Mme. Chiang BuiWs Good-Will But Chine Drive Stalled at Burma Rd
LASKY, MELVIN J.
Mme. Chiang BuiWs Good-Will But Chine Drive Stalled at Burma Rd Japs Block Allies, Control Key Supply Routes By MELVIN J. LASKY ?current "China Girl" qtoiy doesn't appear to be for a particularly...
...In a few -weeks, seizing British and Dutch areas which held 90% of toe world's robber production, 60'/« of the tin, and a greater oil production than the Nazis have taken in ail Europe, the Nipponese came into a formidable Empire...
...ten years of constant defeat had reduced them to what they were...
...the history of this religious Order from the thirteenti century to show that it became the bearer *f » policy of world domination...
...he dropped Spain (as a betrothal gift to Fascism, long before anyone foresaw the marriage...
...Alarm, one wonld say, is widespread in many Sections of public opinion...
...And the epilogue concludes: "A new nweraest will have to arise in a new moral climate when the means justify the end...
...has as yet, cited Koestier's Scum, of the Earth written in 1941, or his other recent writing...
...The heroic horde was but an unconscious tool of power politics and when it had played its role was sacrificed in ' an immense holocaust, the memory of which would linger on for centuries and make any appeal to ideals or lofty inspirations stink in the nostrils of the common man...
...Why is Nazism only a German phenomenon ? If there are "two Gerroanies," or "three Germanics"—are these elements not present in meet countries...
...She believed she stood outside afl parties and real independent objective papenr Petit Parteien, Excelsior, Paris Soir anc L'1...
...Scots Protest Tory Land Monopoly Special to Tee New Leader GLASGOW, January (by Mail...
...In Koestler there is a profound malaise not occasioned by the war, but of which the war is the most acute expression...
...Clippings and Comments By DANIEL BELL ?? ??+fcnr Koetfier ARTHUR KOESTLER'S elegiac lament in «? Sunday Timm aewBral weak* ago, has brought the expected boa of diseased ?* and comment, from Max Lerner in PM to Michael Williams in Commonweal...
...the Left, most of Europe was that way...
...and their fate mere...
...The explanation is that investors are finding that it is no longer economic to buy properties in the South...
...It is true that we have a Pacific front, but no Asiatic front...
...3. The failure to establish a Ministry of Social Security seemed to be an open indication of the Government's insincerity...
...The American elections, the "burlesque Darlaniad," the "melancholy Crippsiad," are not augurs of reaction digging in at muck as an essential demonstration that people don't care...
...Richard Brickner of Columbia, who in an article in the Atlantic and in a forthcoming bonk believes that the Germans are paranoic and und> Hitler and the Nazi party are symptom...
...Chiang's valiant efforts, charm unfortunately is not calculated to be exchanged at the moment for troops and bombers...
...in the British Army) put it plainly: "The idea that we may expect any sudden seizure of the Burma road is fantastic . . ." To be sure, the factors in the situation are not all military...
...March to May is the hot season...
...But "the secret international" plays many ? devious game...
...And although its draft of recommendations was certainly far from radical, ft was an indication both of the inroads the panacea-agitators have made and the opportunism of Earl Warren in the State Mansion...
...With Bevin and the political people at loggerheads, there may be new realignments shaping up for British national life...
...Snapped Mme...
...not one of them was allowed to enter the Fatherland of the Proletariat, the country which had acclaimed them in hysterical hero-worship . . . but then it was always said that the Party wae not a philanthropic institution...
...This week there was a quiet, official meeting there—of the Governor's committee on pension legislation...
...They wrote to Churchill...
...Special inquiries made in London disclose that London estate agencies, on behalf of various clients, -are constantly looking to Scotland for these transactions...
...Said Roosevelt: As soon as the Lord will let us...
...groups, which formerly were partners of Gerau cartels, now hope to raze German industry...
...S. Air Chief) met reeeWtly with Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking...
...Farben's secret dummy holding company, wtici controlled most of its foreign properties, incusing the General Anilin company here...
...It was witty and charming and made for nice newspaper copy...
...The rebellion of the young Tories ended with the Labor Ministers' support of the Government...
