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NEW MASSES ESTABLISHED 1911

Contributing Editors

LIONEL BERMAN

l Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND,~

FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*,

A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washh>gton Editor:

VIRGINIA GARDNER. West Coast Editor: BRUCE MINTON. Film,

JOSEPH FOSTER; Drama, HARRY TAYLOR; Art, MOSES SOYER:

Music, PAUL ROSAS; Dance, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Business Manager: ' LOTTIE GORDON. Field Director: DORETTA TARMON. Advertising'

Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE.

* On leave with the armed forces.

:~~::R: : E BSO~~: The Truth About Belgium Henri de Maas . 3 j BELL A v. DoDD Can the Germans Keep Going? Colonel T. 6 J

~ , ~ ~ Yp A:~ v: D o"u ~ ~ ~.:~;:;.~o~~~:" The Ed ;to" . :I WILLIAM GROPPER A Man to Remember Joseph North 10'!

ALFRED KREYMBORG Your Taxes After the War J. R. Wilson . 111

JOHN H. LAWSON Copperhead Field Day Virginia Gardner 13·j.; VITOMARCANTONIO Zita's Boy Albert Wiener . 15j

RUTH McKENNEY November 7 and the Future II Earl Browder. 17

FREDERICK MYERS Art and the New World llya Ehrenburg 20· SAMUEL PUTNAM

PAUL ROBESON

ISIDOR SCHNEIDER

HOWARD SELSAM

SAMUEL SILLEN

JOSEPH STAROBIN

MAX YERGAN

Editorial Comment . 21

Koestler's Devious Defeatism Joel Bradford

Book Reviews: The Ordeal, by Arkady Perventsev:

T. C. Foxx; Morale Education in the American Army,

by Philip Foner: Ralph Bowman Stage For Action Harry Taylor

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• On leave with the armed forces. ALVAH BESSIE

~ RICHARD o. BOYER Meet Some Jew-Baiters Virginia Gardner

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i B E L LA v. D o D D Letter to a Liberal A. B. Magi! w·,nspear .. ~ JOY DAVIDMAN Schools for a New World A. D. § R. PALME DUTT Shore Leave in Bari Jack Lasker t}

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e JOHN H. LAWSON Readers' Forum 14, ! VITO MARCANTONIO Gropper's Cartoon Jl ~ RUTH McKENNEY Editorial Comment tJ

=i=--=-= :~E:::~c~U~~:R~ The Man Who Was Ralph Fox Samuel Sillen ] ... ••.·.··.· ..•.•. ·.'

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R. PALME DUTT

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ALFRED KREYMBORG

JOHN H. LAWSON

VITO MARCANTONIO

RUTH McKENNEY

FREDERICK MYERS

SAMUEL PUTNAM

PAUL ROBESON

HOWARD SELSAM

SAMUEL SILLEN

JOSEPH STAROBIN

MAX YERGAN

Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*, A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Editor: VIRGINIA GARDNER. West Coast Editor: BRUCE MINTON. Literary Edlfor: ISIDOR SCHNEIDER: Film, JOSEPH FOSTER: Drama, HARRY TAYLOR: Art, MOSES SOYER: Music, PAUL ROSAS: Dance, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON. Field Director: DORETTA TARMON. Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE.

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Sho~ld We Recognize Lublin? Abraham Penzik

Romain Rolland: Journey's End Nathan Ausubel The Dies Committee Phoenix Virginia Gardner

A Jew Looks at His America Joseph North The New Bases for Peace F. J. Meyers

Editorial Comment .

Gropper's Cartoon What the Red Army Is Doing Colonel T.

On Andre Gide Louis Aragon and Alan Benoit

Book Reviews: They Look Like Men, by Alexander F. Bergman: Aaron Kramer; Leningrad, by Alexan

der Werth: Roy Sklar; Science at War, by George

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NEW MASSES Editor: JOSEPH NORTH; Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLD·

FRANK*, A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART; Washington Editor: VIRGINIA GARDNER; West Coast Editor:

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Contents: Life and Death of a Hero Louis Aragon .............................................. :............. 3 Editorial Comment ............................. - .. ----·············-··-··-········--·····--···-·---·--··-·· 18

Lenin in the Dark Days ....... -.................................................................................................. 6 On the Offensive Colonel T .............................................. - .... -................................. 22

Where Do the Liberals Go From Here? A. B. Magil........................ 9 Book Reviews ............................................................................... - ................ -.................................. 23

Your Postwar House Virginia Gardner.................................................................. 13 Films of the Week Joseph Foster ....................... -................................................... 28

