The Home Front
Anthony, mr .
The Home Front Formula for mr .Anthony r\ONT believe those horror teles about travel in wartime. Long ago before Hoin n. night trip was quick and quiet, neat e>nd efficient— i.ui dull....
...Others have returned...
...If so, it is a grave business where the caprice of one man can bar magazines from the mails...
...Old stun*, too...
...Here is a tentative potshot at a thought...
...Perhaps she does, also...
...its writer...
...Walker barred the magazine View...
...he feels that this flying-field is doing a good job, that the Army aa a> whole it doing a food Job, that the war is going well and wfU go better...
...My impressions are much too fresh and varied to write about...
...They quarrel...
...New continents of the imagination swam into my ken...
...This magazine, almost completely non-political, is a serious art and literary magazine championing surrealist tendencies in art...
...It was here that I discovered the effect »f the war on our literature...
...That was a while back, but the reply hasn't been forthcoming...
...This attempt to gag the press by insisting that the material be carried but the informant be shielded is u dangerous tactic, just as dangerous- as the half-truths on labor contained in General Marshall's statement...
...also excluded were the I'a...
...The failure of stabilization conies from defeatist groups^ fitin Kcononnc Stabilization Director Vinson, from everywhere ei-ccpt straight from the horse's mouth...
...Somehow in the turmoil of battle a flash of insight comes...
...For .several days after the statement appeared, the War Department denied that any press conference had taken place...
...An officer stopped by my chair just as we all stood to welcome 1944 with the national anthem...
...You board the Silver Meteor or the Gulden Glimmer or the Aluminum Lightning at least you do if you are headed south and you find yourself comfortably enthroned on slant mg plush in the midst a gay society...
...Understanding which was not vouchsafed in nightclubs Pomes quickly as the hero's ship goes down or his airplane goes up in flames...
...This same girl has been rampaging through fiction ever since I can remember...
...The long night stretched before us, but under bright lights and with reading and talk...
...Holiday Among Flier* fJHRISTMAS EVE, New Year's Eve and the days in between I spent with fliers and the men who do all the necessary things aroupd a flying-field...
...Its contributors include world-famous artists Max Ernst, Yve* Tangyu, Pavel Tchelitchew and others...
...Girl meets boy...
...The Daily Worker defends Marshall's statement because "the chief damage lies in the attempt to promote the incident as a means of pulling labor away from the Administration...
...At least a division of such Nordic guys have marched down the pages of romance during recent years...
...But dear readers may proceed with perfect confidence to the happy ending...
...Somehow the marital cocktail loses flavor...
...They are," he remarked, "all rarin' to go or happy as hell to be back...
...All that I can report is that most of the tales in both the pulps and the slicks are neatly tailored over one framework...
...The women move further ,„ faster than the men in cultural amalgamation H« ing millions from north of the Potomac living in ti South must have effects that will go i...
...Washington sources predict that Hurry Hopkins will be given a foreign assignment with the new lute' Allied Commission for Europe...
...Differences sre good...
...Down there among fighting men I had a feeling that the wnr is going well...
...Much has been written on this topic by innocent highbrows...
...The chief damage to labor is not the black headlines that appeared on every front-page of the country, smearing labor...
...Millions may die, but it is not in vain...
...let son - McCoimick papers...
...Chichi and Rick get their bomb-sights on each other...
...There is nothing pornographic or lewd in the magazine, but the phjBsitine mind of a Democratic politician can't 9e» anyHmng* else, and so the magazine is barred...
...Hitler and Hirohito may not yet be beaten, but the enemies of connubial bliss have been forced to unconditional surrender, 1 thought that serious readers of The New Leader would be glad to know that war has its uses...
...I listened every time I had a chance—to flying officers, to physicians, to engineers...
...Thu is a serious blow to culture] freedom, one much more important than the widely-heralded Esquire case...
...And then, those whi have attacked Marshall are attacked by the fiadj Worker, for the article continues: YTbese grounds an challenged by a number of trade unionists who han consistently supported the President's wai {silicic...
...She is slenderized, has tawny glints in her hair and green flecks in her eyes...
...The men have as many sorts of duty as you could possibly think of...
