SOLID SUMMER READING
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News End Solid Summer Reading By William Henry Chambarian THERE WAS A TIME when "light simmer reading" was one of the standard cliches of the publishing field. The idea waa that as...
...for his brilliant leadership of the Republican-Democrat coalition which defeated the Administration on Taft-Hartley may be a crack at the Presidency in 1952...
...Taft's Reward...
...First, of course, he must win re-election to theSenate next year, when Taft-Hartley will become a major issue and the unions * formidable obstacle...
...She applied the same methqd of direct investigation to the plight of the wretched German deportees and the fairness of war crimes trials...
...As Fischer says, "the book should create love for the Russian people and understanding of the Soviet, dictatorship...
...He is especially keen and penetrating in.his analysis of how unlimited popular sovereignty, without careful checks and balances, designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state, may turn into extreme tyranny...
...Both Morley and de Jouvenel have much to contribute in analyzing the nature of totalitarian philosophy and distinguishing true liberalism from false...
...Bertrand de Jouvenel, a brilliant French publicist, has made a contribution to political' thought worthy, in its best passages, of Mill and Burke and Acton and Montesquieu...
...She uncovered what is little short of a racket in the arbitrary seizure of German property under the guise of "restitution...
...For Miss Utley is a most energetic reporter...
...and anti-labor lines, this will be due in great part because the Democrats plan to oppose Taft in Ohio a political nonentity (Governor Frank Lausche has said he will not run...
...Talking behind her bach Is aoolaedlt set indite...
...Tj^ ranks Jm increased by * steady MttyJrfcd Arfsf deserters and Civilian fugitive...
...She went to communities where dismantling was in process and tells what it means to workers' families who depend on these plants for their livelihood...
...A most combative and controversial volume is Freda Utley's The High Cost of Vengeance (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, $3.50...
...THIRTEEN WHO FLED, edited by Louis Fischer (Harper and Brothers, New York, $3.00), is a difficult job well performed...
...It is well worth reading if only as *-«taf*ri*nt *oTW»fcrTeva*ce?r df tlfif average intelligent German who is neither a communist nor a nazi...
...For guidance, we therefore refer them to...
...Crippling restrictions on non-mili- - tary German industry, dismantling, indiscriminate confiscation of patents and private property, petty jimcrow discrimination imposed on Germans are listed as acts of vengeance...
...Morley gives'an admirable exposition-^f-trle~"' roots and underlying philosophy of the American Revolution, The title of his book is a phrase first used by William Penn, and thereis some very clear thinking on the meaning and conditions of liberalism and democracy, liberty and freedom...
...When it comes to the pork barrel, Congress never gets fed up, no matter how often and how generously they dig their teeth into it...
...pen Points The scientist who asserted that psychiatrists could rule nations bettor than politicians may bo going just a woe bit too far...
...This, like the...
...An Englieb* woniMf'fcyTHrlh, art American by naturalization, Freda Utley has a long background of experience as author, journalist and economist in various parts of the world, including the Soviet Union, China and Japan...
...People (D...
...I HAVE VERY LITTLE SPACE LEFT for two books of first-rate importance in political science...
...Yet this is a very live book and it contains much material which cannot be found elsewhere...
...Granted the world is cockoyod...
...According to a biography approved by John L. Lewie, he geti along very well urtth children...
...Van Nostrand Company, New York, $3.50), and Bertrand de Jouvenel's On Power (Viking Press, New York, $5.00...
...The author sometimes overstates her case and throws off emotional judgments which are calculated to excite anger rather than real analysis...
...Truman dropped into the lap of the Democrats' Elsa Maxwell, in the form of the ambassadorship to Luxemburg, points up the growing Administration trend toward rewarding cronies and freezing out real friends — the liberals who made 1948's successes possible...
...The liberals, either unworried or incapable of real independent thought and action, seem more confused and divided than ever...
...Such appointments, plus inability tojjive outstanding popular and legislative leadership, may render the Fair Deal a hollow slogan by 1952...
...Coming from • "conservative" AFL leader, Mr...
...Pearl for Mesta . . . which Mr...
...Fischer estimates them at about tsmtf g mXk^miSm in the Allied zones of Germany AM in goufc 'tries outside thai iron f-*-fr Mnsl W^mm prisoners and deported laborers' ktin jjftlWpi not to return after the War...
...She recently spent a few months in Berlin and Western Germany and did not like what she found there...
...Mejrrft B« Ctssyeess...
...sU's offer to sottlToreosf peJ^m^^^^tt Athens' participation...
...Despite approval of economy in principle, the Senate voted a huge sum for river and harbor control...
...If old-fashioned despotism was the main threat to liberty in the nineteenth century...
...Truman's Victory...
...She was not' content to accept military government assurances that dismantling* imposed no real hardship on the German economy...
...Meanwhile...
...on housing was in certain respects a people's victory — although 15 million people of color will scarcely benefit from its essentially Jim Crow provisions — because it represents a milestone in the struggle between human welfare politics and the politics of vested interest...
...totalitarianism, in lis twin communist and fascist forms, often using democratic forms and demagogic phraseology, has been a subtler and more serious menace in the twentieth...
...But terror and espionage, hard Hiving conditions and the contrast between Russia and the outside world, are general common denominators...
...Moany's Warning .. that labor by no jneaas regard* the* twoparty system as eternal Off vital, and that "labor will go as far down the road [of independent political action] as time and events prove it necessary...
...to go" (see page 5, this issue...
...It is just hit tough lucfc that the public it orown-up and matutt...
...But, no one need, be deluded that the fight is over, for the National Association of Real Estate Boards can now be expected to sabotage public housing in an attempt to prove that "socialism" means disastrous experimentation...
...Perhaps the House would be more satisfactory if the lobbies were not so cluttered...
...Beth^ deal, from somewhat different angles, with a tremendously important subject: the "nature, origins, sanctions and limitations of the power which governments wield over peoples...
...Large numbers of Soviet citizens (Mr...
...uiayAmprove Ugislatm att Sround...
...What tnliJ»a*Tis a cross-section of Soviet life: for tfceijgcgv tributors are of both sexes and of various occupations...
...The Congressional resolution to investigate , all tobbgdng ootjvitia...
...If he wins, and if in* 1952 the whole country divides along pro...
...The idea waa that as the hot days rolled around, people lay in hammocks and read nothing more taxing than Pollyanna or Harold Bell Wright's tales of the open spaces...
...They are young people who *ftw up under the Soviet regime...
...These are Felix Morley's The Power in the...
...we refuse to believe it is that essay...
...She has put down what she saw and how she feels in a vehemently-written book that will irritate many people, but presents solid challenges to Western occupation policy which cannot be reasonably brushed off...
...As an economist, she makes out a convincing 'case for the proposition that the cost of vengeance is indeed high—morally, politically and economically...
...The rosurgonee of Jow-balting within the Iron Curtain proves what many people hair* long suspected scratch any totalitarian and you Sad an aail-Seaait...
...What impelled them to leave the only country they knew, and take up the bleak hie of DPs without even the.regular status assured: DPs who are not Soviet eitizens...
...Everyone has his or her own experience...
...ZJT With tha cooperation of Boris YslffjLiij former Vice President of the Soviet ft ijatjjp i of Architecture anil himself I poittteaTttfc, Louis Fischer persuaded thirteen of theM gees to tell their life stories...
...Meany's words, for that matter, should be thoroughly masticated by the reactionaries as wail at the liberals in both major parties...
Vol. 32 • July 1949 • No. 28
