Wallace, London Proposals Seen As FDR Bid for World Council Leadership
LORING, EDWARD
Wallace, London Proposals Seen As FDR Bid for World Council Leadership Plan Avoids 4th Term Dilemma, Permits FDR Role at Peace Table By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leadbb WASHINGTON—Parallel...
...The nation's bright-light areas remembered vaguely there was a war, shrugged their shoulders and salved consciences by promising to bay more war bonds and do some heavy worrying over the new victory tax reduction...
...O'Donnell...
...The use of these far-flung air base* on an international basis by the United Nations can do more than prevent war, however...
...Everywhere families were waiting for their men to return from the foxholes, dunes and Arctic crags . . . knowing well that some would never take the road back . . . and that the years between would be heavy for those who must crush the Nasi and the Nippon...
...Russia Enters "War-Nerve" Arena With New Report of Italian "Rift" The strange international war of nerves which has been filling the air with devious rumors of peace movements was complicated this week by a new report...
...And for two years they have been preparing the ground for this move by spreading the obviously false scare stories that Leon Blum's "40-hour week" caused the downfall of France, that America's war effort is being hampered by a "40-hour week," that the boys in the trenches don't work a "40-hour week," etc., etc...
...Through the criminals themselves cannot be brought to justice until after the war, plans already under discussion call for the immediate appointment of the court's staff, drafting of rules of procedure, preliminary amassing of evidence and codifying of international law," the U. P. reported...
...During the war, labor—especially in the war industries, has gained economic advantage while, by ...and large, after taxes, other groups have lost ground...
...I Politics conscious Washington is aware of a iraeh more effective strategy: What can be re-pesied with popular approval (assisted by a little flag-waving during wartime) will be repealed...
...It is believed here, and among the United Nation's leaders in London, that only a highly popular American can hold a world council together for any length of time...
...Many of the congressmen behind Wheeler have a personal interest in the 28 indictments, and are willing to use any :iear...
...The evidence indicates"however, that a super-defamation organization highly financed and pretending great respectability, was the most powerful influence behind the conspiracy indictment...
...Prominent among the organizations whose representatives maintained close liaison with the Dept...
...the United States will thereafter be hauled into some sort of Federation of the World now being dreamed up by Vice-President Wallace and numerous others...
...It is considered significant that Vice-President Wallace spoke of a world court with President Roosevelt's specific permission and endorsement...
...Finnish Minister of Social Affairs Sagerholm, who said recently "Finland is not fighting for any European new order ? represented the Finnish people's sentiments, although It is believed that the Germans will- force Sagerholm's expulsion...
...rather than lose the working standards won in peacetime...
...But where popular approval is lacking— and this will be far the more numerous category --practical emasculation of the reforms will be Kcomplished just as neatly by cutting appropriations...
...In either Senate or House, it is unlikely that the Administration forces can muster sufficient votes to block an investigation backed by a coalition of anti-New Deal Democrats and a G.O-P...
...Working every other day doesn't permit the drivers to take other jobs...
...Facing a reactionary attack on labor's lMn» doesn't bring fright to the heart of labor pale its red badge of courage...
...Instead of encouraging the powerful left-wing underground movement, one Italian leader told me, the impression is given that Allied diplomacy is looking toward the discredited Italian monarchy for post-Mussolini leadership...
...There is no evidence that this occured...
...with enemy leaders while the U. S. throws Its weight behind the effort to build sentiment for a super-World Court...
...Meanwhile, the best Christmas story is of the Woolton-inspired Englishman who bought gosling this autumn for a Christmas dinner, fed it wondrously...
...This organization, according to proponents of a congressional inquiry maintains a nation-wide secret police system and is the spearhead of the whole smear-purge campaign...
...In some quarters, false hope has buoyed those Who think that surely no Congress would dare wipe off the books the Social Security Law or tie Wagner Act . . . that the people wouldn't stand for itl In other quarters, there are those fho argue that the Republicans would not jeopardize their chances for 1944 by repealing the popular reforms...
...Their P^oeular targets were the Wage and Hour Act and what they described as "featherbedding" practices by labor unions...
