Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN We Need Press Freedom, Abroad and at Home Fig a pleasure to see an idea which was net forth in this column last summer voiced by writers with a...
...Moscow, Cairo and Teheran were not encouraging exhibits of Woodrow Wilson's ideal of "open covenants openly arrived at...
...Claims and Mrunter-ciahns confused them...
...to transfer its place of publication frora New York to Moscow...
...From now oh it will be easy to set them straight.' The Communists, on the authority of their own official statement, stand for nothing progressive...
...The ALP as an instrument el trade union members and libers...
...As long as If r. Hillman run* this organization—that is, up to November, 1944—the presence of these Communists fapeattiOM^of power may be .relatively wili msjT'txsa^ Commutes, once it is put in fewer, veoeld remain...
...They will not fight for greater social security, more control of industry, increased infiuenee of labor...
...Such a demonstration would be, for axem-PWofrHfmissiun for that excellent publication...
...Welles and VP...
...v**t> waptfte...
...Hillman which would place Coram unisto in control ef the proposed New York United Labor Party...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN We Need Press Freedom, Abroad and at Home Fig a pleasure to see an idea which was net forth in this column last summer voiced by writers with a wider audience than The New leader, even in Its improved new format, can hope to reach in the immediate future...
...Hillman and th* Communist* might be justified...
...The resolution adopted involves mating a fight for control of the party machinery In the April primaries...
...If the coming presidential election were to mark th* cad ef the wared, a episjmomlee with Mr...
...In ana country sfter* apetaer the C^ipiejalsta have .ttMN «h deceptnnj names and form* a|)F^lMi)e>*hmr18o one-cafi doubt jthnt toay >^^i|»d^ iroeh'tbe ehwtJto use ,the APmrg|^ thjTcouv \ In past prhaar?$ght» th...
...On* need only recall th* hat* 'Bsngslglis of Ooebbels, reinforced by the most preposterous and unscrupulous lies, against every country Which the Nasi regim* had designed as a forthcoming victim of its assault-and-battery tactics, then there were the made-to-order hymns of hate against Krmtei laapcb*d by the Fascist Journalists of Italy...
...the freest possible exchange not only of official bat of unofficial viewpoints between country and country and between people and people...
...A public opinion thgt had been subjected to totalitarian manipulation over a long period of time would not be very much impressed by the publication of the official statement of another government...
...Ex-Under-Secratary of State Sumner Welles, in one of his recent syndicated articles, has repeated an earlier suggestion of his own which looks to much the same end...
...The BotmVmt Messenger...
...The Fight for the ALP SINCE 1989 the American labor Party has been * dynamic combination of labori ten and liberal* championing an expanding New Deal program...
...while We are waiting for the Soviet authorities to permit the publication of at least on* freely critical Russian publication on Russian territory, there ate several things,, thst might be dons to set our own house in order in this matter of maintaining ideal standards of press freedom...
...Jtey*W%o shmeVin Japan in the ^coukj ee* th* adtlepla\a>i*' *,fieiuo,nstioasusU *y*mm*jJp»J)y !*^fpMoa mJahwSs^^ ^rohls^ phn^y?co»%e?5rm c^laJfJm^fS tachnieWentu>ldual and collective chnramer esses-¦1ii*tk^h*jip4miiittiiii of iasagrnary irtddsmt* and its abuse of^Pbreign political leader* on the eve of it* territorial grab* in the Baltic area, during 1939 and 1940...
...The C oof rail* *f Press RECENT history is full of examplos of the indissoluble association of freedom of speech, press and expression ami the maintenance of pesos...
...Jtat xapipber* of (Im.aWeuYe Committee declare that they are not opposed to the CIO Political Action Committee...
...The Hew lajauhn-jsautssBSsm are supremely interested in the 1W4" election...
...Mm ¦News" of Teheran IT would be a singularly stupid or naive person who ¦ would accept Articles 118-183 of the Soviet Constitution ss s factual description of the state of civil liberties in Russia...
...Fur this great fight the men erai women whs bui)t the American labor Party want to preserve R - and'-n$papAJMV - . * * * The sudden change of the Communist line, gives the regular ALP members the prospect of success In the primary fight...
...fRaymond Clapper, a very consistent suppsptst of President Rooaswelt's foreign end domestic peahens, struck a well justified note of apprehension m\ad shs-tapta whan he wrote, after Cases *a«t»*hii*wt "There is something just a hit dHq^ieting in the atmosphere of oriental' vanito end aetoganos that seems to hang over these meetings, in the martial way in which these meeting* are carried off, with barbPd wire barricade*:apTbax«n«*e against the press, and with some of the civilian political heads of states wearing military uniforms...
...The whole plan and purpose of the Communist crowd becomes so clear that the most innocent can hardly he deceived...
...There can, be no informed international opinion to beck Up an international organisation unless means are provided for...
