Stalinites Hawk Old Fronts For New to Shield Pro-Nazi Line
Solow, Herbert
Stalinites Hawk Old Fronts For New to Shield Pro-Nazi Line By Herbert Solow CAUGHT in ideological flagrante delicto by the Stalin-Hitler pact and the ensuing war, the Kremlin's ?—f?cUi front...
...Coinciden tally, Bookniga and Amkino, American distributors of Soviet books and movies, respectively, folded up...
...AMERICA, as a grateful immigrant woman said to a friend of mine, is "all right...
...War Issue Reveals Shallowness Of "Radical" Intelligentsia By Leon Dennen I Author of Where the Ghetto Ends)' ^HEN men'are troubled, they must seek relief, and the American writer, to quote Leonard Bacon's whimsical remark, has sought it by attempting the unfamiliar exercise of thought, if he may so compliment these rather inconspicuous mental processes...
...The test is now upon us, whether we are merely the irresponsible children of this lost, selfish and blinded generation, or the deserving and worthy inheritors of the tough cookies who followed Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clarke through the wilderness, and later of the rough babies who railroad-tracked a Continent, and with magnificent American impudence smacked the steel buildings of our cities against the sky...
...newscaster and Communist leader...
...A "new society," whatever name it bear, that were erected upon such a foundation, should hardly withhold for one day the shame that must dissolve it...
...That faith is a simple, common sense thing based on plain, every-day reality...
...They arc brought in because they are proven industrial experts, and not because of their political beliefs...
...A great roar goes up on the Left, which their Liberal friends ecb* with skeptical sneers...
...A new crop of ^leiitarian stooge set-ups has riseri to...
...King Ar-taxerxes banished all the philosophers from his (Persian Empire, and Ecdesiastes, a man of great wisdom and one of the most unique reflective writers who are included in the Old Testament, cautioned the young man that "of making books there is no end" ' and that "a fool also multiplieth words...
...That fact is our traditions, or inversely, the many ugly traditions of other countries that we have happily escaped in our career as a nation...
...William B. Spofford, Maxwell S. Stewart, KatrTerine Terril», Kurt Rosenfeld, Rev...
...Our whole history mocks this miserable viewpoint, and discloses it as the ultimate of unrealism...
...One way is to recover and bolster our faith in the real, essential America...
...When liquidating, the League com-aissars called on followers to launch "a different program id type of organization" in theirslocalities...
...Like numerous other American intellectuals, drunk by his own -vision of a mythical society, surfeited and comfortable, he watched with indifference the parade of Soviet agony...
...Out of 20 national elections in the period between 1860-1940 the Republicans have won 14 elections, have had 13 presidents in the White House, and 56 years of control over the policies of the nation, while the Democrats have garnered 6 elections, giving them 4 presidents and 24 years of power...
...Then, indeed, let us achieve it frankly, openly and honestly...
...A FEW examples from recent American history will illustrate my point...
...Whatever our ultimate conclusion of the role and function of the intellectual may be, it . seems reasonable to assume that * although modern intellectuals are not a group that can he strictly defined, most of them have one trait in common: they are forever a vacillating, always changing sides and in a constant process of diffusion...
...If, in the end, the'only hope should be socialism, that is one thing...
...In this 80-year period of rivalry, there were two distinct eras of Republican victory...
...Almost every one of the few dozen unions represented was Communist-dominated, represented by stooges...
...Certainly, anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices...
...Present ,wa,r has resulted in the rude awakening of American intellectuals...
...How, then, to make it work on the side of all believers in democracy in the crisis-that is blitzkrieging its way upon us now...
...At that time I wrote for the American Mercury an article predicting that "an explosion now [brewing may blast (Way liberal, labor and pacifist support, and perhaps destroy the whole structure...
...end?psed anti-Nazi films, went with the wind when the Communist Party fellow-travelers in control tried to forcaj'if to condemn them...
...We have even, for periods, restricted our liberties and democratic rights, but always in a great cause—as in the Revolution, the Civil War, and the World War...
...THE unique" contribution of the Communists, and of all the * bumptious and arrogant internationalists and revolutionaries, to this lovely mess, has lain in their .exploitation of this exploitation, so to say...
