THE HOME FRONT
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E.BOHN Liberal Triangle FOR tb« past two week* I have tried to keep myself and everyone else up to date concerning the tug; of war between the PCA and toe ADA. Now a...
...A great "liberal" organisttM would be' launched...
...Just as we oppose...
...But I cannot* resist the temptation to record how The Daily Worker applies its old 'sjmear technique to Mr...
...To Freda Kirchwey and all others it must be emphasized that ADA is not this sort of thing...
...There were other things, too—unprintable things...
...clear from the start that I cannot foresee either enmity or rivalry between ADA and the Common Cause group...
...It solved its problem by giving an example of free speech...
...The remark was thrown in as part of a general discussion of policy...
...Homer married another decent girl...
...are "typical progressive-action committees...
...Judged by its treatment of ADA, it stands definitely above The New Republic and PM...
...the Workmen's...
...He now has been joined by James Coursey, who also wants to save the country...
...The Notion Comet Tfcroogn I HAVE to report that The Nation has proved its right to Its standing as a liberal journal...
...The fellow-travtlinf) contingents, steered from Thirteenth Street, would get together a bunch of actors, dancers, bandleaders, writers-* then lasso a covering covey of inneconl "sponsors," Including Joe Davies an...
...The spellbinders, their fingers itching to get those $3 initiation fees, talk te them with a certain logic, about as follows: "You are interested in bread and meat and a living wage...
...It removes any personal responsibility...
...Mrs...
...I want to make it...
...They are parts of the same mechanism...
...What Fisher's statement had to do with any of these Is not explained...
...On the honeymoon night he turned out all the lights but one and made her read aloud a horror story out of a murder mystery...
...Nice boy, Homer...
...Roosevelt without any help from me...
...Fisher...
...both Hitler and the local Bundists, so we must oppose Stalin and the local Communists...
...In her column of January 11, however, she entered her demurrer...
...It seems, however, that brother Coursey will have to wait a while...
...The men and women who gathered at Washington were regular people representing genuine organizations...
...Miss Kirchwey's esssy is a typical example of the sort of thinking whicls tries to avoid the importance of Communism as an issue...
...This little gang ef crackpots, mentally sick and sex-perverted Tappers in Atlanta cannot get far for the simple reason they are not smart enough...
...The two organization...
...And it is easy to see that their functions and ways of working will be so different that they can cooperate with the greatest of goodwill...
...That's what we are going to get for you...
...For practical purposes, I should add that the address of Common Cause ia 1775 Broadway, New York, N. Y. I wish it great success, * * * Mrs...
...It ia a clear ideological struggle...
...I have space for no more than a eeopli of his sentences...
...We have here a standard to which all good men can repair...
...The Atlanta Constitution, of which he is editor, is one of the country's most influential dailies...
...The Nasi-typt mind is cracked and lends itself to all sorts of abberations, including sex abberations...
...Roosevelt...
...The unfeeling law officers of Carroll County have been looking for him on a charge of criminal assault...
...The Columbians' headquarters Is frequented by sexually delinquent young girls...
...But he deserted her and their two children and came South to trim suckers at $3 a pitch...
...Unless we win it, there will be a military war...
...L. M. Birkhead and Louis Fisher are listed in the first announcement...
...Here is the foundation of all humane conceptions of life, and the ultimate source of the other articles of our faith...
...Communism and Fascism are alike and recruit from each other...
...ANAIS NIN AT RAND SCHOOL Anais Nin, author of the recentlypublished novel "Ladders to Fire," as well as "Under a Glass Bell" and other books, will appear at the Rand School on January 28th at 7:39 p. ss...
...It is a mistake to distinguish between the American Communists and the Soviet Government I have just .traveled over most of the world...
...Other members eagerly went on to consider practical organizational matters...
...They work on people in the poorest, most squalid slum areas and, to a person perhaps unatfle to read and write, or to one with no more than a third-jrrade education, knowing no trade or skill, tht appeal has logic...
...Even before the organization is perfected, thousands of people—and among them many distinguished ones—are trying to join...
...Some of the blame, assuredly, should be placed on our whole society...
...Ideologically tbey seem to be identical twins...
...They're not nice...
...All the peer, worried people who don't like their neighborhood to be "invaded" by Negro families might like to know about Homer...
...Homer is a card...
...The Columbians By Ralph McGill A principal retuon that the flamboyant Columbian* have Not' achieved ike position of power they obviously anticipated is that Ralph McGill ha* vigorously fought this latest hate movement in the columns of hi* paper...
...Experiences in Germany and Hungary prove this...
...Among them are several of the best friends of The Nna Leader...
...In the issue of January 18 Robert Bendlner writes In favor of ADA .....and Freda Klrchwty writes against it, Bendlner's analysis of the differences between ADA and PCA ia excellent...
...Dorothy Thompson, George &. Counts, Adolph A. Berle, Russell Davenport, Max Eastman, Dr...
...They will try him on that before they let him become our Fuehrer...
...Speaking of the equifc ing of Communists and Fascists he r*> marks: "The police state, both Coauo* nist and Fascist, is a slave state...
...The basjcally philosophical—in the best sense, religious—conception of the new group blotaomt full-bodied in the first of the seven points of its confession of faith: "First, Personal Worth—That every human being is ^raecious in his own right...
