Nazism in Theory and Practice
NICOLAEVSKY, BORIS
Nazism in Theory and Practice By BORIS NICOLAEVSKY NATIONAL SOCIALISM. ????- principles, their ?????????? by tke Nam ? arty-1 Foreign Or-ganixatwn, and the u*e of Germane abroad far Natt aim*....
...Schwarte re-esteb-iShes the contact for them: he bring* the tradition of western culture to bear on one's own fait* diver...
...weitem hp *smm* T. Ferren, who purled no punches on what he called "syntsatk...
...seem to be city people satisfying their urge to own a . ? (1 i ____ I...
...Now acreage prices have gone up 16%, and the real ttate men themselves are alarmed...
...That i* why the new publication of the State Department is' so opportune...
...Anyway, Catholic Church *slneishmc are upset, and you might keep sa eye as their ii*inasn|a, for the issue is not s mere •church-religwee" one...
...Could be...
...But if you csuM see my mail, you would realise that something is happening...
...Bat, dear friends, take s tip from an old farmer...
...Practically every gay one or more of our former writers drops ia at the office to cieaange gossip snd give us the low-down, I sit here snd grin while the men who hsve gone through their basic training give few but well-chosen words of advice to nervous youngsters who asve every thing before them...
...The large totonrtage, 88%, of investors are private individuals trying to Mg* against anticipated inflation...
...Say a few words of criticism sgainst Charchill, snd right-wingers make you out to be "anti-British...
...Since I wrote those few words in test «ms*'« column about Brook Farm, I am stopped everywhere I go...
...Oa the contrary, everywhere throughout Gene tu there is the genuine earnestness of a young man ill-equipped and over-equipped struggling with a self-analysis when sll his dsta are nothing but what his repressions and ambitions allow him to remember...
...2.00...
...But it is not Schwarte or hi* poem that is to b* condemned...
...Baad tee record a* it ia est down in this play and you wul ? »a...
...My Life hi a Movie House:—We've jest ahoat stsmhted eut ef the dark in this submission to Moscow business, bet hash dowa the aisle we to—for Whom she...
...They are...
...for in Genesis, Schwarte has realised in a far purer form than hitherto, and at much greater length, the peculiar value thst has made him significant to s certain disss of academic readers...
...and thus is set up an intolerable desire to skip the interpolations and get on with the story...
...A correspondent writes us: "Why don't you write something «ante* Malcolm Cowley...
...Here I shell only make a few remarks on the structure of the poem, and try to show that this abstract structure itself is an analysis of the academic class referred to...
...This is far from being a complete Rat...
...str*tsd end which shoald saw* been tfcwreaghfy examined...
...The New Leader has a large, unpaid but enthusiastic and efficient staff...
...For the American reader it is a revelation J* m* Italian spirit...
...Seeing themselves in the stock-situation*, his audience—really quite ignorant people—peume themselves on having had rieh experiences...
...Twenty-flve eft ago, we were siDy enough to exult in sales of farms at * an sere...
...T* he esBsi, pernios...
...yearbook of U. S. writing...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E.BOHN Herckieq at fo Wsr HITLER'S days are numbered...
...For totalitarian hon is not only an external foe of the democratic countries but is also an internal one...
...gutyoimi tt appears—has a garden...
...Inside and Out By MATHEW LOW Ought in the Networks:—Picking ap the uNAMerhmn way, the National Association of Broadcasters has adoptrd a new code ruling that shapes, up as a bar agmhsst *? laber programs' . . . Lahor programs were called "controversial" by the recent Chicago suuveiishm sad the Weber press has already opened ?? on it, and the matter will be taken before the FCC sad Congress...
...the flmsrtptlse ef the •rrssizstions wasted...
...1 · * NEVERTHELESS—snd this is my Chief point —it is precisely ¦ these errors, this error now raised by literary structure into a principle, that explain the poet's appeal to a class of sesihisiii...
...Unless your strategy ia perfect «ad your attack practically perfect, victory may go to tile worms sai the Weeds...
...the It alia nt DECENT life depends on mutual respect...
...It is desirable that the publication we art reviewing should not remain an isolated attempt in this field...
