The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN toldfTa* Hendrik Wlllem Vu Loon U oslebrst-¦ ing a birthday, his 62nd, or torn* »uch matter. The exact aerial ramber if unimportant. The nun acU like a key and...
...The problems of mtjlaailmii and dictatorship as they con dttiea political rsvslaUens and interfere with the cs-ttjjfjn^ef dmrsnnWbV regime, are touched with tgkmW^m^f^Jmi with genuine learning...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN toldfTa* Hendrik Wlllem Vu Loon U oslebrst-¦ ing a birthday, his 62nd, or torn* »uch matter...
...An old one of the Communist poppmr front period comes to mind, that starts off: Relax Yo Renovated Masses, Relax Y* Once Unhappy Throng, Salvation's in tkt middle classes, Tke President oan Do no Wrong...
...Peoce...
...8b amis enlarge our experience and increase our "Democracy for him is much more thsn politics...
...The storekeeper addressed me with solemn formality: "You are a white man (hat thinks enough of Negroes to atop by and talk with them...
...But I mat agein' to say one mors word 'boat thst...
...The hospitable host of the irjn took us out among the dunes and then deep into the pine forest...
...He did not promise us Gullsh Negress, but—at th* vary least—such Negroes as ws had never seen before...
...There I found haU-evdaeee Negro men sitting ahpgt th* fire, neat were younfer chap*, and when I was introduced they did not address me ss massah...
...Washington rumors have it that Eric Johnston will be offered the job of Secretary of Commerce to replace Jess* Jones . . . The merging of the Communist Worker* School sad the School for Democracy into a new school, now called the Thomas Jefferson school, was itemed here several weeks ago . . . • • • . Italian Notes /\NE of the most scurillous stories of the year was v on* in the Daily Worker last week—my friends say, why do you always get mad ? Don't you expect it —attacking a number of Italian exiles who returned to Italy as "Pro-Nazi Trotokyites...
...On Christmas day I learned that we were near Pauley's Island, one of old rice snd indigo islands thst have taken on a folk-lorish charm for all readers of Julia Pa tor sin's novels...
...His prsise goes to aristocracy of taste...
...He is unstopping our ears, opening our eyes, increasing our sensitivity...
...Of mind, of concept A large part of Ms Willing hss gone to the celebrstion of real artists, thinkers, doers as distinguished from the spurious, the pretsmsWrs...
...An intellectual time-machine endowed with all warmth and grace of the perfect friend and gentleman—that'* Hendrik Willem...
...The implication being that Papen is a good guy who wants to end the war and be nice...
...aPHpOBJi the thing fades from my mind I must set 'down some words about S South Carolina after neon...
...Sam Friedman of the Call comes through with a new one that ends in Its chorus: . t There it /Mat one Conflict, Raise the new flag with pride, Our motherland and Glory And Victory fur our tide...
...There ws* nothin' else for us to do...
...We staid on the ale plantation, and than mebbe ten or fifteen years afterward some o' the young folks got the idea of coin' somewhere else to work...
...8 in civilian clothing in Vienna, an indication that he no longer commanded the German force* on the southern front in Russia...
...The- Journal also feature...
...Miscellany THE Smith Committee investigating Government agencies is set to do a smear job on the FEPC...
...The women ef our party he called "missus...
...During that war Lin-eom's oaWsers bad come near...
...Forget the Internationale Bom* time ago, some friends of this column wrote a little vera* to a Walt Disney tune that starts off: The iCommits art a clevtr bunch Witk policies galore But when they think they've got it right Tkt line is changed once more...
...Tjhat is whet democracy means to htm...
...If anyone can make thaw stand still...
...Scarlot Sister Mary hss msde the Mullah Negroes a fabulous people for us...
...he is that one...
...It all depended on the kind of white folks...
...None of thew is a Trotskyite, all have long records of dangerous anti-fascist activity...
...The new Russian national anthem and <the dropping of the Internationale have produced a number of parodies...
...In between come volumes of history, biography, the arts, humor, philosophy...
...Among those fingered out were Albert Glance and Alberto TarchhTni, both leader* of the Guistizia and Liberta group, Bruno Zcvi young Italian leader who worked in the underground for several years, and Leo Weicxen-Juliani who suffered many years torture in Fascist prisons...
