The Atomic Bomb and World Polities
ABRAMOVITCH, RAPHAEL R.
The Atomic Bomb and World Polities Control, Inspection, on World Level Impossible at Present By Raphael R. Abramovitch ON the development of the atomic bomb all the big nations were working. The...
...ROXY HOLDS OVER "THE DOLLY SISTERS" "The Dolly Sisters," 20th Century-Fox musical stalling Betty GraMe as Jennv Dolly, with John Payne as Man/ Fox and June Haver as Rosie Dolly, remains for a fourth week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Claeoaena Easl Bronx Branch: Meets Monday, Dec...
...near Harrison...
...9...
...At a luncheon gathering celebrating this event, tribute was pied to the splendid group of workers who established this forum, attended by several hundreda every Sunday morning...
...Gould that lie done by terrorized Soviet citizens, who know very well that in Russia such things are considered as "military espionage," and punished hy immediate shooting of the gudty one, and the deportation of his entire family...
...Margins, 1235 Grand Concourse, near IiWlh St.....Coney Island Branch: Meets Friday, Dec...
...consequently, if the scientists form a kind of brotherhood based on an international agreement to share all scientific information on atomic energy, there could lie no secret atomic research and no secret fabrication of atomic liombs: a scientist could never lie deceived by another scientist...
...16, 2:30 p. m., Burnside Manor, 86 W. Burnside Ave...
...Russia behaves as though she had an edge ovei her allies, not vice versa...
...Hitler might have won the war after all...
...You cannot expect a scientist to disoliey the strict orders of his government or secret police in connection with the research or fabrication of atomic energy...
...Center, Friday, Dec, 7th, 9 p. m. Topic: "The Jews and the World Situation...
...August Ooaessens, National Secretary, will visit locals in a coast-to-coast toru for this purpose December 20 to January 13...
...Let us imagine that one of the big powers, a signatory to the international agreement on the atomic bomb is a dictatorship ruled by a totalitarian government without a free press, without an opposition, and where other parties who are opposed to the government are not permitted, and the government has no regard for Parliament...
...La-bar Lyceum . , Chicago, III.: General membership meeting, Saturday, Dec 22, 8:30 p. in . W.C...
...If an international agreement is concluded, and the secret technical methods for the production of the bomb are turned over to the UNO, it will mean that the most dangerous weapon in the history of mankind is being conveyed to a dictatorship, without obtaining any real guarantees in return...
...Who will bring to light secret armaments...
...p. m , for our late organizer, Reuben Parncss, Club Rooms, 254 E, 94th St., Brooklyn • The Jewish Chamhci of Commerce <>l Austria charges that 70 percent of all Austrian business men and industrialists were Nazis...
...The Communists accuse America of "atomic bomb imperialism...
...America never...
...A bag containing a bomb could be placed in a room of a hotel, and the weapon could be exploded when desired by maana of a radio wave from another city...
...If the United States could remuin the exclusive possessor of this terrible weapon for a long time, the peace would probably be assured for a long time...
...New England: Joseph 4}raenneld was re elected Aldennan-at-' Large in Chelsea, Muss...
...If he is told to keep quiet about certain things, he certainly will...
...This explains the mystery of the hesitant, uncertain policy of the nations which possess the most destructive weapon in history, and the bold aggressive strategy of Russia...
...Abramovitch is editor of the Russian labor monthly SotUUrt Courier...
...Only a dictatorship can prepare, secretly, a "Pearl Harbor...
...Bronx County: General membership meeting...
...First of all, materially, America does not have in Russia thousands of fanatical native agents...
...28 to Jan...
...Kth, Central I'laza . . Dinner celebration, 76th Birthday, Julius Gerber, Dec...
...K. Flatbush Br...
...No government—it was said—can do anything in this field without the scientists...
...15th, •i "ill p. ni , Hotel McAlpin...
...A democratic government could not act without the approval, or at least the knowledge of the opposition...
