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...They are left now tagged v« this name until election dsy.* Beth party ¦ chines hsve hastily scurried shout sad flH petitions which win put other names as sear lines on the ballot...

...A candidate for a place on this high bench from the First Judicial District, including New York County and the Bronx, has been revealed to the citiienry by Prosecutor Hogaa at the beneficiary of a ring of racketeers...

...Space does not permit me to deal here with Mr...

...And every wsr of modern times in which Russia has been engaged has left its mark on the political and social progress of the nation...

...They united to give a 5 3M nomination to this men...

...But this one-sided absorption in the'technical side of life will scarcely last forever...

...even with a presidential election right ekJ| threshold...

...A democratic federation or confederation of the small European States would be anathema to them because it conflicts with the imperialist designs of Soviet Russia...

...It is, in fact, frankly opposed to thorn...

...I went tt tell you, with the renews...

...Second, the Russian generation has been very much absorbed ia what is called "mastering technique...

...Imam Seabury, are enthusiastically far hiatal the forces of decency and good gevermmma the city are rapidly mobilising bcMas ha His associates in the ALP...

...And it if scarcely to be imagined that the industrial workers, if they were free as voters and trade-union members, would tolerate edicts making tardiness a criminal offense and punishing with imprisonment anyone who changes his job without official permission...

...Under these circumstances, there reacJjB but one wsy for citisens of the First Jmmm District to save the Supreme Court cm strengthen the respect in which it m -Si instead of dragging it down...

...forward-looking voters to put in s pharsf power and influence a nun who en btemnm upon to use public position for the push* ami I •, p EDITORIAL COMMENT Sidney Hiliman and the A.L.P 'I'HE American Labor Party stands for the Nem^Denl and to wummg and ready to eon-, tinue (he fight for it in the vital 1944 elections...

...Mflm entry on the side of the d*sw American bloc and hit slobs • other nations' territory atom once changed the nature at MM war...

...I venture to suggest that the Russian future after, the cad of the war will not be static, that it will produce more changes and surprises than we can reasonably anticipate at the present time...

...proposal would mean the elimination from tbe party's government of the large liberal and progressive element which is net affiliated with any Ubor unions...

...If the Russian youth today is beginning to read and ponder over the ideas of such men aa Pushkin, Hereon, Belinsky, Tolstoy and Kropotkin, the ice-crest of the dictatorship, thick as it may be, cannot remain impervious forever...

...As e result his faculty of political criticism has been largely atrophied...

...One is always tempted to seek the solution of a puxale, however baffling...

...But assuming that Mumford has sources of information which most of us do not hsve, just what prompted him to caution us at this moment not to be "confused by the President's democratic professions of faith" which "are subject to grave erosions by actions that contradict them and thwart them...

...And, if it had not been for the First World War, a Tsar might still be sitting on the Russian throne It was the intolerable strain and suffering of this unsuccessful war that created the political and economic and psychological conditions for the two revolutions of 1917...

...The Red Army is playing a greater role in national life...

...that The Ime Leader is the star of them sk...

...If the democratic and labor organisations of Scandinavia have persisted through this purgatory, we have reason, to believe that in other lands—even in Garmany—there remain the bases of civilised Society...

...EUROPEAN LAfiOR STILL LIVES AS the certain msec on the dark continent A of Europetone phase of the news must give profound jwwsfaction to democrats and labor men the world over...

...charges ss contained in his article in the New Leader of August 14th deserve careful consideration...

...The drive to support the New Deal ia the next prssidential ejection which the National CIO Potitieal Action Committee is undertaking hi, in our jadgincut, not being helped by becoming entangled in a factional fight in the ALP in New York State through an alignment Win use Comraunitts...

...at my susocripttoa...

...Mumford's ear that conditions which prevailed from December, 1941, until the present have changed...

...On the contrary, the AUbmmmml sistentiy sought wider and wider —r_ , In all major divisions of organised fcZ the face of this fact, the Hillman sammmm...