...America is not a flag...
...The thing grew into a rich and powerful racket, exploited by professional cynics, super-sophisticates, arch-disillusionists...
...For example, on February 1, before the kague had been officially closed »p, leaders of the New Ink mid-town branch circularized members under the Mine of the "Provisional Peace (Committee", urging all (¦attend the first meeting of a iew organization...
...These and there named branches have been united in the New York Peace Association, successor to the old City League...
...T*HE chief current Communist \front-building effort in * the field of international affairs began in San Francisco...
...Stalinites Hawk Old Fronts For New to Shield Pro-Nazi Line By Herbert Solow CAUGHT in ideological flagrante delicto by the Stalin-Hitler pact and the ensuing war, the Kremlin's ?—f?cUi front organisations have undergone a. crisis as" no combination of government inquiry and jour-j^isitje debunking could have produced unaided...
...Those who resigned from their respective groups have included Thomas Mann (honorary...
...k (Another article on the same subject by Mr...
...But let us cease to delude ourselves that we shall ever secure that, any more than we can maintain democracy, by means of the lies, th deceit and corruption that have marked the alleged efforts to bring it here in the past...
...After revision, tin's book was published last week...
...We have one great fact to rely upon in this, perhaps our greatest crisis...
...William Lloyd Imes, Rev...
...Treading the White House carpets after Lincoln .and Andrew Johnson, came U.S...
...Waldo Frank still believes today that "To keep the values that underlie the organic sense of life and man's individual and holy share in it is the function of the intellectual and the artist...
...He believed that it is the task of the intellectuals to maintain "the freshness and <vigor of the workers in their movement toward their great goal (Socialism...
...Others, of uncertain character, include groups with as few as a dozen members...
...again, and Stalin's jjcrses and men have stopped trying...
...very well apply Voltaire's famous dictum published in his collection of "Letters on Miracles": "Once your faith, Monsieur, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life...
...jatead, they are building new f rents...
...The moment the boys on 13th St believe they've overcome one period of political delirium tremens, some bright strategist on Kremlin Square passes the word along that the American public must be re-educated to the contrary of a position tenaciously held during the immediate past Then out go the old pamphlets, books, leaders, transmission belts, - innocent frontera and other sundry and unimportant details...
...Well, "Whom would they prefer—such great industrial geniuses as Earl Browder, perhaps, and the boy-orator senator-reject Rush Holt of W. Va...
...These people, says Mr...
...With the exception of the period of 1912,- when Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican strength, and 1916 when the war issue kept Wilson in the White House, the "Grand Old Party" held sway from 1896 to 1932—again with many successful nonentities—Harding, Cool-idge, Hoover...
...IT is a serious question, how much longer we can tolerate this * sort of thing...
...Of the 363 organizations represented at the conference, many, were Stalinist fronts, including the International Workers Order, International Labor Defense, American Sudents Union, Jewish Peoples Committee, Artists Congress, L'Unita del Pop?lo, National Committee for Peoples 'Rights, American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, etc...
...One week later the Communist Daily Worker publicly endorsed the liquidation and ordered the formation of a "new and greater peace movement" * *' * 1 LIQUIDATION of the League is r.ot a unique phenom-¦ enon...
...I'HIS cynicized generation tends to ignore crises, or to evade * them, but their own America is a child of crises...
...Grant who served two terms, defeating Horatio Seymour in the first contest, and Horace Greeley in the second...
...With Hayes and his successors there came a series of what Bryce called the "successful nonentities" — Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison and Cleveland again, and near the turn of the century McKinley, victorious over the "silver-tongued" orator, William Jennings Bryan...
...The first coming at the time of Lincoln and the Civil War, and through an assiduous waving of the "bloody shirt," the cry that the Democrats had split the union, the G.O.P...
...in a New York cafeteria and adopted a resolution disbanding the outfit...
...And yet, bat for not «B natural post-war aftermaths, we have always swung back, each time, toward a fuller expression and development of democracy than we had known before...
...Capitalists...
