No Voice Was Heard The Shame of a World
LASKY, MELVIN J.
No Voice Was Heard The Shame of a World By MELVIN J. LASKY When the appeal was made for the approval of several thousand nave visas for fleeing Jewish children, the British minister refused .,...
...But how can you have a showdown with ignorance and fear and the corruption of the bureaucratic mind...
...If small countries, one of them under...
...He's m power and btX rine...
...The °^J«*^J^--—tends to stay there...
...The adwsrtasiiay eeang dame at public eapamn was devoted to proving hew wonderful the corporations were in supplying our troops, a yob that labor knew it had mere Ann a shale to do with...
...Speaking m ma office ina bniifah century fortress, be said flatly that Allied press and propaganda, and Allied food is necessary to stop Italy from going "conunumst...
...Goldilocks WHIfcJe oad fan Seers WENDELL Willkie is tearing through the " Republican movement . like a great Bull Moose...
...Every promise had become a hollow, empty hope...
...From Sweden, too, came a VjfEe, and a hand of help...
...Labor had not only these concrete blows to think about, but it also was doing deep thinking about the clamor of the money boys for "incentive reward*" In the *__- > VZ-l.---^.—---» - - 1 - . ., form of high "profits and salaries, about the successful drive of the corporations to have Congress rescind the $25,000 ceiling on executive salaries (after payment of all taxes) over the opposition of President Roosevelt, and about general bad management in the major defense production areas...
...After every war...
...These "rabbis" were never to come to America...
...Hopkins ' 'joined the army of the Tories...
...For* jmaia everybody had deluded himself with glimpse* of success, fallen over with gratitude for a few phrases of sympathy and pitg from high places...
...Nasi occupation, the other under the shadow of a Nazi power, can do this much, surely we can do more than make sympathetic speeches about the problem...
...Breckenridge Long discovered that the State Department and the government " already had sufficient committees to deal with tke matter...
...War Department regulations covering terminations of contracts* the Controller General said, "ban all the appearance of having been nut forward hy special pleaders for industry...
...Shipping and shipbuilding interests have just finished a conference to organize a strong maritime lobby fo^ subsidies and other forms of protectionism...
...The continent has become a vast cemetery for a whole people...
...Those who favor a more rampant and swashbuckling (and, incidentally, political) imperialism, opposed to the Lippmann-Willkie conceptions of post-war - economic imperialism, are shouting lustily fo* a strong merchant marine...
...In "the last decade one of its main...
...America then would be able to sell her large industrial products...
...crutches in evercoming its unfavorable trade balance was the income received from shipping, for most world trade was carried in English bottoms...
...And some of his lusty swipes are hitting the high muck-a-mucks of the GOP...
...Special committees" became "emergency conferences," and "letters of plea" became desperate "mass petitions...
...in the main, by indecisive men...
...They are the most recent and so far the most spectacular instances of a trend that you should keep your eye en...
...The Procurement Division does all the buying for the United States government except that done by the War and Navy Departments...
...Relatives and friends will erg and and remember...
...Danish experience and by the ease with which thousands have fled across the Swiss and Spanish borders...
...PREMIER MARSHAL BAD^^ V?5^and 1940...
...Yon re a hunch of political llebllllius til"*" don't knew what's going en anyway - • • • % . ¦ ^a..~v»t—wM L«|aar oa fht four Freedoms— A Memo fo Labor BUSINESS seems to know when ReomveH is going...
...To no avail...
...Perhaps it is "courage" or "character" or "spirit...
...I'm going to force this to a showdown with the State Department...
...As a result of the bombing the effectiveness of the base was considerably reduced in preparation far further American-Australian offensives...
...Other delegates were to go on similar missions to Spain and Palestine...
...The Jews would die...
...What hurt tin rank and ale of saber ranee, man the letters they can tinned to itosjie frost TliaeSi and relatives on the flahtang flaasnh nuns n ana remarks about strikes and atiaanteaaim It wen obvious from the tone of the letters that eh* absent troops did not know who was aetnafj causing the trouble Ron Lohor Res five Leaders of - fifteen of the ultra-con serrativ* non-operating railroad unions during the went questioned the legal authority of President Roosevelt to ignore the Railway Labor Act and nominate emergency fact-finding boards » adjust wage disputes under the first War Pusun Act...
...His old progresaive outlook waa inspired by an early class antagonism, itself made strong by the inequities of big business...
...On the Labor Front . During the week there were multiplied signs that the rank and file of mfcer was becoming unmanageable under the onslaught of higher prices, higher taxes, worsened living conditions, and an unrelenting attack upon its patriotism and good faith in the daily press...
