Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Co-operation With Stalin? •f*HE question whether and how far co-operation * with Stalin is possible has been pushed more and more into the...
...EDITORIAL COMMENT Taxes and the Little Mtm *T*HERE is soonrthing curiously naive and * animal-like ahout toe way in which the upper-bracket ueyda era sailing into this tax fight...
...toft** te'e™tenpat> cent sales hag...
...Honest element* in the orgaaimhmt,ulhv a long and much-publicised ttteggwX~*nn him out- It waa at tola time faSat anfifinw Levy served the anion, and 'at'ft epn*af the record that be eras the attorney el te faction that cleaned up the union and thaw out the racketeers...
...playing a defensive, holding rote On the Donets or the Volga the military interest of the United States and Great Britain was simple and obvious...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Co-operation With Stalin...
...There are several considerations that might incline Stalin to an agreement with a defeated and chastened Germany...
...Last Monday the author of The Labor Movement m America pasaed away at the age of 89...
...Are they an effeminate race...
...No one can pretend that sag a levy Is even remotely related to the tah* of equality of sacrifice...
...It seems to me that our reasonable and common-sense war aim for Germany, after the liquidation of Hitlerism, should be the creation of a more genuinely democratic Weimar Republic, a regime that would not only wipe out the last remnants of Nazism, but put affective curbs on the Junkers and the big business interests...
...argument in favor of their plan b aa oaamV ing that it needs but to be presented «~_7 popular support...
...I we should be able to ca*Wtete fit-Italians that this is a nap fnUjft in the interest of gemdnt tteate racy, we would win, ani^nw quite a few divisions of mffljen men, but forty miTfioa vnfia* fighters for those -i aiteftteannnV able rights among wrhad^Mw Mm liberty, and the pursatfef ate piness...
...They still respond directly, warmly, effectively: The Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden instantly took official action...
...Germans have been killed, power stations blown up, ships sunk...
...Richard T. Ely in 1886...
...Many Muslim Turks are completely exempted, while others are taxed a nominal sum within their ability to pay...
...Tyrol (Trentino), the seaport of Trieste (the only goad harbor Austria possessed) and the hegemony over Albania...
...Yet Italy demanded too . much: southern...
...On the other hand there are deterrent considerations that moat operate in Stalin's mind...
...Four long years have not exhausted their springs of humanity...
...To put Us, mind at rest, Ataturk was informed that his would-be successor had died, whereupon Ataturk passed away in peace...
...Turks universally...
...This is aa near aa we have coaperfMbe President's . proposal ".to ctti all incomes to the '§jrf tblTplanfti already a totnmj-af the past...
...Than anW (rested, too, a heavy tax on luxuries sad ate essentials...
...If this is what we want (and, apart from a few paranoid and psychopathic hate-mongers, I think almost everyone would agree that this would be the beat solution of the German problem) why shouldn't we say so?1 Hitler's tottering prestige would be under- • mined further and the chances of a deal between Stalin and' a stooge regime in Germany would be forestalled...
...This can hardly be tree...
...Even toe Treasury plan wouM take «*, bute from the poor fellow who makes resha dollars a week...
...The CIO, tbir" Metioenri Farmers Union, seme of the Railway Brotherhoods and ueanoiuua other national liberal groups have sponsored a tax plan which may well servo aa a rallying point for toe people of this country...
...When Kemal Ataturk was Turkey's strong man, he held dictatorial powers, but administered them in % manner that brought him the esteem of the minorities -as WeH ate...
...A couple of weeks age we were Haflapae ing tn at hearing- on the Renegotiation Act-Lobbyists for the manufacturers made a big play for repeat oaf the basis of a simple argument...
...Now that . tie problem of co-operation with Stalin has ' become so vastly more complex than merely i das patching the maximum quantity of sap-' plies to sustain Russian resistance...
...Nevertheless, the treatment received by minorities in Turkey today would have made banner headlines 26 years ago when Turkish "atrocities" were being played up in the Allied press...
...These words were written by young Dr...
...Germany should be reclaimed aa part of a free Europe, not pushed into a power bloc with the Soviet Union...
...namely, the full and harmonious development in each individual of all human faculties—the faculties of working, perceiving* 1mowing, loving—toe development, in short, of whatever capabilities of good there may be in us...
...Judge Levy was at one tine attorney for Local S06 of the II stain gilmi'lpe, store Unkm...
...He calmly wrote of the economic value of labor organization, the educational value, and the imports ye for social security...
...Are the Italians barn cowards...
