WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Opposing Ideas - Mistaken Psychology ROTH THE SUBSTANCE AND THE TONE of John Foster Dulles's address to the "Federal Council of Churches meeting...
...They know that non-aggression pacts, proffered by a Hitler or a Stalin, are a snare and a delusion...
...This is especially true from the Socialist point of view...
...W» owe a special debt of honor, or, shall we says of reparation for dishonor, to the Poles, Yugow slavs, Baits and other peoples whom we aban* doned to Stalin's tyranny at Teheran and Yalta...
...But is it not the whole lesson of Soviet foreign policy that Stalin behaves best when he is most scared...
...Wherever Russia has had her way the possiB...
...bility of Socialism or any ether free society if|| for the time, ended...
...We haven't...
...Stalin- was never in such a meek and appeasing mood as when the German armies were poised along his eastern frontier, prepared to strike...
...Schweppe is all hot and bothered because the House Armed Services Committee approved a bill offering residence in the United States to aliens who cooperate with American intelligence agents abroad...
...The Idea of publicly offering sanctuary to persons who are disloyal to and who violate the laws of their own country, is nothing lees than incitement to sedition and treason on an international scale," write* Mr...
...Our fellowship with the peoples of Western Europe, and particularly of Scandinavia...
...AN EDITORIAL— Socialist Confusion SOME OF the political difficulties of Europe are obviously due to the failure of the Socialist parties to play the part which they should have played in the present world struggle...
...Dictators are never so much on their good behavior as when they see themselves confronted with formidable power and the resolution to use that power, if necessary...
...WitbjM the frame-work of the Atlantic-Pact, Sociah^H and so-called capitalist countries can mutuafjB assist one another...
...The basic fight now going on is not about Socialism or Communism, but about freedom...
...for example...
...H the American colonists with the oppression H which thepeoples of Poland, Hungary, CzechM Slovakia, Bulgaria and other Soviet safetttftjl countries are subjected, the comparison on^ all counts would be distinctly favorable to thjl oligarchical Britain of George in...
...thporv upon which those Socialists assunii' then slaud-uilish position is clear They regard (oni u.nist KuiMa and "capitalist" America as equally dangerous...
...In Italy, the right-wing Socialists split evenly on the question of supporting the Atlantic Pact...
...If the Soviet Union had military arrangements with a country at our border...
...Nor docs the specious analogy between American and Soviet reaction to bases near national frontiers hold good...
...What is here overlooked is the character of the governments in the iron curtain countries, where the offer of American citizenship would prvwunahly apply...
...and that lining up with a powerful coalition committed to maintain peace offers a far better prospect than clinging ik an unreal neutrality that will always be violated by a totalitarian regime at the first convenient opportunity, no matter how many non-aggression pacts it may sign...
...Their best hope is to serve as negotiators between the two...
...If we had a program of world conquest through subversion and force,, we would deserve to be stopped by an international coalition...
...The broadest and strongest interpretation of the Atlantic Pact, the one thff will brttig in the Ur^Kt.....mftiVnef olT c*olffi£r1e8, with the most specific obligations, is the one most likely to .prevent « tMpd world war...
...Prompt legalization of the status of thJm scores of Polish sailors, who have been jumpinaB their ships and finding refuge wits PolishjH American families, would be a good--start iamr this direction...
...ought not to seem to bring United States military might directly to Russia's border...
...For without freedom and democratic controls there can be no such world *H that envisioned in Socialist thinking...
...While in the main its economy Is at present operated upon what we call the free enterprise system, this way of doing things is in a state of rapid evolution...
...No real Socialist—unlesi he has had his mind clouded by irresponsible] propaganda—will hesitate in making his choice...
...The United States is not a capitalist country in the sense in which Russia is a Communist one...
...It is as sure as the law of gravitation that the first blow in any third world war will be struck by the Soviet Union For the United States is politically, psychologically and constitutionally unable to let loose the kind of surprise offensive,which Hitler launched against his partner, Stalin, in June, 1941...
...It is a changing democratic country...
...Even in the final vote on March 1R In the Cliu:">bex...
...It is based, I think, on some serious psychological and political miscalculations...
...Hitler would probably never have run amok If it had been possible to organize a preponderance of visible force against him...
...The easy victories of Russia and the Communists in the satellite countries were prepared for by the divided councils among the Socialists...
...And he devoted much attention to the supposed dangers of military domination of American foreign policy...
...One way ua which we can discharge this debt is to givfl preferential treatment to all the refugees frona iron curtain countries who make their way tA this country, or to the American Zone in GerK many...
...THE MORE WE CAN INCITE to seditiol, and treason in such countries, the better...
...Thus in an age when the most sacred principles are attacked and must be defended, they play the inglorious part of pacifists and neutrals...
...They have learned the bitter lesson of their experience in the last war...
...in complete disregard of the self-determinalian| clauses of the Atlantic Charter...
...In the western world, fre#p dom to grow and change is the very baisis dm union and strength...
...MR...
...It would indeed Involve a high tribute to Soviet loaders to assumes that, under these, circumstances, they would exercise mora self-control than would our people tinder comparable circumstances, as...
...ALFRED J. SCHWEPPE, of Seattle, is not as well known as is John Foster Dulles...
...The whole expensive and unnatural Berlin airlift would probably never have been necessary if, from the very beginning, we had stood strongly on our rights and taken the slight risk involved in running convoys through...
...But the letter expresses a viewpoint that calls for emphatic dissent...
...And why did Mr...
...Dulles also asserted that final responsibility for peace or a third world war rests .squarely on the shoulders of American statesmanship...
...no more lawful claim on the allegiance of thl | people under its domination then a gangstel ; would have to the obedience of someone he wal holding up at the point of a gun...
...In fact, I had never heard of him until I read his letter in a recent issue of the New York Times...
...History has vindicated the lesjflH of the American Revolution who protei§9 against the injustices of British rule...
...THE THEORY upon which this policy is based is, moreover, so obviously false that it does scant credit to the Socialist talent for social analysis...
...Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Opposing Ideas - Mistaken Psychology ROTH THE SUBSTANCE AND THE TONE of John Foster Dulles's address to the "Federal Council of Churches meeting in Cleveland call for an expression of dissent...
...A gowrfB ment that has no mandate from the pegpkM that owes its very existence to force and fraudf that permits no freedom of speech or presJ or election or religion—such a goverrunent hug...
...Dulles find it necessary to assure his audience that final responsibility for war or peace rests with this country...
...Our troubles are due not to the occasional firmness, but to the far more characteristic-weakness of our policy toward the Soviet Union...
...of Deputies, a considerr . >i<- traction of the Socialists abstained from casting their ballots...
...In France, de Gaulle continues to roll up the biggest vote becanse he knows where he stands and many Socialists do not...
...While Russia is clamped tight in her dictatorial dogma, the USA is constantly developing in the direction of popular rights and humanitarian provisions...
...THIS SOUNDS LIKE A MUTED VERSION of Henry Wallace...
...But if one should compare the grievance...
...It is hardly a role to arouse enthusiasm or to attract votes...
...Not one mi gbage...
...DULLES SEEMS TO BE SCARED lest we scare Stalin...
...The Norwegians and the Danes, who are most exposed t6 Soviet attack, see this point...
...MR...
...Mr...
...Schweppe...
...If war breaks out between them, their plan is to do -everything possible to avoid taking sides...
...regjjgL has the slightest element of tegUftita/^H one res$ecttf any of the fundamental mflj^l freedoms...
...And in this fight the United States is on the right side and Soviet Russia is on the wrong one...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 14
