The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Features Americana The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN |fL there's another fellow who has attended more conferences on I post-war planning, I'd like to know his name. A- glutton for...
...And Africa^ af the most colonial of the "undeveloped areas" of the world, as well as one of the lichent in tanna of row ^t>fjfjk«if and cheap labor, ia the also most likely trouble spot of future imperial rivalries...
...It rejoices that the original draft "was sjadsspmely pruned...
...How does it happen that the ™*Jonty of the people can be walked over and battel about ? °M mom question—and I post it in the hope of getting an from the younger generation...
...Aftertnug Jojkpsgonaatgai mlHI^tM^rgninoot...
...Dmt* aMl* ^o^oSagSte^ THE war h|uJiaoan, tihjum^ * the full lflmttll\*«iMsae|^^ of North Amasjevaam^kmt ISmW thanpeMWoli alines of Soufih...
...The end of scholarship is under-standing," he observed, "the end of understanding poetry ia enjoyment . . . and this enjoyment is gusto disciplined by teste...
...1 st they dont understand labor, and they don't understand that-*JmVt crucial subject of the production and distribution of goods NTtft% They -belong to the set-up of the 19th century—not fiktath...
...Leadership...
...nrssriwaHfiad, Ha virtually igjmros Urn growth < a lejaiteejy hberaj «s«saant in Japan, contenting hteuejf with painting opt y that in the last analysia this element waa• powerless to curb the professional militarists...
...Wfiatnen...
...Wbik we were...
...Certainly not the Stoator, since he is doing what any intelligent observer expects I n to do...
...ffttluW...
...With Uw.lnaldo.of hlsnhip, m\y,^rWj^ejVea.oi buckling stoei and biasing gaaeJina, the...
...Connolly ia aa honest at Abraham Lincoln...
...1; ..{Jam...
...He used to write his Wnah-Mtgton eoiusnn with Doris Fleeson...
...When that controversy came Op ah con "the WAAC merola,'" it wan inevitable that Daily Sew* ealutiiaatt John OOisaasH sjnand attteh kioowst rider to it...
...Start again as of 1917...
...As yet no professional reader has adequately engaged its elements of...
...deride pacifispo, by attochttig contemptuous adjectives to it...
...None of them, I felt, have managed properly to convey the ethical thorns, and its spiritual impact, which lies at the heart af the ffimrfsfa vet all of them, rlstnira fhair din-pa rate perspectives (or perhaps because of), have caught some of the unique and overwhelming excitement of Eliot's hook...
...Evidently it is impossible for Mr...
...vssrkod over the pest two years at least, as an integral part qf the pro-Nazi Fifth Column, aiming at a negotiated pence with Bitter . . . aiming at the Nasi subjugation of the United States itself...
...Twenty aeconda later the inside of the Lexington blew...
...Profits...
...Or, if this bad failed, we might at least have had warning that in any showdown between the two, the militarists would.win, and we could have been proportionately better prepared...
...mtmy pehtical gtoasx <er reaatateg "Ckristiar Fyoat" aopamrt...
...has no place in the world of today...
...expectations and you wind up losing your appetite...
...Now that we are at war with Japan it is not too early to prepare for peace, and peace with Japan is going to be more difficult than peace with the European Axis...
...ante, spal thog wetehad Cag^in Saarman atgpiag wtth agotbar ^oifsm janAjafpre, tha...
...shte^-thet manjMas te famt m*Vj noct...
...Paul Goodman haa written the tflk tJ»eW <*V ******* "WM I *a»w...
...So far as I know, it is the only work which encompasses this period, and certainly the only eate...
...B. In Literary Circles By MELVIN J. LASKY Op T. S. fItef'« New Poetry KIOSTALGIA for a sentence of prose sometimes *™ grows enormous...
...They toss their leai-penny» ttpnde they win, ta%'fpi ban...
...Ten women with empty baskets in the line, and butter sad-eggs and beans for only three I Let Prentiss Brown bo brought fast to face with grocery store manager...
...a lot of it is "awful...
...Bu> Pro him in the face of such a threat aa now bongs OW-iatesM "e and rage around this town until the threat ?aiuar^ht^Cnp.afe "ore than forty millions crave organisation asat,' hanMBglpi, 2* art starved for a Labor Pasty which will load I ha .sagsaM »a rT ^tions of the country, rather that or an Am sylfeji ffcjaf-'Ucism...