...It prefers that the truck shall not run...
...This line, assiduously pushed, has been caught in private circles both inside and outside Germany for some weeks how...
...And that's what Ham #lekv Clare Hoffman, Piu-nell Thomas and the Bsffonal Association of Manufacturers have...
...Pearson Joins the Procession Drew Pearson, also a staunch New Dealer, opened his syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column on December 29 with a wave of the following "big stick": "Although the Roosevelt Administration has been the best friend of labor in the history of the United States, some quiet studies have been made behind the scenes of various labor abuses, wWeh may ? · may not be made public...
...Similar propaganda stories have been circulated by British and American agents through neutral sources...
...Pearson did not say (as he might have) that the public has the first right to the money saved ?y every-other-day delivery, and that secondarily it's the worker and not the employer who has the best claim to that saving...
...It's "featherbedding," which he describes as "the system of putting two men on ? job to do the work of one...
...These men and their colleagues organizations form the basis of the World court...
...Ernest Lindley, regarded as the New Deal spokesman among the Capital's newspapermen, opened his syndicated column on December 23 with the wicked slur that "if the men on the fighting front and the workers in factories changed places, war production would be jloubled...
...In Russia, a gallant people, betrayed only by the small men in England and America who were making political capital of their blood and tears, surged forward, pushing the frozen German armies further back towards the Reich...
...The result is indifference among potential Allied friends in Italy...
...the obviously controversial position of Russia in the Council must be discussed...
...This has been interpreted as Washington's official reply to the British unofficial questioning of U. S. supremacy of the air cargo lanes—the intimation that international policing can he coordinated with international commercial cooperation through airpower...
...Political observers—many of them close to the White House—have limited the possible choice of the American people to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie...
...who was recently given the German Iron Cross by President Roosevelt as » sardonic recognition of his attacks on the New Deal's war effort, also reported that "Thus en investigation of lease-lend by Congress—an all out Capitol Hill show with Harry Hopkins on the witness stand—is in the cards...
...Ubtrih...
...It is also considered important that on the same day Downing Street inspired" stories in London that the United Nations are preparing to establish an international criminal court soon for the post-war trials of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and other Axis war criminals...
...But to see some of our liberals turn tail at w* distant rumble of the tory drum is enough W curl one* hair—or one's lip...
...It is believed that the threat of farge-scale Japanese offensives towards Siberia will be Hitler's chief talking point...
...This is expected to neutralize the trials' revelations...
...of Justice during the grand jury investigation of the fascists—Ed...
...its economic policies must be evolved...
...The story may be Axis propaganda, Soviet propaganda, Anglo-American propaganda—or, according to one observer, it may be true...
...but the union, like the proverbial dog 1n the manger, has opposed relaxing the ruling...
...The latest report coming as it does from Russia has added a new angle...
...taTk m a dozen U. S. ports were making the northern convoy routes to Russia a graveyard for the thousands of tanks and planes which could seed the Germans running towards the Homeland they desecrated with Nazism...
...however, airports throughout the world will be even more essential to the maintenance of a stable peace than Suez, Gibraltar, and the Panama Canal were in the past...
...The only requirement the Act makes with reference to this question is payment of time and a half after 40 hours of work...
...Is Pearson ignorant of the facts...
...Pearson did not mention that: 1. industry has been trying for years to get rid of retail delivery systems (for which the public pays, of course), 2. curtailing daily deliveries to every-other-day in order to conserve tires, gas and manpower has not cost industry a cent...
...It is pointed out, however, that if it did happen, the Congressional espirit de corps is covering up fascist activity...
...Your correspondent had roast pheasant and swell burgundy, but this was an uncharacteristic British household...
...Senators Gerald P. Nye, Burton K. Wheeler...
...but Lindley can hardly be ignorant of the government posters describing those people who give currency to enemy rumors...
...plans for the future international army must be made now...
...Some of the indicted persons have been linked directly to German agents operating in the U. S. To offset the dangers of such revelations and to be able to say that they predicted "attacks" on themselves, the AFC leaders are planning intensified "exposures" of the "plot" against them...
