The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN With Malice Toward Snobs YOU will not remember. But that's ell right. On January 29 I printed at the tail of this column something that made me swell with...
...It puts this whole business ef race antipathies en s high level...
...On psge 279, the book reprints Stslin's oath over Lenin's desd body, a aeries of pledges...
...Human Event*, a new weekly newsletter edited by . Frank Hanighen, predicts that Churchill will step down from the premiership by June to be replaced by Sir John Anderson . Because Churchill has made some commitments in the past, his usefulness as Premier might be impaired in post-war negotiations, so he is stepping down, the story goes...
...Courtesy, friendliness, by all means, with no touch of condescension and no emphasising of distinctions...
...Negrin attacked this as a "fascist-fostered rumor...
...She to fair, claims ao superiority for herself...
...it ia a matter of evolution...
...I am quite sure the 75c boys, so fsr as higher education is concerned, would be greater among the blacks than among the whites...
...Toledano and Luna, the Peruvian "Court Communist," are Working against Haya da la Torre, the head of tha revolutionary April fa movement...
...Yet free, familiar social intercourse would lead to intermarriage and increased sexual promiscuity, resulting in a much larger proportion of mixed blood in the race, as witness France...
...The publication is called Noticiario Obrero Norteamericane (North American Labor News...
...People would seek their own level...
...Aa usual, the fellows who were caught with their politics down were the Commies...
...Vargas is one of the more ruthless of the South Ameri-• csn dictators, and one of his greatest triumphs Is the jailing of Luis Carlos Prestos, the Communist lender...
...but, as a realistic man said, 'Don't let's wsste a $7,500 education on a 76c boy— whether he be white, yellow or black...
...Odds and Ends jyjARSHALL FIELD, the publisher of PM and ths Chicago Sun, is seeking to buy the New York Sun, which is on the auction block now that its owner, William T. Dewart, is dead...
...Coming up in the spring book lists are Jimmy Wechsler's story of John L. Lewis called The Blind Giant...
...When three guys are sleeping under one quilt, each one is going to try to wrap himself under more aquare yards of quilt than the other guy...
...The Mediterranean has long been Britain's Mara Nottrum, and if Moscow wants something in Central' Europe, it's always a good idea to harry the other fellow in his own backyard so you can pull off what you want in your own...
...It's a simple rule in the chessboard of power politics...
...line...
...Emerson and his wife determined to apply the theory of social equality in their household, so they had the cook join them at their meals...
...It is an answer to Margaret Halsey, but not the sort of snswer which you would expect...
...If all social conditions were abolished today, new ones would begin to arias tomorrow—just naturally snd irrepreasibly...
...CoflafHaf With Cormee Joaes "THIS letter hit me st the wrong moment I have just seen Carmen Jones, and I have just finished Lillian Smith's Strung* Fruit...
...Finally becoming a bit exasperated with that good friend, I asked, 'What do you consider is the difference between a Central African with a facial angle of 45 degrees, almost no top head, a flat nose, a receding chin and a 4-inch mouth with big rubber lips and — say — a van Humboldt?' Horace replied glibly, 'Just a matter of education and environment.' This, to me, was sheer nonsense, and I assumed he was merely talking...
...Let us, by all means, raiss the level of all human beings as far aa may be, and let all enjoy the full opportunities of which they prove themselves capable...
...The Herald Tribune ran a headline in its Sunday review section: U. S. Not to Tell Europe How to Run Itself...
...LARGE number of the liberal fraternity are writing books...
...On page 29 there ia a ststement praising Lenin's treatment of the Baltic nations and claiming thst the Great Powers sought to absorb them while Soviet Russia never would absorb them...
...And while all my emotions are stfl| rocking, I read this novel of life in Georgia, Iff e la which Macks and whites are intertwined down to the deepest roots of their consciousness...
...paper Freihtit, writing the day before the Moscow announcement, described the Badoglio government as "composed of crooks and fascists" snd denounced Churchill for having praised Badoglio's government in the Commons speech...
...The cook couldn't stand it...
