Colonial Slave Holders, Unite

NOMAD, MAX

"Colonial Slave Holders, Unite" from Max NOMAD MAY 1 not, as constant reader of, ^ in occasional contrihutoi to fn« !tfy Leader express my concern o.. a wijwi that seems'to have been carefully...

...Why should the country calmly discard these millions of trained men as long as they are physically capable...
...To be sure, Attler and Bevin may be granted the extenuating circumstances that they are not the real rulers of the British Empire, because they are not quite certain of the loyalty of the commanding staff of the armed forces...
...I do not want it now...
...for after all...
...The countries that Russia has absorbed voted themselves in, and Russis does not want it any other way...
...From the scant editorial references . ants by The New Leader one would Uu-dly gat the idea that troops of a f»untry ruled by alleged democratic so-risiliats are shooting down colonial rebels m order to force them liack under is* »ld yoke...
...Lalmr politicians to carry out certain reforms that will s.abil'ze the existing social fabric, but remains adamant on all questions pertaining to its overseas jio -sessions...
...Wt If Russia did such a thing for their "h*, wouldn't there be a terrible «srl...
...Military Training President's statement for which he deserves credit, and that is his reference to the fact that we shall have about 11,000,000 of Ihe best trained reserves in the world as soon as we get them all back from shroud...
...I throw yours in the waste-paper liasket...
...I don't know how many Americans will read this issue of Din Netr Leader, but however many tens of thousunds that number may be, it is a pretty safe guess that the number will be greater than the number of Americans who read Hitler's Meiu Kamp) in the years before Munich...
...We w heing flooded with an abundance, and the profit system cannot distribute an abundance, only a scarcity...
...However small the number of Hitler's readers may have been in those years, the number who read the Ta'naka Memorial, giving Japan's plan for world conquest, was certainly much smaller...
...Many thousand* of veterans—almost all the higher officers for example—are veterans of the first World War, and it is undeniable that the bulk of these new veterans will be physically available for service for at least ten years to come and many for twenty...
...No fair-minded person would suggest thst we continue to rely indefinitely upon those veterans...
...No—tire rw* *f Indonesia is not comparable with Ust of Greece where British non-inter-rrencr would have meant annexation by Rust...
...Does it sub— irribi to the cynical philosophy of Philip Sweden, Ramsay MacDonuld's fellow-"trayer of British Labor, to the effect ¦si s Labor Government's words and «t* sre necessarily different from the promises made by its leaders when they were in the opposition...
...I subscribed to it once, but was so '•gnsted with it on account of your ¦•tile attitude towards Russia that I ¦ not renew...
...For the first time there is this reference to our returned veterans...
...Kor the Red Navy hasn't got a facet of a chance of ever taking Java >nd the other islands...
...And small as the number of readers of the Tanaka Memorial may have been, the number of Americans who have read this Program of the Communist International, sometimes jocularly called "Stalin's Mein Kampf," is still smaller, in spite of the three editions this booklet has gone through...
...hnr country is also interested in the *"* thing, and so we have practically ^hed up the wrong parties all through *>r...
...It is well worth 10< of anybody's money...
...to become the new slogan •I the Second International...
...In this booklet under review, Lenin's disciple, Stalin, drawn the blueprint for his master's plan...
...And ure n h) assume that the Indonesians are ItM human and less deserving of freedom tasa sre the Estonians, Latvians, l.itliu-inians and Poles whose enslavement by Soviet imperialism The New Leader has protested most strenuously...
...Does any sane person believe that if war should come again and our cities were not all destroyed at once these men would not insist upon being mustered in and the government Insi* upon their tinning out...
...I have read every argument in behalf of conscription that I could get my bunds on in order to see what the other side was saying...
...Schenectady, N. Y. A Communist Thriller fretm A. KOHLKKG To the Editor: The little volume, Program of the t'oinniuitiet later national (Workers Library Publishers, Inc., New York...
...so *<*»* do not send it any more...
...All Europe and Asia would be better off if they followed the Russian system...
