Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
u. S. Throws
Sop to Pals
Of Browder
His Liberation Termed
Political Appeasement'
BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER|

BY WESTBROOK PEGLERI
OUR people must be politicallj
Y groggy, for otherwise wi
surely would not have accepted
without public protest the com
mutation Of Earl Browdert
prison sentence on the grounl
that his release would tend Il
promote national unity.
This was frank political ap
peasement of group represent
ing a foreign dictator which 70,
almost two years had denounced
the present war as a war d
British Imperialism and hal
sabotaged the effort to product
weapons and war vehicles fol
American soldiers by strikes Il
Milwaukee, Cleveland, Los An
geles and elsewhere.
1t is certain that Americai
men viii die for lack of the arm
and planes whose production wal
INSTRUCTED by Browder's politica
following, which is now appeasei
in cynical contempt for TIL
American concept Of justice.
IF 1T had been admitted thal
= Browder was given an exces
sive sentence as punishment fo'
his political views and actions
that explanation would have ap
pealed to the national sense -
justice. Certainly 1t would >
have violated the America
system.
But such an admission woulS
have amounted to a confessioj
that Browder was a victim q
New Deal political persecution
because he was convicted ans
sentenced at a time when he AM
his party were attacking Presi
dent Roosevelt as a warmongeI
and the whole effort of the groul
was exerted to serve Adolf Hit
Ter by obstructing our preparal
tons to fight him in an inevi
table war.
If he was not a political pris,
oner then he should have re-
manned in prison. but in no cas-.
could the cause of unity be giveI
legitim a te consideration II
weighing his petition.
Aside from the dangerous cyniI
cism of the stated reasons fol
Browder's release il should hav|
warned an alert people that thu
sympathy of the New Deal fol
Communists Is again at work II
the government at Washington
They began to win back favol
Immediately after Hitler at
tackled Russia and within a veal
have made great progress.
The Communist slogan. ''Th}
Yanks Aren't Coming" was rel
written to read, The Yank|
Aren't Coming Too Late" and
the mere military fact that tw(
countries are allies in wal
against a common enemy is Pc
mitted to justify their penet
ton of the governmental SYSTEM
ONLY a little while before Hit
" Ter struck Russia, the Conn
munists were in the doghous(
for opposing the rearmamen1
program and many Communist
and fellow-travelers OF formed
times were insisting that theJ
had seen the light and had re
formed.
Even Phil Murray of the CIC
had joined in a demand that they
be driven out Of influential posi-
tions in the unions and out Of the
country.
The AFL busily attacked then
in line with its propaganda
against the CIO and loudly in
sisted that the rival organization
was infested with them.
Now, in both the big unions
they are accepted as loyal broth
ers and comrades for the sake OF
that which the White House
statement calls unity" but ir
violation of all previous alarms
in which they were viewed as
enemies of the American form OF
government.
DROWDER is the boss Com
- munist of them all in the
United States. He served Mos
COW in China and in our midst.
But when he was finally con-
victed and sentenced after due
process under the laws which he
had so often invoked to keep Out
of Jail his following Immediately
raised a clamor for his release as