North African Political Muddle Obscures Royalist Intrigues
LASKY, MELVIN J.
North African Political Muddle Obscures Royalist Intrigues Count of Paris Linked to Mystery of Darlan Killer By MELVIN J. LASKY Confusion in North Africa wae confounded by intrigue this week as...
...Yes, it has given the former owners cash or government stock in exchange...
...During this basic training the young peopl« will be subjected to various teats by tbe Army, to determine whether they shall continue then...
...The Navy, on the other hand, permits its reserves to continue their studies as long as may be necessary, provided they maintain themselves creditably...
...Italian Socialist leaders in New York deride the story of the conference...
...military training or return to college under military control...
...Originally set up as an independent agency when A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement demanded action, the FEPC was shorn of its independence a few months ago and placed under the control of McNutt...
...Apart from these exchanges of capital, the vested interests which con trol the national production at home have steadfastly refused to part with individual control of their capital...
...The man in Britain, Laski says, who has had the moat extensive contact with "the German mind" through his tnu-time work with war prisoners has never once 99...
...One unofficial report partly filled* the breach with the news that his initials were...
...Bare Fascist Plot to Smear Anti-Nazis Evidence of a plot by native American pro-fascists to form an organized political movement to be inaugurated shortly by a smear campaign against anti-Nazi groups and leaders throughout the United States, has been revealed by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League...
...Now, according to reports on recent Italian events, the Fascists have restored to Prince Umberto the title of heir to the Italian throne...
...Much of the cumulative effect of continuous and sustained work in both the Army and the college will be diminished...
...McNutt Halting of FEPC Probe Brings Protests By GEORGE SHQRl WASHINGTON, D. C—Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt this week cracked down on the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) by cancelling the public hearings scheduled January125-27 which were to have investigated discriminatory practices in the railroad industry...
...James said that a man making $100,000 a year in Russia would have more left after he had paid taxes than a man making the same amount in Canada...
...Baptist Church...
...Rather the reverse...
...The concentration of industry scheme, which Mr...
...Latin) Discharged soldiers of the Roman Army who were paid to be idle on the basis of numbei of kids bred...
...Dictaphonic recordings of attempts by a secret agent to bribe...
...DiscountComintern Propaganda for Partisan Forces in Italy/ Germany By MURRAY EVERETT A new Communist "popular front" drive to secure recognition for allegd Communist underground forces in the formation of post-war governments was seen in several Communist moves over the past month...
...One root of the difficulties is that Algiers has become a political open-house offering golden opportunities to almost every adventurer in French national life...
...In the first place, they point out, underground work is so organized that few units have contact with any other units, or know who are in the underground in other units...
...that will quicken its efforts towards decisive military victory...
...The plot moved ahead on several fronts: 1. Secret investigators were employed to spy upon pro-democratic and anti-Nazi organizations, in a dual attempt to discover what information they possess concerning anti-democratic activity, and, in addition, to obtain any data upon their membership, which could be twieted into a smear campaign against all anti-fascist forces...
...Chief speakers will be James Carey of the CIO, A. Philip Randolph...
...Fourthly, it- is considered significant that genuine independent underground groups, such as the Justice and Liberty groups and other independent radical groups were not mentioned...
...It is...
...The Army knows its absorptive capacity of men and women...
...But preparations must also be made for a well adjusted life in the days of peace that are to follow...
...II Duce has apparently been concerned about Allied reports of the House of Savoy's availability as "a Darlan...
...While the Communists have played little role in the Italian underground lately, it si considered significant that Communist forces in America have sought to pass resolutions in various Italian-American groups, hailing the conference at Milan...
...Never used in the labor movement, but a standby of Socialist claptrap...
...Russian -propaganda, in practice, apparently draws no line between the German people and their rulers...
...School Needs *r Or...
...There has been no shifting of power from the big capitalists to the small in the control of the national wealth...
...In Africa, however, a rather powerful machine has been built up, and the consensus of rumors has it that the young killer of Darlan was in its pay...
...The recent fight with the coal owners was on tbe issue and the coal owners won...
...In Republican France, of course, the monarchist movement consisted of a salon or two, a few journals, a handful of intellectuals, Lfon Daudet, and the blue-bloods...
...Gerasaas and Nazis RESPITE Prof...
...I felt I could make little contact with these until at a most casual reference to Hitler, they most disconcertingly stood up, clicked their heels and shouted 'Heil Hitler.'" "What are we going to do with this kind of mentality after the war...
