CORNERSTONE OF FOREIGN POLICY
Cornerstone Of Foreign Policy APROFOUNDLY disturbing report has just come from the special Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee headed by Sen. James Murray, Montana Democrat. Based on the most...
...Yes, that's right...
...He was thus the first industrialist to address any national CIO gathering.' Philip Murray, president of the CIO, spoke for workers everywhere when he said: "There is still hope when the world has industrial statesmen like Henry J. Kaiser...
...This is what Justice William O. Douglas had in mind when he said: "We cannot expect our prestige throughout the world to rise above the level of our own accomplishments at home...
...He was cited recently as "one of the greatest national resources" of the United States...
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...Strange Redfellows ONE of the queerest sidelights of the recent tumult at the Montgomery Ward plant in Chicago is the fact that the workers' attitude in demanding elementary rights under existing law was denounced by the American Communists...
...And the United States didn't fight until it was attacked by Japan...
...What chance is there for world stability if there is hunger', misery, and mounting rebellion within nations...
...IT WILL take the wisest leadership, the most courageous planning, and the most determined will to action if we are to smash that "bleak prospect of mass unemployment" against which the Murray Committee warns...
...Well," countered Pat, "the United States itself was neutral for two years, wasn't it ?" "It was," admitted the American...
...The Communist Party of the United States this year changed its official name...
...This is what Sen...
...That is why it is so discouraging to discover that it is becoming fashionable in certain quarters to sneer "isolationist" at the doctrine that a constructive solution of home-front problems is a vital prerequisite to the formulation of a sound foreign policy...
...Said the Murray Committee: "The lack of concrete plans and programs to provide jobs in the transition and postwar period constitutes a psychological obstacle to the most effective prosecution of the war...
...This is the gospel of courage and vision which Henry J. Kaiser, the great American builder, expounds in his superb article on the front page of The Progressive this week...
...They must be faced and answered on the home front no matter how far we eventually go in a program of international cooperation to preserve the peace...
...Based on the most reliable data now available, the report refers generally to the "bleak prospect of mass unemployment" and more specifically to the possibility that 17,000,000 Americans may be without jobs when the war ends...
...If we want the security of friendship with like-minded neighbors, we will show the world that our democracy can outperform any other system...
...No counter-propaganda can stand against that...
...Kaiser is one of the best of the industrial statesmen, and The Progressive is proud to have him writing for us...
...This conflict has been a ruthless and brutal teacher, but it has taught us many things we need to know...
...Murray and his associates recognize that there is a feeling abroad in the land which disturbs unsettles, and frightens millions of Americans—a "widespread feeling of uncertainty with yegard to America's economic future...
...This uncertainty about tomorrow is having a harmful effect on the conduct of the war today, the Senate investigators reported in corroboration of a point long emphasized in The Progressive...
...Mr...
...Robert Wagner of New York had in mind when he said: "I firmly believe that human welfare and social security will play a far greater role in the world of the future than any mere political combination or military alignment...
...The minute we're attacked by Japan, by gorry we'll fight...
...Industrial Statesmanship WHILE it is disturbed by the "bleak prospect of mass unemployment," the Murray Committee glimpses a far brighter future—"the opportunity for an adventure in postwar prosperity"—if we are not afraid to accept the challenge on the home front...
...Will Americans be in a mood to contribute generously to the relief and rehabilitation of other nations if they have 17,000,000 unemployed at home...
...Kaiser refuses to "subscribe to the theory that a depression, even of short duration, is a necessary consequence of the war...
...He believes that progress can be made only through labor and management working together...
...Wit Of The Irish WITH a debate raging furiously over the wisdom or the wickedness of Eire in maintaining her neutrality, leave it to the Irish themselves to inject a bit of humor into the uproar...
...Murray and his colleagues might well have carried their argument to its logical conclusion by pointing out that failure to provide jobs for returning veterans and displaced war workers in America will constitute a psychological obstacle to the most effective preservation of the peace...
...The Daily Worker, Communist organ, called the Montgomery Ward union leaders "irresponsible elements" and "Trotskyites...
...And the United Steel Workers of America paid him a rare compliment when it invited him to address their convention at Cleveland...
...We regret that we have forgotten the new label, but surely it must be something like "Communist Auxiliary of the National Association of Manufacturers," or maybe "Fellowship of the Faded Red...
...This is what the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor had in mind when it completed a survey of postwar problems by warning that failure to meet the challenge at home "will eventually force us to the brink of another and more terrible war...
...We know how to do it, because we have done it...
...Well, then," said Pat, "that's how we Irish feel...
...How could our delegation at the peace conference contend for the free, democratic way of life if that way of life at that moment was depriving 17,000,000 persons of a chance to earn a decent living in the richest nation on earth ? These are questions which can't be brushed aside by name-calling...
...Impatient with the "nightmares of the timid, the alarms of the fearful and the faithless," Mr...
...Failure to set our own economic house in order would make a sound foreign policy impossible...
...It has proven that the productive capacity of America exceeds any and all pre-war estimates...
...And this is what President Roosevelt must have had in mind when he said in his State of the Union address this year, "Unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace in the world...
...A correspondent visiting Dublin reports that he cross-examined an Irishman on the neutrality issue...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 22