...only a year after the first Negroes landed in Virginia...
...On January 29 I printed at the tail of this column something that made me swell with pride...
...Abba P. Lerner's book on Keynes and welfare economics...
...You quote the familiar sentence from the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal....' And, addressing the young women at the canteen, the writer admonishes them that the real reason for their prejudice sgalnst the black man is economic, thst they want Negroes held down so they will furnish a permanent supply of cheap labor...
...Into the Army this week, Irving Salert of CIO War Relief...
...Potentially they are equal, but actually far from it...
...Dalley's children...
...The next week PM reported that Moscow wants to occupy psrt of Aostris after the war...
...There is something here much deeper than her verbal argument...
...Here is the report of Time's Moscow's correspondent on Molotov's reception on the 26th anniversary of the proletarian Red Army: "When the concert was over, Molotov led the dash for the eats...
...I am sure that if most Negroes could see that much in the near future they would forego the privilege of marrying any of Mrs...
...But arbitrary forcing won't do it...
...Privately, we think the Moscow statement was meant as a personal warning to the ex-Ambassador...
...Variety reports Field wants to make the Sun a morning paper and use its presses for PM...
...In the recent announcement of the 16 republics, the Bsltic slates were included as Russisn territory...
...Obviously, evolution is not moving that way...
...There were ten dining rooms, all hesvily laden with food and drinks, 'lakutka (Russian hora d'oeuvres) was so plentiful thst by the time the hot dishes arrived, hours Ister, nobody was hungry except the waiters, who kept filling up plates and tucking them away behind portieres...
...I am a stsunch friend of The New Lender snd heart-By sympathise with a great deal that it stands and fights for, but I cannot fully share its views on this question...
...If some Kukluxer or Dsughter of the Confederacy had fired a broadside in my direction and Margaret's, I should have taken it as part of the expected day's experience snd should have paid little attention...
...As for us, we've always followed the law of parsimony...
...but not fsmilisr mixing...
...I thought the whole thing was swell...
...Mission to Moteow—Joseph E. Daviee threw a sumptious party at his Florida estate the other fortnight, and one of the honored guests was the pretender Otto of Austria...
...I have never been able to accept the above quoted sentence from the Declaration of Independence "I consider that there are millions of people in the world superior to me (thank heaven for that...
...It seems to me, if one thing is more obvious than another, that human beings are unequal spiritually, intellectually, morally, emotionally, physically...
...And this view is not at all a matter of economics or snobbishness or 'authority' or public opinion...
...The last or the oath was: "Ws Swear to Preserve the Comintern...
...Fascist Italy was one of the first countries to resume diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia, while Italian Communists languished in jail...
...It was by way of an explanation to the hostesses about their reluctance to dance with colored soldiers snd ssilors...
...Their capacities, interests, occupations, tastes and desires are necessarily different...
...The Jewish CP...
...Thus there sppeared in Engliah last week a new "Life of Lenin," prepared by the Moscow Institute about a year ago...
...One has only to use mind and senses (without preconceptions) to perceive it for oneself...
...The food wss excellent and wound up in a blase of crepes suxettes, ice cream and purple champagne.'' • • • UHrafl and Co...
...She wants equal justice before the law, equal pay/ for equal work, equal opportunities economically and educationally...
...Reconversion brings such pressing problems to the liberal world...
...issued a statement charging Negrin with misuse of Loyalist Government funds...
...It was part of a memorandum to the hostesses of the Stage Door Canteen...
...Recently the Spanish Communists announced that "a Council of Liberation" had been formed underground in Spain and would be the basis of a new government...
...The Nation and New Republic didn't like the Baruch report and approved instead the George Committee report...
...In this vexing effort, they are doubly confounded when it comes to translations, for a time-lag usually occurs with disastrous results...
...I have here an answer to Miss Hslsey from s fine, intelligent Woman...
...e * * The Commie Merry Go Round TIIK Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow is con-stantly preparing new editions of Marxist classics and new texts to square with the new CP...
