U.S. Recognition of Giraud Unites Majority of French Behind United Nations
U.S. Recognition of Giraud Unites Majority of French Behind United Nations The Foreign Front November 7th will remain a memorable date in the history of this war. The African offensive marks the...
...It is true that Sidney HHlman and his colleagues in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers are actively seeking some peace formula...
...A reporter addicted to prediction might write that the sentiment here for labor peace indicates that conflict between the AFL and CIO is in the offing...
...Though for the first time since the CIO was created no member of John Lewis' family was present, he still affected the proceedings...
...He is surrounded, in part, by undesirable elements, men and groups in which the democracies cannot have confidence...
...It is to be hoped that now, under the aegis of the United States, all of the fighting forces of France can be led to recognize in Giraud the true military leader of the French in the coming struggle, the man under whose command it will be possible to gather all of the volunteers who have been waiting for this opportunity to serve the cause of their country and of the democracies...
...CIO Convention Brings No Real Hope Of Unity in the Labor Movement BOSTON.—A far cry from the tumultuous parleys of other years, the CIO's fifth annual convention met here and did the expected through each quiet session...
...With the confusing isgue of John L. Lewis gone, it was obvious that the powerful right-wing bloc would outvote the leftists...
...made a - laughing stock of Italy...
...But Moscow could have ended the agitation " with a single directive...
...they will continue to demand a break with Finland and Spain, knowing little of State Department reasons for these obvious distasteful relationships...
...It moved from "left" to 7|J*V' traveling the whole way from being a ?" ««t against Monopoly to being a useful 2J ? the hands of the artful monopolist...
...Less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American flag floats along: the southern shores of the Mediterranean, and the American Army, at one stroke, has taken position at the stepping-off place to Europe...
...This France—patriotic, Christian, traditionalist and anti-totalitarian—is symbolized in the person of General Giraud, the man in whom Washington has recognized the representative of France, the real France, the ancient ally of this country...
...De Gaulle will find a place suited to his stature, worthy of his place in history France will thus resume the place among the Allies which history has assigned to her...
...The campaign against the ridiculous claims ¦•de by the big cigarette companies has now...
...Force in North Africa, President Roosevelt lost an important mid-term election, but won a great soldier's victory which will shorten the war aal save many lives...
...The smoke-screen which has hidden the delicate enterprise whereby the President and the State Department gained so much of French support in the setting up of a new military front on the doorstep of Europe has not yet been completely dissipated...
...But overseas France, thanks to the vigorous intervention of the Allied naval avid air power, is now enabled to join the fighting democratic ranks, to take its part in the present struggle ¦ad in the future victory...
...Then came a sudden dawn...
...President Roosevelt could settle the manpower muddle in a minute...
...They are worried over retention of sufficient personnel to keep their firms alive.' But they have nothing-^ut contradictions from Washington...
...The Axis powers are by no means without means of defense, and they have quickly grasped the import of the mortal danger which threatens them...
...that Washington be purged...
...Already their fortes are en route to prevent the juncture between the Americans who hasten toward Tripoli and the British who .victorious in Egypt, advance toward the same point One of the de-cisive battles of the war will be fought over the ground that once was Carthage...
...They have been misled by some European emigres—even some French refugees—by American Communists and by certain American liberal fellow-travelers into believing that the French people are divided into two groups: a small minority of collaborationists and an overwhelming majority of de Gaullista...
...Much of the resentment expressed through the ballot boxes on Election Day resulted from the exasperating intra-mural competition in some of the Capitol's most vital tasks...
...that men such as Senator Pappy O'Daniel, Texan hillbilly, and Senator Burton Wheeler, Montana's disgruntled White House aspirant, be the new warlords...
...men attached to their traditions, faithful to their past and ' impatient to resume the struggle against imperialist Germany...
...As usual, many resolutions and speakers reflected the Communist line...
...Certainly, the President could have planned the "Mediterranean operation to start in mid-October, mstead of some days after pur nation-wide elections...
