The Future of the West Indies
WILLIAMS, ERIC
The Future of the West Indies By ERIC WILLIAMS Depart Bent of Political Science, Howard I nir*rsit, NETBE&LAHD8 AMERICA. By Philip Hansen Mis*. Dtmli, Sloan A Peace. 2Mm«m. flit THE United...
...Poor Hiss, as impenetrable as the Surinam jungle, has to fall back on the primitive economic doctrines of the slavery era...
...485), Baldwin makes an astounding ex cathedra pronouncement: "For the first smd last time the Negro in his own right had plhyed a dramatic and significant role in the New World...
...The tramp ft sVsresig netiseusMftc...
...In his •tea* they will probably hire some chap who has all the proper traftJng and ean use all of the proper big words that put people For the future of our democracy this matter is crucial...
...The CNT has afwngs bean opposed to political action, but is sympathetic to the move...
...146...
...The survey shows that there are enough courses in the history of our country from the elementary grades right up to the end of the high school years...
...The scholar trained in research comes to teach under a superintendent and school board who fear to raise *o much as a whisper against political machines or any sort of •kulduggery...
...si onto, according to amah •* Arayaa...
...So—says editor Dabney—we should alJ he' better off if each passenger were allowed quietly to sit or stand- wherever he happens to find room I bring the matter up at this late day because in the December 9 issue of the timet-DUpatch we are given a survey of the public . reaction...
...Ana for which there is a market...
...If he wants te hold his job he had better conceal every real interest like a vice...
...The Communists have demanded thmt Aadre Ifinrsy be named Minister for the Navy, but so far de Gaulle ha* refused...
...If the problem of marketing can be solved . ." (p...
...Is it taken for granted that the white folks will have all the say about this business...
...Labor people are assspieftme of a Labor Yssrheek hsiug pse> a*r*d by an outSt casks, "fastHtoll *f Lssmr Istodtos* vrkeee o*sMto» are Dorothy Douglaa...
...PhD Mar raj...
...Cacao—revival of the industry is "a desirable objective," but large-scale planting is inadvisable without proper drainage and irrigation (p...
...Tke Havana Conference, the acquisition of British West Indian bases, the tftapatoh of Uaited States troop...
...The story—it has no by-line—is a "phony...
...The only real groups excluded are the Communists and the Basque Catholic Nationalists who are conservatives, and ******* splinter groups FoUow-Uavshu* seek as Negret ami del V«9a are ssaeJadad because they have no aupmort sntoiae Hkt OhmaaajpjkOja...
...Then we meet add to hats conglomeration of nationalities the twelve million Negroes, who have no Anglo-Saxon or European background and who are of an entirely different race...
...Thus, for instance, after discussing the history of independent Haiti, "with its opera bouffe pageantry and its tragic reign of superstition, confusion, and blood" (p...
...While desolattos and iamjpsjjatiua characterize the tiny Windward falsa as, Curacao's perennial deficit ha* Become a handsome surplus and sarrnam hew manage* to balance lis budget The exptenatte* Bes in two wares—oil and bar* arte...
...Unfortunately, Baldwin's tendency to succumb to this temptation to "simplify" certain historical interpretations has produced numerous wild statements which fail to have the depth or meaning they pretend to seek...
...Tho Ufa el the Program QO the teachers, we are told, must be thoroughly trained, and the program must teach the pupils something new at each age level...
...who oowhtet get a tosahto team tjto rf* Austrian people when they hod a repnjkk...
...147).' Rubber—plans for fMM ntaatattani "wiU haVc to wait on capital ass)biborn (p...
...Young people care...
...Dionisio Eneino, secretary of the Million Cossaeaasat Party, is on the griddle, sec used of insufficient flexibility ta ad> justing himself to the "now line to meet a new situation...
...I km depending on the six-column condensation printed m the ardent timet...
...which con trotted Vienna aad lecefted «• per cent *(, «•* votes m the Austrian capital...
...Great prominence is given to the blackout, as lending "authenticity" to the war (p...
...Their importance, once economic, has become strategic only...
