Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Japanese Maneuverings ASHOCKING episode that casts a lurid light On the grim, no quarter character of our war ?1? East was the coldblooded killing...
...Aside from the strongly tnti-Nazi Texas Free Press the.other German language newspapers in Texas are somewhat on the fence...
...The Polish leaders have many sins to atone for...
...On the contrary, the Nazi sympathisers in America are getting bolder all the time...
...Bat in the interest of truth such an enterprise should be known for just what it is...
...In San Antonio the Teaste-Fvee* Preete succeeded in enlisting the assistance of the mayor, who gave u* the municipal audi tortus* free" ef charge, also took car* of splendid publicity for it, and the mi.H was attended by more than 2,00« persons...
...Hor-iUM crime was aad especially revolting wcrisy because of Jkhe repeated bombing [apanese of defenseless Chinese cities (to ray .nothing of Pearl Harbor) ? was both, right and wise for our government to repudiate the idea of inflicting reprisals upon Japanese prisoners in our power...
...This it one of the great task* confronting the United Nations But unless the soiuticn is baaed at tbe Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms to which Russia subscribed—unless it insures freedom of choice to all the small Eurwpeae-**Hintriea~-ei...
...Finally it would net be surprising if the I German Nazis in Tokyo, who have a good : deal of influence in Japanese military and ' police circles, had something to do with this 'crime...
...With the gravity of a judge Morley wired the enraged Miss Benedict: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin...
...a year that is likely to see some big surprises and seme high stakes played for, both in war and in diplomacy...
...For it is part of the fanatical cult of the medieval-minded Jspsnse Army that the Japanese soldier must never allow himself to be captured alive...
...There is nothing to show that Germany has yet given up the hope of striking a knockout blow at the Russian army...
...What, then, should be our attitude towards Russia's abrogation of the Rnsso-Polish treaty sad the "Agreement of Friendship and Collaboration" signed by Stalin and Sikorski in Moscow on December 4, 1941...
...Would year committee approve if this paasage was cancelled...
...The other nations—especialh/ those most unlike the Germans, those...
...MAT HtST, 1H3 PR nearly two generations the first day of May has been the rallying time for ??????* aspiring wcrking-dass From Mimsoa...
...On the bash) of this food policy the ?», man* plan to win the war even if they...
...while the iiiiBtemsh.it) at Urge is quite all right, many of the officers of Turnvereins, stewing societies, folklore aasietUis, and the like, are Nasis ad manage to keep the...
...the appointment of Mamoru Shige-ipltau a* Foreign Minister...
...waging a.coalition war— * parQcalariy a coalition with ???-democratic totalitarian powers—have again been Brought tote sharp relief by Russia...
...The New Leader is so important to me, that sometimes I top) I could hardly live witbowt it Bft the most enlightening aad stkajs-latiffg paper I've ever read...
...After all their years of effort they bam never been able to gamer more than t Jfe thousand votes...
...Seguin, Weimar...
...Stalin rejected this request and chose instead to abrogate a treaty into which he had solemnly entered—snd with much fanfare—on July 30...
...find in many parts of the UipH States a Urge field for it* very necessary activities to ***1*|??|' the many American* of Gersssi descent who are still under ?* evil influence of Naz...
...Congratulations and feel wishes on your 20th aniiiieissaf Taaasma...
...William C. ¦ Bullitt, our first Ambassador to tarn U.S.S.R...
...Hi* success and that of the ALP have been closely connected...
...Schalenbarg, Comfort...
...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Seger Tours Country, Finds U. S. Nazis Active in Pro-Hitler Propaganda From «UNART ?. Sf«* BattOT, "Seme Votkszeitung" To the Editor: With the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney* clamping down on toe Nasi* in tbe United States, and with Hitler getting more depressed by the week, one should think that the, pro-Nasi element iff the, German-American population would become more and more subdued Bnt thin in not the case...
...Bullitt, there is only one way to make it cooperate—the old way of getting "a donkey to move by holding a carrot in front of his aOse or a dab behind hia tail...
...THE background of this latest Japanese out-* rage, like the background of the Erlieft-Alter killings, ts shrouded in darkness and mystery...
...For the sake of the future peace, to be sore, some hey must ?* found to the Russian riddle...
