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1945 Contents January - June

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January 1 Vol. 54 No. 01 Jan 02 2 Vol. 54 No. 02 Jan 09 3 Vol. 54 No. 03 Jan 16 4 Vol. 54 No. 04 Jan 23 5 Vol. 54 No. 05 Jan 30

February 6 Vol. 54 No. 06 Feb 06 7 Vol. 54 No. 07 Feb 13 8 Vol. 54 No. 08 Feb 20 9 Vol. 54 No. 09 Feb 27

March 10 Vol. 54 No. 10 Mar 06 11 Vol. 54 No. 11 Mar 13 12 Vol. 54 No. 12 Mar 20 13 Vol. 54 No. 13 Mar 27

April 14 Vol. 55 No. 01 Apr 03 15 Vol. 55 No. 02 Apr 10 16 Vol. 55 No. 03 Apr 17 17 Vol. 55 No. 04 Apr 24

May 18 Vol. 55 No. 05 May 01 19 Vol. 55 No. 06 May 08 20 Vol. 55 No. 07 May 15 21 Vol. 55 No. 08 May 22 22 Vol. 55 No. 09 May 29

June 23 Vol. 55 No. 10 Jun 05 24 Vol. 55 No. 11 Jun 12 25 Vol. 55 No. 12 Jun 19 26 Vol. 55 No. 13 Jun 26

1945 New Masses Contents July-December

July 27 Vol. 56 No. 01 Jul 03 28 Vol. 56 No. 02 Jul 10 29 Vol. 56 No. 03 Jul 17 30 Vol. 56 No. 04 Jul 24 31 Vol. 56 No. 05 Jul 31

August 32 Vol. 56 No. 06 Aug 07 33 Vol. 56 No. 07 Aug 14 34 Vol. 56 No. 08 Aug 17 35 Vol. 56 No. 09 Aug 28

September 36 Vol. 56 No. 10 Sep 04 37 Vol. 56 No. 11 Sep 11 38 Vol. 56 No. 12 Sep 18 39 Vol. 56 No. 13 Sep 25

October 40 Vol. 57 No. 01 Oct 02 41 Vol. 57 No. 02 Oct 09 42 Vol. 57 No. 03 Oct 16 43 Vol. 57 No. 04 Oct 23 44 Vol. 57 No. 05 Oct 30

November 45 Vol. 57 No. 06 Nov 06 46 Vol. 57 No. 07 Nov 13 47 Vol. 57 No. 08 Nov 23 48 Vol. 57 No. 09 Nov 30

December 49 Vol. 57 No. 10 Dec 04 50 Vol. 57 No. 11 Dec 11 51 Vol. 57 No. 12 Dec 18 52 Vol. 57 No. 13 Dec 25 ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIUIJIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIft l Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND,~ FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*, NEW MASSES A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washh>gton Editor: ESTABLISHED 1911 VIRGINIA GARDNER. West Coast Editor: BRUCE MINTON. Film, JOSEPH FOSTER; Drama, HARRY TAYLOR; Art, MOSES SOYER: Music, PAUL ROSAS; Dance, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Business Manager: ' Contributing Editors LOTTIE GORDON. Field Director: DORETTA TARMON. Advertising' Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. LIONEL BERMAN * On leave with the armed forces.

:~~::R: : EBSO~~: 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: Do"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 . 17 FREDERICK MYERS Art and the New World llya Ehrenburg 20· SAMUEL PUTNAM Editorial Comment . 21 PAUL ROBESON Koestler's Devious Defeatism Joel Bradford 23 ISIDOR SCHNEIDER The Ordeal, by Arkady Perventsev: HOWARD SELSAM Book Reviews: American Army, SAMUEL SILLEN T. C. Foxx; Morale Education in the JOSEPH STAROBIN by Philip Foner: Ralph Bowman 28 MAX YERGAN Stage For Action Harry Taylor 29'

