Africa Parley Skirts Major Political Problems of United Nations Unity
LORING, EDWARD
Africa Parley Skirts Major Political Problems of United Nations Unity Absence of Russia, China Raises Question Of 'Global' Strategy By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. —...
...In a different corner of the same barrack, also in solitary confinement, is kept the son of Stalin, Yakob Stalin, captured on the Russian front...
...The many stories appearing ¦ in the U.S.A...
...The first story was released by the Hoadry company, but its stories were quickly obscured by a flow of stories from Standard Oil which announced its own developments and toured correspondents through its Baywater plant...
...The New Leader fully appreciates the imagination and courage exhibited by President Roosevelt and Premier Churchill at this crucial moment in the war...
...The new commandant of this camp has established a very severe regime...
...Kalinin, or Timosherrko to confer with our statesmen and military officers ? It may be that the Russian decided not to accept the Anglo-American invitation because the Soviets did not want to share certain responsibilities...
...On'this committee is Robert Watt, whose influence is increasing rapidly below the Rio Grande...
...This week the Wall Street Jour-jja) in a front-page story from its Washington bureau comments on the OPA study and quotes its figures...
...The Truman Committee also rapped the Office of Civilian Supply for delaying the order on 1943 spring planting equipment, pointing out the order was not issued until October 19,1942...
...deception and disappointment...
...this time there will be little cooperation...
...These visits are arranged at the request of the Mexican Ambassador and would be granted to others sponsored by the Embassy...
...If he could not leave Moscow for a three-day trip, while the President of the U.S...
...But this was still below the1 38% sought by the Agricultural Department...
...Is it any coincidence that the Circuit Court of Appeals is to hear the appeal of the Native Sons of the Golden Wast to have ail of Oriental extraction stripped of eitizeaship rights (and also to attack the citizenship of Negroes, t o o ! ) ; that the Stewart bin to deprive those of Oriental extraction of citizenship and put those of Japanese origin in concentration camps at forced labor is being revised...
...Not much of the struggle has reached the newspapers...
...He is now set for another appearance in the United States...
...The leaders of the navies and air-forces undoubtedly adopted common plans for dealing effectively with the submarine menace...
...East coast would have been much lew severe...
...Artillery Captain, who was captured by the Germans in June 1940, is very desperate...
...Stahn is reported fearful of leaving the Soviet Union at any time because of the nature of its centralized government...
...In tossing into the air now the slogan, "unconditional surrender," they are serving the world well...
...The Latin unions are now gaining new power because of increasing industrialism and growing .respect of the U. S. paternalism towards our unions here...
...Far from being pampered, the internees live under primitive conditions...
...He is determined not to yield on the point of relinquishing control of the Baltic states...
...This camp is composed of a number of old barracks where a number of captive Poles were being kept...
...Four weeks ago, Jonathan Stout in The New Leader ex-Posed exclusively the existence of a secret OPA War Profits Study which disclosed the vast profits piled up by American industry in the 'ears of the European war *nd since our entry into war...
...Now Standard Oil of Indiana announce* another* development...
...Meanwhile, it is reported that the plans projected by the OWI for an Italian-American Victory Council had their parallels in plans for such bodies in other foreign language communities in the country- The Slav- Congress, in which the editor of the local Russian language Communist paper played a leading role, is one specimen...
...The slogan "unconditional surrender" did not point to political union , for democratic aims either during the war or after the war...
...Belgian and Jugoslav prisoners...
...Why, then, did the White House permit U. S. Ambassador to Spain Hayes to make a public propaganda speech virtually assuring General Franco that we would do nothing to aid "the emigres'' or any other force to overthrow a regime which was set up by two of our enemies ? And if these assurances to Franco were "militarily expedient," why then could not the talk have been eliminated and a private conversation held...
...jfttfnaM» time has been lost...
...The staff of New York's District Attorney, Frank S. Hogan, continues its work of investigation but if it has made any important discoveries, these have not been imparted to the public...
...Late this week it was reported that both the AFL and CIO have invited Bernardo Ibanez, secretary of the Chilean Federation of Labor, to visit the U.S...
...Even in this camp Robert Blum is being kept in solitary quarters which are wired off with barbed wire...
...Antonini has since reiterated his criticism of OWI policy in this matter...
...Standard Oil and Hoadry were the chief competitors for government contracts for hi-octara contracts...
