ON ART, POLITICS AND CHEESECAKE, OR KEEPING ABREAST OF THE TIMES
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Features Americana The Home Front ON ART, POLITICS AND CHEESECAKE, OR KEEPING ABREAST OF THE TIMES By WILLIAM E. BOHN g|Y erstwhile neighbor, Robert Trevor, is a W clever fellow....
...Hollywood Snap-Shorts: A prominent Jewish actor has turned down the Trotsky role in the film ¦version of Joe Davies' Mission to Moscow...
...Behind the President's appointment of William Phillips to India, is the story of Col...
...But, irotneAy, deed the rich complexity, the variegated shapes...
...cell...
...Hemingway a Fascist...
...Philip M: Pearl, AFL columnist who got a half-page smear in the Daily Worker this week, is due to hit back, too...
...CHRIDHARANI opens and closes his book with a saying of Buddha's: "Only a friend warns...
...Johnson made himself extremely unpopular with the British Raj by the extent to which he established good relations with Indian leaders...
...Which of these two groups in the West is going to fashion the peace—tbe imperialists or anti-imperialists...
...And he is right...
...It has no face aad it has no name...
...Chatter Inside and Out WHEREIN THE PRESS, HEMINGWAY, BENITO, AND BOYER ALL HAVE THEIR TROUBLES By MATTHEW LOW Mew York town was without its newspapers this week, as distribution was tied up by »e deliverers' strike...
...She wants running water...
...Passably the editor is aware of some such thing for in Mi Preface he announces that Sew Directions wall no longer appear at an annual bat only when (there is no if) there are four to five hundred pages of quality...
...There aren't very many other literary people left around for tbe CP...
...If I am with a pretty *j!fl, she is the prettiest girl in the world...
...Tot dsWt look for a total form...
...Maxwell Geismar...
...The Fascists have dispatched a long complaint to the Pope, charging that the Vatican is "an Allied Information center" and a refuge for enemies of the regime...
...France or any other Power—tries to perpetuate imperialism in the East, another global war is certain •> follow this one and it Witt be in reality, and not in imagination, a war between East and- West...
...cloth |2.00...
...New Writing, Good and Bad By HARVEY BREIT NEW DIRECTIONS, 1942, Nutnber Sev4...
...Henry Armetta...
...to disown...
...In reply to a protest from President R. J. Thomas, of the CIO United Auto Workers, 20th Century-Fox has announced that it is abandoning plans to make a picture in which Alan Pinkerton, America's most notorious strikebreaker, was to have been tbe hero...
...From cover to cover" the sheet has been brightened up...
...570 pages...
...1MO good thing has ever been easy...
...Newspapermen are observing the third anniversary of the death of Heywood Broun, who died on December 18, 1939...
...William Carlos Williams is always interesting...
...Some prominent Westerners hatve already announced that the day of imperialsm is over...
...indeed, it Shay already have MS* permanently averted by our victories in -North Africa...
...It recalls Lincoln's note to McClellan: "If you're not using your army this winter, please lend it to me,' and tiled adds: 'Such a note from Marshal Timoshenko would not have been surprising.' With cool malice, it builds of a case for a combination of British cowardice and lack of desire to aid the Soviet Union...
...There are mtmy liberals who, for military reasons, agree with tbe Tories on this point...
...New Directions (the annual collection of experimental literature) was a good thing...
...But it has enough sense to keep its theory within limits...
...And consequently it is, as it is aofetr, more fatty and crepuscular Sew BiruBsm must now adopt more rigorous criteria rf it wishes its Year Book to be read...
...ButP/C's exercise of this right, though not exceeding the legal limits, certainly goes beyond the borders of journalistic fair-play and garden-variety drency...
...W. Shakespeare was dismissed more than five years ago as an Elisabeth an 5th Columnist...
...Hoover, incidentally, is being used by the Patterson-McCormick papers for obliquely anti-Semitic attacks on Relief-Chief Herbert Lehman...
...Why is it so typically American...
...For the first time since Pop Knickerbocker was • l*d, Manhattan subway riders were seen wWinithe Brooklyn Eagle and the Bronx Home News...
...This 'explanation' was good Communist dogma until the opening of the North African offensive...
...It is called "The Truth jgfcout Dieppe' and deals with the bloody and gallant effort by Canadian - American forces to feel out Nasi defenses on tbe occupied coast...
...Shndharani dramatically presents the alternatives We are faced with in th# persons of Nehru and Bose...
