Where the News Ends
SCHLAMM, WILLI
By Willi Schlamm Where the News Ends I'S a thriller, all right, 1>at badly written and poorly cast. Even for their cheapest Grade-B production Warner Bros, would hate to use a script which...
...The relations between Stalin and Kemal Pasha were never better and more faithful than when the Turks bolstered their alliance with the Soviets with complete, extermination of the Turkish Communist Party...
...The Teachers Guild has now been merged into Local 2. 1 We feel confident'that under the inspiration of-these veteran fighters and the leadership of Mrs...
...Abraham Lefkowitz, who for many years had fought an uphill fight for bona-fide, democratic organization of their profession...
...Once more after twenty-five years of war and revolution, after immeasurable suffering unprecedented in modern history, the Russian people, enslaved and betrayed by Bolshevism, must fight for the preservation of their land against an invader more powerful and ruthless than any that has ever threatened their lives and independence...
...But this is the least of their gains...
...Hitler, an orthodox believer in a one-front war, turned West when Stalin appeased him in 19M...
...But when we come to real cooperation, we see something very different...
...There is feudalism down there...
...For make no mistake: there is no way, under the circumstances created by Stalin, in which England and the United States can come quickly to Russia's aid...
...Henry , Linville and Dr...
...They were always on the ragged edge, having their furniture put on the sidewalk, being denied credit by the corner grocer...
...The moment had come when Communist-inspired defense strikes in the United States were not enough for Hitler...
...CECONDLY, these dictators are peculiar ani-mals: they believe neither in your strength nor in your dependability as long as you treat their agents and emissaries with kid gloves...
...Msy nobody hr deceived: whenever Hitler is willing to be appeased again, Stalin will oblige at once...
...To meat and wheat eaters in this country, they have an entirely different relation...
...And there would be very forceful reasons for such an attitude...
...He deliberately facilitated the coming of Hitler to power as a means of plunging mankind into the new blood bath...
...This can change again over nhjht Since this is a war of surprises of lunaat-asylum proportion, some unforeseen 'event, occurring next week, may convince Hitler *hat' hW rather take for a while what he can get fro* Stalin in the way of surrender...
...It had the legal right to represent the employees in negotiations...
...The fact that this column was then honored by Communist attacks makes it now somewhat easier for me to overcome the pain of being forced, by the course of events, to favor aid to Stalin's Russia...
...Here were a few hundred miserably paid workers making—of all things——devices to give light to American homes...
...They go back as union members...
...having cleaned up in the West, he is now turnittf against Stalin in order not to be even threaten*} by annoyance or blackmailSvhen a new Waahn front is created by superior AngVcvAn#l**l power...
...John Dewey, Dr...
...Discouraged, isolated, undernourished individuals have been welded into a group with courage and hope...
...That will be the end of their criminal adventure...
...to stand aside while other nations were fighting each other...
...Having at the same time gathered all political power into his own hands, Stalin then proceeded to destroy ruthlessly all opposition and threat of opposition in the Communist Party, in the army, navy and air force...
...Once when a Berlin producer came to MnnlaV with his agents to talk Valentin into a contra...
...But this was not Stalin's view...
...The pact which the two signed in August, 1939, and which Stalin characterized as "sealed in the blood" of their two peoples, will prove the death warrant of both arch-criminals and of their regimes...
...cicus and misanthropic man whose pet dUlrkL were Prussians and railroad traveling...
...Cordell Hull believes in it...
...Having helped the pyromaniac in Berlin kindle the fires of world destruction, the pyromaniac in the Kremlin withdrew to his apartments to await the results...
...fig| in the realm of Communist obscenity everytkiar is possible, and these freaks are now really aijt ing: "You see...
...UEUDI&El VtM In my article on the MSfcw** . Decision and segregation of * Negro in The New June 14, 1941, the word was substituted for "fittfcy" the copy readers in the ttt^B which should have read* ¦ v "If the South must h...
