Liberals Ask Allied Nations for Statement on Post-War Italy
EVERETT, MURRAY
Liberals Ask Allied Nations for Statement on Post-War Italy Socialist Party Leads Wide Underground Unrest By MURRAY EVERETT Special to The New Leader *<> ,. WASHINGTON, D. C—The general feeling...
...a enterprise developed by the Firestone Rubber Corporation with plantings covering 77,000 acres...
...Liberia African Negro Republic May Aid U, S. Against Axis in Dakar Developments of the war, interest Tti Dakar and Western Africa have drawn greatly increased attention to normally A-considered areas such as the Republic of Liberia...
...Lawrence Craftier, a white man disliked by the Negroes who have been doing effective work in Weaver division first ander the WPB then in WMC, demanded that the Negro Manpower Service be placed in his charge...
...of the U.S...
...The unions are irrevocably opposed to any compulsion or freezing of jobs...
...It is known that Petain and Church element* would not be averse to a royalist revival...
...But most striking in Andre Philip's speech was the systematic silence Which he observed on the subject Of the Communists, who are playing an increasingly important role in the de Gaulli movement...
...In what way will this break aid the United Nations...
...In May the Italian Socialists printed a manifesto concerning fascist preparations for a military occupation of Tunisia, Corsica, Nizza and Savoy...
...It is not generally known that this move was initiated and fought^for by Luigi Airtonini, President of the Italian-American Labor Council and first vice-president of the ILGWU...
...American buyers report that they are unable to compete with men who offer more for the diamonds than they an-worth in London and New York...
...He could ask for the necessary legislation...
...Bat at the same time, he advocates official recognition of General de Gaulle and, consequently, a breaking-off of relations between the United States and non-occupied France—which does not follow very strict logic...
...The Daily Herald, Labor Party organ, branded the speech as a "very foolish . . . fiery, old-fashioned imperialist oration," and suggested that Prime Minister Churchill would "do well to discourage his colleagues from making speeches which must be profoundly irritating to readers in other lands...
...Indeed, the contrary is true, and clear explanations are a waited...
...independent London source comes tike story of Bulgaria's industries being taken over by Germin trusts...
...Along its 350 miles of coastline, 3.900 miles or about 18 days by freighter from New Yorlc, there are no harbors, natural or artificial...
...General Hershey, backed by a corps of New Dealers who distrust McNutt and who fear for their political lives if he is elected president in 1944, has been insisting on manpower control through the autonomous draft boards whose work is virtually finished...
...But the picture drawn by this Colonel Blimp drew sharp retort from two London dailies, bless them...
...In their minds, there is little differentiation between Mussolini and Dino Grandi...
...In the universities the old spirit of freedom arises again among the students...
...and Comment By DANIEL BELL...
...a year Germany negotiated for Bulgarian trade but recently pushed across concessions whereby I.G Farben, Germany's giant chemical -monopoly, will build chemical factories for which raw materials win be supplied by a Bulgarian concern with large pyrite, lead and sine mines...
...President Roosevelt who could end the dispute in five minutes has said nothing...
...Andre Philip thinks he has found an argument which will sway America in favor of his thesis...
...It is always apropos to bring: up the floundering of reply of Standard Oil President Farish to a question by stockholder Howard Ambruster asking when the Jersey officials first became avare that Farben was a threat to America...
...i Lfberian-owrted cattle are looked upon as a sort of "lock ap" J investment and they are rarely, if ever, slaughtered...
...It demonstrates clearly the fact that ties exist between the two countries, not between the two governments, and that diplomatic relations in no way imply approval of France's present policies...
...The Kt*§ ft Oeeo*f I EGITIMATE' rulers, like Caatoria...
...It Ufe wants tb strengthen the Government by the removal of Mr...
...Taking the most prominent part in anti-fascist work in Italy is the Italian Socialist Party...
...And the Negro Manpower Service wa> virtually eliminated —for political reasons...
...is that semi-competitive lines of banking elements are disappearing and big business is being drawn together...
...The billion-dollar loan was organised by five New York banks — Bankers TVttst, Case Nat'l, First Natl, Guaranty Trust and J. P. Morgan Co...
...War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt and General Lewis B. Hers hey are today in a literally titanic struggle over the manpower throne...
...In this respect, Andre Philip's silence has dispelled our misgivings...
