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The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN The Evil That Men Do ~w AM more than ever exasperated by the hypocrisy | of editorial writers. Wendell Willkie was a transparently honest, straight shooting...
...had won the Democratic Party, the same kind of deals, compromises and expedients wouldn't have to be made...
...They wsnt the Catholic vote...
...Wolfe praised, it'" one ojf the "great books of our hemisphere and time and remarked that "the translation teems to have bets a real labor of love, reproducing admirably the ruggd exuberant style—a recreation- rather than a tranil*' tion...
...The news of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world organization fell rattier flat because of the continual leaks to James B. Reston of the N. Y. Times...
...Now death gives us release...
...If I didn't learn anything from that business, I'd want to die...
...The author of that "silly article," David Zaslavsky, last week was given the Order of Lenin for his meritorious work in Soviet journalism...
...Told him the bill, unsupported by Republicans, would give the administration a beautiful black eye, both Smith and Connally being solid Democrats.' The reply was in even, colder turkey: 'If you, Willkie, sat down with Phil Murray and asked him to write hia own ticket, Phil...
...Willkie precisely as it was set down more then s year ago...
...Johnston, you really didn't expect Mr...
...And the latest word is that the White House has postponed final derision on that issue until after election...
...He continued: 'I know what the set-up is...
...Ii some places it said the poll should be taken withn i*0 <lays of the convention, in other places, after i>0 days The Board voted to postpone the issue until its nex sitting which is sometime in November...
...Jonathan Stout in lsst week's New Leader scooped the N. Y. Times snd the nation's press on his story of the Administration's decision to postpone the revision of the Little Steel Formula until after election...
...With the support of the liberal-labor group I can push the Republican Party anywhere.' "On the New Deal generally Willkie was shsrp...
...You m.'ght as well tryto win Harry Hopkins away from th* White House.' "Willkie insisted that when the parties foal that there ia 'aa political vote market among labor ass, that allegiance te unswerving cause hell or high water . . . labor te teat...
...Harris is now with the Cherne Research Institute of Americs...
...Bristled when one of us brought up the imperialism issue with a remark to the effect that Willkie's One World Might ha tha manifesto for a new Americas bueiaees expansion: 'Na asaa te more dead set against imperialism than I! I just don't see where aayhagy can mat such aa idea...
...for it te just about one of the worst organisations in the United States!' "While criticizing the Administrations foreign policy, especially the de Gaulle-Giraud mess, Willkia" wat rather gingerly in kit treatment of Roosevelt...
...Some months ago he stated in »« column that he wouldn't review Rhea Dulles's AW '* Teheran because the hook bad been praised by Bertram D: Wolfe in the Sunday Herald Tribune...
...It wat quite a tilly article...
...Why not...
...He insisted on its illiberslism...
...He is a fine man," Statin said...
...It cotiM"1 be any good, in that rase, he said...
...But I don't know whether Mr...
...The Administration tolerated Vichy because Admiral Leahy formulated the policy, and the same calculations entered in...
...Eu|*M Lyons' new magazine Pageant will appear on the ne*»stands November 1. • « • Dilemma of...
...The plan was announced Monday afternoon, but the Monday morning rimer hsd an almost verbatim account...
...Rubber costs 5 cents a pound, but a fixed price of 20 cents...
...What have we got in the Republican and Democratic parties...
...There is anqther story with an amusing1 footnote...
...ssid Stslin...
...The motivating reason for the postponement, some insiders believe, was the fear that the membership would vote to revoke tee no-strike pledge if the Administrstion did not revise the Little Steel formuls...
...You see his office hat not yet granted my request...
...my regards...
...or will not control.' He wasn't clear, when asked, ss to whether, if he won the Republican Party from the machine aa F.D.R...
...Vigorously stated opposition to all empire theories...
...Give him...
...It takes six years to create a new party...
...Willkie invited us^ up to see him we never knew...
