Where the News Ends

...EDWORIAL COMMENT MOTIM* #OI ALIBIS IT it true that the Harlem riots grew oat ol * a national, sitaatioa.- 4t is", true that the causes go seek to the yeur 1619...

...H 7' * ¦ And yet—since 1936 we have known- that such a thing1 might happen and we have not taken the srtpiPto stop it...

...New York City cannot deal with the larger issues involved., It cannot provide more evenhanded treatment for Negroes in the United States Army1, h cannot reform narrow, bigoted anti-social attitudes throughout the nation...

...Rather, it annexed these territories under the pretext of "liberating" their Ukrainian and White Russian populations, and then uniting them to the already existent Soviet Ukrainian and Soviet Whjto Russian member republics of the Soviet Union...

...The ultimate responsibility, of course, rests upon aif of us...

...One could amplify this statement by saying that America, working full blast at war production, can probably outbuild Japan in airplanes and ships by five or ten to one...

...When Prof...

...Y?fe have been told by these two responsible'.public bodies that we need for Harlem better job opportunities, enforcement of price ceilings, better, housing, better educational and recreational facilities, better provisions for - health and hospitalization...

...dktments returned accord in* to lav, Bavw know in advance that not one exlra faj of coal will be mined because met seedgam into court and fined or imprisoned...

...There is only oa* pstet ¦ Prof...

...This term, ss everyone knows, includes PM, The New York Poet, The Nation aad The New Republic The 10th of August fat not far away...

...I wish than were tome way to put year payer in the hands of semi-prof*tti*ntl people, who seem more amp sal1 ions to gulp editorial ophnoti ef the conservative dailies...

...Both whites and Negroes have a feeling that bat relations inside this cfty are teaSmg toward decency...

...in his Poland: Key te Europe, states: "In the summer of 1938 the Polish government following a convention of June 20, 1938...

...He wants the'partj squabbles atroduced in the camps...

...Similarly, If we recognize this aa a legal claim of one nation to another, we no longer need worry as to what to do with Germany after this war, for as the German Emperor Sigismund also came to be King of Hungary, Bohemia, and Italy, we can grant the German nation to oae of these three, or divide it among them equally...

...For eight years we have had this program before us—and what, we have done is practically nothing...

...Already tons Of ink have been spread over acres ef newsprint Meet of what it said is good...

...White RaiaitBt saf Lithaaniaas are ia seeerd vfa* him, this heiag his statewat* that their lands "are sat aai never have aeea" r**|b)Ba> sian...

...Prof.'Wacbiw Lednicki's article be tap Polish-Soviet Russian frontier difference* [The New Leader, July 3, 19431.only serves to emphasize thia^truism...

...The implication was that at least ninety Ave...

...Soon after Pearl Harbor, when news from the Far East was generally bad, a high American official said to the Chinese Ambassador, Dr...

...Military victory is a primary necessity, in Asia j as in Europe...

...All that was lacking was action...

...the Daily Worker1* elucidator...

...It can easily be imaghet hew inept and unpatriotic his remtrki *f seem to any soldiers or sailors who may teat or read them...

...Six of oar citizens are dead...

...Naturally, this was a Hitlerian "liberation,* and the Ukrainian and White Russian people do not deny its character...

...These steps were clearly described...

...We are Economics...

...It will be remembered that Poland's claim of a "historic right" to Ukrainian and White Russian territories did not impress Lloyd George, who in 1920 heaped abuse on the Poles for Invading these nations' lands, and ordered them to retreat to their "legitimate frontier," which he then defined, and which since has bean known as "the Curxcn line...

...We have this feeling to', thank for the fact thst the orgy of looting never turned into that much uglier thing, a reel race riot, * All of this is good But it is not good ePgagh...

...for in his defense of tijffPolish claim to the territories Ts...

...Competent military authorities are convinced that an air offensive operating from Siberian, British, Dutch and Philippine bases would annihilate or ground the Japanese forces within a few weeks...

...The late Japanese naval leader, Admiral Isoroku Yaruamoto, intimated that he would not be satisfied with the capture of Hawaii and San Francisco...

...We have now been at war with Japan for a longer period of time than we ware at war with qaiossiij fat 1917-1918 and the end ia far from b«mg in sight...

