EDITORIAL COMMENT
EDITORIAL COMMENT ? HC tTAIl DEP A RTM f NT SflAKS ?ECRETARY OF STATE HULL suffers as a radio personality because be lacks the voice oi s Roosevelt and the dipped and classic literary style of...
...Here are Mr...
...Has he forgotten so soon how the Soviet connection with tbe League was terminated ¦ by a unanimous vote of expulsion for its unprovoked attack on Finland, an attach which copied the infamaaa Hitter technique of first slandering and then stssssiaating small nations down to the last detail...
...Bracken's refrain...
...but became more discreet...
...Then came the phase of the Popular Front and of collaboration with the League of Nations, so often denounced in the past as an organization of capitalist bandits...
...Our own label, plus the distributors, appears on every garment Thousands of garments—from tiny shirts up to big coats—also nurses' and doctors* coats and soldiers' kits—have poured out of our Shop monthly through the British Wsr Relief, Red Cross and the Jewish Labor Committee agencies...
...The Soviet Government, one of the first countries to sign the Kellogg Pact, was also the first country to break it, by using armed force in its dispute with China over the Russian rights in the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1929...
...depressions cause poverty...
...Georgia • · · [Copies of the ansae eantaamw Prof...
...We need more good hearts and more good hands to increase our service of mercy and love...
...Bracken one better...
...MeCeMioUr ss stwshws 4 the Southern Werber* D4?m League and a leading better for civil liberties] To the Editor: The article by Professor WSHam B. HeeaeithM, "A Leant From American History" (Mat Leader, August 21), u tlx at* accurate statement en the aeration in the South which I...
...In the meantime a story gained a...
...the repeal of poll tax laws, or their abrogation by Congressional act...
...In his Chicago address oa Saturday night the Vice-President was especially definite and especially militant...
...ejrery group in the world...
...Here is Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information, celebrating a brief visit to New York with the breathtaking statement: "Soviet Hearts has never broken its word...
...Bracken, Miss Thompson and Mr...
...He pictured exactly what we shall aspsrieact after the war unless-she - people through governments are able to control the monopolistic concerns which thai up trade and manufacture before the war...
...The New Laader was the first newspaper to expose how this international combination prevented the expansion of the manufacture of synthetic rubber...
...Thty *·" sent free on request] Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Why Fool Ourselves About Stalin...
...He does not pull his punches...
...The upshot may be—is certainly designed to be—an international policy with a unified government behind it In the meantime, the Secretary's critics should note that his outline of the essentials of world organization are adequate to the task of banning "the monstrous specter of war...
...If we gauge his personality aad meUtoda aceerately, we may devise realistic formulas for living together in the same world, if we build him up as a compound of Sir Galahad aad George Washington of Cherry-Tree legend, we are ht for some dull thuds of disillusionment...
...the prices...
...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR How Should Negroes Fight for Their Rights?--A Reply from Konvitz From MILTON R. KONVITZ To the Editor...
...This ? a plea far help—both financial and functional...
...Bolles in s slightly lewer key...
...Uncontrolled business causes depressions...
...While Mr...
...they work for a Federal act against lynching...
...In 1920 the Soviet Government recognized the independence Of Georgia, a small country in the Caucasus which had a democratic socialist government...
...Dorothy Thompson was qukk to catch up Mr...
...Stalin broke every one of these treaties that it was psysically possible for him to break...
...It is anyone's guess whether this fifth phase will be any more lasting than iU predecessors...
...The Secretary will make his statements from time to time...
...Upon that return to Washington, the legislators esn met by smiling lobbyists with wtui-contufb amendments to the Renegotiation Act in thar hands...
...I don't know whether Mr...
...They nap more...
...menu of services the authority to re-easea* the terms of such agreements and...
...Bolles's naive suggestion that it is "honor," and net obvious selfinterest, that keeps him out of the fray with Japan...
