Where the Big Three Clash

...But what stopped it...

...And Britain and the U.S...

...Moreover, nationalistic feuds are giving way to regional cooperation under Russia's leadership...

...Rut lor the first time in history the rural proletariat ia now represented in legislation and government...

...countries on 'a rescue mission for in American relief agency...

...while both Bulgaria and Rumania have prohibited all Jewish emigration...

...The OWI in these countries wss openly pro-Soviet, he insists, actually distribution huge portraits of Stalin and De Gaulle, instead of Churchill and Roosevelt...

...Churchill and Roosevelt abandoned Mikhailoviteh in favor of Tito to win the good graces of Russia, ami how the American press similarly shifted...

...he is impressed by the tsboo on honest discussion of Russia's role...

...2.60...

...Disregarding the facta, Nurnberg depicts one of the leaden?-** th* uprising, Michel Kleppiot...

...The inter-war ruling classes were corrupt...

...Once power is pooled in this manner in the Middle East, il will be possible to work out an equitable compromise between Arab and Jew...

...In s moving chapter on Palestine and the Jews, Mr...

...JuDGING by this book, Soviet Russia is interested in power, security and-wholesale requisitioning, much more than in social reform...

...No doubt some Communists are sincere in believing that these new regimes represent the interests of the majority of the inhabitants, and therefore are "democratic.'" But it is evident that when Russia says she must have "frisndly governments" as her neighbors, she really means undemocratic governments...

...This is because the ordinary laudhulding is already too small...

...Both in Rumania and Bulgaria anti-Jewish laws have been ostensibly repealed...

...the masses were poor, and these countries lived in frustration...

...seating it...

...In these, Arch Oholer goeaips about the background of the plays...

...ui iiose of this book is to prove thst the Jews *re and have always been just as good fighters as the mm Jews lit is pathetic, indeed, that a whole book should have been written in order to state this simple truth...

...He tells the story of the dogged resistance of ancient Jerusalem to the powerful onslaught of the Roman legions, and of the grim struggle for survival fought by the European Jewry in the Middle Age* against the combined forces of religious fanaticism and greed...

...Thi* difference lictween the relative laxness of the old dictatorships and the forms of terror perfected by modern totalitarianism, whether Nazi or Soviet, is one which pseudo-liberals ignore...

...By Retph ? mtnber y, NtW York Oes»five Aye Preps, 295 pp...

...but haa a L ? peaking knowledge of several languages of the area...

...The more important aspect of the hook is the sense of the courage, sincerity, idealism of the writer, which rises both from the fourteen plays in the Omnibus —though these were of course more vivid in the presenting—and from the words between...

...This whole story is pure iuventien...

...Dennen shows how Messrs...

...Particularly interesting is the author's account of the Jewish plight in the Russian-dominated countries...

...The author describes conditions In Turkey, Palestine, Greece, and the three Soviet aa: elli tee, namely, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Rumania...

...Meyer Levin, General Maurice Rose and other heroes of World War II...

...In the second place, Mr...

...The tragedy is that the elementary facts of the situation—'he ? e? - f ? ni ? ? ? ami 'liquids t ion' of democratic leaders, the rise of reactionary and even fascist -leaders to power u ? <l e ? ooviet patronage, the deepening terror b« ve been obscured' by Soviet props-ganda, genei al Censorships and the wishful thinking of * -II deluded liberals in America...

...But as a result of the draconian prace b -«¦»-- imposed on Klimpe, the opposite development appears to be taking place...

...Due to the influence of Moscow's "Jewish a ? tl-Fascist Comit-tce," the /.ionist movement in the Balkans has been branded as "chauvinist and bourgeois...

...do anything but hurl imprecations at the British, ia one of the factors today leasing to the disintegration of the* den*** era in- world...

...It is written that way in th* law...

...In addition, every believer in democracy is being subjected to a reign of terror which did not mist under the old-style dictatorship 'of a Francis Joseph or even under the inter-war condottieri...

...This is news to those who knew Kleppior as a quiet, unassuming member of the Jewish 8...

...We learn of the fight he had to get an hour-long play put on, when la-dio folk feared that 30 minutes was the audience attention span...

