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...All organisations representing the mass ef the people of the country opposed the hill...

...Country Party, 10...

...They hsve no contracts, no professional standings—and pitifully small pay...

...Ib' is time to inaugurate a prison program designed to fit them for places in the world of normal persons...

...One of the great advantages of the British system is that gov err meat uncials cannot hide...

...It is agreed here that nothing short of a successful war against them would lead the Soviets to give up what they consider the boundaries necessary to their security...

...Acts of aggression that were rightfully condemned when committed by Hitler, Mussolini or the Japanese militarists are condoned when Stalin is to be (he beneficiary...

...but the complete absence of specific assurances that the peoples of the small and medium-sized neighbors of the Soviet Union will be assured self-determination and that no 1939 boundary will be changed except by the freely expressed will of the people concerned that gives very definite cause for apprehension that the Atlantic Charter was betrayed at Moscow...

...He is merely held a: i place outside prison walls where hia hearth may be attended to...

...The figures for 1943 are running far higher...

...When an injustice has been acquiesced in, it is far more sensible and realistic to acknowledge the fact than to commit the hypocrisy of representing an unscrupulous piece of power politics as an expression of the highest ideals of freedom and self-determinatiou...

...forgotten that when a people as cultured as literate and generally as "decent" as we have always assumed the Germans aad Italians to be goes mad with hut for power and greed for conquest, this people can hardly expect to make much of an impression, when the reckoning comes, with the whining alibi "we didn't know it was loaded...

...General Barb...

...General Dwigbt Eisenhower "took his hide off...

...May this parson, who is anything but a bloodthirsty ogre, comment somewhat in this fashion: I believe more Bunk (with a capital "b") has been written, is being written, and will be written on this topic than on probably any other topic in connection with the coining peace...

...but it seems to me of the utmost importance that today we avoid both the Scylls of that fury and vindictivaneis and tbt Charybdis of sentimental rcansV ticism What we need b s stars sense of reality, an ansmehtog realization of the axhaat of tbt crime committed, aad withal O proper understanding of that quality of mercy which must accompany every act ef Justtoa - Whatever ia done in brwghlf the culprits to the bar of justke...

...The New Turk School Board's way of using substitute teachers has always been bad...

...Had specific acknowledgment .of the validity of the Soviet frontier of 1939, subject to modification only as a result of freely held plebiscites, been demanded from Stalin in 1941, when his military and political position was much weaker than it is now, this acknowledgment "could probably have been obtained...

...far more comfortable tana those millions of truly inaeeasto for whose preservation and ssssV-ioration they were either tee cowardly or too indifferent,' at both, to speak or act...

...AU of thk happened in 1942...

...Thit is 49 humble contribution in answer to your appeal for support te a fret and utterly rational fibers...

...I have aa little . patience with those who are preaching a crusade of vengeance ana vrndfetiveness, and if this seems inconsistent make the most of it...

...I do not want any of our enemies to be treated anything like they have treated their victims...

...The majority had more than 40 votes shave the two-thirds required to pass the bill over a presidential veto...

...I. F. Stone feels that he has scored a point against former isolationist Senators in contrasting their solicitude about the fate of Poland with their indifference to the fate of Czechoslovakia...

...Right now the whole system is reduced to the intolerable...

...Thus tar the School Board-haw fatted to take any bold or adequate action...

...In concluding its observations on the Moscow Pact, The New Republic indulges in the following rhapsodic hosannah: "Nobody made a sacrifice of his true interest...

...The War Department had no reason to suppress this piece of news for three months...

...The Workers Defense Leagea...

...Stone even threatens us with the military power of the Soviet Union...

...time in thl United States, I was surprised and puzzled and rather depressed to discover that a singular aberration, in the sense of a doable standard of moral judgment, had attacked some Americans who liked to consider themselves liberal, radical and progressive...

...Be su not been released...

...What I am afraid of, as the war goes on and victory for our side becomes more and more certain, ia that the victors shall go "soft" as regards the just punishment to be visited upon the criminals responsible for the holocaust of murder and terror in these past years...