...The American, British and Dutch naval and air forces are fully 'capable of isolating Japan from the* world and bringing to bear the Jressure of full blockade—a pressure which span could not long endure, but which she lacks fhe strength to break by force...

...We all hope that Admiral Home was unduly pessimistic and it is certainly unwise to set any year as' marking tha probable end of the Far Eastern war...

...Apparently, they are to be of no concern to the Ukrainian, White Russian and Lithuanian peoples who are in the majority , on these non-Polish and nonRussian tends...

...In view of the democratic, nonimperialistic stand taken by many of his felicrw-countryman, tegarding Polish pretensions to territories in Eastern Europe, it 'is- s bit disheartening to see Prof...

...Lednicki, apparently HTIBtTf...

...He is hard put to it Four liberal papers against him...

...interfering in our affairs...

...It would be equally simple to bomb Japan's industrial centres out of production...

...Because the Jagelleaiaa dynasty came from this borderland (from Lithuania...

...Southern Congressmen accuse of us interfering invfhe affairs of their section...

...With all out talk, we never got round to the point of taking out insurance against a calamity which has threatened us lor decades...

...of liberal stamp, employ the moat ingenious and fragile claims to back Poland's ccutiaread eoeafnation in these areia Wham renowned historians, and' unimpeachable educational source*, designate as being ethnographic components of the Ukrainian...

...Lednicki teeJsvert* lays Poland's isiperlsUetU claim, "are not aad **eOT beet been" rightfafly Polmh...

...may be discounted as being grossly incorrect especially when In this statement he includes, besides every Catholic Church, til "Protestant and Orthodox" churches, and "every synagogue," Raymond Leslie Buell...

...per cent of the Chinese were hopelessly and irretrievably disreputable...

...The business of the United attojayS ern merit as manager of the mines i* to pat a* miners in such a mood that tney wiB s* teat under ground and send up their foB sustsej coal...

...To Prof^Lednicki, the territorial differences under discussion are strictly "4 Polish-Russian affair...

...It provides that those who strike orasdvise others to strike may be fined up to $5,000.00 or imprisoned up to one year...

...By sending us su#i products of their system they are decidedly...

...They were generally understood...

...And, as we are a technically more advanced country, the quality of our weapons should, as a general rule, be better than that of the Japanese...

...Lednicki's article egvhfa* Ukrainians...

...But how do six deaths fit into a budget...

...For in the-historical perspective, preservatMat of the above truth is just sajaapartant to Ukrainians and White Russians as, let us say, would be preservation of the pretext under which Poland in 1938 carried out the annexation of Teschen...

...But why go on* Because many .of the "great Poles of history" came from this borderland1...

...Council called our Harlem policy una of the...

...Lednicki to say these territories belong to Poland because certain Polish great men came from them, as it would be to say that Ukraine belongs to Russia because Tschaikovsky, Gogol and Trotsky came from Ukraine...

...The Ihistrioui Chairman dema?is Ins* < Reoubixat argument against the President be 'radioes a the troop...

...But military victory will be much • harder to attain and will be less secure eiajipi d manent when it is won, unless we do *bojJHEm we have done aa yet to convince the Asiatic peo-i pies that what we offer instead of Japan's new^ order is not the old deal of imperialism, bat at new deal, purged of all offensive overtones of race and color superiority...

...There are times whau St aiiiwijr becomes a arms...

...For more than j^Vear the^ City-Wide Citizens' Committee ojMLrlem...

...Some quite unpredictable: the defeat of Germany, for instance, the attitude of the Soviet Union toward Japan after the war with Germany-is over...

...The ad thing ia that they wil eeeejK your stuff after it is tee late a do anything about it Thai they promise themselves that they will not be caught agate, bat they always are...

...He is in favor of Poland being reconstituted in her pre-1939 limits, including Western Ukraine, Western White Russia, and some Lithuanian territory...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Doe Poland Have Real Claim to Eastern Borderlands —Critic Asks From DIMITRI HORBAYCHUK To th* Editor:' , In Socialist...

...Nevertheless, they want to preserve the fact that this- -was the basic claim advanced by Soviet Russia in her effort te justify this annexation...

...Whatever we can say and A tq support their morale should be taai a** and don* now...

