THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW FOR better or for worse, the United States was embarked this week on a far-ranging program of international collaboration. A series of decisive developments in Congress marked...
...It would get entirely too complicated...
...Why is the UNRRA and the military effort so uncoordinated that 1,500 UNRRA employes should be wasting time at Granville, France, doing nothing but awaiting assignment...
...A bill is now pending to enable brides to receive divorces more easily...
...2Supplement state unemployment funds with Fed...
...The former President made it clear that the nature of peace negotiations ,on specific issues was more important for lasting peace than the instrument created at San Francisco...
...Under the Bretton Woods program, the participating United Nations would set up an International Monetary Fund whose resources would be used for currency stabilization between nations, and a Bank of Reconstruction and Development, which would loan its money on a long-term basis for the rehabilitation of war-stricken nations and the development of resources in those countries whose industrialization has been slow...
...Odor In UNRRA While the United States was thus joining important new international organizations, some members of Congress were taking stock of some of the organizations in which we have been functioning for more than a year...
...Why is it reported that the accounts of UNRRA are so "messy" that they cannot be audited ? Why do UNRRA food supplies appear in the black market in Athens ? Why were 200 tractors left on the dock in Greece for a long time when they were allegedly needed in the fields...
...Conservation...
...American soldiers and sailors married nearly 6,000 Australian girls in 3 years, but a large number of the marriages failed, it was disclosed last week...
...A charge by Sen...
...Robert Taft, Ohio Republican, led the futile fight against passage of the bill...
...The present law requires 9V2 months' service to qualify for the maximum...
...It reestablishes the World Court and provides trusteeship for dependent countries...
...Influx...
...Frankly, I think it is time the United States did a little waiting...
...Failures...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes proposed last week that the U. S. ship 6,000,000 tons of coal to Europe this year to save American and European lives...
...It stimulates the methods of peaceful settlement of controversies...
...Why are the agency's employes bonded in a British rather than in an American firm...
...Said Ball: "I am for the Bretton Woods proposals, but Taft has proved his case, and I will vote for postponement...
...Wagner, New York...
...Congressional absorption in international affairs to the exclusion of action on critical domestic issues brought growls of protest from potent labor groups...
...Names And Notes In The News Fraternization...
...We are just leaving it up to the soldiers' good sense...
...Kilgore, West Virginia...
...3Extend unemployment compensation benefits to ? Federal workers, maritime workers, agricultural processing workers, and those employed in small firms not now covered by state laws...
...Charter Approval Near This economic participation of the United States in world affairs will be matched by political collaboration as well when the Senate completes action on the San, Francisco charter...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower's order partially removing the ban on GI fraternization with Germans has caused great confusion among occupation forces who don't know the extent to which the ban remains...
...Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering appeared not to be noticing the picture, but later commented, "That's the type of film we used to show our Russian prisoners...
...Many of them, he conceded, have not yet met their obligations...
...Murray, Montana, and Pepper, Florida, introduced legislation to liberalize the nation's unemployment compensation program, but there was no indication that the Administration would press for action before the Senate quits...
...Move For Delay Fails Senate adoption of the Bretton Woods proposals came by a vote of 61 (41 Democrats, 19 Republicans, and one Progressive) to 16 (2 Democrats and 14 Republicans) . Sen...
...It sets up machinery for promotion of social and economic welfare...
...4Apply the Federal unemployment tax to employes ? of one or more, instead of 8 or more, as is required under existing Federal-state legislation...
...Everett M. Dirksen, widely respected Illinois Republican, called for a Congressional investigation of UNRRA to answer a series of questions about the agency's operations...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesserling was white as a sheet when the picture ended...
...A Chicago Sun dispatch from Berlin quoted "a top-ranking officer" as saying that "we decided not to try to define the meaning of the order...
...Pearson also intimated that the second son of the late President was indebted to Jesse Jones, and hence the latter's longevity in the Roosevelt Administration...
...What Of The Home Front...
...Taft commanded his best following on a motion to postpone action on the program until Nov...
...Congress, he said, should find out: Why is UNRRA being investigated by British intelligence ? Why does UNRRA need more than 200 persons in Washington headquarters at salaries ranging from $5,-000 to $15,000...
...Most of this he did not pay back...
...3. The Senate concurred in a House-approved bill to increase the lending power of the Export-Import Bank by $2,800,000,000, to a total of $3,500,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 will be loaned to Soviet Russia in the near future...
...More than 1,000,000 U. S. soldiers in Europe will take advantage of free educational opportunities under the new study program for occupation troops now being launched...
...The motion was rejected by a vote of 52 to 31, although it had the support of such widely ballyhooed internationalists as Sens...
...Drew Pearson, Washington gossip columnist, disclosed this week that "Congressmen who have sat in the closed-door sessions of the testimony regarding Elliot Roosevelt now have counted up a total of approximately $850,000 which he borrowed over a period of about 8 years...
