Out of Smoke and Fire
KHINOY, ANDREW
Out of Smoke and Fire By ANDREW KHINOY S#JJ BATTLE 1& ZME PAY-OFF. By Copies* Ralph IngersoiL Hareourt, aad Co. pikPTAIN INGEstSOLL'S book is the best yet written about ear ground forces hi this...
...David FeMman...
...They must learn to realize that When a soldier is prepared for 90 per cent of the contingencies of a battlefield, his chances of survival and of victory are immeasurably increased...
...A woman pouted because it takes so aWT pohits to get a roast of beef...
...I« looked on—saying a few words now and then...
...The sailor listened restlessly...
...The most dazzling thing at Teheran wee Stalin's uniform...
...Few financial JjLfjga" No matter how long our hours of work—still plenty of 2 | for movies, dances, parties...
...There is a row coming up in the French Conimiteas of National Liberation over the jailing of a Ft rash genets...
...The battle is the pay-off, the final test of training, planning, supplies and naneslc, Oar leases can be feasened by increasing the rigor of the training until the men are so physically hard that they will be able to stand the hvJauaades of battle...
...He explains the dire plight of the Indian university graduate who finds no openings for his talents, because they are all filled by the British...
...tamed away...
...The ease with which he carried jjas daring operstions might have made him cocky...
...Victor Alter, nstorsatioaatty-kaowa Socialist aad outstanding writer on Jewish and labor questions: M. Litaaov...
...I was down there on furlough, being sicked over...
...was a little hard to get the table conversation started again, "d we succeeded after5 a time...
...The picture given of the development of Indian labor organisations is somewhat obscured by the author's failure to distinguish between the genuine nationalist movement, beginning hi 1920 uitden the aegis of Gandhi, with which Indian labor has had close ties, and the earlier local Bengal Terrorist movement which faded est with the coming of Gandhi...
...They 'were assigned the tanks of making a five-hour night march along a virtually impassable mountain trail and then making, a surprise attack upon 1,400 Italians holding a valley which commanded the roads along which the main American forces bad to travel on their way to Gabes...
...The first mission of the Army, and one that occupies moat of its time, is simply to exist...
...I noticed that he had dressed 111 harry . . . had been so anxious to get to his station that he I d come sway without his shoes...
...And the reason waa that the Northerners had s away cattle and horses that they could take life easy...
...leader, whose toes always manage to dot the patty-haw, is an ambitious politico...
...Heodliees , , . 11'HE American Federation of Labor will not send any delogs tec * to the London Conference in June called by the British Trades Union Congress...
...Ssjgaod part of it is that all of this is proof of our strength...
...There was nothing more to do...
...Uferwfi ttJHO said the Army'Classification System was inefficient...
...the French Foreign Legionnaires who discovered how to surrender without compromising their honor...
...He tells why officers ride in command cars while generals ride in jeeps...
...Keenan pays tribute to Gandhi and his work for the poor of India...
...The rest are occupied in the routine but highly important tasks of snatching sleep, gulping a hot meal, finding a shelter...
...He also explains a good deal of elementary strategy that may help to make clear the war news...
...Hell, " this week your former Inside and Outer, Private Matthew Lew, was made gossip columnist on the Camp Upton "Noose...
...But his grief and anger make "* more hot to "smash the fascists...
...He explains the role of the infantry and its weapons, including the rocket-launcher which has risen to fame under the name of bazooka...
...Army in the Near East He thanks us for sending him exciting paper," and then goes on to ask about friends and yivat...
...Oar Use's lees Chanced Again" fjARRY BRIDGES, the nimble West Coast kangshor.m...
...He sells how the building of locomotives in India was discouraged, and deplores the stupidity that failed to foresee that some day Indian locomotive woVks would be badly needed—and that day is here...
...Ingersoll warns against thinking the war is nearly over...
...He understands the position of Subhas Chandra...
...troops to the Mediterranean...
...Chans GiUsa, eritk...
...Each bit of color stands for participation in some jnr engagement, and this boy had five or six of them...
...all the time I was sitting there I only half saw that crazy I f and girl on the dance floor...
