indicates the deep love that these men bear for each other.
That is the keynote of
this book, the brotherhood and single
purpose of a whole people...
1944.
Tomorrow Will Be Ours.
dialog, bibl. note, por. in: Senior Scholastic, 44(13-14) May
8'44.
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1944.
A Method for Tolerance
.
in: Harper's Bazaar 2791(31) Jul'44.
[teaching tolerance and racial self-respect]. (1,764 words). *
The teacher in the third grade class asked Ellen Donato to repeat
her name -- then to spell it. The little girl did so. The teacher
asked her, "It's Italian, isn't it?" The girl shook her head
uncertainly; her paternal great-grandfather had come from Italy,
but her parents had never given her to understand that she was
anything other than an American. After school, that day, a half
dozen of her playmates called her a wop.
She arrived home in
tears...
editions
1944.
The Glorious Fourth.
in: Spotlight 2:7(9) Jul'44.
1944.
The Importance of Registration.
in: The Independent, p.2, Sep 21'44. [urging
patriotic action and feeling].
1944.
Arts and Sciences' Sponsor Meeting: 20,000 Attend.
in: The Independent, p.1,
Sep 28'44. [glowingly describes massive turnout at FDR reelection rally at Madison Square
Garden].
1944.
It's All in the Record.
in: The Independent, p.3, Oct 13'44.
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1944.
The Time of Thanksgiving
.
in: Mademoiselle, Nov'44, p.103-.
[comparison with the
RD
condensed version]
. (1,639 words).
It is not difficult to live with a woman a lifetime and not know her; it
is very easy to live with a nation a lifetime in the same state of
ignorance. I'm sometimes amused by people who know America so
well, who are so ready to answer any fact, any detail, any shade of
opinion in this vast and many-sided country of a hundred and forty
million people and many million square miles...
editions
1944.
This is the record... This is the work!
in: Reader's Scope, pp 25-26,
November 1944. 18.5 cm, (685 words). *
IT is time that we looked at the
record calmly, with restraint yet
with pride; for the
record tells the truth, and God knows we have
reason enough for pride. The
record will stand, and for centuries to
come men of
good will, looking back at that
record, will say:
"Thus did America. When humanity called, America answered."
The
record concerns the accomplishments of fifty-five million
American men and women who worked with their hands and their
heads in the factories, the shipyards, the mines, the offices and on the
farms of America...
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1944.
Together With Our Soviet Allies
.
in:
Soviet Russia Today,
November 1944, p.7. (768 words). *
THERE is no formal way of tribute to the Soviet Union. As
simply as it may be said, we live and
eat and drink and go about
our work because there is a Red Army.
There was a time – and not so long ago – when all things seemed
to pause, when the unfolding pattern of history paused and only
darkness lay ahead. All that had been before, all the bitter and
tragic struggles of man out of the slime and toward the light, all
of that was apparently for no end. All of that was finished. All
that we called civilization, the beauty we had made, the
structures of stone and steel, the factories that made life easier
and better, the hooks,
the paintings, the dreams too, the
philosophies we had sought so gropingly and fashioned into
paths out of ignorance, the goodness of God that we had found
for ourselves, the homes we had made and the futures we had
planned - all of that was as nothing and doomed. A malignant and
embodied evil, an essence of evil so vile that it defied our
comprehension, had arisen; and
that evil, which calls itself
fascism, was triumphant...
1944. Geisz, Henry.
Veterans of Two Wars
.
as told to Howard Fast. in:
We, the People's Picture Magazine, p 14-15, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov. 1944.
32 pp, 34 cm, A Martin Tumin. New York. *
THE closer this war gets to a finish, the easier it is to see
what is being cooked up by the various political groups in
this country as a means of handling the post-war problems
we are all fac-ing. I am not a news commentator or a profes-
sor, but I can see the trends as well as any of them. I know
what happened after the last war in this country, what
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happened between wars, and I don't want to see it happen again.
I speak as a veteran of World War I, a past commander of a
Legion post,
and an electrician by trade, a man who has
carried an A.F. of L. union card ever since I was seventeen
years old. I know from my own experiences when the
politicians are handing out pap and when they are on the
level...
1945.
The New American Scholar.
in: The Christian Register 124:2(55) Feb'45. [the scholar
should observe his social duties and direct his research accordingly].
1945.
Culture and the Future
.
in: New Masses 54:6(11) Feb 6'45. [text of speech given on
receiving
New Masses cultural award]. (469 words).
1945.
Lincoln Is America
.
in: New Masses 54:7(10) Feb 13'45. [Lincoln's Birthday: Lincoln is the
favorite American hero, the model of the American people]. (862 words). *
It is something to remember--and to be proud of--that we have never had,
for a national
hero, a bad man; and if you look at them, reaching back through our history,
Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, even Black Daniel, and Abe Lincoln, Wilson
and a hundred more, you can be reassured about the instinct of our people in choosing
men to serve them. And if you were to pick from the group
one whom the people loved
more than any other, it would easily and naturally be Abe Lincoln, for reasons you
know as well as I...
1945.
It Isn't Easy...
in: This Week Magazine (NY Herald Tribune) Sec. VII, p.2, Feb 18'45.
[urging patriotic action and feeling].
1945.
Who Was Tom Paine?
in: New Masses 54:9(23) Feb 27'45. [abridged version of
introduction to
The Selected Work of Tom Paine
] [
comparison of Introduction and abridged
version
]. (1,858 words).
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image
1945.
Proud to Be Black
.
in: Negro Digest 3:5(5) Mar'45. (407 words).
If I were a Negro, I would be proud; yes, I would be so damned proud!
I would be proud because my people created civilizations when
Europe was a forest; I would be proud because my people — and my
people alone in all human history — made a single step from slavery
to
democracy; in Haiti, that was.
I would be proud because if forebearance and tolerance are qualities of
civilization, than my people can be called one of the most civilized on
earth.