The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN Looking Backward tjffNT New Year's Day scanning the 1944 file I (Aa New Leader. It waa more fun than such Jtgaw*i|t~ P•ff0^m•nc*, usually *r«- It was...
...Churchill and of Uncle Joe from the Kremlin...
...The sin of this country is that we have stood off like Pontius Pilate snd let these things go on...
...meana that the New Year has not snded any of the " old headaches and that Secretary Stettinius is preparing for 16 international conferences in 1946, some in the (ISA, but most of them abroad...
...It was dashed off while 1 was VtcaUon by the joint effort of Dan Bell and JR* end the title of it was Roosevelt B'ifhl ?",**J *e °hce had a lot of discussion about we'to0 fW m' ma8thead...
...The Dept...
...Influ, una...
...I'rrsidenl Kouttvtlt it reported to have personally vetoed Harold Icket tough anti-Franco tpeech to the Madison Square Garden rally run latt Tuesday by The Nation Atsotiatet...
...One of the State Dept...
...Why not lay off Europe for a week now and then...
...mm J**0** Illusions trtwf **r *~*aitor'"' that I nm proudest of is one I did not write...
...Now that's my idea of interesting atuf...
...Downing Street said no...
...If the next war •»«, ear •octal security will go with the wind of the , So unilateral decisions are nothing to yet ,u»*1>out...
...I was primed...
...If I could indite atppy verse like that of your Richard Armour I would ieW you up on a split stick for using the word unilateral en every page...
...The New York City mayoralty campaign virtually has -.i in led It is nationally important because a NYC Republican victory will bolster Gov...
...Perhaps certain issues of our psper have seemed unbalanced...
...Coffee to fill out the unexpired torsi...
...January 2 1 received from an important member if we of the departments in Waahington an appeal tj»t went like this: "I read your cussed sheet from Uffjf to kivver, but why in God's name—«or the devil'a __oo yea spend so much of your precious and limited imprint on whit the British and Russians are doing «itk the reconquered small nations...
...Jim Carey was introduced at the Madison Square Garden anti-Franco meeting last Tuesday as "a Catholic layman...
...But these are urgent problems and crucial times...
...It may mean either a little gr.ir, or a little but for the men and women who are . ng to make ¦h old world better...
...U would.be a delight to limit ourselves to this sort ¦ thing...
...eompromise on two out of these three words...
...We have told aa much truth as we had apace for about Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece...
...Vito Msrcsntonio...
...Good people concerned solely with improvement of our American way of life are like persons absorbed in an effort to touch up the interior decoration of a house which is on fire...
...Dewey's chances for a presidential renomination \p 1948...
...It is s part of ear business to picture the bulges which Ike progressives punch into the embattled line of Ike eeeaervatlves...
...We meant • ¦Unary fight against fascism abroad and a social, •iscaUonal, political fight against fascism and rcactlsa at heme...
...It's worse than anti-latitudinarianism...
...Novick also is sponsor of William Gailmor, who has been accused of having communist tendencies, and who, according to the theatrical trade paper, Variety, is being investigated by the Blue Network over which he broadcasts...
...With regard to Russia's imperialistic and unilateral moves there hes been what amounts to a conspiracy of silence...
...Stassen for the U. S. Senate...
...Well, The New Leader in now carry lag en a two-front war in a different sense...
...Or we ri»» you the series of articles about cooperatives by Mb Daniels...
...The Communists have started a drive to amcar A PL Vice-President Matthew Woll...
...He had a heart filled with affection for all mankind, but he had, too, a mind that was not deceived...
...So we try to keep our readers afcrmed...
...But they criticise Britain and America glibly enough...
...Take David A. Munro's stories about issues in the West Back in August you even had four articles iboot what was going on in four different regions of (bun United States...
...He is gone now, but his friends may well be proud to recall that his last words were true words...
...Meanwhile, the political apparatus of the Communist Party is planning to capture key sections of Tammany Hall in the coming primaries—and then use whatever power ia at its dispossl to win for LsGuardis if he goes Into the Democratic primaries in an effort to seize that nomination...
...of America, a war-production firm, is using some of his excess profits to angel some interesting fellowtraveling activity...