...China wants and needs action in the East...
...A Chinese and Allied victory drive in the Orient is hopeless without a continental campaign...
...George H. McLain, representing the Citizens Committee for Old-Age Pensions, his own group, and Nathan ?. Porter, for the Townsendites...
...state, not county administration of the pension act...
...Thus bringing the total dues-paying membership of the AFL up to 5,482,581 —the highest figure in its history...
...The Swiss asset though, is the I. G. Ctienm...
...But Madame Suchet, he has attacked Poland and Poland is our any...
...One very significant turn, on the part of the Young Tories, highlighted the cleavage...
...The Chinese could hardly help themselves...
...How soon would the Allies come to China's rescue...
...The Third International had started the Crusade ir...
...They certainly didn't' want their party to be tagged as the lone anti-Beveridge party...
...2. The principle of social security was apparently hedged by the notion that all details were to be made dependent on the postwar financial situation...
...But many persons are beginning to wonder if the Government is really in earnest about it—as large scale buying up of the land and speculation in big estates has become a national scandal...
...I think that most commentators have been misled by his melancholy tone, common to most of ????tier's writing, and the precipitous tine...
...As the limping character of the Government's Beveridge report emerged, a section of the Conservatives grumbled along with the liberals and laborites...
...Soldiers in Scottish regiments...
...If France were attacked...
...There is the Eastern invasion route from Assam, India, which works through one of the world's worst jungles...
...The first, on dweribitg the procession of despair from Lisbon, finishes S biblical terms: "And the flood was forty dato upon the earth and the waters prevailed apori &W earth...
...Are not the irrational elements t* "teutonism," part of the make-up of most nam...
...I don't know about politics, my dear raniiie but I know this: everybody should raiad...
...Her mind unconsciously reflected these opinion*, aad year by year it became more warped...
...business...
...The hurdlers over the first obstacle are a motley crew combining Chinese nationalists, certain anti-fascist strategists like Edgar Snow who believe that Japan must be beaten first, and a fringe of reactionary imperialists, like Rep...
...There has been considerable public protest...
...There is, finally, the route up from Rangoon on the Indian ocean—with Lashio, on the China-Burma frontier, as the all-important post...
...As Jack Beiden points out in his book, "Retreat With Still-well," published this week, there was a colossal political, social and ideological failure on the British and American parts when Burma fell to the Japanese...
...Chiang: But the Lord helps those who help themselves...
...Here is a typical dialogue in 198...
...But none of them is likely to make any real political or military headway...
...He writes in Scum of the Earth.: "These 150 men of the Leper Barrack were remnants of the International Brigade—once the pride of the Eirropean revolutionary movement, the vanguard of the Left...
...When he changed sides, he made a thorough job of rt...
...While they are fighting and dying for their country, far-seeing gentlemen are baying it up...
...When, for example, John Parker was chosen to make an address for the Labor Party, forthright political statement, which have been rare enough...
...American Fed...
...It must be understood more in terms of Koestier's real argu-' ment for a moral revival and a new emphasis of values...
...the result were several heated exchanges, some bitter sniping between Bevin and left-winger Emanuel Shin well, and Bevin...
...Her message to the Generalissimo back at Chungking began to shape up as "the failure of a mission...
...A strange historical constellation had focused Spain into the symbolical position of the Holy Land and had endowed the struggle for Madrid with the emotional content of the massacres for the Holy Sepulchre...
...Fieldmarshal Sir ' John . Dill (British Chief-of-Staff) and General H. H. Arnold (U...
...The news has broken slowly, but for Scots this is no heavy, technical economic development that can't be understood by the common people...
...Military expert Douglas Brownrigg (ex-Lieut...
...snpport of an emergency measure in the Legislature providing for payment of a pension of $50 a month, to become effective immediately...
...Stillwell have hem mapping their campaign...
...They had been the material for tiie first experiment since the Crusades to form an army of volunteers which would fight for a cosmopolitan creed...
...jp X noboty would beb as, and the Poles...
...There is the route moving south from Yunnan m China—but theChinese there lack the heavy weapons...
