The Labor Muddle: Administration Plays Double Game on Wage Rises
The Labor Muddle: Administration Plays Double Game on Wage Rises Vinson Rebuffs Rail Workers While Ickes Woos Miners (From Tke New Leader WasktMften Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C—Three events held...
...For all our peoples united in the fight for the common cause, this organization which has just started its momentous work, is the first effective machinery for peaceful international collaboration which cannot fail, if we are to avoid the greatest of all perils— post-war chaos...
...Sikorski had sought to find oat for two years a boat the fate of the Polish officer...
...They will be •salt with on several planes of category...
...It Includes the ancient Polish towns of Vilna, Grodno, and Lwow...
...It was Vinson who...
...Oamoittfty and Hull That Polish ^Question •y USTOM M. OAK There were no secret agreements made at the Moscow conference, the principles of the Atlantic Charter were not scuttled, and all liberated countries of Europe will be allowed to choose their own forms of government— these are the fiat declarations made by Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, at his press conference on Nov...
...At the other end more than half a million coal miners were seeking economic justice in the shape of a contract under the White House wing—as represented by the 0\d Curmudgeon, Harold Ickes...
...none, of course, is more acutely aware than Mr...
...Italian officers," the official declaration states...
...Such an outcome is not yet beyond the realm of possibilities...
...Even though President Roosevelt, in order to appease the isolationists in Congress, took some pains to explain that UNRRA is not expected "to solve the long-range problems" of European reconstruction, it has become abundantly dear that before the UNRRA Council has tliioliul f«t deliberations in Atlantic City, helping people to rebuild their own economic life will loom just as large as the supply of iinmr mem relief...
...Bat only s semblance of unity...
...If Russia's territorial demands are not in violation of the Atlantic Charter, and in contradiction to the joint declarations signed by the three powers in Moscow, then words have lost their meaning...
...the whale trade union movement is watting...
...out of their war profit*, which according to the OPA War Front* Stadias are now about Mw% above the pre-war level...
...Obviously, it will be a more dramatic event than the meeting of the three foreign ministers al Moscow, and of course it will be much more important As for the place of meeting, the only thing certain is that it will not be in Bassia...
...Actually it does nothing of the sort...
...They an among the "lunaoent bystanders" who got ana over at the atari af the' war...
...Molotov flatjy rejected this proposed plebiscite, Kuh reported...
...Indeed, the impact of life itself might even force the United States agency to formulate and carry out some general projects whose purpose it would be to create favorable conditions for economic security and economic expansion in the post-war world...
...Why remain silent en this question for two yearn...
...For this reason, Mr...
...Soviet Rassis and Great Britain maneuvering for the stellar roles behind the footlights, and the email countries relets ted to the aneviable role of extras...
...The American such we are opposed to her dismemberment hp anybody—whether it be Nazi foe or Soviet friend...
...But it hasn't happened yet...
...The come-on being used by Ickes is the return of the coal mines to private management as soon as a contract is signed...
...The increase was acceptable to the railroad managements and the railway bmUioihoud...
...And it fat earnestly hoped at the State Department that this view will be understood by the heroic Poles and will not be misconstrued by them aa indicating any wlWiiguoos to betray their rfcghta, their sovereignty or the justice of their cause...
...Since than it has been rectified...
...after OPA approved an increase of ceiling prices to sweeten the ooal operators, Ickes came along with a demand for aa even larger increase...
...Hull's private views are in full agreement with those of the main body of liberal thought * « • Armed with some idea of the kinds of enesUem disturbing the minds ef liberals everywhere, I sought the answers from authoritative sources...
...Molotov reiterated Russia's firm position—the borders of the U.S.S.R...
...This is now denied by Hull, who said that this question, like that of Germany's future, will be...
...I wish it were so...
...As the London Economist put it: "The various agencies which will presumably be set up under the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration can become the growing points of such regional services as transport, public utilities, public health...
...In unequivocal language it declares: "They (the United Nations) desire to see no territorial changes that Ae not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned...
...There is much idle speculation as to whether it will be in London, Washington, Cairo, etc One may be sure the location where toe three most important men in the world Wis foregather will be a well-kept secret 2. The boundary and territorial annexation problems disturbing the liberal world are not soluble by any single answer...
...The oppressed and destitute people," said Jan Kwapinsky,, Polish Deputy Premier and Chief Polish delegate to the UNRRA Council meeting, "will follow the activities of the UNRRA with anxious attention...