...If, according to well-informed observers, these "peace" and "rift" reports are part of calculated war-nerve policies, no one has yet managed to identify Allied-inspired reports from enemy contributions...
...John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the Times-Herald and The New York Daily News, reported this week that Senator Wheeler "ha* been laying the ground work in the Senate" for an investigation of lend-lease efforts...
...Labor has •ten through such fights before, and will hit ?? again...
...Meanwhile, care-ks...
...Recent formulated plans for the defense of Italy, submitted to the King by Prince Umberto and a group of leading generals, are centered on an open demand for the rupture of the pact with Germany...
...Representative Hoffman, for example, will be shown during the trials to have been so careles* with his franked envelopes that Charles B. Hudson...
...J?*au-so · then proceeds to make one of these "abuses" public...
...Wallace's failure to mention the problem of India's freedom is seen as evidence of toe official nature of his speech...
...pro-Axis propagandist of Omaha...
...One story, which appeared this week and was considered an indication of the isolationists' tactics, read in part: "Sensational evidence connecting Justice Department officials with organizations engaged in a nation-wide campaign to smear and purge critics of the Roosevelt administration in and out of Congress will be presented to the House of Representatives when the New Congress meet"* in January...
...Now, in many cases, two men are not available for each truck...
...Far from the cities lay the nation's soldiers that night—soldiers through whose uniforms burned the North African sands, the Aleutian winds, the odors of steaming Solomon Island jungles, the frozen spray over convoy's decks...
...This is well known to be his chief concern at the moment...
...But when liberals such as Lindley and Pearson, who may be presumed to know better, join Clare Hoffman and the National Association of Manufacturers in the attack on labor and the New Deal's own Wage and Hour Act, the handwriting of craven surrender is on the wall...
...Two days ago, Wallace expanded his proposals during a speech at an Army Air Force celebration...
...In his own words...
...Far, far from the revelry, the Chinese people were waiting for-a plane from the West bringing back an empty-handed military mission from the United* states...
...In the century ahead of us...
...A frequent Maxi comment is...
...There Was a Sound of Revelry...
...The following United Press dispatch from London reveals that Downing Street has elected to handle the problem of war guilt and...
...New Dealers like Pearson, particularly, should be familiar with the principle that a worker is entitled to be paid for "waiting time...
...Thomas proceed *-at least 60 per cent" cuts in the appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Agri-Wbnt and Interior, under which are congre-fsied a majority of the New Deal reform activists...
...The fact is the Republicans don't Intend to expunge popular New Deal measures from the legislative books...
...Free Italy leadeW&rwWieve that intelligent diplomacy, as well as^nilitary" advance, can help knock the Fascists out of the waT by this spring...
...It's the overtime pay the National Association of Manufacturers, swollen with its war profits, wants to evade...
...And there are numerous exceptions where time and a half doesn't begin until 56 hours— notto speak of the many types of jobs to which the Wage and Hour Law doesn't apply at all...
...In silence they heard pondered reports that a second front in the Orient—against the Japs—was not a popular thought in the United States...
...Beyond the Gestapo lines in France, a starring people wondered whether their children would grow into cripples, warped by the starvation imposed by Abetz to feed the master race...
...The four political leaders of the AFC...
...We shall be just another state in a conglomeration of states, and shall have surrendered up to some world embracing authority the essentials of our sovereignty and of our right to order our own lives and run our own country as the majority of us prefer.' It is believed further evidence that President Roosevelt tactics were strategic first steps in the long battle for an international security mechanism to prevent the recurrence of war Capital Comment Congress Tories Set to Emasculate Labor Laws \ : ? By JONATHAN STOUT || Special Washington Commentator • ^WASHINGTON^Der Tag dawns for the Twits next Wednesday, when the new Congress ,mmam on Capitol Hill...
...Comparing holidays, one would say that last year, with the United States' entry into the war, the feeling was that the tide was turning —the feeling now is that the tide has turned...