...THE rich are growing poorer and the poor * becoming richer," groan Britain's wealthy class as they face the year's tax loads...
...That, apparently, is "revolution by consent...
...Those who are thus returned to college after their basic training will pursue an accelerated program of studies and may lose much that they derived from their thirteen weeks of military life...
...Rntsiams amd Marxism QTUDENTS of tbe lately fashionable study of symbols must find intriguing the constant emphasis of the Soviets on national defense, patriotism and past history in a war whose entire keynote has been mainly ideological...
...These boys will have to make new adjustments in new institutions...
...WL KUt*M* President of Queen* College [Br...
...Appeals for underground groups is the likely tactic of the Communists here seeking to effect United Fronts with democratic anti-fascist groups...
...it doesn't offer bread and butter...
...The British press, reflecting perhaps the whole of British public opinion, has been uneasy and bitter over "the curious patchwork of news" 'and "the political stench" which it is attempting to cover...
...The former owners of this capital will have merely received claims on our future wealth which will be honored to the same extent as before, except insofar as a rise in replacement costs diminishes their real value...
...3—That a significant rapprochement with Prince Umberto has been thus sealed...
...Joad's experience with *· German variety of Rossman's Univermd} Robots, there is every indication that a succesafnl military policy could not really succeed unless implemented with an intelligent propaganda and action program...
...Its work hitherto restricted to single plants or localities, the FEPC was now striking out at one of the most flagrant areas of job discrimination...
...Mussolini has-been quite specific in his orders on the question...
...They too point out the difficulties of organizing' a conference and state that if such a parley did take place, what likely happened in regular Communist-front style, various Communists masqueraded as representatives of Catholic, Socialist and other groups...
...This "social revolution" is debunked, however, by Nicholas Davenport in the Sew Statesman and Nation, Analyyzes unorthodox economist Davenport: "The very rich remain just as rich and powerful as before, for the simple reason that they retain their capital and their hold on the national wealth...
...One of the Budget White Papers gave the extent of these drafts on private capital in 1940 and 1941 totalled 2 billion 336 million pounds (roughly over 11% billion dollars) for overseas and home disinvestments...
...The heavy censorship is making for a dangerous kind of "secret journalism" about the North African mysteries which is having serious political repercussions...
...A New York Times editor called the latter a royalist, although Axis broadcasts hjave been sedulously spreading the story of his deGaul-list connections...
...It must be hard for the Soviet rulers to raise the slogan: a war against totalitarianism...
...Labor and Negro groups protested this move at that time, asserting that the FEPC would lose what little powers it -had...
...All the British journals certainly indicate trouble ahead...
...The Army plan threatened to interrupt the continuous flow of ability towards the profession upon which every society depends...
...The Atlantic Charter is too vague to be dangerous...
...Indicative of the extent to which the present rulers of Russia have gone was the government decree but week ??-introducing the Oxarist epaulet into the Red Army...
...They will take a course of study whose length and content are also to be determined by the military authorities...
...Gideons« and Professors M. C. Otto and \Y...
...From the subtle and devious whisperings that is Washington "inside" gossip, it is understood that tbe FEPC has become an administration stepchild...
...the contract between the union and the roads provides for the easing out of Negro firemen on the new runs and a clause barring Negro firemen from ¦ Diesel engine trains...
...A bizarre plot, which might have been part of an Alfred Hitchcock scenario, was unfolded through 54 recordings and a score of assembled affidavits of witnesses...
...Embroidered gold and silver shoulder stripes 'will replace the present collar bands...
...Common Wealth is sniffed at as a potential danger to German spiritual leadership—and discarded...
...How and why the Count of Paris—descendant of eight Bourbon kings, and who_ would be Henry V—maneuvered out of Axis-controlled territory into the Allied African headquarters is open to many suspicions...
...We realize, of course, that the primary duty of able-bodied young men is to contribute effectively to an early and decisive military victory...
...The German propaganda apparatus is a meticulously constructed machine...
...But II Duce, in the expansion of the totalitarian state, refused to concede that any power at all could decide major any power at all could decide major shifts in upper Italian councils without the approval of the Fascist Grand Council...
...These fears have repeatedly been proven justified and are undescored by McNutt's action this week...
...3. An attempt will be made in Congress by certain "isolationist" members to "investigate" the Department of Justice for its action in indicting 32 individuals and many organizations and publications for sedition, on the grounds that the prosecutions were the results of "pressure" by patriotic organizations...
...this is to prevent infiltration by the OVRA, Italian secret police...
...This we must grant as basic or we have no background against which to evaluate the plan...