...1,500.0* for mamed couples, ar*i$4a*ftX each dependent...
...There is every reason why all trade mate an fanner groups, all liberals, all beuavan a democracy should rally behind it EXAMPLE TO IE FOLLOWED p* a .werJd gsc^ iahuman Sweden sets an * example of humanity, rear of n brute neighbor did not scare her off...
...Thousands are stflt dying...
...and dial ?> P&i...
...From May...
...and joined the Western Powers because—Austria-Hungary would not pay enough to keep her neutral Under strong pressure from Germany and with great reluctance Austria had shown the willingness to cede some territory to Italy to "buy her off...
...Westbrook Pegler lanee a rsssf discovery...
...I suspect that Stalin is rather characteristically keeping the doors open for two alternative policies, whichever may seem more opportune in the light of military and political considerations...
...A slight knowledge of the facta whisk Mr Pegler conceals will put an entirely mfltnte face on the situation...
...It will not de the last bit of harm...
...In the summer, of 1918 the Austrian and German divisions stood right before Venice —toe English and French divisions, ainifajlj rushed to the scene, aad toe deep aad swift Piave river prevented the Aaatrians from penetrating deeper into Italy...
...Will Stalin fight ' » • • COME of these questions are more urgent, as regards the immediate conduct of the war, than others...
...During the past few weeks sabotage against the Germans has moon ted...
...There were 6,000 Jews in Denmark...
...It appeared innocuous on its face, but there is no appeal after taxes have been aa-asntnri...
...He has retailed the4k-doraement of the Democrat...
...The' new tax law was adopted last December...
...There would be the danger involved in complete isolation from the United States and Great Britain: for it is easier te live down the memory of one treacherous pact than of two...
...The niceties of dip-lomatic procedure did not Cause hesitation or postponement...
...25.000 00 ceiling at a part of^A The second is to Jteatose to* income tat^ eanptkms to $S*0.dO : for 'sianU nsaan...
...With thin question of postwar policy toward Germany solved we shall be in a stronger position to discuss with Stalin on equal terms such questions as Russia's future frontiers - in Europe and Asia, possibilities of economic collaboration, the implications of the Atlantic Charter as regards toe freedom of the small and medium-sized states of Eastern Europe...
...Yes," was the reply, "but we must milk them once every twenty years...
...One is reminded of this blunt statement at a moment when Italy's efforts to be accepted as an aBy teem to 'have received some support in Washington and London, while the military men fighting in Italy are strongly un-enthusiastic about having the Italians as new allies...
...A single man making $4*0JO a year-4ees than $12.00 a week— e4D here h& botaam cut from $17.00 to $14.00...
...There it eedy cut tag to torn the 1 talmas teto |tfl soldiers: to convince tke» thai to are fighting for the eaenfdhnhunft of the Four Freetown...
...Tap response to need was instant and effective...
...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR An Important Ouestion —Will Italy Fight on the Allied Side...
...The analaguatad unipnwt ia te catch the $000.00 man and to free from Ida burden* the fellow who takes in a million or something like it...
...i * * e A SSUMING a replacement of Hitler by the kind of regime that is foreshadowed in the appeals of the Free Germany Committee which has been functioning in Moscow, certainly with Stalin's full approval, it would be possible for the Soviet dictator to maintain that he was breaking no engagement by discussing peace with such a government...
...a man tied ap with gangsters, the ALP candidate waa militant tares* into the lime light...
...has "the same old materia enemy, the Germans, and the same old historic friends...
...Later provisions am fc> nte) excess profits levies st 5 percent and at ken* the exemptions on estate taxes...
...They turned it down and proved by thai action that they are motivated by blood hut...
...TW proposal taa the farmer-labor groups proposes te ate m to the theory of the income tax...
...But now a strange thing appears...
...We amy have here toe beginning of one of the prime issues of next year's presidential campaign...
...When he sickened, he waa ill at ease because he feared that, upon his death, he might-be succeeded by Ismet Indnfl, who had been notorious for his severity in dealing with the Armenians...
...Morgenthaun Moinir*-Glorr5?5ap called m the rooms of the Ways and Meapa Committee...
...In the meantime, labor has its own proposals te make...
...If tola attitnd> of the buck privates ami Tommies may be caused by psychological reasons only, their military commanders may be hesitant to accept Italy's help on account of her poor showings both ia the first and in the second world war...
...a> ponent, served a* lawyer for local Mi for te vcrv element* that the prof-reeetves exanaaf If Westbrook Pegler were e Unman p ah aa> paign against trade anion crania, he' nam throw everything he has into tot canaadg* to elect Judge Levy...