...Hollywood repercussions of the Rome "peace" rumors: stars with Italian accents are regaining their lost popularity with tbe studios...
...Wonder if Cissie Patterson (said to be Georgiana herself) gave Lizzie permission or if Lizzie went off on her own...
...Nearly all will be fasjpaa sooner or later...
...The Truth About Dieppe' peddles all the old libels about our British ally, ft tries to tell us that the raid on Dieppe was a complete success, that casualty figures were deliberately ('slyly' is PICs word) exaggerated and then points out that 1,000,000 frenchman died in the last war...
...The political censorship (a la Franco) of the 1 Ernes* Hemingway film, For Whom the Bell Tolls, revealed in The New Leader last *eek, may get Paramount tied up in a legal •narl...
...These Russians are just people...
...smeHs...
...A white-haired woman talis just as a similar woman might talk in Kansas...
...Within the slithy covers be glimpses Veronica Lake hiding behind ber jjtir like a modern Lady Godiva...
...And yet Shridharanl tens of cases When Gandhi—who is certainly a man oi printiplei^-chahlged his program to meet new condition...
...James T. Farrell a "pornog-rapher...
...for one, is staging a "comeback...
...They had 30 radio stations before the war, and have picked up 98 stations in occupied countries (12 in Russia), controlling altogether 16 million radio receivers...
...find...
...Amery is about as bad a Secretary of State for India as Churchill cot...
...I like a conservative who knows what he is taking about and has some sense about arguing his point...
...3.50...
...When fb* book was Wrrtteh, the possibility of Oermhny and tOJU lati&Mj fa jQimag forces in India haunted lie On** Nations...
...However, though on this and that issue Shridtiarani may 6e wri>ng, his basic contention is unassailable...
...Nothing (or very lrttfe, or only in part) cdatss out of the volume clean or hard-surfaced sir whole...
...On* comas' away from it with a vivid appreciation that the long-term relations between East and West are at a critical point...
...The Nazis never make such slips...
...He is entirely different...
...Morecv*r, this war fs TTxrUstl'laDafng and mrlftarizing China and India as never before They win therefore be in a position, after thh war...
...Those of us who follow the Communist press have seen this line before, propounded with greater vigor and less attention to fact It was part of the 'second front' yowl which tried to prove that Britain and 'certain elements in the U. S. government...
...He has worked out for his play an elaborate structure, flexible enough to express changes of wood and shifts of focus, bat the Anas themselves are stiff and nearly urn i mi dfaej Structurally, though, he has surmounted a difficult obstacle...
...By SkridkirmL Duett, Sloan and Peart...
...tays will probably tf>, but the studio previously agreed in contract with Hemingway that no retouching of the script's militant anti-fascism would be Permissible...
...Not on the list, however, was the news of the end of Tommy Manville's sixth marital adventure, and that item never will oe misted) j . . The strike is being mediated...
...I AM the fellow who used to grouse about the * Saturday Evening Post...
...Bitter, Ratzel and especially KjeUen...
...The Fourth Estate: Elizabeth DiHing re-* prints in the latest issue of her illiterate newsletter the vicious Georgiana X. Preston profile of Walter Winchell which appeared in the Washington Times-Herald...
...The Truth About Dieppe' displays all the bravery of a man sitting behind a desk telling other men how to die...
...The Axis shortwave broadcasters are offering a version of the story which has it that the U.S...
...I do not know that I agree wMt aim...
...Too mack n fragmented...
...With military anxiety about India removed—which reached its height during the Cripps mission—will disappear...
...The world's news meanwhile managed to get around...
...bat What it lacks in sub-stCAce ft hit in ire and feeling...
...You can't approach it from the perspective of unity or coheafveneaa...
...We htfve plans, too, beautiful plana...
...A month ago, Wilder confessed in an interview that he could recite whole sections of Joyce from memory...
...In a democracy, every man has the right to think what tpleases, and, within certain limits, to put te thoughts down on paper...
...The Commies (who, incidentally, used to have Gypsy with them in their Front row) are running around like mad, throwing knives wildly in all directions...
...India ran go either way...
...It is a sort of gallery, or market place...
...You know," Boyer •ays, "I'm only a recently naturalized American citizen, and-1 don't want to abort with the wrong step...
...Peter Kihss of the World-Telegram gently prodded the Mayor on a certain pension case and he blew up, snatched Kihss' notes, started fuming and tossed all the newspapermen out...
...Do you remember how I went a^l woozy about Abraham Levin and the fact that at 56 he started to paint and finally had a one-man show that brought the art experts round in flocks...