...Ingersoll was an observer officer attached to an Engineer company which snnnmpariisrt a Ranger battalion of ?00 men during the syowing phase of the battle of El Guetar...
...Bone, who is "not pro-Japanese, but only violently, blindly and unalterably anti-British...
...My mind was wandering...
...Having made his decision, Ingersoll gradually became a "committed soldiers," rose through the ranks, and was a lieutenant in the Engineers Corps during the battle of El Guetar in Tunisia...
...No one can read "The Battje Is the Pay-off" without acquiring the argent conviction that alu a____1.--a...
...Even in a battle, only a small proportion of men is engaged in fighting at any moment...
...He had a vision of a really big industry eventually to be all-Indian, and of an Institute for training Indians to build up industry—and that vision has been as nearly realized as any vision ever is...
...With ate b* acknowledged that he had been at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Spray and two or three other hot places...
...Not last in significance is his discussion of what it means to bo a committed soldier...
...former editor of 'Ernes', loading Jewish ataspasat ha Soviet B saris...
...We never have found out if history would have been changed if Cleopatra's nose were longer, . have we...
...The Vargas government recently machine-gunned a used of workers in Sau Paulo, wounding many aad killing several...
...Ik what seemed a long time no one said a word...
...As I hurried to my station I saw a young officer climbing the ' del stairway to the fire-platform...
...Then 1 walked back and sat down...
...So—except for families who " plasty wait and then receive that official notice from the War * Navy departments—life just goes on...
...Also the extent and effect of Russian Communist influence upon Indian labor is exaggerated...
...Alexander Khaahis, critic...
...for instance, most Americans expected a rapid drive by U.S...
...In regard to this I am very optimistic...
...The "leaf Wifffcle lays" TTHE right-wing crowd in the GOP is getting good and scared * about the Willkie convention trains and are afraid that he may run away with the convention on the first ballot...
...3.00...
...He had escaped from Germany and in the following •¦fences reveals what is on his mind: "From my parents I have, JJW nothing since October 19, 1941, one day before they left * •oland...
...No," he said, "you •tthere were hospitals near by...
...We were at dinner...
...how, when more capital was needed, it was raised in eight days right in Bombay in single shares or in blocks from nearly nine thousand persons, and how a later bond issue of ?400,000 was entfrely taken up by the Maharajah Scindia of GwaKor—a novel investment for an Indian Prince, since they usually prefer jewels or gold-plated motor cars...
...They just carried the **» fellow off, and after a while we went on talking...
...I remember something that SJaral Morgan said in the Civil War...
...historian: Zahsan Resaia...
...Great I bubs leaped up about the stairs, right up to the platform itself...
...j^fflsffsf Jewish toy THE NEW LEADER goes to fighting men in all^*he armies and I Practically all the camps...
...He says that you can't assay a campaign until you know the High Command's' strategy—and for obvious reasons that is usually not disclosed during a battle...
...Mexican labor papers report...
...He had had his ship Shad out from under him, had swum for hours through oil -j tred water and so on and so on...
...She didn't have ¦* enough to go somewhere...
...erstte...
...To jump would mean sure death...
...He was weary and disgusted and physieaUy worn out, but suddenly be saw the choice he bad to make in terms of Ins own anti-Fascist, pro-democratic convictions...
...Bather F rum kin...
...The Rangers, lightly armed and inferior in numbers, overpowered the enemy forces by sheer surprise...
...The orchestra was playing the hottest kirid dpwing, and just one couple of kids were out on the floor dancing...
...It is only very recently that the Communist Party is India has attained much sine or strength, and its influence it stal largely over the students and the intelligentsia...
...Then he jumped . . . and on the deck we saw just a shape-¦> aiass of quivering flesh and broken bones...
...But he was Zusnl After his deepest raid he wrote home that the South would 'Jygj sin the war...
...Out of Smoke and Fire By ANDREW KHINOY S#JJ BATTLE 1& ZME PAY-OFF...
...So I went out and did what I did...
...But if there was little news of what really occurred at Teheran, we do have a number of sizzling stories about the sloppy press relations there...
