Commonwealth Elects MP-Churchill Hits Political Bolt of Independents
Commonwealth Elects MP—Churchill Hits Political Bolt of Independents Beveridge Plan Key Slogan In Rupture of Political Truce Special to The New Leader LONDON.—The Commonwealth Party won its...
...1 believe that in this age and stage of human history one of history's greatest appoctomities wffl lie ready to man's hand...
...I could not have imagined that so much hard thinking and work oa postwar issues csukd terntfcsoo in Government timer circles in a eoautry which for three years has home the full burden of total war...
...It is not very often in these times that a man has an opportunity to express his admiration of a fighter in the war of ideas who is at once courageous, honest, and Interesting...
...Jenny Lee and Tom Wintringham failed of election by only hair-line margins...
...g-g»ai <ptokam ato jsatiomf, wah-raopaet not atifr by laaeersand niaSmtms at Ufa mjjJSmM labor movement, but also by our foremost gv*" On this, its twentieth birthday, I extend to Th» NeW leader my cordial feUeftstions on its t% ¦ )iin nawaii, wish fall emtfidenee thatjpg continue to wage the feed fight far pottefit** industrial democracy and...
...No people are more set oa gessoes national and international postwar reeaa•traction than we Britons today...
...The Russian Socialist Democratic movement during the hut Sweaty-five yean is carrying on the esse traditions of the Russian and International Ssciehst Democratic movement...
...Americans and Britons sometimes approach postwar planning from different ways, yours begins hp pmrktiiiiiag the splendid objectives and then devises the means of achievement...
...The official race between the Conservative and Labor parties has postponed a general election "until further notice...
...The resignation of Henry F. Pringle, No...
...the forces of censorship have persuaded the Administration to keep closed doors at the Hot Springs conference mart month by United Nations food experts...
...Raphael Abramovitch Chairman of the Foreign Delegation of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party In the name of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party delegation I send you my heartiest greetings to your 20th anniversary...
...H I ONDON.—I am very happy fee be readdressing aaJi New Leader 4rieaaa ami joining in your twentieth univeflury celebration...
...No one denies," Pringle explained, "that promotional techniques have a proper and powerful function in telling the story of the war...
...It holds that Elmer Davis decided to emphasize "reaching the public through the media of newspapers and magazines" at the expense of the OWI independent publications...
...Bet I believe they'll be beaten aad Britain will strain every nerve to win peace in loyal coeperahoa with her allies as she is straining every notes to win this wsr...
...The Russians have adhered to an agreement reached at that meeting under which each country would arrange for relief work among its own people and coordinate its plan for that work, but have refused to accept the most important outgrowth of that session—the creation of a committee to coordinate information and formulate relief plans...
...Recently, together with Governor Jones of Louisiana, Dixon has been preaching the need for a Southern Democratic Party independent of The New Deal...
...They are turning the OWI into an office of war ballyhoo...
...Cobb's paper, The Southern Watchman, was launched a-s the trumpet of Dixon's died-aborning "tHird-party movement...
...Ambassador Davies's statement that Poland's Eastern territories were carved out of and taken away from Russia is incorrect and- misleading because it implies that these territories were seized by force and held by Poland against the will of the USSR...
...Tom Driberg, a popular daily columnist under the name of "William Hickey," beat the Government candidate on an independent ticket...
...Here they tend to think the splendid American vision of the future is more "talk" than "do...
...Additional New leader Greetings Archibald MacLeish I am sorry that my message to The New Leader on the occasion of its 30th anniversary is late as the result of my absence in the West...
...W. E. Dye, an independent liberal, is also in the race, and the political campaign is on in fine style for the April 20 polling...
...Governor Dixon achieved a measure of national notoriety last year when he refused a government war contract for Alabama's prisons because it contained an anti-discrimination clause...
...According to Pringle's statement, "there is only one issue— the deep and fundamental one of the honest presentation of war information...
...You have Jougfet s heroic fight for the weak against the strong, asmhaal laannhM, You have not jumped on the bandwagon of the "Victory...
...friends or critics, he misled by our method...