...The fascist powers must be totally destroyed...
...as virtual political dictator of North Africa...
...Before the invasion of Russia by the Germans, the Communists ordered Toledano to build the CTAL into a strong propaganda organization to fight "Yanqui Imperialism...
...The na-press, though, is still silent...
...One is that Stalin is beginning to believe official London and Washington propaganda that the Soviet Union ha* saved the democracies and Is willing only to have the western statesmen visit him...
...could travel abroad for two weeks and cover some 15.000 miles, why did not Moscow send Molotov...
...In fact, farm machines are the 'machine tools' of agriculture...
...It is also interesting to note that there are m.'fiy complaints in New York that within the Overseas Division of the OWI are also to be found fellow-travelers of the Communist Party...
...The two leaders announced in the style of Julius Caesar that they had met, they had talked and they had agreed...
...This may mean, a Russian truce is in the ofnng...
...Why the sudden propaganda move now to treat these innocent Americans as the Gestapc treats Jews...
...They will also be a hint of what Russia will do at the peace table...
...faction, with the wage awards, Tory newspapers arc playing up the anion demands as a)"peril to the U. S. Economy," ** a World-Telegram headline had it...
...If there is to be a strong Latin-American labor movement linked to U. S. unions, the AFL will control it, not the Communists...
...They are eternally lively, tough and inspiring leaders...
...The International Red Cross in Switzerland has protested on numerous occasions against this horrible system which is contrary to all international agreements but the hopes are slim that the Germans wnll heed these protests...
...Recent issues of H MortcMo, Tresca's paper, record the continuance of that fight and even after his death Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a leading Communist, took a final pot-shot at him...
...Within a few days after Tresca's death, two New York newspapers, the Post and PM., quoted two officials of the OWI, Alan Cranston, chief of the Foreign Language Division, and Lee Falk, one of his executive assistants, as declaring that Tresca had agreed with the OWI...
...Packages for the entire camp are forbidden Correspondence is very limited and letters are destroyed without any reason...
...The first lambasted the Office of Civilian Supply of the War Production Board for cutting production of farm machinery at a time when America faces the grave danger of not reaching, its food production goals for 1943 and 1944...
...With no clues turning up for public discussion, attention has centered in the fight which developed around the Office of War Information as a result of the murder of Tresca...
...It is well known 'that Tresca still fought bitterly the Communists and their underworld methods...
...Some progress has beea made toward global conceptions, but old major-power differences are stiil with us...
...PM picked "P the story and used some of the OPA material—Time later attacked PM for the ¦tory—and several labor papers have com-¦tented on the disclosures...
...In view of the possibility that investigation might disclose Communist Party inspiration of the murder, it is felt by many well-informed persons in New York that the passivity of Washington is not surprising...
...Latest twist in the FEPC fight is a suggestion from administration circles for a new committee to be staffed by paid officials...
...The Communists are deeply interested in the Latin-American labor movement because of its strategic balance of power control on the lower continent...
...TT We barge program had been carried out expeditiously, the shortages of both fuel oil and gasoline in the...
...Madame Chiang was scheduled to attend, but this was reported cancelled at the last moment...
...That was evidenced by the President's talk with and approval of Marcel Peyrouton, former pro-N'azi...
...In recent months Toledano has been touring South America, selling the idea of an intercontinental Labor Congress...
...A few hours after the Truman blast, WPB upped the figure for equipment from 23% to 30% for the first quarter of 1943...
...From an ordinary camp for military prisoners, where he was kept with many other officers of the French Army, he was transferred to a special disciplinarian camp situated close to Lubbeck...
...The most definite and most justifiable disappointment is in relation to the division between the groups of Frenchmen represented by : General De Gaulle and General Giraud...
...The complaint against Toledano is that he has been misrepresenting himself as the United States' officially sponsored representative in Latin America...
...Many questions are being asked here this week: 1—How was the question of policy in Central Europe settled...
...fampering" the Jap Internees Senator Robert Reynolds will use any stick to beat the Administration, and last week he popped up wilh the charge that Japanese interned on the:West Coast "are getting everything and cur people aren't getting anything...
...The Oil report states flatly: "The Committee believes that there has been unnecessary delay and confusion: in carrying out a program essential to the national welfore...