...v ¦ «·· It is unfortunate for the state of oar public * opinion that not one of our widely syndicated commentators knows the Soviet Union well enough, either from 'personal residence or from study, to make his or her views on that subject worth the paper they are printed on...
...Wallace replied .with precise references to the international agreements and to the acts whereby Standard Oil had prevented American concerns from proceeding with rubber production...
...Even the Bill of Righte in the Constitution of the U.S.S.R...
...Elfenbein leaves is...
...Atlanta...
...The Soviet regime sought security not in any broad system of collective guaranties, but in individual pacU with neighbor states...
...seen in a long time...
...And Stalin himself would have a good laugh if he could read Mr...
...During the fourth phase, the phase of the Stalin-Hitler entente, all the fine talk about "collective security" and "respect for the righU of small nations" was put away in mothballs and the Soviet Government embarked on a career of hardboiled, predatory imperialism...
...Nothing leas—nothing weaker—wilt do...
...Recently Drew Pearson suggested that it was a grave sin of our State Department not to have made itself an accomplice in piracy by turning over to the Soviet Union some ships of the Baltic Republics which Stalin annexed...
...Congress will go on to debate its various proposals...
...The Vice-President traces accurately the causal lines which connect the cartels, the welfare of the common man and the danger of Fascism and war...
...tion these men have not been idle...
...version was met with the simple sutanan that that matter is no concern of the tgstag forces...
...Of course, the law as a merely printed statement in some calf-boimd book is unimportant...
...The faak of the Rand School Workshop, as the Women's Committee of the S.D.F...
...A public...
...He knew in advance that his address would be scanned for hidden meaning by every nation...
...but in a democracy we have no more effective instrument for social reform, either to bring it about or to confirm it than legislation and court decisions...
...Litvinov earned much credit as an "angel of peace" among wooly-minded Western commentators by initiating and pressing through to conclusion treaties of non-aggression and neutrality with the Western neighbors of the Soviet Union, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland...
...Wallace's words: "Internationa] organisation can build permanent peace only by serving continuallly the needs of the common man everywhere for jobs, opportunity, health and security...
...That they should be so generally ignored in comment on our relations with Moscow reflects more than ignorance...
...that the manufacturers, antkipstiaj success of their campaign to amend or renal the act, had already began to saboUfi ft* renegotiation proceedings...
...All of ahm does not make for rabble-rousing etoqnawee...
...When ear armament program ataee...
...Secretary Hull's contribution to our national life can best be evaluated after the peace terms have been drawn up...
...It was once said that Macaulay's idea of hell * would be to hear fiends misquoting history and to be unable to correct them...
...The Soviet Government repeatedly professed the greatest respect for the territorial- integrity of China...
...The picture presented by lawyers sat manufacturers before the Ways and...
...Russia has indeed never broken her word nor changed her policy," she recently informed her readers...
...Such words as liberty, freedom and dantatTscy ha t ran stetes Into terms of the ordinary man's life...
...Leas than anyone else now in the public eye is he content with ear-filling phrases...
...And—to our hurt, but to iU own honor—it has remained ' faithful to iU neutrality pact with Japan...
...The niambei ? of the national legislature have before them various measures proposing American cooperation in international action, to prevent war...
...Heaaehine's article art «P available to readers...
...An official of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey attacked his statement with the . usual bland profession of innocence/ Mr...
...who are trying to segregate Negro pupils, in contravention of the civil rights law and the education law of the State of New York (without theae lsws the Negro in Hillburn would have no way to make his voice heard: he would have no cause of action, as lawmen would say...
...HearnSli ' proposed amendments to this act antrum...
...This report hp created such an antagonistic effect that prospecU of drastic change are rapidly <th> spearing...
...McCallister Hails Hesseltine Article on South Frees FRANK McCaLUSTH [Mr...
...The man knows what he ia talking about...
...they were instrumental in getting the President to set up the FE PC...
...Now let's look at the record, which is, or ought to be, equally available to Mr...
...For iU -existence spells out sn acknowledgment, by the state that the actualities contradict the ideal, and the.promise is implied that in the future, reality will be made to approximate theory...