...China, and every" other country is expected to sit back in dumb admiration of tbe British example," comments the 4 Herald...
...Bartholomew of Nazis...
...i Coffee is indigenous to Liberia*and is one of the principal money crops...
...In bringing the poll tax one step closer to the grave, the Judiciary Committee responded to the unparelleled campaign on the part of all progressive forces of labor, Negro, church and women's groups, directed toward successful conclusion of the legislation at this session of Congress as a vital war necessity...
...It will take more than fine Words to answer it...
...New financing was coming out of their own liquid reserve pools rather thin the floating of new bonds or stock issues as was the common practice for the first quarter of this century...
...He could clear up the confusion among the Selective Service heads...
...it has become one of the really high-bouncing footballs in the Capital...
...Andre Philip presents an argument of the first magnitude-against them...
...The Tory Party is contemplating issuing * counter-manifesto and wants to strengthen the Commnnist Party by removing William Galla«*», M.P., Barry Pouitt...
...This advantage implies much more than the satisfaction of thus expressing a political opinion in a gagged France...
...They point to the extreme popular unrest and the wide activity of the underground Italian Socialist Party which could be canalized into.pro-Allied activity and possibly revolution...
...No one has forgotten the promises made during tile last war concerning the bringing to justice of Wilhelm II and his -accomplices, or the manner in whioh they were-- kept...
...while the fleet- ' ing debt on that date was $2?0.100...
...William Rust, Arthur Bbrher and Barry McShane...
...v Facing this magnificent resurrection of the spirit of freedom in the Italian people, the senile dictator has the illusion of being able to turn aside the rage of the people by dragging the Italian ¦army into some new inglorious adventure...
...Many people who call themselves "Free French" and are really former Fascists, or Bol-shevising millionaires, or suspect journalists, perfidiously accuse President Roosevelt, Admiral Leahy and the State Department of "appeasement" and other similar sins because the United States has decided to maintain diplomatic representatives in non-occupied France, as it has ih Spain and in Portugal, where Fasciste are in power...
...numbering about 12,000, who are the eV scendants of the original settlers...
...Several poll-taxers have already indicated that they will stop at nothing even if it means talking until January 1st, when this session of Congress ends...
...Blimp Takes · r*(yer AAAUAaffcNTABY eftdewecretary of the war * office, fierce and proud Lord Croft, angered over remarks about British Imperialism, lashed back this Week remarking that the "British Empire has been a godsend to civilization...
...Certain political moves indicate that much is in the offing...
...He could call in the labor people and tell them how important it it for them to go along...
...In the barracks, in aviation camps, among officers _ and soldiers whom the fascist dictatorship has robbed of their rights of citizens, "the designs are maturing which will provide arms of victory to the insurrection of the people...
...Immediately a storm of protest arose...
...Garreau...
...Now...
...f%e feeling in informed circles here is that McNutt's streamlined agency is capable of handling the problem as long 4s there is no labor draft...
...The party of opposition that is against him is no longer the Aventino: it' is animated by a mortal hatred against fascism and will not be misled by any trick...
...The question of finally settling accounts between the Nazi hangmen and their victims in all countries, throughout Europe—and between the "collaborationists" of the hangmen and their compatriots, in each country—is one of the most difficult to solve in advance...
...The balk of the loan was guaranteed by the War Dept...
...Final release of the bill came after it had lain about nineteen months in the Judiciary Committee...
...Still dangerous, however, is the threat to filibuster the bill to death...
...The anti-national government of Mussolini, which led Italy io collapse, feels choked...
...The second point drawn, one remarked by Scott Nearing...
...Exports during the past few years have averagel ? ? bout 2,500.000 pounds, most of it going to Germany and the < Scandinavian countries...
...A new such movement, described by Egon Kaskeline in the CkritUam Science Monitor, is that of Henri of Orleans, the Count of Paris and pretender to the French throne...
...The population is roughly divided into three groups—the Americo-Liberians...
...Trading with the enemy has been reported in Bolivian tin and Chilean copper...
...3. which *^ has just come by mail: "The Communist Party has issued a manifesto on the subject of the electoral truce and wanu an agreement with the etiler parties...
...McNutt, who despite severe criticism of his former political record, has worked closely with the large union federations, arid who is surrounded by some of the most capable men in the government's War services has asked for complete control of manpower— for civilian, military and industrial use...