...At the New Year's Eve party there may have been a hundred men present -with, of course, their wives or sweethearts...
...to the conference and their papers had to pick up the story from the wire services, trusting them as far as possible...
...It goes like this...
...Sometime ago, The Nation ran a pro-Soviet, anti-Mikheilovtich piece by Ralph Bates with the footnote that another view would l>e presented shortly...
...Among the "liberals" who have been invited are prominent fellow-travelers Paul Robeson, William Gaiimor, Elisabeth llawes, and others • • • I nlfoire VV.Ha.e TPIIK slapdown of Willkie by Moscow, after an ex " tremely favorable article, because Willkie had simply raised the issue of the Polish borders and Baltic territories, is the most important clue to Rus sia's high-handed intentions of annexing those territories without regard to the people's wishes and in disregard of the Atlantic Charter...
...They are miserable...
...The Army has set up a complicated social unit at every camp or field...
...i You serious sociologists will be amused at ts schemes for reform which were expounded to me...
...Homeward bound on the train, I bought every newspaper I could get my hands on What I read made me »i*h I had resnained aaeong the flier* I «»¦ in a completely different world, a world filled with criticism, doubt and misgiving...
...William Green ami Ifiilij Murray issued strong statements denouncing (ienera Marshall's assertions both for their untruths and thi attempt to whip up an anti-labor hysteria r allium Eddie Rickenbacker, leading lalxn baiter issued a statement endorsing General Marshal for President...
...Political life should be different, must be dif-ferent^ But there was about the newspaper utterances which welcomed me back to civilian life a stridency, a lack of balance, a bitter partisanship which hit me in the face...
...Before we had penetrated more than an hour toward South Carolina on our holiday jaunt we were calling our good companions by their first names For me the chief result of this itinerant good-neighbor policy was the open mg of a new chapter in my literary experience...
...They are convalescing or recuperating...
...It's because labor was passive politically that President Roosevelt issued his vicious Executive Order on August^Sl implementing the Smith Comially act, laying out a blueprint for busting unions in case of strike...
...What we need to do in the South is to gi rid of malaria and the hookworm...
...He says: "Let's get t'hell out of here," and the next day they are married...
...Discussion is good liut doubts about our whole way of doing things are bad There ia about our pi sent nal lonal debates s sot i , of insensste quarrelsomeness that the debaters would be ashamed of if they had any sense of our national i...
...Sure it is necessary to support Roosevelt now, but the labor movement has got to exert its pressure and make its demands the way the business groups have done on the Administration...
...How the pseudo liberal press will treat this comedy of'errors is also an important clue to their political honesty...
...I should say that 77.1% of American fiction employs this formula...
...There were, of course, complaints...
...PM's account of the Willkie affair did not quote the Pravda writer to the effect that the Baltic States and Polish borders were a Russian internal affair and were nobody else's damned business...
...Newspapers that might have "broken" the name of the person making the statement were not even caller...
...He enlists...
...I now impsrt my discovery free of charge...
...But in all my talks I didn't hear a single man utter a doubt as to the basic soundness of the •rgnnksatioa...
...Army life has the efficiency of central control...
...To their surprise, even after such an idyllic preparation, life is less than perfect...
...Not one word of disagree omit The Daily Worker says: "those groups wht are disposed to dispute the military leader's claia do so on three grounds...
...Ne matter what • pa»a ia 4pteg...
...Sparks fly...
...He is tall, straight, blond—would be too handsome were it not for a slight scar at the comer of his mouth—or some other intriguing mark on some visible part of his anatomy...
...Thus, the New York Post, the Chicago S«n, and PAf did not know of the press conference until it was over...
...General Marshal/, the Press 4n<f the Communists THERE are a number of interesting slants to the * "anonymous" attack made on labor by General Marshall last week...
...include Andre Breton, Nicholas Galas, Charles Henn Ford and other avant-garde writers...
...There is s rspid ra-ta-ta...
...PM led off this week by giving the story 160 words on Page 7 The whole of Page 2 was devoted to an editorial by Max Lerner wbich claims that the Poles have a long history of oppression, and are anti-Russian...
...Congressional reactionaries deflenda Marshall's attack...
