Allied Capitals Renew Debate On Darlan, Hapsburg Issues
LORING, EDWARD
Allied Capitals Renew Debate On Darlan, Hapsburg Issues Washington Sources Admit Dangers, Claim Decisive Gains By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON. — Americana must either...
...He broke with De Gaulle "for personal reasons," last June 20...
...Reports in Wednesday's New York Time* forecast a -new oil shortage in the East, with new cuts that may go as high as 100,000 barrels a day I pointed out last week that the national shortage is due, in a large part to monopoly policies of the major oil companies in attempting to freeze out independents...
...They have had many obstacles to overcome, pilpti* pally financial...
...They regard American' democracy as a 'reactionary' form of government...
...Undoubtedly, according to information here, Darlan has communicated with Madrid frequently...
...This correspondent is reporting only what ha heard here...
...of this country...
...Charles F. Roeser "Warned that the country faces a real shortage of crude oil production unless new petroleum reserves sre discovered in the near future" and that this statement was presented bo the committee of which you are chairman...
...selling.adjoining acreage and devious plans and ideas to get their weirs drilled...
...Protests by various groups and individuals are filing into the U. S. State Department-and the motion-picture studios...
...The major, oil companies owning oil and gas leases in Florida are as follows: Gulf Oil Corporation__________ 592,000 acres Humble Oil and Refining Co...
...The AFL metal trades defense committee, organised last month to fight CIO attempts to win representation in the Henry J. Kaiser west coast shipyards, will recommend that the AFL Executive-Council reject the jurisdiction plan...
...We are continuing our struggle against Nazi vandals, but every Catholic throughout the world must raise his voice in protest...
...It shocks them to think that some leaders are unaware that the name of Hapsburg is symbolic of all retrogressive tendencies feared and opposed by liberals and democrats hi Central European and Balkan affairs...
...We can state conservatively that over one million Jews have lost their lives...
...This week's events prove that their decision was to accept the threat inherent in this bloc to keep the Nazis out of Spain, to keep Gibraltar, to keep awake the spirit of revolt in Italy, and to count on another force whieh can be* hinted at only obliquely here, because it is discussed in such a manner among informed Ban-sons...
...There is a strong belief in circles here that Admiral Darlan has been chosen as the nominal ruler of French North Africa because he was proffered as the front man for apowerful Catholic-industrial combina-now prepared to function powerfully not only in Spain, France and Italy, but throughout the rest of the world —and that includes Latin - America...
...The Communists and their followers have suddenly begun agitation for organic AFL-CIO Unity...
...Churchill and Mr...
...Yet they point out that Darlan omcered the French fleet with men loyal to him, and the industrialist bloc backing him, to swing to the winning side at the last moment...
...Roosevelt and Mr...
...This test was reliably repealed to have found both oil and gas at various strata to 10.000...
...Even the temporary agreement on a plan to end jurisdictional disputes, reached at last week's peace parley here, may be rejected by the executive boards of both organizations, it was freely predicted here in high labor circles...
...Afraid to return home, Treviranus went to a friend, and the next day, still in Ins tennis suit, was smuggled on to a plane for England.' In~i939, while living in Canada, Treviranus sought a visa for entry into the United States.^ but was barred...
...WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE THESE...
...2—The development of new fields and- rs-sacves is not likely to be mass by the motor companies...
...Alarm is widespread over the threat of the kind of censorship For Whom the Bell Tolls is facing...
...Near Warsaw is—or was—the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium...
...At 1.200 feet they found a fine gas stratum and the geochemical lists now show they are approaching an oil stratum, but shot down as usual with these tests awaiting further finances...
...What caused the volte-face is puzzling labor chiefs here...
...to a head...
...This is the question being asked here in Allied liberal circles as the U. S. State Department policy gradually emerges...
...S. FOR THREE YEARS By MURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON, D. C—Valeriu Marcu, the noted Romanian-German biographer, died last week, but the more interesting story is the second name that came into the news as a result of Marcu's death...
...A conservative estimate is that daily between 8,000 and 10,000 are killed within the walls of the ghetto...
...It had been established to care for tubercular children and was named after a weUknown Polish labor leader...
