A LETTER FROM AMERICA By Pam Flett- WILL be interested in hearing what you think of Roosevelt’s foreign policy. When he made the speech at Chicago, I was startled and yet tremendously thrilled. It certainly looks as if something will have to be done to stop Hitler and Mussolini. But I wonder what is behind Roosevelt's speech. What does he plan to do? And when you get right down to it, what can we do? It’s easy to say “Keep out of War,” but how to keep out? TREAD in THE FIGHT that the ‘American League is coming out with a pamphlet by Harty F. Ward on this subject—Neutrality llready and an American sent in Peace my order. Policy. You I’ve know you can hardly believe anything the newspapers print these days_and I’m depending gare end ors on hare caer Phiets. For instance, David said, hational, when we that read i¢ The was Fascist_Inter- far-fetched and overdone. But the laugh’s for on him, everything if you can that laugh pamphlet at it- Fe dered nigiae th fact, the pamphiot is more up- iendalainow than Fodey'eipener eso YOUR NEXT YEAR IN ART BUT I have several of the American League pamphlets—Women, War and Fascism, Youth Demands WE'VE stolen a leaf from the almanac, which not only tells you what day it is but gives you Peace, A Blueprint for Fascism advice on the conduct of life. Not that our 1938 calendar carries instructions on planting-time (exposing the Industrial Mobiliza- tion Plan)—and I’m also getting But every month of it does carry an illustration that calls you to the struggle for Democracy and Why Fascism Leads to War and peace, that pictures your fellow fighters, and tha gives you a moment’s pleasure A Program Against War and Fascism. I think it’s better to A GOOD calendar alone would be worth the price of only 25 cents. You get also the 12 works of Iearn in my own home with my family now than in a concentration art by America's outstanding artists. The contributors to the 1938 calendar are Charles Bateman, camp or at my son’s grave later. Of A. Birnbaum, Wanda Gag, Hugo Gellert, Harry Gottlieb, William Gropper, Zoltan Hecht, course, they tell me I’m not danger- Louis Lozowick, M. Pass, Georges Schreiber, Lynd Ward and Howard Baer. Our supply of ‘ous enough to be thrown into a con- centration camp, but I don’t know calendars is limited. about that either. And as for war, I can’t bear to think about it, but I Rush your order to force myself to. It’s time the com- mon people woke up on these sub- AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY jects. 268 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. January 1938, THE FIGHT With the Readers The Contributors x * PITTSBURGH. Saturday morning, T ‘THESE BLOW TorcH LYNCHINGS JAMES WATERMAN WISE, in writ had just called the Congress Occurred ie be ier Yn Nas the article on the recent People's chairman and Peace, for Democracy for Democracy and Peace to order. Sothys Antic inching Bi Congress Mr. Wise, Hundreds upon hundreds of de Congress Knows whereof he speaks. are in their seats. One sees a multitude Before the who is active in the American League of faces from the West, East, North and uve Been NO Asests and on its National Board, devotes a South, tenant farmers, auto and steel “eh icons, treat deal of his energy to the struggle workers, bricklayers, coal miners, needle Nod ae fagainst war and Fascism. He is the au- workers, teachers, preachers, machinists, thor of The Nazi Terror, Jews Are Like Phat, The Future of Israel, etc, and men from the sea and office workers editor of various publications as well as many, many Contributor to many nationally known MANY familiar faces and more young, eager and new faces. But that man sitting by himself at the edge ER jis the pen name of ‘of a row, with his hands in his lap, nev While Congress flibustered JOHN C. writer who knows his eco- every- fan Americ moving, never stirring, observing h thing and listening intently—who is he? nomics, South America n this case, j We know him, we are almost sure we Brazil—and the tide of ism which ji know him... the voice through the moved toward our contine microphone calls for “order, please, TNe Beis ISSUE TT, H. WINTRINGHAM, whose beau- 1 {| order.” tiful poem on Spain appears in this issue, | is the British author of Coming World WE have already witnessed three na- etc. He commanded the War, Mutiny, | tional congresses sponsored by the Amer- January, 1938 English-speaking battalion during the jean League. But at this, the fourth one, battle and was staff can- famous Jarama something has happened. It is less of a tain of the brigade which included the family gathering, less of an inner-circle, VoLUME 5 NuMBER 3 Americans at Belchite in August, 1937. more of a cross section of America, more Captain. Wintringham was wounded ‘of representatives which has * twice and is now recovering in his home ing direction, Forward from Pittsburgh 5 in London, fences here through the democratic process By James Waterman Wise ind to hammer out a pro- HOMER P, RAINEY is director of the American Youth Commission of the Behind Fascist Brazil. 