...But that is only 11JITHIN its limitations, Mr...
...J*?** Pronrt |A$f autumn while tomatoes sold for a cent a pound on tho...
...g»ofna, a tepicnl Casnmie front has bsnm sag ap^, pls-Opntroggsj locate of the-United Electrical Worhert have mgntsklil Town Meetings with James Mattes and Bans Nixon, two of the boys, nsnnteg'thsngs- Star of the affair ia anna nthos than fteagTsmnisn William B. B»rry—who was fought by renrriotirr...
...Falk stating that "one cannot doubt" the sincerity of Adm...
...And then Father Cfcughlm...
...jMesewn" Note*:—In the same issue of the Saturday...
...If you knew Senator Connally, as I do, you would recognise in him the very bast sort of kindly, honorable gentleman front our rural West...
...It was with no sense of exaggeration that I noted Horace Gregory's remark in the Times the other week that no poetry like it haa appeared since Wordsworth wrote The Prelude...
...I* Lewis Minors' Strike) is aa insnrrection against the war . * r There is not the slightest doubt that Lewis ia working, ana\ nan...
...what the, 3taliuist...
...was sent throughout the hemisphere began, "rHrbaps on* of the...
...We saw Hughey *fW come and go...
...Organize cooperative farm marketing and cooperative municipal buying...
...Its head fcj "Strike Bill Toughened to Provide Lewis Curb...
...It would, I suppose, be a little premature to express a radical dissatisfaction with the one-sided, if brilliant, critical approaches to, Eliot's achievements...
...A man must be a fool to think that a majority of the Congress, •*« present constituted, wbujd reajjy'Interfere with this business "rj...
...Maiael feels that conteel of coloniol sreaO is cer-tain to be a poet war ppflip ao ahaaoneh vaMek has since faded front the political horiton...
...These labor people sat quieUy and listened with concentrated attention...
...And if there is the old "wasteland" bitterness of "years largely wasted" Tt> house* are e& gone unde:r the, sea...
...Ohm: 76 cento] the leading piece is a critical essay by F. O. Matinossan mT.fi, hoot's latest poetry, and it touches off the damnation of the now Four Quarters which ia already dominating the...
...b. the, tost few years, she charged, he had come to be a mean aihigtrl...
...A former naval officer himself, the collaborator of the late Commander Holloway Frost, and the intimate of a number of admirals, Mr...
...He ia found going to the White House in company with one Joe Montague...
...by peaceful means, must and even-tually wiU be found, It is surprising, in this context, to find...
...mean noUttcafly, ms hare dwsBoi on knag, p sgg, Bet...
...WeH, that's what CDounell oaajtei ¦Sg*kimi for e brawl...
...enee...
...Just now he and the majority • Mi houses are doing all that they can do to win the war...
...But one should he quite willing to have Shakespeare and Plato called "Mr...
...price of food doubles and when 'rjl*rker' strike for more pay, and when Congress enacts a bill th** • >t a crime to strike or to talk about a possible strike— that not in either house of Congress a single member who really PSfnts lhw* ninety millions of Americana...
...Books and Writers Empire in the Pacific By GILBERT CANT FROM PERRY TO PEARL HARBOR, *g Edwin A. Fatt...
...Well, what is so wonderful about it all...
...A Page of Features Americana The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN |fL there's another fellow who has attended more conferences on I post-war planning, I'd like to know his name...
...major cultural events of our, tirna...
...wpxghput...
...what have they been thinking...
...There mo way .for the AP to main tain a rtRUtetion for accuracy...
...They gave me the feeling thnt they had power behind them...
...Its defects are principally those of the traditional Navy viewpoint, which prompts Mr...
...The box-oAts reports throughout the country Jaairj show tho ptetue* inslamping in almost every house, . . . Ip Illinois the picture hep rup into tome reel hot water, with the State Attorney-General campaigning against ft, . . . But the Aasochsted Proas dispatch wSucS...
...Paradoxically, it may well be that if there had been lean Aateafcan and,BrM> ish confidence in this "liberal" phase of Japan's development, and if the true strength of the militarists had been realised, the latter might have baan weakanod and...
