THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI, NO. a

January 4, 1938

What Teruel Means to Franco by James Hawthorne 3 China's Silent Heroes by .Agnes Smedley 5 Who Also Sit and Wait .A Poem by C. F. Macintyre 6 Don't Do This But Don't Do That by .A /bert Bein 7 Why Not Recovery?-II by Lowell E. Willis 8 The D.A.R. Youth Campaign by M. B. Schnapper II Editorial Comment . I3 Is John Dewey Honest? by Robert Forsythe . I6 Holland Has a Fuhrer Too by Barrie Stavis I 7 Christmas in ·Bethlehem, Pa. by Perry Noble I9 Readers' Forum . 2 I

BOOK REVIEWS

German Exiles Face Problems of Alienation , by Harry Slochower 22

Sharecropper Agonistes by Richard Greenleaf 24 Portrait of a Romantic Family by Edwin Berry Burgum 24 Two-Gun, Two-Fisted Pioneers of the West

by Bernard D. N. Grebanier 24 Recently Recommended Books . 25

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

"Peter I" Sets a New High for Historical Films by Eugene Hill and Peter Ellis 26

Waltzes and Chandeliers Make Two Musicals by Jack Burrows 27

American Artists' Congress Exhibition by Elizabeth Noble 28 Young Composers Get a Hearing by Mary Menk 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 31 Recently Recommended Movies and Plays 3 I

Art work by S. Norkin, Gardner Rea, John Heliker, Robert Joyce, Joseph Leboit, Aaron Elkind, Anton Refregier, John Mackey, Funk, A. Marculescu, Davis, Martin, Crockett Johnson.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI, NO. 3

January 11, 1938

Hague Does the Reactionary by James R. Macready 3 The Coroner of Burgos by James Hawthorne . 6 Editorial Comment . 9 Red Star over China by Robert Forsythe . I2 The Students Reject Isolation by Joseph St.arobin I3 Living People in a Historical Mural . I6 Rehearsal in the Sun by Julia C. French . . . . • • IS Senator Wheeler and Professor Keeney by William F. Dunne I9 Readers' Forum . 2 I

BOOK REVIEWS

A Letter toW. H. Auden by T. C. Wilson . . Empty Bellies and Loony Schemes by Jack Conroy A Heroine of Modern Science by Harold Ward From Gropper to Gothic by Crockett Johnson Reconciliation of Hostile Ideas by V. J. McGill Brief Reviews . . Recently Recommended Books .

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Ibsen on Broadway by Michael Sayers . . . . . . 27 Robust, Anti-War Satire at the Artef by Herman Michelson 27 Dances of Protest by Owen Burke . . . . 28 Sandburg, Swing, and Shan-Kar by Roy Gregg 29 Forthcoming Broadcasts. 3I Recently Recommended Movies and Plays 3 I

Art work by Hail Hendrix, Darryl Frederick, Joseph Serrano, Ned Hilton, William Gropper, Morton Sholl, Funk, Abe Ajay, Ben Yornen, John Mackey, Dan Rico, Martin, John Heliker, Peter Verdi, Robert Joyce, Soriano.

Table of Contents New Masses Literary Section v26n03 January 11, 1938 25 A Gun Is Watered by Ted Allen 28 Two Revolutionary Writers by Dorothy Brewster 30 Nikolai Ostrovsky by Joshua Kunitz 32 A Summer Night by David Wolf 33 The Company by Thomas Wolfe 38 Words for Federico Garcia Lorca by Rafael Alberti 39 Five Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca translated by Langston Hughes Ballad of One Doomed The Faithless Wife The Gypsy Nun The Arrest of Antonito El Camborio on the Road to Seville Death of Antonito El Camborio 41 When Poets Stood Alone by Dorothy Van Ghent 47 Pickup by Saul Levitt 50 Twenty Years of Soviet Drama by H. W. L. Dana 53 From Texas by L. A. Lauer

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVl, NO. 4

January 18, 1938

Deadlock in the City Council by Kalmun Hecht New Crib for My Son A Poem by Nils Hager "Guilty as Charged!" by ] oshua Kunitz Editorial Comment . Bei Mir Bist Du Schon by Robert Forsythe Peach Orchard by Robert G. Duncan . Enemies of the People of Spain Posters by Puyol The Nazis in the Company Unions by Earl McCoy Readers' Forum .

BOOK REVIEWS

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From Addis Ababa to Madrid by ]miles Hawthorne 22

Reporters at Capitol Hill by Wallace Moore 22

Three Novels of Frustration by Samuel Sillen . 23

Henrik Ibsen's Social Views by Harry Slochower 24

Handbook of Mexican Painting by Charmion von Wiegand 24

A Marxist Study of Ancient Rome by ]. R. Dayton 25 Brief Reviews 26

BIGHTS AND BOUNDS

Quicksilver at the Mercury by Eleanor Flexner . 28 Housing and Flood Control in the Films by Peter Ellis 29

Finale: Dance International by Owen Burke 31 Forthcoming Broadcasts 31

Art work by Funk, Ad Reinhardt, Hirschfeld, Soriano, Louis Lozowick, John Mackey, Puyol, John Heliker, Harry Sternberg, Gardner Rea, Joseph Serrano, Jack Chen.

THIS WEE I( VOL. XXVI, NO. 5

January 25, 1938

Why Rumania Went Fascist by F. Elwyn Jones 3 The Campus Debates War and Peace by Joseph P. Lash 6 Editorial Comment . 9 Wanted: Great Songs by Robert Forsythe . 12

They Call It Service by Lucy Randolph . 13 Miami's Anti-Semitic Jews by Robert Gessner 15 Goya's Spain Invaded by Jay Peterson 16 Readers' Forum 18

BOOK REVIEWS

Sinclair Lewis's Stink Bomb by Granville Hicks 19 China's Communists in Action by Victor A. Yakhontolf 21

Golden Dynasties by R. K. Lamb 22

Brief Review. 24

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Fairy Tale in Technicolor by David Wolff 25 Plain Fare on Broadway by Charles E. Dexter 25 Contemporary Chinese Graphic Art by Elizabeth Noble 26 Toscanini and Others at the Microphone by R. D. Darrell 28 Young Choreographers by Owen JJw·ke 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts . 31

Art work by J. Bartlett, Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter, William Gropper, Mary Whitefield, E. Morley, D. Foster, A. Ajay, Helen West Heller, John Mackey, Hugo Gellert.

THIS WEEK VOLUME XXVI, NO. 6

February 1, 1938

New Hope for the New Deal by Marguerite Young 3 A Report on C.I.O. in Steel by Bruce Minton 7 Rooms and Beds A Poem by James Neugass . 9 Editorial Comment . . IO

The Disintegration of Mr. Stolberg by Robert Forsythe 14 Behind the French Crisis by Gabriel Peri . I5 Inside Japan in Wartime From a Diary of a Foreign Resident I 7 A Slide Rule on Poetry by Robert Zacks I9 Readers' Forum . 20

BOOK REVIEWS

In Quest of Freedom by Samuel Sillen 2 I

The Meaning of Meanings by Obed Brooks 22

Biography of Business by Granville Hicks 23 Wage Theories and Fascism by Grace Hutchins · 24 Marxist Critique of Society's Forces by Thomas Coburn 26 Brief Reviews 27

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

The Federal Theatre Treats Slum-Clearance by Walter Ralston 28

An Anti-Fascist Newsreel by Peter Ellis . 29 Social Intentions and Good Painting by Elizabeth Noble 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 31

Art work by Ad Reinhardt, Robert Joyce, Ned Hilton, Fred Ellis, Tromka, Anton Refregier, John Heliker, T. Sachoff, Dan Rico, Thompson M. Funk, Charles Martin, Soriano, Ruth Gikow, Tschacbasov.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI, NO. 7

February 8, 1938

The Strategy of the Eighth Route Army An Interview with Mao Tse-tung by James Bertram 5

Steel Towns That Labor Runs by Bruce Minton 7 Twilight of Hearst by Joseph Starobin : 9 Editorial Comment . 13 Rise and Fall of Cecil Beaton by Robert Forsythe 16 The Federal Arts Bill by Elizabeth Noble 17 Readers' Forum . 19

BOOK REVIEWS

Revolution in the Making by Moissaye ]. Olgin Corrosive Without Corrective by Kenneth Burke Hour of Decision for the South by Jack Conroy Psychological Murder by Millen Brand Brief Reviews

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

A Film Version of "The Dybbuk"

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By Sidney Kaufman and P. E. 27 The Shuberts Try Again by .lack Burrows 28 Nature's Architect by lay Peterson 29 Mainly Moussorgsky by Roy Gregg . 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 31

LITERARY SECTION

From a Japanese Prison by Kensaku Shimaki . 57 {Translated by George Furiya)

Art work 'by Hugo Gellert, Morton G. Sholl, Ad Reinhardt, Jo­seph Serrano, A. Marculescu, Joseph Leboit, Thompson M. Funk, Ruth Gikow, John Mackey, Sid Gotcliffe, William Gropper, Snow, Barney Tobey.