...The letter comes from San Francisco and is signed by Anna H. Dalley: "Tardily I have read the January 29th issue of The New Leader containing the quotations from Miss Halsey on the theme that Negroes are the equals of the white race and should be trested accordingly in all ways...
...Tke Spoils* Labyrinth ^•UERILLA warfare is simmering between Juan Negrin, the former Loyalist Prime Minister, and the Spanish Communist Party...
...But the New Mat*e* last week criticizes "the liberals" for attacking the Baruch report and hails the appointments of General Wines and Will Clayton, the latter a former Liberty Leaguer...
...Well, in my Monday's msil I received something Which I regard as especially precious...
...But this sort of thing never worries a Stalinist...
...Dalley is troubled about is "social commingling...
...I heartily believe in the brotherhood of man as a fact on the basis that all share the One Life, come from a common source, and advance toward eome sublime destiny 'toward which the whole creation moves.' But this does not imply that all men are equal at any given time or place...
...Let all have equal opportunities economically and educationally...
...The reason for this stand is simple: Negrin's sole stock-in-trade is his claim as the "legitimate" Prime Minister of Spain (although the refugee democratic Cortes, meeting in Paris in 1938, ousted Negrin...
...By MURRAY EVERRET - Inside and Out L'Affaire Badoglio MOSCOW'S recognition of Badoglio pulled the carpet from under the heels of a lot of persons, and they've gone off into long flights of ratiocination...
...Coming up from a double experience like this, I have the feeling that Anna H. Dalley is fighting against something in her own mind...
...Humanity is a great family...
...Political Notes COME Democratic politicians were sounding out WPB's C. E. Wilson on his general political and social views, with the idea of possible vice-presidential timber—until they found out he was a Republicsn...
...the eldest may be to college while the youngest may be in the kindergarten...
...I wss never in my life so sensitive to this race business...
...Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson hsve never been allowed to sing at the Metropolitan, but up there in the Broadway theater the colored folks put on an opera that simply knocks you ever...
...After Negrin's attack, the CP...
...If I ever get a clue to it, I will return to this topic...
...But it is no more then fair that I should let you mske up your own mind...
...This is not the first time that The New Leader has affirmed that the only difference between whites and Negroes is pigment—which is of no consequence...
...e The South American Way I OMBARDO TOLEDANO, the "progressive" Latin labor leader, has just received an invitation from President Vargas of Brazil to visit thst country...
...To promote inter-American labor solidarity the AFL is publishing a new Spanish-language news bulletin which will go by airmail twice a month to South American labor figures...
...Moscow gave no reasons for its action, but the Daily Workir ran an editorial extolling the step...
...I should not wish a child of mine to marry a Negro, and I doubt if you would care to have a child of yours do so...
...By all means let all humans hsve equal justice 'before the law' and equal pay for equal work...
...If a Negro proves himself capable, let him have the best of schooling...
...Under-Secretary of State Stettinius will cover a number of important problems in London, but the chief talks will revolve around world trade problems...
...And the author was that clear-headed and sharp-tongued girl, Margaret Halsey...
...It didn't work, and it was not the Emersons who backed out...
...Solomon Schwarx's Management in the Soviet Union, and Harry W. Laidler's revision of his Hittory of Soeiahit Thought...
...Horace Traubel Merely Talking "| RECALL discussing this matter years ago with * Horace Traubel across a dinner-table...
...and millions inferior...
...there are older and young children, who cannot, who do not with to, meet the same conditions...
...they would not be comfortable on any other...
...Toledano also works closely with President Prado •f Pern, another of the reactionary camarilla...
...But what Mrs...
...I am about as American as it is possible to be without being an Indian, my ancestors on both sides having been in this country since the 1620's...
...I cannot think it wise, however, that social commingling between the rsces should be encouraged...
...We predict the trans* la tor and editor is going to get hell for not editing these oat) ,| There sre reports of fsmine throughout Europe-* but the bureaucrats always eat well...
...That to a big order...
...Her ancestors cams in 1*2...
...But what has hsppened is something much more special...
...The children of a family are) not on an equal level...
...I wish I could get to the bottom of her attitude...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 12