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' Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate l:dltors: MARJORIE DE ARMA~ FREDERICK V. FII:LD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRAN~ A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Edit i ~~!LI~H~~$1~ VIRGINIA GARDNI:R. West Coast l:dltor: BRUCE MINTON. F/1 JOSEPH FOSTER: Drama, HARRY TAYLOR: Art, MOSES SOY Music, PAUL ROSAS; Dance, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Business Mana LOTTII GORDON. Field Director: DORETTA TARMON. Advertl1l 1_5= c ...... Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. - LIONEL BERMAN • On leave with the armed forces. ~ RICHARD o. BOYER Meet Some Jew-Baiters Virginia Gardner i B E L LA v. D o D D Letter to a Liberal A. B. Magi! w·,nspear .. --E~ JOY DAVIDMAN Schools for a New World A. D. § R. PALME DUTT Shore Leave in Bari Jack Lasker t} ~=== WILLIAM GROPPER New Ideas in Medicine Edward Earle Starr ll.~ - ALFRED KREYMBORG In the Slaveowners' land Victor Rudny ( 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 ] ...••.·.··.· ..•.•. ·.' = p Au L R 0 BE s 0 N Book Reviews: People on Our Side, by Edgar .· ISIDOR SCHNEIDER Snow: J. B. Davidson; The Five Arrows, by Allan I HOWARD SELSAM Chase: Sally Alford I ~~~~=-:: ::~~~:~: ~;::~.E:~~~~::r !:~~:,;.~~:beo ~ 5 Two weeks' notice is required for change of address. Notifications sent to NEw MASSES rather than the -~;~ 5 office will give the best results. VoL LIV, No. 2. Published weekly by THE NEW MASSES, INC., 104 Eut.'i § Ninth Street. New York 3, N. Y. Copyright 1944, THE NEW MASSES, INC. Reg. U. S. Patent Ollice.·,; ~ Washington Office, 94' Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permissiOD..~.: 5 Entered as second-class matter, June 23, 1926, at the Post Office at New York., N. Y., under the act of - March 3, 1879. Single copies 15 cents. Subscriptions $5.00 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico; sis·, ~ months $2.75; three months $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months $1.75. In Canada = $6.00 a year, $3.50 for six months, U. S. money; single copies in Canada 20c Canadian money. Subscribed~ 5 are notified that no change in address can be effected in less than two weeks. NEW MAssES welcomes the.': 5 work of new writers and artists. Manuscripts and . drawings must be- accompanied by stamped, addreue4 ~ envelope. NEw MASSES does not pay for contributions. ~201' = ~ ' ~IIUIUIRIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIU lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIUIIUIUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIII l!i!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIDIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll §

I Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, NEW MASSES FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*, ESTABLISHED 1911 A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Editor: I VIRGINIA GARDNER. West Coast Editor: BRUCE MINTON. Literary ~ Edlfor: ISIDOR SCHNEIDER: Film, JOSEPH FOSTER: Drama, HARRY 31 TAYLOR: Art, MOSES SOYER: Music, PAUL ROSAS: Dance, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON. Field Director: Contributing Editors DORETTA TARMON. Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. * On leave with the armed forces. LIONEL BERMAN I ALVAH BESSIE Sho~ld We Recognize Lublin? Abraham Penzik 3 ~ ~ RICHARD 0. BOYER Romain Rolland: Journey's End Nathan Ausubel 6 ~ BELLA V. DODD The Dies Committee Phoenix Virginia Gardner § 9 ~ JOY DAVJDMAN A Jew Looks at His America Joseph North II R. PALME DUTT The New Bases for Peace F. J. Meyers 13 I WILLIAM GROPPER Editorial Comment . 16 ~ ALFRED KREYMBORG ~ Gropper's Cartoon 17 JOHN H. LAWSON = What the Red Army Is Doing Colonel T. 20 VITO MARCANTONIO I On Andre Gide Louis Aragon and Alan Benoit 22 ~ RUTH McKENNEY § Book Reviews: They Look Like Men, by Alexander FREDERICK MYERS SAMUEL PUTNAM F. Bergman: Aaron Kramer; Leningrad, by Alexan­ I PAUL ROBESON der Werth: Roy Sklar; Science at War, by George I HOWARD SELSAM W. Gray: James Knight; Brief Review: Made in ~ SAMUEL SILLEN the USSR, by William C. White . 23 ~ JOSEPH STAROBIN Some Recent Films Jo.seph Foster 27 ~ MAX YERGAN On Broadway Harry Taylor 29 ~ §§ Two weeks' notice is required for change of address. Notifications sent to NEW MASSES rathe-r than the post = office wtll give the best results. Vol. LIV, No. 3. Published weekly by THE NEw MASSES, INc., 104 East § Ninth Street, New York 3, N, Y. CopyriJ~ht 1944, THE NEw MASSES, INc. Reg. U. S. Patent .Office, 2 Washington Office, 945 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. ~ Entered as second-class matter, June 23, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the.- act of 2 March 3, 1879. Single copies 15 cents. Subscriptions $5.00 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico; aiz §=_= months $2.75; three months $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months $1.75. In Canada $6.00 a year, $3.50 for six months, U. S. money; single copies in Canada 20c Canadian money. Subscribers - are notified that no change in address can be effected in less than two weeks. NEw MASSES welcomes the E§ work of new writer~ and artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by stamped, addressed ~ envelope. NEW MASSES does not pay for contributions. ~ 201 luuuuununnuuuuunuuunnmnnunnnnnnmnnnuunnnununnnnnnnunnnmnnnnnnnunnnunnunnunnunnunununnunuuunnnnnumuuumnnnnmnunnnmnwu HERBERT GOLD· Editor: JOSEPH NORTH; Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, West Coast Editor: FRANK*, A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART; Washington Editor: VIRGINIA GARDNER; Art: MOSES SOYER; NEW MASSES BRUCE MINTON; Literary Editor: ISIDOR SCHNEIDER; film: JOSEPH FOSTER; Drama: HARRY TAYLOR; Director: DORETTA ESTABLISHED 1911 Music: JOHN KITTON; Dance: FRANCIS STEUBEN; Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON; National Field TARMON; Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. • On leave with the armed forces. Contents: Life and Death of a Hero Louis Aragon...... :...... 3 Editorial Comment...... - .. ----·············-··-··-········--·····--···-·---·--··-·· 18 ...... - .... -...... 22 Lenin in the Dark Days...... -...... 6 On the Offensive Colonel T - ...... -...... 23 Where Do the Liberals Go From Here? A. B. Magil...... 9 Book Reviews ...... -...... 28 Your Postwar House Virginia Gardner...... 13 Films of the Week Joseph Foster...... _...... 29 The Red Army's Danube March William Brandt...... -...... 16 Notes on Music John Kitton ...... On Broadway Harry Taylor...... _...... _ ...... _ ...... -...... 30 Reader's Forum .... ·--··-···-···---··----··-····-····--··-·--················--···-··--···-··················... 17 will give the best results. Vol. LIV, No. 4. Published Two weeks' notice is required for change of address. Notification sent to NEW MASSES rather than the rost office Street, New York 3, N. Y. Copyright 1944, THE NEw MASSES. INC. Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Washington Office, weekly by THB NBW MASSES, INC., 104 East Ninth at the post office at New N.W. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 23, 1926, 945 Pennsylvania Ave., Colonies and Mexico; six months $2.75; three months York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies 15 cents. Subscriptions $5.00 a year in U. S. and In Canada $6.00 a year, $3.50 for six months, U. S. money; single copies in Canada 20c Canadian $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months $1.75. 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§ Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Assoelate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, t .~1 § NEW MASSES FREDERICK v. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*,I ;~ § E 5 TAB Ll 5 HE D 1911 A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Editor: 1: § VIRGINIA GARDNER. West Coast Editor: BRUCE MINTON. Literary .~ ~ Editor: ISIDOR SCHNEIDER; Film, JOSEPH FOSTER; Drama, HARRY £ § TAYLOR; Art, MOSES SOYER; Music:, JOHN KITTON; Danee, FRANCIS j ·> § STEUBEN. Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON. Field Dlreetor: ! j ~ Confrlbuflng Edlfors OORETTA TARMON. Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. LJ 5 • On leave with the armed force1. ~.":,:r. s L I 0 N E L B E R M AN j,1~ ~ a E s s 1 E Trade and Tribulations R. Palme Dutt 3 ~ § A L yAH Should We Outlaw Anti-Semitism? A Symposium 5 til ~ RICHARD 0. BOYER FOR's Sense of Our History F. J. Meyers 8 '.1ii~·.·~ ~ BELL A Y. D o1) D Bulgaria Starts Anew Victor Sharenkoff 10 ;::' I J 0 y DAy 1 D MAN The Army Goes to School Arleri Marsh 12 ·;:~. s Gropper's Cartoon 13 J~ ~ R • PALM E D U T T Ungagging Labor in Texas Louis F. Byrd 15 ·~ ~ WILLIAM GROPPER Reader's Forum • 16 i ~=-= ALFRED KREYMBORG Editorial Comment 1179 .1... '.;;.' 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! JOSEPH STAROBIN Guerrilla Songs of Greece A. L. Lloyd • • 29 .'.'' ~=~=- M A X Y E R G AN Moses Soyer's Exhibition 30 ·.~\

