FRANCO NOT DANGER TO PEACE; RUSSIA IS
LEWIS, ALFRED BAKER
Franco Not Danger to Peace; Russia Is from ALFRED BAKER LEWIS S AMUEL GRAFTON is an excellent representative of the type of fuzzyminded liberal who has been taken into camp by Communist...
...1949), commenting on the fate of the Truman program in Congress, you state: Not only was the President—speaking vigorously for these proposals— given a whooping majority but the Congressional candidates advocating them got the largest votes...
...Franco's neighbors, France and Portugal, do not fear an attack from him as Russia':: non-Communist neighbors fear her...
...Of course, Mr...
...So OM m* east print the are Host number ef divergent opinions on diverse' subjects, we toojeest yen Ilaeit yew letters *e 214 weeds er less...
...Save us from sinful listening...
...Surely this difference in imperialist aggression means that the Russian dictatorship, as long as it pursues its present policies, is a danger to world peace, while the Spanish dictatorship i9 not...
...Truman is President...
...180 225 25 Enlisted Men: 1st Grade $165 $202 22% 2nd " 135 172 27 3rd " 115 142 23 4th " 100 120 20 5th " 90 97 7.7 6th " 80 82 2.5 7th " 75 75 0.0 The Private 7th Class, or recruit in the new Army classification, receives no increase...
...The first two ¦easels ate at a seaside resort the second two In the cathedral city of Durham, end lbs final three in a country house...
...Smith Square, Uftoen...
...Of this vote, Truman received 24,045,052, or about 49.6 percent—definitely not a "whooping majority...
...The courses offered •Meet te saepe* latent for the genMel election, expected next year, ami a high percentage of the stu•eats eeese from working-class tea%e««HMts...
...All this unwanted emphasis on airplanes is part of a Republican plot to seize control of the country...
...If popular vote were the index, only the 1820 election of Monroe and Roosevelt's 1936 triumph could be called real manda tes.—Editors...
...In addition to lectures and discussions, outdoor recreation and evening entertainment is arranged, nates are about $22 a week, and reservations may be made for one or more weeks...
...MONTHLY WAGES Percent Officers: Present Base New Base Increase Major Generals $733 $975 33% Brigadier Generals 550 810 47 Colonels 366 600 63 Lt...
...But there is no point in talking about a "whooping majority...
...As a reader of The New Leader, a social democrat of 50 years' standing, and a member of UWF, I am not afraid of being sneered at as a world government "perfectionist" by alleged "practical men" who refuse to realize that If they were to represent the energy of TNT by the thickness of the dime they now pay as subway fare, a stack of dimes twice as high as Mount Everest wouldn't indicate the comparable energy of plutonium...
...He says we are likely to be less antagonistic to Spain than to Russia, and this he thinks would be wrong...
...July 2 to It...
...It is difficult to establish which Congressmen received the "largest votes...
...LABOR PARTY HOLD SUMMER SCHOOLS A splendid opportunity for American visitors to Britain is offered by the summer schools arranged by the Fabian Society and the Labour Party...
...The Fabian Society, 11 Dartssouih Street...
...The enlisted men, in which it is reported the Army abounds, get an average increase of only 15 per cent...
...SW 1. England...
...Russia Is from ALFRED BAKER LEWIS S AMUEL GRAFTON is an excellent representative of the type of fuzzyminded liberal who has been taken into camp by Communist propaganda...
...In point of fact, of course, the oppo - tit ion of the liberal section of American public opinion to Soviet Russia is not because Russian Communism is likely to attract our people to Communism, but because Russian imperialist ^agression is a threat to world peace...
...Nor is there, much point in talking so indignantly about the "mandate" handed down by the voters on November 2, 1948...
...Far from being ah "illusion," the prospective utilization of a war explosive SO 1mllionfold as energetic as an equal glass ' of TNT has made world government a necessity, despite all the pleas of Warren R. Austin and others who obviously despise popular sentiment already expressed by referendum* in Massachusetts «nd Connecticut...
...The Fabian Society is scheduling Sve summer schools, covering the five weeks from July 23 to August 27...
...The New Leader, which so ably discloses political machinations to its readers, may be able to disclose this musical cryptography...
...Hates ase sheet 121 •or week, and reservations may be mode for one or more weeks...
...Why Air Force...
...Dear Editon: T*e N*» I—ear leostsgei alt letiees...
...The total vote cast for Presidential candidates in 1948 was, according to the World Almanac, 48,489,217...
...New York...
...Unless vJgHsct eaei hnow when to turn eel the radio, the peMtkal perfidy will continue to iavade wmuspectiag American hornet...
...and August 27 to September 17...
...Write Uwiss.»aimps...
...It was largely this free and easy talk about the "mandate" that was responsible for labor's self-defeating attitude on the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, as Louis Stark so ably pointed out in the article right next to your editorial...
...New York, N. Y. • ? ? (Since Presidents are still chosen by the Electoral College, Mr, Truman's 308 of 435 electoral votes—despite conservative pundits—can be safely called a "whooping majority...
...Never was a mandate given by voters more unmistakable than the one handed down last November...