...Hiss tackles the question which everyone is asking today—"what have the Dutch done during a period of three hundred years that they deserve to continue to rule these people...
...The Caribbean islands are famous for their beautiful scenery...
...So from there on historical studies are left to ambitious specialists...
...There are two ways of writing history: one is intended for the professional historian, the other for the delectation and information of the general reader...
...The demand for autonomy ft confined largely to the politicians (p...
...Welles' "Imperialism ft dead" and advocates "enlightened imperialism" (p...
...He said that in trolley-cars and busses the segregation law forces the blacks and whites into unpleasant and indecent intimacy...
...625)—and when he trie* to summarise his chapter by claiming that "The Saxon tide had reached the shores of the Arctic Ocean aad been stopped by the ice floes of the polar region*" (p, 632...
...He says twice that the foreign companies are reluctant to publish wage, data (pages 128, 13?haand then reminds us pointedly: "It is often said...
...not afford to cast midn the progressive young Bapsbaag kmeMto," Until the day that the Bapaettt eras sanHsksd fas fsftssajs, 1S34...
...The mask goes round and round, aad it comes out here: "The difficulty has Men to discover a crop which will grow well, which is immune to disease, which can be cultivated with the avail-ehi* labor, aad for which there is a market* (p...
...furthermore", "because of this the accounts of some of these conflicts have been omitted or simplified...
...B*a Hecac aad others...
...to the Netherlands possessions, the blockade of Martuuque, the a«ib-marine campaign in the Caribbean, the formation of the Anglo-^tMiTicaa Caribbean Commission—these are so many indications of the strategic 'mmrtlBil m Ike Caribbean territories to the United States...
...The other trouble is with the teachers...
...144...
...NETHERLANDS AMERICA today fteajg-*' aifcaat combination of decay and pre* pertty...
...rT5...
...The Socialist Party was fsreibiy dissolved by DoBfuss with the aid of the Italiaa-armed Heimwdhr The Naxis never had sss^reciaUe seressrth and cause to only ihiossjr* s show of Hitler's arms...
...Post-war markets are promising, "especially if tariff barriers are lifted...
...murder...
...By Leland Hewitt Baldwin, Mew York: Simon mnd Schuster, 1943...
...173...
...The West ladies were sugar colonies in the eighteenth century, naval bases today...
...He concludes pontifically: "All the Caribbean islands are either economically dependent or are in a very backward stage of development, judged by world standards" (p...
...The/ have taken sage mis to the New M Tims* aad ether papers to psmh their plans...
...He must not merely teach that the eorid is fiat He must do his darnedest to keep It flat...
...His answer is as follows: "After studying these islands, the wonder grows that, with so tittle to work with, they should ever have figured in history at all, and one is forced to the conclusion that it was only the genius and persistence of the Dutch merchants and colonists that made this possible . . ." (p...
...With*** tha "seeing eye" of his camera, His*, in the vernacular, "ain't nowhere...
...Martin . . . like so many Caribbean islands, has been unable to discover its proper niche in the economy of the twentieth century" (p...
...108...
...have organised The Cow,mittee far a Jewish Army...
...tksaft that there are only teas* "tMh sitions" — Communism, Nnsism end Meomrchism — "whaph apQlk important support to AnBtria," and ooneftMato that Anstzte, Najs...
...They also serve the Caribbean who only stand and photograph...
...145...
...He was a good history teacher because he was a live human being...
...The tourist trade can be made to play an important part in their economy in the post-war world...
...While the treatment can be condemned for its excessive generalizations, its approach can scarcely he ignored It is a provocative study that should stimulate other students to study the same hlstirj wfth atoee care add preelhton...
...143...
...Here to New York this matter of protecting the schools against We is fresh In our minds...
...Again: "St...
...Hiss i* a traveler, net * scholar...
...KaMsejhto Lunrpkia ami Oossewi Wmrue The Home Front By WILLIAM E.BOHN |T te now more than two weeks since the Richmond, Va., Twees-* Dupatek started its fight on Jim Crow...
...Because he cares about labor, history is alive to him...
