‘I saw it happen - inside Germany’ , Miss Dodd, author of ‘Through Embassy Eyes® and ‘Sowing the Wind, is the daugh- ter of the late William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany appoint- €d by Franklin D. Roosevelt.) by MARTHA DODD a —New York T IS by no means an acci- dent that the Schwellen- bach proposal to outlaw the Communist Party preceded by a day President Truman’s €nunciation of a foreign policy totally at odds with Roosevelt’s Plan and with the democratic ‘ideals of this country. Though I 4m not a communist, I fully be- lieve that to illegalize the Com- Munist Party would be a flag- rant violation of the Constitu- tion, the Bill of Rights and the traditions of this country. _ Let us not deceive ourselves that if this law were put through, reaction would stop here, Already it is atempting to destroy the trade union move- Ment; it is also stepping up the Wholesale /persecution of liberals ang progressives, next would likely come the suppression of re- ligious and racial minorities. We &re thus laying the groundwork for a police-state in America po- tentially as horrible as anything We have seen in fascist coun- tries, Let us look for a moment at the pattern of recent history which I lived through personally in Germany. Germany before 1983 was in the throes of a seri- °us economic crisis. The monop- Olists, the agrarian aristocrats 4nd th with € militarists were faced | an indignant people deter- mined to achieve a fuller life. If the German people's movement not been split with such phe- Romenal success by the economic, political and military ‘royalists’ (; Might have béen able to curb i © Power and greed of this rul- 8 clique, and thus might have averted World War II. This clique. found in Adolf Hitler the perfect Puppet whom they could finance 8nd manipulate to serve their Purposes, : IAT were the methods Hitler - used to seize power in Ger- pany and nearly conquer the orld? The most important task Was to divide, cripple and then ‘Mnihilate the labor movement. a imprisoned, exiled, maimed i Murdered all opponents; he ved or destroyed the trade eiatern the Communists, Social- ake Social Democrats and all ac. © opposing parties and liqui- ‘Gated the Jews, aang Americans, the French, the. oe Sh and other nations who ™Mained neutral too long real- plan: to our horror that Hitler tine not only to destroy com- an Sm but also democracy or chy other form of government _ ~PPosed to fascism. Ho: Ow ghas Can it be that such a f Stly pattern can be so soon °rgotten? : wrens American people—make no tha -Ke-will be no less guilty the, the German people before ; Unite +t of history if they do not cfte to make their democracy €ctive No a what our disagreements erals the Communists are, we lib- tena eae progressives must de- force heir right to exist. We must give Our national leadership to a up its drive toward fascism ei domination.. It is im- Mente that we must learn to. : With 4 Peace in the same world Dteony he Soviet Union. It is the al €s responsibility to see that &: filles Ty's historic role is ful- and productive. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947 ona _ Truman, paymaster ~ for fascist reaction By JAMES S. ALLEN RUMAN’S doctrine is doomed to defeat, for it will in the end prove bankrupt. It is unworkable in Greece and Turkey, as it is in other places where it may be tried. To understand this means to wage the bitter fight against fascism and war with greater confidence of success and on a broader scale. | Consider first the position in Greece. The President proposes to apply the very same policy already revealed as bankrupt when applied by the British. It is bankrupt: because the Greek problem, cannot be solved by sus- taining the present Royalist- fascist regime, which is attempt- ing to drown the democratic movement in blood. America is more powerful than Britain, which means that the old policy may be continued somewhat longer and with great- er force. But Greece cannot be ‘pacified’ in this way. Every ad- ditional ounce of foreign inter- vention produces a new guer- rilla; every million dollars sunk in Greek reaction evokes a new brigade of patriots. @ F we want to know what the new American policy can ach- ieve in Turkey we need only ask, what has British policy ach- ieved? British aid was instru- mental in stifling the Turkish democratic revolution that fol- lowed the first world war. Us- ing the same ruling elements nourished by Britain, Germany kept Turkey a benevolent neu- tral during World War II. Now. the United States, ac- cording to the president, is to supplant Britain and Germany as paymaster. But with each succeeding transfer, the ruling clique becomes more depraved and its internal power more un- certain. As the elements that sold out the Turkish democratic revolution | flit from one pay- master to the next, each time sacrificing another chunk of Turkish sovereignty, the demo- cratic-nationalist movement is revived. e@ F the broader implications mentioned by the president are to be pursued seriously, this means applying the same treat- ment as planneq for Greece and Turkey to a vast portion of the globe. As some ultra-Trumanites like Senator Bridges have already- said, it would mean all-out sup- port to Chiang Kai-shek, which is also in Vandenberg’s§ an- nounced program. And accord- ing to Truman’s broad defini- tion of totalitarianism, the Uni- ted States would not stomach further anti-fascist advances in Italy and France; or a truly in- dependent India, Indochina and Indonesia; or a democratic turn in Brazil. @ IS approach is not new, of course. It was tried after World War I, with partial suc- cess but with dreadful results, as this agression demonstrated. But at that time the major im- perialist powers were able to re- vive from the war in relatively short order. Britain and France in Europe, Japan in the Far East, and the United States pumping new blood into Ger- many and Italy presented a formidable array. Alas and alack, Britain is no longer the roaring lion. France and Italy are in the midst of a strained transition from imper- ialism. Only a part of Germany, and at that quite destitute, .is at hand for possible imperialist revival under American aegis. Japan is an uncertain quantity as an expansionist outpost in the Far East. Socialism is a world power, and not struggling for its very existence as in 1917-1923. The Européan network of anti-Soviet buffers, resting upon reaction- ary forces now powerless or eliminated, has been replaced by new democracies. The colonial structure is rotted to the point of collapse, and the struggle for colonial independence is pur- sued on a vaster scale and at a much higher level than after World War I. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men cannot put the old order together again. Nor can all the mules of Missouri and the dollars of Wall Street. Gara Good . REGENT 824 West Hastings Street . Suit or Overcoat TAILORS EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY UNION MADE . Short Jabs bo Bill Hees is no longer capable of carrying on his war for the ex- termination of Bolshevism. Even if, as some believe, he is still alive, he would be a sorry figure to lead a great Christian crusade : 5 against the spread of “the per- Woods full of little Hitlers nicious doctrine of Russia” as : : he once claimed to be doing. But there are lots of “little Hitlers.” The woods are full of them, as we say in the West. With the world saveq for democracy—mostly by the herculean efforts of the Red Army—these rats are coming out of their holes, brave as rats are who have just escaped from a corner that looked like their finish at one time. - They belong in every group in social life, ranging from ex- Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, one time secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, to William Bullitt, ex-ambassader from the U.S. to the Soviet Union. While the list of Hitler’s victims is not yet compiled; while the death toll is not yet complete for hundreds of these victims are still dying daily, the would-be feuhrers are al- ready busy in their eager lust to take up where Hitler was stopped by the best, the most progressive, the most humanitarian elements of the democratic and socialist countries of the world, while these same Hitlerite ghouls were placing every obstacle in their way. Red-baiting is not something new to these scoundrels, it is their way of life. It is an expression of their own selfish outlook on life, for the satisfaction of their class greed as opposed to the well-being of the people as a whole. , What they stand for, what they want the world to be like, is pictured in the film to be shown at the Lyric Theater in the coming week, ‘Open City’. It is a story of the Rome of the Resistance, of the real Italian people who helped to destroy the brute that had fastened itself on them; the fascism that the red-baiting crusaders, here and in the U.S. are trying to revive. RTISTICALLY, ‘Open City’ has the supreme qualities of simplicity, forthrightness and directness of all great art. It is not bolstered by huge masses of stage equipment costing millions of dollars. No £ Se thousands of players strut the boards to impress Open City the audience. It is not impressive in the Hollywood - glamour tradition; nor is it to be described by Hollywood adjectives. It was not made with two eyes on the box office, but was inspired solely by the profundity of the emotions that stir a people in the undying struggle for freedom. ges Its political content, which may not be separated from its artis- tic presentation, should be an object lesson to people who do not belong to, and have nothing to gain from, the continued existence in control, of the. monopolistic thieves for whom the fascists.are but -a front. : The dramatic situations in the play arise from the clash of two ideologies, two opposing concepts of life—class concepts. The struggle is that betwéen man who is still a brute and man who has reached maturity as a human. : gee The ideas of the fascist degenerates, the flower of Nazism, are typical of the red-baiting cohorts right here, and display all the bestiality of sadists, dope.addicts-and sex perverts. They indulge in the uncontrolled outbursts of torturers and stool pigeons living in fear of forces whose depth they canot fathom, in fact, they represent everything that is rotten in society. Of the artists in the production it is hard to select one better than another. All are magnificent! But it is easy to understand why the National Board of Review granted first place among all act- resses of 1946 to Anna Magnani, who portrays the part of Pina, a widow who is shot by the Nazis. . None of the actors or actresses belong in that category in the Hollywood sense. The conditions under which the film was produced —with the Nazis still in control of Rome—made it impossible to line up a cast or stage scenery as is done in Hollywood or Elstree. The cameras and other apparatus were ‘stolen’ from the Nazis piecemeal. At times, too, the juice failed them. The players had very little, or no, experience of the show business. Manfredi, the Communist underground leader, was a journalist; Pina, was a cafe — singer; the little son of Pina, as good as anyone in the play, was a shoe-shine boy; the part of the partisan priest, the most diffi- cult and tragic role of all was taken by a comedian. The rest were salesmen, housewives, soldiers and other nondescript workers. With such a conglomerate caste of amateurs, the production of such a masterpiece proves that the director must have been great, a genius in fact. One of the most dramatic incidents in the picture is the scene where Don Pietro, the most likeable priest who ever appeared on the screen, taken into the torture-chamber, looks on the bloody and battered body of. the underground leader, with a gleam of exultation in his.eyes and a note of triumph in his voice, says “You never ‘spoke, you never spoke.” : Another inspiring dramatic moment is provided when Manfredi, after being subjected to the most hellish tortures, being beaten with clubs and whips, having his finger nails pulled out with pinchers, knocked out and revived by the Nazi bullies, offered a bribe to be- tray his comrades, spits with all the venom of his class hatred of fascism, full blast in the face of the immaculate Nazi chief. No ‘Pat’ Sullivan, him! d ! This is a picture that all the dupes of the red-baiters should be compelled to see. It depicts exactly what is ahead for the world if the antilabor, anti-Communist, anti-Soviet howlers succeed in their plotting. The whole tenor of the picture ex- plains why the partisan priest, when leq out to be shot by the Nazi firing squad, tells his fellow priest, “It is easy to die well; ‘it is not so easy to live well.” Don’t miss ‘Open City’ when it comes to your town! 1947 . — Sip Soma MCS Ee oe ee < The evolution of world ‘saviours’ from communism “PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 ‘