...McNutt-Hershey Fight Stalls Manpower Plan By T. R. GREENE WASHINGTON, D. C.—A knock-down fifht between two government agencies over control of American manpower today not Only was losing vital product ion but was alienating further support from the New Deal administration...
...EooseVClt could clear the picture immediately...
...Pressure for Poll Tax Ban Seen Rising Special to The New Leadeb WASHINGTON, D. C—An important war victory was won at home by the American people in the overwhelming vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee reporting fayorably the Geyer-Pepper Bill (H.R...
...McNutt is willing to go along with thtf for it saves him the necessity and, political irritation of fighting the AFL and CIO...
...The T.N.E.C...
...The republic has a balanced budget...
...The greatest barrier is the overwhelming opposition by the workers'and peasants of Italy to such a scheme...
...In 1940...
...For his courage in the fight against Hitler and against the Vichy regime, he has a right to our admiration...
...The ? horch Dl France A N effort to pacify the church in France was * u seen by observers in the reported conference this week between Marshal Petain and Cardinal Suhard, archbishop of Paris, and Cardinal Gerlier...
...The overriding of the earlier adverse report of the sub-committee attests the popular support enjoyed by the measure and its significance to the nation at war...
...In this case the government guaranteed the loan...
...The FEPC chief...
...He has achieved the opposite: never in their long history have the Italian people loved liberty as they do at present...
...The Daily Herald took exception particularly to Croft's declaration that vfiritain will raise the colonies to full partnership in the Empire "in our own wisdom and in our own time," and his boast that "by our example we will lead the world to a fuller and happier life...
...A large section of the younger generation in Italy is intelligent and alert and educational Work of the Socialist underground hag made tremendous progress among the ybuth- There is little doubt in the minds of observers here, men with knowledge of the underground and the situation inside Italy that if free elections were permitted today the Socialist party, representing'tiie democratic and liberal elements, would poll as high as 60 percent of the vote...
...1024) to the Senate...
...are what " eeaaervatives ery for, and it is not surprising that monarchist hopes have been rising in various countries...
...This meeting followed one held the previous day between Cardinal Suhard and Pierre Laval...
...Liberia met t9$' j •far payments on «11 fended and floating debts...
...The New Leader has pointed out the recent disloyal Communist attacks against Leon Blum—unjustly imprisoned by Petain—against Socialism,' and against the Socialists who are being persecuted by the "collaborationists...
...The only fully one hundred per cent Negro state in jhe world, Liberia, with an area of about 43,000 square miles, has not a single mile of railroad track and no factories...
...Meanwhile Farben was getting American research facilities, while making deals with Standard through the second year of the war...
...Department of Commerce...
...and the rest natives of six principal racial stocks whose contact with civilization is still negligible...
...This event spotlights two significant shifts in American capitalism...
...TrttMlatcd by Ralph de Toteste...
...What will we gain by putting them, at the disposal of the Axis...
...reports in 1939 showed that U. S. industrial enterprises were becoming completely independent of Wan Street...
...Ships calling at its several ports of entry must anchor in open roadsteads, as much as two miles from the beach, and cargoes are discharged via lighters and barges...
...Gaetano SaleVein en i charged that such a proposal was receiving a favorable reception in some small circles...
...Lumber in Liberia is abundant and considerable iron deposits are known to exist...
...Typical is what happened to .the Negro Manpower service recently...
...If ane wishes to prevent ah explosion of popular rage and a St...
...It is well known that the French Communists collaborated with Hitler most actively until June 22, 1941...
...While the country's transportation facilities are primitive, suitable terrain exists for airports, but all motor fuel mast be imported...
...The French Chief of Government also took part in a luncheon Petain gave for the two cardinals...
...Under Robert Weaver, the service was rapidly becoming an effective bureau tracking down and eliminating discrimination against Negroes...
...General Motors for the past twenty years . financed its expansion by re-investing in the business $670 millions of earnings and by drawing on the $399 millions of depreciation reserves...
...Today it is one of the most confused, and important, pictures in the war effort...
...Minister of Education Abel Bonnard attrf Leon Berard, Vichy's Ambassador to the Vatican No announcements concerning the discussion were made...
...Wall Street brokers and investment houses are still in the cold...
...The hatred against this anti-national government is rapidly changing into the will and capacity of liberation: in factories and in workshops, workers are.being reorganized in the old and glorious Italian Socialist Party, renovated in- ranks, in spirit and in aims, strengthened by persecutions...