...181...
...The world market of the eighteenth century has been transmuted into "the genius and persistence" of Dutchmen...
...The participants were the Spanish in South America and southern North America, the Portuguese in Brazil, and the English...
...181...
...British Gsaaaa...
...Mark 8t*rr was kept out of a post for which he was eminently fitted because he was committed to the cause of labor...
...Hiss writes: "Yet the eighteenth century was the most prosperous in Surinam's history...
...The Future of the West Indies By ERIC WILLIAMS Depart Bent of Political Science, Howard I nir*rsit, NETBE&LAHD8 AMERICA...
...The Austria* Imgton in she America* Army, which ems nasguretod wfth * teeMh «t trmmpets, ha* quietly he** iMssslvsi, and the tore* Aitliawhto Fstix, Chortos and Rudolph—appked tor and fsusived MilssSigto from the Army...
...When I was a boy I had a good hfttosy teacher...
...All of these, as you would guess, were opposed to segregation...
...Ore*, Wtes %m» toe Otto7 fj|R OTTO HAPSBURG...
...And if Hiss, in his prognostications, reverted to slavery economics, his political diagnosis harks back to "taxation without representation" (p...
...If in the field of economics She is ig****at of Caribbean problems, in the tell of polities he is contemptuous of Caribbean aspiration...
...He is to know all the facts but not care one whoop •bout them...
...141...
...The real fight, however, is between these Stataiate who hew* tots Im the Camacho regime and want to keep them, pad E*cino's eastern to increase his own power at the sxpsusi of the osnetol "rewolu-uonaxy" party, she P.B.M...
...In these circumstances, tatti fetefe on the Caribbean are to be expected...
...But ft is necessary to point out that the wage scale in the West Indies is already so high as to make competition with the Asiatic countries impossible in Europe and America . . (p...
...But Baldwin's generalizations in this isapset ought not preveht es from giving him full credit for 'viewing the history of the entire Western hemisphere as a unit, rather than in its ftetahtd fragments...
...The logic works this way...
...thai wages in the West Indies are too low...
...But precisely because he cares, because he is hot about something, they kept htm out...
...176...
...Cotton—"too dependent on the weather to flourish in Surinam" (p...
...But jest the contrary is the fact...
...Their committee, under the direction of Dr...
...Who ha* been mad* Coder-Secretary of the Post Office MlsaotoJ...
...WLB Chairman Davis am*** fib** the government's policy is against wage rises...
...Hiss' appendices are valuable...
...First, the world market Mr...
...In this respect, his work opens eaw vista* » it* wider implications...
...Surely this would not be a wise solution" (p...
...Ah an old history teacher, I have strong feelings about all this...
...Coconuts—"there should be a good market for copra...
...Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT |OJBGOTJAT10NS between John L Lewis aad the A. f...
...A program for the improvement of historical teaching is sponsored by the American Historical Association aidedeand abetted by the Mississippi Valley Historical Association...
...Here we have the age-old myth of "racial superiority" revived again together with the exploded idea that the "old" immigrants were composed only of the groups favored by Baldwin had that the so-called "new" immigrants started arriving only in the twentieth century...
...Bananas—the cultivation "appears to have been ill-considered or at best over-optimistic from the beginning" (p...
...The felkrw-travelers hove opened a vktons rsmpsiga againat ft...
...It's a sort of vote, and Virginians have a right to be proud of it One thing bothers me...
...Big John insisted that DistriM *t J* main intact, with jurisdiction over aM chaeaieal pmnfcgta* lie A. F. of L. said no and Lewis took his hat ami ssessekt mm goodbye...
...But since 178B the United States has grown mostly by the acorns* tion of the French, Spanish, Mexican, aad Indian territories...
...PJtTm corrasfmsstoft states that the unity pact is signed only by "frntttoms** e^ issjr parties...
...Though the placid historians do not go so far as to state this fact categorically, it is rather Implied in their whole treatment of the subject...
...ft is doubtful whether it would grow vefl in the hot, moist climate of Surinam <p...
...3.50...
