THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Positive Tactics Dear Sirs: I consider the November article, "Peace is Possible," by John Haynes Holmes enormously important at the present time. Isn't there some way this...
...In this day of exaggerated propaganda, who makes our opinions...
...While their parents were being confined by part of our Army, Gen...
...On Tuesday, Nov...
...The Holmes House Dear Sirs: Number 28 East 35th Street, New York City, will be the new Community Church Sunday School and Child Welfare School...
...R. Emerson of the California Institute of Technology has said the greatest long range contribution of Japanese-Americans during the war was their development of a new high quality natural rubber from the desert guayule shrub...
...Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn...
...Rostow of the Yale Law School...
...Celler, in trying to exclude Arab refugees from this country for no other reason than that they are Arabs, is an unvarnished anti-Semite...
...It is to be "The John Haynes Holmes House...
...Those who, like myself, were taught in their youth that it is a terrible thing not to go to church and disbelieve the Bible, who after reaching maturity learn that scientific facts contradict Genesis and discover hundreds of contradictions in the Bible, necessarily lose faith...
...In contrast to the attitudes toward the UN taken by Britain, the U.S., and Russia, the world's non-white nations have taken the UN seriously and are using it for peace and world solidarity...
...In a period when we are seeking friends throughout the world, the attempt to right the wrong of our treatment of this small but symbolic group could have lasting benefit...
...Just in case it slipped his mind, let him remember that it was the military invasions of five Arab nations which forced the new-born Jewish State into a war it never sought...
...Mayer was trying to be cute...
...They have followed our lead until now, but would they continue to do so if we were to ask them to help us push Russia off the raft...
...On April 7th, the representative of France on the Commission, who had undertaken a detailed interrogation of Arab refugees, stated that it would be wrong to describe them as having been deliberately driven out, and correct to describe them as having fled in the atmosphere of fear, insecurity, and danger inseparable from war...
...How can our children become internationally-minded citizens of the world when they, their parents, and teachers are continuously subjected to a constant stream of propaganda advocating nationalism and the desirability of armed conflict...
...She advocated the proper psychological approach so that our rising generation might be mentally conditioned to oppose all national ambitions and all international disagreements that might cause world conflicts...
...I am well aware that Rep...
...Even when the hostilities reached their most intense pitch, the Israeli authority sought to induce the Arabs in the contested areas to remain in their homes, offering them guarantees for their protection and security...
...Vindication of the Israelis in the hasty flight of the Arabs seems to be the prevailing point of view of the U.N...
...This agency's duties are to protect property from burglary and destruction...
...However, after two years in working with mental patients, I am convinced that he must go a little further...
...We must let them know what we want in order that they and the President can be guided in their action...
...The American Friend of Nov...
...He has faithfully served all mankind...
...Our militarists and our racists will oppose it, but why not humbly be brothers with the world's non-whites in their struggle for One World through the UN...
...The name of this wonderful endeavor is to be another Holmes...
...Our Congressmen are good but busy men...
...To do as Sen...
...Russia will continue to refuse LIN inspection and control of her atomic energy plants until she has produced that many bombs...
...Conciliation Commission on Palestine...
...She needs 10 years of peace to consolidate her gains in China: she works by infiltration: she is playing for the support of the non-whites and will avoid aggression...
...I realize that in calling him an "unvarnished anti-Semite" your Mr...
...Celler is a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite...
...Let's call a spade a spade, and no longer be afraid of being called a "religionist'' if we give Christianity the credit and respect it demands...
...The consequence of a great multitude of Arab refugees, thus, Mr...
...And I can find only one word to describe the results...
...A free and undominated press and radio, an educational system dedicated to academic freedom, could change all this in time...
...How -to Live Happily," with great Interest...
...Judge William Denman of the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has characterized the evacuation as not different from the thinking that threw millions of persons into the concentration camps at Dachau, with the beguiling words "evacuation" meaning deportation and "relocation centers" meaning prisons...
...His solution will help and is basic as far as it goes...
...It undoubtedly is true, as she says, that there are large numbers of people that have no religious belief but do not speak up for various reasons...
...It is an old evangelical word which psychologists do not like: it's conversion...
...She claims that she had had the atomic bomb since 1947...
...Our boasted freedom is not for dissenters...
...Under present conditions only the very exceptional individual thinks for himself...
...Easier to Believe' Dear Sirs: It is refreshing that Elizabeth Boyle Brown speaks up in your October Forum...