...What agreements have been made by either side, and are they compatible with the principles for which the United Nations, allied to Russia but hot to Stalinism, are fighting...
...So the United States, Russia...
...McNutt was set to emasculate the FEPC...
...It must be treated seriously, independently of de Gaulle's case, and unfortunately we "have plenty of leisure in which to consider it...
...Excerpts are printed in the New Leader for the first time in this country : The fascist propaganda campaign promoted by the government amidst the general hostility of the population in order to revive Italian imperialistic claims on Tunisia, Corsica, Nizza and Savoy is a criminal means for misleading the mind of the people regarding the ever growing difficulties of the internal situation in Italy...
...Similar food riots are reported from Cologne where soldiers used machine guns against the demonstrators...
...A leader such as Don Sturze and the Christian Popular Party would draw about 20 percent of the vote...
...First and foremost there is the recent declaration by President Roosevelt and Attorney General Biddle releasing Italian-Americans from enemy alien status...
...Fowl imported from America do not thrive...
...without risking a trip to a concentration camp...
...New Nazi and Allied strategies of global warfare in the direction of West Africa and neighboring posts bring* ?? hitherto isolated republic into the transatlantic aviation pie-ture...
...Monarchy has its appeal, likewise, to certain Army circles and conservative groups in the Allied countries who fear the 'revolt of the masses.' * * * Clipping Without Comment PROM the Glasgotr Forward of Oct...
...400 banks in 40 states participated...
...The number of dead and wounded victim is estimated as very large...
...Cattle are regarded as invested capital and are never slaughtered...
...Furthermore, what price has de' Gaulle paid for * the official recognition of his committee by Stalin...
...Various liberal and democratic leaders have pressed the White House and the State Department for an Allied statement regarding- a post-war Italy...
...ft* Iff Money *T*HE largest commercial loan in U. S. history * was floated recently with one billion dollars, being borrowed by General Motors from a combination of 400 leading commercial banks...
...Essen also reported riots and street clashes of such magnitude that the local Nazi organ, National - Zeitung, felt compelled to come out with a scathing denunciation of the "failure of the authorities to .. furnish adequate emergency food supplies and equipment...
...In the speech which he delivered before the Foreign Policy Association, Andre Philip recognized at least one advantage in maintaining an American ambassador in Vichy: it permits Frenchmen to shout "Vive Roosevelt...
...Mussolini is mistaken...
...Ow Pel Ht* Inemy OOUTH AMERICA is still a source for Axis supplies...
...He stirred up sufficient political pressure to win his case...
...A? '' -. . There is talk that some elements in the Allied councils would prefer to break away the king and lukewarm fascist leaders and declare Italy a limited constitutional monarchy...
...This manifesto was distributed widely and created a sensation within Italy...
...Then the President moved the Fair Employment Practices Committee into McNutt's office...
...Over 100 persons arc reported to have been killed and an undetermined number wounded.These disturbances have been indirectly confirmed by speeches of the Nazi leadership and recent frequent visits of Heinrich Himmler, toad of the Gestapo, to the afflicted areas...
...The war has brought terrific contracts and the need for new working capital...
...Liberals Ask Allied Nations for Statement on Post-War Italy Socialist Party Leads Wide Underground Unrest By MURRAY EVERETT Special to The New Leader *<> ,. WASHINGTON, D. C—The general feeling here is that the time is ripe for a declaration by the United Nations towards Italy...
...The others at the luncheon were Minister of Justice Bar-thelmy...
...Now comes word of Venezuelan industrial diamonds going to the Reich...
...The external1 bonded debt at the end of 198» wm fl.4M.000...
...a variation of this proposal has been advanced in print, by Walter Lippmann...
...Though the need for a coordinated manpower policy is vital...
...Liberia's population is estimated between 1.600,000 tad 2,000,000, although no census has ever been taken...
...The latest public statements of Mr...
...Farben is attempting a chemical self-sufficiency for Nazi Europe...
...Nothing can better illustrate the growing organization of the Italian Socialists than the fact that this party was in a position to organize and lead a full-fledged "anti-war" week this April...
...Liberia currently produces 10,000,000 pounds' of dry rebeer annually and the potentialities of expansion in this field art considerable...
