Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN The Individual and the State THE supreme political alternative, of our time can be summed up in the question: Do the people own the state or doe*...
...No matter what ¦say be said in derogation of our own part in this gigantic struggle, long before the Russians involuntarily took their pi sue in the present line-up, we had voluntarily taken oar stand with the British and started the flow of aid across the Atlantic...
...The campaign of terror in the Ukraine, which was a ruthless, attempt at Poloni-xation of a racial aad religious minority, was encouraged by Rome as an set od ma jar em Dei gloriam...
...The principal speakers ware Col...
...As/or children, they are to have little or no time for play and reading in Mr...
...It may he a good servant...
...The issue of whether the people will own the state or the state will own the people will not be conclusively settled by the defeat, now fortunately every day more assured, of the Nazis and the Japanese, militarists...
...Governor Green was forced to make harried eats la Us text...
...And this horrible robot society, in which everyone is to be at the disposal of an impersonal bureaucracy, is pot even limited, in Mr...
...particularly in mind our meehtor tool industry, which, flue to f» spar of war necessity, has •reduced as much machinery' hi ttto years as it normally does m wa...
...Dilling Attend a Party CBy CLARK RYAN HICAG0, 111.—Illinois Republicans, under the leadership of Colonial Robert R. MeCormick of the Chicago Tribune, held a party celebration of Constitution Day Friday evening, September 17th...
...prolonged indefinitely...
...FEARLESS AMD COURAGEOUS From BENJAMIN GITLQW To the Editor: My congratulations to a paper thst is fearless at a time when courage in the arena of intellectual expression is so rare...
...Th* writers proceeded with gnat care aad with the obvious intention of dahmg fairly with all the interests and gssupj...
...ft, ^. RUSSIA, AMERICA, AND ¦ ' EARL IROWDER ris doubtful whether the Soviet Union finds itself well served by Earl Brpwder...
...It is hard to say which of them was worse...
...Browner, evidently conceived of...
...To quote his own words: "Young persons should themselves be mobilized after school hours and in vacation periods for useful work in agriculture, etc...
...adda: "It is interesting to know that with three millions of their own people starving, the Ukrainian Government was still heat on devoting two-thirds of its energies aad resources to the relief of snother section of the country" (page MS...
...May I wish this courageous champion of humanity and defender of' our liberties a long life and prosperity...
...Kayden's conception, to the duration of the war...
...However, if "fretdets from wawr to ever to be realized afi w* countries of the asrtk swst • industrialized...
...A feature ef the Republican dinner was" the introduction of Richard J. Lyons who is reputedto, he McC«raUek'a candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois in 1944...
...To Mr...
...If Mr...
...but it is always aa extremely had master...
...Bat these same technical means, if misused and perverted, as they certainly will be if the un-controlled totalitarian state becomes the general model, under whatever name it may disguise itself, can turn this planet into a . ¦ permanent hell and create a slavery of the • mind and a suffering of the body far worse ' then anything known in the Middle Ages...
...These are the...
...As the war approaches its climax, fundamental changes in the high command are inevitable...
...FORTUNATELY American labor has a healthy strong distrust of state compulsion, along with an inherited antipathy to the tyranny of the highhanded big.-corporation...
...Lednicki to rente these facto These and myriads of others are the reasons why the Ukrainian people of the Western Ukraine do not wish to be incorporated in thh resurrected Poland...
...it is in-habited mainli- by the Ukrainian people, who ars indigenous to that land...
...The British miners who went on strike as a protest against the imprisonment of aa eighteen-year-old hoy who refused to go to work in the "mines had a far better conception of the true meaning of liberty than the, American Legion, with its demand for.the enactment of a labor conscription act...
...Even the person farthest from great affairs can easily imagine bow many arrangements must be made before such decisions are made public...
...Col...
...Beth Hitler and the Japanese militarists acquired business support and even won some popularity among the industrial workers by reducing unemployment through heavy armament construction programs...
...It all depends on whether the energies of the supposedly civilised peoples, in the years after the war, will be directed' to drill-grounds or to universities, to producing airplanes and tanks and ever- bigger and better blockbuster bombs or to building model housing projects and playgrounds and libraries and the infinite variety of things that go into the making of a decent standard1 of living...
