Turkish-English Talks Reveal Fading Strength of Reich Armies
DECKER, GEORGE
Turkish-English Talks Reveal Fading Strength of Reich Armies Russo-Turkish Problem Get to Be Ironed:Out By GEORGE DECKER In some respects Churchill's meeting with President Inonu arid Prime...
...But their lusty war subsidiaries had skyrocketed profits to 3,752...
...The New Leader revealed last week that Smith is scheduled to arrive in New York City within the next month or so for an America First Party rally...
...A "return to private enterprise" is the slogan, according to Olds, which will launch the big-business drive to place the Monopolies back in the driver's seat and eliminate all curbs on their control of the national economy...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL THE column* of the New York Time* provide the most Fertile fields for social setaanticiats...
...By 1941, while the parent corporations were making profits of nearly 500%, their "war babies** were making profits of 1,700...
...What is considered of even significance is the fact that these statements are now being voiced by official Chinese delegates, after unofficial and private Chinese spokesmen such as Lin Yutang had failed in stirring Allied public opinion to the needs of the Chinese...
...Dispatches from Chungking tell of a vast famine in Honan province and the exodus of thousands, of Chinese...
...lobbyists and Tories on Capitol Hill will mention these figures when they go to work shortly on cutting to shreds the overtime provisions in the Wage and Hour Act...
...On the contrary, they are "designed to shift this great reservoir of available farm workers to commercial farms where they would work at day's wages...
...Morrison...
...They offer 'private enterprise' by which they mean an end to REA's and TVA's and Wagner Acts, and all other efforts by the people to control their economic lives and destinies...
...Turkey aims at attaining a certain balance of power around her...
...Big Business has equally demonstrated its earnest intention of taking everything it can get out of the war effort...
...Kindersley claimed that only 1,000 million pounds was liquidated of the 3,600 million pounds in overseas investments...
...General Giraud was suggested to Murphy by this French Cagoulard...
...Wellington Koo, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain...
...A Turkish concession was that Turkish Court of Appeals granted the Russian prisoners a new trial...
...But, it is charged, the policies of the Department of Agriculture are not shaped in that direction...
...And so has the taking...
...regional districts and has...
...And the Turks are very sharp and conservative observers...
...And it may be supposed that in its opinion Germany, although weakened, is still capable of undertaking a very great offensive...
...overhauling and dividing the American and world market according to its dictates...
...Contrast, for instance, Labor's wage increase of 15% during these War years with the fact that by the middle of 1942 the food bill of the average American city family, according to the Department of Labor, is 35% higher than the price levels of the middle vof 1939...
...Through Lemaigre-Dubreuil, Murphy was introduced to the upper-crust in French society and kept well surrounded and entertained...
...has now been revised in its fullest strength and sincerity...
...Last August it would have been easier for Churchill to have visited Turkey on bis way to or from Moscow...
...Each order, bearing the likeness of the Czarist general, is awarded for a particular kind of military operation—the kind of operation in which the general, for whom it is named, excelled...
...Fairy Tate for the Times The Hate All-Germans idea apparently receives enthusiastic support from_ various governments-in-exile...
...Various official banks are represented in the BIS ant) among the Board of Directors and presumably those who took part in the voting are Montagu Norman and Walthar Funk...
...by 1941, the profits of the parent companies had risen to a mere 375...
...Since Sarocoglu's futile and humiliating visit in Moscow in September-October, 1939, Turkey has regarded Russian policy with deepest...
...Lemaigre-Dubreuil was right-wir.e and fascist and led the disturbances in Paris in 1934...
...Morrison in 193* was listed as a sponsor for a rally in hotter of General George Van Horn Moaeley...
...In October, the Soviet Embassy's First Secreftry, Antonina Giga-lova...
...O. E. Reed...
...We don't know, but it is possible that the Turkish Government already has such assumption...
...The War Profits figure is contained in the four-volume study made by the Office of Price Administration and which was kept a secret until The New Leader found a leak in the official wall of silence...
...Each day some column win carry a speech by some biff business executive thunderingly calling for '•free enterprise" attar the war, while the ad join-ing column will carry sober analyses by its financial men completely belying the orotund speeches...
...American Party...
...A series.of regulations promulgated last week amounted, it was pointed out, to "permission to large distributors throughout the country to raise prices until they are little short of highway robbery...
...Lord Kindersley in correcting one exaggeration created another...
...Speaking before a conference of the American Management Assn., the economic advisor of the WPB's Committee Arthur Bums admitted that "it cats painfully into a traditional freedom of business opportunity...
...These stories of possible Chinese economic collapse are not propaganda scares but a grim reality, and the fact is only first beginning to percolate Into the skull of official Washington...
...Workers on the land and in the industrial centers must realize their interdependence if they are to create the united nation which will not only win the war but also offer greater security and abundance to our people...
...Quickly summarized, for the years 1939 to 1941 (the only years for which there are complete reports so far): Wages have increased 15...
...But one week after her departure the return of Ambassador Vinograloff was announced, and Vinograloff presided at the Soviet Embassy's annual celebration of October revolution...
...The OPA War Profits study is particularly startling in its revelation of the difference in War Profits between 15 of America's largest industrial corporations and 23 war subsidiaries under their control...
...Vinograloff, had been withdrawn "for consultation...
...of Commerce...
...No doubt that this Turkish feeling was skillfully used by German diplomacy and that it hampered a closed cooperation betwen Turkey pjp.-i the United Nations...
...In subsequent dispatches, Mr...
...Liberia is one of the m»st corrupt places on earth, undemocratic and slave-ridden (under the cover of a peonage system for working off fines and taxes...
...Of course, she desires an Anglo-American victory but she fears a strengthening of Russia...
...Koo pointed out that of the lend-lease materials China gets only 2 per cent and of this pitiful 2 per cent only half gets to Burma and of this only half again goes into China...
...Consequently we can conclude that Turkey, well informed about the state and disposition of German forces, envisages a possibility of German operation toward the Middle East and therefore of German demand for troop passage through Turkey...
...The obvious fact is that far from trying to profit from the war situation Labor in seeking wage increases is attempting to do no more than maintain its wage scales against the shrinkage in purchasing power...
...The major significance of this recital is that England is moving into the orbit of a debtor nation and her overseas, investments cannot take up the unfavorable slrfck...
...This vwas the charge made here this week by Leland Olds, chairman of the Federal Power Commission, in an address to a national convention of Rural Electrification Administration cooperatives...
...The reaction of Turkish Government after the attempt showed how-deep was the Turkish mistrust of Russian policy and its methods...
...It is highly improbable, however, that the N.A.M...
...After all, why should they get excited after sneaking over a 85% sale3 tax on the major portion of the people's budget...
...Bat nobody U keeping War Profits within any limit short of the sky...
...Last week, Timet financial writer J. H: Carmieal wrote: "Although the country does not yet fully realise it, the United States, under the stress of war, is undergoing a most important industrial change...
...Almost as staggering is the Aircraft industry, in which by 1941, the parent companies reversed the picture by making profits of over 1,700% more than in 1939, with their war babies trailing with almost 1,400...
...Iowa, appealers are getting the stage set far a Smith rally...
...For several years Big Business interests have been trying to put across a national 2% general sales tax...
...mistrust...
...who have just published a book called Lighting Up Liberia...
...Venezuela is a "one-crop country,"—oil and cattle, farm produce and manufactured goods have been neglected...
...They seem more intent on winning the war for themselves than for democracy," Olds asserted...
...With the following article, the series is concluded.] By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C —The capital will be shocked...
...Three clippings from the New York Timet, cut by this column in the past tea days, provides a comprehensive pattern on the alow death of small business and the new phase of real monopoly coming...
...The plain fact, of course, is that OPA has failed to stabilize the cost of living, and it has had about as much effect on War Profiteering as have people who stop at calling Hitler nasty names...
...She would have much to risk and little to gain...
...Certainly Labor has amply demonstrated its earnest desire to . put everything it has into the war effort...
...War profits have zoomed 150' -. The first two figures are supplied by the Department of Labor...
