WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Markham Lifts the Iron Curtain IF THERE WERE A PULITZER PRIZE for reporting conditions behind the iron curtain, Reuben Markham would be a strong...
...One would think that keeping their purchasing power high would be one of the' main objectives- of every intelligent Congressman...
...a number of messages of congratulation...
...Its six hundred pages pack in everything worth knowing about Rumania during and since the war...
...Disliking American journalists who insist on reporting life in an iron curtain country at the grass roots, the Soviet occupation authorities finally threw Markham out...
...One, from a well-known American schola^who spenf some time in Moscow", reflects trie upsurge of joy that was practically universal among those, who knew Anna and her activities: .** "I have just read your piece...
...Some four years ago a group of American Correspondents and writers disgraced themselves and their profession by signing a canned party-line denunciation of William L. White's Report on the Russians...
...But the general manager of the Atlanta team had the right answer...
...Markham shows how the antagonism of the Hungarians in Transylvania to the Rumanians was cunningly exploited by Stalin's puppet regime, how the army was made an instrument of Communist domination, and how the courts became the last places in the world to seek justice...
...e M 'si MY RECENT COLUMN on the poetic justice meted out to Anna Louise Strong has elicit...
...Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Markham Lifts the Iron Curtain IF THERE WERE A PULITZER PRIZE for reporting conditions behind the iron curtain, Reuben Markham would be a strong candidate on the strength of his excellent new book, Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke (Meador Publishing Company, Boston, $4.00...
...As-Jackie Robinson entered the ballpark for the first game, he was surrounded by a crowd- < of autograph-hunting children, Negro and, white...
...Their needs are the heart of the market for all sorts of goods...
...But this was after he had gathered a mine of information, which he has supplemented by close study of material coming out of Rumania since his forced departure...
...The-fact that no one knows what the scheme will cost is against it...
...the last story he was able to send to the Nation j before he was shut off altogether by the Red ban on news correspondence, contained a plaintive bleat that ''representatives of publications friendly to the Communists' reform program are treated just as coldly as those who write...
...As the three game series drew near...
...Other workers are stalled off...
...THE RESULT IS A BOOK THAT GIVES all the answers«about Rumania: the names...
...He toured the country in an old car, risked arrest and a broken head by going to opposition peasant meetings, and refreshed his old knowledge of how Rumanian villagers live...
...Unable to back up the paper promises of Yalta with any strong sanctions, it adopted one futile compromise after another, finally recognizing one of the most unrepresentative of all the iron curtain governments...
...Served Her...
...Practically everyone favors the farm plan, but the program for labor has been",delayed for three months in a slow-motioh snake dance...
...It will mean that the country folks can buy about, that much from their friends in the city...
...It seems' Dodgers Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, asifje.from being a "great second baseman and a good catcher, are also, members of a race whose right to live as human beings Dr...
...recqrds, and technique of its Communist bosses...
...And the nation whose national game is baseball learned that in the state of Herman Talmadge, as .in the city of Bill O'Dwyer, the, grey flannels of the Dodgers mean more thah the white bed-sheets of the Ku KIux Klafr...
...Every argument in favor, of Secretary Brannan's farm plan applies to President Truman program of labor legislation...
...When the games were announced last winter, Dr...
...Within two years after Vlshinsky placed Romania in Communist hands, production fall to 45% of what It was in 1931/ the national Income dropped from 1.300 million dollars to Ism than 600 million...
...The mills of the gods proverbially grind slowly...
...But they seem to be grinding up fellow-travelers pretty swiftly at the present time...
...The three games set a new attendance record for the state of Georgia: 49,309 people came to see the series in a park that seats only 14,000...
...the way in which the Soviet Union has bled the country white...
...the man-hunts for slave labor among German-descended Rumanians and fugitives from Bessarabia...
...Editorials— For Labor Parity FARMERS AND WAGE WORKERS together form the great majority of the American people...