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§§======office will give the best results, VoL LIV, No. 5. Published weekly by THE NEw MASSES, INC., 104 East ,,, Ninth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Copyright 1944, THE NEw MASSES, INC. Reg, U. S. Patent Office, ..;ll Washington Office, 945 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Drawings and text m\y not be reprinted without permiuioa. ~~ Entered as second-class matter, June 23, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef ,,.!: March 3, 1879. Single copies 11) cents. Subscriptions $5.00 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico; ail: .11_· months $2.75; three months $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months $1.75. In Cau.- ' $6.00 a year, ~3.50 for six months, U. S. money; single copies in Canada 20c Canadian money. NEw MAISBI /~ §§ welcomes the work: of new writers and artists. Manuscripts and drawina-s must be accompamed by stampe4. -:~ § addressed envelope. NEw MAssES does not pay for contributions. .,.. 101 : ~ ~dUIIIIIIIIIIIJIIUIIUIIIJIIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIJIIIUilUIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIIUIUIIIIIUIIIIIIUIIIIII~ ~IHIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIDIIIIIHIIIIIIUUIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIUUIIIUHIHHIHUIIIUIIIIAIIIUIIUDIIIDIIIIHIHUIIRUIIIHIIIIIIBII miiUIIIIIUIIDUUIIIIIIIIIUIUIRIIm-IIIIIIHIII-- 2 § ~ Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, HERBERT GOLDFRANK*, =~ NEW MASSES A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Ed/tor: · 5 ESTABLISHED 1911 § 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:, Contributing Editors DORETTA TARMON. Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. • On leaye with the armed forces. LIONEL BERMAN I§ Jew-Baiters on the Spot Virginia Gardner 5 ALVAH BESSIE =2 Nathan Gross . = A Soldier's Soldier Pfc. RICHARD 0. BOYER To Berlin! llya Ehrenburg BELLA V. DODD Report on China Rep. Mike Mansfield i= a JOY DAVID MAN Culture and the Future Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Paul Robeson, Howard Fast, Daniel Fitzpatrick, I5 R. PALME DUTT Max Weber, Mrs. Fredric March, Fredi Washing­ ~ WILLIAM GROPPER 2 ton, s;= ALFRED KREYMBORG § Air and Sunshi11e Henry Schubart = JOHN H. LAWSON 5= Gropper's Cartoon ~ VITO MARCANTONIO Editorial Comment . ~ RUTH Mc:KENNEY The Soviet Haymaker Colonel T. =~ FREDERICK MYERS Who Fought for France Nancy Cunard ~ SAMUEL PUTNAM Book Reviews: Situation Normal, by Arthur Miller: ~ = PAUL ROBESON Allan Crawford: They Dream of Home, by Niven ~ HOWARD SELSAM Busch: David McKelvy White SAMUEL SILLEN Changing Hollywood Joseph Foster i= ~ JOSEPH STAROBIN On Broadway Harry Taylor ~ § MAX YERGAN Notes on Music John Kitton § ~ Two weeks' notice is required for change of address. Notifications sent to Naw MASSES rath« than the p.c § office will give the best results. Vol. LIV, No. 6. Published weekly by THE NEw MASSES, INc., 104 S.C = Ninth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Copyright 1944, THB NEW MASSES, INc. Reg. U. S. Patent Ollie.. =~ Washington Oftice, 945 PennSylvania Ave., N.W. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permiss- E Errtered as second-class matter, June 23, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act f11 ~- March 3, 1879. Single copies 15 cents. Subscriptions ~5.00 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Me:rico; ola , §j months $2.75; three months $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months $1.75. In Cau.. § $6."00 a year, $3.~0 for six months, U. S. money; single copies in Caoada 20c Canadia.n money. Nsw M~ ~ welcomes the work: of new writers and artists. Manuscripts and drawinp must be accompanied by stams-1, ~ addreued envelope. Nsw MASSES doea not pay for contributions. ~ 101

~ ''~ iiiMBIHIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHUIIIIIIUIUIUH-UIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIHIIIUIUHIIUHIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIUHIIIIIUDr.l~ 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 NEW MASSES Editor: BRUCE MINTON; literary Editor: /SIDOR SCHNEIDER; Film: JOSEPH FOSTER; Drama: HARRY TAYLOR; Art: ESTABLISHED 1911 MOSES SOYER; Music: JOHN KITTON; Donee: FRANCIS STEUBEN; Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON; National Field Director: DORETTA TARMON; Advertising Manager: GERTRUD•-•CHASE. • On leave with the armed forces. Contents