...This end depends upon a number of factors...

...It never seems to occur to the poor man that they may be right, DIGGING COAL IY INDICTMENT •"THE CoanaUy^Shuth Act is the law of the * laud...

...His guess is thst George 8. Counts has charmed the four groups of journalists with hit "professorial position and authorship proclivities...

...It is fortunate for th chances of his own cause that his reqam cannot be granted...

...flare-up a public commission held heejKgs and issued a program...

...A newcomer in Shanghai, I was anxious to find out something about the functioning of the Chinese courts...

...Oa that day the 180,000 registered ALP voters will .decide whether they win continue to own .and run their organisation or whether they will torn it ever hi the Communists...

...Hu Shih: "Never mind, Dr...

...But as a way of not winning friends and influencing people In China it ranks with an experience of my own in - talking with a prominent British lawyer^ in Shanghai...

...We shall be making a very serious mistake and storing up a heap of trouble and maybe a Third World War within another generation or two if we do not work out a better basis for relations with the Orient than the superiorityinferiority relation that developed as a result of predatory imperialism in the nineteenth century...

...The Vice-Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Home, just recently committed himself to the pessimistic prediction that the Far Eastern war might go on until 1949, perhaps even longer...

...No belligerent force has yielded a smaller percentage of prisoners than the Japanese...

...Well beat those - yellow blankety blanks yet" He probably- took the ethnological lapse in s spirit of philosophical good humor...

...history is too recent for us to have forgotten the .facts surrounding it Soviet Russia did not annex the territories in question under the pretext of "strategic necessity...

...The Japanese are much closer to the combat tones and are fighting on an inner ring of defenses...

...Fve been promkung Btysetf fiat treat for a long time...

...Her filers are poor...

...Manyschools, libraries aad ceoperstrmi also were destroyed by this eaat Polish government This it atat in contrast with what Frafeaet Lednicki would have as belwva...

...n LIBftALS AGREE ON PRIMARY PIE Daily Worker fairly stutters...

...Her army is sadly out of date, having nOt even one fully armored division, and being short of tanks, armored cars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery, modern engineering equipment and mod-' ern communication devices...

...j...

...Japan is Geography...

...Fe* magazines piaasat setter ash stance than year jearaaL...

...Indictments against thirty officers and members of the United Mine Workers were mmmBMmmmmwmmnn*m*mmmwme*m*m*us^mmmmHB^^mmm<* returned to s Pittsburgh grand j2l*-| Tha New Leader ia against stetoapmaS war time...

...The British lawyer pat me In my place with the following remarks, delivered in a tone of indescribable condecension: "Oh, there are such things as Chinese _4 courts...

...Because if history were to record this latter annexation as being accompanied by Polish claims of ••strategic necessity," it would show that Teacher, is strictly Czech territory...

...You cannot do that by fining that « sending them to jail...

...The other, subtler and less tangible, but even more important, in the historical long view, is the struggle between various ideas, various political and social systems for the mastery of Asia...

...Lednicki writes, "This war has shown that a separate, small Poland cannot play the peaceful role that waa' for centuries the glory of the PollshLithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth," he lays himself suspect of being a supporter of the Polish extremist claims for a Poland "From the Baltic to* the Black Sea...

...In the interest of good sportmanshii^ at hope different men with different ideas nil com* to the top in the Republican Party...

...And we furnished some stargazers who misSged the realities of the situation almost as lly as Yamamoto...

...By mining eaat aajS miners have done far more to win tat tat than all of the combined Seaateabseajj Bav resentsti ves who voted for the Connelly.**—" BIB...

...I dare say a certain kind of justice fs | .done in them...

...Driven into this narrow corner he resorts to very un-Marxian explanations...

...Let every citisen keep his eyes open...

...the technical possibilities of getting enough airplanes and accompanying equipment into China to shatter the Japanese main line of communication along the Yangtze River, isolate their more exposed units and force them back to the coast Side by aide wih the military struggle goes the struggle between systems and ideas...

...As for Japanese air power, it is almost non-existent...

...And Mr...

...An old friend of mine in Japan, now very busily engaged m imparting some knowledge of the very difficult and complicated Japanese language to aspiring young soldiers and sailors, put the situation very well in a 'conversation the other day: "This is a war of Economics against Geography," he said...