...Tie former In fa* Dell GBOUCHO MARX reports thst brief experience with the hoe has ' changed hi* entire view ef life...
...The New Leader ia after him— and pot just with words...
...We have, then, a prose narrative and a vers* gloss...
...the Italian lsbor movement...
...ACry in the Wilderness:—That hill-page ad is the ? was* *jhe other day (Corliss Lament's petition for "U...
...readers...
...jsr the fall of France, one could not but note the descending •"•axiiaater of our respect for this nation which we had so laved...
...It is this part particularly which contains a great many new documents hitherto unknown...
...Section," and is to he published by L B. Fischer (who, ws llljk could have done much better...
...Their conclusion is that these activities had the support of only a "small fraction " Of course, this by no mesas lemmas the significance of Nasi activities along this line...
...The increased farm income is reflected in the great .de-*r*sse in the number of farm properties held by financing cor-Mteb'ona...
...in North Africa, and...
...Starting with this discontinuity, it ia impossible either to see straight or think straight...
...It is an enemy that avails itself of the free institutions of democracy in order to kill freedom...
...Tom Winslow has been detailed for special service...
...In structure, the werk i* s biographical sketch of childhood in prose, interspersed sbout every page with a page of blank verse reflections on the narrative...
...But arm ? few jousts with the soil hsve convinced him that farmers cannot possibly be paid tee much for the luscious producta which Say lure from underground...
...Victories, If any, come at the end...
...swmasatlua ts focused upon the aims sad the cha...
...labor, you see, amy ?? w „he "given" radio time, hut it cannot "bay" any' . . . ?? you have soap, cereal or candy-bars to sell...
...On the basis of their material, much ef it from confidential reports, the officials of the State Department outline tke general structure sad trace the basic forms ef the activities of Nasi er» ganizations outside of Germany...
...But unfortunately, true insight snd deep experience are not originally separated in tins way...
...On the other hand, a deep absorption in his autobiographical story and an unfailing energy of a kind of ideas...
...Great values are lost if millions of Amer-asas come to think that all the millions cf Germans arc brute...
...net just mail...
...John A. Ryan, who has each a iisjslation fa* efcraestie liberalism, re asserted his support of Francisco Fiwaeo, and insisted that he would still sod in the destruction of she Ssennsh Republic, if he had to go through 19*S-8* again...
...and the public cant pat ester-tainment or news without being plagued with sssJM commercial sslicjtettsns Bat labor, representing millions, can't buy time to being its message to the public, medio broad easting is supposed to be operated in the pahlk interest...
...feme ef Lasd loom WBXN I started all this excitement, a boom in land prices was W the thing farthest from my mind...
...It is strange indeed thst auch organisations a* the "Fichte-Bund" or the "WeJt-Dlenit" of Colonel Fleischhauer st Erfurt were usmusaa...
...hot he still keep* typing out that old-time Use, those «h*ap innuendoes, that repelling eynico-ideslism...
...That will depend upon how much wo j*tea them as human beings...
...existed in Germany...
...The seeaad with the problem ef Nasi policy hi regard to dual nationality...
...Wasn't it Solon who warned us not to count our bean* or tomatoes before they are torvested 1 Tue much talk too early may lead to too much humilis-usn later on...
...Disagree a bit with Gandhi or Nehru, and left-winger* make you out to be "anti-Indian...
...Work in this direction must be systematically continued...
...What as sgneultural fair we could hsve next Fall if sll of us could keine our prise products together...
...The latter orgawrsstion maintained wise cots sections in the U.S.A...
...Individual authors are unable to perform such work...
...Nazi party organizations the publication deals only with two others—the League for Oermandom in Foreign Countries and the German Foreign Institute at Stuttgart...
...Only one thing can hapten to American journalism that'll pet us excited snd teat'* stern Peglerese starts becoming the style...
...Coming from men in their ¦miess, this note has a certain interest...
...Ralph Teladene is Private Tolsdaa* cf Platoon so-and-so, Ant i-Aircraft Division...
...Would seam to as thst Hollywood, after the MssnJrn butt, owes the American pasple at mast * dosen hen ess, pro-democratic films...
