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Bohn Article on GOP Stirs 'Fortune Editor From RUSSEL W. DAVENPORT 1WAS DELIGHTED with Mr. Bohn's article on the Republican party in the February 18 issue. It is a point ot view that I have been...
...Bohn is no' with what he has to say but with his manner of saying it...
...McKinley, whose name has been reviled in recent decades, we do not find such a "rmcUonary" as scnne historians would like to make out...
...N. J...
...11) dealt w'th a currently impVtant situation...
...The fact that Mr...
...Bohn commends Senators Lodge and Ives...
...Colonel McCormick will be sorry to hear this one, but the voters who shifted from Labor to Conservative didn't vote against socialism and for free enterprise, but against austerity and for a good side of beef...
...Lakewood...
...I am glad that Mr...
...ItcKinley was active as a young man in defending labor, and I think you will find that even Mark Hanna had an attitude toward labor that can only be described as "enlightened" for those days...
...Says Pro-Hbs 'Liberals' Aren't 'Soft-Headed' From IRVINO ORNtST Mr...
...Best wishes for the success of your crusade against totalitarianism...
...Naturally, Mr...
...My argument with Mr...
...and he denounced as 'bourgeois'—that is to say an unmistakable example of the lowest moral and spiritual stagnation—everyone who dared to oppose his opinions...
...It is a point ot view that I have been trying my Ijest to express, beginning with an article in Fortune called "The Fate of Mighty Nations," in the May, 1943, issue, which reviewed the progressive achievements of the Republican party in some detail...
...That it was not dealt With in an important way was due in part, X think, to Mr...
...BOHN may have been correct in .aasertiag that the liberal commentators ^o have vf^ioed their doubt over tho vertfict of the Hiss trial "simply do not know what they are talking at>out.' but I shftcercly wish, for the sake of his readers (on^ of them anyway), and in fairness to t^ose whom he is criticizing, that the author of "The Homo Front" would leAye judgments cut ot his copy...
...Bohn's help to iron out...
...Somet'mes I have my doubts on 'hat score...
...But really, I wish he wouldn't write th'ngs like that—about anyone...
...or of Karl Kautsky for that matter.—The Editors...
...It therefore seems to me essential that the public, including the Republicans themselves, tie educated to the tradition that made this pat ty once so great...
...Long Island CUy, N. Y. Marx Also Was Contemptuous Of 'Bourgeois' From J. ANTHONY MARCUS SpEAKINO of Fuchs hi his article "From Gouzenko to Fuchs...
...Bohn's method of argunjent which hardly could be called objectiV...
...Post a prize Lemerism...
...20 in the N.Y...
...Vogeler, AndMr.Fuchs From DANIEL M. KORAL I THINK that The New Leader will find this item in Max Lerner's column of Feb...
...A Reply For the dijjerence between totalitarian communism and democratic socialism, we recommend close study of the "slave states" of Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, plus a quick perusal of the attitudes toward all totalitarionisms of the world's leading socialist thinkers...
...JOSEPH W. CONNORS In your REPLY to Maurice V/inograd's letter (February 18) you arc "happy" to note that United States News and World Report confirms you;suspicion that there is a sub-rosa alliance between Stalin and Franco...
...Fuchs the Soviet spy was not the originator of this attitude...
...1 still remember the cutting, scornful tone with which ha uttered—I might almost say spat'—the word 'bourgeois...
...This is also the mentality of all red fascists from . Stalin down...
...your William E. Bohn says: "On ¦ strictly class bads he figured that 'bourgeois' people are a species of lown animsA which hardly has to be taken into oecount...
...All German socialists used to look upon their Russian comrades, for example, as "inferior human beings...
...On Britain's Voting From JAMES HALLORAN Overlooked in aii the welter about the British election is the simple fact that Britain is the only place in Western Europe where you can't get a square meal...
...Perhaps I should not bring up such embarrassing matters at all...
...Everyone who disagreed with him was treated with scarcely veiled contempt...
...The fact that even brilliant scientists could follow ^yih theory merely indicates that greatness in physics does not necessarily save one from insane economic thinking...
...Bohn is right...
...Marx's rudeness to Karl Schurz will never make a "red iascisi" of Clement Attlee...
...However, for his time, he was very farsighted...
...Are you aso "happy" to observe the loans we are giving to Dictator Tito and the commercial transactions between British Hongkong and Communist North Korea, with money supplied by American taxpayers...
...For that matter, even when we turn to Mr...
...The behavior of a Viilhinsky, a Gromyko and the rest of them at international conferences is the result of the aping of the very father of the communist philosophy—the red Prussian Karl Marx...
...Lerner, Mr...
...It isn't naughty and it isn't from that artgle that I object...
...If ever a nation was driven into the arms of the devil, it is Spain and The New Leader may take much comfort for its part in it...
...I have little patience with those who dismiss this progressive record as a thing of the past, of no moment in shaping the policy of today...
...Hull has got the credit for this suggestion is one of the quirks of history that articles like Mr...
...It seems that the learned professor never heard^-of or hasn't interested himsef in the use of forced confessions widely practiced under totalitarian regimes...
...Max Lerner—"was simply too softhearted — or soft-headed —" Marquis Childs, The Alsops and Lerner — "are curiously blind to realities...
...No ophiion which differs essentially from his own was accorded the honor of even a halfway respectful consideration...
...Later on he says: "Vogeler may be innocent but there is his confession, just as there was Klaus Fuch's confession in London...
...Voters everywhere like the "outs" when times aren't too good...
...The American patriot of German origin, Carl Schurz, who knew Marx well, has given us an • Intimate picture of the father of the present slave state behind the iron curtain: "Never have I met a man of such ofTensive, insupportable arrogance," he wrote of Karl Marx...
...It's just that in the New LeadeiI expect to read arguments, opinions, and debates that say what they haveto say a"d leave the verdict up to the reader...
...Under the pressure of the Communist anti-Franco group in France and the anti-Franco element in England, the United Nations os^gated Spain, urged the closing of enffcassies, refused Spain any part in international bodies, in^ded monetary loans to an impoverished and starving people, and you are surprised (but happy) to learn that Spain is now doing business with Russia...
...A great political institution like the Republican party cannot make policy from moment to moment, thougii some of its contemporary leaders seem to be trying to do so...
...Bohn's column "Hiss And Tlie Liberals," (The New Under, Feb...
...What kind ot a "stubborn and open fact" is a confession obtained after, as Lerner earlier admits, Vogeler was denied Amcican counsel and, 1 might add, he was kept incommunicado for three months...
...McKinley's doctrines would be obsolete today, if literally construed...
...He answered all arguments which displeased him with a biting scorn for the pitiable ignorance of those who advanced them, or with libelous questioning of their motives...
...I subscribed to the New Leader because it encouraged me to do my own thinking...
...Perhaps Mr...
...Says We Pots Call Spanish Kettle Black From REV...
...Any state of society which provides one and only one employer—the State — is bound to degenerate into a slave state whether one calls it socialism or communism...
...Among other things he was the first American leader that I know of to propose a reciprocal tariff policy, looking toward a gradual lowering of United States tariffs on a reciprocal basis...
...These gentlemen are waging a great fight wtihin their own party for this perpetuation of the progressive principles that made that party so dynamic prior to the First World War...
...The Party can have meaning only in terms of dynamic growth, from the past to the present to the future...
...He said: "For those who believe it impossible for any American abroad to be a spy, or for any accusation of a Soviet satellite to be true, there is the stubborn end open fact of Vogcler's coufeasion in court...
Vol. 33 • March 1950 • No. 10