...He glorified, aa well he or anyone may, the tremendous part being played iaythe war by the Soviet armies...
...The -Pales have no more claim to it than do the Russians...
...But there are, apparently, fsaraereus "liberal" columnists who parallel hi* thinking if they do not take their cue directly from him...
...The Now Leader with its many able contributors, uncensored news, special features aad editorials helps ns to interpret the present and, ia a measure, to forecast the future...
...MeCormick' was gi ven the honor on the speaking program, which wan hrsairast He spoke first snd Senator Brooks after him...
...All of this sounds good...
...They are these: The so-called "Eastern Poland" is not Polish...
...Browser, "is harmful nonsense with only one aim ayd end, to try to give to the Soviet Union similar tasks in the Far East to those mfBBtfimt has performed in Europe, namely to win th*war for ue...
...MeCormick, Senator C W'ayland Brooks and Governor Dwjght Green...
...All reports give one ssd refrain of the persecution of the Fkrainian minority by the Poles...
...But it is always possible to make definite denials, to tell enough to show in which direction the truth lies...
...Only simple and straight talk can bolster public confidence and pull the poison from the fangs cf gossip...
...The Soviet* are claiming the Polish Ukraine and White Russia...
...Now Mr...
...dilemma* of capitalism Unlike Van DLisah^HeiaT Kaiser, America's MWaaist or getter," to against subsidies- ,. Scheaoctody...
...He more than -wT_ else, through books, magazine sr-jehaasi addresses, expounded sound Socialist 0sa3 to the people of tht* country...
...They, like him, view with scorn the natural suggestion that Russia afford has allies toe advantage offered by continental bases from which to launch air attacks on Japan...
...I New York The Problem af America's Pott-War Capacity From Herbert M. MERRILL To the EdHer: So "private enterprise its* to-come a pauper to be supported to the taxpayers...
...We ass*ess the technical means to create ' mare freedom, more leisure, s higher cultural sad material standard of living for more people than the world has ever known...
...I think Mr...
...This wmrnfam would amount to an intellectual siliiiiMlai of the country...
...entitled to the implicit obedience of its subjects...
...himself as the...
...Lsnsing...
...And he...
...In this connection it is worthwhile to recall the pitiful bankruptcy of economic statesmanship in the thirties...
...In September ths> Nesto...
...Unfortunately, -this man's busy life came to an end just ss the...
...Not for a long time have I Seen such a good example of unconscious totalitarian humor as the criticism of Allied military government in a Soviet publication on the ground that it wwh—undemocratic...
...In sach r*nun*s, which were lenortsd to eseef those buried "sptcisbT toft* Mew .York Times, he aeries* that a volume of goads to M* produced in the Usited 1MB per cent greater than peaeajM* supporting, and further that kV finance private enterprise aflat the war...
...Browder says openly to an American audience that because the Russians are fighting heroically to throw Germans off their soil, they are "winning the war for us...
...Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling presided over s gay table in the audience...
...TaanjagC democratic and genuinely AjnerieasJ^C, approach, he was especially well fitt^m saw the results of «ocia...
...Col...
...and m our eOsasZkg institution* has flowed from the work doeght hke and those who Worked with has...
...But, according to the best available information about its activities in Sicily, it has not uprooted a million and a half people and deported them to slave labor on starvation rations...
...The A us tin-Wads worth Bill proposes to exempt mothers.of children under eighteen...
...7 East 15th Street, Mew Took City, under the auspices ef the Social Democratic Federation, a meeting to mark the tenth anniversary of his passing...
...The undeniable fact is that the Ukrainian people were grossly mtotreated by the Poles in the sees and recently...
...They 'want to be independent and free not only from Poland hat from the Soviet Union, and also from other covetous states...
...Thar* is every reason why the students in our high tdaee should have such materials placed before then Bat why it was considered necessary fig i committee of the Legislature to sponsor sal publish sach a book ia left a compleu mystery If each s practice were to become rwwtv the educational effect would be liiiiiiiaaa, Imagine a reactionary Legislator, f oUewog a liberal one and rewriting tfce serial *nylto course...
...The most usyeaJseM* private enterprise feetwsr fPf aers are bodnd to eeesniitsr.sj...
