It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK BBITAIN luu protected to Franco Um Mitel of recent basab explosions aboard cargo .ewl. fa Spwiteh pert*, attributed to Um Gestapo and Falange* Ambassador...
...fa Spwiteh pert*, attributed to Um Gestapo and Falange* Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, who has boon attacked as pro-Franco, got mad when at a party Franco remarked that all Free Frenchmen are Communists...
...He writes that Willkie is really a New Deal Democrat, "inoculated with the same philosophy of internationalism that the New Deal is preparing to force upon us after we have won the war...
...he says he was offered a bribe if he would switch the votes of his delegation to Willkie on the second ballot...
...Willkie "has been, can be, and is sll things to all men____" Mr...
...The reactionary Republicans started to exploit Sparks and his book to smear Willkie, but evidently decided to go slow, for fear of smearing the entire Republican party as well...
...Perhaps the purpose is to warn Nazis, Junkers, and German generals of their fate if they try to oust Hitler...
...It opposes any extension of the present Italian government's authority until the demccrstic parties "are enabled to participate directly in the government...
...The bogey of French Communismus being raised...
...In his book Spsrks alleges that Willkie, backed by the House of Morgan, got the nomination in 1940 by a well-planned build up, by the expenditure of "roomfuls of cash," by having public utilities companies and bankers put pressure on delegates, and by sll the tricks known to political machines, familiar at sll conventions of the major parties...
...The vole v-r>n preceded by a hot denunciation of organized labor by Senator Josiah Bailey (Dent , X. C.) in which he cited the C.I.O...
...Sign the Right ALP Petitions ¦JpilK Liberal and Labor Committee to Safeguard the American i.abor Party is busily campaigning tor signatures on the regular party primary petitions...
...The society strongly urged that Italian prisoners of war in the United States, after segregation of fascists, should be allowed to volunteer in units under Italian-American officers for service in Italy...
...The Mazzini Society is against any oath or insignia in the army that indicates allegiance tc the House of Savoy...
...Look at the following line-up, and you can't go wrong...
...The Communists railed for sabotage and for revolt, attacked the liberal republican Spanish government-in-ex lie recently formed in Mexico City, and railed for • "united.front" of their own...
...Count Ciano, Marshal de Bono, and three other fascist leaders have been executed by the Nazis for voting in the Fascist Grand Council to oust Mussolini...
...Hey, Sumner...
...Each one bears the names of a Committee on Vavancies...
...Robert D. Murphy, Ambassador at Large, explained why he dealt witk Vichyites, he said, "When you're working inside a cage with a tiger yoar technique has to be quite different than that of the independent critic who is standing safely outside...
...Senate Votes #0 fere* Uniont To File Finance Reports . . . A coaHtioa of reactionary Republicans and Democrats in the Senate voted to compel unions to file financial reports with the U. S. Treasury...
...Vice-President Wallace told southern governors that the Federal Government must break the monopoly power of the New York money market if the South is to achieve xonenrie eanslity with fl§ Northeastern states...
...to $3,887,874,006 to date...
...Willkie's wisecrack about campaign oratory, says Sparks, "implies that anything he says at any time is campaign oratory—not to be taken seriously...
...The aU^tg Ce„ of New York, was fined (3.500 for selling the Army easterile bandages...
...The Sparks-Hopkins-WlllfcJa Episode . . . C. Nemon Spsrks, author of One Man —Wendell Willkie, and former mayor of Akron, Ohio, gave to the press a photostat of a letter which he Hlleges was written by Harry Hopkins...
...Alarm is expressed over recent developments in Italy, particularly the extension of the authority of the Ba-deglfo government to Sicily, Calabria, and I.ucania before the abdication of King Emmanuel and the formation of a new democratic government, and other moves which aid the King's faction...
...The United States shipped (338 million worth of goods to Russia in November...
...Mayor La Guardia of New York whitewashed Patrolman James Drew, accused of having associations witk fssehrtl, anti-Semites, Negro haters, and labor baiters...
...Miscellany...
...These committees are, of course, different for each county...
...One of the fundamental questions, although Starobin only hints st it, is whether the western democracies will continue to capitulate to Russian and Comintern pressure for the sake of "collaboration...
...Prisoners of war who desire to join such units should be granted facilities to do so...
...This brings the total of lend-lease exports to the U.S.S.R...
...Political Action Committee as making a contribution toward a political campaign "to take charge of this country...
...Nineteen other fascists were convicted...
...Despite past antipathy, or suspicion of...
...Mazis boast that the tws American generals chosen to lead the coming invasion, Eisenhower and : pasts, have names indicating German origin...
...it recommends that "Italian volunteers should be allowed to organize under officers whose devotion V the cause of democracy is beyond doubt...
...General de Gaulle, on the part of Churchill and Roosevelt, progress has been made toward understanding among the three The French Committee for National Liberation is completing plans for the establishment of a free democratic government after liberation...