...I would not say that it is Mr...
...Without these lawn, all that the Negro is left with is an opportunity to use his fists...
...Laws will not usher in the millennium...
...This was gofng Mr...
...The impression Mr...
...This ? also aw invitation to all our friends to attend our Tea in recognition of the third anniversary of a truly splendid and pride-stirring Workshop—next Wednesday, September 22nd...
...poverty gives <the Hitlers their chance...
...He spoke officially for the State Department...
...back in 1040 the Army and Navy...
...The second phase, from 1921 until 1934, might be described as defensive isolationism...
...If you fight nrith the law against you, you art I··)· outlaw, with the mark at OP on your brow, and anyone's Ma may strike you...
...sees it is clear: We must as quickly as possible build up a stock-pile of cloth es \ new, good, warm, healing clothes, ready to cover the bombed, shell-shocked, terror, stricken victims of war...
...Even in eases where every pnea> tion has been taken it often turns out that ? production proceeds it is possible to cot am« costs—and, consequently, a review of prim is in order...
...Wallace gave the public proof that he spoke from exact knowledge...
...When they present their claims tbtf will not bear the light of day.' Even tat Cosgressmen moat favorable to them am pat ? the blush But no Congressman suggest** t Little Steel Formula for Big Business...
...Bolles] in the main has honored iU treaties...
...the Hitlers start wars...
...Finally came the fifth phase of military cooperation with the Western democracies...
...Unless we build this sort of world combination the next war will come as surely as this one did—with greater speed...
...WALLACE'S WAY OF WINNING "THE part which Vice-President Wallace * plays in winning the peace places him in the forefront of American political leaders...
...Had he lived fat our time he might well have felt that the fiends had already appeared—in human form...
...Thus the democratic process will go on...
...EDITORIAL COMMENT ? HC tTAIl DEP A RTM f NT SflAKS ?ECRETARY OF STATE HULL suffers as a radio personality because be lacks the voice oi s Roosevelt and the dipped and classic literary style of a Churchill...
...This, as I understand it is the basis of the work being done by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tbe American Civil Liberties Union, the Workers Defense League and similar organisations...
...It is a art* »w •dl citizens cannot read tbe reports ef tS sessions sr...
...The stenhfa Jonathan Stoat in The New L*ederi3j| from week to weak the enormans SwZnl reached by these rewards...
...We must have a United Nations control of life that will serve these purposes...
...This would be a pretty reckless claim to make for any great power...
...Well, hardly ever," observes Mr...
...Here in the United States we were prevented from making rubber because Hitler forbade it After the address Mr...
...This is the real Source of danger...
...All the more valuable are civil righU statutes and constitutional bills of rights in this country, where we do enjoy the bask freedoms, and can openly work for the implementation of our ideals...
...The eenerrss represented by these men are staking ant profits as no concerns anywhere ever mass b> fore...
...it is far from meaningless...
...We simply must do mach more...
...Contrary to the suggestion of The Now York Times, this discussion of cartels is quit* different from the old fulminatkms against selected capitalistic devils...
...Bracken and Dorothy Thompson commit themselves to the daring proposition that the Soviet international record is comparable with that of the legendary George Washington of the Cherry-Tree, Mr...
...But, by the convenient method of sending in the Red Army and thereby giving a puppet government a chance to damp down its authority, the huge area of Outer Mongolia has been detached from China and added, in fact if not ia name, to the Soviet Union...
...Elfefibeia's intention to make an appeal to the Negroes to resort to violence...
...It consistently upheld its commitments in the League...
...Committee is an instructive one...
...The sooner more persons tsssr stand that the beak resets hr poverty and backwardness is (9 South is exploiution by Northen capital, the sooner ijiuutfthan in the North will be able tt fht constructive help down asm...
...ation Act, pasead by Congress...
...But aside from these two instances, iU diplomatic record is clear...
