Juliet Stuart Poyntz-Seven Years of Silence
Tresca, Carlo
Juliet Stuart Poyntz—Seven Years of Silence A N r. W YORK court fcut tree* deHmred J-hot St limit Peyntr, one time leading fair* in Ik* Cam-munitt Party ami underground, legally deed. It sees o*ke4...
...If I am right, a political crime has been committed...
...Cntj...
...About 1933 he wss sent to the United States at an agent of the Communist International, under the name of Joseph Berson...
...agent...
...Nobody hss attempted to refute n single one of my concrete ststements, and I ssk sgain: "Where is Juliet Stuart Poynts...
...Witnesses are available who know her through her work aa an agent of the G.P.U...
...TRY THE MERCURY AT OUR RISK • In the column at the right arc other November articles...
...As late as 1»34 ahe was aeon in Moscow in the company of George Mink, a G.P.U...
...Two or three years later he was recalled to Russia Suspected of Trotskyist sympathies, he was rultd to a remote part of Russia around 1928...
...His name is Schachno Epstein, sgent of the G.P.U...
...He repented and waa permitted to return to Moscow...
...When my first charges were published, the Stalinists called me an agent of Mussolini...
...After 1928, he was in the United States at varioui intervals aa an agent of the G.P.U...
...Mits Peyata was then in the union's sduestionsl department...
...The whole attitude of the Communist Paity in this matter is amazing...
...They had reason to fear her because she might break with them and disclose secret matters...
...She hss never been seen since...
...To put it mildly, Mias Poyntx's civil liberties have been somewhat infringed...
...was any "deal" or promise ever made to get his cooperation .., who wis really responsible for the hated Peyrouton's appointment...
...the Stalinists pretended thst they hsd no contact with her since, 1934 and they make no protest about her disappearance...
...and what was Murphy's share of allied political bungling in Italy...
...rf se/er* a Federal Grand Jury tkmt tke Cmm-munitt Party k*4 lured mr Iridnepped krr ta ffnaeM It««« she "knew tee smes" stent »•»» •/ their tenet • fans Sad wi Imager trntted ky tkem...
...She became a G.P.U...
...Nmw tkat Poynti it of irtally dead one okttacle to m trmnefer ef tke emtt file it removed...
...It will bring you the November and December issues without any obligation to pay for them if we have oversold you .. . and leave it to you to decide whether you want The Mercury every month thereafter...
...and the Communist International, under the name of Joseph Berson Thers are several witnesses who saw him in New York in May, 1937, shortly before Miss Poyntz's disappearance...
...See if a number of them make you say, "I'd like to read that...
...But listen to this one: Don't except unconditional surrender...
...what was Darlan's part in calling off resistance...
...One •! 38 articles whir.h The American Mlercury invites you to read without obligation to pay* You have heard many plans for a defeated Germany...
...Don I kill ibe Nazi leaders...
...She was aeen by friends as Iste ss June 4 or 5, 1937...
...Only after the news was in the paper did he go to the police...
...It acknowledges every doctrine snd discipline, snd it denies the claim to special privilege of any...
...kidnap Miss Poynts ta Moscow, aad that, if it wasnt found necessary to kill bar during the effort, the was, in fact, taken ta Moscow...
...Sycophsntic and servile, he became an agent of the G.P.I!., the Stalin secret police, as the price of life and liberty...
...Persecution, wherever it occurs, establishes only the power and cunning of the persecutor, not tbe truth and worth of his belief...
...Make Germany live by the very rules and Imus ihe Nazis devised for others...
...Read the coupon now...
...Will tke palire now really ' investigate the emit mr it the disappearance ef PeyntM, like tke murder ef Treecm, tm « mystery f Tkere fellow portions ef a oemrmgeeue mrtiele pub Inked early in IMS by Traeem, wko was ktmtelf ma-sstsinsred by aa unknown band early in IMS...
...But the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1s conducting no investigation...
...Epstein went to Russis...
...Whatever opposes this equal liberty, the liberal spirit must necessarily oppose...
...Tretrm repemtedly pointed out tkmt ite wot tmproper far tke Poynti investigation te retl in (Ar km ne'e ef tke Mitming Permemt Bureau ef tke Sew York City I'ulu-e Department...
...I met her on the street and at that time she told me that she hsd become disgusted with the Soviet regime and the Communist Party in this country...
...That's a small part of the detailed plan by Emery Reves, noted author whose 'Democratic Manifesto" created such a stir in 1942...
...Look at the list...
...to make the sacred swastika, a detested badge of shame . .. and to bring home to the German people the horrors of war for all time...
...Here are no rumors, speculations or hearsay, but fads...
...If they do, you are probably a Mercury reader at heart if not in fact, and we cordially invite von to ac- _ _ _ _^ cept the special offer in the coupon at the right...
...Now you can learn the true answers to such questions as what happened between Murphy tod the French generals before the landings...
...The same attorney says I am given to "romancing...
...He doesn't deny the possibility thst I am right...
...It is an uncompromising devotion to the idea of equal liberty as both the means and the end of life that characterises the liberal spirit...
