Where the News Ends

...The Soviet Government recognized the permanence of its Western boundary in the most solemn way by concluding non-aggression and neutrality pacts with all its neighbor states...

...In Eastern Poland there should be a third alternative: the organization of an autonomous Ukrainian and White Russian state...

...Of course the airplane has reduced the ojd significance of distance and has facilitated rapid communication...

...The geographical necessity of regionalism has been obscured -to some extent by the plentiful acarehead bunk that has been disseminated about how the airplane has completely annihilated space and distance...

...He will be a high ranking geasjgt If he i* still Mayor when he goes into military service, he will set a dangerous precedent for military rule...

...Order could be maintained by Anglo-American troops, reinforced, if possible, by contingents from neutral European states...

...The great power and purpose of thirty nations may have a common heart, but there is as yet no directing, central brain...

...know they are doomed anyway a they lose the war...

...This praise of narrow nationalism exposes the horrible truth .about their picture of how this world should be run...

...1 refer to the unpatriotic practices by the big companies of deliberately hoarding workers for whom they have no work on hand and who could be used to alleviate an acute shortage in some nearby plant...

...The best means cf breaking the deadlock between the Soviet and American viewpoints would surely be to hold an impartial plebiscite after the end of the war...

...Ctfurchill .did not refer to -the American conti-nex&f.but a strengthened and expanded Pan-American Union, in which Canada might be persuaded to take part, could contribute much to the economic stability and weBhafeg of this continent...

...It is also to be hoped that Finland, within its proper ethnographical frontier (the frontier of 1939, not of 1940) will find peace end security within the framework of this Scandinavian federation...

...Niagara Falls, New York...

...and the same observation holds good for Asia and for the' Americas...

...For the average citizen drawing wages or moderate salary, there are obvious advantages in paying his income taxes week by week or month "by month...

...Until an ideal system of .collective security is established (and this will probably be a long process) such a country has only two alternatives: to become a satellite of a stronger neighbor or to seek additional strength and security through association with neighboring states in the same region...

...Conerna suggestions to halt ths reign sf terror were, however, few ant weak...

...With this fact firmly grasped, the mystery disappears...

...The law which made passible this leave of absence was slipped throngi the State legislature with the connivance at Governor Dewey...

...He is back on the job, looking for four to six men, hoping against hope, crossing his fingers for luck every time an applicant moves into sight...

...Tea whole matter has been rt!^ hack te the Committee an Ways and MesT Great advantages which would have r«niw from a leesonshlr plea are denied to the dk sens of the nation...

...ATLANTA, Ga.—The Southern Workers Defense League has launched an immediate investigation into the brutal beating of two CIO organizers in Vicksburg, Mississippi...

...Claude Welch, organizer for the International Woodworkers of America, was kidnapped from his home in Vicksburg at the point of a gun, driven out of town, handcuffed to a tree and given a severe beating...

...We believe the Mayor has made another of his "beaut" mistakes...

...I proas...

...First, it would creats eg] ternal friction...

...It could have gone on fighting for more favorable frontiers if It had thought it worthwhile to do so...

...to bring pressure to bear on thsfj by threatening to confiscate team, property unless the rnasaaafiag cease...

...a ism id...

...It sets an example of legislation through connivance...

...Suggests Way To Stop Nazi Massacres From IRVING LADERMAM To the Editor: At two recent meetings in MasV* son Square Garden, protests was* staged against Hitler's policy ef exterminating the Jews...

...The Soviet occupation of this territory in 1939 and 1940 was characterized by great ruthlessness, especially in Eastern Poland, where great numbers of people were deported to forced labor under the worst imaginable conditions in Russia...

...In all of these cases it would mean a los» to the government...

...The only effect of such htazen attacks will be to strengthen the support for President Roosevelt and his program of international cc* operation...

...It would play the same role in adjusting political differences and promoting economic development that the British Premier probably envisages for his projected Councils of Europe and of Asia...

...For concrete details one may "consult the last part of the book, "Blind Date With Mars," by Alice-Leone Moats, who interviewed the Polish General Anders and talked with many released prisoners...

...It is a part of our tradition...

