Where the News Ends

...PATRIOTISM NOT RATIONED AS the New Year begins, Americans are for the first time putting their backs into the war psychologically...

...Labor should remember and constantly repeat the trite admonition that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty...

...LABOR BEGINS TO PLAN THE NEW LEADER has often complained * of what it regarded as a lack of far-sighted statesmanship in the American labor movement...

...The last sentence in the paragraph before the last should read: "Walter has also conducted the 'Magic Flute' and the 'Marriage of Figaro.' George Szell, a favorably received conductor new to the Metropolitan, has conducted pei-formances of 'Tannh?user' and 'Salome.' He comes, like Walter, Stiedry...

...It is the tiling that every woman knew long before the days of the NAAFI—so long ago, in fact, the prophets of the Old Testament treated her expertness with becoming respect...

...Compulsory interest-free loans for financing the war Another factor that favors the growth of the C.C.F...

...Is there any adequate motive behind the secrecy which screens the identiy of the murderer...

...Before making this challenging announcement, Mr...

...Such laws must be preserved...

...The fitting of so many into so elaborate a mechanism requires time...

...Some of them, our films bear testimony, manage to look charming in the overalls of navvies...

...This remark is elicited by the recent pamphlet Emily Posting th* girls of England on ways of dealing with American boys...

...There are dark implications in the situation...

...Baltimore, Md...

...Spangler should have remembered what Abraham Lincoln stated when speaking upon the necessity of enacting social labor legislation, Which was as follows: "All that serves labor serves the nation...

...Of various foods, from 20 to 60 per cent must go to our own troops or to those of our Allies...

...But, speaking for the administrators, Elmer Davis expresses faith in the patriotism and common sense of the citizens...

...The difficulties in connection with Algeria and France lie deep in the situation...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Says National Group Is Needed To Prevent Election of Tories From CHARLES JACKSON To the Editor: In no uncertain terms, Mr...

...If our two great federations team up with their British comrades, then we have—to say the least—started on the road to something better than we had in 1919...

...Some of these American expressions," the innocent damsels are warned, "may sound remarkably like swearing to you, but, in fact, they are words in everyday use in America...

...Suspicion still radiates to all points of the ideological compass...

...Now, why Ohio...

...It is not enough to say: Happy New Year...

...and there was truth in the wisecrack that henceforth the Conservatives may be considered "the Pro and Con party...

...All that harms labor is treason to America...

...The Farmer Labor Party still commands quite a following— especially among those who have had Socialist training, and there would be little trouble to veer the entire party towards such a movement...

...This fact gives them a start in the race to reorganize France...

...Why so many persons should fancy that the death of Darlan solves many problems, is one of those things which no man can ever find out...

...Seger visited the offices of Le Messager and was enthusiastically received by the editor, Mr...

...The choice of such a leader must be bitter medicine for some of the crusted antediluvian Tories in the Conservative ranks, especially in Ontario and the Maritimes, the people for whom the sky is the limit on tariffs and who are inclined to be still fighting the American Revolution over again, with sympathy for King George III...

...Establishment of a maximum' individual income...

...Modest and unassuming...

...But when I was travelling there last year I found a surprisingly strong feeling, npt restricted to any-class, that the burdens and sacrifices of the last war had been very inequitably distributed: that the rich got the fat contracts and the opportunity to invest in taxfree bonds, while the poor got most of the rigors of overseas service, followed by unemployment and a postwar debt that was a drag on social services...

...John Childs, Miss Agnes Nester, Milton P. Webster, Harvey Brown and George M. Harrison...

...A MOTHER sign of the times in Canada is the growing strength of the C.C.F., or Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a democratic socialist party, very similar to the British Labor Party in programme and outlook, except for the fact that it lays more stress on agricultural problems...

...For men everywhere, poor dears, mean well...

...and he moves slowly and cautiously...

...Bracken's past record is that of a mild progressive, comparable with Governor Stassen of Minnesota...

...In most of the liberated lands there will be reactionaries waiting to jump at power...

...Suppose he was in the pay of the Germans or the Italians...

...Bemidji, Minn...

...candidate named Noseworthy...

...If a boy from Ohio doesn't know how to talk to a girl, who does ? On the principle that one skirts around the mention of ropes in certain societies, the girls of old England are to bite their lips before allowing.allusions to Chicago gangsters to slip through...

...But the change of name and the choice of Mr...

...Louis Phillipe Gagne, and his staff...

...Wilson, we were told, did not fail...

...Lewis ton, Maine...