...Gaetano Salvemim has been awarded a medal by the British Academy of London for distinguished services rendered to v Itali an culture...
...Tagore'* letters are extraordinary...
...Beyond this ft has, at this point, hardly the brains or the jnergy to inquire...
...Granted that PJCtf .venture into military strategy was prepared before tbe present Anglo-American drive, its pubHcation is theless s very d isturbi ng manifestation of tbe hold which Communist irresponsibles have gotten on our magazines...
...A. B. Magil...
...This good line comes at the end of a simple and realistic paragraph of reasoning: "It will not be enough merely to set up France or Poland or Czechoslovakia or Holland and say, 'Now then, let bygones be bygones!' Some system must emerge which can be relied-upon to give Europe reasonable security against a repetition of the disaster that overtook her three years ago...
...Take the leading editorial in this week's issue...
...Norfotk, Conn...
...Literati: If the covers of those American Mercury issues keep coming off, this is the reason: Gypsy Rose Lee is doing a monthly column for the Eugene Lyons magazine...
...But it is poaajMe h> dflMfrn, even in Shridharani's careful words, a deep sense of gratitude to Japan for the practical M0...
...Japnh Baa how feet all, or almost afl, moral credit in the East...
...In his' seetfefi on "Cripps versus Cripps'' his monocular View of tbe situation is most marked...
...That Cripps' change may have been due to a change in wo rid-circumstances is' not even entertained as a poe-sible hypothesis...
...On the jover of last week's P/C, the shiniest of the ,jick dispensers of culture which keep us breast of the times, a country boy like me lies nothing but the languishing face of...
...Hapsburg (still out ™ of the U. S. Army's Austrian unit) turned °P' at the huge Cuban embassy reception for Batista...
...thriller, etc...
...John Scott a mere "Trotskyite...
...He doesn't know whether to plug for Darlan or De Gaulle...
...An astasia is tbe heroine, and she was fair and red-cheeked and drank vodka like a man...
...If India1 is kept m subjection, she will become the focus of a union of Eastern Powers against the West, tt India is freed, the relations between East and West wrll hwve a good chance of developing along cooperative sad amicable lines...
...fee enemy strikes...
...Otto, along with his aide-de-camp Czernin, spoke Spanish all -evening — the mother tongue, you see, for anyone who has the blood of the Bourbons...
...hot the publishers will not easily get over the loss of Christmas-packed issues—there will be » 100% rebate on all advertising...
...Mayor LaGuardia is mad at City Hall reporters again...
...It is not, Ifrwevef, written in the start, that this state of affairs will always prevail...
...My friend coolly calls me to order: "One trouble with all you leftists is that you are apt to get excited about things that don't warrant so much emotion—the career of Mr...
...Previous awards went to Gaetano De Sanctis and Benedetto Croce, anti-Fascists inside Italy...
...Talking about the month after the war it says: "A policy of 'scram' is not enough...
...Literary experts are charging that Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, a Broadway hit, borrowed characters and plot from 'James Joyce's avant-garde novel, Finnegan's Wake...
...This saying aptly epitataixes not only Shridharani's personal attitude towards the West but tbe main burden of his book—that how is the time to free Indian from imperial rule, if a potential enemy is to be transformed into an .naff* feral iVfcil...
...Mr, Levin got his chance because he Ifved in cosmopolitan New York...
...The piece concludes soberly by posing the question: "What means shall we take now collectively with other nations to provide for our own safety and that of those who come after us...
...We could have built many things this year...
...Willkie concentrated on Schroeder, and the boys meanwhile pushed through as national chairman Harrison Spangler, his political twin...
...For proof of which, let us read: "I've just finished reading an article in the torrent issue of PIC magazine which has given at acute nausea...
...COME men always give me an inferiority complex...
...Shridharani's book is,-therefore, more important now than it would have been, say, six months ago...
...author of Writers in Crisis, "a . Trot sky ite monstrosity...
...It seems rather silly at first thought, but I'm afraid that my theory is true...
...Even the brief Kafka fatSla) undoubtedly due to propinquity, gats tj Mad teak...
...Edited by James Lawghlm...
...This Russian woman is mad at Hitler because he interfered with beautiful plans...
...She does not mention Lenin or Stalin or Marx...
...Not so the gimlet-eyed ¦poert—he of the unseducible social conscience...
...There are pictures of tbe women' gating" in the grain and of a pretty girl with her anna round tbe neck of a prise cow...