...When Drew Pearson reported that President Truman had rein iked that "maybe we can get world government in a thousand years or so," I felt more sorry than ever that a man of such narrow and provincial ideas had been elected Vice-President in 1044 Instead of Wallace...
...and that Bevin is ap-patently anxious even to out-Churchill tb^ereat Tory Superman by his efforts tegmvent the liquidation not only of the njnfa'h but even of the Dutch Empire as tel...
...Not only is it a well-thought-out plan, but it it ua official plan, adopted at the 46th Session of the 0th World Congress of the Communist International on Sept...
...AM getting your paper and it seems *st someone must have had it sent to...
...Worse still, Ihe British masses themselves seem to be giving their cynical approval lo all the imperialist ventures never may be at the helm...
...Lenin said: ''It would not matter a jut if three-quarters of the human race perished...
...I am a true progressive and take various liberal periodicals, and extra copies of some, and I mail Hum out to a large mailing address that I have...
...neither do we expect them to make drastic or revolutionary chanties overnight.—The Editor...
...the important thing is that the remaining quarter should be Communists...
...One World Government from HEME ftT M. MMftlLL To the Editor: i^GAlN congratulations on two, splendid editorials...
...a wijwi that seems'to have been carefully ,(»i4ed by the editors of my favorite .ttkly...
...realise that by writing these lines I m placing myself in very undesirable tv*u*ny, but neither do 1 feel very Mppy if occasionally I see O'Donnell roicinr my sentiments about the Comniu-¦Ista...
...a true progressive and know lhat lj*»i* is the leading nation of the "rtdj they have solved their problems, *i as soon as they can enlarge their •chlelogy and machine age, they will **• * high standard of living...
...I have never read so confused, illogical, superficial a statement from any President, except during the Administration of President Harding, as this one of President Truman's, or one couched in less worthy language...
...Since the human race, due to our release of atomic energy scarcely six years from the time Fermi and others first noticed that chain reaction in uranium 236, will either institute "one world" government or perish within a few decades from new, our President's remark was as silly as Hitler's "thousand years" of Nasi dominion...
...Is "Colonial slave-holders of the ¦arid, unite...
...copyright 1020), was first published in that year and ran through second and third editions in 1033 and 1036, respectively...
...and lhat this old trinity, anxious In preserve the fiction of democracy, is permitting the...
...May J add that if Truman is renominated , in 1048, the organization of a great third party, constituted of Labor, Socialists and Liberals, seems "imperative...
...Willlain H. Chamberlin is more inter-ted in preserving the so-called "free l*srprise" system of the world than he real progress...
...What was the White House staff thinking about to send Out as lined it ci I s speech as this...
...The first mentioned, incidentally, constitutes an endorsement of the tindings of that conference held at...
...A Tribute to Communism Pre* A. V. IMG6 '* the Editor...
...in other words, that the real power is si ill in the hands of the old capitalist and semi-feudal oligarchy and its bureaucratic and militaristic partners...
...I have in mind the role played u the Attlee-Beyin regime—my type-writs* somehow balks at calling it a "Leb»r Government" just as it rei uses It call the USSR a "Workers' State'— • ith regard to Indonesia and Palestine...
...this little booklet packs millions of murders in 06 pages...
...The most dangerous time in our history is due to come Within the next two years and Technocracy is the only organization that knows what to do about it...
...A dozen murders make for pretty good excitement in the average detective thriller...
...It is no valuable, valid argument against adopting universal training at this time that there are now million* of trained veterans of this war...
...California...
...but Russia is not trying to force their system on anyone, and all the countries that they have invaded are lietter off for the experience...
...and UNO" and "The Sitdown Against Genuine Bargaining...
...most of them have the special skills and knowledge of scientific effort* for which the President clamors as a necessary step to preparedness...