...Joseph 1-cventhal and August Claessens, speakers...
...Morris Bearak, son of tho late and noted Joseph Bearak, was inducted as co-chairman of the forum...
...How could he know what is behind the iron gates of an isolated camp in the mountainous forest of Pamir or in Silieria, places which can be reached only by plane...
...Wherever he travels, he Is shadowed...
...Let us imagine that Russia has signed the International agreement on the atomic bomb, and has obligated itself to neither Produce the bomb nor to use it in case of a conflict...
...Theatre Parly, January 31...
...But can American* do the same to Russia...
...Debs Branch: Meeting, Dec...
...The Nazis had, years ago, placed hopes upon and very actively engaged in this research...
...Because not only the individual but also his family and his friends are hostages in the hands of the government, physically, politically, economically, subject to severe punishment and persecution in rase of disloyalty...
...II, !l p. m , Flushing, L. I.: Liberal Party Club...
...In his hotel room there la a microphone...
...In addition, no person will be afraid to discuss such matters with the special mission, because in the democratic countries there are guarantees of personal freedom...
...What, however, will happen when other countries also discover the technique of manufacturing atomic bombs...
...How then will it be possible to control Russia on the question of the atomic bomb...
...guest of honor, Councilman Corns P. Goldberg, Dee...
...Soviet Russia is not the only country in Ihe world ruled by dictatorship...
...When the Democratic Administration in the United States, for instance, takes action of which the Republican Party disapproves, the action is challenged and criticized publicly in Congress, as well as in the influential Republican press...
...Who will uncover preparations for a new war, or the secret production of the "outlawed" atomic bombs...
...The atomic bomb can possibly lead to a Pearl Harbor a thousand times worse than that of De~ • Raphael R. Abramovitch ia chairman of the Ruasiaa Social Deaaoeratle Party...
...V__ M SDF NEWS NATIONAL The N alMinal Rxe*ulite Committee will w„t in New York City, Saturday, Dec 16th, 10:30 a. m. Development* ere rapidly proceeding towards independent political action in the 1946 elections for Congressmen...
...August Claessens, National Secretary, will be present...
...Tlie Dorchester Forum held its 400 session last Sunday...
...9, 7:30 p. m., at the Flatbush Unitarian Church, Beverly ltd and E. 19th St., B'klyn...
...and Mermaid Ave...
...locals in a number of states are lieing urged to initiate conferences with other Socialist groups, friendly trade unions and other organisations with the view of an electoral campaign on a Social Democratic platform...
...10th, at 862 E. Trcmont Ave...
...10th, election of officers, etc., at 8 p. nv, at Dr...
...Filmed in technicolor, and produced by George Jesse), "The Dolly Sisters" portiays the gaiety and color of the glamorous sisters of a generation ago who danced and sang their way to international fame...
...Leon Aikin, director of the forum, was especially honored...
...The USA and Britain have tho atomic bomb, all ready to use...
...The Jews are unable to re-rover the businesses tsketi from them...
...Is this, however, a guaranty of peace...
...Had the German scientists succeeded In making the atomic bomb a few months before the landing in Normandy and prior to America's destruction of German cities and railroads...
...2: Memorial meeting, Sunday, Dec...
...6. . . . Newark...
...Hitler waa not entirely bluffing when, in his last apeerhes, he reiterated that new inventions were being prepared which would eventually place the rule of the world in the hands of Germany in spite of all Allied victoriea...
...Add to a totalitarian dictatorship and the Communist Fifth Column, the possession of the atomic bomb, and you can imagine what will happen...
...Plans for season's activities Talk by Raphael Abramovitch on "Tho Future of Democratic So-ciolism in World Affairs...
...Nomination of new officers...
...It was directed by Leopold Liinlt-berg and produced by I.azar Wechs-ler for M.G.M...
...Such an agreement and such control would ho possible because the democratic regimes are subject to the influence of public opinion and of Parliaments...
