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SERVING INDUSTRY ••• WHICH SERVES MA.NKI THE A. Fortnightly Our Contributors For FRANK E. HOLMAN began the practice of law iu Seattle over forty years ago and has since dis­ Individualists tinguished himself as one of the outstanding reeman jurists in the country. From 1948-49 he was president of the American Bar Association. Editor HENRY HAZU1T Managing Editor FLORENCE NORTON EUDOCIO RAVINES is well qualified as an expert on totalitarian regimes in Latin America. Born in Peru, he was trained in Moscow in the same schools and methods as Mao Tse-tung, returned to this hemisphere to organize and direct the VOL. 3, No. 23 AUGUST 10, 1953 successful "Popular Front" in Chile. He broke Contents with the Communist Party soon after the Stalin-Hitler Pact. In our issue of May 4 Editorials ("Peronism at Bay") he wrote of Argentina's internal disruption and Peron's flirtation with The Fortnight ... ............................... .. .. 797 the Kremlin. The Imperial Ice-Cap Cracks .......... ·. 799 But Aggression Continues .. .. ......... .. ...... .... 800 FRANK H. KNIGHT, professor emeritus of eco­ Psychology of E.P.T............. .. .. .............. 801 nomics at the University of Chicago, is a fre­ quent contributor to economic journals and the Twilight of European Aid. 801 author of a number of books on economic The Controlist Mania ..................... ... 802 history and theory. Let's Look at the Record. 802 PIERRE FAILLANT is a French newspaperman, at­ Articles tached to the Agence France Presse in Paris. American Rights vs. "Treaty Law" .... FRANK E. HOLMAN 803 COUNTESS WALDECK is contributing a regular Peron, Would-Be "Liberator" ......... EUDOCIO RAVINES 806 "Letter" from various countries of Europe. Her next Letter will come from Germany. The Fallacies in the "Single Tax" .... FRANK H. KNIGHT 809 The Red Army's Bid for Power ........ PIERRE FAILLANT 812 J. DONALD ADAMS, editor and essayist, well Letter from Paris ......................R. G. WALDECK 814 known for his "Speaking of Books" department What Americans Need to Know ...... J. DONALD ADAMS 815 in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, divides his time between the literary and the The Gory Road ..... .... .... .... HELEN WOODWARD 816 outdoor life, with the latter about to meet the former in a forthcoming book he is preparing Books and the Arts on the American Indian. Science for Science's Sake ... .. .... ..... MAX EASTMAN 818 HELEN WOODWARD needs no introduction to The Defense of Liberty ....... ... ... BEN RAY REDMAN 819 FREEMAN readers. She has been a frequent Unwilling Slaves ..................... ROBERT DONLEVIN 820 contributor of book reviews, articles, and fea­ tures since the magazine's first days. Eighth Army in Defeat ........... .. FRANK L. HOWLEY 821 For the Record .. ...... ...... .. ...... JAMES RORTY 821 FRANK L. HOWLEY, Brigadier General Retired of Prolific and Unhappy ......... .. ...... EDWARD DAVISON 822 the U.S. Army, is Vice Chancellor of New York Trade and Aid .. ............ ............. N. I. STONE 823 University and author of the recently published Your War for Peace. Sax and His 'Phone . ...... .. ... .. SERGE FLIEGERS 824 EDWARD DAVISON, poet, critic, and professor, has Poem just been named director of the Hunter College Castaway . ...... .. ... .... ... ... ..... WITTER BYNNER 816 School for General Studies in New York. This Is What He Said. 813 Among Ourselves From ()ur Readers ... ............. .............. 825 This past exceptionally hot and humid week has been brightened for us by the arrival of THE FREEMAN is I>Ublished fortnightly. ·Publication Office, Orange, Conn, Editorial and three manuscripts from Europe: one on Ger­ General Offices, 240 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Copyrighted in the United States, 1953, by the Freeman Magazine, Inc. 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Development Department, Cleveland 1, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, or Huntington, W.Va. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway SERVING: VIRGINIA • WEST VIRGINIA • KENTUCKY • OHIO INDIANA • MICHIGAN • SOUTHERN ONTARIO • reemaTHE n MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953 Neither the United States nor the United Nations The Fortnight have come out of the Korean war with increased prestige. On the contrary, both have lost prestige. And now that, at long last, we have our truce in The United Nations, whose very frown was going Korea, what have we gained by it? How much is to halt an aggressor, was not able (or willing?) it worth to us? The first answer will be that at with its armed might to halt the armies of a sup­ least we have gained an end to, or a suspension posedly second-rate and backward foe. It was the of, the blood-letting and the slaughter. American United States and the United Nations that were boys are no longer under fire, and American par­ put in the position of suing for a truce. Certainly ents can breathe easier. All this is true; and yet it was not our own tactics that were chiefly re­ the satisfaction that we can take in this truth is sponsible for dragging out the truce negotiations considerably blunted when we recall that we could for more than two years and 158 meetings by the have had all this simply by not blundering into a top truce teams. If the Chinese Communists had land war in Korea in the first place. had a sincere desire for a truce, they could have got it in one day and in one meeting. It was we The question must be put differently. What have who, over these two years, allowed ourselves to we gained as the result of more than three years be accused and insulted daily and kept yielding of war, of the expenditure of billions, of 140,000 one point after another. On the battlefield itself, American casualties? And to this the answer must the best we won was a stalemate; and we turned be doubtful. We "halted" this particular aggres­ even this into the appearance of defeat by ac­ sion, in the sense that we threw it back to ap­ cepting a screening of our prisoners by a "neu­ proximately its point of origin. We inflicted on the tral" commission of five nations including, in enemy, so far as we are able to calculate, con­ addition to India, the two Communist satellites, siderably more casualties than we and the South Poland and Czechoslovakia.