FEBRUARY 25, 1952 25 CENTS DECLINE OF THE REPUBLIC Garet Garrett HERE COMES ANOTHER BUREAU Robert E. C:o'ulson CORRUPTION AS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE A. A. Imberman BALONEY IN BEEF CONTROLS Lew'is N:ordyke HOW TO DEFEND FREE ENTERPRISE Walter Sulzibach Editors: John C;hamiberlain -Henry HazHtt - Suzanne La Fo,lIette PUBLISHED FORTNiIGHT'LY FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR theFREEMAN A W,ORD with which is combined the magazine, PLAI N TALK ABOUT Editors JOHN CHAM'B,ERLAIN' HENRY HAZUTT ,OIUR Managing Editor SUZANNE LA FOtLETTE Business Manager KURT LASSEN CONTRIBUTORS ROBERT E. COULSON has been Mayor of FEBRUARY 25/ 1952 Waukegan, Illinois, for three years, and is now a candidate for the office of State Senator. He served as Assistant CONTENTS VOL. 2-NO.ll State's Attorney of Lake County in 1940-41 and 1946-49. During the inter­ vening five years he served with the Editorials Counter-Intelligence Corps in this The For,tnight............................... 323 country and the Office of Strategic George F. I(ennan: Policy-Guesser............ 325 Services in Burma and China. Mayor The Drastic 1\1:1'. Morris...................... 326 Coulson has lectured on juvenile de­ linquency, and an article of his on this Religion and the Schools..................... 327 subject appeared in Harper's in 1948. MSA-A Second Chance? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 328 GARET GARRETT is a friequeu't contribu­ H,e~e Gomes ,a Bure,au RoBERT E. COULSON 329 tor to the Freeman. His article is a Decline of the American Republic GARET GARRETT 331 chapter from a forthcoming pamphlet, Corruption asa Campaign Issue A. A. IMBERMAN 333 "Rise of Empire," to be published by Baloney in Beef Controls LEWIS NORDYKE 336 Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho. T'hi,s Is What They Said. ......................... .. 338 A. A. IMBERMAN, who heads a public Let's Ostracize Communists EUGENE LYONS 339 rel'altions firm in Chic,ago, wrote "Free How To Defend Free Enterprise WALTER SULZBACH 340 Enterprise: The Worker's View" for the From Our Readers................................. 342 Freeman of October 8, 1951. H'e has con­ tributed to Public Opinion Quarterly. LEWIS NORDYKE,a Texas newspaper­ man, has reported on all phases of the Books cattle business for the past fifteen years. His "Cattle Empire" was pub­ A Reviewer's Notebook JOHN CHAMBERLAIN 345 lished in 1949, and he is now at work Our Enemy, the State: on another book on historical phases ARe-Review CECIL PALMER 346 of the cattle industry. Popular Frontism JAMES RORTY 347 WALTER SULZBACH contributed an ar­ The Epic Falters ARTHUR KEMP 348 ticle on the European Payments Union Brazilian Panorama THOMAS G. BERGIN 350 to the Freeman of June 18, 1951. He is Married to Chicago ALIX DU POY 350 a writer and lecturer on economics and The Great Adversary MICHAEL J. BERNSTEIN 351 political science, and formerly held professorships in economics at the University of Frankfurt and the Clare­ Manners, Arts and Morals WILLIAM S. SCHLAMM 343 mont Graduate School in California. CECIL PALMER, noted British pub­ lisher, author and lecturer, was a founder and executive officer of the So­ ciety of Individualists. His sudden The Freenlan is published fortnightly. Publication oRice, Orange, Conn. Editorial and General GRices, 240 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Copyrighted in death on January 18 was a loss to the the United States, 1952, by the Freeman Magazine, Inc. John Chamberlain, President; Henry Hazlitt, Vice President; Suzanne La Follette, Secretary; Alfred cause of anti-Statism. Mr. Palmer's Kohlberg, Treasurer. most recent book, "The British Social­ Entrred as second class matter at the Post ORice at Orange, Conn.. 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Among them are that "ground armies are Europe's own sole problem" on the European con­ The Administration and the Europe-firsters had tinent, and that prior to actual war, certainly, no stomach for reviving the great debate of a year the limit of our aid should be "deterrent air and ago, and their strategy in dealing with former sea power and munitions." President Herbert Hoover's powerful statement of January 27 was to ignore his arguments and facts As for Korea, as Mr. Hoover points out, during and to try to dismiss him as a military amateur. the past year "the United Nations vetoed General But they received a jolt when Mr. Hoover pub­ MacArthur's policies of destroying the Chinese lished the