Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENHY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN A Prophetic Acrostic THIS column does not contract to supply its readers, as a general rule, with crossword putties, anagrams, acrostics, etc....
...Wilson...
...This was a logical expression of Makhno's anarchist faith...
...A wav* of feeling in favor of theae soldier* of induttry twept over the country...
...Suppose the whole manpower of a great plant says to the public: Look—wt can make furniture, automobiles, refrigerators, washing-machines—what about contracts...
...People aaid, "Well, why not give them contract...
...In order to understand the limited political and military significance of Tito's movement it is only accessary to locate the places where his partisans are lighting on a reaaonobly large map of Yugoslavia...
...There it a scrambling about among thoae highest in authority to provide them work...
...That happened on Wednesday evening, three day* after the strike began...
...At Bret the kneldenta at tbe planta of tbe Brewster Aviation Company seemed to be a local affair...
...One of the comic-opera aspects of the whole affair is the self-assumption by Tito, of the highaounding title of Marshal...
...The key is to take the third letter in each of the six words and read downwards...
...The resistance to the German occupation in old Serbia remains definitely under the leadership of General Mikhailovich...
...Shall we postpone the invasion becau** of S strike T" he asked in word* that were headlined...
...And a belief is spread that Yugoslav political unity is fully achieved...
...Mor.fco...
...Here is a new thing in out life...
...But my attention was recently called to an acrostic of Munich, 1938 vintage, which possesses an unusually prophetic quality...
...It will not happen live years from new...
...Hitler...
...If the men and women just expect work, demand work, take for granted they have a right to work—we may see a further extension of this new thing in cur way of life...
...On Monday morning the workers juat went to the plant and ttayed thert...
...There it obvious need of plane...
...There have been many victims of Nasi cruelty in the Ukraine, as in other occupied countries...
...To the best of my knowledge pacts for the civil administration of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have not been hold up, pending the approval of Washington snd London...
...Th* invasion forces need plane...
...Thia—it is said—happen* in time of war...
...But it is doubtful whether sny of these victims could have been monks or nuns...
...There haa never been a Yugoslav Marshsl, so the title is about as significant as the rank of "colonel," which ia bestowed so generously in some sections of the American South...
...Perhapa not...
...There is a double harmfulness in the legend that haa been built up so assiduously about "Marshal" Tito...
...Richard T. Frankenstein, vice-president of the Auto Workers Union, was in Washington setting fires under official chair...
...This is all a mixture of legend, fantasy and gross exaggeration...
...He made a practice of printing money (I have seen specimens of it), with the inscription: "No one will be prosecuted for forging this money...
...The American public is led to expect unreasonably much of a guerrilla movement that is necessarily restricted by shortage of heavy arms and artillery...
...But never saw any monk* there...
...Nicholst II...
...No doubt Walter Nash, presiding over the sessions of the ILO, acted with the best of Intentions when he turned the other cheek to Ixvetria't ill-tempered attack on the ILO and renewed the appeal for Soviet participation in the organisations...
...Even among the Croats, support of the Partisans is far from universal...
...Since then a wider meaning has been given to the entire episode...
...But hia psychologicsl approach, one fears, was wrong...
...It would begin: Kaiser Wilhelm...
...General Arnold'* words made a hollow sound at they, came echoing back...
...These operationi almost invariably take place in certain regions of Croatia, Bosnia and Dalmatia, practically never !i old Serbia, the largest geographical unit inside the Yugoslav state and inhabited by some of the moat traditionally warlike dements of the population...
...Perhaps private concerns and government officials will be forced to provide contracts and atart the wheels...
...This is unfortunately far from being the actual state of affairs...
...A Pfcforo Thar Doesn't Fit A. H an Uustration for an article on the Ukraine after the German occupation the current issue of "Tk* National Geographic Magazine publishes a photograph of the famoua Peccersky Lavra, or monastery, in Kiev, with a group of black-robed and black-cowled monks prominently in the foreground...
...But we mint got th* work...
...Incidentally, the time will surely come when it will be the imperstlve duty of the ILO to investigate the shocking system of stste peonage that is practiced in Soviet concentration camps...
...It is foolish not to give them work...
...All of this happened a week ago...
...What's Brewing at Brewster...
...A plea will always be interpreted by a totalitarian regime as a sign of weakness...
...At that very moment the Navy wts turning off more than 10,000 workers who were making plane...
...Here it what you get: MaSaoHai HITler ChAmberlin DaLadier Which WINs Anyone with s geniut for thit sort of thing might try to work out s more complicated puxtle to illuttrate the pattern of World War I and itt aftermath...
...Something occurred, in fact, which indicates a change ia tat American attitude toward work and worker...
...He got promises that contracts would be forthcoming—then he telephoned to the men to end their stay-in strike...
