Where the News Ends

...Because they went there on an entirely humanitarian mission, without any element of national feeling or political bias, their description of what happened to the refugees before they escaped from the Soviet Union and found a refuge in Mexico is worth quoting: "Most of them, on September 1,1939, were small peasant farmers along the Polish-Russian border...

...voiced outside of Russia But the idea that injustice and cruelty wili disappear as a result of a hush-hush policy is naive to the point of absurdity...

...Absurdity of the Month "Quite possibly every verbal attack by American Russophobes prolongs the continued mistreatment of Russian political prisoners in Siberian labor camps...

...We believe there never would have been any Japanese atrocities in China if Japanophobes and Mikado-baiters hadn't been so active in America...

...There is to he a permanent joint committee to study the President's proposals and introduce appropriate measures into the two houses...

...Job-budgeting is to hemme a continuing business of the government...

...Nothing which Congress can do would so definitely strengthen the morale of American* Soldiers snd workers...

...Many of the children were lost on the wsy—the train just went on without them—snd the ones who survived are now in orphanages like the one at Santa Rosa, hot knowing whether they are real orphans, but unlikely ever to And their parents again...

...Defending Soviet annexationist claims which are a patent violation both of the Atlantic Charter and of non-aggression treaties which the Soviet Union concluded, st its own initiative, with all its Western neighbors, Kerensky made a curiously unreal attempt to divide Stalin into two persons: "I make a distinction between Stalin, the national leader, and Stalin, the leader of international communism...

...There are almost no Russians in the annexed territory...

...The Creative health of bourgeois society can and must be again restored...

...The authors of the bill provide the Machinery by means of which Congress and the President Can at any time in the future cover that distance snd, as far as such things are humanly possible, turn the real into the ideal...

...A Polish peasant is a sturdy breed, but too msny were not sturdy enough for this...

...I appeal that I be permitted with my army to join any AHied army end fight the common enemy...

...Litte the Polish underground forces, Mfkhailovitch's men were eager to kelp the Red Army drive the Ger-mans out of their country...

...And Congress itself is to be streamlined for this part in our national economy...

...No wonder American correspondents are not allowed to travel freely in that unhappy country...

...All thst the bill does is to state the purpoae and to provide ways of achieving it...

...This does not stand any serious examination...

...The hours were 6 a. m. to ?. p. m. and the wages 600 grams of hesvy bread per day (if they were strong enough to work...

...direction of realising the Americas dream that it is sure to encounter violent opposition as soon as it reaches the committee stage...

...Only if it appears evident that private industry cannot take up the slack are public enterprises to lie entered upon...

...The last deepairing messages of Poland's Underground patriota before they are shot or deported by the Lublin Quislings and their NKVO wardens do not sound very loud in the American consciousness...

...Far from being unimportant, the type of regime tn Moscow should he allimportant in determining the altitude of Russian end foreign liberal* and democrats »»i Mt* question...

...At the opening of each session the President will present a job budget—precisely ss he now presents a fiscal budget...

...From the ideal te the living fact may prove to be e long way...

...Making Real the Right to Work ?? ? roll Kmployment Mil was introduced into the Senate- wkh imposing senatorial support...

...Kerensky knows better than most Americana how formidably many points of similarity there are between Bttlm*s tyranny snd Hitler's...

...The rewards of cooperation were the same...

...As s preliminary job in this direction two of them, Fsy Calkins and Iaurie Page, went to,Mexico to work in a relief camp for 1,400 Polish refugees...

...Please appeal that u Anglo-Americen commission be sent immediately te Yugoslavia to see our suffering and our loyalty to the Allied cause...

...So long aa Germany was a republic, bssed on political democracy and respect for human rights, German democrats snd liberals could quite properly have urged the inclusion of Austris, South Tyrol, the Ssar, Dansig and at least part of the SudetenUnd in a German Federation, assuming that the majority of the people in these regions desired union with Germany...

...Now and then a pure accident lifts e tiny corner of the blanket...

...Nothing like a cheering word and a helping hand, is there...

...The names of these men („ themselves'should be enough te'reassure timid totus who see in this measure an attempt to overturn our free-enterprise system...

...must be of a genuinely wealth-producting character...

...How much publicity has this message from General ?ikhailovitch, whoee Chetniks were fighting the Germans before Tito's Partisans were ever heard ef, received in this country: "The Serbe would rather pariah than submit to Tito's command or accept communism...

...After utilising the services of the Polish Underground forces end of the Serb patrioU the Soviet authorities disarmed their uniU, executed numbers of their officers, placed the aoldiers in concentration camps...

...No doubt it is a sign of intellectual progress when a New Republic editor recognises that there are Siberian labor camps and that the Soviet authorities would be capable of the abominable practice of inflicting reprisals on the helpless victims in these camps for criticism...