...THE LAST CHANCE" HELD OVER AT CRITERION Due to tremendous gains in admissions caused by "word of-mouth" advertising by everyone who sees M.G.M.'s "The Ijtst Chance," and, too, enjoying the praise of the press, the manage inent of I.oew's Criterion Theatre is now holding over the picture for another week...
...The Allies of Russia have learned that in Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Korea...
...If this means anything, it means that the United States is threatening other nations with destruction in order to extort from them economic or political concessions...
...What power is hi caking solemn pledges and treaties...
...Hitler and Japan were finally defeated before they solved the secret of the atomic bomb...
...The United States, together with (ireat Britain and Canada, is, so far, the possessor of the bomb...
...International Films...
...Hartford, Coma.: August Claessens speaks on "Ufa and Work of Eugene Victor Debs,'' Sunday, December 16, 3 p. m , W.C...
...6. . . KaBTilo, N. Y.: Debs Celebration, January 12...
...His suitcases are searched when he is out of the hotel...
...Algernon Lcr speaks over Station W.E.V.D...
...liuper West Side meets Tuesday, Dec...
...Of what value is an international agreement and an international control committee in such a country...
...Ilnnqiiest to Benjamin Kaplan, 50th Birthday, Sat unlay, Dec...
...Selected short subjects and the latest News of the Day are the added featurettes on the program...
...HATS OFF" TO GIVE 23 HOLIDAY SHOWS With more than $20,000 in mail order, for holiday performances, "Hats Off to Ice" has arranged to S'te twenty three shows, starting inday matinee, Decern tier 23, up to and including Saturday, January 5. There will lie daily matinees from Christmas to New Year's Bay "MASQUERADE IN MEXICO" HELD OVER AT PARAMOUNT "M»-ipiei i.i...
...When he wishes to visit a factory, ha must obtain a special permit from the govern-, ment, etc., etc...
...N. J.: Deha Celebration, Jan...
...How will it be possible for the United Nations Organization, under such circumstances, to ensure the proper fulfillment of this pact by Russia ? In democratic countries such control is possible, not only because the free press, Parliament, the opposition in the country, are able to keep an eye on the agreement from the inside but also because an international commission of the United Nations would be able to come into the country as often as it wishes, remain there as long as it deems necessary, visit freely each factory or laboratory, and talk unhindered with whomever it may desire...
...Hia memoir*, recently published in New York, preaeat first hand material on his party's struggle for liberation againat both Tsarist aad Bol.hrvik tyranny...
...There are scores of secret concentration ramps in North Russia and Siberia and no one dares to speak about them and, of course, no one knows exactly who the inmates are and what they are doing there...
...Wherever Soviet rule is established, every remnant of personal freedom and security disappear at once...
...If all governments of the big and smaller countries were democratic, in the real sense of the word, the problem could no doubt be solved...
...No, it is absurd to talk of international control of the dread weapon as long as Russia remains what she is...
...In a democratic country the government can not spend money without the prior approval of Parliament, resulting in the impossibility of secret armaments...
...Then America's supremacy will disappear, and tho problem of securing the peace will cense being America's responsibility...
...Tuasilay, Dec...
...But nowhere is any dictatorship so absolute...
...Even now the very problem of the atomic bomb ia being discussed publicly in the USA and England and the last word will be said on it by Congress or the House of Commons...
...The explanation is that the Soviet leaders know that the tlemocratie nations will never begin an atomic war it is impossible politically, morally, psychologically...
...in Mexico," starring Dorothy I .union i and Arturo • Cordova, now in its second week at the New York Paramount...
...The I^ast Chance" is based on a novel by Richard Schweizer and tells the story of the daring escape across the Italian border of a group of hunted internationals...
...Japan eould do it...
...NEW YORK CITY Important general membership meeting, Dec...
...And if he is said to tell hia foreign colleagues something which is not true, he will do lhat...
