The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN IN my boyhood Civil War veteran* ware our unofficial educator*. I recall forming part of the charmed circle round a gray-bearded, one-legged G-AJt. comrade while...
...O'Donnell's columns undoubtedly will be widely distributed in Massachusetts and other Irish Catholic centers in order to throw votes to Dewey...
...But what our ancestors proclaimed as a humanitarian ideal has now become a prosaic fact...
...Press Comment At the Liberal Party rally Tuesday night, one reporter noting the doting smiles of the gala platform audience while Frank Sinatra was speaking, observed, "he looks like a Bar-Mitzvah Bocher making a speech with his family looking on...
...So, unable to resist, I let them pile in and gave them their first ride...
...There was a little variation of this game played but in some Sunday book adt...
...I humored yea kg sticking to human-interest items...
...First and second generations of immigrants from South and Central Europe have settled in tight ritualistic colonies: New York's East Side...
...We soon discovered that everything floats here . . . mostly in a gondola type of boat, called shikaras, of which there are hundreds...
...Con-atfidated-Vultee, whose head is Tom Girdler, have contributed to the cause...
...Soon we found a houseboat to our taste and retired for the night...
...RUSIA DENOUNCES IRAN REGIME AS REACTIONARY...
...Five Russian officers and a government official had already landed in Alberta and were en route to Chicago when the news flashes came...
...as we approached Sringar...
...Picasso is only following a mass trend...
...Pew Phew JoSEPH N. PEW, the Sunoco Oil millionaire, once told a national political figure that he had forty million dollars, and.en his fight against the New Deal he would spend twenty million to safeguard the other twenty...
...As George Givot used to say: "This is to laugh...
...IRAN DENIES RUSSIA OIL CONCESSIONS...
...Roosevelt because "to put it bluntly, they think RDR doesn't like Catholics...
...In oar dsy Americans art actually making themselves at home In every segment of this sphere...
...They aren't aa religious to eat tag matters aa their elders...
...For the Khyber Pass is only 50 miles away...
...In 1940 the Bricker-for-Governor clubs filed a campaign statement showing a total of $12,091.19 paid to Breidenbach for advertising, expenses, etc...
...oral natlvt workers sprawled am the edge of the pM mad I almost ran aver the lot of them as I rounaelt curve...
...Already we began to notice the lighter skinned mountain people," he writes, most of them wearing some form of shoes—as contrasted to the bare feet of the rest of India...
...As the magazine is being made over, it seeks to set the farmer against the city worker...
...To them food is a necessity and religion goes out the window...
...Anyway, we have a snout full...
...They are peasant children frees the nearby village and hang around ear msanbafl watting for the leftover food...
...Here the American tradi-¦ tion of individualism, initiative and government 'of, for and by the people' has failed to penetrate...
...There is a lot mere—and every word of it exeitjag, A good deal of it deals with politics and economies...
...I Affaire Picasso ThE background of the recent announcement by Pablo Picasso about joining the French Communist Party is cabled here by Sherry Mangan, Time's correspondent in Paris: "Until the occupation, Picasso's politics, though pretty vague, were rather revolutionary than Stalinist...
...To understand whst it is like here, remember New York during the Popnlsr Front period, only it is naturally infinitely more so...
...might have been snow . . . only it was so damn hot ear tongues was hangin' out" Her* in this oflke we get, naturally, many letters from soldier* in the South, but they also come from various parts of the Pacific, from Italy, France, England—and we have had a few from Iceland...
...Soon I was blowing the horn for him as we came to dangerous turns, reaching over his shoulder so he could at least keep one hand on the wheel...
...In an ad for the not...
...a whole field covered with white...
...Children...
...For down one of these precipices not so many weeks ago a bus hurtled thousands of feet to the roaring Jcllum river below—carrying 13 British soldiers to their death...
...White it was...
...Here in the capital, in one of the richest parts of the country, is still utter poverty...
...I nottiatt* Sergeant Cox aa teacher of geography in tht tcbttfa •f sua aativs New Jersey...
...V "Laat night there wan two sows to my wsy aad am...
...The fact is, however, that Roosevelt has consistently leaned over backwards to appease Catholie political demands...