...Each theory of the crime carts shadows in different directions...

...DECENT weeks have seen one diplomatic ap-pointment that seems questionable and one that is definitely good...

...The C.C.F...

...Canada is not a radical country, by temperament and historical background...

...ROOSEVELT AND THE FUTURE THE address delivered on Monday night by Vice-President Wallace is to be regarded as a Roosevelt declaration, and as such it deserves place as an important exposition of our war aims...

...The meeting ground of the nations was described as "the security of the plain folks against depression and against war...

...There is no America without labor...

...The most recent indication of this trend was the decision of the Conservative Party to change its name to Progressive-Conservative and to choose as its new leader John Bracken, formerly Premier of Manitoba...

...Any boarder is helping...

...If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar...

...France was never fully defeated...

...It was the world which failed...

...The Algerian Empire " Council will not say...

...My opinion is that the conference should be at a more centially located point...

...But he his always been able to keep an easy two jumps ahead of Hanson...

...And if this can he arranged so that every element of liberalism would be represented by delegates, this would be a wonderful stimulus for the old timers...

...There is a time-lag in social reform to be made up...

...Of course the addition of the prefix "Progressive" does not mean that the Conservative leopard will change its spots immediately...

...There is nothing in his record to suggest that he would have any lively sympathy with or any deep understanding of the Indian nationalist movement...

...The capitulation to Hitler was the work of traitors...

...If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool...

...All that the Vice-President asked for was straightforward action leading to these simple ends...

...Nationalization of financial institutions...

...The announcement of a new Post-War Planning Committee by William Green is the latest of these signs of a change for the better...

...but it will be a surprise if his Indian contacts get very far outside the charmed circle of the Viceroy and higher military officers and civilian officials...

...The British Labor Party is working straight toward labor representation at the peace table...

...The objection is that this great lag between announcement and operation gives hoarders a chance to negate its effect...

...Suppose the man with the revolver was a de Gaullist...

...Authorized by a resolution adopted at the last convention of the Federation, this committee has behind it all the power of this organization...

...The above admonition, no doubt, was in the mind of President Roosevelt when he promulgated what he termed "New Deal" laws, which have resulted in giving the workers of these United States a modicum of economic security...

...General de Gaulle has promised that after liberation, the people of France shall be allowed to determine their form of government...

...Cites Role Of French Canadians From JEAN DORRE To the Editor: I have noted in The New Leader at various times references to the French Canadians...

...There could then be established and recognized a responsible French government with authority over important areas and military forces...

...Premier Mackenzie King is not a glamorous statesman...

...The names of the members are a guarantee that this is no merely formal action...

...During his visit Mr...

...His death can have no important salutary results...

...his rise has been based entirely on merit...

...Seger: "I am sorry that I have not the space to publish in full the excellent address which you delivered here before the Kiwanis Club...

...First reports indicate that all but a slender minority are worthy of that faith...

...But, while Meighen emphasized the necessity for conscripting men for overseas service, Noseworthy laid stress on the desirability of conscripting wealth...

...And, in a final burst of good morals, the ladies are asked not to grow angry with the males from overseas...

...From that time on we shall really be making a contribution to the war effort every time we sit down to the table...

...He has been a capable executive...

...Phillap* may furnish a pleasant surprise...

...Why not address it to all the young ladies of the world...

...To this purpose, both the tone and the substance of the address were admirably adapted...

...The arrest of twelve new potential assassins by order of General Giraud merely darkens the obscurity...

...Bracken reflect a realization on the part of the party chiefs that no political group that fixes its eyes on the past has much of a future in the Dominion...

...The Empire could have continued to fight...

...This mood creates an audience for suggestions like those of the C.C.F...

...It will not occur to a lad from Ohio that you are unaccustomed to heariug them used in front of girls...

...THE WAT OF A MAN TO all the other convenient but ugly words * add ? A A FI...

...Both candidates favored the efficient prosecution of the war...

...Dooman does not beer the Groton-Harvard stamp that is sometimes an American equivalent for the British old school tie...

...One of the upsets in Canadian politics during the last year was the defeat, in an Ontario special election, of the veteran Conservative leader, Arthur Meighen, by a little known C.C.F...

...Why not Michigan or Indiana...

...Leinsdorf and 'others, from the atmosphere of a Vienna which is no more...

...Seger will return to this city as the guest of the French'population...

...If they are dishonestly made, the chiseler will be subject to severe penalties...

...It is directed to formulate plans and suggest ideas looking toward peace and security both at home and abroad...

...Incidentally, Mr...

