Murder in the Deep South - The Story Behind a Lynching
KONVITZ, MILTON R.
Murder in the Deep South - The Story Behind a Lynching By MILTON R. KONVITZ rm h«w*p4p*rs reporter tt * Aiil *•**•* ' on June 16th a group of men took (Ww Hffrt-e*n from the 4»jek*oo...
...Pud-op uiisiinsrlhsp haa hit a steady upward tread...
...Tobruk, Bengasi, wflkh destroyed Mussolini's rag-teg-and-bobtail empire —and the post-picture final victory at Tunis...
...Up to Ctovtme* been surprisingly good, considering tat.aa* 4 our advance...
...snaj line, sad secondly, of deteraunstise that *f» m**t*'t be alloved to happen...
...The passage of some very minor resolutions represents the extent of the "victory" which the New York leadership plans to publicize among the local membership...
...One cant run round the corner and buy Btmtmrd Parliamentary Debates or the Beveridge Report...
...ruled out the eoafesston, and had said, t*»,Z without the confession the convictem eeak ¦ stand up under legal scrutiny...
...The convention ended in clear triumph for the national administration, headed by Milton Murray, president, Sam Eubanks, executive vice-president, and W. W. Bodgers, secretary-treasurer...
...The most I've seen about the latter is a summary of perhaps 3,000 words at the outside...
...Hare, of course, it is accentuated by the time-lag in news reaching us...
...were arrested, hot all were released sooa thereafter...
...The plan was for the New York local, accounting for 25 per cent of the convention's voting strength and augmented by support from Los Angeles and Denver delegations, to dominate the Guild's 10th annual convention which opened for a five-day run at the Hotel Sutler here...
...To do justice to all contending factors, this respon-sjutttto* ahehhi ba more evenly dividid...
...but labor could clearly not accept a policy of gradual curtailment of real wage rate* with rising living costs...
...Certainly much *¦¦¦>!hag...
...But aside from this blunder, which labor has forced the govern-ment to correct, the war-born machinery of governmental wage regulation has not so deeply paralyzed the functions of labor unions a* might be inferred from Perlman's article...
...Shortly thereafter Mayo died...
...Ten days after the indictment he was placed en t rial On the fo 1 lo w in g da y the jary returns* a verdict of gailsy...
...with no recommendation of mercy...
...At tiie second trial the Judge gave a proper charge to the jury...
...But those who can be said to $ turfy political questions are definitely the minority...
...h the con^ referendum was interpreted by the party-liners c* a "unity" Dospite onpositiea which ranged in character from noncooDeration right through to outright sabotage, the ANG was abie to report to tts members that 1943 marked s high spot la the union's growth...
...j Socialist M>.»s would find a mere, i audience than the Tory M.P.'s *% *Jflp< Array wrong in being suspicious of tas *o*m „ it ia the Tory that we are paraded rather than the Socialist...
...LUMBER SHORTdGrT HEARS The manpower pinch has brought on a crucial lumber shortage in the Pacific Northwest Production is 25% behind schedule and has grown progressively worse in the past few months...
...That is why The New Loader prints below a long communication from a British 8th Army private that appeared recently in the London Tribune...
...Justice Chapman, in his liiasiatiag opinion, stated that the circumstances preceding the signing of the tonfaeajua "are such aa to create in my mind an abiding conviction that it was obtained by influences calculated to delude the mind of an immature and ignorant colored boy of its far-reaching import and legal sequences...
...seems to have fallen down on sb) j* pretty badly just lately...
...f However, what is really at stake in the crisis of the War Labor Board is not the bureaucratic solution of the problem as such...
...But that is true to some extent of political discussion among the generality anywhere...
...As labor is politically too weak to resist this policy by political actions, its resistance is directed against the wage policy of the War Labor Board...
...sr ate natively bow soon the 8th Army weald m ton in the event of aa armistice Yen may tan* tas that was a aiUy oueaUon...
...The aext question was why senates* to ssje* were in many cases less than the sepsraue* alto ance* they had been receiving * easy sort ana...
...Saa Diego, San Antonio and Denver went along...
...The reaction here, in official circles, is, of course, officiaL Wavell is "a great general" (which few' will dispute), an "efficient administrator'' (which is probably so) —and also S man "with a liberal outlook and a deep interest in social and industrial conditions" (which is the conventional tag of aB Government appointees tb**»dfy...
...On June 14 Harrison's attorney, Cip...
...There's feme criticism that...