...3—How does Stalin's non-participation, hi* non-belligerency against the Japs and his attitude toward land bases which ought to be made available for American fliers to bomb Tokyo, square up against the argument* of men such as Wendell Willkie for an international joint council of all Allies...
...In this situation Elmer Davis, apparently relying on his subordinates' version of their interviews with the reporters, issued a statement denying that the OWI had tried to force the Communists on the Victory Council project and denying that his men had attributed to Tresca a .friendly view of this aspect of the project although the quotes are in black and white...
...The New Leader informant states: "Impartial investigators of organizations like the Friends (Quakers) Service Committee and Federal Council of Churches are highly critical of the camps because of their bad condition...
...and of the Italian Labor-Council, issued « statement rapping the Cranston and Falk statements as falsifications of the dead man's well-known position...
...Report Blum's, Stalin's Sons Held in Special Nazi Prison Camp According to information received from trustworthy and authoritative sources the situation of the only son of Leon Blum...
...To secure more than that we need—in addition to military cooperation—political union of pSottpedalinq Profits U/ITH the recent ware of labor dissatis...
...The Communists were also interested in controlling the labor movements of nations close to the United States for whatever possible political pressure they could bring on U. S. workers, especially the left wing of CIO...
...It may be wise at this moment to insist on complete military victory to the exclusion of all other considerations...
...Therefore...
...The hue and cry would have been that a squeeze-play was being pulled against the Russians because of their political philosophy...
...Even the Tolan Committee changed its views after cheeking the situation...
...The criticisms of these OWI divisions is vastly up-setting to the many friends and admirers of the OWT head...
...Luigi Antonini, head of Local 89 of the I.L.G.W.U...
...said the report...
...The flight to North Africa of the most imaginative President this nation has had has done little to clear the confusion from Washington's lobbies, conferences, and "highly informed circles...
...They are pursuing only a nationalistic policy of driving the enemy from Russia and setting up buffer states around Still another is that Stalfn does not wish to be involved in so central a conference as was held in North Africa for it might have pbst-war implications...
...1939 was ¦ nigh year and after taxes the profit fig-•wes still are tremendously high...
...Of: the four great powers which are leading the United Nations struggle j against the Axis the leaders of two met to determine military strategy and political policy...
...Even the Los Angeles Timet, one of the spearheads of the pro-evacuation hysteria, now admits there was no case of treason...
...To try to interpret it as anything more than that is to court...
...Their mere physical presence indicates a sharp decline of Nazi influence among neutral nations...
...Instead the puzzle around our future policy in North Africa, in the Orient, in Moscow, even towards the British, has deepened considerably...
...x Despite the resolution adopted by the iSocial-Democratic Conference calling for investigation of the murder by the F.B.I, as a possible deed of the agent of a foreign power, or a possible political murder, the Attorney General has not, as far as is known to persons close to the murdered editor, ordered the F.B.I, to enter the case in any way...
...Nothing was done— perhaps nothing could be done—to implement the Atlantic Charter...
...Although our food production goals for 1943 hare been increased by 18% over actual production in 1941 and 4% over 1942 which was a banner erop year...
...Standard Oil with its superior pressure orgaeuation won out One of the chief bacerers of Hoadry is See Oil owned by Joseph Pew, big GOP moneybags...
...Points of attack on the European continent were, presumably, selected...
...Chiang Kai-shek was not invited...
...6—If the Finns were present, then credence must be given to the report that Spanish and Turkish delegates were there...
...These were some of the questions and problems raised by the Casablanca conference...
...But it will be the part of wisdom not to expect too much...
...The German -American project, in which Communists and former admirers of "the new Germany" were given large shares, is in danger of a blow-up...
...Councils of German-Americans and Hungarian-Americans are others...
...Members of the committee are Ruf us Holman of Oregon (one of the worst appeasers and black reactionaries in Congress), A. B. Chandler of Kentucky, Wallgren of Washington, and James Murray of Montana...
...The Toledano technique is simple...
...Without the Russians, the theory of a Supreme War Council is exploded, for the Russian* now want to fipht a war of their own, which must be supported...
...It can be taken for granted that Ibanez will be kept from the leftists by the AFL leaders charged with contacting the Latin-Americans...
...The psychological effect on the enemy forces must be tremendous...
...Investigators come osck from camps sick to their stomachs...
...The participants were hardly in a position to consider in any fruitful wary the matter of closer cooperation with the Soviet Union...
