Page 14—-P.A. Features, December 30 Foibles, Fancies And Facts Mr. Churchill’s Soliloquy When I think how EAM and the ELAS Are spoiling my program for Hellas, I telegraph “Oh, be Patient, dear Scobie, And wish we were two other fellas. ——(From “Point of Order’ by Alan Max in the New York Worker.) ee Price of Virtue Sixteen ladies and gentle- men of the Toronto CCE have been awarded a dollar each as “contemptuous dam- ages” against the Telegram and “Bug Man’ Sanderson. A jury found that they had been subjected to the malice ef being called ““Commun- ists.” We're happy that two pillars of Tory reaction have thus been at least chipped by a Canadian jury. But what of the sixteen ? Like the and Pharisees they drew their snow-white robes about them and spurned the name of Communism. “sweet Scribes Is their political honor re- trieved now that they will collect a dollar apiece from their political enemies? Will they feel better now that they have established by a jury s decision that they are on the same side of the fence as the Telegram and the “Bug Man”: when it comes ‘to their attitude towards the great world movement for social progress —— and that great: body of progressive opinion in* Toronto itself!— which prides itself on being called Communist? We're glad that the Tele- gram atrd Sanderson got their noses tweaked on their “Red Bogey’ cam- paign. But we must point out that the CCFers did not by their action help to fight the “Red Bogey”’ but if any- thing only helped to per- petuate it: And just for one dollar apiece too! (From “Footprints and Finger- prints’ by, “Ed” in The Ca- nadian Tribune. ) ~ The Scum That Echo Goebbels te . . Comrade Stalin's tough, hard-boiled war for the protection of the Soviet Union and nothing else.” Colin @Gameron, Er MILA: parrots Berlin in the CCF News. New Italian Cabinet Canadian Prototypes Maintains Unity By JAMES S. ALLEN The outcome of the Italian cabinet crisis is a convincing demonstration that the British policy in practice produces the Opposite of what it hopes to achieve. world storm raised by the Greek war and the firm stand taken by the State Department has a great deal to do with Bri- tain’s accepting the new Cab- inet. So has the fact that there is, after all, a joint Anglo-Amer- ican responsibility in Italy. But a very important, if not decisive factor, is the adeptness With which the National Liber- ation Committee circumvented the provocation to civil war and emerged from the whole busi- ness even stronger than before. It is true that the new Cab- inet is net yet a complete Co- alition government, for the So- cialist and Liberal parties are not represented in the Cabinet. But the Socialists are not in opposition to the government, and TYogliatti (Ercoli) has stated that the close ties be- tween the Socialists and Com- munists will be mipiniined and strengthened. Equally important are the political victories registered in the composition of the new gov- ernment. The greatest is, of course, the continuation of a Liberal Coalition regime, as opposed to a considerably watered - down — combination which the British hoped to ob- tain. In addition, on separate policies the new Cabinet scores a number of victories. Fausto Guillo, Communist, continues as Minister of Agri- culture, thus reaffirming a pro- gram of agrarian relief and re- form associated with his activi- ties. The appointment of Mauro Scoccimarro, also a Commu- nist, to the new ministry of Occupied Lands not only as- sures that relations with the Undoubtedly, the liberation movement in North- ern Italy will be in reliable hands but confirms the policy of purge with which Scocci- marro was most closely identi- fied as secretary of the Purge Commission which Count Sfor- za headed. Also, the inclusion of Dr. Eugenio Reale, Naples Com-= munist leader, as a subsecre- tary in the Foreign Ministry is a significant counterweight to other forees at work in this field. Finally, Togliatti maintains his key position as vicepremier alongside of Giullio Rodino, Christian Democrat. This signi- fies that the two biggest par- ties in the Liberation front serve as the core of the new Cabinet. Cont. from Page IT the Pacific: Upon their solu- tion depends the future of Asia and mankind at large. In the postwar period, the problems of maintaining a last- ing peace would be even more intricate. The United Nations must take the necessary steps that would ensure peace for generations and would end once and for all, the threat of a renewed Japanese aggres- sion in Asia. In China, unity between the Koumintang and the Communists would be just as imperative in peace as it is now during the war, if civil war and chaos are to be avert- ed. And in India, and South- east Asia, the success or fail- ure of finding a satisfactory solution to the colonial prob- lem would determine the future. JUST IN! NEW WORLDS FOR WOMEN @ hy Deorise Neilsen, M./. Price 35c Each Plus Postage PEOPLE’S BOOKSTORE 420 WEST PENDER STREET = Phone MArine 5863 - ticipated in the underground, will not be as the leaders of pre-we | _ tion in the light of new conditions. The tradition of