WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Have We Been "Backing Reaction"? 1EAF1NG through some back numbers of The New Republic, 1 esme across the following assertion by Professor Albert...
...Without a free flow of trade, this condition can never come about...
...There is a good chance to win if...
...But the young master is so keen on Communism and is urging me to join the Communist Party that I think maybe I'd belter do it —just to make sure of niv job...
...Later he broke with i he Communist Party and new sets in Psrlisment a* a J .she* member, Pnemilng a gift el humor (which w«y wail leave been c«M ef *Jw reasons why he broke with tM fetmmswaim), km milnstll tl lo me that part at bat laree ajManlmr el rota* must he attributed not to any upsurge of proletarian class consciousness in his constituency, but to the fact that he was the squires son...
...They are atl for the United Nations...
...of course, would be...
...with all its laulls, took oulv .1 very tiny fraction of the lives that have been lost under Tito's dictatorship...
...Apparently either IngersoU or someone in the PM oftke got so excited tbat democratic"' Was arc identally but appropriiftetyr i\*nfl is* I * fcr "democratic" An Ingereoll-Plf istmittiin of "democratic...
...Wc arc, too, now a manufacturing nation requiring at once raw materials for our mills and markets for the finished products...
...No matter what we do about armaments, no matter what measures we concoct to punish aggressors, if great populations remain in poverty and distress, there will be war...
...K«, , from Ralph- Inferssil'a reporting on the PeH»h <>•«., tion ia PM...
...practice in the i-oimlries behind the iron coiittaiii...
...It seems to follow iiiilu.-li ial lather than geographical lines...
...We have already taken some steps which fairly commit us lo this policy...
...Superiicji*lly the sweep of the war curried them out ol tho ranks ol isolationists...
...In no < ase have conditions in i oiinl i its lying within the Anglo American orbit approximated in ferocity and denial ol elemental v biiuiHii rights what is standard and norma...
...They aie not inclined to do anything hasty and silly about the law under which the reciprocity trade treaties have been written...
...1EAF1NG through some back numbers of The New Republic, 1 esme across the following assertion by Professor Albert Cuerard, in (he issue of September 16: "Following England's lead, we backed antidemocratic forces everywhere, in Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy and China...
...We have promised to lend billions to Kugland and France, hundreds ol millions to Italy and other countries...
...MASTERPIECE OF UNDERSTATEMENT v «*» ^ h**Hr v preparing to elect the •emtnTi of the*^r-jn3k Supreme Soviet, off FiWuar* * 1 do *M innS* there.i...
...Hut this is probably not what l'i<¦(e--oi (iueiaul bad in mind...
...In the same way, if one takes Draja Mihailovich us representative of prewar Yugoslavia, lie certainly rr|H'i*s»'iiled a system whit'b...
...forces" mlien we accepted Bieiul and Tito in a vain effort to appease Stalin...
...It must be brought home to citizens that negative measures will not end war...
...But these gestures wilt be meaningless unless we allow the borrowers to repay u« in goods...
...W up reasonable unction ih.it the Polish govermnent-imeamle, with its custliijou rep re--,' seni.il ion of all the main Polish political parties, was' far more democratic than the "made-in-Moscow" regime...
...InHf /Va/i.„ •f J.aa.ry H...
...Let's brielly consider what happened in each ..i •I"' eniinliic where...
...It is liecoining ileal 11).it I be Hepublii an I'aily sullris from a .similar fission...
...ny doubt U.t I...
...OloU oiirly, our debtors cannot pav either intcicsi .i [irnrcipal unless ihev can market goods in tins c •¦ nliv...
...On ibis account, the fsct that we have, a t'.oiigiess controlled by Republicans does not mean that the battle for further lowering of tariffs is lost in advance...
...ECONOMIC DETERMINISM--IN REVERSE PkOPI.F...
...become Communists for sll »or» of strange reasons...
...Theie have been individual mistakes of policy and there have been some almost unavoidable bard choices between undesirable alternatives...
...As for Carina, General Marshall, in his concluding stateaneot, indicated that American policy repudiates both feudal reaction and Communist dictatorship...
...And the coaveree, sad equally demonstrable, truth is that without this free flow, there can be no long swetained prsamertty here or anywhere...
...Z^***' -v * * * ^•¦MI'.HK ran...
...i It is at this point that tile ruK'sWele^H...
...I was struck by this statement because Professor Cueiard is not s Communist or fellow-traveler, but a democratic Socialist who advocates the very desirable ideal of a united Europe...
...But the implications of internationalism have never penetrated their minds...
...This charge that America and Great Britain have "backed reaction" is often beard on the non-Communist Left...
...And, however sincere the efforts to prevent war by treaties, inspections and regulation*, poverty and depression will bring war in their train...
...and Asia go hungry for lack of these potatoes...
...Tliis^ Krour^ represented by Senator Arthur \ andenberg amTlliei New York Hernld-Tribune...