8 ‘American Council on Education, which By John G. Slater WLUSTRATED sY HOWARD BAER is devoted to the development of a com- are sitting on the platform and those prehensive program for the care and hundreds of eager faces silent but not so What They Say About China 10 education of American youth. | Mr silent, after all, the strength and hope of Rainey was formerly president of Buck By Berenice B. Noar ‘America, And’ for one split second we nell University close our eyes and hear Att the Congress. 13 Thou art Peace—never by thee STANLEY KAUFFMANN is a new Would blood and treasure wasted be A Chance for Youth 15 writer to these quarters. His short story As tyrants wasted them, when all By Homer P. Rainey WLUSTRATED BY Jo PAGE in this issue is very welcome for many Leagued to quench thy flame in Gaul. reasons, but to the editors it is doubly welcome because it came unsolicited, A note is handed to us which reads, “You The Dime 16 greetings! After the session quietly and with hardly a knock on the sealawag, meet me at the lunch counter in the back By Stanley Kauffmann 1..USTRATED RY M. PASS door. A of the hall The People Were There... a LILLIAN GILKES born and raised in By Herman Rothart the South, returned there recently and the THERE he is sitting at a table with a result of her observations you will find cup of coffee in his hand. We recognize Hope for the South. 22, in her article. Miss Gilkes taught a him now after our last meeting of almost By Lillian Gilkes course in the writing of the short story. sixteen years ago, when he came out of in the Home Study Department of Uni prison a conscientious objector fighting (Columbia), and has ie war-makers with all of his militant Monument hoes 25 versity Extension Irish energy. We had heard about him, By T. H. Wintringham — 1.USTRATED BY DAVID BURKE contributed to Scribner's magazine and off and on, for the last decade or so, read other periodicals about him, knew his rise to the top ranks HERMAN ROTHART is a New York Of one of the unions in the A. F. of L., a newspaperman who attended the Pitts- tunion still in the A. F. of L DEPARTMENTS burgh Congress for Democracy and Peace, mixing and talking with the dele- Radio .+. 12 As to Women 24 gates from mill, mine, farm and office. Congress. 1 am nota delegate, but there Movies .. 14 Building the League... 27 BERENICE E. NOAR wanted to is something doing in this old world of Books .. 18 Youth Notes . 28 know what Chinese and Japanese living ours these days and I have not forgotten in the United States thought of the con- 1917. And the men in my union have not ‘Wall Street 20 Editorials 31 flict in the Far East—and she found out forgotten the World War. Better stil the young ones are lots smarter than we hy talking to them. were. They have our experience to go on. BLACK STAR is the agency responsible JOSEPH PASS, Editor for the photographs of the Japanese girl FOR three or four years now I have been watching and reading on occasion CHARLES PRESTON, Assistant Editor and temple, on pages ten and eleven. ‘Tite Ficnt and a pamphlet or two... « ‘Twenty years ago the bosses talked to us The F Peace and Democracy, published mo by the National DAN RICO made the woodcut for our editorial page after his recent exhibition about making the world safe for Democ- Executive Committee of the American League Against War and Fascam, in New York City. We are partial to 268 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. ‘Y. Chairman, Harry F. Ward. racy. They knew the masses and knew Veh Robert Mores. Lovett, Mrs. V or, Berger. Acting woodcuts. Do you like them? how to fool them. Well, we nes Waterman Wise, Secretarial ual Rei Democracy. Without it we will pei teasurer, J Clara Boditn; Education, Rob Admini THE cover you recognize, of course And this time we intend to fight Lerner; chy MeConnell; ‘Trade Uni ®, John M: is a Currier & Ives print and is repro- 10’ cents, Yearly sub- Tam not going to jail either.