...Since there is every indication that experience here and abroad has been fully taken into account, we may well take this explanation at face value...

...It is conservative...

...Its leader in the Canadian House of Commons, British-bore M. J. Coldwell, represents a rural constituency in Saskatchewan...

...The manifesto declares that this reactionary attitude is preventing Argentina from expressing solidarity with the United Nations, and adds that the free democratic press also is threatened by the suspension of anti-fascist publications...

...He is a competent career diplomat who got on very well in Fascist Italy and no doubt did his best to implement a policy that finally failed: to keep Mussolini from plunging into the war on Hitler's side...

...In both CIO and A. F. of tu, there has been a growing impulse to tackle the big national and international problems in a broad and statesmanlike way...

...All that we have had thus far is a pre-view...

...Instead of waiting until the eve of the next election, it must be apparent to every worker regardless of political affiliation, that now is the opportune time to form and join a representative group managed by workers to prevent the election of any reactionary opposed to bigger and better humanitarian legislation...

...As a result,, it is likely that Mr...

...in connection with the economic direction of the present war: Government ownership or complete control of all essential war industries...

...The women of Britain have stood the blackouts and the bombing...

...Seger has great significance...

...Here in the industrial towns of Maine we have a large population stemming from Canada...

...The Association of Vigilante is the representative patriotic organisation of our French citizens...

...Many of them are far from being as backward in their social and political views as commonly reported...

...This stands for the British Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes—whatever they are...

...His enlightening address was published almost in full in our French paper, Le Messager...

...has been displaying increased vitality and popular support from Vancouver to Halifax and there can be little doubt that the next election will bring a substantial growth in its present meager parliamentary representation...

...The plan was publicized in detail on December 27th, and it will not go into effect before February...

...Recently Gerhart Seger, editor of the Neue Volkszeitung, visited Lewiston as the guest of the Ki-wanis Club...

...Matthew Woll is to serve as chairman, and among the members will be David Dubinsky, Dr...

...and this struck a responsive chord with the Canadian voters...

...he has run Manitoba with little regard for party labels: he has the typical Western Canadian's aversion to high tariffs that bleed the farmer for the benefit of the industrial interests and he has always stood for close and friendly relations with the United States...

...and the Conservatives had not been getting either votes or prestige under the bungling leadership of Richard Burpee Hanson, a provincial lawyer, heavy in body and in mind, who had been in charge of the party's destinies during recent years...

...Why stigmatize the boys from the state famous for its pretty girls and for the gallantry of its men...

...His death leaves them precisely as they were...

...This would do something to bring France back to a position somewhere near the one which she could have had in 1940...

...The official defense is that the successful operation of such an elaborate scheme in a great country like ours requires the cooperation of millions of dealers...

...Following is part of a letter which Mr...

...That means that all excepts few luxuries must be carefully distributed so that all may get their share...

...Of late, there have been satisfying indications that the complaint is growing less justified...

...It is to be hoped that we shall have more of this sort of plain speaking...

...Phillips would seem conditioned to see the British side of the Indian situation...

...Over-optimistic persons should remind themselves that this North African headache is but the first of a long series which stretches before us...

...PAUL STEFAN To the Editor: Apparently a proof error resulted in a distortion of a paragraph in my article on music in the last week's issue...

...There was a minimum of high-flown rhetoric...

...The dozen included "not only Allied sympathizers but enemy agents...

...After all, says teacher with a very straight face, "the American people live very much as we do...

...Timed to mark the anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson, it tied in the present administration with the great democratic tradition of our leader in World War I. Wilson's New Freedom is referred to as the forerunner of the New Deal...

...Gagne addressed to Mr...

...It is doubtful whether William Phillips was the best possible selection as American representative in India ,at the present time...

...As I t?ld you during your visit to our office, the members of the Association of Vigi-lants will be happy to receive you whenever you have the leisure to visit us...

...With the de Gaullists and the Empire Council collaborating, the Empire will be fighting...

...Each householder will be required, at the time of-taking out his ration book, to make declaration of the amounts of food which he has in stock...

...Dooman, who posses sei a remarkable knowledge of the difficult Japanese language, has been one of the most capable and hardworking of out diplomats in Tokyo, where he spent several years as Counsellor of Embassy...

...100 per cent taxation of all receipts in excess of this...

...Chicago, or Minneapolis...

...Specifically, it is to prepare for labor representation at the peace conference and for American postwar reconstruction "to prevent a disastrous depression...