...The - policy of the Communist Party with respect of the Ukraiuhn...
...What are the facts...
...Mr...
...All chatter about the Soviets giving as bombing bases in Siberia," orates Mr...
...The general approach may a judged from a couple of sentence* carta front the final chapter: "There have bees mini change*, since 1790, in the way our eco&ean works...
...Pierre Van Paasen in his book, That Dog AUme (page 441), writes about the Vatican and Politics and the Ukrainian people, who were cruelly "pacified" by the Poles,"-thus: "The Polish Republic organized that campaign of terror and forceful conversion to Catholicism which the Uanchet-'r Guardian fully reported...
...created by the individuals who inhabit the nation for their mutual protection and for the . advancement of their interests...
...Both the CIO and the A^F.ofL...
...hashed just thst in remarks st Chicago rsassM before the Industry Ad ill atom Association...
...Government failed to bring the Ukrainian situation to the knowledge of the American Relief Association, as it did to other regions much more remote, hot it actively discouraged anything likely to bring the Americana in contact with - the Ukraine" (page 261...
...AO these accumulated and imponderable factors leaven the political thought of the American masses, all this ts the unnerves ted fruit ef Socialist propaganda...
...The suggestion thst since we are mutually allies, they should help up against Japan as we help them against the Germans, Mr...
...One must also depend on its columns for real vital news -which is unpublished elsewhere...
...MeCormick And Mrs...
...Kayden the Austin-Wadsworth Bill, with its proposed labor conscription for'merr and women from eigheecn to eixty-ftve, does hot go far enough...
...Equipping China, Africa sM South America to banish "wseT would absorb the produeuas * American heavy industry sW many years to coma.' LTBdsf_P profit system, however, we ipWjg undeveloped regions of the ejjg to give us something to for oar machines iaj|l therl.9 the rub...
...Tennessee...
...The result alone to important The result was that the slkrainian peasant, who had eaiaiisil from the opg^i?0RUm' leD ^ into the hand* ef Warsaw and Rome...
...sent...
...MeCormick charged that the indictment of 30 pro-fascists for ssoflttoa sad conspiracy tai violation of the CoastiEDITORIAL COMMENT GENERAL MARSHALL AMD THI ISOLATIONISTS Ij|/E may as wtU acknowledge frankly that " we have in thia country disloyal persons and disloyal nan|aap<in The most powerful pfies the only really dangerous ones are those who are known as iaeeationsits...
...These two dangers, - of est uncontrolled, absolutist state, decked oat with some alluring name like "total citizenship" and provided with' a "bill of duties," and of a penntojent militarism that will be sold to the people under the double pretext of insuring international peace and averting unemployment are closely linked up...
...Kayden calls for "total citizenship/' to be enforced by a Bill of Duties...
...Dilling to under Federal indictment for sedition, and the case is expected shortly to be triad in Washington...
...The character of the Ukrainian famine in 1921-22 is a tragic testimony why the Ukrainian people do not desire to be included in the Soviet Union.' "In the Ukraine," writes H H. Fisher in his book, The Famine in Soviet fiaseie, 1919-1933...
...than they were before the war boom got under way...
...Nothing could be more appropriate then sach a meeting at vow nine, ¦ Morris Hillquit contributed is mas* ^ to the American Labor and Sochjkst sg...
...As it has developed toward its praam urban-industrial pattern, the relations of ea-ployers and workers have become incm«hatt important teats of the justice aad eeViam of our free enterprise system...
...Here it was not a case of a few thousands but of a mass of ten million human beings who, to the years after the first World War, and again in , 1930-31, -were subjected to a terroristic .drive for conversion on the part of Church and State...
...reasons why the Ukrainian people abhor , the idea of being again under the oppressive domination either of Russia or Poland...
...msny causes joined to make the famine of 1921-1922 hideously devastating...
...have announced their opposition to the robot servitude envisaged by the Austin-Wads-worth Bill...
...But then he went on to deprecate by statement, allusion and omission the performances of Great Britain and the United States...
...Judging the volume on the beau *f paV linked reports, The New Leader has no thh> tion to it...
...Inevitably such change* will Involve the status of oar Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall...