...This is probably the real reason why Russia insists that a "friendly government" in fact must be a semi-Communist dictatorship...

...Let us have more of that...

...York: Die!I, Sloan & Pearct, I94O...

...It is his eonaidered conclusion thst instead of bringing demociacy to Central Europe, the Big Three have substituted one form of totalitarianism for another...

...By Arch Oboler...

...but his book in part provides an answer...

...J.T.S...

...It happens that when readinir Mr...

...Dcnncn not only Is a student of the Balkans and Middle Kast...

...Nurnberg has done a useful job in bringing to the attention of tbe American public these and other highly important farts...

...cialist movement in Poland wH* show**" much heroism during the utilising, ???* who is known to have part i(-rpHIWjMs the Jewish underground movt mwit - |* W u saw even before the outbreak ototir Soviet-German war—but never a'* » partisan in Russia...

...Behind these "friendly governments" stand not only Ruasian troops but old Comintern agents such as Miss Taola Dragoytechva in Bulgaria, Tito himself in Yugoslavia, and Anna Pauker in Rumania...

...Dennen's book I also read an article in the London Fortnightly of September on the "Social Revolution in Eastern Europe," which is about the best defense what has happened there I have seen...

...It does meaa that if this country is sincere in its attitude toward the Jewish question, w» should be willing to take over part of Britain's responsibility in Palestine through the creation of a Middle Easter* Council and Military Force, to which th* American Government would contribute an air and naval contingent along witl other governments...

...Russia, however, summarily got rid of these democratic leaders—some of the leading democrats of Bulgaria receiving life sentences as "war criminals...

...Nevertheless the plight of the Jews is desperate...

...2.50...

...309 pp...

...From Roman Legions to Warsaw Ghetto Review »y VICTOR fHlLICM THE FIGHTING JEW...

...ThERK are two interesting aspects of this book...

...He overlooks the struggle, tasy ducted for many years against Mb*] Tsarist regime, particularly by th*.Geg, eral Jewish Workvcra Union...

...Front governments were organised which actually included former fascists, auch as Gheorghieff and Vetcbeff in Bulgaria, and George Tatareacu in Kumania...

...Statistic 1 data prove that in the first World War the casualty rate was higher among Jews than among non Jews in most countries...

...w.After having promoted Kleppior to' a Soviet partisan, Nurnberg presents us with a startling discovery that the mined resistance in the Warsaw ghetto was made possible by Russian aid...

...She uses the latter aa propaganda bait *t> delude the western world as to her inward purposes Indeed, it is doubtful whether even agrarian reform will improve living standards in the Trouble Zone...

...And in the second World War Jews have distinguished themselves, not only in the armies of the United Nations, but in such dramatic episodes as the battle of the Warsaw ghetto...

...For if Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia wore as free from terror as is the United States, the contrast with conditions within Russia proper would become intolerable to the Russian people...

...He shows how democratic and peasant leaders in Rumanis, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia, who had struggled against the Naiis, would have come into power as a result of the German defeat, except for the' intervention of Soviet Russia...

...This large tree market such as exists -in the U.S...

...and of the more important fight to put on an anti-Nazi play ("This Precious Freedom") before we were at war...

...i tnt, who "studied military problems In Ru,j sia, where he was fighting for a year with partisan unita...

...It is probable toSiefore that living standards for the under-dog in Central Europe will be worse than before...

...Soviet Russia, who preferred th* sphere of influence system...

...However, the value of his book would be greatly enhanced if the author were more discerning in selecting bia material and more careful in...

...But he fails to realize that a weakened Britain, confronted by a newly created Arab League and growing Ruaaian animosity, lack* the strength single handed to turn over Palestine to the Jews...

...He hails the stamina of Dreyfus and the military feats of Joseph Trumpeldor...

...Indeed the policy of this country and Britain toward this area is one >f which every patriotic American believing in our tradition of freedom should be thoroughly ashamed...

...Nurnberg, an anti-Nazi journalist from Berlin, gathered ample evidence to *ub-atantiat* hi* thesis, tracing back through seventy centuries of Jewish history th* manifestations of the Jewish fighting spirit...