...Yet in Europe Washington if bucking the British in an effort to permit full lattitude to Soviet infiltration and propaganda...
...sections of Poland and Finland and influence in central Europe...
...But this vital ¦tody is still unknown to nationwide audiences...
...Such a move would indicate that Germany has weakened considerably, since only the threat of complete occupation has kept the dormant Finnish armies on a war basis during the past few years...
...During his visits here, he spent much time with important government officials, sometimes reaching the highest officials in the land...
...To gain dominance among the Latin unions, the Communists have revived the almost defunct Latin-American Federation of Labor (CTAL), the vest-pocket property of Mexico's Communist labor chief, Lombardo Toledano...
...Many explanations have been offered...
...That is the story behind the announcement that Ibanez will " visit the United States...
...has failed to rally to the support of Serbian guerilla chief Mikhailovitch...
...Corporation profits gr 1942 are estimated by OPA at S19.5 to •20.5 billion or nearly 300% above 1939," writes the Wall St correspondent...
...The recommendations of the Department of Agriculture and the Farm Machinery and Equipment Branch of the WPB were generally ignored although these two agencies were better qualified to ascertain the need...
...The guards have strict orders to shoot for every minor infraction of rules...
...This statement appeared in numerous newspapers and met with no reply from Cranston or Falk...
...in desiring to admit Communists to the projected council...
...officials are sponsors of the itinerant Toledano...
...In Washington toe study has now received restricted cir-ealation...
...anti-Fascist elements whose participation is being sought...
...treason or sabotage has been brought...
...Yet the issue of war profits is sidestepped consistently...
...Africa Parley Skirts Major Political Problems of United Nations Unity Absence of Russia, China Raises Question Of 'Global' Strategy By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — President Roosevelt has outmaneuvered Hollywood in glamorizing mystery at Casablanca, crowded crossroads where all of Europe's intriguers and magnates are biding their time lor what appear to be rapidly approaching post-war days...
...Call for Federal Probe of Tresca Case as Murder Remains Unsolved By PIETRO VIVALDI The passage of another week since the murder of Carlo Tresca has brought no important new developments directly connected with efforts to solve the question of who fixed the fatal pistol shots that terminated the career of the oldest and most eminent anti-Fascist in the United States...
...These terms will be indicative of Russia's attitude towards her weaker neighbors in post-war years...
...This measure was taken after the escape of General Giraud...
...Tresca's efforts to further this movement were hampered by efforts of the Communist Party and Italian-American Fascist fellow-travelers...
...The Bolivian government learned recently what it meant to use outmoded shoot-them-down tactics on leaders of the tin mine strike...
...Joseph Stalin was invited but did not* attend and was not represented...
...These liaison men include AFL Vice-President Matthew Woll and AFL International Representative Robert Watt...
...Elmer Davis...
...5—Finnish officials were reported present at the conference...
...Comment [Mr...
...The program recommended by the President's Commitee and approved by the President ought not to have been discarded on the Navy's suggestion that high-powered Diesels necessary for motive power mid not be attained without exploring whether suHng tugboat and tugboat power could be ¦aide available by a transfer from other uses lad without exploring whether steam engines, gu engines, or smaller Diesel engines could be made available...
...Since priority orders on farm equipment were so low, manufacturers scheduled other civilian production ahead of agricultural equipment...
...The press in the last two weeks has been filled with a slew of stories about recent developments in fuel-cracking processes and hi-octane avranor gas...
...Apart from' the fact that most of the Japs "moved from the West Coast are citizens, here •re the facts as told by one of the most compe-*ent investigators of the situation...
...They are not at war with lii^ <i a f. a. [ ^ ? t...
...China had no representation...
...Such people hope that he will recognize these facts and take action accordingly...
...The United States has been pursuing a contradictory policy on control of reconquered territories . In North Africa President Roosevelt dealt with French industrialists, munition makers and the group which made possible Nazi agent Otto Abetz' destruction of French morale...
...All of the announcements made, moreover, indicate that attention was almost exclusively centered on purely military problems...
...Another is that the Russians are not interested in "global warfare...
...It is interesting to,note that while the OWI now declares that it does not seek to force Communists on the Victory Council, it does not declare that it will oppose their presence, as do all leading democratic...
...and have long talks with labor chiefs here...
...It is possible that she and other leading international statesmen are now on their way to Moscow to further enlighten the man who would not come to Casablanca...