...The 8th Army to most persons is General Montgomery or a hazy recollection of the memorable action shots of the film that recounted their triumph—at'most a face or a group of faces stand out...
...that, with the married men, and estnreflt aa ' Then someone asked whether a stetemsst ea*U not he made about the maximum lengts of arm abroad in...
...Samflarly, the lack of effective manpower which lad the opposition to atm^&r* -s^Timidanciaioat at the, thirteen offices tob»Hk...
...aad stoat' tosertaat is the fear that well be kept eat here ami the market has bee* rigged at toast aai si the beat tob* taken: in other w**sM that m ¦hall *jat be aatowed one say hi Cto^planfia] of that *Mt-w*r Britain that ceftaPy gag...
...In nine of ten eases union and management go through the usual bargaining process and conclude the bargain completely before eubsmtting a case to the War Labor Board...
...Immediately after the murder several Negroes, including Tfaiilii...
...He deduces this aalution from two factors...
...si **F •ton...
...Justice • ), sJltl|aiV JT_ About five days later the Grand J«_ _ Jsekao* Connty was convened, and CenaTnJ rtoan was again indicted fer the manned Johnnie Mayo...
...taken for that of a trade union leader rathe* ¦* a Tory M.P...
...But it's work that should be done now that such a high proportion of us are abroad...
...The lynching of Cello...
...Two weeks later, en Jane 13th...
...A party, arranged at considerable cost and trouble by the Boston local, hosts to the Convention, had to be Cancelled at a few hours* notice to make way for a general session which got under way at 8:30 Wednesdsy night and broke up at 4:30 the next morning...
...Parisian's sociological agapymhVei»aQ*»t although not complete...
...In many areas, lumber operators have refused to log choice lots until they get higher prices...
...and spurred on by the slowness of union negotiations...
...but no one who had carefully rend Professor Perlman's brilliant article "What's Wrong Mi fcanaj.,*Jif minus T** (New Leader, June 5) can infer from it any other wrong but that Amer-hnm^Wtor i* toroed to cope not only with its Hill Ml and legitimate foe*, but also with n*\*au*p*^Msnd, the New Deal administration...
...I WENT last night to an official lecture here by * Sir Malcolm Robertson of the British Council which has very much stimulated the already considerable tendency to discuss political questions More and more soldiers are becoming interested in political questions, and it occurs to mo that it might interest you to hear what are the subjects most discussed and the views most frequently heard...
...Victory will remember the magnificent last-ditch stand of the British 8th Army at SI Alamein, with their backs to Alexandria, the hard crow-bar thrusts that finally4 cracked Rommel's line, the chase through thousands of miles of desert sends, the triumphal re-entries into Bardia...
...The action of the Supreme Court, upholding the conviction hp one vote, took place on December It, 1942...
...First, and most obviously, they would find political ignorance and a consequent stress in many cases on inessential minor matters...
...Robertson pooh-poohed the suggsetke b • rather—unfortunately from his point of vto> disingenuous manner, saving that land wanted Jteeeism—* remark few wen n** to accept...
...Even the relatively well-informed cannot in the circumstances be as well-informed as they would like to be or would be at home...
...th«t after this lynching, Harrison was taken to a different * jam, than lanffllhg in ah* a fear of actaal aanger life aad limb...
...An individual is out of touch with the news (except for the base barnacles) for varying stretches of time, and doesn't always manage to fill in the gaps later on...
...the long-standing fend between big business and labor, and the peculiar relationship between organised labor f|K*kp *j4j0fttteartton...
...the event of protracted war...
...The- next quest iun was whether there was * a danger of a vested Fascism in Britain awf » war...
...I don't think, or I haven't heard, that Tom Harrison's Mass Observation crowd are at work on the 8th Army or other armies abroad...
...Except in New York, the cooperation of other unions has been eeemtrtently growing Oat of the Convention's 24-hour-a-day activity, with ail ta* pressure of meeting s deadline every hour on the hour, one can draw a few very definite impressions...
...But the solid core of party-liners carried the day, and the entire bloc of 42 votes out of the 184 represented at the Convention was cast as a unit on most issues...
...The significsat thing, though, is the vastly increased interest an**** the', mas*, and the fact, tlet those who are showing that interest *re heramjag predominantly Teft...
...But since Christmas toss;**** have had no mail at all, and few havektppt ting normal deliveries...
...Then there's the incompleteness of the new...
...Lumber stocks have dwindled to almost half of the 1942 reserve...
...Los Angeles...
...On the morning of February 5, 1940, his wife went out...
