Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
WESTBROOK
PEGLER
Fair
Enough

Harvard, and now secretary
of the Labor party which rules
Great Britain, seems to misun-
derstand the equation between
the American citizen and tax
payer, and the party for which
he speaks.
Although he holds no British
public office, Laski also pre-
sumes to speak for the British
people and their government as
well, which should be all right
with us IL IL Is with them.
Laski's government took Of
flee TO the tune Of the Interna-
tionale, the anthem of the Com
munist conspiracy against all
freedom everywhere and partic-
ulsrly against the freedoms in
herent in the government Of
the United States.
News photographs OF Clement
Attlee, the new prime minister.
showed many of Attlee's sup
porters, and Laski's. saluting
with the clenched fist, which is
the Communist challenge TO the
American republic.
TT ISN'T American big busi-
ness.' particularly, which OBJ
jects and it isn't the right OF
the British 10 experiment with
their own lives on any term
they choose. that is objected TO.
The objectors are the Ameri-
can taxpayers TO whom Lash
and his party and its govern
ment look for new homes. free,
new industrial equipment, free.
cash unemployment and de-
mobilization allowances, free.
and food and clothing for an
indefinite time, all free.
Laski insists that the right OF
the British 10 experiment with
their own lives includes right
10 experiment with the lives OF
the people OF Spain, as well.
So he obviously means that q
busted Britain not only de-
mands that American workers
pay taxes 10 support the British
labor government which cant
experiment" successfully with
out a share of the American
taxpayers dollar. but that they
contribute TO the financing OF
another civil war among a
people with whom Americans
now enjoy certainly no less
trIstful relations than we ENJOY
with Soviet Russia.
1t is, therefore, not. as he
suggests, American big busi-
ness" which is primarily con-
cerned here. II is the American
worker. on. say. $50 a week.
who finds Sl2 missing from his
envelope BY way OF Withholding
tax, who insists on being in
cluded out of the British-ex-
periments
THE British certainly do have
Il the right 10 experiment, but
that experiment runs toward
communism, the declared enemy
OF the system that provides the
wages that enable the American
10 pay his taxes
The proposition is simple an
the analysis is clear and IN !
Americans have indicated no
desire TO interfere with the
British experiments.
Valiant fighter that he is on
the barricades Of freedom. in
the absentee manner OF his own
Charlie Chaplin, who has been
here on lend-lease for many
years. Laski is less well-known
to Americans than he should be.
His intimate friendship with
Felix F'rankfurter of our SUI
preme Court and the man
known as David X. Niles of Bos-
ton. whom the late Mr.. Roose-
velt planted in the White House
is. 10 informed Americans,
more indicative sign than muddy
analyses Of his writings.
But when we consider also
the fact that he had the impu-
dence TO interfere in disorders
amounting 10 violent overthrow
of government, in the Boston
police strike of 1919, we give
ourselves a clearer idea.
Left unprotected, the people
OF Boston were at the mercy OF
that beast, the mob.
|
I ASK argued that the police
IL had a right 10 join any body
10 better their economic posi-
tion but the practical results
were, first. the strike and then
civil commotion.
The American people repudi-
ated the whole affair by elect
ing Calvin Coolidge vice presi-
dent and, by succession, presi-
dent. for the sole reason that he
beat the strike and, banished
forever, without benefits. and
against all kinds OF threats and
appeals. the men whom Laski
had upheld
The police of Liverpool may
have, as LaSki would assure
them, a right 10 organize fc1
their economic betterment, q
10 strike again, exposing tn
people TO massacres on the pat
tern Of the Petrograd slaugh-