Where the News Ends

...As a result of my writings in The New Leader snd elsswhere I receive s good msny letters from complete strangers...

...Truth ft Mere Stupid Thau Fiction SUPPOSE that a satirical novelist, Sinclair Lewis or John Msrqusnd, for example, should introduce into a novel of modern American life a woman character who was a Communist sympathiser...

...On the second it should have eleven, or sixteen, if one recognises ths forcible snnexatlon of the Baltic Republics, part of Finland and Bessarabia, the territory out of which five additional republics have been carved...

...And there is a real danger that many will get the notion that4 . from now on everything will be lovely along the in-dustrial front...

...The Army and Navy were trying to put over something which runs contrary to one of the deepest traditions of the American people...

...Everyone with a minimum of political intelligence knows that the Soviet Union is one of ths most' highly centralised dictatorships in the world, the governments and ths ruling Communist parties in the two republics which are supposed to get eeparate representation, the Ukraine and White Russia, have been repeatedly and ruthlessly purged on orders from Moscow...

...I nominate her for w the David Zailavsky literary prise...

...William Green feels sure that "labor and management...

...So Any Urn It Good for a Good Cause FT HILE this picture ('Mission to Moscow') was criticized for the dramatic license it took with certain facts, it was an extremely ussful film in that it gave a fundamentally sympathetic portrayal of our Soviet allies...

...Nevertheless bath the substance of the deal and the manner of its announcement era subject to criticism...

...Ths Army and the Navy asked for complete regimentation...

...Thus the effort to regiment American .labor hss been a failure...

...Still Believe in Free Labor In rejecting by a vote of 46 te 29 the compromise labor drsft bill, the United States Senate was not indulging in bullhsaded obstructionism...

...But these expressions ars not products of my own imagination...

...The power of the Council is already heavily weighted, as against that of the Assembly...

...Let's hope that the small nations at San Francisco will show independence on this issue and show the Mr...

...Over and aver again we heard ths ssntence: "Free labor can out-produce slave labor any time anywhere...

...Suppose he should represent this character as saying br writing on one occasion something about "near-bankrupt anti-Soviet lie peddlers who find it Increasingly difficult to market their shoddy wares...

...All s»^a\|we»^Bs»~e' Tfie New Management* Labor Code On Match 18 the heads ef the AFL, CIO and the United States Chamber of Commerce announced a new set of principles which, they hope, will control tabs*, relations in this country when the restrictions of war are*removed...

...There is envisaged an expanding economy with plenty, of jobs and provisions for social security...

...Such methods are not likely te enhance the confidence of France, of China, and ef the various medium-sized and small states which are expected to participate in the world security organization that the Big Three will act aa leaders, not Is dictators, as trustees, not as tyrantai There is also reason to object to the substance of the decision...

...From an article, "Hollywood Goes to War," by Dorothy Jones in The Nation...

...Management is to manage and labor is to be free to organist...

...I am sure the sequel would be an outraged howl of "bourgeois slander" from the Communists snd fellow travelers...

...The projected world security orgsnization follows the model of the League of Nations in giving the major powera special representation on ths Council, while creating the Assembly as a representative organ In which all powers, large and small, are to possess an equal voice...

...Or suppose our satirical novelist should put ths following words into ths) amiable lady's mouth: "About the foulest and most revolting concoction yet to come out of the anti-Soviet kitchen Is ths sordid mess ef lies and sneers against our Soviet ally that William L. White is dishing out through the pages of Thf< Reader'* Digett...

...One finds precisely the ssme feeling among the overwhelming majority of Americans of Ukrsinisn, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Serb extraction...

...Some few votes msy have been switched because the war in Europe approaches its end...

...Both capital and labor still have to face the basic social problems of the postwar world snd find a solution, or there will be no peace on the home front...

...The defect of regimentation Was not primsrily dus to timing...

...Ths bill defested was the result of a compromise between the Senate and the House...

...The power of the Assembly is so limited snd ths probable number of participating states is so large that a three fold multiplication of the voting power of two of'the larger members would not be likely to settle any vital decisions...

...But the debate proves that the majority of Senators were opposed to the measure because they regsrded it as undemocratic and ill advised—not just for this time, but for sny time...

...AH of these words seem to indicate that the plan is nothing more than pleasant words designed to spread an idea...

...Not all these letters are complimentary, as I have already confided to readers of this column...

...Now, when our bombers burn fifteen square miles of one of the most densely populated spots in the world, an area of flimsy wooden houses swarming with children, where • thousands must inevitably be trapped and burned to death, it is exult iugly described as 'the most devastating single blow ever laid by any war upon any city in the world' and 'Che greatest show on earth,' and who greets the account with anything but satin fact ion...

...It is something for opsn-minded Americans who may have been taken in by glib propagsflda to think about...

...He it, obviously, right...

