Bigotry -On the Meaning of a Current in American History
Bigotry —On the Meaning of a Current in American History Simeon Strunsky Writes On Gustavus Myers' Work •-i - ! fX SIMffON STRUNSKY JBJSTORY OF BIGOTRY IN THE UNITED STATES. By...
...U»-CI...
...He begins with corrupt American politics, proceeds with economic piracy and class bias in the courts of law, and ends with American bigotry...
...I" rushed hack, but the door was locked from inside...
...RIO less acrimonious is the Serb-Croat conflict inside the Yugoslav Government in London...
...Strategically the Balkans present a number of vital advantage* for in Allied attack...
...There te an impassable gulf between the pro-German orientation of King Boris and the sentiments of the majority of the Bulgarian people...
...Shell stay only a* few days...
...To be concteded] Trail-Blazer A LONG with the eqaalltarian current in American life...
...Alone once more, I looked fixedly at my companion who seemed to be, so far away in his thoughts that be could not even hear my voice, the voice of the comrade who spoke in me, and a lump rose in my throat...
...But who first fished up the murex from which the blue dye comes, asked Browning...
...a correct perspective...
...In the meantime Stalin is fanning the flames ef sM war in Yugoslavia as throughout the Balkans...
...Today you mustn't drink- Take a goodmatsm tomorrow we won't think anymore about this am* story...
...he began again with his heavy voice and, after a pause, ha made one-more effort to go on...
...Imast the British Government recently attempted te ptergj on the turbulent waters by recognising also the f4M...
...It was the result of ?» long nights of tension, of the years of waiting, of I» - photograph* nearby and beloved far away, of tbt,*ff • of Imminent...
...He produced standard test books on American, life which no serious stndent of the national record can afford to paee by...
...a product of tha frontier...
...But she's a fine piece and she is certainly worth risking something for...
...FHE voice and the laughter of the young wcmanisli was romping in the upstairs rooms echoed through the house...
...Rumania and Hungary have fand worst in this war...
...Are yo* looking for seme dried fiewef* efShewght in the pages of mp hooker* '" '·'•* «hO'Was not even ruffled and...
...Bessarabia and the Battle States, which she regarded as a throwback to old Russian expansion ism...
...We ate our bread and cheese together, tojktog ef various things...
...So soon...
...The morale of their people, never very high, ia now falling rapidly...
...The morale of their people, never very high, ia now falling rapidly...
...Only Unat who will foresee the future are destined to govern...
...Listen, Joeette, leave us alone, for...
...a* *e perfectly frank...
...They will have to enter with some agreement aa to the fate of the liberated peoples, if the end of the war te not to be the prelude to widespread civil conflict Particularly great is the danger of civil war in tha Balkans where .the next major Allied military operations undoubtedly will take place...
...Hide her some place and, when it ie raste dark, take her down with you, over there beySea ? border...
...Therefore, when Germany attacked Russia, Turkey reaffirmed her neutrality...
...Lest there be any doubt as to the true political...
...In fact tonight I will take my woman dews I· S...
...Pietro, standing, was painful to watch...
...Let us try to underrteod'eaok other...
...It's not worth getting angry about...
...No sooner did the present Premier, Milos Trifunovitch, form its government on June 26, 1943, than differences arose over the Government's policies of s postwar federal Constitution...
...One man will read this account of three centuries of religions intolerance, an ti-alien ism, sectional bigotry, mob hysteria and plain individual lunacy, and he win be convinced that bigotry ia an American norm because it is always with us...
...And without looking me in the face he presented the woman who had followed him...
...It is noteworthy that even though Bulgaria is Germany's ally Russia has sever broken off relations with her...
...The first important problem the coming peace conference will have to face ia the ever-growing cry for a reversal of the peace treaties in she Danubten sons which in 1919 carved up Hungary...
...Thus the Balkan tragedy ia about to unfold iteaf ? all its horror...
...Ptetro...
...The woman had heard, of course...
...Seas ana the Congress, a meeting was called of all the lesaenef the Yugoslav Partisan movement and a dechnos usj made to create of the dispersed Partisan groan em free People's Army of Liberation...
...In form and manner this last Myers work is like its well-known predecessors...
...measure of recognition from those beet competent to judge...
...They overthrew their dictatorial government at the very moment it was expected to sign the Axis pact...
...I want to show you the new hiding place I have for the grappa...
...thinking and temaence of Tom Paine, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, there has been too the strain of 'vigilantism...
...A High Comsnai was organised (in Moscow?—L.D...
...She Went off smiling, after having caressed Pietro's cheek and there he stood, pale under his tan, his fists clenched, his temples white but his cheeks burning...
...lasgeamfl meat had been concluded between Vladkate |u2 leader of the Croat Peasant Party, and DragteW] koviteh, premier under the regime of RegetoB Paul, whose policy was one of alignment witt'tjjfir* As a result of the agreement, Matehek exjs^B Yugoslav Government which on March 27, VH\ w overthrown by the military coup d'etat tsmfmmms Yugoslavia's entry into the war against the...
...It will not be enough for the United Nations to storm the Fettung Europa, Hitler's mythical European fortress...