...His story is the first to make the reader see the tTnltW State* Army as mow than a jumble at four-star generals and back privates, of daring pilots in Flying Fortresses and doughboys in foxholes...
...The old drab tunic was replaced by a shining display of braided e pa u Betes, gold braid on the cap, a vivid red stripe along the sides of the trousers aad the Marshal's star, the Order of Lenin and a ribbon outshining the gold buttons, » « » • • Tomorrow...
...He states plainly that the British do not go to India to colonize but to amass fortunes which they spend in England when they go home to retire...
...Tata's is now one of the largest steel and iron works in the world, run almost entirely by Indians...
...Dennen replied that he would have been happy to come, if he would be permitted to speak about the hundreds of Jewish writers who were liquidated within the past few years by the Sen aft government...
...literary eritk...
...1 know yoa will agree with nao," Diss in riatnaaad...
...He was the most feared of Bjpjflrr-" raiders...
...What aide you do such a thing...
...He speaks of "the unrest, in India, about which so much is said and so little oonc...
...Nash's exciting book on New Zealand was published this week by DueU, Sloan and Pearce...
...He has captured its gruesomeness end glory, its noise and ferocity, its tragedy and triumph...
...Then he ' **m bop, and soon he began to walk, then to run...
...There were so many of them that I could hardly Spag my eyes...
...Then he tells how, largely due to the efforts of Srr Dorabjee Tata, a protective tariff was for a short time imposed on steel, thus giving the industry a chance to survive...
...A shell had struck our explosives magazine...
...criticised the army leadership and was jailed for thirty days, . The Czech government-in-exile in London has issued a blast against the London Bureau of the Austrian Socialists because they speak of "Austria's self-determination," rather than "Austrian independence...
...organ...
...He was a shy chap, and it was only fliouaily that I could get out of him the stories behind the stripes Bp breast...
...VJERE is a most readable book...
...l_i— MM...
...But the pretty girl said nothing more about the •* of gasoline, and the woman seemed to have forgotten how hard * ¦ » get a big roast of beef...
...The American role at that stage was to guard the enormous supplies at Tebessa and to confine Rommel to the coastal plain while the British Eighth Army pressed its attack against the Mareth Line...
...The conflict raged for hours...
...From below t shaoted to him through the smoke and flames...
...But then, strangely enough, he winds up by saying thst "the infant industry has grown up under the wing of a far-sighted government" Few serious students of economics would agree with this sweeping statement especially not anyone who has studied the Government of India Act of 1939 with its safeguards for the protection of British-owned industry in India which ensure that all measures to protect genuinely Indian industry shall also apply to firms incorporated in the United Kingdom but operating in India...
...In telling about the battle, he tells about the Army...
...He has no special hatred of the enemy...
...The Japanese, he believes, will be coster to deal with...
...This difference m enaction...
...I suppose they thought my nerves were shot...
...Sidney Hiflman...
...There is nothing that I can do about them but to J"kfte Fascists...
...Far beyond the Ohio he ranged with slender Ass and stole horses and cattle...
...who was formerly on the Moscow Daily New* bat is sew one of the leading critics of the Stalinist regime, got as invitation from the party-line Teachers Union (CIO) as an "outatandiag author in the field" to speak on literature about Jewish life in the Soviet Union...
...After a *jh\ when the strain had worn off, someone asked: "What did ¦tydo.to you...
...the Tata Institute sends out each year young Indians scientifically equipped for major parts in the development of Indian industry...
...that now is the time to strive for better — iiratsadssg bet»eea tarn people of Soviet Russia asd the people of the United States, aad a frank aad honest dmmaatan of the great Lsntrihsaisii of those great Jewish writers and cultural leasers whs hove been executed by Stalin or whs hare perished in the GIT'* notorious Lahiaaka prison, wfl ho to ass* mutual advantage...
...more money than for a long time back...
...He describee a brief visit to a command post where Eisenhower waited in 'tense silence to hoar the first reports of the attack en Gafaa...
...Keenan gives a good example of the way in which the rupee pegged to the pound at a favorable rate works to the benefit of British industry and to the detriment of Indian industry...
...1 s had to be there...
