The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
Americana ?ooJu a*td WiaeM Chatter ?—*--¦-—--By WILLIAM ?. ???? Ilm is ??? Army, Too ??? IS ie the right sort of office to work in. Xo conflict between " » yooth an<1 crabbed age. A...
...Hamilton, who was the N. Y. Times correspondent in Spain, writes that when one of them, passes through the street*, everybody in the crowd, faced by the police,, meet stand with the hand outstretched in the Fascist sainte...
...There were five of us in on it—we're all in the hospital recovering from German measles...
...For a couple of hour*- we1...
...Gauss was not very well liked in Chungking, and Wendell WilHtie attacked him in all but name on his return from the Far East...
...When a PM reporter phoned Bridges longdistance to ask about it...
...How account for the longevity of the Falangist leaders...
...Of course, this doesn't prove anything at all...
...AM the eternal skeptic about this Latin-American good-neighbor stuff...
...But that's wrong too, for how ????????????????????????????????1 could a healthy man like Davies, so strong, so fit, suddenly take sick...
...70 against...
...the fighter of the Red Army defending , his country would see his task in a new light...
...Hence we are cadets...
...We have a group of men being trained in meteorology for the Air Corps...
...He would like short popular biographies of our leaders, short accounts of our unions, pamphlets and leaflets explaining our principles and ideas of things...
...Baldwin and Magnussen are trying to draw another bill up, for the AFL and the R.R...
...And (3) that he is on vacation...
...Matthew Wall was there, and after a while he remarked that it is all very well to send down United States capital, but if we export capital it will be well to see to it that the Chileans are well enough organized to defend themselves against imperialist exploitation...
...Peffer, for instance, believes - that it is wrong to identify the present internal structure in Japan with European Faseism...
...None of these murderous enemies of the Spanish people deserves to be left alive...
...The film companies are now searching for "hate Jap" stories...
...And he referred with pointed humor to some parts of the United States where the organizer's profession is still a hazardous one...
...Only our thesis holds water...
...Says Comrade Mike: "Cervantes...
...A Philip...
...U. S. eastern thaw...
...It is reported that he listened to the announcement of Herr Hitler's latest speech- with some pain and anxiety...
...We have a theory...
...The British Embassy was peeved, and kicked...
...The novel, he adds, reminded him of Balzac...
...Ambassador to China, who " is on his way here for medical treatment, will probably not return...
...No one seems to deny that we should help Russia or that she has a great record of killing Germans, but there is a division of opinion about our post-war relations with Russia...
...we knew him well— is ready dead...
...German censorship forbids open revelation of major news...
...Chiang-Kai Shek missed a few tricks here...
...Petain and Peyrouton...
...We shall get as food as we send...
...That occurred on Marth St, at XJ*T p. m., German time...
...ha!—but failed to mention what the "type error" was...
...Harpers...
...the time when our gentle landlords iet us freeae in our »«pposedly heated apartments—on the excuse that there was not enough oil for us in the US, the United States Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes told his listeners in Spain that oil products available for the Franco paradise are "considerably higher than the present per capita distribution to the people of the Atlantic seabord of the United States" . . . This—in view of the fact that only very few spots in Spain need artificial heating and that Spain has- not one fraction of the automobiles used in this country,—is a fit illustration of the attitude of our State Department towards tins child produced by the two fathers Hitler and Mussolini...
...They have been accepted completely by the fellows in the class...
...By-Thomas Hamilton...
...Brotherhoods won't touch Vito...
...But our D.C...
...inquisition, and who constitute an important part of Franco's supporters, the author says: "To call them reactionaries would be the sheerest understatement...
...It was inspired by a note in his column, Inside and Out...
...A war communique from the West Coast brings bad news—tbd Hollywood studios has been hit by a Naxi-uniform shortage...
...straight sense about this whole business...
...How Wo Con Help VOR the most part the Chilean unions have few resources...
...Ibanez was far from boasting...
...Or 9:32 a. m...
