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DEAR EDITOR Praises George Meany's Speech At 30th Anniversary Dinner The visit of Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and Edith Summerskill to Moscow and the court of Mao Tse Khan was the most...
...It was a great speech and one that should be reprinted and sent to every union local in Britain...
...The "People's Democratic Republic" has radically transformed East Germany's social and economic structure in an attempt to eliminate the upper and middle classes...
...I am obliged to William Henry Chamberlin for calling attention to the fact that an average of "300 fugitives were reaching West Berlin every day last summer" [THE NEW LEADER, October 41...
...something most Germans have become accustomed to in the past twenty years...
...in a nationalized industrial state, the workers' apathy indicates that they are not sure who is robbing them...
...These are sold not only in East Germany but also in the West...
...on the contrary, they felt that this new democracy was threatened and believed that it was already too late to fight for then-ideas inside West Germany...
...Chamberlin lambastes the Indo-China truce...
...I, for one, am happy that the presence of Herbert Morrison at THE NEW LEADER's 30th Anniversary Dinner did not prevent AFL President George Meany from forthrightly expressing American labor's indignation over that affair and other aspects of "coexistence" appeasement...
...In a capitalist system, it is management that robs the workers...
...New York City J. ANTHONY MARCUS Adds Footnote to Article On 'Why Germans Go Easf Regarding my article, "Why Germans Go East" [THE NEW LEADER, September 13], you may be interested in the comment I received from a correspondent in West Germany: "John and Schmidt-Wittmarck went east because they were more afraid of the United States than of the Soviet Union...
...2. Mr...
...This stopped Communist propaganda for another revolution dead in its tracks...
...They fear an American preventive war against the Soviet Union and do not want Germany to become a battlefield...
...Obviously, under an orthodox monetary system the worker will either die of malnutrition or become a ward of the state...
...I think it would be most heartening if, say, one quarter of those who came over to our side were militant fighters for cultural freedom...
...Long Beach, Calif...
...Is this so terrible a viewpoint, when France's allies are unwilling to share the human burden...
...Chicago JOHN SWITALSKI Chamberlin Attacked, Defended On 'Mendes-Moscow' Reference William Henry Chamberlin's reference to French Premier Mendes-France as "Mendes-Moscow" [THE NEW LEADER, September 20] and his attempted substantiation in your "Dear Editor" column of October 11 seem to ignore the following pertinent points: 1. Mr...
...John and Schmidt-Wittmarck did not go east out of hatred for Western democracy...
...Despite the large number of refugees who move from east to west, the two Germanys continue to cooperate in many ways...
...New York City PAUL WOHL Holds Social Credit Is Answer To the Problems of Automation The third part of Daniel Bell's "Notes on Work" series [THE NEW LEADER, September 20] contains some very interesting observations...
...This seems to be the usual result when orthodox monetary dogmas are allowed to dominate and it is assumed that the act of production insures the income to purchase such production...
...A nation so unstable and mentally deranged as to have over twenty governments in a period of nine years can never be a reliable ally of ours...
...Bell says: "Most striking of all, perhaps, is the apathy of workers in nationalized industries and their unwillingness to act as if they 'own' the factories...
...Chamberlin claims that Mendes-France killed EDC...
...I also wish to congratulate another letter-writer, Bernard Herman, for his magnificent expose of France's cowardly behavior throughout the Indo-China war [THE NEW LEADER, October 11...
...The majority, undoubtedly, were motivated by practical considerations...
...The East German regime supplies this institute with valuable instruments and equipment...
...Until the better elements in France begin to assert themselves, we might as well discount the whole business...
...I think it is the Social Credit idea which states that industry creates costs at a greater rate than it disburses purchasing power to liquidate these costs, and that unless the industrial system is bolstered up with an ever-increasing indebtedness to the commercial banking system the productive machinery becomes choked with unsold commodities...
...Chamberlin also ignores the rapid progress Mendes-France has made in solving the perplexing problems of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria...
...some reasons go back far into the past: Many of the nationalized industries are burdened with archaic technology or heavy debt charges...
...Russians go west out of hatred for the Communist regime...
...It is true that Communist-controlled East Germany has little attraction for the average German, but averages are generalizations which become more illuminating if broken down...
...To quote Mr...
...It hardly sounds like the work of a "Kremlin agent...
...yet, he does not seem to realize the French position...
...Conditions are different for factory workers, mechanics, printers, hospital assistants, natural-science researchers or technical writers, who are quite well off provided they render lip-service to the regime, are not too squeamish about arbitrary arrests, and conform with the "people's democratic" hullabaloo...
...Does Mr...
...The U. S. seems willing to fight Communism in Southeast Asia to the last drop of French blood, but the French people are sick and tired of seeing the cream of their young manhood go off to fight and die...
...And since Germany is largely a middle-class country (east of the Elbe, too), the exodus of 2 million out of a total population of 18 million is not astonishing...
...Herman is on solid ground when he charges that France kept "up a constant fire of complaint about the enormous 'drain' of fighting the Communists, and as a result obtained enough money from America to make a substantial profit on the war...
...It is really misleading to say that John and Schmidt-Wittmarck went east...
...Does he believe that with another Premier the votes against EDC would have been swung to the affirmative...
...Or look at the book list of East Germany's (state) publishing houses, which includes such items as books on medieval saints, prayer and prehistoric art, published in the finest tradition of prewar and pre-Nazi Germany...
...If, as seems all too obvious, our money and price system is not self-liquidating, it can be made so by the proper use of debt-free credit and without the workers becoming wards of the state...
...None of this makes East Germany a magnet for West Germans, but it may help to explain why, for many ordinary Germans, the contrast between East and West is not quite as great as it appears in the light of political recrimination and conflicting ideologies...
...3. Mr...
...Chamberlin think that, if another Premier had put off the vote, we would be in a better position...
...John and Schmidt-Wittmarck, like many other West Germans, see a German national army as the forerunner of a. new German militarism, which, in turn, would be the first step toward neo-Nazism...
...Bell again: "The extension of the continuous flow now threatens to eliminate the worker almost completely...
...Or consider the research institute of the world-famous brain anatomist Professor Oscar Vogt, in Neustadt in the Schwarzwald...
...At least in a Social Credit economy the workers can demand the "wages" of the machines via national dividends by the use of debt-free credit...
...His arguments about "Mendes-Moscow" I consider irrefutable and conclusive...
...JOHN LEONARD Congratulations to William Henry Chamberlin for disposing of E. F. Helm's nonsense about the role of Mendes-France in the course followed by France...
...What will happen when not only the worker but the work itself is displaced by the machine...
...DEAR EDITOR Praises George Meany's Speech At 30th Anniversary Dinner The visit of Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and Edith Summerskill to Moscow and the court of Mao Tse Khan was the most disgusting event in the history of the Socialist movement...
...This fear is shared by a large minority of West Germans...
...It also assists in the publication of its reports...
...Take the case of the Chemisches Zentralblatt, leading trade magazine of the West German chemical industry: Its editorial offices are in West Berlin, but it is printed in the East...
...yet, the French Premier was responsible for finally bringing it to a vote so that at least the Western powers knew where they stood...
...Syracuse, N. Y. WILBER DISTIN...
Vol. 37 • November 1954 • No. 45