...and the cast ef Brest* ami the nnmher of its votaries imlease every way...
...There are 64 pages of photographs which fplry bear out the publisher's praises...
...On the contemporary scene Hiss evades all major issues...
...Rice—"Surinam finally appears to have found a crop that is well adapted to the soil and to the available labor supply" (p...
...140...
...ft |*ttftimi|t World Affairs...
...Rather it appears to be an attempt to paint an impressionistic picture of tile surging racial frontiers of the Western Hemisphere since the coming of the white man and the hesitant emergence of a concept of common interests...
...There are a number of reasons, he writes, for the decline in the sugar industry—some "are identical with the causes that brought about the general retrogression of the West Indian colonies, some are inherent in the soil or are due to bad management or the fall in prices or the lack of cheap labor or disease or lack of capital" (p...
...It unearthed a scandal and went red all over its long face...
...by Chancellor Buawoos, neither the Comaauniaki nor mpmaft supporters ef Otto cemM gem any seato ia toe Austrian jjjplJiParty...
...171...
...148...
...161), and colonial representation in the imperial parliament...
...Citrus fruits —Surinam's oranges "are fully as good as, if not better than, those grown in California and Florida...
...141...
...I* •^Committee regarding the re-entry into the Pisoaeftis W"W...
...The poor man hunts all over the place for alibis, the real causers so obvious that even he cannot evade it everynow and than, and yet nowhere does -he see clearly that the troubles of Surinam are rooted in world economy The world market needed the West Indies in the eighteenth century, it does not need them to-4ay...
...We have had such a varied, colorful, lively time of it during these four centuries that there is something in the tale to fascinate every age and taste...
...Bet the oil is V ewes avion ail sad Caracas is enij a "middleman...
...The controversy added considerably to the heat of an over-hot summer...
...He justifies this by propounding that "no very large part of the Americas has ever been long without its race difficulties and obviously it is impossible to tell the whole complicated story hi one Volume...
...They give population figures, import* aad exports, chief sources of revenue, petroleum production, etc They are far from complete, and the author actually makes no use of them in the text...
...Plan tor Spanish Gcvemment-m-Ex .? Flops...
...If you wish, to see pictures of Curacao, salt works of Bonaire, or a mountain trail on Saba—then NetMmrimit Amenca can be warmly recommended...
...With universal adult an frag* fa Jamaica and Puerto Rice's election of its governor, the Dutch possessions will not remain content with a franchise which gives the right to vote to five par cent of the population ef Curacao aad 1% per cent of the population ef Surinam (p...
...At tk* s**eh*jsj hsfd in Washington last Friday...
...If Negroes enter aad are forced to make their way to the back seats, they not only mingle with whites—they step on their tees and dig them in the ribs...
...By the time the young people get to college, history has become branded as one of the stupidites that have been—thank God!—lived through...
...ISt...
...French...
...fJISTORY is', for the specialists like Baldwin, : * the record of a certain species of migratory animals called Homo sapiens—of their impact upon each other and upon their natural surroundings, and of their search for the meaning of the universe...
...178...
...Of the writers, 87 were against Jim Crow laws...
...Read this sentence and see hew high your brows move toward the ceiling: "The unwarranted assumption that anyone who can read can teach history explains its unpopularity in some schools...
...I* darn pnshiii out in recent years by J«s**ica* hitter root (p...
...Even If Mr Him ft a Democrat, I recommend to him WiHkie's 9m World...
...We acknowledge, of coarse, that she United States arose from the thirteen colonies which revolted against England...
...Asiatic, aad African elements which are far from being bjestded" (P- 683...
...Only 27 supported them...
...Or we need principals and superintendents who will hire live teachers instead of dead ones...
...United Mine Workers haw been hreken new...
...I like especially the notion that regional history be played up as a springboard to interest...
...principally with Pierre Van Paaae* as this* front spuhessas...
...Or, Baldwin is certainly skating on a very thin historical ice when he tolls us that "nineteenth-century immigrant* were not always as , well fitted as the Scotch-1 risk to wage their battle with the virgin sou of the New Wertfl" (p...
