Censorship--No

The Swiss Government last week announced the end of all wartime censorship. No ifs, no buts.

Leftwingers on the Wing

Manhattan's leftist magazines, which have small circulations but loud voices, suffered two more upheavals last week.

One editor was in; another out. These latest of many shifts were news because they served to underline the current editorial drift of the most influential of the little leftists: the Nation and the New Republic. The two sisters with one complexion are now firmly on a "my ally, right or wrong" policy towards Russia.

(Both scorn Earl Browder, but take a for giving attitude towards what the Nation calls the Soviet's "bad behavior" to small neighbors.) This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation now has a 'line' and omits whatever does not fit the 'line.' "

Louis Fischer's indictment of the Nation (circ. 37,425) echoed an indictment of the New Republic (circ. 37,253) made some weeks earlier by Contributing Editor Varian Fry, who said on resigning: "After reading your editorial [on Russia] I felt as though I wanted to vomit." Last week Fry found a dish more to his taste. He took over the editorship of Common Sense (which claims over 15,000 circulation) a splinter-leftist monthly whose special recipe for Russia includes a strong-as-curry flavor of skepticism.

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