...Danish police and citizens ansbttad the Jews to escape in small boats...
...Charles H. Taatie...
...Out of en-where there arises a campaign of usae* against him...
...Jejr^toaagh dBnnaae, toe Treasury schedule ofTatome taxes ia fair and decent and humane —at least in tendjjpney...
...Present discrimination is taking the form of extremely severe taxes levied upon non-Turkish individuals, taxes often exceeding the individual's total possessions...
...Driven forth from Johns Hopkins University, he was welcomed at Wisconsin, and there he became toe intellectual progenitor of John R. Commons and of all the productive work in economics and labor history which centered about Madison...
...The nalve^m^ lteM^wxnam'^fee'Tfienli'l that all of the purwffl"rmm rMo'toe'mar^ket for^onsumers' goods' This theory fails to consider toe unprecedented amount of saving which is taking place...
...but that ia not by any means all, because the end and purpose of it all ia a richer existence for the toilers, and that with respect to mind, soul and body...
...Besides, there* is a striking similarity between the circumstances that made Salandm declare war on the Central Powers in 191$ and those of last September when BadogUo called on the Italians to fight beside the British and Americans **in the common struggle'* to oust .the Germans from Italian territory, while the government newspaper, GazeUa del Meetegterwe> "of Bari, asserted that Italy in her "new renpjgence...
...And what a land bloc from the Rhine to the Pacific, with Stalin in a dominant position, would mean in terms of international power politics is formidable to contemplate...
...There is still time to imitate the people of Sweden...
...It ia with these questions that this column will be concerned next week...
...At toe same time an official offer waa made to g+ve' refuge to the threatened thousands...
...From ALFRED WERNER To tkt Editor: _ „ Long before the outbreak of this war General Ludendorff, in toe organ of toe Tanneirberg Bund, said gruffly that in case of war Italy would be a millstone around the neck of whatever country accepted her as an ally...
...On the question of whether Stalin would, under certain circumstances, accept a German separate peace offer I am not inclined to line up either with the dogmatic optimists or with the dogmatic pessimists...
...If the Nazis had merely desired to be rid of the Jews, they would have accepted thia offer...
...The new forms of ill-treatment, described to toe .Mexico office of Worldover Press by an American traveler just returned from Turkey, have not received much attention thus far outside of the country concerned for reason of diplomacy...
...f*HE question whether and how far co-operation * with Stalin is possible has been pushed more and more into the foreground as the tide of the war has turned against the Axis...
...Tenia Fischer wittily aad correctly re-., marked ia the course of a radio discussion that Stalin had been very co-operative in unloading lend-lease supplies from oar ships, bat ',' fed so eo-operstive fas other fields...
...The American Federation of Labor had just been set ap and gave%o brilliant promise of success...
...His slsi titg h tat only way of beating Aurelio...
...A torn similarly situated who enjoys an income of $1,000,009 a year will have his contribution increased by $4«.d70 0ft This will leave him to eke out an existence on $53430.00...
...Untold — "Atrocities' in Turkey MEXICO CITY—Once more, as during the first World War, Armenians and Jews and Christian minorities in Turkey are being made the victims of prejudice and discrimination...
...Elaborate, all-inclusive preparations were made to capture ail Jews, to herd them aboard death-ships and to transport them to Poland to await there the fate which has already overtaken millions of their fallows...
...While there is no _. absolutely hard-and-fast line between present aad future problems, I will try to discuss today seme of the immediate war issues and neat week sense of the more long range questions on which the future prospect of Anglo-American-Soviet co-operation depends...
...murdered by Mussolini's henchman, waa only-one of the eawHtkni fighters against Fascism, and thousands of Mstteottis were imprisoned on Lipari and other places by the Fascist regime which was unable to extirpate the opposition, aa toe recent mass revolts of Italian workert in the industrial cities of Italy seem to indicate...
...I think It la worthwhile to devote two successive ar-r title* to Diaaalnlag the prospects aad condi...
...What he did for freedom of teaching and independence of mind in American' anrectaham >kn probably not been equalled by nay other ice ing professor...
...The neat proposal is to embody me fak ident...
...His had been a stormy life...
...We have called conferences, drawn up plans—and done practically nothing...
...It is against a background of such questions that the prospective conference of American, British and Soviet Foreign Ministers, which may or may not have become a reality by the time this column appears in print, acquires so much importance...
...Stalin would not be dependent exclusively on the United States and Great Britain for postwar reconstruction material...