...What he acquires enables him to reach just conclusions rather than to interest adolescents...
...Yet this group has been able to enlist many progressive Americas* ia their intrigues.The strecttag organization of tke "Fmsrgsrr CammsttSW* ft a f roup called the "Revisionist Party," «hss* l*»°>r the sate Yls*f*Mr Jabotinsky...
...eshtoh recently jotoad she Soviet TJtesa***.* Lssow m a telftm ****** was absorbed kg Russia In the Ribh*ntre*-Mok>tow asrrossasmt...
...Hiss has nothing to say except that he paid 25 guilders a day in March 1942 for a station wagon aad driver which cost him 10 in January (p...
...Four hundred and fifty years of exploration, settlement and cultural development—from Columbus' first voyage until the present day—are the raw material out of which this narrative ft made...
...North and South America are presented as the crucible of a colonizing experiment of unparalleled vast-ness...
...Deaa AUamge, Coacreasmaa WiU Rogers...
...They have been repudiated by every established organisation of Jewish people, including the Jewish Labor Committee, the American Jewish Committee, ami the American Jewish Congress...
...The thing becomes comic...
...Surinam', baaxit* ha* powerful competitors, especially its neighbor...
...It js a matter of historical record, notwithstanding Baldwin and numerous others, that most of the so-called "new" immigrant group* date their first arrivals from pre^Revwatftstory days...
...So great was the demand for its agricultural products in Europe that neither the difficulties of poldering, the losses from piracy and war, the effects of climate and disease on both planter and slave, the damage to crops by insects and plant diseases, nor the slave insurrections could entirely offset the profits" (p...
...The argument which Virginius Dabney used ft an ingenious' one...
...The UGT declares its support to the move...
...To teach our young people we must .we teachers who care more about democracy then they do about ' totrfcrrnirn...
...For a while the Revisionists worked wtth the Camms*ftts After the Moscow Csmlstemee, when the stovsstonftts attacked the esshmtoa of references to Jew*, the Comma* ha* first hegaa to attack them...
...o • |"|NE of the most fantastic promotion stunts to the ti* ||tf V has been the "Emergency Committee to Save the Behind the committee is a tiny group of fanatics who have mssssseV la ted the committee to their ends...
...It has, in fact not yet been published...
...Dutch and Swedes in various sections of North America...
...From there the report goes en at a stiff and pedagogical pace: "It should be clearly recognised that Jhe historical knowledge which might be acceptable for a general education is woefully inadequate for a teacher of American history...
...They have teachers who believe in dictator-•M> te teach dictatorship...
...T O. Thackery...
...and when he gives the impress!sa that toe tost century immigration consisted of the "Aagio-Americans" (p...
...Meanwhile, Otto has disappeared from his usual haunts ami tks guessing is on as to where he has gone...
...169...
...627)—limited by Baldwin to the Scotch-Irish, Germans, English, and Seaadms-vians (p...
...De GauBe has sulked at the actios* *f the If rsriTr pcslsy smd bristled at the slighting references made to ha* oettose ef Fsemee by Jaa Smuts...
...Hisror/ons ansf Hysferio LAST summer the New York Times vent evangelical on us...
...to Ufa...
...Coffee —a severe decline in prices after 1980 forced several of the plantations into financial difficulties (p...
...The state of the nation is not quite as desperate as the crusading Times led us to expect When a staid old family paper gets the itch te reform it may he expected to go overboard out of all reason...
...In two weeks the paper received from white readers 114 letters on this anti-segregfitkm proposal...
...Thus he opposes Mr...
...PMH corresvondeat ased to he Freak toasnek, who ems a feilow-travehng writer to Spain...
...In addition Mr...
...The authors mention the story of the Five Nations as a proper topic for New York schools and the tale of the Republic of Texas as something special for young people in our largest state...
...In one chapter he deals with "The Effects of the War...
...The ideas set forth in this digest seem to me excellent...
...William Ran-eola* Hoarsu Harrison Saaagler, Max Lerner...