Table of Contents New Masses Literary Section v26n07 February 08, 1938 59 From a Japanese Prison by Kensaku Simaki [ONLY this ONE story / article in this special section!]

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI, NO. 8

February 15, 1938

Checkup on Stolberg by Bruce Minton 3 Hitler's Second Crisis by Gabriel Peri 7 Editorial Comment . . . . . . 9 "Stop the Fight I" by Robert Forsythe . 12 Japan Fights the Boycott by Robert Stark 13 Frederick Douglass, Forgotten Leader by Saul Carson I 5 In Barcelona, at Dusk by Barrie Stavis . . 17 Five Minutes, Oleo A Poem by H. H. Lewis 19 Readers' Forum . .20

BOOK BEVIEWS

Army Mutiny at Sian by Victor A. Yakhontoff Transpolar Flight by Julia Older • • . Yorkshire Puritans by Edwin Berry Burgum A Biography of Jesus by Richard H. Rovere Brief Review

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

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Shadows and Substance on Broadway by Nathaniel Buchwald 25 Music with a Purpose by R. D. Darrell . • . 26 Water Colors for Social Comment by Elizabeth Noble 27 Three Dimensional Films by Sidney Kaufman 28 Dances for Spain and China by Owen Burke . 29 Forthcoming Broadcasts 30

Art work 'by Robert Joyce, Charles Martin, Gardner Rea, Georges Schreiber, Crockett Johnson, Bertrando V alloton, Abe Ajay, Maxine Seelbinder, Nicholas Panesis, John Heliker, Stanley De Graff, Beatrice Tobias, Tom Funk, A. Marculescu, Victor Can dell.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI. NO. 9

February 22, 1938

The Active Search for Peace by Representatives Byron N. Scott a'(ld Jerry f. O'Connell 5

England and American Security by Theodore Draper 6 Akron-Where Unity Is Real by Bruce Minton 8 It Happened in Illinois by Sasha Small I I

Editorial Comment . 13 Down with Hague! 16 Why Do They Sell Out? by Robert Forsythe 18 The Guild Scores Again by]. P. Dallas and Ellen McGrath 19 Roar China! A Poem by Langston Hughes 20

Subway Art . 21

Readers' Forum . 22

BOOK REVIEWS

Document and Poetry by David Wolff 23 Confederate Heroism by Granville Hicks 24 Novel in Woodcuts by Louis Lozowick 24 Personal History by Jl,fyra Page 25 Martha Graham: Revolutionary Dancer by Owen Burke 26 "The Modern Greek Is ... " by Richard H. Rovere 27 Brief Review 2 7

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Drama with the Right Instincts by Ehanor Flexner 28 A Documentary of Soviet Russia by Sidney Kaufman 28 Bach Forerunners and Moderns by R. D. Darrell 29 Forthcoming Broadcasts 3 r

Art work by Darryl Frederick, John Mackey, Joe Bartlett, Frank Davidson, Robert Joyce, John Heliker, William Gropper, Ad Reinhardt, Gardner Rea, Haile Hendrix, Scott Johnston, George Price, Ned Hilton, Abe Ajay, Mary Whitefield, Colin Allen, Lynd \Vard, Alice Solomon.

THIS WEEK VOL. ttVI. NO. 10

March 1, 1938

Concerted Action or Isolation by Earl Browder 3 The Sacrifice of Austria by R. Palme Dutt . 5 Ballad of the Civil Guard A Poem by Federico Garcia L·orca 6 Without Bands or Medals by Hyde Partnow 7 Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . 9 The Sokolsky Gimmes by Robert Forsythe . 13 Rehearsal at Dearborn by Bruce Minton . 14 Murder, That's Not News by Michael Brush 17 Readers' Forum . 19

BOOK REVIEWS

Twentieth-Century Americanism by Louis B. Boudin 21 Hitler's Road to War by Theodore Draper 24 Transition to Socialism by Joshua Kunitz . 25 Post-War Boston by Milton Meltzer . 27 Brief Reviews

by Granville Hicks, Richard H. Rovere, Joseph Frank 28

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Broadway Marks Time by Charles E. Dexter 29 Mark Twain: Script \Vriter by James Dugan 29 Forthcoming Broadcasts 3 I

Art work by Ad Reinhardt, Anton Refregier, Henry Simon, A. Ajay, Arthur Getz, Mischa Richter, Gardner Rea, A. Marculescu, John Heliker, Eastwood, Charles Martin, Stanley DeGraff.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI, NO. 11

March 8, 1938

The Isolationist United Front by Earl Browder 3 A Letter to Eugene Lyons by Upton Sinclair . 5 Fascist Threats in Mexico by Marc Frank 8 Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . II

Thoughts While Thinking by Robert Forsythe I4

If This Be Heresy by John E. Kennedy . . . . . . I5 Look at Grandma, Dorothy Thompson! by Ruth McKenney I7 Readers' Forum . I9

BOOK REVIEWS

Laws of Dialectics by Howard Selsam 22

Escape from Devil's Island by Millen Brand . 23

British Labor Smce the War by Bruce .ll-linton 23

Myth for Ou.r Time by Joseph Frank . 24 Adventure and Love in Loyalist Spain by Richard Wright 25

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Two Specters Haunt the Boards by Michael Sayers 27 Robert Taylor's Prattfall by James Dugan 28 Ballet Caravan's "Filling Station" by Owen Burke 30 Forthcoming Broadcasts 3I

Art work done by Ad Reinhardt, Arthur Getz, Russell T. Lim­bach, E. Ramirez-F., William Gropper, Gardner Rea, Avrom, F. Horowitz, Colin Allen, Freda Weinsweig, Aaron Sopher, Tom Funk, Martin, John Heliker.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVI, NO. 12

March 15, 1938

The Moscow Trial by Joshua Kunitz . . 3 The "Haves and Have-Nots" by Earl Browder 7 Green's Split Fails by dlexander Kendrick 11

Editorial Comment . • . 12 Breeding Will Tell by Robert Forsythe 15 Three Paintings by William Gropper 16 Washington Watches the Depression by Marguerite Young 17 Readers' Forum . 19

BOOK REVIEWS

New Values in British Fiction by Samuel Sillen 20 Two SovietJourneys by Joshua Kunitz 21 Karl Marx on Esthetics by Louis Harap . 22 Spain in Flames by David Wolff . . . . . 23 Brief Reviews by Theodore Draper and Barbara Giles 24

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

W.P.A.'s "Haiti" and Three Duds by John Wells Make Me Laugh! by James Dugan . • Architecture in the U.S.S.R. by Elizabeth Noble . Forthcoming Broadcasts

Art work done by Ad Reinhardt, Robert Joyce, E. Morley, Andre­son, Hugo Gellert, Gropper, Frank Davidson, Aaron Sopher, Winifred Milius, John Heliker, Jon, Ben Yomen.