...East Texas 'Field, which every major company had turned down...
...This challenges directly the very basic principle of AFL unionization techniques > in the construction trades...
...crippling French munitions production and private economy...
...Their number is not less than those who are being shot J Those who are sent away to unidentified places are packed into special cars, the floors of which are covered with chlorine and water, and most of those packed in this manner die after the first or second day...
...One basic issue is the CIO's attitude on renewed communist activity in the labor movement...
...He was refused entry in 1939-1940-1941 because of his Conservative background and his previous ties with the Hjalmar* Schacht group...
...This line would be the first independently owned and operated common carrier oil pipe line in the USA and its operation would be a yardstick against the rates charged by the pipe lines of the integrated oil companies...
...Roosevelt and Mr...
...If spaas plaa osV skis-kind could be developed I think yon will see that the pioneering instinct in this country it still alive and that the contribution to the was effort to obtain oil and oil deserves will be one that is creditable to the present great effort of the oil industry...
...Should this1, bloc fail to deliver in Italy when the invasion comes, should Generalissimo Franco fail to turn on the anti-clerical Falangists, and then join with the Axis in assaulting Gibraltar, then President Roosevelt's policy will have failed and his liberal critics will have been right in their bitter denunciations...
...Hemingway has taken a special interest in the film version of his widely-acclaimed novel...
...These Washington and Hollywood dispatches reveal, 1) that she representations of the Franco agent fdrced Director Sam Wood to shoot all the "controversial" scenes two ways, one according to Hemingway's anti-fascist script, the other to appease the Spaniard, 2) that the release of For Whom The Bell Tolls now awaits the State Department's decision on final cuts and alterations...
...Though the immediate cause of renewed bitterness between the two labor federations is considered here the dispute over jurisdiction in Kaiser's, it is known to all but the uninitiated that other major differences have developed...
...AFL Fights CIO on Kaiser, Communist Issue By T. R. GREENE «? \?r...
...Respectfully yours...
...To prove his good faith he has just turned all of Dakar over to the Allies, who took this vital point without losing a man or machine...
...that General De Gaulle, who has so vehemently protested against Darlanist trends, and has completed plans to confer personally here with Pleeldant Roosevelt, cooperated closely with Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg...
...Question: Does this presage a new twist in our political warfare...
...Far them this was just one tiny item of business in a great program ef slaughter...
...He was playing tennis when he received a warning that Schleicher had been shot five minutes previously...
...We could give a categorical answer to that question but for the time being we will content ourselves' with remaining quite skeptical about the motives and principles of the Commies...
...I note in respect to this that the United Press quotes you as suggesting that one possible field of discovery might be in the undeveloped lands owned by the major companies...
...But Nazis don't have the Basse feelings and motives as normal people, The children in the Medem Baal trim about 4N of them—were Jewish...
...Another instance, yet to come before a large public is the case of the Florida reserves...
...CONSUMERS OAS AND PUtfL CO...
...Officials of the Spanish government here have refused to answer any questions...
...The Nazi murderers shoot at each and everyone who dares to leave his house and at those who show their faces at the windows...
...This he did, and all but 20 ships were scuttled in Toulon...
...he supervised casting, and helped prepare the scenario for Paramount studios...
...The Communists—let's call them Commies for short—don't believe in Americanism any more than Hitler does...
...As an illustration The Peninsular Oil and Refining Company drilled a test well on a tract of 100,000 acres of land in the Everglades section, Dade County, Florida...
...Despite protests at that time, De Gaulle accepted Starhemburg into Free French military hierarchy...
...But this, it is pointed out, has nothing to do with the larger vital, issue of political censorship...
...state, and in the Everglades Basin 1*20*00 acres...
...In fact, the only form of Government which seems to suit their peculiar fancies is that prevailing in Soviet Russia...
...We will also watch very carefully the developments of their "party line" and of their aontinued attempts to "bore from within" the labor movement while waving the flag and singing pattjfcttc hymns...
...It reads as follows: Within the walls of the' ghetto in Warsaw hundreds of thousands of people are condemned to death...
...It is stated here that Mr...
...In this policy the major companies have been abetted by the Petroleum Coordinator's Office of Secretary I ekes and the Defense Transportation Office of Commissioner Eastman, in which the major companies are heavily represented...