...The properties of Ipana, the forthright statement against Bristol-Myers runs, have been misrepresented, and it dismisses all the claims of "smile of beauty," "popularity," "whitening teeth," "anti-pink tooth brush," and the point of "prefes-sional unanimity...
...The New Leader continues its spadework and turns up news which the daily press passes by...
...The strong right-wing unions of CIO, led by such men as Murray, Van Bittner, Hillman, R. J. Thomas, Dalrymple, Samuel Wolchok, and others, are sincere in their efforts to find a formula, but pessimistic...
...But he has made some blunders, and not the least of these was permitting the invasion of his ranks by Communists, opportunistic patriots since the 22nd of June, 1941, active collaborators with Nasi Germany before that date and ready to return to that allegiance the moment Moscow speaks the word...
...bolstered the wHl to resist of Sweden, Portugal, Spain and Turkey...
...Willkie was taken in by Premier Stalin, who knew for many months that the second front was in the making, or the Republican leader had joined President Roosevelt...
...Instead, Ke ignored unimportant partisan politics to play a more vital game abroad—and win...
...Let us not cherish illusions...
...Are the Nazis refitting themselves with the newest equipment or is there a plan to strike suddenly in some unexpected quarter...
...On the other hand, let us take careful note of the words of General Eisenhower: "I want to point out that I do not regard this as any great victory...
...It has...
...Jonathan Stout," a pseudonym of a veteran Washington newspaperman who has worked on the leading papers of the country, begins writing next week...
...Specioi intredeetory of er of 13 ittmt tor 50 cents...
...He rendered an enormous service to his country and to the cause of the United Nations...
...This does not make friends for the New Deal...
...For the time being, the FTC is taking notable action...
...Once again the American Communists were caught off guard...
...President Roosevelt owes it to himself, his philosophy of government and the maintenance of morale at home to act as resolutely on the home front as he did internationally and wipe out Washington's muddle...
...destroyed completely the myth of Hitlerian invincibility...
...If he Had"done this, his party would have been sweepingly victorious at the polls...
...These are not "scoops" in the ordinary sense of the word—these are stories that are ignored because few papers have the courage to tell the facts, because few papers have this hard, fighting, sane left-wing approach that can make out the significance of political moves and pull no punches...
...Thunnan Arnold prosecutes unions, Attorney General Biddle protects them...
...12 (By Cable).—The ringing of church bells here for the victory in Africa must not obscure the most serious problems which lie ahead in the immediate future...
...These blood-and-thunder liberals who frighten themselves with their own boldness and rattle their office window panes with the vigor of typing as they write indignant columns and letters to the editor surely will not he abashed now...
...In a letter to the Editor, Stout writes: "My pet hate is the propaganda designed by the special ax-grinders, the fat boys and the slick schemers who are constantly coming to Washington to put something over on the American people, one way or another...
...The political aspect of these recent events concerns, above all, France...
...Lack of an adequate, definite manpower policy has earned the Administration the enmity of every industrialist and small businessman in the nation...
...Thur-¦«> Arnold, now head of the Justice Depart-ffVa Anti-Trust division, observed that in ** P*st this is also what happened to the anti-2* committees...
...The great majority of citizens are simply French...
...France must keep within the limits of a resistance silent and passive, but nonetheless heroic, a form of apposition which has been well conducted during the campaign against the conscription of labor...
...It would not be wise for any observer to rule out this possibility...
...Now we extend our scope...
...Both before and since our entry into the war, the official opinion of the Axis and of all its collaborators itsjs that America is too distant, its preparations too belated, its armament production too slow, its army too inexperienced, its fleet too much occupied in the Pacific for ia>ly and effective intervention in Europe...
...But there is little hope here among CIO leaders for a merger...
...The left-wing unions—and they are a strong bloc in influence if not numerically—are adamantly opposed to any negotiations which will result in a loss of their apparatus in a hundred local CIO councils throughout the country...
...now that the front has been opened, none of the hitherto loud critics is sending . apologies to the White House...
...Yet it permitted its supporters to vilify those who were not willing to believe that the Allied ' High Command was selling Soviet Russia down the river...