...Red Cross Newspaper Fund Day A "Newspaper Fund Raising Day" to raise funds for the Red Cross and the New York Labor War Chest was announced this week by representatives of the publishers and the trade unions...

...They yearn for a return to the law of the jungle...

...This was a healthy recognition of the principle of regionalism that wil^ certainly make it-self felt in the postwar settlement...

...Even if they do not OJH ceed in ending their policy, iffi plan would have important fW^ suits...

...It has the effect of perpetuating the conservative Republican Party in office, though the law is only intended to permit Mayor LaGuardia to return as a good-government mayor when the war is over...

...That labor shortage could in the present instance be relieved at least temporarily by "loaning" the idle men for a specified time to the other fellow who needs them so badly and right away...

...But it is-very far from the stage of development "where it can be said with any ac-curacy that space and distance noulonger count, that regionalism has no place in future international calculations...

...The day will be Tuesdsy, April 13, the 220th birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson...

...President Roosevelt is not mentioned, but the entire diatribe is obviously directed against him and his war policies...

...But these decisions have been democratiealh reached...

...Not all isolationists are as honest and logical as the writers for the News...

...JP There are, however, two ehaagfe in Germany that still have SSfj influence—the big business •JH and the army officers...

...In the Baltic states the vote should be on the simple question: For or against inclusion in the Soviet Union...

...The lesson of the present war for the small state, which does not possess the industrial power to maintain a large force of airplanes and tanks, is hard but unmistakable...

...Unless they display some sense of mutual interest in a common security scheme, they will very probably experience a similar fate at the hands of the Soviet Union after Germany has been destroyed as a military power...

...Tie Congress of the United States has gHm another exhibition of inefficiency...

...The liberals, here, on a smaller scakwjam just as willing to keep the Mayor permansath...

...THE BEST SOCIALIST PAPER" From H. S. VICTORSON To the Editor: I take this opportunity to ex-prets my appreciation of your fine weekly, — one of the best in this, country today and probably-one of the best ever published...

...More power to you...

...For large numbers of earners paying last year's taxes in large chunks out of this year's income is a hardship...

...The implications will be understood immediately by informed liberals...

...Mayor LaGuardia, regardless of his mtav tions...

...Dissatisfaction with Polish rule in this area does not necessarily mean that Soviet rule would he welcomed...

...backed Mayor LaGuardio did not intend that any of his actions should be used by aatt-New Dealers...

...The foreman came along with another batch of eight men and asked the fellow in charge to use them on the job...

...The great alliance is held together by treaties, personal understandings, bilateral promises...

...Anyone curious to know what aaaarata aad the world would be like if we turned out policies over to the Wheelers aad Nyes has only to read the palpitating pages of thai j ournal...

...Others must be expanded...

...Up he gets, greets each of them with an effusive handshake, offers them a comfortable chair and a cigarette, before settling down to a "congenial' conversation...

...If it were, we would not be bending-all our energies to building ships and devising means to combat the submarine menace...

...AH that is needed is a plan distinguishing between the grades of income-earners...

...It is the nature of dynamic liberalism fiat tradition shall be broken by its leadening perpetuate intelligent rule in the nstkajjaj among the peoples of the world Amerksai were willing to keep President RoossveRvfc the White House for three terms—and am perhaps a fourth...

...Hitler, too, is a good Germany Firster...

...It is expected te make the first preparations for a vast world food and agricultural program...

...It will soon occur to the most parochial among us that we cannot have international planting and ha vesting and feeding without international law and international peace . CONGRESS FAILS AGAIN •THE NEW LEADER has consistently advo-* cated a pay-as-you-go federal tax plan...

...taken forcibly under threat of death at the point of a gun from his home, where he resided with his wife and two children, loaded into an automobile, driven out of town, handcuffed to a tree and given a severe beating...

...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Regionalism and Europe ALMOST incredibly difficult and thorny as the ,.- subject is, as soon as one advances from generalities to concrete proposals, the future of Europe will not down as a subject of discussion...

...EDITORIAL COMMENT ' THE ISOLATIONISTS AND STALIN THE S«w York VrnOg A/*** speaks for * American isolationism...

