RADICAL'S RETURN TO RELIGION DEEMED 'FAILURE OF NERVE'
Cantwell, John
Radicals' Return to Religion Deemed 'Failure of Nerve' From JOHN CANTWELL THE ATTENTION RIVETED by the Luce press on George Orwell's horrifying futurama, Nineteen Eighty-Four, has persuaded me...
...Annual Eugene Victor Debs Banquet: Sunday, October 80, at the Hotel Henry Hudson...
...If T. S. Eliot Is 'Civilized' This Reader Prefers Savag'rv Frost JOHN LYONS AFTER READING RAMON SENDER'S PIECE on T. S. Eliot I don't know whether I want to be civilized or culturfd—it seems it's bard to be both...
...This man is an anachronism in Labor ^England...
...Frank Crosswaith, chairman, Negro Labor Committee...
...BELL'S INTEREST in religious humanism and his call to "accept (the world) in all its frightening implications" are most revealing...
...He then cites the British wagefreeze and the new central intelligence set-up as indications that even the liberty-loving may be helping destroy liberty...
...The 1949 Journal goes to press this month...
...Israel Feinberg, vice-president, I.L.G.W.U., and manager of the Cloakmakers Joint Board...
...Israel Feinberg, vice-president...
...Cap and Millinery Workers, AFL: Abraham Miller, . secretary-treasurer, New York Joint Board, A.C.W.A., CIO: Councilman Louis P. Goldberg...
...But a short while ago I read another piece about Eliot and his friend Ezra Pound...
...Let Mr...
...John Dewey's pragmatism and D. H. Lawrence's blood-cult proto-fascism can both be traced to Rousseau, but no one would dare equate progressive schools with strength-through-joy camps...
...I.L.G.W.U...
...Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington...
...Radicals' Return to Religion Deemed 'Failure of Nerve' From JOHN CANTWELL THE ATTENTION RIVETED by the Luce press on George Orwell's horrifying futurama, Nineteen Eighty-Four, has persuaded me to articulate my initial irritation at Daniel Bell's review of that book (The New Leader, June 25)—a review which illustrated only too sadly the great failure of nerve of a whole generation of radicals and former radicals...
...Hillyer quotes, from page 17: "from their seats the blond bastards, and cast 'em A the yidd is a stimulant, and the goym are cattle iu gt/proportion and go to salable cla tighter " With maximum of docility...
...He fails to consider that the Bolshevik triumph was made possible by a most fortuitous combination of circumstances —including democratic stupidity (Trotsky said 400 troops could have wiped Bolshevism off the earth in November, 1817...
...Oakland...
...Hitler's senseless terror-in the Ukraine, which thrust a hasty blanket over the growing Vlassov movement after it had recruited less than half a million men...
...Bell says, "that Orwell has written an effective picture of totalitarianism, but not democratic socialism...
...Does the British-minded Mr...
...It is interesting to note that both Stalin and Hitler were "mama's boys," a fact borne out by their later sex lives (note the mysterious suicide of Stalin's second wife and Hitler's unconsumated affair with Eva Braun...
...Men like Mr...
...and political conduct (witness the conquests of their fatherlands, Georgia and Austria...
...Louis Yagoda, f6rmer national executive, Workmen's Circle: Meyer Levenstein, city chairman, S.D.F., toastmaster...
...members on December 1st to January 1st...
...Special meetings of all branches will be held during the next few weeks to elect delegates and alternates...
...The Russian experience colors Mr...
...This award of one thousand dollars went to the man, to quote Mr...
...Bell's viewpoint too much, it seems...
...His is not culture, but Kultur...
...Bell give them time, and meanwhile, have faith in man as the meaure of oil things...
...and Mrs...
...Bell, more generally, overlooks one great truth of social causation in democratic life: law not initially sanctioned by popular mores and folksways can never endure...
...Eliot condone his intimate friend, Pound, who referred to the "arsenal of judeocracy," to "niggers" and "kikes...