...in need of repatriation, the task of the UNRRA is indeed apalling in its enormity...
...But maybe the Old Curmudgeon can make the coal miners forget about the Tough Guy...
...Capital Comment future Parleys Will Settle Polish Problems By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—Secretary Hull retarded from Moscow to offer clarification three (toss this week on the terms and spirit of the Moscow Pact There was a press conference Monday, a supplementary statement Tuesday, and on Thursday a report to Congress—which pas broadcast That's an extraordinary lot af talk for Mr...
...As originally transmitted anjl printed in the press throughout the world, the statement gave official sanction to the Russian propaganda version of the *laueater of the Polish officers captured by the Russians when they first invaded Poland in IS 39...
...why did Moscow refuse an investigation by the Red Cress...
...a good omen and one of the reasons for maintaining poise and balance at this point Par there is a good deal of internal evidence that Mr...
...There is awareness hern that anti-Communist Poles in the resist n portion of Poland, particularly, face a real danger 'when Soviet military rule takes over the liberated areas in the wake of the Nazi retreat It is important to ask, what measure af restraint will be placed on the Polish Ccmaratiisti to keep them from completing the bloody efforts of the Nazis to completely wipe out -Hie democratic labor and Socialist movement...
...All wheels of progress had to stop while the Russian delegates, haughty, silent, and disdainful were taking the air on Atlantic City's Boardwalk...
...Equally absent from the conference is the enormous problem of the Jewish people, the first and worst sufferers of Hitlerism...
...Unfortunately...
...Hull feels that the Moscow Pact assets to be "sold" to fe*(i;ato*rican people...
...He said the asm ram would be carried forward by the great body of the people or there wouldn't be a program...
...The next one is tentatively scheduled for shortly after New Tear's Day, or it might be as late as the middle of January...
...After long debates, this plan was modified in the desired direction and under the able and saunter sated generalship of Dean Ana seen and Governor Leh man a semblance af unity was achieved by tbe UNRRA .delegates...
...And matching these two in national importance was the effort to stop the inflationary war profiteers from inserting a ban against food subsidies in the bill extending the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation...
...The U. S. and Br*istr Ambassador...
...The story was related by Alexander Kerensky in The New Leader for Oct 16: Sikorski knew for two years that these Polish officers—7.900 of them—had vanished, presumably *hot by the Red Army...
...It appears to be Ickes' idea to make the rest of the American workers pay for the wage raise ef the coal miners...
...The indications are that the miners will get their contract The only real die-hard in «ig>t "is the Southern Appalachian Operators headed by reactionary ex-Senator Edward Burke...
...it would not have resulted in increased peasssngvr or freight rates and would not have eontrttmted to any increase in the eort-of-living...
...To understand the answer, one must project oneself into -the oi imitation that Sou etary Hull took with him to Moscow...
...They aim uatfhta esatstsy acssutriaa nor allies, although, like many others in that category, they sre friendly to ear cause...
...I am afraid, is the very thing that conference in Atlantic City lacks...
...The Atlantic Charter is not ambiguous...
...had to be satisfied with the leavings...
...United Mine W orkers officials, and some other labor people here, are pretty mad at Prof Wayne L. Morse who for two days held up War Labor Board approval of the contract negotiated between Ickes and Lewis on the ground that it was "contrary to sound public policy" for the WLB to approve the contract "which was negotiated under the duress of a strike...
...One is that the statement was correctly transmitted, but changed afterward in response to indignant protests...
...Naturally Goebbels made full use of the episode for his own purposes...
...Durable peace is alien if not opposed to the Great power tradition...
...In addition there are the tremendous needs of Russia, China, etc...
...The hard feelings are there, all right...
...more on the subject that has awakend • gnat hope for an enduring peace after this ear...
...And, although everyone is agreed that the Moscow Pact is ii* as far aa it goes...
...War Labor Board spokesmen are still going around trying to sell the story that actually John L. Lewis got nothing for the coal miners . . . that they simply are working an hour longer daily and are getting overtime rates of a dollar and a half...
...Dutch, Belgian, or Norwegian hostages, af of Cretan peasants, or who have shared in slaughters tosHctod on the peaplo of Poland or in territories of the Soviet Union . . . will be brought back to the scene of their crimes and jedged an the spot by the peoples whom they have outraged...