THIS WEE I( VOL. XXVI, NO. 13

March 22, 1938

After Europe's Black Friday France Appraises Hitler's Coup by Gabriel Peri . . 3 Washington Questions Isolation by Paul G. McManus 4

The Trade Unions and Peace by Earl Browder 5 Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . 8 Why Did Whitney Confess? by Robert Forsythe I r Tom Mooney's Day by Herbert Resner . 12

The Moscow Trial, II by Joshua Kunitz . 13 We Speak: for the Unemployed by David Lasser 17 Readers' Forum . 20

BOOK REVIEWS

The Art of William Gropper by Stephen Alexander . 22

Spanish Prelude by Edwin Berry Burgum 22 Lincoln's Boswell by James S. Allen . 23 Civil \Var Romance by Elizabeth Lawson 24

SIGHTS AND BOUNDS

Regionalism in the Drama by Nathaniel Buchwald Longverne vs. V elrans by James Dugan . . Disks from "Pins and Needles" by Roy Gregg Ted Shawn: A New Trend by Owen Burke .

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Art work done 'by Gropper, Gardner Rea, Eastwood, Hugo Gel­lert, A. Redfield, Joseph Hirsch, Frank Davidson, Hyman War­sager, Herb Kruckman.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 1

March 29,1938

The Naval Bill and a Peace Program by Earl Browder 3 "Examination by the G.P.U." .A Personal Experience 5 Barcelona Horror by Barrie Stavis 7 Editorial Comment . 9 Mr. Behrman and. the Facts of Life by Robert Forsythe 12

Attack on the T.V.A. by Henry Zon . 13 Bread and Butter Letter by Howard Nutt I4 The Road to Recovery by David Lasser . I 5 Relief Drawings by John Heliker 16 Gabriel Blows His Hom by H. W. L. Dana 19 Readers' Forum . . •. 2 I

BOOK REVIEWS

Mann's Work in Progress by Dorothy Brewster 22

Richard Wright's Prize Novel by Granville Hicks 23 Gone Forever, Thank Heaven! by Ruth McKenney 24

SIGHTS AND S0l1NDS

··. Luis Quintanilla's War Drawings by Elizabeth Noble 26 Morley's Setting for Toller's Play by J. W. Tilden 26 Federal Theatre Interprets Lincoln by Eleanor Flexner . 27 Boris Shchukin's Portrayal of Lenin by James Dugan . 29

Art work done by Ad Reinhardt, George Price, Fred Ellis, John Mackey, Arthur Getz, Joseph Hirsch, Gardner Rea, Eastwood, A. Marculescu, Robert Patterson.

THIS WEE I( VOL. XXVII, NO. 2

April 5, 1938

Standard Oil vs. Mexico by Marc Frank . Strength Through Joy A Poem by loy Davidman A Long-Term Policy by Earl Browder . . . Who Is the Little Business Man? by A. B. M a gil Editorial Comment . . . . . A Life and Death Struggle by Robert Forsythe Punishment Under Socialism by Ralph JFinn . They Won in Puerto Rico by E. 111. Ellsworth Invasion A Poem by H. W. Readers' Forum .

BOOK REVIEWS

Machine Battler by Samuel Putnam . . The Great Compromise by Granville Hicks Promise System by Frank Bower . History of the Family by Harold Ward Brief Review .

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Non-fiction Movies by James Dugan 26 Spring Thaw by Charles Dexter 28 Current Music by R. D. Darrell . 30

Art work done by A. Ajay, John Mackey, Hirschfeld, Gardner Rea, John Heliker, A. Marculescu, Marcella Broudo, Tom Funk, Nat Werner, Eastwood.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 3

Aprill2, 1938

Neutrality-in Spain and Here "If We Had 200 More Planes" by Joseph North 3 Delegation to the State Department by Lester Cohen 4

Machine Politics and Relief by Marguerite Young 7 Valentine to the Slums by Ray Smith .' ." . . 8 Editorial Comment . 10

Lenin in October by Robert Forsythe. 13 A Real American Welcome by Tom Humphries . 15 Reaction Loses in Duluth by Wiliam F. Dunne 17 Readers' Forum . 19

BOOK BEVIEWS

Fulfillment of Desire by Joshua Kunitz . Anarchist-Poet-Advertiser by Rolfe Humphries Women in Spain by Marjorie Brace .

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Eighth Gothic Tale by James Dugan . One-Man Sculpture Show by Hyde Partnow Chekhov Revival by J. K. . . Dance Farewells by Owen Burke .

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Edmund Wilson's Globe of Glass by Joseph Freeman 73 Stranglers of the Thunder by Carl Carmer 79 Bread Upon the Waters by Michael Bruen 81 Revolution in Bohemia by Granville Hicks 84 Words I Did Not Speak by Edward Wall. 87 The Heroes by William Rose Benet . 91 Longfellow on Spain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana 92

Art work done by William Gropper, Michael Lenson, Ad Rein­hardt, Martin, Sid Gotcliffe, Fred Ellis, John Heliker, Haile Hendrix.

Table of Contents New Masses Literary Section v27n03 April 12, 1938 73 Edmund Wilson's Globe of Glass by Joseph Freeman 79 Stranglers of the thunder by Carl Carmer 81 Bread Upon the Waters by Michael Bruen 84 Revolution in Bohemia by Granville Hicks 87 Words I Did Not Speak by Edward Wall 91 The Heroes by William Rose Benet 92 Longfellow on Spain by Henry Wadesworth Longfellow Dana

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 4

April 19, 1938

America's Guilt in Spain. Jn Editorial • • • . • • • 3 Labor Unity and the Elections

by Congressman John T. Bernard 5 The Army That's Defeating Japan by Anna Louise Strong 7 Exchange of Heroes by Don Gordon 9 Editorial Comment . . . . . I I

Slippery Morris by Robert Forsythe 14 Infidel and Softie by Meyer Levin . I 5 By Their Writings by Moissaye J. Olgin 17 Rhymes for 1938 by Benjamin Appel . 19 Readers' Forum . 20

BOOK REVIEWS

Proletarian Childhood by Margaret Schlauch . . 21

Robespierre and Psychoanalysis by Samuel Bernstein 21

Lynch Terror by Eugene Holmes . 23 Dr. Williams' Realism by J. C. Page 24 Anti-fascist Magazines by Bruce Minton 25

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Housing Exhibit and Harriton's Art by Elizabeth Noble 26 In Goldwyn Cathay by James Dugan 27 Pre-Anschluss Austrian Music by Roy Gregg 28 All For Love by Owen Burke . 30

Art work done by Robert Patterson, A. Ajay Del, John Heliker, Tom Funk, Sylvia Wald, Stanley Graff, Hyman Warsager, Maurice Glickman, Aaron Sopher, Abraham Harriton, Redfield.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 5

April 26, 1938

Challenge to the Barbarians Courage by Heinrich Mann Understanding by Ramon J. Sender Unity by Romain Rolland .

Harvard Goes to Hicks by Winthrop Praed . . But-::-Catalonia Broke Napoleon by Joseph North Editorial Comment . . . How to Greet the Great by Robert Forsythe Roosevelt and the South by Lee Coller . Hell's Kitchen A Poem by Isadore Durham Roofs for Forty Million Homes for the One-Third by Sidney Hill Readers' Forum .

BOOK REVIEWS

The Moods and Tenses of John Dos Passos

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by Granville Hicks 22 A Distorted View of Walt Whitman by Newton .Arvin . 23 "We Aren't Sure. We're Wondering." by Muriel Rukeyser . 26 Brief Reviews

by Bruce Minton, Irene Lane, and George L. Rosenberg 28

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Shakespeare, Ibsen Revivals by John Wells Hollywood in the Air by James Dugan . Street-Level Sculpture Show by Hyde Partnow

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Art work done by A. Blashko, Alex Haberstroh, Fred Ellis, Georges Schreiber, John Mackey, Ad Reinhardt, John Helik:er, Frank Ornston Tom Funk, Herb Kruckman.

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 8

May 3,1938

The Great Debate: Which Way to Peace? by Marguerite Y OUFlfl 3

The Blind Men of Transport House by R'. Palme Dutt 6 Across the Ebro by Joseph North 7 Editorial Comment . 8 Don't Save a Place by Robert Forsythe I I

Labor Prepares for the Polls by Bruce Minton 12 March Comrades .d Poem by Louis Zuko/sky I4 The World's Fair to Date by Joseph Starobin IS The Moscow Trials A Statement by American Progressifles I9 Readers' Forum . 20

BOOK BEVIEWS

Phases of Fiction by Samuel Sillen 22 Political Biology by Roy Powell . 23 The Career of Harriet Monroe by Rolfe Humphries 25 Brief Reviews by George Hunt and Jerome Prank 27

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Greek Drama in the Federal Theatre by Nathaniel Buchwold 28 McAdam of the Fells by James Dugan 29

Art work done by Snow, Del, Nissur, A. Ajay, F. Davidson, Wil­liam Gropper, Charles Martin, Sid Gotcliffe, John Mackey, East­wood, Joseph Hirsch.