...Gauss, it was reported, knew, after 20 years' of service, exactly seven Chinese words...
...But Mr...
...reason for their gratitude to Hitler, the fact that he made to the Spanish churches valuable presents of monstrances and chalices...
...They float round so luxuriantly that you can grab them down out of the air to any extent—and no one will ever miss them or claim their authorship, ?» perhaps I owe my neighbor, Mat Low, no special thanks for this letter from his friend, Private Jack...
...And I tried* to hand out some of the facts...
...MacArthur had made a personal presentation of the Silver Star to Haugiand following his recent rescue...
...noted that Sokolsky was "also there...
...2.50...
...Some * have their own buildings*, publish papers and have the organizing apparatus with which we are familiar...
...But they eat with us, drill and exercise with us and go to class with us...
...The sharing of a lot of things—including money...
...He seems to regret that Franco, instead of-trying to reconcile the people, the immense majority- of which is republican, sows the most bitter-and ineradicable hate...
...Strangely enough, I never got into any decent arguments until I was sent to the hospital—possibly because we're too busy...
...After hearing Stalin's wird?, the workman would begin his day with greater determination...
...mysterious passing...
...But the right things he can have translated and -¦Printed down there...
...appears in different disguises...
...Pollack's inference that the bonk should never have been published by anyone...
...It would be nice if - yon would run a ^v^grna & Carriok, Oxford University Pre...
...The Falangist leaders and officials live in luxury, and enjoy the best food and wines as much as Goering in Berlin or the GPU officials in Moscow...
...We can find many distinguishing characteristics if we compare also German totalitarianism with Italian, particularly in their formative stages...
...writes Jack from one .of the Army Air Force schools...
...I have been told, however, that some of the enlisted men have made the usual remarks...
...These boys are too busy to spout ranch, and when they argue they divide into groups just exactly as tbey did before they were in uniform...
...Under war conditions, it is doubtful whether any similar arrangement will be m^de this year...
...What of the future mutual relations between China and Russia...
...That's why your morning edition is so thin...
...v PM received 7 pro-Erlkh-Alter letters...
...Speaking of the Car lists, whose program is the reestablishment of absolute monarchy and of the...
...327 pages...
...Whereas, he states, European Fascism has brought about a "kind, of internal distribution of power" the "New Order" in Japan is "not variation from normality but normality...
...Jake knew "Hamlet" by heart at the age of ten, recognised James Joyce as "the 7>oet of imperialism" and Freud as "an intellectual picking over his inelegant libido...
...Of course, the two Negroes share the same room...
...But the clear picture was there: • country with great resources, workers poor and largely unorganized, the unions—for the most part—lacking the means of leaching and educating them...
...In reality, there exist not three solutions to Russo-Chinese relations but one which at various time, as conditions demand it...
...A history of his own movement is just about to be published—the first one which they have had...
...But the ultimate aim is the same: to destroy the contradictions between two opposed economic systems...
...Davies—alas...
...The author tells how all the grandees, the Church, the deceased King Alfonso and his family got back all their estates, and how the firing squads have- never ceased to function, shooting some times hundreds every day for the crime of having defended their country against the Italian, German and Moorish invaders...
...Out' of a population of less than 5,000,000, then, they have a percentage organized that is almost as great as ours...
...Erroneous, too, it seems to me, is Mr...
...This gradual and systematic preparation of these countries for independence should not be made a pretext for prolonging the solution of a number of urgeut question which require immediate solution...
...Nevertheless it seems to me to be a step in the right direction...
...Which is just about O.K...
...In the formation of Japanese totalitarianism, the military caste, closely tied to pre-capitalist economic relations, determined many of the national characteristics...
...How this child, mothered by Franco and tenderly nursed and coddled by those influential factors in the governments of the United Nations, who envisage the future and better postwar world as one rated by such friends of freedom as Otto of Habsburg...
...A wonderful lesson in journalism was offered by the Ea*rl Browder-George Sokolsky debate last Sunday...
