Washington and the Nation
STOUT, JONATHAN
Washington and the Nation food Shortages Planned By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D, C.—As OPA offlcisls emerge fr(M,i the hearing room where the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee has been conducting...
...it would take more vigorous action action black fellow-traveling Thomas I. Emerson, OPA enfmrennt chief, tried to defend...
...Ai patriotic citizens, they refused to become accoro-fkjm in the breaking of the law...
...instead, they sat awn and wrote a report of the incident and sent it s tie ???.' ' A week later they received a letter from the...
...In the case of Russia, too, the start of the war found her on the side of Hitler...
...The atory ia told ¦ ta book / Saw It Happen in Norway by Carl taaWe, president of the Norwegian Parliament and psjilaiit of the Assembly of the League of Nationa, tank: "Whan Dr...
...He contacted aome of 72*!Mt leaders in the Labor Party and to organize Red Guards and pave the road to ltal revolution...
...one can reach a shining hit of truth, ii'it siaiply that no black market of any importance can exist without the participation and connivance of the meat packera...
...Nansena A.D.C., Mr...
...In his person, he has become the rallying point of the friends of Italian democracy...
...Another question: Administration leaders have been hi tile and energetic in inventing schemes, rampaigna uid propaganda for the enactment of the labor Draft ML Why haven't they been equally fertile and ener-fstk In Applying—not force—but only the letter of as law as it exists, to make the meat packers con-«uct an honest business and get out of the blsck sarhetf Personally, I'm getting tired of boloney...
...Mr...
...His Red sympathies were se well-known that when Dr, Nansen worked for his big international scheme to help the Armeninns and got the financial support of various countries, Englnnd and France were not willing to cooperate...
...e e Italians Auk ftt-c+f aHUrn LuiGI ANTONINI, president of the Italian-American Labor Council, demonstrated in Washington this week that Americans of Italian descent look to him for leadership...
...knows this...
...So, obviously, it aast be a "gross exaggeration...
...Quisling, was so Red that any aid given would be playing the game of the Bolsheviks...
...Topping it all was the overwhelming sentiment in the Senate and the House elicited by Antoninie efforts in favor of inviting Italy to the San Francisco Conference and for accepting Italy as a full ally and member of the United Nationa...
...Raymond E. Murphy, special assistant to Dunn...
...This mofed Wheeler, in one turbulent session this week, to tolsrs that there wan "something crooked" in...
...Still another ex-aeflt comes to light in the case of Vidkun Quisling, •tae name has become an epithet...
...And it was most significant that the State Department, which has been careful heretofore to remain aloof from such affairs, wax represented by its most important delegation of officials...
...Every Italian-American organization in Ihr United State*, with the exception of the Communist*, rallied to the tupport of Antonini'* propotal...
...If they've done nothing else, Wherry and Wheeler kin demonstrated that almost nobody knows less ileut tM black market in meat than the...
...Clarence Streit commented, "1 find a deadly virus in the Yalta milk . . . poison both to democracy and peace...
...Quisling married a Russian lady while in Moscow...
...Jones is scheduled to leave ahortly to join the American Embassy staff in Rome...
...and one of the reasons privately given was that Dr...
...official' bad telephoned ? black marketeer and asked him if it is true he is (inducting a black market...
...Antonini sent out a call for a dinner meeting in Washington's Hotel Mayflower to press the plea that the new democratic Italy's 18 months of faithful service in fighting the Nazis on our side should finally be recognized by inviting Italy to send official ob-servers to the San Francisco Conference and by initiating immediate steps to accept Italy as a full ally and member of the United Nations...
...The black marketeer, the OfA reported, said it wasn't true...
...hsre some personal intimate knowledge of how...
...And the fact ia that between Senaters Wherry of Nebraska and Wheeler of Konts!*, the OPA onViala have been sweating...
...iformmg them that an...
...J. Wesley Jones, chief of the Stste Department's Italian Desk, and the letter's staff...
...The best question of the weak is: Why hasn't OPA atruck at the heart of the Mack market meat business...
...Antonini has done the cause of democratic Italy immeasurable good...
...Nansen traveled in Russia as High Com-aanoaar for refugees and was fighting the great 'tase, Mr...
...on the witness stand i,r telling the committee that reports that a high parentage of the meat sold in Washington came (arteli illegal channels was a "gross exaggeration...
...conducts its enforcement under Emerson...
...a » · tsnfiee One* ¦ "iter The kinship between Communists, Nazis and Fascitis sf keen demonstrated thousands of times by the many ¦narnent eases in which Communists have become tak) and Fascists, and vice versa...
...Quisling, having previously represented *· International Relief Committee, acted aa his aecre-l*T from 1924 to 1926...
...Washington and the Nation food Shortages Planned By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D, C.—As OPA offlcisls emerge fr(M,i the hearing room where the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee has been conducting its investigation of food shortages, they look as if they've L toee front ? Turkish both...
...Also, it is obvious that...
...Later he was Attach* at the Nwwegisn Legation in Moscow, looking after the internata then entrusted to Norway...
...Two Irwnd* of mine were offered both beef and chicken at bims far over the ceiling and without ration points...
...Then, just aa Italy did, Russin switched over to the other side and fought the Nasi...
...Aa pointed out in one intimate conversation, such acceptance of Italy as a full ally and member of the United Nations would merely be following the precedent established by Russin...
...He did not inspire the neceasary t***«ce and was turned down...
...The second item of interest was the response from Capitol Hill and the State Department...
...Bft there is one more angle to this black market meat basinex.* that has not been accented at the Senile hearings Cleaving through all the ob-nrnrrty of charge and counter-charge in the in-restigation...
...f George Bernard Shaw said of the Yalta declaration that it is "the moat impudently incredible fairy tale that has ever amused and kept quiet the pack of children we politically are...
...H. R. Knickerbocker aaid, "Yalta is another Munich, and a victory for Stalin...
...He came tan a full-fledged Bolshevik...
...Secretary of State Stettinius sent as his representative Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson, supported by Assistant Secretary James Clement Dunn, in charge of political affairs for Europe...
...With two other important dinners being held the same night, with the town full of United Nations delegates being entertained on every side, and with most of Congress out of town because of the legislative recess, ?? outstanding Senators and Congressmen came to the Mayflower Hotel to take part in the discussion of the present and future status of democratic Italy in the world community...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 15
