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i ; plans for congressional action. But that is, quite literally, their they can never get from WGY and which that station’s inter- _ · ti H 
    funeral. _I do not see why radicals should help them. If, how- ference prevents theirtgetting from other stations. ,‘. . V — · `      
i   ever, the latter have urged a planned economy as a present Advertisers are becoming increasinglyldubious of the benefits N r  {
l   political policy, they will find it dirlicult to enlighten the public from radio, and as this doubt grows with the present depression, `I.   Q  
€ ff mind when they are forced to begin opposing Fascist schemes for it may be that the air will have to be filled with some style of   ,    Z}
L   stabilizing the speculative-profit system. concert music. This does not guarantee its quality, of course. It V p-   _ '_`A*` ·  
g li » New York City. JOHN DEWEY. would be surprising to the broadcasters and advertisers to know- ¤ · V i_ [fcgi   rj
    the thousands of sets that are lying idle in homes because of the “`r     ger ei,
  t PO1and: NO Empire On the Make miirable programs. This is especially so in the middle class. , _ , ,  
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i ~ SIR: Mr. Farbman reiterated in The New Republic of January i      
i E 13 the prevailing American conce tion of Poland’s position in i • _ ‘ ` ff,   · fil,
` European politics. He represented ht; as swollen with ambition Fr€€dOrn In Ilfiland — . I    
and lust for land, a potential trouble-maker in Europe. To what SIR: In view of the widespread and sympathetic interest of the _ ` r.~A i`  
p `_ extent is this true? / American people in the resistance to the imperialistic regime of _ I   5  
1 Not Poland, but the enemies of Poland who refuse to accept the Britain in India, I deem it opportune to draw attention to that _    
3 status quo, are the trouble-makers. Poland is content to remain island which has so continuously resisted absorption within the , ._   A »  
A within the boundaries established for her in 1918. The maps British Empire and which undoubtedly in the yeais 1916-1921 — ,=`   `·
‘ which Mr. Farbman declares Poles to be circulating, maps show- set a headline and glorious example to all the oppressed peoples- ` ’      
ing Poland when her territories reached from the Baltic to the Ireland. —   » -— p- -7
Black Sea, are displayed simply to show the facts of P0l3DCi,5 Most people understand that the threat of immediate and terrible . i   V _
i historic position in Europe. No sensible Pole expects or even war, made by Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. VVinston Churchill and the A   iQ Q I
desires to recover the old territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Em- English Cabinet of December, 1921, had permanently terrified and   r ,
pire. These maps are published abroad to counter-balance the intimidated the Irish people into accepting a so-called treaty, if i n
circulation by Germany of pre-war maps showing the inflated which destroyed the unity of Ireland and created two abomina- bp  '
territories of the Reich during Polaud’s temporary captivity. tions, the Free State and Northern Ireland. But the fruits of the  
_ Poland is charged by M:. Farbman with deliberate anti- so-called treaty, i. e., two parliaments, in Northern Ireland and Z _,
Semitism. Poland’s very openness to this charge arises from her the Free State, two armies, British in Ulster and National in the  it
_ policy of non-restriction during the Middle Ages, a lenieney Free State, two senates, two judiciaries, two excessively numerous  F I
which allowed the Jews to multiply unduly and develop a com- police forces, have disillusioned the Irish people as to the extent of  g
pletely foreign culture in the midst of Catholic Poland. jews freedom achieved. And the iiuancialpayment to Britain, forced upon L
cannot today escape the inexorable social law that as loyal citizens the Free State as compensation to ex—British police forces, civil » ·
gf the Republic they will be protected, but as separatists consort- servants and land tribute-a burden amounting to over $20,000,000   —
ing with the enemy they will be distrusted and attacked. The annually (equivalent per capita to the burden resting upon the  
delicate balance that enables ]ews and Poles to live peaceably German people for reparations)-—has created a position where it  
together in normal times is continually being upset by the ¤gifi1· is incumbent upon the Irish people t0 repudiate the so-called   V _
tion of foreign jews, especially American, whose misguided med- treaty. A  { V
_ dling is resented by the Poles as intensely as Americans would This tendency to repudiate is the real reason for the drastic ij
I t resent investigation by a foreign commission of the lynching of_ Coercion Bill made elfective last October in the Free State. The  
Negroes or the treatment of the japanese in California. definite feature of this Coercion Bill is the abrogation of all  ‘i
V ~ The very liberals, including l\/ir. Farbmim, Wl10