...One report—unconfirmcd—disclosed that the White House called Rabbi Wise and asked him to ease the pressure on the Senate from the Zionist Emergency Council...
...Give us more articles about this country...
...We are a part of the latelligenee division of the forward-moving forces Bo we carry the articles about Canada and its CCF hjU...
...noisy...
...However, the bellicote Icket jumped into' -the Spanish situation by pt/tbnaljy attempting to argue the Itritith into permitting 'Juan Negrin to broadcast from London to the Garden...
...If Governor Wallgren appoints (ogee, the Senate will hav* la him aa ardent a Communist fellow-traveler aa the House has in Rep...
...headaches is the Zionists' recent quarrel...
...Sometimes it ..eans giving you a th«oretical •OH* bv John Dewev or Robert I. Maclver or William ifery Cham.herPn...
...Later he takes up the agreements signed at Moscow and Teheran and makes the flat statement that the agreements signed there "are no guide to the things to come...
...Strange as it seems, the tory Republicans are now planning to use Mayor LaGuardia as their candidate to keep the GOP machine intact...
...President Kooaevelt will back War Mobilisation chief Jamea Hyrnes, and his conservative policies, to the hilt for the duration...
...Ml were a lot of trade unionittt and totial worker* J* emuesite theorists in Germany, and they had **•» up a lot of progrett before 1933...
...Illusions— that's our slogan, and just now it's mi ml *tm^* battle-cry for any American journalist...
...This journal could be a lively and forward¦wig survey of social progress, a sort of barometer * uw sooisJ balance, an Index of increasing happiness...
...I did not miss a number from down to the very last one, which, as you recall, agfWd the article by Leon Dennen on The Balkan fytM i up with one or two resolutions, but my rtiling feeling was one of pride...
...For once I knew what to say...
...Tobin, an orthodox Catholic, has banned religious clubs of sny faith or denomination from being formed inaide the Teamsti rs Brotherhood . . . Klansman Edward Janus Smythe wrote to a newspaperman recently that the "search is on for a national leader...
...Dan Tobin...
...The left-wing CIO office workers sent a letter to President Roosevelt in which they condemned Sewell Avery and the CIO leaders \vho struck Montgomery Wsrd in protest against the mail order firm's refusal to psy its workers some $3,000,000 in back pay...
...Johannes Steel, who was dropped by WMCA, has been signed by WIIN, which-in turn just lost Gailmor...
...Whatever ths motivee fur laying off, the American people Simply do not know what B happening...
...that we tell the truth sbout what is 1TaVht*"* number of the year we carried an article Jjj*va*' Hook which, as things have turned out, to furnish the motif for all the months which have followed...
...During the year 1944, American newspapers have failed the people at the most important point and at the time of their greatest need...
...We must help by pointing out tap strategy ef the enemy...
...Sad Sack will have nothing on (he labor men who were expecting some sort of leglslstive pa > off for their part ia the election...
...Or Milton Konvitz keeps you up-to-dajse «o what is happening in the area of civil liberies, s^nything that happens in the field of labor, of social ncxrity, of legislation has importance from this point sf view...
...The editors pretend not to wish to criticize our allies...
...J. Celdwell, David Lewis and A. Andres...
...ia boycotting...
...Put it this way: We used te talk about a two-front war...
...No effective public pressure could be brought on the President for the simple reason that the eitlsens of this country have not known the truth about the whole business...
...The audience, hitherto fuirly quiet, suddenly I.....a...
...Suppose—as has happened frequently in the pest— the steel workers or the auto workers strike, will the (Id's left-wing bloc attempt to break these walkouts...
...But this is the reason: Great Britain's power politics have been dissected in countless journals...
...simply acted under orders when it urged the Senate not to pass the Zionistsnonsored resolution which urged immediate free immigration of Jews into Palestine...
...POLITICS—The Politicsl Action Committee's national headquartera here have been atripped down and are marking time----Sidney llillman may spend two month* on the West Coast...
...former Senator from that State, has left a Senatorial vacancy...
...Our shouting may sound raueoua and ill-mannered...
...Good things are happening here, in Canada, in New Zealand, in Hritaia...