...Why should contracting officers behave in this fashion...
...But there would be five, not three, million dead, for whom gravestone memorials Will one day have to be erected on the European earth...
...profaned himself "amazed and astounded" at proposed Wsr Department regulations that would not only "encourage collusion and fraud" but would stimulate "extreme generosity" with the taxpayers' money...
...They never left Warsaw alive...
...Little known to the public is the United States General Accounting Office, one of the really valuable government bureaus...
...The hitch, of course, is the position of Great Britain...
...Soon the politicoa would become eloquent and self-righteous...
...The Nazis had suddenly instituted an anti-Semitic campaign of violence in Denmark, and Christian X offered a simple but electrifying counterattack—"// the Germans want to put the yellow Jewish star in Denmark, I and my whole family unit wear it at a sign of the highest distinction...
...While the Marshal was denouncing communism, Comintern leader M. Ercoli was announcing communist support of Badoglio...
...sat just over in the wartime subsidiaries whan ' the Ned Desl was forced to use business men to deal with business men and biari*' ness processes...
...2. Approval, by a 7 to 1 vote, of a resolution before the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee favoring postwar international cooperation by the United States "in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world...
...That is the safeguard against Communism...
...Department appealed for sW«J* TjE^iogic to that appeal...
...Perhaps Eric Johnston's statement, after the fall of Mussolini, calling for a stable and secure government in Italy, finally reached the Marshal...
...seemed to realize that cooperation was advisable...
...5. There has simultaneously been maintained a steady drive to raise consumer prices, ha part already success...
...a king...
...The Jewiwill die...
...On October 14 he gave a remarkable interview to Captain Harry Gregson...
...England today is a debtor nation...
...This trade England has: lost in the war to the United States...
...Some of the alleged rabbis," he thereupon announced, "have never had congregations outside of their own families...
...Andrew Somers hie approval in July...
...And Mr...
...No Voice Was Heard The Shame of a World By MELVIN J. LASKY When the appeal was made for the approval of several thousand nave visas for fleeing Jewish children, the British minister refused ., . ..and explained: "It would make for antionpwiH, • • . When hundred of rabbis flocked to Washington earlier this month to put in a last desperate plea for action to save the Jewish people of Europe, the American statesman met them and greeted them . . . and "squirmed through a ¦diplomatically minimum sintwer...
...2. Maximum prices have been charged the government under the cost-pius-fixed-fee system that permits wholesale padding »f costs, with the result that corporation profits have risen to all-time levels even after the payment of taxes and without taking into consideration record <sums, untaxable, being salted away in the*form of surplus, reserves and depreciation allowances...
...It is really part of a two-agency team, the other member being the important Procurement Division of the Treasury Department Astonishing though it may seem to the average American, who has only slight knowledge about his government, the Treasury Department through its Procurement Division employs engineera, physicists, chemists, biologists, and scientists and technicians in general...
...6. At the same time s campaign has been waged, through newspapers and hireling spokesmen like Cap...
...He had made all preparations to mare for Turkey, and arrange for transit visas and temporary camps with the Turkish government...
...Partly out of fear and ignorance, out of weary everyday conservatism,- and out of a disgraceful moral emptiness...
...The fall committee will now consider the resolution, after which it will be submitted to the Senate...
...The Aihes most help an, in the press and in propaganda, so that Communism does not stand a chance...
...To Hull, international relations have become a flu* demanding, above all...
...Way not fate it...
...Vinstu and James P. Byrnes, Director of the 0m** of War htoswhxatjen, said there was "a grown* behmf among the worker* that labor is Boh* betrayed by these hi authority ia WaaMsaesU He quoted from a letter written by a anapt member which mud that sentiment of the ann* bership was turning net only against the ddnunistxation but against the leadership of uw union...
...But there must be a two-way passage, Lippmann argues, and other nations must be allowed to send us goods they can make best...
...it: $h«t ' Tr*»y »*».-.-',.,0 Woath or Vase on I wtporiaiism IF you intend holding up a wet finger to test the winds of American imperialism, keep your weather eye ojen to the big push launched by American shippi ng interests to keep s large merchant marine softer the war...
...Nobody in the refugee-rescue movements cherishes any illusions...
...Lippmann insists that America can only play a dominant role in the world if it overrides particular- interests and profit-grabbing groups and seeks to build a world economy through free trade...
...jfjfi' "I think the ram-around being, given us," Soman said, "contrasts shamefully with the courage shown recently by the governments of Denmark and Sweden in facilitating the escape of 90 per cent of the Danish Jews from a Nazi roundup...