...With a cool gaze beyond his -jgrs he looks through and bey on d tbe p re t -tiest face into the ugly tacts of life...
...PM, with a separate union contract, got to all the newsstands in the cir-cUlatidn-break of a century...
...It h entirely too long snt sshse-thing in Clairmont most have understood it fdr Star in the West which, at times, is sry, atiessW voes and clever, begins to falter aad ran down after a while...
...This is true of even the sxmflfcst talent...
...apERMAN geopolitical brigandry continues to ^* intrigue the American public, and our scholars continue to explain geopolitics as well as such a jumble of facts, hypotheses and rationalizations can be explained...
...It is sketchy m ite handling of the msterisl...
...The Post is one journal which can never be ency into Ed^^'^S^f^a^b^e^^^sse^s^e'tBsi' People of Russia...
...II Duce has hinted at "extraterritorial action" to remove offenders...
...In Middletowh he might go on painting till doomsday and remain just "goofy Abe...
...Qhoo-Choo Johnson...
...to main good on the lesson they have learnt —tf occasion demands it...
...longer...
...Books The Meeting of East and West By JOSEPH RATHER i WARNING TO THE WEST...
...I never can sit there—perhaps it's at a restaurant table—and count on my fingers and then come out with some such remark as: "To tbe best of my recollection, my dear, among the young female persons of my acquaintance yon are ninth—or thirteenth— in degree of pulchritude...
...which way she anC go depends upon us...
...This is a healthy and decent sort Of internationalism...
...I dont mean, of course, that the Curtis publication has gone all-out for the underdog...
...Fair of them have measure or value: meaeare invariably consists in massing words, •value in a dull insistence and repetitive—as...
...Shridharani's book is a welcome addition to the anti-imperialist forces...
...There are many reports of how liberal and left-wing anti-Communists in the pulp-field had been given the business up at Street and Smith...
...Sit pp...
...It is possible to pick arguments with Shrid-harar.i on detailed points...
...A Page of Features Americana The Home Front ON ART, POLITICS AND CHEESECAKE, OR KEEPING ABREAST OF THE TIMES By WILLIAM E. BOHN g|Y erstwhile neighbor, Robert Trevor, is a W clever fellow...
...What direction dais future wrll take will depend upon whs* is done with India...
...is banning British propaganda on the grounds that it is unacceptable from a moral point of view...
...Wendell WflUde wa=> simply outsmarted by the expert maneuvering of the old-line party hacks...
...I'd be willing to bet that 'The Truth About Dieppe' was in type before Eisenhower's forces kicked some bridge work down a couple of 'second-i'ront-now' throats and brought an erabaraaaed look mtoithe,faces of our brightest liberals...
...His essay da Anaii Nin says a good deal about the rtcafcitraat business of women writers but I wonder hear far behind he has left Miss Nin and her book The Winter of Artifice...
...The anti-Stalinist items in the novel weren't liked very much, but today the Commies think Ernest Hemingway "something perilously close to fascism" (Daily Worker, Dec...
...nonetheless an easy and facile going-along with one's beginnings may be the beginning of tbe end as it surely is the end of the beginning...
...The Rome and Madrid radio have made an "international incident" out of the elimination ordered by the Hays office of a few cuss words in the Noel Coward film, In Which We Serve...
...wanted to see Russia bled to death...
...Phis has replied with a complete denial...
...Yon may remember the trouble which Tim* bad (and may stiH have) with its CP...
...That, of course, doesn't solve the problem, but it can be a minor therapy...
...I do know that Nardi reads like a poet—as few of the poets do in Sew Directions...
...This will show what I mean...
...However, though the United Nations may win the war without the assistance Of India's teeming millions, they cannot win the: peace without India's help...
...Others, that tbe day of imperialism has just dawned*- attt the United States, instead of England, in the leading role...
...Mattern does, however, in his final chapters attempt to evaluate some geopolitical doctrines, and finally rejects tbe recommendations of geopolitics as founded upon false premises concerning, social change and the distribution of natural resources...
...Certain "virtues" have continually to be exercised: perhaps not the same ones that initiated tbe enterprise, perhaps the virtues exercised may constitute a seeming retrogression even (the one step backward, considered dialectically, is necessary for the two steps forward...
...And once you arrive at a good thing there is no coupon clipping Or retiring, that is, if you want it to continue to develop as a good thing...
...Clairmont rides roughly tbe biblical styh and method, introducing within fids frame a faiiasssV adventure of tig business, tike birth of aayta...
