Evening star., 1938-06-05
MAGAZINES OFFER MEATY FARE
arpers and Asia Unearh Way of Stopping War;
Harpers Finds Current Courtship of Democracy by
/ Official Communism Significant

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The reviewer would add here that
she Is no sympathizer with Fascism.
1t would really not seem necessary to
say As much, since the reviewer Is an
American citizen. But the muddle.
making Of the comrades has already
had the curious effect in some quite
well-intentioned quarters Of creating
the belief that, in order to oppose
Fascism. one must embrace COMMIT
nism. According TO the writings OF all
the dtspassionate and informed, there
Is nothing to choose between the two
doctrines. Both are essentially tyran-
nies. Both are dictatorships Hence
both are uh-American. Doesn't that
settle the matter7
A ND on the subject OF Fascism the
American Mercury, loudly decried
BY the comrades as Fascist Journal,
has in its June issue q revelatory
article. 1t is by william Yandell
Elliott, and its title Is IF America
Goes Fascist"
Mr.. Elliott makes 1t clear that fas.
cism and communism arrive necessar-
lily at the same ends as far as the
plain citizen Is concerned, though they
proceed by different directions. The
end OF course Is complete destruction
Of liberty and human dignity.
THAT way" he says Of Fascist in
clinations, lies slavery beyond the
worst that the most dyed Ia the-woo
Wall Streeter has ever predicted from
the New Deal If big business has
been scourged by the New Deal with
whips, then scorpions is an inadequate
word to describe what would be the
ultimate instrument for scourging un-
der fascism. And our business men
have seen with their own eyes or heard
from cronies abroad just how Fascist
planning works out-moving further
toward national bolshevism with each
jump" .G,-
Proceeding on the assumption that
nation which penalties its pro-
ducers-that is, Its business men,
cannot offer much to its population In
freedom and opportunity Mr.. Elliott
wisely concludes that fascism Is not
doctrine which Americans will en-
brace while they still are In posses
sion Of their senses-or. II 1t comes
to that, their right to choose.
ELLERY SEDGwICK, writing In
- the June Atlantic Monthly, has
an article on the little-publicized side
of the Spanish war-the nationalist
side, He takes for his subject Gen.
| Queipo de Llano, OF whom he says
that while all nationalist Spain looks
on Gen. Franco as its saviour Queipo
de Llano is its living legend. The ar
ticle is q good portrait of brilliant
and completely individual soldier.
ZEN. QUEIPO's great exploit, Of
course, was the taking of Seville.
an undertaking which he accomplished
with exactly 1870 men. He used the
strategy of magnificent lying and BLUM,
according to Mr.. Sedgwick, announc-
ing to all opponents that the city had
| fallen and they were the last hold
outs Actually, the Reds were In pos
session in numbers. by the present
account, but, with the success Of Gen.
Queipo's brilliant prevarications, the
Red Terror collapsed, citizens every
where rallied to the White cause"
and "it was AT least an adequate reply
to those who maintain this to be
struggle with the whole army on one
side and all the people on the other"
OF the generals popularity, Mr..
Sedgwick says, "as long as unin-
structed people prefer the Irregular
tiles of Robin Hood to the virtues Of
the excellent Sheriff of Nottingham,
so long will Queipo the Sinner be
enshrined as Don Gonzalo the Saint
in the hearts and minds of every free
born Andalusian."
Well, it is a little pleasant TO learn
that this bloody, unnecessary, drab
and dispiriting conflict has brought
forward one character Of recognizable
human proportions. The reviewer has
had to read q long shelfull of books
about the war, and she has noticed
how 1t Is that, in spite Of the per-
spring efforts Of the protagonists Of
one or the other sides to render chosen
leaders chamrionlike, the Spanish
warlords remain about like warlords
anywhere today-dismal. uninspired,
machinelike fellows, about as likely to
infiame confidence and hope in their
followers as melting wax dummies.
But this Queipo apparently Is .
different quality. According to Mr..
Sedgwick, he makes love. tells fibs,
roars at a good story and fights be-
cause he likes 1t. And the people
love him. Horrifying as it may be to
the new world planners. 1t would seem
that human beings still have taste
for fun and romance. To forward