...There was only polite hand-clapping, never enough to halt the speaker...
...They is," he said slowly, "a kind of rough people that can't rightly talk American...
...This fellow is a veritable Paul Bunyan of letters...
...He cents to da math more than help men to equality at the ballot-box...
...Ah know's it Browder, Ah know's it Browder Ah know''t it Browder, Our Line's been changed again...
...A kindly of Acer ef engineers made arrange-' menu which a moot had our wop, and off wo wept The island proved to be only the length of a bridge away from the mainland...
...this land...
...The MG^r«Sit^%,w^ - a treatise on Democracy in a much deeper sense...
...The nun acU like a key and sometimes talk* like aa agrim aecr...
...If I was you I wouldn't bother much lookin' round fer •em...
...Hp the way, he seemed puzzled when I referred to tike War Between the State* or the Civil trar...
...They wsnted help which I had failed to give...
...Pointing eat thst extensive foreign investment will bo th* basis of "capitalist" prosperity, he said that this must not be endangered by "international or civil wars...
...for a German "Talley-* rand" are already bouncing dp in full force...
...India or other colonial problem* should be halted...
...It must have been ffher-man*s troop* on their way from Savannah to Columbia What ho utalli is that the slaves had been heeded lm*aV,ints the weed...
...The list start* with three books about Holland and ends with one about South America...
...Mo kum, tke tuns it done, Tkt words don't moan a thing Isn't that a silly song ' for anyone to sing f It readers hsve any old verse around, or seme Ldvy)Naihan verses of "Ah knows it Browder," well run it in this space...
...You net* that he called me "massah...
...I wanted be know what the slaves did whan they heard they were fate...
...He was engaged m conquering the jungle, pulling it np out of the ground and consigning it to the fire...
...After quite a bit ef explanation his brow cleared and he exclaimed, "O, you all mean Abraham Lincunr** war...
...Sons* of th* massahs was moan, and then it meant the club and the whip...
...A winding and primitive track through the pines led us to a bridge and scross to the mainland, and soon we were in converse with a Negro who expects to conch*** his owe hundredth year before the end of 1844...
...Fritz von Mannstein had been seen on Jan...
...No mtrre ahull Mart and Engelt Bind Us...
...My time with them waa short, for mine host was after me...
...We are powerfully worried about what is going to happen to us...
...He had a deep aversion to displaying them...
...They Onto were alt...
...That means that he was IS at Id years old when the War Between the Stat** began .and about 20 when he was released.from slavery...
...There was, evidently, something unworthy, something disgraceful about them, "Some black folks," be remarked, "was well enough off...
...Why, massah," he said, "we just went en worhin...
...Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT lit the Some the Whole World Over THE fact that the Communiste are dropping out as a political party and have cons* oat for fro* enterprise should occasion no surprise to readers of The New Leader...
...I have just counted the titles of 38 books on the flyleaf of the latest volume which bears his name...
...10.—Th* newspaper Aften-tidningen quoted a private' informant today as saying that Field Marshal Gen...
...About th* middle of the address, after ho had told them that socialism and the class struggle were being postponed, a few began to leave singly and in pair...
...It waa time to go...
...But there is a singular unity about him...
...We covet for him widened influence in his subtle and ceaseless csmpaign to win mankind for civilisation...
...Hen is how the story came into being: STOCKHOLM, Jan...
...lie holds the past, present snd future in solution in his mind...
...For 78 years he bus been a free man, but he still us** th* language of slavery...
...The most disgraceful part of Browder's speech is th* direct hint that all protest sbooj...
...This rod* labor he waa not unwilling to relinquish for a time to receive u* with singular grace and good manners...
...That'* what we call an eye-witness story...
...Oar Line's Been Chosyed Again MERE'S a suggested theme foe th* Browder speech the other night in which he came out against nationalization of coal, steel, railroads and bank*: We didn't like Monopoly's out Our Line's been changed again But now we're for Fret Enterprise Our Line's been changed again...
...AD that is lacking is a book on cookery, and that omission will probably be remedied in no time at all...
...Several month* ago we reported that th* Communist Party of Costs Rica had changed ite name to Popular-Democratic Party snd had sought the approval of the Catholic Church there...