...As a matter of cold fact there is not the slightest feeling that Hitler's hunch in this respect is any more justified than his 1940 intuition that Britain would cash in the chips after the French collapse...
...During the past few weeks it has been the first to "discover" the New Deal plots and to play up Wheeler's efforts to fight the indictments...
...And he wasn't talking about the war agencies...
...The new reactionary majority, a coalition of tarjr Democrats and the Republican opposition, a whetting the surgical knives for their first ml chance to gut the New Deal's social reforms fer the past ten years...
...There in Chungking, battered capital of a battered people, military leaders' knew long before the mission embarked that they waited futilely for the munitions, the planes, the guns long promised in America, last port of call for the hopeful...
...He said that: "Item seven of the Atlantic Charter proclaimed the freedom of the seas...
...As a member nation of such a world union we shall no longer be a fully independent country...
...was a merry, merry Christmas and a happy, wine-laden New Tear's Ere to the crowds which paid premium prices for the privileges of being squeezed into fire-trap night clubs in the country's peaceful cities...
...Most families have been sitting down to a simple but satisfying fare...
...Tail—and Ree The most depressing picture in Washington, 'wee the November elections particularly, is the Afeatism of the liberals in the face of the tory intensive...
...inspectors, or a Labor Board with no eximiners is equal to no Wage and Hour Divi-•ion or ab Laber Board...
...The Times-Herald reported this week that "responsible" Congressional circles had heard that "several members of Congress were included on the original list of 35 persons whom Maloney wanted to indict...
...opposition already sniffing national victory in '44 elections...
...The President has announced he will make no iteomnwndations to reduce the budgets of federal non-war agencies in his message to Confute next Thursday...
...Late this week the News said editorially that if either Roosevelt or Willkie is elected President in 1944...
...Others will follow...
...Labor, increasingly, is going to have to depend on itself and less on its periphery satellites...
...Amidst the hubbub, that stirring night when 1943 was foolish enough to torn the corner of a world at war, could be heard reckless sloganeering, bonvivants' glib shortcuts to world victory, the adulation of the super-patriotic late-comers to the global struggle against the Nazis...
...Everywhere the people were talking of bread and a real peace after the invader had been destroyed, of the dissolving empires, in Africa, in India, in Java, in the Orient...
...He has urged the reorganization of a group with personnel end policies similar to the AFC...
...The merchant truckmen would prefer 24-hour driving...
...Yet at home "there was a sound of revelry by night"—and wishes for a good year, and a happy holiday . . . and there were some who knew that the coming year would sober the revelers...
...Parncll Thomas of -Hew Jersey practically delivered a blueprint of Jhe Tory strategy when he announced that the hew Congress will "have to use the paring knife *» no other Congress in history...
...Roosevelt, who is now virtually commander-in-chief of the Allied Armies, would have little to say about the final treaties...
...Here's hoping that Santa Claus has come across with a new bundle of diplomatic tricks, and has taken back all those little Talleyrand toys he brought last year...
...The Soviets entered into the picture with its Tass news agency recording the formation of a new Roman alignment seeking a split with the Nazis...
...To be sure, Lindley attributed the remark to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, a popular hero since his dramatic rescue...
...What it amounts to is that the driver is "on call" when he isn't w-orking...
...London Optimistic at New Year, Sees New Political Turns Ahead Special Cable to The New Leader By 5. L. SOLON LONDON, Dec...
...The saving of this operating expense (again, for which the public pays) has not been passed on to the public in reduced prices...
...That would be a strategy for simpletons...
...In Washington, warring capital of the United Nations, diplomats, government officials, lobbyists and Congressmen—from the labor-hating South to the Tory North—scurried beneath the shadow of the darkened Capitol, rushing to parties, worrying meet over who would "be there" of prestige, power and patronage...
...It is understood that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordeil Hull probably will "Their most likely choice appears to be Sheldon Glueck, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Harvard . . . (he) has been assisting in preparations for establishing of the court, cooperating closely with Marcel Dedaer, chief Justice of Belgian Courts in Britain and chairman of the War Crimes Commission of the London International Assembly...
