It Happened Last Week

OAK, LISTON M.

It Happened Last Week By LISTON M.OAK King Peter Attempts to Form Hew Yugoslavian Gov't The youthful King Peter of Yugoslavia announced in London that General Mikhailovitrh has been removed...

...In all three countries guilt rests not with the people but with autocratic regimes—and to a large extent with the governments of ^he great powers, which, because of the policy of nonintervention, tolerated and even encouraged those regimes that were bound up with the Nasi...
...The meat packers want to scrap the OPA, and go bark to the prewar system of supply and demand, so that they can make even higher profits...
...Revisions of the Communications Act proposed by Senator Wheeler would forbid commercial sponsorship of news broadcasts and radio commentators...
...Of course, veterans who are du...
...these programs would be put on a sustaining basis...
...Peter denied report* that he had dismissed the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bozidar Pouritch and had asked either Dr...
...Ivan Subasitrh of General Simovitrh to form a government...
...ill Oppose* Spa—rioa of News Broadcasts...
...On this page a couple of week* ago 1 inadvertently used the word "Jesuitical" aa a synonym for "Machiavellian" in describing Browder...
...A poll of veteran* of this war conducted by Iran Age revealed that 73 per cent "vehemently" demand job preference after the...
...Nazis have blocked the rescue of 1.350 Jewish children in Bucharest whose parent* were murdered, by refusing safe conduct for a Turkish ship...
...Recent changes in La Paz, it is said, show a turning away from the Axis...
...Moeorcbits...
...Chat let A. Do ula, formtr Rumanian Minister to the Vnittd Slate$ » • ' • Cherchlll far Commeaism...
...Boshiloff had made the overtures to Moscow...
...awlahoilovifth •ed> tee America* Pre** . . . General Mlkhailovitch has again issued an invitation te the American press to send correspondents to Yugoslavia so that they can discover for themselves the truth about (he tangled situation there and report it to the American people...
...It is special, privilege legislation...
...If a new government is formed, it will be the fifth since Yugoslavia was invaded in 1941...
...Masalovich and Secretary of State Georgevich, Sokitch challenges Tito's propagandists to name any Quislings killed by the- Partisans...
...Ohtce of Price 4dmi»J.tratioe At let see* . . . In an attack on the whole rationing system, the American Meat Institute, organisation of the big meat packers, urged that beef be made point-free...
...No such appraisals are conducive to a lasting peace...
...Large numbers of young Jewesses have been sent to slave labor in Germany or to the eastern front for the amusement of German officers...
...One statement is unquestionably true— that "the war has become less ideological in character...
...Their situation is desperate...
...Are the American people 'guilty' of American isolationism ? No appraisal of the 'guilt* of confused, uninformed, bewildered peoples makes real sense...
...He said "Tretokyist Communism" has vanished in Russia...
...Itritsin and Russia are disposed to extend full recognition to the French Committee for National Liberation as the government of France, but Washington apparently still blocks such a change of policy...
...The Supreme Court upheld the right of the OPA to issue suspension orders withholding supplies of rationed goods from dealers who violate OPA regulations...
...Churchill favors Communism in Yugoslavia, Monarchists in Greece, Democracy in Italy, and Fascism in Spain...
...He has acted as interpreter for Talbot Sokitch added the following information: There are 4!t 'American and 6 British aviators now at Mikhailoviteh's headquarters who were saved by the Chetniks at the cost of 3f killed and 76 wounded soldiers...
...Resale Rejects Belaariae Bid for Territory . .. Mseeew has refused to promise Bulgaria continued possession of Macedonia and Thrace after the war, though such a pledge might have aroused the Bulgarian* to revolution against the Nasi...
...he continued executing Serbs and 10,000 Jews in concentration camps in Krusica, Jasenovac and Koprivnka, among them children...
...another poppet, Kalfoff, pro-Nazi, replaced hist...
...The CIO accused the NLRB of "retreating from the principle* of the Wagner Act" particularly assailing Gerard Reilly...
...Last week 79 Germans and Japanese were deported...
...This caused the resignation of the Quisling Premier Boshiloff...
...He will remain aa Commander-in-Chief of the Yugoslavian Army...
...he will find very desperate economic and military problems which the Chinese hope America may help them to solve...
...He is a cousin of one of Tito's Cabinet Ministers, and he is violently prejudiced...
...Elmer Davis sppesled to advertisers to refrsin from commercial exploitation of "D-Day" and the invasion of Europe...
...Macedonia, Thrace end Dobruja were given Bulgaria by Hitler as a reward for aid, and at the expense of Greece and Yugoslavia...
...They (the people) are disarmed, and if 1 they revolt, as I ardently hope, it will be a very heroic action indeed...
...Are the Balkan People* Guilty ? . . . "The Rumanians, Bulgarians, and Hungarians are victims of fascist governments supported by the German army...
...Veterans' Raid on Treasury . . . A poor pension bill has passed the House of Representatives, providing pensions to widows and children of veterans of World War I without any proof that the veteran died from causes connected with the war...
...Iceland has dissolved its 563-year political tie to Denmark, and is now independent...
...Filipovich went over to Tito's side with 3,000 of the Ustashi troops who had slaughtered these Serbs and Jews...