...The downtown Brooklyn branch is now the Downtown Brooklyn Peace Council...
...In Detroit there is the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, in New Bedford the Conference oii American Democracy, in Chicago the Midwest Civil Liberties Conference, in Florida the State Council for Peace and Human Welfare, the last run by General Pershing's' Stalinist nephew, George...
...But what happens...
...k TheTf .!S 5? ^U.bt...
...If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, -you will not be able to use the sense of justice which God planted in your heart to resist evil...
...The intellectual, he said, is an exploiting class whose stock in trade is confusion.' "Knowledge," wrote A, Wolski, "is .the property of privileged people, of a white-collar caste...
...The pamphlet fleetingly took in the C.I.O...
...Although the debate as to the role and function of the intellectual 'has been going on for years no ^definite conclusion has as yet been reached...
...r The Rural Electrification jAd-f e *™istration has distributed |12,-j for electric cooperatives ? «j "jraprove run-down farms...
...Los Angeles has its Conference on Civil Liberties...
...Plato hated the poet...
...As usual, the intellectuals, frightened to death by the depression and in search of some belief, of a utopia (H...
...In November the Bridges-run Maritime Federation of the Pacific set up a Keep America Out of the War Committee headed by Stalin stooges...
...These were supplemented by tried and trusted fellow-travelers from various sectors, including the following: Congressmen Vito Marcantonio, John"M...
...There is also a California State Conference, linking these vand other stooge groups, including former League branches...
...Solow will appear in next week's edition...
...Because it is no exaggeration to say, thanks to artful propaganda as well as irresponsible, that we have to face the grim prospect of a losing fight, a back-to-the-wall affair...
...In a land that has always been rich with color, deep with humanity, and teeming with vitality, these gentry overwhelmingly have sought for and popularized the mean, the sorded, the pallid, the barren, the defeated and the contemptible, until these shallow and dreadful concepts, spread like a thick veneer over America's culture, have brought despair to our present and now darken our future...
...It is the oldest great republic in the world that has had a president at the head of the government since its inception...
...To preach "We" against "They"—"They" being any person with a thousand dollars and a mortgage and a penchant for minding his own business and not meddling with other people's...
...He undoubtedly underestimated the sedative qualities of the October "Revolution...
...In all lands and in all countries there exists a large class of people who are not owners of capital but nevertheless possess wealth and live like masters...
...IN the civil liberties field, the Stalinists are also organiz-* ing new local groups under various names, aiming at a national meeting to fuse such "spontaneous" growths into a single organ to exercize the dead League's domestic policy functions...
...From start to finish, the huge Stalin delegation was all over the picture...
...The same was true of Upton Sinclair who loved to regard himself as a Socialist and a puritan but who had no qualms of conscience when he justified and approved of Stalin's immoral and brutal regime...
...The Cameo, tfeoviet first-run house in New York, closed its doors...
...It was innocently fronted for at the start late last winter by President Frank Kingdon of the University of Newark, Dr...
...They...
...L. Mencken claims that intellectuals always need "a rock of ages, a cave of brotherhood, a staff and diaper of belief) left >Mr...
...We have often stumbled, made serious mistakes, and we make serious ones even now, but democratic' America has never once failed her people as a whole—not once...
...Steffens pontifically, "and it works...
...bedevil politics u did their precursors and, as before, innocents are bang taken in...
...We have no totalitarian or permanently reactionary traditions...
...A circular was sent many unions, urging them to found similar committees, and in Chicago, Tampa and Paterson, local Stalinists induced unions to do so...
...Few of these reckless, irresponsible cultural racketeers could 1 hear America's rich and throaty roar singing at them...
...Coffee, Clifford McAvoy, and Paul Kern, Vil-hjamur Stefansson, Elmer Brown, Fred Myers, Milton Kaufman, Joseph Curran, Robert K. Speer, Doxey Wilker-son, Walter Rautenstrauch, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Charles Obermeyer, Mr...
...Stalin no longer being anti-Nazi, the League has purged and renamed itself...
...we have swayed in those directions now and then, as in the dangerous "Reconstruction" era after the Civil War, but we have never dwelt within those ways long enough for them to guide us toward an irrecoverable wrong destiny...