...One might have expected publications which pride themselves on their high standards of international morality and on their rejection of the idea of "appeasement" to point out these facts, to urge a determined employment of all the diplomatic and economic rtsources at the disposal of the United States Government to insure the maintenance of the principle of the Atlantic Charter (of which the Soviet Government is a co-signatory) in Eastern Europe, as in other parts of the world...

...Them a no change in his status...

...The government «-plained the situation, and the Hess* did set demand s debate...

...They are a part of the nation...

...But when a Lieutenant General slaps a private, that has nothing to de with the science of warfare and {a very much the .concern of all of us...

...Suggestions are being made in many journals that it is time for a new deal is our prisons...

...The number of persons—mostly old men, women and children—who perished in fetid freightcars and starvation forced labor camps during the process that was euphemistically described as "the liquidation of the kulaks as a class" ran into hundreds of thousands...

...There is not the slightest reason 'to believe that the majority of the people in these regions desires annexation to the Soviet Union, the best proof of which is that the Soviet Government itself has refused up to the present time to consider the reasonable compromise solution of a free plebiscite...

...that this "just punishment" cannot possibly be meted out only to the primary perpetrators of these crimes but must also include their tools, their accomplices, their dupes, seems only reasonable and "just...

...If they respond to the appeal of patriotism, they will equally respond to other appeals...

...Ia as interview with a Post reporter...

...ERSATZ TEACHERS *T*HE strain of war makes bad things worse...

...When the veto conies back from the White House, a lot of them will refuse to buck it...

...Their work suffers...

...to rials...

...He is still held...

...Now there are jobs for all in the war industries...

...The incident 'asm well be itiauiuartii closed—and rliiiii a' aatmi with one heat democratic tradition...

...it includes in its scope the principles not only of secular justice, but also those of religion, morality, criminology, penology, etc But this can be said without, I believe, effective contradiction, that for the present, compassion aad pity for the "innocent" victims of Nazi and Fascist aggression ia both more "moral" aad "just" than the sentimental fear that in any large-scale scheme of punishment to be visited upon the enemy peoples some innocent victims may be involved...

...We need it...

...TSE release of former Sergeant A Levy it a victory of democratic pressure against army bureaucracy and brass -hattism...

...They also put on the market 829,908,000 worth ef food...

...Other letters ee this sebJsrJ wlH appear next week.] Seeder &*rt *7ve lee den From JOHN J. NATHAN To tka Editor: The enclosed check for the amount of $5 00 is to cover let semi-annual Trial Subscription), to five potential future rtesaT readers of your exceptionally apt weekly publication...

...That's about what the common plea for the innocence of the enemy peoples amounts to today...

...In a time of public twain there are evident advantages in having m charge of home affairs a man of Herbert Morrison's standing...

...Sorry, if this sounds spiteful and vindictive, it is intended to be only severe, yes, and "just," Of course, there always have been, still are, and trill be, those in the enemy country who are only unwilling tools of the tyrant...

...The number of peasants in the Ukraine and the North Caucasus .Who died in a wholly avoidable famine, which was really a weapon of political repression, in 1932-33 is to be reckoned in millions...

...The virtues revealed in war can be developed and built upon during thee of peace...

...Nothing of the kind...

...sissified gospel of "forgive and forget...

...In time of need we are left with the schools dangerously understaffed...

...Their hearts grow sick wit^_ waiting...

...They are professionally fitted to take regular positions and receive regular salaries...

...It seems to me a dangerous sign of the sentimental softening of our moral (yes, "Moral") fibre to have already at this early date the people of the United Nations expressing so much concern for the possibility that "some" injustice may accompany -the just retribution to be visited not only upon the Nasi and Fascist rulers but also upon their people...

...Large groups of miners and ether uur workers sent representatives to Lndon...

...Yet the strangely distorted sense of moral and humanitarian values that prevailed in certain organs of opinion that would repudiate the characterization of being Communist caused them to play up the mote in the American eye and ignore the beam in the Soviet eye to such a degree that the true balance-sheet of cruelty and injustice, as between a democratic and a totalitarian system, was reversed...

