Culture Hits Chicago

And finally, just a few newspaper clippings:

"The accidental shooting of 15-year-old Stanley Fox has uncovered a blood-shedding vendetta between juvenile gangs in New York City slums. . . . Police say that teenagers follow the example of gangster movies and comics and have regular 'gun-girls' who join the gangs to seek excitement." (Southern Cross, 15/3/49).

"A crowd of 8,000 watched as the police set fire to a young negro's home in Chicago last night and killed him with sub-machine-gun fire as he tried to leave the burning building." (Evening Post, 20/8/49.)

"The chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission told the House Appropriations Committee today that the U.S. was making better atomic bombs and making them faster than ever before." (Evening Post, 13/4/49).

That is the "culture" we are going to defend, against that represented by Mr. -Ehrenburg and his barbarian fellow-countrymen. Anyway, it Is certain that we can't defend the culture of G. M. Trevelyan, Olaf Stapledon, Paul Robeson, Sir John Boyd Orr, Prof. Lucien Cornil, Picasso, the Dean of Canterbury, J. G. Crowther. ex-President Cardenas Dr. Gabriel d'Arboussler, Howard Fast. Father Dozza, Bishop Bereczki, James Endfcott, Prof, Cosyns, General Cordon, Pablo Neruda and the Victoria College Students' Association. These horrible monsters support peace and co-operation with Soviet Russia. They had the impudence to support the so-called "commo-dominated'' Paris Peace Congress. Doubtless we will find a place for them in our tomorrow. In concentration camps, perhaps.

—C.B.