...M*r*M(an»|pfclaljiii' relation* have been al-to*n*a ba( have not been bureaucratized by governmental wage regulation...
...Utt*mm» wen if Perlman's analysis be accepted in principle, it cannot be conceded that the bssic problem of the war wage policy is due to bureaucratic handling...
...What's Wrong With the WLB...
...The Court this time divided four to three in favor of an affirmance...
...But the significant thing in the "questions" afterwards lAich, as »o often is the ease, weren't in most cases questions at all, but strong and provocative statement* of opinion) was the very evident intention of t ne audience to hew*re of any dis ingenuousness titer* might be...
...Mayo told the physician who saw him that a "yellow Negro" had hit him...
...In contrast to the farmers, labor has accepted the policy of stabilization of wage rates with relation to living cost...
...Keynoted by a "Pappy" O'Daniels guitar due from Los Angeles pleading melodiously for extension of membership eligibility to newsvendors (a plea already rejected on at Wast four occasions), the remnants of the party-line Kauf-mao-Pasche machine had swung into action on June 13 to recapture control of the American Newspaper Guild...
...Perlman mention* this issue in passing, but fails to place it into the focus of his argumentation...
...Finally...
...Wax CeUos Harriacn again indicted a> tfc ha might be again arrested . . . ami the tow...
...Gandhi, Nehru, and other leaders of the Congress party are still in jail...
...Cellos Harrison, then 20 years of age, lived with his wi|e in Marianna...
...1 don't think the Pram ssaamary mentioned, the training benefit Tha faff emails of which f don't know yet,-but which seem* to imply that an* wont be able to draw uaemploymetrt benefit ia definitely...
...Labor refuses to be the line of least resistance along which the governftient conducts its fight against inflation, "there is he serious opposition on labors part to an/attempts to euro proSI**-4 ing power by the severest taxes, and there is sincere cooperation on labor's part in the attempt to strengthen this effect by schemes of voluntary war bond buying...
...he was indicted...
...The treasury is heslthg— general aad dafoaeo funds have more tana double^ eince tha Marray-Eubanks-Bodgers ticket took office ta Novembe* 1M1, in spits of two long and costly strikes...
...On appeal to the Supreme Court of Florida the Court reversed the judgment of conviction on the ground that the lower court committed reversible error when it failed to charge the jury on the above role of law...
...trying to dupe us with fine phrases...
...But it> ?<2sp5 ' politically, and although it doesnt yet it does want...
...ia the was jss* will on such nrcaainni, irrmsvawHy a*J * coherently...
...a scattering of votes from other locals accounted for, the balance of . the strength the opposition could muster...
...Sam* were innocents...
...he had ne attorney...
...flan lima continued to live in the town 'and, as a matter of fact, teatfamd in hi* employment m*w*m the attest from the County Court House...
...The most important is that the section of the press dhmatafsflr tagged the Crossroads News hy John Ryan...
...Murder in the Deep South - The Story Behind a Lynching By MILTON R. KONVITZ rm h«w*p4p*rs reporter tt * Aiil *•**•* ' on June 16th a group of men took (Ww Hffrt-e*n from the 4»jek*oo Co*^JaMCTggfBM^ stated, in a line or two, that Harrison waa to go station operator...
...and had no Mthatity **>* Bet it dee* reveal ewe of the saais iaten*b «f the soldiers oat here...
...stay at home...
...6*W couldn't answer .t...
...The mam imps assisn I get to...
...A substantial amount of criticism is likely to be levelled against Wavell aa Viceroy...
...While big business and farmers are grotesquely over-represented in Congress, labor in the-same proportion undr-represented...
...The shortage of lumber is especially critical at this tint* since it is widely used by the armed force* to replace stem and is being used as a substitute for s variety of civilian products...
...isiaMng far him self and two aanscistea...
...The 8th Army is certainly very keen not to be fobbed off with half measures and it very much on the lookout for any attempt to "do" them...
...The real function of the War Labor Banrdia uncontested cases is to set a ceil-mg on the wage bargain which under the present conditions in the' labor market generally affects management.no less than it affects labor, while in the contested cases governmental wage regulation is the logical and unavoidable consequence of the war strike curbs...
...I should tjiink he was sincere and not skilful...
...fail in a town fifty mites away from ha* family and friends, where he w*a jhetf «~lsv COnst ami BatkC •*»• ^HHa^K'^HT three deputy sheriffs and he- rotemi.to "talk," he was torn "that ***** shnrk a%t he wonhi be take* out ami then he wo*M talk...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL The Politics of the British 8th Army [All those who have see* Deeer...