...Litlie Former Ignored, Milk Trust Profits WASHINGTON, DjC.—Millions for the Milk Trust, but nothing for the small farmer—this, according to informed sources, seems to be the slogan under which the Department of Agriculture is operating in its attempts to solve major problems in the national food situation...
...We can understand without any special information that the military chiefs of two countries met to talk about a possible Joint military action...
...So far as England is concerned, the Turkish mistrust seems to be completely dissipated, and Churchill indicated it when he said that "the ancient friendship between Great Britain and Turkey, which was started across by the tragedy of the last war...
...As a guide for determination of action in specific eases, it falls short...
...One pertinent answer to this "Vansittartism" was made by "Critic" in The \eu- Statesman and .Vfl-tinv of London who remarked: "If the thesis that a...
...If these farmers, it is pointed out, "were given a little help, in the form of a cow, a mule, a few-bogs and chickens, they would be able to supply all the food needed by this country and its allies...
...Chinese statements came this week from Dr...
...Her office attache, Edwin P. Banta, collaborated with convicted Nazi agent George Sylvester Vie reck, and has been in contact with many of those indicted for sedition...
...In these two...
...The 48 generals were given one of two orders, either the Order of Kutusov, in memory of the Russian General who retreated before Napoleon in 1812...
...Weber, president of the Swiss National Bank...
...In my opinion thi's World Goveia-ment plot is the greatest meaa*» to our independence that has ever confronted our nation...
...Everybody is for "equality of sacrifice," but the Big Business definition of that phrase is the Fat Boys get the quality and Labor gets the sacrifice...
...Turkish police surrounded the Soviet Consulate office and seized two Soviet citizens suspected to be instigators of the attempt and later condemned them to 20,years each...
...The United States has expended billions of dollars on the construction of plants and the expansion of existing facilities of almost every large industrial company in the country...
...But Turkey fears a victorious Russia as much as a victorious Germany...
...Not a pound of food went over the Burma road or is going over now...
...The wave of demands for wage increases is rising from coast to coast, wherever workers are trying to meet increased living costs...
...Seeds of discord, he warned, are being sown between agriculture and labor, pointing out that the well-being of farmers and workers are intertwined...
...We should merely do to the Germans what the Germans are now doing to the Jews, and then there would never be wars any more, and we could all live happily ever after...
...These great economic powers, that oppose the TV A, the REA, the Bonneville administration, and the labor movement, see in the great war-need for unity an opportunity to serve their private interests," Olds said...
...On December 29, Southard addressed a letter to Mrs...
...begun studies in smaller cities...
...And not far behind is the automobile and accessories industry, where what remains of the private automobile business rose 250% in the first two war years, but the end of the business converted to war production increased its profits to over 1.2007c in the two years...
...Lord Kindersley, British economic expert, took special pains to dispel an impression that all of Britain's foreign investments had been lost or dissipated since the war...
...OU in Venezuela J ATIN American observers, reports Worldover Press, expect that Venezuela may shortly move, as Mexico has done, to expropriate the oil properties owned by outside companies...
...Carmieal makes a long analysis of the petroleum industry, pointing out that the large refiner and producer was aided tremendously by the government and the small man not at all...
...This was considered evidence of further detonation in Turko-Russian relations...
...If the International Executive Board of the Typographical Union grants the request of the District of Columbia local for permission to take a strike vote, there may be no newspapers printed in Washington next week...
...Thus the Order of Kutusov is awarded for excellence in retreat operations, the Order of Suvarov for excellence on the offensive...
...Distributors are now eliminating all package sizes for milk below one quart (except in special commercial cases)", which will deprive thousands of poor-family purchases...
...This Committee, now engaged in selling itself to other business leaders (see the report in the Times financial page of February 3rd for the speech of C. Scott Fletcher) has as its purpose, in effect, the organization of small business "from the top" in order to effectively organize American industry on a "rationalized" basis...
...Therefore it is hardly conceivable that the success of the Anglo-Turkish conference could be attained without a certain clarification of problems concerning Turko-Russian relations...
...Tory Power Trust Fights U. S. Labor ST...