...If the completely.negative attitude toward the press at Moscow and Teheran could seasonably bo attributed to Stalin's totalitarian influence, equally rude and contemptuous treatment was meted out "to the prmie at Cairo, where the arrangemens were enirely in Anglo-American hands...
...There are many constitution* which are a caricature of the actual condition* of political Ufe in the countries which supposedly live under them...
...As a result of the author'* vigorous protest most of these tendencious insertions Were eliminated...
...It was the possibility for representative* of the press, the eye* and ears of the people, to comment intelligently and freely, subject "to genuine military security considerations, on t he background of conference* Which may affect millions of human live* and the fate of the whole world for many psoado...
...citizen* would be ended...
...For thst erection and for the crucial times to follow we want a free and independent Labor Party, open to all trade unionists and progressives...
...And Mr...
...Some scheme of drastic international limitation of armaments must be inaugurated after the war unless the world is to face the prospect, ten or twenty or thirty years hence, of being almost literally blown up as a result of the inevitable war that is the invariable end of an uncontrolled arms race...
...Welle* shows less sophistication than might have been expected from a man of his wide international experience when he suggests that constitutional guarantee* of hi* "three freedoms" would be adequate...
...f> * * * Am Instance of Oficlol Co star ship WHAT waa at stake in these conferences waa, of course, not the personal feelings of the journal ists...
...One hopes that this sort of thing itoes mot occur frequently...
...But after tiw election, we shall go into the greatest struggle the American labor movement baa ever fought...
...One would have to be an optimist of the Dr...
...The term* "left" and "right" were meaningless...
...Before the Soviet Up too could be a very convincing signatory of a* charter of international rivil liberty there would have to be some practical demonstration ef change in it* administrative practices...
...lafapmann are on the right track when they emphasize the importance of international press freedom...
...Another incident that recently came to my attention reflects a gnv* deration f^m proper standards of freedom of tk^pree...
...To accent such an arrangement, the committee member* say, would be treason to the thousand* of men and Women who have built it with their contributions and' their patient labor...
...u» tin* battle* of the next three months...
...On Wednetviay the Executive Committee of th* party decided to oppose the Hillman, plan...
...Tot what real confidence can there b* in th* vahrUi lance of such a schema, by a country where there is no posstbliry of eritiaawn of th* government by the yadpist , .sjpsr...
...But their practical recommendations fall short of the needs of the situation...
...To preserve this vital instrument w* shall go into the primary fight with,' every ounce of our energy...
...In making thi* decision, it represented the overwhelming sesrtunent of the membership...
...Mr...
...After^ *drjd» had 1*»*7tob*demtofc* nwhor received a eft.&ep a nnreeeutattv* efeb* m&gaxine, who said that the djrT wfihed to IMse certain changes in it The changes were read over the telephone ami the author was shocked and indignant They were Stalinite propaganda of, the crudest kind, including, one statement to the effect- that "the Baltic States wanted to return to the besom of Mother Russia" and a wholly inaccurate assertion that the Baltic Republics owed their wtistence to the Treaty of Versailles...
...One Of the most disgusting techniques of the tolslitsrian State is the simultaneous gagging and doping of the nasals under its control...
...What they are opposed to is the maneuver of Mr...
...UlwraLinentbers of the party were puttied...
...Gaud variety to say that such a possibility was afforded at ?fifio or st Teheran, where, as Dorothy Thompson wrote, "seldom have so few kept so much from so many...
...What I suggested was that all the United Nations Governments, amassing- the sincerity of their professions of devotion to the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter, should guarantee the maintenance within their frontiers of complete liberty of speech, press, assembly, elections and conscience...
...He has suggested that, as a condition of adherence to an international organisation, a nation would have to shew that its eitisens are guaranteed freedom of religsun, of speech and information "by its nationalswutrtofkm.*' Walter Uppmann, commenting on the Welle* papa nasi, soggasto that, as a minimum, ha be guaranteed perhaps by formal agreement, each government should undertake to make the official ¦tsturnouts of other state* freely available to its citizens...
...And...
...Whether the initiative csuM from some employee of the OWI or whether the editors of the magazine submitted the article voluntarily, there is po excuse ox justification for this kind of censorship emdjhaught control...
...He ha* arbitrarily named a list of candidates for the new Stat* Committee, a Bet Which he asks the ALP to accept as a basis for "compromise.'' Among his names are those of all th* Communist leaders who have fought for years to control the party and, strangely enough, other name* of Communists' who have heretofore shewn no interest in the party or its pnrp a *e*,t TtT Ihaku pose* with the Hillman forces would involve accepting a state committee which he has picked...
...The preservation and expansion of democracy will be at (take...
...They can no longer claim that they represent th* interests of workers and liberals...
...Kent Cooper, of the Associated Press, has raised th* important and timely subject of the relationship between peace and the freedom of the pram to function in the international sphere without censorship...
...The fate of the party will b* sOtled...
...A wall, known writer on Intbrnational affairs had contribute an article on Rtu.We w»r aim., to a magamh* of large etrvoletiftn...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 3
