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...the situation in these fields was much worse when the Plan was officially declared finished, at the end of 1932, than it was in October, 1928, when it went into effect...

...Anti-cSemites have said the most fantastic things about it...

...Political parties will, it is taken for granted, reform themselves on simple lines, lines of class or group interest rather than those of ideological direction...

...There is to be no more corporatism...

...Rolling tanks and strutting Gestapo have found it impossible to quell the spirit of the people...

...the Soviet decisions of June, 1940, extending the working day to eight hours and the working week to seven days have been widely publicized...

...In 1939...

...A substantially accurate quotation — except for the omission of an all-important little word, "not," Which should have been placed before "sure...

...This Declaration is to be made basic, outsits the political machinery, with the possibility of improvement but not of repeal...

...There is no evidence to show that Stalin was ever offered a foreign loan...

...No matter how much control of business or industry a future central authority may retain, it will be in a position to relinquish much to the hands of private individuals...

...And it was Father M. J. Ahem, writing in the Catholic Pilot who observed: "These outrageous charges have been disproved again and again by Christian scholars...

...The distinction is rightly drawn si against the latter classes on the theory that they are lacking in the knowledge necessary for Intelligent voting...

...In such important matters as increasing the purchasing power of the ruble, increasing the value of real wages, improving the supply of commodities and reducing costs of production the estimates of the Plan were not fulfilled by 93.7% or even by 50...

...The universities have until recently to a large extent been free...

...He has the International Jew mind and not the American Jew mind," said Sullivan...

...A system * Multiple Voting such as here suggested would constitute a powerful incentive towards the usetieS of such an informed citizenry...

...The strategy of resistance which is emerging cannot, of course, be discussed in print...

...Some workers in agriculture, retail trade, domestic service, fisheries, and other types of work not covered by the Wage and Hour Law are getting as little as 15 cents an hour or less...

...I have left out the innumerable ludicrous misinterpretations which he builds up on his insufficient basis of factual knowledge, the characterization, for instance, of the absurd book of the Dean of Canterbury as "wonderful," or the reference to the goldbrick Soviet Constitution of 1936 as "the third great document of modern humanity...

...Sullivan's law office is now busy defending Gerald B. Winrod, against the "conspiracy of William P. Ma-loney, Assistant Attorny General, Walter Winchell, and the Friends of Democracy...

...i 20% of Americans Earning Less Than 40 Cents For Howr The U.S...

...If this theory is justifiable then why can it not be extended by giving additional votes to those who have mors than average knowledge ? Hig* school graduates under this system would have 2 votes each aad college graduates 4 votes...

...But I can-hot, think offhand of any case where Stalin di-rejc'tiy reversed the meaning of a well-known citation'from Lenin...

...Whatever can be done by way of constitutes and law to make liberty secure these Preach men and women are attempting...

...The present dictatorship has taken over the direction of economic.life...

...think that the samplings the story offered to readers were fair enough, and revealing enough...

...While the average person has one vote, the miner, the lunatic and...

...8) P. 130 "The income of the individual citizen (in Russia) was increased by 370% in the last eight years...

...More important than the existence of such ideas is the fact that in this time of stress they are emerging from minds of the French population, under the very shadow of Hitler's bootkek-ers...

...Under present-day conditions this too smacks of class legislation...

...Were our quotationsx "deliberately incomplete...

...The place of the former Senate is to be taken by a Council representative of industrial and group interests...

...Underground publications and travelers recently arrived give a picture which differs widely from the notions commonly held in this country...

...Louis XVI without feeling the slightest obligation to ccTncea...

...A national system of radio courrsf can easily be established and ? system of examination, similar to the Civil Service examinations, can be based upon them...

...Their entire history is one of self-centered dishonesty and political ruthlessness...

...But Frenchmen on the ground nurse the hope that the former chaotic multi-party system will never reappear...

...Those who wish more state control will be socialists...

...Frenchmen still think—therefore they exist RUSSIA, YES—COMMUNISM, NO THE people of the United States and the * people of Russia have vital common interests...

...Between 1929 and 1937 the average monthly wage of the Soviet industrial worker increased from 77 rubles to 245 rubles...

...Rowever, hardened as I am to blatant and flagrant misrepresentations of Russian life, Emil Ludwig's so-called biography of Stalin seems to have hit a new low, unmatched for ignorant misinformation and flat misstatements of fact since the amazing outpouring of the Red Dean of Canterbury, one of the few clerics whom Communists endow with the infallibility which people in the Middle Ages attributed to the Pope...

...But this congress suffers under a tremendous handicap...

...To solve the complex problem* of our day requires a govem-meni with vastly increased powers...

...Men who once thought of themselves as belonging to the extreme left now find themselves at one with others who were marked with the symbols of the extreme right...

