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Joseph Lash — Part 5
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é wuld" ike wefan « ue Fa?
; ict, as it is or course innosstole to Have anvin! “ve
Gove Panent in exile... He woud esi: peorle Like Friedrich and Un nlich.
_he even trusts jolfers(though ne knows that r rohit "they are in —
op osite tanns) as ne believes Nolfers wow eo never -be én- intricucnt, while |
che knows thet Staudincer hei -nended in Dat reports about. the agen an
troup (to'tae 0 0/1) while ‘’>parently Le- “was” fri -endiv with “thems 2 ede
All tals harpened after T-had seen JLoewe just a fen: a
notirs before and hac svent-2- ‘Loag “tine distussing Steudincer, Loewe ;
“insists thot he is conrletely trustworthy and. tiatchis. mistekes are due
“onl: to a rather undi scinl ined temperament, Loewe is ready to swear that _
Staudinger nas no desire waetsoever to teke over -the New School, In « hece J
tel othe orth: hag ane Tiiwich, however, I cot Worried as obviously Staudinger
seers now to be the recognised leager of their EYOUP. | .Probably in the same
Way .@s°in germany, when he was Staatssecretuer ang Loewe anc urs. Staudinger
told him “what to Go. _
wee ar The situstion secs to be” this BS 29 Hagen. Locue, Staud-
. “inzex hE toa less dezree Pollock are int tellectuals who all their lives have
-been professers an3 have not been of any Lele in 1923 and are probly not to
ve uped politically in the couning Germany--or Europe, or if one uses them ~
- they mist not be in leading nositions. They must stay professors or let
“others tell, tnem what to do . Staudinrer..wn> is politically active is bound
by loyalty to the socialdenocrets and. “by teaperament opnosed to Russia. —
Tillich wno is above’ ‘these considerations must “be” ‘toughened and shown that
it is his duty. to break: £hYough ‘considerations of. Nyhat one does*=-"xhat
con beharitul in the eyes of Americans" etc, “He ust, for instance be
convinced that it is importent forhin to work with ‘the Free Worl
. peonle., even if Staud inger warns him against it. =In the past Tillich las
ely rs said tnat he will.cone if Staudinger comes, — -
; To Loew, Staudinger and a little to ‘Ppollock(Itm not sure
“about: Ghat). Hagen is a revolutionary, a mn o=.radical political action
who ‘is marked ‘and will always.be. rejected “by: “the "right people, more-
over a man 10D. Abt yeocials Sémocrats hate with an-“inplacable hatred ani _ ee
“who 3 the St has been known not to have ‘been guided by the same princ= arn
“doles ‘As decent ‘people, They will call hin an opportunist, because they
_ know tut he has loyalty to one ease only the kind of society he ae
- wants to build wnatever the costs. They know that he will not feel any
‘personal loyalty if a compromist of his beliefs is involved. - And a
“Staudinger knows, taat Hazen. detests the Bocialdemocrats even if he bas :
a ' to work “with them. -Loewe reiterated what he had said in Washingtone | “that |
“to work with Hagen does not mean.to, work with an individual but with a
“group, and that | he, has.to>be considered as a conmunist.e 2. ce
~ giants -Can one. work with both’ groups? -Is it possible ‘to
“understand dota ‘and to -try and ‘combine the positive elements of. doth? —
And can sone ‘one as inexperienced as I do it? ~ ae
° NO Hagen by the way reported, that Treviranus it fintshe
ea, that apparently he had not been able to deliver the goods and had .
__ been dropped br the State department and is now trying desperately to have. 2
“hsi visa extended, with no success so far, ~~. >
- |,, Hagens group will have a dinner An Washington at ‘which. aS
"Phil. ‘\urray will speak, and which Molly 4s arranging, . Molly did ‘pot ‘tell
me about At, = never. knew Bagen was in touch with her, | At promises ‘tobe
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