...From tile independent pollings in a dozen by-elections in the last six months, it would seem that substantial sections of the people .are in disagreement with the Prime Minister...
...Russia has been a hold-out ever since the Allied machinery for relief was set up at a meeting in St...
...The official explanation has it that a mere technical shift of policy has set off a while host of irrelevant grievances...
...Military reasons why the press should not have free access to the first United Nations conference have not be specified...
...Ballyhoo' WASHINGTON, D. C—Harry Hopkins is going through the cur-• rent correspondence of the Office of War Information—which means that the White House can't make head or tail out of the OWI communiques on its own special internal warfare...
...Before he quit, one artist in the writers' division now abolished drew a flashy glamorous poster with tiie message —"The Four Delicious Freedoms . . . The War That Refreshes...
...Morrison Asks U.S.-British Unity in 'Leader' Broadcast By HERBERT MORRISON • ~——* . ^smfimoC^S By Special Trans-Atlantic Broadaamt...
...We've a loaf way to gs with planning but this time w« are far ahead of the reconstruction think-ing and planning that went on in the last , war op to the very end...
...Critics and doubters in both countries quickly pick on the causes of complaint...
...Ifs very trite to amy ear twa eaemrrte* if the fruits of vbrtory are to be gathered duly and world peace secured...
...Yea have always aapoarfaat tiki victims of the jailers who besmirched the name of SocialUm...
...Ytm have combined the beat traditions of International Socialist Democracy with -the Jsjuerhmu conception of freedom...
...It should be remembered that already on September 9, 1918, the Soviet Government pnhlished a Decree dated August 28...
...In Midlothian the Churchill-Labor endorsed candidate almost went under...
...They hint a class opposition to Tory Big-Business politicos by talking about "the end of capitalism...
...Principal defendant in the case is Arthur L Bell, 42, of San Francisco, who heads the movement...
...The liiufeineiit, violently anti-British and anti-semitic, distributed tons Of literature, much tif it defeatist and calculated to injure morale, the government charges...
...Sot esmpafhwiua are odious...
...OWI Shaken Up by 'News vs...
...The people who wrote you that thej liked The New Leader obviously meant what they said...
...I had hoped that the division would be spared the necessity of a contest at this time when internal political disputes appear puny arid trivial against the relentless background of war...
...vacancies in Parliament...
...it has grown stronger, more virile—has become an increasing articulate voice for these of am who tail with hand and brain...
...U. S. Denies Russia Sends Jap Rubber WASHINGTON, D. C—Officials in various government agencies have denied persistent stories that the United States is getting rubber from Japanese-held areas through Russia, Spokesmen for the Rubber Reserve Corporation, Lend-lease offices and the office of Rubber Director Jeffers denied that Russia is shipping back in lend-lease boats rubber acquired from Japan in trading deals...
...1 writer, former Pulitzer Prize winner in history, and of more than a dozen other top-flight publicists, has however hinted at other issues and dissensions...
...Tet all the time we're working, chewing, exchanging ideas, examining difficulties, trying to overcome them though all tius more often in the study than in the market place...
...It is felt that if when the chips are down, a Catering Bill, introduced by powerful Ernest Bevin, gets/the Tory hatchet out, what chance is there for something broader ? The Commonwealth group on the whole does not have a program so much as an attractive . collection of political hints...
...New Mom Sedition Trials Underlay la California LOS ANGELES.—One of the greatest sedition trials since Pearl Harbor was under way this week here when the government began prosecution of 16 leading figures of the Mankind United movement...
...Y. Hememg Commission...
...I know Americans pretty well but am often startled by this picture of us in certain American minds ami by the contrast betwaaa die picture and the facts...
...Cheshire coustiraency last week, John Loverseed, RAP Pilot and Warrant Officer, won a remarkable electoral victory over Thomas Peacock — who had the active support and official endorsement of the Government This week in Daventry, the candidacy of Manningham Boiler, National Conservative, is being contested by a number of independents, including another representative of Sir Richard Acland's left-wing Commonwealth party, Dennis Webb...
