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New International, February 1949

 

Memo

 

From The New International, Vol. XV No. 2, February 1949, p. 34.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

What’s behind the Eisenhower smile?

Next month James M. Fenwick comes up with an article on that well-known Columbia educator and literary man which won’t encourage anybody to vote for him in 1952 ... It’s the only such political and social examination of the man that we’ve seen, and took some digging ... Guntherized, it would be called Inside Eisenhower ...

Is there a student movement today?

Since the florescent days of the ’30s, nothing much has been heard about student movements and activities on the campuses, but things are going on ... Julius Falk, national secretary of the Socialist Youth League, writes next month on the state of student organizations and radical movements in the colleges of the country ... What has happened to the Wallace-ites (Young Progressives of America)? Is there a Student League for Industrial Democracy still alive and kicking? What are the prospects for a socialist student federation? ... And so on.

Rudy Svoboda, whose article on the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia since the February 1948 coup appears in this issue, is one of the oldest militants of the Communist and Trotskyist movement in that country ... Ben Hall is the Detroit organizer of the Workers Party ... Jack Brad is the man whose articles on China in Labor Action have aroused so much attention and interest ... Henry Judd conducts the World Politics column of Labor Action, and Jacques is an American socialist of long standing in the Marxist movement.

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Comments from letters from abroad:

An instructor at an Australian labor college writes:

“... thank you for the great assistance you have rendered us during the past year by sending Labor Action and The New International ... As we are isolated and receive scant news on political issues in Europe, etc., the information supplied by your publications is of tremendous assistance to students here.”

From India a member of the Socialist Party memoes:

“I am pleased to get The New International and Labor Action ... I am circulating them to all members of our unit and also to this district.”

Another Australian friend has this to say:

“I take this opportunity to tell you how much we here enjoy The New International and Labor Action – the articles on China were especially good. Though I personally don’t agree with you on many points, I think that your articles are quite the best thing coming from the United States Left at the moment.”

 
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