...And if America has its way, it will happen...
...Eastern Poland had become Western Ukraine...
...Only after toeahJaa, relations wteh the Polish Government did Moscow deign to toll,the world that they had been engaged in work aa prisoners of war near Smolensk, had been captured by the German* *nd shot If this ia so...
...Bat as Edgar Ansel Mowrer put it succinctly, one thing is certain: durable peace raouisee real international cooperation, and this is hssd to maintain on the Great Power 'basis...
...Nobody, apparently, ts even i snsld* i big making the coal operators take tke increase...
...Frederick Kuh wrote in PM of Nov...
...The question roost frequently ashed heap ia: Why wasn't Stalin tacked down to I lasts thing definite about Poland and the Baltic countries right' new instead af leaving it far the and of the war...
...3. The greatest perturbation in liberal circles •ppears to revolve about the Polish problem...
...With 500 million human beings enslaved by the Axis in need of the barest necessities of life and, according to Governor Lehman's figures, with 20 million dispersed through the four corners of the world and...
...There will be still a third formula for dealing »tth the territorial problems of countries like Italy which started out as our enemies and wound up as fighting co-belligerents...
...Hence they either "slipped one over" on the other signatories, or intentionally made an "error" in transmission...
...Hall went as the representative of America, and it was only proper that he should have werhad full-time far America and only part-time for any ether country no matter how jest its cause...
...But two days earlier Constantine Oumansky, Soviet Ambassador to Mexico, declared in a speech in Mexico City that Russia is determined to hold that part of Polish territory gained on the basis of the Nazi-Soviet deal of September 28, 1939, when the Ribbentrop-Molotov Line partitioned Poland between Russia and Germany...
...they are not subject to discussion: the question cannot be left in abeyance until the war's end...
...Ickes has put real heat on the coal operator* to sign a contract with John L Lewis ineorporhting the raise of $1.60 a day and other benefits ia the government's contract with the miners...
...Perhaps tbe memorandum presented by the Jewish Labor Committee describing the specific needs of European Jewry will prompt the powers that be to think more seriously of the needs not only of the Jews but also of other national minorities...
...That the full publication of the Moscow Pact still leaves the American people unsatisfied and arid for more, offers its own commentary on the "Omissions at Moscow...
...He renewed the demand that the British Government suppress the publication in Britain of anti-Soviet Polish newspapers and periodicals...
...According to certain commentators, our forces are ninety miles from our western border.'* Onaaansky said...
...At the Moscow conference it was Hull who waa the champion of 4he small countries af Bat una, and tbe one who maintained that democratic procedures must be followed in all decisions...
...Hull is aware of and so quickly responsive to the temperature in liberal circles is...
...The consciousness of that fact no doubt, is what has prompted Mr...
...And, of course, there will be that formula of •Biconditional surrender for our enemies...
...And in the American view, there wan another problem which frost an immediate point of view- was stare important to as than the Polish problem or tbe Baltic problem—that of united military action to beat the Nazis and a united front In seeking an tmrrmditinasl surrender It was uafortuaste...
...At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue store than one million railway workers were seeking economic justice under the Capitol dome...
...The yeoman work being done by Ickes to get a decent contract for the coal miners has been so outstanding as to arouse some question ae to whether his conduct does not indicate a break with the White House...
...But the final answer to this prob•Mn cannot be known for some time . . . the end •f the war, to be precise . . . inasmuch as it Involves a controversy between two of our •Mies, both of whom are entitled to the highest, consideration...
...Pending the final parley to settle it after the war, Stalin *» maintaining his claim to Eastern Poland...
...Be the starves af peat-war reconversion and i Lsnsatrpstwn and the threat of an open shop drive led by the more reactionary employers, implemented again, as ia the past, by the one af Negroes who have been denied anion membership, discriminated sgainst, * squeezed eat at tbe bottom, and left to choose between filling bread lines or crashing picket lines...
...Hull, who daily faced that problem himself at the Kremlin, how Both the Moscow Pact leaves undone and unsettled...
...That Mr...
...Thus countries regarded as friendly to Russia received several, and the choicest, posts on committees while the "enemies of the U.S.S.R...
...Properly speaking, the deliberations have just begun...
...are fixed...
...There will be still another formula for dealing with toe territorial problems of the conquered countries who are not regarded as our fighting allies...