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WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 7

May10,1938

Still Time to Unite by ~. B. Magill . . 3 The Loyalists' Prograin by Joseph North 7 Editorial Comment . . . . • . . · . 8 Watch Whalen by Robert Forsythe . · . II Inside France by Theodore Draper . 13

, Chant~ Poem by Norman Macleod . . . . . 14 Liberal Arts and the Marginal Life by Motier Harris Fisher 15 Workman, Workman~ Poem by 8. Funaroff . 16 Readers' Forum . 18

BOOK BEVIEWS

Additional Light on Trotsky and Bukharin by Joshua Kunitz 20 Portrait of Futility by Edwin Berry Burgum 21 Five Stories by Milton Meltzer . . . . 22 They Sing Democracy by Ruth Lechlitner . 24 A Whitewash for Benedict Arnold by Barbara Giles 25 Brie.£ Reviews 26

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Goldwyn's Hairshirt by James Dugan . 27 Emptage's Exhibit by O.M.F. . . . . 28 American Dance Association Concert by Owen Burke 29

LITEBABY SECTION

Bright and Morning Star by Richard Wright • 97 The Brown Coat by ~ lexander Godin . . . . . 100 Medicine by Oscar Saul, ~/fred Hayes, and H. R. Hays 102 A Tall, Dark Man by Saul Levitt . 104 My Grandfather by ~rnold Manoff . 105 Home by Sam Ross • . . . . . . . . 107 Street Songs of Children collected by Fred Rolland 109 She Snaps Back Into Harness by Ruth Widen . . I 10 A Federal Poetry Anthology Poems by Raymond E. F. Larson,

Kenneth Rexroth, William Pillin, Lola Pergament, Ken­neth Fearing, H. ~· Hays, Charles H~deberg, Willard Maas, Dorothy Yan Ghent, Eli Siegel, ~. T. Rosen, ~!fred Hayes, Weldon Kees, Opal Shannon, Maxwell Bodenheim ' . . . • . • II2

In Conclusion by S. Funaroff . . 12.7

Artwork done by Ad Reinhardt, John Mackey, Snow, Louis Lozo­wick, Escott, Robert Patterson, Jack Kabat, Emptage, Aime.

Table of Contents New Masses Literary Section v27n07 May 10, 1938 097 Bright and Morning Star by Richard Wright 100 The Brown Coat by Alexander Godin 102 Medicine by Oscar Saul, Alfred Hayes, and H. R. Hays 104 A Tall Dark Man by Saul Levitt 105 My Grandfather by Arnold Manoff 109 Street Songs of Children collected by Fred Rolland 110 She Snaps Back Into Harness by Ruth Widen 112 Federal Poetry Anthology And Now, the Moon by Raymond E. F. Larsson New Objectives, New Cadres by Kenneth Rexroth You by William Pillin Multiple River by Lola Pergament Your Move by Kenneth Fearing Parade by H. R. Hays Evening Land by Charles Hudeberg While Love as Ancient as the Bird by Willard Maas Non Stanno Stanza Guerra by Dorothy Van Ghent Musical Praise of Preparations by Eli Siegel The Literary Front by A. T. Rosen In A Home Relief Bureau by Alfred Hayes Mr. Fredricks by Weldon Kees Journey Home by Opal Shannon Feminist by Maxwell Bodenheim 127 In Conclusion S Funaroff

THIS WEEK VOL. XXVII, NO. 8

May 17,1938

America Can Halt Japan by Paul G. McManus 3 Chamberlain's War Pact by R. Palme Duit . 6 Editorial Comment . 9 Why I Am Not an Active Communist Anonymous 13 How Wisconsin Views La Follette by Harold Douglas 15 Saturday Night in Jersey City by Paul Cox 17 Readers' Forum . 20

BOOK BEVIEWS

Democracy and Socialism by V. J. McGill Front Men for Wall Street by David Ramsey The Scientist Hits Back by Samuel Sillen Evasion of Challenge by Jack Conroy .

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Artists' Congress' Second Show by Elizabeth Noble 27 Political Satire and Shaw Revival ·

by Charles Dexter and Eleanor Flexner 27 The Potemkin Again by James Dugan • 29

Art work done by Soriano, Del, Joe Bartlett, William Gropper, Ned Hilton, John Heliker, Crockett Johnson, John Mackey, Dan Rico, Ben Yomen, Tschacbasov.

THIS WEE I{ VOL. XXVII, NO. 9

May 24, 1938

Meet the Communists by Ruth McKenney 3 Wreckers in High Places by John Sutton . 7 The Hiring Hall by Fritz von Meier 8 Editorial Comment . . . . . . . 11 Comrades ... Your Ears! by Robert Forsythe • . 14 Europe's Night of Terror Advances by Theodore Draper . 15 What About Intervention? 16 Union in New Mexico by Raymond Otis. 18 Spartacus-1938 by Joy Davidman . • 19

BOOK REVIEWS

A Book for the Millions by Herman Michelson . Partisanship in Literature by Samuel Sillen • . Portrait of the Artist by Louis Lozowick . . . No Matter What Your Age by Nora Benjamin Proust, Giraudoux, Gide, and Morand by Edwin

Berry Burgum . . • . . . . . . Brief Reviews by Helen Bur/in, George Abrams,

Norman Macleod . .

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Movie Against War by James Dugan . 29 The Phonograph Rocks the Cradle by Roy Gregg . . 29 Filibuster and the National Negro Congress by Owen Burke 31

Art work done by Ad Reinhardt, Crockett Johnson, John Heliker, Escott, John Mackey, Pzinador, Ida Laura Clark, Snow, William Sanderson, Sid Gotcliffe.

Table of Contents May 17, 1938 v27n09 New Masses Special Debate Section A DEBATE: "Should the United States Government Join In Concerted Action Against the Fascist States?" For the Affirmative: EARL BROWDER General Secretary, Communist Party, U. S. A. For the Negative: FREDERICK J. LIBBY Executive Secretary, National Council for Prevention of War ROBERT MORSS LOVETT, CHAIRMAN

THIS WEE I{ VOL. XXVII, NO. 10

May 31, 1938 Washington Weighs La Follette by Marguerite Young . What Every Red-Baiter Should Know by Ruth McKenney • Editorial Comment . • . . . . I Like Granville Hicks by Robert Forsythe • • Who Won in Pennsylvania? by Bruce Minton . The Story of Joe Masarak by Robert Clairmont Parable of the Rigamajigatrician by Harry Clave The Case of Mary Taglieri by Meyer Levin • . . Spain: Four Poems by William Rose Benet, James N eugass,

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Lewis A !!an, and Norman Rosten Readers' Forum .

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BOOK REVIEWS

Dickens' Indictment of Victorian Society by Granville Hicks 22 A French Materialist and His Censor by Bernard D. N.

Grebanier • • • . • • . • • • , • • • , 23 Brilliantly Hollow by Marjorie Brace . . • 25 Brief Reviews by Robert Goldsmith and Joseph Frank. 27

SI.GHTS AND SOUNDS

A Documentary of Tennessee Life by James Dugan 28 Political Night Life by Milton Meltzer . 29 Music Lovers and Martha Graham by Owen Burke . • 30

Art work done by William Gropper, Escott, Ad Reinhardt, Elizabeth Olds, Soriano, John Heliker, A. Ajay.

