CONTENTS NEW MASSES 1937 New Masses Issue Numbering Error note: Six issues of New Masses in April and May of 1937 ... the April 13 issue thru the May 18 issue... have errors in their issue number. These issues should have been numbered Volume 23 Numbers 3 thru 8, but instead are numbered Volume 23, Numbers 4 thru 9. The May 18 and the May 25 issue are BOTH numbered Volume 23, Number 9, for with the May 25 1937 Issue the publishers finally noticed their error and quietly corrected it without any fanfare in the issue. January 5, 1937 TOL. XXII, NO. 2 What It Means to Us by John Langdon-Davies 3 Spain and the Artist by Angna Enters 7 Conning the News . 9 The Results at Buenos Aires by Arnold Reid . II Headaches Afloat and Ashore by Thomas Bowen I4 Smokey by Beth McHenry I7 Academic Freedom at Yale by Arnold Shukotoff I8 German Peasant A Poem by Valentine Ackland 20 Readers' Forum 21 Editorial . 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT The Theatre Guild Plays by John Howard Lawson 23 The Hope of China by Isidor Schneider 23 Ashes to Ashes by George Milburn . 24 The Basis of Human Nature by Edward R. Kent ·. 24 The Soviet Way by William Turner 25 Brief Reviews 25 Recently Recommended Books . 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS The Theater by Alexander TaJ'lor 27 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 27 The Dance by Owen Burke 29 The Art Galleries 30 Art work by Hugo Gellert (cover), Eugene Chodorow, Maurice Becker, Rockwell Kent, Liston Oak, Gardner Rea, Anton Refregier, William Sanderson, Malcolm Chisholm, Lester Pola­ kov, Stuyvesant Van V een, H. M., Darryl Frederick, John Mackey, Theodore Scheel, Ben Yomen, J. A. Cronin, Soriano, \V. Milius. January 12, 1937 VOL. XXII, NO. 3 Madrid's International Volunteers by James Hawthorne 3 Chirico and Picasso by Charmion von Wiegand 6 The Spider and the Clock A Poem by S. Funaroff 8 Conning the News . 9 Whither the Railroad Unions? by Bernard Harden I I The Champion of the Gorilla by Peter Young · I 3 Susannah the Seeker A Poem by H. H. Lewis I4 The Historical Novel by Jack Lindsay IS A Groundhog's Death by Jack Conroy 17 The "Asphalt Musician" by ftfarian Burrows 19 Readers' Forum 21 Editorial 22 REVIEW AND COMl\IENT The Crisis in the Socialist Party by Isidor Schneider 23 A "Liberal" Historian by C. D. Manchester 23 How to Land a Job, You Dope by M. R. Bendiner 24 Prelude to Revolution by Alexandre DeRore 25 Brief Reviews 26 Recently Recommended Books . 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Concert Music by R. D. Darrell 27 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 27 The Dance by Owen'Burke 28 The Theater by Alexander Taylor 29 Art work by Louis Lozowick (cover), Darryl Frederick, Soriano, Helios Gomez, Moses Soyer, Winifred Milius, Theodore Scheel, Herb Kruckman, John Mackey, Serrano, Everardo Ramirez, Hans, Hugo Gellert, Abe Ajay, Tromka, H. Q., Bruno, Thelma Kathan, Abraham Harritan, K. L., Rockwell Kent, Lester Polakov. January 19, 1937 VOL. XXII, NO. 4 Problems Before Congress by M. R. Bendiner 3 The Auto Umon Shifts into High by Carl Haessler 6 For Muriel Rukeyser A Poem by John Malcolm Brinnin 7 Conning the News . 9 Outlook for I937 by R. Palme Dutt I I Welcome, Mr. Milton, to Miami by TV. C. Kelly I5 Sonnet I9 A Poem by Sarah N. Cleghorn I6 Topics of the Times by Robert Forsythe . I7 A Note on the Modern Dance by Owen Burke I8 Cuba's Dictator by Juan Martnello I9 Readers' Forum 2I Editorial . 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT A Trotskyite View of the Moscow Trials by Nathan Frankel 23 From the Masters by Milton Howard 24 Thumbs Down by F. W. Dupee 26 Thumbs Up by Wall Carmon 26 Anodyne by Katherine Ellis 27 Brief Reviews 28 Recently Recommended Books 28 SIGHTS ANH SOUNUS The Theater by Robert Gessner and A lexmzder Taylor 29 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 30 The Dance by Owen Burke 3I Art work by Herschel Levit (cover), William Sanderson, Arthur Getz, Scott Johnston, J. Vogel, Theodore Scheel, Marcella Broudo, William Hernandez, Louis Sarlin, Sid Gotcliffe, John Mackey, Maurice Becker, Abe Ajay, Soriano, Arroyito, Herb Kruckman, Caroline Durieux, Rockwell Kent, H. A. Blumenstiel, ~I. Bernstein, Lester Polakov. January 26, 1937 VOL. XXII. NO. 5 The Military Outlook by Antonio 114ije 3 People of Spain by Anna Louise Strong 4 Last Dispatch by Pablo de la Torriente-Brau 7 Will Spain Repeat Ethiopia? by Paul Nizan 9 Conning the News I I An Embargo on Democracy by Joseph R. Brodsky I 3 Behind the Lines in Spain by Theodore Draper I5 Badajoz to Dorset A Poem by Valentine Ackland I 6 Forging Catalonian Unity by Ralph Bates IS A Poison Pen by lames Hawthorne 21 Ballads from Spain Poems adapted by Rolfe Humphries 23 A Last Word on Wally by Robert Forsythe ' 24 "Bodies by Fisher" by A !bert Maltz 25 Readers' Forum 27 Editorial . 