...If, in the meantime, America would have allowed the new "allies" to entrench themselves in positions of any importance, the thoroughly possible somersault of tbmorrow would be so much more deadly...
...He- will surrender to Hitler whenever he is allowed to turn with Hitler against Eaf-land and America...
...Although the Communists are no longer against England, we are still for her...
...Since England's and America's position would be much strengthened if, in such a case, Hitler's military machine suffered maximum losses in a new war theatre, Roosevelt and Churchill would have been completely justified in offering maximum aid to invaded Italy...
...These were the reasons that moved Hitler to hurl his armies against Soviet Russia in a desperate search for a conclusion of the war...
...but contrary to other anpaaaref Chamberlain for instance, he is trying to falrar his...
...Under the guise of industrialization and collectivization, the Soviet system was transformed into a feudal militarism...
...Stalin will fight while he is forced^ to...
...Hpw could we have done that since he now is beating us...
...To the western wheat and meat men, the farmers of Argentine are business rivals...
...Thus, with pity for the many-times punished Russian people, the An** American world should supply everything, wWei could lengthen Russia's resistance against Nad Germany...
...Editorials End of a Criminal Adventure Stalin unleashed this war by concluding his pact with Hitler, believing that the war would clear the road for that "world revolution" for which the Bolsheviki had aimed from the very start of their blood-stained rule...
...He had helped Hitler destroy the Weimar Republic and encouraged in every way the development of Germany from a democracy to the iNazi militarist state...
...European continent, | but found himself unable to achieve the one victory that counts—victory over England...
...They would certainly .* be ashamed of casting the role of the unhappy villain with ^such a silly actor as Stalin turns out to be...
...If we' buy the meat and cheese of the Argentines, we will merely be strengthening their medieval agricultural system...
...Stalin made it necessary for the Russian people to fight another war without any practical possibility of help from outside...
...The change made a **f***T tion, which is entirely on ajp...
...gation, it should adopt-*** *** zilian system of segregetfafi g gardless of race, all p*S>Wj*g who travel without ***?*» " filthy and disgusting hi aaf...
...Week in and week out their union leaders have met with them, patiently educated them...
...As early as 1930, Stalin ordered the German Communist Party to cooperate with Hitler in the task of destroying German democracy, convinced that Hitler would be "the ice-breaker that would make way for the dreadnaught of our Communist revolution in the frozen ocean of capitalism...
...Having proven that they are in the service of a foreign power which wants to use, not to help, America, they would have had to be treated with utmost suspicion because their boss, having been Hitler's ally until yesterday, might succeed in making another deal with Hitler tomorrow...
...Stalin made him...
...would have gone to any length in complying with h* wishes...
...just as he did not hesitate yesterday to do the Nazis' job in America in order to have Hitler's favor in Europe, he will certainly not hesitate to regain it tomorrow by repeating the ordered performance...
...As long as those tariffs stand, the people of South America, especially of Argentine, will think that all our good neighbor talk is nothing but North American bluff...
...The strike started more than ten months ago...
...This week our western delegates have returned, and they report that they don't like our dear neighbors...
...Another world war appeared to Stalin essential not only as a means of provoking "world revolution," but, first and foremost, to preserve the Communist dictatorship in Russia...
...Just because Hitler tries now to lick Stalin, we cannot suddenly become isolationists, of course...
...To avoid any misunderstanding right from the start—this writer is strongly for all possible aid to Russia or, rather, against Nazi Germany...
...But while waiting for events to take the course conceived in his mad mind, and acting with Hitler's permission, Stalin ordered his armies into Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, Bessarabia and Buco-wina, where he immediately established his regime of terror and impoverishment...
...merely becans) he is now getting a beating...
...We must keepjj mind the paramount fact that it was not StaUa who turned against Hitler but Hitler again* Stalin...
...England and the United States have hastened to disabuse him on this point, thereby giving the lie to the Communist charge that the Western democracies had sought to betray Russia to Nazi Germany...