THI~ W~~K VOL. XXVII, NO. 11

June 7, 1938

The Court Confess Error by Louis B. Boudin 3 Chamberlain's "Solution" by Frank Pitcairn . 6 Whose National Guard ? 6 Ethiopia Today . 7 Editorial Comment . . 9 Is Shaw a Fascist? by Robert Forsythe 12 Invitation from Lady Astor-A Poem by Goddard Lieberson 14 Four Miles in Four Weeks by Joseph North . . 15 Voice in the State Department by Duncan Stuart . 16 The Milk Racket by Lem Harris . 17 To the CIO Man Who Wants Poetry-A Poem by Max-

well Bodenheim 18 What NLRB Has Done 19 Readers' Forum 19

REVIEW AND COMMENT

A Letter from London by C. Day Lewis . . 21 The Man Against Death by Henry E. Sigerist . 22 The War's Orphan Generation by Harry Slochower 24 The Fight for Security by David Ramsey . 25 No Quiet on the Labor Front by Grace Hutchins 26 Fact and Myth in Welsh Fiction by Joseph Frank 27 Magazines . • . . . 27 Movies by James Dugan 29 Dance by Owen Burke . 31

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TID~ W~~K VOL. XXVll, No. 12

June 14, 1938

Can England Get Rid of Chamberlain? by R. Pal me Dutt . 3 7 7 8 9

Q. E. D .......•..... "Nobody's Passing, Baby" by Joseph North . In the Sudeten Regions by Theodore Draper Editorial Comment • • • . • • . . . Ben's Little Boy, Louie by Robert Forsythe . Communism and Democracy by .A. B. Magi/. Liberty League · Medicos . . . • • • • Big as the World by Jake Martin . The People of Orchard Street by Norman Macleod Defense for the Counsel by Charles Recht 1 •

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BEVIEW AND COMMENT

History and Fiction by Samuel Sillen . • . The Career of Leon Blum by Samuel Bernstein Crisis in the Far East by .Anna Louise Strong • Dialectical Study of Biology by Roy Powell

'Aristocrat in Africa by Joseph Frank Movies by James Dugan • • • •

LITERARY SECTION

Walt Whitman's Democracy by Philip Stevenson • Spanish Diary by James N eugass • The Pseudo-Suicide by .A. T. Rosen Cowards of Us All by Ernest Brace "Orthodoxy" by Thomas Orean With Apologies by J. M .. Wilkoff Four Poems by Sidney .Alexander

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Table of Contents Literary Section June 14 1938 New Masses 129 Walt Whitman's Democracy by Philip Stevenson 133 Spanish Diary by James Neugass\ 135 The Pseudo Suicide by A. T. Rosen 136 Cowards of Us All by Ernest Brace 139 Orthodoxy by Thomas Orren 140 With Apologies by J. M. Wilkoff 142 Four Poems by Sidney Alexander

IHI~ W~~K VOL. XXVII. No. 13

June 21,.1938

If Germany Attacks by Colonel Stanislav Yester 3 The Red Army Is Ready . . . . . . . 6 Chamberlain Talks Mediation by Richard Goodman . 7 Lines to a Former Schoolmate by Irving Lightbown . 8 "We Popped In on Garner" by Marguerite Young 8 La Follette Program . . . . 9 Howard's Downfall by George Sherman 9 Editorial Comment . . 10 Nature-Bah! by Robert Forsythe . • 13 Farmers Without Farms by Sanora Babb . 15 Intellectual Slums 17 Lie With Circumstance by Cora MacA !bert . 17 You Think So? . . . 18 Canada's Fascists by Ted Allan 18 , Economfc Outlook 20 Readers' Forum . 21

REVIEW AND COMMENT

A Writer Meets His Readers by Lion Feuchtwanger . 22 The House that Jack Built by Edwin Berry Bur gum . 23 Four Views of America by Joseph Hastings . 24 The Negro Scholar's Hostile En~ironment by Eugene Holmes 26 Brief Review by Theodore Draper 27 Theater by Richard H. Rovere 28 Movies by James Dugan • • 30

Art work by Escott (cover) , Dixon, William Gropper, Ad Reinhardt, Mischa Richter, Eastwood, Fred Ellis, Ben Yomen, Hirschfeld, Malmar, John Heliker, Charles Martin, Sid Gotcliffe.

IHI~ W~~K VOL. XXVIII, NO. 1

June 28, 1938

Whose Politics in Relief? by Marguerite Young Unemployment Relief . . Seven Men and Ten Companies by Bruce Minton Aid for Spain . Oil, Swastika, Cedillo by Enrique Gutmann Franco's POUM Editorial Comment . . The Press Takes Notice by Joseph Kelley Disturbing Business . . . . . Chinese Drama Goes to War by Anna Louise Strong A Cigarette by Harry Kapustin That Famous "Blacklist" Readers' Forum . . . . .

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Thumbs Up and Down by Samuel Sill en . Rockefeller's Rival by Joseph Hastings . . Journey Down Tobacco Road by Arnold Shukotoff The Rise of John L. Lewis by Bruce Minton Winner Take Nothing by Richard H. Rovere Magazines . . • . Movies by James Dugan . Theater by Charles Dexter Music by Roy Gregg .

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THI~ W~~K VOL. XXVIII, NO. 2

July 5, 1938

The New Deal: 1933-1938 by A. B. Magi/.

The Church Helps .

"We Hold These 'fruths" by Samuel Sillen .

£ontemporaries by R. F. Christoffers .

Editorial Comment . .

The Beauty of Silence by Robert Forsythe

The New Treason by Theodore Draper

Untenable Gibraltar . . . . , .

The Guild Grows Up by Robert A nge .

!;_ligh Tide in Harlem by Richard Wright

A Representative List

Readers' Forum

REVIEW AND COMMENT

English Writers and Politics by C. Day Lewis

Misleaders of Labor by John Stuart • .

Progress in Science by David Ramsey .

Two Uses of the Image by Joseph Frank

Easter Rebellion by Paul O'Donaha

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VOL. XXVIII, NO. 3

July 12, 1938

China's Year of War by Victor A. Yakhontoff 3 Haiti and Santo Domingo by Metz T. P. Lochard 5 Is Pacifism Possible? by A !son J. Smith • • 7 Corn Belt Liberty League by George Robbins . 8 Editorial Comment . . . . . • • . 11 More Thou'ghts While Thinking by Robert Forsythe 15 The New Deal and Labor by A. B. M agil 17 A Man of Principles 20 We Supply Japan 21 Readers' Forum 22

REVIEW AND COMMENT

New Forces in American Art by 0. Frank . The Specter of Anschluss by Theodore Draper Democratic Vistas by Samuel Sillen . The Poet and the Duce by Marcel F. Grilli Movies by James Dugan

LITERARY SECTION

In Defense of a Term by Joshua Kunitz Pant Like a Dog by Harry Kapustin Food for Americans by J o Sinclair . Marginal by John Malcolm Brinnin The Underground God by Murray Godwin Quiet and Safe by Len Zinberg . . . Fragments for America by Norman Rosten Feathers Blowing by Hamlen Hunt . Mr. Wilson in Agony by A !fred Hayes .

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Contents: Literary Section New Masses July 12, 1938 v28n03 p145 In Defense of a Term by Joshua Kunitz p147 Pant Like a Dog by Harry Kapustin p148 Food for Americans by Jo Sinclair p150 Marginal (poem) by John Malcolm Brinnin p151 The Underground God by Murry Godwin p152 Quiet and Safe by Len Zinberg p154 Fragments for America by Norman Rostin p157 Feathers Blowing by Hamlin Hunt p159 Mr. Wilson in Agony by Alfred Hayes

THI~ W~IK VOL. XXVIII, NO. 4

July 19, 1938

"Happy Harlan" by Mary MacFarland •

Do They Want Me? by D. Hercules Armstrong

Five Lies About the Czechs by Theodore Draper

History Repeats by Arthur Cowley

To My Reade~s by Upton Sinclair

In Due Time

Editorial ·Comment • • •

What Spain Has Done by Joseph North

What America Can Do by David McKelvy White

"United Front" • . • . • • • • • • • •

The New Deal and Tomorrow by .If.. B. Magi!

Plant 35 by George Kauffman

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REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Strong Hands of Robert Forsythe

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Unemployed Americans by Granville Hicks

The Coronation of the People by Harry Slochower

Southern Agrarian by Richard Greenleaf

Formula Novel by Richard H. Rovere

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IHI~ WEEK VOL. XXVIII, NO. 5

July 26, 1938

Inside Fascist Italy by Margareta West

3,000,000 Fa.milies . .

Cardozo's Record by Leonard Boudin .

Editorial Comment . .

