Where the News Ends

...Even in dealing with their own people those five governments practice a tyranny far more cruel and repressive than is now suffered by the Indian people under British rule...

...It is remarkable that I have only had one Communist questioner in some eighty meetings, and I solicit questions as a dentist extracts a tooth...

...Democracy, you know, to men of Mr...

...Whether it is a Western film or a Hollywood(en) comedy, whether an uptown or a downtown theatre...

...H. G. Wells to me is the incarnation of all those "debunkers," the great Austrian satirical writer Karl Kraus had in mind, when he wrote: "They don't believe in miracles...

...Wells is a "Stalin agent...

...Wells' conception is to visit the New World, while England is fighting the most decent battle of history, just to tell the Americans that Stalin, democratic England's vicious foe, was right in attacking Finland...

...To the contrary, Mr...

...If Mr...

...But no one dares to stop the talkative nuisance...

...Wells would lose all self-respect if he were not to disagree with his government...

...For most of them are not illiterate, and everyone who reads or even listens to the radio knows what a profound transformation has been going on within the last half, century, and gaining speed within the last two decades, in the relations between the United Kingdom and the British dominions, colonies, and dependencies — a readjustment which is changing the old empire into a federation of autonomous commonwealths...

...He is neither participating in Stalin's plot, nor is he "on Stalin's payroll...

...All of us, as kids, used to imagine what we would do "if I were King...

...In the Far East Stalin now hopes for protection against military involvement by a "non-aggression" pact with Tokyo and by embroiling the United States in war with Japan...

...That's long ago, in my case, and today I am not quite so sure what I would do if I were King...

...activities by providing it with information vital to its efforts to bring within its scope an ever widening range of interstate corporations It was Dr...

...That such a pact is coming was boldly announced by Foster...

...While Browder spoke glowingly of the advantages that would accrue to this country in a Washihgton-Moscow-Chunging Axis, Foster frankly declared that a Soviet "non-aggression" pact with Japan "is well within the realm of possibility," and demanded at the same time aggressive action by the United States, against Tokyo...

...William E Bohn...

...But advocating that second edition of Popular Front, which we dealt with in this column last week, he is anxious to arouse America's liberals against those criminal British leaders who are somewhat reluctant to stumble into Stalin's trap again...

...whether a matinee -or a Saturday night performance—she is always there...

...More than any other British labor leader, Bevin speaks the minds of the British workers in their heroic struggle ' against Nazi domination and for a new world order...

...That was the announcement of the Stalin-Hider pact in August, 1939...

...TOT for the first time the desire to be "differ-*~ ent" at all costs is pushing an enlightened man into ordinary superstitution...

...Some of these people may be sincere...

...I am a Marxist, not a Stalinist if you understand what I mean...

...Knowing that H. G. W. is going to the U.S.A...

...Far from being without faults, Lord Halifax has not only the sounder judgment in the particular question of England's relations with Soviet Russia, but in the controversy with Mr...

...Most of them are not...

...Letters To the Editor Glasgow Finds British C. P. Strangely Quiet From JOHN DAVIS (Glazgoic Cit» Cottnccllor) To the Editor: I am speaking every night just now with a loud-speaker van,: and only get home about 10.30 p. m. I am afraid I am not as clear thinking at that time as I might be for writing for the New Leader...

...Wells he plays, also, a much nobler role...

...I ought really to do better with the comical situation of anti-war enthusiasts trying to get the most pacific members of a government replaced by more militant people...

...Even a diplomat ought to have the intelligence to perceive this simple but all-important fact...

...With no regard for truth, it plays upon old antipathies, especially of Irish-Americans and German-Americans and upon the hangover, among the most backward elements of our native population, of an anglophobia which had its roots, not in memories of 1 776, but in the fact that until the early years of this century the United States was a debtor country in relation to Great Britain...

...BRITISH LABOR SPEAKS ^DDRESSING the British Trades Union Congress at South port this week, Ernest Bevin, minister of labor in the Churchill cabinet, told the representatives of 5,000,000 organized 'British workers that henceforth silk hats in the Foreign Office will be no more welcome than brass hats in the Army...