...This does not mean that America should ·* deaf to the Zionist appeal...

...More gossip comes about tbe performers: an absent Garbo who "wis never invited to appear...

...Public Service...

...For instance, centering his attention on the fighting qualities or individual Jews, Nurnberg leaves out of consider*, tion the fighting tradition of the Jawkth masses...

...The full use of the resources of this area depends on free access to the markets of Germany and Western Kurupe...

...There are very lew that will not echo, with hearty approval, Obolei 's wonts: "1 believe that the reason foi those wearying, or annoying, or shockingly vulgar commercials one hears on the air is that the radio sponsor and the radio advertising agency and the radio network officials have overlooked the fart that the original franchise given to the radio industry, by the people, was based upon ladio as an institution for public service...

...These governmnts appeared to realize that the independence, aecurity, and social welfare of the 100 million people in Central Europe all depended on democratic federation...

...Central Europe has lost its markets in the West, and is becoming more and more dependent on the U.S.S.R The latter power is de-industrializing its satellites by forcibly carting off machinery and plant—in theory owned by the Nazis...

...The author's consistency in ignoring the' role of the Jewish Socialist movement and in giving excessive praise In Kassians, gives ground for the suspicion that these fantasies are pol it 'ratlin motivates...

...Still more important are (he „,ni,sV>», and distortions of which the author if guilty in describing the Uprising la the Warsaw ghetto...

...W. AN unusual combination of qualities haa filtered into the writing of this little book...

...Th* constant clamor coming out of America charging Britain with violating its obligations to the Jews for "imperialistic" reason*, without proposing that the U.S...

...The author argues that there never has been any democracy and "there is no democracy at present in Eastern Europe...

...1 think be is the man who buried Stanislawski"—come in for tribute or caustic capturing...

...His conclusions moreover ¦re based not only on study but on a recent.viait to Turkey and neighboring...

...A ban has been imposed on the Hebrew language...

...Th* new governments which came into power after invasion began to plan in this direction, as Indicated by the Polish-Czech and also the Greek Yugoslav agreements...

...Dennen's book is good, but it would have been better if he h»* come to grips with these weaknesses i* American attitude* and policies...

...The book be hat produced is the b.sl account yet of what a* in «liv has happened to the Balkans and the Middle East sinte the end of the war...

...many other star*—"Someone has said that the difficulty with Charles 1.aughton is that he knows God's telephone number...

...lie should have added, by the policy also ot the American Government...

...In Rumanis, "The Red Army has even ? -fused to restore Jewish institutions, such as schools, hemes ior the agexl, and hospitals...

...The result, would probably be a war in which the Arabs would commit Innumerable new atrocities, and in which Britain and Russia would clash...

...Nurnberg dwells at length on the straggle for freedom in this Country put up by stout patriota like Sayum Salomon or -General Frederi Kroner, a prominent figure of the Civil War, and adde the names of Abraham Krotoahinaky, Sgl...

...Dennen does not deal directly with such arguments...

...Thereafter the Polish government in-exile, which had hitherto denied weapons te the Jewish underground fighters, felt compelled to grant them some assistance, too...

...The traditional conflict of Kastern Europe between the ruling bureaucracies and the peasantry is about to end...

...the Zionist hero of the first World War...

...In Bulgaria the situation is similar...

...acquiesced...

...1 disagree...

...The alternative is democratic federation...

...One hundred and fitly thousand Jews who survived Nam massacres, deportations, and forced labor ramps face starvation and death...

...The first and easier to see is the sparkle of the running comments between the plays...

...These leaders, whether Maniu in Rumania, Mushanoff and Mm-avitf in Bulgaria, and Mikhailoviteh in Yugoslavia, would have carried out long-needed social reforms, bul within a democratic framework...

...Up In the Air OBOLER'OMNIBUS: Radio .Hunt nod Pereoualitiee...

...Dennen's liook shows that the unification of Central Europe by the sphere of influence route can only lead to new international tensions culminating eventually in war...

...would have been achieved in a federalized Europe...

...Upon returning to the U.S...

...Dennen says that European Jewry must be allowed free entry into Palestine...

...But he will not be silenced by the taboo, even at the price ot being called a "fascist...