Where the News Ends
SCHLAMM, WILLI
Where the News Ends By Willi Schlamm *|*HIS is history, mind ye*, sjrsa If W - f l s f l to 1 recognize it immediately. Human eyes are i n f psblf of catching more than nine consecutive visual...
...A few fellow-traveling college professors may not think so...
...We have no doubt Lindbergh's "files" are in orde.r...
...Finally, if a more or less intact Russian are*/ retreats slowly and courageously ever further at the East, the monster of Bolshevik "civil" administration, that well-organised, refined yoke off terror which has held the Russian people in line for more than 20 years, is completely out The Russian nation would be nothing but a fighting* army—a truly national1 army, a natron1 -xd,W& Such a nation is no laager a toy...
...whole American organization was working with its characteristic energy to help Hitler The Administration did not even send Ear Hrowder to jail as an unregistered Sovie: • agent—although it knew perfectly well that : he was one...
...shall be allowed to earn his living...
...But the rest of the world, step by step, will discover that Soviet Russia, having been created on November 7, 1917, died on June 22, 1941...
...That is why many of them were astonished and outraged when the Administration, after breaking the strike against the North American Aviation Company, which its own Attorney General denounced as "Communist ingurrejgtion,," took no action w n a i e v e r a t c a m s i u ic Communist Commissars and their stooges...
...Whatever happens—this Russia is no more...
...Hitler is now . relying upon two things to help him escape ultimate defeat: the collapse of Russia and the disintegration of the American defense program...
...For those ef us who understood that the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was perhaps the most momentous and the most fatal event in recent history, the world changed fundamentally on June 22, 1941—to such an extent that we shall need years to comprehend all the implications...
...And he hopes also to wreck American aid to Britain—no longer through Communist defense strikes, now that the Communists have changed their line, but, through dispersal and dissolution of our new Army...
...Lindbergh has long lost the respect of Americans deeply concerned with the defense of this nation and the preservation of liberty in the1'world...
...National Maritime Union have been permitted to throw an opponent of Stalinism out of his job on a ship owned by the United States i Government—a permission tantamount to a public announcement that no American may expect to work on a ship belonging to his government unless he has the approval of the G.P.U...
...JLJAVING lost all hope of destroying Britain...
...Bohn in the New Leader eovertnjj^ny trflk a t^HMMsl He repeats an effort made by Mr.' Stofberg to'WW* appear that I said that strikes involving small numbers 4 ----------J - . . . K . W V national defense production...
...That ex plana tion will not do...
...Stolberg publicly admitted at the time that I said no such thing...
...Russian Communism, with all its variations spa mutations, is a thing of the dark past...
...they have to subvert the Stalin dictatorship—that is, none...
...When that point was under consideration the recordshows that I not only admitted the seriousness but emphasised it I did the same thing st Tamiment Mr...
...B E S I D E S , even more important Russia wools' be then completely dependent on any kind of support the democracies could give her...
...have maintained that they favored complete, adequate defense for this country,, however much they were opposed to our "meddling" abroad...
...I said no such thing and Mr...
...it is stern reality, once Anglo-Saxon denierracy becomes Russia's last and only hope in s fight for national survival...
...The Nazis 'may atomise the Red Army and occupy Russia the thorough Way in which they occupied Poland sr Norway...
...Wars, tf seriously fought (which was not the case hi France), are strangely efficient teachers...
...Last winter's snow is a highly realistic proposition compared with the' amount of reality in our considerations of last month...
...A wave of militant national feeling has ah-eady sweat' over Russia and has probably already become the overwhelmingly determining factor of the Russian people's reactions...
...They 'know perfectly well where the real danger lies—they have seen it flare up in strike after strike, in one arrogant and impudent assertion of power after another, like that of Joe Curram in proclaiming that no sailor who challenges the G.P.U...
...Goodby, Mr...
...HEWtlADEB THE BEST LABOR PA Mi • From TOIVO N. NOUMO To the Editor: There ig 12 to renew sty •*> scription for another year...
...Granted that they are differentiated from their Stalinist enemies only in having neither money nor influence, nor any mass support worth /the1 name...
...Its policy with regard to Stalinist sedition, until the day it occupied the North American plant, was one of peaceful mediation where the Stalinist seditionists were concerned and elaborate belittlement of the darn^ age to defense where the American people were concerned...
...For the public knows that however communist and revolutionary they may be, the Trotskyists have as much power to subvert the American government* as...
...We np longer have our Regular Army as a coherent body...
...One thing is sure: the indictment of th« Trotskyist Communists who merely yearn foi power in American institutions only serves tc underscore the coddling of the Stalinists Communists who have power and who have usee it again and again for seditious and sub versive ends...