...Reciprocity oad Tootles A RECENT announcement to the effect that pacta for the civil administration of Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands are being held up, awaiting the approval of Moscow, raises the perennial question of reciprocity In dealings with Moscow...
...Clemencesu...
...I have visited this monastery, one of the famous shrines of the Ukraine, more than once...
...No one can pretend that production can not be financed...
...Pilgrimages were strictly forbidden...
...What happened out there at Long Island City ***mt to show that this i* no longer an empty phrase...
...A minority is I associated with the Ustashi, the- Croatian "Elite Guard...
...Tlfo WhEN the smoke of battle and the fogs of propaganda lift, it would not be surprising if Josip Bros, alias Marshal Tito, shculd be found to possess one of tbe most exaggerated synthetic reputations of the stiuggles Communist and fellow-traveler sources have built hint up as a great national leader who has miraculously unified all sections of the Yugoslsv nation, who marches from victory to victory and hat at hit disposal a force of two or three hundred thousand men...
...We've got th* will...
...The answer would also hsve to be a bit complicated: Lenin...
...All that held up operation* wat a little matter of pen-ecratehee on paper, contract*, financing...
...The number of armed men actually under Tito't leadership would be much closer to twenty or thirty thousand than to two or three hundred thousand...
...It was also a realistic appreciation of the value of the money...
...Director of Economic Mobilisation Byrnes found way* of doing things...
...Joaip Bros ia himself a Croat and his aupport cornea overwhelmingly from the nbn-Serb elements in Yugoslavia...
...Cititent everywhere are beginning to take the thing for granted, What happened ia simple enough...
...Wa'v* got the experience...
...A Senate committee got busy...
...The entire edifice had been converted to secular uses, with a museum established in one part of the building...
...Who won...
...Phoney Money OOd Phoney Propaganda O NE of the amusing interludes in the grim tragedy of Russia's revolution and subsequent civil war was a financial innovation introduced by the Ukrainian guerrilla anarchist leader, Nestoi Makhno...
...Here were machine* and workers...
...Orlando...
...The Germans are employing about aa many divisions in holding down the forayt of the Mikhailovich Chetnika aa they ute against the much advertised Tito...
...For all monasteries and convents were closed after the Revolution...
...The situation wat tllly...
...If then 10,000 workers or 10,000,000 workers are turned off, it will be taken for granted that we don't need or want the thinga which they could make...
...Only a week earlier General Arnold, of the Air Fore*, condemned the foramen's strike In Detroit becau** k choked off the supply of planes at the crucial moment before the invasion...
...Papers all over the country—eve* reactionary paper*—published pictures of tbe hsle aad hearty men and women yelling for work...
...The forced employment of vast numbers of people at stsrvation wages is s matter of serious concern to free labor everywhere...
...Something had to be done...
...Workers ask for work...
...Mussolini...
...The ILO would have stood a much better ehance of obtaining ultimate Soviet cooperation if it had adopted an attitude of indifference and unconcern...
...Maybe it will...
...No one suggests unemployment insursnce or WPA jobs...
...Empercr Frani Josef...
...Not to do so will seem silly, i...
...Lloyd George...
...I am reminded of Makhno's flight into high finance when I sometimes notice, on the many propaganda bulletins that are now hi circulation, tbe statement that the material quoted in the bulletin may be reproduced or used without credit Unless the reader is very careful in his Judgment he la likely to find himself m the position of a holder of some of Makhno's funny money...
...President Roosevelt went into action...
...We have been talking for a long time about the right to work...
...Part of the build-up for "Marshal" Tito haa been ^ achieved by the unscrupulous method of crediting to the Partisan guerrilla operations which were actually carried out by the Chetniks...
...Things began to move soon and fast...
...Matchek...
...The picture of monks gathered in front of this famous monastery, presumably under the Soviet regime, bears as much relation to the realities of Soviet life aa the Incredibly de luxe collective farm made in Hollywood filmed in Song */ Rvttta...
...after the war emergency has passed thia system, which ought to be outlswed by international convention, could become a very serious threat to international wage and living standards, if the Soviet Union should emerge as ¦ largescale factor in world markets...
...Probably a much larger number are still loyal to their former nationalist leader, Dr...
...It would mean tat turning est of some 7,000 workers at the Long Island plant and, later, of aoeae 4,000 at the plant in John*, villa, Pa...
...Thi Navy planned to save $180,000,000 by cancelling eon, tracts lor Corsair fighter planes...
...No one can say that we shall not need all those things...
...To the ' public they flung out a banner which proclaimed: "We've got the Us.lt We've got the ability...
...The accompanying caption notea that "of peacetime's monks msny are slain or enslaved" and that the German invaders "carried Kiev nuns into forced labor...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 23