...1942...
...work like a clock...
...Who next...
...He was a private soldier in the Spanish-American War and n captain of infantry in the first World War...
...There is ao rtratm,kmsV this is treason against the miners, against the labor movem«aW against our own country . . ." {Dady Worker, Juno 18...
...Sweeney's examination of Eliot's sources [Southern Review, Spring x?ft3,M smtrtag cmrciot is a kind of critical virtuosity...
...What do the pair ask F.D.R...
...December 7, 1941...
...This fact, coupled with Ha traditionalist view...
...Perhaps pa/iihun, as it was understood in the Wilsonian era...
...It is eaay now for a writer indoctrinated with the traditions of the naval service to say that this was inevitable...
...and a new hope Set farewell...
...Which shall we have...
...K t^kjSAaaal afowrer'a charge that fasmltfaii aptJn a.Ngaip^aog in lSSO, but waa doing a jaboaajn^amttamth* V%r naaag fcf^Mpf^ Africa!----<It Shoo tsnated out to he another geanrnl named Henri Gouraud...
...valnnbie^ sectioa...
...What sheet d'ye read...
...At times, I must confess, the arch-austerity of a gssnsmt Review ia rather distressing...
...FmpfR S. Eliot is ono* agaia rospon*ible,for one of the...
...He said that the fact* ~rrrs srrspjnjmo...
...Why, somebody for some I IW^llMIt asko, do ws pick on the Commies all the time...
...In the current Kenyan number [Spring 1943: Gambier...
...Forty years ago, I decried him'iSpd *W***4> "*> literally from Boston to Seattle and Loa Angolan...
...projects Africa, sanies*, the pe«t-w*r bacSaurourW and limns it agoinst the Atlantic ClsmUi, Max Maiaal is ooneerhed with roiaing-thavoteaAot»oi-living of the African peopie and ireoing out the evils of tho cotooial systssa...
...The most...
...Wherever six or nine professor ami Jlgeaooars are gathered together, there I am hopefully among tin- Sometimes there are six, or nine thousands...
...Shakespeare" and "Mr...
...too success of the roeent American Labor Cskfaipai...
...an otoax...
...In tho military sphere, there ia one other defect in Mr...
...Ia> the vary s>ja\fl« of the page a double-header makes Senator Connally again thsleading actor...
...If the little-magazine set of literary reviews fulfilled no other purpose, their service as o civilian refuge from columnists' chitchat, from the formalised jargon of the new*, dispatches and the glamourous Time-Life phrase, would surely be of sufficient importance to grant them deferment for- tho duration...
...Pant two* the raoat ambrtioas sectian...
...Tim speaker* apoha With a-sensa of masranee...
...ap, tt doas^apy widespread independent or, nationalistic forces which could generate ^suntatvasfrsBte...
...tragic wisdom and lyrical power, its range of moodj asn) idea, *nd master sclf-conicissnjnoss...
...o#2m»V difficult, essay on Eliot's theology will appear •h3#&in^t!!** eolmnns...
...agdmtian ¦ gainst manogemeau" But earioualy enongk...
...consumers right here in Washington...
...Asnl»4>ia is the> crowd that's stimaibig JaStao...
...The reason was that they had meat in their coolers—plenty oasiW In fact, more than has been in the city at any one time tUM» Ikdarpary...
...Part one dealing with tike current military and to n lesser Jsgsoi political ssrotegic rols of Africa ia nova a fmteats isn-o Mptd eeMpfsol writor...
...DoubUday, Dora*, fie...
...Th.s is ail fine...
...These labor leaders and the experta who work wjth them are good...
...But—pardon me for pointing—I still want ta know how the 13,000,000 organised workers are going to find out about a" ***** freatiu frw»» aw* tie Or*>cer ' / snROM here on in I Uke a vacation...
...laat men went over...
...In...
...But we shall neyer know just how inevitable it waa...
...He represents Texas farmers and cattle-breeders—not < Jy because they elected him—but because his whole background 1 dbasediiafc have Tnade him a sturdy member tpf that class and I i natural spokesman in the Senate...
...Indeed, to reach Tedo (Tokyo) wham his mixture of mid-Victorian pomp and mid-Victorian imperialist tactics was to open Japan to a limited intercourse with the United States, Perry sailed from the East Coast and around Africa...