...I f the Anglo-Saxon democracies, helped by arelonged Russian resistance, win this war...
...Why, then, does the administration not strike at the real danger...
...History will record the verdict...
...m a huwaaoitstj dictatorship's hands...
...That is why many of them are...
...Should Stalin go the Darlan way, he would, for the first time, be up against a truly Iniportant national opposition of the Russian people, l l f i fl ing fought sad bled as the Russians already baS net even a nation blinded by twenty-four yews of vicious dictatorship could acquiesce to each t yellow trick...
...In the Bronx Free Fellowship, as in most other religious organizations, there is at this time an honest difference of opinion among the members in regard to what the war policy of the United States should be...
...In the fight with the dictators, the liberal wislxyuwashy elements are bound to lose...
...Roose* velt, by indicting them for sedition, is paying a political debt to Daniel Tobin of the A J . L . Teamsters, wW eoenpWned that W Trotskyist teamsters of St...
...note,j...
...Hence his plea for an investigation of his activities...
...and therefore no one has the right to speak tn the nam* of the FtUowthip on the question of declaring war against Germany, or to use the name of the Fellowship in any uicket demonstration Leader's Fight Vital To the Labor Movement From GEORGE WISHNAK To the Editor: Since the New Leader has .become a real fighting paper with a clear-cut policy and with its feet on the ground, I must write to yon and tell you how much I think that the New Leader is now occupying an important place in this craiy world and in the labor movement as a whole...
...but that is no justification for leaving the agents of th< Russian despotism free to carry on subversiv( activity or not, as it suits the'ir master's interest...
...e c k t-No one in his senses Van believe that either President Roosevelt or Mr...
...That would be too mucl like the kind Of frame-up we have beeti taugty to expect from Stalin and his gang...
...Stalin There are three conceivable results of Hitler's invasion of Russia...
...4. • • • A L L three conceivable results of the Rusrr"* German clash can create a state of affairs which will make our worries and hopes of yesterday (where they had any bearings to Bolshevism) a slightly ridiculous matter...
...Bet a nation at war is something different...
...Keep the Army LINDBERGH'S COME-ON j^TUNG by the charges of Secretary Ickes that he was serving the interests of a foreign government, Charles Lindbergh, Knight of the Nazi Eagle, has asked President...
...It is not necessary to charge that Lindbergh is in the pay of the Nazi government...
...For ta* fait time in more thsn 20 years Russia, again, wouW experience the implications of a truly revolutionary spirit...
...New Leader KEEP THE ARMY...
...We can discount possibility No...
...My point was directed against adding up the number of hours lost by unskilled and semi-skilled workers and translating these lost hours into things which can be built only by the highest skilled craftsmen...
...way I am glad you raised bw subscription price beesnss t» labor paper can afford to gift • much as you give for nothing, t» matter how willing yon are...
...The Selective Service Act provides distinctly that in the event of continued emergency, the twelve-month period of service "may be extended by the President to such time as may be necessary in the interest of national defense.'1 > Can it possibly be maintained that the- emergency has passed...
...They require no investigation...
...low being these "Reds" true color, anyway...
...anyway...
...t , - • > VY v - ' • It took this writer three weeks to fully realise that June 22, 1941, marked the end of s epoch...
...Only a clear-cut policy as represented by the New Leader can counteract all fronts organized by the dictator countries...
...More than that: in contending that failure to release the draftees "upon expiration of their one-year term of service would be a breach of faith on the part of the Government Wheeler...
...Historically, they have lost important...
...For in the interests of the Soviet government the Stalinists control the National Maritime Union to whose dictates our government has just bowed...
...It has made Hollywood a cultural center and Mr...
...Last week I had the honor to share a platfsni with Victor Tschernoff...
...This is written merely to keep the record straight • - - (The text of Mr...
...One thing, however, is already clear beyond any doubt, at least as far as this writer is concerned...
...Hence the violent agitation, unquestionably fanned by Hitler agents in this country, against Chief of Staff Marshall's proposal that tha draftees now in service be released after expiration ot their one-year term...
...He is badly in need of a new platform from which, to continue his pro-Nazi propaganda, wrapped in a mantle of martyrdom...
...On that day, Bolshevism was dead gone, for good...
...He has amply exposed himself in his speeches and his activities designed to divide...
...To permit the Army to go home now would leave this nation even more defenseless than we were before the draft was put into effect...
...What we used to summarise with the term "Bolshevism" (and it was a wild, powerful, resourceful current in the early days of our generation, whatever our personal attitude towards this historical phenomenon might have been), is no longer one of the major, political and social forces in our real world...
...In this case Stalin and his brethren would apply for immigration visa for Chunking or Benares, and there they would publish a puny sheet, 24 pages a month or so...