...If Hitler had been interested in ee> nomic supplies from Russia, the U.S.S.R...
...Suppose, Petain's and Darlan's "cooper** tion" with Nazism should end with a milHtqi...
...JXi For appeasement, as for war, there must» two: one who wants to appease, and one who wants to be appeased...
...That got changed in the process of publication to "Socialism Doesn't Jibe With Human Nature...
...CO Joe Curran, Mike Quill and the rest of the bunch are no longer isolationists...
...Their incomes were on the relief level...
...As all tppeaaen, the arch-appeaser in the Kremlin is -now getthm his reward...
...I don't want to dodge any of the vitriol that is coming to me from what I say in the article, but I would like to inform my friends that the title was as much a surprise to me as to them...
...One should not let them get away with it...
...I would like to inform them that, while no doubt "cowardly," "stupid," dishonest," etc., for having these opinions and thinking they are important, I am not ill-mannered toward my friend...
...Now that great market is cut off...
...The catch in the whole set-up is Argentine...
...For one thing, by the fact that over night they would have changed their isolationist activities into interventionist frenzy merely because Mussolini's position had changed over night, they would have given final evidence, beyond any possible doubt, that they were ordinary foreign agents...
...Every effort has been made to take advantage of the National Labor Relations Act...
...The editor was very conscientious about letting me examine all the proposed omissions to make sure that no accidental distortion resulted, but it did not occur to me to bring up with him the question of the title...
...mfcr.ps (who is in this country telling America* ladies, male and female, that, "actually," Vfajb is merely waiting for a chance to turn agahef Germany), not even M. Chautemps would the* dare to say triumphantly: "Didn't I tell yoof Now you see how justified our policy was...
...record...
...In cleaning their house of Communist termites, the teachers have shown the way to all other labor organizations infested with the deadly vermin...
...Letters To the Editor Max Eastman Explains the 'Nature' of the Readers Digest From MAX EASTMAN To the Editor: May I have space to explain an apparent breach of good , manners?' I wrote recently an article entitled "Socialism and Human Nature," developing the psychological concepts which underlay the political conclusion of my recent book, Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism...
...Now we have had an impressive delegation of western wheat and meat men down there looking the ground over...
...and sanitary grounds, *WHH matter of class which hVf*J8 The editor evidently <jdf*g~-» the use cf the word *"Jr*[| which, however, wai advisedly by the W&fimm&M...
...But would that imply that the Fascist agents in America would have to be given a free hand, a share in the government and in the conduct of the war...
...I would have been for all possible aid to Anto-nescu's Romania if she had resisted the German invasion...
...Long before the advent of Hitler to power, Stalin laid his plans for kindling the eatas-strophe...
...Stalin is still yearniif to appease Hitler, but right now Hitler do*} aX want him to...
...But Hitler, at this moment, did not watt ' any more cooperation with Soviet Russia Re wanted to crush her...
...It has been conducted with great patience and skill...
...Under the fake slogan of "Socialism in one country," Stalin concentrated within the hands of the state, which he soon made his own private domain, all productive foices of Soviet industry and agriculture...
...What the peoples of South America want is a chance to make a living...
...This was the crux of the controversy which formed the central point of conflict within the Russian Communist Party in the period preceding that during which Stalin exterminated the entire old Leninist Guard and achieved his personal dictatorship over Russia...
...So, say these men who went down as messengers of good will, our tariff wall must be maintained...
...The Hays office, on the other, hand, would mercilessly refuse to okay a picture which contained even a part of the obscenities the harlots of the Communist press are once more performing publicly...
...If: merciless blows of, the German military machiai, and by intelligent intervention, of England aaf America...
...This is more than three dollars above what many of them formerly received...
...We are willing to take minerals and chemicals from Chile because we need them...
...Stalin prepared the road for his attack on Russia...
...The result has been a transformation...
...Roosevelt did herself the honor of meeting with them and telling them their government was with them...
...Officially there has been some coming together in defense projects...
