
...True, one could hardly deem such an exposition needed, except in the gloomy precincts of the School of Short-Circuited Thought, and there certain signs soon showed that it had been resultful...
...British Begin To Draw On Empire Food Stocks Are High Special to The New Leader LONDON...
...she did not even pretend to embark upon wholesale murder to vindicate the fictioned superiority of a mythical race...
...The country turned to the page that told about the grouse "hooting in Scotland and tjheh to the progress of the forty-fifth day of the cricket match between Surrey and Bucks, and was content...
...A few deemed this sinister and significant, but most persons thought it a jest...
...The Socialist New Zealand government has wired to Downing Street offering to give haven to 25,000 children now in the war zone...
...C. P. agents in government positions were discharged...
...We diubt whether at this stage in the...
...During the war months more than 500,000 acres of new land have been put in cutivation...
...velf s declaration that the United States must carry a big stick and be the policeman of the Western Hemisphere, but they may discretely remember that though he never put the muffler on his own raucous voice, he did once say that it is a good idea to speak softly...
...They were astonishing in scope and detail, those articles, but the Mail might as well have saved its space and labor, it dented the national consciousness as much as a bail stone dents « granite boulder...
...It represented John Bull reading a newspaper in his garden and a German air-plane flying over his head...
...Partly anti-war, partly for the drive oh Hitler, the Cooperative (Socialist) Commonwealth Federation has a small bloc of nine persons in parliament and a popular vote of some 400,000...
...According to official figures given to Parliament by former Minister of Agriculture W. R. Morrison, the isles' agricultural production is now increased to a point where the first world war starvation level will never be reached...
...TWere ts room for hope that the ]Demo-cratic convention will be ready to declare for stopping the dictators now...
...In so far as that is the case, we respect -him and earnestly, hope that if nominated, he will he defeated at...
...a production reaching one fourth of total domestic consumption...
...This act laying down the basis of .the nation's war-time organization, was passed in Parliament with Communist snpport—remember the Popular Front period...
...Willkie will be their most fitting candidate...
...After a recent two-day secret session the Social Democratic controlled parliament in Wellington began organizing a •victory drive by taking action against the Communist Party...
...These Socialist newspapermen had been marked by the fifth column awaiting Der Tag...
...parties may come to grips...
...Because Britain is normally dependent on imports for two-thirds to three quarters of its food supply, an increase in the national merchant marine became a necessity on September 3. Population in the isles has increased by approximately 5,000,000 people since 1913...
...Hot Volk Goes Now...
...officials have ample evidence that its entire membership is behind it They point oat that the Communists who sabotage the industrial program had ample time to attack the mobilization plans since ' the program became law in 1968...
...on the war question, Mr...
...During the World war, Canada mobilized 628,964 men of whom 422,406 were sent overseas...
...As for frankness, that is sometimes a handicap rather than an advantage in old party politics...
...at all likely that he Will represent views very different from theirs...
...is represented at this week's Mexi^> City's sessior of the,new Pan-American Federation...
...Yesterday they narrowed down to the .Dutch and Belgian publications...
...At the same time, because- of the deterioration in world trade, the merchant marine declined from 4,304 vessels to about 2,700 ships...
...It was not merely a neighbor that Italy helped to assassinate but a close relative, an old-time friend and a benefactor...
...EACH missing paper is notice that another Socialist movement *-* has gone underground...
...Spanish, Scandinavian, Belgian and Swiss .Socialist papers...
...if, contrary to expectations, he declines to run for a third term, the candidate will...
...Almost on the anniversary of Solferino, Mussolini crawled * from under the bed, looked warily around, and plunged his stiletto into the power that virtually gave Italy to...
...Passed byjfte censor...
...New Zealand mobilized 128,525 men, of whom 98,950—or 40 per cent of the male population between 20 and 45 years of age—went overseas...
...or the thousands of factory hands to sacrifice their time, health and energy...
...Nothing ^esn be plainer than that •Hititer's next move, after he shall have conquered the best part of Europe, will be upon South America...
...Munition factory workers ndw put in 60 hours a week, in 10-hour shifts, alternating from day to night work every week...
...The voting public can...
...a atorm of universal', con-fcnmation as has never been'visited nptfi another nation: i» &e stained a ence fair name with an enduring smear of shame— this seems on review to be the climax and ripe fruitage rf'4'taly's prostitution when she turned from the way* of democracy to cohabit with the foul birds of Absolutism...
...Willkie...
...He is, on,the whole, openly opposed to tbe New Deal in principle...
...It is even rumored in newspaper circles that Dala-dier and seven' other ministers had voted for such action before Reynaud called upon President Lebrun to dispense with the former premier...
...Too . ' T*HER...
...But Not Heard THIS reminds me that when I was in England in the summer of 1913, the country was mildly diverted by the nightly visits of the German spy-planes which flew over the island to get the ranges and the correct time schedules from base to base...
...It has been butter before guns, the democratic way...
...Since all men up to fifty have keen mobilized and are now fighting along the Seine, Oise and directly in front of Paris there has been a sharp dislocation of French economic life which has forced the authorities to substitute wc-men, youngsters and the older groups to release every possible ^nan for the front...
...Top punishment for thiB went to Charles Margne...
...Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian shipping...
...Eighteen months later, London streets were adorned with signs °»d arrows pointing wayfarers to the nearest air-raid refuge, °*d the gruesmc story of the Liverpool street 'bus has gone mto tnVic history...
...On the impassive ice the fiery lightnings .play...
...not openly attack...
...eggs by 3,500,000 (200 per cent...
...In a short time the Government will begin bringing in colonial workers, particularly Indo-Chinese, many of -whom already in training, are showing themselves adaptable toJ engineering and machine work...
...There has been no hesitancy <on the part of the French Federation of Labor (C.G.T...
...Dewey, Senator Taft, Senator Varjdenberg, or Mr...
...Old Parties' National Election Issue Hinges ion Type of Aid to Allies ^By Algernon Lee 1*HE national platform afld ticket of the Republican party will not be definitely known for a couple of weeks yet and those of the Democratic party till a couple of weeks after that...
...The other three seen, to think ft safer to pretend to be more or less friendly to the principles of the New Deal,.and to court votes by rather cheap sniping at the manner in whicJi it has been administered...
...Organization of Curran's Pan-American Maritime Federation Was ostensibly launched last winter in Havana when he met with other maritime union chiefs jat the Pan-American conference...
...In a total drive to wipe out Reich aerial superiority the cabinet has ordered 12-hour shifts, se^en days a week in aircraft factories...
...Development there in the last two weeks have shown this to be inevitable if he wins...
...It may be said that Mr...
...Stalinite printing plants were raided...
...It's no concern of ours...
...Then why need we arm to tlie teeth ? Because the defeat of the European democracies will bring the danger of war to this side of the Atlantic...
...let the germs of disease spread unchecked, but lair .Jh'- a stock of medicine for our owfi use when the plague actually seizes on us...
...JJO'IH conventions will cheer so-called patriotic oratory till they are blue in the face...
...No concern of ours...
...And, John, never looking up from his newspaper, says: "Righto, mate...
...But this decline has been more than recompensed by the absorption of Danish...
...Sentiments are grand, perfectly grand...
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