...This has recently been made clear by Ptessa» Boshidar Maslaritefa, vice-president of the...
...sans, there is no doubt thst the latter are tests ef Russia...
...Yea, I'm listening to you but hurry up, and at shook my hands forcibly from him _ "Today, our friends will come up—Roses, fisana...
...The woman can watt Ska is seated and she has cigarettes.'' ·' "That's the way it is, Enrico...
...Pietro was raadsteggu something and it waa certainly not this angaham moment that was the principal cause of it...
...This, mciderrtaily, gives Stalin a decided advantage in his bid for Balkan domination...
...It ia fame that the Serbs share with the British the honor...
...There is, as a matter fact, reliable...
...Thus, from a Strategie and military paint of view the present European war, like the last, may be decided in the Balkans...
...4 J · • w . POLITICALLY, however, the Balkans were and re* main the powder keg of Europe...
...Croats, of course, claim that this crime has been committed by Ante Pavelich's Vttathi, a Croat fascist organisation, but Serbs insist the pro-Soviet and supposedly pro-Allied Partium* participated in the killing...
...smear campaign against General Drain» Mikhaamtbg, Yugoslav War Minister and legendary leader afmv heroic Cketnikt, stems entirely from Moscow...
...Bat fat the ranks of Partisan guerillas now fighting fa Yugoslavia on the side of the Allies there are thousands of Croats, Slovenes, ? seisms aad even Catholic priests Wha are strongly opposed to Serb supremacy ia a restored Yugoslavia...
...The trousers were well cut with full hips and narrow legs, and the jacket was short, well up around her waist...
...No sooner Milos Trifunovitch, its government on June 1943, than differences arose over the Government's policies of s postwar federal Constitution...
...Lest there be any doubt as to the true political...
...Moreover, anyone who had wished to draw near without being noticed could have hidden from me in the woods...
...Thus at least you were only risking yourself...
...Today, with American tease-lend aid coming in through the Mediterranean, Turkey may be expected to support an Allied invasion of the Balkans from the Adriatic by attacking from the Black Sea...
...But more to the point is the fact that two-thirds of the way in his career Myers published two books called "The History of American Idealism" and "America Strikes Back...
...lihh* mihlji.ft stopped instinctively to listen...
...It it difficult to say at this moment what *uB ? ?? poeition of Rasen with regard to this deveiepemt, truce it it known that the Kremlin hat t-SCUIIFLGFEUI carrying on a number of complicated diplomatic mtetiationt about which, unfortunately, one cannot writ at yet...
...Because of its theme, which ranges over two continents and far back in history, it is not a tight book...
...According to some reports, close to 300,000 Serbs have been butchered within the past months by Croats and Slovenes...
...They bed fled by the little door through the pen try, with the documents...
...I began...
...It it difficult to say at this moment what *uB ? ?? poeition of Rasen with regard to this deveiepemt, truce it it known that the Kremlin hat t-scuiiflgfeui carrying on a number of complicated diplomatic mte-tiationt about which, unfortunately, one cannot writ at yet...
...I stopped a second...
...Croats, of course, claim that this crime has been committed by Ante Pavelich's Vttathi, a Croat fascist organisation, but Serbs insist the pro-Soviet and supposedly pro-Allied Partium* participated in the killing...
...In the meantime Stalin is fanning the flames ef sM war in Yugoslavia as throughout the Balkans...
...staggering, with his hair on end, he looked st once toward the hiding place...
...Though a traditional ally of Russia, Turkey was alienated by the Soviet's grab of Eastern Poland...
...In Trbdse favor then, will the Allies now decide the terrtmeusi disputes between Hungary and Rumania ? In whose favor will they resolve the bitter struggle that is now going between the Serbs and Croats in what is "formally known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...
...We ???, if we wish, adopt the policy of an ostrich and pretend there are no differences between the AngloAmerican bloc and the Soviet Unten, The truth ia that behind the facade of diplomatic transactions Stalin has long been making preparations for domination of Eastern Europe and the Balkans...
...Also working in favor of toe Allies te the position of Turkey, key to the Balkans aad the Middle East...
...One can hide pheasants in these hwtehes...
...1 Wz~ ' * * * XJIS approach to the subject might be called the democratic ** approach...
...Russia, to be sure, is not solely responsible for the Yugoslav situation...
...enlhs that withrn the next wee* or perhapi day* Altonii will break with the 4ru and Turkey will enter A* wer on the tide of the AUiee...
...Russia, to be sure, is not solely responsible for the Yugoslav situation...
...Pietro...
...This is just what he wanted...
...be tween the Western Powers and Russia is on...
...I ? If had, to a low window and ran to the exposed hiding place...
...And if his story of American private wealth may be said to have shown the way to the economic reinterpreters of the 1920's, his "History of the Supreme Court of the United States," published in 1912, anticipated by twenty years much of the critical literature of toe 1930's in this field...
...I'm sick of it, sick of it, sick of it...
...Stokes paints blue, and claret crowns his cup...
...Thus while we have been adhering protocol Stalte has proceeded to organise Slav Committees, the German "National Committee,'' the "Union of Polish Patriots" and other agencies designed to further his He even found it expedient to organise recently a "Free Croat Government" on Yugoslav territory headed by the seventyyear old Communist Croat poet, Vladimir Nazor...
