Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR RUSSELL With reference to Bertrand Russell's reply to Norman Thomas in your February 18 issue, it seeims clear that Lord Russell is writing too many prefaces for too many authors. The...
...I'm sure that many of your readers were interested to learn of the change within the CP and are anxious, as I am, to get more information on the latest developments...
...3) exert no liberating revolutionary influence on such bourgeois-cum-clerical areas as Italy and Germany...
...I particularly enjoyed reading Louis Jay Herman's "Turmoil in U. S. Communism," in the January 21 issue...
...had not been a Communist...
...Cambridge Zbigniew Brzezinski On the cover of the copy I have of A World Apart, it states that Herling was born in Poland, and on page 13 Herling states that World War II interrupted his university studies—that he was arrested by the Russians while trying to cross from Poland into Lithuania after the defeat of the Polish forces...
...But, in the long run, the councils thus created became fit only for Mme...
...Here Republicans and Democrats accept certain basic ground-rules, while struggling to win public acceptance of their proposals and their leading personalities...
...In fact, Herling is not (and has never been...
...The task is proving altogether too much even for him...
...For how else can one explain his description of Gustaw Herling, the author of A World Apart, for which Russell wrote a glowing preface, as "a Norwegian, originally a Communist, whom the Russians imprisoned without cause while he was still on their side...
...e., a group of rigid, stultified dictatorships which (1) give full play to American capital...
...and for the younger people in Hungary, the prewar order is simply inconceivable as a serious political alternative...
...In the Hungarian case, they attempted to ignore the fact that, concomitant with the Communist penetration of Hungary, a long-overdue and genuinely-desired social revolution took place in the first two or three years after the war: a revolution which emigres either accepted, in whole or in part, or rejected...
...In the same manner, U. S. manipulators in the postwar era thought that the problem of CONTINUED ON NEXT PACE governments-in-exile for the satellite states could most harmoniously be solved by bringing "all parties" together...
...and was quite far from being on the side of the Russians at the time of his arrest...
...As Ignazio Silone pointed out in your magazine, however, history has passed Tito by: "Djilas, even in prison, seems the man of tomorrow...
...Roosevelt made the mistake of trying to project this process onto the international scene...
...By ignoring the social content of East European history, the U. S. manipulators who fashioned the emigre councils did avoid short-term annoyance on the part of right-wing Congressmen and lobbyists...
...He did not attempt, however, to inquire into the causes of this gap, which may be instructive for the future...
...Bojic—the program of neutrality, democracy and socialism —is the only relevant program in Eastern Europe today (I would say: all Europe) ; Mr...
...The dialectic of democratic struggle produces a fairly genuine national consensus at any given time, subject to change in the same manner at a future time...
...Yet, as we see now, Anna Kethly and Bela Kovacs are as far from the Horthyites as they are from the Communists...
...New York City Earl Mandel EMIGRES Mirko Bojic's "A Realistic Policy for Eastern Europe [NL, January 281 drew many sensible—indeed, obvious—conclusions from the vast hiatus which appeared between the Hungarian Revolution, on the one hand, and the Hungarian political emigres and their Western sponsors, on the other...
...Reading A World Apart would make this rather apparent...
...4) avoid posing the profound challenge of freedom and socialism to the USSR, so that that country's capitalists can eventually make a deal with ours and neither people's horizons will rise above the crassest sort of consumer concerns...
...2) help keep the workers' movement divided around the world by harrying democratic socialism...
...The program proposed by Mr...
...Chicago John Switalski KUDOS As a subscriber to The New Leader, I want to thank you for the articles you've printed telling of the effect the Hungarian Revolution has had upon various Communist parties— especially in the West...
...New Orleans J. J. Babeuf NOTE Isaiah Berlin's "Father of Russian Socialism" (NL, February 4), and Daniel Bell's "The Impact of Advertising" (NL, February 11) originally appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation's publication, the Listener, the latter as part of a series on advertising.—Editor...
...Dulles ignores it at his own peril and that of his class...
...a Norwegian, but is a Pole...
...Dulles's espousal of Titoism is now as irrelevant as the earlier American identification with prewar colonels and cardinals...
...He was correct when he thought Churchill or even de Gaulle would "play the game" as, say, Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg did...
...Secretary Dulles's answer appears to be: a Titoist one—i...
...But Stalin would not play, so Truman had to abandon "unity" and proclaim principle...
...U. S. policy-makers have always had a fetish about "unity,'' a fetish which represents a projection of the manner in which democratic compromises are arrived at in our own society but which is totally irrelevant where non-democratic elements are concerned...
...The big question today, as a decade ago, is: What sort of Eastern Europe do we want...
...Tussaud's wax-works...
Vol. 40 • March 1957 • No. 9