...It is hsrd to believe that our soldiers on sll their wide-flung fronts will be disappointed to learn that this struggle hss ended in this wav...

...The Senate has re fused to suthorise ar*> sort of coercion...

...will subscribe wholeheartedly and accept this coda.'' Eric Johnston says, "It is a good beginning.'' Philip Murray remarks that "the plan is conceived to help America...

...It was surely superfluous to provide further weightsge for two great powers in en Assembly that already possesses little authority Moreover, the proposed change in representation is absurdly illogical...

...indignation at young Mussolini's description of ths beauty of bombings...

...No satisfactory answer haa been given to the question why this substantial change in voting procedure waa furtively concealed, as if it were something to be ashamed of, for almost two months after ths conference at which the Big Three agreed on it...

...And tins strong aversion to seeing the country of their national origin run by a Soviet or Soviet puppet regime is not confined to people of Polish origin...

...The Senate gave.its approval to a more liberal measure placing authority in the hands of the War Manpower Cora-mission to deal with actual shortages of labor...

...Differences are to be settled by collective bargainings The statements made to the press by the three authors of this code show that they do not over, estimate its importance...

...Are there any opposition contenders ? . The Still Smail Voice SOMETIMES, smid the turmoil" of war, a quiet inconspicuous letter strikes a badly needed note of moral balance and equilibrium...

...On the first assumption it should have one yote...

...Ths arguments presented by such liberal Senators ss Morse, Murrsy snd Kilgore shoe/ that they were .not motivated by a desire to embarrass ths administration...

...I would back this letter against all but a very few editorials, against all but a vary few sermons, against all but a very few public addresses of statesmen, as an expression of the still small voice ef reason and conscience that can never be Altogether silenced: "How far we have traveled since those innocent deys when we shuddered with horror and...

...Private Plebiscite One of the striking snd significant festures fit the Polish crisis hss been the nehr-unsnimity of Polish-American opinion in this country in accepting the London Government as the legitimate representative of the Polish people and in rejecting the pretensions of the Lublin Committee...

...The Soviet Union is either a unified dictatorial state or an associstion of free and independent' republics...

...Mosher's notion that ths peace project is still only in the idea stage...

...It is Mr...

...Surely these millions of hardworking Americans cannot be brushed off aa '"aristocrats" or "fascists...

...At that time we had a savage attempt on the part of the big industrialists to aaaaaainate the labor movement...

...It was standing up for the democratic way of doing things...

...The original move for a complete draft measure was backed by the President end by ths Army and Navy...

...Then the House passed a much-modified bill which would have given draft boards authority over men between the ages of 18 snd 45...

...1 am thinking at the moment of a Letter signed Alma Metcalfe, from Camden, South Carolina, which appeared in a recent issue of that ¦ excellent publication, The Ckrittian Century, which, I might add, is very much worth reading for its sound snd humane sad independent views on secular politics...

...With negligible exceptions the Polish-American press, the Polish-American cultural and fraternal organisations, have reflected complete solidarity of viewpoint...

...I have a strong personal reason for knowing how people of Polish origin in the country feel...

...More than that, many non-partisan critics with little knowledge of the amenities ef Communist polemics would feel that such language was exag- 1 aerated to the point of caricature...

...Bigs thst this particular piece of Crlme(a) doesn't pay...

...The heart ef the principle of collective security ha * already bees taken out of the world security organisation by such provision* as the right t* any great power accused ef aggression to veto sanctions against Itself, the right ef sny greet power te atop dlscaaaien of e dispute in which it -i» not directly involved, and the refusal to the Assembly ef the right te make recommendations on say subject which the Council hss under consideration...

...They are direct quotations from the editorial section of Soviet Ru»*ia Today, February issue, signed by the editor, Jessies Smith...

...As Senator Vsndenberg, who gives promise of bieng the most vigorous, independent, and useful member of the American delegation, was quick,to point out, there is no valid reason to depart from the principle, one nation, one vote, in ths Assembly...

...trying to head off another such drive hack toward the jungle...

...William Green, Philip Murray and Erie Johnston are...

...The ideas formulated in the 7-point code are good...

...But among dozens of congratulatory letters signed by Polish names" which I have received there is no one criticism along the lines of "How dare you defame our noble Lublin Committee and our great friend and ally, Stalin...

...Where the News Ends By WiLLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Plural Voting and World Security THE iwent announcement of the secret deal at Yalta, by which ths Soviet Union snd ths United Stains are to obtain three votes each in the Assembly of the projected world security organization is a matter of symbolic, rather than practical importance...

...Recollections of what happened after the last war make some such plan for industrial peace seem desirabls...

...The propagandist nature of the announcement was revealed by the attitude taken by Ira Meaner, president of the National Association of Manufacturers...

...That concept is, to say the least, "premature...