...For 80 per cent of the workers every sixth day is free, for the other 20% every fifth...

...What is the Talmud...

...nor the New Catholic Dictionary, nor the Catholic Encyclopedia has made any mention of these principles...

...The Constitution, for example, is to provide that no party be allowed to function unless it be democratically organized and controlled, unless its...

...Early this year, as the author of a book called "The Road to Victory," Sullivan, who has been associated with such American fascists as George Van Horn Mosely and James True, accused President Roosevelt of following the Talmud and filling the government with "Talmudists...

...Ludwig, no doubt from ignorance rather than from design, simply repeats one$>f the most unblushing falsehoods of the Stalinite propaganda machine...

...To keep the record clear, to make straight thinking possible, we must constantly reiterate the fact that Russia and Communism are far from being synonymous...

...TOR reasons of space I have confined myself to 4 a few of the author's more flagrant misstatements or distortions of fact...

...Ideas are passed back and forth...

...The War-labor policy of this nation is being determined amidst a clash of opinions and interests...

...Ludwig's work adds rather less than nothing to the world's knowledge of Stalin as a personality and of the Soviet dictator's political record...

...women who have been...

...Sullivan speaks also of "Talmudism" and protests he is not really anti-semitic...

...Several years ago he wrote an article on Abraham Lincoln in the course of which he denied that "any member or supporter of political Wcrld Jewry or any-world conquest organization or group (could)' honestly claim to be a loyal American...

...From the Editors There are as many strategies of anti-Semitism as there are fascist Jew-haters...

...One thing seems to be definitely settled in the French mind...

...The chief political problem, therefore, will be drawing of the line between individual enterprise and state-controlled business...

...Russia the American people respect...

...To Philip Murray, the President to the other officials and to the convention delegates The New Leader sends its best wishes for a successful and profitable convention...

...He misquotes Lenin's political testament as follows: "Comrade Stalin, having become General Secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in his bands, and I am sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution...

...Ji^y 1, 1939...

...Men who have lived and worked in France from the fall up to now report that the center of opposition to Hitler is there—not in London...

...in some states, the illiterate, has none...

...Those who desire less will be liberals...

...the report of the Labor Department stated...

...They think of the Fourth Republic as connecting directly, not with the Third, but with the First...

...and the share of the nobility and country gentry, which was by no means restricted to "a few hundred great lords," was 38,440,000 hectares, less than a fifth o'f the peasant holdings...

...George E. Sullivan does not hate the "Jews," but hates, loathes, despises, and would exterminate the "Talmudists...

...FIGHTING AND PLANNING FOR FRANCE...

...Ludwig doesn't keep up with the , times...

...It contains the commentaries of more than two thousand rabbinical leaders, expressing their views on affairs of their times and their interpretations of Biblical lessons and earlier prophets...

...Their lack of consistency has robbed them of any claim to common morality...

...Their lack of regard for this country's welfare has cast t blight of suspicion over whatever of good there may be in their program...

...It was this strategy that The New Leader exposed in its story of October 17, 1942, analyzing Sullivan's petition to Congress...

...The Talmud is a long series of discourses on all phases of law and life based on utterances of prominent Jewish scholars in the ancient academies of Palestine and Babylonia...

...They took all the help they could get from...

...Suggests New Voting System From J. E. LADERMAN Mr, Bauer in his series of able articles, commented on recently by John Haynes Holmes, hat pointed out how we can go a long way towards solving our economic problems through increased activity of our government...

...This is, of course, just another instance of unscrupulous demagogy and fraudulent propaganda that characterizes the whole racial, totalitarian movement the world over...

...It will have no power beyond the pressures which it can bring to bear on the legislature...

...The theory Is that the "Jews" must be liberated from the "Talmud," charging that the Talmud permits Jews various licenses such as murder of non-Jews...

...The chief political problem, then, will be—as in Britain, America or any other free land—how many sectors shall be brought within the circle of government administration...

...This objection can only be met by giving all citizens en equal chance to qualify for the additional votes...

...Legislative authority is to be limited to a single elective chamber...

...he testified before the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee in an attempt to block Felix Frankfurter's appointment to the Supreme Court...

...A line cutting across all previous classifications and groupings divides traitors from loyal patriots and democrats...

...He omits the fact that in 1941 Stalin eagerly concluded a non-aggression and neutrality pact with Japan...

...Ludwig has signed his own verdict of condemnation as a serious student of international affairs by attaching bis name to a book for which he has evidently not made the most elementary preparation...

...Over the same period a representative group of workers' foodstuffs,' including rye and wheat bread, meat, sugar, cereals and vegetables, rose in price from 5.89 rubles to 49.56 rubles...

...But today we still do not treat all citizens alike...

...France has never died...

...These Communists have the wont possible credentials among the people of tin...