...It is the first book in which the history of the entire Western hemisphere is told as one continuous narrative...
...It is not an exaggeration U say that, if the problem of a sufficient and a dependable labor supply were solved, it would bring with it the answer to many of Surinam's agricultural problem*" (p...
...Jetiinek also did a limmkwg of smear stories against Trotsky in PM at the time of ^Btjasfph...
...Hiss might well remember that the essential characteristic of our complete society is the division of labor...
...vVheh ft comes, however, to the authenticity of the decrease in food imports, the efforts made to fill the gap by local production, the rise in the cost of living, the relationship between wages and cost of living—on all these crucial points Mr...
...Nevertheless they will ha of value to students of the Caribbean who know how to interpret and use them...
...Democracy is more than a theory...
...What we need are normal schools that will bring people to life...
...msSctcd pro-faocirt leader aad pmhMsher of e hete Sheet calftd Ja*dtay, was instrameetol in haims, da Assqsan's a*d| ¦**>• (taoM wh«- nv»ict<Hl...
...This is not the place for discussion of the suggested program...
...Hiss is opposed to self-government, because "Autonomy for all colonies throughout the world would mean nothing less then the complete dis location of the economic life of countries with large colonial possessions...
...the -Moral Preelamstion of Stateless aad Palestinian Jew*," am* other treats...
...U«i» en«nim« him ko out up hood...
...to • • St* Toathfeg World Is Flat 1*HI theory is that the teacher must be non-partisan, non-eom-• mittal...
...The soctol viewpoint ef the group ean he gauged fag eft stop* in the ul mitotan Trend •/ Event*, published fag saw of the ¦*-vmtomst fronts, hailing the Badoghe goverwsaest iiunsa the Magahal re-appointed to office two Kahaa Fascist Jews en* ef whom had screed as Meaeohm a Minister af Faeaaos and m new insist Under-Secretary of Finance,- the other lis til Pope...
...s privatoly circulated organ of the Impsetol aMfam Group, published a pro-Otto analysis of the Aassaton ilragMas, Tke article advances the...
...The pictures mchtood shorn of the nemty-ll—ll Pohsh divisioas la Moscow and a shot of Lweer...
...17)., But don't imagine that Hiss really understands...
...Now—with the December thermometer standing at 20 degrees —the tropic Wave of excitement is bet a memory, and the sanhedrin of historians comes along with an expert job of air-conditioning to reduce inflationary temperatures...
...Hie "Eroergency Commitret" recenMy estofsfttd a WsmhftsjMh Committee heeded by George Maurice Morris, former head at she American Bar Association...
...Both the Communist Russians and the Nasi Germans can teach us something about education...
...Edgar B. Wesley of the University of Minnesota, has submitted to the nation a detailed survey of the state of history studies in our schools, together with detailed suggestions as to possibilities of improvement What we are told is what everyone expected...
...For the rest, Netherlands America mast be used with the greatest caution...
...They take sides...
...the aaity pact is signed by the aecTeditsd representatives of the five major parties in the Loyalist government, theee^ pefisto having the majority of delegates in the Spanish Certs...
...attention, rnmp nanson Miss Netherlands America turns the spotlight on the Netherlands possessions...
...In preparation for this the preparing pedagogue is trained in the mysteries of assaying sources and balancing opinions...
...ant.4ate* aad lammls.* stone *e»mttoefte...
...And we need school boards which Will create conditions which encourage liveliness rather than dull conformity...
...These public conveyances are new crowded to the doors...
...to standard stupidities History From the Heights By JOSEPH S. ROUCER THE STORY OF THE AMERICAS...
...Baldwin bases his story of the frontiers of the Americas upon the clash of Indian, Negro, Latin and Teuton—and uses the word "race"—as he admits—"rather loosely" to indicate them...
...Two or three years ago when I returned te my old otfine town out in Ohio his was the only grave which I visited...
...At the anal sessioa* of the VNR.R.A eaaierewe* mb Attonsjc Ctty« the Busman deiegatton lavttei the ether e*tm*e to a shoemmj of Sonet new*resls> Among the newsreeU, shows to toe sssatoaoa watoh inclmisd the Polish delegation, was saw eatiafta "ft* hiker-attoa of to* Ukraine...