...It was written in The Saturday Review of Literature by Robert Hillyer, president of the Poetry Society and'a winner of the Pulitzer prize, and what he has to say about him makes my uncouth soul prefer that I should be civilized...
...From the prize winning 'Pisan Cantos," containing some of the most obscene guttersnipe type of gibberish, Mr...
...Not only an intimate of Ezra Pound the traitor, he is likewise a disciple of Dr...
...New Jersey State Outing: Sunday...
...Bell assumes that because Stalin and Atlee both derive from Marx, Russian authoritarianism .should be compared with true socialism (which by definition must be democratic...
...Evidence of totalitarian intentions is hard to find in true socialist states like Sweden, New Zealand and Norway...
...What are the safeguards and checks, he asks, against what may be "irreversible steps...
...most normal men express themselves in less cosmic ways like sex, art, sports, work, etc...
...Speakers: Max Zaritsky, president, United Hatters...
...Calif...
...by the supposed methods of science, the radical has lost faith in science — i. e., he has lost faith in mankind and in himself...
...THESE FEW PARAGRAPHS — the very essence of the failure of nerve — arouse a plethora of objections, starting with the use of italics to distinguish democratic socialism from some other mythical variety...
...It has since been maintained by an equally fortuitous sequence of events—including both democratic and totalitarian stupidity...
...Eliot, an American expatriate, who even as far back as 1932 at the University of Virginia voiced his anti-Semitic sentiments—"reasons of race and religion combine to make any number of free thinking Jews undesirable,' "a spirit of excessive tolerance is to be deprecated"—and who aspired to the Poet Laureatship of England, is the Eliot who influenced to a great extent the award to Ezra Pound for the best American poetry via the 'Library "of Congress...
...City Convention, September 12-13...
...Take for example...
...As soon as he stepped on American soil he officially lost his mind and is nqw lodged in a comfortable room which any of our wounded veterans would envy, in St...
...MR...
...Speakers: Mr...
...Prohibition demonstrated this quite simply...
...Sender says, the "highest goal of a culture is to produce a poet and he refers to Eliot, I'd rather be uncultured and more civilized...
...If, as Mr...
...Jung, the psychoanalyst and great admirer of Hitler...
...S. Silverberg, Jewish Labor Commitee and treasurer of the Workmen's Circle...
...As Lewis Gannett once said about this, he "has made himself a man without a country, is uncomfortable about it and rationalizes his own rootlessness...
...Bell should look twice at the theologians' idea that "the human condition is limited" because "the ego is a form of power...
...Religion and superstition are as old as man, but psychology and sociology are infant sciences — despite their tremendous strides during the last half century...
...Here Mr...
...Hillyer, who had been "arrested in Italy on the charge of treason, was pronounced sane and seemed ripe for hanging...
...New York, N. Y. SDF News NATIONAL National Executive Committee: A motion is being voted upon by mail on the wording of the referendum to be voted upon by all S.D.F...
...But other than our protestations of sincerity and intentions of decency, what concrete dikes are we erecting against the, rising flood-tide of Jjorror...
...October 9th, to Camp Solidarity, Lincoln Park, N- JNEW YORK CITY "Roads to Freedom" Forum, WEVD, August 9th, 9 to 9:30 p. m. Topic: "What We Saw in Europe...
...Regarding the British wage-freeze, the government's action was based on the premise that true socialism operates not for the benefit of any one class, but for the entire community...
...The wheel has come full cycle...
...City Executive Committee meets Wednesday, August 10th, 7:30 p. m. . . . Mid-Bronx Branch: Meeting Friday, August 5th, 8:30 p. m., at the home of Mr...
...Many will protest," Mr...
...Love of power is but a very extreme form of selfexpression...
...After all, whom else does he know...
...If the Labor Government's action does not enjoy the support of that community, then Britain will have a Conservative government in 1950...
...Mitchell Rosenblatt, 66 W. Gynhill Road, Bronx, N. Y. Election of delegates to the convention and other business...
Vol. 32 • August 1949 • No. 32
