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Last week the New York Legislature at Albany voted to make such union discrimination by reason of "race, color or creed" a misdemeanor punishable by fines (up to $500), imprisonment (up to 90 days), and damages payable to the aggrieved. Having asked for such a law himself, labor-loving Governor Lehman was expected to sign it, after the Legislature disposed of final technicalities. Fearful of any & all curbs on unions, the State American Federation of Labor fought this one. So did A. Philip Randolph, Negro president of the Pull man Porters' Union, who sagely warned: "The Negro workers...
...current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights, if not the very independence of the neutrals themselves, are irksome to England...
...care what creed...
...course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States. But Mr. Greene has little faith in the virility of democracy and in American integrity if he considers this an overwhelming threat. And surely he will not proceed to the ridiculous argument of actual Nazi aggression on American soil...
Over the rest of the story hangs a question mark that may decide von Horvath's insight as a novelist of his time: How prophetic is the lance-corporal's gradual disillusionment with the Nazi creed? First crack in his faith comes during an undeclared war on "a weak, incompetent nation, with a deplorable system of government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs...