Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Joe Davies ihe Hedger; on Soviet Propaganda THE New Leader's publication of Joe Davies' all-oat endorsement of Eugene Lyons's "Assignment to...
...But — like typical Americans everywhere — they take life easy...
...Live dangerously...
...There Pierre Laval, having taken the precaution to jail thousands of patriots, directed the people to "celebrate in meditation...
...3—"To a democratic mind, it appears inevitable that the tyranny over life and liberty exercised by the secret police, who reach down into all classes of society and whisk men away from family and friends without any protection against possible injustice, must overthrow any regime, in the long run...
...n—\mu_ did what it did—passed an anti-lseer|m made it nearfy impossible to bead off ssswaS prices, cut down appropriations for fiwt...
...Labor for V'irtsrg, which he outlined the purposes which...
...Similarly "Southern Liberals" have failed to solve the race problem...
...This must be prevented...
...Tbey have a perfect right to promote their convictions at Um polk...
...It is designed to convince credulous...
...If these outsiders gain control of more county committees on August 10, the Communists will be all set for the crucial elections next year...
...Theoretically the problems of the Caribbean colonies are complicated...
...while still others are independent By every rule of climate, population, interests they belong together...
...Nor is there any thought given to American constitutional principles in "the closely guarded secret purposes of the leaders in labor unionism which these leaders will attempt to exploit when the goal of total organization has become an accomplished fact" It is quite evident that Mr...
...And this, quite obliging...
...Why would the election of a leader of labor be more of a calamity than would the election of, say, a banker, a newspaper publisher, a mine owner or some other industrialist* I know of a great many worse horrors that could befall our fair land than the election of a labor leader as its president I would also venture the opinion that anyone of the lsaaiis of Labor in the English Government would—should Mr...
...Cndet a* leadership of such men as Sidney Hamas and R. J. Thomas, this group will process a contact the A. F. of L. and the aalmn Brotherhoods with regard to the estabiis^ssat of an over-all political steering eomantsn The entire effort is conceived in the broadm terms and with a view to achieving >oag-tsra results...
...I herewith .recommend a surefire recipe for making oneself intensely unpopular in Communist and fellow-traveler company...
...Innumerable prosecutions have occurred of factory managers and directors who were accused, rightly or wrongly, with (sic) these crimes...
...What is melodramatic tragedy in Russian often becomes farce in America...
...What they want is to hoodwink the citizens, to deceive them into voting for communism under the guise of labor...
...Well see that you do...
...Adams ever had the experience of demanding things for tbe masses from individuals or groups of individuals...
...West Virginia, Kiialaeal Tennessee...
...Illinois, and MJassW*, but do not really know at P(A hand what is called the South...
...b » good one...
...Adams and I are at radical variance as to the true meaning of what is and what is not American...
...Now Eugene Lyons and Albert Rhys Williams might agree on the propositions that the Soviet Union is a big country and that Stalin wears a moustache...
...President Roosevelt reminded us appropriately that the French Revolution and out own tar...
...The writer has been active in labor unions for more than a quarter of a century and he has yet to learn of one single instance when any worker was told by s union or its representative to work or not to work...
...Why is collecting dues constitutionally voted on by an overwhelming majority of members less American than is collecting taxes voted on by Congress ? Why is a strike more of a highwayman's demand than waa the demand made by our colonies for their independence from the British and George...
...It is filled with contributions from the Acting Patriarch Sergius and other ecclesiastical dignitaries and with photographs of churches, monasteries, religious ceremonies and archbishops and bishops in the cere...
...It is a serious and basic weakness, and a constant threat to existing government," ?—"The terror here is a horrifying fact...
...Adams seems terribly agitated by the thought that a labor leader may same day become the President of the United States...
...I have read carefully his article on "What's Happened to the 'Southern Liberals?'" in your issue of July S. It may be recalled that in the other war a charge was brought against Jane Addams that she had not stopped the war...
...A beautifully bound and printed book has been published in Moscow in Russian under the title: "The Truth About Religion in Russia...
...not been shaken to the foundations of-its organisation by charges of this ktnd and been subjected to the internal intrigues and disruption that such a condition would breed...