...Pietro...
...Bulgaria, Macedonia and Croatio to the promt of the new states of the Little Entente—particularly Rumania and Yugoslavia— the upholders of the ???-wlsr Fiartck policy...
...But whereas in the last war...
...The Croat Ministers insisted that the Matchek-Cvetkovitch agreement of August 26, 1939, awarding internal autonomy to Croatia, should reaAxmed ha IIJMWV...
...By this I do not mean to say that Gustavus Myers reached uuite that stature in his own leid of American historical research...
...It will not be enough for the United Nations to storm the Fettung Europa, Hitler's mythical European fortress...
...The woman was ?™?*??» loudly with a foreign accent that seemed to me ?"» . A little stove in one corner of the main room...
...It is straightforward narrative, long on information arid short on dogma, with copious citations from original sources which should make this book, like his earlier ones, a rich mine for more facile pens...
...Most of the Serbian Ministers in the Trifmifcetej government are opposed this declaration f a t ^ autonomous Croatia on the theory that it is atemtkl that the constitution should be agreed upon te «9 Serba rather than appear to be imposed oo than m the basis of a past agreement...
...She is a friend...
...Bulgaria, with its Slav Greek Orthodox population is traditionally pro-Russian...
...between the Western Powers and Russia is on...
...Therefore, when Germany attacked Russia, Turkey reaffirmed her neutrality...
...Rumania and Hungary have fand worst in this war...
...Nothing," and, cutting the word short, he looked as if he would have liked to about it atme, j "Well reach no understanding by yelling...
...Besides Jem Bros, Montenegrin Guerilla leader popularly knew* at "Tito," these are: Milan Blagoevich, formerly a metenant of the Spanish Loyalist Army...
...But whereas in the last war...
...According to some reports, close to 300,000 Serbs have been butchered within the past months by Croats and Slovenes...
...plexion of the Partisans, Professor Maslaritefa gam m to say that in the "People's Partisan Army of Lmmv tion (which he estimates at 300,000) there has bat introduced, IfMttjjmffl ff ?°???*> Commissars, si the political work is guided by these Cnmiaateui both within the ranks of the Partisan Army at wsQ u among the civilian population...
...They can't be allowed to see smt woman...
...While I was trying to think about the matter calmly in order not to be hysterical about the situation, the door opened and Pietro came in followed by a woman...
...Every so often the woman fotmpt to put on her foreign accent: the silence ??>*?4 **VniBg drawing in began to intimidate her...
...So time may show that in this last book from hie pen, the present history of American bigotry whicrHsppeared several months after his death, Gustavus Myers was once more a pioneer...
...A High Comsnai was organised (in Moscow?—L.D...
...In fact, after a few momenta of uncertainty en account of Pietro and myself (certainly not because aha herself felt, insecure, for she tranquilly observed the few furnishings of our room), the woman sat down and reached for a cigarette in the pocket of her trousers and calmly commenced questioning Pietro: "Is this the boy you mentioned to me...
...You crossed the border in broad daylight...
...Myers in the present book is at pains to show that bigotry was brought here by the colonists as part of their European inheri--- put gd ui lulu uuiupvnil UliS*» > tance...
...Bulgaria, with its Slav Greek Orthodox population is traditionally pro-Russian...
...We ???, if we wish, adopt the policy an ostrich and pretend there are no differences between the AngloAmerican bloc the Soviet Unten, The truth ia behind the facade of diplomatic transactions Stalin has long been making preparations for domination of Eastern Europe and the Balkans...
...agent in Spate...
...And this woman had bees OS fuse which had set the whole thing off...
...Another man will read that same story, as the present reviewer has done, and will be chiefly impressed by the fact that whenever intolerance manifesto itself in America it is sooner or later knocked on the head by the American people...
...The Balkan Powder Keg ly HON DtNNiN THE fall of Mussolini quickens the tempo of Allied activity on the periphery of Europe...
...Please come into the kitchen with me, Pietro...
...She had on a dark blue ski suit...
...Though a traditional ally of Russia, Turkey was alienated by the Soviet's grab of Eastern Poland...
...Nor, on the other hand, did he fail to win a substantia...
...WeU, then...
...With his heavy arms crossed, he sought ridiculously to achieve a look of dignity and then he moved toward the pantry to get a bottle of aquavite...
...between the Western Powers and Russia is on...
...The struggle carried on by the Croatian and" Slovenian minorities agamsT the SerB — majority has been going on for several decades without Stalin's aid...
...You are risking everything, bloody fool that you are, and not only us...
...Peter Daptdw vitch, a Communist, student of the University of lagrade who served as a Captain in the ranks ef tm Spanish Loyalists, and the notorious Constantia Mai who, it is charged, waa a G.P.U...
...The Yugoslav and Greek guerilla* constitute a powerful fighting force againat the Naxis Also, Hitler's Balkan partners are maary of the war and even before Mussolini's demise have been persistently exploring the possibilities for a separate PSJSJCA, T...