...You are maintaining: the paper's reputation and marching from strength to strength, you are doing the fine fbv est educating the pdhlic a wider view of American and World events and fostering progressive though* I nuiisslliat mtasaawtf>1eiy alfuastiiii.1 at prevkw gatharfasga and wish I were sharing year goodf ellowship...
...Bduard Ms/niCHtft Veu School for Social Research Unable to attend The New Leader dinner *** to present mr congratulations in person, I •» the mors anxious to express all my admire** for the brilliant job yo* are doing and to a* my warmest wishes for the future ewr*W* The New Leader ae a weapon of eveMflaWP cfiVhaaey aad impsrtoaee ia the fight and growing successVf the good cause...
...Frank Crosswaith Chairman, Negro Labor Committee...
...You and we must conduct our fight on two frents, against the forces of rogation aad against communistic tactics splitting the labor ranks and dictatorship within the labot* movement...
...Oar enemies are working oeertlaee to play up these notions...
...The old ideas about the Britain die hard...
...A Note on the Soviet-Polish Border Dispute An interesting historical note on the Soviet-Polish border question was made this week by the Polish ambassador Jan Giechan-owski in an answer to statements by ex-Ambassador Davies in the Life magazine issue on Russia...
...There is the "effete aristocrat" ion > and "ruthless eapluHer* idea- There is even' the wild radical idea aad notion that we are not bothering about the future of the work anti that well deretlj outwit everyone eke when the time comas...
...Vested interests, political superstitions and superannuated mental habits most be combstted in both oar countries...
...The petition said that "while individual Negroes may he industrious and honest, as a whole race they are not desirable neighbors...
...I think I have never seen a group of messages of this character which were as obviously sincere and as clearly spontaneous in spirit...
...It has resolutely mad courageously Bgpoeal * forces of totalitarian reaction regardless of tai color of the shirt to which the tyrant wee data*1 In she field of amssmceai journalism The- See Leader has stood oat ttke a Joti etbsd awM.daring a complete blackout ia the middle of «* night, aad thus it gars to those of «e who aft* faith in mankind ea opportunity to grope <*» way forward over the hills of ignorance, «*» and religious prejudices, human explcetsfihas, and over all the other barriers streamed sores the pathway of modem life...
...New Sofereer Truth Episodes in Seattle SEATTLE.—A possible repetition of the Sojurner Truth housing riots in Detroit of seme months ago was seen in ah attempt to oust Negro residents from the Holly Park federal housing project...
...Should the area situated westward of the frontier as fixed by Article II of the present Treaty, include territories being under dispute nt*m*m\ i iland and Lithuania, timojasa-tion of tin sovereignty.' of either of the two States over these territories b matins ea-dusivelv Poland and Lithuania...
...Nations may differ about their method aad procedure...
...Cobb aims to present the "Southern" point of view and to expose such "anti-Southern" movements as the poll tax abolition "hill...
...In the Eddington campaign, effective use was made by liver-seed of the Commonwealth slogan "The Beveridge Plan in fulir It may not be so well-known abroad that the widespread feeling here is that the Government has to all intents and purposes emasculated tiie Beveridge Plan...
...Both the United States and British governments are known to have been concerned over the .persistent refusal of the Soviet government to join in the relief planning undertaken by the inter-Allied postwar requirements committee beaded by Sir Fredrick Loth-Roes...
...They hint at Socialism by suggesting vaguely "the amalgamation of the Russian economic system with oar own democratic political system...
...James's palace in September, 1941...
...This also is a good methsd, it keeps the practical difficulties he-fore us and avoids the raising of false hopes...
...federal anti-lynching measures and the like...
...sequent treaties relating to 'Poland up to 183...
...The Polish-Russian frontier was fixed by the Treaty of Riga, March IS, 1921, directly and freely negotiated by the plenipotentarics of Poland and Soviet Russia, and was recognised officially by the Allied Powers by the Conference of Ambassadors on March 15, 1923...
...It is difficult to say that a real trend away from the principal, tracing parties (Labor, Conservative, Liberal) is indicated by these occasional by-elections to fit...