...But of far greater interest is exactly how long her confidence and en- ¦ thusiasm can hold out in the face of difficulties which ill-starred her Chinese mission from the start...
...and had prepara] her to regard the coming war not as a cmssm for liberty and happiness of Europe, bu...
...WaveU and Gen...
...In India, Gen...
...The Labor Party's base (for finances and votes) is in the trade unions...
...not causes of Germany's trouble...
...But the victories are going the other way...
...The financial and real-estate journals are full of gleeful reports of how well the new purchases are being received by investors and their representatives...
...wouldn't care a hoot So why shoaU we can about them...
...Its meaning is being taken only too well...
...If the nation should own the water power, surely it should own the land...
...1 Which leaves November to March...
...as t war for Danzig...
...They fought because it was a war for survival...
...Among those who participated in the meeting were Boy G. Owens, Ham-A-Eggs member...
...1. It seemed that the Government completely capitulated to the insurance interests by skirting Beveridge's drastic recommendations on that score...
...Psychiatry also takes a hand in the person of Dr...
...It was really impossible to argue with Mat Suchet...
...on the Q.T...
...All of these are rendered almost prohibitive by weather conditions...
...The leading Labor Party people seemed to be very .sorely distressed...
...McCor-mick are sounding a line which is "good sense" in many Tory and business circles...
...storming out of the meeting...
...The socialist weekly, The Glasgow Forward, commented in a recent issue—"The nation, we are told, is entitled to own the new power plants that are to be built in the Highlands...
...Its doctrines ha*e permeated sections of the military, bureaucracy, and industrialists...
...It is now difficult for the war profiteer," a columnist writes, "the successful gambler in aircraft or whisky shares to invest his money in Burma or Malaya, so he has turned his attention to Scotland...
...Chiang had just a few-things to clear up before her return home...
...There is little comfort in this for those nfe would make political'capital out of Koestier's statement on the war...
...It is reported that the Tory chief shuddered at the thought...
...The men he saw on the battlefield, he says,' did not part from Kfe out of an enthusiasm for abstract democracy...
...Me its patents and industrial techniques, ani slap down what could be a strong and crafty competitor...
...The tentative program agreed upon embodied the following ' points: a burial fund to cover funeral expenses for pensioners...
...For his article in the Times follows in the stream of ideas expressed many times before...
...While loudly protesting its new...
...In his Sunday Times article too, Koestler eoa-clndes "the task will be to use the coming breeta-ing space as best we can...
...found virtues here, American corporations ?» still plying their old cartel policy in South America with the old I. G. Farben companies, irtsi happened there is that many Latin government* took over the I. G. Farben apparatus aad tksw complete staffs...
...Hie basic obstacles are these: 1. The Get-Hitler-First strategy which dominates all the Allied military schedules...
...the days when Spain became the battleground of Europe and Statin backed the democratic horse...
...Says its Washington wire: "Axis reparations will be a big post-war problem for some parts of U. S. big bushiest We hear oil companies already are forming a select committee to handle claims against German' principally...
...Slowly bat surely the farces which were in control of those independent papers had kilkd in her any loftier conception of humanity's SB had made her outlook on world affairs hacusa narrow, cynical and egotistic...
...The Je...
...That was the reaction of one sensitive man to the extinguished hopes of the Left...
...The new landlords hope at some future time to sell the land again and make a profit at the Government's expense...
...How soon can the Allies blast open the Burma Road...
...This is, of course, a far cry from the pot-of-gold programs which used to be put together daily on the desks of Ham-&-Eggers...
...The other day staid, sober, respectable George Walk-den, M.P., took over Parker's assignment...
...At a time when the future of Scotland is being ?? widely discussed, hundreds of thousands of acres come under the hammer and are bought . by estate agents and companies for new owners and interests, who for some reason or other, prefer to remain anonymous...
...and not vice verst The creation of this climate—that is what I imagine I am fighting for...
...The survivors of the International Brigade— more than two-thirds had been killed in the battlefield—were thrown into French concentration camps...
...And neither the Lord, nor geography, nor the current war schedules were prepared to let the Allies put in much help on their part...
...But there was a tragic thread in the conversation...