...And the Daily Workei write a weasel-worded defense of General Mai shall • In the Daily Worker story (ou January 4, aftet the statements by Green ami Murray had appeared] there is not one word of criticism of Genera Marshall's statemvnt...
...You would climb into a sleeper, be rocked late ........-i.*"- by the soft aad rolling rhythm of the rails, rise, shave, eat east—when the train (topped sally forth all brushed and bueineeslike in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit or whatever metropolis it hspiiened to be The whole process was private, secretive, unsocial, practically surreptitious...
...But when my train stopped at a certain station in South Carolina my investigation came to an untimely end...
...The war — in addition to remaking the political structure of the world - has given a new formula to romance...
...Results are not attained by puMic discussion...
...The Nation, incidentally, has not printed any editorial comment on the Supreme Court refusal to test the constitutionality of the Smith Sedition Act in the case of the 18 Troskyites who went to jail last week...
...Soon our resources were organized We had a lending-library in full operation...
...World's may be lost, but romance is saved...
...F the politics of the past ten years has taught labor anything it is that when they've been tied to the tail of anything, they've been kicked in the face...
...From here on there are slight variations...
...Some of the young fliers have had their training and are waiting for orders to go east or west to battle fronts...
...For labor there are several lessons, particularly the statement by White House press secretary Stephen Early that President Roosevelt "had lien thinking along the same lines " • * ? 'THIS episode revealed, too, the anli lul»n iole „• * the Communist Party...
...The effect of the war comes later...
...Also scheduled to go abroad is David Niles, White House secretary and contact man with labor and liberal groups...
...They part...
...A Army physician said: "You economist* aie talkie nonsense...
...It stems from the hate of »tu_ veil, hate of the New Deal, hat* of reform, halt « trade unions After only • weekts time spent hi quit, different aliuoepbere, 1 return with a taste that there ia g deep schism ia our national life, „, that cannot he sidestepped...
...A master pamta saw the future in different terms: "By God " crunta he, "what they need down there is paint' Inside and Out By MUrray EVERETT Hiltman and the AIT C1DNEY fill 1 Mas has created a United Labor Committee to Unify the American Labor Party A state committee slate has been presented to the right-wing, which will refuse to accept...
...The most important was the attempt to evade responsibility for the statement, and yet get the propaganda point across to the public...
...Perhaps later on they will sift down in my mind and assume more manageable shapes...
...The ii/fcrence ia partly natural and necessary...
...eiT e * foe All oed Us 411 IN South Carolina I heard northern children »* "Where are you all gofn' this evenin'*" Linguj tieally the Mason and Dixon line grows more fait as the war goes on...
...Then something happens...
...or of the sacrifices being made by millions of men and women...
...Nothing new here...
...But more important ami almost completely un-noticed is the fact that Mr...
...The ,.» ex wachina is none other than Mars...
...ill" why did the White House back the incident...
...If this were a doctoral dissertation, I should give exact figures...
...But now all that - changed...
...Both men have been targets of the Southern Democrats and if they go abroad it will be another indication that Roosevelt is appeasing his reactionary right...
...Each contributed according to his means and enjoyed our common goods according to his taste For my pisir gifts of New York afternoon papers and a copy of The New Yorker, I drew a rich mine of romance...
...it's a strange A lice-in-Wonderland world that us /'inly Worker creates, where (he left hand never knows there is a right hand...
...The Communists, however, interested only in K"8 sia's foreign policies, are ready to sell out labor in their own double-dealing compromises • * t Formatter Walker mud the Muses /\NE reason why Postmaster General Walker bar» red t'squire trcm second-class mailing privileges, after a committee of deputy postmaster-generals had approved the magazine, is that he was annoyed over the tremendous publicity the magazine had gotten out of the case...
...Nor did Lerner state that the present Polish Government has no connection with the pre-war regime and is dominated by the Peasant Party, a small-farmers group, with three socialists • Hid two Jews in the cabinet...
...A happy reunion is quickly arranged...
...As part of his move, HUlmau has sent out a flock of letters to various liberals inviting them to sponsor the United ALP Committee...
...And it is here that the war comes in...
...True Romances, Real .Love Mori**, Fiendish Fiction led me unresisting into a world 1 never made...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 2