...It is equally true that the present-day Japanese rulers seek to realize their "new order" within the framewerk of the old, by retaining as many elements of the old as possible...
...The Naais, Da vies had insisted ' in front-page articles and leading radio broadcasts, were really covering up the secret of Der Fuhrer...
...The other group, of which I am a member, is made up of men with teaching experience...
...realistically considered, the guiding concepts of the molders of Russia's foreign policy permit no such differentiation...
...Bridges cracked: "T've seen worse in PM...
...things took their proper places, and we knew: a keen, precise intellect holds vigil over the country...
...If the workers .along that far-stretching coast are kept down, we shall suffer from it...
...Two of them were old-line anti-Communists...
...But this is not a specific trait of Japanese totalitarianism...
...The Allied bloc will^ adopt a similar policy in relation to the other countries of Southern and South-Eastern Asia...
...The Republicans will come to power, and they will remember the million men and women massacred and executed by the Franco fascists with the blessing of the Church...
...I came away feeling a lot better...
...Joe Davies is dead...
...Now the interesting thing about the set-up is that in our group ' there are two Negroes...
...So PM printed 1 pro and 19 against...
...U. S. experts reveal thai the Japs really don't need the fish caught in the North Pacific" area in view of recent conquests, that the prime use made by Jape of the treaty is to establish weather stations for watching conditions over the Aleutians...
...Last year a half-dozen young people from South America come up for a six-weeks' course in our labor schools...
...While we are paying Argentina to send, food to Spain, very little, or more probably nothing of which reaches the families of those hundred thousands who are in jail for having defended their republican government, Franco is sending four-fifths of the orange and olive crop to Hitler Germany...
...T^HIS is an extremely interesting and valuable " book, but there is much in that is to be questioned...
...A conference was planned to explore means of saving Jews from the Nazi extermination drive...
...for instance, he says, Great Britain in 1930 offered half of what Sir Stafford Cripps went to India in 1942 to offer, much of the present trouble might have been avoided...
...Fascism is done for.' . . . We know: when the familiar voice of Stalin is heard over the microphone...
...Whatever we can furnish in Spanish will, of course, be immediately useful...
...Soso" Djugashvilli...
...They were seldom seen after that and when seen were doing the dirtiest tasks, q .yl' "Just before I started this letter, we had a bit of discussion on Russia and Stalin...
...aJuyiex, are learn, had really put his heart in the theory that Adolf Hitler was dead...
...Last week, Haugiand and two others (Harold Guard, of UP., and Lee Van Atta, of I.N.S...
...In the newly created situation in the Far Eajft...
...ft ? - "I have seen with great interest the .current Issue of The New leader...
...If trade unionists here can do something practical to help trade unionists down there, they will be defending their own...
...Jefferson and Lincoln, A* lor Sokolsky—u-ho shall ever ????11 his name a hundred years heneef* • w * Literati & Co.:—Leftist Playwright Paul Green has been signed by 20th Century-Fox to write the movie life of Eddie Ricken-backer, which probably takes care of the widespread fears Of Hollywood anti-labor propaganda...
...The man from Chile was Bernardo Ibanez, secretary of their .Federation of Labor and a member of Paliament...
...and now we bring you victoi-y.' Father Stalin will say: 'Good...
...In this connection Mr...
...By Nathaniel Peffer...
...That boner in last week's Daily Worker which listed Harry Bridges a« "a Communist chief" was finally "explained" the other day...
...And as for ideas_ -there is, of courser, an economy of plenty...
...He would like, for «ample, books, pamphlets and papers about our trade union movement...
...What goes there...
...It is interesting to get the view-points...
...Apparently there are lots of fellows who think'we'll be fighting Russia before it's all over...
...Adolf Hitler showed...
...pHE problem of post-war peace is becoming the subject of an ever-growing literature in the United States and Nathaniel Peffer's Basis for Peace in the Far East occupies a notable place as one of the few competent works on future peace problems in the Far East...