...We discover that those who were loudest in condemnation of this war before Hitler moved in on Russia are now most vociferous in demanding all-out support for the war...
...The same intellectual hypocrisy is apparent in the sudden patriotism of the Commies...
...Remember the innocent blood of the millions of Jewish victims that cries for support and revenge...
...We are helpless to help the victims, but from the depths of our hearts we cry out our protest, full of sympathy for the Jewish population of Poland and contempt for the murderers...
...Honorable Joseph C. O'Mahoney Senator, State of Wyoming Washington, D. C. Dear Senator: Reported by the United Press we learn that a report of Mr...
...Even branch plants of famous international munitions makers, intimate friends of European fascists, have moved into French Morocco and Algeria...
...takes during 1941 and so far ia 1942...
...NOTE ON fOLITICAL WARFARE— 'HrSMRr TORY GAINS RECOGNITION IN HIGH CIRCLES...
...Americana must either believe the promise of President Roosevelt that Darlanism does not mean abandonment of the Atlantic Charter and that military expedients will continue to make strange but temporary political bedfellows, or believe that Mr...
...The bloc contained men such aa Fritz Mandl, munitions maker who equipped Starhemburg's private army...
...Chancellor Doll-fus...
...Hearings before a Senate group this week confirmed the charges I made in The New Leader that an "artificial scarcity" program benefiting the monopolists was freezing out the smaller companies...
...The Jews of Poland who live in those ghettos have no hope of being saved, and they have no one to turn to for support...
...101,00a " Sub Oil Co.___________________ 688*00 " A total of 3.606.Q00 acres under lease, of tins total approximately 1.500,000 acres was...
...Aldace F. Walker of Trans-American Pipe Line Corporation told a group of New England Congressman that independents at the Tinsley oil field in Mississippi could not get permission to build a 650 mile pipeline which could bring 70,000 barrels of oil daily to the Atlantitic Seaboard...
...From the Underground Polish Catholics Ask Halt to Nazi Massacre of Jews Through underground channels there has come to the outside world an authoritative statement with regard to the massacre of Jews in Poland and a moving appeal in their behalf...
...Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's, remarked, however, that "Hem wit probably blow up when he hears about it...
...Should the NLRB yield to the CIO and void contracts signed by producers prior to the hiring of large numbers of men, the very foundation of important blocs of AFL international unions will have been shattered...
...The letter follows: CONSUMERS GAS AND FUEL COMPANY Miami Beach First National Bank Building Box 658 Miami Beach, Fla...
...Then, whs is doing the development work...
...Thousands go mad...
...Ernest Hemingway, now somewhere in Cuba, could not be reached for comment...
...At no time have Washington authorities made any representations or tried to influence the trend of the story," Freeman said...
...finger that is writing, and what it is writing, as the general feeling here runs, is not very good...
...They regard Americanism as a 'reactionary' word...
...So—a few weeks ago —the storm troopers went tm there, lined up the children, the ¦¦loss and physicians, and shot them down...
...The question therefore occurs as to whether these Commy patriots are patriotic to the country in which they hold citizenship or to Soviet Russia...
...First Darlan and now Habsburg—it is being asked whether the American people understand the implications of the State Department's moves...
...The Hays office, too, is stalling the release of Paramount's two-million dollar production, with its objections to some of the Gary Cooper-Ingrid Bergman scenes...
...Poison, which would be the best solution for many of these people, cannot be obtained, and many commit suicide by throwing themselves from the windows and roofs...
...Which brings us to the point of a suggestion whieh I desire to make to yon aad your Honorable Committee...
...But we also Want just as strongly a victory for the kind of democracy which we regard as Americanism...
...Churchill are playing a military game highly desirable at the moment, which will have no political repercussions in post-war years...
...Apparently the AFL high command has de-tided on an open attack upon the communists, not'yet by name in CIO, but publicly and vigorously...
...Treviranus fled Germany in June, 1934, when he discovered at the last moment that he was marked for death in the Schleicher purge...
...We sflvlse all members of the American Federation of Labor to do likewise for their own protection...
