RIDING TWO HORSES
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where The News Ends Riding Two Horses By William Henry Chamberlin EVEN THE MOST AGILE CIRCUS acrobat would get a bad fall if he tried to ride two horses going in opposite directions. This is...
...But we have yet to see Djugashvili or Scriabin published in parentheses after Stalin or Molotov...
...The admission that about one third of the votes cast were negative in the plebiscite, is unique in the long and dreary history of communist and fascist fake ballots...
...Second, German foreign trade transactions are under the supervision of an Anglo-American agency...
...Hula continued, "know they have lost a fine leader and a great spirit...
...Fernando de los Rios, former Spanish Republican ambassador to the U. S., has deprived democracy of a world-renowned scholar and fighter...
...It is difficult to convince Germans that this supervision is not sometimes abused in order to stifle German competition...
...It is completely incompatible with the policy of building up Germany to participate in the European economy...
...But he can scarcely be enthusiastic over governments which have robbed him as thoroughly as the Russians could have done...
...And this is how most Germans, whether Right or Left, feel about the restrictions and obstructions which hamper their ability to support a population formidably swollen by deported refugees...
...from the overwhelming westward movement of German refugees...
...Fernandos de los Rios THE RECENT DEATH of Dr...
...No propaganda, however skillful or well organized, can blur the contrast between America's role as supplier of food and raw materials to Western Germany and Russia's as plunderer of Eastern Germany's industrial and agricultural output...
...I know of a journalist, never a Nazi party member or sympathizer, who lost his life savings through this arbitrary procedure...
...One wonders why, since there was no independent check, a larger pro-Soviet majority was not announced...
...That the Germans appreciate this contrast is evident from the attitude of Berlin during the blockade...
...Finally, denouncing the American Jewish Committep for harboring wealthy Jews and "radicals," O'Connor came as close as he dared to himself employing a familiar anti-Semitic smear...
...What O'Connor elects to ignore is that "some" Jews were attacked by Stalinites in the classic manner reserved for all Jews by anti-Semites since time immemorial— as "rootless," "homeless" and "cosmopolitan" Moreover, O'Connor makes light of the fact that 49 out of 50 intellectuals attacked in Russia in a two-month period were Jews...
...And between these and the steady attrition of Jewish culture wherever the hammer and the sickle waves...
...says O'Connor of the charge that this is a new practice aimed at Russian Jews...
...Suppose a group of workers were deprived of the opportunity to earn their living by the arbitrary action of some individuals who then proceeded to dole out charity to the workers on a rather meager basis...
...chances of a bad diplomatic and economic fall cannot be ruled out...
...The most plausible explanation is that so many "No" votes were cast, that the announcement of a ninety or ninety-five percent "Ja" vote would only have aroused uproarious laughter, while a more modest claim might be believed...
...This is two and a half times the indemnity France was required to pay after the Franco-Prussian War...
...but because Western policy in Getv many has been contradictory and has not shetj all its destructionist features...
...Are all Jews being attacked, or just some Jews...
...the result of the cold war...
...Father Coughlin never "really" disliked Jews "as such," but only a "bad" minority of them...
...First, there is a long list of restricted and prohibited industries, only few of which can be justified on the ground of preventing rearmament...
...Yet it would be a grave illusion to believe that a majority of Germans are enthusiastically pro-Western, although a majority certainly have been pretty effectively inoculated against communism by their experience with the Soviet occupation...
...His closing panegyric to Soviet "socialism" makes the Daily Worker seem tepid and his attack on nonCommunist liberals would do Westbrook Pegler proud...
...Dr...
...LET US CONSIDER what some of these dis* abilities are...
...If there were a prize for journalistic prostitution, we would highly recommend O'Connor and the Compass for it...
...TOM O'CONNOR in New York's latest fellow-traveling organ, the Daily Compass, sets out to prove that antiSemitism does not exist in the U.S.S.R...
...A frequent contributor to The New Leader, Don Fernando's passing is a personal loss to us and our readers...
...Dismantling was always a highly wasteful method of exacting reparations...
...There is probably no historical instance of a victorious country spending so much for the relief of a defeated country...
...The return of property suitably identified as stolen during the Nazi occupation was simple elementary justice...
...The Western powers got off to a good start in Paris when Acheson, Bevin and Schuman made it clear that there is no question of going back to the infamous Potsdam Agreement, which violated every principle of justice, humanity and economic commonsense...
...But it is just these collective phenomena—and especially the articulated desire of countless Jews to depart Soviet-run territory for Israel— which reveal the hostility of Russia to things Jewish and in turn make necessary the promulgation of anti-Semitic measures...
...There would not be much cause for gratitude...
...Despite the more favorable outlook opened up by the lifting of the Berlin blockade and the formal acceptance of the West German constitution...
...so far as Germany is concerned, would seem to be a matter of simple arithmetic...
...The United States, since the end of the war...
...Fourth, so-called restitution has become a racket...
...asks O'Connor...
...The greatest tribute the Spanish people can offer the spirit of de los Rios is to prepare the way for the speedy return of, "his comrades-in-arms to the leadership of Spain...
...western zones, impairing or sometimes destroying the livelihood of whole communities, has excited bitterness out of all proportions to any economic benefit this measure can bring the countries which receive the equipment...
...Fifth, all German property and patents abroad, regardless of whether the owners were Nazi, non-Nazi or even anti-Nazi, were confiscated...
...Erich Hula of the New School of Social Research at de los Rios'funeral.The Spanish emigrewas professor emeritus at the New School, where he had taught from 1939 till 1948...
...These two attitudes will not mix any more than oil and water...
...This is what the Western powers have been and stdl are doing in Germany...
...But "restitution'' has now been stretched to the point where goods bought in good faith in countries outside Germany, by normal commercial means, can be seized...
...The sooner this elementary political and psychological truth is recognized, the better will be the prospects for a decisive victory in Europe...
...It is regular Soviet practice to print both the pen name and the family name of authors when they are mentioned in connection with any official or state matter...
...WHEN ONE FURTHER CONSIDERS that the Soviet Union has taken out of Germany by official and unofficial pillage much more than America has put in...
...With us today are mourning the people of your country who, no matter what their present leader tells them...
...and from the fiasco of the recent Communist-organized plebiscite in the Soviet zone...
...This man would normally have been prowestern in sympathy...
...The Course of The Compass' MR...
...It is impossible to treat Germany simultaneously as a desirable associate in European reconstruction and as a conquered, distrusted and hated enemy subject to discrimination and exploitation...
...From the repudiation of Potsdam there should be an easy and logical forward step to a Germany freed from onesided economic controls and closely integrated with a free Europe...
...You were a great Spaniard but you were also a great European," eulogized Dr...
...He worked up a fine lynch spirit, into the bargain, against the Jewish Labor Committee, the ILGWU and The New Leader...
...Third, the dismantling of factories in the...
...Nor is this, as some suggest, because Germans as a people are hopelessly m$ reasonable...
...O'Connor airily dismisses the coincidence between renewed attacks on Zionism and the new anti-Semitism in Russia...
...has put two and half million dollars into Germany, partly in Army appropriations and partly in ERP funds...
Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 24