...We stand am corrected...
...We will be weather instructors when we have completed the course and will teach frying cadets...
...The story, in the Daily Worker concluded: "Some day American history text books mil ej>euk of a courageous, honest, and brulixnu Browder together with Washington...
...The phrase is from a current Variety dispatch, which indicates that Mme...
...This is not our publication and it is particulaib disturbing to read Dr...
...will shortly renew the annual treaty granting Japan fishing rights off Kamchatka...
...Correction ?? the Literary Editor: I regret very much that in your issue of March 20th, Frederick Pollock reviews most unfavorably The Nasi State, by Wm...
...And after we found out what efficient use the Japanese made of the New York Elevated railways, once they were transformed into bombs and shrapnel, during their visit to Pearl Harbor, we transferred our prodigality to Franco, so that he may keep his 100,000 soldiers in Spanish Morocco well armed—in the rear of the British and American forces, and immobilize a few divisions— which otherwise could be used in Tunisia...
...R.— 9«sUde xuid Out By MATTHE* LOW TThe Corpse Doth Protest:—Well...
...Everything happens to the Jews...
...were expelled from New Guinea by General Douglas MacArthur for making "operational flights...
...There is no doubt, of course, that the "new order" in Japan is sharply distinguished from the "new order" of the totalitarian countries of Europe...
...a big man leads the country...
...But the other day ? sat down to lunch with thirty trade union people one of whom was from Chile...
...Two of the fellows held out for the great-guy, Stalin...
...The Poll-Tax Repeal movement has been stalled by Rep...
...nothing at aU has been heard of Joeepk E. uww...
...who fed him that one...
...At one point he remarked with a grin that we in this country need not go far back in our memories to recall similar primitive-conditions...
...We should welcome that...
...Comrade Statin is our victory " * * » /"•ommie Roundup:—We have a carload of Old Mike Gold's columns here, and one is funnier, and more tragic too, 'than the next...
...Neighbor...
...Anal your Inside-and-Outer is in a position te report that following a doll thud at 9:33...
...Anyway it's exclusive...
...of course, did just the reverse...
...Catholic Basques and many of their priests, for their desire to maintain their local antonomy...
...Other theories are (1) that he is busy at work...
...Peffer's analysis of Soviet Russia's future...
...There are too few of the Negroes to make much difference...
...Peffer cites India "as the best contemporary illustration...
...Vittorio Emmanuele and Francisco Franco, may become a Frankenstein of the Allied nations, is vividly depicted in Hamilton's book...
...When we have killed all of them, we'll, come to Father Stalin and sav: 'Father Stalin, you gave us the word...
...In this cast...
...Murder in Franco Spain By STEPHAN N4FT APPEASEMENTS CHILD- THE FRANCO REGIME LX SPAIN...
...Ibanez is a very practical fellow—not at all the eloquent and Slogan-slinging sort whom we have sometimes entertained from ¦oath of the Rio Grande...
...But that's wrong, because Joe Davies is too rich to work...
...the scientist would sense in a new wav the nature of things in the world that he was studying...
...I refer to ? We Is the Army, Top...
...Peffer's thesis is predicated upon a total destruction of Japan as a naval power...
...foreign policy in the Far East...
...Reps...
...The living standard, he said, is something that it would be impossible for us to imagine...
...But it is only possible to comprehend the structure of this phenomenon in its totality if we view it as a national variation of a large process which to date has already embraced many countries...
...3.00...
...Randolph's March-on-Washington will make a national cause celebre of the Lynn case, told recently in these columns, in a ram pajgn against Negro discrimination in the armed forces...
...Gogol, Mark Twain are a few immortal names one might offer as samples of the Ruth McKenney mind in literature...
...In the past U. S. policy in China was concerned primarily with maintaining 'the integrity of the country and continuing the policy of/the "open door...
...One is made up of six young fellows who are mostly college graduates...
...They have about 300,000 workers organized down there...