...To be sure, s mere rosaTrsje tion of faith is not enough' ff must have the necessary svesi particularly an ootright mflbfir alliance with Great attorn* «§P would convince tbe Brrdes AP we shall not again ios»» tttoa a the larch when they art rami with aa mternatmeel iilffg back up our commitments, fist the basic principles af our fsessji policy are there as clear ss mf* light for everyone to see...

...The battle is still on...

...Lippmann's views but Lewis Mumford...

...Even in the carefully controlled Soviet press before the war one could find clear proof that the peasants felt they were not getting a square deal as to pay in the collective farms . All sorts of warnings and threats are addressed to those peasants who prefer to work on their own homesteads, rather than labor on the collective farm fields...

...In view of the shove tmM like to ask Mr Mnntisrf dtoPg lowing question: What shsmeW our answer to Russia's gM coaled intention to sassx IP" of Poland, tbe M^**il,lf|| to extend her irmuenes tat" D.H..__» * " "STAR OP THE NEWS WEEKLIES" From JOHN T. jLT|<s| ^ To tkt Editor For years I've foflowoi un aewtweohlica — getog Ihmfp them aH from Newsweek sad Time en right dswa tmmnpY the political garnet...

...Ia this respect, incidentally, it stands four-square with the Communists, who of late have been viciously attacking such labor political action wbsnssr they themselves could not gain control over it...

...Its desperate and hopeless fight was the first brilliant chapter in the struggle which now moves on to Hitler's certain defeat...

...AND I think there are two principal explanations of this curious gap between Soviet professions and the actualities of Soviet life...

...It has also, however, stirred up a hornets nest of criticism with the result that sniping at our State Department has become the daily fare of "liberal" and outright dishonest newspapers and radWpmmentators...

...It is no secret ef cPew that the Kremlin has dmUSSSjf its own which do not at as MM respond to the aims of the "jPj States...

...The glorious nadtith of military resistance in September, 1939, has been followed by fortyseven long months of even more heroic underground struggle...

...parties...

...As an American, however, whose very existence depends upon the defeat of Hitler and the Mikado I can well ace the point of our President and State Department that in terms of military strategy the backing of General Giraud is more important...

...MssmsP has forgotten one imporumtfiw tor: the role of Russia...

...The creation of jBjg German, Polish, Austrian, jMMwt and Hungarian couunlllcm # Russian soil is no amdam** ¦ now have infonnathm, mcy-ll** crimes that are being caanmW by Russian-led psrtisahs Jaffg the democratic undeigieuaf ¦• Poland...

...1 It ia a genuine .party, s progressive and labor party conceived on broad lines and Jhj?%«g-run pubHe service...

...New York...

...Will the extravagant praise of Tsars and Generals lead to Bonapartist militarist tendencies in foreign policy...

...The adamant opposition to the *sasnm* of leadership of tbe ALP with the Cosssnuml has been based on the ~« ------\ pnWg'x has rested on the conviction that the GjammW ist interest in the ALP extends only kT degree they could divert it to their eanggf isan uses and that, if admitted to any 2_ of influence in its direction* they ummfS hesitate to wreck it should the ComssBsjgS change—the Lord knows this can bxeps...

...bi-partisan candidate...

...The nmsrma Labor Party—despite all the --|||amS of the Communist faction—refused fnm Ms beginning to support Magistrate n misHs stead, they placed upon the ballet to resteam them the name of Judge Matthew M. Levy...

...When the heroes of this war are numbered these men and women will stand high among them...

...Bat their spirits have never bowed...

...This, it seems to me, was the guiding principle of our State Department when it made the by now celebrated "deal" with Darlan, which caused so many sleepless nights to both sincere and essentially dishonest critics Of our State Department's foreign policy...

...knowing mgJMp snd his character, will support hist wahst enthusiastic campaign...

...In connection with this fourth anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities, it is especially fitting that the people of Poland be remembered with honorable recognition...

...Mumford to doubt that this with various shading and variations ss ante ted by the fortunes of a* forms the core of Amerfcas ¦» eign policy...

...Here is a satoj s> portunrty for the labor men and anew af the city and all of the ascent, pssgueay...