...He stopped again, evidently embarassed to find himself talking •hug...
...Here are bits of one from a Jewish boy fighting in jwlriiisb...
...they are superlatively trained tough infantrymen assigned .to difficult tasks...
...Monks cabled...
...The nigger -lyncher and the editor of PM had to march side by side for a while...
...famous poet...
...Finally a quests] forced itself out of someone's lips: "How could you...
...pespaansin oa» cial eye-witnesses, who rely for their jobs aad primoihje, of the goodwill of their masters, took the place of trained reporters at this aeries of the moot important mootiaga in the amatol j of mankind .. :' ,*w~« Each morning at It aad each night at «. two M iscstry of Information reporters handed an,on a platter, the snoot sjhesn-inawc tripe about the goings on behind the Mona porimaOoc...
...ex-PM editor Ingsrsatl disliked his basic training...
...some of it at bayonet-point Yet so skilfully trained and toughened for the job wore the Rangers that they captured the valley and took 1,400 prisoners at a cost of one casualty: a doughboy wounded in the arm...
...commitment, he fears, may help to prolong the war...
...A New View on India By HILDZA WIERUM BOULIER A STEEL MAN IN INDIA...
...by taking a segment of the battle, baa brought the subject within assimilable limits...
...The late Jamshedjee Tata made and lost more than one fortune, traded with Japan and China (sad to relate, he sold opium to China) and established cotton mills in India before he ever embarked upon the career which made him famous...
...The hy was swinging the girl round fit to break her back...
...We were all leaning forward over the table...
...224 page...
...But lngorooll...
...Jfrpvswf Leersa of War S PRETTY girl complained about lack of gas...
...Sparks charges that Willkie forces "bought" delegates at the 1940 Philadelphia convention with "roomful* of money...
...Luis Araquiatan, Republican Basin's ambassador to Britain and France, has been named as the Leasees delegate to the Free Spanish Republican Government which was formed last week in Mexico City...
...sated Soviet-Jewish literary historina aad scientist: M. Kansas:, pact...
...But the book is not all fact and pedagogy...
...the 'young >ffioer who single-handed captured an entire field aattery and then talked himself out of a decoration...
...CIO's Political .Action Chairman, whs was en the Coast at the time, argued with him "How can yes do this, so suddenly, at this time...
...Ingersoll tells how the Army is made up— from squads, platoons and companies through battalions, regiments and divisions to Army Corps and Armies...
...The American soldier fights to got the wax over and get home...
...The battle is the chmax of Ingarsoll's training and the climax of the book...
...Later on I could put the |La» together and reconstruct the current of his thought...
...The people behind Sparks are backed by the wealthy oil magnate and Republican GOP Boas Joseph N. Pew...
...Well, just as he got to the top and stepped out on the platform I Sre was a tremendous explosion exactly amidships, right below 1 sate he stood...
...I kept • nag the picture of another dance, and it kept growing sharper— i H8 it crowded out what was actually going on...
...Haas plenty 5 fssd, clothes, amusements—everything except whiskey and | eoae...
...Keenan is able to refer to Cursos and Halifax as the two greatest Viceroys...
...And yet, with all this understanding and sympathy, Mr...
...He was squirming on mere **nms...
...It was too far...
...Indians in the stoe...
...Keenan reminisces about the early days of the great Tata works in India, and the har^-working, hard-drinking steel men (many of them, like the author himself, from Gary, Indiana) engaged by the wise and far-sighted Parsi, Jamshedjee Tata, to build the plant The story of the rise of the house of Tata, which is all too briefly sketched in, is really worthy of a book all by itself...
...they accuse the Socialists of-"pan-Germanism...
...Each bit g information had to be dug out of him while he looked down at H plate and crumbled bread with his fingers...
...I think ¦at the final victory over Hitler can be expected within a few ¦onths.'' ~ . *tt this boy beside my sailor...
...Jacob Br court era, critic...
...Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT Wars, or ToJrero* tort can only pray that some of the principals at Teheran kept ** seme diaries, for it may be the only way posterity will ever he able to evaluate what went on...
...This general, who commanded French troops St Tubalafr...
