READER POINTS OUT INACCURACY IN CHURCHILL'S BOSTON ADDRESS
Dziewanowski, M. K.
Reader Points Out Inaccuracy In Churchill's Boston Address From M. K. DZIEWANOWSKI MR. CHURCHILL'S inspiring address made in Boston on March 31, appears to contain certain historical...
...Irrespective of subject or petal of view...
...The battle of Vienna, on the other harid, involved not the Tartars but the Ottoman Turks when the combined Polish-Austrian forces defeated the Turkish armies besieging the Danubian capital...
...Churchill said: Four or five hundred years ago Europe seemed about to be conquered by iha Mongols...
...there were dozens of Tartar invasions after the Lignica battle...
...On the second day of the strike, a young pacifist and socialist I know called me up to ask me to conduct a class on the campus the next day...
...Sinc,e I was sympathetic to the sTxike—perhaps I wouldn't have been had I had Shub's infor.mation — I agreed...
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...Most of the strikers are Wallaceltes and there might be trouble...
...It seemed that nothing could avert the doom of the famous continent from which modern civilization and culture have spread throughout the world...
...But he and his non-Communist minority group were so intimidated by the Communists that this simple notion appeared to be quite fantastic...
...It is true it proved to be the last major Turkish invasion...
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...This made me mad, and I replied the...
...THREE MORALS can be drawn from this sad little tale...
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...Thus, Mr...
...Leslie Fielder is quite properly concerned with his own professional standards, with his own job...
...all you can do is speak for your own best feelings...
...Are the Psalms...
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...The auccession was vacant and the Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 milei which separated thorn from their capital in order to choose a successor...
...Billy Feigenbaum, as he was Universally known, graduated from Columbia University in 1908 and took a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin the following year...
...After spending some years as teacher in the New York school system, he started his newspaper career by joining the staff of the daily New York Call in 1920...
...It seems that Mr...
...Cambridge, Mass...
...It shows graphically how vitally the Rand School is built into the trade union and education life of New York...
...In both of those the chivalry and armed power of Europe was completely shattered by the Asiatic hordes—mounted archers...
...Widely known in the Socialist and labor movement and in the newspaper world, he is mourned by a wide circle of friends...
...The vagueness of his historical references seems to...
...Frank Treadway says of naturalism that "it is essentially the literature of democracy,** and that "art for art's sake" is dedicated to the cultural exclusion erf the common people...
...Bui at the critical moment something happened—the great Khan died...
...No matter what Mindszerity's politics, you pointed out well that the issue was his trial, and not himself as a personality...
...Chamberlain speaking on the eve of Munich in the autumn of 1938—defined Czechoslovakia as "one of those far-away countries of which we know so little...
...Saying, "They never returned...
...but, as the recent Waldorf Conference showed, the one political issue American fellowtravellers are really serious about is Soviet Russia...
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...Lloyd George mistook Silesia for Cilicia (in Asia Minor...
...Storm Rages In Literary Teapot From FAIRFIELD PORTER May I CONTRIBUTE an opinion to the controversy in literary criticism aroused by Leslie Fiedler...
...Is the Bible, for instance, naturalistic...
...1) Criticism of the Russian social system is considered "political" not only by the American fellow-travellers but also by their wobbly opponents...
...They are afraid your talk would give the Communists an excuse to put forward their own political line, The strike is already being smeared as Communist-dominated...
...In pictures, quotations and reminiscences, it carries the reader back to 1906 or even further...
...CHURCHILL'S inspiring address made in Boston on March 31, appears to contain certain historical inaccuracies...
...Churchill confused the Turks with the Tartars, the events of the XIII century with those of the XVII and placed them vaguely together "four or five hundred years ago" that is either in the XV or XVI century...
...It is not true that there are two alternatives, naturalism or art-for-art'ssake...
...Rand School 40 Years Old In CONNECTION WITH its fortieth fortieth anniversary the Rand School has published a souvenir volume which should not be overlooked by anyone interested in the history of1 Socialist or labor movement...
...be well in keeping with a somewhat traditional lack of information prevailing among the British statesmen as far as countries between Russia and Germany are concerned...
...Thus, it seems, Mr...
...It is indeed regrettable that a political speech of such magnitude was not supported by correct historical facts...
...In artistic and literary questions it is false to speak for other people however you classify them...
...Churchill mistakenly identified two different events and placed them vaguely "four or five hundred years ago": the battle of Lignica (Lignitz) which took place in Silesia (Poland) in the year 1241 and the battle of Vienna (Austria) of 1683...
...lei's how from you...
...It was *a stunt, he explained...
...To assert that naturalism is the literature of democracy is at best doubtful...