...and the question itself is interesting...

...This is something for us to take into account in planning for the post-war world...

...How much more difficult to predict the future in Russia!—where any unauthorised speculation about possible change would be as dangerous now as it was under the iron autocracy of Nicholas I. As it happens, however, I have been doing a good deal of reading of Soviet newspapers and magasines of recent years...

...Hillman coolly proposes to take over the ALP...

...In his impassioned dsmeajB of our diplomacy Mr...

...Reports of uprisings in Italy, in France, and now, especially, developments in Denmark and Sweden show that civilisation bus not been crushed...

...Victory is not yet in sight...

...Mayor LsGusremati that watchdog of political purity, Mr...

...Berne changes are already visible...

...This man, whose aspirations run so high and who has been dragged so low, is a certain magistrate Thomas X Aurelio...

...Moreover our State Department is run hp* human beings with all the virtues snd failures of mortals...

...The Dtcabristi, the Army officers who led an unsuccessful revolt in St...

...MATTHEW LEVY FOR SUPREME COURT WHAT promised to be s dull snd routine election has turned overnight into a sharp struggle to save the Supreme Court of the State of New York from disgrace...

...It has always been a psychological puszle to me how Stalin and his henchmen, in their War propaganda mid in the ballyhoo for the Soviet Constitution of 1936, could endorse the theories of liberty and democracy when so much of Soviet administrative practice 'has been in the most flagrant contradiction to these ideals...

...But who ase the critics^of our atsd^lhj^Uucnt" and what are the mewses behind their ,crit. '.Theses, may be roughly divided into- -three categories...

...Bat it is tm fUfm remove the name from their party Bam a the ballot...

...All the bar association* of tto m} give him their support...

...In striking contrast to the theorising intellectuals of Tjirgemyv and Chekhov, the typical young Russian of recent years has been intensely concerned with learning some trade or profession...

...The Crimean War, in which Great Britain and France proved superior to Russia in military efficiency, discredited the absolutism of Nicholas I and paved the way for the abolition of serfdom and other reforms of Alexander II...

...In a war against a common enemy carried on by a coalition of powers with conflicting ideologies and clashing interests, diplomacy is'charged with the difficult—and in the ease of our rotations with Russia—almost insurmountable task of smoothing out friction between the various parties of the coalition so as to keep the war going until the primary objective (in our case the unconditional surrender of * the Axis) has been achieved...

...involves both the Democratic and Repmfgu...

...But there is a more hopeful aspect of the Russian nationalist revival...

...It is also significant that revolutionary internationalism has been dropped from the propaganda programme of the Red Army, so far as one can judge from the Soviet press...

...IT seems almost incredible that the present war, * with its still greater losses and sacrifices, will not bring about important modifications in the Soviet system One of the reasons why Stalin made every effort to stay out Of war was his realization that war would create unpredictable dangers and problems for his system of personal rule, based'on a one-party dictatorship...

...The exaltation of Tsars and Generals is perhaps safe enough, from the standpoint of an absolutist dictatorship...

...of a "wider base* for the ALP it, fSjj* least, frail and unconvincing...

...First of all it seems to me unlikely that . the existing order can remain static and unchanged after being subjected to the impact of a war of such ceJoaeal proportions, a war in which Russian leases, according to Soviet statements, are already numbered ia . many millions...

...POLISH ANNIVERSARY IN retrospect—after four years of war—the " part played by Poland stands out as supremely heroic...

...What reason has Mr...

...In the third category of critics I would include honest and sincere Americans as diverse ss Walter Lippmann and Lewis Mumford who are genuinely concerned with the trend our foreign policy has taken...

...While there has been a careful effort to prevent any single commander from acquiring too much personal publicity and glory, the -power and prestige of the officer class have been steadily growing...

...Only the other day at Quebec President Roosevelt reaffirmed his belief in the Atlantic Charter pledges to establish a world of freedom...

...The shape of things to come is obscure enough in countries like the United States and Great Britain, where public forums are often held to discuss this very subject...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dennen Attacks Critics of Roosevelt's Foreign Policy From LEON DENNEN To the Editor...