...He thought there was a struggle between Litvinoff and Dimitroff...

...In the Far East Stalin will be compensated by slices of China such as " Chinese Turkestan said outright annexation of Mongolia...

...There are obviously two different conceptions of dignity...

...This rnakfj it necessary that the Social Democratic Federation «koi*j redouble its activities and, by the spoken and the printed word, make our position clear to all who are willing *° understand...

...At one of my meetings the Communist Party abandoned one and their speaker and local friends were about when I spoke on the war-creating Nazi-Corn Pact and suggested that the terms of that traitorous agreement would not save the grain fields of the Ukraine or the oil wells of the Caucasus from a triumphant Hitler...

...In the Far East Stalin is now trying to repeat the game with respect to the United States...

...Civilian-Controlled Education Would Soften 'Ill-Effects' of Army Camps From HILDA WEINMAN To the Editor: Conscription is an accepted fact, so let's see what we can do about alleviating some of &s ills...

...The instructions have been more precise and timely...

...In the long run it will turn out to be the shrewdest attitude: after having listened long enough to Mr...

...But not him...

...She not only immediately understands every bit of the show, but she also explains it, for your benefit, in a very definite voice...

...In these lines from a man physically frail, the spirit of China shines valiantly and with the true fervor of an age-old culture dauntless against'tremendous odds.] CHUNGKING SZE CHUEN PROVINCE, CHINA.—Mine must be like a voice from the grave, but even the grave buries memories within it...

...Observe the speeches made by Earl Browder, general secretary, and William Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist Party, in Boston last Saturday...

...Expressing the determination of British Labor to bring about the new democratic world order, the Trades Union Congress reaffirmed with remarkable unanimity its policy of relentless war against Hitler by ousting from its general council Herbert Elvin, head of the National Union of Clerks, a promoter of the Stalin-Hitler line.* The new world order for which British Labor is fighting will be the world order of neither Hitler nor Stalin...

...Any reconstruction of the world "must be through harnessing of the rising masses of labor to whom the future really belongs," said Bevin, adding that for the first time a "very close liaison" has been established, between the Labor Ministry and the British Foreign Office...

...After all, isn't his an intellectual power in its own right...

...Ih to doing we act in the spirit of Marx and Ertgels, of Lasssfle...

...Wells' monologues, one cannot help but be of the opposite opinion, anyway...

...While holding out what Moscow considers the inviting bait of Russo - American - Chinese collaboration, Stalin's henchmen demanded that we cease all aid to England, curb our military preparations accordingly, but at the same time stop appeasing Japan...

...of "American Labor, the War...

...It is extremely funny...

...Very timely, in this connection, is the repubnes-tion by the Rand School Press of Herbert Moiriso«» "Easy Outline of Modern Socialism" simultaneously with August Claeasens' new pamphlet entitled "The Democrat* Way of Life...

...Our British friends will have opportunity to be convinced of that when their delegates, headed by Sir Walter Citrine, appear before the convention of the American Federation of Labor in November...

...This is very unusual...

...Important, too, is the two-day conference to be hfeld next Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, at which Dr...

...In Europe, Moscow had assured France and England of . its full support in an aggressive policy against Hider...

...The call of duty and the responsibility placed on my weak shoulders, have not found me wanting or weak...

...The army officers have their place — the instruction of the military arts...

...His intelligence is overwhelming, like a steady rain...

...He is not driven by a Bolshevist philosophy (which he never had and never will accept) but just by a particular sort of intelligence: the super-intelligent man's urge to present himself with a cocksure prescription for the cure of all evils...

...Wells' third "great democracy" (pardon me—the pun is his...

...there are moments when I did hate them, just as when we have to "cower" in dark dugouts like animals—the indignity of it all is enough to make you mad...

...they are waiting the next group of instructions...

...In normal times, therefore, when democracy is on the up-grade, we emphasize OBJ specifically socialist aims: in times like these, when even the most elementary democracy is in danger, we put the «*-phasis on the immediate duty of keeping open the onlf road by which the socialist goal can ever be attained...

...Glasgow...

