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Perhaps the magazine's greatest fault is its great dearth of material that might interest a general audience--its reports on NSA, SDA, SLID, and ADA lack appeal for few but members and friends of these alphabetical organizations. Only the lead article--by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--which gives convincing arguments for the rejection of Communist Party support by any genuine liberal group, is worthy of careful reading. And this gives us little that Schlesinger has not presented elsewhere...
Reinhold Neibuhr, Leon Henderson, and Paul Porter will address the New England regional convention of Students for Democratic Action and the newly-formed Massachusetts ADA December 13 at the Boston City Club...
...labor, the intellectuals who think out labor's problems, and that scattered army of professional men, students, and politically-alert citizens who fight labor's public opinion battles, a tragic breach seriously threatens labor's current political potential. This is the independent-liberal split between Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and Progressive Citizens of America...
...level chieftains of both groups are intent on "recapturing" the Democratic Party. ADA's very formation stemmed from feeling on the part of liberal Democrats such as Chester Bowles that Henry Wallace's involvement with Communist Party supporters would hamstring honest resolution of public issues--as well as prove "bad politics." Now the defensibility of this premise has been weakened; for ADA's careerist Democrats seemingly cannot face up to foreign policy unhandcuffed by their own Truman-tied Party Line. The resultant bitter feuding between ADA and PCA on international questions has prevented coordinated planning on domestic policy--where...
Fortunately CIO and AFL political action programs will work arm-in-arm in '48. But if the PCA-ADA division ever becomes institutionalized in the two sections of labor, a schism reaching into '50 and '52 will undoubtedly occur. Now is the time to search with determination for common ground. Philip Murray has demonstrated in the sessions at the Bradford this week that great leadership can find ways to unite divergent factions in a crucial hour. The Henry Wallaces and Chester Bowleses do not deserve a look until they too demonstrate this statesmanlike faculty...