...But, largely for the benefit of foreign masters, everything is done to separate them...
...And here is where we go much further in our democratic procedure than even the United States government does...
...But of the fact that the old French revolutionary spirit still lives here was plenty of evidence...
...But Slavyane is thickly studded with phrases about the "blood kinship" and the "spiritual unity" of the Slavs, about how all Slavs (apparently in distinction to other peoples) have noble aspirations for progress, peace and friendship, etc...
...BUT Mr...
...They continue with their work or go to the ball game...
...He stood, at the end, alhumitisffiou...
...The charming islands of the Caribbean are among the moat mismanaged parte of tbe world...
...Every reader of these lines must get on the job and stay on the job until tbe polls are closed...
...The innocent citizen is bombarded with deceptive mail...
...If from now on the welfare of populations is to be the chief consideration, it is time for a new deal from Cuba all the way to Trinidad...
...The dictatorship of the proletariat is definitely out, for the time being...
...One of these new lines is religious...
...The whole purpose is deception and dishonesty...
...eenting the extreme elernest h accord with the interpretatisa ef Cy Record...
...It is matter for special congratulation that Admiral BsbsiVl mat days were made miserable by uprisings of the people and discotstent among the Bailors...
...They have a fortune to spend...
...The whole business is eh attempt at lareency...
...If one half of the registered voters turned out to vote at the primaries, the Communists would never have a chance...
...Is there any basis for such alarm...
...But the fact that two tiny bits of green land could be held so long aloof from alignment with their neighbors is enough to emphasize before all the world the idiocy of the inherited system...
...The Jersey City boss, like the stage-managers of Soviet elections, has a way of rolling up safe majorities...
...We shall not have to wait untQ 1*44 for the good results...
...on Soviet Propaganda THE New Leader's publication of Joe Davies' all-oat endorsement of Eugene Lyons's "Assignment to Utopia" [New Leader, June 26] re-called to my mind another recent endorsement by oar outstanding Russian pundit and ROtarian backslapper...
...All that matters for the moment ia that the ease sis at Fort da France be atted for service and put to work as quickly as possible ami - that the people of Martin que and Guadeloupe be put in normal rowtirmn with the United States and their ether neighbors...
...then give the correct answer: "Joseph E. Davies...
...An all-out organization for victory next rati will have an immediate effect this year...
...and the foregoing citations would have made an excellent prologue...
...Labor unions," says Mr...
...The joker and the joke about this handsome and ornate volume, which is an amazing feat of printing by the normally sloppy standards of the Soviet Union, is that it is not for circulation in Russia...
...One can find on sale at a Fifth Avenue bookstore which specialises in Soviet publications a magazine Slavyane (The Slavs), which would make Lenin's ghost writhe, if a ghost can writhe...
...Bastile Day was celebrated in England, in North Africa, in America—everywhere but in France...
...They figure, no doubt, that if tbey can steal the ALP name, can approach the public in disguise, they can lure more than the handful of voters who followed them under their own name...
...Our leaders, like the President and Senators and Congressmen, are elected officials subject to recall if they be found wanting In dignity and integrity...
...And that leadership is in the rnakiag...
...Says Southern Thinking Is Divided in Reply to Record From JOHN ?. «???RT Editor, The Emancipator To the Editor: Knowing CY Record and being familiar with his background (mostly Texas), and at the same time being intensely interested in the subject on which he writes...
...Its life or death has continental importance...
...Does Mr...
...They modestly express the hope that there will be a democratic Italy, although it is decidedly puzzling to know what Communists would do with a democracy if they got one...
...That statement is remotely removed from the truth...
...Alabama, ?? Mississippi...
...So it has happened that they have secured control of New York County...
...LAST VICHY OUTPOST •J*HE news the...
...Tat Congressmen, after their heated efforts h spread their hate of labor on the statute seat*, are now at home resting up from their ej...
...monial robes of the Orthodox Church...
...Persona organised for mischief always have the, advantages of the gangster or the thief...
...Caroline, Georgia...
...The Oanamanawi have a party off their own...