...In such a case, the conclusion of an international agreement on the production and application of the new discovery and the organization of an effective international control over the production of atomic energy in all countries would suffice...
...William Karlin Branch: Salute to Councilman-elect, Louis P. Goldberg, member of our branch, welcome home party for veterans and greeting to new members, Sunday, Dec...
...Mid-Bronx Branch: Meeting, Monday, Dec...
...Plans for many activities...
...But Russia has at her disposal an other sort of weapon, which is constantly and effectively used -the Comintern, the Communist forces in every country in the World...
...Califeraia: August Claessens will speak at meetings in Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Diego, Dec...
...Iran, Turkey, Central Europe, and elsewhere...
...Luckily, this did not happen...
...A ruthless and fanatical dictatorship such as the Bolshevik would'nt hesitate to so so...
...The Roxy stage show, headlining Beatrice Kay, Maurice Rocco, Gomez and Beatrice, with Carl Rav-a//n, also begins its fourth week on Wednesday...
...For many years he was a member of the Execetive Committee of the Laber and Socialist International...
...14th, at the Culture Center, W 2*,th St...
...10th, at 7 E. 16th St...
...August Claessens speaks at Brighton Beach W.C...
...Atomic Bomb ¦ f ml*i 7, 1941— but only in tho bands of a dictatorship...
...And as to foreign agents every foreigner who enters Russia is searched at the border, and every step of his after he crosses *he borders Is followed diligently...
...And Russia is, through its might, its rssomroes, and its development of sci-•nee, ana of the first nations of the *orld...
...The atomic bomb can lie used, not only by dropping it from a plane, but even more simply...
...Local New York New Year's Kve Affair...
...The Soviet Government has such complete control over the entire press, the information and communication services of the country, that it is possible for it to establish a number of clandestine atomic factories without anyone even suspecting it...
...Festered in the cast are I'alric Knowles, Ann Dvorak and Natalie ftehafer Also held over for a second week kt the in person show headed by Tony I'astor and his orchestra with Marion Button as an extra added attraction...
...And why is it that Russia persists in a policy of aggressive expansion despite the possession of the atomic bomb by her allies...
...Are such things possible in Russia...
...City Siccative Committee: Wed., Dec...
...But which of the Big Three is now threatening other nations, blackmailing t hem into submission to exorbitant demands—in China...
...25th...
...This resonning ignores completely the fact that in totalitarian countries the scientists are no more free agents than are the engineers, teachers, or writers...
...How will the control commission l>e able to find out if somewhere in those regions there is a secret factory, with thousands of deported laborers and engineers, who are engaged in atomic research and the preparation of bombs, with or without the assistance of the secret formulae which the Soviet Government will have obtained from the United States 7 Who will inform the control commission of these things...
...Russia has not...
...Russia could, through its agents, or through fanatical American Communists, distribute a few dozen such camouflaged bombs In the most important Industrial and strategic points in the United States, and, in case of a conflict, at a chosen moment transform the most vital plants, even cities, into h -eps of rubbish...
...His interpreter is a GPU agent The beautiful girl in whose company the foreigner en- ¦ joys himself is a police agent...
...I N short, as loqg as there are dictatorships among the large powers, an effective solution of the atomic bomb problem is impossible...
...Sunday, Dec...
...There has been much talk about the part the scientists might play in the control of atomic energy...
...In Russia there are vast areas of hundreds of thousands of square miles where no stranger can possibly enter...
...Welcome home to service men...
...Decidedly not...
...eveiy Saturday evening at 9:30 p. m. . . . Old-timers Reunion: Dinner, meeting...
...19th, see story elsewhere in this issue...
...Ilow could an average Soviet citizen discover such secrets...
...Labor Lyceum, Roosevelt Kd and Kedxie Ave...
...It is ridiculous to pose such a question...
...Rand School, Dee, 31...
Vol. 28 • December 1945 • No. 49