Crime Must Not Pay D. N. Pritt ----····--- ...... 3 Reader's Forum ··-··--····-·--·-······-······-····-··-·············-···--··········-·---·····-·······--····· 22- A Byrd's-Eye View of Jobs Virginia Gardner ··········-··-·-·-······-·--·- 7 Book Reviews: Cannery Row, by : lsidor Schnei- der; Bread Upon the Waters, by Rose Pesotta: George Morris; Gropper's Cartoon 9 Task No. 6: Henry Schubart; Brief Reviews: People of the lincoln Is America Howard Fast 10 ·····--···············----~-·········-·······--··············-······-­ USSR, by Anna Louise Strong; Evenings with Music, by Syd Should We Outlaw Anti-Semitis;,? A Symposium (II) ·-········-·-·· II Skalsky; Target Island, by John Brophy; Axis Rule in Occupied Closeup of the New Poland Anna Louise Strong ...... ·-··-········- 13 Europe, by Raphael Lamkin ·········---····-············-·---·--·············-·---·····--·-·---·-··- 23 Culture of the War and Peace Quentin Reynolds, Joseph North 14 Films of the Week Joseph Foster -········-··--···-······--·······--···-··--···"···········- 27 Editorial Comment --······-·--·---·······-···················-···-····--····-····················-·····--·--··········· 17 In the World of Art Moses Sayer ····----··-·····-·-···------····-·--· 28 Closing In On Berlin Colonel T. ·············-···-·····-·········-·-··--········----·········· 20 On Broadway Harry Taylor -··········-···-···-··--··-···-········-··-··-·-··-·-··--·······---· 30

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Where We Stand With Russia by James S. Allen, pp. 3-5 What is Soviet Democracy? by Harry F. Ward, pp. 6-7 Common Sense Perverted by Corliss Lamont, p. 8 Gropper's Cartoon, pp. 9-10 Their Culture and Ours by Isidor Schneider, pp. 11-13 Changing Red Army by Sergei Kournakoff, pp. 14-16 The One Party System by David Zaslavsky, p. 17 What They Thing of the USSR In Europe by Alfred Goldsmith, p. 18 In India Norman Eberhardt, pp. 19-20 How We See It by Rev. Hugh Weston, James P. Warburg, and Robert W. Kenny, ..., p. 21

Editorial Comment, pp. 22-24

Books Reviews [+] Simonov's "Days and Nights" (Review) Dorothy Brewster, p. 25 Days and Nights, by Konstantin M. Simonov [+] Russian Businessmen (2 Reviews) Kurt Conway, pp. 26-27 Prospector in Siberia, by Jonas Lied

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Two weeks' notice is requested for cham~:e of address. Notification sent to NEW MASSES rather than the Post Office will give the best results. Vol. LVII, No. 11. Published by THE NEW MASSES, INC., 104 East Ninth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Copyroght 1945. THE NEW MASSES, INC. Reg. U. S. Patent Office. WashingtOn Office, 954 National Press Bids. Drawings and text may nor be reprinted without permissioo. Entered as second-class matter, June 23, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3. 1879. Single copies 15 cents. Subscriptions $5.00 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico; sis momhs $2.75; three months $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months, $1.75. la Canada $6.00 a year, $3.50 for six months, U. S. mone~ single copies in Canada 20c Canadian money. NEW MASSES welcomes the work of new writers and artists. Manuscripts and drawings mil!< be accompanied by stamped, addressed envelope...... 208 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIUUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIAUIUIIIIIIIIUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUillllllllllllllllliUillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllniiHIIIUIIDIUIIIIIIIIIIIUIUIIIIIIIffiUUUIIIIIIIIIlllliiiiDI December 18, 1945 New Masses CONTENTS

Scuttling Roosevelt by The Editors, p. 3 Red Bogy in the Schools by David Goldway, pp. 4-5 Time Done! by Morris U. Schappes, pp. 6-12 What Will Win the Auto Strike by Abner Berry, pp. 13-14 Cartoon by Gropper, p. 15 Europe's New Democracies by A. Sokolov, p. 16 Luring the Youth by Virginia Gardner, pp. 17-19 NM Spotlight, pp. 20-21 Readers' Forum, p. 22