...Davies haa practiced throughout hie career, and which is especially reflected in "Mission to Moscow" in the book, not tbe film version...
...the CIO Executive Council to set up its «?, mittee for joint political action...
...The American Labor Party has become the center of a national movement...
...General deGaulle said: "French people and the people of the United States will remain, aa they have for 150 years, the soldiers in the same army, the army which demolishes the bastilles...
...I have in mmd...
...vPIBkie with his airplane Cook's Tour that gave him all the answers to all the problems of "One World" and the queer aggregation of college professors, ex-sports writers and ox-writers of detective thrillers who have boon transformed, in their own imagination, into experts on international affairs...
...Adams...
...For persons and gmehs who are working toward the sasw ends to blame one another wise things are not going so wefl ¦ the old practice of liberals The article of...
...Has Mr...
...Not easms labor voters turned out to the polii is lsil and insufficient effort was.devoted to th« elst-tion of progressive candidates...
...After nearly three-ojtartsesef a century of immediate eawawt with the South I do not CJafcnJ» understand it The "Lrbsselr mentioned in the artiest aas b the editorial introduetioa s*» known to me only by repetatia» I have lived in Virginia...
...At best they are useless...
...For twenty yean tbey have been voting for their candidates under their own banner...
...Davies, as realized with full force on looking through his prolix and poorly organized magnum opus, is more than a backslapper...
...Those are more than 150.000 registered ALP members in the city...
...Schuyler gees so la...
...Nor fear to be dead...
...two angles of the seme situation...
...About the only person in the book who receives a few harsh words ia Hitler...
...No man can trust another...
...When the desirability or the andesirability is thoroughly trashed out the recommendation is taken to a vote and unless a substantial majority votes in the affirmative, the bill or recommendation is defeated and is forgotten...
...That statement ia much too nebulous and mysterious...
...It is to be hoped that asm of them will be called upon to give an sense...
...and Davies probably reckoned that there waa no reason to hedge this negative J bat Mr...
...If you do not know how to distinguish between the opposing lists, call up the ALP headquarters...
...but persons fames* with conditions will readfiy f that it represents a spoebn ??* of view...
...The entire French Empire has been liberated...
...My many years of experience have convinced roe that there is no more danger in the growth of unions than there is" in the growth of the Union of States or in the growth of tbe population of the United States...
...THE Soviet regime is coming out with new lines * in international propaganda...
...Lady Chilston is a "charming, brilliant and cultivated- woman...
...All the balcanizrng influences of Europe have been clamped upon them from afar Stretching across blue water, often enough within night of one another, one is French, another Dutch, a third British, a fourth belongs to U.S.A...
...Murray places responsibility for an present situation frankly and boldly when it belongs: "Upon labor'as well as os otbns must rest some of the responsibirty for tat present composition of Congress...
...Tariff walls are mountain-high...
...These leaders submit their recommendations to their executive boards—elected by the membership in popular periodic elections much the way the President and Senators and Congressmen are elected—for the consideration of those executive boards...
...beautiful Martinique has at last been freed from even nominal Vichy control has been received with special pleasure by all Americans...
...AH of France outside of France is now enrolled on the Allied side...
...It is rapidly becoming the surest and most significant instrument for the expression of labor and New Deal aspirations...
...That would be a situation parallel to what we have had in France this year...
...Start a guessing con-teat aa to who made any of the following comments on the political regime in the Soviet Union: 1—"The killing of political offenders began in 1934 and has progressed with horrifying speed...
...But a letter in The Times on July 4, from a person as prominent as Mr...
...That it vkj we are beginning now our preparations hi next year's election...
...and run for your life...
...izing for political action...
...Adams, "are not American...
...Adams is deplorably wanting in education in tabor unions, their constitutions and their structure...
...RICHARD ARMOUR...
...On Primary Day they will march to the polls to try to elect their own underlings to positions of control in the five county committees of New York City...
...There are no considerations of honor or loyalty which control as against duty to the party...
...This is no time for the consideration of such matters...
...In any rationally ordered world the whole structure of controls will be replaced...