...Everything the Soviet dictator has done becomes crystal clear...

...us that we will react by Saw demning all Germans and thssa}l...

...In one instance, three steam-fitters were doing a job in a Dupont plant which they expected to finish without hurrying in a single day...

...So says the News...

...all the peace planners find themselves obliged to offer some solution for the jigsaw puzzle represented by the pre-war map of Europe...

...Its prospectus promises to carry us forward into the peace plans so far as this phase of world organization is concerned...

...Those in the upper brackets should be required to pay not less than would have been required of them under the old plan...

...To many of them the skip-a-year plan would mean a windfall...

...But one should also ¦ sjat overlook the implications of the fact that • no serious or effective sir bombing has been carried out in this war at distances of more than four or five hundred miles...

...If the GOP nominates am at Herbert Hoover's favorite sons, and isolationism rides into the White House in 1944 afifc the aid of New York votes, the LaGuera* action will be proven as nothing shaft ef disastrous...

...This is not the first time that this note of approval baa bean sounded...

...UNITE FIRST ON FOOD |JOR many months The New Leader has been urging more substantial unity among the United Nations...

...For mere than a century we have helped to feed the world...

...Frank Avis, Negro IWA organizer, was arrested by the city police and given a bad beating while in jail...

...A plebiscite, honestly carried out and loyally abided by, would be a far more hopeful augury for future peace in Eastern Europe than annexation by brute force...

...It merely serves to highlight the character of Stalin, to give the key to his policies...

...Nor is the airplane any substitute for maritime transportation...

...Otherwise they would have lam unforgivable acts of dictatorship w liism |fc progressives are ready to fight at the drat of a decree...

...The ALP has no intention of permitting itself to be read out of an admimstratioe It helped place in office...

...Why deny him his mead of praise...

...Obviously what the News wants is an American Stalin in the White- House...

...At no time until after 1939 was there any official Soviet suggestion that the Western frontier was a source of grievance or hardship...

...Of the eight, four did not last a week...

...uegflinfT...

...It has just as consistently opposed the Rami blanket skip-a-year plan...

...In fact, this might evengf| playing into Hitler's hands, tana he may be staging these raurdsej-in order to arouse such hatrse|M...

...While some world-embracing schemes will doubtless form part of the postwar settlement there will be many matters affecting Europe which can only be set-tledsatisfactorily by Europeans...

...But the machinery w the lower Hoase functioned so haltingly ml the I.....isis ef party advantage interfTJ so powerfully that after months eg -— in caasastttoe and on the floor...

...A more authoritative voice, recently raised on this subject, was that of Winston Churchill...

...But when this objective has been realized the problem of European organization will remain...

...The British Premier maintained a loud and formidable silence on the question of India...

...Ways must be found of harmonizing the conflicting interests of-r-let us say—Argentine and the United States, The desire for self-sufficiency must be weighed against the advantages of interdependence...

...partment heads, a master politician and tfci hope of Eastern liberals...

...The need for voluntary association is especially urgent for the peoples, some eighty million in number, who lie between the racial frontiers of Germany and Russia...

...New Yorkers have known him as a sanj administrator, appointer of outstanding fe...

...For the American nation, especially, this may prove to be the most auspicious way of entering upon a period of international cooperation...

...7i - » * » * ITJs to be hoped that Mr...

...Here is a deadlock that may have serious future consequences...

...The solution to the problem presents no great difficulty...

...We rank the Mayor among them...

...The Scandinavian countries, very similar in culture and in political, economic and social ideals, form one natural federal unit...

...He w*j part of a political maneuver which deptftai 7,000,000 New Yorkers of the right to chatst his successor after he leaves for action as a Brigadier General...

...We also cannot escape geography...

...The boundaries were originally fixed not without preliminary fighting, but by a process of free negotiation...

...Delegates from thirty nations will meet to consider means of feeding populations rather than ways of destroying them...

...Jn an appeal for aid, Worth Lowery, president of the International Woodworkers of America, wired to Frank McCallister, southern secretary of the Workers Defense League, as follows: ', "Brutal beating of two organizers of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) took place in Vicksburg, Miss., on Wednesday, March 17...