...stratlon she has given the East that the white mem can be beaten, ftis lesson, Asat #fr tttffcr forget...
...Plenty of Europeans have earned a humble living and in tfieir scant leisure have cultivated their talents for some form of art—and had much greater chance of having their talentjTecognrzod...
...On every side it looks as if the liberals and progressives among writers are moving into an earnest war with the Party-liners...
...Shridharanl, in his impeuosity, ignores this entirely...
...Now my friend, the philologist, is different...
...Every American understands that...
...People who've seen her so-so advance copy say she's working under wraps...
...It obviously started Out with enthusiasm and zest, some wholesome instincts and a flair...
...They reveal the great spiritual reaohrcai rndta has to contribute to the world—if the West wrrf heed the warning in time...
...By Johannes Mattem...
...He and a new list of associate editors have worked a miracle...
...Running water . in every house, for on: thing...
...I can't think of more than one thing at a time...
...Skin of whose teeth...
...Sales jumped from 180,000 to well over half-a-miilion, but the boys Seemed to be muffing the opportunity: PM looked particularly dull, where a couple of really bright issues might have picked up and held new readers...
...The attack on the ' Stalinists by PM's Jimmy Wechsler, as reported1 here last week, has brought the whole Kremlin Set down on him...
...London has told Washington Johnson isn't particularly welcome in the British Empire...
...Bat I'd like to probe the motivation behind it...
...New Masses whip, made it official in his attack...
...And it should be recognised that Western imperialists have an easier task winning tbe support of the masses than have the anti-imperialists...
...But the time has come (had come some two years ago) when those virtues are no longer adequate...
...Washington Notes: Otto...
...The Old Bolshevik, who was murdered by a Stalin agent two years ago, is pictured—despite the authoritative John Dewey findings—as a "despicable Hitler stooge...
...I said—of course you recall every word — that Ben Franklin would forget all his restraint if he could glimpse a single copy...
...A special feature of the book should be mentioned...
...Whether the New Directions Year Book actually gets longer and longer isn't the point—it seems Geopolitik By TOM WIHSLOW GEOPOLITIK...
...That was before Ben Hibbs took charge of the office down on Independence Square...
...132 paces...
...what is even better, a knowledge of emotions, but he himself insists on covering all this over with unwieldy facades and what emerges is, at best, a dense mass...
...Goodman has a supple intellect and...
...Paul Goodman is intelligent in one Hue and in the next he is postured or par versa eg obsessive...
...I don't intend to quote the article at any greater length...
...Spangler's a Hoover man...
...Williams writes brilliantly about Ms rels Nsrdi...
...He thinks of everything...
...Most of tbe writers are trying too hard to be unique, to come up to the distinctive...
...Shrtdharani einphahtats, «4fe rightly, the role Japan has playafl In nfrraWm the East from the myth of the white man's superiority...
...It is an easy gospel to put across...
...Said Hitler: "Without loudspeakers we should not have conquered...
...The drawings, the stories, the jokes— even .the editorials—everything is better...
...So are the Poles and the Norwegians'—even most of the Germans, if you come down to that...
...Enough...
...Even the Daily Worker (delivered by hand) tripled circulation to about 100,000...
...Alvin Levin succeeds in mnui—Jug a hopeless aad ¦¦theUu fragment (hinaji *0Bti that runs aad flows aad flows forever until the reader loses any ijiajiallii he had for the midCfle-class boob who is net without patttptietl...
...So Phillips is taking over, one of the smoothest of the State Dept's "velvet gloves...
...Now .Vrir Directions isn't a book and it can't be criticized as one...
...ask the experts, but Alec Woolcott says, anybody who could make anything of Joyce deserves the credit...
...But it is honestly supporting the United States and our Allies in the war...
...Charles Boyer is facing a grave dilemma...
...It all ties in as part of the general picture, and believe me, Ichabod, it's not pretty...
...This week Harry Hansen, for not liking "realistic stories," was called an . "appOascr...
...Some of the pieces are nearly good aasflajb at* make you feel that they shooM lum hoan aaalpB...
...The only explanation he can give fot the difference betweer file Cflpps wbd spoke on India in the House of Commons in October 1939 and file Cripps who went on his celebrated mission in l4<42 is Hurt fie liberal bad' become reactionary...
...The Post puts itself at the head of those who fight for individual initiative as against general planning, government planning...
...Advice to the rm Mr: I soseaat aoa aaa minimiae the gfehal aflfeet «f a floated api «V emfeowfed hterstsvt by tahfatg Hfe dpkjatl It-easy staves, one yttssafg a thm 6*mHMt I predict tat result to be devastating...