...An Army survey disclosed that soldiers in general prefer to take business and commercial courses and, next in popularity, trade and allied courses and then general or academic courses...
...More than 9,000 have been approved for transport in the past few weeks, London revealed...
...Harry Byrd, Virginia Democrat, that the U. S. was paying 72 per cent of UNRRA's cost and that only 9 of the 44 nations had discharged their financial obligation to the agency, brought the lame response from Roy F. Hendrickson, acting director of UNRRA, that 31 of the 44 nations "would" contribute to operating expenses...
...Joseph Ball...
...Although passage of the required legislation was pushed on Congress as an urgent "must" some time ago, the agency, largely financed by U. S. fundst has been extraordinarily slow to go into action in Europe,partly because of faulty administration, and partly because of the barriers placed in its way by our principal allies...
...Veterans would require only 90 days' military service to qualify for a maximum of 52 weeks' benefits...
...Elliot Again...
...5Authorize the Government to pay travel allowances ? to unemployed workers referred to new jobs in another city by the United States Employment Service...
...Minnesota, and Harold Burton, Ohio, both Republicans...
...The House adjourned last weekfor an 11-weeks period without acting on reconversion legislation, and the Senate is expected to recess for the rest of the Summer when it ratifies the San Francisco charter...
...The new measure would : 1Increase unemployment benefits for veterans from ? a flat $20 a week to $25 for a single person and $30 for those with dependents...
...The total expected to enroll represents about one-half of American troops in Europe...
...Let some of the other nations put their cards on the table before we show all of ours...
...Former President Herbert Hoover, in a nationally broadcast address last week, expressed the feeling of many a thoughtful American when he urged Senate ratification of the charter as the best we can hope for now, but warned that the charter has many weaknesses and should not be expected to secure lasting peace...
...2. The Senate adopted a House-approved resolution approving U. S. membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to pool farm and market knowledge...
...Six Senate Democrats, Sens...
...The shipment would intensify the acute shortage already expected for this country, he admitted...
...eral cash to bring payments to the unemployed up to a maximum of $25 a week and extend the time of payments up to 26 weeks...
...Why are other tractors being flown to Balkan countries in American planes by American pilots at great expense ? Why have so many capable men resigned from UNRRA...
...It provides for a limited action to prevent military aggression...
...Hans Frank, Nazi boss of Poland, crammed a handkerchief in his mouth and gagged...
...British officials in Berlin are removing from their chunk of Berlin all Soviet billboards bearing Joe Stalin's quotations...
...The bill which was steamrollered through the House is designed to liberalize the loan and education sections of the veterans' benefit measure enacted last year and to overcome difficulties that have arisen in administration of the original law...
...Study...
...A series of decisive developments in Congress marked the nation's increasing involvement in world politics, bringing new responsibilities, and new commitments to underwrite with the men and money of America...
...GI Bill...
...The program will require 4,000,000 textbooks, 90,000 instructors, and 2,000 schools...
...He warned that the charter "does not recover the principles of the Atlantic Charter which were whittled away at Teheran and after Yalta...
...4. The Senate began debate on the San Francisco charter of the United Nations, with a final decision—-ratification by an overwhelming vote—scheduled for late this week or early the next...
...Julius Streicher sat on the edge of his chair, clasping and unclasping his hands...
...Reactions...
...It has been said that the United States should lead the way...
...An official spokesman said that "conservation of lumber" was the reason...
...The varying reactions of high Nazis when confronted with moving pictures of the Buchen-wald atrocity camp and other records of Nazi brutality were disclosed this week by an Army interpreter with them...
...The female population of the U. S. will be increased by 60,000 when the British wives and sweethearts of American service men reach this country...
...The House last week unanimously passed a measure liberalizing provisions of the GI Bill of Rights—known sardonically among returned service men as the "GI Bill of Gripes...
...Among the charter's principal weaknesses, he said, are its failure to provide a positive Bill of Rights for nations and men, its failure to define aggression, and its reliance in many vital matters on mere hopes, "The major strength of the charter," Hoover said, "is that it provides for continuous meetings of the nations where peace problems can be discussed...
...Guffey, Pennsylvania...
...Thomas, Utah...
...It would strengthen our position if we delay final action until after the Big 3 conference...
...Principal developments of the past week were these: 1. Final Congressional action was completed on the warmly debated Bret-ton Woods bill, which obligates the United States to invest an ultimate total of nearly $6,000,000,000 as its contribution toward an $8,100,000,000 Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and an $8,800,000,000 Monetary Fund...
...Coal...
...Last week, Rep...
...Notable among these is the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA...
...Joachim von Rib-bentrop, former Nazi foreign minister, boWed his head and went straight from the showing to the dining room...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 31
