Evening star., 1941-09-08
trine with respect to our system OF
free enterprise.

| lTcc SutcTpIlSc.
Here we have the business en-
terprise, perhaps the most com.
pletely amoral and materialistic sim
gle-purpose institution the human
mind has yet devised, governed by q
class of men who may be ever SC
sentimental with their children and
ever so kind and gentle with their
wives, but who, in order to main-
tain their position unimpaired as
the prime material beneficiaries of
economic activity, are compelled to
resort to the wholesale promotion
of one of the most incredibly jejdne,
intellectually and emotionally shall
low and crudely primitive faiths
known in the iridescent annals OF
myth and fable"
Stockbroker and Pirate
Held to Have Same Outlook.
Mr.. President, I believe the Con-
gress and the people Of the United
States will want to know why Leon
Henderson has chosen for his head
consultant a man whose attitudes
toward business, enterprise" are ex-
pressed in the foregoing passage.
THE inner face of Fascism con-
siders man as a beast OF prey
Scientists, artists, the rank and file
of the people, may recoil from this
doctrine; the leading figures in the
business world of Italy, Germany
England. France and the United
States do not" Note the Communist
party "line"-as of 1937-and the
glib manner in which it Jumped to-
gether "the leading figures in the
business world of Italy, Germany
England, France and the United
States"
"Is there any fundamental differ
ence in appreciation of human
values or in general outlook on life
between a stockbroker and pirate?
So far as the specific activity is con-
cerned there is no difference, not
even in the methods of sharing the
spoils. What on the open seas is
thought of as an outlaw anc
piraticar raid of group on group
is in another setting played as 6
legitimate game in which each mar
is pitted against every other mar
for all he can get by with short
of snarl with criminal law THAI
businessmen in the United State!
hold this view is beyond question.
More the Communist party Zine.
Technically Non-Fascist"
Quotation Objected To.
There is no forecasting the out.
come. But of this much we can bt
certain: If and when Fascist forces
seize power in England. the United
States, or other still technically non.
Fascist countries, they can do M
more than control the power of the
national state" 1t must be a mat
ter of great interest to you, Mr.
President, to know that the heat
consultant of the o. P. A. c. S
considers the United States onl,
technically non-Fascist."
There is no hope against all this
except that of sweeping away tn
very foundations on which Fascisn
constructs its brittle edif1ce. If tn
worldwide Fascist trend of things /
to be reversed, what is left of de
mocracy must be reinforced, an
the sweep of the tide turned. Blu
this means an erosion of Fascis
. foundations. not by humanisin
business enterprise, but by arrayin
together all those forces whose fac
/. is turned the other way Against a.
opponent who believes singly an
solely in force and guile. force mus
be massed. The hope of the peopl
Of the United States is to be founc
not in giving free reign to monopoly
oriented and Fascist-inclined cap
italism but in turning back its field.
q factories and workshops to tilos
, who fought its war Of freedom
against tyrannical power, and VIII
J f.built, with their muscles and brain.
all the real wealth and all that ther
is in America which deserves tn
name of culture. But it will nc
!, come to them as gift; they mus
learn that the only solution to re
covery of their heritage lies With
j. themselves"
. Dies Observations
On Henderson and Book.
Such, Mr.. President, is the con
clusion to Robert A. Brady's bool
{ I submit that If Leon Henderson
unwilling to brand that concluSio
as an expression Of Communist doc
= trine, he is demonstrating his unfit
ness to understand the grave prob
I lens with which we are wrestlin
, as a Nation today. If, on the othe
, hand, Henderson has the intellectus
2 understanding and courage to bran
Brady's views for what they obvious
ly are, the people of this country wi
want to know why he chooses t
consult Cat the peoples expense
, one who is so frank in his expositio
Of Communism.
, When Henderson appeared befor
the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency recently, he was questione
! concerning the auspices under whic
, Brady's book was published in Eng
land. A certain Kenneth Galbraitl
: who appeared at the committee
/ hearings with Henderson, volur
! teered the statement that Victc
, Gollancz, Ltd. "Is an intensely car
! italistic enterprise" and that tn
: Left Book Club is "the Englis
? equivalent of the Book
! Month Club"
. Hits implications
: OF GaIbraith Testimony.
Both of DR.. Galbraith's statement
! were untrue in their implication
= The facts are that Victor Gollant
Ltd. has for many years been tt
leading publisher of Communi
| hooks n, England and that the q