...2 ft cabs assurance could not be were it not for our great ma-S ml snd psychological reserves...
...who at the last election donated $5,000 to every GOP state treasury...
...But there was sftnsg to say...
...He eridendy sympathises with IndtssvyeassBaasat of social discrimination, and he is quite convinced that, given proper training...
...j"One night I strolled into a night club...
...Igty Khsrik...
...He calls- him one who has "attained the lonely grandeur of greatness...
...Perhaps he even hesitated I ray anything more...
...he is addressing his plea to the mothers and fathers and sisters who cringe at the idea of hardships in the training of their boys...
...hi ship was lost...
...Didn't the police arrest you...
...By John L. Keenan, DueU, Sloan and Pearce, New York...
...Or rather, I did something funny --fad it was not as if I did it—as though somebody else did it as I was jnst looking on...
...There were a lot of soldiers and Jgte in the crowd who had been places, seen things, found out ***t war is...
...by <fe Gaulle...
...Not only did we not have the power for such a drive, it was not part of the High Command's purpose...
...There is the lone :>ld Frenchman who blocked an entire U. S. tank :olumn for the "honor of France...
...Potiey of building up dictators Hke Vargas is Brazil...
...Nash will not return, for their eldest son died jn SS Army camp last month and she is caring for her three graiidtilfhjrs...
...The metail platform was getting hotter by the second, b didn't have even his shoes to protect him against the heat hat he started to stand on one foot, then on the other...
...Listen," replied Bridges, "it's quite okay, my people around here are ased to quick shifts...
...Up tngt," he wrote, "you wouldn't know there is a war...
...Carson, whose greatest ambition was to assist at the demise of the Indian National Congress, who by his partition of Bengal aroused that province to its Terrorist activities...
...After a while I got up and walked out on the floor—walked right up to them and punched that boy, knocked him out cold...
...The A. F. of L. still does not regard the Soviet unions as free unions...
...KEENAN relates how the Indian steel industry was nearly ruined by the policy which gave no protection to Indian steel but aUowsd cheap foreign steel to flood the Indfin market...
...If I were to pray for a "miracle" he says passionately, "it just might bo that every barracks m the United States might burn down,'' for then the troops in training would learn to live under battle conditions from the start That kind of training is the only way to save lives, he feds...
...He doesn't feel the war as do the English, Russian and Chinese soldiers, for bio Homeland hasn't been ravaged...
...His parents were sent to Poland...
...The author tells the very significant history of the financing of Tata's: how London financiers refused capital for the venture, and how the money was eventually obtained in the United States...
...In the San Francisco maolileal etem-tions last November, Bridges trot supported one eendMete, and in the middle of the campaign switched to another...
...And he knew ft t people who had so much would be hard to beat...
...We were attacked from the nr...
...London's World's Prom Sew*, the praise sional weekly of Fleet Street, published some remarks from Noel Monks and Philip Jordan, two of England's top correspondents who covered the conferences...
...the war and spare American lives...
...When he says this, Ingersoll is not appealing to the Army...
...It makes the reader, see the United States Array as a living, highly integrated organism with the ultimate objective, in the military phrase, "to impose one's collective will upon the enemy...
...The list is too long," be replied, "sad I shall nssntasa but a few: Henryk Erlieh, noted Jewish aarti-Faaemt leaser aad Socialist, who contributed greatly to the advcomment of Jewish culture...
...He describes the duties of company and field officer, of staffs and commanders...
...Like the good teacher be is, he has a generous number of stories about people and events in the invasion of North Africa...
...There were some other stors there, and soon we were sitting together being quiet and jut drinking a little...
...he ashed...
...There were some football games **>ross, and the young sailor was eager to take his part in talk j*jt such things...
...Every morning there are surprises l*hn mail...
...In his stocking feet he ran up I a Starrs to that metal platform from which the guns are directed...
...The Rangers are.not American versions of the British Commandos...
...Keenan does standjm, ,tjW fura|a-mental issue regarding this land which was his home tor 25 years...
...and Halifax, who put more Indian nationalists in jail than shy either Viceroy except Lord Linlithgow, bay uiuussii just where Mr...