Ickes on Self-Defense by Marguerite Young .

For the People . .

Garner in a Ford V-8 by Osro Mist .

The Pioneer by John M. Breen .

Her Chosen Theme by Blanche Evan .

Thanks-with Thunder by Howard Nutt

My Big Brother Goes Back by Prudencio de Pereda

Helium for Hitler

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Dramatic Realism by Samuel Sillen . 24

Negro Participation in the Civil War by Herbert Aptheker 25

Scientific Determinist by Roy Powell 26

Falling Star by Paul O'Donaha . . 27

The Third Reich by Barthold Fles . 29

Brief Reviews ~y Donald James and Hy Kravif 29

Movies by James Dugan . 30

Art work by Sam Berman (cover), Snow, A. A jay, Ad Reinhardt, William Gropper, A. Redfield, David, Herb Kruckman, Aaron Sopher, Mischa Richter, Soriano, Arthur Getz.

1HI~ W~~K VOL. XXVTII, No. 6

August 2, 1938

Your Health, America ! by Harriet Silverman

Union vs. Railroad • . . . .-- .

How Free Is Ireland? by R. Pal me Dutt .

I Speak to Catholics by Father Michael O'Flanagan

Unemployed Spring Song by Paul Shepherd .

Editorial Comment . • .

A Corner in Culture by Robert Forsythe .

Kentucky's Crooning Tory by John Laird

Plans and Pretenses by Col. Stanislav Yester

· Bombs On Barcelona by Louis Ginsberg .

Readers' Forum

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Who Is B. Traven? by Lawrence Clark Powell

With the Eighth Route Army by An~?a Louise Strong

The Constructive Element by Richard H. Rovere •

From the Baltic to the Aegean by Theodore Draper •

The Pigtail Rebellion by James Dugan .

Shelley's First Critic by K. N. Cameron· .

Men at Work by Milton Meltzer .

Take It Away by Leonard B. Boudin .

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THI~ W~IK VOL.XXVIII. No. 7

August 9, 1938

Is There a Solution for Palestine?

A Zionist Supports the Proposal for Partition by Maurice Smp.uel . . . 3

Peace by Understanding by Paul Novick 5 Comment by Mr. Samuel 7 Comment by Mr. Novick . 8

Editorial Commeqt . 11

Early Spring and Summer Voluptuary News by S. J. Perelman 14

Coalition in Ohio by Ted Cox . . . . . 15

Prayer Against Indifference by Joy David man 17

Inside Fascist Italy-11 by Margareta West . 18

Drive Into Town by John Malcolm Brinnin 19

"Der Tag" . . . 20

355,900,000 Copies 20

Readers' Forum . ' . 21

·REVIEW AND COMMENT

Virginia Woolf: Educated Man's Daughter by C. Day Lewis 22

Two Studies of Anti-Semitism by Morris U. Schappes . 23

Railroad Monopolies by Ruth McKenney . 25

Double Expioitation by Barbara Giles .

Brief Review by Granville Hicks

Movies by James Dugan • • • . .

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IHI~ WIIK VOL. XXVIII, No. 8

August 16, 1938

·The World Youth Congress by Richard H. Rovere . 3

Apolpgy for Liberals by Joy David man . 4

The Film Trust on Trial by James Dugan . . 5

Mexico's Liberty Leaguers by Malle Frank . . 7

Meeting the Japanese by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood 10

Count Kabayama's Mission by Theodore Draper 11

Editorial Comment '. . 13

The Chaco by George Macgregor • 17

Commodore Perry by Walter Benton 17

Why Not Be Selfish? by Granville Hicks 18

Manhattan Slums by George Kauffman 19

The Rockefeller Pose by Osro Mist 19

Readers' Forum 20

REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Logic of Our Times by Bruce Minton .

Image and Purpose by William Carlos Williams

Practical Mystic by Ralph Ellison .

Victorian Theater by Mark Marvin . .

Cornwall and the South by Milton Meltzer •

Brief Review by Helen Burlin

Theater by Anthony Buttitta

Movies by Jarnes Dugan .

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THI~ W~IK VOL. xxvm. No. u

August 23, 1938

An Historic Report on the South by Earl Browder .

War Weekends in Prague by J. C. Weiskopf •

Murphy of Michigan by Stephen Peabody

Artists: Unite! by Rockwell Kent • • •

Editorial Comment . . • . . • • •

Keeping the Bulls Busy by Joseph North .

Father Michael O'Flanagan by Cora MacA !bert

Coney Fourth by Marshall Schacht •

· The Ruling Passion . . . . . , . . .

Barcelona Book Fair . . . . . • . . •

Foreign Intrigue in Mexico by Marc Frank

Franklin and the Jews .

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REVIEW AND COMMENT

Romancers of the Left by Granville Hicks •

British Symposium by V. J. McGill • • •

Work Relief Program by William Spencer

Odyssey of the Jews by Joseph Frank • •

Analysis of Race Prejudice by Bernhard J. Stern

Magazine • • • . • . . • . . . ••

Meditation on Ancestry by Robert Bhain Campbell

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IHI~ W~IK VOL. XXVIII, No. 10

August 30, 1938

Cardenas Speaks for Mexico by Myra Page

Production Index . . . . . . . .

Load That Food ~hip by Jay Allen & Elliot Paul.

Dies Puts On a Burlesque by Earl Browder

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Cotton Ed's Last Stand by Lee Coller •

Parturition by Don Gordon • .

Youth Speaks Out for Peace by Joseph Starobin

What Can I Do? by Granville Hicks • •

The Alpine Swastika by Michael Wilson

Peerless by A ben Kandel

Readers' Forum

REVIEW AND COMMENT .. Democracy in Crisis by Edwin Berry Burgum

No Middle Ground by Samuel Sillen .

American Dream by Marjorie Brace

Brief Review by John Stuart

Dance by 0'!-l'en Burke •

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THI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXVIII, No. 11

September 6, 1938

Before Europe's Storm by R. Palme Dutt • .

"And Mighty Poets in Their Misery Dead" by Taggard • . . .

Hitler Was a 'Clown, Too by Earl Browder •

Benson of Minnesota by M eridel LeSueur .

Face at the Window by C. F. Macintyre.

Editorial Comment . , .

The Hines Trial by Robert Forsythe . .

Teachers De.fend Democracy by Samuel Sillen Brooks • • . .

"What Helps Business" by Archie Epstein

Never Jam Today . . .

Tony ·and the WPA by J a Sinclair .

Labor at the Polls

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Reporting Europe by ] oseph P. Lash . 24

The Social Individual by Ella Winter . . . 26

Three Claws of a Skulking Lion by Shaemas O'Sheel . 27

Movies by James Dugan 29

Art by Elizabeth Noble . 30

Art work by Mischa Richter (cover), Soriano, Harry Gottlieb, Gardner Rea, Malman, William Gropper, Ned Hilton, Snow,

. Helen Ludwig, Robert Joyce, John Heliker, Ida Abelman.

THI~ W~~K NEW MASSES, VOL. XXVIII, NO. 12

September 13, 1938

Man Behind the Counter by Joseph Starobin

Lower Electric Rates . .

The Folksy James Boy by Earl McCoy

Analysis by Samuel Silverman

Editorial Comment . . . . . . .

Spoiling Mr. Leacock's Fun by Robert Forsythe

California's Pension Hoax by Earl Browder .

Crisis in Society .

Luis Quintanilla by Elliot Paul .' • .

Four New Drawings by Quintanilla .

American-s at the Ebro by Edwin Rolfe

Bible Platform

New Soviet Theaters

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Liberal Junket by Edwin Berry Burgum . 23

The Big City by James Dugan • . 24

Mussolini and Britain by Marcel F. Grilli . 24

Beloved Refuge by Milton Meltzer . 25

The Vacationers A Poem by John Malcolm 'Brinnin . 27

Academic Sociology by F. K. Bal!aine . 27

Movies by James Dugan . . 28

Art work by Scott Johnston (cover), Ad Reinhardt, Mischa Richter, William Gropper, Luis Quintanilla, Ned Hilton, Ida Abelman, Charles Martin, Malman, Beatrice Tobias.

IHI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXVIU, NO. 13

September 20, 1938

·Is It War? .An Editorial.