...Ickes has hinted, no contract—no mines...
...They didn't appear and speak at the hearings...
...But he remained stem far she sake of cooperation against the common enemy...
...The words "Polish officers" should have read...
...And, it should be added, just as there was sound reason to caution against over-enthusiasm before, so does there appear sound reason to caution now against over-hasty pessimism...
...Why there shcnld, not be a plebiscite in an are* claimed by two countries, the Secretary of State did not make ctear...
...But s clearsighted, long-range objective, outside of the immediate problem of relief...
...There will be a separate formula for dealing with problems involving nations which are our allies Jh actual fighting, such as the Poles, Belgians, Oaten, Norwegians, French, Greeks, etc...
...Behind the Scenes Harmony Rules UNRRA Sessions ffy LffON DENNEN New Leader Special Correspondent ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov...
...had suggested that the 200jh00 inhabitsnts of Eastern Poland be allowed to chonse between Russian and Polish citizenship...
...It ia certain that no Pole, no Latvian, no Estonian, no Lithuanian surpasses Hull in wishing to see their full sovereignty respected by everyone...
...Hull's feeling thst the Pact needs.to be "sold" to the American people...
...And maybe da a little praying Error in the Moscow Text •"THE statement on atrocities signed by Roosevelt Churchill, and Stalin...
...The importation of food alone will take up one-third of the required shipping...
...it was settled in September...
...Hull also stated that the ItaKan formula agreed upon, under which there will be free and U-trammeled plebiscites in liberated areas, does not apply to the adjustment of boundaries except indirectly...
...The Stalinist* naturally wanted to stive their version the official confirmation of the United Nations...
...Russia will also administer relief for Poles in this area, said Molotov...
...In either event the protests of the Poles and of liberals and labor throughout the world forced a face-saving correction...
...A free and untrnmmeUd plebiscite tender United Nations auspices it tke only just solution of this complicated problem...
...At the sasae time however...
...15.—The meeting in Atlantic City of the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is in more than one sense, a grand rehearsal for the coming peace conference...
...1939...
...Oumansky's declaration,' which echoes statements made in the official Russian press before the conference, was interpreted by most diplomats as confirming the suspicion that Eden and Hull had-yielded to Stalin's territorial demands...
...the mistake was made in Moscow...
...The final vote to approve the coal contract was 11-to-l...
...But the correction appeared inconspicuously in the back pages of most newspapers, whereas the original, erroneous statement that the Polish aaVwrs had been murdered by Germans was played up on the front pages...
...The Baltic countries fall into a diffesent category...
...Two, Mr...
...As the first report on the Moscow Pact in this column on Nov...
...It is...
...A issued at the Moscow conference, included the following statement as originally transmitted: -Thus, Germans who take part ia the wholesale shooting of Polish officers or to the exeentioa of French...
...However, it is not equally certain that millions of other American workers are going to forget about the Old Curmudgeon...
...It's attributable to two reasons...
...The confusing picture presented by this double drama is symptomatic of the chaos which appears to be engulfing the home front even as the news grows better on the war front At this fin-de-siecle of the New Deal, it is more than high drama—it is a signficant political commentary and augury for 1944—that the rail workers should be going to a reactionary Congress for the justice which has been denied them by the presumably pro-labor Administration...
...On its harmonious work and its efficiency depends their survival and their restoration to standards worthy of humanity...
...The political theory is that the extra dollar and a half a day will quickly erase the hard feellings that grew up during the War Labor Board's handling of the controversy...
...although Vinson has been exceedingly pliable to understanding the need of various war profiteering groups for higher price ceiling* on food and other basic living commodities, the Economic Stabilizer has been a veritable Gibraltar to opposing this lawfully awarded wage raise...
...The Americas and British labor movements were left ouf af tbe picture altogether, and it was only following a resolution presented by the Polish delegates, the Socialist Jan Kwapinsky and Ambassador Jan Cieehanowsky that it was decided to admit the International Labor Office as an "observer...
...On the other hand...
...Hiere was an error in transmission...
...Hull was aware of the enormous aridity of the American people for more . . . ¦tore...
...They haven't spoken since, unless the .abnetirj) ruling of Comptroller General Lindsay Warren ("Shall" doesn't mean "most'*) was in effect their an - sssar tothe sap erven1 sense and (waist directives of the FEPC...
...Ahead...