...In faa Labor Wtrid ThE Canadian Congress of Labor, counterpart of CIO, at its convention last week, endorsed the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation as its political action arm...
...Thii i» the line as it is neatly laid down: "The cities have grown until, today, 40 per cent of the nation'a populations live in cities of more than 25,000...
...The best political speech of the evening was Victor Borge's...
...each clinging to the Old World concepts of abject obedience to political bosses, and dependence on government...
...Why," he asked as we drew closer, "do you know what I seen down there...
...His latest issue carries a series on city bosses, with the inference that they are dominated by the foreign-born...
...Speaking of the postwar era, he called Roosevelt "the doorway to the future...
...Perhaps you think such letters-do not belong in a home front column...
...Perhaps it it because he is connected with the flying service that gets round so easily over the great spaces of that subcontinent...
...Russia's decision was based on the fact that "fascist nations" are participating, including Switzerland...
...I began to realize, also, what the bus manager meant when he said, 'God bless us all" when we pulled out of Pindi...
...His latest effort is the acquisition of Pathfinder, a rural magazine...
...In the midst of plenty—such a world...
...Such are the differences in night lift at east-pared with the states...
...What they will have to tell will surpass any tale* of Ulysses or Marco Polo—not to mention my eloquent veteran with the wooden leg...
...It was against regulations bat,..» "That midnight ride to work to the Jeep it somethja* I never fail to come across three Jackal* lying on*, concrete taxi strip that I drive ever, and you shssl| tee them run whan the Jeep lights hit them...
...The first countries with which Russia maintained diplomatic relations were Kemal Pasha's Turkey and II Duce's Italy at a time when both regimes were killing or imprisoning native Communists...
...We were out of the Punjab now riding along the left bank of the river in the northwest frontier province known the world over for its tribal clashes and the trouble they have given the British...
...A 'labor' paper in Ohio, the Dayton Labor I'nion, has been circularizing the entire labor press of the country (several thousand papers) with reprints of editorials attacking PAC...
...MOBS RIOT IN IRAN, DEMAND OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT...
...Soon—we hope—our men working east through China will meet others—perhaps neighbors or friends—slugging their way westward...
...The men responsible for the handling of the French political situation, Admiral Leahy...
...That Russisn decision not to participate in the International Aviation Conference in Chicago was made quite abruptly...
...Chief opposition came from the Communists, who are supporting old-line Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and from the Catholics, who sought to whittle down Socialist strength...
...Tfca Volley of Kashmir StARTING on a vacation by airplane Sergeant Cox passed Agra, where he "could see the Taj Mahal, shining like a silver dollar in the moonlight" as he circled tq land...
...K« comrade Crichton conducted a weekly column for the Ntm Mattes under the name of Robert Forsythe, and under that name wrote a number of books including one csJUd Redder Than the Rose...
...John Wesley said that the world was his parriah...
...You should ii have saea their faces light up sad heard their kaaav shouts aad laughter...
...So we coasted down the treacherous road with the driver riding the clutch to save gas and trying to use the emergency when the foot brakes failed...
...About a year ago, a book by Ruth McKenney appeared, with lavish paeans from Howard Fast and Albert Mailt In Congress, they used to call it log-rolling...
...You must realize the tremendous pull of the Communist Party here, which combines the enormous prestige of Red Army victories with a safe, uon revolutionary, liberal social program...
...Fortythe't book end praised it mightily...
...Recently ads were displayed about a book by Howard Fatt and encomiums bestowed by the reviewers Albert Maltz and Ruth McKenney...
...Or Sweden...
...Here the fears of the 1930-38 depression are still vivid...
...TheyespE •ut to tsttat oa the tsmsnt, far it it wunset Ihsft tht grass at night fismstlmss it is an ordeal tewjf so as not to hit them...
...They finally u»id the kids to )*u> (or go), but they ran round the bar racks and came sneaking out oa the ether side where I was getting into the Jeep...
...After breakfast the next day we hired bikes and rode round Dal lake, 7 miles...
...The brakes gave out soon after we left Muree...
