LETTERS
LETTERS To the Editor Open Letter to Albert Goldman, Postmaster, New York City From LUIGI ANTONINI MAY I draw your attention to a serious matter which demands prompt vigorous action by your...
...What has caused the true might of the democratic philosophy to be half blind and half crippled in its fight against totalitarian dogmas...
...Since space it drastically limited, please keep letter...
...What is lacking in England and Australia that causes the every day life of the individual to be so unpleasant...
...1 should like to ask Lyons to take over the job of organizing the Eastern end of The Order of the Glass Wall, while 1 proceed with the coast...
...Is joint action with Communists a minor difference...
...It is for these reasons, Mr...
...If this analysis is valid and there is every reason to believe it is, the orthodox economists who...
...The Communist paper, L'Unita of Rome, was able to publish a photostat of this letter only because it bad illegality secured possession of it by violating the international mails...
...If he takes the position that Bulgarians can do with five percent of their freedoms, that Roumanians should be satisfied with 10 percent of their liberties, and that Poles will do well with 15 percent of their basic human rights, he is not a liberal...
...That kind of a liberal is s 7»senda-liberal...
...Wilson Wyatt...
...But if the price system is not selfliquidating, due to a mechanical error, then no kind of planning, good or bad can re-distribute an insufficient amount...
...IN the recent debate between C. E. Ayies and Abba P. Lerner we are being introduced to s variation of a Right versus Left contest which most orthodox nomists seem fmetlto engage in...
...me, one dsy "If they ever put us up against a wall, it-will have to be a glass one, so that we can be shot from both sides at once...
...It involves a deliberate rifling of the United States mail by an international espionage agency operating against the national security and welfare of the American people...
...Or else, my letter was stolen in Rome by an Italian Communist agent and member of the same Communist international spy ring...
...It would«help to wash swsy the obfusrs* tion crested by the recent smbivalent developments in American liberalism...
...Thomat Q. Matnryk...
...A Twentieth Century Fund survey ststes thst unemployment rarely falls below ft percent of our working force, even in periods of prosperity...
...It is not a political thing so much as it is a world-view, a life-attitude, in accordance With which each citizen, being a person, respects the personality of his felbiw i iti/en Democracy Inspires justice...
...In either case, a serious crime has been committed against the American postal laws and international postal conventions...
...WalIsce would clarify his position by giving forthright answers to these questions...
...2444 Stiver Ridge Avenue Lot Angelen 26, California, A Twentieth Century Fund survey estimates thst sverage working hours in 195(1 will be around 41 hours a week...
...An honest-to-goodness liberal does not temporize with tyrsnny nor collaborate with Communism...
...Leon Henderson...
...self, liquidating then the Communist Manifesto drawn up by Marx which advocated: "Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land !•> public purposes, a heavy progressive or graduated income tax, centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of State, centralization of credit in the hands of the State by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly...
...Wallace can render a great service to liberalism and to his own usefulness as s liberal lesder...
...Liberalism, like democracy, peace, and security, ib indivisible...
...Washington, D. C. "Democracy docs not mean an imposed rule from above...
...How can such an organization avoid the embarassment of finding its "I am a Red-Baiter" buttons on the coat-lapels of Gerald L. K. Smith-ers...
...Syracuse Open Letter to the New Republic From J. L A. To the Editor: PERMIT me to make a few observations and ask a few questions with respect to Mr...
...He designates those who criticize him and his fellow-PCAers for making common cause with Communists as "red-baiting liberals of the 'disillusioned Marxist' type...
...Both are Laoor governments and their humanitarian motives are of the .highest- Both wax eloquent on the honors of monopoly and ignore the monopoly of credit...
...it means administi¦«< tion...
...Tka New Leader welcomes letters of comment from Its readers...
...Social Credit analysis insists that the money paid out in the course of producing goods is not substantially enough to buy the product back because of a "difference of circuit velocity between cost liquidation and price creation whijh results in charges being carried over into prices from a previous cost aecountance cycle...
...democratic countries...
...It also enables him or her to identify a fellow-American, as distinguished from a fellow-traveler, in certain liberal gatherings...
...Thst is, a violation or suppression of democracy in one part of the world is ultimately a challenge to its existence in any other part of the world, if a man does not act as though he really believed that Russians and Yugoslavs are entitled to freedom, as well ss Americans, he is not a liberal...
...If left unpunished it could only encourage a recurrence of such international thievery...
...Never having had real economic liberty, we are not in much danger of obtaining it by planning without due regard for the'freedom of Che individual, but we are in great danger of never obtaining it and losing our political liberty as well...
...A liberal liberal is for human freedom across-the-boaid, around the world...
...A photostatic copy of this stolen letter, never received by its rightful owner, Avvocato Giuseppe Galfo, was published by L'Unita, the central official organ of the Communist Party in Home, on January 30, 1947...
...Both sponsor socialization of the means of production snd ignore the socialization of credit...
...He is a totalitarian liberal...
...The finger of guilt points clearly to an international band of Communist spies that operate in all...
...LETTERS To the Editor Open Letter to Albert Goldman, Postmaster, New York City From LUIGI ANTONINI MAY I draw your attention to a serious matter which demands prompt vigorous action by your depsrtment snd other agencies of our government...
