Show R we g NJ A A hy westbrook peg ler released Hele aced by features feature THE HE ne new york herald tribune formerly was known to the tha profession an and I 1 the laity as a pillar of the republican party the british empire and the church of england it was stodgy elderly and accord ans g to its own lights and lit her esies resles aly y VA A change began early to in the new deal al which now has become total whatever its formal party affiliation the herald tribune as ot of now must be judged by its company and its editorial manners and these are inconsistent with its past in studying the strange political policy or spirit of the herald tribune one comes across communists and friends and associates of communists who are lavishly publicized usually la in praise much of the reading matter in metropolitan paper Is yes arid ard 0 copy cop y it news but fea ea ture ore stuff leave it out and nobody Is depT deprived ived except the subject who might have been advertised verti sed tree free but As between a n fellow fello w who runs with the C communists 0 ats and one who opposes and shuns them an editor can make an arbitrary choice As a starting point of these essays I 1 return to the observation of joe davies our ambassador to moscow who wrote that joe barnes the foreign editor and in reality the policy editor of the herald tribune was a radical and that mrs barnes was much more radical than her husband that makes a pretty radical combination in charge of the policy of a paper which used to be a well edited well written conscientious republican party organ howard barnes the drama editor ahe herald tribune is the brother fhe rdoe oe the policymaker policy maker by a rule of val rule ues aes that baffles me of the theatrical de space apartment part ment had shown a crush on a broadway gag writer named garson kanin his great work is a comedy called born yesterday in this he exalted the new republic and thus inferentially lally henry wallace its front editor until recently kanin personified tree free enterprise as an illiterate larcenous junk dealer and the U S congress as a sniveling thief the show has some laughs and a pretty blonde kanin seems to be no communist himself for he has made careful arrangements to get out of his tawdry play every dollar that the adry HI allows the herald tribune has been crazy over karlin and this play and thi the infatuation even extended to a show by donald ogden stewart stuwart of hollywood who has been mentioned in connection with more red roots fronts than stalin him himself sellin in the congressional investigations kanin was the producer AU all actors producers and press agents know that a two column head in the herald tribunes surk sunday drama layout Is a great prize just casually I 1 have noted in the sunday section two three column pictures and one two column caricature for kanlis interests and a half dozen gratuitous puffs of artificial text one picture was just a dumb vague photograph of a bunch of people uncommon in common clothes sitting around reading they were the cost cast of this new play of stewarts about to be produced by kanin it was called how I 1 wonder and it laid bigg gg there was absolutely noth but personal favor to this free advertising why not give space away to people noted for their americanism if you profess to be a republican paper let the daily worker and marshall fields thing root tor for their team but let us root for ours kanin has no reg judged political ree rec by ord in washington company but he fie did appear s as a witness for carl aldo marzani Marza nl an italian born communist spy who planted himself in the american cloak and dagger service of the army for non dan berous duties in the war and twice sneaked into our state department as an employee marzahl used a communist party allas alias the herald tribunes precious fri friend d garson karlin kanan 34 years old 16 hate ate out of a soft job in the war sip he remember whether he ever was a member of the joint anti fascist refugee committee which is as red as a fire alre engine but then he apparently thought the better of that evasion for he quickly said he was willing WilliD 9 to say yes danlia testified that he and Al marzahl arzan fought the battle of washington for 18 28 months until he went overseas in may 1911 1941 and that the spy py had bad a nice rep tr tor for peace and nd good order and being a law abiding citizen |