...There are many evidences here in Moscow that there is a fear that reaches down into and haunts all sections of the community...
...He is a very shrewd hedger as well...
...Churchill decide to retire prose eae of the truly great prime ministers in the history of Great Britain...
...Davies' diplomatic colleagues, who come in, for rather rough treatment in the film, being used as foils to set off the invariable pro-Stalin vision and tightness of Joe, are covered with adulation in the book...
...The local house organs of the Moscow Party line don't even express the hope that a Communist Italy will emerge from the wreckage of Mussolini's empire...
...ViCTQty /CONGRESS haa adjourned and the thab ^ unionists of the United States are...
...Charles Francis Adams cannot must not be permitted to go unchallenged...
...Live dangerously Was bis counsel to you...
...No household, however humble, apparently but what lives in constant fear of a nocturnal raid by the secret police...
...Haust:ve labors...
...Adams honestly believe that it is possible to win improved conditions just by asking for them without at least the threat of boycott...
...Even the German Ambassador, Count von der Schulenburg, is "very jolty" and attractive in a fine German way...
...Lord Chilaton, the British envoy, ia "a very steady, sound ryj>e of man...
...as to propose dropping the wSSS "Negro" from the language...
...He is approached from every aide...
...To read the contributions of Serguis and his collaborators one would get the impression that there had been no persecution of religion in Russia, that the Soviet Government had" not closed churches on an unprecedented scale, shot large numbers of priests and exiled many more to hard labor, forbidden religious schools and the publication of religious literature...
...6—"For the past year and a half the 'party' leaders have been 'beating the^ bushes' in a man hunt for Trotskyites, spies and saboteurs, who are alleged to have conspired with foreign, enemies to wreck and sabotage industry...
...land...
...If Hollywood style had demanded a film blasting the Stalin regime, Davies would have been equally qualified to play the leading role...
...The colonial governments are oppressively expensive...
...Russian emigres that the Orthodox Churelr enjoys full liberty...
...The Communists, at their beet, have never been able to marshall more than a small fraction of that number behind their Candidates...
...It is obvious, in the light of these quotations, that canny Joe was hedging every favorable statement about the Soviet regime...
...Expressions from trade unionists of all sens and in all sections indicate that tie eoratrj is ready for this sort of a forward step...
...Once a measure is adopted, it is naturally expected that every member abide by such decision...
...They are forever on the job...
...of himself before the central labor eooaeu s) his city or district Let him face t he met ? women who do the work and cast the west Let him hear the story of their political hsmv tions...
...Negroes thauisslim ? sharply divided as to strategy » present George S. Scheykwy the Pittsburgh Courier...
...For the voters of New York City registered under the clasped hands there is during the next three weeks no more urgent task than preserving and building the ALP...
...But in the reshuffling of empires that must inevitably follow the war, it is to be hoped that more important ? Images may be made...
...tfi had faemwjjyj JUST WHAT THE DUCE ORDERED Remember, Italians, How the Dace once said...
...There is srarcelv an industry that had...
...They wouM not, one suspects, agree on very much etse...
...Well, if labor unions are not American then neither are the Senate or the Congress of the United States American...
...Tremendous interest is being manifested in the fate of India and the African colonies...
...After the executive board has approved a measure, it does not become s law until the whole question and the findings of the executive board is submitted for ratification by the membership at large in meeting assembled...
...Son* weeks ago The New Leader ex ?-eases' the hope that the so-eelled anti-strike bill weak prove to be the Tan* Vale Decision of Ataenev That hope is rapidly being realized Tht sea conservative labor leaders see new that tat easy-going traditional political policy of tat past half century has landed Amencat titer in the political ditch The working psoeb-and millions of others—are ready for leaon-ship...
...If seeking to make workers' lives pleas-anter and more livable, allow them adequate leisure to spend with and know their families, obtain better, fairer rate of pay for their toil thus enabling them to lead a more decent life and give their children a better bringing up means something other than pure, unadulterated Americanism, then I fear that Mr...
...These two ramAm...
...Just what would happen or what could possibly happen if some outstanding labor leader were elected President of the United States...