...No A ? GOT, bowever efficient, will be capable of solving the deep-going contradictions between the various *?»l l ran Stetes and within these States...
...Gustavus Myers, the great lrail-blazer in American social itetory, tamed to the investigation of the History of Big-*ry in the United States and completed his work Jost be-fore his death...
...rate was fighting on the side of the Allies, today, like Hungary, Austria and Bulgaria, she is a partner of the Axis...
...They are decidedly on the credit side of the American ledger...
...Shy wan-elegant and her mountain drees was too "sober ancF ngne-tor^the-eoemTibn- toroe~that of: any chance tourist: Sne had a warm glance.' smooth Nack hair, dark eyes, an oval face, full red mouth well, painted, a lively way about her...
...The internal crisis that is rending Yugoslavia, which together with Greece is the most powerful pro-Ally force in the Balkans, is but a portent ef what may occur in other countries coveted by Russia...
...having resisted Hitler without being directly attacked by him...
...What s boy...
...Otherwise the whole setua aSiy mrte one of us see red...
...Thus, from a Strategie and military paint of view the present European war, like the last, may be decided in the Balkans...
...RIO less acrimonious is the Serb-Croat conflict inside the Yugoslav Government London...
...These were the ? rings that fed the stream of tUkow-Nothingism...
...The first important problem the coming peace conference will have to face ia the ever-growing cry for a reversal of the peace treaties in she Danubten sons which in 1919 carved up Hungary...
...I reminded my* friend of tide whaMm had stopped shooting, bat by now I spoke in ajg voice and without conviction...
...I knew from that moment on mat anything might have happened...
...Austria...
...I ran to the storeroom and got out my short musket and bid it behind the door...
...The greatest difficulty of the Partisan mevansst daring its first stage of struggle," writes rrsfkasg Maalaritch, "waa the fart that it did not have ? shah military center to direct the dispersed Partisan jtasat The situation waa served by the first All-Slav GengeMv which was held in Moscow in August, 1941...
...It is noteworthy that even though Bulgaria is Germany's ally Russia has sever broken off relations with her...
...Imast the British Government recently attempted te ptergj on the turbulent waters by recognising also the f4M...
...Thus, from a Strategie and military paint of view the present European war, like the last, may be decided in the Balkans...
...They will have to enter with some agreement aa to the fate of the liberated peoples, if the end of the war te not to be the prelude to widespread civil conflict Particularly great is the danger of civil war in tha Balkans where .the next major Allied military operations undoubtedly will take place...
...Also working in favor of toe Allies te the position of Turkey, key to the Balkans aad the Middle East...
...Bat fat the ranks of Partisan guerillas now fighting fa Yugoslavia on the side of the Allies there are thousands of Croats, Slovenes, ? seisms aad even Catholic priests Wha are strongly opposed to Serb supremacy ia a restored Yugoslavia...
...I Under these circumstances, I was a* longer acting for myself but for the group tarteo, fhe friend, had continued to .exist until the moment h* had'pat tos hands on the shoulders Of his compagio...
...This has recently been made clear by Ptessa» Boshidar Maslaritefa, vice-president of the...
...He began to yell at the top of his lungs that he was tired of it...
...In the meantime Stalin is fanning the flames ef sM war in Yugoslavia as throughout the Balkans...
...No sooner did the present Premier, Milos Trifunovitch, form its government on June 26, 1943, than differences arose over the Government's policies of s postwar federal Constitution...
...RUT yon couW h*T* stayed with her down there, D hidden in the town, beyond the frontier...
...I went to meet him and decided to get the bottom of the absurd situation...
...courting the disssTer which waa not iong ? rnming...
...S—is a health resort about fifty muss as ? other side of the frontier...
...Yet it is true that, especially in hie later years, his was a modest fame compared with the laming and booming popularity of others who followed in his footsteps and not frequently treated themselves to large helpings from his Heb store, ef raw material...
...There is, as ? matter of fact, reliable...
...Imast the British Government recently attempted te ptergj on the turbulent waters by recognising also the f4M sans, there is no doubt thst the latter are tests ef Russia...
...That's only a atoto%nny.» Something is going on here, I thmaffhtlias I ampt out by the main door...
...The struggle carried on by the Croatian and" Slovenian minorities agamsT the SerB — majority has been going on for several decades without Stalin's aid...
...That, as I have said, was the author's fueling in the matter, as I gather from the book and fron his conversation...
...You know, women gut ideas in their heads...
...Peter Daptdw vitch, a Communist, student of the University of la-grade who served as a Captain in the ranks ef tm Spanish Loyalists, and the notorious Constantia Mai who, it is charged, waa a G.P.U...
...Codes, maps, addresses, and so on V>> bad^tesesr it the beat hiding place in the event of a *B°*V^eT If someone who looked to us suspicious knocked1HB door, we would simply light the little stove see ¦» few seconds tha material would be destroyed...
...Bat fat the ranks of Partisan guerillas now fighting fa Yugoslavia on the side of the Allies there are thousands of Croats, Slovenes, ? seisms aad even Catholic priests Wha are strongly opposed to Serb supremacy ia a restored Yugoslavia...
...Simultaneously it brings a greater nigmiey ormvosnlag political decisions that must precede military sparstfjons...