...I think you correctly struck, a tnedium between the crass cynicism of some and the hysteria of other sections of the press...
...But the publication is much more than history...
...Calif...
...If you assume a direct correspondence between democracy and naturalism, and if you consider other arts beside literature, you get into difficulties...
...Editor Relates His Experience During City College Strike From DWIGHT MACDONALD RE...
...New York, N. Y. William Feigenbaum Dies On APRIL 23, William Morris Feigenbaum, a former member of the editorial staff of The New Leader, passed away in Brooklyn...
...The pictures of classes and the notes on school programs give vivid pictures of styles in ideas and in clothes...
...in both cases, appeasement is taken simply as a sign of weakness, which indeed it is, as Mr...
...80 that we can print the greatest number of divergent opinions on diverse subjects, wo (•quest you limit your letters to 1M words or less...
...he demurred...
...Shub's article demonstrates...
...This is your department...
...But I suspect that he is annoyed by Fielder's manner, which appears to him high hat...
...In 1924, when the Call was discontinued and The New Leader replaced it, he continued with the weekly...
...Gothic sculpture is more naturalistic than Romanesque, but Were the 13th century guilds more democratic than those of the 11th century...
...Roman sculpture is more naturalistic than Greek, but was Rome more democratic than Athens...
...Is he himielf a common or an uncommon person...
...The battle of -Lignica marked the Westernmost advance of the Tartars who suffered heavy losses and which occurred at the time when the news of the dispute over the throne of the "great Khan" reached their ranks...
...as a matter of principle I would either give that talk or not speak at ' all...
...Of course every individual has a greater or lesser separateness, but to speak for the masses is patronizing and contemptuous, while to speak against the masses is humble and dignified and shows a regard for the value of the individual...
...Its influence has to increase if the fight between the "Rankin" and the "Roosevelt" wings of the Democratic party leads finally to the formation of a new party similar to the British Labour Party...
...their aggressiveness can no more be placated by avoiding '^provocation" than the Jews can allay anti-semitism by being "good boys...
...the student strikers were to hold their own classes, which would be given by various bigwig (and littlewig) sympathizers...
...Two great battles were fought almost on the same day near Vienna and in Poland...
...I agree entirely with you on the matter of communism, but in this last year after reading, observing and Considering, I came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is for America far more menacing and dangerous to our institutions than communism...
...They might boo you ¦ or even picket your talk...
...but if "they never returned" it was because they were soundly beaten...
...And that was that...
...ANATOLE SHUB'S INFORMATIVE ARTICLE on the CCNY student strike, my own experience may be of interest...
...As a topic I proposed "The Psychology of the Soviet Bureaucracy," mainly because I had quite a good talk on thsit already prepared...
...Hayward...
...An hour later be called back: "Sorry but the committee doesn't want political talks...
...From HERBERT FORGY IOUR TREATMENT of the Minds - zenty case reserves special commendations...
...If a specialist is more concerned with his audience than with his profession, he underrates both the audience and the profession...
...3) This appeasement never works, simply because the comrades always put forward their line to the extent they think they can get away with it...
...Can't you talk on something else...
...But Frank Treadway assumes a spokesmanshlp for the common people...
...Frank Treadway is not concerned with literature nor with the common people...
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...He had been ill for some years...
...They never returned till now...
...2) There is an unfortunately all too common type of anti-Stalinist who tries to "work with" the comrades by appeasing their pro-Russian fanaticism and giving in to their threat of strongarm tactics...
...We dpn't want to give them any provocation...
...a talk on, say, the psychology of the Argentine or the French government bureaucracy would not be considered "political" in this country...
...Feigenbaum was 62 years of age at the time of his death...
...One final ironic twist: with my usual simplemindedncss, I suggested to mv pacifist-socialist friend that one way of showing that the strike was not Com-^ munist-dominated would be precisely to permit me to lecture on Soviet bureaucracy...
...is also not correct...
...N. Y. Fan Mail From SAMSON SOLOVEITCHIK It WILL BE a great blow to true liberalism if The New Leader does not continue its extremely valuable work of cleansing American liberal thought from the last residues of Sovietomania If I sometimes don't agree with some of the articles published by you, I don't hesitate, however, to say that The New Leader is the best of the leading American political magazines...
...He said he would check with his group and let me know...
...Your attitude in regard to Cardinal Mindszenty, whom I consider a fascist, reactionary scoundrel, has been for me disgusting...
...In 1930 he left this paper to work for the Brooklyn Standard-Union and various other papers...
...Mind you, .this was a socialist, who was working . With the non-Commu?itst group in the strike leadership...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 19
