The Home Front
The Home Front Imh fmrntiy af C*m*»*aw/e*ltes A. ANDRAS, our Canadian correspondent, rang a resounding bell in last week's N»n> Leader. Referring te wbat happened in .Saskatchewan he wrote: "The...
...see P*HtJct Moke, Str*.fe S*df*ll*wt Dept.— Oar lor«*ia S*s*m**t Dt) YOU REMEMBER WHEN beetle-browed John L. Lewis was the btta weir of every Republican paper in the country (which means about 70 per cent), when every editorial writer shook and screamed at tha idea of John L. Lewis defying the Government of the U. S. , and shutting down the production of coal, whan every soldier in the fox-hoi* wanted John I...
...They would listen in absolute eyelet...
...They may irritate you at first Their noses habitually point to the stratosphere, and their tones and manners are notably frigid —at least they are until you have been accepted...
...So each sits down and sends out a story blowing up some particular aspect of the sessions...
...And the settlers were not f'aaeaVsw* or empire loyalists or anything of tha sort On the average that' are just about th* finest people in Gad's world...
...from Medicine Not to Moosajaw , But the prairie—that is something else again...
...Le.se...
...For they are now making every effort to build up Big Jswn as their answer to the CIO drive for Roosevelt John O'Donnell of the Daily /Verne, the right-wing weather vane, writes from Chicago that "tha UMW boos may bavs been a political liability (in 1940...
...You'd think it waa a funeral except for the fact that the pall-- bearers here Wear fiaahy gold badge* emblazoned in red, white and blue ribbons...
...Aad their questions were intelligent, a*r**st Bat here I mast break off...
...But no one ever was more conscious of a divine right to look down on other folks...
...bat hoi* again, only poetry could do her anything like justice...
...Red radicalism" is coming ao close that it touches our very skin...
...The picture you get is sll out of proportion to the reality...
...PM sent five reporters, the N. Y. Post sent three reporters, two editorial writers and four columnists including its saloon editor Earl Wilson, the World-Telrgram sent about six men...
...By sight o'doek there would be a fine Sadies**, Aad t**king t* those people waa an experience...
...Those people would come any distance in the otd model-T Pords...
...Whit* Guardists" and "alt Semites...
...They had a terrible reputation...
...This Is aaw ooaatry...
...I think the convention coverage illustrates one of the worst features of American journalism — its hyper-thyroid condition...
...I still have her picture...
...In fact, if we didn't know that Luce was sack a homespun Republican are might suspect him of teiliag hit readers that —sigh —it might be better te lake Roosevelt for th* next four yean while waiting tor Stassen...
...Perhaps this sort of flaunting conservatism has something to do with the ardent fervor of M. J. Coldwell and David Lewis...
...Lewis in front of bit gunsights...
...Do You Remember...
...It was the CawaaHene who broke the chain...
...When New Zealand apd Australia calmly did things that seemed wildly radical they thought, never mind . . . that is away out there in the Pacific...
...Now Winchell has apologised to Grigorieff...
...Later on, when the recalcitrant revolutionary colonies grew populous and rich ns an independent country, these faithful royalists had little left but their loyalty to maintain their backbones in an upright position...
...Are they aa different up there7 Are we stupid, backward, condemned to eternal conservatism...
...They first appeared under the signature of Georgians X. Preston, which was the nom de typewriter of George Dixon, the capital cut-up who hti since moved over to the Hearst stsbles...
...Or you can blame the Musaoosa of Massachusetts...
...By comparing the two men, it made Dewey look like a fumbling freshman parading around with his first full-grm pipe...
...The hardy peasants of the north woods had board what happened to Quakers and Catholics around Boston Bay—and they preferred to take their chances with old King George...
...la Label F*OR a long time, Communist fellow-travelers sought te smear a group of Russian anti-Stalinist revolutionists as "fsacisU...
...Had they never sailed from St Malo, we should have missed some good folklore, but the whole history of this rontinVnt would have been simpler...
...Upper Class** T...
...They want his help and probably will get it...
...You will find them scattered throughout New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and, in smaller numbers, in other provinces...
...They need te tell me that huadretaref thtr—ir** af farmers from Iowa aad other nearby state* moved lata western Canada after th* crash hi lead vslaes that followed World War I. Those t> lowsns rated CCP an June lb...
...Then don't tell it to the Dewey campaign strategists...
...What happtetd to those me* aad women when they crossed the halt Here is a mystery...
...At six o'clock I would be sitting before the little hotel of th* little prairie town—with bardly'* paraaa he sight The* those ears would begta to eon verge fraa* the four points of the compass...
...The Canadian rich may have been of humble origin...
...The rebellion against George III would hsvo run from Georgia to Hudson's Bay...
...They are more royalist than the king and more dapendent on bitter, black tea than anyone in England...
...The history ef th* brood af British Commonwealths launched in the 17th and 18th centuries has its lessons —none of which I propose to outline here...
...The only trouble with that theory is that tha Big Boys thought of it s long time eg*— and play both sides...
...To be sure, from 1867 on Canada was not just a colony...
...I recall vividly my first contacts with the Empire Loyalists...
...The Friends of Democracy have snswered John T. Flynn's attack* on John Roy Carlson snd his statements on the Armenian revolutionaries by publishing a full brochure on the Dashnags...
...Perhaps the most interesting story on GOP politics was not in Chicago, but in N. Y. And I don't mean Willkie either...
...The CCP victory,ie Saskatchewan pose* * ***stk>n which can't be nsgjij I* a oeoteuc...