...and Mrs...
...It can no more be brought forth by these means than we can expect to found a decent and permanent new society upon the blood and bones of innocent women and children massacred by the multiple-murder machines in the hands of human monsters...
...Moscow ordered, and its agents acted with Muscovite luthoritarianism...
...On May Day it held a public meeting...
...George Marshall, Alfred K. Stem, Bertha J. Foss, M. I. Finkelstein, Claire Neikin and Sam Blinken...
...president of the writers), Van Wyck Brooks, Louis Bromfield, Vincent Sheean, Remo B?fano, Lee Simonson, Robert' Benchley, Stuart Davis, George Biddle, Peggy Bacon, Lewis Mumford and Professor Meyer Schapiro...
...Aladdin had his-lamp and the American Communist Party has the Comintern's benevolent supervision...
...The aim seemed to be to penetrate the long-established Keep America Out of the War Congress headed by John T. Flynn, Norman Thomas and other non-Stalinists, and eventually to capture it...
...50,000,000 citizens will go to the polls to make their choice between Franklin Delano Roosevelt und Wendell Willkie, the two candidates of what have been the two major parties during the past 80 years...
...PartnersAide4 •WASHINGTON, D. C. — Thj slatternly dressed, raw-bone* ¦ housewives of southern shar* croppers, who wearily conctemS" P?*tes the meager rations leff I «fter dividing the crop with th# .landlord, may now look forward to owning their own piece of land j *nd her own home...
...Pisarev, the great pre-revolu-tionary Russian social critic, spoke of intellectuals as the "Thinking Proletariat," while Mr...
...To cease viewing our ^country with cheap cynicism and super-sophisticated distrust...
...Some Hpjpaw^tatched humpty-dumpties ar...
...The chain was stopped with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's victories in 1932 and 1936...
...that knowledge is a means of production...
...F*0 these .gentlemen ope can...
...These, and similar outfits in many cities and states, are but a few months old...
...The American Student Union and Youth Congress, having condoned Stalin's "peace" and "liberation" policy in Finland, are debilitated...
...In San Francisco the Academic and Civil Rights Council has been launched with Louise R. Bransten, ex-official of the New York League, at the main desk...
...This resiliency is one of the great inherent virtues in our democracy...
...They...
...To an extent the same is true of Hitler's and Mussolini's American agents and admirers...
...Cultural Racketeers Intellectuals' Cynicism Ignores 'Americana' By *OSS B. WILLS POR upwards of twenty-five years our intellectuals, our writers, *¦ thinkers, painters, artists, increasingly as time passed, and enforced and even directed by the Communists in the past decade, have been feeding, and feeding luxuriantly, upon America's sins and defects...
...America is a democratic state, and unless we find and unite our-fafth in that, there might not remain an America, and certainly not long, a democratic America...
...We have this, and it is a great deal...
...In the accompanying article—another will appear on the same subject next week—Herbert Solow traces in . detail the junking of "popular front" paraphernelia and the concomitant reconstruction along "Peace, it's wonderful" lines...
...Anyone in the least acquainted with the activities of a vast majority of American writers, artists, school teachers, professors for—let us say—the last ten years will laugh loudly and hilariously at Herr Mehring's naivete...
...at ?h...
...The very same "literary" ladies and gentlemen who once conducted their education in public by rushing into print with amateurish and undigested essays on Marx and unspeakably schematic trash about "Proletarian Literature" will now, it seems, conduct their re-education in public by publishing long-winded and metaphysical essays of repentance...
...The disputed election of 1876 put Hayes in the White House, although contemporary historians assert that S. J. Tilden, his Democratic opponent, had been rightfully elected...
...Such names were pushed to the fore, but the bearers had little chance to know what went on in the background...
...We are frankly being presented with a crisis so grave that it is no longer tenable or safe to be largely concerned over any of the particular aspects of our democracy, for it is the whole of it that is menaced...
...now it is the call to repentance...
...In days gone by,'there were people who said to us: 'You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have commanded you to...