...The .United Nations are plainly committed to the offensive against Nazism...
...The clash was a serious one...
...About 70%, it was estimated, of the Beveridge report had been accepted, which seemed to be satisfactory to Ernest Bevin, who is chief of the Trade Union General Council...
...of the shrill, hackneyed slogans of the totallUnat left who would read him out of the strufgip altogether...
...THE I. G. Farben cartel—that so-called.pare expression of the aggressive Teutono-Prm-sian spirit—has moved its headquarters to Stock-holm, according to authentic reports free that capital...
...Koestier's article, written in 1942, is being taken as a "break with the war" as a "disillusionment,'' etc It is surprising that no one...
...and for those, partisan...
...A few more speeches to increase China's stock of national and racial good-will, and a short sentimental trip down to Georgia where she passed her girlhood...
...For the first step clearly must be the reopening of the Burma Road, the recapture of Burma from the Japanese, to clear transportation of supplies over land routes...
...and that the people do not seem to mind very deeply— they are mote interested in the Eight Army's advance than m Cripps' retreat" . . . cannot be broken down in terms of a political tract (i.e., shall we make a deal with the Vatican, look what the State Department is doing, etc...
...exemplified what had happened to all of us, the European Left . . . they had been admired and worshipped, and thrown on the rubbish heap like a sackful of rotten potatoes, to putrefy...
...In this respect, Koestier's evolution is like Sil one's— the emphasis shifts from changing the collective to transforming the individual...
...But Parker's opinions of British big-business are well-known, and the reactionary "1922 Committee" moved quickly to stop him...
...Lin Yutang is a persuasive ideologue...
...The wrangle over the reports which Sir John Anderson and Sir Kingeley Wood turned in on the Beveridge plan finally got around to tire counting of paragraphs...
...The "Hot* Gormen" Modaess *I*HE book and magazine market is now being flooded with works and articles that preach the "hate Germany" idea and "destroy the German nation" notions...
...The old cartel deals still hold at sales allocation and other restrictive practioes Large amounts of German capital are filtering out of Germany and settling in Latin-America, laying the basis for new trade agreements...
...It is true, too, that considered in the perspective of hard-headed realism, Japan is petting stronger and not "weaker all the time...
...b ? even likely that aid-to-China will be substantially increased...
...As a more immediate perspective, there is the plan for a gigantic pincer squeeze on Burma by forces pushing from India and China...
...Or so a good section of the Parliamentary Labor Party felt in bolting the Government in the Commons vote...
...Chiang in the White House last week...
...one editorial commented bitterly, "scattered all over the globe will read this news with interest...
...On the Beveridge debate, on a whole host of other issues, the Tories have been confident and daring enough to assume the whip-hand, with the result that whole sections of the Labor Party are practically in revolt...
...The Labour Party was informed: "No Parker...
...The present fleet of Cnrtiss Commandos, converted Donglas commercial planes,Boeing Stratoliners, and Consolidated Liberators is hardly enough to even put a dent in the stocks currently gathering dust in India...
...people like Maas and Col...
...But there is the strong likelihood that this liberalization of the state's pension legislation will go through directly...
...Why, ? is asked, should-a Government which has such great plans for Scotland's future stand by and allow this to go on...
...Will the Chinese get their front in the East...
...It is plain, of course, that this is no "agricultural" venture, but pure and simple speculation...
...He traoe...
...By adopting a negative policy of repression and anti-5th Column work," Beiden writes, "instead of adopting a positive policy for unleashing the energies of the people against the invaders, the British authorities and in fact all members of the United Nations responsible for fixing policies, sealed the doom of the Allied armies in Burma...
...Now comes one Paul Winkler is a book The Thousand Year Conspiracy, who talks at three Gfrmanies—the peoples and a secret ruling class behind a Nazi clique which stems in dired line from the Teutonic Knights...
...Despite Mme...
...Snow is ? well-informed observer...
...Large-scale purchases of Scottish land are continuing...
...of labor Gates Million Members Proving that the war industries are a fertile field for labor organization is the fact that of the' close to a million membership gainerl by the American Federation of Labor, the largest gains have occurred in the war industries, specifically the metal trades unions...