...The few hundreds of thousands of unionised workers were, divided and so deeply linefeed in bitter conflict as to make the present day seem like a piping time of peace...
...And if one looks closely into the wording of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 one finds that Stalin baa an arguable "out" for separate pones negotiations, once Hitler is eliminated...
...Yet Dr...
...It is a different story with the minorities...
...So many'have died that sympathies are exhausted...
...The Knights of Labor were the predominant organization tn ape field and famished moat of the material tor the young scholar's volume...
...At that time a word of Martin Luther became popular and waa applied to all Italy...
...So long...
...Is it possible to predict with any assurance the Sov iet dictator's reaction to such a proposal ? What are Stalin's aims in regard to that vast belt of territory, inhabited by peoples of many ¦ nartermliHes, Pews, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Rumanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Finns, Letts, Lithuanians, Estonians, Greeks, that'lies between the lands inhabited predominantly by Russians and by Germans T What are Stalin's views about the role of Germany in the postwar world...
...It is the systematic, organized struggle of the masses to attain primarily more leisure and larger economic resources...
...One observer asked a Turk of the majority whether they dfd not want to have Armenians in Turkey...
...We are weary of death...
...the labor movement is a force pushing on towaada the attainment of the purpose of humanity...
...The hearts of people around the world "have been warmed by the fact that a people acting through a government ean respond with simple human warmth and decency...
...We have here a simple, straight, aleaanaam old-fashioned fight between the net...
...The minister to Berlin was ordered to make formal protest and te warn toe Germane that such brutality would "have "serious repercussions" in Sweden...
...And the enemies who appeared against it were not the lcpraaentaUvsn of ton- a rfitait...
...But within a few days some 2,000 had made their way across the water...
...w . This writer visitel fEtMWm...
...IICHAID T, ELY "*T*HE labor movement, in the broadest terms, * is the effort of man to live toe life of men...
...as the Red Army was...
...in other words, the end of the true growth of humanity...
...Tt would be a bad augury, one fears, for the long postponement of World War in...
...and toe law is being used to ruin thousands of Christians...
...hat the two big forward sweeps of the Red Army, from the Volga and the Caucasus to the Donets and the old line in Central Russia last winter, and from these positions, to the Dnieper (II lug the last months, combined with the successful Anglo-American campaigns in Africa, Sieily and Southern Italy and the persistent bombings of Germany, bring certain questions from the theoretical to the practical stage...
...They are tired of imperialist wars...
...Unlike the Germans, they are not fond of war...
...We have become inured to this sort of thing...
...Suppose there should be an internal overturn in Germany, eliminating Hitler and his closest aaao'clateo and setting up a regime which would offer Stalin peace on the basis of the statu* quo...
...several times and alas Irene a Nazi Germany...
...I believe aha Fascism affected only the epidermis of the Italian nathan, aaf» the tool of Italy, while, ttW tebly, Nazism poison ad s hmp portion of the German aoaak...
...to November, 1918, the Italians obtained not a single military success of importance...
...Only as a fighter against social injustice, against tyranny the modern Italian is great The Socialist leader, Matteotti...
...L91S...
...They fought plenty of ware in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance era...
...Upon **» deader basis ef association anil inuenea ab\ Tlgler and baa followers try to build up r one...
...But' all are important from the standpoint of estimating the prospects of stable and enduring peace...
...Ely saw the deep motivations underneath and with clear eye perceived the potentiate of future good...
...talking about tile republic of Venice which would trim its sails to the wind, now hold with the Turks and then with the Kaiser, be declared: "They always aide artth that party which is gothf to'wfu!*'' ' Their Italian idly caused toe British and French generals a lot of headache...
...There is the fierce desire for revenge which has been excited in the Russian people by toe German invasion and its accompanying cruelties...
...Another thrust by the Red Army equal to its predecessors in territorial gains would bring the faglff forces to the frontier line that existed at t4|l time of the German invasion in 1941...
...After eleven furious and long-drawn battles at toe Isenzo river, the Austriani outflanked the enemy, a tremendous miaalin of Italians were, taken pi liana t at toe Tagliamento river and toe rest of their army flooded bach behind the Piave river...
...Now the Treasury has su^itted ^ tax plau...
...ft naay require payment on the basis of shinty tt pa...
...Both government officials and private citizens did all that was within their power to make the refugees comfortable...
...The plain fact is that we have not done enough to save the Jews of the' occupied lands...
...The economists of his early days had been against him almost to a man...
