Money Mentality of U. S. Industrialists Slows Defense
LUNDBERG, FERDINAND
'Profits Against Tanks "Money Mentality" of U. S. Industrialists Slows Defense By FERDINAND LUNDBERG A.N exceptionally important article, "Why Hitler^Vins," by ^^-Carl Dreher, a well-informed...
...Daniel Willard, say...
...They.don't 4are give me a chance to start-a new speech oh the infinitesimal importance of this third-term issue.- Last night WeBdeO Willkie orated at Syracuse, ~.t fi.Y., and half his time was-devoted to the fact that President Roosevelt has already serverd two terms...
...Despite this, Governor Olson delayed signing the bill w-til the deadline for making up the November 5 ballot passed...
...Federal , money had been sent to Belgium and Russia to feed people, but not *tb New York or to Middletown...
...They are greatly gifted in their various fields, hut God has endowed^them with as little social enterprise sis any group of men living...
...Then there is the far-famed Newspaper Guild, referred to on the Coast as the "keystone of the arch of CIO...
...Now look at the Roosevelt way...
...Another member *< **** Commission is Lee Psine,aging editor of a Los Angeles newspaper, who has shown a friendly and fatherly interest in Communist Guildsmen as well as in Communist explanations of news...
...The drive of the whole world is toward collectivism, Mr...
...Nor was anything said about the leading business men and financiers who allowed their factories to sink into obsolescence, and who when the Popular Front came to power, and they had to choose between defeating it and defending their country, decided the country was not worth defending...
...Our technicians can make our machines, which are mere tools, do whatever we want them to do...
...1ta> the Communist Party * fetal* its place, on the California ballot, and also its place in the sob «t , least for this election, [Eater's Note: According to the bill, the Communist Party is barred Jhsi the California ballot -jfeistaw elections...
...It was not the collapse- of democracy before totalitarianism...
...Glancing quickly over Kremlin line-up, we find, in the first place, the California State Council of the CIO with Philip M. (Slim) Connelly and Louis Goldblatt m the vemati top spots and Harry Bridges acting in the role of benevolent despot...
...We already have "token" collectivism- in this country, such as TV A, bpt Mr...
...There is nothing to 'show that business can now function at an incomparably higher level of efficiency, than in the past...
...They were in every town in this land...
...Dreher objects to a in this personnel is that it represents the money-mentalitj at "its finest...
...It should be reprinted throughout the labor, liberal and technical press, for it is a politico-technical piece of writing of first-class contemporary importance...
...They were right round here on the streets which I walk along every day...
...For seven years we have had a different rule...
...Nothing was said about the decrepit industrial system of France, and the fact that the 'nationalization' of the war industries was on the initiative of Daladier, then Minister of War, and the General Staff, and that the breakdown was not in the government armament, plants but in the 'semi-nationalized' aviation industry, and specifically in the motor factories, which remained in private hands...
...There is no need of congressional action...
...but the newspapers are full of talk about profit, amortization, cost-plus, entrepreneurial returns, taxes, surplus—all financial terms...
...But, on the other hand, these leases involve a close tie-up between the United States and the British Empire...
...France was the collapse of an outmoded technology before a stream-lifled technology...
...They can make the machines serve the ideal of profit or the ideal" of human betterment...
...One good punch on that jaw, in its present state, spells internal chaos, whether we win the decision over Hitler or not, and that internal chaos can eventuate only in what we are seeking to avoid by accepting Hitler's challenge...
...It is oiily when the welfare of the people is at stake that they are so sensitive about constitutions and laws and precedents and proprieties.' And it is especially at such times that the Roosevelt way is the dynamic, effective, precedent-making way...
...For them any word ¦¦ of the Constitution has always been more sacred than human life...
...For his premonition is correct...
...j -v - •TURNING to the United States, Mr...
...their ascent to power by,businessmen and financiers, the Nazis, once in power,.' curtailed business authority and brought the engineers and technicians to the fore...
...4- '.' * The British, more fortunate, have had a breathing space, and last Spring, by "conscripting industry," began to organize along tbe German lines...
...Our great danger is that our anxiety to ward off the totalitarian will cause us to lose sight of the fact that our defense must be "total"—by which I mean without regard for anything except the welfare of the democratic community as a whole...
...Dreher's long article than I have been able to indicate...
...Lawrence-New York City "power hook-up, which is hindering a vast power development 'of great aid to national defense...