...8) P. 196: "Bolshevism is a form of society under which everyone is working seven hours a day, reduced to six in the case of dangerous occupations...

...country...

...With relation to this problem, it is to be supposed, political parties will perfect programs, recruit their members and wage their campaigns...

...They are great nations, continental nations with great histories, with enormoui potential powers and unlimited futures...

...Some, like Col...

...He rehashes an interview with Stalin which has already been published, borrows liberally from a few easily available books and considers his obligations as a biographer finished...

...Communism they hate...

...It has been sponsored and arranged —and will be conducted—by American Communists...

...Unless we are content to es* such governments degenerating into dictatorships they must be controlled by a far more intalB-gent and alert electorate than ·· have at present...

...This is surely the reverse of a proposal to "do away with the Jews," as you state my proposal to be...

...10) "In 1932 Japan refused a pact proposed by Stalin, while in 1940 Stalin could refuse a pact proposed by Japan...

...4) P. 132 "Though Stalin, in spite of all reverses, refused to take up foreign loans...

...With this goes a determination to write a new Declaration of the Rights of Man suited to modem times and embodying the privileges which are essential to liberty in this age of technology...

...is the social sciences that are required for intelligent voting...

...Ludwig could have learned from any reliable reference book, the peasants owned about three quarters of the arable land in 1917...

...There is communication among groups...

...EDITORIAL COMMENT CIO CONVENTION *1*HB annual convention of the Congress of In* d us trial Organizations takes place at a dramatic moment...

...The old terminology is coming back into fashion, and the names of the old periodicals are being revived...

...In actual fact, as Mr...

...Our imaginings have been of a population of Unoccupied France completely cowed and gagged and of a Fighting French organization based on London organizing a skeletal force to fight in Africa and carry on precarious propaganda under the shadow of Vichy...

...page 81 Ludwig outdoes Stalin himself as a dictator, of historical documents...

...His Nazi solution was the extermination of the Jews and of the Talmud as the root of all the evils...

...This idyllic picture of Soviet penology overlooks the rather relevant fact that much the greatest number of prisoners in the Soviet Union are victims of the political police, men...

...So was the income of the German workers increased, not by a paltry 370% but by some astronomical millions of per cent — during the period of inflation in 1922-23...

...Ludwig's errors of fact would require the writing of a book of almost equal length...

...C2) P. 124 "The workers . . . actually managed to complete 93.7% of it (the First Five Year Plan) in four and a quarter years...

...I will confine myself to recording ten demonstrably inaccurate statements, of fact, which seem to entitle the popular, if superficial biographer of Napoleon and Goethe to a resounding flunk notice on his latest venture in the publishing field...

...A parliamentary government with complete cabinet responsibility is projected...

...Eugene Sanctuary, choose to speak of Talimidiste rather than Jews, screen their anti-Semitism by means of vague, shadowy, and ambiguous distinctions...

...Throughout the land groups meet for discussion of present and future problems...

...The one essential hall-mark is loyal opposition to Hitler, to Nazism, to Fascism...

...bers and leaders pledge allegiance to the dec-laration of basic liberties...

...Sullivan is saying is, do away with the Jews and you do away with anti-Semitism...

...Decisions are reached—not merely on matters of imminent action, but also upon broad-based policies reaching into the time of open struggle and the new era of freedom which is to follow...

...5) The number of university students in Russia appears on p. 137 as six hundred thousand...

...One suspects that Mr...

...As 1 read through it I found myself jotting down question marks, exclamation points and dissenting notes, almost involuntarily...

...These, fortunately, lend themselves to radio instruction...

...The deliberations of this convention will have an important bearing on the official decisions...

...This villainous libel follows deliberately incomplete quotations from my Petition to Congress of Sept...

...No political organization is to be permitted to tolerate or advocate the overthrow of liberty...

...Indeed one fears that overproduction in this field will become still more pronounced, now that the mistaken conviction that it is a patriotic duty to lie about the character and methods of the Stalinite dictatorship has been so widely accepted...

...Sullivan has not always so insisted on fine distinctions...

...It is associated in our minds with the old English system whereby a man could vote in every district is which he owned property...

...The New Leader examined George Sullivan's propaganda in this light...

...Again Mr...

...In the midst of its trials the nation has achieved a new unity...

...Such a congress is being held...

...The topics announced are of genuine importance^—Public Health and Wartime Medicine, Production for War Needs and the Roh...

...where they are reformed, generally within a period of two months...

...In America and other countries, some Fascists simply took over this line...

...With this must come greater efficiency in government, and in recognition of this fact the author lists s number of valuable suggestions toward that end...

...Lined up with regard to such practical considerations, parties will, one can easily guess, tend to organize on broad bases of opinion and interest...

...sentenced to forced labor without trial and often for indefinite periods...