American radi eau ACA CTT TTT 7 Take Notice PM‘s Private War (Reprinted from New York Worker) — ie JT were not for the fact that nothing PM does surprises us, we would be shocked to the marrow over the criminal war it ha; been waging against the State Department’s reorganization pla Let it be said outright that these dyspeptic liberals are doing much to arrest a maturing American foreign policy as any, horn fascist in and out of Congress. In fact, PIM has joined for With the isolationists of the Senate to do a job on Mr. Roosevel which Thomas Dewey and Col. McCormick and Hearst could no do through the ballot. While it would ‘seem outwardly that it is only a William Clayton that PM is wailing against, the effect of- all its hysteria is to provide ammunition for,those who hate what the President stands for in international life and to make it in finitely harder for him to beat them down. When the notorious pro-fascist Sen. Langer uses a PM editorial by Max lerner, when he inserts that editorial into the Congressional Record (November 28, page A4886) as his tacit reason for refusing to affirm the’ appointment of Mr. Stettinius, we have the final proof of the | great harm wrought by PM’s fraudulent crusade. : is PM says it is against pushing people’around. As one of its battle cries you will find that slogan time and again in its columns, When will PM stop pushing the President round? When will it stop hinting that the President is so much a fool that he woulg “appoint men to office who would destroy, the policies he has launched? But more, the PM campaign, reaching a fury at a moment when the'’State Department came forward with an im- portant pronouncement on the right of self-determination for other peoples, undermines the support which the administration must have in order to keep its hand strong. PM’s blasts simply . encourage the confused to vote no confidence in Mr. Roosevelt and — Mr. Stettinius when they need all the confidence they can get. ; Some liberals are saying, and we are dismayed to find the : Nation joining the chorus, that the State Department is beme transformed into a “millionaires’ club.’ The truth is that the testi: of patriotism in this war is not and never has been the size of a man’s bank account. This is every man’s war and its success de pends on the unity of all classes. Without that unity Mr. Roose- velt would hve been licked on November 7. If PM and the Nation insist on disqualifying men because of their wealth from par ticipation in the government they will have to take the nexi step of disqualifying them from the management of war plants where they have helped break production records. If they insisi . on disqualifying men from office because of conservative politica — opinions they will also have to take the next step of demanding that some of our best front-line generals be wencag dhe Fhy recalle} from action. Mr. Roosevelt’s strength is dependent on a coalition of di- verse political elements. He must have the united support of labor of bic business, of the middle classes. If Max Lerner and Jame Wechsler of PM were entrusted with choosing the personnel of th State Department—we can imagine no worse calamity—the} | might find such simon-pure characters as themselves. But the would have no majority behind them. Their opposition to patrioti big business is the reverse side of their opposition to Communst and their antagonism to-both would leave the White House wit diminished backing. Happily there are liberals with sanity and aepantive an. one must not for a moment think that PM speaks for the wholi liberal camp. It was liberal Samuel Grafton, in a recent syndicate column, who picked the PM mind apart en he wrote: “The m= portant point about the Clayton appointment .. . is not that th ¥ President yielded to conservative business opinion, and given 4 power over our foreign policy; but that conservative busines 4 opinion has yielded to the demands of our foreign policy, and ha - agreed to support it. . We ought to be grateful indeed that w have, at this archon juncture in world affairs, a President wit enough iron in him to be able to do what he has to do to get tk job done. ; ; For Certain Critics “The future leaders of Hurope ... many of whom have pai Europe. Because of the soul-searing experiences they have suffer | they will have gained a renewed insight into the meanne of brothe | hood and a new appreciation of what is essential in life and wh is of second or even third-rate importance. We must not meet the efforts to apply that which the bitterness and the heroism of the E experiences have taught them by an overly rigid adherence to forn useful indeed in the past but subject to reinstatement and modifie alism is one of the most authentic of our traditions, and the nam of such radicals as Jefferson and lincoln are names which we revel We were born of a revolution and we should be the last to fail understand a revolution.” (Hrom a speech made by Assistant Secretary of State Shag the commencement exercises of Bucknell University and publish in the “Bulletin” of the State Department, October 22, 1944.)