'War-Short Cut To Fascism' . . .
'War—Short Cut To Fascism' . . . INVOLVEMENT OP the United States in overseas war can have only one certain result: "the definite and perhaps permanent disappearance of liberalism in America." So...
...As a result of first-hand observation in the Soviet Union and in the Third Reich I was one of the first writers to emnhasize the essential likeness between Stalinism and Hitlerism at a time when many self-styled liberals were extolling the Soviet dictatorship...
...What is their purpose...
...Grand Jury Charges World Conspiracy On Nitrate Price A federal grand jury charged in New York last week that a worldwide chain of conspiracies exists to control and monopolize the price of nitrogen, nitrate of soda, and other nitrates used in the production of munitions...
...All the teaching of recent history points eloquently to the fact that there is no surer recipe for rapid and violent change, and change in an anti-Hberal direction than participation in war, with the suffering and dislocation which this involves and the consequent predisposition of large masses of people to take short cuts to some Utopian mirage...
...The only way the public ean know whether such polls are ot value," McKellar said, "is to be shown how the results are arrived at, where the money comes from to pay for t*e polls, what is done with the money, and every other fact connected with the Gallup and other polls...
...All Frenchmen, except for a few extremists of actual German agents, would have fought wholeheartedly for the frontiers of their own country...
...Defense of the United States and of the American continent is a policy on which the substantial majority of Americans are agreed...
...On the other hand, war is far and away the surest, and swiftest means of bringing to America all the essential characteristic features of the totalitarian-state: universal regimentation, hysterical intolerance, physical and intellectual goose-stepping...
...Cardinal Lashes Propaganda For Involvement William Cardinal O'Connell, dean of the nation's Catholic hierarchy, denounced "propaganda for war" in a statement last week urging the United States to work for a permanent peace...
...Phil Grau, former secretary of the Mill waukee Association of Commerce and now a radio news commentator, made the appeal for a national "employment peace act" (similar to the one sponsored by the Council in the last Wisconsin legislature) to replace the present National Labor Relations Act...
...It is a non-profit plan for budgeted medical and surgical care, costing only $1.25 per person per month...
...Heads FHA Formerly chief assistant in the Federal Housing Administration, Abner H. Ferguson has been named FHA administrator to succeed Stewart McDonald, who resigned...
...There is no agency for revolutionary upheaval remotely comparable in efficacy with war...
...The greatest and most irretrievable error into which American liberalism could fall today would be to be lured into supporting another crusade, another aggressive war in Europe, or Asia, or both, prompted by a general dislike of the totalitarian idea and by the pathetic illusion that all the broken pieces of Europe, Asia, and Africa could he neatly put back in the place by means of such a war...
...The Dead Sea fruits of America's first crusade to make the world safe for democracy were communism and fascism...
...Ends cannot be divorced from means...
...McKellar Goes After Those Election Polls Sen...
...Those Americans who believe in a liberal, democratic, individualist way of life face extremely difficult problems and decisions in a world which is increasingly ruled by totalitarian armed force...
...This total for the 48 states is an increase of 8,634,-835, or seven per cent, over the 1930 total...
...Then sjnned and repented in regard to the Soviet Union...
...It is the Randolph Bournes, not the Walter Lipp-mans, who were vindicated by the results of the Wilsonian experiment in utilizing war to promote the realization of such ideals as international cooperation and self-determination of peoples...
...A good many liberals sinned and repented in regard to America's entrance into the World War...
...The White Cross will fight...
...A second crusade, which would have to be on a much larger scale because America would have fewer allies, could have, I think, only one certain result: the definite and perhaps permanent disappearance of liberalism in America...
...On its side also are progressive doctors, politicians, ministers and businessmen...
...Kenneth McKellar, Tennea* see Democrat, will call for a probe of public opinion polls conducted during the reeent presidential election in a resolution he will mire* duce in the Senate...
...The White Cross was organized by Dr...
...They are Arizona, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and Tennessee...
...So concludes William Henry Chamberlin, famed foreign correspondent who has studied the explosive developments of the past two decades from watch-towers in Moscow, Berlin, Tokyo, and Paris, in a* American Mercury article entitled "War—Short Cut To Fascism...
...Notwithstanding the too-prevalent propaganda from all sides, the hope and prayer of the American people is that we shall be spared the horrors of war...
...In its favor is the Supreme Court decision against organized medicine under the anti-trust act...
...Between 19 20 and 1930, however, the population of the 48 states increased 16.1 per cent...
...They cannot be real Americans, because real Americans think of their country first...
...Even if the war should assume only the form of commercial nonintercourse, the impact of the sensitive individualist economy of the United States would be more destructive in all probability than the effect on the more rigidly disciplined economies of the dictatorships...
...To believe that America will contribute to a better world order by participating in war is on a par with the illusion of believing that the Soviet Union will achieve a desirable and humane social order by the systematic use of executions, deportations, universal espionage, and terrorism...
...When we recall that the purpose of the Council when first organized was "to act as a clearing house for Wisconsin farm organizations and to help promote their interests, gather and disseminate information concerning farm problems, and help organizations in the program of improving and processing and marketing of farm products" we see that the Council has strayed from its original purpose by setting itself up as an authority on what type of laws should be enacted for labor...
...We wonder just how much more butter and cheese has been consumed on this account, and how much the farmer got out of it...
...The grand jury indicted 29 corporations and 66 individuals, including B. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, on six charges of violating the Sherman Act...
...California is entitled to three more seats in the lower house, bringing its total to 23 representatives—a tie with Ohio for fourth place...
...Dr...
...Pass This Paper On...
...It's hard for me to understand why some of these propagandists are allowed to cry down the normal wish of the American people for peace...