...In Queens Qcunty, you will find these names: en Davidson, Mark Starr, and James O'Meara...
...In Bronx County, be sure you find thesa names: Metthew M. Levy, Israel H. Goldberg, and Isidore Nagler...
...At the bottom lie some fudamental questions...
...Further, "All the freedom of expression, of political organization, of assembly, of speech and press, that Is compatible with' military security, should be given to the people tf liberated provinces of Italy...
...Joseph Starobin, writing in the Daily Worker, and quoting Klorimond Bonte, French Communist leader, reveals that the demand for arms for the French underground comes primarily from the Communists who lead important sections of the Partisans, called "Franc Tireurs...
...Jhis is a legal requirement...
...Willkie nominated by the Republicans...
...French Comsissiifi Demaad Arm...
...The Lebanese Government, which won- its independence from France recently, has now demanded a seat at the peace conference...
...Sicilian Fascists Sentenced . . . Thirteen fascists were found guilty by sn Allied court of plotting the revival of fascism in Sicily...
...The anti-communist French circles sre getting their inspirstion from London and Wsshington, he says, blaming the American State Department particularly...
...It warns the registered members that there is one sure way to spot the petitions that stand for preserving and expanding the organizatioii...
...Harold Denny predicts that Portugal will be a full-fledged ally of the United Nations before the last shot is fired, to get a seat at the peace conference...
...One will be executed, others sentenced to jail for one to twelve years...
...The Soviet Government and the Communist-led Spanish underground Council of the National Union Isst week Mmultaneounly denounced the Fianco regime ait an ally of the Axis...
...The Social Security Board endorsed health ia-sursnce in our social security program...
...Sparks was campaign manager for Frank E. Gannett...
...Sumner Welles proposed: ". . . Every nation which becomes a member cf the [postwar] international organization to be set up should be obligated, ss a condition ot its adherence, to show that its citixens are guaranteed . . . freedom of religion, of speech and of information...
...He says the Psn-Slavic movement in Bulgaria is growing, and plans s Slav federation with Yugoslavia under Tito as a member, working closely with Moscow...
...Bonte accuses "a bloc of political figures, in and around the French Committee of Liberation, many of them Giraudists, and perhaps some old-guard Socialists, who do not want to see the "Franc Tireurs armed or expanded into a national force," to become the nucleus of the national army when France is liberated...
...Yes, Adolf, and they will command boys of German ancestry, plenty of them, as well as of Italian, French, Hungarian, and even Japanese ancestry.—all very good soldiers...
...If you live in New York County, sign the petition with the following names at the top of the list: Alex Rose, George S. Counts, and Dean Alfange...
...Don't you knew that this would be interfering in the internal affairs of our great ally, Soviet Russia...
...Hayes replied heatedly that this is Nasi propaganda...
...Sparks charges that as a lawyer for public utilities corporations, Willkie "devoted his superlative talents to pie-venting poor unfortunate people who had lost their eyes, arms, or legs from wringing a just competence from his employing corporation...
...Pan-Slavism la laffcans...
...Hopkins brands the letter as a forgery, and Umphrey Lee, a Texas educator to whom the letter is addressed, says he never received it...
...This, states Starobin, is the real issue over which a battle has been wsged for months past in the French Committee...
...Hence Roosevelt, if he can't get a fourth term for himself, wants to see Willkie elected...
...The petitions bearing the names of these members stand "for keeping the American -abor Party as a genuins organ of trade unionists and liberals, free from Communist control or any other sort of outside control...
...Tfce Moirmi Society Recommends .. . The beard of directors of the Mazzini Society of the U.S.A...
...It is reported last about 1,600 of Franco's Blue Division remain in the German Army fighting on the Russian front...
...Sic Transit...
...This purports to prove that the Administrs-tion Democrats sre seeking to get Mr...
...This will also apply to cooperatives and other non-profit-making organizations...
...Donald M Noises denounced American fascists, and pressure groups whs seek big profits or promote strikes for selfish advantage at the expense of the whole nation in wartime...
...Senators Champ Clark and Robert LaFollette led opposition to the proposed law, declaring >at it would lead to taxing unions and cooperatives...
...Sparks has angrily refused to turn the original over to the FBI for Investigation by experts in handwriting, typewriting, paper, etc...
...The Communist Party of Bulgaria, underground, has grown rapidly in recent months, A. C. Sedwick of the New York Times reports, and each Red Army victory strengthens the swing towsrd Russia, away from Germany...
...has submitted to the United States Government a memo radum in behalf of the Italian democratic parties...
...The latter were told that they were fortunate to be tried in a democratic rather than a fascist court...
...If you are in King's County, look for these names: Abraham Roth, Andrew R. Armstrong, and Benjamin Brenner...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 4