...Enslaved by the Stalinist propaganda and afraid to face the truth, they called Max Eastman a "renegade," a "bourgeois apologist" and later a "gangster of the pen," a term applied to him by the boss of the Kremlin...
...In Minneapolis, soon after the pact was signed, the commissars set up a Civil Rights Committee, whose secretary, Milford A. Sutherland, is a Young Communist League leader...
...Upon this well-cynicized soil they came to solidify discontent and disaffection and, for their own private purposes, to plant the infamous curse of "They-j»m...
...But has this exploitation been any worse—has it even been as bad—as the cynical exploitation by these disciples of the mean, the freakish, the barren, and contemptible, of the whole American people and their whole culture...
...They...
...In accordance jvith* ^fJNi tiwiu of the Jones-Bankiead|| 1 *t Con gres s authorized the FSA to-barrow $50,000,000 from...
...Wolski believed that intellectuals are a "class...
...A. Clayton Powell, Abraham Isserman, Bella Dodd, Charles Hendley and Lewis Merrill...
...The wails and anguish ring loud in the local Red houses . . . but training does the trick, and the old boys are back at new stands doing business as blandly as if the line had not switched again...
...In 1934 Max Eastman published in his "Artists in Uniform" an appeal to American writers and intellectuals not to swallow naively every word dispensed by the Bolsheviks...
...Perhaps Max Eastman was way.ahead of his time...
...Or— maybe—nobody...
...If we do not look for, or ask, perfection, we can say before the world, and before time, that we do not have so much to be ashamed of, and we do have much to shbw with genuine pride...
...John Lovejoy Elliot of the Society of Ethical Culture, ex-President Mary E. Woolley of Mt Holyoke, President Newbold Morris of the New York City Council and Francis X. Stephens of the New York Holy Name Society...
...He must be a poor bargainer who would swap the reputation of America, or her history, for that of any other country of the modern world...
...f*HE classical Marxist interpre-* tation of the role and function of the intellectual in modern society was given by Franz Meh-ring...
...War-mongers...
...The exodus of ten national groups from the Congress began a drift which must finally expose the dominant Stalin caucus so clearly as to make it visible even from the White House powder.room...
...the main speaker was P. J. McClellan, vice-president of the International Workers Order, whose president, William Wiener, is a convicted passport forger and a Soviet agent...
...Norman Byrne, Oscar Fuss and other well-tried fellow-travelers are in control...
...Great reputations, and even fortunes, have been founded upon their ruthless, irresponsible and conscienceless exploitation of America's shortcomings, alleged as well as real...
...The .Daily Worker boosted the name...
...that the people who generally discuss the role and function of the intellectual in society jare the intellectuals themselves, i Maxim Gorki, once referred to the intellectuals as the "Masters of Culture.'" Stalin, in his supreme [ignorance, went Gorki one better...
...In an era when the wise-rack was elevated to the supremacy of a philosophical observation, and when defeat and disillusion, when not commonplace, reached the level of low comedy, these gentry, feeding upon their own dredged-up corruption, became themselves too corrupt, too narrow, and too fat-headed to remember America's tremendous past, to see its anxious but still predominantly vigorous present, or to envision its potential future...
...auto union, but soon Detroit's big West Side local tossed" a consignment back to Bridges' men...
...THEY can find no excuses in the depression period...
...was able to continue its pork barreling for 24 years, until the first Cleveland victory...
...Fifth Period-Fifth Column Old fronts for New...
...What is true of Lincoln Steffens is also true of Upton Sinclair and hundreds of other American intellectuals from Theodore Dreiser, who is a great artist and bad politician, to Malcolm Cowley, the "literary" editor of the New Republic, who is little artist and all politician...
...the for the fiscal year ending . 30th next • | _To"dateaDout 13000 farm fam...
...In Washington, D. C, the commissars eschewed all subtlety: in one envelope they sent League members notice of liquidation and announcement of the setting-up of a "new" body...
...j A great deal of the confusion, to be sure, is partly due to the fac...
...The creation of successors to the defunct League for Peace and Democracy is illustrative af .the procedure...
...The Greater New York Emergency Conference on Inalienable Rights is typical and, as such, worth looking at in some detail...