...By G*m-' tavut Myere...
...As sar heal etiterl, Pietro- began a game of false and unctmenvwnratolity toward m...
...enlhs that withrn the next wee* or perhapi day* Altonii will break with the 4 r u and Turkey will enter A* wer on the tide of the AUiee...
...I wont sideesy-body...
...I was sSrueh'' baVthe characteristic sound of the stove lid...
...I LEFT the game preserve and arrived in tbe^teUU, 1 equipped with a knapsack for the purchase ? *» daily needs...
...I could guess that as mw begun to drink again...
...What a charming little kitchen, Pietro...
...lasgeamfl meat had been concluded between Vladkate |u2 leader of the Croat Peasant Party, and DragteW] koviteh, premier under the regime of RegetoB Paul, whose policy was one of alignment witt'tjjfir* As a result of the agreement, Matehek exjs^B Yugoslav Government which on March 27, VH\ w overthrown by the military coup d'etat tsmfmmms Yugoslavia's entry into the war against the...
...Austria...
...I followed him rapidly...
...The Croat Ministers insisted that the Matchek-Cvetkovitch agreement of August 26, 1939, awarding internal autonomy to Croatia, should be reaAxmed ha IIJMWV...
...And I fW hide anybody, do you understand...
...Simultaneously it brings a greater nigmiey ormvosnlag political decisions that must precede military sparstfjons...
...4 j · • w . POLITICALLY, however, the Balkans were and re-* main the powder keg of Europe...
...The Yugoslav and Greek guerilla* constitute a powerful fighting force againat the Naxis Also, Hitler's Balkan partners are maary of the war and even before Mussolini's demise have been persistently exploring the possibilities for a separate psjsjca, t...
...difficulty mevansst daring its first stage of struggle," writes rrsfkasg Maalaritch, "waa fart have ? shah military center to direct the dispersed Partisan jtasat The situation waa served by the first All-Slav GengeMv which was held in Moscow in August, 1941...
...But whereas in the last war...
...went upstodre silently and eurprised her at i t -"" "What are you look.ng for, Signorina...
...Austria...
...What would you have me do...
...Listen carefully, Pietro," I said andfl put my hands on his shoulders, my face done to his, trying te eaten* his attention by looking him deep in the eyes...
...In Trbdse favor then, will the Allies now decide the terrtmeusi disputes between Hungary and Rumania ? In whose favor will they resolve the bitter struggle that is now going between the Serbs and Croats in what is "formally known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...
...Seas ana the Congress, a meeting was called of all the lesaenef the Yugoslav Partisan movement and a dechnos usj made to create of the dispersed Partisan groan em free People's Army of Liberation...
...ISjSydW net answer st once Instead...
...The Yugoslav and Greek guerilla* constitute a powerful fighting force againat the Naxis Also, Hitler's Balkan partners are maary of the war and even before Mussolini's demise have been persistently exploring the possibilities for a separate PSJSJCA, T...
...Simeon Mraasky, who writes the Topes · of the Times column in the New York Times, to comment oa Gustavus Myers' rork...
...the Klan ? ad other bigot movements in the United States...
...On the contrary, it was, I imagine, the author's purpose * ? set up...
...What porridge had John Keats...
...be began to yell...
...it difficult to say at this moment what *uB ? ? poeition Rasen with regard to this deveiepemt, truce it it known that the Kremlin hat t-SCUIIFLGFEUI carrying on a number of complicated diplomatic mte tiationt about which, unfortunately, one cannot writ at yet...
...Russia, to be sure, is not solely responsible for the Yugoslav situation...
...Enrico, would you go as far as the arte fork, to see if the way's clear...
...It seemed to me that something had come between us like a veil which made him, in a certain sense, both blind and deaf...
...courting the disssTer which waa not iong ? rnming...
...Are you listening to me...
...and the old man...
...Rumania and Hungary have fand worst in this war...
...There is, as a matter of fact, reliable...
...It man bis salvation for the moment...
...It is noteworthy that even though Bulgaria is Germany's ally Russia has sever broken off relations with her...
...Whan one demands of eemmt mm they risk their Uvea, there must be someone areas* ¦ whom they have complete faith...
...No A ? GOT, bow-ever efficient, will be capable of solving the deep-going contradictions between the various *?»llran Stetes and within these States...
...It isn't possible," I thought...
...Besides Jem Bros, Montenegrin Guerilla leader popularly knew* at-"Tito," these are: Milan Blagoevich, formerly a me-tenant of the Spanish Loyalist Army...
...dominated All-Slav Committee, in an article ? ? August, 1942, issue of Slaviame, official orgaa ef at All-Slav Committee...
...wife and children...
...The period of our great work was about to begin und hern he was bringing up this unknown woman...
...4 J · • w . POLITICALLY, however, the Balkans were and re* main the powder keg of Europe...
...In the "History of Tammany Hall," which appeared in the first I year of the present century, Myers was a forerunner of the original muckrakers of the Theodore Roosevelt era whose chief concern was political corruption...
...people...
...Isn't she handsome...