...Drt ilden Co rects Chang* In Article From Dr...
...Through the long winter these people held|out...
...The United States government rouses favorable reactions with hundreds of millions of dollars...
...West and that it was necessary, from the viewpoint of the interests of Russia and of the Russian Revolution, to cooperate in the task of international economic stabilization...
...Leviton, who takes pains to advertise his charities, simply refused to talk terms...
...And just to clarify the issue completely, I want to call your attention to the fact that this column, a year a half ago, defended England's right to accept Mussolini's Italy for a common fight against Hitler, if Mussolini ever were willing to oppose a Nazi invasion...
...Even for their cheapest Grade-B production Warner Bros, would hate to use a script which preaches "Hollywood's venerable crime-doesnt-pay sermon with such childish •oversimplification...
...We firmly believe that once more Western democracy, betrayed by Bolshevism in 1939 as it was in 1918, will be victorious and save Russia from becoming a colony of German imperialism...
...And having achieved this aim as a vital link in his conspiracy against world democracy, Stalin advanced to his next move: formation of the Popular Front as an instrument for weakening the democraracies within and drawing them into war with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the promise that the "mighty" Red Army would march 'shoulder to shoulder with the armies of France and England and with all others willing to fight for national security and freedom...
...For this cajminy day of supreme trial he wants to be prepared: while the Anglo-American alliance is not~"yet ready to attack with superior force, he wants to map up Europe and to "free himself from any potential blackmailing Stalin could have tried on him once the Allied offensive started in the Wert...
...And does anybody doubt that the Nazis would not hesitate to swallow their Fascist ally by force, if necessary, whenever Germany's military aims would make it advisable...
...The whole idea of this jaunt was to draw the two great countries closer together...
...It is there that the anti-good neighbor feeling centers, and we sit back on our haunches and refuse to do anything about it...
...He began by abolishing the new Economic Policy as the first step toward the militariza...
...If you want to impress Stalin and keep him in line with American politics, you must convince him that you are not sissies...
...Actually .we have never licked Hitler's boots...
...They made a'" discovery...
...The article was printed in slightly condensed form in the Reader's Digest...
...That showed Stalin that his Turkish friends are serious, realistic, dependable people who mean business...
...Alas, for Stalin...
...I would be for all possible aid to Petain if he should ever resist a Nazi drive into unoccupied France...
...We talk about being good neighbors, but we refuse to cooperate in the only thing that really matters down there so far as the life of the people is concerned...
...He cannot escape the punishment that belongs to traitors, no more than Hitler can escape the consequences of his crimes...
...It is a pity that journalists and legislators who talk so much about trade union racketeering never seem to get their eyes focused on such a service as this...
...Jtazi offensive against Vichy...
...With a speed upon which the great leader of "world revolution" did not tount^ Hitler smashed his way through the entire...
...No one who has ever heard of economic interpretation will be deceived by this report...
...If, God forbid, I should ever be inclined to forgive Hitler any of his crimes —that he forced me to agree with Mike Gold even on a single issue makes me hate Hitler beyond any weakness of possible mercy...
...J'HE people of the United States have a long way to go before they will be ready for a real good neighbor policy...
...Soviet Russia's ablest military chieftains, headed by Marshal Tuchachevsky, were executed, shot like dogs, because, in support of Rykov, Tomsky and Bucharin, they had opposed Stalin's economic and political adventurism as making for the ruin of Russia and her people...
...Short-wave broadcasts and motion-picture reels move back and forth across the two American continents...
...Soviet Russia must build her entire policy, foreign and domestic, upon this fact It was then, in 1929, four years before the rise of Hitler to power, ten years before the outbreak of the war, that orders went out from Moscow to all Communist parties abroad to prepare for the new war and mould all policy accordingly...
...It was the question that divided Stalin from Rykov, Tomsky and Bucharin at the agrarian conference in Moscow in 1929, when these three leaders argued ^yor expansion of the new Economic Policy on the ground that there was no longer any prospect for a Communist revolution, in- ,ihe...