...An item in Harold LaskiV Lor...
...The situation, in effect, is this: more than 2,000 Negro firemen were employed on Southern railroads when the work consisted of the heavy, back-breaking labors of shoveling coal into the steam engines...
...A newsreel from Leningrad shows captured Germans being marched through a street lined with jeering and threatening crowds while women and children spit on the prisoners...
...The net effect is to oust these 2,000 Negro firemen from their jobs...
...Meanwhile the mystery of the Darlan murder is still the subject of speculation...
...Reports have involved him in an alleged monarchist plot against the late Admiral Darlan...
...Tbe knowledge which college authorities have of their students will perforce be est...
...Duce Restores Umberto as 'Grown Prince' LONDON.—Umberto of Savoy, only son of King Victor Emanuel, is^ once again "Principe Eredi-tario" — Crown Prince of Italy, with a legal title to the throne which Mussolini's Fascist Empire has not recognized in fifteen years...
...Said the Army newspaper Red Star: "Thai epaulets were the traditional ornament of the...
...Gone are the appeals to "solidarity" and "fraternisation...
...Here is an item from the worker's glossary printed by the Industrial Worker: "Proletarian...
...Secondly, the close surveillance over travel and workers makes it exceedingly difficult to organize an illegal conference...
...These included announcements of alleged underground united-front conferences in Italy and Germany, and a demand for recognition of the Partisan forces in the Balkans...
...Klapper Sees Military-Civilian PlansAdjustingU.S...
...The railroad investigation was regarded as the first major test of strength of the FEPC...
...Well-known fascists and reactionaries, many of whom were associated with the hated Cagoulards (e...
...Any underground conclave would have to include these groups...
...Military officers, not professional teachers, will determine who should pursue an educational program...
...Both Fenner Brock-way, who climbed into the debate via an exchange of letters with Wells in the British New Leader, and Laski claim that Vansittart's writing are used by Goebbels to unite the German people around Hitler because of the fear Vansittart arouses of a vindictive peace...
...The monarchy and fascism need everywhere to be identified...
...Ion Diary i" The Sev Statesman and Sation brings up this problem from another angle...
...Proletarian Wisdom COR rought-hewn, straight from the * shoulder talk about the labor movement, there are always the salty definitions given by the Wobblies...
...McNutt, by this action, apparently sought to avoid an embarrassing situation for the administration, but he has only succeeded in stirring a tempest that may sweep Negro communities in all sections of the country...
...The psychological requirements are weighed and reassurances molded...
...Our fundamental policy," a correspondent wrote recently from Oran, "is still one of soft-gloving the snakes in our midst...
...The first, and perhaps the most serious charge, that the Army concerned itself solely with probable military needs to the exclusion of civilian welfare, has lost force since the War Manpower Commission took over the control and allocation of all manpower...
...Also of significance is the savage hate that has been generated in Russia against the Germans...
...Under an ICC order these roads were to install Diesel engines...
...that the impoverishment of the civilian life weakens the morale at the front...
...Asserting that free enterprise has not been stifled in Russia, Dr...
...C." Whereupon his name was variously offered as Beauvau-Craon (young son of the late Prince, his mother now in Italy) and as Bonnier de la Chappelle...
...Umberto was to be referred to merely as "the prince of Piedmont...
...But it's an easy target for Goebbels' jibes, and helps him to reassure the German people that they have no rivals for world leadership...
...25-27 hearings were to have revealed the widespread discrimination against colored men on American railroads and was to have spotlighted the situation of 2,000 Negro firemen in what is commonly called the "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" cases, described in last week's New Leader by noted writer and journalist James Rorty...
...the kinds of technical training and resulting skills...
...2. The group, whose backers at present can only be identified as consisting of the " 'America First' clique in Congress and certain influential industrialists," intends to pervert whatever information it has been able to dip up concerning anti-fascist groups into a smear attack, in an attempt to discredit not only these patriotic /groups themselves, but the entire ^"government and war administration as well...
...In a talk to the Italian people recently, Mussolini's chief radio spokesman, Mario Appelius, described the Prince as "Principe Eredita-rio," or Crown Prince...
...The new movement is of first-rate importance...
...Soviethm ia Canada PARENTHETICALLY, it should be noticed *¦ that Communism has gone a longer way in Canada than in Russia—that is a strange conclusion I draw from a speech by Dr...
...We, the legitimate heirs of Russian military glory, take from the arsenaf of our lathery and forefathers everything be* which enhanced martial spirit and stren'ghtened discipline...