...LOUIS, Mo.—Under the protective camouflage of war-effort patriotism, the Power trust has launched a new and lavishly-financed compaign which will strike at publicly-owned utilities and the general rights of the American labor movement...
...With all of the continent's banking system in the hands of German banks, it is apparent that the Swiss banks are heavily "influenced" by the Germans...
...1943, "Cross and the fto^ Smith's publication, he •«•*** from the editorial and says: "Of* logic of this editorial >» *¦* foundation on which the AieaTfP First Party is being built...
...According to the Russian version the alleged attempt was nothing but a German provocation, and the trial was described by Communist press as "a strange medley of contradictions, violations of Turkish law procedure and scandalous trumpeting of anti-Soviet propaganda in the courtroom...
...The printers want a Wage increase to offset the particularly rapacious increases in the Cost of Living in the nation's capital...
...a strong conservative, who apparently is disposed to give large commercial farm interests and processors everything they ask...
...Chinese ambassador to the United States, and from lime...
...Over the same period, 'real' hourly earnings of workers in retail trade decreased 4.1 percent...
...A year ago, Turkish opinion was shocked by declarations of Stafford Cripps which was understood as an authoritative British support of Russian aspirations vis-a-vis Turkish rights and possessions...
...By the aid of war contracts and other assistance from the Federal Government, the large companies in virtually every industry are assuming greater importance, while the small units are being forced gradually oat of business or assuming a lesser role . . . under the exigency of the postwar period, there is some doubt that this trend can be stopped...
...or the order of Suvarov who fought the French at the end of the eighteenth century and carried out many brilliant campaigns...
...The net result, if carried through, would be to make an entire industry function as a single manufacturer to end wasteful use of critical equipment, manpower, transportation, etc...
...Most papers hailed Liberia as a model democracy but a vigorous dissenting report was entered by Gilbert Cant, foreign editor of the New York Post and co-authors Hayman and Preece...
...She has a treaty of friendship with Germany, and that is not only an expediency conditioned by her precarious situation...
...The thing that's profoundly wrong about playing with "the Big Fellows" is that "the Big Fellows' are already producing up to the limit—and that any increase in farm output must come from farms operated by family owners...
...In addition large investments in the East have no marketable value at present and yield no income—so that Britain's losses are higher than Lord Kindersley makes it out to be...
...That doesn't seem to have bothered the Tories very much...
...In June, the Russian Ambassador...
...What has been happening, The New Leader correspondent was told, is that the Milk Trust has had the run of the Department of Agriculture and has pot over a number of proposals which it had long baen hatching...
...This is an explanation why the Anglo-Turkish meeting was possible but not yet why it was needed...
...Britain's changed economic condition is one of the key factors in postwar planning, and a factor usually overlooked in discussions...
...How simple would be the remedy...
...War Profits Zoom, as Rising Prices Cut Wages [Four weeks ago the existence of a special war profits study made by the Office of Price Administration was a exclusively revealed by New Leader Correspondent Jonathan Stout...
...And these "small men" are million dollar companies...
...In the January...
...The most staggering Profits, story is told in the Mining and Metal industries...
...On the other hand, it is not probable that Turkey has any intention of entering the war...
...In a week the Executive Council of the CIO meets to formulate demands for wage increases...
...even called the new party TM...
...In the meantime Das Moines...
...The Detroit Smith rally set for Sunday boasts as its guest speaker one Captain Earl Southard, leader of the Illinois division of the American First Party...
...Added to this policy is the WPB policy of "concentration" which eliminates "unnecessary small" business and puts production in a few...
...left Ankara too...
...As the London Economist points out...
...The amelioration of Turko-Russian relations was considered a success of British and American diplomacy...
...He referred to a previous period of oil exploitation (about 47 years) as a "cycle of testing, of ignorance and imperialism...
...Turkish-English Talks Reveal Fading Strength of Reich Armies Russo-Turkish Problem Get to Be Ironed:Out By GEORGE DECKER In some respects Churchill's meeting with President Inonu arid Prime Minister Saracoglu of Turkey is one of the most significant events of the war...
...Now they did risk it for they not only received Churchill but also agreed to a conference between their own and British military chiefs...
...Diplomatic officials here point out that all of the supplies going to China are war and medical supplies...