...in 1D60, around 38 hours...
...I believe that liberals are not so called because they are liberal with other people's freedoms...
...Wallace says in the same article that "successful liberalism means a new sense of discipline...
...Said he to TO OUR READERS...
...Freedom means the full-throated roar ot tiie full truth on the power and strength of the democratic way tot a muted whisper of half truths...
...Is it self-discipline or regimentation imposed by the iron discipline of a totalitarian party...
...On February 13, 1947, La Voce del Laroro, organ of the Unione Sindicale Italians, publicly denounced this burgIsrizing of United States mail and entered a strong protest .to the Italian Minister of Posts...
...This letter never reached the addressee...
...They disagree only on the amount and kind of planning necessary to properly redistribute the money paid out...
...I think it would be a contribution to the cause of true liberalism if Mr...
...Postmaster, that I urgently call upon you to take immediate action to secure justice in this grave matter...
...More on Planning From WILBER DISTIN To the Editor...
...The answer, I believe, lies in sn organization with the same purpose as Lyons', but more subtly titled, i propose one called "The O.rder of The GLASS WALL...
...wish to give emphasis to the dignity and freedom of the individual, play directly into the hands of those, who are not overly concerned with the freedom of the individual...
...Such char inters would tend to discredit Lyon's honest set-up much as the Commies scuttle liberal organizations...
...He may call himself a liberal, but he is not really a liberal...
...Is not the basis of democratic economic and political liberty, a maximum of persuasion and a minimum of compulsion...
...A genuine liberal does not compromise on questions involving basic freedoms...
...If the price system is...
...He is something else...
...It is clear that my letter could have been stolen only in one of two ways...
...organization...
...He is something else...
...It seems to me that men have a right to designate themselves liberals only when they are fighting for liberty for all men and women throughout the world...
...This paper is an organic part of a notorious international Communist spy ring which is operating in Canada, Italy, the United States and other democratic countries...
...Either a Communist agent, working in collusion with the international espionage-outfit and operating in the United States Post Office Department, stole my letter in New York the moment he noticed the name ot the sender, the Italian-American Labor Council, which is devoted to democracy and a determined opponent of Communism, Nazism, and Fascism as subversive and destructive movements...
...Avvocato Giuseppe Galfo, to whom the letter was addressed, forthwith called upon the Attorney General of the Republic of Italy for immediate positive action to bring the thieves and culprits to justice...
...Wallace, in this article, says that "there is no room for . . . minor differences/ when really great issues are at stake...
...I invite west roast subscribers to The % New Leader to writ me for free Glass Wall pins...
...By taking a clear position, Mr...
...However, are they nof^debating with words that though often used, convey assump...
...Who are these disillusioned Marxists...
...Order of 'The Glass Wall" From HENRY MAYERS To the Editor: Dear Sir: Eugene Lyons has a real idea in his suggestion for a "Red-Baiters, Inc...
...The idea originated in the mind of a Hollywood""gag-writer friend with whom I have had the pleasure of working in a political fight that was at once anticommunist and anti-fascist...
...Wallace's article, "The Enemy Is Not Each Other," in the January 27 issue...
...Ta facilitate editorial chares, lettart that are typewritten on aaa tide af tha sheet will be favared...
...On December 26, 1946, I mailed, in my capacity as President of the ItalianAmerican Labor Council, a letter to Avvocato Giuseppe Galfo, of the Unione Sindicale Italians, at Rome, Italy...
...The added advantage of the Glass Wall lapel button, which I am in the process of designing, is in its curiosityrousing effect...
...It gives the wearer a swell opening for some really intelligent red-baiting...
...And pray,.what tie these great ittuet that exclude men's basic civil rights...
...short, preferably no mora than three hundred wards...
...Wallace protests sgainst namecalling, yet he does not hesitate to do a little of it himself...
...would seem to be the target to aim at...
...It averaged 5.4 percent In relatively prosperous lltO 1927...
...he Is a specious liberal...
...Like Lyons, I find that my proposals for such an organization, made half in fun, half in earnest, likewise receive hilarious approval...
...No man can Inspire confidence among true liberals if he adheres to a doctrine of "excoptionslism"—I.e., making exceptions of certain countries snd peoples who MM do with less freedom than Americans...
...Confirmation of this theft, as well as positive proof as to who instigated and perpetrated this rifling of the United States mails, have since been clearly provided...
...No, liberals rannot maintain a double standard of political morality—listing on one side of the moral ledger lands where freedom shall exist and on the other side areas where freedom may be extinguished...
...tions ot things that are not so...
...Chester Bowles...
...Only after this letter was published by this Italian Communist sheet did the person to whom I addressed it learn of its existence or contents...
...Lat as hava your opinions...
...If no person is free in isolation, neither are they free in a society that must use a maximum of compulsion to achieve social concord...
...There's only one trouble with it...
...The one point where Professor Ayres and Professor Lerner would agree 1 imagine is the question of a selfliquidsting price system or that "tha' money paid out in the course of producing goods is substantially enough to buy the product back...
...It was stolen in the msKls by someone hostile to me or to the addressee...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 10