...Leak) is properly indignant...
...nets among salaries of factory managers that are greater than in any other country af the world...
...But, you say, the Government has requisitioned securities and stocks of materials...
...The Jan...
...All the fine liberal-wns«| Ulk by free-lance statesmen will get absolutely nowhere unless politics pushes progressive tAeu\ into the highest councils and into state practice...
...It is not unlikely that the fascist forces "allowed" the Pretender to cross the lines as "a right-wing troublemaker," on a theory analogous to that of the German High Command's in 1917 which allowed Lenin through to Russia as "a left-wing trouble-maker...
...Last week...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL Revolution by Consent...
...Conferences are held at the ministry and precise information gathered from the heads of social and production ministries...
...We must assume that it will divert a reasonable number of young people of proved ability to preprofessional courses so that physicians, dentists, teachers, engineers, public health workers and research specialists . in sufficient number will be available for civilian needs...
...If, on the other hand, the 'teen age boys were selected for further study by both educational and military authorities, were inducted at once and put into uniform, were left in the institutions of their original choice for as long a time and for such a course of study as would meet military and civilian needs, we would develop the ability resident in youth for service to the entile population...
...It-is likely that Browder seeks to term underground work in these countries as "partisan" to link it with the Communist-led movement in Yugoslavia...
...Quesrioe« ?? the Social Scientist: LJERE is a problem neatly posed by a recent * * London dispatch: Dr...
...The second difference between educational authorities and the Army centers around the announced procedure to take all 'teen age hoys out of the colleges for basic military training...
...A lively debate is on currently in England between Harold LaSki and H. G. Wells on the German problem.' Wells is accused of "Van-sittartism...
...Said Lord Wardington, Chairman of Lloyd's Bank, in the House of Lords: "The so-called rich, after paying their rates and taxes and other inescapable commitments . . . will not have a penny of free income with which to buy a crust of bread.' And Exchequer Chancellor Kingsley Wood says, there are only 32,000 persons with incomes over $10,000 a year...
...Few will deny that an army is no stronger than the civilian support it receives...
...The House of Savoy win now stand or fall with Facsism...
...consulted by the Government on questions either of propaganda or post-war reconstruction...
...E. M. Joad, professor, philosopher and star of BBC's "Brain Trust" program, said the only way he could get a rise out of an audience of German prisoners of war was to mention Hitler...
...From all indications, what the Germans fear most is some vivifying program, such as was offered by Woodrow Wilson, and action that backs it up...
...James, chairman of Canada's post-war commission, added: "There are differentiations in pay among workers m Soviet factories that Canadian trade unionists would not stand for, and there are greater differ...
...According to officials of the Anti-Nazi League, the agent was jonly a "link in a giant network with centers in Washington, Chicago, Detroit and New York...
...The Count of Paris, 34-year-old Henri de Bourbon-Orleans, has been exiled from the Third Republic, and had been----living in Spanish Morocco...
...Knowing this, Goebbels looks anxiously at any statements of Britain's post-war aims...
...They are perfect specimens of physical health and looked almost alike...
...It means: 1—that the Fascists want to include the King and tbe Royal tradition in the desperate national crisis...
...Used by Marx and intellectual snobs to refer to workers...
...Upper's article is s continuation of The New Leader symposium on the Army's educational policies...
...2— That it is probably intended also to strengthen the Army and Navy confidence in the regime, for the high military powers in Italy have been closely connected with monarchist politic...
...That control of ability has happily been centered in a civilian authority that is sensitive to our total manpower needs...
...The Count of Paris, exiled from the Third Republic, apparently moves freely in French North Africa where the laws of the Republic are ostensibly in operation...
...tbe number it can train and transport to' theatres of war and to centers of non-combatant activity...
...g. Pucheu) and Croix-de-feu, are involved in political and administrative operations...
...Social Democratic spokesmen here, in contact with underground work, deny' tbat the Socialist Party was represented as alleged...
...One further [really rhetorical] question, in the light of certain propaganda mffls in this country, would be: Would high morale and fanatical devotion to a social system mean that the system is worthwhile...
...The name of the 22-year-old assassin, who was promptly and secreffy disposed of, is still withheld...
...Negro groups, incensed at the raw treatment, are organizing a protest meeting in Washington on January 24 at the Vermont Ave...
...If the campaign is going to go wrong, it won't be the first time in history that a snake would be assigned responsibilty for a fall...
