The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts
The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts Palace Revolution in Bolivia Kills One Man THE Bolivian revolution which brought into power a junta of young nationalist officers seems to be an...
...The prosecution has introduced confessions by three company officials, including a former chief engineer, Robert L. Wright Sense of the wire reached the front before its defects were discovered...
...The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts Palace Revolution in Bolivia Kills One Man THE Bolivian revolution which brought into power a junta of young nationalist officers seems to be an expression of the tensions created by the war and which may produce further explosions...
...It has revived the old traditions in its history, its political system, in essentia...
...The pledges given by the Russian leaders, however, from the Atlantic Charter te the Declarations of Teheran, provide stroaf reassurances on that point...
...i ¦ » * • Outrage* ani lifaaeafiff In France's tyefa...
...Therefore, however pro-Fascist the new dictatorial regime may be, it will pay lip-service to the United Nations and to democracy...
...The reactionaries of both partial ganged up on the remnants of the New Deal...
...recalls etatlJeu phrases mouthed by Vargas, dictator of Braiil...
...The new nationalist government issued a manifesto denying any connection with either Germany or Argentina, and pledging continued accord with the United Nations...
...British and American imperialism promises to be the lesser evil...
...The Bolivian tin magnates protested angrily...
...The parol* will not release >rfr>jcji1 prisoners held on erimrnoi chargss,''>but av is reported that moat of the lajfittosl tfejafiners would be freed, conditional on "good conduct...
...The ousted President Penaranda charged that the new government is Nazi-inspired...
...In short, It has finished its miiMI.sx It ha* established for itself s new place t* tag fasaOy of nations...
...The recess until January 10 has been criticized a* unjustifiable hi these war days—but actually it Means three weeks less of bad legislatMn...
...A giorioas military motherland replaces the "workers* socialist fatherland...
...The leader <# tite riBppfi revolutionary party, and the Minister of Finance in the new regiftte .Victor Paz Estenssoro, was arrested in 1941 for complicity in a Nazi plot involving the former German Minister to Bolivia, Ernst Wendler...
...The In*emat)or,ai Soviet shall bo the taataa race . , bet Russian comrades will sing "Stalin reared os faithful to the peopie . We wrll load our Motherland to glory.** The admrthw of the new national anthem, cm Stalin's tixty-fosrrth birthday, marks just another step toward compter* rep udistkm, sr...
...Its social structure is changing from the theoretical equality of communism to a strictly defined and rigidly enforced hierarchical system in the bureaucracy, T3 in the army, even in economic life, it has stored the profit motive by dtrntrentiatioai Ja pay Which exceed fiat avers** HIT ililtkifiu between working and management income ia tarn iOakrMy, mad is thereby creating a as* money dam Above all, it baa acquired throw, its victories a new sense of security and achie...
...words as weB as to deeds, of the internationalist ideal with which the BtMsiae Revolution began so bravely...
...Franco is reported to have decreed the dissolution of the Falange as a gesture of appeasement Be has also decreed the conditional release of ail Republicans jailed under "the law of military rebellion...
...First of ffnssfan trial* Of Wot Criminals...
...A better world's in birth...
...The United States State Depart men t has protested...
...These changes were accompanied by an assertion Oat fiat Spaateh dHafitorship is •pjrely Spanish" and not dependent on Italy and Germany...
...The New York Timet commented editorially on the changes in Russia symbolised by the change in its anthem: "Russia has become patriotic, nationalist, even religious...
...Commies wffi eefMfitft to ring ••Arise ye prisoners of starvation...
...Russia has thus far refused to participate in the sessions of the United Nations Commission for Investigation -of War Crimes, demanding representation for each of the sixteen republics of which the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is made up, just as the British Empire has a representative for each of its dominions, Canada, Australia, India, and the United Kingdom...
...Prfasts and others imprisoned for political opposition were also freed...
...Also, it would raise the question of recognition, of Russia's acquisition of the Baltic States...
...lit—i this action "meddling of Washington in our internal affairs," in a confidential latter to his legal adviser, Thomas Manuel EHo, who waa also Foreign Minister...
...m The British Government refused to accept Franco's apology for the previous incident...
...For* *» wWary . . . *v *S* AidPfilaO...
...These tin ¦¦¦astna have now been attacked by the new nationalist government aa "oli- - garehical exploiters" responsible for Bolivia's poverty...
...Simon Patino, biggest mini owner...
...The indictment charges that the Anaconda Corp., which was fined $31,000 for similar fraudulent practices at Ha Marlon, Irid., plant, defrauded the Government of more than $1 million and obstructed the war by manufacturing defective wire...