...the Quisling PavoliCh then took Filipovich into his government and made him Minister of Police in Zagreb...
...Jews ia Hungary ia Desperate Plight . . . From the headquarter* of General Mikhailovitrh in "the woods and mountain* of Yugoslavia" comes the following cable: . "Reliable information from our intelligence agent in Hungary report* that the quarter of the Hungarian capital called 'Little Budapeat' has been made into a ghetto for all Budapest Jews, nearly all of whom have been arrested...
...Listing Yugoslavian Quislings who have been assassinated by Chetniks, particularly Col...
...Had the attitude toward Carol's fascist regime been what it is today toward the Argentine Government, democracy would have been saved in Rumania...
...This seemed to indicate the impossibility of uniting the two factions in one government...
...Many Jews committed suicide...
...bled by either World I or II, and their dependent!, should be eared for adequately—but there should be no general raid en the public treasury by veteran* who suffered no disability in the war...
...Roosevelt forces, defeated at the Texas convention of the Democratic Party, bolted and organized a rump convention...
...Recognition of Bolivia Looms . . . Ambassador Avra Warren returned to Washington from Bolivia with a recommendation, it is rumored, that the government of that country be recognized...
...and Rumania might' not be now in the German camp...
...In plain words—the idealism of yesterday has been supplanted by hard-boiled power politics...
...He pointed out that John Talbot and Stoyan Pribicevich, who have been called representatives of the entire British and American press in Yugoslavia, have not been objective end unbiased reporters...
...When Henry A. Wallace gets to China, he will find that an egg cost* S5<, a pound of bread $4...
...it will be the basis of a Pan-Hellenic coalition under Premier Papandreau, to include Communists...
...It Happened Last Week By LISTON M.OAK King Peter Attempts to Form Hew Yugoslavian Gov't The youthful King Peter of Yugoslavia announced in London that General Mikhailovitrh has been removed aa Minister of War...
...He also asks why Tito has taken into his ranks Col...
...This man was reported to the Interallied Committee for War Crimes in London for these crimes: In 1941 Filipovich led the Croat ion Ustashi in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the massacre of 260,000 anti-Nazi Serbs...
...Are the British people 'guilty' of Chamberlain's appeasement...
...Bernard Barueh said thst the U.S.A...
...Sokitch urged that unprejudiced American journalists be sent to investigate the facts, and asked that the American people should not condemn before they have the truth about Mikhailovitch and the Partisans...
...Pribicevich wrote stories favoring Tito and attacking Mikhailovitrh before he went to Yugoslavia...
...If Pribicevich is right in reporting that Mlkhailovitch is collaborating with the Nazis, why did these Chetniks die to save Allied aviator...
...Miloye M. Sokitch, chief of the Yugoslavian information bureau, appealed to the press to accept this invitation...
...Sulojman Filipovich as Minister of Forests and Mines...
...He scolded "those who think it clever or funny to insult the (Franco) Government in Spain...
...The King explained that it will be his effort to form a neutral coalition government His action was taken after long conferences with Churchill, who, it is rumored, urged the King to unite contending Yugoslavian factions in preparation for the invasion, and who favors a postwar plebiscite of the people...
...will be the most powerful postwar nation, sad can make the future whatever Americana decide...
...But Churchill asserted that Pouritch ia to be ousted...
...All Jewish property has been confiscated, and 18,000 Jewish shops have been closed...
...The Jews in the part of Yugoslavia under Hungarian occupation have been put into Jewish concentration camps in Segedin, Subotica, and Backa Palanka...
...From these camps the Jews are sent to forced labor, and 46 of them sent to Serbia were recently liberated by a detachment of Chetniks...
...He lavished praise on Tito...
...He assured us that "the Comintern has been abolished...
...It would cost • billion dollar* annually...
...J a metC G. McDonald, chairman of Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, renew* the charge that the big powers are still indifferent to the fate of Hitler's victims, "paying only lip service" to their rescue...
...Democracy, aerf Fascism...
...Free time is favored for religious, educational, and controversial political programs, assuring fairness to contending candidates for public office, and equality of opportunity to be heard...
...Forreatal says any postwar peace must be based on U. S. might . . . Delegates of all Greek anti-fascist parties signed a national charter after a four-day parley in Beirut...
...While this is hailed as an abandonment of Russian unilateralism, end reassurance of Russian unity with her allies, the rejection of Bulgaria's bid may have been dictated by Russia's relations with Yugoslavia and Greece...
...A Catholic reader chides me and I apologise____The Polish forces in Italy suffered tremendous losees at Cassino, hut Oscar Lange andJPather Orlemanski got the headline...
...Who can throw the first stone...
...Judging solely by his speech...
...Professor S. Sakimura, first Japanese official to denounce the Axis, ha* been taken back to Berlin from Stockholm...
...The day after the King's announcement, fratricidal atrife broke out anew in Yugoslavia, between the Chetniks and the Partisans, both anti-Nazi group...
...Bolivia has refused to sell quinine and rubber to Argentina...

Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 22


 
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