28 REVIEW AND COMMENT Stalinism and Hitlerism by P. W. Dupee 29 Drang nach Osten by Leon Dennen 29 Ivory Tower: Red Square by Philip Stevenson 30 With Benefit of Marxism by Isidor Schneider 32 Illegal "Justice" by Harry Conover 33 Brief Review 34 Recently Recommended Books 34 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS The Theater by Alexander Taylor 35 Concert Music by R. D. Darrell 35 The Screen by Peter Ellis 37 The Dance by Owen Burke 39 Forthcoming Broadcasts 39 Recently Recommended Movies and Plays 39 Art work by William Gropper (cover), William Sanderson, Maurice Becker, Dan Rico, Bertrand Zadig, Anton Refregier, Aaron Sopher, J. Wuyte, Haile Hendrix, Sid Gotcliffe, Jacob Burck, Abraham Harriton, Gus Bundy, John Mackey, Victor Szucs, John Groth, Ralph Rabin, Gardner Rea, K. A. Suvanto, Arthur Getz, Abe Ajay, Herb Kruckman, Georges Schreiber, Tschacbascov, Theodore Scheel, Bennett Buck. February 2, 1937 VOL. XXII, NO. 6 Behind the Auto Strike by Carl Haessler 3 Trotsky in Mexico by Vicente Lombardo Toledano 6 Conning the News . 9 India and a People's Front by ]awaharlal Nehru I I Hearst Wants $75,000,000 by]. L. Sidney I5 Heavy Water, Cancer, and Meaning A Poem by Henry Hart 16 Plague-Spot in the East by Artemus Quigley 17 Return Room A Poem by Marshall Schacht 18 Two Thousand Years of Horace by Rolfe Humphries I9 Readers' Forum 21 Editorial . 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT An Englishman Looks at Spain by Leo Huberman 23 More Freudian Than Freud by ArthurS. Johnson 23 Chekhov and Tolstoy by Alexandre DeRore . 24 "Where the Hormones ..." by Donald B. Elder 26 Brief Reviews 27 Recently Recommended Books . 28 SIGHTS AND BOUNDS The Dance by Owen Burke 29 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 29 The Theater by Alexander Taylor 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 31 Art work by Louis Lozowick (cover), William Sanderson, Mau­ rice Becker, Theodore Scheel, Soriano, Herb Kruckman, Lester Polakov, Leopolda Mendez, H. R. Harkavy, Hans, Jack Eisner, Scott Johnston, Jack Kabat, Abe Ajay, Rufino Tamayo, Jacob Burck, Joyce, Aaron Sopher, Luigi. February 9, 1937 VOL. XXTI, NO. 7 The "God of Floods" by Edwin Rolfe 3 Dim Dawn Over the Capitol by M. R. Bendiner 7 Conning the News . II A Talk with Pearl Buck by IVaft Carmon I3 Timberland Talks Turkey by Irene Paull IS The Unknown Soldier A Poem by Wilbert Snow I6 The Moscow Trials An Editorial I7 Readers' Forum I9 Editorial . 2I REVIEW AND COMMENT A Biography of Tom Paine by Fred Dupee 22 Gold Against the (Bourgeois) World by Walt Carmon 23 Portrait of a Predicament by Harold Rosenberg 24 Wit and Information by Fred Day 25 Brief Reviews 25 Recently Recommended Books . 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Concert Music by R. D. Darrell 27 The Dance by Owen Burke 27 The Screen by Peter Ellis . 28 The Theater by Alexander Taylor 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 3 I Recently Recommended Movies and Plays 3I Art work by Darryl Frederick ( co~er), Marty, Herb Kruckman, Jacob Burck, Hans, Serrano, Maurice Becker, Lester Polakov, Ben Yomen, Rockwell Kent, Lab, Theodore Scheel, Soriano, Robert Joyce, Abe Blashko, A. Walkowitz, Arthur Getz, Syd, Chen I-wan, Georges Schreiber, Aline Fruhauf. February 16, 1937 VOL. XXII, NO. 8 Why Do They Confess? by A. B. Magi! 3 Grand Old Man of Spain by James Hawthorne 6 A Tribune of the People by Frederick Wilson 7 Conning the News . 9 Eight New Poets Edited by S. Funaroff Winter Landscape by William Stephens I I Monday Morning by William Stephens I I Dirge for the Fearsome by Eunice Clark I I Poem in the Pressroom by Eunice Clark I I "Fired!" by Raphael Hayes I2 Phyllis and Corydon by Irving Lightbown I2 Meaning by Robert Friend I2 Death of Barbusse by Richard Leekley I2 Sonnet by A. T. Rosen I3 Intellectual to W ork:er by Sidney Alexander I 3 Thomas Paine: Agitator by Henry Cooper I4 Waterfront Art Show by Leonard Sparks I7 Who Is Trotsky's Foe? An Editorial I8 Readers' Forum 2I Editorial . 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT A New Novel by Contributor Newhouse by Leane Zugsmith 23 A Scotch Communist by Walter Ralston 23 If There Were No Jews by Alter Brody 24 Democratizing Art by Stephen Alexander 25 "Living" Conditions by 111artha Thomas 26 Brief Reviews 27 Recently Recommended Books . 28 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS The Screen by Peter Ellis . 29 The Theater by Alexander Taylor 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 3 I Recently Recommended Movies and Plays 31 Art work by Howard Cook (cover), Arthur Getz, Aime, Ben Yomen, Bertrando Valloton, Gardner Rea, John Mackey, Soriano, Lester Polakov, Theodore Scheel, Mabel Dwight, George Biddle, Sid Gotcliffe, Scott Johnston, Harry Sternberg, Joe Jones, Georges Schreiber, Abe Ajay, W.