...The reports, quite persistent, say that Russia is , buying crude rubber from Japan in exchange for a renewal of the fishing agreement permitting'Jap fisherman to catch food off7 the Kamchatka Peninsula...
...both ways are right far those to whom they earns natural...
...Special objection has been made to the news management of William B. Lewis, former CBS vice-president, and Price Gilbert, one-time Coca-Cola ad man...
...Oue of the defendents was excluded from the western military area under orders of General De Witt...
...You knew I believe in a broad constructive approach to the problems of the postwar world...
...The reports were first printed in Business Week and later repotted in Time...
...AH concrete steps to set up a Ministry of Home Security now and guarantee the Parliamentary embodiment of the Beveridge principles have been stopped cold...
...Seesaw is that to fulfill his i destiny mm earth man mast master his 1 material environment and by ceanaoa action subdue it to his will...
...As s Worker, as a "Negro, as a 9ociahat 0 a arm believer in tite principles of dteaastaA I with The New Leader long life and uatiMM success...
...Few people expect that "notice" at any time in the near future...
...The movement is .charged with obstructing selective service and giving advice on evasion...
...It's a far harder thing to achieve than to talk about...
...i918, cancelling all treaties concerning the pertWoHS of Poland of 1*72, 1793, and 1795...
...Meanwhile, as Elmer Davis' office has been stumbling through a shake-up...
...We are leaving because of our conviction that it is impossible for us, under those who now control our output, to tell the full truth...
...I hope that its first toteaty years were only the youth of what wW he a long and illustrious career ml...
...With the passing years...
...as well as all sub...
...Commonwealth Elects MP—Churchill Hits Political Bolt of Independents Beveridge Plan Key Slogan In Rupture of Political Truce Special to The New Leader LONDON.—The Commonwealth Party won its tort by-election this week, and although its significance is very easy to exaggerate, it has managed to get a rise out 'of Winston Churchill...
...But, as we see it, the activities of OWI en the home frost are now dominated by high pressure piumoSeTa who prefer slick salesmanship to honest information...
...I have two guiding principles, first that the world far many purpose* is one...
...It would) . . . report regularly on the anti-Southern activities of the powerful Negro and radical press of the country . . . and the extent to which these pressure groups are going in their campaign to overthrow the political, economic and social structure of the South...
...BsaaSsmi I friasBm is the Bast service we can render the cause of international ' naou steadies, and I'll be frank...
...I wouldn't remain a member of a government which la not moving forward to play a part in realizing these two primipws...
...During the 20 years of its service to labor ase to the cause of civilised progress The New Leedw has contributed a great deal to the cam* «* liberal thinking and deeaat haman relationship...
...I mention them only because misunderstanding may arise unless the difficulties are remembered...
...This is clearly evident team Article III 6? the Treaty which stipulates test ". . . Russia and the Ukraine renounce all rights and claims as regards the territories situated westward of the frontier, as defined under Article II of the present Treaty...
...It wffl sever forget your breifterrj cooperation and support...
...And the Prime Minister in his recent remarks has even been hinting at a coalition government in the post-war period...
...Beat any of you...
...The report that we are getting rubber that way is too good to be true...
...Government officials (off the record) and leading press people are , unanimous in the opinion that the screen of censorship is a policy both mistaken and dangerous...
...The group substituted for the slogan Remember Pearl Harbor the slogan Remember the Cherry Trees, fat memory of the affection Japan had for the United States...
...The real facts are as follows: "After the World War Poland's independence was restored...
...A political associate of Alabama's former -Governor Frank Dixon, Hammer Cobbs, has recently begun the issuance of a weekly newspaper which, under the pretense of maintaining the traditions of the Old South, is revealed as just another racial hate sheet...
...That aery good methos- gives yea a goal and helps keep you up to the mark inspired by constant asaaaeeeoi of objectives...
...President Roosevelt, apparently by his own personal direction—and against the earnest protest of Elmer Davis and others —is excluding the press from all contact with representatives at this conference...
...And no wonder...
...Dixon Crony Launches New 'Race Hate' Paper in South Special tb The New Leader BIRMINGHAM...
...Petitions coached in race hate terms was circulated by the Greater Empire Way Community Club in the Ranier Valley district...
