The New Leader Magazine – Old Magazine Articles

The Origins of ”Undocumented” Labor (The New Leader, 1951)

This article was penned in 1951 by Hank Hasiwar, a loyal New Deal Democrat and president of the National Farm Labor Union (formerly the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union). His column was written in order to express his complete and utter outrage that there were members of congress who openly worked to undermine the welfare of American workers:

U.S. Senator Clinton Anderson (D-NM) made a strenuous attempt to flood the farming areas with hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals to be brought in at great expense to the taxpayers in order to provide cheap labor for the farm owners.

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Ezra Pound of Indiana (Click Magazine, 1942)

Click Magazine‘s illustrated article about the sedition of American poet Ezra Pound is peppered throughout with assorted quotes that clearly indicate the man’s guilt. The reporter, David Brown, went to some length in explaining what an odd life decision this was for a poet with such a celebrated past – a decisions that ultimately lead to his conviction in Federal Court, followed by his twelve year incarceration in a mad house.

In an effort to understand Pound’s thinking, we have included excerpts from a Wall Street Journal book review of a 2016 Pound biography that presents the poets queer rationale.

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Charlie Chaplin Bio (New Leader Magazine, 1951)

Here is an interesting review of Charlie Chaplin, a 1951 biography:

The acting of Charlie Chaplin has enriched our lives; it has become part of our experience. Regardless of how his casual and unserious politics are interpreted, irrespective of what attitude is taken toward newspaper stories of his private life, his films have demonstrably healthy influence on audiences. All one needs to do to prove this is to sit in a theater and listen to the genuine laughter which Chaplin evokes.

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Vietminh Power Struggle? (The New Leader Magazine, 1951)

During the earliest days of 1951 many journalists and intelligence analysts in the West thought Ho Chi Minh’s prolonged absence from public view meant a coup d’état had taken place within the Viet Minh hierarchy. These same minds held that the most likely candidate to launch such a power play was Ho’s number two: Dang Xuan Khu (1907 – 1988). This article goes into some detail explaining who he was and what he’d been up to for the past forty years.

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Soviet and Nazi Rhetoric Compared (The New Leader Magazine, 1951

A carefully compiled assortment of quotes that were voiced by Stalin and Hitler (or their assorted Yes-Men). These utterances were printed with Stalin’s poisonous pronouncements in red and Hitler’s sickening soliloquies in black – both shades refer to similar topics and show an identical manner of thought that is indistinguishable from the other.

Hitler used the Bolshevik lingo more often than you might have thought…

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