...He reported that "his auditors...
...6. Unexpected farther gains by the Russians beyond the Dnar>er River near DnSepersctroTsk...
...Its function is to audit government ac. • 1 - . J! -1--- -----------i___.J______ counts in order to disclose overpayments and improper payments...
...Who knows how many we could have rescued by now if our delegations had been permitted to proceed...
...Sforza toektB As a simple military fe?f<*?^1?^n.t^tay put...
...It is the job of these hardworking public servants to examine Diesel engines, boilers, buildings, widgets, gadgets and thingumabobs delivered under contract to the government to see if they are up to specifications...
...But to American conservatives longing for "order and security," the "us" is unmistakable...
...Semen and his parties...
...Bat then Mr...
...To the Marshal, "communism," is anything to the left of him...
...Badoglio didn't provide the referent for "us" when he asked for Allied help...
...In the last fojjr years, however, we have become the greatest maritime nation on earth...
...He began to see the cause of national security through their spectacles...
...valet services, free barbecues and public entertainments, maternity expenses, cost of dog transportation, pay in one individual case far 41 hours work in a single day, as well as duplication of payments on the same items...
...There they set the stage for the tremendous war-time financial killing that put the American corporate system on Easy Street When the war ended such war-time government officials began to turn up in highly paid jobs with the corporations they had helped, and most of them were recognized as pillars of society in their communities until the economic ebb of the 1930's exposed a good many of them definitely as common criminals...
...A shrewd estimate of the President's alter age is made by W. D. Herridge, former Canadian minister to this country, in his recent book called Which...
...As to the thunderous press attack upon it labor knew that the press, fighting against further curtailments of newsprint which would release manpower and transportation for the war effort was groaning with a record total of advertising placed by corporations having no goods to sail currently to the general public And labor knew that by arraateaeat math the government the corporations mane assessed to include their advertising coots with other costs charged to the government and the people, ha abort saber tumor that tan press campairs against It warn being mailing indirectly, with gsvtrastont money...
...The battle, apparently, is on...
...3. New equipment paid for by the government to the tune of billions, has been made avialable en essy terms to the corporations...
...The issue apparently is simpler After the last war we scrapped our merchant fleet and were caught terrrbljy abort at the onset of this one...
...Why have the leaders of Allied governments responded the way they have...
...ah and to slough off the major portion of the wartime tax burden onto the shoulders of the general public in the form of higher taxes en lew incomes or a general sales tax running as high as IS per cent...
...the talent for anaage meet and negotiation that are popularly ascribed to the business man...
...There was a time when there were giants, a time when there were Miltons and Jeffersons and Heine*, and Garrisons and Mazzinis and Zeiss...
...The offer was plain md unequivocal: "We will admit and give asylum to all fleeing Danish Jews...
...In 1917 and 1918 corporation executives with suspicious alacrity responded to the national call and overran all the government agencies that had to do with the placing of orders and disbursing of money...
...The handful of survivors would perish at a dozen borders, hostile and tight Oh, they would get their obituary notices...
...Whitney, in a message to Mr...
...The latest choice* for se>" «it ion* of power in government an pminhr something more than necessities of war production...
...If taudltfanu are toe had and they are without hope, they turn to left raMaW than right!™ th"M*lT<* *° "The left offers appsi lenities for quick rises...
...Why has the movement to save the Jewish people been such an utter farce...
...And in his interview Badoglio used "communist" and "left" interchangeably...
...An 8-cont-an-hour wage increase awarded aw non-operating employees had been denies by Mr...
...The War Department methods, he continued, would cost taxpayers "untold billions of dollars," aa they prevent the detection of fraud which, he said, be believed the regulations would be used to hide...
...The British received a crude idea of American intentions when Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery of jjthe War Shipping Administration told an audience ef British shipping men that America intends to become a maritime nation after the war" and stay one...
...Edward Ktckeabeeker and West break Pegler...
...It appeals to passions which are predominant when people are ha a state of flux...
...It's cms that Moscow seems to have taken to heart...
...Not only did the biar raipoisliiam admit in their advertising that they were tan real heroes of the wsr but they rawii—|j proclaimed it By the Hithrrian method of iipatstiiia they wen out to establish the belief firmly » the public mind, while their editorial henchmen devoted tnsmaolvtt to smearing kabeu...
...I hope the Allies will give the Italian people the minimum which is necessary to sustain life...
...Thht note ia struck in -an editorial in ftmnuni Week, at October 9, which recently made ta •alliance" with the Committee for FraninaU Development Said the editors...