...It is impossible to believe that th< President of the United States would repay i personal debt by having anyone's enemies in dieted for sedition...
...Biddle, in securing the' indictment for sedition of the leaders of the - insignificant group of Trotsky is t fanatics...
...T'HiE Trotskyists maintain that Mr...
...The seriousness of strikes by small numbers of skilled workers in bottleneck industries was considered at the Fortune Round Table last May...
...The Administration has steadily refused, to be alarmed over the actual control of„American labor unions by a foreign Communist dictatorship...
...Stalin Why the Vrotskyists,mr President...
...And yet some explanation there must be Does the Administration think to placate i public alarmed over its inaction against thi Stalinists by indicting a group which has noi been able to place enough of its members "it key positions in all major industries" to tx able to fight back with strikes and riots ? Tha' would be an admission of craven fear un worthy of a powerful government Does the Administration refrain from actior ' against the Stalinist seditionists becaust Stalin is now Britain's ally and it can coun on their good behavior...
...b the course of the war, this is more than a puss wish...
...And those Americans who have watched with alarm the growing power of Stalin's agents in bur institutional life will hardly be reassured by the action of Attorney General Jackson's successor, Mr...
...Not only would I hate to see the emigre press enriched by another boring outbreak of frustration— but a catastrophic collapse of the Red Army would deprive England and America of an excellent chance to weaken Nazi Germany for a coming, victorious onslaught...
...the business of politics and news-commenting profits from man's inability to know a historical moment where he sees one...
...Lets pray that that will not happen...
...especially at a time when their democratic institutions and '. even their national existence are in mortal danger...
...Only idiots and downright traitors can contend that General Marshall's recommendation be disregarded...
...leadership of the N.M.U...
...Quiney, Mass...
...its units have been dispersed among the drafted contingents to serve as nuclei for the larger forces...
...But it refrained fron acting while he was Hitler's ally—rwhile hi...
...are inciting the Army to mutiny by disseminating a deliberate falsehood...
...That is s quaint old custom with professional critics...
...A "levie en matte" it a quite peculiar thing .-wjtsh laws of its own...
...MH American people have no sympathy with sedition...
...no an* but they will shape the peace condition* of nt world...
...of'_the moment...
...Paul were raidinj his union...
...This venerable leader of Russian democracy coined an excellent phrase: "democracy's moral intervention in Russia...
...My vWI attention is going to every single movement ef the Russian army, but the Communists, ska* June 22, 1941, have merely bored me...
...In I B * 20 years from now...
...or, Stalin may try to save himself by pulling a Petain, treaty or no treaty with England...
...Just as the whole tiea of "moving pictures" is based upon the exploitation of a physical defect (an interesting start, by the : way, far a full-sized wryJswatkm of the film in' dustry's general standards and habits...
...Windy Lirtdy told the President he would willingly open his files for investigation and submit to examination by any committee appointed by the President...
...But as far as law enforceSspt and precautionary military administration, taw are now nothing but a pathetic collection of sf-V ities...
...Stomerg built his own straw man by misinterpretation of my position and than proceeded to knock it apart...
...movement almost 40 years is than country and on the other aids, and have-keenly followed variSSS Labor papers not only la ssy language but in others, tad is htonesty I * a v e to say skat sb* Nasr Leader in these last ysn* has been the best...
...They are strong enough 'in the United Automobile Workers to paralyse plants in defiance of their national officers, again in the interests of the Soviet government...
...Biddle thinks the real danger to American institutions comes from this infinitesimal group...
...Paper Hits the Riobf Spot From ABRAHAM WlaWtet . To the Editor: I have been reading and esjts> ing the New Leader for •** f*"' and couhm\ resist the tssstav tion to vfrite this to kt*ym***** that as far as I am eOS*0**** your paper has hit just the HP* «P°- . :".v 'j "Free Fellowship" Not Involved in Peace Picketing . From Rev...
...This is seat of mankind's many deficiencies...
...Letters To the Editor Lynch Corrects Tamiment Story on Strikes Statement From GEORGE Q LYNCH To the Editor: , . . ns r My attention has been dn-tettd to -an artiest written tf Mr...
...Much as I usually enjoy chatting with punsters—this is a serious survey of realities...
...Far be it from me to deny a college professor his most fundamental right of being wrong...
...deeply disturbed right now because the Stalinist goons in control of, the...
...LEON BOSSEB LAND To th« Editor: Will you kindly give me the opportunity to correct the erroneous impression created by a statement in the press to the effect that "representatives of the Bronx Free^Fellowsaip" had participated in an anti-war picket line on July 10...
...But why go on —the list is long, and it is only too well known...