...Thomas Paine, whose doctrines were of a very different sort, proclaimed that he was a citisen of the world...
...Myron Tayler hst been working in Italy to bolster Vatican prestige...
...The St-Louis (ilobe-Demorrat now reveals that the editor of the paper, John E. Breidenbach...
...of Albert Maltz, the Communitt writer, we find high praise heaped upon the book by reviewers Howard Ftit and Ruth McKenney...
...Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT FraMtatt far Daataartea Oaks...
...Will it be Switzerland next...
...Last week came a new lot from India...
...Later an acquaintance showed us around the casbah section of the town, and the slums, I'm sorry to say, reminded me of some of dirtiest and poorest towns that I have seen in the rest of India...
...Poison-Pen ¦loHN O'DONNELL, the dyspeptic columnist of the Daily Newt who has taken the lead in' muttering more dirty innuendo in the campaign than any other political writer, is now busily whipping up a new campaign, Mr...
...I seen cotton growing...
...Consider a few short cuttings from the letters of Sergeant Donald William Cox, son of a couple of faithful New Leader friends over in New Jersey...
...He told us of the India law that if one kills a man he goes to prison for 3 years, but if he Kills a cow he gets • 7 to 10 years at bard labor...
...From New Delhi he proceeded by bus on his way to the famed Valley of Kashmir...
...He is a weather man in what was, till the other day, "Uncle Joe" Still-well's army in India...
...I am thinking of these far-wandering boys at future teachera of geography...
...Fortythe, then, in the person of book reviewer Kyle Crichton, proceeded to review Mr...
...One remark of Henry Wallace's seems destined to be picked up and quoted as widely as "The Century of the Common Man...
...SUCCESSIVE headline* in tht Sew York Timet: RUSSIA ASKS OIL CONCESSIONS IN IRAN...
...who signed the editorials, has long been a Republican wheelhorse...
...O'Donnell, playing the racial and religious line, claims that the Catholics don't like Franklin I...
...Robert Murphy and Jefferson Caffery, are all UtttUttr Tkmm fao Rasa ThIS littrary fashion wat ttarted by Kyle Criehbw, years back, when he wat a Communist...
...Coming to hairpin turns, he would let go the wheel, grab the brake with his left hand and blow the horn with his right— while we held onto our breath...
...In 1942 a total of $14,004.81 was spent for advertising, expenses and other miscellaneous items...
...The terraced hillsides where the peasants had com and rice planted in 2x4 patches—with scenery of sheer cliffs, waterfalls and wild monkeys scamprring along the road-aide—furnished a sharp contrast to my memories of other Indian pictures—contented water buffaloes loafing in some muddy wallow or fields filled with strutting peacocks...
...comrade while he rehearsed the wonders of the war hi the—for u»— fabulous South...
...They were hanging round the barracks just before supper and tome of the fellows were giving them candy from the packages received from home...
...Jackals aa«J rVerker* DoiNG hit work of observing the weather "toast where in the bamboo baahaa," Sergeant Cox had aa end of human items to report: "Had a heart warming experience today with a half-doatm little •cheekoa," kids all under •. setae Mohammedan and sssaa Hindu, with their tufts of long hair...
...They are talking a tot about Jobs far ex-soldiers...
...Instead, a dark cloud of postwar depression and unemployment has been built up for them and the Philosophy of Fear and class-hatred sown by scheming hands...
...At last they topped the mountain range and then: "The country began to flatten out into a huge bowl with the road running between lines of tall poplars with sprawling com and rice fields on either side and the everpresent Himalayas in the distance...
...The exiled Danish comedian commenting that some might question his right to speak because he was a "foreigner" said: "There are no foreigners in the world of today...
...But Mr...
...First to Nishat Garden, the largest of the Moghal pleasure gardens in Kashmir —where one could-stand on its terraced, fountained slopes and gate over thousands of lotus blossoms in the foreground , . . and then simply turn round and stare up at the majestic Himalayas behind...
...Pew does not intend to pay for the whole thing out of his pocket Spaee and Time, the crusading advertising newsletter, reports that salesmen have been calling at advertising offices drumming up trade...
...South Boston . . . Washington's southwest...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 45