...ar'ing under the orders of Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes, highhandedly set aside the Railway Labor Act and processes of collective bargaining by vetoing and wantonly disrupting the normal democratic award of eight-cents-an-hour to the railway workers by a Rail Mediation Board aa authorized by the Railway Labor Act...
...As the -agreement stipulates, each member government "insofar .as its appropriate constitutional bodies may authorize," shall /contribute to the support of the UNRRA, in order to "plan, coordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims of war in any area under the control of any of the United Nations . . . and to facilitate in such areas insofar as necessary to adequate provision of relief, the production and transportation" of necessary articles of relief and the furnishing of all services related to it...
...that more than or* railJ ptT<ar^^d^ffiw^y>W^ What about the Brotherhoods...
...WW* *?*HE Kremlin seized upon this request as a pretext to break relations with the Polish Government, denouncing the story as Nazi propaganda...
...When I left Atlantic City five days later, it had not yet commenced its serious business because, as it turned out, the Russian delegation headed by the Soviet Ambassador to the United States had not as yet received detailed instructions from Moscow...
...Bat, despite tana, it is considered in the State Departmert that the urgency of American problems fat more compelling on us than that of Polish or any other problems, and that the necessity af united military action and a commonly agreed objective of "unconditional surrender" af the Nazis is a problem which has an overbearing claim on the Polish problem, and that therefore tbe latter must yield precedence to what, from the point of view of our self-interest, is more immediate and less yielding to the solutions that time may offer...
...And America maintains the position of reding to recognize that claim...
...Then the Polish Govemment-in-exile requested the International Red Cros* to investigate...
...It can be ¦toted categorically that this is not the case...
...It is not overlooked in the State Department that tbe Poles are apprehensive of what they they may face whan the Soviet armies roll through Poland...
...Faring shin prospect, will net the Brotherhoods call off their purge and reverse their disastrous polio ' Owe eaa only hope at this point...
...A wave of apprehension now sweeps American liberal circles hard on the heels of the first enthusiasm over the Moscow Fact "THIs'Ts in sharp contrast to the first enthusiastic hooplas...
...If Stalin argues that a plebiscite has already been held there, and the people voted 99 per cent for incorporation into the USSR, the answer is that a plebiscite under totalitarian auspices—whether fascist or communist—is invalid...
...Only the democratic cooperation -of all nations will achieve a lasting peace based an the principles of liberty snd equality for all...
...6 pointed out: "One could have wished that the Pact went farther than it does . . . there is much left snsaid a* yet The world is still waiting to hear whether Russia will return the territory K seised from Poland at the time of the Nazi .invasion, whether Stalin will agree to restora•Mob of the sovereignty of the Baltic states he isvaded, whether he will give up his ideas of i. Russian hegemony over the Balkans, and, Most important whether he is ready to repudiate in word and in action all connection between Russia and the Communist parties in ether nations...
...bat logical, that by contrast with this problem that af Poland and the Baltics should ait oat t leas pressing, lees istm ediste...
...Hull agreed to putting the Polish problem aside far post-war settlement at another conference table...
...the Poles there are Soviet citizens...
...The Nazis announced in April, 1943, that the bodies of the officers had been found in a common grave near Smolensk...
...Actually, everybody is sort of maintaining » status quo on the Polish question...
...The conferees this tone will be Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin...
...we still have to retrieve 2M miles in the same direction [beyond Kiev] to reach oar frontier with PaonanL and only after having completed that drive shall we have liberated all the tonitoaij af Boris* Ukraine from the .. ffatt-Pa*«tot yoke* * T*« territory 280 miles west of Kiev is the area invaded by the "Red Army simultaneously with the invasion of the rest of Poland by the Nazis...
...Morse, dean of the U. of Oregon Law School, appointed to the WLB as representative of the public, and the Board's Compliance Officer (tough guy), was the lone die-hard on tlie 12man panel...
...Here are some of them: L The Moscow conference was only the first of a series of such parleys to come...
...These points, singly or seriatim, have also been commented on and enlarged by various liberal thinkers such as William Henry Chamberlin, Dorothy Thompson, former Ambassador William C. Bullitt and scores of others...
...it is an indissoluble section of the "Socialist fatherland...
...Finally, the investment policy of the Great Powers should be used wherever possible to initiate development projects — hydroelectric schemes, trunk roads, land reclamation—which cross national frontiers.* With a clear-sighted object ia view, such activities on the part of UNRRA woald indeed have an important effect on world pence and world secarity...
