La Guardia Appt. Focuses Spotlight on Political Warfare to Italy
EVERETT, MURRAY
La Guardia Appt. Focuses Spotlight on Political Warfare to Italy Anti-Fascists Ask Italians Be Allowed Choice of Own Leaders By MURRAY EVERETT All political eyes were on Italy this week, with...
...Reliable Italian observers are united in the declaration that the bulk of the Italian people are anti-fascist and pro-democratic...
...concedes ? W good chance of eMerSMt...
...He seemed a little surprised when the reporters eagerly picked up his remark...
...So, too, does the High Command maintain a circulating supply of Quislings by allowing traitors to compete for dishonor...
...Tory Coalition, CP Issues Plague British Labor LONDON...
...There seems to be less of an inclination today in high American circles to deal with'the King as a possible successor to Mussolini, under American protection...
...March 25, with a dozen of his organizers, after his union had succeeded in getting Magistrate Charles Harsmaki to issue a criminal summons against the night manager of New York's Knickerbocker Hotel for refusing to accommodate a Negro UAW organizer, William Bowman...
...There is not a county agent hi "the South and 1 doubt if there ia one in the United States who would admit that there was a surplus of farm workers in his county regardless of tiie number unemployed and available for use in other areas...
...Costa Rica has in recent years adopted a comprehensive program of health, industrial and unemployment insurance...
...They say that any such actions would only be sowing the Italian ground for Communist propaganda...
...Last month, the National Council of the Labor Party rejected the application of the Communists for admission in Sharp terms...
...It may also mean that the U. S. is watching and waiting to see the behavior of the King when—and if—the invasion comes...
...The issue of continuing the Governmejt coalition and the wracking demands of the Communist PsjS for unity plague Ike British Labor Party, as the affiliatfl trade unions and branches of the party prepare to elect deft gates to the national Whitsuntide Conference scheduled!* early June...
...The gl«W(R strength ef the CCF...
...The Labor Party can...
...The government has taken the vast proposals of the committees' and funnelled them into narrow measures for a Junior ministry in the Cabinet...
...fsVca* which might otherwise be etfjeen-trated on one pro vino* at a,"fhnt The rumor has it further that tie provincial election results woold indicate to Prime Minister King whether or not a federal eletttof might be risked...
...In Quebec the main battle wiB be between the out-and-otr diehard isolationists and the Liberal party in power which is steenng a difficult course between appeasing the isolationist eJeiOSat hoi supporting the federal L&M government in the war effari* a part, of the, British Common...
...Cannon Bill Threatens '43 Food Program MEMPHIS, Tenn...
...Laval Upsets Cabinet, Nazis Bolster Doriot Nicole Machiavelli had nothing on the Nazi invaders of France today...
...But some remarks Which he made the other afternoon to some correspondents are ringing loudly up and down the continent...
...Expressing his "personal views," President Calderon Guardia confessed t&at during the '"'post-war readjustment a markedly leftist trend was to be expected...
...All the French"' agents are, of course, financed by the Germans, arid stabilized from time to time to avoid special clique crises...
...None could explain adequately the choices announced to date...
...Every political trick deyiscd py the machines of tyranny/ every adaninistratlVejykrategy of ruling ciiqye^ is being* drafted by" the GermanTfigH Command, srlting on a power-keg of underground resistance...
...Labor peojle are worried abbot the proposals made by the ifthwatt and Scott committees which presented comprehensive plans for the replanning of England's devastated and dated areas...
...Apparently, the mission is destined to create a civil administration in conquered Italian regions, concerned primarily with civil affairs, i.e., food, communication, etc...
...and the Liberal party, with the CCF...
...the writer, is explained on the basis of future relations with Yugoslavia...
...As President of the Costa Rica republic, he has just quietly completed a good-will visit to this neighboring Republic...
...An eJsttidX postponed too long might "frustrate that crowning glory to hi career...
...So, through Pierre Laval, the Germans have succeeded in eliminating Petain from power, narrowed Laval's own area of power, and maintained thefr margin of security by reinforcing Deat and Doriot in the North...
...in the selection of their own regime...
