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DEAR EDITOR SENATORS IN RUSSIA The statements issued by Senators George W. Malone and Allen Ellender on their return from the Soviet Union, about some aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain,...
...Every person was an authority in his or her field and selections crossed partisan lines...
...The burden in an election campaign in England is always on the Labor party to prove the need for a dramatic change in government, and to offer a reasonable blueprint for accomplishing such a change...
...The Conference was designed to encourage investigation into just how and where one's religion and one's work are integrated...
...Kristol...
...Indeed, it is dangerous to be caught peddling it...
...Management and labor representation ranged from Benjamin F. Fair-less, President of the American Iron and Steel Institute, to Michael Budzanoski, executive board member, District No...
...Time to intervene dramatically and force free elections...
...The poor pay from $20 to $200 in indirect taxes to one dollar of direct state and city taxes...
...Eckardt states further that "Most state and municipal taxes are sales and payroll taxes which hurt the poor more than the rich...
...The apathy in last May's election is an indication of the depth of the feeling of contentment...
...hence, it cannot forfeit support from those who have never given it...
...History has shown time and again that tyrants are no respecters of democracies, and that their friendliness toward the latter can never be more than tactical and temporary...
...The moral shot-in-the-arm this would give to wavering anti-Communists throughout the world would be well worth the price of Spain's shabby Caudillo...
...The fact that many young voters now have no firsthand experience of widespread unemployment, the means test and the General Strike suggests that for the immediate future this bias will continue, barring a radical change in Britain's position...
...It rejects the status quo in its drive toward more nearly egalitarian society...
...If the United States is swindled out of Spanish bases and military aid, it has only itself to blame for "realistically" building this segment of its foreign policy on the quicksand of a tin- horn dictatorship...
...This, with middle-class and rural support, provides a broad base for Conservative power...
...Kristol has written what he would like to believe, not what is true regarding the situation...
...The Conservative party defends the status quo, only accepting change ex post facto...
...Or must we leave it to the next generation, when these tyrannies have sunk their roots still deeper...
...Rather than pass four dull years, as Mr...
...Time to show our guts and make common cause with the suppressed forces of freedom in Spain...
...Communications...
...So writes Mr...
...Kristol does note that British workers are "the most conservative creatures in the world...
...not even nice cuddly ones), we would do well to preserve it in the world with a slogan of "No Aid to Unfree Countries...
...The present Labor party not only faces the difficulty of the times being against it, but also lacks clear blueprint to offer the country for improving its standard of living...
...To this I would reply that it is time to be really realistic—time to stop sacrificing vital principles to an illusory, short-lived and slippery advantage...
...Given quiet times, the quiet Conservatives have the advantage...
...The Right Reverend Richard S. M. Em-rich, Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, stressed the necessity for solving problems through democratic processes and in the light of moral values based on spiritual ideals...
...the same can be said of the rest of the British people...
...British political scientists estimate that approximately one-third of the working-class vote is traditionally Tory...
...Organized Labor...
...There are no impoverished states, they are all rich in income...
...The importance of his conciliating the Bevanites at Margate lies in the fact that the moderate leader of the party must not force a party split, not that he should not appear as a moderate...
...The basic needs for nationalization were met by the 1945 Labor Government...
...But this state and municipal levy on the poor is small potatoes compared to the corporation income tax and the Federal excise taxes...
...Furthermore, the devaluation crisis of 1949 and subsequent austerity programs of the Labor Government made it clear that even national planning cannot solve the problems of a country so sensitive to international trade...
...It was refreshing to find two of our Senators with the courage to speak the truth, even though they knew this would be irritating to many at home...
...Since the industrial working class makes up the majority of British voters, Labor will lose an election only when it forfeits the confidence of a good part of that class...
...However, the Labor party has never controlled the allegiance of all the working class...
...If we don't play their game, says he, these bandits will desert to the other side...
...It must also hope that the Conservative party, due to its own mistakes in maintaining the Welfare State, or due to external events, will be vulnerable in its naturally favored position at the next national election...
...This is true, but not in the sense that he means it...
...social conscience...
...Arnold J. Toynbee, eminent British historian, gave a comprehensive historical survey of the evolution of mankind and indicated a scientific approach to the solution of present-day problems...
...Three elements were not represented: the backward-looking and intolerant extreme Right, the fanatical and divisive extreme Left, and the obvious propaganda organizations?however worthy their objectives...
...It clearly is no panacea, as continuing trouble in the railways and mines has made clear...
...I am afraid Mr...
...DEAR EDITOR SENATORS IN RUSSIA The statements issued by Senators George W. Malone and Allen Ellender on their return from the Soviet Union, about some aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain, agreed with those of our returning farm delegation...
...The trouble is that they constitutionally and otherwise refuse to collect their wage or yield from public works, roads, etc...
...It is the very conservativeness of the British, even in the Labor party, that makes Hugh Gaitskell an attractive candidate...
...White-collar workers, whom Mr...
...Louis Richard Rose TAXATION In his article on "America Without Ike" [NL, October 17], W. V. Eckardt writes that the "bonds for boulevards" plan, "would benefit bankers far more than motorists...
...Middle-class intellectuals, another group whom Mr...
...The pedestrian, middle-class virtues of Gaitskell are no handicap...