...General de Gaulle, in addition to his role as precursor of modern warfare, deserves credit for the enormous service which he has rendered as the first spokesman for the fidelity of France to her allies and the necessity of continuing the struggle with all meaas attainable and on all fields of conflict...
...Durrett had been behind the Food and "*vg campaign against Bromo-Seltzer in 1939, it may be that his influence will put new...
...Within a few weeks, the American Communists will find ""¦seine new shibboleth and plug it as tbey did "The Yanks Are NOT Coming, Let God Save the King...
...With giant strides the Americans approach the decisive battle ground, and the first steps have been achieved with a convincing efficiency which gives the surest guarantees for those which are to follow...
...Prime Minister Churchill and Stalin in a most ingenious game of disinformation in many decades...
...The New Leader Stoff Is...
...This conflict will not come until the war is over, or until the need for intensive production of weapons is alleviated...
...Control of CIO today rests in the Steel Workers, the A-uto Workers, the Clothing Workers and the handfu of smaller unions, such as the rubber and retai workers...
...On Its Toes Week after week, month after month...
...especially in North Africa, cut down his ability to rally the majority of Frenchmen, more particularly the soldiers, to the cause which he has served with such distinction...
...Bureau fights bureau, commission heads battle each other, Browder is freed and Bridges is ordered deported...
...The facts shrieking in headlines and radio broadcasts give the lie direct -to this over-simplified view...
...Neither Churchill nor Roosevelt could talk, neither one could say that a second front was well under way...
...By waiting until last week-tpi for the proper military...
...According to one informed observer, David Monroe, editor of the advertising newsletter, and Time, "an incredible accident" is at {kiwis of it all—the appointment last year of ?, James J. Durrett of the Food and Drug Administration to the Commission as Medical **riser...
...Madame Perkins leads an active but secluded life as Secretary of Labor in competition with the War Labor Board, the NLRB, the Labor Victory Committee, War Manpower -and the War Production Board—not to mention the Army and Navy...
...The issue over social insurance is also raising old divisions—is Britain heading for new doles, or for an intelligent over-all plan of security...
...Although the North African campaign was planned as early as two weeks after Pearl Harbor—because the Mediterranean littoral is not only the express highway for supplies to Russia and India, but the jumping-off point for pincer invasion of the European continent—the American Communists wildly denounced as appeasers and Ciivedenites all who urged that military strategy be left to our High Command...
...We can understand with what great pleasure Secretary of State Hull called in newspapermen and told them to tell the world why this nation had maintained diplomatic relations with Vichy—how this policy had saved thousands of anti-fascists' lives...
...I regard these people (French) as our friends...
...What care our thundering literal critics if a break with Vichy this summer would have destroyed the balance in the Mediterranean, perhaps affected naval power in the South Pacific, and destroyed an opportunity for the AEF to take North Africa...
...It is naive to believe that production will be impaired by failure of AFL and CIO to merge, rather, it was said here, resentment among the hundreds of AFL affiliates against giving up long-held rights to smaller, almost paper locals of the left wing...
...If the North African campaign quiets the babbit-liberals who have just discovered the kampf and want to do something about their amazing discovery this very minute—if the African campaign does that, it will have accomplished a great deal at home...
...Before we know exactly who is bottling up whom— the Allies in Africa or the Axis in Europe—it is necessary to Watt for the next major move...
...Hope was instantly revived...
...your frleada reod The New Leader...
...The CIO decided to call on farmers to cooperate with its industrial unions everywhere in resisting the organizing attempts of the United Mine Workers' Dairy Farmers Union...
...There is the muddle of Army and Navy public relations and the daily heartbreak suffered by Elmer Davis as he fights bureaucratic power politics to pound the Office of War Information into a valuable propaganda weapon...
...However, it is not believed they have sufficient influence to iron out the complex differences and the personal prejudices which stand in the way of an AFL-CIO combination...
...and starting next week, a new bright, fast- ( moving column on Washington news, told from the inside by a veteran newspaper man who has covered the capital scene for the past eight years, and the national scene for 14 years previous...
...The squabbling over the proposed replanning of the city of London is significant, for terms like "vista-mongering" are being used by the Tories in order to keep any large-scale changes in the ofir^frame...