...Johnston stated that Willkie had asked to be remembered to Stalin...
...When we returned to our office Melvin Lasky wrote this record in the fi»i hi of rough and disconnected notes...
...I looked into it...
...Talked political turkey to him...
...But journalists who did their utmost to belittle Wendell Willkie living are now exhausting the dictionary upon Wendell Willkie dead...
...There is no one in sight to take bis place...
...a Littrary Hatchet Man S.AMUEL PUTNAM, Daily Worker reviewer, is • crochety fellow...
...The membership poll had been ordered by the con venlion after motions both to retain and rescind th pledge had been defeated...
...Richard Armour, whose witty and delightful verse appears regularly in these pages, has just finished a second book of light Verses...
...I suppose he is mad at ua now because of what our newspaper Pravda said about him...
...A hard, realistic note...
...Our pledge of silence was a painful one to keep, for there was plenty of dynamite in what Mr...
...H e would—wouldn't he?—have in run a different'sort of campaign next time...
...Wendell Willkie was a transparently honest, straight shooting citizen...
...Tha Chip* Fall Where That/ May DwiGHT MACDONALD, editor of Politics, has tV ciilcd to sit out politics this November...
...And here a faraway look with a quiet smile crept into his eyes...
...LaTER, talking about foreign policy, he returned to the same note...
...The President it 'in power, and with a party whirs he cannot control...
...Of course, it does...
...Didn't look as big as he should, possibly because he hunches his shoulders...
...Asked about big a estates organisations, he can* eat with fraak aad start Hag •utepokeaess: Tke National Aaseeistien of Manufacturers is right shout once ia Iffy times . . . aad wben it is right I ia aorry...
...A few passers-by turned snd glanced backward at him as he swung along...
...An article in the forthcoming issue^of his magazine explains why he will not vote for Norman Thomas...
...Even the most ordinary sort of scribbler ought to be enough impressed to have some regard for, the decencies in writing of him...
...The elevator girl amiled a bit proudly as Willki* stepped in talking with us, and she handled the ear self-consciously as if the only other passenger wen a sort of audience before which the was giving a performance...
...Positive statement for the elimination of colonial systemsincluding, of course, India, Malaya, etc...
...The translator was—you guessed it—Stmufl Putnam...
...Seemed energetic without nervousness...
...Busincsr, international trade, investments to go on—but that does not mean that the social and political life of the backward peoples need to be dominated in the old way...
...Labor mast get ia a pealtie* where all candidates compete in bidding for support.' • • ? Tar* Old Jolopie...
...Johnston told Stalin that American correspondents were anxious to inspect the new industrial plants ir the Urals and that he would like permission to' tak< four correspondents with him there...
...Down in Washington I spoke to one of the congressmen there, an influential Republican...
...but with the NAM and Chamber of Commerce instead of with the Catholica and the Southern Bourbons...
...convention regarding the wording of the resolution...
...Willkie had to say about the National Association of Manufacturers, shout big-business imperialism, and about labor in politics...
...Interruption: 'No specific details ? why, I've been more specific than anybody on foreign matters . . ..on a joint war council now, on working with Russia now...
...We walked along Broad Street to Wall and left him shouldering his way alone past the SabTreasury Building...
...But what csn you do...
...But DannyBell, Melvin l-asky and William Bohn were received in his spacious law offices on July 20, 1043...
...on the elimination of empires...
...The publisher is Bruce Humphries of Boston...
...Pwklmt Gaai fa Moscow In Eric Johnston's account of his talk with Marsha Stalin, in the current Reader's Digest, there is a gor geous story that bears repeating...
...Weil, he'd want to battle people like the Colonel every day of the week, campaign or no campaign.' "On the issue of labor, Willkie insisted grievous mistakes are being made—by the labor people and from the point of view of their own interests...
...Molotov, who had been looking at me, shifted his eyes to Stalin and said quickly and firmly, "I always approve of Marshall Stalin's decisions...