...In other words, the natives in colonial countries must now be quiet snd be good boys...
...No little thing remains little when he writes about it Every event, every man, every idea radiates significance, connects with the stream of history in which we ourselves struggle, becomes s part of our own decisions and our own fate...
...But now thy're naught...
...So, on this anniversary, we on the sUff ef The New keeper wish Mm net meraiy mere years...
...But it took a lot of poking about in th* old man'* mind to bring any of them to th* surface...
...I had but a few momenta, and J can't recall what I said to him...
...he remembered well...
...Bat at our guide fairly pulled me out of the plsce, I had s feeling that those colored men were trying to hold me with their eye...
...On Monday, the Hearst Journal-American ran a hag* streamer across the tqp of its front page claiming "Himmler Fights Pspen...
...One of the persons to watch in the Italian political situation te Armando Bordighi, the founder of the Italian Communist Part/ who burped anti-SUlinurt and who has a wide and devoted following aowg...
...Weiczen it the character "Mario" in Arthur Koestier's Scum of the Earth, hie diary of a French concentration camp...
...Th* silver and the Negroes were both hidden at th* approach of the Yankee maurauders...
...From a "neutral sourer4 (the story was from Zurich quoting "Turkish diplomats") there cam* a story that Himmler had accused van Papen ef "trafficking with the enemy...
...So we had our bearings, and the talk could proceed...
...a story about the German Junker General Von Map*> stein, claiming that he was opposed to Hitler...
...In the uhaseUltl ranks you'll find us...
...Naturally we wanted to get tome picture* of the time of slavery...
...Wtun rtPfood, music, painting, arehi-teetara a* naarmors, be loves the best, despises every thing low, cheap, Uwdry...
...Borne twisting and turning along a winding track lined by Negro shacks led us to a country store and our last black Methusalab...
...They got some kind o' African language that they kin understand but no one else kin...
...But to him I owe en PTppriaili whisk J ehell net soon forget He led me in to th* store, which wa* run by his sen...
...And h* clamped his lips tight shot...
...Browder's speech, according to the New York Timet report, was not received too well by the faithful: "Fifteen thousand persons attended, the rally end not all of them stayed to hoar htr...
...The speech itself was not greeted with the volume of applause that has marked previous talks by Mr...
...Inevitably them was born the yen to go ha search of them...
...Italian workers...
...He hi much alive to nil the difficulties of government and is newer disposed to play down the mechanics of control...
...It's Woederfe/r THE rumors paving the way...
...From then until the end there wa* a steady trickle moving towards the exits...
...Stalin's sounded the tocsin rake Tour gel j topfii, I pfece...
...Whether he is writing of primitive man or Johann Sebastian Bach, he is doing pretty much the same thing...
...Browder at Communist rallies in the Garden...
...But of strange features and atmosphere it has no lack...
...The man covers every place, every age, every way of thinking, living.end having a good time...
...But when I asked about the Gullah Negroes, he seemed taken aback that I should ha interested in such no-count folk...
...It is probable that Bordighi will wreak havoc With the Italian Communist Party eh* win away its follower...
...Our pries is small, wa tarn be bought...
...Last weak the Communist Party of Cuba changed its name to Socialist-Democratic party...
...You will come cttke sPeeP fete) tppp JfPsaage of his in praise of seiSftarsnap...
...What he wants it a civilization in Witch a larger proportion' of humans live fully, deeply, sensitively...
...Ha want* much more than peese and prosperity and a chance to buy more cars and refrigerators...
...Browder finish hi* talk...
...About three month* age we reported that tha Communist Party of Canada had changed it* name to Lahor-Presjrassive and had attached th* CCF for its insistence on a far-reaching program of social reform...
...And . this week Earl Browder stepped into line...
...Black man number one wa* an ageless fellow who had long ago given up counting his years...
...The opening gun, following the usual pattern wss ss attack in the Patterson Washington Ttmet-HeraU...
...He laid claim to *njy 89 years, and hi* value aa a witness was vitiated by aa *vi*am*omnP< |g frsffi hfr .hmrwing...
...No one hot an author deeply versed in thst history of polities could have written sections of his h»tt bests, Tkt Lift and timet of Simon Bolivar...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 3