...If food production is to be planned with reference to satisfying the needs of people everywhere, marketing, tariffs, transportation must also be considered...

...Here, in the Niagara frontier area, my attention has been drawn to several instances of skilled workers being kept on a payroll and paid time and overtime for doing absolutely nothing or nearly so...

...Instead of winning through all this bloodshed a period of peace and stability, we should face an era of endless hate, war and destruction...

...Second, it w»aW provide a fund after the war fMg which to rehabilitate thoesjnBj time who managed to...

...All that she wants is a bigger and better China...

...All of these countries—Russia, Britain, China—are to be congratulated on their good fortune...

...This homage to ruthless dictatorship reveals the secret ambitions of the isolationists...

...Some crops must be cut down...

...The losses in uncollected taxes will run into untold millions...

...By appointing a conservative Republican M his successor the Mayor liquidates the American Labor Party's equity in the city's government...

...This week came the first intimations that genuine union may soon come one step nearer...

...But America, the editor stutters on, is in a bad way...

...For the government, tco, there are advantages in this scheme...

...Churchill's other sug* gestion, for federations among the smaller European states, will bear concrete fruit...

...closer together...

...The Soviet Government should be represented on the plebiscite commission, with the right to protest against interference with peaceful propaganda for adhesion to Russia...

...I have watched the personnel manager of a small company with a government order to fill in an allotted time, struggling for a whole week to find ten men capable of working on a particular machine...

...The American Government has refused to admit the validity of the annexation of the Baltic Republics or of the annexation of former Polish territory...

...Doing what...

...Several factors should be taken into consideration in determining the justice of the Soviet terri-torialy claims...

...Ia the breasts of the editors of this paper the murder of Erlich and Alter rouses not the slightest indignation...

...Well, I was told to put them on a job...

...Stalin has proclaimed his demand for the frontier of 1941, which would bring under Soviet rule the three Baltic Republics, Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the eastern provinces of Poland, parts of Finland, Bessarabia and Northern Buko-vina...

...To condemn the Germans SO-a whole would not only mass Hi descend to the level of the Noels • but would probably have HanV effect, since the people of Oss> many have very little power tat day...

...In the matter of .Europe, however, he put forward two suggestions with constructive possibilities, although much depends on how these suggestions, if they are accepted after the war, will be implemented...

...Should the Mayer a) this, the Labor Party's prestige wfll be affeetsi There is one final point the Mayor shosM consider...

...As an oH Socialist, your brand of .pure Socialism, untainted by the dictatorial poison which is the dreadful curse of the world today, particularly appeals to me...

...Madama Chiang Kai-shek, for her part, is just as good...

...The Soviet Union was not crushed, disarmed, forced to accept any terms that might be imposed on it...

...Ely Culbertson, E. H. Carr, Carl Hambro, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer...

...So see what you can do...

...Singly these peoples went down, some with resistance, others without, before Hitler's war machine...

...y THE MAYOR ON LEA.* OINCE the early thirties, when it was a. delicate to refer cynically to Herr Ritaa Mayor LaGuardia has been a national persev ality with a reputation for pixyish liberahaa...

...Herbert Lehman's Office of Foreign Relief and Bohshili tation has the task of considering the feeding of the exhausted populations as they are released from German oppression...

...Claude Welch, white IWA organizer in the- Vicksburg area, was...

...In view of these circumstances an unconditional cession of this area to the Soviet Union would be a cynical piece of power politics...

...The law sets many dangerous precedents...

...The Isaac of March Slat ia devoted: to praise of Stasia, "a Russia Firster...

...What the President and his advisers have in mind seems to take in all that has to do with the national and international production and exchange of food products...

...The sneak law will have national efftCt because it will help te rebuild the RepubHsm Party here just in time for the 1944 presidential campaign...

...Finally he succeeded in signing up eight, including a barber, a tailor and an office em• r ploye...

...There was no debate because tat law went through buried under a pile of innocuous bills...

...We may be about to witness the genesis of the future world organization...

...Hence tasf are immune to threats...

...bring the people and the t*f...

...One of these suggestions was the establishment of a Council of Europe.and a Council of Asia...

