TRENDS: Ideas in action; events as they reflect social tendencies
Oak, Lislon M.
TRENDS: Ideas in action; events as they effect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Victors Punish Vanquished NO one will deny that the convicted war criminal* deserve t h e punishment meted " "...
...One...
...T h e p r o c e d u r e a t t h e i r t r i a l was more nearly in • . T the t r a d i t i o n s 'of Anglo-American jurisprudence than the procedure in other t r i a l s of war c r i m i n a l s . They got a fair t r i a l , insofar as it was 'possible...
...ef Soviet citizens now i n displaced persons camps in American and British zones in A u s t r i a to S o u t h America...
...Never in the history cjf any nation were t h e r e so many nat i o n a l s who refused to be r e p a t r i a t e d; mute evidence of something r o t t e n in the p r o l e t a r i a n p a r a d i s e. * . * * • Thousands of German prisoners of w a r went on a sit-down s t r i k e in Italy, demanding t h a t they be sent home...
...Wladysl'sw Koj l e r , member of t h e executive committee ol the p a r t y; Major Sokolowsi, Boleslaw So biersk, member of t h e National Council...
...Demonstrations in t h e Nethej lands a g a i n s t shipment of military ctmseriptl to Indonesia have t a k en place...
...Yjissoslavia, yke Russia and every other nation, maintains art information service i n ' t h e USA which freely spreads Communist propaganda, lt.it mil even official documents issued by t h e U S S t a t e Dep a r t m e n t can be d i s t r i b u t e d in Russia and her satellites...
...TTtyy were told t h a t they would be r e p a t r i a t ed a s soon as conditions permit...
...Franco declared that "Onlv*\two ^countries know where they are going— Spain and Russia...
...J a p an was devastated by war, but is making r a p i d strides toward lecovcry...
...is s t r u c k by the- ' e n i g m a of a happy ronrjuered people and a n unhappy libera t e d people...
...But if you'll send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope, I'll let you in on the top secret...
...Moscow demands their1 - r e p a t r i a t i o n , but thet* t h o u s a n d s do not want to go back to slave labdr camps...
...l u n a cy G a d z a l a ; Edmund Wnk...
...two p e a s a n t s were burned to djrath, one*dtrd from a heart attack an I one went insane...
...This is f u r t h er evidence, to Pravda, i/f the greed ot "American imperialists...
...H e stressed the importance of a special .secret pgljce force under the Khan's direction, of a huge corps of forced ' llir.or...
...Tfcw IrOll/^The closing the United C u r t a i n States Information Service in Belgrade because t h e US protest to Tito over the killing of American airmen was d i s t r i b u t e d to newsp a p e r s there exemplifies the contrast between two systems, and the absence •Of reciprocity between them...
...Iran charged, and B r i t a i n denied, t h a t the revolt of southern tribes a P e r s i a was e n g i n e e r e d by B r i t i s h agents, j u s t as t h e r e v o l t in northern I r a n wss organized by Russia...
...But t he assumption t h a t r e t r o a c t i v e international law c a n be t h u s created by t h e victors, which will serve a s a d e t e r r e n t to f u t u r e a g g r e s s o r s , is f a l s e . ' . The Irony of t h e s i t u a t i o n is t h a t some of t h e prosecutors came into c o u r i with unclean hands—hardly less guilty than (Joering...
...Of such arc* t he ' k i n g d om of t h e Soviet quislings Ptavda accused the USA of plann i n g to ship "scores of thousands...
...and Franciszek Lazowski...
...Will the sentences of death given 12 Nazis r e s t r a i n Stalin from p u r s u i n g lira i m p e r i a l i s t ambitions...
...Without the iron curtain no t o t a l i t a r i a n tyranny could long survive, •H No one advocates closing the propaganda agencies of Tito and Stalin in America...
...According to Poles witf have recently a r r i v e d in London, deportations of young Poles t p the forced labor rampa of Russia have increased lately, and new proscription lists are being r i e p a r e d. On May 2 the village of Wawoln-ca, was burned tp t h e g r o u n d by the s e c u r i ty police from Pulawy, becatisV it was a legions) center of \ h e Peasant Party...
...slavery...
...Over 100 homes were destroyed...
...V • The Comintern is dissolved...
...Korea was undamaged, but it is divided into t wo non-cooperating zones and is making no p r o g r e s s . The reason, he t h i n k s , is t h at MaeArWur is unhampered by e i t h e r t he Russians or by Washington...
...T h i s gave the rank-and-file soljliris ever new opportunities for loot...
...To call- t h i s "two kinds of freedom of t h e p r e s s , " or "twd varieties of democr a c y " is i r r i t a t i n g nonsense...
...The s e c u r i t y police /tried to force t h e villagers bo sign * deposition s a y i n g > t h a t t h e atrocity had been committed by b a n d i t s from the f o r e s t s . Other villages have also been~burned, as, well as many farmhouses belonging to meuibtra oj t he PSL...