...Chamberlin declares that he "detests both the Communist and Fascist forms of the challenge to individualist civilization with all my heart...
...A very similar situation existed in France last year on the eve of the outbreak o fthe war...
...Especially, reminding all who drive or see Wisconsin cars, that we are America's Dairyland...
...The 10 states which lose one house membership each are Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Ohio, Okla-I homa, and Pennsylvania...
...Crusading into Europe Oi...
...They have taken for granted that the authorities at .Washington meant what they said when they promised to keep us out of war...
...To quote a phrase that was much used, they did not wish to 'die for Danzig.' Pushed into war on an unpopular issue, the French people soon lost their morale,-with the disastrous results that were evident in May and June...
...War, moreover, whatever hectic flush of inflation it may bring in the beginning, can only deepen and aggravate our economic problems in the long run and set back constructive social progress indefinitely...
...Population in the U. S. territories and possessions, excluding the Philippines, grew three times as rapidly in the last 10 years as in the United States, showing an increase of 20.7 per cent...
...But this time it is doubtful whether they will have any chance to repent...
...The same old fight which group health programs ha've faced all over the nation now threatens the existence of the Massachusetts plan, the White Cross...
...The White Cross is determined it will fail in Massachusetts...
...But many Frenchmen were averse to fighting on an east-European issue...
...I could wish that the American record for the last years could show more airplanes and tanks, and men who know how to use them, and fewer in-temperate alarmist speeches and vague dangerous commitments to action in remote parts of the world...
...The example of France should be a solemn warning against pitching foreign policy in a key higher than the majority of the people wish to follow...
...France A Solemn Warning Against Reckless Policies ((¦pHERE COULD BE no surer prelude to national A disaster and to the establishment of some kind of totalitarian dictatorship in America than to adopt, consciously or unconsciously, a foreign policy which would impose on us the obligation to overthrow every totalitarian regime in the world...
...Medical Society Seeks To Block Non-profit Plan Boston, Mass...
...IT IS interesting to note that the Dairyland News of Nov...
...Mississippi river valley, of one of their house memberships, the Census Bureau notified President Roosevelt...
...Returns for the continental United States show a 1940 population of 131,409,881...
...Harvest Of Rotten Fruit From The Last World War CHAMBERLIN DOES not appear to oppose "steps short of war" if they are precisely that, but he sees actual American entry into the "'ir as a prelude to Fascism in the United States...
...The United States should provide an "oasis, an island of peace" to which the warring nations could turn for an example of "religious justice" when the war is over, he said...
...Yet America's experience in the World War is surely recent enough to afford some useful guidance...
...Not only should we keep out of war as the best thing for America and Americans," the Cardinal said, "but we might ell be turning our thoughts toward a speedy and permanent peace among the nations...
...Organized medicine succeeded in getting such a restricting law passed in New Jersey...
...Such a bfutal and irrational means as war can lead only to brutal and irrational results...
...Seven states gain one house seat apiece...
...On the one hand there must be quick, efficient preparation to meet the physical menace of such force...
...The three brutalitarian systems which have spread their sway over Europe originated in the first World War...
...Greatest Error Would Be Suonorting New Crusade «T IBERAL STRATEGY, therefore, should be to Li see to it that war does not take place unless it is clearly unavoidable, in other words, unless there is a direct military attack against the American continent...
...The Massachusetts Medical Society will offer to the state legislature next year a bill designed to bring all group health plans in the state under its control...
...He is frankly disturbed by the "deplorable failure on the paTt of the majority of American liberals, including those who had an honorable record of critical skepticism in regard to the last war" to recognize "the dangers of involvement in war...
...Asia, despite all the highly organized articulate publicity in favor of such a course, is profoundly suspect to a large minority, probably to a majority of the people...
...Grau's connections even though It quotes him at length...
...Isn't this quite a record for a farm organization...
...Farmer La bar Relations • • • =By WALTER H. UPHOFF THE 12tli annual get-together of the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture surprised some people by the frank and open stand taken on "curbing labor's rights...
...No group plan could operate without the consent of more than half the doctors in the community and without the official approval of the Society's reactionary leaders...
...This would mean war with some 400,000,000 people, and all more systematically trained in military affairs than we are...
...George Gallup, head of the American Institute of Public Opinion, said after McKellar's announcement he would "welcome" an investigation of his poll technique...
...How many Americans, on a referendum vote, would wish to die for the Dutch East Indies, for Singapore, for Thailand or Senegal...
...0 Liberals Face Hard Decisions In This Totalitarian World IHOPE I SHALL never see America in the same state of pitiful collapse in which I left France, or, for the same reason, an unwise decision of the government to embark on an avoidable war for which the country was not properly prepared, either materially or psychologically...
...William H. Hutter, president of the Council, while reviewing the accomplishments of the organization recalled that it had been instrumental in having the slogan "America's Dairyland" put on the automobile license plates...
...25, 1940 (a utility and GOP mouthpiece) makes no mention of Mr...
...Hugh Cabot, formerly of the Mayo Clinic...
...It is a familiar teaching of history that men - learn nothing from the observation of the past...
...10 States Lose, Eight Gain Seats In Lower House Shifts in American population will give eight states additional representation in Congress and deprive 10 other states, most of them in the...
...In establishing his credentials as a "reasonably consistent liberal...
...Big business interests have for some time been using this same line of attack on the NLRB, so is i it any wonder organized labor suspects a tie-up between the Council and business interests...
...Now they are sinning again insofar as they are urging measures which are reasonably certain to bring the United States into war...
...Census Counted 150,362,326 People In U. S. Territory Population of the United States, its territories and possessions was 150,362,326 on April 1 this year— 8.6 per cent higher than it was in 1930, according to preliminary returns of the recent census...
Vol. 4 • October 1940 • No. 50