...Farm-·· make *p about M% of the farm land purchasers," reports Real astete Association...
...Those of you wh* J*** read our symposium on Italy must have bad the thought: A nation, which produced Salvemeni and Sforza and Sturze must •are something good and sound at the heart of it...
...they did not...
...S.-Soviet esSttp," denouncing "ErHch-Alter troublemakers," signed hp psaple...
...This is harsh...
...The authors pay greatest attention tp those groups which have been active here...
...Mussolini, she says, "was ?**·1*** and protected by the ruling classes inside end outside...
...It published s bslieua m BsgHsh...
...We hear the magnificent word* of MatUotti...
...snd what is in prose, the sequence, should be in verse...
...isg*r ir-1 conducts seven Russian orchestras (sll with different museetsna) ! . . . Circles are still bussing about that scorching iirki JnXJnps* Weidman's latest novel took ia Sunday's...
...And a resolution recently p*sesd demands thst sfl skipping (except aid to the Soviet*) be converted hnsneihltsay to carrying armaments for the "2nd front" And If test's not eiwegh, the NMU's "laser" classes tum as a toxtbueh Marl · Buy SemTM...
...what about the Italians, especially the Italian workers...
...This is the "chores ss commentator...
...There is, she ntys, so Hague agreement against the use of poison gas on such has...
...tbey begin to think that all of the Italians are cowards...
...feW Sil IUI ¦ of the State Depart meat...
...Precisely hit defects and virtues sre necessary for this value to emerge...
...Wall Street quickly catches on—end The National Association of Real Estate Boards has just ccm-ahwd a survey which arouses real fear among all those who have ¦pat asmoriss At the present time farm seiring prices sre 1*% ahm those of last year...
...nothing epigrammatic, nothing ironic, scarcely anything beautiful—and all this for 200 page* with the threat of two volumes more...
...People, be says, don't talk right at Wshte correct no more...
...Only last mossth, Monagr...
...I iterati A C*.:—Westbrook Pegler blew off this week egoina» no, not against Local 16&, Hodcarriers listen, AFI hid against Henry Luce's Time magazine...
...and ?? verbal learning and trivial passiv» experience have been so separated, they cannot be brought together a poeteriori...
...yet in this nature of the case, what demands most time and attention is always the verse...
...Maybe people are learning annething...
...The keek consists of three parts...
...A special chapter deals with the organisation of German national minorities and with the use* of these minorities for party aims...
...Forget about the victory garden until September...
...In a world as uncertain as Mrs, they refuse to give up something as stable as land in order ? tore money in the bank—even ff the amount of money is more nan they ever hoped to have...
...The literature on Nazism is already very large...
...yur flfers are destroying Naples and Palermo and Milan, Next J** mey make take possession...
...Worst of all, however, is the invidious distinction established between the ordinary causes of behavior that appear in the press narrative, as "Jack left hi* wife five times with the intention of not coming back, but remorse overtook him, he became' sorry for her . . and the full-dress capital-letter Causes of the reflection*, Id, Capitalismus, and God...
...poet, heart's-ease for themselves—who can now be ashamed ef what they arc, especially if they are also teachers...
...Among thoee who ?~ted him to power were msny rich and influential Americans...
...With such ground snd sir forces we may...
...By its publication, the State Department has proved that it realised the necessity of filling in this gap...
...Those who have admired this poet's other works will probably scoff at this one, but this is their mistake...
...Then came the crash- and the long trough of the rural "teressioit...
...In brief, what is in verse, the gloss, should be in prose...
...Schwartz'* experiences sre stock-situation* and his explanations are abstraction* inaccurately applied...
...Richard Can tor ia an Aviation Cadet...
...Hew-ever, the pabHcatron is questten fells short of sekdevtag this...
...Arthur Uphsm Pose, when* answer ts Dewey-LaFoJlette was printed in Sunday** rim** (and then reprinted serially in the Daily Worker,, is a caries* feBow-travecer...
...In MSS, it was held in London—and Pep* then was a leading pro-Britlea, anti-Soviet spokesman...
...What a Poet Remembers By PAUL GOODMAN GBNUSfS...