...We are advancing to meet the Hitlerian juggernaut with superb potential hitting power on our sidle...
...Roosevelt knew the thing was right, knew that Congress and- the people would approve, knew that speed is vital to our defense program...
...taneously be spurred to patriotic efforts by price inflation, rationing, and forced purchases of war loan paper at par, paper will eventually fall into strong financial hands at go or 60...
...The Republicans—^except for Theodore Roosevelt— have always been sticklers for form, for tradition, for the letter of ~ -vthe Constitution...
...We may already be on that road," says Mr...
...The handbills which were distributed through Communist channels give the location as 972 No...
...It would be difficult to find a point that more clearly illustrates the contrast between the attitudes of the Republican Party and of : the New Deal...
...The thing went like lightning...
...In contrast to the Republican attitude stand President Roosevelt ¦and most of the men whom he has gathered round him...
...Equally important is the political situation...
...Because the money-mentality is coming more and more to the fore in our national defense effort, we shall, unless some drastic changes are made, advance rapidly to the defeat of the very values we are seeking to defend against the Nazis...
...They will work for anyone, as in the past three centuries____ When they are let loose it is by somebody else, and the ends they serve are those of that somebody and his followers...
...As Mr...
...If Roosevelt has ' gone-contrary to the Constitution, Mr...
...Dreher pungently observes, are no protection ag^ins^'armored^ djvjsions...
...We are put in a position in which we could easily take dependencies from Britain...
...Dreher recognizes that it was solved by the production of war-making equipment, but from the technological point view.it makes little difference what the aim of .production ,j^a.,..T&e...
...The towns and the States had no means of dealing with it...
...Dreher observe?, have little concern for the goal of their work...
...lLSR...
...This man may have a Groton-Harvard accent, but he can get action when human beings are in need...
...Hoover and Willkie do not...
...Dreher says, this is not 1917-18...
...These latter were instructed to.;bring-the: productive machinery of the country into capacity operation, without consideration ¦ for profits* and this was done...
...i»' Perhaps the most a 1 arm inf phase of the entire Wosteai'Bss» isphere picture, however, if 'tfcst of the California Fish aX^Osat Commission...
...This is a perfect example of Republican negativism...
...They have never given up < opposition to any . 'humanitarian movement before they had to...
...This is 1940, and technology, not money, is king...
...Willkie, too, takes the strictly law-school attitude...
...The initial parsimonious attitude of the British government, its refusal to "shoot the wad" in the face of grave danger, is cited by Mr...
...people to: work...
...Dreher sees grave danger of a business fascism in America, arising out of the emergency, which will, endeavor to compete with the Nazi-type fascism by some restriction of profits in order to make competition possible...
...Nobody can ever say we weren't warned...
...Denied work, tbe citizen is simply deprived of the tools that enable him to make a living...
...And he is right according to the letter of the law...
...So he dashed ahead...
...sabotage that takes Jpiace in...the interests of "sound finapce...
...There was every sort» of misery from cold and hunger and homelessness...
...One thing is sure: the technicians do not free themselves...
...If the Soviet Union goes in cahoots with Japan, Soviet foreign agents, sprinkled wHy throughout California, will go Mnto action with a vengeance...
...When they see a great ' human need their impulse is to move fast toward relief...
...On numerous occasions during the campaign for China, Japanese puppets were paraded by the Communist clique, who danced and deplored their fatherland's opposition to Stalin's desires...
...Dreher in a phrase, we have a glass jaw, and we axe leading with it...
...What I want to know is whether Mr...
...Chamberlain mentality is the money-mentality par excellence...
...Despite our financiers, we have the best technological plant in the world...
...The most glaring disparity between the Governor's word and'deed is the case of the disfranchisement of the Communist Party.j At the special session of the Legislature which adjourned Sept...
...If a profit could be made by' capacity operation, then the machines were run at capacity...
...The only point is that Roosevelt and his crowd think first of the need...
...But, to summarize Mr...
...Th« question history will have ko answer is: was it too late...
...World War, the post-war period, and more recently under the New Deal...
...You remember the breadlines, the beggars, the apple-sellers...
...Immense quantities of clothes and wheat and meat and cheese were quickly bought from the farmers' surpluses and hurried to the doors of the unemployed...