...As a bit of unsolicited impertinence might I isgnsat to Professor Brewster the rereading (or would It be the first reading...
...That many of them will take place, there can.he no doubt...
...I recently heard oa good authority that Japanese diplomatic quarters in Steosugfan, Ankara and other neutral centers are begianicj to buss with discrate activity loosing toward she preparation of the sell for peace between Germany aad tho Bovist Union, with Japan acting as the intermediary...
...The same organization* which now claim to be "noc-politica," organization* and decline ts) have an anti-Nasi speaker, have b.vr, very quick in calling meetings on short notice when Baron von Spiegel, then Nasi consul *·»*·# in New Orleans, was toe ring tb* State of Texas...
...It is obviously tat German purpose to reduce them to such * state that, no matter what post-war measure* but be taken, it will be impossible fof them ic...
...Mayor LaGuardla is a member of the American Labor Party...
...The promoters of next Sunday's "Labor Unity for Victory Rally" hare paed every dubious method to camouflage their enterprise and to present it to the people of the city a* something whieh it obviously is not...
...He knows very well that no Communist projects are -aaset«1 on to promote the welfare of the cito et _t the working people of tbe city Taste jJ poses run counter to hn interest* aad tod-interests of these who support him...
...This is the organisation of men ase women who actually own this paper aad ritt in the final analysis, determine its peiie'w From year to year they elect the sserobenj of the Board of Directors which sxerdas* ???-trol...
...So the treatment of Japanese prisoners would constitute no leverage whatever in influencing the policies of the Japanese warlords...
...One dan safely predict that this brutal killing of helpless prisoners will only increase the number of volunteers for future air attacks on Japan...
...For the cream of this jest was that there was no Commissar Dlugash, and no such chapter in the novel...
...Like ? ? totalitarian* he believes in wielding the stick...
...The ultimate aim of victory is toe important to permit any disruption of sound strategic plans by an outburst ef emotional [ indignation over one among the innumerable atrocities of this most cruel of wars...
...Such movement* cannot be killed by military or political power As long as men yearn for a better life, they Labors day, -therefore, is celebrated with more' forward-looking hope in IMS than tor years past...
...Tat Italians, who taught the Nazis the principle of fascism and who have thrown all the - resources into tbe straggle on the Germar net...
...a bigger man in his own right and carries · more prostig« than his prsdnttsaOr at the Foreign ????, an Army pappet named Tani...
...tohsa from your mailing list for JspY world...
...When a government will not cooperate, said Mr...
...least premature...
...It is as far »t possible from being designed to promote either national unity or Allied vhjtory...
...One* again, then, he ha* pieced before as 4he crucial question: is Russia ready to cooperate with as...
...When Hitler is vanquished and we begin serious werk on Japan, Russia wUl be at peace and we shall want Soviet support, but then "the real carrot and the club will be to Stalin's hands...
...TH1 MAYOR AND THI COMMUNISTS •¦•HE Communists have a perfect right to * stage a rally in the Yankee Stadium oa the first of May er on any other day when they can secure the use of ball park...
...This marks the change that has taken place during the pest twelve months...
...diflreJtiea of...
...Yet, no German-American organisation in San Antonio was willing to participate in the meeting...
...Then there ts the question of "face," always important in the Orient...
...Shigemitsu, who lost d lag as a result of s bomb thrown by a Korean nationalist in Shanghai, has been regarded in the past, for no very good reason, as friendly to England and America...
...The slogans advertised to steam up enthusiasm harr* the well-known Communist flavor...
...We have pssaed the dividing line...
...Many of the present members ei tat Board have served for years and through their energetic and faithful attention to ?? toteres ts of the paper have made important eontn butiens to its success At Monday ssrW» gathering a resolution was unanhnonab...
...sons...
...This year any genuine labor and socialist May Day cerebrations which amy occur on the continent of Europe will he underground...
...For {he master of the ? remit r. is a realist...
...Here, just as in the matter of reprisals, sound judgment and eooUieadednesa are in order...
...a* far as his territorial demands upon Poland are concerned...
...He has served aa Ambassador in ?????», is...
...We have today, according ts- Bullitt, a real carrot and a real dub...