...Out of the nation's total of 6,000,000 farmers, 2,000,000 had incomes in 19*0 of less than $400 ?h the average—and all together roduced only about 3% of the nation's food...
...However, these complication...
...Only 2% of Lend-lease Goes to China, Leaders •y GEORGE SHW * Chinese representatives in the United States are emphasizing the fact that if little more than the present "pitiful assistance" is not forthcoming then China may be forced to halt fighting against Japan...
...Oof of 04d Russia PORTY-EIGHT Russian generals were honored by the Soviet government this week, but the interesting point is that these decorations reflect once again the pride of Stalinist Russia in imperialist and Czarist history...
...Justice Holmes has frequently been quoted as constituting the criterion for seditious prosecutions...
...It ¦ a powerful...
...An industrial rationalization program is an inevitable step of a war economy and a long step towards "big-business collectivism...
...Wei Tao-ming...
...ioi jg/.ly financed movement and ostensibly is being fostered by the internationally the Communists, the pinkos...
...Therefore it would not be too risky to guess that Churchill also tried to mediate between Turkey and Russia, what already was done with certain success by British and American diplomacy...
...When added to these developments we have the WPB Controlled Material Plan which goes into effect February 9 (this scheme introdaced by Wall-Streeter Ferdinand Eberstadt creates a pool of all material and doles it out...
...The clear and present danger doctrine enunciated by Mr...
...Stout presented the highlights of the secret volumes and analyzed the amazing record of World War II profiteers...
...A great Russian-Turkish tension developed after the attempt to kill von Papan on February 24, 1942...
...The cost of living has risen 19.17c...
...It also demonstrates how the Turkish Government appreciates the importance of the last successes of the Allies—of the British victory in Egypt and Lybia, of the Russian winter offensive...
...formerly of Lee, Higgin-aon, Boston bankers...
...Over and above the 1.000 million pounds of realizable overseas investments sold or repaid, Britain has lost all but a negligible fraction of 500 million pounds of goW held on the outbreak of war and $300 millions of available dollar balances...
...after the—true or fictitious—attempt upon von Papan were not a reason but rather only a symptom of the existing tension...
...The immediate cause for oil companies alarm was a recent speech by President Medina insisting that Venezuela must take a major share in the riches of the national oil output...
...Secretary Claude Wickard has turned over food production to Roy F. Hend-rickson...
...That International Bank T*HE Bank of International Settlement which * sits placidly above the storm of war and conducts its business with bankers in Axis and Allied countries by mailrbas just elected a new chairman of the Board of Directors, a post that had been vacant for years...
...From their accounts...
...Another million farmers in the next higher income group also contributed very little to the country's food supply...
...On December 11, the Ch»caf» Tribune, the McCormack voice «. confusion, editorially stated tlr** a new party was necessary...
...Southard said: "We are gad to learn that the American Women Against Communism are getting into the fight against the alien-minded tote rnationalists and their nefariea* scheme to foist World Government upon the American people...
...The War Labor Board is keeping Wage increases within a 15% top...
...Southard is Commander of the Department of Illinois Veterans of Foreign Wars...
...The fact that Turkey dared what no one neutral country exposed, to German invasion had ever dared, proves that she considers the danger of German invasion much less a possibility, and British assistance much more /encouraging than a few months iy ago...
...Taw fading British Empire IN an optimistic speech delivered last month...
...Unless the depressed sections of the agricultural set-up are given substantial help, this program may become a tragic reality...
...so that all small men are at the mercy of the prime contractors on top), and the fact that the 'birthrate" for new business has fallen practically to zero, nor that any new business to a substantial degree will replace those disappearing via concentration and merger—then we already, see the emergence of a new "business collectivism...
...William Shirer's piece in Look magazine, called "They're All Guilty, Punish Them," was reprinted in .Yews From Belgium, official publication of the Belgian gowrnment-in-exile...
...Said Dr...
...Changing Rules an Civil Liberties IN its efforts at defining sedition, the Department of Justice is moving away from the celebrated dictum of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, which lays as the basis of prosecution the proof that utterances create "a clear ami present danger.'' Wendell Berge...