...From WILLIAM H. FORM To the Editor:: Have read other peoptsYeapiai of The New -Leader so Mag, that I feel that perhaps I should ae* scribe to the thing myself...

...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Hie Two Sfrugg/es in fhe Or/en f - ¦HO struggles are now going on in the Orient...

...His assertion that in cities like Vilna and Lviw "every building was put there by Polish hands...

...Churchill woks forward to any.very different objective...

...It wants full production, JgEk against everything and everybody fhm iat> down production On this account rt M aaZ Ceo tally-Smith Bill...

...Bat they »o«M Bfaf av add that these saai* keep, * which Prof...

...ssssmiaiuat The New L*»eart high aad steady qasllty...

...The President in kja radio address, outlined a six-point prograa Be demobilisation of our soldiers and their rehstatement into civic and industrial lift...

...It is just as illogical for Prof...

...t^pped*gr**t been increased: The -w^ole social structure is thjtoieaftB^Ss ebrt of thing mast not be allowed to happen...

...ThkTigE move is a piece of bad ms-an inapt e-Sj of producing good will and Tip*) ilisai v7u •produce discontent and smoojfcegat^l rest In the end it will cut dews preeawaaT The miners want to mine coal...

...Itclosed find a two daBarlaaaw order for a year's aasaadpSha...

...A couple of authentic anecdotes Swill illustrate the habits of mind that some Americans and some British will have to snap out of, if we expect to build our relations with the East on a basis of peace and friendship...

...Granting fuU.'recognitian to the good intentions and fine1 .performance of Mayor LaGuardia, it must ."V recorded that chief blame must be laidoaj his door.' After the' JJ35...

...It is trw that ahe administration of Mayor LaGuardii gToes'of* ^ew^r^'^U^^J^a^^ We have a right tabs proud of the part playec by city officials aad the Negro leaders ami people of- the Harlem area...

...Less than a month before Pearl Harbor Major George Fielding Eliot set the minds of a radio audience at ease with the following aeries of prophecies: "Japan is in no case to fight a war with a group of major opponents...

...Tbia^nationalism is In part a reflection of growing aaJtXconfldence and of an increasing feeling that the military power of the West is not invincible and that the industrial secrets of the West are hot undiscoverable...

...Listed below are some of the reasons advanced by him why this "borderland" should remain in Polish hands...

...As was the ease in the Civil War, when North and South Were both grossly overconfident at the beginning of hositlities, some Japanese and some Americans saw complete and stunning victory as just around the corner on the eve of hostilities...

...If you dent hasp whtt I mean, that's 0. Tt-otest setup the good work ; -ft HIGH AND STEADY QUALITY" : From WITVEB BYNNBR T* the Editor: '{ j I have beep watehfag *M...

...They have been tough, wily, resourceful, and up to the present time have lived up to the "no surrender" rule of the Japanese armed forces...

...White Russian and Lithuanian nations...

...The only way to Oj ft is to give the miners a square deal THE SPUTTiRINGS OF SPANGlRfi BJIORE in pity than in wrath th* "illianu *W* Sun laments the dullness of BepuMke* Party leadership...

...f .1 And a little later he was advising me M*meefc| a friend of his on the Shanghai police fafee wh«r' "knew more reputable Chinese than anyone else...

...But it will be dangerous not to reckon with the growing national consciousness oU the more advanced and politically developed peoples of Asia, such as the Chinese and the Indians...

...They setup* t crucial position and ought te te reached...

...But what The New Leader waits for is th* right sort of action...

...But, and here is where Geography comes in, it is a tremendous job to bring our fighting power to bear effectively over distances of many thousands of miles...

...Most of Japan's five thousand es are obsolete or obsolescent...

...For them comes sputtering Mi Spastic r, the chairman of their NatioaaTCenasta*, and charges that the President "nude a straight-out political speech and a toki he for the vote of our soldiers and tailor- vb> are risking tfitir lives fee freedom...

...The Japanese are trying to substitute a single Asiatic imperialism for the competing Western imperialisms of the past...

...But if this be logic, then we moat resign ourselves to also seeing Hungary become a part of future Poland, for Stefan Batory, one of Poland's kings, came from Hungary...