...In a time of war they can, as in Germany, make tho-machines supply the needsof the military up to 100 per cent efficiency, or they can make "the machine supply the military, as in the United States, at a lower percentage of efficiency while at the same time serving the special requirements of those that have price and profit uppermost in mind...
...TTIAKH a couple of examples of opposing attitudes...
...But sticking to the rule was more, important than feeding the kids...
...Dreher, Hitler has achieved his spec-tacular successes by reason of superior technological organisation...
...About the same time he said over the radio: "if there is any family in the United States about to lose its home, that family should telegraph at once either to the Farm Credit Administration or the Home-Owners Loan...
...It is a negative, sterile, exhausted mentality...
...DREHER draws attention to the fact that American *** business is doing all in its power to obscure the real reason for the failure of France—the inability of a poorly organized technology to withstand the onslaught of a superior organization...
...There is nothing in the Constitution about feeding mothers and their kids...
...The question about the drift to collectivism, which is inevitable, will be: what type of collectivism...
...President Roosevelt belongs to this company...
...AS I have taken space to quote only a few salient parts of ' * an extremely able synoptic survey of our present crisis and thev\vay out, it goes without saying that there is much more to Mr...
...In fact the involvements are more far-reaching than those of most treaties...
...Except possibly that a strict construction of due process, in relation to property, may have to be abandoned...
...The whole implication is that there is such a-thing as, an "inherent duty," something precedent to the Constitution, something that may compel changes in the Constitution...
...Machine technology must be operated in accordance with a centralized policy, and it must be operated at capacity in, order to-give the population constructive work and the goods it requires for civilized living...
...In France and England the late development of machine technology fell far behind that of Germany, where it had never been able to strike deep roots...
...The State - had always, in Germany, played a large part in control of machine technology, had early, for example, asserted the priority of the community in the operation of public utilities...
...they cannot do otherwise in view of their trainin» and experience...
...It was taking leases...
...It will be recalled that for a number of years operators of Japanese fishing boats have been suspected of espionage activity...
...Except with . * regard to a few points in foreign policy Mr...
...compromised by the requirements of business and finance, as was the case with the machine technology in . Other countries...
...Echoing Veblen, Mr...
...It's the "fish" part of the California Fish apd Game Commission that's important...
...The Unemployment Relief Act was passed within the month...
...As it is, we appoint national boards of engineers much as the Nazis do, but the difference is that the Nazis listen to their engineers and let them function for the benefit of the nation in arms, while we do-not listen and let the engineers function only in so far as the results will further pecuniary ends...
...Governor Culbert L. Olson, who has protested mightily against "subversive elements," has acted consistently to protect the Kremlin crowd...
...Our choice lies not between new methods and the ways of the past, but between democratic collectivism intelligently achieved and authoritarian collectivism under the rule of the money mentaltiy...
...He inherited a very fine technological apparatus, which wras built up by Germany in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and was .refined in its organizational perfection during the World War by the late Waltner Rathenau...
...What American business thinkers want to impress on the country is the false lesson that if the people obtain a better social dividend, the price will be military subjugation by the Nazis...
...So Willkie says the matter should have gone to Congress...
...The Nazis have made the astounding discovery that engineers...
...Hoover left it to the States...
...Dreher finds that tbe business and financial community has been practicing conscientious sabotage of production, is still practicing' it, in order to serve the lofty ideal of money profit...
...Stettinius, Jr., is a better patriot, buyer and organizer than his distinguished father, who managed the purchasing for the Allies in this country during the World War...
...The thing was colossal, inescapable...
...All of the things' which Willkie criticizes Roosevelt for doing are the things that Hoover didn't do...
...Dreher as an excellent example in action of the "money-mind," which cannot see that money cannot save one from armored divisions and airplanes...
...Vital people—like Hamilton or Madison or Jefferson—are the ones who sense this inherent imperative...
...The business community is still "money-minded," whereas the Nazis are "technology-minded...
...Willkie can easily get Republican Congressmen to move hisi impeachment...
...Willkie's mind fits exactly over a blueprint of Herbert Hoover's...
...Not seeking profits in terms of money, the Nazis would have, of course, a distinct advantage...
...Wendell Willkie is in favor of going back to the rule...
...It will act...
...But if prices and "profits'fell, operations were curtailed, thus throwing men out of work...
...Longshoremen, ware-housemen, radio telegraphers, agricultural workers, office workers and workers in a number of less important occupations are virtually controlled through their CIO union heads by this merry trio of Stalinist henchmen...