...H. Kilpatrick discussed these plans.] ?FIE plan of the War Department for the utilization of tbe colleges and universities has been subjected to various degrees of criticism which range from mild disapproval to the charje that it has sounded the knell of the libera} arts...
...Both extremes err, naturally, in opposite directions...
...known that diplomatic pressure has been exerted to secure Allied recognition of the Partisans in place of General Mikhailovitch...
...It is known that the Pretender's cousin and advance-agent, Charles, Due de Nemours, has been in steady contact with both Petain and Berlin...
...Observers were startled by the revelation that the Count Of Paris, pretender to the French throne, is now in Algiers...
...While plugging the Milan conclave the Communists are seeking to become an internal part of the Italian-American committees and to effect "united fronts...
...Now Jacques Peyrouton, notorious Vichy minister, is angling for an Allied bid...
...North African Political Muddle Obscures Royalist Intrigues Count of Paris Linked to Mystery of Darlan Killer By MELVIN J. LASKY Confusion in North Africa wae confounded by intrigue this week as news leaked out of the amazing role of Royalist power-politics behind the lines -of the Anglo-American-French united military front...
...The situation is similar in the German' scene...
...Joad asks...
...Cyril James, head of McGill University, who told Canadians that "free enterprise has not been completely done away with in Russia...
...Lost and forgotten are echoes of the slogans of October or even simple democratic slogans of today...
...Correspondents have suggested, through a heavy political censorship, that the Royalist forces are not to be discounted in this connection...
...The Army thus introduces a gap in the studies of its young people, a aap filled by work not related to their studies...
...With the assumption of responsibility by tbe War Mmpower Commission for the allocation of manpower to both military and civilian services, corrective measures may be expected...
...Umberto was, of course, born as the legitimate heir to his father, reigning sovereign of Italy...
...Several weeks ago a Communist news agency announced that an underground conference had been held at Milan, Italy, in which participated representatives cialist Party, Catholics and dissident fascists...
...In a recent speech Earl Browder, Communist Party chieftain, claimed that the United Nations must recognize the activity of "partisan groups," in Poland and France as well that of Yugoslavia...
...gallant Russian Army...
...They gave me the impression that nothing was going on behind their nasklike faces," Joed said in describing his speech :o 150 Nazi prisoners...
...When Picture Post publishes a series, The Silent Revolution, dealing with the New Britain, Jhe Berliner Boersen-Zeitung attacks it under the title of False Passports, inferring that in Britain progressive views are a masquerade for reaction...
...Geoffrey Parsons, jr., London correspondent for the N. Y. Herald Tribune, has gone so far as to say that "there is a definite and dangerous possibility of a serious disagreement between the U. S. and Great . Britain over North African policy...
...Completely unaware that the League had been apprised, from the beginning, of his at-tempts to bribe League employees, " James C. Dunn, the agent, who has worked with Joe Kamp, took them into his confidence and talked for hours of the plans of his employers to develop a native Fascist movement based, according to the League, upon the presumably defunct "America First" Committee, the remains of pre-war pro-appeasement elements...
...And the tip-off is the anxiety-displayed by the Nazi propaganda ministry-Comments a writer in the British New Statesman and Nation: "The greatest moral stimulant for the Germans is the feeling they are creating a new order in which they will be paramount...
...Those selected for further education will not be returned to their colleges but to institutions selected by the Army...
...Last week the Communist news agency reported a "German underground" conference in the Rhineland at which representatives of various parties issued an anti-war appeal...
...McNutt's order stopped it cold...
...This alleged conference issued a manifesto printed here...
...of blaming the German people as well as Hitler for the war...
...that the war today must be conducted with more than a casual glance at society in the immediate post war years...
...The step was hailed as restoring to the Red Army Russia's military tradition*, increasing authority and strengttecing discipline...
...Oliver Lytteton launched when he was President of the Board of Trade, has undoubtedly had the effect of driving many small firms into the arms of the big combines...
...Under OWI encouragement Italian-American groups have united into community committees, in several of which the Italia* Communists play an influential role totally disproportionate to their numbers...
...League representatives to steal information from its files concerning individuals indicted by the government for sedition and for attempting to undermine the morale of our armed forces are in its possession...
...Today we turn to the young women of our country and to their brothers who cannot meet the physical requirements for military activity to continue the liberal arts studies which constitute the major part of all preprofessional preparation...
...In several of these committees Communist front spokesman have pushed resolutions endorsing the "Milan conference" and manifesto...
...Thirdly, Italian Socialists, in contact from abroad with underground Socialist groups, the largest in Italy, say that the Socialist underground would not join with the Communists...
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