Courage of Life

...A* a free people, we must choose the affirmative courage of life, not the negativ« sacrifice of death...

...It is your responsibility as publisher as well...

...Stout's article to which I am referring is completely, totally false in every way...

...At San Francisco labor was demoted to "consultants...

...The delegates did precisely the same thing at the press conferences...

...In faci, I thought it a great idea until I saw it at work and ?»med the facts...

...The majority felt lhat the State Department had made a very important and successful experiment in inviting forty two national organizations to send consultants...

...The only time the poor consultants Rot a chance to do any talking was when they got together by themselves . . . and talked TO THEMSELVES...

...Third, f believe there should be an attempt to give at leatt two side* of every controversial issue...

...Its chief value lies rather in the fruitful suggestion* which Its author makes...

...Instead of three-quarters of the artirlet dealing with foreign affairs, the home front should have the major emphasis...

...The point of my article remains un moveably the same...

...Fourth, it may be that the name, New Pealir would b* more popular than New, Leader...

...The entire provision for the Economic and Social Council and other provisions in the Charter are stronger as the result of the Consultants' activities...

...It so happens that 1 was one of the consultants...

...2—The fact is—and I'd like to hear Mr...

...Eichelberger should remember that my journalistic responsibility w the readers of my paper do not per?sit m* to forget that facts are I ills...

...The responsibility, however, is not hit alone...

...He has been given the lie direct but he keeps silent...

...lions to protect human lights, Ihe establishment of a Commission on Human Kighls, authority for the Economic and Social Council to consult with non governmental agencies in various countries, and many other articles are the lesult of the intervention of the consultants...

...U»may add that I have been a newspaperman for 2r> years, which is long •rough to know the business...

...Rut I believe there might be a larger audience if some Improvements were made...

...And my colleagues and I were all agreed in our verdict on the consultant scheme, Cod snows, I didn't go to San Francisco Prejudiced in advance against the constant scheme...

...With a few deft strokes the author sketch** the psychology of the German people—"the type of nervous man who arrange* the objects on his desk with excessive precision, who cannot stand the least disorder in his papers, but whoa* life is nevertheless full of inner conflict*, and who in ihe end has a nervous breakdown...

...And Mr...

...Worker*' Union To the Editor: 1 WRITE this letter to add the voices of the thousands of men and women of many races and creeds who make up this organization, along witli my own, to the expressions of protest against the scurrilous column by John O'Donnell in the October 3 issue of your publication...

...Meerloo connects this suicidal impulse with the physiological expression of fear, with hysteria, and with a desire to atone for aggressiveness and escape inner conflict...

...Th* guiding principle of all Maerloo's refrftn (Herniations for avoiding a third world war ia contained In these sentences: "We have to learn that sacrifice of one's life, though it may be a necessary means to an end, is not an end in itself...

...We can understand the initial paralysis, the revival of national es™« rousnes...

...In neither case were they "consultations" as that, word is commonly understood...

...I think you owe il to many of us whose support of labor and liberal causes is well known, to carry a retraction or an apology...

...1 -Mr...

...The fact is and will Mr...

...I could point t,o many phrases and articles in the Charter which, in their present form, are the result of the intervention of the consultants, ObligaHaply fry JONATHAN STOUT The article to which Mr...

...Such an attitude must be consciously cultivated in the face of an easy authoritarianism which continually threatens it...

...Now that we have smashed that gang of hale-mongers at a vaat expenditure of men and treasure, are we to see th* same kind of vile propaganda fostered and promoted in the American press...

...Eichelberger deny this that at no time did the consultants as a group have an opportunity to discuss POLICY with the American delegates...

...This a)ight*book is not an exhaustive study of the psychological eftects of total war...

...They wrote memorandums...

...Well, they couldn't have gotten less...

...We met, almost every oilier day with member^ of Ihe American delegation and on alternate days met ourselves to prepare statements and material to submit to the American delegation...

...Eichelberger'« phrase, "We met Slmost every other day with members •f the American delegation," is danger-•osly misleading in its loo-easy inference...

...If that's "consultation" I'll eat Mr...

...Punishment of the Germans ia demanded not alone by our sense of jus-tice...

...Should th* restrictions b* removed regarding th* sending of sterling to your country, I would immediately send a year's subscription...

...Major Meet loo not only interprets the psychology of international situations which we have already experienced but warn* u* ef what to expect in th* future...

...Piercing the Sterling Bloc From EDITH VVfDDfRfURN To the Editor: I have juit read the July 1th ietitc of your intereitivg paper, and badly want to mbicribe to it for one year, Unfortu-i etely, we Britith citizen...

...This kind of frame-up of an entire people in order to stir up hatred and prejudice is only too reminiscent of the tactics of racial vilification and Incitement employed by Hitler and Goeb-bels in their nearly successful effort to destroy democracy and civilisation...

...Did they get less attention than the memorandums of the consultants...

...If O'Donnell hat not the grace to retract, then it is surely your responsibility to your readers and th* general publie to dissociate yourself editorially from the sinister Nazi-like hate niongenng which he is using the columns of your piper to cultivate...

...Eichelberger takes exception was devoted to an analysis of the anti-labor role of former Assistant Secretary Archibald Macl.eish In the State Department...