...MORRIS HILLQUIT AND AMERICAN THOUGHT TEN YEARS ago Morris Hillquit wrote: * "The Socialist Party vote and party membership are no Index to the extent to which Socialistic thought has permeated the population of the country...
...Wallace and Mr...
...and as the Chicago Times observed, "Mrs...
...representative of Moscow interestw...
...It is an instrument...
...These two manuscripts were read in fan snd as radio time ran eat...
...The only weapon with which this sort of dirty attack can be countered is full, honest and* straightforward public relations on behalf of the government It may be that a definite announcement of General Marshall's future status is impossible...
...Kayden's brave new world...
...We need less cleverness...
...In the Meantime leaks occur, guesses are made, gossip gets in its deadly work...
...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Says Ukrainians Are Ignored In Eastern European Debates From YURKO BOYKO To the Editor - - Mr...
...Kayden looks sourly on this suggestion and wants to see only .women whose children are under four* teen escape the dragnet of his all-conscript state...
...The state, to any good democrat, is not a demi-god...
...with their hack thus secured, Storked their attack on Poland, England, 9t Wfafe ^Before kmc Britain stood practically alone, bearing the brunt of the attack—with no second front to the East...
...But it is Mr...
...study- to th* eassggW forms of political and economic life Mam...
...Kayden have a dangerously false conception of the relation of the Individual to the state in a liberal democracy It is doubly dangerous ia an era when totalitarian institutions have been estab-, lisheo in se many countries...
...Bat his* own country he represented as playing in this great war a rather shabby part as a cowardly supporter of British imperialism, He ia thrilled by Russia and rather sshasnod of the United States...
...Jane Doe should be taxed, sites* ing to Van De venter, sn thst yg-vate enterprise can be kept gem Of course, this editor n^J...
...Dennen uses, Mparts of Poland," for he does not explicitly say that it is chiefly the land of the Ukrainians aid the White Russians...
...The place to stop Hej sat sf thing to here, and the time to now...
...On Thursday evening, October 7th, there will be halt) at the People's House...
...I dare Prof...
...Millions have at one time or another voted the Socialist ticket, and many more have listened to Socialist speeches or read Socialist literature and passed on splinters of Socialist thought to others...
...MtrMgaa...
...She was forced- into the war by s brutal attack...
...Tht sultan toward the present status of labor mutxm is definitely progressive...
...Disloyal groups find each day new material which can be turned to their destructive uses...
...In August, l»3a, Stalin formed his pact with Hitler...
...the good that we are seeing in geverggfta in the trade urior...
...We should he blind if we did not recognise that war on the modern total scale creates militaristic habits and psychology, and vested interests in the perpetuation of war-engendered methods and institutions that will take a good deal of dear insight and intestinal fortitude to expose and Overcome and defeat m the postwar period...
...The idea of a Bill of Duties is .not original with him...
...As Americajjftlef British prepare for the Moscow conferences, it is important thst toe outlines of the picture be kept e)ea>.J^ ss*\ minds...
...It has been advocated by Henry A...
...John H- faf De venter, president aad itinera' the Iron Aa...
...Only within the columns of Thai New Leader can one find such a healthy dash of ideas...
...The only means that could be found to give wages and employment to large number...
...Imagine each state esneseting esvSjft-cial line,for its teacher...
...This column holds no brief for Amgot, or AMG, or whatever the military administration may be called, except as a necessary wartime emergency measure...
...To recognize these dangers, one hopes, will also inspire the will to combat them...
...It is no exaggeration to say that the entire character and quality of the civilisation which w* shall experience after the end of the war hnd which our children and our children's children will know, depends on the answer that history will give to that question...
...Wallace, who once took occasion, in the course of a eulogy of the Soviet Union, to sneer at "Bill of Rights democracy"*as something thst was outmoded...
...Browner who introduces the subject— he and countless under-cover followers who seem to seek to place their country at a disadvantage at the very moment when crucial efforts *t understanding are in the making...
...I shall not attempt to...
...answer these questions, but I wish to clarify the expression which Mr...
...In his Chicago address...
...York City and the needle trades aafessjeS he did so much to build...
...We have had too much of mystery...
...The New York Times recently - devoted more than a columa to an amazing letter from a Russian-born economist named Eugene M. Kayden, who lives in eewanee...