...A lot of the writing about ADA M based on the conception that it is juif another of those things...
...In fighting for middle-of-the-road Social Democracy we must oppose at once all Communist forces anywhere in the world...
...It is obvious that the members of this influential group arc primarily interested in restating and vitalising our democratic faith...
...Roosevelt had remarked that we must distinguish between the Soviet Government and American Communists...
...They did not even have low organizations in Chicago—not to mention Keokuk and Kankakee...
...In its make-up and purposes It is entirely different from PCA...
...She said Homer was a queer fellow...
...You* can count on Homer, though...
...He is going to save us from the Negroes and the Jews...
...The most encouraging development abroad is in Great Britain...
...This will give you the idea...
...She will be a guest of the Creative Writing Workshop conducted by Brom Weber, and intends to discuss her aims and experience in the writing of her highly-praised and individual novels and short stories...
...All of this goes to show that ADA is radically different from our New Yorky klieg-light show-off outfits...
...ATLANTA...
...The state is made for man, not man for the state...
...He is wanted to answer for charges of assaulting a 19-year-old girl in the county, deserting his wife after beating her soundly, presumably just to show what sort of a world leader he is...
...Their audiences at meetings, however, are almost entirely good, plain persons of little er ae education, of little working skill, therefore in a very low income group...
...It places the blame on Negroes, Jews, labor leaders, etc...
...He began by saf> ing that it is a mistake to disassociate American Communists from the Soviet Government...
...He stood opposite me, and I realized from his look and manner that he had something to say that transcended the practical details which were op for consideration...
...It was her thought that we cannot work with our own Communists and fellow-travelers, that we must expose them and fight them, but that the American government can—and must—find ways of getting on with the Soviet Government...
...Circle...
...Look Fisher and Max Gerden The Washington conference on January 4 was not public, and its most dra" ma tic incident I have not hitherto felt free to discuss in print...
...Senator Pepper—then there would.bi • great massyneetlng at which Henry A Wallace w/uld wava at the crowd a»fl the United States Government would M denounced and that of Russia would M exalted...
...Readers of The New Lender can choose''between Louis Fisher and Mrs...
...A Jittle later Louis Fisher got the floor...
...Once a Park Avenue resident in New York, he eloped with a good girl...
...In every country I found evidence of a life-anddeath struggle between Communism and democracy...
...I slave may have his preference <l mastery, but the question of choice ii I strange preoccupation for men J* termined to keep their freedom...
...Roosevelt's side in the argumen^goes on to do an amusingly char* setfTfrtip jofc/He ties Fisher in with David Dubinsky, The New' Leader, and, especially, with a wild statement which he has long attributed to Nathan Chanin, President of...
...They know what they want and are sharp and hard-boiled about how they will get it That they are on the right track ia proved by what has happened since...
...She got the marriage annulled...
...If ordinary Americans ever heard of them it was with emotions of distaste...
...They are to be found hi every city and community, and as long as we do not do a better job they will provide material fer the promoters of hates and prejudices whe make a good thing financially fer themselves out of the discontent ef others...
...The Committee of the Whole is to be reconvened on April 12-13, to adopt a constitution and elect officers...
...They are asking the Organising Committee to authorize them to start work now...
...Now a new contestant has been added, the Common Cause...
...Roosevelt, busy helping to aolve the practical problems of the new organization, did not reply...
...You take Homer Loemis, now...
...The other articles have to do with freedom, equality, law, individual opportunity, public morality and individual responsibility...
...We have gone along with a large number of people whose preparation for being a first-rate citizen is inadequate...
...That is the line—not merely of the Columbians, but of all such grpupe who seek to create mass discontent They talk to people whose lives are rather dreary at best...
...RAPISTS and wife deserters are the leaders of the exhibitionist punks who make up the visifije body of the order called "Th« Columbians...
...Nazis are all alike, whether they are in Germany or parading in Mussolini's Black Shirts...
...She stayed one day...
...All of these organisations— no mstl* how many movie actora they could »P°5j on their letter-heads—have meant no* Ing so far as the American people »*J concerned...
...The Labor Party ia showing us how to oppose a dynamic democratic program to the purposes and policies of Russia...
...We cannot sidestep it...
...This is how she puts it: "I think we can see the possibilities of improved cooperation between the Communism of the left and the democracy of the center, but there can be no cooperation, at any point at any time, between democracy and the fascism of the right...
...There are Communists in one not in the other, but there is no resto* why they cannot get together...
...I took notes of his remarks but, unfortunately, did not take them down verbatim...
...We have has] them by the dozen—these Madiso* Square Garden-Waldorf Astoria puV licity pageants...
...A feature of the evening will be Miss Nin'* reading of selections from her work...
...The Common Cause has been Initiated by some of the finest and most farseeing democrats in this country...
...But the local organizations all over the country are eager to go...
...that he is always to be regarded as an end, never as a means merely...
...She does not agree w^h Fisher's main point, and she goes on to explain that she thinks it is a mistake to couple Communism with Fascism a* ADA does...
...There was no immediate reply...
...It ia completely different from the PCA and can do a job ef which the PCA people have not the remotest notion...
...No person ever likes to admit his own failure, and this technique explains satisfactorily why he or she is a failure...
...Louis dordmt In, the issue of January 15, after takfftg Mrs...
Vol. 30 • January 1947 • No. 4
