Evening star., 1943-09-04
This Mon Browder

This Mon Browder
Earl Browder, general secretary of
the Communist party, has given a
great deal of advice on the conduct
OF this war since the first shot was
fired four years ago. And it has been
uniformly worthless.
His latest contribution was sub
| mltted at Communist meeting in
! New York Thursday evening. AS of
today, Mr.. Browder is an advocate
OF vigorous action. He wants a Sec
ond front in Western Europe, and he
wants it now. 1t is all very simple.
We have the men and the arms; we
have demonstrated our technical
superiority over the enemy, and we
have mastered the U-boats. In
snort" he says, 'the last semblance
OF an excuse of inability to open the
second front has disappeared We
are able to do it in overwhelming
force any time our leaders give the
word"
From this, Mr.. Browder concludes
that the failure to open a second
front meeting his specifications flows
from bad faith" And, by implica-
ton, he pins this bad faith on the
British and American general staffs
who, he says, have been overruled
by themselves in the capacity of
politicians subject to reactionary in
f1uence.' 1t is his considered judg-
ment," however, that the President
has not surrendered to the reaction
aries. 1T is my opinion" he said,
that the President is fighting for
correct policy" and the Communists
are in this war to the end" behind
Mr.. Roosevelt's leadership.
But Mr.. Browder has not always
ratified the saber in such red -blooded
fashion. On December 18, 1899, he
was telling an audience in Madison
Square Garden that the United
States had set the pattern for "un-
declared war" and that 1T is pre-
cisely in former New Deal high cir
cles that one hears most openly ex-
pressed the idea of American leader
ship, of Roosevelt's leadership, in a
holy war of the whole capitalist
world against the Soviet Union"
Ten days later meeting at Madison,
Wis. was told that as early as 1919
Britain had planned to use Finland
as the springboard for an attack
against Russia, and that the Soviet
invasion of Finland was therefore
purely matter of self-defense."
By January, 1910, Browder had
been convicted of a passport fraud.
And he declared that a capitalist
court had convicted him because
the Communists stand in the way of
efforts of President Roosevelt and
Wall Street to drag US into the i'm
perialist war"
In June of 1910 BroWder was nomi-
mated by the Communist party as it's
candidate for President of the United
States. But he was not very militant
then. eve speak" he said, "for the
millions when we resolve that the
Yanks are not coming" His plat
form opposed President Roosevelt's
program, indorsed the
peace policy" of the Soviet Union,
and called for a thirty-hour work
week. Eight months later, as he was
beginning his prison sentence for
the passport fraud, BroWder said
eff my kind of crime rates four years
in prison, what should be the punish
ment of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
got third term on false passport
"a promise to keep America out Of
war-and he violated it? I think the
supreme punishment for his crime
will be written by history-that he
betrayed the peace and prosperity
of the American people
But all of that is water over the
dam. Germany has attacked Russia
and Mr.. Browder is a changed man.
He now wants the Yanks to be sent
over by the millions tomorrow
President Roosevelt has become a
great leader in a correct cause. Who
said this was an imperialist war? 1t
is our solemn duty to take the weight
off Russia, and if we know what is
good for us there will be no delay
about it.
Fortunately, the people of this
country are pretty level-headed
They will pay no more attention to
Mr.. Browder's rantings today than