...Almost at the time Henry Wallace was making his watery indictment of "Marxianism" (now...
...In the final reckoning tbey will pay back in kind with interest...
...Peffer devotes an entire chapter to "Japan's Legitimate Needs" where he develops the thesis that she must be given an access to Asiatic markets "on equal terms with any other country...
...But these differences should not obscure the fact that all toalitariar states, despite their specific individuality, have one common denominator which is ail-embracing and characteristic for all: the fixation of the absolute supremacy of the state bated upon am economy organized and regulated by the elate...
...And most of the unions •re in their initial stages...
...Before the war, more than 30 per cent of Chile's trade was with us and more than 22 per cent was with Germany...
...The U.SJ3.R...
...When did the workers become dependent on the Rockefeller Cpmmittee...
...Hamilton gives a powerful picture of the hunger and starvation among the masses of the people caused by the reestablishment of the Franco regime...
...Current lulu is the one on Ruth McKenney's novel about a Communist hero, Jakt Home—which has, ap Diana Trilling cracked, "been suitably tailored to fit the wavy line...
...The labor educators present were of the opinion that six weeks is too short a time They think that if money is spent to bring young Latin Americans up here they should be given' t-me to work in shops, discover how American industry is run and be given some experience of trade union conditions in this country...
...was an international hero— after a miraculous journey through uncharted jungles...
...We took it to heart and did what you told u...
...The British first suggested it...
...Then the Canadian officials got peeved, and kicked...
...Blow ? F. <j...
...rXearly Beloved:—In a current review of recent Soviet news-"¦^ papers...
...Could Fate be anti-Semitic...
...hundreds of representatives of the British Labor Party were observing the 60th anniversary of Karl Marx's death at the Highgate Cemetery...
...So that is what we talked about—how trade unionists here and down there can get together and teach each other things...
...It was particularly gratifying to find ty after our experience at Camp Upton, where about five Negroes in our group were immediately pulled out of line, sent to separate barracks and taken to a separate mess hall...
...faj**W It renutbut'-a poor piece of work...
...The State Department got hold of the Idea, planned it for Ottawa, ignoring British initiative...
...There is this "dialectical" unity to the varioufi • forms of Soviet foreign policy...
...The CP press hailed Browder and his "brilliant remarks...
...The thought naturally occurs: why should not the trade anions themselves—here and down there—pay for this exchange of young workers...
...He tells of the auppvL't Franco received from the clergy who regained all the power they lost during the time of the republic, and mentions as another good...
...The Future of China and Japan By BOHIS NICOLAEVSKY BASIS FOR PEACE IN THE FAR EAST...
...However, in the future, all American interests will have to be directed toward China even in a greater measure than hitherto...
...Most expressions of it are far too gushy and gooey and sh-my-gawd aint the little fellows oute and colorful...
...Imagine taking a vacation this time of the year...
...poor Joseph...
...a return to the old imperialist policy of Tsarism...
...Elias Shulman, noted Yiddish literary critic, wrote all through the night on the day of his Army induction, to finish the M...
...This is to be two-way traffic, of course...
...Tbe ordinary citizen, who has not the superior insight of our wise rulers, will never be able to understand the superior wisdom Of America's loaning $200,000,000 to Fascist Italy, of sending as late as 1938 or 39, oil, scrap metal and war materials to Germany and Japan, when even doll and illiterate newspaper -readers suspected that this meant rearming our potential enemies...
...He talked in short, sharp, realistic sentences about the Chilean trade unions and what we can do to cooperate with them...
...Furthermore, the Negroes make no effort to intrude and tend to stay by themselves...
...Ibanez gave this picture in no apologetic mood...
...VV*o f...
...1 thought it might interest you to hear of something which is happening here...
...1 Sunday afternoon to report that the stories of Ue^eaunfelufl been grossly exaggerated...
...I recommend" these paragraphs to publicists who think they know "what the Army thinks...