...According to reports (checked for reliability) from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount's film version of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls has been submitted, at the suggestion of the U. S. State Department, to a representative of Spain who is carrying Franco's anxious request that certain references and sequences be toned down or eliminated...
...It is the State Dept...
...A column by the CIO editor, Len De Caux, hails the alleged gains towards labor peace made by the recent conferees...
...Allied Capitals Renew Debate On Darlan, Hapsburg Issues Washington Sources Admit Dangers, Claim Decisive Gains By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON...
...The answer is: As, usual the pioneering and development of oil reserves and production is done by independent small groups and individuals who have been doing it the hard way, raising money in small amounts...
...Thousands of these industrialists, many of them former pro-fascist, it is true, have slipped through the German lines during the past year and are in Northern Africa today...
...A special point was made of the 'abeling of opposing sides as "Loyalists" and "Fascists," a well-knpwn sensitivity on General Franco's part who has always hoped tfor recognition as the legitimate ruler of Spain and not as a fascist in surrectionist who overthrew the Republic in 1936-39...
...The two leaders of the Polish labor movement, Victor Alter and Heinrich Erlich, were imprisoned when the Russian armies invaded Poland in 1939...
...It warns your heart to know that kids who have had bard luck are being taken care of, that they have a chance to live sad grow strong...
...Poor and rich, men and women, youth and small children, are being eradicated...
...We refuse to be Pilates...
...Therefore—we suggest: That the Committee consider a plan at assisting with Federal funds the financing of worthy exploratory test wells, for oil sad gss in new territory where them ia good possibility of obtaining either oil or gas or bosh...
...Obviously, we were told, there was a very embarrassing "leak" on the West Coast...
...There he joined Mandl...
...This can only mean that a strong conservative bloc has been organized and has offered the United Nations high command a sufficiently attractive bargain to force us to deal with these European elements who want an old fashioned industrialist - capitalist society in post • war Europe...
...The Prince was formerly vice-Chancellor and directed the shelling of the trade union apartments in February, 1984...
...1.720,000 " Magnolia Petroleum Co.......- 43,000 " Pure Oil Company ____________ 511,000 " Sinclair-Prairie Oil Co...
...424,006 acres...
...But the real import of his statement, motion-picture informants of The New Leader pointed out, was in the phrase "any reports to the contrary do not emanate from any source at Paramount...
...Stout xs out of the city...
...Major Companies Hold Back Oil at Huge New Florida Fields By DAVID A. MUNRO The national oil crisis, discussed by this writer in last week's New Leader in rapidly coming...
...Stalin have discussed the entire policy of dealing with these forces...
...The Council is scheduled to meet Jan...
...For the most insignificant "disobediance" they are torn from their families and sent away to places from which there is no return...
...The Cl6 newsletter does not mention the Kaiser dispute...
...Aside from the small triangle of land between Bizerte and Tunisia held by German and Italian forces, this policy has delivered all of northern Africa to the United Nations, The New Leader sources point out...
...Vast oil fields have been discovered in Florida...
...In the last edition of the AFL newsletter, ita editor Philip Pearl openly excoriates ° the Communists and their tactics...
...Report Heming way Film Censored By MELVIN J. LASKY General Franco, fascist chief of Spain, is taking a hand if the censorship of American movies...
...Major Fey and others who were plotting for the return of Archduke Otto and the Hapsburg monarchy...
...Their record of the past in this respect is encouraging...
...The number grows day by day...
...In his column "Facing the Facts, Pearl wrote "Now we agree fully as to the desirability and necessity of wiping out Fascism...
...3—New fields as in the past will be hasagaA, in by exploration and pioneering of independent groups and individuals...
...Treviranus, who was a Lieutenant-Commander in the German Navy in the last war, has maintained quiet contacts with German conservatives in many pafrts of the world, as well as friendships witti-high officials in Germany who may be growing restive now...
...The Caudillo, only this week, hailed the Axis war on Russia...
...The so-called "realism" of American diplomacy is in many generally sympathetic places considered now as largely camouflage rather than military expediency...
...In fact it is ingenious, technical, and secretive...
...The pen, it is said, ought to be returned to the hands of the American people...
...It is conceded that a pro-Spanish diplomatic orientation by the U. S. (say, on the grounds of "temporary military expediency") may be in the offing...
