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Socialists Score Churchill Plan for Dismemberment l»iNiiienil»«>riii«-iii Beeeatly Wiasrtea Churchill declared that' "tha Allan** CharUr d*ee mat apply te Garaiaay," implying that tha stoseh...
...G. R. Strauss, Great Britain...
...Both men have German names and both of them were obviously pro-Nazi...
...The ideal that "all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want" could not be fulfilled for any of us if we were to deny its application to scores of millions of Europeans and Asiatics...
...Lucy Middleton, Great Britain...
...These men are Tn>^kylataw* They are Bolsheviks who believe ia the Communist Manifesto...
...They call f*r a t*mpr*h*notv* political pssajrsni which will appeal t* tha Geraiaa people Th* atasataaat appeared Msy Zt) ia the British l.aber swjs*^ The Daily Herahl aa* ia Th* Maacheeter Maw that tha defeat *f Hitler and hie accomplice* ia' •a lengar merely certain but perhaps imminent, it ie a matter of argent necessity that socialist opinion should meat itself heard about th* great problems that will •sea us when tbe war eoaaea to an end, for on their solution nay depend the fat* of many generations...
...This country was founded aa a refute againat religious oppression...
...They fever a revolutionary rhaag* at oar American political and economic *<>.'¦ ly...
...Freedom from fear and want can be secured only by the collective pursuit of full employment and full production...
...Thst wss the aim, ss we read it, of the Atlantic Charter...
...Then we will become the victims of something which we have fostered snd which is a danger to the peace of tbe future...
...We mean ae socialists to go for beyond the promise of their Charter...
...trol of the whose community supersedes the will of monopoly capital...
...Leber's strength liee in unity and the power generated by people who get together aad work together...
...how can we deny these men the same privilege...
...Thst the Poles are entitled to redress for the cruel wrongs they have suffered w* should be th*first to proclaim, but to these injuries the proposed act of barter has no relevance...
...It was addressed to sll mankind...
...Nazis sre allowed to "apeak foolishly and without moderation...
...Victor ('ollancx, Great Britain...
...AH EDITORIAL— Freedom to Speak Foolishly On their individual merits the Hartsel and Baum-gartner cases may be open to debate...
...Thee* ends will be attained only when the e...
...Harold J. Laski, Great Britain...
...But recently the Supreme Court reversed the decisions of the lower courts and set the convicted men free...
...n. Brailsford, Great Britnin...
...Ix>uis de Brouckere, Belgium...
...Socialists Score Churchill Plan for Dismemberment l»iNiiienil»«>riii«-iii Beeeatly Wiasrtea Churchill declared that' "tha Allan** CharUr d*ee mat apply te Garaiaay," implying that tha stoseh atlfkt ha dismsmhsrsd...
...At tht critit of tht war we approve of the protection of the civil righto of ptrione guilty of disloyal ttntimenU...
...Hector McNeil, Great Britain...
...Tha undersigned are of different nationalities, but they are united by the same socialist faith, the same desire for liberty, democracy, and peace, and the same conviction that their ideal can be realised only by the anion of all the workers of the world, and thst nothing bat this union can prevent n return to economic disorder, to spiritual decadence, and to war...
...bat if labor will settle on certain fundamentals upon which they agree, they csn bring grest weight te bear...
...This goal we may hope to win only when we can unite in ita pursuit all peoples, peasants as well as workers, former enemies sa well as allies, throughout the world...
...Bat If the meanest sort of pro-Vail Is pre toe ted, one wonders why the coart has refaaad to review the case of tha 18 salon men ef Miaaeapolia who have been sentenced to prison terms under tha Smith-Connally Act...
...These proposals for the alienation and dismember ment of what is properly German territory awaken aur gravest fears far the future...
...Oscar Pollak, Austria...
...If Catholica will not work with Proteatants...
...If these principles were violated in respect of any people whatever, these noble hopes would not be realixed, and the sufferer would be humanity as a whole, and not Germany alone...
...The first clause of the Charter ("Their counti ies seek aggrandizement, territorial or other") means nothing unless it applies to the enemy peoples...
...Martha Levy, France...
...Every German understands that it is our resolve to destroy the military power of the Third Reich, to impose permanent disarmament on the aggressors, to punish the war criminals and bring the Nasi snd Fascist tyrannies to an end...
...They merely hsve social and politicsl theories which they expressed la words...
...Paul Soring, Germany...
...A. Ramos Olivelra, Spain...
...The law applies only to those who commit deeds contrary to our national Interest...
...New oppressions developed in oar coantry, however, largely because people who flee from oppression sre apt to be governed by fears and develop new oppressions...
...Lord Faringdon, Great Britain...