...I have seen the future," proclaimed Mr...
...When the hat was passed only $172 came in, which Would be one cent per claimed supporters, if the conference claim to represent 1,509,000 were sound...
...now, then, commit unjust things because we likewise order you to do so.' Nothing could be more convincing...
...Stalinists in charge of the Artists Congress, League «f American Writers and Theatre Arts Committee (TAC) ¦reconsidering liquidation...
...And Washington now has the Stalinist Council for Democratic Rights...
...and all through the years of post-war prosperity, when poverty had known no critical stage, they were composing thefr alien and preposterous music, painting their incredible pictures, modeling their idiotic sculptures, and writing down their tin-pot disillusions of novels and books that were nothing more than super-' sophisticated vcrsons of the game of "Cops 'n Robbers," with the robbers invariably triumphant in the finals...
...But Flynn sounded an alarm, the Stalin-inspired KAOW committees made no headway, and the Party changed its tack...
...It included numerous avowed party members and League leaders, among them Angelo Hern-don, Anna Damon, Charlotte Todes, Max Yergan, Rev...
...And in such an extremity there can be no place for "They-ism," for cynicism or sentimentality...
...Solow is a veteran journalist an experienced investigator .(having been with the LaFol-lette Committee) and is the one man responsible for exposing the Soviet Robinson-Rubens plot Donkey vs...
...Robert W. Searle, president of the New York City Federation of Churches and chairman of the conference arrangements body, was in Florida when crucial preparatory decisions were made, as well as during the conference sessions...
...From the "third period" infantile leftism to the "Popular Front" fourth—and now the fifth period...
...And thanks to the well-prepared ground, "They-ism" penetrated our moral fiber until hatred between alleged "classes" became a commonplace point of departure for even innocent groups too ignorant or browbeaten to seek the actual causes for temporary predicaments, and so fcH back upon the Communists' cleverly constructed device of "They-ism" to explain their problem, and even to act upon it We see every day how this works...
...A crisis strikes the nation...
...The Daily Worker has disclosed that the old needle trades branches of the League are renamed the Needle Trades Council for Democratic Action...
...We have prated in this country, and raged and stormed at the exploitation by our capitalists of our laborers, and often of course with justice...
...For they * were all hard at it from the end of the first World War...
...The nearest definition as to what an intellectual really is was given, it seems to me, by a Russian named A. Wolski-Machajski...
...On.-February 2, seven League leaders, all Communists or fellow-travelers, met...
...The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, headed by Donald Ogden Stewart, is now the Hollywood League for Democratic Action...
...Elephant—Again The United States on November 5 will see its 39th presidential election...
...Humanitarian though he was he could speak of "Socialist construction," the "success" of the Five-Year Plan and of the Moscow Art Theatre (successful long before the Bolshevik revolution) ignoring completely the Soviet Man...
...jhe claimed 7,500,000 members were- not consulted...
...Our liberal and radical intelligentsia, particularly many of those who for over a decade rested snugly and securely in the embraces of the Bolshevik revolution, are now in for a prolonged and vocal period of soul-searching " Already we have on record Waldo Frank's "Chart for Rough Waters,?' an apocalyptic essay, Utopian, bombastic, written m the flowery style of the great Jeremiah (aptly characterized bv Simeon Strunskv as i'anothpr mv»ri»,hnM the battle"), and Granville Hicks' vulgar piece of breast-beating published in the New Republic...
...We have laughed and sneered and wise-cracked for a generation...
...In the ar, field, the Stalin-run Congress endorsed the invasion of Finland and Soviet-Fascist art rapprochement...
...This age-of camouflage has done little for the subtlety of the local Stalinites...
...Having pronounced judgment he refused to look farther...
...Jl/tODERN history has demon-*" strated again and again that iii time of crisis the intellectual is the first one to become frightened and is the first one to crumble morally...
...Not long ago, it was the call to "revolution" that was a lucrative literary industry in the United States...
...and few of them hear it now...
...We cannot fail to recover a united faith in democratic America' if we face the country as it is—its past, its present, and its potential future...