...He struck me as typical of the moderately well-to-do Tory whose conscience has begun to wake, who does see that changes are necessary, in equity and not only because they are, too strenuously demanded to be resisted...
...But the British 8th Army, which has gone through more action than possibly any other Allied army in the field, is not a monolithic stone block but * group of Britishers of different beliefs and varying political intensities who think a Httie, and ask a tot of questions...
...Indian democrats were distressed at the slipshod arrogance of the military mind...
...Little change in the intransigent Churchill policy is expected...
...rff»ijn smMai fntur hs tiit nr"1---**'8J *rt" ftpi Court of Florida, in its first opinion in tWease, painted oat that the arrest came as the result of a conference between the newly-eteeted Sheriff and a State investigator...
...The fun began—the audience showed that having an MJ\ available they were going to snatch the opportunity of airing trta >****» and views to someone -who might be able to act or at leant carry the matter further...
...A gaia has been registered hath ia number of aew steals chartered and ia new units bcWugh t under contract and at a lower expenditure for organizational work...
...I dent want to give the impW**j...
...1 " Jlli4ajakjant the continuous quarrels between New Deal labor agencies, particularly the Na-lak^Taltoi aslsliflii Board, and labor organizations, the Don Quixotic episode of Thurman AenceuV tilth against monopolistic labor prac-ahmylha fcafk of oaatact between Adndnistra-r***j afjalJahnr in general, and especially the lack eft an, adeojite representation of labor in the wanveenBtoj, have shown that the Administra-has not yet quite perceived the true nature and functions of a democratic, that is to say, autonomous labor union movement- But the fault lies *1a*.l»jf> laW insofar as labor has been slow aad reluctant to shed enough of its traditional pMpsteah* to "raise ite sights to take in the legislative and political hinterland of the job," neaps* Partewa's plastic language...
...King gate a* more rtothtog eannansjg j anyone ***** rrowted by , k*fijbai^* i by speakera aad questions afterwards •*» H*d yesterday's audience (except fat *» 4 fleers) been Be*-toon's constituency en * *" of an emotion he would have tost his depont, «• tawaghhis speech would five years l^w...
...The proponents of the "apposition" program both in committees and on the floor included such sterling orators as H. Richard Seller, John T. McManus, chairman of the New York delegation, I. Kaufman of the Brooklyn Eagle, Irving Gilman, tie New York Timet, and Peter DuBarg of the Daily Mirror, all of them distinguished by Guild records which in no single instance have deviated from the current party line...
...I'm impatient to see the report itself before committing myself to s definite opinion of jt bat from what I haee been able to discover so far tt seems a considerable advance, I wiah I could drop in on you one afternoon for s ehdt on political questions...
...Sir Archibald Wove// New Viceroy of India Special to Tap New Lkadb* LONDON—From spare, simple military headquarters this week moved Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival WaveD into the fabulous Viceregal Palace of New Delhi...
...Was nothing to be done to improve the mail servieef YasjMpa* was greeted with enormous appbmtT I m A.P.O...
...pointed at* that anon his arrest TfaiilOaB was taken ton...
...Complaints of "steam-roller tactics" came with peculiar pathos from McManus after his demonstration of "democratic" procedure at the earlier New York membership meeting at which the resolutions had been approved- Questioned at that meeting as to what rule governed the assembly, he had replied* "the democratic rule of .the majority," waving, aside a reference to Robert's Rales of Order as being specified in the local oyiaw* At the Convention, the very, compromises which had bean rejected in New York were hailed as victories for "unity", when made a part of j Convention action...
...The ties*ii of the eadtonee wen sertop more interacting them the torture erjlsg ¦"'¦»• Bveeykhkeg **** *g* S or reaction was greeted witb beat s**** ealh>-th* remark, for nma.ee...
...Wavell refused to enter into s discussion—"everything is under control," he said...
...dignity, "law and order'' of Fforma "vfenmiar* by a lynching...
...to tb***, granted the Petitmrft^*j%BlnWZ Iteaaajkrltr...
...Filibustering, jockeying and dissension on the part of these worthies interrupted and delayed convention work...
...aa Rooartwr...
...The Court ordered a new trial...
...The crisis of war wage policy results almost exclusively from a purely political issue: the Little Steel formula...
...He was sentenced to death by electrocution...
...The emteiinllnt Justice...
...The "confession" was the sole basis of the conviction...
...Wavell retires as British commander-in-chief in India to become the new Viceroy, succeeding Lord Linlithgow...