...As tbe war struggle Smaasam and the liberation of Europe draws nearer, it becomes more snd mere evident that the underground movement is very much alive and that in it the old trade union aad Social Democratic groups play the leading part...
...The proper reaction to this Japanese militarist outrage is Sfmply to prosecute the war more vigorously, with the determination at the end to seek not indiscriminate vengeance, but the just punishment of all the Japanese and Nazi leaders who are personally specifically responsible for acts of in-kumsn cruelty unconnected with the prosecution of hostilities...
...of two very fine expression* of English thought,on tbe subject of freedom, John Milton's *Afeo?ag??ca,· and John Stuart Mill's "Essay on Ubertjrt EDITORIAL COMMENT ? STAUN AND TH* UNIT» NATIONS...
...isolationist varery still pursue their almost treacherous policy...
...against Soviet Russia" in league with the Germans...
...Set a staple one of those 37 organizations was willing to co-sponsor a meeting of mine, although I had offered my services entirety free of any charge— either fee or expenses...
...But if the campaign of 1643 on the eastern front should end up as indecisively as the campaign of 1942, leading merely to a vast bleeding white of both countries, then Japaaeae diplomatic intervention, backed by a threat of' military action in Siberia, should the move be rejected, might become a serious possibility...
...Rossi* is our ally in a common fight The Rnsaian people are shedding their blood in defense of their homeland and in our defense, toot Some form of guarantee that will convince the Russian people of the good-will of democracies must he given to tbe Soviet Government But the United Nations, in turn, must receive a guarantee from the Kremlin...
...bit for absolute extinction...
...Even from a practical standpoint, leaving aside all considerations of humanity, executions-of- Japanese prisoners would have served ?? useful purpose and would probably have given satisfaction to the Tokyo war lords...
...Than two groups have the painful distinction *f being marked, not merely for exhaostior...
...First, the Japanese hope to frighten off future participants in air raids...
...No Communist tricks are hoodwinking him...
...Discussions triut a considerable number af toeaibsi i of such German-American organisations revealed that the Nasi* have succeeded in employing Communist tactics, "boring from within...
...More than once he has appeared before representative gatherings of New York trade unionists and thrilled them which his spicy expressions of their thoughts and feelings...
...The longer the struggle goes on, the neu» they will come to achieving their purpan When we finally break through the enact*, defense* and bring relief to famished pacefe, we shall find the Germans, despite the aoa> ber of their war casualties, weil organise...
...Two logical answers suggest themselves...
...Her attitude in this case suggests that she missed her vocation and would be more at home teaching "The Principles of Leninism" in some Party school in Russia...
...the occupied regions of Asia when their capital was raided...
...It is improbable that his appointment has anything to do with Japanese peace proposals to the Western powers...
...The New Branafe** paper, for exsmple, published aa editorial aboat my meeting to New Brasafeto, saying that my toctmre c—tntoed a* many sa-terstiag facts that It wanbi be impossible te pabttah a ream about it—thaa saving itself the embarrassing situation ef printing s*methiag quite contrary te Ha general...
...The masting is to whoop it up for "the invasion of Europe now...
...Tbe horrifying spar taele is presented to the world of the ruler* of a great nation achieving glory by maintaining their power at the apex of a pyramid *f dead men's bones...
...He has for years been close to The New Lender and to the great group of men and women who support it It was not long ago that he stood before the guests at one of our dinners and remarked that he was proud to address tbe supporters of an American paper printed in the American language and representing democratic American principles...
...The Japanese military leaders lost face, both in their own country and in...
...The Allied victory wfll mean the striking of the bonds from the limbs of European kebor...
...Both of these aims were undoubtedly present in his mind and both of them should impel Washington and London to think and think herd...
...adopted giving special recognition to Mr Aden* Wir»how who has been a member of th* Boa« since its inception twenty years age aad .eto for a kng time has served as its fteftssl Hi* geniality, his foresight, his deep intern* in everything connected with the ekaractv and fortunes of The New Leader have yiayet a large part in producing the happy rosea* which were recognised far and wide during our twentieth anniversary celebration...
...The German department ef ? Office of War Iniorrnettoe jm...
...to prevent .any anti-Nazi speaker from ever addressing these groups...
...In a special sense he has been and stiH is—the man of tbe great masses of organised workers of this city...
