Allies in Peace as in War
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Sunday School Story By Max Eastman WHAT I am going tc> tell you ia accurately true, ami you will have to believe me, foi that the whole point of it. 1 (¦».! been dining; late in New Votk, and...
...and released his brake...
...We have no time fui loving kind ness," 1 had said...
...It took us a good fifteen minutes to turn them around, and our progress up and down hill to Croton was exceedingly slow...
...As I took out my wallet to pay him, I said forlornly: "Is there a cheap hotel or tourist camp anywhere around here...
...The ban on the return of loyal Japanese-Americans to the West Coast has at last been lifted, ending but not wiping out a national scandal...
...Enough, I guess," he said with reassuring simplicity, and climbed into my car...
...Amendment of the Selective Service Law is the only way out...
...He reported that the total cost of the war to the USA was $280,000,000,000...
...J. P. Morgan'a sumptuous estate on I...
...The brata...
...We'll leave the car here, and you'd better beat it home to bed," I said...
...But he aaid, "Aw, forget it...
...If and when free elections are held in Puerto Rico to give the inhabitants a chance to decide their own fate— whether independence, statehood, or increased self-government—it will be the first time any great power has given s dependency such an opportunity to settle its own political destiny...
...he answered...
...he added...
...The 6,000 Japanese at Tule Lake who renounced American citizenship will continue under Army control and eventually be sent back to Japan...
...As I got out of his delivery wagon in front of my house...
...On my way home to < Iroton, 411 miles away, my old Kord engine slowed up suddenly and began to quack like a duck...
...Of course, most of the Loyalist* were also Catholics...
...way of life...
...Tne mast pitiable figure Irl the political world Ii 'the diplomat or govern-••nt functionary compelled to lie...
...It's too had you didn't say so, because now we'll have to untie these cars to turn them around," he said...
...Jesus...
...Dubinsky knows, of course, as does Sta?czyk, that Poland is not really independent, but nevertheless he cabled Sta?czyk that the Jewish Labor Committee is sending relief to Polish Jews who have survived—one-tenth of the prewar Jewish people of Poland...
...Socialists, Communists, and liberals are returning, and holding mass meetings, attended by many thousands...
...We covered the eight miles back to my car in comparative silence...
...All recent events show that the trend in Argentina is toward a weaken-ing of the Fascist dictatorship—and that Argentine Fascism is not totalitarian, kat old fashioned reaction with Fascist trimming...
...Starvation is non-political...
...I asked...
...Does it mean a lot to you to be in Croton tomorrow morning...
...Why, I was just helping you out...
...When we got there I stopped him by a garage in the center of the village...
...I'll walk up the hill to my house...
...I'm not in the taxi business...
...We can use this if we double it enough times," he said...
...And now, how much do.I owe you...
...Island, once a meera for millionaires snd European royalty, has been leased by the Soviet Government as *'¦ recreation renter for its sgents in ths USA, at JIS.OOO annual rental...
...the Communists were s negligible force—now their influence is growing...
...About 45,000 Nisei will resettle on the Pacific Coast as compared with 110,000 before they wer* evacuated...
...It stopped promptly and proved to be a small delivery wagon...
...into all sorts of businesses, from night clubs to factories...
...But they face even worsey discrimination than do the Japanese-Americans in th* United State...
...The press is increasingly critical of «Von...
...The Communist Rodolfo Ghildi, in % »P**ch in Buenos Aires on Sept...
...Most of them have son* in the US Army...
...Truman urged Congress to write off the debts of our allies accumulated under lend-lease, totaling $42,000,000,000...
...A muscular, dark-skinned man of south European extraction got out...
...Do you know anything about engines...
...Example, Jan Sta?czyk, who in an earnest appeal for aid for Polish Jews made public by David Dubinsky, describing their terrible plight, declared that "The Russians do not interfere in our internal affairs...
...The eight relocation centers in which there are still 33,000 Nisei will be closed between Oct...
...But already $$34,»50 has been confiscated from the Viehyites, in seizure of property and fines...
...The French collaborators did quite w»H, too, while it lasted...
...1, out-.hned his party's program—the apotheosis ft democracy...
...If upheld, this decision would destroy labor's hard-won seniority system, and place the unions in the unenviable position of fighting veterans' claims to jobs...
...What did we invent these machines for and then walk up hill...
...Have you got a chain or a rope...