...A nation in arms, fighting desperately for its life, with back to the wall, is quick and rpthUsi at shooting—even at its dignitaries...
...A person interested in the affs.r.* the World of today U wilhaf * pay and must pay for she Information your paper gJ*** especially at the present than, when everything seems to chest* over night I have been with the Lsbst...
...Lindbergh has been judged by the American people...
...That is why they watched with mounting anger the series of strikes through which the Communist Party, before Hitler invaded Russia, sabotaged the American defense effort in the interests of Stalin's "peace policy" and Hitler's war policy...
...And as much as my satisfaction would be to see Stalin bothered by serious visa Uoablss ssy sympathy wssV the democracies' cans* is ween greater...
...This is really very nice of Hitler's candidate for gauleiter of the United States...
...Roosevelt to probe the charges...
...This, would do very well as an indictment of the Stalinist Communist Party—except that it would require after "sought to be" the words "sad were," and after "join their party" the words "and serve the Soviet Government...
...Is not the situation now more critical than at any other period during the war) Even honest isolationists will not venture to deny the gravity...
...All that need be said is that he could not have done a better job for Hitler in this country than he has done if he had received in payment all the gold in the vaults of the Reichsbank...
...In their political bias and pro* Nazi sympathies these gentlemen have reached the point at which they are quite willing to close their eyes to the inevitable consequences that would follow the refusal of Congress to comply with General Marshall's recommendation...
...Goodkf, Mr...
...this country and elsewhere outside of Russian, of count* would applaud any kind of yellow mischief, sd...
...Human eyes are i n f psblf of catching more than nine consecutive visual impressions in a single second if I remember correctly...
...There can be no other interpretation of their present stand...
...as lie, W fact, Oat for the time being I would rather see Stalin still sitting in the Kremlin than in a British internement camp (which woulc be much too comfortable for him...
...they will be mentioned chiety in future "Believe I t Or Not" cartoons...
...American public opinion and disrupt the unity of this country in the face of the gravest peril with which it has ever been confronted...
...Russia will be weakened and thoroughly transformed during such a war, just as the rest of the continent Until then, Stalin's agegg throughout our world, might occasionally j tj ceed in again being what they aHmsa wesfS pain in the neck...
...Stalin's small fry i'r...
...Louis B. s l a y e r * wealthy leader of our civilization...
...but why you should repeat his ineffectual effort to build criticism upon misrepresentation leaves me wondering...
...And the American people know thai Stalinist sedition can begin again tomorrow it Stalin should make peace with Hitler...
...Now why is it suddenly alarmed at the mere yearning for control of American labor unions by the Cannonite splinter of the Trotskjyist sliver of the Communist party—the down-andouts, as it were, of the powerful Communist international machine...
...Lynch's sddress is printed as an article on page 5.—EG...
...Punsters may offer also a fourth, logical suggestion—a complete military defeat of Hitler's forces and, subsequently, a Russian invasion of Germany...
...I f the Red Army, as a functioning military body, is annihilated entirely, no one will ask further evidence for the foregoing statement...
...I speak solely of the Russian people's reaction...
...As was to be expected, this enemy agitation is receiving the support of Senator Wheeler and his cohorts...
...They have now thrown off their mask - 'and are actually fighting for the dismantling of any such defense as we have been able to build within the«past year...
...or, after heavy initial defeats, the Red Army may retreat orderly to the Urals and there fight Indefinitely...
...He figures that by defeating Russia he -will obtain inexhaustible resources for continuing the war should England decline—as she surely will—the new peace oiler he has in contemplation after concluding the Russian campaign...
...yet precisely"that difference makes 'them powerless to .^adanger our institutions which the Stalinists have been able to penetrate on an alarming scale and with impunreyi HPrlE indictment, according to the news* papers, charged among other things that the Trotskyists "sought to be placed in key: positions - ki ail the major industries—particularly those of transportation, shipping, manufacturing, farming, mining arid lumbering— so they could induce laborers to join their perty...
...Per the first time these democracies would influence Russia's life, thoughts and imagination—not the other way around, as it unfortunately was the common experience these last twenty-four yean...
...If Stalin surrenders to the Nasi conquerors, he not only destroys all tia> international remnants of his apparatus, bat for the first time he is in for fatal trouble wrtasi his remaining Russian empire...
...The particular insanity and mental corruption, calling itself International Communism, was nothing but a reflex of Bolshevik Russia...
...It got-him on a passport fraud The sympathies of the American people an with the Russian people in this war...
...In the interests of the Soviet government they have recently gained much control over the motion picture industry—one of the greatest propaganda agencies on earth...
...Heretofore, Wheeler & Co...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 29