...the officer wears larger and more ornate epaulettes, and enjoys the privileges of officers in other armies...

...The American Labor Party is made up of thousands of union men representing both CIO snd A.F...

...If they were getting a fair return for their work for the collective farm these warnings and threats would be unnecessary...

...i "What is important to bear in mind, hewever, is, first, that fat the seven years of its existence the Labor Party has never barred any aonaftde labor union from bssmam**I affiliate...

...Its efforts to mobilise CIO support to defeat reactionary riinjfrtojtetsii and fight for the Hew Deal are ""Bufta^New York CRy and State, Mr...

...These people never tire of shouting that our State Department lacks a foreign policy...

...The practical effects of freedom and democracy in political' elections snd tradeunion organisation would be just as beneficial in the Soviet Union as anywhere else...

...So I will furnish potential ammunition for my ill-wishers to use against me when and if my suggestions are conspicuously confounded by the course of events...

...What is true...

...DHistrative of this category ate Johannes -Steel snd Lisa Sergio, who ss late aa 1937 dedicated her book on Italy to Mussolini and the glorious fascist Black Shirts...

...Having refrained from criticising our diplomacy since December, 1941, Mr, Mumford came to the conclusion that now "once more the time has come to speak: we are dose to the eleventh hour...

...The political commissars have disappeared...

...Petersburg in 1826 and wished to establish a constitutional order in Russia, had been influenced by service in Europe during the Napoleonic Wan and by contact with the ideas of the French Revolution...

...There are other interesting questions about the Russian future...

...Practically defenseless, with outdated arms and inadequate supplies, the men and women of Poland went to their death resisting...

...It would, not be surprising if the way should stimulate the old educated Russian's tendency to question and to doubt The methods of dictatorship do not permanently solve problems...

...But Mr...

...The scheme, however, fits well into the pattern of the CIO Political Action Committee of which Hillman is the chairman . . *. the committee, admittedly, is net concerned with any permanent labor political parties...

...It has been covered, hidden, suppressed, but ft ia still there, still powerful, ready even now to rise in advance of the liberating forces from overPrime Minister Per Albin Hsnsson, the old Social Democratic leader of Sweden, rises to declare: "Our hearts are beating for Denmark...

...For its own sake and for the sake of Europe and the world," the letter, signed by Algernon Lee and Louis P. Goldberg, stated, "Fnisssd must again become an independent republic, guaranteed in its right to live its own life as a free nation in a free world...

...Hillman's Committee represents only the CIO and is la tar as bed only in the 1944 election...

...How will the numerous non-Russian peoples of the Soviet Union react, ia the long run, to a propaganda of purely Russian . nationalism...

...All the appeals to the Army and the people are expressed in terms of conventional oldfashioned patriotism...

...In addition, there are among its members many thousands of progressive citisens from outside the trade union ranks...

...His full, sad to relate...

...On September 2nd the Social Democratic Federation of New York City and State sent to Jan Ciechanowski...

...The Russian literature of the nineteenth century ia saturated with humanistic ideals...

...In the second category of "critics" belong some of our French guests So far as these critics are concerned a democratic American foreign policy can mean but one thing: recognition of General De Gaulle alone as the legitimate ruler of France...

...On that basis it must cooperate with aastleialra, liberal and organised User forces tae ironical Action i/oramittee oi tne oiu, headed < by Sidney fBBmaa...

...The Atlantic Charter and the recent forthright statement by Assistant Secretary of State, Adolph A Berle Jr., to the effect that "the only true democratic course far the friends sf France to take la along the line* of the potiey which this Gevernssent has consistently followed, namely, to refrain from recognising any group of F reach - men as the Government af Frame ¦ntil the French staple are liberated and are again fa] a position to ex err ise (heir free will in the choice of their leaders" they regard as so much undemocratic nonsense...

...Moreover, who ever said that De Gaulle, monarchist, darling of the reactionaries and of the communists—a martinet obsessed with a mania of grandeur—symbolises French democracy...