...to a ehasr with rope to see it three times a week, it is so rmpertawt...
...Certainly, these organisations are extremely important...
...the choruses do not comment, but either act or dance snd sing lyric poems...
...Eyebrow-raiser for the week:—The Commie press has keen shouting blue-murder at the Ooeurto-Childa suggestion that Moscow liquidate the Comintern and the CP...
...If tee problem of *Pn* Elite Class" had to be dealt with oa less thaa one page, bow could it harp hot be garbled...
...Angelica Bata-T*" »crying aloud to all America: Thea* ere s nobis people with roots of dsssaeiasy in them...
...The third part treats of the Nazi organizations werkin« among Germans in foreign countries...
...IT is difficult to review this combination of ineptitude and earnestness...
...They make their money •? buying and selling, yet they are afraid of a boom...
...It had it* own convert awns which were attended by deregates from the U.S.A...
...I mean those academic persons who have so steeped themselves in the new snd the neo-antiqae beaming, and have so restricted their live* > te academic contacts and contexts that they can no longer grasp the •elation of what they know and teach to their Ordinary vulgar experience...
...wonderfully calm snd confident, these boys who hsve been graduated from the world of words to the world of deeds...
...His fingers must be burned dews to the hanstrss...
...In asms ssetieas the increase ha* been M"o or even mere...
...Thomas Mann, Upton Sinclair, Van Wyek Brooks assess* **h*n) italicized for us what is really iisieoBnIng about the rnovesssstta of our politico...
...By Dthnore Schwartz...
...instead we bene hsve s factitious prose-rhythm created by counting and scissors...
...This making of absolutes is not confined to our enemies...
...The people are identified with the State, native lands sis miifsssd with governments and regimes which range from the technically representative to the tyrannical...
...Ilowevei, it should have restricted the theme, put it into a narrower frame and then treated it exhaustively...
...realism...
...It is this busmen* of making national shee-lutsa...
...How much 1...
...The poems, oa the Other html, instead of being vivid presentations, sre heavy with talk sbout something site...
...Well, Westbrook can cry, but this one fcilew isn't going to sit down on the curb with hhn and add his head while he bawls about it...
...Ms «well Kozenzweig, whose by-line you used to ass teat year, is h uniform- Now Walter K. Lewis has been touched on the shoulder by Uncle Sam...
...nowhere sble to Up a spontaneous .mpuise...
...Only institutions of scientific research where adequate staffs are working in common can undertake such a task...
...The New Leader certainly represents the city •arkers, trade union people, white collar folks and all...
...It contains, She Lsgios say*, "double-meaning lines, salacious dances and situations, and indecent costumes...
...All the local heroism, the simple devotioa of common people ia accredited to narrow ????** ef here** crate and cynical officials...
...The tebskduwii of the list of purchasers is interesting...
...And what this column would like to see is a committee to beat all those other false-voiced, hypocritical "Soviet" committees...
...can We tolerate such denials of we utierate sues SQnmia QI free speech by business dictators, who want to control the air for their private interest and without regard to the rights *f Amerhw'e working population...
...One frantic editorial protested that what was being advocated (imagine...
...here...
...We who are not yet in—or who never can get in—we are proud of every one of them...
...For her the writing of it ¦m labor of love...
...For the most part, tenant farmers are buying and Sortgaped tillers of the soil are paying off their debts...
...William L. Shir er is going shortly to England for CSS...
...Yet except in suffering, daring, and action, how should the continuity ever spontaneously come heme to one...
...The documents published by the State Department also reveal that in 1*40-1*41 an association of Germans born in the U.S.A...
...The ft ret is- devoted to general problem* of Nasiam—its ideology, program and inetkeda...
...So we tab for the fireworks...
...am led into this line of thought by reading Angelica Bala-spirited play, "The Traitor...
...new—awaiting the coming of our troops...
...the cause* and effects in the story, as well as its feeling, are reserved for the verses which are spoken, as the preface explains, by "a chorus of commentators like the chorus in Greek drama...
...206 page...
...New Direr- 1 Hon* Pre...