...So I share with every man who knows him that measure of respect and admiration which is due him on sis record...
...e, pommie Roundap:—SulinisU in trade unions eat new groat oampapy...
...Ike tote of a ttsntietj^o^AimW Krock winch put J$awe llTaatJin -^odey velt's ¦Ojagheao*" * few hours before Byrnes took over everything...
...transcontinental communications barely existed...
...flamgilS ** a conservative...
...Then came qaistiins from the other side—if not, why not...
...Falk's reasoning: he blandly assumes that at various times ia the last encashes, it would have been a simple matter for the combined nsv» forces of tho United State* >md Great Britain to cut Japan's lifeline to tho Asiatic mainland—during the Manchuria* "incident," for esmmpje...
...Only these who combine, the calm of Socrates with the sympathy of Christ can turn a kindly eye and understanding heart upon that poor and baffled crowd who were, ones respected college professors and cheerful journalists...
...From an exclusive story in the New York JWlg Marror, the tame day: "The city and its suburbs were cleaned out ef roe...
...It was most appropriate that I read From Perry to Read Harbor while travelling from the West Coast of the United States to Pearl Harbor...
...And every day came boatloads of them from every bay and-nock and river area of tho Chamo lake...
...Falk has the traditional Navy viewpoint: the fleet must be maintained at over any conceivable enemy hi any ocean, regs rd-leaamtwjist .maybe hssanaaiiaj teasjyothor.rmmm His careful tracing ef tho step* which elevated Japan from the status ef...
...Must all this so, eajkafia "iatra-ieftiat iqshhnng" go on forever...
...Wkere 1$ the Labor Party...
...There is no doubt that the miners' strike was deyalqpei consciously as span of that conspiracy...
...Tho dateline ia Washington, fcS, JunWS;- 1...
...and the comrades who sat "through, aaaon show* a day so they can cheer at the proper places" ware moof ajaatying...
...at-¦"•Chere in which they were born and reared and within which ¦Py breathe and have their being today...
...The iiiisioathnanl solidarity of the professional military and naval castes Is jest as great a danger as, if not a greater danger than, international paeiftom...
...of *T^rif\ 4ftTs i *Jm/ "e*i'' American . penetration, lacking...
...After 26 years of experience it would...
...tho former given tho hate necessary to bring it into ascendancy...
...Csnnnjl • • ' *^;v--' r* men-Eyed GremBn:—Yon could have'expected it...
...the spent port, area around the Golden Gate haft not been developed...
...What have they been doing...
...Just roll bsck history instead of prices...
...Kat peace with Japan, we made m attain ste preparation* for war with Japan...
...most factually exact films ever to be piesmstf here is Jpejfep to Jstssosst...
...on the kssoe eda David- Bwbineky, titty gi usable and claim that war IIX...
...Falk to give credit to a pacifist, even for sincerity, and impossible for him to doubt the sincerity of a,n Annapolis graduate, even,when he happens to be a Japanese admiral...
...Doubtless, only his ago...
...Such action would-be wholly outside the...
...there is a new understanding— We cannot restore old ajpjjntt Or follow an antique drum...
...Wnfl, Staplay Jj^nVton, who wag the only rajwrtor agJtbe fW»^W*rtt, *«• tbjastoryof tha.lastn^uteaehco^^ Ha ateng with, the crow, hag aAapdetatd...
...While I go out to plant) the * potatoes you will be turned over te tho head of my persWpal fsjhiogfon Bureau, Dr...
...point, tends to make his recital of events seem...
...aa Oriental Kto Van Winkle to that of on enemy of civfflxation second only to Nasi Germany haa beep written with the benefit of hindsight...
...But fare forward, vouagers Chatter Inside and Out By MATTHEW LOW iyttt't~ the Gates:—This item gives us a chance to go thnoug-k ~ a lrttie preamWa...
...Of course OPA is now on the spot...
...There is a bill in Congress to abolish it altogether...
...prevents him from being in the thickest of the fight rsyht now...
...haa not been militant enough te_gj§t raiaa...
...111 tell you how to control food prices in this country...
...Uriu, a Japanese graduate of Annapolis, whan "he addressed personal appeals to old American classmates, for a better understanding...