...Now he i3 going to beat . the girl...

...But what a great lesson for army tolerance it would be to have officers and men as fellow-students in civilian-led classes— in' physical and social sciences— in army camps...

...Saposs and his assistants are now unceremoniomb' • dropped by the Labor Board, if they are not shifted to other positions where they can devote their experience to work vital to the man in the factory, then the charges long leveled against the Board members by the New Leader and other critics are borne out...

...Wells, I would like to be somebody else...

...speaking for myself, I cannot hate them...

...so does the provision of planes and destroyers for Great Britain's own defense against bombing, raids and threatened invasion...

...Courage and Devotion to China Sparks Resistance to Invader [We are privileged to present to our readers excerpts from a letter sent to a friend in America by a member of the -Chinese Central Council...

...Saposs' brilliant work which won for thousands of working men the Board's protection Much criticism has been leveled at the-Board memben who have failed to defend the Economic Division's work because Dave Saposs was avowedly and energetically opposed to the American Communist movement...

...In August-September, 1939, Moscow left France and England holding the bag in Europe...

...For one thing, there will not be the same surprise when Moscow concludes a "non-aggression" pact with Tokyo, complementing the pact with Hitler...

...She doesn't know that he has read the letter...

...which put teeth in the Labor Board...

...Examine the record and you will observe how' closely Communist propaganda in this country, for example, has followed die Nazi line in all moves made by Berlin since the beginning of the war...

...I love you all, but I have not the strength to give to love, because all my strength belongs to my country...

...Wells is not thoroughly sure of something he states...

...This week I have been speaking in Motherwell and district, where the Communist M.P., Walton Newbold, came from...

...fSince then, however, Stalin has been more considerate of his lackeys...

...of Bebel and Hardie and Jaurea, and of the growing mas* of thinking workers who through three generations of struggle have made such men their leaders...

...Why, isn't it a miracle, for instance, that a rose doesn't fade in their presence...

...Wells is concerned...

...so would use of our Pacific fleet to stop the Japanese drive upon the East Indies and beyond that to Australia and New Zealand...

...Wells is doing all he does for Joe entirely free of charge...

...He knows everything, understands everything and predicts everything...

...That's H. G. WelLs to me...

...Socialists the world over are abandoning or even temporarily laying aside their distinctive principles...

...He is In this country again and explains everything, while the show goes on...

...THE BOGEY OF EMPIRE ^ERTAIN professed "radicals" are expressing great concern lest the United States do something that may "tend to save the British Empire...

...because he admits graciously that his native England still • has some chances of living up to the democratic standard of Stalin's Russia, Mr...

...It took them many months to recover from the blow...

...in order to attack England's foreign secretary, he gave him the opportunity to do so and kept silent...

...One of the things we liberals (much abused word arid much abused persons) fear is the brutalization of values and outlook which accompanies army camp living...

...Duty comes first, whatever the price I most pay...

...In Europe Stalin was compensated by Russia's "annexation of the Baltic States, a large part of Poland, a slice of Finland, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina...

...By seeking to involve us in the Far East while demanding that we stop all aid to England, Stalin is following closely the line laid down in the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Pact...

...For this he is being sacrificed by Stalin-minded Board official*, who surreptitiously in the past joined with those opposed to the Division in the interests of big business, to oust Saposs...

...The new pact, dictated from Berlin, will facilitate Japan's efforts to liquidate the "China incident," so that Tokyo may be free to pursue its aggressor role in Indo-China and the East indies, and tie the hands of the United States as regards help to England by compelling this country to concentrate upon defense of the Pacific...

...The thinking Communists are very quiet just now...

...Editorials TWO TRAITORS—TWO SPEECHES QNE of the most valuable assets derived by Hitler from his pact with Stalin has been the perfect synchronization of Soviet diplomacy with Berlin's and the cooperation given to Nazi propaganda abroad by the world-wide apparatus of the Comintern...

...If I have been so very remissin my correspondence with you, I am sure you, as understanding friends, will readily understand, and forgive me...

...Such a propaganda of nationalistic hatred is dishonest, reactionary, and thoroughly antidemocratic...