...True happiness can come only from a religiously-motivated life...
...Most of us receive our opinions ready-made...
...They control our political and economic thinking, our educational system, our attitude toward 'our nation and the world...
...Russia shuns war...
...Martha G. Williams Rio Hondo, Tex...
...By the application of a senseless syllogism, your columnist deduced that since Rep...
...Hugh H. Anderson Los Angeles, Calif...
...He will be an anti-Semite as long as he preaches and practices unequal treatment of Arab refugees...
...His ideas and activities can never be doubted or questioned...
...The fact that Rep...
...A psychiatrist recently told a friend of mine that more and more he Is of the opinion religion has something to contribute to mental illness—hope...
...While this building had tenants, it had the services of the "Holmes Protective Agency...
...Those who control our press and radio make us what we are...
...We cannot allow a single injustice to be done to the Nisei without defeating the purposes for which we fought...
...Mayer's charge that during the recent Arab-Israeli War 500.C00 to 900.000 Arabs were "driven from their homes" by the victorious Israeli forces...
...Taft suggests would be just too much...
...I must, however, mention my concern about the solution that he gives to this eternal quest—happiness...
...In renovating the place we found the detective agency's signs still hanging in the windows...
...The American people need only to know of the injustices and losses that resulted from the evacuation and they will make their demands to their Congressmen for a just law that will right the wrong...
...A good law by Congress at this time (which is late enough) might well be historic...
...Would it help, for instance, if many of us sent this article to our Congressmen...
...E. C. Bierbaum Glendale, Ariz...
...If an individual lacks faith in a power beyond himself and does not possess a belief that there is a purpose or hope in life, regardless of all the other necessary elements Dr...
...They even tell us who our enemies are and why...
...It makes me angry to see innumerable articles on war, atomic power, and rockets splashed all through the widely-read periodicals...
...Harold E. Fackert Jersey City, N. J. Earlham Postscript Dear Sirs: This is a postscript to Milton Mayer's article last August on Earlham College...
...29, this building took the name of a man whose ideas and activities have sincerely been, and are, a protectorate of the interests of all mankind...
...To be tarred with the brush of bigotry is something powerfully unjust to the man (perhaps more than any other in Congress) who has fought against it all of his life...
...Schindler's profound analysis of muscular activity due to tension...
...Milton Mayer Chicago, 111...
...How can they possibly teach what they do not believe or understand...
...Some call it sound psychology, common sense, creative living, psycho-therapy, psychiatry—I call it Christianity...
...Schindler suggests, he cannot find true happiness...
...These people are converted...
...I respect Dr...
...If necessary, to attain our ends...
...Mayer on Celler Dear Sirs: I was somewhat stunned by the flippant manner in which Milton Mayer, in the October issue, pinned the anti-Semitic label upon one of the most respected, liberal, and unbigoted individuals in the Congress, Rep...
...It has given me new courage...
...Whether these refugees were driven out of Israel at the point of a gun or, like the Jewish refugees from Germany, "fled in the atmosphere of fear, insecurity, and danger" is likewise irrelevant to Rep...
...Celler...
...And what would Russia be doing with her bombs—piling them to be counted by an inspector...
...For a time, at least, it appeared that they would...
...The reason given was that upon the final withdrawal of the British, the combined armies of the Arab states would invade Palestine and drive the Jews into the sea...
...Training for Peace Dear Sirs: A few days ago I heard a woman, a member of the faculty of one of our Texas colleges, discuss the prevention of wars...
...It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades...
...There is the well-known case of the wholesale flight of the Arabs from Haifa...
...More likely they are being smuggled into this country and are now in the hands of her spies in our cities, ready for instant use...
...Celler had turned thumbs-down on an Arab refugee bill, and since Arabs are Semites, therefore it follows that Rep...
...It is so much easier to believe than to think...
...perhaps nothing can be done until we learn to adjust ourselves to the conditions of a rapidly changing world...
...The Israelis had made repeated requests to the Arabs to remain in Haifa...
...Thanks for printing this...
...What about faith and hope...
...Two years, our atomic scientists tell us, is sufficient for the production of 40 bombs—enough to blow the hearts out of our big cities...
...What I can't understand is why such men completely ignore tome of the basic elements of the Christian ethtc...
...Mayer, is the direct result of the war proclaimed and launched by their Arab brothers in the States bordering the Holy Land...