...N. Y. Possible From Nf RSf «T M. Ml MILL Talk ABOUT the meeting of "extremes...
...Airplanes are not safe, and we have enough trucks, trains and ships...
...Franco's dictatorship, although equally abhorrent in its denial of democracy and civil rights, has no such record of aggression nor is it likely to...
...Evidently listeners to Chopin are lulled into his sociological atmosphere...
...but as to the Presidential elections thesfigures are quite clear...
...Not only did President Truman not receive a "whooping majority...
...trsiepsselwi *f owbjosi er yeisu efvftew...
...NAVY, AIR FORCE...
...That may be, but Sousa, the march king, wasn't much on walking...
...As one of many devoting themselves to furthering the realization of a "parliament of man" and "federation of the world" in our own time, I am astonished at Chamberlin's attitude toward the effect of man's weapons on the shape of man's political institutions...
...Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey and Public "Health Service will receive major wage increases of a highly discriminatory nature if the measure unanimously approved by the Hoiise Armed Services Committee in Washington on May 13,1949, is subsequently approved by the Congress and HST...
...SW 1. EngTbe Labour Party is scheduling •even schools, for the weeks June 11 te 21...
...The "mandate," if any, is very far from being "unmistakable...
...1 The post of Secretary of the Air Force should be abolished...
...he actually received a minority of the votes cast...
...London...
...The UN, as at present constituted, however, cannot take a stand against Soviet Russia because of the veto...
...The pay scale for the Army as approved by the Committee offers an interesting parallel with the current wage drive of the unions, denounced as the "fourth round of wage increases...
...In my opinion all this money is Just being thrown out at a time when we are short of money...
...Colonels 320 480 50 Majors 275 405 47 Captains 230 . 330 43 1st Lts...
...Truman Won by Plurality From WILL HERKRG IN YOUR FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL, "Whose Mandate" (New Leader, May 14...
...Schenectady, N. Y. Music's Charms Not Political From JUNIUS ¦. WOOD WILL YOU KINDLY SrjPW.Y an article on how to identify a person's secret political or social beliefs by' musical nuances...
...Labor Watches Service Brass Get Fourth-Round Pay Rise From DICK DEVERALL THE ARMY...
...New York, N. Y. FAIIANS...
...200 262 31 2nd Lts...
...Election Gave No Mandate...
...Silver Sprlag, Md...
...With all Oallup's explanations, we'd never realized before that Haary'speann got more w>tes than Tom's adenoids...
...The UN has been taking a stand against Franco, and rightly so in my opinion...
...Truman, therefore, actually received about 2j percent of the votes of the eligible voters...
...When a national anthem, church hymn or college song is whistled or hummed, it may be assumed that the harmony producer is sympathetic to the institution to which the piece is dedicated...
...How can an anarchist be flushed out from behind his whiskers when caught in a musical mood...
...List's serious statement that music has a hidden meaning for discriminating ears, I'd accepted The New Leader's wrathfulty facetious con* elusions that Moscow's purge of—musicians was a pretext for more obvious doctrinal dissent...
...Write Andrew Fil•on...
...It is now disclosed that insidious aausteal propaganda goes deeper than tune tMfcas and possibly meter and rhythm...
...WejMi Hens...
...On a par with tossing out a delegate who whistles "The Beer Barrel Polka" at a WTCU convention with an explanation that she was disturbing the peace...
...But that is no reason why we should regard Soviet Russia moi ¦ tenderly than we do Franco Spain so far as public opinion is concerned...
...Grafton, in a recent column, was trying to tell his readers that the argument that we should send an ambassador to Spain, which is a dictator.ahip, because we send one to Russia, which is a dictatorship, is false...
...In his erudite review of Chopin, Mr...
...Labor is being berated for seeking wage increases in- a time of "disinflation," etc., etc...
...Evidently there is a deeper meaning than such mere titles...
...From JRVfNw NEW hi AN The HOUSE COMMITTEE on Appropriations approved the sum of $6,215,709,000 for the Air Force for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1980...
...This dsesrti—li totVwas* wees yen...
...Does a stirring march, jiggling polka, rumba hop, lullaby or dreamy waltz brand the warbler as a Communist, Socialist, Fair Dealer, pacifist or capitalist...
...The Labour Party...
...And unlike Chamberlin, I'm not thinking of an Einstein, either by implication or otherwise, as a fool...
...And remember that only 51.2 percent of those eligible to vote actually did so...
...Kurt List says, "Each note can be traced accurately to sociological environment...
...It will be noted that the average increase for the impoverished officer class is 42 per cent...
...Here one can study the problems of Labour Britain, and at the same lime become acquainted with many active workers in the Labour Party and the trade union movement...
...Until Mr...
...Dewey received somewhat less, and that is why Mr...
...Fancy Ilya Ehrenberg and William Henry Qfcamberlin both calling wtnjdg ovenaWoAt a "Utopian IUuslonM...
...These are held at a large boose in the countryside, and are attended by a hundred students of all ages...
...List possibly can supply the key to the hidden cede...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 22
