FOR A UNIFIED EUROPE
For A Unified Europe IN ITS widely discussed editorial of June 5 analyzing the 1944 Declaration of Principles of Wisconsin Progressives, Life Magazine cited the plank advocating international...
...As Coudenhove-Kalergi points out, there is an urgent need for such expressions from Allied leaders to combat the persistent rumors that the United Nations are secretly preparing a partition of Europe into spheres of influence...
...On the whole, his recent address to the House of Commons was a candid summary of many of the evils against which Progressives have pledged an uncompromising fight...
...In a letter to the New York Times, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, president of the Pan-European Union and author of "Crusade for Pan-Europe," rightly commends the Prime Minister's forthright advocacy of a united, federated Europe as a cornerstone of world peace...
...In contemplation of law, however, insurance has acquired an established doctrinal status not based on present-day facts...
...For A Unified Europe IN ITS widely discussed editorial of June 5 analyzing the 1944 Declaration of Principles of Wisconsin Progressives, Life Magazine cited the plank advocating international cooperation "with the forces which share their ideals for political freedom and economic opportunity," and observed: "Any by such forces, they [the Progressives] don't mean Churchill...
...In his address to the 10th anniversary convention of the Progressive Party last month, Sen...
...There are few men in the Allied camp whose political thinking Progressives reject more emphatically than Winston Churchill's...
...The newest appointee, Justice Rutledge, indicates that he intends to make it a judicial foursome of which the American people can be justly proud...
...It is good to hear such forthright language as Mr...
...Progressives have long recognized the need for a free and united Europe...
...Speaking in New York during the same week of the Klan announcement, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes warned America that unless religious and race hatred is wiped out here at home "we make certain our eventual defeat" in the war to liberate the Axis-dominated countries from the monstrous race ideologies of Hitler and Tojo...
...Life was right, of course...
...To the average layman who has watched the big insurance companies operate, this special exemption was confirmation of his suspicion that a great body of our law is hardly more than legalistic witchcraft, intelligible only to the witchdoctors of the bar...
...A Judicial Milestone THE United States Supreme Court's decision of last week overruling the musty precedent of 75 years standing that insurance business is not commerce and thus does not fall under the anti-trust laws is a milestone in the history of the high court...
...For as Winston Churchill has said, a divided Europe has been the source of most of our woes and wars...
...Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy have added to their already splendid records for enlightened interpretation of the law...
...The case came to the Supreme Court because of anti-trust proceedings instituted against some 200 stock fire insurance companies.'Policy holders upon whom arbitrary monopolistic rates have been forced because of this untenable "fiction" will applaud the clear vision and straightforward thinking of the four justices who participated in the majority decision...
...For constitutional purposes a fiction has been established and long acted upon by this Court, the states, and the Congress that insurance is not commerce...
...Then the peoples of Europe can find the solutions to these problems through a confederation of states upon the basis of the experience of Switzerland and the United States...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., spoke the views of most Progressives when he said: "The great hope for the solution of Europe's complex economic, ethnic, and political problems will be realized when the governments of Europe are willing to renounce their conflicting imperialistic aims...
...Justice Robert Jackson, although he dissented from the courageous and realistic majority opinion, admitted as much when he wrote: "As a matter of fact modern insurance businaes, as usually conducted, is commerce...
...And it is good to hear that the Klan has folded up its ridiculous sheets...
...Ickes fails to mention and what the Grand Wizards of bigotry know is that talk, no matter how right and just the sentiment, will not banish intolerance...
...Besides being notable for its contribution to better understanding between the people and the courts and its threat to monopolistic practices in the insurance field, the insurance decision will undoubtedly put an end to the insurance lobby's high pressure campaign in Congress to obtain legislation specifically exempting insurance from the anti-trust laws...
...Racial and religious intolerance was its chief stock in trade, and its hate propaganda was directed principally against immigrants, Catholics, Negroes, and Jews...
...A Europe united, not by conquest, but by conviction, into a federated entity would constitute by far one of the most effective steps toward enduring peace...
...But what Mr...
...It is unfortunate that Churchill allowed the tragic and deeply shocking implications in the rest of his speech to obscure this vital section...
...Unless we have the courage to strike at the heart of the problem, instead of just making well-meaning speeches, we can expect World War II to leave us a harvest of hate more menacing than those we reaped after the Civil War and World War I...
...The Klan was founded on the hatreds left by the Civil War and was revived by the bigotry that came in the aftermath of World War I. It flourished most in the South, where it fed on the discontent and wretchedness of that region's miserable one-crop economy...
...Economic insecurity and the hatreds loosed by war provide the soil in which demagogues can grow bigger and uglier KKK's...
...The Klan Disbands THE announcement last week of the disbanding of the Ku Klux Klan, that peculiar organization that came to symbolize the worst in bigotry and intolerance in this country, is welcomed by all right-thinking Americans as the end of one of the tawdriest chapters in America's history...
...But it must be said in his behalf that he did give expression to a vital war aim—an objective subscribed to by all who want a realistic program for a just and enduring peace in Europe...
...Ickes used...
...Progressives, who at the same convention adopted a plank acknowledging this necessity of a European confederation, will, we know, join with Coudenhove-Kalergi in acclaiming Prime Minister Churchill for holding out at least one hope to the war-ravaged peoples of Europe...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 25