...Tbe latest of these expositions, Geopolitik, by Johannes Mattern, is in the academic class, but is nevertheless suitable as a general introduction to the subject The author directs most of his attention to "G-erman geopohrtcal theory after tracing tbe origins and development of geopolitics in general...
...colors, textures, of the market place hi absent and, to extend the metaphor, it hiss fist infdMss unity of a sarfiy neglected market where the components take On a weather likeness of fading enter and corroding shape...
...A cross the Seas: Jittery Mussolini is picking on the Vatican again...
...Japan's great mistsVo at far as ASsiKtSts a?e cOr/cemed1—is not that site attacked Great Britain or even the United State*, but that she set oat on s carreer of conquest in China...
...It is a simple story of a collective farm near Ryazan and east of Tula...
...It is silent about trade unions and a lot of other things...
...Discount aM the stories of the "moral victory" of the Schroeder defeat in the G.O.P...
...One would want to see his second attempt...
...He always gives you tbe feeling that he is "on to himself" and writing out of a hard, tenfh knowledge...
...yen say, and then yea think of WB» ham Hake: "Enough is tee taoeh...
...As the nineteenth century proves, imperialism flourishes best when the masses at home are indoctrinated with the gospel of "isolationism...
...Look Magazine had to do a little purging in order to yank much of rW editorial content away from the Party Unev Btft PIC, published by Street and .Smith, a conservative firm, seems to be nourishing the same sort of cancerous growth...
...That cetaetzepane danger hi no tatttr rnVninent...
...As a result, he tends too much to limit his study to s plain .report, rather than a critique, and concentrates on the work of Von Humboldt...
...The radio filled the breach of the missing headlines...
...Johns Hopkins University Press...
...The Journal printed 800...
...In 1938, Noguchi, a prominent Japanese poet who had earlier toured through India, wrote a WtteY to Tagore trying to win fcfm «Vt)r tf fife Japanese point of view oh tbe "China rnchMe" The complete Noguchi-Tagore correspondence is reprinted...
...PM's Ken Crawford came " trough by digesting tbe columns and the ^°mic strips...
...It makes no de XfiiJwt" TW^S^SSeaSSst "tSjA^ other hand, makes great, demands upon all these things...
...Holland...
...2.50...
...when India was headline news...
...He has balked at making Tam;nco, in which he was to have been a Free French sailor fighting against Petaia-LavsJ...
...With regard to war aims and social ideals it may be called decently and intelligently conservative...
...Just now, the East, like tbe Went, is divided against itself...
...If the West — England, the United States...
...The mighty New York Times looked limp on 43rd St.,'printing wiry a few thousand copies for over-the-counter circulation...
...Paper $1.50...
...the poet Kenneth Fearing (until recently one of the boys) "a wallower in a slough of despair...
...He would be.the first to acknowledge it...
...By tbe way, the Daisy Worker, which devotes full pages to the Kholastic distortions of Civil War history in UGM's Tennessee Johnson, can't seem to get excited over FWTBT...
...I would much rather read a sentence like that in the Saturday Evening Post than in a pious left-wrngish Mberal weekly...
...Same are worthless...
...ton see...
...Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan is himself the worst enemy of what has been neatly called "Darlan Diplomacy...
...Real reason: Hemingway, in bis new anthology, Men at War, omits all the Comintern stalwarts from Henri Barbusse »nd Ludwig Renn through the lists of the Soviet big-wigs^ Sholokhov, Ehrenburg, Petrov, Katayev, et...
...Once Japan's career of conquest is brought to rot timer/ end, the future of Asia wfr rest with China, India aad Russia...
...What the State Dept...
...Louis Johnson's stay in Bombay and Calcutta earlier this year...
...The nicest thing about me is that I am so often Wrong...
...It gives yon a sidelight on the war...
...Jean Gabin still has a family in France and decant, wsttt tt pits aaMaV against Vichy...
...Abraham Levin, for example...
...The answer depends upon the support of the great msisei of tbe Westerr world...
...That Churchill keeps Mm in this post is indicative of Churchill's position on the imperialist question in general and net only on the Indian question' But it is' simply not true that only Tories and reactionaries" are opposed to giving India absolute independence now...
...His refusal to let the U. S. broadcast from the French African stations is serious, ior we meant business when with the Army went a crew of top-flight American radio-men (who are now sitting around killing time in Casablanca...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 51