...They were made very definitely a part of Ihe picture...

...It is a marvelous paper, and I would pass it along to my many socialist friends...

...In this column, O'Donnell deliberately attempts to frame up the Jewish people as having engineered the removal of Ceneral i'atton in revenge for bis having slapped an allegedly Jewish soldier in Sicily...

...I shall let the representatives of labor answer the references to labor in the article and confine myself to the last paragraph in which the consultants are railed silent, hapless bewildered folk who waited in their hotel rooms day after day to be consulted and how finally, "si ill voiceless, they went home infuriated by th* fraud and misrepresentation under which they had lieen inveigled to come and run up useless expense accounts at San Francisco...

...Just as radio propaganda operates according to the law of diminishing returns, so "in extreme exasperation men no longer fear death, and what liefere induced paralyse through fear arouses fury and a desire for revenge...

...Democracy Meerloo defines as an adult attitude toward life...

...6- What did the consultants do...

...Hut, then, who didn't...

...So ihe American delegates told the consultants (just as they did the newspapermen I as much as they thought it was good for Ihem to know about what the delegates thought...

...What takes place in the mindr of men, indiviu-aally and collectively, under occupation is her* laid, bare...

...and his insight in the one case predisposes us to consider his predictions seriously...

...But, apparently, Mr...

...They had influence...

...The positive seeking out of death by both Nazis and Japanese has been very difficult for our fighting men to understand...

...There were scores of people at San Francisco—and they were NOT consultants—who wrote memorandums...

...Letters The Consultants' Role Front CLAM M. EICHELBERGER To the Editor: My attention has been called to an article in the August 26th issue of 77ie New Leader under the by-line of Jonathan Sout casting reflection on th* role of ihe consultants in San Francisco...

...At Mexico City the representatives of the A FL, CIO and Rail road Brotherhoods were Advisors to the American delegation...

...Second, the emphasis should be more on domestic problems...

...The imponderable element in human personality represented hy democracy was overlooked by the Germans in planning their psychological warfare...

...The important group was not the "consultants" but Ihe Ad visors to the American delegation...

...Open Letter to the Daily News From CHAS...

...They were consulted constantly and I lie paragraph in Mr...

...London, England...

...Fifth, 1 suggest that prizes be offered to Increase circulation...

...It involves th* responsibility of making new decisions, and confronting new uncertainties...

...in company with hundreds of other framed and high-skilled newspapermen...

...S. ZIMMERMAN Secretary-Manager, Loral 22, International Ladiei' (l?rmen...

...F.irhel-berger skips over that whole page to pick up the final paragraph...

...Eichelbergei is ?ot aware that f was at San Francisco tml saw things with my own eyes...

...are not allowed to lend money out of the country for lubscriptiom to American or any other magazinee...

...And "friends of labor" would do well to ponder that well...

...Can I offer to make you two pairs of sucks in return for say six months' sub scription ? If so, pleas* send your moas uiements...

...As a consequence, much of their propaganda was wrecked on the unsuspected critical spirit of peoples accustomed lo think for themselves...

...So what...

...Every one of these allegations has been shown to be untrue but there has been no sign of retraction from O'Donnell...

...and the intellectual actuary which has proved the last resource ef morale...

...Ami the facts are...

...I was per...

...I make these Suggestion« because 1 think '/Vie New Leader should have a larger audience...

...ThESE observations of a Dutch psy eaolofitt, made while a* was stili living godar Naai domination, should be required reading for all citizens of democ-ranes during th* next fifty years...

...The Advisors were admitted to all th* closed sessions, they took active part In th* deliberations...

...it is for them a psychological necea-eity, for like all criminals, they "hanker after punishment...

...A* a Socialiit who lived in American territory (Hanau) for twelve year, thie ia a great hardship to PIC...

...LET'S HAVI MORI CRITICISM LINI THIS From IFRNAKD I. ILl/Mlf Rt» 7'fl the Editor: I have been a reader of The New Leader tor many yean, and I have usually read every page and line of each issue...

...t Mr...

...The truth of those "ineelings" is that ii regularly the consultants were fa-Mired by having individual members of the American delegation visit with them a; Ihe Fairmont Hotel and TALK TO Til KM...

...I think I got to know the consultants very well and know of only one who seemed to be disgruntled...

...First, the type is a bit difficult to read al times...

...That's the fact...

...Eichelberger'* letterhead...

...Kichelberger deny 'his' that Ihe consilllanls were never admitted to Ihe meetings of the Economic and Social Council and they never had a voice in its deliberations, 4 -The fact is (hat the consultant* were never admitted to any meetings or sessions of any kind of the United Nations Organization or any of its subsidiary bodies, except Ihe public meetinga which were open to Ihe piiblic-at-large...

...It might very well serve as th* blueprint for a group of social psychologists interested in performing a useful postmortem on World War II...

...Kichelberger should lie careful of th* misleading inferences in his references to the influence of Ihe consultants on the Kconomic and Social Council...

...5 -The fact is Ihe consultants never were permitted to enter or tsi voice their opinions at any deliberations of Ihe UNO or any of its subsidiary bodies...

...Th* clash of opinions which is characteristic of democracy may not directly produce truth, but it prepares the way...