...The facta am dramatic aad the inrpHcstions arc of great significance...
...ia of the suspicion that W usiag a* now bat will sidestep oar *W "•"ben we're no longer essential ia tto...
...On June 15 the prisoner was dead...
...And finally, that the ANG v 1 never attain the position in the labor BWOWment to which the character af Its nmnmerahjr aad its function entitle it until aasscaguhnu aad destructive iafiaence wielded by the rnje-or-ruia faction u completely neutralised...
...Johnnie Mayo owned and operated a small store and filling static* on a road near Marianna...
...Some had fought it in committee meetings...
...Again he was tried and convicted, and again his case came before the State Supreme Court...
...He had been in the habit of coming to Mayo's store nearly every day to pentose a little whiskey...
...Last September, broadcasting from Delhi, General Wavell bitterly assailed "undisciplined schoolboys" and ''ignorant hooligans...
...ft*Aa*B naiws the crisis in the war wage regulations to the bureaucratic solution which the dhSen^jrohlanaof wage* in a war economy ban fmiuil in this country...
...j tainly does know what it does not...
...Firstly...
...Sam counsel for him could not be lapitoiii until after he was hntlrtal, and the indictment waa re tamed after he had "coafeased" wail* in the s*limihil* taking Mm from one Jnfl to aanfhir he waa hsndeasTod, and the car was being diiru* at * high rat*,*' . speed, and It hi dfdarihhi that, the ear was driven at a high rase of speed fer the alleged protection of the appellant...
...Questioned recently about the Indian political situation, Gen...
...ifs gradually learnisjg...
...To be specific, the issue of the Little Steel formula is neither a bureaucratic nor an economic one, but a purely political one, in exactly the same way as the various farm parity formulae about which Congress and the Administration have wrangled through the entire price control period have been entirely political issues...
...An Analysis of Labor's Position By ALFRED BRAUNTHAL A lot of things may be wrong with American labor...
...On May 30, whUe in jail, aad in the presence of the Sheriff, nine Deputy Sheriffs and a State investigator, Harrison signed a "voluntary" confession...
...Harrison knew that a abort time previously another Wag** was taken from the same jail and lynched...
...It is to the credit of committee and convention chairmen, however, that despite provocation the established rules of order prevailed, and the New York voice was free to make itself heard at every appropriate moment, no matter how unpopular the issue, the viewpoint or the speaker...
...m 8th Army U one big Marxist w^saJtsgP the tip* of tketr tongue...
...f Atkinson, appeared before the Sopremi Car for n writ of prohibition and hakes* en** The Court listened with interest and new* daeision It looked as if Harrison was tgtat, be freed...
...Certainly the authorities of the Couatr „y not have contemplated another trh-d, fiJ...
...He had no money with which to retain an attorney, so the Court appointee' counsel...
...The .shortage of men is acute and the War Manpower Commission has been trying to entice loggers back with promises of improved housing, free transportation, and the choice of a job...
...What lies at the root of the crisis in the last, analysis, is the unequal distribution of political power between the American classes...
...The time for' questions after Robertson's lecture yesterday, and the fact that H d*y*/ip*«V into fairly steady heckling wax mterefting inT'so far as it showed want are the main interests and what is the temper of the rank end fi^ RpbertsonTs lecture had been somewhat disingenuous— rather of the "of course, we're all Socialists now" brand—British development of Socialism based on the sound common sense of the Englishman —no slavish copying of foreign rystaras—nothing precipitate: but so far as one could see all benevolently run by that philanthropic organisation, the Conservative party...
...I don't want to be unfair to Robertson...
...The reason why labor fights the curb in real wages is' not resistance to lower living standards,' but to political discrimination against labor...
...One feels very out «i touch here...
...On the Administration's part, such as the attempt to eliminate the inequalities clause -hi i win wag* del m minutiae, has added fuel to the flames of labor's displeasure...
...Party-Line Elements Defeated at Newspaper Guild Convention By JANE BRYAN WARD Special to the New Leader BOSTON.—The American Newspaper Guild's '10th Annual Convention, which was held here last week, represented a clean-cut victory for the liberal-reform national administration...
...that we'll be left in the cote...
...so now the only question before take higher court was whether or not the use of the "confession," which was the sole basis of the conviction, violated the Florida and United States Constitutions...
...It didn't work...
...Certainly the liberals, who were critcial of the Churchill policy toward India, especially in the crucial August-September period of last year, are not apt to take to him with warmth...