...Truly txfarftoncrte Profits .. . The Secretary of the Treasury ttoogwhthau charged that Congress has opened tab door to 'truly extortionate profits" by war contractors by rewriting the act Mr renegotiation of war contracts to miiluU excess profits, and by refectiBg the fro.anry's tax bill <~ Morgenthau said the Treasury would Be bettor off with no tax bill at all than with the one pending before Congress—which 7'nolds the seed of a national scandal" The Seventy-eighth Congress adjourned December ?1, having defeated the Administration on ovary domestic lame...
...The Nazis have already threatened reprisals, not only against Russian prisoners of war, but against American and English prisoners too...
...The officials knew that the Pawtacket plant was not equipped to satisfy Government specifications, but went ahead and accepted the profitable contracts, plotting to get the wire past inspectors by elaborate technical trickery...
...The defense counsel pleaded for imprisonment rather than execution on the ground that the Germans were victims of the Nazi system, carrying out orders from Hitler, Himmler, and Goering...
...Another change' Which is ul aafhtill h the admission of restricted "«»*trwrtive ofHieism" in the press...
...The United States is the main purchaser of Bolivia's exports of tin and tungsten, but has a large stock of these minerals on hand...
...and by Ramirei When be first seised power in Argentina...
...The overthrown government had vainly sought United States support for this demand, which would be at the expense of Chile...
...The pledge of Estenssoro of "permaaent faith in democratic ideals and absolute solidarity with American interests...
...One of the demands of Bolivia has long been a outlet to the Pacific, for the country has no seaport...
...Franco eaBed for "national unity...
...This is th* first of trials, of war criminals...
...respects even in its economy...
...And like all aaeeessfsj m-volutionaries, its leaders are becoming conservative and...
...Incidentally, of all the nations in the world, Russia Is alone in having a national anthem that glorifies its national heroes by name...
...words And in comparison...
...This demand has been rejected, because it would give the USSR as many votes as the USA and Britain combined...
...The nationalists also promised to "give back to the people their civil rights," condemning the previous regime for provoking "social conflicts, caused by low wages, and which were silenced by shots, as in the massacre of Csvati...
...where tin miners were on strike in December 1942...
...The answer to the Times is brief and simp* —Russia has already become Bonapartist and imperialist, as is amply proved by deeds wfclCb are in sharp contradiction to StalhV...
...Last October the United States Metals Reserve Corporation granted an increase of 2 <, cents per pound on tin, but stipulated that the jacrtasad price must be earmarked far improvement of the conditions of the ¦dawn, conscripted in virtual slavery in the mill ll The Confederation of Bolivian Workers thanked Roosevelt, the AFL gad CIO, and ether labor organisations which had htasrVssnjd ad their behalf—an excellent application of the Good Neighbor policy...
...They were medrbers Of fits Brae Drvi 'ion which has been wiwfcirnwn from the Bussian front and ifMWlidad id response to Anglo-American pressure...
...dneeondo Trial Reveals Frond...
...AB tarn indicates growing fear of a .victory of the United Nations, and mounting opposition wivnrn spam...
...A carnage in the foreign policy of Bolivia would not greatly affect our supply of these strategic materials, but might bankrupt Bolivia, whose chief revenue is .from a heavy tax on exports...
...further action wffl depend on what is done to punish the offenders...
...R. I. Poor wire and cable marked defective by U. S. inspectors was later tagged O. K. and • shipped to the armed forces, to be used for signaling at the front...
...Members of the Falange broke Mb the offices, tore down photographs stfid harangued those present...
...Evidence that the Anaconda Wire * Cable Corp...
...Three Germans and one Russian, who confessed to the commission of atrocities during their trial at Kharkov, were hanged there in the market place with 50,000 people applauding...
...Franco's Falangist party committed an outrage at the United States wuaOajet at Valencia very similar to that perpetrated a month ago at the British vice consulate at Saragassa...
...opposed to any further r*v#ftj*» which might tarn against fhsav "With such a Russia, we and all nations eat eOueeiato to —stoat iJiHh*awu----There wools be only one Sanger to such collabrr *tton, sat that would be if the Russian revolution (hosfif follow the oOarse of most revolution* and not only tarn conservative but also Bonapartist and imperialist...
...Many employees testified about a carefully laid plot- to fool Government inspectors...
...While true, this may be fascist demagoguery such aa both Hitler and M—anllni employed to gain mass sap-part...
...He is also accused of receiving aid from Bamirea» dictator of Argentina...
...at Pawtucket sold quantities ojf defective wire to the U. S. Army and its Allies was produced in court during a two-weeks trial in Providence...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 52