...THIS PEACE-TORnr WORLD • Richard J. H. Johnson of the NY Timt* reports that after a year in Korea, J a p a n looks good to him...
...The continual prospect of successful war distracted" a t t e n t i o n from the inner contradictions if the regime and t h e growing power o f A h e i r ^ w n a r i s t o c r a c y , " Ktselev wrote...
...Negotiations ) between Russia and Swedes on a t r a d e agreement are not going 'well...
...but it h a s a new l e t t e r h e a d , on which Jacques D u d e s , who told the American CP to change its line, is g i v i n g directions to other branches of t h e ' T h i r d Internat i o n a l . Copies ot letters have been seized by Allied intelligence men in Europe...
...Atrocities Among othu well-known III Pol e n d leaders of the Polish Peas' . ant P a r t y murdered recently by t h e Russian-PuiWh secrefxpolice a r e the following: NatJ?y^ Wiatrf who was a famous commander o f the P e a s a nt B a t t a l i o n fighting the N a , . - in southern Poland...
...Duclos tells other Communist leaders What to think...
...They are going .« a e t i a i g h t line a n d thf» others a r e following a zigzag course...
...Monopoly CQDSI trade rights wttk Russia in ' Italy and Romania if the decisions of...
...He quotes^ Genghjs Khan as saying, " F u t u r e generations of our race will wear gold-embroidered clothes, eat f a t s artd sweet foods, ndc fine horses, a n d ^ h o l d in their aims beautiful women...
...Incidentally, neither the American protest nor Tjto/s insulting "apology" have ever been prHfteil m Yugoslavian p a p e r s . Tito welcomes supplies of food j n d "machinery through UNRRA, 71 percent of which comes from America, b u t he does not welcome facts .which would weaken his dictatorship...
...events as they effect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Victors Punish Vanquished NO one will deny that the convicted war criminal* deserve t h e punishment meted " " , to t h em a t Nuremberg...
...Sweden fears the USA will not deliver goods to reexported to Russia," nor extend c r e d i t s for the benefits of the Russians...
...S t a t e monopolies should be ''exempted from 1 he inost-favored-nation clause, t he Soviets argued, seeking the same s t a te monopoly of trade throughout Eastern E u r o p e as exists in the USSR...
...Will any warmonger be d e t e r r e d? Before there can be genuine international, law, respected by sll nations and individuals, t h e r e must be a world government capable of <ufoic ng such l aw of punishing nil a g g r e s s o r s. But perhaps the g r e a t e s t danger in t h a i {these Nazis may become martyrs...
...History Repeats Itself Soviet h i s t o r i a n s afe tjeeply interested in the period of 200 y e a r s when Russ.'a was s u b j u g a t e d by tbe Mongols...
...F r e e Trod* The Wast will have Vs...
...t o t a l i t a r i a n i s m , freedom vs...
...The Soviet pr iposal which would havr established trade monopolies and given Russ i a alone the "most-favored-nation" s t a t u s was defeated ."I to 6. Russia wanted bilateral rather than multilateral agreements with Halkan states...
...The rebellion il continuing...
...to a lot of German", thirsting for revenge...
...Another leature -of the Mongol d i c t a t o r s h i p which it, reminiscent of our times is ih...
...it is d o . mocracy vs...
...even though we hate Communism, we want to know the f a c t s ; t he American press has never failed to/print every speech Stalin has made, and at least excei p t s from every important at- . tack of the Soviet press on America a nd Britain...
...Kiselev a t t r i b u t e d the K n a n ' s victories over more civilized peoples to h i s s u p e r i or military and administrative organization...
...A book by V. T a n on (ihttigkn Khmn won • Stalin award...
...And Sehaeht, von Pa pen, and a t h o u s a n d other Germans, whose guilt was, c e r t a i n l y a s g r e a t as that of Vichyite coll a b o r a t o r s PeCain and Lava), a r e not punished...
...technique of mass d e p o r t a t i o n s aB a paeans ot suppressing revolt...
...In a preface to it 8. V. Kiselev gave an outline of t he methods by which Genghis Khan molded the E m p i r e into one cohesive bloc and ended i n t e r n a l fighting between Its u n i t s . "To put a n end to t h e g r o w i n g flame • f revolt and s t r e n g t h e n its a u t h o r i t y, t h e Mongol a r i s t o c r a c y had recourse to p e r p e t u a l ws*rs a g a i n s t their neighbors...
...the dele* gates at (Paris' are carried out...
...The n»» R u m a n i a Minister to Washington, Michael Ralea, was once a close friend of Tin Robert Ley, ex-Nazi, lebor front leader, and Ralea led Nazi parades in Rumania...
...you would never guess, of course, Who tells Jacques...
...This will tend t o undermine respect for the new international law *>gamst w a r - m a k e r s . The only r e a l lesson potential <•• actual a g g r e s s o r s will learn is—make sure . o f victory...
Vol. 29 • October 1946 • No. 40