...As the war sacrifices have deepens...

...Home Secretary, a*, going soft, easing up on the natien'i haan, grown enemies...

...That is all right...

...Max Lerner of PM IJOW very similar and ironically similar to ** Hitler's familiar technique of grabbing what he wanted with threats and intimidation, a technique against which Mr...

...All of this is voluntary...

...a brave man with a great fighting record, foolishly, impatiently, without investigation, struck a private who was suffering from shell-shock...

...He does not seem to realize that he is guilty of precisely the same kind of inconsistency himself, Mr...

...It would have been just as moral, and jnat as reasonable, to regard Japan's annexation of Manchuria as a fait accompli...

...He will go on doing his part as a good soldier...

...It included the famous Section 3, in accordance with' the terms of which annihilation subsidies are to come to an end on January 1st...

...Then next fall they will have answers for the home Chamber of Commerce on the one hand and for the trade unions on the other...

...They have passed all their examinations...

...J. C. WiHeock has been Premier since 1936...

...This use of substitutes for regular work was never more than a miserable subterfuge It was—and la ' an official system for eta-ploying scabs at scab wages...

...He was not "broken" or court-martialed...

...It is not any positive statement in the Psct...

...House of Commons...

...The entire tale sheds little glory on the House of Representatives...

...Under this formula, a good many Soviet Republics or Soviet stooge regimes could be set up...

...The membership in the new Parliament probably will be: Labor, 28...

...in The New Leader of November 13, you call upon your readers to express themselves upon the general theme of German (and other) war-guilt, etc...

...And now this same cockeyed tendency is cropping up again in relation bo standards of international morality...

...They must immediately and publicly assume responsibility for their dealt In this case, the government has nothing h) hide and nothing to be ashamed of...

...Five physicians now agree that holding him in prison may result in death...

...Nevertheless, the votes on proposed amendments and hints in the debate suggest that when the veto comes back, many.of the affirmative votes will scuttle to cover...

...Their professional training is lost, The Board is hard put to it to fill the vacajU, posts...

...A double standard of morals may continue to fascinate limited groups...

...There are many sorts of evidence to show that the prisoners are throwing themselves into the war effort with real enthusiasm...

...The requirements for the substitute ujftin have been lowered...

...We have—and for many years have had— some 3,000 teachers on the eligible list...

...The forces support-nig it were exclusively business groups which openly and shamelessly want high prices...

...But their moral and1'humanitarian sensibilities seemed to be numbed in some peculiar way when tbey crossed the Soviet frontier...

...but even unwilling tools are still "tools," and while they are less guilty than their masters, they are not innocent...

...The popular TrnsiJat is natural...

...The Soviet Government had twice pledged itself to respect the boundaries of its Western neighbors, first by freely negotiated peace treaties after the end of^ the Civil War, second by treaties of non-aggression and neutrality, concluded at the initiative of the Soviet Government in the early thirties...

...The Teachers Guild is completely justified in its protest...

...EDITORIAL COMMENT POLITICS AND HIGH PRICES *T*HE Commodity Credit Corporation Bill passed the House oa -Tuesday fay a vote of 278 to 117...

...Drew Pearson did a good job in breaking the story of General Patton's strange action in a Sicilian base hospital, and the correspondents on the spot nave followed up with clear and uncolored stories...

...As to the precise nature of the punishment, I cannot say: I am neither a penologist nor a lawyer...

...Nationalists...

...Add up ; every case of legal injustice and mob violence against radicals and labor organizers in the 'United States during the last two decades, and it would scarcely be a drop in the sea of human misery that was caused by many of the consistent and deliberate policies of the Soviet regime...

...Stone and The Nation have fulminated over and over again...

...This is pretty disingenuous .sophistry...

...This game used to work...

...The Levy case has two facets: one the natation of army Jim Crowism, the other the relationships of the army to the rest ef/ the nation...