...For an opposition to tyranny which is only partial, only conditional, only anti-Communist can never hope to bring peace or achieve any other enduring worthwhile aim...
...Conservative people regard change with suspicion, and this is as true in England as in South Carolina...
...or "Free Elections from Lisbon to Peking...
...5, United Mine Workers...
...In fact, the obsolescence of Socialist doctrine and the failure of party intellectuals to work out an attractive pragmatic political program of change have even caused some intellectuals to turn to the Conservative party, in hope or by default...
...R. T. McKenzie's recent book British Political Parties offers an exhaustive analysis of how the organization of both parties is a recognition of this fact...
...It was the consensus of Conference opinion that no one social problem could be solved individually without cooperative progress being made in all related problems...
...Dallas Grover B. Foster RELIGION AND WORK The Church and "Work Conference of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y., held October 19-21, was a precedent-setting conclave on the social, cultural and political problems of our time, and I feel that its conclusions deserve wide circulation...
...The workers' distrust of the vain, spellbinding leader still remains from the debacle following Mac-Donald's mesmerization of them...
...and British and Free French forces...
...Just as America owes its freedom today to the application of Garrison and Phillips's slogan "No Union with Slaveholders...
...New York City William Robert Miller...
...Kristol assigns to Labor, are not numerous enough to swing anything but Fabian Society election...
...It was also indicated that problems individually or collectively could not be solved through any one method...
...Delegates served on panels representing eight phases of activity: Business and Industrial Management...
...Gaitskell, not Labor by birth, hardly doctrinaire Socialist, is safe man...
...Eckardt also talks about "impoverished states," but here he errs...
...The important vote in Britain is that of the independents...
...Nevertheless, they met with hostility...
...The Labor party has no national majority in England, because even in that class-conscious country both parties are national...
...Since May, the Conservative party has been safely ensconced in power because there has been no pressing national desire for a. change in the status quo...
...The full benefits will go to the owners of land titles...
...Mill Valley, Calif...
...It was assumed that, while governmental actions might be helpful or necessary, there must first be a spiritual awakening on the part of individuals through the development of a mass The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...What kind of "realism'' was it that persuaded Roosevelt to bypass the opportunity of the Allied liberation armies to liberate Spain in 1945...
...They fluctuate, one might say, insofar as the Socialists or the Tories appear to be the greater danger...
...Education...
...Government Service...
...We should realize that there are deep and abiding values that have nothing to do with "the standard of living...
...The independents always need assurance...
...Dallas city, for example, values the land on its tax roll at $30 to $40 an acre while it sells for from $1,000 to $3,000 an acre...
...the SPD in 1932 Prussia, or the Third Reich and the USSR vs...
...bankers would benefit only incidentally because they are related to the land-title owners in our free economy...
...Buffalo Robert A. Hoffman FRANCO AID Since birds of the totalitarian feather have on numerous occasions flocked together (e.g., Nazis and Communists vs...
...The best it can do is kid people along and make them think that "something'' is being done...
...This Spain which supported the Axis to the extent of sending its Blue Division to the Russian front, thus releasing a similar number of Wehrmacht troops to fight the U.S...
...Social Work...
...Winnie Byron BRITISH LABOR Irving Kristol has contributed an interesting eyewitness account of the British Labor party's annual conference at Margate ["Notes on Margate," NL, October 24], but I am afraid that he leaves the reader with an erroneous impression: that the Labor party is naturally the governing party of Britain...
...Medicine...
...The logical (and true) inference from this is that the Conservative party is the natural ruling party there...
...Kristol seems to suggest, the best thing the Labor party can do now is to engage in intense and profound analysis of its own philosophical principles, disregarding those that are obsolete or obsolescent, and form a practical series of proposals for strengthening the economy and increasing the area of opportunity in Great Britain...
...The Labor party was born and has matured as the party of change...
...the democratic West in 1939), it should surprise no in- formed person that Franco is playing footsie with Russia's "smiling war" generals of today...
...No attempt was made to furnish a blueprint of any Utopia, but a sense of direction was indicated and the need for enlightened cooperative action by people of good will was stressed...
...Never in all our history has our country been such a. poor market for truth...
...Kristol assigns to the Labor party, wear a class badge that undoubtedly makes them more at home in Conservative groupings...
...Dallas County and Texas do the same, except that the discrepancy is greater...
...The Labor party can win national elections when: 1. The country faces a crisis or threat of paralysis which clearly indicates a need to change the status quo...
...The Eisenhower Administration was represented by United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and several top-ranking officials, while Governor Averell Harriman and many others represented the political opposition...
...2. The Labor party is able to offer the electorate a reasonable plan for making necessary changes, and indicates it will carry out these changes with due respect for conservative British traditions...
...It was participated in by 250 carefully chosen national and international authorities on all phases of human activity and was representative of all religious groups...
...The big load on the poor is a result of general taxation, which is due to the failure of states and municipalities to collect their true income because they drive people off the land and compel them to produce (labor) for less than a natural wage in a competitive economy...
...Now, even the leaders of the party approach the doctrine of nationalization gingerly...
...The Conference heard two keynote speakers...
...The bias of national temperament favors the Conservative party...
...The prospect Richard Mowrer places before us in his November 7 article, "The Soviet Union Woos Franco Spain," is that of a great democracy kowtowing to a band of grubby Falangists...
Vol. 38 • November 1955 • No. 47