...Mussolini is the villain of the piece, Giacomo ***te>tti and thousands of anonymous Italians are the heroes, "ten you have finished the reading, you have a sense of the fact **** tees* people who produced Garibaldi and Mazzini are still "ff«at and idealistic nation...
...bay all the time you like...
...iiiimiiiiiMmiiiwiiiwaiisammx...
...It just goes to show hew eanphcated this world is...
...But the poetic effect of this seemingly innocent device, as we bump along fram psge to psge, is disastrous...
...bad, for if an anti-Fascist picture isn4 "trosbsa soma," it'* nothing...
...His latest pises* sa Mark Aidsnov sad James Bamham in The New BevuhU* hit sa all-time literary low...
...In Brooklyn, in the Bronx, cat in the valleys of Nsw York, Connecticut, New Jersey end feansy'vania our readers are spading, hoeing and weeding...
...Many farmers, inspired by ¦mnsr motives, are refusing to sell...
...French soldiers fought...
...And smith swaits the tiniest bag or worm with deadly spray...
...This is the country-wide sverage...
...far tee teT*te*m*at ef thus* setivities This hi s highly hwpsetemt these* which has sat yet bees fairy ex stored...
...In Greek dsn sea there is, of course, no such thing...
...Writ* your own editorial...
...It should become a prelude to a series of monographs exploring the various forms of totalitarianism from various viewpoints...
...Most that aUMy-wood ha* taken its fling at being KiessUaiaed with the Paste* movie, it's turnabout is the sew M-G-M picture, Biissia Robert Taylor plays the role ef a visiting American...
...Apparently, is trying to include aU the contiguous prsbicsas the author* were unable to eloerdste fatly the special pr*M*m vre have mentioned Aside from tee oiBeia...
...But I shell refrain from boasting until Labor Day...
...the real estate men report hopefully that thus far there are ¦otigns pf a run-away land boom...
...the crowd* of common people faithful to him to the end...
...OASICALLY, this wsr differs fundamentally ' from all previous wars...
...meat important, both because of its length and content...
...The basic shortcoming of the literature about Nazism is the lack of special research monograph...
...He is especially serviceable to those who feit frustrated and small snd, though they found the world of Great Books, still have been unable to find themselves, hut the poet now gives them s formula...
...4 submit that there have been more genera* friends of the Kassian people is the ranks ef anti-SfstonU critics—who alone are consistent defenders of the democratic ideology—than can be foead hi committee-loads ef these "pre-Soriet" glad-banders...
...On the whole the basic defect of the publication la teat ha aims are too comprehensive...
...Just what should give variety snd nervousness to prose is its structure of causes and ideas...
...Nee only are the official party groups reviewed but also tee "front" organizations which, though "officially-independent, actually work under the direction ef the Nazi Party...
...Each part consists .of a relatively concise analysis, on the one hand, and of appended documents, on the other...
...How shall We **at these Italians who for more than twenty years have suffered **** te* Black Shirts...
...learning is no longer empty, life is no longer insignificant...
...This is the theme open which sll the attention ¦herns...
...Edwin Sea ? er, iiiisajsfl* Kremlin-Set literary commissar, is reviving the eld "Anssrissa Carsvan...
...Wffl be called...
...Jsere axe signs of a turn of the tide...
...men and women whom this Italian martyr represented sre w...
...snd if in its pure form the combination is depressing, it behooves these academic admirers to tern not against their poet, who ha* not deceived them, but against themselves...
...essssee Rsnndup:—Frees the Dotty Worker last week, sa "Mission t* Moscow"—"It should be shown to every pi ???* hasss in the United States and every citiaen shoald...
...And the worst hypocrisy of all, object to bleeders, dec sit*, and /or crimes of the Stalls regime sad yos become "aati-Rusmsn...
...It was a definitely Nasi organisation and it disseminated its own confidential bulletins...
...Yet, the main deficiency of this literature is that it lacks systematic and exhaustive review of all the basic groups of problems connected with Nazism The Stete Department has fully realized the type of publication that is .needed...
...At Brook Farm, to bo sure, Little Helen is there pSh watchful eye waiting to bomb the weed eat of existence the SMSsest it poke* an experimental leaf above the soil...