...MORRISON AMD MOSLEf 1»HE beat traditions of British pari,araee*a*» * government are being preserved darhw the uproar about the removal of S.r OtweM Moaley from prison...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SomeReaderCommenton the Problem Of War Guilt and Punishment Pre m KARL M; CHWOROWSKT Minister, Flstbash Unitarian Church To the Editor: Under the caption "War Guilt —What Do Teu Think...

...Nor ds this apprehension diminished by the statements of Stalin and of the Soviet Ambassador to Mexico, Oumansky, afte'r the Moscow conference, repeating in the most unqualified form the demand for a territorial grab or by the claim of a veto right against federations of smaller states in Eastern and Central Europe put forward by the official Izvettia, or by Mr...

...This thing happening before our eyes is so dramatic that the most conventional moss-backs are having their eyes opened...

...They will have voted both for the bill and against iti They will say they were for the bill but against the ending of subsidies...

...Incidentally, has anyone ever devised a system of justice whereby the suffering of the innocent together with the guilty can he entirely avoided...

...We hope, therefore, to return to meat problems in future issues...

...Country Party, 12...

...Levy, however, wis released a month ahead of time...

...But I also know that if the worst happened in the punishment of our enemies, their innocent ones would not suffer terror and torture, concentration camp, forced labor, etc, etc...

...Duncan, who commands the Lincoln Air Bast where Levy was tried, swore that levy weak serve out his full sentence...

...What concerns me at this time is not whether soma innocent members of the Nazi and Fascist nations may suffer in the postwar re-adjustments, but whether sueh awift and deserved punishment be meted out as may discourage for some time to come not only the rise of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini but also the possibility of "going berserk'' on the part of their people as we have recently witnessed it...

...He was forced to apologize to the affronted private and to as many members of his array aa he could assemble...

...white brought this case to the attention of the nation, should be commended for its watahfuhwji ia defense of civil rights...

...Lowering the requirements far substitutes is moving in the wrong direction...

...Their enthusiasm flags...

...that is neither morality nor religion nor justice, and all of these should raise their voices in adjudicating the crime and adjusting the punishment to the offense...

...in Europe and in Asia, with the helping aid of the bayonets of the Red Army and solemnly introduced to the world as representative of the "self-determination" of the peoples concerned...

...Writing from Washington to The Nation, Mr...

...The subject is, of course, entirely too vast and intricate for tsaatmeet In either a letter or even a lengthy exposition...

...But it has been (conveniently...

...All the children have a right to be taught by qualified, regular, pere" 1 PRISONERS AS PATRIOTS IN one' year, inmates of our state prisons * produced $14,000,000 worth of war goods...

...All of the experts agree that snbsidies are a necessary part of any hold-the-line policy...

...Sen Francisco...

...These greasy fellows voted for a bill to lengthen the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation...

...The members of our fighting fereea and the American people may well view the outcome of this incident with a aense of satisfaction...

...Morrison...

...The best face that can be put on what seems very much like an appeasement capitulation to Stalin's demands in Eastern Europe is that there was no practicable alternative policy...

...Mr...

...Too much has been Said already about the 'innocent" victims of Hi tier's propaganda and "patriotic" education...

...In addition, they topped all other sections of the population aa blood-donors...

...such as Nasi and Fascist leaders and their accomplices practiced upon millions of helpless and innocent humans...

...THE AL LEVY CAS...

...I do not stand for a namby-pamby, panty-watst...

...The war has finally revealed the vice* of it...

...I want punishment, swift and exacting punishment, visited upon the "guilty ones," leaders and people alike...

...the only losers are the enemies of humanity...

...But there were not enough of these—the stupid ones, the reactionary ones, selfish ones—to pass the bill...

...Like, the members of the so-called farm bloc and the men at the head of the meat business, they really want inflation...

...The leader of the fascists was put into jail by afta* Secretary Morrison without a trial rahincarceration was held to be a necessary war measure...

...It is doubtful whether it will work now...

...Both are deep and far-reaching sot* Herat that cannot be answered in short* adv...

...But his career is clouded...

...Their motives, reactions, impulses are the same as these of the majority...