...They told him that "the secretary of the Fabian Society" was going to make the address...
...reduction of the age limit to 60 years...
...These meet wide approvalThe "hate German" theory started off on s simple basis when the British diplomat Leri Vansittart said there is but one German) aad its entire population is a danger to civilised life...
...An insistent and united Labor caucus might have won a signal victory...
...But the India-China air ferry remains a bottleneck...
...and at the moment the critical North African campaign is tying jrp most of the Allied shipping and supply power...
...And as in the case of their predecessors, their creed was cynically exploited by those who pulled the wires behind the scenes...
...And most of what is being flown in is earmarked for the American Air Forces anyway...
...They don't want money reparation, are more interested in German assets outside the homeland, as in Switzerland...
...fautism despair of France had eaten its way into him too, but what his experience had brought, particularly in the French concentration camps, was a new regard for the individual...
...The world has broken out into a rash of "postwar plans," and there is, of course, one for Scotland, too...
...transigeant...
...She speaks: "Oh, Hitter is a swine all right But if the Boches want a Hitler, was it our business to interfere...
...American...
...Most of tile din niiiffli to my wonder, has revolved about the conventional ideographs of the left—Is KoesUer for the war or is*4 he —fcas the character of the war changed, or hasn't it— Is ????tler simply a tired radical or isa't the world oh the march...
...No Socialism...
...We didn't care about the Catcht anyhow...
...The Wall Street Journal provides an interesting tip-off on what U. S. monopoly wants...
...It is a moot question whether anything has been learned on this score...
...Ca/if Moves Towards Some Ham ? Eggs Special to The New Leader LOS ANGELES.—There was a time, and not so long ago, when Ham-&-Eggs headquarters here was the wild-eyed hope for many thousands of Californians, dreaming of nice and easy security...
...Koestier's statement that ". . . the scales are moving more to the conservative side, almost in direct proportion to the approach of victory...
...It will be no easy job, and no quick one either...
...May to November brings the heavy rains, and the monsoon's blanket of mod renders military movement on a big scale practically impossible...
...Large gains were also made by the common laborers, teamsters, carpenters, railway darks, textile workers, and seafarers unions...
...There was a measure of wit in the exchange between FDR and Mme...
...But it was not...
...but there was still nc rainbow set ir ?» clouds...
...British La bo rites Bolt, as Tories Seek Whip-Hand 1 Special to The New Leader LONDON.—The Government coalition between the Conservative and Labor parties is writhing in what appears to be its first jserious political crisis this month...
...Concrete moves have been made In that direction...
...Which saves the five or six Jap divisions in Burma for almost a year...
...Take Madame Suchet, a neighbor in the rue Vaugirard, a non-political person whose opinions were a composite of the non-political persons all over France...
...His worst fear and greatest disgust came to be the abject humiliation and loss of dignity and respect that an individual would he forced to endure...
...2. The isolation of China from the India-Burma supply route...
...The move is obviously a hedge against the shape of things to come...
...At 11 Downing Street Party Leader dement Attee met with all the Labor leaders...
...Then Emil Ludwig began talking of twe Ger-manies, the sinister Prussian traditio!, aad the people...
...15,000 tons each month used to traverse the Burma Road...
...He is on a different lonely, read...
...Melville Maas, who see spoils in the Orient...
...Chiang BuiWs Good-Will But Chine Drive Stalled at Burma Rd Japs Block Allies, Control Key Supply Routes By MELVIN J. LASKY ?current "China Girl" qtoiy doesn't appear to be for a particularly happy ending, mphal personal appearances in leading American cities' has been trying ???> Chiang Kai-shek's health, and one wonders how long her Strength can hold out...
...What remained?: "A cigarette and in the gutter was a reality, while political ideas had gradually lost all meaning...
...Bat what wax Koestier's mood ? His book ema on a note of strange, quiet weariness, his epilogs on a strange, «ad hope...
...What distinguishes the German aggression ? megalomania—the sense of mission, the fanstfc violence and above all the irrationality that invariably accompanies it" But why this emphasis on German, in all these examples...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 10