...wfmHP due respect for the hms|> R4> sian people it must neveftaesj be made dear that tmfeWjJ Nazis had attacked Scrim MS there was widespread hops mP this war would ctonUiswyd^* out to be a people's mar...

...to take the control from the men and women Who have built it, to limit its objectives sad, presumably, to throw it on the refuse heap of politics as soon aa next year's campaign is finished la expressing our opinion of this brash proposal we cannot do better than quote from the leading editorial of the last, number of Justice, official organ of the Internationa] {^rsrJS^ur^aKi...

...But ware our diplomats the blackest af the black ' how would that effect our basic foreign potiey which is based on the Atlantic Charter...

...To begfn with there sre the "liberal" fellow travstisii snd Stalin firsters wbelui^pBt loud in their lamestationa...

...is that whfie m-mtml has never put up the bars on aaytaaQI even on Communist dominated untomHI definitely opposed any of the -----niisi _ camouflaged Communists of the Quill sajl ran stripe assuming places of reapaussmh in 'the party's administration...

...It will not be a wild and incalculable population with which are shall have to deal...

...These are only two of many internal reforms which the people may well demand after the end of the war...

...This sew snd greatly enlarged officer class will very probably be crowding the eU Party bureaucracy for a share in the power of the dictatorship after the end of the war...

...A careful study of their statements, however, will-show that they are not interested in a democratic foreign policy but in their policy which means: complete submission to Stalin and to his demands for the annexation of large chunks of Poland, Rumania, the Baltic States and, if possible, the Balkans...

...But the compaxka cat beneficiary of gangsters remains the ream...

...I* this aS the ALP position has run parallel to tsn2 and time-tested policy of those unions toff while admitting Communists to memseamsl would bar them from holding positions of tj trust aad responsibility...

...Literally decimated by mass murder and artificially created famine, the Poles still fight for their own freedom and thereby for ours...

...Democracy, say these biased arm-chair strategists, is at stake unless Russia's demand for the immediate opening of a "second front"—even though it may conflict with the exigencies of AngloAmerican military strategy—is granted at once...

...Polish Ambassador to the United States, a letter expressing their feelings of respect and admiration to his people...

...The quintet of approved national heroes is composed of two Tsars, Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, one medieval prince, Alexander Nevsky, and two Tsarist Marshals, Suvorov and Kutuzov...

...Foreign policies are not made in a vacuma...

...First of all, there has been a merciless decimation of individuals who think critically and independently...

...In no war has Russia suffered such a tremendous loss ia kaman Uvea and In territory .occupied by the enemy...

...For three years these have looked the Germans to the eyas...

...This gives us a basis of hope for the entire unfortunate continent...

...In silent scorn they have endured...

...The men who lead the heroic protest la Denmark are the same socialist and labor men whom we knew before the war...

...But much more so than in all previous conflicts, diplomacy today is charged with one more function directly in the realm of grand military strategy: to And ways and means of dividing the enemy and preparing the way for military conquest with a minimum, loss of life...

...This distrust of liberal groups may stand out in glaring contradiction to the fact that this progressive strength in . New York and elsewhere has for years been a bulwark in the defense of the New Deal which the Hillman plan is supposed to bolster...

...One would like to know what birdie whispered in Mr...

...Military events have al¦ ready proven the wisdom of this diplomatic move: it paved the way for a bloodless Allied invasion of North Africa and the subsequent ' conquest of Sicily Which resulted in the demise of Mussolini and the first serious crack in tbe ranks of the Axis...

...Hillman has made an unfortunate beginning...

...To be sure, the devil fat not as black ss fas painted biased critics...

...As a democratic socialist I can accept neither De Gaulle nor Giraud...

...The ALP policy of preserving the hkpmt political standards thus gives tat ritamcd the two populous counties involved the epae tunity to put upon the Supreme Court Mffk a man of the very highest attamaMum an character...

...of L. organisations...

...The popular ferment during the Russo-Japanese War -found expression in the 1906 Revolution, which led to the setting up in Russia of the Duma, the first national parliament of modern times...