...He might also have cited current opposition „to the' St...
...TPHE matter of the transfer of the defense bases is parallel...
...Criticism is limited to the method, and it is evident that the method added to the speed...
...Spending time on it is like risking your -life to rescue grandmother's family tree when the house is on fire...
...9-23-40...
...Don't write...
...whether Mr...
...The other need was for war-making .equipment, to be utilized in forcing the Nazi will upon the rest of the world...
...In addition to these very obvious links, there are the many secret Communist fractions of both CIO and AFL unions throughout all the vital industries, evidences of which have crept into various exposes...
...ness...
...The ends, the goals, must be supplied by others...
...Willkie is not 'representing live democracy...
...But will it be operated in aceordwita technological canons or financial canons...
...The usual bleating about taxes fills the air, while earnings are up 60 per cent for the first half of 1940 over last year, with an increase of 750 per cent reported for an arms company, 600 percent for one steel company, and 460 per cent for another...
...Then there is the Doko, Japanese "labor press" published in Los Angeles, which, in March, 1939, sponsored an "Oriental Nite" party in -Hollywood which turned out to be a Stalinist rally...
...At the same time this amenability can be made to serve good ends as well as bad, and it is-not improbable that, given time and favoring winds, a strong tradition of humanistic engineering could be, cultivated...
...The American people cannot resist Hitler and what he stands , for if their strength is to be undermined by sabotage of production, which was never greater in the United States than at this moment with nearly 10,000,000 persons still unemployed, while "manufacturers" continue to...
...But most technicians, as Mr...
...No rational American favors unconstitutional and lawless action...
...Protected by tariffs, . JJy^nch...
...This drive results from the fact that machine technology, when developed to its present level, cannot be operated along individualistic lines without creating chaos and social breakdown such as we set ia unemployment and deterioration of public morale...
...Professor Corwin of Princeton, a great authority on constitutional law, has...
...American business is endeavoring to blame the fall of France on the "Popular Front," by which >t means that the iall of France may be traced to the infini-, tesimal and short-lived social gains made by the French people...
...Bernard M. Baruch of President Wilson's War Resources Board, and whether Mr...
...What Mr...
...But tariffs, as Mr...
...Owing to the preponderant influence of the business community, Mr...
...Or little more than that...
...Willkie's crowd has often broken the laws and strained the Constitution...
...It had never been done from Washington...
...To offset this advantage, American 'business fascism would depress wage-levels more sharply and'would endeavor to effect other "economies" at the expense of the community—all measures directed: toward the preservation of profits...
...It was just as if the Army should lease from a private citizen in Maryland the land for a rifle-range...
...Now I am working my head off,ior the election,of Roosevelt...
...And by no means unimportant are the ties -between this CIO group and- the Communists- and fellow-travelers of Mexico...
...given up twititing me about my seeming inconsistency...
...The struggle' against the Nazis cannot be won with the Chamberlain mentality in the ascendency, and this is precisely the mentality that is most vociferous today when defense measures are under consideration...
...Both CIO maritime unions and Olson appointees in the Fish and Game Commission are the "rotten spots" which need the immediate attention of federal authorities...
...We can never beat Hitler by,wrapping a balance sheet around his neck...
...Hobart Blvd., and the time March 23, 1939, 8 p. m.) In affidavits made public by Governor Olson on April 11, 1939, Rena Vale, who claimed to be an' ex-Communist, resigned from Communist P«rty Unit 140 of the Los Angeles Professional Section,(the Newspaper Guild unit), stated that attached to that same unit were "three Japanese comrades...
...The Case of James Sanjules «ia notable...
...Three members of the Assembly and one member of the State Senate raised the only dissenting voices...
...The morning papers of Sept 23 throughout California carried the information that "the proposal came from the Gorenur as a result of a request from tta Democratic State Convention I few days ago...
...the business community...
...Dreher says: "No mention was made of the upper-class traitors and their political satellites who sold the country to Hitler and Mussolini before the common men died at Sedan and the Meuse...
...Everyone agrees that Roosevelt did the right thing at the right time and with the speed which was necessary...
...And he cites our crucial nitrogen shortage as having been caused by the long and fierce opposition of the business community to public development of Muscle, Shoals...
...These people are dynamic, realistic, humanitarian...
...They are • -human.'They care what happens to human beings...
...N September the President said: "While it isn't written in the ' Constitution, nevertheless it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation...