...Berry bad one eg the, went isolationist recora* ia Csnggaaa...
...He's the correspondent JUiisevdm gsma fib* Qsnmaa Iroa Cross to several month* ago...
...It might be useful also to record that Eliot himself has published an essay which does much to illuminate the character of his latest verse— "The Mamie of Poetry," Partisan Review [Nov.-Dec...
...War stories r that ana costing, hock iUnatjmte the old sa« about truth...
...J^ERE is causa for wonder among the 43,000,000 Americana who tnf.wJk for W8*e" (or "salaries") and among their families ""•J 90.000,000) that when the...
...And sometimes tOt speakers are men and women who hove done real thinking...
...Tho...
...FalkV recital of a century of history in the Pacific has considerable value...
...v • • •. Csgl s\ nction;-It's comrnooplace to say that th...
...The dancers are all gone under the hill...
...ij'm although •thet,daak.riatj>ajar ikomaj n^anytaml moat- likely ijan...
...A syndicate is taking over Sternng Norths kogkrsttewa mMtk knse eesa eantmWng in the...
...These men and women are not kidding themselves...
...TTlmll—T *ad ficfian, and, it's oven, ajattexl iitfjannd to drag Jfltfiph CouxatLin whan tea teles daatp %WWk coat be, resjt>ed...
...IN time of peace, prepare for war...
...If thomuij he«o.,theo>i'*eiactus land" poet of Garlic amd saftpmire* m tk*\ mud there is a new serenity Tksf faith, and the love and the hope are nil tK teKt WfitiMeff...
...A- glutton for pigment— that's what I am...
...In Ferry's time, CSlWtow* had but lately been joined to the union...
...which condenses the events of the more remote years into such compact space...
...Why blame Congress...
...tojfoyojgp exploitation...
...And he did...
...Times have changed, and in this book Edwin Falk traces the developments and the diplomacy which marked those changes, from the early port of the last century to "that day which will live in infamy...
...The strange thing is to be found in working people themselves...
...We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time...
...Bat why...
...tsprking-clau, next to these pigmy scabs of the Communist Party____ • * • Everything Right But the Facts:—At times it seems to us that 4m...
...from the standpoint of the labor movement, they..are,,^* enemy within the gates, a moat reooumefal and mast U*m**M\ •nony—and they have te ha fought every step of the way if this ^RhjjJ^J '*mT ate ttO^ 4B,:*A^(Hft tsa^sfc»^Hmt, .^WH a^oJUmj^O^mT .ttje4^8r^^pp^i'*.ij^;.#-Swallow this, from Earl Browder, Labor Enemy No...
...Falk to deelare that in the ninetsen-twenties "The democracies were wallowing in orgies of decadent pacifism...
...Frank Bohn...
...The latter appears to he the Wagfi-iarton puller and hauler, for "The Texas and South Western Cattle pShers' Association...
...machinery for keeping the peace, and...
...Hobby has agreed to equip all women-soldier* with prophylaxis—on the theory that a woman in war was loose after that...
...Indispensable in a technical way ia James-J...
...Plato" rather than the "moonfaced, dreamy Greek" or "certain informed Stratford literary circles...
...nd if Edwin Moir's emphasis was largely on the metaphysical message, of the poetry, Froieaaar Mathiessen's is for the moot past a structural analysis...
...Now Job* Z~ I**tla...
...our free press is getting altogether too free with its news reajarts ¦ . . This carnivorous department is very much perturbed emtr she dispatches on the food situation: they build up hopeo and tear.dewn...
...iisnea are becoaaimr...
...But—"Its heart is in the right place...
...They ask that retail meat prices be left to the solicitous care of those who have meat to sell—not rolled back 10%, as the OPA is trying to do...
...The proposals made wore sober, definite, realistic...
...W* have no love for autocratic John L., but he's an herom.giaajt.ojC the...
...Aejatriajs Jamvef^rnVSTml these last araas> mn Yn 'lll^nli...
...Mr Maitel's hope fey an Aftteap-Bk .ajiimint Commission with representatives from th* lending powers atoms chemtrical m view of the capital bnpknaptey of Bamote a >d Gkeno nnd^st ejrpeotsed smSssnknei of tho British as regards the future of Africa, I...