...The reception of Agriculture Secretary Brannan's proposal for subsidizing farm prices shows that, in the eyes of many Congressmen, the two great groups of citizens are not viewed with equal favor...
...America plays a weak and pitiful role in Markham's candid narrative...
...Samuel Green, grand something-or-other of the Klan screamed bloody murder...
...It is gratifying to report that at least one of this group has been expelled from Russia with the "spy" tag pinned on him, and that several others haye been refused permission to enter the country...
...Green said he and 10,000 others would boycott the Atlanta minor league baseball club for the rest of the Season as a reprisal for allowing Negroes to compete on the same field with the whites...
...Right.' That was precisely the thought that came to my mind the instant I heard that our.' old pal was being expelled from Russia...
...The arguments in favor of this new plan are impressive...
...At the hands of the legislators there is every reason why both of them should enjoy "preferred" -treatment...
...It is not forgotten that ten years of farm poverty led up to,the depression of 1929...
...All that could have been foreseen as Byrnes signed the Moscow Protocol (of December, 1945...
...the cost of llving increased 24.670 percent} banknote circuit, lion...
...In doing so, they also punctured a big hole in, the myth that the Ku Klux Klan and its political hirelings represent the South...
...They cast most of the votes, and they consume most of the nation's products...
...Things have been this way time out of mind...
...Prices fcTthe housewife are to.be allowed to sink to their "natural" level, but the farmer's income will be held high by an adjusted subsidy...
...but in two respects the farmers and wage workers are supreme...
...As Markham says: "The Bolshevik world had made a monkey of America...
...That's what the Kremlin gave Rumania's 'toll-, ing masses.'" . J No one who waiits to know what the irony curtain conceals should missHhis ^vividly writ* ten, solid, authoritative book...
...I doubt," he said, "if Dr, Green knows 10,000 people...
...It is about time lb take this matter MP in a serious mannet,-KKK Shut Out THE BROOKLYN DODGERS, a major baseball team "of sorts, played three exhibition games in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend...
...There are good reasons why Congressmen and editors should favor this plan.- . ¦ -v* . * * * , f. • ¦', BUT THINK ABOUT THE WORKERS in factories, in mines, and on lines of transportation...
...and commercial exports practically ceased...
...Jumped from 211 billion lei to 3,025 billion...
...But, on the other hand, if it keeps the total farm income at $26,234,000,000—the average for the past decade-^that will be a fine thing...
...Markham is a journalist of long Balkan experience who is well known for his contributions to The New Leader...
...Anna's case comes fairly close to the song from the Mikado about making the punishment fit the crime...
...You recall that one about the billiard expert who had to play on 'table untrue with a twisted cue and with elliptical billiard balls.'" Anna LouiseJStrorig is not the only one who has been "served right" as a result of Moscow's frenzied spy-hunt among fellow-travelers...
...There are some five times as many of them as there are workers on the farms...
...Another example of the author's hard-hitting qualities, which are fully backed up-^tvith minute detail, is this summary of Rumania's economic plight: " "The Rumanian common people are producing far leas than formerly and are receiving f« less from abroad to enable them to restore their producing capacity...
...In addition it had filled Rumanian ¦ Jails, driven desperate Rumanian patriots to the woods, dug many a fresh Rumanian grave, robbed a people of Its Independence, destroyed the hopes of Us common men and women, and placed fetters' on a nation's property, mine} and spirit...
...Middle class groups have great importance in many ways...
...Or consider the case of Andrew Roth, one of six individuals arretted in 1945 in connection with the removal of documents from the State...
...Farmers are listened to...
...Green disputes...
...Department, and an ardent sympathizer with Oriental communism Established in Peking as correspondent' for }he Nation, he probably had visions of exclusive interviews with Mao Tse^ tung and a general court-favorite status...
...In President Truman's Fair Deal program, both of them occupied prominent places...
...for right-wing journals...
...In Rumania in 1946 he took advantage of the relative freedom of travel which still existed for American correspondents...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 16