...Bolles was merely ignorant or was cynically humorous when he said that the Soviet Union "consistently upheld its commitments in the League...
...There is'no doubt that in many sections of the country civil rights laws are not strictly enforced ;. but on the whole, these Isws have been instrumenU of economic and political advance for' the ' Negro...
...In 1921 tbe Red Army marched in and Georgia was duly transformed into -an affiliated Soviet Republic...
...They would ssann up even higher were it not for the...
...During the congressional...
...Costs were lern impe*lasnmE| ¦ npead...
...Support of subversive movements abroad did not cease...
...No doubt every word which he uttered was subjected to scrota)* ?l-t»tnctkm by the experts of tbe department...
...ARMAMENT PtOFITS THERE is somethingly disanningly naive * about the way in which armament manufacturers go after profits...
...Ban progress has been made fc ·$* direction and we are looking heward to the day down here...
...According to agreement, the great American concern was under the thumb of the German trust, aad the Germans took orders from the Hitler government...
...If We had a different sort of Secretary of State, a man, let us say, like Wood row Wilson, who would suddenly sppear with a complete constitution for a world union in his hand, we may be sure that we should repeat the tragedy of 1919...
...In appearing before the nation last Sunday evening he was held down by another sort of'restriction...
...If business i ? in the unrestricted hands of cartels we shall go oa having each cases as that of Standard Oil and I. G. Farben...
...Accordingly, we are planning to meet new emergencies as our responsibilities will widen...
...The plea of business lesati - that the careful business methods of the lug and Navy men prevented the companies fma - laying up sufficient funds for post-war man...
...Rand Workshop Issues Call From ESTHER FRIEDMAN To the Editor: The Band School Workshop enters its third year of war service at an auspicious time...
...Bracken and Miss Thompson in a resounding bass chorus, in commenting on the impious suggestion that Stalin has sometimes defaulted on diplomatic checks...
...The Contracts Renegonation Act was leans to curb profits Which were shamelessly emit line...
...characteristics as a hard-boiled, ruthless, astute and utterly unscrupulous dictator whose road to power internally and externally has been strewn with broken promises...
...The hands of our women who . enraj^tthey are not many—they asm net enough, but- who come almost daily from their home duties Ihren lagt two years in rainor shine) have already done so much to bring comfort, hope and greetings to war-torn, sorrow-laden mothers...
...At the opening hearing before the Van and Means Committee of the ? oust « *s> t resentative of the Army testified that nwsnM of price schedules under the law in qossthl has saved the citizens of the country more fias $4.000,000,000.00...
...hoi|i_ dissatisfied...
...He clearly envisions a union of nations with a system of courts and sufficient military power to enforce its will...
...possible...
...Made on behalf of Soviet Russia, it Is simply absurd, as I shall presently cite chapter and verse to show...
...He speaks definitely, thoughtfully and courageously...
...Still the facte which I have cited are not secrets...
...However, the Women's Committee of the Social Democratic Federation is fully aware of the implication in Winston Churchill's words that "our hardest battles and sacrifices lie ahead...
...It ? futile and childish to keep oa trying to fool ourselves about Sulin's essentia...
...So contracts were signed adjaaSBB ful checking, and wheels began to turn,' fm Renegotiation Act gave the supply anala...
...is not a dead letter altogether...
...Their accomplishmenU, largely through victories in the courts and legislatures, fully justify their platform of reform through law...
...they are fighting the school authorities in the village of HiUburn, N. Y...
...This by itself would harm no one...
...The bare essentials are mentioned with the purpose of focalizing official and unofficial opinion...
...Bolles...
...But they are not satisfied...
...Any informed student of Soviet foreign policy knows that there are at least five clearly distinguishable phases in its evolution, each of which represented considerable modifications in the orientation snd methods and practices of iU predecessors...
...that the law is valueless because it is unenforcible...
...It reflects a dangerous moral obscurantism that found iU . crudest expression, perhaps, in Mr...
...It is important only in so far as it' is enforced...