...Think of the job of forcing a ceiljng price on butter and eggs sol beans...
...But, if that is the case, it is still to be proved, and it is certain that a new...
...TadajF Tha W***tfgton JPoat canries Urn story of the ConnaUy-Saiitb Anti-Strike Bill on the front page, first column...
...The House-teste conference on the bill "hardened, possible loonhotes" ate...
...LiUraU A Co.:—The left wing it tsOkiag about—(be Stfiney Hoofc-i David Merian debate in the current Tfwrffimji 'Jtewfihs...
...Washington does not have today a more worthy representative of the great breed that gave us Andrew Jackson, SIM Houston and WilHnm Jennings Bryan...
...If it cant win at leant one round right at*, it might as well fold up and vanish from this troubled scene...
...J, 1W Ceafary Minds TflOSB two items—about the Antr-Strike Bill and the plea for ¦higher meat prices—side by side on the page are wonderful...
...This was the fitsg'pnbrkvdttemmion staged by the American La** ConXesmwe on Tnknimmlirir amnlitv-It ant .to Hm ss!7nal ^^^"^inwJ^^^^yS!^, ^ l*jjr* «<th all the The audience didn't buna, with nervous anxiety—as conference faiences usually do...
...t Eastern Shore of Mary Land, they sold for twenty centea pound to...
...nerrow-miadad "Nasi...
...Gmtnad in LarAJm wrote a,menja<f*oa&u*UBe\ abw«Ve cagtein who made theJioamn bet trsgte...
...All are in their way useful and effective critical contributions...
...It ifceaa^ thus...
...aasttojm < Wring, a %Mif...
...She dfvoreed him...
...for .tee workers...
...Roll it back to the last war...
...Mattel's book., which, attempts t« thro* some light on Africa is conrposed of three, pfrts that are slapped together wiajrjtje...
...In time of war, prepare for mar...
...Bi in Washington the prices of food—for the average balanced Man for the average family—have more than doubled during the past two years...
...cogteis gsm*fi> rmaapk doubtfully: "If I left the ship, and than th* a«,em*Ae«S-I'* look dgasa.,sUlyr Than he aU4 dfWA te.tkg ettteg awt?gS3ete...
...fmfcth* ISiajimllia Punt's editorial page prints a rather intel-linat criticism of the bill...
...This fain completely te take account of the fset that American and British warships, in such an under: taking, would hove bosh, oven farther away from their bases than in operations in the Southwest Pacific—where distance proved-to be a crippling factor...
...thai even the blind caa sea...
...and some time back Ck am art magasirte [M Parry St, N.Y.C.] published Philip Wheel-right's more textual study of literary references...
...yesterday . . [It is] s meet famine...
...conference committee now baa a ejfeavto complete the job" etc .?¦* us ratarp to thn^wprKhnrful front pago eet-up...
...Meantime the OPA has slid down to a bottom level of helplessness and despair where it suffers the sneers tajf jeers of almost everybody...
...Meanwhile the Little Steel formula allows an in-Set* of promptly 15...
...is the last which in 180 pages gires ttm render a run, ning World Almanac survey of the 4f divisions of Africa...
...All I get is what I eat in the papers...
...Me orek* a dopootorv about bom someone says Col...
...Why is there not, among Naders of labor, one man like old Sam Gompers...
...men, They railaaafcent vakoi theg,enj* "oMtapdo...
...A short piece has appeared in those pages [Sew Limit, Mag 1...
...Ktam an exclusive story in the New York Daily Sewe last Saturday, Jane 12: "The butcher shops looked like butcher shops yestex.-aay...
...literary reviews...
...Review j>[ *W- Literature appeared Norman Cousin's effective literary -dttfirir on the Davie* movie fan inexplicable and lnexouaabis aktader''!—aud Bennett Cerf't crack, "I went to see Mission to Mjtmaw' on the theory that anything that could get gr"iTfrn-Tjfflt| that sore was worth seeing...
...Hobby and ether* teniae'tkl em ill tktng categorically...
...rejttipn to each other...
...to do for them...
...Bhs asimiji, however, haa already keen hoMeyeu-bt* oaapta #ar...
...there was no canal linking the two oceans...
Vol. 26 • June 1943 • No. 25