...Avrahm Yarmolinsky has clipped the following notices of our favorite Kremlin Gremlin...
...book woe published by...
...That's our stoi-y and well stick to it...
...Everything happens to the Jews...
...Always after a speech of his...
...cross the Seas:—"No—no—a thousand times no" is what Rudolph Hess told the British about any desire to return to Germany, according to one pari of the strange Berlin-Britain flight which has now been officially told...
...The usual stuff you are apt to hear nowadays...
...It must, however, be admitted that Franco gave the Spanish people something in return...
...interests...
...He promised a New Order and Better Future . . and so he abolished divorce and ordered that bathing suits 'should be stretched to the length ot forty years ago* In one detail this reviewer does not agree with the author of the book...
...or a continuation of the policy of isolation under the slogan oi "'socialism' in one'country...
...But as a result of the war not only will China's integrity be reestablished but, with the removal of all extraterritorial and all other foreign concessions, and so forth, she will become completely sovereign on her own territory...
...A good-neighbor policy ail roupd...
...They* will be.meteorologista when they get out and will be assigned to air bases...
...Peffer believes the United States will have to take it upon itself to help China get on her feet, rebuild her devastated territories and aid in her industrialization...
...All of us, if successful, are supposed to receive commissions in the Air Corps...
...New York City's major Department Stores are still boycotting the New York Time* as a protest against increases in advertising rates...
...Japan must not only be defeated but chrushed and "driven from the Asiatic continent...
...At one point in his talk he said the people down there want American capital...
...A front-page story kidded for two columns about it—ha...
...fUashington Notes:—Clarence Gauss...
...Spanish freedom will live again...
...Whit...
...Here he distinguishes three paths of possible development: Russia's reversion to the old line of world revolution...
...No one had even told them about using Ottawa as the conference site and anyway they hadn't been invited...
...But this should not deprive her of the opportunity of peaceful economic development...
...spy tells us that Washington has cued the picture-people to put the spotlight on "the detestable yellow menace...
...No wonder that this most Catholic Caudillo Franco, whose rule is so insistently supported by certain powerful groups in our country, who seem te love their enemies, fefcls safe only when surrounded by hie Moorish bodyguard...
...Now that capital from this country is sure to go down there increasingly, Chile's business will become more and more our business...
...There are two classes so far...
...The Nazis recently suspended three French provincial newspapers...
...One paragraph in your column prompts this scribbled note...
...Peffer's analysis suffers from extreme simplification far...
...Vito Marcantonio's "kiss of death...
...Neither did they have any objection to bringing Moorish troops to Spain te reestablish "Christian rule," which involved the massacre of the fervently...
...Several months ago Vern Haugiand, ace Pacific correspondent for the A.P...
...He did not talk mystically of continental unity...
...The little detail that these came from the churches, which had been plundered and destroyed in Poland by the Wo tar...
...Had...
...So far, I have heard no disrespectful remark made about them, although there are lots of Southerners in our class...
...Comrade Staliv is our party, Comrade Stalin is our people...
...of his "History of U. S. Yiddish Literature...
...rs always a predetermination of the .road...
...Alfred...
...There are some 70,000 miners Organized —and the other larger unions are those of the Transport Workers, Construction Workers, Metal Workers and Textile Workers...
...Comrade Stalin is our banner...
...In this position, it is explained, it is difficult to throw a bomb...
...Worship-ping Nazis, did not diatmish the enthusiasm of these dignitaries- for Hitler as the protector of Christendom...
...These Lyon editors were secretly distributing code leaflets enabling subscribers t» "read between the lines...
...Ebenstem, and attributes it to the Oxford University Press...
...But how could that be...
...There is little that is definite in the author's views on the post-war relations of these two countries...
...He wants some very concrete things...
...The New York Sim...
...A systematic and gradual preparation of these countries for complete independence is to be the long range aim in view...
...This was arranged and financed by the Office,of Inter-American Affairs...
...And (2) that he's sick...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 13