...P.S...
...believed to have seriously retarded German hail-bearing ptsmtilieu A total of ?d Ameriean bom beta and 5*3 fliers were tost hi the a----k owing to effective sir and groaned defenses...
...Our members now feel that the gessn moat has deserted labor and pertkutsrW railroad labor, the beat friend the Administration hi Washington ever had...
...Vinson's alleged refund to reveal the recommnedation of a third faatfinding board in the case of the Pacific EhUtrfc Company employees, in the jurisdicthw of a* union...
...Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotov represents Russia...
...Commenting on Sforxa's suggestion for a Cromwellian army," Badoglio remarked in a deprecating manner: "I think Sforza has been too long absent from Italy to have any great following...
...In a recent conference with McGrawHill editors, Secretary Hull laid strong emphasis on the manner in which political effects follow economic causes and in which economic problems have become irrti itwhnd with the affair* of the state...
...The United States is represented by Secretary of State Cordell HulL highest American official ever to visit Russia, and England is represented by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
...Cordell Hull had given Sep...
...to sou etch tke only source of wppasitien to the large a sole economic admaan movement directed against the American sunups That single source ably confused and ntvutsd under the impart of war mad hambeapped lurtasi it is led...
...The appointment of Edward R. Stettirus as Under-Secretary of State, of Lea T. Crowley aa Foreign Economic Admass, trator, and of W. Averell Hamman at * Ambassador to Moscow didn't just happen...
...His attitude te reform was shaped by sentimental influences...
...They also questioned the authority of Prut M. Vinson, Director of Economic Stabinzaaua, to direct specific rulings on wage disputes, sua some of the leaders declared Vinson had "tocome the Robert Ley of the Ameriean Laser Front which is now almost the same as tat German Labor Front" These were strong words to come free* so conservative a group and rosea.ad she rising doubts not only concerning govern meat sets in general toward labor bat aw intentions of the President as weU...
...supposedly was recofpumg r cist armies in Eth*rp* and Greece in ^ m m hig Commona speech appeS by the Allied powers aa a mil tary wer^ h#fV in this country the IS to the laboritea and liberalsJ^jW^Sie...
...e"War, he thinks, is one of the times in which the New Seal could profitably fade away...
...Perhaps Russia has taught the President that hard-headedness is the final mv son of all revorataons...
...Business men, such as these three, any moving up in the New Deal Administration, i« placing New Dealers as they go The/ are moving up in the main office new...
...The Road to Easy Street What seemed to be the case was that the pattern of World War I was being duplicated...
...Many of the War Department's contracting officers, he said, were of "proved inefficiency" and were "golfing, wining and dining with contractors and fraternizing so' cially with them to an extent that they an becoming over-liberal...
...But the United Nations appeared to be united in a program of sympathetic mumbojuntbo and do-nothingism...
...The Turn of Events - A Review of Global Fronts The Road to Easy Street Before the House Military Affairs Committee last week came Controller General Lindsay G. Warren, head of the General Accounting Office, to* oppose legislation asked for by the War Department to free itself of supervision by the General Accounting Office, legislation which, if adopted, would be a grave blow against the interests of the American people...
...This view was summed up in a series of five articles some months ago called Totoar^e an Economic Foreign Policy...
...Bnt these are spirits out of dim, past, lost centuries...
...G.i Howland Shaw could find no transportation facilities at all for Sep...
...Marry Hopkins—from Left to tic at /V* a more personal level, take the ease ef Barry Hopkinj...
...Taken as another detail in the general pattern of events today on the industrialfinancial front the Controller General's testimony was useful as showing that there is a constant forward drive for in-gotten loot at public expense by the same elements that have looted daring every one of oar wan...
...The pattern, as disclosed to date, is in general outline as follows: 1. The vast balk of government contracts have been concentrated in LM of the largest corporations under the guidance of the War Production Board and the War and Navy Departments, all of them smarming with former corporation executives now employed by the government...
...4. Deliveries of faulty goods nan in many instances token place and there ban been convictions for fraud for which the ceurto have banded out right slaps en the wrist...
...were somewhat shocked at his bluntness, but...
...Kind of Resolution, a plea for an economy of sbanrlanreii "Take Harry Eopkins," writes Herridge...
...aa a unity gesture afaiaat the Nes...
...Tke Army Wants a Free Hand In support of his contention that the War Department merited" closer scrutiny perhaps than any other government agency, the Controller General on Monday cited for the Military Affairs Committee 270 specific instances in which the War Department contracting officers (who an mostly peace-time corporation .executives now functioning under cover of Army uniforms) had approved gouging contractors' claims for items such as false teeth, vitamin pills, sanitary napkins, liquor, flowers, community fund contributions, juke boxes, "memory courses...