Unity for Peace by Earl Browder

A Trotskyite Exposed . . .

Copperhead O'Connor by Ruth McKenney

Betrayal in Texas

"Recovery" Outlook .

They Shun Vienna .

Is the Boycott Slipping? by Robert Stark

British Labor vs. Hitler by Joseph North .

What Are We to Do? .

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Britain Lights a Forest Fire by Robert Forsythe·

Growth of the Chains by Joseph Starobin . ...

After Six Years by Corliss Lamont .

Sonnet by Maxwell Bodenheim

Slavery, New Style

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Little Man Driven Wild by Marc Frank • 24

Munitions' First Family b.v William Blake . 25

Peasants and Jews in Poland by Marjorie Brace . 26

Home Thoughts from Abroad by Shaemas O'Sheel • 27

Art by Marcia Minor . 28

Movies by James Dugan . 29

Art work by Soriano (cover), Mischa Richter, A. Redfield, William Gropper, Ad Reinhardt, A. Aj~y, Ned Hilton, Charles Martin, Malman, John Mackey.

THI~ W~~K NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 1

September 27, 1938

Stop the Sell-Out! by Earl Browder .

They're Not All Nazis .

\Vashington Looks at War by Theodore Draper

Love Song, 1938 by Don Gordon .

Inside Czechoslovakia by F. C .. Weiskopf .

For Concerted Action

Editorial Cotnment .

Thomas Wolfe by Robert Forsythe

They Want the New Deal by Roger Chase .

Labor Meets in Mexico bJ' ~~arc Frank

Attention, Mr. Dies'

Street Corner Poster Artists

What Little Business Needs by Joseph Starobin

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Jack Lindsay, Historical Novelist by Harry Thornton Moore 22

Nazi Mythology by Clarence Weinstock

Savage Aristocrat by Christina Stead .

Refugee Problem by Charles Recht .

The '\vell Made" Novel by Edwin Berry Burgum

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Renoir's Great War Film by lames Dugan 28

Young Social Artists by Elizabeth Noble 30

Art work by Mischa Richter (cover), A. Birnbaum, John Groth, John Heliker, William Gropper, A. Redfield, ]. Bartlett, Ad Reinhardt, Charles Martin, Rubm Perez, Florence Martin, Helen Ludwig.

THI~ WIIK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX. No. II

October 4, 1938

Zero Hour An Editorial . . . .

Last Look at Europe by Joseph North .

His N arne Was Arnold Reid by Edwin Rolfe

T;he Red Wizard of Oz by Stewart Robb

Editorial Comment . . .

The One-Hoss Shay by Robert Forsythe .

Business Not ii.S Usual by Al Richmond

Relic of Our Days by Nor man Macleod

New Phase in Cuba by Obed Brooks •

Four Verses by Vincent Sheean . • •

What Shall I Read? by Granville Hicks

Advertising in Business by Hy Kravif •

You, Ancestor by John Malcolm Brinnin .

. Southern Belle

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REVIEW AND COMMENT

Books of the Season by Samuel Sillen

A Peace Primer by Joseph P. Lash .

Steinbeck's Stories by Millen Brand

Introductions to Barbarism by Ben Blake .

Brief Review by Norman Rosten

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Boyhood of Gorky by James Dugan . 28

Phonograph Recordings by Roy Gregg . 29

The Photograplr as Art and Document by David Wolff 31

Art work by Snow (cover), Hugo Gellert, Del, William Grop­per, Robert Joyce, Ad Reinhardt, Redfield, Ned Hilton, Malman, Charles Martin.

THI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. S

October 11, 1938

After Munrch by R. Palme Dutt •

America in the Crisis An Editorial .

Radio Covers the News by George Scott

Editorial Comment . .

Memoirs of an Ostrich by Robert Forsythe

Box Score on the Primaries by A. B. Magi!

Transatlantic by Norman Macleod • • •

Bruce Barton's Clients by Ruth McKenney

A Tip for Mr. Dies by Richard H. Rovere

TV A Defends Itself by A dam Lapin .

A Bleached Lady by Lillian Hell man

Lullaby by Elya Bresler

Readers' Forum

REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Superman and the Socialist by Granville Hicks

Revolution in Finland by Christina Stead •

American Artist by Louis Lozowick • • .

A Program for Democracy by Bruce Minton

Mexican Progress by Samuel Putnam • • •

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Poison on the Luce by Ruth McKenney

Sacha the Showoff by James Dugan

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THI~ W~~K NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 4

October 18, 1938

Expect No Peace by Upton Sinclair . 3

Dishonor Without Peace A Poem by James N eugass 4

\\That We Can Do An Editorial 7

Dewey for D. A.! by Paul G. Jl.f c~Manus 8

Editorial Comment . 11

\Vanted: A Theater by R,obrrt Forsythe . 15

Living Art in a Muse~m . 16

A New Deal on the Campus by Howard Selsam 17

Near Catalonia A Poem by Joy Davidman 18

Debate on Humor by Ella Winter 19

Return by Saul Levitt 20

Readers' Forum 21

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Songs before Sunset by C Day Lewis .

"Scientific Humanism" by Henry Hart

Revolutionary Artists by Margaret Duroc

London Tower by Marjorie Brace

Brief Review by Barbara Giles .

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

An American Document by Owen Burke

Hitchcock on a Train by James Dugan .

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IHI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 5

October 25, 1938

Justice Black's Insurgency by Louis B. Boudin .

Perils of X A Poem by John Malcolm Brinnin

Trotskyites on Trial by Edwin Rolfe .

Licking Their Chops

Strachey's Visa: 4 Portent by Richard Goodman

Editorial Comment .

Ready for Casting by Robert Forsythe

Railroad Profiteering by Ernest Dore

Robbing the Farmer . • . .

\Vhen You Spend a Dollar By Millen Brand

Sunset at Wall A Poem by Sidney Alexander

Readers' Forum

REVIEW AND COMMENT

The Letters of Henry Adams by Granville Hicks

Four Novels by Samuel Sillen .

Anecdotes from the Abdomen by Cora MacA/bert

Types of Obscurity by Joseph Frank

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1HI~ W~~K NEW !IIASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 6

Novembe,. 1, 1938

\Var by Race Theory by Alter Brody .

The Experts vs. Lindbergh by Lucien Zacharoff

Ohio's Changing Democrats by Ted Cox

Dream A Poem by Alvin Foote .

Editorial Comment .

Not Too Busy to Write by Robert Forsythe .

Regarding Amendment 5 by Leonard B. Boudin

Eleutheria A Short Story by Naomi Mitchison

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Spender's Verse-Play by Richard H. Rovere 23

The Nazi Assault on Culture by Margaret Schlauch 24

Genuflections Before Trotsky by John Stuart 25

11agazines by John Aiken . 26

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Abraham Lincoln Lives Again by Ruth McKenney

History and Mr. Zanuck by James Dugan

The Music Begins by John Sebastian

An Honest Camera Eye by Elizabeth Noble

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THI~ WIIK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX. No. 7

November 8, 1938

Communist Candidate by Ruth McKenney

The Jews io Austria by Anatol Rapoport

Skywriter A Poem by Norman Rosten .

Post-Munich England by C. Da}' Lewis .

Ad A Poem by Kenneth Fearing . .

Terror on the Airwaves by George Scott .

Editorial Comment . . . . .

Midwest Battlegrounds by A. B. Magi! .

Tom Mooney Today by Dll'Vid McKelvy White

Castelao from Galicia

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The Funeral Is Off Again by Samuel Sillen . 23

John Strachey on America by Bruce Minton 24

Fiery Fiorello by Harry Raymond • . 26

Studies of Reputations by Granville Hicks • 27

Brief Reviews by A Zan Baer and Richard H. Rovere . 28

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Two Pictures about Doctors by James Dugan

Sour Week on Broadway by Ruth McKenner

He Wants to Be Alone by John Sebastian •

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Art work by Hugo Gellert (cover), John Heliker, Ned Hilton, J. Bartlett, William Gropper, Ad Reinhardt, Charles Martin, Mischa Richter, Fred Ellis, Marantz, Abraham Tobias.