...The internal crisis that is rending Yugoslavia, which together with Greece is the most powerful pro-Ally force in the Balkans, is but a portent ef what may occur in other countries coveted by Russia...
...a few...
...Lest there be any doubt as to the true political ?? plexion of the Partisans, Professor Maslaritefa gam m to that Army of Lmmv tion (which he estimates at 300,000) there has bat introduced, IfMttjjmffl ff ?°???*> Commissars, si the political work is guided by these Cnmiaateui both within the ranks of the Partisan Army at wsQ u among the civilian population...
...Thus the Balkan tragedy ia about to unfold iteaf all its horror...
...he howled, beating his fists against the wall...
...Ten years later his "History of the Great American Fortunes" anticipated the general shift in critical interest, after the first World War, from the American political scene to our economic realities, or what were supposed to be realities...
...You can speak freely...
...Moreover, the mountaineers of the legate...
...Simultaneously it brings a greater nigmiey ormvosnlag political decisions that must precede military sparstfjons...
...Bessarabia and the Battle States, which she regarded as a throwback to old Russian expansion ism...
...According to some reports, close to 300,000 Serbs have been butchered within the past months by Croats and Slovenes...
...I could swear she would have called me a boy...
...rate was fighting on the side of the Allies, today, like Hungary, Austria and Bulgaria, she is a partner of the Axis...
...Seas ana the Congress, a meeting was called of all the lesaenef the Yugoslav Partisan movement and a dechnos usj made to create of the dispersed Partisan groan em free People's Army of Liberation...
...Bulgaria, with its Slav Greek Orthodox population is traditionally pro-Russian...
...The final balance sheet is definitely on the side of progress...
...Strategically the Balkans present a number of vital advantage* for in Allied attack...
...Only Una who will foresee the future are destined to govern...
...Com pared with that monstrous nev evil let loose in the world th< failures of our earlier America...
...In certain cases the only true way of meeting m development of reality is.to act step by stepy *»'·¦* occasion arises...
...And ha waa trying, after having spoken in starts like this, and opening nod closing his fists, to smile., The affair was taking on such enormous proportions that it took my breath away...
...Tonight, ?1 take you down to the other aide •t'the frontier myself...
...plexion of the Partisans, Professor Maslaritefa gam m to say that in the "People's Partisan Army of Lmmv tion (which he estimates at 300,000) there has bat introduced, IfMttjjmffl ff ?°???*> Commissars, si the political work is guided by these Cnmiaateui both within the ranks of the Partisan Army at wsQ u among the civilian population...
...Let us speak to each other alone," I said...
...The race for political dominates...
...By this I mean that this study of the spirit of in-.tolerance as it has manifested itself over a period of three hundred years on American soil does not pretend to be the whole story ^of America...
...Strategically the Balkans present a number of vital advantage* for in Allied attack...
...Thus while we have been adhering to protocol Stalte has proceeded organise Slav Committees, German "National Committee,'' the "Union of Polish Patriots" and other agencies designed to further his He even found it expedient organise recently "Free Government" on Yugoslav territory headed by the seventyyear Communist Croat poet, Vladimir Nazor...
...Most of the Serbian Ministers in the Trifmifcetej government are opposed to this declaration fat^ autonomous Croatia on the theory that it is atemtkl that the new constitution should be agreed upon te «9 Serba rather than appear to be imposed oo than m the basis of a past agreement...
...In terms of solid prestige he was rewarded with something more than porridge...
...Peter Daptdw vitch, a Communist, student of the University of lagrade who served as a Captain in the ranks ef tm Spanish Loyalists, and the notorious Constantia Mai who, it is charged, waa a G.P.U...
...Thus the Balkan tragedy ia about to unfold iteaf ? all its horror...
...They overthrew their dictatorial government at the very moment it was expected to sign the Axis pact...
...Eur the first time, I could not help but raise my voice...
...Beginning aa the crudest expression of democratic tendencies, vigilantism degenerated into mob passion end prejudice...
...Bulgaria, Macedonia and Croatio to the promt of the new states of the Little Entente—particularly Rumania and Yugoslavia— the upholders of the ???-wlsr Fiartck policy...
...The greatest difficulty of the Partisan mevansst daring its first stage of struggle," writes rrsfkasg Maalaritch, "waa the fart that it did not have ? shah military center to direct the dispersed Partisan jtasat The situation waa served by the first All-Slav GengeMv which was held in Moscow in August, 1941...
...It roams at times, but it comes back from its wanderings with interesting and frequently amusing incidents, anecdotes and sideliehts which toe writers who came after him will not overlook...
...There te an impassable gulf between the pro-German orientation of King Boris and the sentiments of the majority of the Bulgarian people...
...smear campaign against General Drain» Mikhaamtbg, Yugoslav War Minister and legendary leader afmv Cketnikt, entirely Moscow...
...This, mciderrtaily, gives Stalin a decided advantage in his bid for Balkan domination...
...agent in Spate...
...Semstmsg had to be worked out in time...
...Bessarabia and the Battle States, which she regarded as a throwback to old Russian expansion ism...