...What 1 am tryiag to get at Is that this country has been settled within a few decades...
...Winchell may have been acting in good faith when he repeated the item, but the statements were completely untrue...
...Ia 1919 I waa In a region that had known -the plow for only twa years...
...e • * «e**crteas •• raw Chic**• C**v**rl*ai ThE anxious liberals who thin* they play the realistic game of politics, tell us that' If you don't work for one aide, obviously th* other will win, so join with the one who is more liberal...
...During the past two centuries so many things have made them "different that we have to make an effort to realise that down underneath they axe alike...
...Indiana com* in to help with the round up . There was ana Iadiaa girl on a poay...
...Tea would find, ef coarse, th* same kind af folks ia moat part* of Alberto, Saskatchewan aad Manitoba...
...And each of the men in the windy city, where' the breezes aren't blowing and the air is hot, has to earn his bread, butter, hotel room and train fare...
...Later Kahn fed an item te Walter WineheU that the Ukrainian revolutionary leader, Nikifor Grigorieff, alao had "Nasi connections...
...So the continent wss divided by that famous line to which Vice President Wallace drew the attention of the Chinese...
...Every good U. S. family of those days had a Tory branch that carried its loyalty Into the northern wilderness where the royal writ could still run...
...There are a few Chin*** ia the towns...
...It is expected that Lewis will come Out for Dewey st the miners' national convention September It...
...When the Labor Party rose in England conservative Americans said, well, after all that's a part of Europe...
...I suppose they toady to our Morgans and duPonts, but in their hearts 1 am sure they feel superior to them...
...But here is what Cornelius Vsnderbilt, N. Y. Pott columnist, writes: *. This is the dullest, wettest political convention 1 ever attended, and I've been to every one of them in both parties since 1924...
...To* Uppity I HBBE are several Caaadas...
...Referring te wbat happened in .Saskatchewan he wrote: "The flret aocialiat government in North America waa elected by ao smashing a majority as to leave no doubts as to the will of the people...
...e MMefBV MrS DOROTHY S. THACKERY, publisher of th* N. Y. Poet, aad bar husband T. O. Thsckery, the editor, are suing Cissie Patterson of the Washington Thaes-Neroid for libel...
...Tea could talk ssrisasly—ss -to oquolt...
...Or, rather, there is just enough of night to give you a heavenly morr.ing with meadow lark* singing as far as bhe ear can take it in...
...I mention "the brood" merely to emphasise the fact that the United States belongs to it To think straight about wbat is happening on* must keep in mind that our country, Caaada, New Zealand and Australia started out in about the same way and were settled, in the beginning, by more or less the same sort of people...
...Per •.ilea snd mil** ka that Hear air you could s*» ash* coming...
...At this time of the year there is practically no night...
...Kahn had to retract this scurrilous lis warn charged with libel...
...And the** warn country people, farmers...
...Then when Canada began to grow rich there wss ' messed in with the natural pride that goes with predatory wealth the inherited snootiness of a super-loyal colonial upper class...
...Over the past years the Tim«a-ff*raM has been running snide stories about the Post aad it* owners...
...0 e » At th* Elephant Fmlr the big, black headlines In sll the newspspers, you'd think the Republicans were holding a convention in Chicago...
...But that hardly affected the psychology of the upper classes...
...But if you are from this side of the line, you must not allow yourself to be upset In the cemeteries you will see on tombstones sll the names that were prominent in Boston and Philadelphia during the Revolution...
...I can think of at least three or foar...
...Liberals and laboritos on this side of the line listen with covetous admiration and envy...
...But I must postpone discussion af it till next weak f .,M«mar»awn- OhUOaZ XUUl 6ilt Roosevelt aad r*b*r** /j eld friend ef this column, nam Potashnick, tells me . .st ho meets so many Communists who yell a* him "Roosevelt and Teheran," "Roosevelt and Teheran," he has the impression thst "Teheran" is running for Vice-President...
...They may have been not fsr from right Csnada, which was pretty solidly French in those days, remsined loysl...
...There arc minorities, to he aura...
...But most of the wheat farmers are migrants from eastern Caaada, from the United States and old Eogbaad, I was lecturing oa the League of Nations in those days...
...Press reports from Chicago indicate that two of Lewia'a key henchmen, K. C. Adams, hia publicity man, and John T. Jones, who heads the non-existent Labor's Non Psi tissn League, are at the GOP convention, conferring with Dewey's men...
...But now it's Saskatchewan, a province into which a grasshopper can volplane from North Dakota or Montana without drawing aa extra breath...
...The ones who stayed on this side of th* lias will—mostly—vote Republics* aext November . You see the question...
...Albert Kahn, in th* party-lining The Bear, now defunct, accused th* venerable Ruasian Socialist leader Victor Chernov of being in league with tat Nasis...
...The boys don't think so today...
...How come...
...Don't expect me here and now to give you even a whiff of the life out there...
...There ara some Russian Daukaboars...
...It was the story in last week's Lift by pne of Henry Luce's inner staff, which kept knocking down Dewey in the form of boosts to Stassen...
...first of all there are th* real Canadian, spilling ever from Quebec into the neighboring provinces...
...De-spit, all the ballads and western movies, its praise remains to be written...
...It was on the wsy to becoming an independent commonwealth...
...There is no one quite so upper as a member of the Canadian upper classes...
...Father Orlemanski will soon visit Pope Pius, on the invitatiot of the Vatican, to report on his trip to Stalin, rumor* aay...
...They expected a* aatertoinmeat, so jokes, at slsqaaaea...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 27