...It can tie the peoples of the earth together...
...as he reports it: "Perhaps we won't win, but before we lose we'll blow ua Uie:??????1 .?-" The diplomatic'commem&BSn «*ea new Hitler peace move—towards Russia, based on the deadlock on the Eastern front...
...Internationa] directors and advisors must be appointed...
...Of course, Lindley, who has been covering the White House since 1933, knows (or he could find out by reading the Wage and Hour Act) that there is no such thing as "the 40-hour week...
...V • The contempt with which H. Li Mencken stourg-ed the cultural babbits of~a generation *p» might well be reserved today for our "beral rabbits...
...The New York Daily News, owned by the Patterson, McCormick interests, already have begun to fire upon the international project...
...London is cheerful and optimistic—despite the flurry of Christmas profiteering which has jacked "the price of the simplest toys up to ten and twenty dollars, the price of grapes to sixteen dollars a pound, roses at a dollar each, and the mark-up on liquor soaring hourly...
...The Nazi short-wave radio is known to have planted many stories of "dissatisfied generals" in both Germany and Italy...
...This was immediately interpreted as part of the efforts to paint the war as an administration conspiracy...
...Evidence of the forces supporting this drive, exposed in last week's New Leader, was seen by newspapermen here in the use of Cissy Patterson's Times-Herald as the mouthpiece for the Wheeler group...
...But what worries them is the failure of Allied leadership to capitalize on the popular, democratic, and radical feelings of the Italian masses...
...That has made some impression up on a few members of certain neutral governments...
...The only alternatives, if only one trucker is used, are that a man drive those behemoths 24 hours, or that the truck stand by the side of the road losing time and delivery schedules while the driver sleeps and rests...
...Other departments Thomas would con-lolidate and then cut...
...first victim, apparently, is to be the Wage tai Hour Act...
...Any doubt of the-attitude of Lindley's article, however, is made clear for the dullest when he continues—this time without passing the buck to anyone else: "The full use of manpower is held back by the 40-hour week and by various union restrictions of the 'feather-bed' variety...
...Tfcomoi Drews the Blueprint Earlier this week, Rep...
...Note: A very funny story England, no doubt.] . . . Hearty greetings...
...The picture may shape up soon: The next step is the creation of blueprints for the proposed council...
...The Italian people, and this is incontrovertible, hold the Italian king as responsible for the crime of Fascism as ? Duce himself, and after the war they want neither...
...However, the fact that he did omit reference to the Orient can be definitely interpreted as the result of long consultations over the text...
...counterattack to harrass the administration...
...also that of Britain's dominions and India...
...That, he said, was a •wtter he was going to leave entirely up to ?00...
...and when the time came discovered he loved goose too much to eat it, so the family had roast spam...
...It is now revealed what vain delusions such Mgaments have been...
...As a private citizen, Mr...
...Everywhere people were waiting for the day of post-war security, of freedom from want, of the end of fear of being useless, because there were no jobs...
...This, however, it is widely felt here, is not an incidental defect in foreign policy, but is apparently part and parcel of a diplomatic game which "has been played too long...
...That's practical politics — concealed repeal without the onus...
...Speed Campaign to Probe Justice Dep't Isolationists Threaten Expose of 'Secret Plot Documents'^^J Special Correspondence WASHINGTON.—A campaign to stop the public trials of 2» initiated jrs A vim gandists was speeded this week by the Anti-British bloc in Congress- when they threatened to expose "secret documents" allegedly proving the indictments as a "Jewish plot" against America First Committee isolationists...
...The decline of Axis prestige in Europe is reflected not only in the Axis occupied areas but also in unhappy satellites like Finland, Rumania, and Hungary...
...And even if the higher wages now earned by many workers are not much if any above what our national economic machine, working at capacity, can afford, they represent a marked change in relationship to other groups...
...The newspaper, which is owned by the Patterson-McCormick interests allied with the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune ,was long active in the pre-war efforts to keep America from aiding the enemies of Germany...
...When Westbrook Pegler does things like that, there is no occasion for surprise, whether it be ascribed to ignorance or maliciousness...