...And the majority of the Catholic hierarchy throughout the world supported the Fascist rebellion led by Franco, just ss they supported the cksriral Fascism of Dollfuss snd Srhass-Wjt im Austria...
...We fastened the two cars together, and with a caution to me to steer carefully, he pulled me along at about 15 miles an hour and lodged me finally in the little parking-space lie-side his store...
...fsct is that Franco Fascism came to power with the backing, not only of Hitler and Mussolini, but most of the Catholic hierarchy of Spain, with notable and honorable exceptions—though numerous Catholic priests fought with the democratic forces...
...Hitler, presented as an ascetic Wlthaot wordly greed, was not quite so pur*, the US Army bps discovered: he got an income of $3,000,000 a year in ^he third year of the war...
...Finally he took down two coils of new clothesline from the shelves...
...I admitted cautiously that it meant quite a little...
...1 and Dec...
...Re affirmed that the Church in Spain has maintained neutrality, that it dees not defend totalitarian Fascism, that it supports "Christian liberty aa opposed to state totalitarianism...
...His eyes gleamed, and he wore fierce mustachios, and if the situation bad been reversed, he would certainly have been a bandit...
...We'll have to go and get it...
...I took out my wallet, and braced myself for a disaster...
...He, I think, all of him but those bristling mustachios, was tired...
...It was 2 A. M., and there wasn't a building in sight...
...1 gazed at him in blank astonish ment...
...This is going to cost me a morning's work and a hotel bill, as well as repairs," I said...
...He started the engine, listened to about three of those quacks, and then turned the key quickly and got out...
...That would be foolish," he aaid as he untied the rope...
...I said—and it wasn't an oath...
...He unlocked a side door, switched on a light, and began rummaging under the counters for a rope...
...i haven't got a thing" He looked around at the empty landscape...
...I guess you'd help me out if I was in trouble, wouldn't you...
...TRENDS of Spain, leaned a pastoral letter full of error* and false implications—and omissions...
...You'll have to lie towed to White Plains...
...I hope to Cod I would...
...About 12,000 have already gone back to their former homes, and cases of atrocities sgainst them have been numerous...
...This has put the French Govern-ment...
...I looked at my watch...
...I stepped into the road and signalled the first car that came by...
...I was badly broke at the time, and worried about what all this was going to cost...
...It occurred to me that he might conceivably tow me the whole 26 miles to Croton, but 1 didn't come out with it for fear he would think I was rich, and charge me too much for what he was doing...
...Before the Farrel-Peron...
...he said with surprise...
...The mass exclusion program was invalidated last December by the Supreme Court...
...I told him I lived in Croton, and expressed my vexation that there was no way of getting there by train from White Plains...
...The Basque Catholic Church was an exceptio...
...I must have something in the store," he said...
...We can't fix it," he said...
...Nearly all the 28,000 Japanese...
...An' the prospect of spending a night in White Plains and loitering around all next day wailing for my car, or thumbing my way to Croton and then back, or going around by way of New York, I felt pretty grouchy and sad...
...I climbed into his car, and we drove seven miles to White Plains and a mile more to a little grocery store in the outskirts...
...The Marine and Shipbuilding Workers will ap 'eal the case, to avert further confusion and conflict...
...Jt was the first time I ever heard an engine quack like a duck, and I pulled up on the grass and got out...
...Canadians desire to remain in Canada, the Royal Mounted Police report...
...Neither is, it true that the 41-room palace will be turned into an American ?ubianka...
...late in New Votk, and discoursing, as I used to, about the decline of the sympathetic virtues in our rushed and jammed, machine...
...Theii property wa* sold at forced-sale pries*, and Canadian* on th* West (Oast are opposed to their return...
...Federal Judge Abruzzo upheld the right of a veteran to his prewar job even though it meant * it dismissal of a worker with greater seniority, thus clarifying the legal meaning of the Selective Service Act, but foreshadowing future strife between veterans and organized labor which will be fully exploited by enemies of labor...
...I heard a sparrow chirp...
...I got hold of a five dollar bill, and for my own soul's sake tossed it through the window of his departing car...
...I fumbled for a bill, and added something about paying fur the clothesline and the gas...
...The II· acres are not to be divided up among the peasants of elm Cove, nor i« · ko?ka** to be established (here, screed-tag te well-informed soarros...
...We are really independent...
...It was 5:16 A. M. "Well, thank you with all my heart," I said...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 36