Review and Comment [+] Henry James: Mandarin? (3 Reviews) Isidor Schneider, p. 23 The Question of Henry James, by F.W. Dupee [+] To Die--- (Review) Charles Humboldt, p. 24 Prater Violet, by [+] Or to Live? (Review) Betty Millard, p. 25 Seven Times the Leading Man, by Egon Hostovsky [+] The Church in the S.U. (Review) Hugh Weston, p. 26 Religion Today in the USSR, by William Howard Melish [+] Blurred Image (Review) Frederic Ewen, p. 27 Florestan, by Robert Haven Schauffler [+] On Iwo Jima (2 Reviews) Mack Ennius, p. 27 The High Barbaree, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall [+] Free and Equal (Review) Eugene Feldman, pp. 27-28 The U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima, by Raymond Henri, Jim G. Lucas, W. Keyes Beech, and David... "Strange Fruit by "Matt Wayne, p. 29 [+] "The Lost Weekend" (2 Reviews) Joseph Foster, p. 30 The Lost Weekend (1945 Film), by Billy Wilder RecordsFrederic Ewen, pp. 31-32 ~UUIIIIIIIIIUUIUIIIIIHIHIUI1HDUIIUIUIUIUJIIUIIIIIOIUIIIIIIIIIIIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIURIIUIIIIUIIIIIUIIIIIUIUUIURIIIUUIDUIDIIUIIIIlllllll~DI~ § Editor: JOSEPH NORTH. Associate Editors: MARJORIE DE ARMAND, NEW MASSES FREDERICK V. FIELD, BARBARA GILES, A. B. MAGIL, VIRGINIA , i SHULL, JOHN STUART. Washington Editor: VIRGINIA GARDNER. ESTABLISHED 1911 Literary Editor: !SIDOR SCHNEIDER; Film, JOSEPH FOSTER; I5 Drama, MATT WAYNE; Arl, MOSES SOYER: Musie, FREDERIC EWEN; Donee, FRANCIS STEUBEN. Editorial Assistant: BETTY MILLARD. I Contrlbuflag Editors Business Manager: LOTTIE GORDON. Field Dlreetor: DORETTA § TARMON. Advertising Manager: GERTRUDE CHASE. ~ LOU IS ARAGON § Should Exra Pound Be Shot? Albert Maltz, Eda Lou Walton, 5= LIONEL BERMAN Lion Feuchtwanger, Arthur Miller, Norman Rosten, F. 0. I ALVAH BESSIE Matthiessen H. Melish 7 !§= RICHARD 0. BOYER The Dean: Canterbury Pilgrim Rev. William §!! Variations on a Bach Theme Joel Bradford 10 = BELLA Y. DODD §!! Behind the Harvard Report Alban Winspear II ~-- JOY DAYIDMAN G ropper ,s C artoon . . . . 13 ~ R • PAL M E D U T T Pittsburgh: 1945 John May . . 15 17 19 I :~;:;.. ;:;;;: ~:::: :~:~~::~,;.N:::~~:"'"' 21 5 VITO MARCANTONIO Book Reviews: Essay on Rime, by Karl Shapiro: lsidor §!! Schneider; The Great Patriotic: War of the , by ! RUTH McKENNEy Joseph Stalin: Ralph Bowman; The Dwarf, by Par Lagerkvist: I ::·:~~IC:: ~::·: ~::~:~":~:~.:,H::::~~:~. ~:~~:~ ~::::~,:::.~: ~ SAMUEL pUTNAM Podolsky: Frederic Ewen; The Small General, by Robert i p R A U L 0 B E S 0 N Standish: Mack Ennius ...... 22 - Chil.dren's Books for Christmas Clara Ostrowsky ond Eliza- ~ ~::.:=~ .:~~~:,: ~~~. ~;,::: !:::" ,;.,;h ·Fo;,,; :: ~ y E R G A N "The Tragic: Jest" I. S. 29 M A X Milhaud: Twenty Years Frederic Ewen 29 ~ Two weeks' notice is requested for change of address. Notification sent to NEW MASSES rather than the Post 5 Office will give the best results. Vol. LVII, No. 13. Published by THE NEW MASSES, INC., 104 Ease 5 Ninth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Copyright 1945. THE NEW MASSES, INC. Reg. U. S. Patent Office. 5 Washington Office, 954 Natiooal Press Bldg. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. ~ Entered as second-class matter, June 23, !926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the aa of March 3, 1879. Single copies 15 cents. Subscriptions $5.00 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico; sis §!! months $2.75; three months $1.50. Foreign, $6.00 a year; six months $3.25; three months, $1.75. In 5 Canada $6.00 a yeat~ $3.50 for six months, U. S. money; single copies in Canada 20c Canadian money. 5 NEW MASSES welcomes the work of new writers and artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied ~ by stamped, addressed envelope...... m .iliUUIIIIIIIUIIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIUIUIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRIIIIIIIIIIUIIIDIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHa