SECRET DIPLOMACY MUST DIE
Meyer, Ernest L.
Secret Diplomacy Must Die By ERNEST L. MEYER AT THIS WRITING, that well known Southern Democrat and revolutionary leader, Cordell Hull,, is engaged in friendly heart-to-heart talks with Messrs....
...For years we have been badgering, purging, and jailing the American disciples of Leninism...
...Why not write all the books in loose-leaf form...
...Open The Gates And Windows...
...Consider that only 23 years ago our American boys were blasting the Bolshies at Archangel and elsewhere, with many of our sons leaving their bones in the barren snow...
...New pages could have been inserted...
...The epilogue is history...
...Following the touching reconciliation at the Kremlin, Mein Kampf became a bit dialectically declasse...
...With the loose-leaf system, the offending pages could have been eliminated with the ease of extracting a fishbone from an offended gullet...
...There were at least 15 toasts, and all were offered in the spirit of friendship...
...Suggestion For Historians Now, if this incredible love-feast were rooted in the soil of real human brotherhood every sane citizen would rejoice...
...For years we had looked with mistrust and even hatred at Russia itself, and recognition of the revolution came belatedly, grudgingly, and attended by apprehension...
...Open the gates and the windows...
...The same dilemma confronts conscientious commentators in our own land...
...For every sane citizen must know by this time that until the universal kinship of mankind is recognized and made the rock-bottom of a new world order, the nations will blunder on from war to bloody war...
...Substitute new ones, proving that Vichy has virtues, and that we can now dicker with the devil without blushing...
...Only the loose-leaf system of swiftly altering the records of our national fiats can keep pace with the printing press...
...Consider that ever since then we have warred upon the Kremlin followers within our own shores, purged them from posts in government and in education, trumpeted their villainies through the Dies Committee, and clapped their leader in prison on a highly synthetic charge of passport-juggling...
...The simple citizen of the world, with life at stake, is far more honest than a diplomat, with a career as prize...
...Secret diplomacy is a weathervane buffeted by winds no prophet can predict...
...A pact was signed...
...Have our commentators and historians lashed for years against the worldwide menace of fascism...
...One recalls with an all too vivid clarity another love feast in the Kremlin only four short years ago...
...Quick, gentlemen...
...And the old pages put on ice, to be re-inserted tomorrow or next year when again it might become the duty of every good Nazi to massacre the Muscovites...
...Consider all these things, and then ponder the portrait of the blueblood Bourbon Hull smiling graciously on being welcomed in Moscow by an honor guard of Red soldiers and then hastening to an amiable conference in the Kremlin, fountainhead of Marxian heresies, of atheism, of poisonous menaces to our property and our womenfolk and all the sacred values cherished by a southern gentleman, suh...
...The whole thing is utterly fantastic...
...Hitler's muddled opus contains sentiments on communism which are writ in sulphur...
...Let the sunlight and the clean air pour in...
...The proceedings will be marked by wariness, rather than warmth...
...Have our commentators lambasted the iniquities and cowardice of the Vichy government in France...
...Unhappily, the confab in the Kremlin offers no proof of such discernment...
...Hating And Loving The Reds The fate of Mein Kampf is a case in point...
...Secret diplomacy must die, or the world will wither...
...But smother those pages, we pray you, and insert nice fresh ones proving that it is expedient and moral to deal with a Franco, a Salazar, a Badoglio...
...At that time the honored guests at the banquet were the envoys of Hitler, who for 20 years had howled and foamed about the monsters of Moscow...
...Excellent—for a time...
...There was a real spirit of friendship around the tables," the usually reliable Associated Press nar-, rates...
...So that, being easily demountable, they be plucked posthaste, restuffed, and made to conform with the swift and unaccountable changes in national policies...
...The current conference in the Kremlin is being held behind locked doors...
...In other directions, too, the loose-leaf system of reflecting the official, patriotic point of view is commended...
...Eden and Molotov within the walls of the Kremlin...
...sections of it, in fact, quaintly archaic...
...The loose-leaf system is the only economical one so long as paper and honesty are rationed, so long as the official loathing of today becomes the official love of tomorrow, so long as loyalties are rooted in nothing more deep than the shifting sands of yesterday's communiques...
...And because it is history, here is a suggestion for contemporary writers of history, politics, and economies...
...And now, suddenly, any remote criticism of the Reds we have been taught to fear and loathe is officially damned as sedition aimed at dividing the Allies...
...Ponder especially the report of the cozy luncheon at the Spiridnovka Palace attended by Hull and Molotov...
...So Hitler had his book withdrawn from circulation, causing a lamentable loss in royalties...
...And in a time of paper short-' age, the scheme becomes economically expedient...
...The celebrated 15 toasts were drunk not in the wine of mutual trust and friendship, but in the tepid water of diplomacy...
...Very well, that was our considered judgment —for a time...
...But tear out those pages now...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 44