...We could not defend ourselves without some- -< * up there...
...And when he eitc I could not see the connection...
...The other sailors didn't say a word...
...So they trotted out the good old tar and brush and off to the Daily New* they went...
...I couldn't stand it When I got up the nerve to Mk hack his feet were burned off...
...The Patterson Axis, therefore, is featuring a book, "One Man—Wendell Willkie," which was written by C. Nelson Sparks, former mayor of Akron, and "ghosted" reputedly bp Senator Nye's secretary named Movius...
...former New Leader correspondent in Chicasa, has taken over ibe editorial reins of The American Teacher, she national A.F.T...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E.BOHN aMfBE sre two sides to this strange calm of the American 1 gggb ss they go into the crucial clinches of the greatest war . BB We are Irving about as we always lived...
...After a while he added the comment: "Well, that's what had been seeing...
...Austrian monarchist circles here applauded the attack...
...I sdkfnt even guess what was passing in his mind...
...The news has not yet hoes printed in the United States, possibly because of a combination of censorship and Good Neighbor politeness towards as "ally...
...Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek may have settled' world affairs between them at Mens and Teheran, but they also settled something else in the process...
...Sam G. ITalser, book review and editorial staff msashsr of the New York Post, is writing a book Dutton will publish in the sprisg...
...M. V. Haiufthka...
...The Teachers fret a Lasses •SOME ONE got his wires crossed this week, and Leon Pennon...
...J*Tou know," he said in that soft voice of his, "a funny thing Hppened to nre down in Miami...
...It is breezy, ** chatty and informal, for Mr...
...This was the choice that we now understood: that either we accepted the will imposed by armies made up of stronger, tougher, better soldiers than we, or else we—first individually and then collectively—would have to create an army that was even tougher...
...Modern warfare undoubtedly is too complex for even trained writers to absorb...
...They seemed to understand...
...Wows well what that means...
...Ziskind Lev, ssCstsasisg novelist: Joseph Cheraiehow...
...It went on ad on...
...The government, headed by fndaJeeio Prieto, includes all the Loyalist parties except the Communists...
...An alarm had sounded...
...is • • freace of Death E boy, sitting there very straight with those stripes shining on his blue coat, seemed to be having a hard time getting his tl wights together, deciding what to say...
...In the Tunisian :ampaign...
...Pew's lswyer, John D. M. Hamilton, former national chairman of the GOP and friend of Alf London, has bees touring the country, at Pew's expense, lining up Republican state delegation* against Willkie...
...Prate k* Peru aad several others is Bosch America is alienating she majority of democratic forces...
...He debunks much ti the myth of the booby trap, but makes the interesting psychological observation that troops will more readily attack a well-protected enemy pill box than advance across a field in which they know there is a single booby trap...
...He believes it won't be won until hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed, for the German army-won't crack until it is completely and obviously beaten on the field...
...He describes the wort of the :ombat engineers in supplying water, laying minefields and removing them...
...Israel Zinherg...
...Forty and baldish...
...settled the Sash of the world's proas as an luse-peadeat obfactive, fact-givm* organization...
...Leaked at me as if I had done the most natural thing in the world...
...This means food and shelter and clothing and equipment and arms and -transportation...
...The music got ¦iter and hotter and those kids got wilder by the minute...
...A He stopped talking...
...But there was ~4 1st sian...
...I was seeing again a dance of death which I witnessed in the (>ral Sea...
...pikPTAIN INGEstSOLL'S book is the best yet written about ear ground forces hi this . war...
...industry are the equals of anyone—but the obvious inference that training is aS that Indians tack in any field her dees not draw...
...jut the other day I listened to a sailor who gave me an entirely Jjferent notion of things...
...Laborite Walter Nash, New Zealand's Minister to the United States who has been doubting in brass as New Zealand's Prime Minister, dee to Peter Frazer's illness, is expected back here by Christmas...
...cultural leaser...
...At last he started in again: "Well . . . you • e...
...The matter is simply that the Austrians favor amenities with a democratic Germany, while the Czechs seek a "Vanoittart" policy...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 50
