The Freeman June 1953

The Religion of Immoralism Max Eastman Will Italy Vote Left? Klaus Dohrn Dante and the Moderns Joseph Wood Krutch Indoctrination in Korea Martin Berkeley The Necessity of "Red~Baiting" An Editorial PHOTO BY BEN O'nly Your Help Can Give Them Hope Now OUNTLESS families are distressed and burdened by the C suffering and expense that comes with advanced cancer. The National Cancer The National Cancer Foundation is devoted to the care of ad vanced cancer patients .•• particularly those in the middle or F'oundation lower income groups. The National Cancer Foundation helps Mr. Jacques Coe, Treasurer provide: Nursing Care, Housekeeping Services, Transportation, II Medical Supplies, for bedridden victims in their homes, or assists 108 E. 48th St., New York 17, N. Y. in the placement of patients in comfortable nursing homes if the Enclosed is my contribution of $ . family is unable to nurse the patient. Name The National Cancer Foundation helps relieve financial hard ships of families invaded by cancer. Your contribution enables Street the National Cancer Foundation to carryon this humane service. City Zone State . Please send your contribution today ... use this coupon. Note that contributions are tax deductible. THE Our Contributors A FOl'tnightly For DIOGENES is the pen llame of a British columnist writing regularly for Time and Tide of London. reeman Individualists W. L. MC GRATH, a Cincinnati business executive, Editor HENRY HAZLITT was a member of the labor management com Managing Editor FLORENCE NORTON mittee of the War Manpower Commission. For the past four years he has been a member of the American delegation to the Annual Con ferences of the International Labor Organiza tion in Geneva. VOL. 3, NO. 18 JUNE 1, 1953 Contents HOWARD WYCE is known to FREEMAN readers for Editorials his "Portrait of England," which appeared in two installments in our issues of March 9 and Fortnight 617 23. His present piece on pre-Coronation Britain 'The Necessity of "Red-Baiting" 619 reached us just as we were going to press for A 'Test of lOur Honor ......................... .. 620 our final number before that historic event. No Steel Strike 621 MARTIN BERKELEY sent us the story of Paul F. Schnur, Jr. ("Indoctrination in Korea") from Articles California, where in his time off from bein~ a The Religion of In1ffioralis'm MAX EASTMAN 622 Hollywood screen writer he is working on a The Case Against Nationalization DIOGENES 625 book about Communists and the Liberals. He is What Should We Do About the ILO? W. L. MCGRATH 627 a former Communist, who broke with the party Coronation Capers HOWARD WYCE 629 in 1943; in 1951 he testified before the House Un-American Activities Comm,ittee. Indoctrination in Korea MARTIN BERKELEY 631 Will Italy Vote Left? KLAUS DOHRN 634 KLAUS DOHRN, though now a resident of this John Flynn and the Times GARET GARRETT 637 country, still spends a large par,t of his time abroad as an observer of the' political scene and Books and the Arts a correspondent. He returned only a short while ago from a year in Italy and will be back in JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH 639 Dante and the Moderns Rome by the time his forecast of the Italian Our Japanese Friends WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN 640 elections appears. He was from 1933-38 editor Legend into Man ALICE BEAL PARSONS 641 of the anti-Nazi, Catholic magazine, Der Chrut Soviet Strategy JULIAN GUMPERZ 642 liche Stiindestaat, in Vienna. He escaped from Unresolved Dilemma JOHN VERNON TABERNER 643 Austria to France where he edited a resistance Clash of Cultures GEORGE S. SCHUYLER 643 newspaper in Paris. He has recently served as From Murder to Revolution " R. G. WALDECK 644 adviser on European affairs to the A. F. of L. Sublime Talk "' F. N. 645 Theater ADELE GU'rMAN NATHAN 646 JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, author, dramatic critic, and professor of dramatic literature at Colum bia University, is now living in Tucson, Ari Poem zona. In addition to his works on the theater, Never Again MARY SINTON LEITCH 626 he has written a number of biographies. His most recent book is Desert Year, published in This Is What They Said ............................ .. 633 1952. Worth Hearing Again .............................. .. 638 From Our Readers .,.................... 616 Among Ourselves For this issue Max Eastman has stepped for ward from the book to the article section to THE FREEMAN is published fortnightly. Publication Office, Orange, Conn. Editorial and Mar~ism General Offices, 240 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Copyrighted in the! United show us a side of that has been States, 1953, by the Freeman Magazine, Inc. Henry Hazlitt, President; Lawrence Fertig, generally smoothed over or ignored by the Vice President; Claude Robinson, Secretary; Kurt Lassen, Treasurer. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orange, Conn. Rates: Twenty!-five Marxians. Our distinguished guest lead book re cents the copy; five dollars a year in the United States; nine dollars for two years; viewer is Joseph Wood Krutch (see biographical six dollars a year elsewhere. The editors can not be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts unless return postage or, note above). Mr. Eastman will return to his better, ~ stamped, ielf-addressed envelope is\ enclosed. place at the head of the book pages in our June Articles. signed with a name, pseudonym, or initials do not necessarily represent the opinion. of the editors, either as to substance or style. 15 issue with a discussion of The Natural Su ~ 11 - Printed in U.S.A., by Wilson H. Lee Co., Orange, Connecticut periority of Women by Ashley Montagu. be presumed to have spoken officially FROM OUR READERS for the organization. His language in II II writing of the American system was even stronger than that of the quota "Democracy in the Classroom" tion in my article. -Pro and Con In an editorial that appeared in the January, 1939, issue of the Journal, I am glad that there is such a maga Morgan wrote: "There has grown up zine as the FREEMAN, for I believe that in the United States during the past it is important to have a publication half century a new feudalism more that presents the point of view which threatening than the institution of hu you do so adequately. I must admit, man slavery." The editorial continued however, that even my own New Eng with bitter denunciation of "special land Republican background rebels at privilege," "the corrupting influence of times at the intolerance of some of the the great corporations," "a monopo statements made in your magazine. listic press and radio," and other hates My reason for writing you at this that strongly resembled the Commu time is on a matter of simple honesty nist-inspired line of agitation. of reporting. On page 486 of the April At the 1938 NEA Convention, Dr. 6, 1953, issue of the FREEMAN ("De-. Goodwin Watson of Teachers College, mocracy in the Classroom") appears Columbia University, made an address the statement: "The group penetrated in which he praised the "notable in the previously conservative National ternational achievement of the Soviet Education Association, which later an Union" and excoriated "chauvinistic nounced officially that 'dying laissez nationalism" in the United States. "So faire must be completely destroyed.'" long as power to control business and This is a completely false statement. government rests with our present Never in its nearly 100 years of his small reactionary ruling class we must tory has the National Education As expect enormous discrepancies between sociation officially made such a state the ideals of world peace and actions ment or anything similar to it. taken far more with a view to profits," Actually, the quotation is taken from he said as quoted in the press at that the report of a small discussion group time. of an autonomous affiliated department I would like to believe that there has of the NEA and it wa,s "received and been a change of heart at NEA since filed" in their meeting. In other words, then. But its recent attempt to dis the quoted statement was never an of credit the earnest efforts of two con ficial statement of even an independent gressional committees to expose Com group within the NEA, to say nothing munists and fellow-travelers in the of the national organization itself. teaching profession as "a wave of Washington, D. C. R. B. KENNAN scapegoating" and "dangerous attacks on freedom of thought and civil lib If we are to split hairs, Mr. Kennan erties" hardly justifies that hope. may have a point to his objection to Springfield, Mo. FRED DE ARMOND the word "officially" in my article. I quoted from the proceedings of the seventy-second annual convention of B'attle Against Print the National Education Ass6ciation, I have read Miss Schreiber's "The held in Washington, D. C., in 1934. In Battle against Print," April 20 issue, fuller context the passage read: with interest. But I feel her despair is unwarranted. 'I refer you to the New But to achieve these things, many drastic changes must be made, a dy York Times Magazine of April 5, page ing laissez-faire must be completely 58. Louis Hacker, Director of Colum destroyed, and all of us, including bia's School of General StUdies, writes: ·... the "owners," must be subjected to "The leading interest of mature stu a large degree of social control. dents is hum'anistic and not vocational. The largest department, in point of 7565 E. McNichols Road I do not believe, however, that ascrib ing this sentiment to the NEA dis registration, is that of English lan- Detroit 34, Michigan torted the Association's essential posi guage and Iiterature.

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