...he shouted brusquely: "With people who^2" silly enough to take the trouble of coming fi2" Berlin to Munich by train, just to riegotiSl with me, I don't want even to speak...
...They have sold their meat and cheese and coffee in Europe...
...Just the other way around, I think...
...He looked upon his handiwork and found it good, while his hirelings throughout the world sang his praises and extolled his wisdom in keeping Russia out of "the imperialist war...
...There followed the monstrous spectacles of the purges, in which all the old leaders of the '• party, on the left and on the right, were liquidated...
...Freed from the lethal influence of Communist intrigue and conspiracy, the new Local 2, embracing elementary and high school teachers, and the new Local 25, which will include college teachers, can now proceed with the task so long obstructed and sabotaged by those who sought to use their organization for party line purposes...
...We are willing to buy coffee from Brazil because we do not raise it here...
...J*HE formation of two new teachers' locals under charters granted by the American Federation of Teachers in place of the two Communist affiliates expelled by referendum of the federation's membership will, we are sure, mark the beginning of a new era of progress and achievement for the profession...
...Recently our Wisconsin and Minnesota farmers raised a howl because it was suggested that milk products from Argentine should be let in over a lowered tariff wall...
...aelaSl detests so utterly an Anglo-Saxon world wait*/ courts his agents that he will always longingly for the next opportunity to quit thaw foolish sissies and join the assuringly tonga Hitler whenever he is permitted...
...But that's exactly his impression if America, giving all possible aid against Germany, does not complete this activist policy by stopping any monkey business at home...
...Military aid to Mussolini's attacked- Italy would have to be accompanied by an all-out drive against Fascist agents in America...
...He was to stand aloof while the nations were exterminating each other, until the exhaustion and ruin of all others would permit him to essay the role he had assigned to himself as chieftain of the "inevitable" world revolution...
...Then the union came into the picture—in this case Local 3 of the Electrical Workers...
...He, and his stooges, now want ijf make you believethat he never tried to apneui » » * \ CTUADLY, he never, stopped appeasing, fl* truth of the matter is that Hitler did Mt attack Russia because he could not iget uy further Russian concessions without force, feat because he did not want any further concession, Ukrainian wheat and Caucasian oil...
...Special congratulations are_riue to the veterans of the Teachers^ Guild, including Dr...
...not even M. Chit...
...So far this whole thing has been a matte'r of words...
...Stalin who out-appeased Chamberlain win oat stop as Hitler's arch -a ppeaaer...
...The idea of the inevitability of war was coupled by Stalin with measures deliberately designed to piovoke it—to provoke it so as to make it possible for the U.S.S.R...
...On the contrary, he argued, capitalism was facing a new crisis...
...South American political leaders speak eloquent words in favor of it...
...Stalin surrendered Europe into his hands...
...LEVITON STRIKERS WIN IN comparison with signing up of Henry Ford and Beth-lehem Steel, the Leviton strike was a small affair...
...That was how Stalin planned it...
...Plans - —¦ for military and naval cooperation go forward slowly, but -"they do go...
...Their organization has given them the status of free citizens, of human beings who have something to say about their fate...
...Upon -the ruins of Europe, new mountains of corpses, the dictator in the Kremlin, successor to Lenin, planned to erect his own totalitarian empire...
...ldn of Russia...
...The union officials did a wonderful job of maintaining their morale...
...The name of the betrayer of Russia is Joseph Stalin...
...Rebecca C. Simonson, the new union will succeed in organizing the many thousands of public school teachers in this city into a powerful bulwark • of trade unionism, academic freedom and democracy...
...On Tuesday these people went back to work under the terms of a union agreement providing for a $15.60 minimum...
...But for ten months Mr...
...And with supreme and final contempt for the Communist streetwalkers who jut now trying to catch democratic customers i* newest intellectual black-out, England and Anjer-ica had better be aware of the "PopulaKj^iw infection which is now waiting for victiMM* every street corner...