...Naal soldiers sank as many of these little vessels as they could and shot all of the refugees whom, they detected...
...and safe.' This simple recital of deeds must cause disquiet among Americans and Englishmen...
...afi,To* «rta utterances of the ' ing~ dil'ftJKrr atoaatraitors and scoundrels, hardly differ from those that appeared in the Beri. Bier Tageblatt of Whitsuntide, 1915, when Italy broke the Triple Xhrtanee, concluded between Germany, Austria and Italy in 1882...
...Even Mussolini failed to torn the peaceful Italian paataat into a frenzied Nordic Berserker...
...Three castles in southern Sweden were placed art their disposal...
...Today's story, if less lurid than the tales told a quarter-century ago, is nevertheless serious in its implications for the minorities in Turkey...
...tfeee of such co-operation...
...It will depend apea the Uaftaj Nations whether or net Italy, n an ally, will be a uiiDaawi assets' ear neck...
...For one thing, the awkward question of the peoples of Eastern Europe, with their inconvenient claims to independent national existence, would be disponed of...
...The bar sateen tions and all the good government gleam d the city are becking him...
...It was to give all possible aid to this Russian resistance, in order to tie up the largo Gorman forces engaged in Russia and wear down the German military machine...
...Let the boys make the profits, they pleaded...
...About the organization of world peace through such means as a collective security system, limitation of armaments, international co-operative action to solve economic difficulties...
...onT% peer...
...toe idea of a working agreement between the German and Russian economics, conceived by Chicherin and Ratbenau at the Rapallo Conference pi 1921, could be revived and extended...
...Stalin's entire career stamps him as a super-opportunist, a Machiavellian "power politician in the grand style...
...AH New Yorker* efl recall the fight against racketeer Sam bake who attained notoriety aa President of Le* SOS...
...That is, all of us except the citizens of Sweden...
...THE CAMPAIGN AwAIMSTLtrt THE campaign which is being entrants * against Judge Matthew Levy shottd anw to rally behind him every trade union aanahr in toe First Judicial District le was am mated by the American Labor Party at ia candidate for Judge of the New York 8taa Supreme Court because his cefleagutt ia fa" Party knew him to be a good lawyer, a ana judge and a man who would take it tat tnjfc a deep knowledge of the problems which esteem the great meases of oar crdsena tsxeast the Democrats and Republicans aoanhaan Thomas A. Aurelio...
...They propose to take leas from the poor and more from the «Hh *te...
...They will have the pleasure of gloating over tbeleoja itat a^em:«aka or months, than ¦ntMjatoh * eJl fit* kg tine tea rente...
...But actually he was succeeded by the very man whose excesses he feared, who became head of the People's Party, the only political organization tolerated in the country, and head of the nation...
...p » In toe meantime, heroic Danes were sinking German ships whiah were to serve the purposes of death...
...Half unconscious though it may be...
...A few thousands more cannot find one cord vibrant enough to respond...
...all their offensives were beaten off, te toe great disappointment ef their allies...
...At that time the author was a young instructor in economics at Johns Hopkins University...
...As I pointed out some time ago, it is absurdly and pathetically naive to believe that he is a Cherry-Tree George Washington who, simply could not tell a He and whose decisions are influenced by a scrupulous regard for his pledged word...
...Dm final paragraph of the Mans promises a vigorous fight against any ffmsja federal sales tax...
...Jewish men, women and children were to die as hostages for the freedom-loving Danes...
...He is said to have delivered sr address and some perfunctory ptuhajpl «t a national convention of toe parent bMfet at local There were racketeers aateag tw effte-ials who appeared there...
...To a certain extent the Anglo-American failure to formulate any policy for postwar Germany beyond "Unconditional Surrender" plays into Stalin's hands diplomatically and makes it possible that the fruits of military victory may be lost through a sudden change of Russian orientation...
...This comment, though expressed by only one individual, is after all illuminating, for it symbolizes what has become official policy...
...The British ami Soviet Governments, under this treaty, are pledged not to enter into peace negotiations "with a Hitlerite Government or any Government of Germany that dues not dearly renounce all aggressive intentions...
...The election of Judge Levy should be snjt-tically automatic If there are nam team persona than crooks in New York City, ft weald seem to be impossible te defeat not...
...The Danes have proved that three years of oppression cannot break the spirit of a free people The retaliation of the Nazis has been characteristically brutal and stupid...
...the Mad of the GOP Law Committee fog Levy...
...Failure to pay brings imprisonment in mountain concentration camps...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 41