...There ia a plot the "liberal press" is anaairhously lined up against the Communist raid on the American Labor Party...

...The roots of this'thing are national—even international...

...There have been wild-cat strikes in the Pennsylvania coal fields...

...V • MOW the truth of the matter is, and intelligent *^ and responsible Americans and Japanese both recognised this fact, that neither the United States nor Japan had any reason for counting on a swift knockout blow in a Pacific war...

...A member of the City...

...It is notable that many of the Negroes arrested for looting were recent arrivals from the South...

...Times is short Things are gutting hot , Members of the staffs of all of the liberal papers mention belong to the ALP and have first-hand knowledge of what is going en...

...It ha good program, and this is a good time tt sab...

...The fact that they all agree in the judgment is good evidence that they are seeing things straight Which makes it rather tough for...

...Yet we know that the "great Poles" who came from these territories were bat the off-spring of Polish colonists, aad of native stock which accepted Polonization strictly out of consideration for the profit and privilege which characterise s quisling co-operation with the rnvader...

...The right sort of changes must begin with the right sort of talk...

...Further, he repeats the Polish reactionary contention that Poland has a "historical" right to these lands...

...One, which everyone can understand, is the effort to beat Japan...

...liciee it Our millions of lighten art ate entering- the period of supreme effect sad supreme sacrifice...

...Bat this fat hardly our headache...

...Competent, military men estimate that the planes from two American aircraft carriers could cripple Japan's rail transportation system for rths...

...As if in an effort to prove that this is' solely a matter f or, ^Polish and Russian minds to '<fi«l with,""and Chat Russia har-dp justifiable claim to these {ajLis, he asserts .the paramount ?reason fpf, Soviet Russian ' annexation of .Western Ukraine ahp*%estern White Russia was that of "strategic necessity," and rightly discounts this argument But...

...false economy" and inmtTon^ng^^^ Mayor has budget troubles...

...The necessary funds should have been providedno matter bow or by whom or at what sacrifice in other directions...

...circles it is a wellknown fact^tJ(B$ Polish progressives, as a gnrap (excluding a few individuals rapid those of Jewish Mood), are'hist as chauvinistic and - imperialistic in their nationalism as', are the most reactionary of .their Polish contemporaries...

...with the Vatican, destroyed 112 Orthodox churches belonging to Ukrainians in Volhynia...

...They are trying to make their domination palatable or at least tolerable to the peoples in the countries which, they have occupied by emphasising Pan-Asianiim and by cultivating the idea that they are invincible and irresnrtibles CHOULD Japan ha defeated mainly by Ajaericarf and British forces tne sequel to the war might be the resolution of the Western imperialist status quo...

...Western Ukraine, Western VrV^te Russia, and a part of Lithuania, he expounds, word for wojd, the chauvinist stratagems first employed by the fascist PilshfSMri government by the later, even more intensely fascist Poltm government ruled by the "Cognels" with Beck at the head, ¦ 'fid -which are at present "heath from the housetops by thJWWpry elite of the reactionary andrfmperialist Poles...

...All qf" the intelligent citizens agreed about them...

...About estimated '^^f^MDJ^u...

...They have shown the qualities in war which foreign officers who have observed ,b|ivi»k> i-iwpD in naming gcuciftil) tixuiiw them with...

...ugder the leadership of Algernon BufSi baa been advocating a similar program...

...There have certainly been no intimations that Mr...

...Lednicki refers to it as the "borderland" of Poland—thus painting a preposterous picture of aa sntmal who** tail is larger than its torso...

...Against the urging of their anion officials some 18.000 men went out Acting under the terms of the Connafy-Smith Bill, the Department of justice naturally went into action...

...He intended to dictate peace right in the White House...

...Th* President said exactly fin right thing at exactly the right time The plan suite all the citizens of the Uaati States except the top leaders of the Repobban Party...

...James R. Young, a journalist of long residence in Tokyo, made everyone feel happy with the following cheerful statements: "Japan's large cities are the most vulnerable in the world to aerial bombardment...

...Thtf ajL want to whs, the war...

...We cannot «e*tetm5...

...How much would it be worth te prevent such a Hot...

...Although this large area wiich Soviet Russia absorbed la 1939 is more than half the alas of pre1939 Poland, Prof...