...Dreher correctly observes...
...Corporation in Washington...
...Where are the tech-nological coordination, the planning, the determined curbing of financial dissipation which characterize the economies oi our prospective enemies...
...That is Republican, conservative mentality...
...He has often cited the President's action in this case as a proof of his dictatorial, unparliamentary, undemocratic tendency...
...DREHER harks back to the "business coup of 1917-18," when of thirty billion dollars spent, "something Has fifteen billions never came within smelling distance of the armed forces...
...The article deserves the widest attention from the labor movement, from liberals, and from technicians...
...So much for the union situation...
...Dreher, and he cites the Wall Street personnel of the National Advisory Defense Commission "charged with the spending of ten billion dollars as a starter...
...This apology is the most honest and convincing part of the speech...
...Apparently, this thought is still too complex for us to grasp...
...The business and financial mentality is still in the saddle, despite its demonstrated incapacity to deal with contemporary problems as exemplified by its irresponsible conduct during tbe...
...Thus far the over-riding aim of those in charge of machine technology, business men and financiers, has been to make a profit upon investment...
...Not an anti-Stalinist flicker of an eyelash is permitted in that so-called union in California...
...That fifteen billion constituted 'reasonable profits' to stimulate the patriotism of business interests...
...Efficiency of operation is hardly discussed at ail...
...Twenty -1 five million people were hungry...
...telegraph...
...He was transferred from the State Relief Administration where he had been active in perpetrating Communist mischief, into the tender care of Germaine Bulcke...
...The government is your government, It...
...Another phase of the California situation which now takes on a " sinister aspect is the direct link between California Communists and the Japanese*-American colony...
...Boon hat it all over Mr...
...Our way out—our only way out—is organization along lines of democratic collectivism, Mr...
...The French never had a chance, once the Nazis started movtpg,i to change their national policy...
...come to the conclusion that the whole transaction was illegal...
...Thirteen million people were unemployed...
...We faced a newsituation...
...According to Mr...
...A. Tim...
...At the moment the chief concern of business men aaium to be that depreciation allowances shall be 'accelerated,' so that as far as possible plant extensions will be a gift from the government*that is, from the people who wffl taaal...
...Willkie favors giving relief back to the States...
...THE technicians-—engineers and machinists—have been under the direction of men ruled by considerations of price and profit, and many technicians have themselves became imbued with the money mentality...
...In all the misconceived talk about the Popular Front, Mr...
...Nazis ended the conscientious sabotage" iof' 'pro-.' j iffycffipju-l-by...
...It is significant that-Vicente Lombardo Toledano, former Mexican labor chief who has had his ins and outs with the-Kremlin boss, is scheduled to appear at the San Diego convention of the CIO, now in session...
...In his inaugural address he laid down the proposition that "nobody is going to starve in this country...
...A Moscow-Tokyo alliance will automatically bring about an alliance between Communist Party members and Japanese espionage agcnU in California, and the greatest danger spot in California's coast...
...And operation for i profit alone in a system with a highly developed machine 'technology logically implies large-scale unemployment, the dole, relief, labor strife, collapse of public morale, etc...
...They have been supplied in the past by business men, but they must, as Mr...
...industrialists were content to get along with out-, moded "equipment,^organized along...
...Knudsen is an engineer, but «f he had not been a business man first, he would never have become president of General Motors...
...Qpe'ot-these.needs, as they saw the problem, was the need of...
...This Commission has jurisdiction over all fishing in California waters, and its boats patrol the Pacific from the Oregon line into Mexican waters...
...Dreher believes, it will be operated in accord with financial canons, that is, the defense effort will be sabotaged in order to ensure the social primacy, based upon profits, of the financial community...
...It was a real blitzkrieg on hunger...
...They are not the •sort of persons who break laws, bat they are the sort who pass new-ones...
...In their drive • -to-remedy evils they may disregard some frills...
...They are concerned only with means, not ends...
...He is such a stickler for the rules that he likes an old way better than a new one...
...My * figerids hav...
...The unemployment "problem" , waav"soljfed...
...Willkie approves the deed, and we all know that Congress would have validated it...
...Much more markedly than in England, France or the United States had the State in Germany been pointed toward col-tectivist goals, and Rathenau consciously worked to bring ^Germany by gradual though rapid steps toward a collectivist . machine technology...
...And Mr...