...Or does the Vetu Leader hold that from the "dialectical" point of view such violations of the most elementary tenets of human decency are reprehensible only if committed by a Churchill, a Hitler or a Stalin hut are perfectly excusable if perpetrated by Labor politicians ? I am sorry if—not lw-inir a hundred percent Marxist—I am unable to swallow it...
...But what docs he say about them...
...General Marshall invariably ignores them, knowing full well that they constitute a very strong argument against any immediate introduction of conscription...
...the standard of living of the British Isles as a whole depends upon the exploitation of the colonial peqples...
...Tin Sew L*ade> has printed three editorials and various other material regarding the revolts in Indo-China and Indonesia, supporting the demand of the libels for self-government and eventual independence, and an editorial demanding that the doors of Palestine be opened to 100,000 Jews...
...toing n Technocrat, know that the "•a enterprise in our own country ia '*l"J*d to pass out of the picture...
...Here is laid down the two-stage revolution for China as now pro plaimvd by Mao Tse-lung, the Communist leader, and also the necessity for direct aid from the USSR, now reportedly being given the Chinese Communists in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria...
...Hut if this is the case, and if Atilee an I Bevin are merely puppets, forced to acquiesce in the actions of the old Colonial Office bureaucracy, then the question arises whether their clinging lo their posts ia not doing an irreparable harm to the reputation of democratic Socialism, which wonld mean so much 111oie grist to the mill of Communist totalitarianism...
...country by country and region by region...
...Here in this booklet, prepared under the direction of Stalm in 1028 after he had assumed unquestioned power and had thrown out Trotsky, is a well-thought-out plan covering, in some detail, the conquest of the world...
...As u thriller it rates with the best of A. Oman Doyle and Rex Stout...
...Here are the instructions for every Communist Party in the world...
...We plan a debate on the Bevin-Tniniaii declaration and Zionism We do not consider the British I.aliot leaders as sacred rows...
...Unlike the usual "whodunit" which saves the solution for the very last page, the solution to this mystery thriller is found on page K8, in these words: "the establishment of a world dictatorship of the proletariat, of a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...I refer, of course, to the ones entitled "The Atomic Bora...
...Dublin in my native state, New Hampshiie...
...IJfotiee by a late issue of "In Fact" the State Department plans a JMW.OOO free enterprise propaganda...
...1, 1028, and never repudiated...
...For example, under China it states: "The transition to the dictatorship of the proletariat" in China "will be possible only through a series of preparatory stages as the outcome of a whole pi.....I of transformation of bourgeois democratic revolution into Socialist revolution, while successful Socialist construction will be possible only If direct support is obtained from the countries in which the proletarian dictatorship is established...
...I would mail it out also if it was fair to Russia...
...Which offers mighty little encouragement to those who si ill hope for a lietter world...
...And upon this utterance the Congress is e« pected to break with our historic past and break with the American concept of personal freedom and that dignity of the individual and his right to life, liberty snd the pursuit of happiness, for which we have been told ye fought this warl...
...Sor do»-s one get from The .V< w Leader a inking of the fact that the Labor favewment has shamefully betrayed the pnnoise.s which prior to the elections its •resent beads had made with regard to Palestine Does 77ie ,V< n» Lead ft lake it for granted that pre-election promises »» not have to be taken seriously—espe-rtsOy when mere Eastern ami Pales-tisisa Jews are concerned...
...Parochial and provincial beads of state ate manifestly unacceptable in an Atomic Power Age...
...Many others will doubtle** join the National Guard, if it is built up a* the President say* it must he, without, however, giving a single stutement as to how this will be done or what It will cost — indeed, the cost of the whole scheme is always carefully suppressed by both the President and General Mai-shall, the latter contrasting it only with our outlays for amusements or cigarettes...
...They composed the best army in the world...
...But why ? Many of these veterans will undoubtedly wish to enter the officers' reserve and will resent "being kept out...

Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 48


 
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