...Each demagogue and propagandist adds his own new wrinkle...

...it jumps to six million on page 138...

...current saying, "France will live again," * falls far this side of the truth...

...Had the quotations not been made deliberately incomplete, it would have been evident to your readers that my Petition expressly urges "the eradication of Talmudism" as a yoke wickedly and criminally imposed upon Jewish people and from which they must be freed...

...What may obtain a hearing for books like Ludwig's is the strange fallacy, so assiduously cultivated by the Communists, that military cooperation with Russia against a common enemy demands that we shut our eyes to demonstrable historical facts and whitewash everything that Stalin and his associates have done...

...Our revolutionary forefathers had more horse sense...

...At first glance multiple voting seems undemocratic...

...The most villainous libel of the group of libels embodied in the article is the following: "In other words, what Dr...

...To correct all Mr...

...Peasant holdings were a little over 200,000,000 hectares...

...Since Stalin became sole dictator, much in the history of the Russian Revolution has been suppressed and much has been distorted...

...however, omitted one important factor, the voter, upon whom, in the last analysis, the functioning of the government depends—it is essential th*rT4he quality of the voter ,-fe*""fmproved and the method her* suggested is a system of multiple voting...

...Actually these limitations on the peasant's freedom of movement disappeared with the abolition of serfdom in 1861...

...This constituted class legislation...

...9) P. 201 "The number of prisoners has been reduced by half, because most of the convicted persons are taken to open colonies...

...Sullivan Protests: It's Not Jews" But "Talmudists" He's Against From GEORGE E. SULLIVAN To the New Leader Publishing Association: The New Leader of Saturday, October 17, 1942, has been called to my attention, with particular reference to the maliciously libelous matter published on Page Two against me...

...On this basis the great majority of the people of all classes and opinions can meet and join...

...It will come as a liberator...

...The government, in one respect at least, will be in a fortunate position...

...7) P. 14...

...For these weighty reasons, a Congress of American-Soviet Friendship is a project which ? timely and which naturally arouses wide interest...

...One-half of all arable land—some people estimated it at 70%—belonged to a few hundred great lords, the Tsar and the Church...

...6) On page 144 Ludwig says that the peasant could not move away or marry without his landlord's permission—in the years immediately before the Revolution...

...This is net as difficult as it appears to be...

...and their share had been steadily increasing since the time of the emancipation...

...all non-peasant land (apart from Crown land, which consisted mostly of unexploited forests) amounted to 72,-000,000 hectares...

...The men and women of that old revolutionary land show quick intelligence in the diagnosis of the complication of diseases which brought about the fall of the Third Republic Previews of the constitution which they have in preparation make the fullest possible provision against the recurrence of some of their past faults of organization...

...This Council will investigate, formulate and advise...

...The sessions announced under this title for the coming week-end will bring together a very few Russians and a great many American...

...But, if the work has nothing to warrant its publication as a biography it ranks extremely high as an essay in misrepresentation of Soviet conditions...

...But the fact that practical plans are being drafted for the post-war political and economic life must be of great interest to all Americans...

...This is supposed to refer to the situation on the eve of the 1917 Revolution...

...In any world conceivable after this war, they—???», rately or together—will play important parts...

...the profound differences between their ideals and those of the absolute Bourbon monarchy...

...tee Trade Unions, The Soviet People and Their Allies...

...Honest discussion of these topics might do much to disperse clouds of suspicion which hinder the improvement of psychological relations between these two great peoples in these crucial days...

...In Mein Kampf Adolph Hitler accuses a special religious group, the Jews, of a program of fiendish destructiveness responsible for the decline of Germany...

...But he seems strangely oblivious of information which » easily available in English...

...Organizational and intellectual activity has never been stopped...

...Such deliberate distortion of truth by your Association strongly suggests that it is a Talmudic Association, rather than an honest Association interested in the welfare of the Jewish people or any other people...

...If the Talmud did teach these outrageous principles of conduct, then it is amazing that neither Father Bonsirven, nor Father Dirksen...

...mLETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dr...

...The idea is strongly held among the people that whatever enterprises must be centrally controlled will be placed under the authority of administrators responsible to the elected authorities...

...Below that line confidence has been established...

...Department of Labor issued statistics this week showing that some 7,500,000 American wage earners, or nearly 20 per cent, still make less than 40 cents an hour...

...As spokesmen for the great Russian nation, which we unite in honoring, they are the worst possible representatives...

...Others urgent problems connected with organized labor's part in our national life will be debated...

...Ludwig would not know what to do with a Russian newspaper if he had one...

...Interest in all less urgent issues is adjourned to future...

...After the tragic experiences of the past decade these Frenchmen turn their eyes longingly back to the First Revolution...

...French love of syndicalism is gone and unlamented...