...Juat one year ago he wrote: "Here is this morning's Timet showing us a picture from Teheran and bringing us a candid camera revelation of the Great White Father, of Mr...
...You are hipped on anti-unilaknuiim...
...It was entitled, The Htbirth of PoHUtml Credulity...
...This creates s new problem for the national CIO leadership...
...Professor Hook wrote: "The cry for a new faith has so far given birth only to a new credulity.'' Then he quotes eloquent words about justice, charity and peace from the preamble of the Holy Alliance...
...It ia reported that a* ia considering the appointment of Rep...
...What do you care whether they patch up Europe isflstsrally, multilaterally or looneylatcrally ?" Tail jab could not have come at a more fortunate una...
...Samuel Novick, president of the Electronics Corp...
...Smythe is one of those under indictment for allegedly attempting to spread mutiny in the armed services...
...They wars told by most liberal as well a* conservative pspers that at Dumbarton Oaks we laid the plane for a fins United Nations Security Council and thst wo wars sailing smoothly along toward aa era of peace...
...In ay pome, if I could write it, I think I would rhyme tat word with looneychatteralism...
...The genial Irving Abramson, chairman of the CIO War Relief Committee, flew to England last week on the first leg of a tour of Europe...
...He hasgoincd with Corliss l.amont in sponsoring the Peoples Radio Foundation, Inc.— now seeking a KM license to build a local broadcasting station...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, being close to President Roosevelt, has opposed any move now which wo ' I annoy the White House and perhaps make more ten.'o Anglo-American relations...
...In the so-called liberal weekliea it amounts to collusion...
...It is Russia that is the sacred cow...
...DuBois...
...The New leader refuses to pretend that the flames are not hot...
...More often the task is done by • ttport like that on the colonial world which you read est week by Dr...
...His appointment definitely ends the comeback plans of Lew Mlchener, O'llalloran's proCommunlst predecessor who is best remembered as the chap who ran the crippling Inglewood aircraft strike when the U. S. was desperately trying to arm itself for the coming war...
...I asd turned over the last page of our December 30 HBbtr with a conviction that our policy as a whole ui been justified...
...You have had some swell ¦Ms...
...Off-the-Record By ROBERT CLARK ALL that hustling over at the State Dept...
...It waa more fun than such Jtgaw*i|t~ P•ff0^m•nc*, usually *r«- It was juat llfcsjpiaVt* ago that we appeared in this tabloid . lTjtk Sidney Hook and Max Eastman cut into a4jbl* of contents...
...Over a goad part of the world we are—right now — nektaf social progress...
...The election of Washington's new Governor Wallgren...
...Those "directives" were, of course, inspired by 10 Downing Street, But behind the Zionist dispute Isat week was the fact that Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, being a Republican, is not at all concerned with embarrassing either the White House or its next-door folks over in the State Department...
...Uncle Joe-Joe is sitting there with the face of the cat who has just eaten the canary and a derisive exprettion of 'we aint saying nothin...
...boss of the AFL's Teamster., is permitting his Minnesota members to boom Republican Gov...
...I would be willing right I*0...
...you may have heard—there it a war on...
...This is why we have talked so much about Russia...
...This campaign is being coupled with efforts to fore* the AKL lo send "an observer" to the Febroary London Labor Conference which lh* API...
...I ' • • LABOR — Anti - Communist Cy O'Halloran waa named regional director of the important California division of the CIO automobile and aircraft workers...
...Where it it *»' All the good people doing all the good things in lk!\VU "la* b* r*nd*red futUe by uhat ""I'l"""* *««e**r realms of power-politics...
...They have told in detail what happena in foxholes but have failed to tell what happens in foreign offices...
...a large number walked out and others Ivegan talking, in what looked like a concerted demonstration against Carey, who is one of the leading anli Stalinists in the CIO...
...could publish with enthusiasm and our readers $M peruse with delight...
...The truth is that both Russia snd Groat Britain are doing things sight now which are setting the stage for World War III...
...In that same number we carried one of the last columns from the gifted pen of Willem Hendrik Van Loon...
...t*or Roosevelt, for winning the war, for organj^J*« United Nations—but always with the clear —¦Ending ^ that we are not kidding ourselves or • Itople...
Vol. 28 • January 1945 • No. 1