...He has disillusioned or alarmed many friends of France in England as well as in America...
...This realistic policy gained for us the time necessary for patriotic France to take her place at the opportune moment in the camp of the United Nations...
...Tbe initiative has passed irons one side to the other...
...how it had kept one of our few windows open in Europe...
...Many voluble celebrities—even the world's most loved ; comedian—joined in the campaign against Roosevelt and others in our military command...
...This is the call that ran like i shiver of returning animation through the fevered body of martyred Europe...
...Lewis was attacked on several occasions, especially during the discussion of a merger with the AFL...
...Now where is "the mandate" the party of Hoover felt it had won in the recent election—a mandate allegedly earned because the people were dissatisfied with the conduct of the war...
...and here at home made eatping itinerant critics and owlish overwise columnists look dpimright silly...
...With a single strategic maneuver the President—now automatically commander-in-chief of the Allied armies— assured the crushing of a most important section of the Reich's army...
...that labor be curbed...
...They became the main sup-of monopoly in America by deflecting the ?™c'« righteous anger from definite punitive *° ceremonial satisfaction with the specie of public whippings and atonement...
...You can argue that it won't last, but there it is...
...This is not taken seriously by the leaders of the large CIO unions, since they believe it ????, to let the leftist bloc blow off steam in the form of resolutions which no one reada than to open a aeries of fights on the floor of the first wartime convention...
...Either Mr...
...It is an event of capital importance...
...A great section of public opinion in the United States and elsewhere has been deceived with regard to the alignment of opinion and allegiance among the French...
...And the final blow which will destroy the jiszi power will not be in the nature of a surprise...
...This connection has compromised his movement...
...There is the muddle of the anti-discrimination committee, which has not the power to order unions and employers to really cease slowing war production by refusing to hire Negroes...
...There «? be other turns and fluctuations as the war run* its course, but from now on tbr-s/arprises will no longer be on the same side...
...The Americans are not yet on European soil, but their arrival—and soon—has now become a certainty...
...into the FTC and renew its useful activi-**· During World War I, when the FTC was...
...Oddly enough, Moscow permitted British and American Communists to demonstrate in the Trafalgar and Union Squares o< bote countries...
...And the announcement that a full-scale attaek* js Hng prepared against the prominent acetahelid tjoducts, including Bromo-Seltzer, ?? and ?? "(•dache Powders, Stanback Headache Pow-•**t CC Compound, and others, indicates that, whatever the reasons for the sudden burst of ¦WPiration, the FTC is actually taking swipes •*.«11 the giants in sight...
...It may be that J?" w»s taken as a challenge, and the old outfit ""had to do something to get itself back What happened to the Federal Trade Com-**^»n was a familiar story to students of Jf^ernment agencies...
...the agency was relied upon by the *·* Industries Board for much valuable in-**»tion and assistance...
...On page 8. William Henry Chamberlin, noted foreign correspondent and author, writes a weekly column, Where the News Ends...
...Under these circumstances, the recognition of Giraud by America is most fortunate...
...Then there is the muddle over labor policies...
...But enough is known to make it crystal dear that the far-sighted policies of the President, of Admiral Leahy and of Secretary Hull toward Vichy, toward Spain, toward de Gaulle are abundantly justified by their results...
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...Ad Campaigns Put New Life Into nC Activities & Special to THE NEW LEADER WASHINGTON, D. C. — Among the more Wrktus surprises of administration twists and joraa in the capital was the strange revival of «e in the Federal Trade Commission, which **en the New Deal a decade ago gave up as "•t when it moved in with a new reform band-•tfon...
...Weakened instead are those hasty Republicans »nd southern Democrats who gleefully strode to the floors af Congress to demand that a joint committee be placed in charge of the war effort...
...It is an honor and a pleasure to join the staff of The New Leader where I can 'lay it on the linotype' without pulling punches...
...But the War Agencies "day have followed the practice of even the new Deal in expecting nothing...
...We had a misunderstanding, but fortunately it ended in our favor...