...what are the terms of the Russo-Finnish peace...
...Barnes is famous, among other things, for sending out of Moscow the story that the reason foreigners could not get caviar was that the workers are so rich they were buying it all up...
...Prisoners are forbidden to read any books...
...At the time he was killed, Tresca was endeavoring to assist the Foreign Language Division of the OWI to establish a broad movement of Italian-Americans...
...AFL Seeks to Block To led a no Moves For Control for Latin Labor Movements WASHINGTON, D. C.—Behind the turbulent Labor scene, so familiar now to the public with its jurisdictional disputes and spontaneous strikes, AFL and liberal-wing CIO leaders are fighting the Communists for important influence over the Latin-American labor movement...
...But as to the nature of the agreement, no inkling | w*s afttfced -%b slip out to the public...
...His column, and his concluding article on the war profits expose will appear next week.] Capital Comment Truman Reports Rap WPB and Navy By MURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON, D. C—Hard-hitting Senator Harry Truman this week issued two withering blasts against the War Production Board and the Navy for mistakes-in the vital farm equipment and transportation problems, but apparently the newspapers are jaded about such news, for the reports got little play...
...The second (Truman report rapped the Navy for delaying the construction of barges designed to carry petroleum to the East Coast...
...If this is so...
...Stoat is away on a special assignment for The New Leader...
...Negro leaders are skeptical, want an independent committee ami insist on hearing* on discrimination in railroads as proof of sincere intentions pudding...
...4—The Chinese government was not invited...
...Both have been under fire of the leftists...
...From the point of view, then, of the political union of the United Nations for large-scale, long-term political cooperation this historic conference appears to have slight significance...
...The British and American chiefs of staff were dynamically seizing the initiative...
...As a consequence of his intimate kaowledge of Tresca's position with respect to the Italian-American Victory...
...Toledano's activity has angered important U. 6. government officials and AFL leaders...
...Robert Blum...
...Perhaps it was "nnfluisbed business" or perhaps the military time-table will resolve more issues than we think...
...The U.S...
...At the moment there are about 100 French...
...The assumption would seem to be that to the OWI . which is playing a leading role in the movement, the presence or absence of Communists is a matter of complete indifference...
...2—Why was Josef Stalin absent...
...There the most outstanding enemies of Germany are concentrated...
...The AFL has warned the proper government officials that it will not tolerate further encouragement of Toledano and his colleagues...
...The food is extraordinarily bad...
...A recent organizational shift in that Division put not only the radio but also the publications section under Joseph Barnes, former Moscow correspondent of the Herald-Tribune...
...And...
...Toledano's left-wing friends are expert publicists and have many contacts in the newspaper and publishing field...
...The report points out that the oil shortage is primarily due to transportation difficulties...
...Inevitably intelligent democrats j will hope that some definite decisions were reached, decisions which may not be divulged before steps have been taken toward putting them into effect...
...The latter, of course, were in a difficult position because they had made their statements to reporters on the Post and PM...
...Unfinished Business at Casablanca •"PHE conference held at Casablanca was a dynamic symbol of the' military and political cooperation of Great Britain and the United-States...
...This office," says the report, "erroneously regarded farm machinery as semi-essential...
...This was a great event, the greatest of its sort that ever took place, but it did not pave the way for union of ail i the forces lined up on the democratic side...
...Though the meeting was held on French soil, the results with regard to French political unity were of the most meager...
...The answer here is that the impression would have been unfortunate if three of four allies conferred but left Russia out...
...Council idea...
...press are then widely publicized in the Latin-American newspapers, especially those controlled by the Stalinists, in an effort to prove that the highest U.S.A...
...The authenticity of the OPA statistics are unquestioned...
...A large majority are American citizens, •gainst whom—as Commander Ringel [formerly chief of Naval 'Intelligence on the West Coast]— •••d, not one case of...
...Whereupon the Senate Military Affairs Committee, which he heads, promptly voted for an investigation that will make some black scareheads in a few weeks...
...But military triumph alone will not be enough...
...the WPB's Limitation Order allows production for domestic use in 1943 of only 23% of the amount of new farm machinery manufactured in 1940...
...From the military point of view, on the contrary, all indications unite to show that it was supremely successful...
...The U. S. State Department intervened and dispatched a commission to investigate the incident...
...Official Washington is waiting for him...
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