...They have formulated in tha present declaration their opinion on the German problem, which certain recent political incidents have posed in particularly concrete terms...
...No one contends that the Charter was addressed primarily to the enemy...
...There was plenty of proof that they had made fools of themselves with their mouths...
...We have a right to fed proud of a court which hsnds down such s liberal decision in the midst ef wsr...
...But if they are violated, whether at the expense ef Poles or of Germane, our advance into a happier future will be gravely imperiled...
...Yet the decision was received by the public without disspprovsl...
...Today we are so strong snd so powerful that what we do may become a pattern for the world as a whole, and yel there are other races in the world which outnumber as...
...If we do not learn to look upon persons as individuals and to believe that sll individual* have the same rights, we may wake up some dsy snd discover thst we hsve swakened dielike and discrimination against ourselves by practicing diseriatins-lion...
...Wemel Jokach, Czechoslovakia...
...The accused hsd been arraigned under the terms of the Espionage Act of 1917...
...and Protestants will not work with Jews, snd white people will not work with Negroes, there ere endless possibilities for creating dissension and making it impossible for troupe ef persona to get together aad act to their awn best advantage...
...Leonard Woolf, Great Britain...
...It is implicit in the declaration of the last clause that "all the nations of the world . . . must come to the abandonment of the use of force...
...J. F. Horrahin, Great Britain...
...While it is imperative that the struggle should end with e decisive military victory, our constant preoccupation must be to ensure a just and lasting peace...
...Tbe power opposed to labor is en the whole smsll In number, hat greet in influence...
...But if, aa we are now told, its principles do not hind the Allies in their dealings with the enemy peoples, we are left with no accepted statement of policy...
...Erich Ollenhauer, Germany...
...We have gradually done away with one if ear after another, however, and now we should remember the original ideals which men of vision had for this greet country of oars...
...Julius Braunthal, Austria...
...If, as is now proposed, indisputably German populations are to be annexed to Poland "by way of compensation" for loss of territory elsewhere—indeed, if any population whatsoever is to be made to change its national allegiance against its will—history warns us by many precedents that the reign of force will be perpetuated...
...Respect for human beings and for their righto to personal freedoma will make it very much more possible for as to unite and live together in peace and harmony as indi vidaals and will assar* us a more peaceful world in the future...
...The decision means that In the opinion of th* court the expression of un-American opinions—or even-opinions In favor *f a fascist country—does not eonttitute s crime...
...However, If they split into s number of smsll groups which csn be divided on* against the other, they will wesken themsclvea at once...
...Louis Levy, France...
...A group af iater-atf TV* storiohato la Laaataa have abaft** this aas»*r t* Charchlli...
...They intend on later occasions to give expression to their views on other essentisl problems...
...In the meantime no step should be omitted that may lessen Allied casualties snd shorten the sufferings of the enslaved populations...
...Signed) Karl Ausch, Austria...
...Whether the Germans insist on fighting to the last cartridge will depend on their conception of the future we propose for them as a defeated nation...
...It defined, as the preamble put it, "certain common principles" on which Ute President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom "base their hopes for a better future for the world...
...If pre...
...George Chester, Great Britain...
...It It easier for s few persons to sgree *n what they will do than for a great many...
...From the very earliest deys, Negroes and Jews joined in defending our land, which wss to them s land of promise, aa It waa a land where they might hope eventually for fall freedom...
...The elementary principles of democracy are not the end but only tha beginning of a good settlement...
...Until the other day we had supposed that <he positive purposes of the United Nations were embodied in the Atlantic Charter...
...Their adoption may frustrate all the efforts of German democrats to eradicate extravagant nationalism from their country...
...Paolo Treves, Italy...
...They hsve no sympathy with our enemlr or with Nazism...
...We seek, therefore, te svoid, alike in the conduct of the wsr and in the terms of the settlement, every csuse of embittorment...
...Karl (itemed, Austria...
...At whose expense, if not theirs, could we seek territorial aggrandisement...
...W* hope te see the close organisation of the economic life of an integrated Europe fer tbe common good of all its peoples...
...ae labor has to ceant on its Isrge membership to counteract the advantage which fewer people have who csa wield money and influence...
...Labor Unity and Racism ly f LiANOff ROOSEVELT It seeme to me that labor hae a great responsibility in the field of racial aad religious anderstanding...
...Justice Frankfurter, spesking for a unanimous court, proclaimed thst an American has the right to "speak foolishly snd without moderation...
...Hans Vogel, Germany...
...Both men had been convicted of talking like Nazis...
...The crucial second clause: "They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned" flows from the democratic outlook of the whole document...
...The negative purposes have been defined with the utmost clarity...
...It must not be discarded...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 27