...volved in the straggle of labor far besw conditions...
...The individual, in a truly liberal democratic state, is not a robot to he ordered to do this, that or the ether thing at the pleasure of whatever group t - may be in control of the machinery of the i state...
...This kind of slanderous double-talk to always eaegjsehaa What we need now is an honest recognition of facts and the trimming dbwn of national ambitions to fit into art international scheme...
...TOTALITARIAN voices are raised, uncon-* scrously no doubt, in our own country...
...This volume, we art Wh9\ press reports, hss already received ua *. formal approval of the Board of Regent* tag the expectation to that it will be wiaeh bsk) during the second semester ef the absag year...
...Th* Russians, who established the eastern second front only under conditions of violent coercion, soon assumed to dictate military strategy to the British, who had for years beer, practically fighting alone, and to this country, which had voluntarily come to their aid...
...His influence extended far »S| iaj...
...War is the health of the state,'* as that brilkant and lonely-thinker of the First World War, Randolph Bourne, once declared...
...The gentleman is, after all, a citizen of this country and the official leader of one of our recognized political parties...
...at was attended to by William B. Groat, eeessa to the committee, and the material was tattered by the research group in the commitfcri employ...
...It is a mutter of the future," he writes, "and not just a question of winning the war <in less* time snd at lass cost...
...At Quebec, these matters were considered and decisions were reached...
...The papers and persons of the MeCormick-Patter-son axis are ready to pounce upon any bit ef news or gossip which may be twisted to the disadvantage of the government or the country...
...Mrs...
...Browder were alone in pursuing this curious line of thought, there would be little need of giving it serious attention...
...What S confession of Inezes*' In plainer language, iohz as...
...Browder denounce* ss "chatter...
...This .was the "democratic" achievment of the "democratic'^ Soviet military administration in Eastern Poland...
...His lead trampled by the Polish soldiery, he -himself impoverished, hie Orthodox-Greek Catholic clergy expelled, his schools and churches Romanised...
...Leon Den-nen asks (New Leader, Sept 4, 1943): "What should be our answer to Russia's unconcealed intention to annex parts of Poland [the Western Ukraine], the Baltic States and to extend her influence to the Balkans...
...V The volume with which the tmpK fiber embarks upon its career in the edticstassi publishing field was prepared under the •*> r.ces of the Ives Committee...
...Another pitfall that must he seen and avoided at the end of the war is the maintenance of a huge armament establishment under the' plans Me pretext of staving , off unemployment...
...of workers was to set them to making lethal weapons, a process that was certain to lead, in the end, to an orgy of destruction of lives anil property that would leave workers, employers and everyone else vastly wefse off, in the end...
...Or if the job were undertake from Washington, we should seen haw the fomw af fascism waiting for fascist* t» aib use iff them...
...Russia, in fact, never votuntariry opened up a second front...
...N. T...
...He was not permitted to see the flowering of Socialist seed in the New Deal and in the present magnificent development of the American labor movement...
...Future progeew * taken for granted, and emphasis if phase « the need of considering basic problems (ma the point of view of the general welfare...
...truth of his words was beginning to become evident...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN The Individual and the State THE supreme political alternative, of our time can be summed up in the question: Do the people own the state or doe* the state own the people...
...The editor...
...famine was such that "the Moscow...
...To represent Russia as always right and the other allied powers as always wrong to precisely the wrong way to go about the business...
...It is manifestly silly and dangerous to jabber about who deserves most credit for the successful struggle now going forward...
...Tho atrocities are too harrowing to repest...
...l. t We now have superficial economists who hail our present war economy as "prosperous," ignoring the strong reservations that must be made in regard to the quality and srailability of foodstuffs and manufactured gbefs and the impossible fiscal problems that would be posed if deficit spending at the present level should be...
...AGAINST OffHClAL TO^jy| •TPHE world was astoundec this weekly^ * Albany announcement- We are assLaW the State of New York is publishing an eaVa» textbook or abor and labor relation* !¦><& in the schools...
...Louigi Sturzo, in America (August R8, 1»43), asks: "If we allow Russia to annex the Baltic States, why should we not permit her to do the same with Poland and Bessarabia...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 40