...This eliminates Dave Sapoas sad the work he did...

...In ther light of these facts, the speeches delivered by Browder and Foster were the utterances of two hired pyro-maniacs...

...By Willi Schlamm Where the News Ends WHENEVER you go to the movies, you meet her...

...In this country, unfortunately, there are some who honestly think themselves Socialists or who honesdy sympathize with our movement, but who are confused on tfci» subject and suppose that we must either stand aloof from the defense of democracy in order to keep out Socialist consciences unsullied or else forget our Socialism in order to co-operate with others in saving democracy...

...Just now, H. G. Wells is winning the American public for "the alliance of the world's three great democracies," which formula is rather magnanimous, as far as Mr...

...We do not hate Japanese...

...I am bound to my unhappy land by ties of blood and duty and I cannot allow myself to look back on the past...

...Prof...

...It was the first time in fifty years that American delegates failed to greet the British workers in their annual meeting...

...Anyhow, the information was that these two were at loggerheads with Stalin and others on the issue of democracy and fascism . He felt at that time that the democratic supporters would finally triumph, but, of course, they did not, and now my friend will not look at me, as he has had to change his policy...

...The consequence was painful bewilderment among the Communist cohorts here...

...She is fate's naughty trick against your enjoyment...

...What matters the little "1" if I can de even a little to help my country in the hour of greatest peril...

...I thank God—if there is one...

...I want to hate them, so hate might act as a purgative, but I cannot Oh...

...Paris and London took a strong stand against Berlin, Moscow betrayed them and left them facing Hitler without Russia's aid...

...Such persons know also that even fifty years ago British imperialism was mild and beneficent in comparison with the treatment accorded to subject peoples, then or now, by the German, Russian, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish governments, which would get control over those territories if their present drive against Great Britain should succeed...

...That, is their specialty...

...At the crucial moment, when, in reliance upon Stalin's assurance...

...press and in the speeches of Communist leaders...

...Because of conditions arising from the war, the American Federation of Labor did not send fraternal delegates to the Southport congress...

...afld in both phases we hold means and end well in view...

...Every utterance of Hitler, Ribben-trop, and Goebbels on all essentials of Axis diplomatic and military strategy has found a supporting echo in the CP...

...But I know: if I were Mr...

...He most certainly is not...

...TWO SIDES OF ONE DUTY JT is a grave mistake to suppose that, in rallying to Ac defense of democracy...

...The Communists of any other period would be only too willing to fight for their policy...

...The object of that," he said, "is to get the whole diplomatic service to realize they move in a new environment and to recognize that the limited Court Circular society of the chancelleries never will return...

...and National Defense «• its various aspects, and which will be fully reported » The New Leader...

...But just at the moment they have no policy, they are waiting on a definite line from -Russia...

...H. G. Wells, however, is not quite sure "whether one could really call England a democracy—one of these very rare and truly surprising moments, when Mi...

...despite all difficulties, all discouragement, despair and even nightmares...

...Objectively, right now very little could be said against England and her behavior...

...Must he not prove, just now, that even at his nation's darkest moment he remained "independent"' enough to prefer a foreign and thoroughly anti-British government (to say the least) to his own...

...But not a sound was heard from the Stalinite in spite of my attack...

...It deserves to be used as a leaflet, and its clear exposition of the real significance and the vital importance of the present war to all the human race should be presented to the too numerous Americans who axe inclined to take the great issue so lightly...

...Everything is obvious and simple, like a box on the ear...

...The agreement with Canada for joint defense against Nazist attack falls under this head...

...yet you must know what I have gone through, not sparing one whit of my strength and energy in the service of my country...

...Moscow had neglected to supply its American agents with advance information...

...George Counts, Algernon Lee, Thomas J. Lyons, Louis Waldo** Matthew Woll...

...DON'T DROP SAPOSS of the most serious setbacks reform has suffered ir recent months is contained in the deficiency appropna tions bill signed this week by President Roosevelt %s> dudes a rider preventing the National Labor Relations Board from using any of its funds for the operation of its Division of Economic Research...

...One does not like to bare one's heart and reopen the old wounds...

...I have trailed my coat in every conceivable way but nary a Communist critic can I entice into the net...

...But how encouraging for England, anyway, that H. G. Wells, history's One-Man-Supreme-Court, suspends sentence and grants her a parole...

...Running into H. G. Wells, history is ashamed of its boring simplicity and the universe no longer has riddles...

...The role assigned to Stalin by Hitler in the Far East parallels the part the Kremlin dictator has played in Europe: benevolent and highly profitable "neutrality," profitable to all the totalitarian partners...

...Wells is, to sfill be inclined to call England, too, a sort of democracy...

...and if there is, I damn Him—that you all are spared the horrors of war and destruction...

...In Europe Stalin has found protection against direct involvement in the war—which he fears more than anything else—by embroiling all other great powers in the conflict through his pact with Hitler...

...In 1940, Stalin seeks to place the United States in the same position in the Far East...

...A West of Scotland leading Communist, when he was dumped off the payroll, told me that when the war took place no ona in the British Party knew what was happening in Russia...

...Well's type, is the readiness to play Herr Stalin's game...

...Oh no, don't get me wrong—I do" not think that Mr...

...There was just one embarrassing moment for Browder & Co...

...Except for the lady's unhappy husband who must hear it, nobody wants to listen to the intelligent woman's explanatory remarks...

...It will be the world order of social justice, international cooperation and democratic peace...

...The speeches of the two Communist spokesmen disclosed, therefore, an exact replica of the game played by Stalin in Europe to the very moment of his conclusion of the pact 'with Hider...

...There arc hidden sources of strength that enabled me to go on and on...

...A great majority of the boys taken will be youth without a complete high school training...

...and other prominent spokesmen of Drgs»-ized Labor and of Social Democracy will discuss the ""Jf...

...Liked Snub Article for Exposition of War Issues From Elizabeth H. Thomas Tfi the Editor: Of all the fine articles in the issue of the 21st, in your excellent paper, the article by Boris Shub seemed to me the best...

...Just imagine how Herr Mplotoff would treat a Russian critic of his foreign policy, and only then you will appreciate how kind Mr...

...That was the meaning of the two speeches delivered by the two traitors, Browder and Foster, in Boston...

...He doesn't mean it, see...

...Except for some muddlehoads sad some adventurers who have from time to time sprung «P within our movement or wormed their way into it, Socisjistf have always known that without a live and growing democracy our ideal of a classless society can never be realise* and also that until the Socialist ideal is realized democracy will be incomplete and insecure...

...Yet, why should army officers, product of a social caste living, be deemed better fitted to instruct these youths than' thousands of competent school teachers who are unemployed...

...Once more a developed mind lands on the shores of plain wishful thinking merely because of lust for opposition —for opposition's sake...

...The things we have gone through should make us mad, but somehow, Nature always came to the rescue at critical moments, so that we could feel no more and all the tilings we saw appeared as in a surrealist dream, bits of human flesh hanging on trees, smell that you couldn't mistake for anything, a human hand suddenly dropped on your dining table, and en and on...

...If we want to make our army an army for democracy, there' is no reason, for instance, for having the educational and social parts of camp life in the army corp's hands...

...Both should be given the widest drculano*-for each supplements the other...

...The obedience he must pay to Hitler diplomacy coincides with his interests in the dangerous situation in which he finds himself between Nazi Germany on one side and Japan on the other...

...Milwaukee...

...LIE got the British Foreign Office's permission * * to cross the ocean so that he could tell the .American people how strongly he is opposed to the British Foreign Office...

...Through his hired agents here he tells us to stop appeasing Japan, to rely upon the support of the U.S.S.R., while he is preparing to betray us by signing up with Japanese...

...She is an elderly lady and terribly intelligent...

...The sort of talk on this subject that is being indulged in by such men as Scott Nearing and Norman Thomas-—not to mention Browder,>.Coughlin, Kuhn, Marcantonio, Quill, and their like—is in the main conscious demagogy...

...But let there be no mistake...

...The hearts and minds of the organized workers of America are with their British comrades...