LETTING GEORGE HAVE IT
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends Letting George Have It By WUliam Henry Chamberlin ISHOULD. LIKE TO OFFER my belated congratulations to the Voice of America for its prompt and effective response to G. M....
...My trip to Europe was a mad scramble for political and economic information which left no time for reflective reading...
...R . H. Markaham RALPH WALDO EMERSON once wrote, "Not gold but only men can make a nation great and strong...
...The author gives a very illuminating picture of the romance between Chopin and George Sand...
...and (b) permitting foreigners to travel and observe freely in the Soviet Union and its satellite countries...
...In Washington, the Federal Housing Administration announced that it would refuse to finance housing "restricted on the basis of race or creed or color...
...The Voice accepted his figures and took the joy out of them by remarking that America —with a smaller population, and a housing situation that is by no means as bad, though not satisfactory—built at least five times as much...
...Malenkov offered some inflated figures on unemployment in the non-Communist world...
...LIKE TO OFFER my belated congratulations to the Voice of America for its prompt and effective response to G. M. Malenkov's speech on the 32nd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution last November 7. Malenkov's theme was that the Soviet economic system was so superior to those of America and other non-Communist countries that there was no need to fear competition between the two...
...citizenship lost during the war...
...However, one book which I have greatly enjoyed and which seems to me clearly the book of the year in its field is Casimir Wierzynski's The Life and Death of Chopin (Simon and Schuster...
...That la one way of solving an unemployment problem—a way, however, which does not appeal to she democratic world...
...The lover of Chopin will find here an amazing wealth of detail, including the programs of almost every recital the great composer gave, as well as the fascinating story of the composer's life in the Paris of the eighteen thirties arjrl eighteen forties—surely one of the most brilliant periods in the intellectual history of what Victof AHugo called La Ville Lumiere...
...the Fantasy in F Minor...
...In New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad abolished segregation in coaches, diners and Pullmans on all through trains traveling to points south of Washington...
...It would have been, and still is, a good idea to back up this kind of argument with broad* casts by Vladimir Petrov .and others able to speak Russian who have experienced Soviet slave labor conditions...
...There were three reasons...
...Finally, there is an appalling number of American and foreign newspapers, periodicals, leaflets and pamphlets, put out by special groups-that have to be read If one wishes to keep abreast of the complex course of world affairs...
...Malenkov did try to bolster his thesis, in typical totalitarian style, with phony "facts" and erroneous or distorted figures...
...In California...
...In New Jersey, anti-democrat J. Parnell Thomas was stripped of his right to be a Congressman for compelling his employes to kick back to him part of their Federal salaries...
...The author is a leading modern 'Polish poet and his work combines the imaginative sweep of poetry with the industrious research of faithful biography...
...The author has sought out every detail of Chopin's life, from his birth in a Polish country home in 1810 to his death in an apartment on the Place Vendome in Paris...
...Speaking of Chopin's music, I recently heard a pianist named Solomon give what seemed to me the most perfectly selected program I have ever heard.' I submit it for the judgment of readers of this column who may be Chopin enthusiasts...
...3.95...
...the Sonata inj B Minor...
...of such musicians as „Lis*t, Roaaihi, Cherubini, Auber, Meyerbeer...
...The latter's desire for action on civil rights is being expressed ever more frequently, and in ways which must challenge the leadership of our national legislators...
...Maybe someone could, within the limits of/a single recital, construct a better program...
...We mourn his loss...
...Chopin knew most of these men, some of them intimately...
...Number One Priority must be given by this session of Congress to civil rights legislation, if it is to keep pace with the people...
...Stalin's henchman mentioned alleged Soviet achievements in building new housing since the war...
...I have been engaged in writing a book on what is, to me, a very exacting and absorbing subject: the causes, course and consequences of our involvement in the late war...
...The Voice offered a few statistical corrections and then went over to the following effective counter-offensive: ."There are some forms of employment which are worse than no employment at all...
...Reuben Henry Markham devoted his life to the free, spirit of mankind everywhere...
...of exiled Pole* like Prince Adam Czartoryski and the great' romantic poet Mickiewicz...
...contributor and dear friend...
...The Red Army has seen Europe—and Europe has seen the Red Army...
...The true answer to this question is, of course, that the Soviet leaders are smart enough to appreciate the fundamental truth of this shrewd postwar European observation: "Two things are bad for communism...
...The program included the four Ballades,' in G Minor, F Major, A Flat Major and J Minor...
...This does not, however, kill restrictive covenants, nor even alter FHA's own racial practices...
...One of his last wishes was that his heart be carried back to Poland which he never revisited after the tragic uprising of 1830-31...
...In New York, the Feinberg Law which sought by dangerous means to weed Communist teachers out of the school system, was declared a violation of the 14th Amendment...
...In Atlanta, the 28,000,000-million-member Federal Council of Churches of Christ voted to enter the battle against segregated education by supporting the effort of Herman Sweatt, a Texas Negro, to secure admission to a white university...
...It was the Paris of such authors as Balzac, Hugo, de Vigny, Lamartine, Michelet, Heine, Chateaubriand...
...We hope Mobilization delegates can persuade Congressmen that their bread is buttered this side of November...
...In Maryland, the Ober Law to outlaw the Communist party was quashed...
...b^t I don't see how...
...He was our...
...The people,Tit is clear, have spoken...
...m * Book of file Chopin Year I FELL SADLY BEHIND oh my reading homework during the year 1949...
...One of the all-too-few men who helped contribute to America's greatest source of strength — the power of moral conviction — passed away last week...
...He was an ordained Congregational minister...
...There are some ten million workers in forced labor camps in the Soviet Union alone...
...He was a Kansan who spent more than two decades in Southeastern Europe...
...4,000 Japanese Americans have been sustained by Attorney General McGrath in their effort to regain U.S...
...the Voice pointed out that American farmers received 850,000—almost six times as many...
...Their activities and their conversations are as fascinating as a Balzac novel...
...Other hundreds of thousands are in similar camps in the satellite countries...
...He was a patriot who served his country in war and peace., He_.was a writer whose sole cause was truth...
...And here the Voice of America came back with a very neat puncturing job...
...January 15-17, to demand enactment of FEPC and other civil rightl measures...
...In Minnesota...
...In Washington, the National Interfraternity Conference, by a vote of 36 to 3, recommended elimination of restrictive membership provisions to its member-fraternities...
...the-Nocturne In D Flat, and the stirring Polonaise in A Flat, which Wierzynski calls "a gallopade of ghostly warriors fighting for Poland...
...and he shows a keen, sensitive appreciation of the music that has made Chopin one of the few universal immortals...
...t*st Congress has failed to hear, a National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization—the most representative of its kind ever held—will take place in' Washington...
...In Virginia, the electorate rejected a spurious polltax repealer which would have further hampered the right to vote...
...Stalin's chief lieutenant offered no explanation of why, if the Soviet sytem is so superior, its rulers are so desperately afraid of (a) letting their own people learn anything by first-hand observation in outside countries...
...Malenkov boasted of a Soviet output of 150,000 tractors in 1949...
...Luther Youngdahl made his state the fourth to ban segregation in the National Guard when he signed an order establishing "equality of opportunity and treatment" for all State Guardsmen...
...All this leaves painfully little time for reading books, "great" or otherwise...
Vol. 33 • January 1950 • No. 1
