Browder's "Most Eminent Latin American"
Naft, Stephen
Browder's "Most Eminent Latin American" By Stephen Naft ONE of the worst insults to the Latin-American people appeared recently in the May 6 edition of Th» Sudan, in a letter from Earl...
...end other countries...
...It is the federation of the Communist or Communist-controlled labor unions in a few Latin-American countries, by no means representing the majority of the labor organizations, except in Mexico...
...At the ILO conference at Philadelphia...
...The answer can be found in advertisements of goods presumably widely bought by the Mexican barefoot peons, who are the readers of this Communist magazine...
...A committee has been formed to get behind the Senate majority...
...Tofedeeo Ilka all Commaslsfs s>|«c*a) the blame for the wor soon Brifela, here portrayed «< • spider about to devour Antrim...
...M. V01TH," which sells hydraulic turbinesand papermanufacturing machinery, or of the "Dfutsche Eisenwerke, A.-G...
...We need the sort of fighting will that good men larked during the crucial days in Germany and France...
...PRM officials threaten to discipline him...
...There are enough mossbacks to prevent a limitation an debste...
...As a result, a few acres of land which were formerly on the Mexican side, remained on the northern shore of the river and thus became part ot the Unwed States...
...A sinarchist manifesto hail* De Is Lams, who attempted to sssassinate Com ache, as a sinarchist martyr...
...Poll-Taxers Against Democracy FRUSTRATING the will of the majority of the people and the majority of members of Congress is s serious mstter...
...Of course, Comrade Toledano could sue us if we sccused him of taking money directly from the Nasi Government, as these advertisements in the magazine are paid for by private industrial firms...
...The bottleneck ia in the Senste...
...It might suftVe un mention such names as these of the painters, Rivera and Orotco of Mexico, and Poftinari of Brazil...
...But this time we are for it...
...This is a situation that goes to the heart of thing...
...Browder from calling Lombardo Toledano the "unquestioned spokesman for the LatinAmerican labor movement," in the same way as there Is no doubt In the mind of the great American patriot, Browder, that Stalin is the "leader of all peace-loving peoples...
...In the deepest sense this move to abolish the poll tax in seven southern states is a war measure...
...Fifty men in a chamber of ninetysix can have their way if they really care enough...
...And with unlimited discussion men of their sort can talk forever—or until everyone is tired out...
...If we are any better than the democrats over there, this is the time to show it...
...It in said that war measures would be hindered, sidetracked, postponed...
...which sells cast iron tubes, and many others...
...What is ChamizalT Very few scholars and historians of Latin-America could tell me...
...The Labor Federation in Argentina, for instance, is still contixilled by Socialists...
...writers like Machado de AsSls.Alfonso Reyes and Sanin Cano...
...An iasue of January, 1942, shows on the front page a montage of the flags of the United States, Great Britain, Mexico and the Soviet Union...
...Tarn incident baa long bean forgotten and net broaght ap even by the most rabid Mexican aa...
...statesmen like Ezequiel Paditla and Alberto Guani...
...In this article Stephen Nsft, sn outstanding suthority en latin America, revests Teledsno's [ pro-fsseist activities prior to the invssion of HasI sis on Jane 22, 1941...
...There we find an article entitled "Remember Chamiaal...
...That page is faced by the illustrated picture of a horrible looking Shylock dressed in the conventional garb of Uncle Sam...
...In 1864, thus exactly 80 years ago, the Rio Grande, which was established aa the frontier between Mexico and the United States, changed its course slightly...
...Thus we see the advertisements of the "Maschinenfabrik AugsburgNurnberg, A.-G.," which sells Diesel motors, turbines, steam boilers, derricks...
...Browder's "Most Eminent Latin American" By Stephen Naft ONE of the worst insults to the Latin-American people appeared recently in the May 6 edition of Th» Sudan, in a letter from Earl Browder...
...it once mere gives the lie to the Communist lipeervicc te "unity...
...The Communist leader speaks of Lombardo Toledano as the "unquestioned spokesman for the Latin-American labor movement, heading...
...or of the "Gute HoffnungsHutte, A.-G...
...We most light for it here ss well ss over there...
...Toledano calks far "a modern, national party which will reflect the popular will...
...Vincente Lombardo Toledano is the head of the Communist-controlled Mexican Federation of Labor and the foundtr of the so-called Confederation de TrabajailnicM Latino Americana (known as CTAL) or Latin American Labor Federation...
...This will be carrying on the war—not getting in the way af it...
...shewn Below IU.IJMI'Jl'h...
...The right of people to determine their own fates is what the war is about...