...But admiration for the Russian people will not be translated into friendship for the British Communists...
...The British Labor Party cannot be accused of being anti-Soviet...
...It pointed out that if the Communist Party were admitted into the Labor Party, it could not carry out loyally the decisions of the party conventions because of their ties to Moscow...
...Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia is a mild-mannered and soft-spoken man...
...IS •*# ing the Liberal party met) flf> cern...
...Admirals Jean Marie Abrial and Charles Platon were ousted...
...Besides the fate of the Bever-idge report...
...Latin Sees New Peoples Move For Reforms Special to The New Leader PANAMA.—Dr...
...Croix-de-Feu fascist, and many of Petain's personal advisers...
...Sir Walter Citrine has been a leading proponent of the Anglo...
...Km|rTJ seems, has one final amM$iof: tf sit as Canada's representative it tbe peace conference...
...The Communist issue.is likely to be more spectacular and completely unrewarding...
...Little is known, they say, beyond the mere announcement of the names of the men...
...r Mitchell stated: The Extension . Service operates on a county basis through county agents who are . openly" controlled by...
...The reports suggested a National Planning Authority to replan cities, build-up rural areas, plan roads and housing...
...For the second time in rii months the newspapers havSgjives wide circulation to a rumor that several provincial elections ffiWj be called simultaneously in efft-to divide and weaken C.C.F...
...Most Italian political persons questioned by The New Leader said that' LaGuardia was capable of doing an effective job in North Africa depending on his advisors...
...Ch-rchT.: deftly stepped in with his promises for action after the war...
...Calderon Guardia is rather rare among Latin-American leaders...
...Thus,.'Adolf Hitler divides.the hatred and contempt of the French people between the invaders and a pseudo-French authority...
...that they will not be fooled into accepting a monarchistic rule under the King, or a military rule ' under one such as by General Ugo Cavallero, or a clerical regime under some Vatican choice...
...They point out, though, that the political pattern to be established in Italy ¦ may be decisive for the future political conduct of the war...
...Here are a few points, however, they note: • The LaGuardia entourage is composed completely of American citizens...
...which Jias been sTrewnm rapidly there...
...issue, Mr...
...The bill, appropriating $26,000,000 for the Agricultural Extension Sfryfee, tarns oyer to state agencies the problem of supply-fee: —liters on the nation's farms and stipulates that none of the IffijiBj aprrnpi istrrl be used to fix, nsjbuate, or impose minimum wages, housing standards or regulation of hours of work for farm workers transported by the government across state lines According to H. L. Mitchell, General Secretary of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, the bill was introduced by Congressman Cannon of Missouri, at the instigation of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which has fought bitterly the Farm Security Administration, the chief New Deal agency for farmers...
...There will fee a straight fight between (1* CCF...
...Joseph Barthelemy, Minister of Justice* and a close friend of the Marshal, was bounced, He was an old-line) *defeafis?, a Munich'man who led the campaign against C zech oslovakia...
...ve-ly dramatized when Churchill's promise* loom constantly • over the 'horizon...
...In Northern France, formerly "occupied," Laval has been checked on many sides, with a measure of free reign given over to the storm-troop forces of Jacques Doriot and Marcel Dea.t The Deat-Doriot serve, as Laval serves, to terrorize the population, organize the labor draft, and repress saboteurs and rebels...
...The choice of Louis Adamic...
...On the other hand, there are no labor men in the entourage, though the Italian groups, particularly the Socialist Party and the Justice and Liberty groups, are the most strongly organized resistance...
...The keystone of American policy, the anti-fascists say, must be to give the Italian people a free choice...
...Their "innocents" will make a terrific row, seeking to cash in on the prestige of the Soviet people, the fight wnl rend the Labor Party, at a time when the fight against the Conservatives is just beginning, and, the results, for*ihe Communists, will be futile, j? The British Communist Party, in its well-financed campaign to gain admittance, has started a special bulletin called Aifliation...
...Too vivid in English labor minds is the ghastly spectacle of British Communists organizing "peace" demonstrations during the height of the Nazis nightly bombardments of London...