...Italian political parties, from the Communists at mm extreme to conservative llomo Quatunque at thn other, enjoy freedom of speech, press, agitation ami voting, apart from occasional local excesses...
...A number ol his fathers tenants felt, obliged to vote for him out of hangover of feudal loyslty...
...And millions of people in Europe...
...Obviously, it would be good bttweaw as wettW goo* morals to export them...
...The latter, finding a sympathetic listener, described bis problem as follows: "I wouldn't mind joining the Labor Party, but I don't hold with the Communists...
...The friend who told me had been invited to the home of a family of considerable wealth in England...
...Could this he said of Poland or Yugoslavia, Bulgaria oi Rumania...
...We did, indeed, support "aitti-iirmorratic...
...I recently beard an even more amusing story of the making of a Communist...
...Professor Gucraid think, have "suppoi (,••( Miiti-deinutivitir foicrs...
...convince even the simplest citizen that it is to everyone's advantage to produce as much as possible, sell ss much as possible, snd buy as much as possible...
...At the present moment the Department of AgriciiltuiO is recommending the dumping of millions of tons of potatoes because there is no domestic market for them at present prices...
...She was sent home in a limousine with the family's hired chauffeur...
...We are now overwhelmingly a creditor tiatimi...
...Tin: political situation in Greece is iirisatisfarloi v. One cannot expect John Stuart Mill's conception of liberty to prevail in a country where an insurrection led by totalitarian forces is constantly being stimulated from without Had the Cummuniai-dominated F.AM taken over Greece, infinitely more blood would have been spilled and far more barbarous conditions would prevail...
...biive learned that without vioild trade there can be no world uiju'lv...
...Unless one equates democracy with Communism, I am at a loss to see how( our policies, open perhaps to criticism in detail, could have been advantageously modified in broad outline—always apart from Ihe shameful Yugoslavia...
...It ought not to take much arguaseat to convince anyone that free (low of trade is good (or us as well as for sll nations...
...And the only way to ensure higher standards of life is to manage things so thst all the nations can produce goods and either use them or sell them...
...which keeps itself in-power with lite aid >l Itnssiau bayonets and of the most cvniesl terrorisin...
...V ? ' 4MOTS DfUe»<T OIPAI a^ttlit T see no-reeae* to keHe.vi Ihni the laree mnjerfjy ef the people did wet expxesw* tlmtr free epiiuWot wr...
...They want lo slop war, but they are afraid of world trade...
...wawtesl U eea^asam ttst |. m^MaHam roreritmrat or kick M east, aw^M"**r* "*M tliRt Geverameat.^smsmt...
...Fortunately,'there is another group of Republicans, chiefly representing ibe greiet industrial states, who have outgrown (be Iradiffennl GOP creed...
...eut,M* 3* *^a, .VclW,,, will be an overwhelaiint Wetory for the Commmbf •ml non-p.rty Mor.%yUei»uder Wert...
...It is my belief, however, that this assertion, although sometimes made in good faith, will mil stand up to an examination of the factual record...
...Communists and those willing to take orders from Communists...
...Even our farmers need export...
...The object is to give these people a chance to getback on their led so that ihev can help to resloie a democrath i.urope...
...A £.'«ncr at any of hundreds of official loirigu commerce taldes would show the folly of this notion...
...An EditorialWorld Trade and World Peace TttK Democratic Party is divided between northern liberals and southern reactionaries...
...The one glint of reason and truth in this muddled whitewash of one of the crudest fraudulent elecxtimi in European history was the unintentional description of the election as "free to anti-democratic elements only...
...Some Republicans, chiefly I torn agricultural stales, serin not to have learned anylhing since the )9th century...
...I wish Professor Guerard had amplified his iiiticism by sat,Resting whst democratic forces we could and should have supported in these countries...
...It ought not lo be difficult to...
...But we cannot export them unless we are willing to take in return an equivalent amount of some product which can be created more advantsgeously elswhere than here...
...It is not ropyrighted by the voices of Moscow...
...Shortly after the end of the First World War I met a radical young British journslist and publicUt who had polled a eurprislngly high vole when he ran, or, rather, "stood" for Parliament a* a Communist in his home evMkstttuency...
...It is from persons holding this stiaugo notion that springs tl*6>JJJCflsent effort to hanistriinf tbe rccipi oeaj jprrecmenta law SwfW^muall v t'pi-af it...
...What is "anti-democratic" in this attitude...
...tr.rd to Hve up ta-rto i .***.r*M,m»a »* pye, m 't**Wm democratic (am) elemeaits eejy) sesatlsa, aaf that il the PeJiah aeapm had realty witnta* te> esmt them in favor ef MUteiajesyk, they t»**!^*m „., SmeM>r#,, orer-SimpHieaiieiu as that *mmWla>.*> notice - because it Mas a very aetfre secret isaaJt...
...As a JiuJiV over liom the old talaf gj^lfc ftanii faffi is V ' manufacturer* have the notion that any safes in this country bv foreign producers cut down our own -ales, in proportion...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 5