...Tkmt Buremu te to tet up at te specialize in finding people wko dump pear became tkey tu§er from mmnetia ar become ill remote from knme mr something of tkmt tort...
...It it *Mrv <*•« seven inn itmct Poynti miornp peered ta New Fork nnater mpstcrioeis circs esstesees...
...Her attorney says her disappearance was involuntary...
...What it believes in beyond any doubt is the equal right of all to equal opportunity to make good their claims on their own power, by their i>m aid merit...
...He has worked for the Cheka in Barcelona and has served a prison sentence in Denmark at a Russian spy...
...Nazism is not proved by the sadistocratic handling of non-Nazis by Naxis: only the nature of the Nazis is proved...
...It sees o*ke4 t» 4-i m by »*r st rentes, Mm* LwtWraMn •/ Near Fork, M mrdmr tkmt ker eaters migkt •« disptmtd ef...
...But the American Civil Liberties Union, whose directors know her very well, makes no protest snd Tkt Nation aad Tke New Republic, some of whose editors know her and nil ef whom are presumably opposed to infringements of civil liberties, even when it takes the form of kidnapping,' ssy nothing...
...He aailed for Europe on the Queen Mary on August 11, 1937...
...I saw them together at the end of May of that year, a week before ahe vanished...
...Not a bit...
...Hrr mttmrmey mow mgreem—mfttr me rem ymmr...
...How to Civilize Germany" projects a wholly original plan which already is being hotly discussed by opinion leaders ia sod out of government We invite you to read every stimulating, provocative word of k in The Ameucan Mercury for November...
...A newspaper learned of it by accident...
...They wer* intimata friends...
...The Liberal Spirit (Continued from Page Eleven) Now doubt is also ths inner condition of the liberal spirit...
...If I am right, the Federal kidnapping law has been violated...
...You get the true story of Robert Murphy — today General Eisenhower's political' adviser on German affairs — in the November Mercury...
...In 1M4 ana retired from . public political activity...
...For this unorthodox blueprint actually shows the way toiturn 80 million Hitler hellers into a nation of Nazi-haters...
...Hs doesn't dispute my concrete ststements...
...Don't prohibit the swastika...
...Oa the cspture of Odesss by the Bolsheviks in 1918, he wss in s difficult situstion...
...I hsvs not made a single statement which is unsupported by witnesses...
...He became sn informer against his own comrades...
...One man could givs much valuable information about this case...
...How To Civilize Germany A t>ew and challenging plan for dealing with a defeated Germany...
...On ths outbreak of the Revolution, Epstein wet as editor of Gereektigkeit, Jewish organ of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...It it not tet up tm talvt komicuiet...
...Tkere ie a Homicide Buremu i» tke department mnd Tretrm mrgued tkmt tke cmte tkould be int>eetigmte4 from tkmt kuremu't viewpoint...
...They are quick to protest about almost anything...
...Her attorney concealed her disappearance for seven months...
...Above mil don't encourage the formation of a democratic regime — at least, not yel...
...It is my belief that the Russian secret police were aeeking to put Miss Poynti out of the way as they bayesut cut of the —r JlsV" Raise and stiff die, eeeUttsd secret sgents...
...4 it m manrka «/l#r her disappearance, ( mrU Treses, tntmy mf aU teiefifsrien* nod pnfl'itosf sanrderers...
...These develop only in freedom and through freedom...
...A woman who was their leader for more than fifteen years has disappeared...
...He escaped it by joining the Bolshevik Psrty...
...Alto in the current issue of The Mercury - UNREVEALED FACTS ABOUT ROBERT MURPHY e^S tjp)a F tWi ? dhaaawW &%H ew9 % l^RmW^Q 0*Wt %Q fee • With the approval of the State Department, and from Mr Murphy's own hps, come these disclosures about oar North African landings...
...Her attitude was known to the Stalinists...
...They did not dare mention in their organs the subject of my charges...
...Although we differed politically, Miss Poynts was s personal friend of mine for twenty year* In May, 1937...
...1 • • • I? hum teems Scf»n«t detpmte tkmt Tretrm Nl »•< romancing arkra he Suggested tkmt Poynti migkt be 4*m4...
...By Carlo Tresca JULIET STUART POYNTZ was for years an out-standing Stalinist leader...
...About a year ago, Mist Poynta took a room in the American Women's Association headquarters...
...Its labor is always to keep i>e ways of life and thought open and free...
...10 maintain this openness, this f>*** dom, is the liberal spirit's fighting fsith, and of all the faiths men set their hopes upon, this is the onl*v one that time does not upset but confirms...
...Thus, Communism is neither disproved by constant aggression against Communists outside of Russia, nor persecution of non-Communists inside of Russia...
...e • I AM convinced that aa effort waa made to recall...
...A short time sfter his arrival, the Communists began publishing the I'reikeit, with Epstein as editor...
...don't even kick ibem out of office...
...agent...
...For a time after the news came out...
...But it does not cover up its senae of the equal reality of alternatives by n fear-born aggression on behslf of one, nor does it claim in the name of that one the right to persecute, enslave and destroy the others...
...why did de Gaulle refuse North African leadership...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 46
