·June, 1941 our • n erna lona The "Tanaka Memorial" Proof That It Is Japan's Real Program By Leon Trots:ky The Negro March on Washington By Albert Parker The New American Army .... James Cadman How Paris Fell ............ Terence Phelan Jan 'Valtin . · · · John G. Wright Burnham's ·"Revolution" ...... Joseph Hansen The Balkans . · · Jack Weber =============== Twenty Cent~ translations of our most impor­ tant documents have penetrated Mlnlgers Column FOURTH INTERNATIONAL into every part of the German­ Published by the Fourth InternaUOfIG' Publishing Association occupied territory of southern Volume II June 1941 No.5 (Whole No. 12) Europe and the Baltic countries. The avidity with which our But the news of greatest poli­ comrades in every part of the 116 University Place. New York. N. Y. Telepllone: Algonquin 4-8347. tical interest concerns the trans­ country - and even elsewhere Subscription rates: $2.00 per year; bundle.. 14c tor ~ copl_ and up. .Canada and Forehm: 12.50 per year: bundl-ea 16c for IS copies and UP. lation and republication of the in the world - have devoted Entered as second-class matter May 20. lIUO. at the POlt oftlce at New Manifesto 0,1 the Fourth Interna­ York. N. Y.• under the Act of March 3. 1879. themselves to the important tionaZ on t1r.e Imperialist War problem of mass distribution of 1i1dttorial Board: for wide dissemination in the JAMES P. CANNON JOSEPH HANSEN Trotskyist literature has bornJ ALBERT GOLDMAN FELIX MORROW countries engaged in the war. fine fruit. The recent highly suc­ WILLIAM F. WARDE One of our German letters, deal­ cessful drive for subscribers BU8ift6"" 14tJfttJDfJf': LYDIA BEIDEL ing with the arrival of this im­ placed the magazine in the hands portant document, says: "'Ve ot more than a thousand new TABLE OF CONTENTS got your business folders which readers in the course of two we promtly mimeographed and short months. And the stimulus The "Tanaka Memorial" ...... By Leon Trotsky 131 distributed widely. You have no thus given to our circulation has Jan Val tin : Out of the Fight .. By John C. Wright 135 idea how they revived our busi­ had a natural reflex in the at­ ness." tention paid to financial obliga­ After the Blitzkrieg: tions. ••• The New American Army .. By James Cadman 138 It is always heartening to have The promptness and thorough­ proof again of the resiliency of ness of the response made by The Balkans .................... By Jack Weber 142 the revolutionary political move­ most ot the cities receiving How Paris Fell .............. By Terence Phelan 146 ment. And it is good to have bundles of the magazine has repeated evidence that the ac­ been highly gratifying to the Pages from Trotsky's Journal .... By Leon Trotsky 150 cumulated wealth of political business office. Detroit, Quaker­ The Negro March on Washington understanding which the work­ town and Toledo have actually By Albert Parker 154 ers' struggle for freedom has got ahead of themselves and es­ Burnham's "Managerial Revolution" brought for the class-conscious tablished credits with us 011 hi­ proletariat is never lost. Our ture issues. Boston, Chicago, By Joseph Hansen 157 news from the concentration Fresno, Kansas, Louisiana, Los MANAGER'S COLUMN bJside Front Cover ~267 camps and secret meeting­ Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis places of workers in numerous and St. Paul owe nothing either with the records they now have, the hands of ever-extending cir­ parts of Europe brings a wealth on the current issue or on these cities would have looked cles of co-thinkers. of reassurance that the lessons back-bUls. For some of them quite normal; but everyone has Our friends write us not only of the great defeats of the last this accomplishment has meant reformed so much since then that to assure us of the arrival of decade have not been lost on the Spartan effort, but the same iron the ones who haven't moved for­ our material at its destinations, advanced workers. tenacity which sends them out ward seem to have slipped back. despite the numerous difficulties A few crumbs of information week after week to sell lit~ra­ It is a relative matter and only which the war throws in its concerning the great political ture at factory gates and trade: proves that, dialectically speak­ path, but to implore us to in­ discllssions over the nature of union halls made the accomplish­ ing, one may look pretty good crease the supply so that a con­ the Soviet state and the defense ment of apparently insurmount­ and at the same time be not stantly growing audience can be of the Soviet Union found their able tasks possi·ble. so hot. accommodated. way into the almost hermetically A number of other place~ owe • • • We hear from South Africa, sealed political circles of workers nothing