...I expect that the majority of your readers will classify this expression wi?h the "bunk," and they are as much at liberty to do so, as I am at liberty to produce it...

...Success in the war means less to them than their own profits...

...I do not want to see Germany partitioned, nor Italy reduced to a slave status...

...But it will never go down permanently with the majority of the American people...

...Too many individuals who denounced in the strongest terms the execution of Sacco and Van-zetti and the imprisonment of Tom Mooney after unjust trials found no words, or very few and feeble and halting words, with which to criticise the Soviet Government for killing or deporting or imprisoning vast numbers of its citizens without any trial whatever...

...The leaden of the crowd were admitted to the lobby tad given every opportunity to state their cam The opposition members received s frank aai full explanation...

...And hi a* House there were plenty ef members to am sharp questions to Mr...

...The notion naturally spread that Herbert Morrison...

...Hull's own admission that the settlement of boundaries must wait for the end of the war...

...Mr...

...we cannot expect te right si sag and to prevent further si sag by going soft now and sheddtog crocodile-tears over those peer innocent so-and-so's, who eves'*' they should become the "virttajs* of a course of justice wfit sen be...

...I. f. Stem of The Notion . TTO any reasonable mind the Soviet claim for * the arbitrary annexation of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, part of Finland and Eastern Poland poses exactly the same kind of issue that was raised by the Japanese seizure of Manchuria or the Italian grab of Ethiopia or Hitler's overrunning of Austria and subsequent blackmailing tactics at Munich which led to the break-up of Czechoslovakia...

...But that is the only adverse criticism which can be made...

...periodical...

...feeling against British fascists lasTJJ, constantly sharper...

...Poles, Finns, Letts, Estonians, Lithuanians have their faults, like the rest of us...

...It is being demonstrated that the great majority of prisoners are note queer, separate, special crowd...

...The victims of the innumerable "purges," first of various groups of non-Communist intellectuals, later of Old Bolsheviks, certainly ran into tens of thousands...

...least attempt to whitewash him, to cover'-, far him, to protect the upper rank* agaaau 11m complaint of the lower...

...It was passed by slick politicians who want to play both sides of the street...

...The committing of a crime under the pressure of fear does not take all guilt from the doer, at the best it qualifies the degree of his guilt...

...They will support the Commander-in-Chief...

...TNI ARMY AND THE PURLiC CTBJCTLY military affairs are technical busi-nest, and both public and politicians had better keep hands off...

...The old double standard of morals is coming to the fore again...

...injustice committed in the five-sixths of the world outside the Soviet Union they would be keenly and rightfully indignant...

...General Patton...

...organiser who stood up against injustice nterr be saw it...

...9; Independents, S. Ia the lsst Parliament the division waa: Labor...

...About any act of...

...Among the 278 Congressmen who shoved the bill through, many, of course, really believe iu it...

...In many armies insults are the common lot of privates...

...9: Independents, 2. The Labor Party has hsd all Cabinet posts fpr ten years...

...A crowd of 20,000 persons is said to have preassi about the...

...But what have they done to be considered "enemies of humanity" ? Or take Max Lerner in PM: "Nor is there anything in the Pact itself, or in any of the documents that attach to it, which in any way leads to the assumption that the Atlantic Charter will be betrayed...

...Perrons without suitable preparation are appointed to teach New York children...

...About 1,000 of then have for years been doing regular work but at the slander wages provided for substitutes...

...Lobor Party Increases Majority in Australia Vote Returns from the West Australian Legislative Assembly elections indicate the Labor Party majority will be increased by at least one member in the Hoase of fifty members...

...Or take the comment of The New Republic on the Moscow Pact: "It is likely that Secretary Hull wisely decided to regard Russia's absorption of the Baltic States as a fait accompli...

...Many of these discouraged teachers have left the school system...

...Can any human being be executed or imprisoned by the state without some innocent member of the family or of society being involved in the tragedy...

...Nationalists...

...The release of Al Levy is only the tret ttn far a full vindication of this courageous amor...

...In the American Army, even a widely acclaimed aad popular officer was instantly put in nis place There was ask ja...