...The prelude to this message waa a record of attempted cooperation with the Sad Army end subsequent betrayal extremely similar to what has been happening in Poland...

...Zivko Topalovich, veteran Yugoslav Socialist ind President of the National Committee of Yugoslavia...

...In order to show just how silly/this ideas is, I submit anslogous propositions which/ add up to just as much sense, or nonsense: ' "The <lewe in German» would have, hod a* trouble If it hadn't been for the-agitation of Hitler-haters abroad...

...For almost two decades the Soviet Government never hinted that its economic well-being or its strategic security were impaired by the voluntary relinquishment, in Ihm with lenin's principle of national self-determination, of these non-Russian borderareea of the former Russian Empire...

...It goes without saying that both Congress snd the President are to be provided with expert aid in making the necessary estimates...

...Cariosity of the Month "We are moving into a period not of capitalist decay but of stability and atrength, based on peaceful co-existence with the socialist sixth of the world...

...With assured job-protection in the future, the men and women of thia country could attend to their work with more peace of mind and less tendency to seek security by changing jobs...

...When I rend this account of a tragedy that must have been repested innumerable times in Soviet occupied territory in Eastern Poland and the Baltic States, I be...

...A THICK blanket of secrecy, censorship end prop-aganda has obacarod for most Americans the in-" numerable personal tragedies thst hsve been the sequel to tke Soviet overrunning of large parts of eastern and southeastern Europe...

...The Russian forces Ust autumn entered Yugoslavia from the East, in a Serb region where "Marshal" Tito had never won any political or military support...

...But the bill proposes such practical ways of reaching forward in tie...

...By what moral right can they consign millions of Poles, Ukrainians, White Russians, Letts, Lithuanians, Estonians to live under a regime so tyrannical that they could not live under it themselves ? There is sometimes an attempt to juatify this contradictory position by reference to immutable Russian "historical" or "ethnological" rights, which must be msin-tained, regsrdless of the regime in Moscow...

...Had Kerensky realised his ideal of establishing a democratic federative Russian republic, without a ? ? V I), without a huge system of espionage and terror and forced tabor, the whole iasue would have bebn on i different plane and the Baltic Republice might well have become voluntary members of such a fed* oration...

...From the moment when Hitler came Into power the sole rational objective of every honest Germsn liberal and democrat was to prevent the extension of that evil regime to any additional territory, German or non-German...

...Here is how the authors state their purpose: "All Atnericsns able to work and seeking work have the right to useful, remunerative, regular and full-time employment, and it Is the policy of the United States to assure the existence at all times of sufficient employment opportunities to enable all Americans who have finished their schooling and who do not have full-time housekeeping responsibilities, freely to exercise this right...

...An analogy will make the point clearer...

...This will include estimates of the amount of capital which will probably be invested by private concerns and of the number Of jobs which will probably be furnished by private industry...

...The detaila of this betrayal have been made known through Or...

...V>-sponsors with Senator James E. Murray were Senators Robert* Fi Wagner, Elbert Thomas and Joseph C. OMabaney...

...Both from the point of view of immediate war production and that of the maintenance of prosperity during, the, reconversion period, there is every resson why this bill Should receive prompt and favorable attention...

...During the last two years a group of young women has been Uking trsining for relief snd reconstruction work at Havarford College...

...Those who completed the trip were sent, with many Russian peasants, to compulsory labor in minos, forests, factories snd farms...

...But no such sophistry can provide an answer to the question which Kerensky, and other Russians who live in this country or in other foreign lands because they would be shot or arrested if they set foot in Soviet territory, must face...

...The New Masses...

...Strange aa it must seem to our professional apologisU for every act of the NKVD, they did not find this camp Ailed with "aristocrats," "reactionaries," "fascists," "landlords...

...Emphasis should be placed on the fact that any positive action At any particular time, any appropriation, the authorization of any project, must take place at the behest of s majority of Congress...

...The logical conclusion should not be obscured by an obsolete and misleading nationalism...

...Suggestions may cover a wide range: finance, foreign trade, price sii|>pin ? Hiivthmg which will increase investment and widen the market...

...came extremely impatient with the untenable and contradictory position which a former Russisn democratic leader, Alexander Kerensky, takea in regard to Stalin's annexationist policies...

...And It is provided that these, too...

...There is no room here for any future WPA, any boondogling...

...The New Republic...

...Not one of them is an antagonist of our traditional way of life...

...On October 1 they were exiles, herded into csttle esrs on a terrible two-week trip to Siberis...

...The passage of this bill rurWtofyhg properly advocated as an action definitely helpful to our wer effort...

...Hs will make proposals to increase the number of jobs to the level which is regarded es normal at that particular time- tie ?* to give first attention to measures which are calculated to prime private enterprise...

...What would happen then would depend entirely u'peft the will of the legislators...