WHERE THE NEWS ENDS

...If it is correct, then the members of the United Nations, pledged by J he Chart or to j-.miote 'universal respect fm aod obsi iI'iuji »• oi human rights and fundi' mental freed;.it«* fur till, must fact- the issue squaieiy...

...Reasonable people vvifl draw their own conclusions from this fact...

...And in the next election -or the one after that—he may be able to lead the sort of clarified and reeoustitutod party which the country has long needed...

...If he does so—vigorously—he is sure to win in the end...

...If this were to happen, laws for the extension of elementary rights to the Negroes of the South would soon be passed—and the way would be opened for consideration of other legislation urgently required...

...For this Committee, representing the most important trade unions and fraternal organizations among ihe Jewish people, has been in the forefront of the 'ght lor democratic principles since Its founding...

...Instead, it will demonstrate, before all of the more open-minded and intelligent citizens of the nation, that the time has come to redraw the lines of our party organization...

...It will mean that both the Democratic and Republican parties have failed in one of the most important areas of national life...

...BUT THE MOST important point in Mr...

...If the sense of "national dignity" which totalitarian regimes often invoke as a cover-up for their most revolting crimes prevents the Soviet Government from inviting a UN commission of inquiry, there are other methods which would help to establish the truth...

...Editorials— The Living Answer THE JEWISH Labor Committee which held its convention recently in Atlantic City, is the living answer to the various antiSemites who scream that Jews are either Communists or international bankers...

...Jewish and Christian, from Hitler's oppression...

...If this does not happen, the result will be far from the happy, ending which the Dixiecrats envision...

...the Polish lawyer and Social Democrat, Jerszy Gliksman: the many anonymous contributors to "The Dark Side of the Moon," these are people who themselves have suffered in those camps...

...The report showed tiiat they litilTes the same persecutions as Eastern Europeans of other faiths...

...At Ihe Atlantic City meeting, it brought to the world the firs...

...So it is an unbroken rule that no independent t»bserver has been permitted to visit a Soviet concentration camp...

...But the Committee is not resting on past laurels...

...The brand of the criminal has been daced on the Soviet state and its satellites, now he principal slave-holding states in the world...

...If any accusation of comparable seriousness were levelled against a free country, there would he a prompt invitation to foreigners to come and see the situation for themselves...

...It would only be necessary to permit non-Communist foreigners of any nationality and occupational back, ground {trade unionists, Journalists, aeholafl, penologists) to visit the main areas ol forced labor and report what *ney find there...

...detailed report on the condition of Jews behind the Iron Curtain...

...By far the best arid most complete work on the subject, one which is unanswerable as to source material and factual .data about the location and character of the vast slave camps, is "Forced Labor in Soviet Russia," by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky (Yale University Press...

...It was the standard noisy tirade against the alleged horrors of capitalism in America...

...Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, was forthright, logical and • convincing in pressing the indictment After pointing to the AFL charge that millions of human beings are forced "to live and work under conditions which are tantamount to slavery," Mr...

...The Jewish Labor Committee did staunch work in rescuing democratic victims...

...Credit for this timely move in taking the ideological offensive in the cold war is due lo several sources...

...pose too great a strain on the Soviet economy...

...the exCommunist from Yugoslavia, Ciliga...

...The raising of the slave labor issue in the UN should be a beginning, not an end...

...It is a simple and eaey matter to organist for the benefit oj credulous and gulbbie visitors a show factory, a show collective farm, «yea a show children's reformatory and a shwl prison...

...The way for the President to get the best results out of a bad situation is stick resolutely by his program...

...The majority of the people and the majority of the members of Congress favor the passage of civil rights legislation...

...Moreover, one of the most crushing proofs of the truth ol the indictment is the inability of Soviet spokesmen to offer any serious defense...

...If the UN c»0 be madfethe permanent pillory of the Soviet regime^ where one barbarous practice after another can be exposed and held up to the scorn and execration of the civilized world, it will have justified a rather disappointing existence...

...THE EVIDENCE of the truth of the accusation is overwhelming...

...Willard L. Thorp...

...its faith has Iwen rewarded by the post-war efforts of Haakon Lie in Norway, and Max Brauer in Germany, to name just two of the men saved by the Committee...

...There should be a constant drumfire against slave labor, against the laws which forbid intermarriage between Russians' «ad foreigners, which authorize the punishment ^of^imotent relatives as hostages...

...But this is'a lie-detector test Which the Soviet rulen have never been wiling to permit...

...The AFL had prepared an overwhelming dossier of evidence, most ably presented by Toni Sender, herself a political refugee from another kind of cruel oppression in Nazi Germany...

...and thai their Zionist organizations have been attacked mercilessly...

...The reply of the'Soviet delegate in the Social and Economic Council, Tsarapkin, was in effect a confession of guilt...

...The human rights clause of the Charter should bf invoked again, and again, and again...

...lo|(ic of the situation will drive us to the conirlusion that the time has come to set up a new liberal party not dependent upon a residual appendix left over from the Civil Wax...

...Thorp declared: "Such a charge cannot be ignored If it lacks foundation, the accused countries should desire and be given every opportunity to have their reputations cleared...

...that their confiscated properties have not been returned, but given instead to Communist organizations...

...But the stark and terrible reality of the slave-labor concentrations camps cannot be glossed over...

...If the Republicans in the Senate could develop sufficient patriotism and statesmanship to see beycrnrTthe narrow limits of what they consider party advantage, they would line up with the northern Democrats and the filibuster would be defeated...

...There is a whole library of literature in the field...

...Tsarapkin's rejoinder was his flat refusal to allow impartial and independent investigation...

...At its contention, the Committee heard many stirrinr* speeches, perhaps the best of which was by Attorney General Tom Clark...

...Only a mind completely perverted by fanaticism or fundamentally dishonest could airily dismiss as a conspiracy of lying these stories of individuals of the most varied nationalities and backgrounds, the Russian Professor Vladimir Tchernavin and his wife...

...It is confirmed by the testimony of thousands of individuals who have been in the slave labor camps and who have set down every detail of the systematic regime of barbarous inhumanity, the overwork and underfeeding, the foul barracks in which Ihe slaves are housed, the non-existent or insufficient protection against cold and disease...

...a> Test bv Filibuster WHAT IS REALLY al stake in the current Senate filibuster against the President's civil rights program is our present party set-up...

...These are the conclusions which may be Irawn from the formal airing in the UN Economic and Social Council of the international icandal represented by the Soviet slave labor .-amps...

...and fellow-traveler persuasion, have voluntarily exchanged their supposed life of won for the delights of the Soviet "proletarian paradise...

...To create an appearance of human conditions there, or to empty some of the slave-labor areas of inhabitants, would inqj...

...Bv bringing this report into the open, the Committee thus continues its most invaluable service, not only to Jews and labor people, but to all democratic Americans...

...Ihe use of slow starvation and even more sadistic methods of punishment...

...Tsarapkin's patter about "American military spies" among the investigators is not impressive...

...Tsarapkin did not try to explain why so many Russians, al the risk of their own and their relatives' iives, lm\e tried to reach the shines of America and why so very few Americans, even those of Communis...

...One of the greatest crimes of a crime-filled age the restoration in Russia of human slavery n most horrible and inhuman forms—has been \po^ed...