...They've got one chance . . . and that's to stand aside and let the bids come to them.' Referred to success of Parnell in using Irish bloc as balance of power...
...Remarked that he agreed with Willkie's foreign policy although he does not pretend to know it in specific detail...
...Oa ftohker Imperlollsm *'Hk talked conversationally at his desk, a little under his breath, muffling the occasional 4-letter, unprintable word . . . and orated, with gestures, when standing up...
...A til ling reward for "silly writers...
...The interview was to be strictly off the tecord...
...The Marshal cocked his head on one side...
...Just two old, bsttered machines, not worth a damn...
...His clever verse on Gertrude Stein which appeared in last week's New Leader was reprinted by the World-Telegram book column...
...The conversation between Johnston and Stalin turned to American politics and Wendell Willkie...
...Bernie Seaman, cartoonist for Justice, the ILGWU paper, is attraetinf wide attention over the country...
...We stood and followed him with our eyes...
...A dispute arose after th...
...Molotov will approve...
...Our loss is definite, tragic, colossal...
...Does that mean I can take them...
...In order to avoid any such false and sentimental foolishness, I shall mark this sad occasion by printing her* a sharply-etched view of Mr...
...I know...
...It takes six years . . . and in six years iaaues, trends, moods, change . . . and everything is lost...
...Nearby a guide was showing a group of tourists the statue of George Washington, 'the First President.' Then he pointed U the receding figure of Wendell Willkie and, without potitical bias, announced, 'Poasibly a future president of the United States.'" Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT IMW No Strike Pledqe THE executive board of the United Auto Workers which met last week in Atlantic City, has decide* to postpone the membership referendum on th no-strike pledge...
...its civil liberties record . . . the Schneiderraan case...
...They're ju$t old jalopies (hat manage to keep on run ving, but with battered fenders and no direction...
...Mr...
...I know that there are unknowing, ignorant tories in the Republican Party, but they can't hold out againat me if yoi labor fellows don't trip me up...
...Well, thank you Marshal Stalin," I said...
...Bohn led off with general remarks which pointed to discussion of domestic policies...
...Armour, who in private life wat an English professor and « serious student of Coleridge* is now a Major in the Army...
...Noticing that I had begun to scribble on a piece of paper, he continued: 'If you promise not to make a note of this, I will tell you why they do things like this...
...The new book Private*' deals with army life and is illustrated by Middlecamp...
...The United Aoto. mobile Worker last week reproduced a panel of five of his recent cartoons showering high praise...
...Referred to the conslant check up on*the political, economic, moral barkgrounds of office-holders...
...The 15 cents covers speculation and huge profits . . . none of it went back to develop the islands or benefit the natives...
...The boys here checked every state in the union, statutes, rules and regulations...
...About Colonel McCormick...
...Murray would still be a Roosevelt man...
...Stood for a sort of international reform league, though his accent was far from that of the old social-reform Utopians...
...Why Mr...
...He walked out with us, apologetically avoiding tke crowd in the waiting-room by slipping through a lids door...
...But it has been kept...
...I will give you these notes just as Melvin set them down...
...Hell...
...Herbert Harris ttkei over John Chamberlain's labor column at Freedom House...
...A little white hack Wolfe reviewed a book Rebellion in the BacklaM* tU a Brazilian, Euclides de Cunha...
...Molotov to disagree with me, did you...
...He told story ,of Republican congressmen and Smith-Connally Bill...
...s "On the New Deal, we charged him with 'ambiguity' in the last campaign...
...A broad grin animated his face...
...Far from the old-line hatred of that man...
...And far, too, from the socialist-leftist carping with its disciplined, reasoned critique...
...They can't be let loose tomorrow, of course, but there should be a tutelary period and the ending of vested interests ought to be prepared for.' "He spoke at length and with accurate and expert knowledge of the rubber situation and international monopolies...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 42