...Hafts* lived in many countries and has become, according to his publishers, "one of -the truly outstanding photographers of the United State...
...Oft...
...They get bored...
...Where the Britiah West Indies afti Puerto Rioo have ¦v in uivuopoiizeo...
...Even if no immigrant* would nave reached our shores since the formation of the United States, our country would still be tar from having a homogeneous Anglo-Saxon population...
...The whole ludicrous situation is summed up ft dm #*rnjMft story af the reporter for a daily paper who caBed ap the AMaa-duk*'« saute at the Essex House some time ago, seeking an interview, only to be answered gravely by the royal major domb that "His Majesty ft out, having breakfast at the corner drug stole * • * * Commie ftoondsp 'TWERE is a fight brewing between the Communist* a«d *e (toail...
...Obviously, our history must really show how the original Anglo-American culture has been noskttod h> the continued impact of the*cultures of the minority groups, conditioned, in turn, by the geographical f/id...
...Practically 100 per cent of the children study history, but they keep on learning over and over again that Columbus discovered America in 1492...
...This assumption can be, of course, interpreted in many ways—hut one wonders how it will be received by the Negro historians...
...This book is obviously not for historians...
...They get hot about things...
...flit THE United States public is today, as never before, CaribbeanKsoajifa...
...A little history is a dangerous thing...
...146-147...
...And he was a good teacher, not at all because he had all the academic training which the combined historical associations have in mind...
...The elective system provides a way of escape...
...1*% there are etany native peoples who have list net that there is mere true democracy in siilsfaWmstl lOisaJhl government than there is m government h*r their own politician*" 178...
...f%ina sates that the UGT (General Union of Workers) were ixcsneefl...
...Why did the Negroes respond in the ratio of only one te four...
...All parties, principles, dreams and hopes of the nation are to be presented with drab and even lack of emphasis...
...The trouble is that there is a lot of duplication...
...I have not sien the complete report...
...See Victor tlsaajfl corressnedeace from Mexico on Pag* 1.) PM't hatchet ssah tojfc she CNT (anarchist) were excluded...
...In view of the nonchalant manner in which unprepared teachers presume to teach this difficult subject, it is no wonder that they fail to achieve the success that its importance and interest suggest...
...Colored readers wrote only 27 letters...
...144...
...College, freshmen—7,800 of them—were examined, and it was discovered that they knew practically nothing about American history There were replies and replies to the replies...
...M Yates • pall OJLI'S Mexican correspondent sought to do a "hatchet" ja> en ale* the recently formed Spanish government -in-exile haadsd by Ineatorio Pneto PM took the story without checking and oa Tuesday featured it with a five-column headline...
...Labor observers are wondering what'* *»*¦¦) hjft-pen between CIO and the President for the week that MMf sjssw-man'i Clothing Workers announced they would seek ws*m BSSSJak**)* above the "Little Steel" formula...
...O* the MailBUie r—ssfttoe ef the "Bmsrgemey Cbssmettee" they have assembled the fietaaeee comhinatioa of Herbert Hoover...
...Imagine aew dull the oft-repeated tale of the Pilgrim Fathers must be to little Mexicans in our Southwest whose ancestors came long before 1820...
...720 pages...
...Thus Hiss keeps crying out for more imperialism in order to redress those conditions which imperialism itself has created...
...social factors in America and by the distsage of this country from the original habitat of the immigrants—something which Baldwin has not shown too well, although he acknowledges that "the United States entertains a welter of European...
...It is the old problem of protecfVe tariffs and trade agreements that makes $ cheaper to buy from markets halfway around the world than near at hand" (p...
...But I do want to say a word or two about the teachers—and they are the key to the whole business...
...Wrifte the Revisionists, with no feftowing amomg the Jwmteh™* people, have attempted te eetahlfth themselves as leafiiisetlslssl Jewry, the actual result has been the sabotage of the week ef M» other groups...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 51