...Prepared by tke Special Unit of tke DWkHon of Foreign Affair* by ttaymemd B. Murphy, Fremd* B. Steven*, Howard Trreert and Jeaeph M. Roland...
...Sign of the times: the movie version of Bpeinr Toughy's life, Loot of ?? Gangttere, will not be shown ostsass tee United Stetes—following governmental suggestion...
...And it is...
...Then what...
...I* 1937, its international confTonee was held in Mustuw seal Pose has been a shining light of the Eremite Set since...
...The last part is...
...eras—interference by a foreign power is the internal political affairs of our America...
...On the one hand, a calamitous lack of language, inaccurate learning, total want of plasticity, climax, or humor, and merely general or even second-hand observation of life and nature...
...Pope heads, the Iranian Art Institute, which seed* sfhsml support...
...carry him...
...What's new with aha MhTU ?—4s* CeaseS has said that if Harry Bridges is departed, so union ship...
...So I have hopes...
...The prose is mostly a simple chronological account of events selected as formative ef the poet's character...
...But more important, the chief sequence in the work is the biographical sequence of the prose...
...From tfiis point of view, Miss "**bam)ff has done a magnificent job...
...The authors do not, deal with Nasi organisations in the U.S.A The first part of the book is less satisfactory...
...Well, latest report ha* it thst the movie "does not contain any troublesome political signrficsae*" which, we say, is just...
...and ether taunts...
...w The CIO New* has a long editorial blast against the jfemshtesunMjV is current hums which is worth noting—"This association of the bk business interests teat control theXir has long arrogated to ? the authority to say how mach free radio speech the American people may enjoy...
...Bst it ia the readers, exploiters, snd encouragers of this academic exereise desperate for the...
...and ratepateg into gloom...
...In this connection, a general question srises...
...The worst remit of Nazism and Fascism is that it has robbed nations of self-IJtemt...
...As per schedule, after the Leglos b*n,_ the movie houses have been packed...
...Friend* ef the Russian People . . . and to get hate educational work immediately...
...Toll* ? tsmsaej-Seen* time seek, readers wnJ recall, we got into a little isssahls with Paramount ever the political editing of Hemingway's asrtt-Francs novel...
...What it implies is thst A* Hitlerite Administration is, of all things, the most ? epi iwsiiiMrasI state in the history of the world!—expressing as it does every wish, Win and neurosis of tee governed...
...sites ef lima acti rities mrtshte at German ? aast...
...Formerly he bristled all over ami emitted short, sharp snarls at mention of the Farm Bloc...
...It treats of the general principles of the Nasi program and tactics, hat fails to satisfy because it is impossible indeed to deal exhaustively with saen a complex problem in the 62 pages atteted...
...Don't be too sure...
...With investors accounting for 38%, the remaining 6</r...
...In general, such corporations ate now the sellers, not *e purchasers...
...We nil start for the country at once, sb* up fS the price* of tend...
...1.00...
...However, they are not the only ones to phty s big role m the general scheme ef Nasi activities abroad...
...It has, too, deprived some of them of the ancient respect "their fellow nations...
...Take this btete-the-Oeraean-People-Every-Last-One of Them campaign (still being pushed bp Clifton Fadiman and Rex Stout...
...By the way, the Legion of Decency has put s ban on the new Lady ·/ BvHeooue movie...
...suddenly people on Main Street J*Suj tq ???: "After all, France is not dead...
...Did 25 «laet hhn, establish him in power, abase themselves be-«rs hJas...
...Victory sad After...
...V. S. Printing Office, Washington, 1948...
...We—or s lot of us—thought the millennium was ; "and...
...have...
...is the warst» tee grossest offense to the Russian peep...
...That, it seems to me...
...Time Journale** is mlect-ing American journalism, Pegler cried, ruining the lessgsass, breaking up the family...
...Thus it is all the more necessary to study thoroughly the* problems relating to totalitarianism...
...Perhaps it' is through such transformations as this that we mall eventually secure the much-discussed union Of workers' of jmsjtry and town...
Vol. 26 • May 1943 • No. 21