...Thus while we have been adhering to protocol Stalte has proceeded to organise Slav Committees, the German "National Committee,'' the "Union of Polish Patriots" and other agencies designed to further his He even found it expedient to organise recently a "Free Croat Government" on Yugoslav territory headed by the seventy-year old Communist Croat poet, Vladimir Nazor...
...jPHIS evolution in Gustavus Myers' thinking and feeling about America might be easily overlooked by any one summing up his writing career of more than forty years...
...I went upstairs to study the valley from a little lookout and followed the course of the torrent with my eyes: nothing could be seeh...
...not be allowed to loae even the last faith in theaalim^ neas of our work...
...He's a handsome boy, isn't he...
...having resisted Hitler without being directly attacked by him...
...They suggest that the Whole American story or even the most important part is not to be found in the annals of Tammany Hall, the Jay Goulds and the Jim Fisks, the Ku Klux and the Silver Shirts...
...Today, with American tease-lend aid coming in through the Mediterranean, Turkey may be expected to support an Allied invasion of the Balkans from the Adriatic by attacking from the Black Sea...
...She smiled at me the way people of that kind smile without seeing whom they have opposite...
...There te an impassable gulf between the pro-German orientation of King Boris and the sentiments of the majority of the Bulgarian people...
...lasgeamfl meat had been concluded between Vladkate |u2 leader of the Croat Peasant Party, and DragteW] koviteh, premier under the regime of RegetoB Paul, whose policy was one of alignment witt'tjjfir* As a result of the agreement, Matehek exjs^B Yugoslav Government which on March 27, VH\ w overthrown by the military coup d'etat tsmfmmms Yugoslavia's entry into the war against the...
...Though a traditional ally of Russia, Turkey was alienated by the Soviet's grab of Eastern Poland...
...Mountaineer' < A Tale of the Italian Underground By STEFANO TERRA III WHEN I got up in the morning the daylight was already flooding the valley bottom and the sun was rising behind the Punta di Gruna, yet Pietro had not returned...
...It will not be enough for the United Nations to storm the Fettung Europa, Hitler's mythical European fortress...
...This has recently been made clear by Ptessa» Boshidar Maslaritefa, vice-president of the...
...U»-CI...
...eimjaatej aa he himself had said...
...We have asked Mr...
...He reveals, smV dentally, for the first time the names ef the mm ate guide the destinies of the Partisans...
...They overthrew their dictatorial government at the very moment it was expected to sign the Axis pact...
...She came into the kitchen smiling...
...f"" front afar...
...New York: Random Haute...
...This, mciderrtaily, gives Stalin a decided advantage in his bid for Balkan domination...
...It Waa such a chance for me...
...courting the disssTer which waa not iong ? rnming...
...In Trbdse favor then, will the Allies now decide the terrtmeusi disputes between Hungary and Rumania ? In whose favor will they resolve the bitter struggle that is now going between the Serbs and Croats in what is "formally known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...
...It's a miracle you weren't seen...
...The race for political dominates...
...more minutes, will-you* -There is something-that most-be · settled between us...
...smear campaign against General Drain» Mikhaamtbg, Yugoslav War Minister and legendary leader afmv heroic Cketnikt, stems entirely from Moscow...
...rate was fighting on the side of the Allies, today, like Hungary, Austria and Bulgaria, she is a partner of the Axis...
...Besides Jem Bros, Montenegrin Guerilla leader popularly knew* at"Tito," these are: Milan Blagoevich, formerly a metenant of the Spanish Loyalist Army...
...When Pietro came in...
...He reveals, smV dentally, for the first time the names ef the mm ate guide the destinies of the Partisans...
...ly HON DtNNiN fall of Mussolini quickens the tempo of Allied activity on the periphery of Europe...
...The race for political dominates...
...and the sambas* laid for a true People's Army...
...I made one last Masjupt te save something of the situation which •sasnad eusBiSg heaoiofig u> an ug>> conclusion...
...The morale of their people, never very high, ia now falling rapidly...
...and the sambas* laid for a true People's Army...
...dating from the...
...You obsess me...
...W)RE than any other men of my acquaintance Gustavus Myers used to makeroethink, as he must have reminded other friends, of Browning's famous lines about the reward which awaits the pioneer, compared with the promoters and merchandisers who come after him...
...Enrico, she wanted to see the hunting preserve...
...enlhs that withrn the next wee* or perhapi day* Altonii will break with the 4 r u and Turkey will enter A* wer on the tide of the AUiee...
...RIO less acrimonious is the Serb-Croat conflict inside the Yugoslav Government in London...
...It ia fame that the Serbs share with the British the honor...
...It ia fame that the Serbs share with the British the honor...
...Intolerance here has as a rule had its parallels over there...
...The Balkan Powder Keg BY LEON DENNEN THE fall of Mussolini quickens the tempo of Allied activity on the periphery of Europe...
...Listen, signers or signorina, . . ." "Joeette...
...Please sit down...
...The first important problem the coming peace conference will have to face ia the ever-growing cry for a reversal of the peace treaties in she Danubten sons which in 1919 carved up Hungary...
...In his late: years, and like so many othe democrats and socialists of ai older generation, he found him self impelled to revise his earl ier estimates of the system un der which we live and which h< had criticised in its varioui phases, against the backgrounc of the new totalitarianism...
