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Best in the book, and well worthy of inclusion in a U. S. anthology, is the title story, Kneel to the Rising Sun: A spineless sharecropper, whose landlord persistently half-starves him and browbeats him, as he does all his tenants, one night finds his old father missing from the cabin. To help him search he rouses a Negro neighbor; together they find the old man's body, half-devoured by their landlord's hogs. When they wake the landlord there is a quarrel between him and the Negro, which is the excuse the landlord has been waiting...
...there be a duty to provide for tenants evicted as a consequence of restricted production of the "poverty crop,'' on whom does such duty devolve-the economically enslaved, debt-ridden landlord or the Government responsible for policies that inflict poverty on all producers of such crop...
...sometimes gets enough money to pay a month's rent, sometimes only one of Maxie's cigars, sometimes a cuffing from Maxie's Red Guards. Last week in Lodz the potent Bolshevik's indigent old sister Ester was shoved into the street by an irate landlord who dumped her furniture on the pavement...
...Eighteen months!" shouted the landlord. "Eighteen months I let her live in my house because I thought her mighty brother would do what a brother should. Oi, oi, eighteen months...
...followers deployed, picketed, raised their placards: "Starvation Standards of Home Relief Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said he: "All I ask is enough for three meals a day and a cheap room." He waved a grimy hand. "I ask no wine." For 45 minutes, Author Bodenheim was closeted with the relief administrator...