on the current bundle NEWS FROM ABROAD for instance. Here the state of on the continent of Europe. and have come very close to Some of our rival political war has meant the establishment These workers, ground down to cleaning up old debts completely. groups have been suffering for of well-populated internment the very bottom by the war-mill Of these cities, Portland, Read­ some time from a sick, unscien­ camps with reserved sections for of capitalism, recognized the Sig­ ing, Newark and San Diego des­ tific despair which is entirely political thinkers. Yet we are nificance of this political discus­ erve special notice. unknown in our ranks. This de­ in1'ormed that our publications sion, took part in it in their Cleveland reports that a num­ cay of morale shows itself most have not only been received and own manner and reported finally ber of comrades there who were viciously in the attitude of welcomed but have been dupli­ to us in the outside world. They long unemployed have succeeded these ·fair-weather "revolution­ cated for wider dissemination had found their ideas to be in in finding work and one of' the' aries" toward the proletariat of and ·that translations have been consonance with those of Trot­ first indices of an improved eco­ the rest of the world. In effect, made of our most important ar­ sky and the SOCialist Workers nomy has been a substantial these people accuse the victims ticles for non-English speaking Party. payment on an ancient inherited of fascism and war in other workers. debt to FOURTH INTERNA­ parts of the world of having Our greatest joy came from TIONAL. Akron and Flint have deserted the cause of the revo­ the news from Switzerland. If the number on your shown the same eagerness to lution and left the American Friends there inform us that all wrapper reads: stand before their fellow-work­ worker to assume the fullbur­ of our material, sent to diverse ers unblemished by debt. Phila­ den of carrying on the struggle. parts of tile little republic N 53 or F 12' delphia, Pittsburgh, San Fran­ This month's correspondence through a triple censorship, has your subscription expires cisco and Youngstown are work. of the FOURTH INTERNA~ arrived safely and is being avid­ with this issue. In order to ing hard to cUmb into what San TIONAL deals another resound­ ly read. They urge us to in­ a void missing a single is­ Diego calls the "circle of nice, ing body-blow to this false and crease their supply since the sue of FOURTH INTERN A­ cooperative branches." vicious attitude. Once again we growth of interest in Trotskyism TION AL, be sure to send in But we wonder what has hap­ can judge by the consistency of has put too great a demand your renewal order imme­ pened to a few other places, response from widely-separated upon the limited quantity of ma­ diately. $2.00 for one year, among them Indianapolis, Mil­ regions of the world that 'l:roL­ terial we have heretofore sent. $3.00 for one year in com­ bination with the Militant. 'waukee, Texas and New Haven. skyist literature cannot be pre­ From numerous bits 01' corres­ We admit that a few months ago, vented from finding its way into pondence we glean that coples or FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 2 JUNE 1941 NUMBER 5 The "Tanaka Memorial" By LEON TROTSKY The famous "Tanaka Memorial" was a though certain of the authenticity of the cHic dates for certain of the events. Although document submitted to the Japanese em­ "Tanaka Memorial," have remained silent his memory was excellent, he was never peror in 1927 by Baron Tanaka, the premier while Japan has continued to deny its au­ satisfied, in anything he wrote, until he of Japan. This document outlined in de­ thenticity. Washington aud London, engaged secured documentary verification. The edi­ tailed steps a program of Japanese imper­ in "appeasing" Japan - i.e., preparing for tors have not been able to supplement Trot­ ialist expansion, beginning with establish­ the most propitious moment for war in the sky's own tentative dates with further veri­ ment of Japanese control in Manchuria and Pacific - have discouraged publication of fication. leading eventually to domination of all material on the "Tanaka Memoria1." The In an article published in Liberty, Janu­ China, Indonesia, the South Sea Islands, Soviet press likewise remains silent. ary 27, 1940, Comrade Trotsky predicted the Maritime Provinces of USSR and, even­ In the following article Leon Trotsky has that a forthcoming Kremlin-Japan pact tually, India and the whole Pacific ,basin. told for the first time the story of how "WOUld constitute a symmetric supplement Baron Tanaka even visualized ultimate Ja­ the "Tanaka Memorial" was secured by to the pact between Moscow and Berlin." panese control of Europe.