...the tables would turn, and Russia, which has championed the cause of the black man, would have the non-whites' sympathy, and their votes, and we would find ourselves in the minority, if not outside...
...10, 1949, carries the following news item: "Earlham College recently took the lead among mid-western schools in presenting the case of the needs of independent, private colleges before the heads of industry...
...Patricia Perry Westerly, R. I. Be Brothers Dear Sirs: I hear that Sen...
...However, it would be fatuous for us to underestimate Russia's power to resist...
...Then the Arab Higher Committee made an announcement over the air urging all Arabs to quit Haifa...
...Myron Tripp Great Falls...
...To pile up bigger piles of bigger weapons which have become so deadly that we dare not use them wastes our resources...
...Individuals are turned out like cars on an assembly line, all made to one pattern...
...A New York psychiatrist recently said: 'I have seen hundreds of alcoholics whom I tried to help and failed, completely transformed by Alcoholics Anonymous...
...Alton L. Hall Huntington Beach, Calif...
...Equally fallacious was Mr...
...Church-goers like to consider themselves tolerant when they no longer burn unbelievers at the stake, but think it their duty to ostracize religious non-conformers...
...Mayer has neglected to state, first of all, that it was not Israel which began the hostilities...
...One way to do it is to let people see the positive side written in words over and over again...
...That might be possible had the parents and teachers received proper training in their formative years...
...She would leave it up to the parents, and to a lesser degree to our schools and colleges, to train our youngsters so that they might become peaceful citizens in a peaceful world...
...The UN is demonstrating that world opinion can do things that war cannot...
...William D. Kaufman Director of Information American Zionist Council New York, N. Y. Mayer Replies Dear Sirs: Whether it was Israel or the Arab nations which began the hostilities is very important, but it does not affect the fact that Rep...
...Our survival depends on our sanity...
...It no doubt serves its purpose, but those in charge of this agency have been unfair to its employes and have been embarrassed by a strike and picketing, which shows that this same protective agency has not been interested in protecting its own employes' welfare in fair employment practices...
...Isn't there some way this article and others like it can be spread to the larger reading public and brought to the attention of our government officials...
...In theory we have the right of free speech, but in fact it is denied, for very few daily, weekly, or monthly publications will publish any agnostic views for fear of losing subscribers, though those of the orthodox find ready acceptance...
...Such a situation would render war almost inevitable...
...Most believers read their Bible with more devotion than skill...
...If there is one thing this world needs, it is stress on positive peace tactics...
...Prof...
...Celler has preached and practiced the equality of all Americans...
...For such it is doubly hard to speak up because of social pressure...
...Injustice to the Nisei Dear Sirs: It is timely that The Progressive adequately cover the story of the great wrong the evacuation of Japanese-Americans has proven to be, and what has been called "Our Greatest Wartime Mistake" by Prof...
...The Christian Ethic Dear Sirs: I have read Dr...
...Mont...
...Taft would rewrite the charter of the UN to make it exclude Russia, depriving her of the world's escape valve where tensions blow off in heated language, and war is thereby averted...
...hence, so many believers...
...Those who control the agencies of propaganda...
...a Jew himself, has preached—and practiced—the equality of all Americans, color, creed, race, religion notwithstanding, has apparently made little impression upon your columnist...
...Loyalty of the non-whites to our leadership is weakened by our insistence that the UN investigate Russia's slave labor, while we have blocked Russia's request that the UN investigate how we treat our Negroes...
...Our arming of Russia's neighbors, for example, strikes them as an aggression, and our dotting the earth with bases as a threat to world peace...
...Celler's anti-Semitism...
...I have yet to find a single psychological truth that is not substantiated in the Christian ethics of the Sermon on the Mount Clyde E. Weaver Elizabethtown...
...Restoration of the evacuation losses of these Americans would be small cost for the benefits that would result...
...Nothing is being done...
...John Schindler's November article...
...We must recognize that the non-whites hold the balance of power in the UN and assist them in their efforts to secure world peace...
...Joseph Stilwell was getting ready to say about their sons, "The Nisei bought an awful big hunk of America with their blood...
...While the evacuation concerned only West Coast citizens, there is no limit to the liability that every American has for this abrogation of civil and property rights of one of our racial minorities...
...The Quaker School was host to 125 business executives from 10 counties of Indiana and Ohio, at a joint education-industry dinner held at the Forest Hills Country Club near Richmond...
...So why not call this war-race a draw, and try something else...
Vol. 14 • January 1950 • No. 1