...when he was thus being sacred from one jail to another he "confessed...
...far eaoagh ia mat tore it tan...
...But I think I've mauUsasil ate"** topics actually raised then...
...X) teu) a. Declaration of Rights of the Florida C*mC tion and the Bill of light* of the United Constitution provide against double je*j*j_ and under this mewtokw the second hwkt*S was a nullity...
...Second, that oar local Guild commissars seem completely oblivious ef labor trends or opinions west of the Hudson agji aorth of the Harlem...
...sustain the judgment of conviction and imposition of the death penalty...
...At this point the attorney for Harrison asked the Court to reconsider, and on January »,1942, the Court, by a v...
...and when she returned she found Mayo lying in a pool of Wood...
...During the past year, 10,000 loggers have take* jobs in war plants, attracted by higher pay...
...The history of the "New York" program which was to have been the basis for "taking over" the ANG is of interest.' Dreamed np by H. Richard Seller of Federated Press with some "me too" cooperation on the part of Nat Einborn, local executive secretary, and PAf's John T. McManus, local president, it was totally lacking in constructive resolutions on manpower, legislation, wage* or prices,-but loaded with such political joker* as aa "unequivocal" no-strike pledge "regardless of provocation," a raid on the defense fond' (predicated/ on the unequivocal no-strike pledge), an implied knifing of CIO Secretary Jim, Carey, a demand fox compulsory arbitration clauses in all contracts, a direct and an indirect attack on so-called "red-baiting," a bombastic salvo at John L. Lewis, . and another call for as immediate Second land Front...
...But labor reacts strongly to a policy which fa place of general taxes levies a class tax on labor by the government-imposed curtailment of real wage rate...
...NSW York organiser, haa an almost smbarsaring superiority ever the Big-City boys m solid, practical aad well-implemented umoa policy, expressed through participaticr in labor councils" and other groups an daseat nrtrstod by sou as contracts...
...that Harrison waa nrwmmsd that if be would confess, he would get est with a life een-tone...
...D. B.} -Vert* Africa...
...The arrest was made on May 19, 1941...
...yet the trial court failed to charge the jury on the rule of law that confessions should be considered and weighed by courts and juries with great caution, for it is well-known that men, through fear of personal punishment, or through nope of averting such punishment, confess that they are guilty of crimes without the slightest foindstion in truth for such confession...
...As labor relations have developed in this country, this solution had to be accepted both by management and labor as an inescapable war emergency laeeiure, which no one wants perpetuated...
...reasons: (1) they had not a shred of W offer against him, for the Supreme Ccnfta...
...Host far thai ars typical rsxmtiss to he seen I deal know, aagmaW be fh a hatter position to Judge vexes* awaw.sgiiiths are pset The Beveridge plaa has been, on the whoie, well received (so far as it has beer understood from the very brief ¦us»i|ijltj mjhe d*Qy paper...
...Although this fact is not quite unrelated with Professor Perlman's analysis, profounder historic forces and conditions are involved in this problem than those which Perlman has dealt with...
...Harrison cannot be glossed over with merely • bare reference...
...i r-'-r Various other points were made, an* a assto of fellows got up »nd jsbbered...
...and that thing* like the neveriept ps» were mere camouflage...
...What thee* men are thinking and saying ia an important da* to what they may be doing or hope to do after the war...
...tMNkth nataral wish to get heme to wife aad fantr Then there* the feoikog that it w**s»«l ¦ fair for the 8th Army, which ha* bcea *•*> met akeend be kept akesad after the a»jaV tic* white other* wh*>e never toe* aarm...
...g#* 1 gsjfjyfi- to*- officers from a win sad r*ajh j*o*ni on • nr*ua*to-te*y?^aa fOssmmasns gssmrwago tsesy as that...
...By no mean* were all of the New York delegates completely in accord with the ofl&cial program...
...Poverty, like » huge stone hung about the neck, deterred the development of* beneficial facte of the eadfms* from Use moment of ajjpsMaW arrest until the deatr penalty was imposed...
...The criticism ahaed at It haS^een mosti/ doe to a lack of understanding of Its intended scope and b to tie afloat that tt assia'lgg...
...This letter is an attempt to give, without, of course, the statistical' basis, some picture of what they would find...
...aJMspdaf M jsapk -M rwtO-HSl report* critiemmw^^ is a surprising^ *Jtd» assf, that it is sB star* eyewash aad that nisfjr* ttlik that that's encaga to keep us quiet...
Vol. 26 • June 1943 • No. 26
