The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-14
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
right, 1916, by King Features Syndicate)

Many soldiers and blue-JacKetS have writ
ten me angry letters because say it is easy
for trained agitators in their midst to exploi
their honest grievances for Interior political
purposes and to their own eventual detriment
With great respect for their intelligence and
j patriotism but realizing their lack of expert
ence, still insist that they just don't know
what they are talking about. This will make
them angrier than ever because man hates
to be told that he Is being played for a
| churnp hut personal popularity is cheap, and
| I am not interested.
| II these men knew as much as know
about such manipulations they would examine
the background of comrades who spring I'm
among them and, by clever psychology, be-
come their accredited Headers" and "spokes-
men, They would realize that this rnanipu-
lation is trade regularly taught in organized
classes around Union Square which produce
remarkably effective operators.
They would keep aware of the current prop
uganda line of Union Square and nail the
similarity of that line to the political propa.
ganda that is mixed into their organized
gripes and resolutions.
| AS these dispatches noted few DAYS ago
the Peoples Daily World, of San Francisco
now boasts that John Lord, of its local staff
was "a sergeant in the Army and "served
as editor of the Mid-Pacifican, second largest
Army newspaper in the world"
This paper is the successor to the Western
Worker which stated that it was the official
publication of the Communist Party in the
United States. For more than year it was
obvious that the Mid-P acifican was an organ
of violent political propaganda. Lieut.. Gen.
Robert c. Richardson, commanding the Mid
Pacific, with headquarters in Honolulu was
so advised early in the game.
How It was possible for a man of Lord s
politics to be editor of the Mid-P acifican in
the very same town where Richardson had
his headquarters, the general may explain at
his pleasure. But reasonable soldiers who rea
this paper under Lords editorship not know
ing his politics, might ask themselves honest
ly whether 1t isn't possible that someone
slipped one over on them. Lord recently wrote
that the American soldiers hated all Ameri-
can officers more than they ever hated the
Japs.
The report of the Dies Committee known
as "Appendix I, Communist Front Organi-
zations,' lists Jack Lord, of San Francisco,
a sgner of a statement defending the
Communist Party on March 5, 1941. Stain
was then an ally of Hitler and the Com
munist Party was ferce1y opposing, and by
sabotage, too, every move that the American
nation was making to produce war materials
and build up national defense. About that
time, Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced as
communist instruction the riotous strike of
the auto workers of the C.I.O. at the North
American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calf.
The statement that Jack Lord signed denied
that he was a communist but urged Roosevelt
to exercise his authority "to prevent those
under you from stimulating un-American ac-
tons against communists by I'M democratic
utterances,' in "democracys" name he was
to suppress free speech
do not know as yet whether John Lord
OF the Peoples Daily World and Jack Lord
also of San Francisco, are the same person.
One David Livingston, a sergeant, was
prominent in t he recent demonstrations in
Honolulu and was "selected' one of COM
mittee Of seven to go to Washington to ex
press the CT case to the Senate These "se-
lections" were made at rally of 5000
soldiers at Fort Shafter The manner of Liv-
ingston's selection" may not be entirely
clear to all the soldiers who were present
Their uncertainty can be understood by New
York newspaper workers who joined the
Newspaper Guild in its early days and soon
discovered that a cloak-and-suit journalist
completely unknown to most of US, was rum
ming the show and held the most powerful
position in the roster For long time the
guild followed the Union Square political line
in all things. Our cloak-and- suiter vanished
after bitter revolution and reappeared after
ward in many of the little fronts
Obviously any group Of 5000 soldiers called
for rally managed by skilled manipu-
lators would not know the mechanics of the
occasion. Few would have any practical ex-
perience in such things or suspect that they
were being used Most of them would be
strangers to the others and the majority
would be political greenhorns
Livingston Master Sergeant Joseph Nahem
and Corporal Herbert Freeman, both of
Brooklyn, were confined to quarters briefly
Thereupon the leading spirits of the demon
stratlon issued a statement praising the
fortnight and democratic leadership of
Livingston and Nahem. Some publication
seems to have suggested that Livingston was
active IN communist circles in New York and
he offered to resign from the CT committee.
But there wasn't chance Of that He got
vote OF confidence of course.
A warrant officer named Ewart G. Guinier
was another member of the COMMITTEE" of
seven picked to 60 to Washington.
The Dies Committee does not list anyone
named either Joseph Nahem Herbert Free
man.
1t does list David Livingstone, with an
''e' on the end He was with the United
Wholesale Employees of the CLIO, and was
active in the New York council OF the CLIO,
which is badly infested with communists. His
headquarters were in Aston street, in the
Union Square district.
Ewart G.. Guinier is listed as president of
the New York district of the State, County
and Municipal Workers Of the CLIO, also a
far left wing political group when IS notori-
ously cordial to communists