...The War Profits Expose—A Round-up Don't Look Now, But Your'e Being Soaked...
...The most interesting turn is the appearance of the Committee for Economic Development, which was first mentioned in these columns when set up secretly with the aid of the Dept...
...In the meantime, Labor, with its paltry 15% wage increase was desperately trying to catcly up with the 19% rise in the cost of living...
...What that means may be more readily visualized if one were to imagine Congress passing a 35% sales tax on all food (the major item on the worker's budget...
...Tie new chairman is Mr...
...If they don't fear wrath of Germany it is because they are assured that they can resist, and they want to show this assurance...
...one of the top men in the Biddle division, speaking recently to the Chicago Civil Liberties Union, said : "The Rne between seditious utterance and legitimate criticism is often a iMfficult one to draw...
...our troubles come from the Germans were true, how easy it would be...
...In addition, net short term liabilities to the rest of the world have increased from about 200 million pounds to about 700 million pounds...
...A. Cressy Morrison of the American Women Against Communism...
...The Committee, headed by the "streamjined" business thinkers, has set up over 100...
...And all in the name of a war effort to which everybody is supposed to give everything he's got.' The giving so far has been pretty one-sided...
...Says Carmieal, ". . . the plants are so constructed that they are an integral part of a large company, and it will be most difficult to separate them and place them under separate management" Several days later the Timet reported a war drive by WPB to "rationalize industry...
...The report came from the official German news agency and printed in the London Financial Xew* as picked up by Reuters The President of the BIS and bead executive is Thomas McKittrick...
...In his letter to Mrs...
...Asserting that the nature of modern propaganda has changed the test at hand...
...0* left-wing radicals, the legal osophers and a few government officials who seem to forget thea solemn oath to support the CatJ stitution of the United States...
...Berge states: "^'hen concerned with waiting for a danger to become clear and present, the test may e life rot the risk of meeting it too late...
...They have blatantly reiterated their program in thousands of newspapers and magazines...
...Everytime it has been brought up in Congress a national wave of anger and indignation has snowed it under...
...Bureau of Dairy Industry chief "Farmers who milk from 1 to 10 cows will determine whether war workers on the Home Front and the boys on the Fighting Fronts get the milk and other dairy products they need . . .,' Farm-monopoly lobbyist Edward O'Neal has a program to drive 3,000,000 small farm families off their farms in order to supply-cheap labor for the large farmers and the NAM...
...Liberty in Liberia President Roosevelt stopped off in Liberia on his way home and was photographed with Edwin J. Barclay, the President of this 'Black Republic...
...As a statement of policy or general objective it is still valid...
...And that's the thing to keep in mind as the rising demand for wage increases is heard from coast to coast Gerald Smith Tours Nation, Booms Rickenbaclcer By WALTER K. LEWIS Gerald L. K. Smith's new appeasement front "The America First Party" which made its debut on January 10 in Detroit, and which now boasts units in Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, plans a rally on Sunday, February 7, in Detroit, at which time Smith is expected to step to the rostrum and boom Eddie Rickenbacker for President of the United States on the appeasement party's ticket in 1944...
...Meet M. Lemaigre-Dmbremil The architect of the North African campaign and chief adviser to Robert Murphy, according to Drew Pearson, was Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, head of the PVench Association of Taxpayers, reactionary lobbying organization formed to reduce taxes on big-business and to keep power in the hands of ruling families...
...McKittrick is now in the United States, having arrived in early December and is now preparing to go back to his post...
...These statements coming so soon on the heels of the Casablanca conference is interpreted as a warning to the Allied powers that the eastern front cannot be slighted in favor of the west, when the situation in China is so perilous...
...But such a visit then ww wholly unimaginable for these cautious Turkish politicians would not risk provocation of Germany...
...The Department of Labor's Monthly Labor Review for October, 1942, summarizes the story in more statistical language: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics' data on average hourly earnings show that, taking into account the increase in cost of living, the 'real' hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing, mining and steam railroads increased on the average 9.7 percent from August, 1939, to June, 1942, and 2.2 percent for workers in wholesale trade...
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