messages of approval he had received air sanctuary in Manchuria and the employment from a formidable list of generals, admirals and of Chiang Kai-shek's armies to save American former ambassadors. lives. Accordingly, we denied ourselves victory." In our truce negotiations, "we have retreated from Meanwhile there has been no real answer to the the original purpose of unity and independence facts that Mr. Hoover cited. The French have cut for Korea to an appeasement idea of a division of down their promise of fifteen divisions at the Korea about where it was before." end of 1952, made a year ago, to ten. The German contribution is still on paper. The British have The former President's summary reminds us of a announced that their four divisions on the conti... prophetic letter we received on July 20 last, when nent will not be a part of the European army, but the truce negotiations had been on for only about will only "cooperate." "In sum, the only substan­ ten days. The letter was from a former high offi­ tial additions to West Europe ground armies dur­ cial of the State Department. He wrote: "It was ing the two years past have been the American blatantly apparent that the Malik speech could divisions we have sent over." mean only one of two things: either the Com­ munists had to have a cease-fire or they were Aside from American and British divisions, Mr. planning a trick. In either event, our position Hoover continued, "it would be difficult to find should have been that they were the ones seeking ten battle-worthy divisions in the Western Europ­ the cease-fire and not we, and that, correspond­ ean Army today." Even if the dream of a sixty­ ingly, we would lay down the terms and conditions division army is realized two or three years from to be met. In short, we should have taken a tough now, it would compare with over 200 equipped stand. Instead, we had Ridgway send out more or divisions which these same western European 'less hysterical appeals over the radio every other nations placed in the field within sixty days after minute begging for a cease-fire, then instructed the outbreak of each of the World Wars. And him to do nothing which would cause the Com­ against our proposed sixty divisions we are told munists to lose face, with the result that we lost that the Communist armies comprise 300 divisions. tremendous face and were terribly humiliated." General Eisenhower himself now concedes that After seven months of negotiations none of this NATO "is little more than a skeleton." needs to be changed. As Mr. Hoover has summed it up, this is not a People who believe there has been something calculated risk but a calculated Dunquerque. amiss with the conduct of American foreign pol­ When we add that the western European nations icy under the Roosevelt and Truman Administra­ are contributing less than 10 per cent of the total tions have had a tough ten years. They have ar­ military expenditures of NATO, is not surprising gued themselves blue in the face, they have mar­ that Mr. Hoover thinks it time we told our western shaled endless displays of excellent logic, yet it European friends "certain things in no uncertain has often seemed as though they were speaking FE'BRUARY 25, 1952 323 into a soundless void. During the past two weeks, pented his cavalier endorsement of four groups however, it has begun to look as though a decade listed as subversive by the U. S. Attorney General of pertinacity has not been entirely in vain. For ("American Committee for Yugoslav Relief," "Ac­ one thing, the Senate Committee on Foreign Re­ tion Committee to Free Spain Now," "American lations unanimously agreed to repudiate the Yalta Youth Conference" and "Lawyers Committee for provision which handed certain Japanese islands the American League for Peace and Democracy"). to the Russians. For another, 55 Senators have proposed a Constitutional Amendment designed Representative Potter and Senator Mundt, con­ to keep slipshod "international" covenants of the fident that naivete rather than subversive intent type consistently dreamed up by the UN from made Mr. Morris participate in such activities, ad­ overriding the basic law of the land. It may be vanced the neat point that the same naivete surely the counsel of realism to doubt the durability of would disqualify him for a job which, if anything, such evidences of returning sanity, particularly requires the hardest-boiled worldliness combined in view of the fact that Senator Taft seems to be with an unerring instinct for right and wrong.