...By democratic collectivism" I understand controlled, planned, maximal production by collective effort," says Mr...
...What he wants is government by the dead hand...
...Profits Against Tanks "Money Mentality" of U. S. Industrialists Slows Defense By FERDINAND LUNDBERG A.N exceptionally important article, "Why Hitler^Vins," by ^^-Carl Dreher, a well-informed engineer, appears in Harper's Magazine for October and is required reading for everyone interested in the central problem of our day: democratic versus totalitarian social organization...
...Dreher says...
...This talk about their being law-breakers and dictators j is pure bunk...
...That is, he h unopposed...
...Knudsen is superior in Oast respects to, say, Mr...
...jybile the Nazis were putting their ^technology to this logical Veblenian use British, French and American leaders were prattling about "business as usual," by which they meant operation for profit as usual...
...The collapse!.of...
...I need not labor the fact that when the interests of business were involved, Mr...
...Roosevelt's sort of government, acting, changing, responding to the needs of the people, is the only sort that makes democracy reat C. P. Maritime Control, Tie-up With Jap Agents Hits Defense By JANE SAUNDERS LOS ANGELES.—Despite the distance, the action of the Axis powers at Brenner Pass vitally affects the Pacific Coast regions of the United States, especially California...
...Like many others, Mr...
...They are unquestionably patriot*—but business-men patriots...
...22, a bill was passed barring the Communist Party from the ballot in California...
...As men were thrown away from their tools in increasing numbers, the ability of the community to buy goods was curtailed, resulting in further curtailment of operation and in what has come to be known as "the downward spiral...
...Dreher finds that with * respect to our major problems—unemployment, national defense, the decline .of enthusiasm ?o* democracy—we are in an extremely bad way...
...Another perfect example of the difference in attitude is the case of the sale of the fifty destroyers to Britain...
...Mr...
...Will we have a democratic collectivism, standing on the Bill of Rights, or will' we have a business fascism, crashing 'the Bill of Rights...
...Instead of being j;ujed.Jjy price and profit, the Nazis preferred that their nwhihe" technology be ruled by the needs of the community...
...But always the full operating efficiency of this apparatus was...
...The United States was not taking over the sovereignty over any land in Newfoundland, Antigua, or Trinidad...
...They believe in the primacy of...
...By means of American loans and inventions daring the 1920's, the entire system was overhauled, and brought to a high pitch of perfection...
...This third-term^ business is nothing...
...It will be rscsIW that information made sustt Sf the Dies Committee last DsSsav ber in Washington contained evidence that Germain* Bokke, Olson appointee to the Fa* sad Game Commission, was also » member of the California State Committee of the Gasaaassi** Party...
...study balance sheets...
...If not, and —lira* aasai special grace descends on the members of the present Defense Commission from on high, we are in for trouble, and the way out of that trouble may well be business- fascism, \>n the theory that the defects of business control earn be cured only by more business control" * * * MR...
...car^s...
...THE Nazis hastened the development Although aided in...
...boai...
...Dreher, "for purposes of social welfare and national defense ( and one does not exclude the other), without inhibition of civil liberties, religious freedom, and the other guarantees of the Bill of Rights...
...They, of course, obey the Constitution and| the laws...
...Dreher points out that the.business community is still opposed to it despite the tremendous power resource TV A gives us for national defense...
...outmoded lines...
...And the acceptance of the gift implies the duty of defending Canada as well as the.United States...
...New Deal Fed, Housed and Clothed Jobless Millions When GOP Failed By WILLIAM E. BOHN * 'I "USED to Wake speeches against the third term...
...Dreher says,"in the future be supplied by persons of humanistic sympathies...
...If the basinets mentality is permitted to rule the defense effort, Mr...
...are more important than financiers, because engineers can create and run a productive plant without financiers, but not vice versa...
...Testimony before the Dies Committee in Washington and in .Texas revealed Communist inroads into aircraft and oil industries, as well as into the much publicized motion picture industry...
...Furthermore, certain shifts in the state regime which remove Communists and fellow-travelers from conspicuous spots and tuck them away in dark corners, seem to "list" toward the Fish and Came Commission...
...He had a bad conscience, for he said, "The world is aflame," and therefore some folks might think he was beating round a very skinny bush in order to, scare up a skinny argument...
...Hoover is a Christian gentleman...
...Dreher sees that machine technology is forcing the' world toward collectivism...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 42