...N. f. Hotel Ban Negro Union Organizer "Our union won't stand for discrimination of any kind," declared Regional Director Alex McGowan of the CIO's United Auto Workers, when he came out of Jefferson Market Court in N. Y. Thursday...
...They were members of the Petam faction, and were close collaborators of Admiral Darlan before his defection...
...The Socialist Party was the strongest in pre-fascist Italy, until it was driven underground in 1928, and retains a following among older Italian workers...
...Cards!, an assistant-Attorney General, also has friends in the State Department, but most of his public- activities here have been mainly non-political...
...wealth and of the United Nation...
...There are no representatives of emigre or underground groups...
...Both Ontario and Quebec legislatures have reported surpluses for the doting fiscal year and measures have been passed raising mothers' allowances and the like...
...That is not exactly repre-sentive of Latin-American governments...
...It is known that Albert Spaulding, the violinist, has friends and contacts in the State Department, but he has no record of political or labor or administrative actfljty...
...si the government...
...The nation's food program for 1943 will be jeopardized, farm leaders here say, if the Cannon bill which passed the House last week is enacted into law by the Senate, which is now considering it...
...Francois de la Roque...
...And the President has become increasingly popular with hthe man in the street...
...is' to be renegotiated presumably without any guarantee of wages, housing or other Irving conditions...
...Divide and rule" remains an effective Nazi formula...
...Most persons were chary of making quotable statements...
...Laval's shaking up of the Vichy cabinet dearly indicated the purging of the traditionalist party in the pro-German administration, which ' is also connected with the recent arrest of Col...
...Focuses Spotlight on Political Warfare to Italy Anti-Fascists Ask Italians Be Allowed Choice of Own Leaders By MURRAY EVERETT All political eyes were on Italy this week, with the appointment of Fiorelfo LaGuardia as a Brigadier General, and the reported selection of Albert Spaulding, Louis Adarnk and Ugi Carusi as the Mayor's aides...
...The FSA, which has transported over 6,000 domestic and Mexican farm workers to critical labor shortage areas, is to be permitted 6jf}f 90 days to liquidate its projects...
...of course, show that step by step in British poet-war planning,' Govern'pjeBt reports have been ripped to shreds by Tory actions based On tbe Wea waiting Until after the war...
...Ia Ontario the election »Ui be a testing ground far the C.C.F...
...Soviet Committee...
...The author of a treatise on social-security programs, he has devoted his life toward the promotion of a ¦ "better distribution of the state's riches...
...The House of Commons emasculated the Beverid» a. port, and just when the Labor Party thought it wouldhgn a cleaa-cu...
...The agreement negotiated last June to permit the importation of Mexican workers to work on farms of the U.S...
...It will be accompanied by "violence,"'he added, hr the event that the "masses of the workers should be denied legitimate reforms...
...To greater power and prestige came Hubert Lagardelle, good personal friend of Benito Mussolini, and Raymond Grasset, ward-heel chief from Laval's home province, Puy de Dome...
...Pierre Laval has been allowed to consolidate his political controls in the French area formerly "unoccupied...
...His own regime in Costa Rica since his inauguration in 1989 has made social reform the cornerstone of domestic policy...
...It wiB she H servatfre, has thereby recovered any of its ebbhtg tsleeass...
...But the so-called "National Revolution" seems to be devouring its own children...
...CCF Prepares For Canadian Elections OTTAWA —There are strong signs of impending provincial elections in the air...
...In Saskatchewan, too, aa elee-tion is looming...
...the Farm Bureau Federation...
...Abrial is said to have issued,- or at least confirmed, the order to scuttle the French-fleet at Toulon...
...Under the terms of the bill, the 95 FSA migratory farm labor camps are to be turned over to the State Extension Service for operation...
...In the February Commons debates Arthur Greenwood deplored such limited actions...
...The indicated set-up of an American civil administration may mean that the U. S. will not make "Darlan deals" but allow Italians to make their own choice .under the aegis of U. S. civil rule...
...The publication of stories about the LaGuardia mission met with mixed reaction in Italian anti-fascist and emigre circles here...
...Bat these acts cannot be se effect...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 14