...On the basis of ?? League of Nations nutritional standard, fm Germans now receive 944- ef tbe raanfeti calories, the Czechs M%, the Dutch 8iVfe French 68%, the Italian* 58%, the Grefe 29%, and the Jems 20"« These figure* prent that the Nsais are administering food is ash a way as to build up the population* *akn they count a* their own racial stock ami » kill off other groups...
...to'the motivation of the killings...
...te Know...
...fuaetlW" ar.es...
...Once again Stahn has acted in characteristic TasKon...
...Rising to bait like the most gullible of fish...
...At the prasent time any such- idea is at the...
...It would certainly suit Germany's '¦ purpo-.es if American rage over this incident ? should lend to ? diversion of strength from ' the European Ho the Far Eastern theatre...
...foreseeable future to play ar important rok German ruthlessnes* makes no ehstinctmt between allied and conquered peoples...
...The men and women who look back to other and happier days may now look forward...
...elusion with the holding, on April 2«4h, of ts* annual meeting of The New Leader Assent-tion...
...La Benedict had signed har name to one of the familiar, pressure protests, objecting to the Club's selection of this novel as Its "book of the month...
...My speaking engagements called for a schedule covering each week from Monday through Friday...
...neutralized...
...case of toe Polish officers and men alleged to have been found murdered near Smolensk the Polish Government acted entirely within the precepts of international law...
...unilateral break with the Polish Government-IB-Exile...
...HOPE no reader of The New Leader has * missed the superb hoax which Christopher...
...1* the Soviet Government wiluftg to accept the principle* upon which our conception of a wet of coalition rests* What is behind the Susso-Poiieh rift from which only Nasi Germany can be the bene-fieiary...
...This trip took me through Michigan, the central part ef Canada Iowa and sJt ever Texas...
...distinctive cultural and political ohject*v**~ are being starved out...
...East was the coldblooded killing of aviators who fell into tbe hands of the after the raid ? ? Tokyo last tear...
...The whole project it marked by factionalism, disunity, animosity...
...It appears that these German-Americans rely on the fact (hat certain Senators and Coagrturnen of the...
...Some of the developments of the hut tw« | years, the withdrawals from pubiiestion of intrinsic all ? valuable books about Rossi* that might have injured Stalin's tender feelings, the pubiiestion of uncritically eulogistic article* about Suit ? and his dictatorship that could hsve pssaed the Soviet censorship to Moscow, almost crested an impression that America was Decerning a twelfth salHatod Soviet Republic A minor note on this affair of "The Fifth Seal" was that a leading would-be bookburner m' this case was a certain Dorothy Brewster, Professor Of English at Columbia Uahrersity...
...Why, then doe* the ??» consent to address this Communist reUyf^K...
...to Madrid the workers have gathered to proclaim their'purposes and to gather inspiration for their struggle* ?? of the trade union*, all of the Social Democratic parties regarded the First- Of May celebration aa the high point in their year of organisation and propaganda...
...BaT not forced te recognise them for polittosibj...
...La Benedict snapped hack: "Other passages equally objectionable aa one you mention...
...Commissar Dlugash" was just as much of a phantom as the long deceased P. P. Ryabushinsky and Vishegradsky, whom the defendants in one of the Moscow trials "confessed" to having picked out as candidates for Premier and Finance Minister in their "counterrevolutionary government" The action of . the Book-of-the-Month Club, like the widespread protest movement over the execution of Erlich and Alter, is a healthy sign-that the date of a new American Declaration' of Independence from tbe stupid humiliating attitude of abasement before every whim of Stasia's dictatorship may not he far off...
...w' It hi mach more plausible te assume that Shigemitsus appointment is a herald of Japanese diplomatic activity afectmg Russia...
...They have sought to re-establish this prestige by showing that they are not afraid to kill white men who have fallen into their power...
...well nourished, well fitted to assert themaeiv** in any new political environment whirl «rffi be created...
...It is to furnish an answer the other gathering which expressed trade union horror at the murder of Erlich and Alter...
...Tbe key speakers will be Communists...
...r -A.-civilised naticn ean never win a contest in barbariem...
...There is nothing to show that Stalin has lost hope of crushing the German army, with the aid of Great Britain aad the United States...