...The* Enrico had had to start thinking sa en* mf...
...agent in Spate...
...No A ? GOT, bowever efficient, will be capable of solving the deep-going contradictions between the various *?»l l ran Stetes and within these States...
...T_ fun of paper aad dry wood, contained our...
...Bulgaria, Macedonia and Croatio to the promt of the new states of the Little Entente—particularly Rumania and Yugoslavia—the upholders of the ???-wlsr Fiartck policy...
...Croats, of course, claim that this crime has been committed by Ante Pavelich's Vttathi, a Croat fascist organisation, but Serbs insist the pro-Soviet and supposedly pro-Allied Partium* participated in the killing...
...sans, there is no doubt thst the latter are tests ef Russia...
...A High Comsnai was organised (in Moscow?—L.D...
...Most of the Serbian Ministers in the Trifmifcetej government are opposed to this declaration f a t ^ autonomous Croatia on the theory that it is atemtkl that the new constitution should be agreed upon te «9 Serba rather than appear to be imposed oo than m the basis of a past agreement...
...having resisted Hitler without being directly attacked by him...
...He reveals, smV dentally, for the first time the names ef the mm ate guide the destinies of the Partisans...
...I followed JesetteS maneevers easily encaght l e n e i^ six in the afteenoea, nhtto ftot**, sesrsngn by wlefifw snd weariness, had fallen asleep, the young insmei went int* sey little cukffffhoto'Whwro F hehe^a*kp 4ieh|to, I could hear her rapidly leafing thTongh them » th* belief that-eerhaps' she w*a*M *na aeaato sees* ef oar documents...
...Also working in favor of toe Allies te the position of Turkey, key to the Balkans aad the Middle East...
...I succeeded in warning oor three not to come up to the house before they reeetesw^saa further communication from me, and it was wefll*p because such things are beat handled between...
...Today, with American tease-lend aid coming in through the Mediterranean, Turkey may be expected to support an Allied invasion of the Balkans from the Adriatic by attacking from the Black Sea...
...instead of answering, ashed SSt if I wished to ge down to the town of * ? . whSte ehe had boaght an...
...Her young body was lively too...
...We ???, if we wish, adopt the policy of an ostrich and pretend there are no differences between the Anglo-American bloc and the Soviet Unten, The truth ia that behind the facade of diplomatic transactions Stalin has long been making preparations for domination of Eastern Europe and the Balkans...
...The Croat Ministers insisted that the Matchek-Cvetkovitch agreement of August 26, 1939, awarding internal autonomy to Croatia, should be reaAxmed ha IiJmwv^u u»-ci...
...His eyes avoided my face...
...And as soon as I had grasped the situstion, I recrossed the room and went oat through the same window, taking my gun with me...
...Bigotry —On the Meaning of a Current in American History Simeon Strunsky Writes On Gustavus Myers' Work •-i - ! fX SIMffON STRUNSKY JBJSTORY OF BIGOTRY IN THE UNITED STATES...
...ton: Ptetro had already been e#Sred the 7*» of van-keeper f could do something afsamj aVt ptoee, too . jnet the thing bookkeeper <l*mh**jn1 *j*san»e I had caught her red-handed...
...Only Unat who will foresee the future are destined to govern...
...604 pp...
...dominated All-Slav Committee, in an article ? ? August, 1942, issue of Slaviame, official orgaa ef at All-Slav Committee...
...3.60...
...Then she will leave...
...and the sambas* laid for a true People's Army...
...Jones outdoes Smith in azure feats...
...life do not loom so large, anc the blessings for which we havt reason to be grateful show ? more prominently...
...I bought bread, cheese and the strong wine ·* *' district, forcing myself to think of other things toems my future behavior toward Pietro could be *" clearly in my own mind, and I realised tea* * W* useless to embroider the situation and to fill_ ? ? more horrors and implications than were alreaag saw too present...
...she...
...We were informed ef em presence there of a certain rather notable nmamf at Fascist spies...
...answered, laughing, aad ran te wake Pietro, because the evening was creeping up the mountainside by now...
...My breathing seemed te fill the room...
...The crisis that is rending Yugoslavia, together with Greece is the most powerful pro-Ally force in the Balkans, is but a portent ef what may occur in other countries coveted by Russia...
...The struggle carried on by the Croatian and" Slovenian minorities agamsT the SerB — majority has been going on for several decades without Stalin's aid...
...Npkes paints blue, says Browning, and straight he turtle eats...
...They will have to enter with some agreement aa to the fate of the liberated peoples, if the end of the war te not to be the prelude to widespread civil conflict Particularly great is the danger of civil war in tha Balkans where .the next major Allied military operations undoubtedly will take place...
...When blue, is all the rage in the fashionable picture galleries the people who know their way around lose no time...
...dominated All-Slav Committee, in an article ? ? August, 1942, issue of Slaviame, official orgaa ef at All-Slav Committee...
...Therefore, when Germany attacked Russia, Turkey reaffirmed her neutrality...
...But to do so would be to miss the real lesson of the present volumn and, secondly, to forget other books of his...
Vol. 26 • July 1943 • No. 31