The Red Army's Danube March William Brandt. ................ -...................... 16 Notes on Music John Kitton .................... _................................................................... 29

Reader's Forum .... ·--··-···-···---··----··-····-····--··-·--················--···-··--···-··················... 17 On Broadway Harry Taylor ........... _ ......... _ ......................... _ .................. -................ 30

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Washington Notes Virginia Gardner I ! JOHN H. LAWSON The Titanic Soviet Offensive Colonel T. 21 •·.: .. ~"' § VITO MARCANTONIO What Lenin Liked to Read M. Zhivov • • • 23 '~i § Book Reviews: A Faith to Free the People, by fo; = ~ § RUTH McKENNEY Cedric Belfrage: William H. Melish; American .'~ I FREDERICK MYERS Negro Slave Revolts, by Herbert Aptheker: Ralph ;,·~~~l .. - Bowman; Anything Can Happen, by George and ·· ~ SAMUEL PUTNAM Helen Papashvily: Arkady Leokum; China Takes *'~ I PAUL R 0 BE S 0 N Her Place, by Carl Crow: James C. Cronin; Brazil 'i~· § HOWARD SELSAM on the March, by Morris Llewellyn Cooke: Martin :' ! T. Brown; Brief Review: The Ukraine: A Sub- ;~~ § __ = SAMUEL SILL EN merged Nation, by William Henry Chamberlin 24 :'f!

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ALVAH BESSIE

RICHARD 0. BOYER

BELLA V. DODD

JOY DAVID MAN

R. PALME DUTT

WILLIAM GROPPER

ALFRED KREYMBORG

JOHN H. LAWSON

VITO MARCANTONIO

RUTH Mc:KENNEY

FREDERICK MYERS

SAMUEL PUTNAM

PAUL ROBESON

HOWARD SELSAM

SAMUEL SILLEN

JOSEPH STAROBIN

MAX YERGAN

Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*, A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Ed/tor: · VIRGINIA GARDNER. West Coast Editor: BRUCE MINTON. Uterary Editor: ISIDOR SCHNEIDER: Film, JOSEPH FOSTER: Drama, HARRY TAYLOR; Art, MOSES SOYER: Music, JOHN KITTON: Dance, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON. Field Director:, DORETTA TARMON. Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE.

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Jew-Baiters on the Spot Virginia Gardner A Soldier's Soldier Pfc. Nathan Gross . To Berlin! llya Ehrenburg Report on China Rep. Mike Mansfield Culture and the Future Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Paul Robeson, Howard Fast, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Max Weber, Mrs. Fredric March, Fredi Washington, John Howard Lawson Air and Sunshi11e Henry Schubart

Gropper's Cartoon Editorial Comment . The Soviet Haymaker Colonel T. Who Fought for France Nancy Cunard Book Reviews: Situation Normal, by Arthur Miller: Allan Crawford: They Dream of Home, by Niven

Busch: David McKelvy White Changing Hollywood Joseph On Broadway Harry Taylor Notes on Music John Kitton

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Contents Crime Must Not Pay D. N. Pritt ----····--- ....................................................... .

A Byrd's-Eye View of Jobs Virginia Gardner ··········-··-·-·-······-·--·-

Gropper's Cartoon

lincoln Is America Howard Fast ·····--···············----~-·········-·······--··············-······-Should We Outlaw Anti-Semitis;,? A Symposium (II) ·-········-·-··

Closeup of the New Poland Anna Louise Strong .............. ·-··-········-Culture of the War and Peace Quentin Reynolds, Joseph North

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Europe, by Raphael Lamkin ·········---····-············-·---·--·············-·---·····--·-·---·-··- 23 Films of the Week Joseph Foster -········-··--···-······--·······--···-··--···"···········- 27 In the World of Art Moses Sayer ····----··-·····-·-···----------····-·--· 28 On Broadway Harry Taylor -··········-···-···-··--··-···-········-··-··-·-··-·-··--·······---· 30

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JOHN H. LAWSON

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Atom Splitters in the Senate Virginia Gardner

Behind Detroit's Elections Abner W. Berry

P.C.=People's Councilman Joseph Foster

I Choose Quill Lewis Merrill .

Open Letter to Warner Bros. Artie Shaw

Gropper's Cartoon

The Lowdown on Higher Wages Economist

What Psychoanalysis Can Do J. B. Furst .

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Why the French C.P. Won Yves Moreau

Readers' Forum . The Jewish Writer Karl Shapiro, Nathan Ausubel

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Your Stake in the Auto Strike The Editors

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