The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
In MEMORY OF HARRY DEXTER WHITE .
/. f. STONE in New York Star


would not bemean the memory of Harry d White
nor pander to the men who helped to kill him by saying
that he was not Communist If he one Com
munists have to be proud For he was a man
Of brilliant mind and understanding spirit
But think know than Communists and Com
munsm than do the backwoods birdbrans of the house
un-American activities committee. | certainly knew
Harry White better than the inqusitoral bigots who put
the final unbearable strain his ailing heart And
do not think Harry White Communist if the word
is to be used correctly and without quotation marks
Harry White was the product of free society, and
too independent in his thinking to tread anybodys line
He knew his history. He of the fact that
there to historical processes than dreamed
of by the smplstic. He not afraid to look at the
world about him effectively and he could | suppose,
say the word revolution" without wincing.
NO PARLoR BoLsHEvlK
But White parlor Bolshevik dilettante
theoretcian. He Woodworking and very practi-
cal economist who the Treasury in June 1894
and stayed on for mysterious He at
tracted to the New Deal like many other inellectuals
Of progressive outlook he saw in an oppor
tunity to be useful hammer out necessary social
changes the clamorous but firm anvil democratic
processes
don't hackneyed words paint
saccharine picture. | have heard the New Dealers
grippe plenty in the old days about FDR but it is
that Roosevelt inspired them. He gave them a sense
OF accomplishment and purpose. He made it seem
worthwhile to work all hours-and the u. S.
had more devoted servants than of Whites kind.
History will record if current hystera for
gets, that it of Whites kind who restored
faith in orderly government, who proved could
in the U.SA. at time when elsewhere in the world
free government broke down in dsiuson and die
tators rose to power on mob violence.
Think back to the bonus marchers and foreclosure
riots and Huey Long and realize what might have hap
pened in America large scale if there had been
Roosevelt and New Deal Harry Whites and
Communists to give back to ordinary Americans faith
that the traditional ways of free government fully
capable of satisfying their aspiration greater
curity.
AN INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
These men hated Fascisn as all decent men must.
They friendly to the Soviet Union, for they
understood the dreadful circumstances of which
the Russian revolution sprane. They hoped that in
time the Soviet dictatorship given peaceful condi-
tons, would swing back toward democratic methods.
They to build a and better world after
the
In this sense White had internationalst outlook,
as must every intelligent in time But those
who had the privilege of talking with him off the
during some of his difficult postwar negotiations
knew that White softie, that under the
he had unexpected vein of American natonalism.
and that in dealing with the Russians with the
British, he not at all disposed to let them the
Chicago Tribune might say take the shirt off Uncle
Sans back.
The history of Whites role at Breton Woods. where
ne and the late Lord Keynes the principal archi
ecs of the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund. will show how skfully he worked to protect
American interest-and prmacy-within the frame
work of new world monetary order. The difference
between the original Keynes proposals and those of
White is the difference between proposals talormade