...That's a profound mistake and unjust to the power of your national idealism...
...Critics on your side amy think that because we don't come oat with pictures of the future we contemplate, we're uninterested and not doing much...
...We see no ethical reason why we shouldn't use rubber from Japanese-held territory if we could get it through Russia,'r an official of the Rubber Reserve Corporation said...
...It is hard to believe that it is now a score of pears m which The New Leader has carried aloft the banner of progressive and fm aoul loafcjag workingmen and women...
...It isn't the way Brltoue approach the same thing...
...Membc...
...Bat it is dear enough evidence that great areas of political dissatisfaction exist...
...ultimately, a works* weifcft Alex Rase State Secretary, American Laker Part}/ Personally and on behalf of the America Labor Party I want to extend sincere ceagrate* iatkms to The New Leader on the occasion et hj 20th anniversary...
...But few people expected the spectacle of urgent labor endorsement for Government candidates who in their local constituencies had been fought and hated for years past...
...At the time the group was indicted last December, Mankind United 1 leaders had milked their disciples of $800,000, the government said...
...Said Premier Churchill in message to Buller: "The day is still far distant when we can afford to waste our energies on political bickerings...
...Ia all these years the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party always found in The New Leader continual tad friendly support...
...Ia the long and often tortuous uphill strogglei of Labor in this country, The New Leader hat played its part since its birth twenty years ago, Daring the past war yean, cocky and overconfident reactionary forces have set their opportunist " cops on pushing Labor downhill again and nullifying all its social aad legislative gaits But the American Labor Party's recent eastim victory—in which The New Leader had a' ms> staatial role—was one of mavy evidences thai Labor will not yield to the downhill push, sad bat given the reactionaries much to worry about It is my sincere hope that The New Leader, sharing ia future ALP achievements aad victories, will help give farther worries to tbi forces of reaction and greater security sad pwww to the forces of Labor and Democracy throsghad the world...
...As a pro-labor, middle-class-party (it managed to get over the intellectual split between J. B. Priestley and Richard Acland), it stands for national planning, more radical war aims, and an all-out war economy with little tender feeling for the traditions of thelCity...
...ejsfar w hearty congrata-latkms en this event...
...They do not share Elmer Davis' faith in the people...
...that aH countries help each ether by helping themselves...
...Resignations of topflight OWI writers are filing into Elmer Davis' office, attacks and counter-attacks are being issued, eat the hsekjgnsaaxt of the battle still remains unclear...
...Beginning with the -time wfaea at the head of year paper stood Hillquk and Debs op to titis moment you wore with as ia the struggle against the Bolshevik terror...
...You deserve your praise: and that is saying s very great deal Library of Congress...
...Shipping Circles were the original source of the reports...
...You'll find later that when nations gather at the council table and forge semitone to tomorrow's problems we shaft1 tabs loyal share and stay a full part...
...The existence of The New Leader coincides with the period of oar immigration from Russia, and the birth and the growth of the Bolshevik dictatorship with its nuclei in other countries...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—One of the' major purposes of Herbert Lehman's visit to London this week Is to secure full Russian collaboration in the United Nation's post-war relief plans, diplomatic pbservers here say...
...Permit me to add my voice to the chorui at deserving praise and congratulations whom Tip New Leader, upon the occasion of its 2»th Am* verssry, is now receiving...
...There is the "17T* complex," «h* "Irish Beatifies" and the "Indian complex...
...John Of am National President of Use Marine and SkipheOdina Workers...
...However, its tardiness permits me to make an observation oa the comments published in your issue of April 10th which most of your readers nrosl also have made...
...We often take the general oejeetteo for granted and dig around among the ways and means...
...Bat it isn't the only method...
...In the Eddisbury...
...Poland on her side renounces, in favor of the Ukraine and White Russia, all rights and claims as regards the territories, situated eastward of the aforesaid frontier...
...v "By virtue of this Decree Poland had the right to the restitution of all the territories which belonged to her before the first partition of Poland in 1772, but by the Treaty of Riga Poland renounced her right to a substantial part of" these territories...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 16
