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...Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine! The latest sample of the true brine is Jan de Hartog's The Distant Shore, a Literary Guild selection for September...
...Communist party has long since been exposed as a secret conspiracy whose followers cannot give loyalty to any other master. In 1952 nobody should therefore deny the right of a newspaper to fire an employee who is a Communist. The American Newspaper Guild; having fought hard to fire Communists from its own paid jobs, could scarcely deny it. Nevertheless, last week the Guild found itself upholding the fantastic claim that a newspaper publisher has no right (let alone duty) to rid himself of Communist writers...
...Then the Guild brought the weird charge that the dismissals violated its contract with the News because no "sufficient cause" was given for dismissal. It also cited a state labor clause forbidding dismissal for "political beliefs." Arbitrator Paul A. Dodd, dean of Letters and Science at U.C.L.A., ruled that nobody had proved Partlow or Smith a Communist, and that anyway, that was not the issue. Dodd got to the heart of the matter: "A newspaper has. . . a quasi-public responsibility . . . In view of our nation's struggle today against the forces of Communism throughout the world, all those...
...spite of the obvious fairness of Dodd's decision, the Los Angeles Guild stuck to its anachronistic view that because the national Guild's constitution (written in 1933) specifically forbids any discrimination for political beliefs in admitting members, the Guild must therefore defend members fired for political reasons. President Smith might have done better to stand on a clear-cut principle, rather than the argument that Communists damage the paper "businesswise...
...onetime missionary in China who has studied for only a year, put on the leather guards, pulled up her skirts a bit so that her feet could be freer for the heavy pedals, and rang out a pair of selections. Sister Ruth Magdalene was promptly voted into the guild...