...so badly shattered tart they can never be put together...
...Eastman's warning undeeded...
...Orders have Hi followed...
...JL The West Coast group put out a pamphlet, The Yanks Are Not Coming, whose anonymous author was eventually revealed to be Mike Quin, C.I.O...
...N this, to be sure, he had great and illustrious predecessors...
...The official organ' of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, declaring against participation in war, yet came out against Quin's product, labeling him a double-crossing Stalinist Nevertheless, his slogan caught on, and Stalinists renamed their KAOW committees "Not Coming" committees...
...No matter, of course, tha't the fortunes and destinies of the Knudsens and Stettiniuses are bound up inextricably with those of us all, in a crisis that menaces the whole nation, the obscure as well as the well-known...
...Now known as the Citizens Peace Council, it is the old League branch a la mode de 1940, i- e., ar.ti-Ally instead of antiGerman, but pro-Soviet as always...
...Wolski, are the intellectuals and his conclusions (from his point of view, of course) are both logical and reasonable: "Down with the intellectuals...
...Many artists, writers, actors, who supported the culture set-ups as an anti-Hitler gesture, charge that, since the StaLn-Hitler merger, anti-Fascist work is taboo...
...Perhaps this is inherent in the make-up of the intellectual in modern society...
...Film Audiences for Democracy, which a year ago...
...The American League for Peace and Democracy, for-Jjjjbf the League Against War and Fascism, the Kremlin's ?ES American front founded in lf32 by secret agent rjrevitch, began to feel the effects of the .pact last fall...
...The Government callsin a Stettinius and a Knudsen (who only a week or so previously, in democratic America, had spoken critically of the Administration in control of it), to coordinate our industrial mobilization for defense...
...They own no factories, no land, no shops but have the income of capitalists...
...jjjes have received assistance in roving farms in the last three I . ?**is from a total appropriation^ W tt5.000.000...
...8 * *' ? •fO fill gaps, the,Communists ar?j setting up a constellation of new fronts...
...Lincoln Steffens, a great journalist and a great soul, who.had sought justice all his life, became a rabid partisan of Stalin and before his death condoned the" most monstrous injustice of our time...
...Corliss Lamont, son of the financier and a leading Stalin fellow-traveler, recently announced the demise of the American Friends of ^the ?Soviet Union, of which he was the head...
...Con-' I SgliJ0* will begin within a few j jJf^TWh 12,000 miles of new: -fl.ectTic lines, making poiwer' I:"*UaHe to 36,000 more f?rmk «milie...
...whose existence is the existence of parasites based upon the external expropriation of the workers...
...She wat weaned on one, and she reached maturity on one that almost destroyed her...
...Locals of the C.I.O.'s State, County and Municipal Workers Union, the A.F.L.'s Cigar Makers International, are pushing the pamphlet On April 6, "The Yanks Are Not Coming" became a series of mass meetings backed by the Stalinist I.W.O., the American Student Union and allied bodies...
...Let our .intellectuals discover it, and so give dignity and direction to it, and so forfend against the fake religiosity and officious flag-waving of the busybodies who make a racket of patriotism...
...It has never once failgd^us, and it is one fact which should give us the superb courage and confidence that the dangerous times require to meet whatever menace there may be...
...Once a single faculty in your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to same fate...
...And none of these silly productions had any more relation to the real America than a wrapper has to a bar of soap...
...We have managed to turn out about as good a nation as one could expect under the circumstances, and in view of the world and its constitution as a whole...
...jj "Plans maturing in the Parni Security Administration will fpro-| "de 9,000 homesteads for ;dis| Ppssed- farmers, living at, sutsis-s w»ee level...
...Today the slogan is an organization, a periodical, a song, a button-and-sticker drive, and in one Stalinist-frequented Greenwich Village night spot, it is a cocktail...
...The Congress had to suppress Fighting Words, a volume of anti-Nazi articles by Congress followers which was yanked from reviewers' hands on the eve of publication this spring...
...he dubbed them the "en-jgineers -of the human soul," a [phrase much in vogue for a number of years among the American "radical" inteU.igem.tsia...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 30