...The Austrian*, Czechs and some of the Balkan countries might swell the list in this category...
...There is no inclination hare to minimise the gravity of the Polish problem...
...Prof...
...It is understood in official circles in Washington that immediate settlement of the- Polish problem, particularly, would bring gratification on many scores—it would strengthen confidence in a ghats* tatts outcome at the war, it warned lift up the morale ol the Bazi-eubjugated^sma^ countries of Ifrrape^^J*°f|^jjj* But the hard materia] fact remains that it would play a relatively minor rate fat the Aims dfatte military picture, as atntparid with the possibility of forcing n divergence of objectives between the Rnsaisn and am* armies...
...And that the Administration's Director of Economic Stabilisation Fred Vinson should wave a threatening finger at the men who voted for the Smith-Connaliy Act and threaten to scrap the "Little Steel" formula if they vote an eight-cents-an-hour raise for the railway workers...
...The Negro w ortd is waiting...
...TMs should not be taken as a cue for any celebrations...
...Labor's heartbreaking struggle for equality of treatment during the war crisis was reaching a high point in a twin drama focalized at bath ends of historic Pennsylvania Avenue...
...But the American State Department mace a correction in this statement on Nov...
...The conference opened officially on November 10...
...of course, toe early to evsluste the work of the UNRRA conference...
...And since then the rumors have been growing that the carriers arent going to coatiaaa to take tbe rap for the purge ef black workers ordered by the all - white brotherhoods...
...As I sat ia at the open sessions of the UNBRA conference or wandered through the halls of the Claridge Hotel the impression was obvious that this was strictly s Big Powers show, with the United States acting as the genial host and stage manager...
...The Labor Muddle: Administration Plays Double Game on Wage Rises Vinson Rebuffs Rail Workers While Ickes Woos Miners (From Tke New Leader WasktMften Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C—Three events held the spotlight on the domestic front here this week...
...16 that "the Soviet Government shortly before the tripower conference rejected a U. B.-British compromise proposal uisj mi uaug*latosn>^>Weh relations...
...Otherwise...
...settled by peace commissions hfter the war is over...
...This, too, was the view of Dean'Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State and chief delegate of the United States, who has been elected permanent Chairman of the Council...
...They res pott the sight af a0 peoples to choane the farm ef gmri'amnnl muter which they wlH Hre;-pad they wish to see sovereign righto and self-government mor.y given at the bearing showed the existence of race dfapn-ravfatfgion on tip Union, Pacific, his road and that it would ^wpromptry rectified...
...Hull's usual style...
...The first alarm felt was that the Moscow Pact t»re the eastern portion of Poland and the Baltic countries to the Soviet Union...
...Another characteristic feature of the UNRRA conference is the fact that outside of the Polish and Belgian delegations, labor received no voice in the formulation of relief and rehabilitation plans for ton peat-ajaa'-wrrid...
...For months the Great Powers—the United States, Britain, Soviet Russia and China—were dickering among themselves, unable to reach an agreement The plan they finally worked out was in turn criticized sharply by the smaller European nations—Holland, Belgium, Norway, Poland, etc—as being entirely in favor of trie Great Powers...
...There are two interpretation* of this episode...
...The agreement on the final relief plsn as it was eventually signed in the White Hoefee was not easy to obtain...
...Certain to be unpalatable to the bulk of American workers is the > denouncement of Ickes' efforts to solve the coal controversy...
...It is estimated that in the first six months after liberation from Nazi occupation Allied Europe will need a minimum of 45,855,000 metric tons of imported goods...
...One, Mr...
...The 'scrambling' of European industry under the Nazis can be used to maintain a number of key points— certain heavy industries perhaps—under some form of internationally responsible control...
...But Stalin's big stick was clearly discernible...
...He .practically said so in his supplementary statepjaat in which he urged the American people to make the Moscow Pact work...
...An equally complicated role is being played by Secretary Ickes in the coal controversy, which despite some optimists is not yet ended...
...On the surface, to be sure, as former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who has been chosen Director General of UNRRA put it, its scope is limited, to feed "the starving, to clothe the naked, to bind the wounds of the sick" But feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, unfortunately, has long since become a political problem and what is being done now in Atlantic City should fix the pattern for future international collaboration...
Vol. 26 • November 1943 • No. 47