...How does the United States government treat any citizen who refuses to abide by and obey any lay duly enacted by Congress ? And just exactly what closely guarded secret purposes will leaders of labor attempt, Mr...
...Adams states that unions hamper the choice of the worker "to labor or not to labor as he desired...
...Davies does overwork that Word "fine...
...My sympathies are liberals in whatever part ef ™* country they may be, aad I ·*no...
...Davies found the Belgian Minister, de Teffier, "experienced, able, shrewd and wise," the Afghan Ambassador "a man of much ability -and charm/' the Lithuanian Minister "a fine old man" and the Finnish Foreign Minister "an extraordinarily fine man...
...Let the gamut of guesses run up and down the list of the moat notorious "counterrevolutionaries" and "red-baiters...
...Long and tiring debates, very much like in the Senate and in the House, ensue...
...I do know enough to be *M* that in spite of certafo -?** nounced "southern" soatheoMb...
...4 EDITORIAL COMMENT ILL...
...Adams...
...There was nothing that Lenin repudiated more strongly than any form of nationalism or racism, the attribution of special virtues and qualities to any single people or group of peoples...
...Some day Americana will be both amused and shamefaced about some of the "authorities" who strutted the stage in this turbeien t and confused time, Davies on Russia...
...And our troops landing in Si^-"S...
...Davies would say of Stalin: "A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him...
...Adams is alarmed at the growth of unions...
...It is time that these islands be thought of aa a unit that their administration be combined into some pattern that makes political and economic sense...
...Texas is not to be classed papW logically with those states, . fJJ"-"Southwest" is s fsiriy msif»*~-entity...
...This indiscriminate underwriting of books about Russia which arrive at diametrically opposed conclusions is characteristic of the technique which Mr...
...On Sunday, Philip Murray broadcast m address under the title...
...Quoth Davies, in relation to Albert Rhys Williams- "The Russians": , "I have as much respect for Albert Rhys Williams as an authority on Russian as anyone I know...
...There is an element ef appropriateness about this procedure, however...
...paralhu, ?? ?1 ilar ahne and have left us with similar aS tiona...
...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Unionist Answers Attacks By Adams on Labor from ARTHUR SAMUELS To the Editor: Invariably attacks on labor come from persons whose sources of information are hopelessly distorted or biased and they merely echo what they have heard from persons who are as poorly informed as they are...
...Some of them may be **A wildered...
...New principles of colonial administration are in the offing...
...For Mr...
...wee not auch a bad day for patriotic sat democratic Frenchmen *"· LAiOR...
...No wonder, with this amiable and engaging tendency to pat everyone on the back, that Mr...
...4—"The philosophy of communism justifies .all acts if done in its, name...
...Working men and working weaasw having let whole gangs of »e.(-seeking ticians into Congress—are seeng red ana «? now do what they must do...
...By all odds the most amusing repercussion of the Russian Thermidor is the action of the local Communists in going all-out for Boss Hague...
...Adkms' information our constitutions and our conduct are patterned more closely after the constitution of the United States and the proceedings of the House and the Senate than is any other organization in the country...
...The result Is that there can be no confidence or faith between these men in leadership...
...But tbe complications arise from the interests of countries far away...
...Those who have followed religious developments in their native country will know better.Another new line in propaganda ia Pan-Slavism...
...But this year their most distinguished laaders have registered as members of the ALP...
...Allied planes roaring overhead heartansi-A, French people with tbe conviction wsklMa Nazi Bastille in Paris is soon to fafl...
...2—"No physical betterment of living standards could possibly compensate for the utter destruction of the liberty of thought and speech, and the sanctity of the individual...
...PtlMAlY ?? AUGUST 1· f\ti TUESDAY...
...Angus* 10th, thia strange struggle of the members ef the American Labor Party to preserve their organization for their own purposes wul come w> a climax...
...But the Communists are all on hand with every single person whom they can dupe...
...THE IAS TILLE WILL PALL I ET us imagine that the Fourth of July were celebrated in London and Hongkong but not in Chicago and San Francisco...
...Now what is there about such procedure that is not American, Mr...
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