...There is, for example, the conflict between the War Manpower Commission of Paul V. McNutt and General Hershey, head of Selective Service...
...set the stage for an invasion of Europe...
...Despite his party losses at the polls, he is a much stronger Van today than he has been at any time in his three administrations...
...Informed commentators point out that General Dwight Eisenhower's brief campaign in Morocco and Algeria has not yet tested the Axis opposition forces...
...now it had permitted us to contact French officials to pave the way for a Morrocan landing...
...settled the uneasy question of relations with the old men of Vichy...
...The issue is still undecided, and more of this anon...
...Alf expert Oliver Stewart has pointed to the riddle of the disappearing German Luftwaffe, and the suspicion is that something may be cooking there since the Luftwaffe has been relatively inactive in recent weeks...
...And Europe, at last, will hail this event as the pledge and promise of her early rebirth...
...Until Bizerte and Tunisia are in our hands, it will be too soon to celebrate a victory...
...Aside from the Electrical Worker...
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...All this has aroused the sullen wrath of responsible AFL and CIO leaders...
...Our American boys have not yet faced the Germans on the field of battle, and the peculiar situation of the French does not permit any real comparison...
...Meanwhile the issues of poet-war planning are taking on new urgency here...
...Who, on final analysis, was ready to exploit the war politically—the President who knew he would lose Congress but waited until the proper moment to unloose the African offensive, or the pathetic gentlemen of the Grand Old Party who now see their 1944 dreams as dim as the CapHol dome these blacked-out nights ? * * * There are others who in retrospect appear to have lost some stature because of the brilliant North African maneuver...
...tripled our shipping capacity by sharply cutting the routes to Russia and India...
...One is the' earnest Mr...
...Willkie, who with his "report to the nation" helped the Old Guard Republicans sweep the elections...
...Willkie is sent abroad by the President, and they engage in long distance insults...
...Why not tone \m a bote* for your friendi' THf NfW LEADER...
...Rather "*n «»p fraud, what the FTC was doing, as Paul Ward of the Baltimore Sun has said, was "to certify fraud...
...The African offensive marks the turning point...
...Every family with a potential draftee in it daily reads General Hershey's contradictory statements on selective service and grows wrathful over not knowing how long a husband or father will be with his family...
...The Americans are there...
...how it had kept our espionage system alive...
...It is true that European France, disarmed, subjected to the yoke of the formidable German war machine, is as yet unable to participate actively in hostilities...
...and "A Second Front in Europe Now.'' Again we will see the same celebrities join in the vilification of our national leaders...
...The eagerly awaited Beveridge report on social reconstruction has liberals and Tories squaring off against each other in preliminary rounds...
...The general has frequently contradicted himself on the same day in different speeches...
...followed by a challenge to powerful Bristol-Myers on the score of Ipana advertising...
...However, the success of the new offensive and the «nisguided immaturity of our typewriter thunderers do not abrogate the right of the informed to criticize Washington muddling...
...at which to unleash the ¦De-driving American Expedi...
...fHHrie's sharp -eiilitlrm of* the «sf effort, "Washington's armchair generals" and the absence of a second front, is now shown as completely unfounded, for as he spoke the Anglo-American armada was creeping past occupied France and Gibraltar in one of the most brilliant and deceptive strategems in the history of wars...
...London V/atches For Nazi Luftwaffe By S. L SOLON Foreign Correspondent THE New Leader LONDON, Nov...
...Competent observers here 'believe that those predicting peace in the labor movement are uninformed...
...For a long time he stood alone in proclaiming that France had lost a bat tie but had not lost the war...
...Union, which is not completely leftist despiti the Stalinist control, the left-wing bloc's mem bershrp is dwindling rapidly...
...As a matter of fact, there are in France but a little handful of collaborationists and a minority of de Gaullists...
...Small wonder it is that the pebple are confused, embittered and res5entful...
...The Home Front New Offensive Strengthens Administration, Creates Need for Endina Washington 'Muddles' By EDWARD LORING ¦1> It will take President Roosevelt's enemies here at home mach longer to recover from the American invasion of North Africa than it will the Axis armies...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 46