...For the tarn toward* ¦ Batatas stem bt government administration—a turn to the right that might better be called a tan ta hard-beadednes*—has a global setting, net just a domestic one...
...the Marshal said, "there a? a danger of Ci mm seism People are excited and 1111 mi eight after the distress of wsr...
...Baaiaeae nam art mewing npjn the Admrn»«tr»tK>n...
...The honeymoon with optimism is over...
...raising the eaeotion sf whether the Nazis can hold the Red Army on the present line...
...Vinson, while an inadequate 4-cont-sn-hant increase had been awarded the operating aa> ployees...
...In fact, it wants it mode phut that the trend of business men into key government posts is no accident It is an inaastnhhj necessity of America's moving into the saddle of world leadership, when "hard-headeaneaa* is the touchstone of success...
...4. Heavy bombing of German hall-bearing plants at Sthwthafsrt...
...And the shipping, interests intend that we stay that way...
...There was no suggestion that bribery had taken place nor was there any expectancy that any would be disclosed...
...As far a> our members are concerned, they take f*j pesfulou that the no-strike pledge does net exist any more...
...The frontiers of Europe today are as full of holes as a sieve, as shown by the...
...Nowhere ia all the world* warring for "the common man," was there an official voice with mora] timbre enough to sneak np...
...A whole people was dying ont, and nothing was being done, and nothing was being said...
...Every conference was a flat failure...
...For the root, the terrible shame of a world] will be forgotten...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL BCU1, nannftlJO fbecood wrti-faactat who led the Italian fag...
...not mat as a'lessen in the virtues sf hard-attest ness...
...There is s suspicion that, while the Pear Freedoms may be shining political objectives, they won't keep their ¦bine sauna they an lacquered with a mating of taunt economic doctrine of the kind that baahmw ¦en have learned in the hard school sf reality...
...The question now is, will we penmit England* to regain this revenue ? — Walter Lippmanyi, who plays the prophet role for the new American dominance of the world, insists that America .surrender its maritime role to England...
...L "Crrtaosm of the handling of dm wUpa nurnuneut ia not against you alone eu* asm against the members of the wage oanunnv toe and all other officers eormsctad with »s movement Many of our members feel uw» you, aa president of the breabeihatd, an imrhn-Hng (some men say dcsti tlnf) g» membership because of your uevnowei Pnanu ahip with President Roosevelt" 1. The convocation of the Conference ef Foreign Ministers in Moscow, with military aides amply in evidence...
...England, he says, must be allowed to keep her maritime trade...
...The Ambassador has since learned that many Eawt-Earnpaan rabais spend a lifetime in Tammnmt atadsm» and Jaunty forsake the Torek for congregational week...
...When, in 1940, the names of a host of of Polish rabbis had been approved for visas by Washington, Laurence Steinhardt then Ambassador to Russia, now Ambassador to Turkey, had them cancelled...
...Steinhardt considered the Jewish refugees aa politically dangerous: "there, is reason to believe that they will engage in activities inimical to the United States...
...Louis businessmen which was attended by Republican chief Edgar Monsanto Queeney of the Monsanto Chemical, with whom Willkie has had a heated exchange of letters...
...After his widely-publicized St Louis speech the other day, Willkie attended a private luncheon for St...
...a total of 7,312 enemy planes have been destroyed by United Ststos Army forces ajamst a loss of only 1.PS7...
...Ironically enough, the only cry for elementary justice came from...
...3. Heavy bombing of Rabanl, big Japanese base in New Britain, with resultant leas to the Japanese of nearly 2SO planes...
...Mr...
...Bread will halt a revolution with the great White Father bringing White bread...
...7. Announcement by the Office of War Admiaastrstasa that from t>f ante sf the Peart Bars or disaster to September 1...
...Also reported to be up in arms was est, servative Alexander F. Whitney, p res ideal of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, una was angry about Mr...
...Last week in Washington a Conga—a man sat on his traveling bag, and boiled...
...If we establish rescue camps, the Jews, of Nazi-occupied Europe will find a way to get to them...
...The Ambassador, you see, had investigated...
...For something has gone ont of the world...
...Said Willkie to the^ businessman according to a report by Jack Steele, the Herald-Tribune midwest correspondent: "I don't know whether you're going to support ase or not and I don't give a damn...
...His influence checked the move to HbaraBae the U. S. visa rules for European refugees . «?* Total failure has become total tragedy...
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