...Certainly such a proposal would receive a cold reception in Italy...
...Writer Poses Problem of De Gaulle, Vichy, Russia and Allies By LEON COLBERT Andre Philip, former French Socialist Deputy and now a member of the de Gaullist1 French National Committee in London, . has been in the United States for the past three weeks...
...When local police refused to fire on the demonstrators, Gestapo and Elite Guard detachments were called out and used against th...
...by the end of 1942 it is estimated that GM will hold contracts for four, billions of goods...
...These royalist circles set themselves up as the bastion against revolution in defeated countries...
...people...
...He could order General Hershey to stay out of power politics a military man should...
...Last Tuesday's election showed that situations like the manpower muddle are doing the New Deal little good...
...the party maintained an underground organization, which, in the last few years, has grown tremendously...
...Despite a productive soil, large quantities of its food supply must be imported...
...Not more than 300 miles of the country's roads are , suitable for motor traffic, which is confined to some 75 passengja cars and 60 trucks...
...Will it not, rather, cause rejoicing in Berlin and Rome?' A large part of the Mediterranean's shores, over which the French flag waves, is neutralized at this time to the advantage of those British and American forces which are facing the Italian and German armies in Egypt...
...Moscow representative of the Free French, are an acceptance 'pare and simple of the Stalinist totalitarian ideology...
...In Hamburg large crowds of women workers demonstrated...
...Witii a 13-to-5 vote, the bill was placed on the Senate calendar despite a desperate and unprincipled fight in the committee meeting itself and on the floor thereafter...
...In an article last week in the New Republic, Prof...
...Negro pressure groups rallied to it...
...MKT ??% Wvr4 ? G. GARBEN is the spearhead Of Germany's *· economic penetration and absorption of the Balkans, it ? apparent from the detailed report...
...And only General de Gaulle, says be, if he is officially recognized by Washington and London, will have sufficient authority to interpose between the criminals and the aroused people, in order to make sure that the Culprits are legally tried...
...The interesting shift, though, is that the government, in most cases, is the source of hew financing of industry...
...Lioerma sheep, small in tfee, produce no wool, and chickens, which thrive in all parts of the country are exceedingly small...
...several other church notables attended including Monsignor Valeri, papal nuncio to France, and Monsignor Cahpoulie...
...Although dissolved in 1926...
...adviser to the Liberum government is an American...
...He foresees, at the end of the war, such a spontaneous massacre of "collaborationists" in France that he believes it necessary to prevent it by the prompt trial and punishment of the responsible criminals...
...Monrovia, the capital «f Liberia, is only about 700 miles from the port of Dakar...
...Bulgaria tmt been regarded as the last of tne so-called independent states in the Balkans...
...Fascists and "collaborationists," the question arises not only ih France but in all Europe...
...Cattle for food sources are imported...
...Manpower cannot be handled on a political basis...
...e ? fie explanations which will finally reassure the true friends of the "eternal France...
...These actions should be taken soon...
...Farish, hemmed in, hawed and hawed and finally said—it was an unfair question...
...The service was run by Weaver, /? Negro, it!s staff consisted of competent Negroes and it was successful...
...The prospect for the post-war world would be bleak, indeed, if Lord Croft's arrogant outlook were typical Of the British politician's outlook...
...archbishop of Lyon...
...One writer went so far as to call Wall Street the "dust-bowr of American's economy...
...Air Raids on Reich Bring Street Riots Heavy allied air raids on Hamburg, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Essen, and other German industrial centers have been followed by a complete breakdown' of the food supply and transportation services and subsequent-serious riots, reports from inside Germany to the International Transport Workers' Federation indicate...
...Aimny, Sir James Grigg, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Simon...
...For his "intelligence, his culture, his devotion to the cause of the-people, he deserves the esteem of all Socialists and sincere democrats...
...the King is regarded as a doddering fool who carries a full share of the guilt of imposing fascism on Italy...
...some 30,000 aborigines who have been more or less civilized by contact with whites and tht Americo-Liberians...
...Mussolini attends with horror the collapse of- his dream of br u^_ talizing Italian youth by means of goosestep, of his dream of enslaving workers and farmers by means of "corporazioni fasciste" and terror of spies...
...By terms of a loan agw*» ment made with an American financial concern, the...
...The single large scale enterprise in Liberia is the rebW 1 plantation developed near the port village of M;: -sha'l...
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