...Similar fears were expressed when one influential publisher proposed the censorship and suppression of all books critical of U. S. allies, especially the Soviet Union...
...HAD BEEN BARRED BY il...
...All drugstores in the ghettoes are closed, and medicine cannot be obtained...
...These are the people with lots of faith and very little encouragement who have brought in the large oil and gas producing acres of this country, a notable one the...
...Several weeks ago, Treviranus was admitted to the United States, and since then has been in Washington several times conferring with certain high officials...
...On the sidewalks of the ghetto dead bodies lie, and nobody is permitted to bury them...
...Undoubtedly these forces are anti-Soviet, as is General Franco...
...some studio official, sick and disheartened at the affair, spilled the story, and Paramount is now anxious to disown responsibility...
...and a producing well could have been obtained at various depths This test was capped in May, 1940, and an oil and gas lease on 1,029,151 acres was filed for record by this company in December 1940, eight months after the well was capped...
...These sources believe that Mr...
...The' attitude of both groups is apparent in their most recent newsletters...
...Marcu died suddenly at a party being given by former Reichsminister Treviranus, former minister in the Bruning cabinet, and intimate friend of the former Catholic prime minister...
...The latest shock to progressive leaders is the apparent recognition of Prince Otto Hapsburg as the Austrian head and recruiting chief for Austria's forces...
...This document was drawn up by the Odrodzenia, the underground organisation of Catholics of Nazi-occupied Poland...
...The O'Mabeney report shows that major oil companies from January 1, 1939, to January 1, 1942 increased their control of oil production from 52.7 per cent to 70 per cent) The letter is largely self-explanatory and reveals the tactics of the large oil companies in tying up oil production...
...The Russian government has refused to give an explanation although William Green and other leaders of the American labor movement protested the acts...
...This move is part of a new strategy which includes an all-out drive within the AFL itself...
...Paramount, through Frank Freeman, has denied the whole affair...
...The AFL news-sheet reports that "labor peace conference starts as new warfare flares in west with CIO raids on Kaiser yards...
...Churchill have abandoned all postwar Europe to General France, Archduke Otto, Herman Goering, and Quisling, according to informed circles close to the White House...
...It was learned from the State Dept...
...October 8, 1942...
...By Charles E. Starr Charles E. Starr, President London Liberals Anxious About 'Realistic' Diplomacy By S.L SOLON London Correspondent, The New Leader LONDON/ Dec 10 (By Cable).—What is the American diplomatic game...
...Even children are not spared those tortures...
...Those surveys made by reputable companies...
...The resolution rwas adopted by a large majority and over Communist opposition...
...One field opened would repay, many times over any funds made available, either by loans, bonus payment or direct contribution...
...What happens in the ghettoes of Warsaw happens in all the ghettoes of Nazi-occupied Poland...
...After this lease was filed this company was taken over in its entirety by the Hon Alt Oil and Refining Company (a Standard...
...London Co-ops Ask Russia To Free Erlich and Alter Special to The New Leader LONDON.—The London Cooperative Party, at its sixteeth annual conference this week, adopted a resolution voicing regret that the Russian government was still continuing the imprisonment of Polish trade unionists without charges or trial...
...A Yugoslav leader, fresh from the fighting front in the Balkans, said to this correspondent today, "It is painful to think that American diplomacy may become not the voice, but the master of the well-intentioned American people...
...The answer is—they are net...
...Roosevelt, Mr...
...1—This country is facing a real shortage of crude oil production...
...He will return* siting this column next week.] ^WASHINGTON, D. C—A merger of the AFL and the CIO to end the threat of a slowdown of war production by inter-union disputes ill" now impossible for "a long time," according to, leaders of both sides...
...The General and other Free French leaders were "on excellent terms with Starhemburg," according to their own statements at that time when they aided the Prince and his wife to leave for Argentina...
...Exactly what scenes are involved has not been divulged, but it is said that Franco's man, in the face of Hemingway's militantly anti-fascist story of the Spanish Civil Warj had considerable objections...
...It is the policy of these major oil companies to tie up all leases possible foe them to obtain and develop them when they are ready or forced by development of adjacent' acreage to do so...