...If Eltf-land which, after all, entered the war voluntarily, was an unreliable warrior as long as appealer Chamberlain was not overthrown by Churchill— how much less a Teliable anti-Hitler feree.,* Soviet Russia as long as the arch-appealer Stalin is not overthrown by a genuinely adfr Nazi regime of, by and for the Russian people...
...DO WE LOVE OUR GOOD NEIGHBORS...
...That invader was deliberately nurtured and strengthened by Stalin...
...Apparently, Hitler is fcy now convinced that America will enter the war and that the Anglo-American combination of power, in one or two years, will be strong enonffe to dare an invasion of Western Europe or the Mediterranean region...
...CONGRATULATIONS, TEACHERS...
...I The same hopes may be entertained of the new union of college teachers under the leadership of Professor William Withers and his associates...
...A new war was inevitable...
...The United States and the British dominions offer them their only outlets...
...Unable to permit bis vast military machine to stand still, and facing the prospect of a long war with England and the United States, armed with superior resources, Hitler was forced to seek a counter-weight in the resources of Soviet Russia, in the grainfields of the Ukraine, in the oil of the Caucasus...
...Then came the ifinal act of treachery— Stalin's pact with Hitler, secretly in process of preparation for years before the outbreak of the war but concluded only at the last moment when war had become unavoid. able and it was no longer possible for France and England to escape from the trap...
...All the while, however, he himself was preparing his alliance with Hitler...
...The union easily won the vote...
...Aside from its inharmony with the tone of my thinking, it must seem a little rude, 1 think, after my many years of association with Socialism and Socialists, for me to come out suddenly in a magazine so remote from the move-.ment with a brusque and casual remark like that...
...He ahratt * refused to give a guest appearance in Bern...
...ance, have vermin or k*}*w*r diseases, or smell and if* ¦ every direction...
...Although these times are disgusting, I would like to clarify this specific working of Stalin's mind with an illuminating story concerning the ""m'^ai" Bavarian comedian Karl Valentin, a very saajt...
...Hitler may smash Russia, but he will not achieve his purpose of a rotten compromise peace at the expense of the Russian people...
...This is all right—so far as it goes...
...Completely encircled bj< Hitler, cut off from the rest of the world by Stalin's criminal policy of cooperation with Nazi Germany, the Russian people must now bear alone the full force of the Nazi military machine...
...Right here in New York, within a few minutes of Times Square, they lived like poor whites, like share-croppers...
...The collaboration proved only too effective—for Nazi Germany...
...But in times of emergency foreign agents are a matter of policing, not of policy...
...Suppose, just for the sake of argument, Hitler had decided to invade Italy before invading Russia...
...Stalin, killed them all, charging that they were agents of Hitler and Japanese spies...
...Nelson Rockefeller believes in it...
...A union which does a job like this is rendering a service to the entire nation...
...But that can not possibly mean that we can accept them as allies...
...The moment had come when it became necessary for Hitler, in order to divide public opinion in England and the United States as a means of obtaining a compromise peace, to play once more the role of "savior of "the world from Bolshevism...
...President Roosevelt believes in it...
...At the same time, to make sure against surprises 1 by his gangster-pal in Berlin, knowing and fearing Hitler, realizing his own military and economic weakness, Stalin continued his "neutral" collaboration with Nazi Germany by placing at her disposal the entire Comintern propaganda and sabotage machine in the democratic countries and cooperating with Hitler at every point affecting Geiman diplomacy and military action...
...The moment had come when' only direct control and domination of Russian resources appeared sufficient for Hitler's needs...
...It was a great fight, well worth making...
...The "Peace Mobilization" will now mobilize for "all-out aid to the victims of Nazi aggression," and the White House will be picketed for not warmongering enough...
...Stahn would have given all that and anything eh* Hitler would have.asked for—if he only could have avoided a clash with the Nazi military machine...
Vol. 24 • June 1941 • No. 26