...Harrison K. Spangler, the recently elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, has made it known that the target to be fired at and destroyed by his political cohorts is the New Deal liberal and humanitarian legislation enacted under the leadership of President Roosevelt...

...Algeria is the first department to be set free...

...One imagines that, among the minor horrors of war, they will be perfectly capable of the American male...

...Temperamentally and socially Mr...

...It is not his fault if America lapsed into that curious state of somnambulance about Japan's power and will to strike that was prevalent before Pearl Harbor...

...If such declarations are honestly made, there will be no advantage in hoarding...

...Before he makes any arrangements with the Empire Council, which has civil control over Algeria, de Gaulle must reach agreements with them and with the American Army...

...Some men in positions which give them a right to speak, object to the announcement so far in advance...

...Dooman is of Persian origin—an unusual bet none the less welcome element in our American meltingpot...

...One passage on swearing—or, rather, on how to listen to swearing—distinctly reflects upon that great state...

...The government, through Elmer Davis, Claude Wickard and Leon Henderson, has done a fine job of explaining both the reasons for rationing and the methods...

...and of all the movements of protest that have formed in the Dominion the C.C.F...

...The Admiral was far less important than he was thought to be...

...All can understand the business and none but fools will object...

...POST-MORTEM ON DARLAN WHO killed Darlan...

...The fact that these people of French tradition are eager to cooperate with a German anti-Nazi like Mr...

...seems to offer the widest and most coherent national appeal...

...For the first time they are pulling in their belts, making conscious sacrifices and getting down to the grim business of doing whatever is necessary to win...

...Please inform me as soon as possible when it will be convenient for you to come back to us...

...Replacement of dollar-a-year men by full-time paid state officials...

...It is on this account that the approaching conferences between the General and President Roosevelt are of importance...

...One may well wish for a wider application of this ultimate admonition...

...Its leaders are reactionary...

...The League of Nations is mentioned as the symbol of the ideals toward which we now strive...

...An appointment with which there is every reason to be satisfied is that of Eugene Doomae as Minister to Moscow, where he will rank immediately after Ambassador Standley...

...The simple maidens of the biggest airplane carrier in the world are cautioned against appearing shocked at words that flow from careless American masculine lips...

...Hitler...

...The American Army will not say...

...Argentine Union* Protest Castello Attrtmam Fourteen Argentine unions issued s joint manifesto against the unjustifiable imprisonment of trade union leaders who merely ox-pressed the opinion of workers, liberals, popular institutions on Argentina's status in the world conflct The manifesto denounced the repression of the working class by the Oligarchie sections of the country who are weakening the country's defense by their reactionary measures...

...is that there has been, for Canada, no New Deal...

...So the de Gaullists deal carefully with the people behind General Giraud...

...and it is a matter of satisfaction that we wiB now have such a keen and objective observer m such an important post as Moscow...

...Stefan Offers A Correction From Dr...

...The citizens love a mystery tale in a book or on the screen, but it is a little thick to have one at the heart of our African policy...

...But the primary need of an old established political machine is votes...

...There was maximum of dry realism...

...The plain purpose of the address was to rouse the nation so that it will not fail Roosevelt as it failed Wilson...

...As far as fascism and the present war are concerned, our citizens of French ancestry are as loyally democratic as any other part of the population...

...In February, more than 200 sorts of food will be strictly rationed...

...Now we shall all unite, fight the Germans and free the French...

...But we need in India a representative who can see both sides of the case, who is qualified to use his influence, discretely, of course, toward the promotion of a settlement of the unsatisfactory political impasse that has existed since the leading Indian nationalists have been locked up...

...I have noticed the Social Democratic Federation call for a meeting to take place in New York City...

...EDITORIAL COMMENT WILSON...

...Says Time Is Ripe for New Third Party From MORRIS KAPLAN To the Editor: The time is ripe for the organization and development of a National Party that will have at its basic programme the establishment of a Collectivist-Co-operative Commonwealth...

...It would be interesting to know just who are the brave or presumptuous persons who author the homilies on behavior sent out by this cryptic organization...

...his speeches are usually phrased in an involved Government report English that is not calculated to set minds and hearts on fire...

...The only improvement lies in the fact that it may be possible in the not too distant future to establish a working arrangement between the Fighting French and the Empire Council...

...Suppose he was a follower of Petain...

...There was no blueprint of any sort...

...If the matter is made clear, there will be very few who will wish to be lined up on that side...

...There is nothing in this path-breaking work to hurt an American's feelings—unless the American happens to be from Ohio...

...One hundred per cent taxation of all profits above the figure of four per cent...