THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editor Reserves ... The Last Column Sobering-Up Process Begins Some of the American editors and commentators who had themselves a roaring spree on atrocity stories are beginning to sober up a...
...Seymour means the anti-Nazi Germans who stood up, often with their bare hands, against Hitler's brutal police, and who today constitute a potential nucleus for a democratic Germany...
...For by "political prisoners" Mr...
...He dropped to a new low when as chairman of the House Veterans Committee, he summoned PM's Albert Deutsch to testify regarding the...
...As a result, the press and the radio and the picture magazines and the newsreels subtly created the impression that the victims of Dachau and Buchenwald and other concentration camps were largely American boy...
...For the wholesale atrocities were those against political prisoners...
...The most fraudulent note in all the whoop-dee-doo about atrocities was the refusal of the American press and radio, to make it clear that most of the atrocities—and there were many of the most incredibly bestial character— were perpetrated by Nazis on other Germans...
...Th^s, of course, is precisely the point suppressed up to now...
...They have complete control of the police, the courts, and all instruments of education and propaganda—in other words, the moulding of public opinion at home and abroad and police dictation over the lives of every person, especially dissenters...
...Last week, however, both flaming internationalists voted in Senate committee against the FEPC legislation which would declare it an unfair employment practice to refuse to hire, to discharge, or to discriminate in compensation because of race, color, creed, national origin or ancestry right here in the United States of America...
...M.H.R...
...Winchell, who ladles out much more than his share of irresponsible criticism, was recently lumped by Time and Life with other third-rate journalists among the rowdy set of keyhole-peepers, chit-chat Specialists, and rumor-mongers at San Francisco...
...Invariably, these, of course, are Communists or fellow-travelers...
...Thus, Gideon Seymour, executive editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, one of the touring group of editors who inspected German concentration camps, began to strike a new and more cautious note last week...
...Rankin demanded and got a charge of contempt against Deutsch when the reporter refused to divulge the source of his information...
...Most of the victims were Germans, who fared far worse than did American prisoners of war...
...Ranting Rankin Rep...
...The Last Column Sobering-Up Process Begins Some of the American editors and commentators who had themselves a roaring spree on atrocity stories are beginning to sober up a bit, and seem busy now working out their morning-after rationalizations...
...Don't assume from this, then, that the so-called atrocity stories were false...
...Claude Pepper, Florida, and J. William Ful-bright, Arkansas, both Democrats, are numbered among the most vociferous adherents in Congress of active American intervention to straighten out the affairs of "backward nations" and resolve the inequalities existing throughout the rest of the world...
...Winchell boiled over with anger, and has been whining almost daily in his column and on-the radio on how mistreated he was by Time and Life...
...latter's exposures of mistreatment of veterans...
...A battling foe of the power trust and a slugging supporter of the TVA and REA, Rankin is also a ranting racist and a hard-boiled reactionary on other issues...
...The reverse, of course, ivas true...
...To have made this clear would have been interfering with the hate-cult's malevolent thesis that there is no difference between the Nazis and the rest of the Germans...
...but the"y will say they weren't victims of wholesale atrocities...
...What interests me at the moment is the fact that some American editors, knowing that American boys who were actually in German prison camps are now on their way home, are getting a bit jittery...
...Said he to a Minneapolis audience: "American boys who were prisoners of the Germans will come home and say, yes, they were underfed...
...Tip Often, when a Soviet-inspired regime is installed in one of the nations of Europe, like Poland, or Bulgaria, or Yugoslavia, or Rumania, or Austria, or Czechoslovakia, a great deal of emphasis is placed on the fact that umpty-nine per cent of the cabinet is composed of non-Communists...
...In wading through reports like these, the wary will watch for the affiliation of the minister of the interior and the minister of propaganda...
...Nomination Walter Winchell, the Broadway gossip columnist, wins our nomination as the "cry-baby of the month...
...They suspect that the released American prisoners, who haven't papers to sell or hates to promote, will begin telling the truth to the great embarrassment of the atrocity-mongers...
...yes, they were often kicked and slapped and some Were treated worse...
...John Rankin is one of the most curious contradictions in Congress...
...What shocked those who followed the proceeding was the fact' that Rankin made no effort to get at the facts the reporter had accumulated, and was interested only in "getting" Deutsch...
...Contrast Sens...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 23