...We agre' not been informed of the number of men put to ceath, Or of the circumstances of the •(triaL" But cne may hazard bwo ?? three conjectures as...
...Moreover, there an unfortunately far more Americans who are prisoners of Japan than Japanese who have been captured by our forces...
...Since Saturdays and Sundays were, open, I offered these two days each weak to German-American organisation* in all communities ha Texas with overwhelming German settlement*: N*w Brennfels...
...disregarding the interests of his allies...
...attempts to appease Stalin will end ia disaster...
...But ir...
...Former Ambassaocr Grew tell...
...The men who are running the show are Communists...
...In New Braanfel* and Schulenburg, two well-a:*»uied meetings were sponsored by the local Chambers of Commerce, but no single German-America ? organization took part ia them...
...Leader really wart...
...Altogether, «7 each Ger' man-American Organization» L« e been approached by the editor of the only German-language anti-Nazi newspaper published in Texas, the Term Freie...
...How is ode to explain the acrimonious campaign against the Polish Government that has beea^earried on by Meecow^for the past twenty Bow, indeed, is one to explain the formation of the Wolna Pobk* 'Free Polend) group on Soviet territory, which is to all intents and purposes a rival to the Polish Government-in-Eaflet The interpretation* of Stalin's action which suggest themselves are: L An attempt to present the United Nations with a /ait...
...Its only crime was that it asked that a Red Cross Commission investigate the matter...
...THI NffW LEA DIR 10*11 THE celebration of the twentieth annr**t-* sary of this paper really came to...
...ley of the Book-of-the-Month Club played on one Jane Benedict, participant in the Communist-inspired witch-hunt, directed against Mark Aldanov's novel, "The, Fifth Seal...
...A desire to accumulate additional "evidence"—as his propagandists have done repeatedly ? connection with the Second Front and so on—of the "perfidy" of the "capitalist democracies...
...The publicity teams with aspersions on all trade onion group* and leaders who do not fall into the Communist trap and toe the Communist line...
...The dishonesty of their methods neeeeearily easts grsve doubts oa the nature of their purposes...
...That haa been my impression oa s trip ef eleven Weeks of lettering I anve rest completed...
...IhiUtoWTfWIWG AN» S TMrf U LA ? WO ffm JOHN 4. ?? f Te the Editor: I wouldn't want my...
...the story of how his offer to give home in format ion about a Japanese soldier who had been captured in China was coldly rebuffed by a Japanese Foreign Office official, who remarked that this man was dead, so far ss 'Japan was concerned...
...Now we look forward instead of back...
...STARVATION AS A WMte ACAREFULLY docs men ted stud*, ^ pared by Boris Shufc and published ky.ffe Institute of Jewish Affairs, throw* a gaffet light ea German war aims at well as on % desperate sufferings of Europe Graphic -hath tell an alarming story...
...At last Monday night's meeting tec men-bers perfectly expressed their attune* by fe unanimous re-election of the officers add board members who have served during the fast year...
...The - German 4*agnngc newspapers, the German-American ergani-rations, the German-American businessmen supporting German-language radio programs •11 do their part in hampering the war effort sad —ppsrtlag the Nasi propaganda that i* still dissemina ted in many parts of the country...
...are almost at the bottom of the list Bear* them are only the Greeks and the Jews...
...Te begin with, we must reject categorically toe Kremlin's pretense that tbe cause far the break was Poland's "hostile campaigr...
...Frc-ie-TlrllTlliil* Tbmkliiaii Sen Antra...
...and undoubtedly one of the best-informed: American* on Soviet foreign policy, may not have adhered to the classical limits of diplomacy whin In a speech on Russia he made some time ago he introduced the one clear note of reaHsm hi an otherwise confused and nebulous debate on poet-war aims...
...It is a contingency that should not be overlooked in...
...Japan's leaders are not so stupid as to believe that they could -kill American prisoners with one hand and bold out an olive branch with the other...
...Which proved that the good lady had raised the roof about a hook she hadn't read...
...Here they hsve certainly misjndped the spirit of our airmen...
...The Mayor is a shrewd man...
...Another interesting: recent news hem from Japan was...
Vol. 26 • May 1943 • No. 18