...The conference was attended by 158 delegates representing 90 sections of the party...
...Instead of assuming a clearcut progressive role, American diplomacy is arousing surprise and suspicion among those here who have looked to America for counsel and leadership...
...The CIO reports that "CIO-AFL Parley in Agreement to settle Inter-Union Disputes...
...That is' the balance sheet of battle today, That is why informed circles here advise liberals everywhere to make their choice, either to accx.pt President Roosevelt's leadership aad merely warn the administration that tai Imparl world is worried, or abandon faith in the President and the Prime Minister...
...All forms of geology, geophysical, msgnemetes and gravity surveys have bees made during the last two years on this territory...
...But, it is felt, any move which tends to suggest that the whole of cultural life is to be subordinated to the shifting expedients of state policy should be regarded as highly dangerous...
...There are many reasons to fear the consequences of such a policy of expediency, these sources say...
...Starhemburg was also the strong man of the Austrian front for Mussolini, according to the same source...
...His attack OR*Jt?3ef twfiigers is aimed at their most vul-QSfUM spot, their "sudden patriotism...
...It was like scores of hospitals in this country...
...On the other hand Darlan is openly suusod here, even in the White House, of aiding French bankers and industrialists in transferring their properties to North Africa with himself as special guardian...
...Their past history aad policy is not encouraging for the future...
...It recalls less the foreign policy of the Roman Republic than the diplomacy of the Venetian republic" The real tragedy, it is widely felt here, is that American diplomacy appears to be missing the greatest opportunity to place a unique prog-res hallmark on the post-war world...
...The influential British journal, The Economist, subtly remarks, "There is a tendency to think of American diplomacy as frank, rhetorical and popular...
...They cannot even communicate among themselves...
...were released shortly after the Nazi attack on Russia but soon after were claped into prison again...
...The earlier widespread belief that America's policy is based on candor and open diplomacy is giving way to consternation—is the State Department policy drawing away from people's objectives to favor unrepresentative reactionary cliques among exile groups...
...throughout he has insisted that no changes whatsoever be made in the political content of the story...
...these fields, however, have been tied up by the major oil companies to secure their monopoly position, A startling confirmation of this charge appears in a volume of testimony before the Senate Public Lands Committee headed by Senator O'Mahoney...
...Are any of the major companies doing anything in the way of development of drilling to obtain now- production and reserves in this vast territory...
...It is evident that these practicaL oil producing companies of the class mentioned above believe os have good- knowledge that Florida sail be one of the large producing state...
...This week Franco, in response to Hitler's greetings on his fiftieth birthday, expressed to the Fuehrer the wish that "your arms triumph in the glorious undertaking of freeing Europe...
...As an instance of this pioneering'work a small group of men hsve been endeavoring to drill a test well 40 miles west of Miami...
...Elements here close to the Yugoslav guerrillas and the Czech people are asking themselves what that can mean...
...We, the Catholics of Poland, are appealing to the Catholics throughout the world, to stop those murderers...
...Then they went of to tend to some other Jaw of killing...
...They are predominantly authoritarian, believing in a clerical-corporative state such as that conducted by Marshal Petain in unoccupied France...
...His editor and publisher...
...Walker charges big companies blocked the program...
...These tactics have brought to the Allies some of the best industrial brains and managers in France, slowing or...
...Despite protestations that the peace conferences were called to prevent any injury to the war effort, leaders of both sides spent the anniversary of Pearl Harbor here in heated dispute over the CIO shipbuilders efforts to force an NLRB election at the Portland yards, ft.addition, the shipbuilders took similar action In several Tampa shipyards where the AFL has contracts...
...Oil of New Jersey subsidiary...
...and we send this appeal to every Catholic throughout the world...
...The acreage under leases at the present time lies in 38 counties out of the 97 counties of the...
...You see such a place...
...However those who refuse to discuss the President's collaboration policy, m fear either of being placed in position of defending cooperation with fascist leaders or revealing military secrets, pointed out to The New Leader that there appears to be little choice in personalities among those contending for leadership of the anti-German French fighting forces...
...Are they supporting, the question is, a post-war people's Europe or a new "cage ot the peoples...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 50