...Bat they are not to be allowed to vote...
...the historians RIcardo Rojas and Luis Qointanilla, the scientists Dr...
...composers like Villa I .olios...
...its rep-1 resenlotion to the International Labor office," and he concludes that letter with the words: "For the honor of our own country we cannot tolerate the sprcsdiing of public calumny against this man, the inott eminent of LatmA mtricant...
...Or how about the very comrade of Messrs...
...But it is also a well-known fact that no payment in foreign currency could have been made in Mfcixo, or any other country outside of Germany, without official release and permit of the Nazi Government...
...efor* Jane 22...
...Bet in the Senate they have the tradition ef unlimited debate...
...Fifty senators, more then s majority, hsve pledged themselves to vote for the bill...
...We need drama to rouse citizens end legislators...
...On Monday—starling at noon—the Committee proposes to picket the United States Senate...
...Toledano called the governing party, the Mexican Revolutionary Party (PRM), a "political corpse...
...Vicente Lombardo Toledano" there is in the issue of April, 1940, a full page illustrated cartoon representing a spider-web in which the little flies, Austria, Ethiopia,.Spain, China, Albania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, are caught in the web to be devoured by a horrible spider, draped m the British Union Jack...
...Of course, the Soviet Union flag waves above them all...
...Bat it waa left to the Communists ia 194* ta bring ap the claim for the return of Chamlxal aad El Paae ta Mexico...
...But the article explained...
...DUT all these are trifles when one looks back at the career and activities of Lombardo Toledano before, the fateful June 22, 1941...
...To give a comic aspect to the attitude of Lombardo (before June 22), it may be appropriate to mention an article published in the May, 1940, issue of Futuro...
...That ia whst the polllexers did Isst yesr and what they threaten to do this year...
...Teledane plays s leading role among the Latin-American delegates—and aa an unofficial representative of Soviet Russia...
...Alejandro Houssay and Oswaldo Cruz...
...However, all this bitter enmity against the "British Spider" and the "American Shylock" disappeared immediately after the fateful June 22, 1941...
...This idea was not even original, as it waa copied from a Nazi book-jacket Dae britiiche Retch in dec Wettpolitik" which carries the same spider design, with the apider-web covering the world...
...All that we need in the liberal rsnks of (he Senate is determination coupled with leadership, ship...
...will be dominant, la view ef the growing strength af slaarehiame (fascism) this is dangerous...
...It is called the United Committee against the Filibuster...
...A story by Gardner Jacks set in rm reported that President AlviU < omacne is workiag with Toledano en a plan ta launch a new party...
...On part ef this territory El Paso new stands, hence it ia valuable...
...We are usually against this sort of thing...
...By which he means one in which the CP...
...United States Senators who stand up for the right of citizens te vote will be Isking their places beside soldiers on the fighting front...
...mere sre pcrswieai rapwia .»»*»¦,» »../ that Lombardo Toledsae is being groomed far the presidency...
...It is time for those who believe in democracy te stand ap snd fight...
...or Victor Raoul liny a de la Torre, the fearless founder and leader of the most indigenous revolutionary democratic movement of South America, the APRA...
...And where did the money come (or the beautiful editions of the Mexican glorified \'ew Maseet, with color prints, and semi-hard covers...
...which sells complete factory outfits, of "J...
...It should be left to other Latin-American's to say how they feel about designating as "the most eminent of Latin-Americans" a Communist demagogue and slick unprincipled politician, who takes his orders from Moscow who makes frequent pilgrimages to the Kremlin to receive guidance from his master...
...This, however, does not deter Mr...
...Only the German design was less specific...
...lionalista during the period ef the great friction between the United States and Mexico at the time of the Iret World War...
...In the magazine Futuro, on whose masthead appears, as "Director...
...The Idee wet plagiarised 'real o German book joehet...
...It did not indicate by name the countries ovirrun by the Nazis and whose subjugation were ascribed to the British in Lombardo's cartoon...
...It takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture...
...1*40...
...the poets Gabriela Mistral, Arturo Capdevila, Juana de lbarbour.ni...
...Lombardo and Browder, the Argentine Communist leader Rodolfo Ghioldi, who was jailed repeatedly by Brazil's dictator Vargas, whom quite recently Browder's and Ghioldi'a comrade Lombardo tenderly embraced...
...The House passed the poll tax repealer last yesr and has dene it again this time...
...There are so many names of Latin-Americans of world fame who distinguished themselves in the arts, science, music, literature, medicine, statesmanship, who honor this hemisphere by their names...
...Ctechaslavohle...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 20