...Urtty Opens Anti-Labor Parade WHhin the past ten days, two Washington f°k»niets closely identified with the Admin-¦»«tion have aimed attacks on labor...
...Further conjecture would be futile now...
...Nebraska, one of the 28 indicted, obtained large numbers of them in which were copies of Hoffman'* speech entitled "Roosevelt Is a Judas...
...Everywhere in France—-in the underground's headquarters, in the defiant cities and peasant cottages—they wondered over expediency, Darlan, de Gaulle, and how soon the Cross of Loraine would fly above the heads of the people who had chosen "peace at any price...
...For instance, the trucking unions succeeded, years ago, in gaining an agreement that not fewer than two men should operate a truck...
...It is certain that such a course would solve the President's most pressing problem—that of avoiding a fourth term bid and yet retain the right to sit in on the eventual peace conference with the prestige and influence...
...A typical toast in the pubs is "Berlin and Tokyo by next Christmas f All this is in marked contrast to what is happening in Axis Europe...
...drooling over since November...
...Had be been speaking for himself he would not have overlooked the subject, it is reliably reported...
...26 (Delayed)—It is a merrier Christmas in England this year, a merrier holiday than it has been since the war started...
...IifiWTey says "the unions have come near to isolating themselves from the sympathies of other groups" and offers as one solution "abolishing union rules which prevent the most efficient use of manpower, and working out some . modification of the 40-hour week...
...The London Newe-Ckronicle writes, "What is certain is that while for public consumption German propaganda still sticks to the crusade against Bolshevism formula, highly-placed Nazis have been plugging this peace with Russia, and then a knock-out in the West...
...note) was the so-called Union for Democratic Action...
...Why should the worker take a wage cut on every-other-day delivery...
...The chief obstacle to the immediate planning for an international tribunal and police forces is the crystallization of American public opinion in the face of opposition from the strong isolationist coalition of Wheelerite Congressmen and MeCormick newspapers...
...the Council's power must be delimited...
...The Wheeler drive is believed to be inspired by the fear of America First leaders, whose organization has functioned underground, in Washington and New York, that a public trial of the indicted advocates of American Fascism will expose undeniable links between them and the isolationists...
...I have talked with a Frenchman Just over from France and he reports that the Gennaer "There are generally pessimistic...
...Such disclosures would further reveal that the America First group in and out of Congress were either willing or innocent dupes of the fascist network, parts of which are known to have planned to seize the U. S. government...
...With a tory Congress thirsting for Jest such an opportunity, of course, the President's decision in this respect has an ominous Bound...
...Informed persons know that Wallace feels strongly that India should be "freed" from British control...
...The fact is that a Wage and Hour Division Without...
...Pearson also complained that when the usual local daily delivery services to the public on such things as milk,* bread and laundry were cut to every-other-day service, the teamsters demanded "the same pay, regardless of decreased work...
...THE FACT IS THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE HOURS THAT CAN BE WORKED UNDER THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW OR ANY OTHER LAW...
...Robert A. Taft and Robert R. Reynolds, chairman of nW Senate Military Affairs Committee, are ceev sidered by many as the brain trust behind the new campaign against the administrationSenator Nye has been keeping in close touch with certain former America First organiser, ta whom he has reported his deep regret that the Committee was dissolved...
...Possibly, but hard to accept when for the price of a phone call he could have been informed that two truckers are required on long hauls because while one sleeps the other drives...
...The AFC bloc also planned to seek an investigation of lend-lease...
...Wallace, London Proposals Seen As FDR Bid for World Council Leadership Plan Avoids 4th Term Dilemma, Permits FDR Role at Peace Table By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leadbb WASHINGTON—Parallel proposals from London and this capital, this week, for the creation of a strongly armed international council to guard the poet-war world has been interpreted here by liberal and government circles as a possible clue to President Roosevelt's future activities...
...Speaker Sam Ray-burn, of Texas, is said to have called Attorney General Biddle and told him that there would be an investigation of the Justice Department if members of Congress should be indicted...
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