The Choice Before Us
The Choice Before Us ThK widely bally booed Republican and Democratic conventions have changed nothing in the political set-up which faces the American people. The picture has been developed with...
...For eight hours my informants described to me the deportation of 200,000 Jews from such towns as Munkacs, Ungvar and Beregssasz in Northern 'Hungary and the Carpathian vicinity, and also from former Yugoslav provinces of Batchka, Baranja and Msdjumuriye and the former Rumanian districts in Transylvania...
...A letter written by a Batchka Jew and smuggled •¦t by friendly Hungarians—which I read—stated that he is with other Jewish friends at AusschwiU in Silesia awaiting death...
...F OR (he past several months Lee* Dennen, New Irmirr con...
...Their candidate may be young, but theii ideas are old...
...Jn talking to its readers The New Leader does not have to pull any punchea or make any pretenses...
...They really believe—in 1944, not in 1896—that if the people refuse to interfers through the power of their government, that if w« just leave everything to the leadors of big business-then everything will run along smoothly and all out problems will be solved...
...So we shall continue to support Roosevelt...
...No matter who is President from then on, we shall win the war in much the same way and at about the aame time...
...The answer is that Roosevelt and the Democrats give the best basis for hope...
...Sow tee must ekoote...
...The men wore interned at Batchkatopola...
...But as the campaign goes on, the addresses will be forgotten and the platforms neglected...
...If President Roosevelt is reelected they will have increased influence in Washington...
...The speeches that were made and the platforms that were drawn up have their interest...
...The debates about particular planks often cast a lurid light back into the political chambers where things are decided...
...But by January, 1946, the main decisions will all be made...
...The real question is: Which man and'which patty will manage beat for the American people in foreign and domestic affaire from 1945 to 1949...
...In it the liberal and label forces are powerful enough to put up a stiff fight These forces were present in Chicago...
...He is working under the direct orders of Gestapo Standartenfuehrer Eichman of Vienna fame, a close friend of Himm-l«r...
...It is the doctrine of inertia, the doctrine of faith in corporation supermen...
...400,000 Jews Killed in Hungary, Dennen Cables By LEON DENNEN ISTANBUL, July 18.—Close to 400,000 Hungarian Jews have been deported since April to extermination camps in Poland, particularly to AusschwiU in Silesia...
...These men were charged by the Hungarian general staff with mak-ing Hungary Jwdtnitin (free of Jews...
...that these are not what matters...
...They were even proud of theii conservatism...
...A similar fate befell 10,000 Jews from the former Yugoslav provinces of Batchka, Baranja •ad Medijumuriye...
...Tm New Leader has hope for the Democratic Party pre-ciaely because it is disunited...
...The picture has been developed with regard to a few detail*, but the main outline* remain as they were sketched in months ago...
...We are not fooled—and our readers are not fooled—by what happened at either convention...
...Intelligent voters have the same sort < f pioblems which they have had to face in previous elections...
...But Harry Trumas) is also a liberal, and the only hope of defeating reaction, of maintaining New Deal gains, and of a possible new New Deal, domeatic and foreign, lice with a Democratic victory in November...
...The Republicans putting on their dress-parade in Chicago proved all over again that they constitute th« conservative party of this country...
...These ramps also included non- ] Jewish anti-Nazi trade unionists, liberal lawyers, journalists and professors, lip to June 15, no one knew the destination of the deportees, but on that day direct information reached informants that these and other Jews numbering 181,000 have all been put to death by poison gaa at the AusschwiU death camp...
...We have the choice between Roosevelt and Dewey, between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party...
...Herbert Browned, Governor Dewey's campaign man ager, makes a great point of Democratic disunity...
...The Choice Before Us ThK widely bally booed Republican and Democratic conventions have changed nothing in the political set-up which faces the American people...
...We And ourselves in the daughter house of AuaschwiU, where we are awaiting death...
...Both were run by hard-boiled politiciana who are out to win and not ovei-particular about the method of winning...
...They still hare complete faith in the folklore of capitalism...
...These facta were confirmed to me today by unusually reliable sources which have just arrived in Istanbul from Hungary, but whose names, for security reasons, cannot be revealed...
...He writes: 'Wir b*fiud»n *»• t'n dim Vtrnichfiuigtlaper Auitchwitz, wo wir «•* Tod erudite...
...gathering facts on the extermination of Jews...
...All this is symbolixed by FDR's abandonment of Henry Wallace, foremost spokesman in the Admin-is!eration of New Deal liberalism...
...Whili the world of the future is being molded, forward-looking, intelligent, liberal men and women will be sitting in Washington with President Roosevelt...
...They takt for granted that voters have been stricken with amnesia...
...On the night of April 10, the above-mentioned German and Hungarian Gestapo leaders ordered all Jews to report far forced labor on the following morning at 4 »• m. The order stated: "All Jews remaining home Will be shot...
...Endre Laszlo, Commissar for Jewish Affairs, and Baky Laszlo, Undersecretary of the Interior...
...They appear not to know that the doctrine* oi Grant and of McKinley have been tried in the fires of 1929...
...By May 15, all Subotitsa internees were deported to AusschwiU and the notorious Polish crematorium •A Belrzec...
...This report was cabled from Istanbul...
...The Hungarian leader of the extermination detachment is the notorious Oedoen Martinides, chief •f the Budapest secret police...
...That makes all the difference...
...Along with Hungarian police officials they immediately seised all hotels and residences on Svabhegy Mountain near Budapest, organising there special Jewish extermination quarters...
...the men from Batchkatopola were al-Mady deported in April...
...The letter also atatea that the Batchka Volktdtut$ckt (Germans) were particularly brutal in their treatment of the Jews, while the Hungariana were kind but unwilling to take the least risk to help...
...But our support ia qualified...
...fributing editor, has been in the Middle East on a relief mission...
...They were opee and honest about it...
...With either candidate in the presidential chair we shall win the war...
...The German Army which entered Hungary last March brought with it J»dtnvtrnichtung (Jew-killing) experts especially trained in Poland...
...It ia possible, of course, that a change-over might slow up ¦ome decisions...
...It is possible that installing new top men in the War and Navy Departments would cause the national war engine to stall briefly...
...Which candidate and which party will do the least harm and the most good if put in charge of affairs in Washington...
...The voters know...
...The New Leader does not reach its decision on the basis of military considerations...
...We have reservations, due to the atrong influence of the southern bourbons and the northern undent xratic Democratic bosses, the appeasement of reactionaries by Roosevelt, and hit abandonment, we hope temporarily, of New Deal reforms...
...Hiatorj means nothing to the Republican salesmen...
...Also participating are Bela Imredy, Nazi-appointed Minister of Economics...
...The women and children among those assembled were sent at once to a camp at Subotitsa...
...The first to be 'deported on German occupation were the Jews from Northern Hungary and those confined in forced labor camps operated by the Hungarian Army...
...Following the German occupation, some attempted to flee to strongholds of Mikhailovich and Tito but were thot down by the Qeatapo...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 31