...governing New York, the world's largest dtr...

...and Belgium and the Netherlands might find it advantageous to join this association, at least - on the economic side...

...Speaking from the depths of this degenerate land, the editor closes on a note of triumphant praise for what he sees beyond our own borders: "Stalin is a great man...

...A recently published book repeats in its title Lincoln's fa- * mous phrase: "We Cannot Escape, History...

...The attack on Finland, the pact with Hitler, the mutual assistance treaty with Japan, the refusal to cooperate with Britain and America—they all become links in a logical chain...

...The purpose of this historic gathering wfll be limited to food production and distribution...

...He was desperate, he didn't care, if they had never worked in a factory, he would teach them if they could be taught...

...For those in the upper brackets the story is a different one...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Cites Cases of Labor Hoarding as Causing Manpower Shortage From BENJAMIN PROTTER To the Editor: There is one little-known phase of the labor shortage, by no means due to a lack of workers, which really calls, for a serious and thorough investigation...

...The chief reason for taw is perhaps that those responsaa...

...For the great mass of citizens the skip-a-year plan should be accepted, and they should immediately be put-dn a current pay-as-you-go basis...

...It has been revealed in Washington that toward the end of the correal month there will take plane 4a this country tmrnmnttlayi i seatativ* gathering ia which all of the allied nations will take official part...

...Under many circumstances it may become an impossibility...

...The new United Nations assembly will go far beyond that function...

...Continue the good work and let's hope for a better, brighter day when the present tragedy is over...

...Here "America First long ago was used as a smear word...

...Were we to accept the News standard of international morals, the end of this war would land us is a world of Hitlers...

...This involves mutual planning on a world scale calculated with reference to world needs...

...CIO Organizers Beaten in Miss...

...Then our dictator would look after our interests and let the rest of the world go hang...

...for this policy, the leaders of Nazi Party, have committed St marry other crimes that tiaff...

...As yet there is no center, no common war council, no body for the consideration of peace plans...

...Boston, Mass...

...Because the Mayo, was New York liberalism's most dynamic fern the one leader who could gather behind km the American Labor Party and the .thai government elements here, liberals and labor-ites overlooked the LaGuardia temperaawu which in others might have brought the chart* of arbitrary rule...

...Not only political security, but the economic advantage that would certainly develop as a result of placing larger areas on a free trade basis will call for federal solutions in various parts of Europe as the most promising antidote to chaos and poverty...

...If Americans could once see this picture clear, all of them— instead of only the great majority—would shudder back from such an abyss...

...has done liberalism an injustice...

...The men who original...

...The Finters are not honored with office and authority...

...Then we might now and then, to the great delight of the New*, have a couple of democratic labor leaders like Erlich and Alter executed here...

...All Stalin wants "ia .a bigger and more puissant postwar Russia" And, according to the Newt, all Winston Churchill seeks is a greater Britain...

...Thinking on that level, they will be in a mood to begin the great work of reconstruction that the present tragic situation requires...

...One can easily imagine that the first im-pulse of the occupied countries after the war will be to see the Nazis scram, to free themselves from any vestige of foreign domination...

...T^HIS brings one squarely to the problem of the * postwar frontier of the Soviet Union in Europe...

...We haven't got too much for ourselves here...

...No one can ignore the significance of the airplane in war and peace...

...The methods of Nazi conquest have unfortunately discredited the desirable ideal of European unity...

...It appears frem the debate that a majority of the members of Congress understand perfectly well that a measure involving these principles is what is required...

...For the great mass of citizens in the loWer income brackets any reasonable pay-as-you-go plan would be a boon To the government it would mean a definitely larger income...

...And off he went, leaving the eight men on the other fellow's hands...

...He is, it turns out, only "a Russia Firster, and an extremely smart and able one...

...But how...

...But the only-future to which they could lead would be as horrible as the one here forecast...

...Delegates from thirty nations, upu—ling all of the world's continents, will sit down to consider the bases of life...

...A short distance away, a big firm has a score or more of skilled workers kept idle while waiting for material to arrive or because the directors expect the government to assign them a fat contract in the near future...