...Perhaps it permitted the American recognition agreement to be violated by Comintern agenU and it seemed to repudiate the treaty with Finland which settled the winter war...
...Joseph E. Davies' lamentable adventure in Hollywood...
...Responsible Negro leaders limit their work strictly to these channels...
...they never .incite riot Instead, they work for...
...they work for the outlawing of the white primary (there is a case from Texas now pending in the United States Supreme Court...
...Hull's method, though less dramatic may lead to happier results...
...at the People.'* House, 1 Beet 15th St, New York...
...official is not to be judged on the basis of his entertainment value...
...will ia their owa way say "Happy Birthday...
...But the British historian lived before the days of Ministries of Information and supposedly omniscient syndicated columnists...
...Southern workers caa deal *# the owners of industry, si ·?* on the same basis ss they A in the North...
...Total, allout cooperation will be more necessary than ever...
...He names the threats to international peace aad domestic happiness...
...This account of the State Department's attitude toward world policy was, moreover, quite obviously aimed at the United States Congress...
...Hiram Elfenbein's letter last week makes me out to be a terribly naive person...
...The process is a developing'one...
...wanted to get things going as rapuftT...
...Now the Soviet Union has no more valid claim to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and its other annexations during the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact than Germany has to Czechoslovakia, sad there would be no more justification for turning over to Stalin assets of the Baltic States in this country than there would have been for giving Czechoslovak aaseU to Hitler...
...Representatives ef the British War Belief, the Bad Cross and the Jewish Labor Committee and also the Hon.' Leak P. Goldberg, Chairman of the 8.D.F...
...The Opposition to this program, at every step, shows that the reactionary-farces are fully aware of the value of having the law on your side If you fight with the law on your side, yon may4 nonetheless lose because the judges or juries may be prejudiced, but you will live to fight another day, and there probably will be a day of victory...
...Despite the care of the Army and Navy am, perts acting under the authority of the 1*§ profits are still more than generous...
...in their respective countries...
...The real answer, of eoares, ? organization of workers, ssB black and white, into potsslH democratic trade unions...
...1M p. m...
...proceeding in Washington...
...It is high time that the bland assumption that anyone who opposes all but submission to Stalin's predatory imperialism is ipso facto a blind reactionary, should be challenged...
...It is a curious symptom of the morel and logical confusion that often crops up in times of stress aad strain that the same people who preached the fatal consequences of trying to appease Hitler now, without any sense of inconsistency, are for all-out appeasement of Stalin's territorial demands and fall into the habit of assuming that our Government must be wrong and Stalin must be right on every disputed issue...
...Hull emphasised the fact that the experts of his department are working on the problem which this proposal presents aad that members of other departments and leaders of public opinion are collaborating in these studies...
...No, never," say Mr...
...This phase, it should never be forgotten, was initiated rot by Stalin but by Hitler, through his attack on Russia...
...Blair Bolles puts on a show of objectivity and approaches the subject in a recent issue of The Nation with the air of a distinctly friendly Daniel come to judgment: "Russia [according to Mr...
...first phase, from 1917 until 1921, was * marked by a Messianic faith in the coming of world revolution'and aa open identification of tbe Soviet Government with the Communist parties which, under publicized instructions from Moscow, were employing every conceivable means of violence and intrigue to set up revolutionary dictatorship...
...fE leaders of the manufacturers art...
...This is the* central nexus of things that we should all keep our eyes on from now until the post-war set-up is worked out To solve the problems involved the new society of nations must be much more than a league of governments carrying on diplomatic negotiations...
...they have won numerous cases in state courts which equalise the salaries received by Negro teachers with those paid to white teachers of the same qualifications and length of service...
...tt dose not even permit unlimited promises of felicity to maskind all over the world...
...but the implications in his letter go far beyond the personal note, and are dangerous in so far as they may lead the reader to conclude that the Negro has nothing to achieve from the use of peaceful methods...
Vol. 26 • September 1943 • No. 38