THI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 8

November 15, 1938

Bombs Do Not Decide by llya Ehrenbourg . 3

To Those Who Ask for Songs A Poem by Harlan Crippen 4

Iowa Revi.sited by Duncan Cassidy . . 6

Turpentine and Terror by Margaret Bailey 7 -

Bandwagon Forecasts by Osro Mist . . 8

Editorial Comment . . . . . 10

Fortune, Trotsky, Mexico, by Marc Frank 13

What About the USSR? by Granville Hicks 15

Flatfoot A Story by Robert Smith 17

Big Companies Grow 19

Readers' Forum 20

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Man's Hope by Christina Stead •

Grafters' Gallery by John Stuart

A Marxist on Music by Wallingford Riegger

Prelude to Changkufeng by Milton Meltzer .

Magazines

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Big Themes in the Theater by Ruth McKenney

School Directory by James Dugan . . .

Progressive Sculptors by Elizabeth Noble .

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Art work by Ad Reinhardt (cover), Charles Martin, William

Gropper, Del, Mischa Richter, Fred Ellis, Ned Hilton, John

Heliker, A. Ajay, Soriano.

THI~ W~~K NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 9

November 22, 1938

Speak Out! A Poem by Lester Cohen 3 The Election Results by Earl Browder 5 Post-Election Roundup

1. How Marcantonio Won by Sasha Small • 6 2. Pennsylvania's Lesson by Earl McCoy • • 7 3. La Follette's Debacle by Harold Douglas 8 4. Watch California by A I Richmond . 8 5. Mistakes in Michigan by Arthur Clifford . 9

Editorial Comment . 11 Is There Hope in America? by John Strachey • 14 In Franco's Prison Camp by Norman E. Dorland • 16 Two Salesmen in Search of a Country A Poem by Robert

Gessner . 17 Pellagra Cure • 19 Readers' Forum 19

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Hemingway's Development by Edwin Berry Burgum 21 Aragon's Real World by Samuel Putnam 23 New Frontier by Roger Chase . • . . 25 "Sex Fiend" Defined by Cora MacA /bert 25 Mag11zines . 26

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"We Like America" by Elizabeth Noble Two More Doctors by James Dugan • Anti-Fascist Comedy by Ruth McKenney Violinist and Composer by John Sebastian

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Art work by Hugo Gellert (cover), William Gropper, Mischa Richter, Ad Reinhardt, A. Birnbaum, Snow, Chet La More, Soriano, Charles Martin, A. A jay, John Heliker.

tHI~ WIIK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 10

November 29, 1938

Chamberlain's March on Paris by Richard Goodman • • 3 The Lincoln Brigade Returns A Poem by Paul Shepherd 5

"The Whole .Town Is Sore" by Ruth McKenney . 6

Editorial Comment . 9

Insurance Plunder by Oliver De Werthern . 13

Mexico's New Strength by Hu Williamson • 15

Hometown A Poem by John Malcolm Brinnin . 16

The Way a Son Should Be A Short Story by Len Zinberg. 17

Readers' Forum 19

REVIEW AND COMMENT

William Carlos Williams by Eda Lou Walton 21

The Press versus the People by Morris U. Schappes . 22

Three-Penny Opera by Clarence Weinstock 23

Necessary Facts by Granville Hicks • 24

Mama Loves Papa by Pauline Leader • 25

Brief Reviews by Robert Terral! and Joseph Frank 26

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Notes on Maxwell Anderson by Ruth McKenney • • 27

Ballet-Old and New by Owen Burke • 28

The Music Week by John Sebastian . 29

Tory Film by James Dugan . • • • . 31

World's Fair Art News by Elizabeth Noble. 31

Art work by Ad Reinhardt (cover), Crockett Johnson, William Gropper, Mischa Richter, Fred. Ellis, Gardner Rea, A. Redfield, John Heliker, Charles Martin, David.

IHI~ W~~K NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. ll

December 6, 1938

Sudetens Under the Swastika by Jan Kubat

Six Errors o.f Max Lerner by A. B. M a gil

Homeland A Poem by J. Ricksecker .

Free Speech in England by Henry Hart .

Editorial Comment .

Justice Black's Insurgency by Louis B. Boudin

A Congress of Labor by David Ramsey .

Constancia de la Mora by Elliot Paul .

Photographs of Sculptures by J o Davidson

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The Negro and the Democratic Front by Samuel Sillen 21

Contemporary Legend by William Rose Benet 23

A Great American by Granville Hicks 24

Hero ~f the Twenties by Bruce Minton 25

The New Theater by Mark Marvin 27

Prot~st to Fortune 27

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

The Ne~ Odets Play by Ruth McKenney

Visiting Englishman by J olm Sebastian

John Ford's Splinter Fleet by James Dugan

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Art work by Ad Reinhardt, Colin Allen, William Gropper, Mischa Richter, A. Ajay, Del, Chet La More, Jabez, John Heliker, Robert Joyce.

THI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 12

December 13, 1938

French Reaction Runs Amok by Elliot Paul 3

Who Is This Daladier? by I. Charles Baury 4

It Comes on Cat's,Feet by Grace Hutchins 7

They Destroy the Monuments A Poem by Marie deL. Welch 8

Editorial Comment .

Norman Thomas: Defeatist by William Z. Foster

Francesco's an Aryan by Mario Michele .

School for Workers by Richard H. Rovere

Readers' Forum

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Mark Sullivan's Creative Memory, by Harry B. Hender-

son, Jr.

Military Isolationist by Theodore Draper .

Tht; Trouble With Saroyan by Arnold S hukotoff

Social Insurance by ]. Roland .

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Jim-Crow Blues by I ohn Henry Hammond, I r.

Anti-Nazi Flops by Ruth McKenney

Shaw's First l\1ovie by lames Dugan

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Art work by Mischa Richter (cover), William Gropper, Sylvia W aid, Ad Reinhardt, A. Blashko, Soriano, Crockett Johnson, Malman, Ruben Perez, Charles Martin.

THI~ Wf~K NEW MASSES, VOL. XXIX, No. 13

December 20, 1938

Franco's New "Last Drive" by Edwin Rolfe

An Anti-Nazi Embargo by Joseph Starobin .

Christmas in Munich A Poem by James N eugass

Farmers Support Labor

Editorial Comment .

Talking with Catholics by Ronald Thompson

Morningside Retreat (iy Richard H. Rovere

Hitler's Bazaar

Tabu by Anne Kelly

. Boston Press Sees Red

Paul Y. Anderson by Marguerite Young

Readers' Forum

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The Connecticut Writers' Conference by Samuel Sillen 20

Felix Frankfurter on Justice Holmes by Leonard Boudin 22

The Great Pamphleteer by Stephen Peabody . 24

Surface Views by Jl,filton Meltzer 25

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

The Bauhaus Exhibition by Elizabeth Noble

Elmer Rice on Americanism by Ruth 111 cKenney

Up the River and Over the Till by lames Dugan .

A Great Singer by ] ohn Sebastian .

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Art work by Ron Blumberg (cover), Ben Yomen, William Grop­per, Irvin, Louis Ribak, Soriano, Garel, Fred Ellis, Mischa Rich­ter, A. Redfield, Stanley De Graff, Ned Hilton, A. Walkowitz, Charles Martin.

THI~ W~IK NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No. I

December 27, 1938

. \Var by Spring.? by Richard Goodman 3 The Struggle for Jobs by fohn Strachey . 5 Workers in N aziland . 7 Just a Mistake, Buddy A Short Story by Val Val eo 8 In Memoriam: John Co9kson A Poem by Harold Douglas 9 Editorial Comment . 11 Attacking Problem No. 1 by Lee Coller 15 How Dies was Born by Robert Terral! 16 Readers' Forum 19

REVIEW AND COMMENT

Newton Arvin's "Whitman" b}' Obed Brooks Criticism and Crusade by Nathaniel Buchwald Southern Novel by lames Dugan . Pan-American Problems by ] oseph Starobin Arcadia, Kentucky by I oy David man Costume Novel by Martin Ludwig

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Music in· North Carolina by fohn Sebastian Surrealist Scrooge by fames Dugan Federal Theater's "Androcles" by H. M. Angna Enters,, Pantomimist by Owen Burke Drawings of Spain by Elizabeth Noble

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