It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Influential London Times Opposes Dismemberment of Germany 'THE moat significant editorial of the put month ii one in the London Time; opposing the view* of...
...Churchfll upheld the unity that was established at Teheran," the CP...
...in 1943 it was $1,050...
...Jan Ciechanowski, Polish Ambassador to Washington, is in London to report to his government the views of the United States on the Polish question...
...The majority of Frenchmen, the surveys report, are afraid of economic domination by Britain and America, political domination by Russia...
...These interesting figures were cited by Assistant Secretary of State Berle last week...
...Soviet Now* Monopoly Vory Slightly Cracked...
...A democratic government "would augment the fighting capacity of the Italian forces," the statement declared...
...Other labor and liberal forces also demanded public hearings on this legislation outlawing industiinl selling and discount houses...
...French political opinion will be as sharply divided after the war as it was before, it was said...
...Jose Pedro Cardoia, Socialist deputy, told the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies that "without any justification an atmosphere of war u being prepared between sister nations...
...Sweden has offered to supply Finland with food if and when the peace treaty is signed...
...Business has accumulated plenty of capital from wartime profits to finance the transition to peacetime production...
...The peace tor bbs included giving to Russia the territory ¦he won in the war of 1930-1940, and the internment of Nasi troops in Finland...
...The peace terms seemed fair enough, except that all the important problem* are left to future negotiation in Moscow...
...The requisite unity of Europe is impossible without the active participation of the United States, Britain, and Russia, the Timet editorial concludes...
...The majority do not want Communism, and fear civil war...
...They desire to see Vichyite traitors punished by due process of law, not by personal vengeance, according to these surveys...
...drastic social reforms, but preservation of private property...
...The Commerce Department estimated that business would have a balance of more than $10,000,000.000 •ver and above maximum reconversion costs and other liabilities...
...The oldest governm-inl-in-exile, the Korean Government, organized twenty-five years ago to fight Japan, issued an appeal for recognition by the United Nations...
...Premier To Jo has Warned* that "no mercy™ will be given those harboring "dangerous thoughts" which disturb Japanese solidarity...
...Today, two and one-half years later, l*« ratio has been reversed to the point where 100 corporations hold 70 per cent of the war and essential contracts...
...Mustafa Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minister, protested against resolutions pending before Congress f«-voring unrestricted settlement of Jews in Palestine looking toward "a free democratic Jewish commonwealth...
...complete abolition of Vichy laws...
...Two exhaustive studies of opinion within occupied France conclude that the French want a strictly constitutional government i with stronger executive power...
...opposing the view* of Lord Vansittart and others who favor the dismemberment of Germany...
...Anti-Bargain till Attack** . . George Counts and Alex Rose, for the American Labor Party, sent a telegram to Assemblyman Harry Beoux of the New York State Legislature, opposing the proposed anti-bargain bill backed by big department stores to prohibit buying standard merchandise at discounts...
...Preservation of German industry is essential to European recovery and maintenance of the standard of living—but with provisions which will prevent rearmament...
...Franco Adamant Dotpito Sanctions . . . r General Franco has thus far refused to meet the Anglo-American demands— a round-up of German agents, the closing of the German consulate at Tangier, and an embargo on shipments of war materials to Germany...
...It claims to have lost 300,000 Koreans in the fight for independence...
...It would also cripple German productivity and result in "desperate repercussion" throughout Europe...
...The United States will replenish Sweden's supplies...
...Miscellany . . . The Associated Press reports that many Russians were astonished to reel in the Soviet press that lend-lease aid from the United States since October, 1941, has reached a total of over $4,000,000,000...
...A general strike in Paraguay against government regulation of unions is spreading...
...Only European unity can prevent future aggression...
...Germany cannot be allowed to become a cancer at the heart of the European organism...
...Tom C. Clark of the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division declares that "At the start of the war, 175,000 companies provided 70 per cent of the nation's manufacturing output...
...American Zionists answered that when Rommel was invading Egypt, Palestinian Jews were fighting against the Nazis, but Egypt made no protest and no contribution to the defeat of the invaders...
...What Do Frenchmen Think...
...It has issued a decree appointing a new commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces, condemning General Sosnkowski, who is the actual commander appointed by the democratic Polish government-in-exile...
...The reactionaries place their hope in General Giraud, the majority of the democratic republicans in General de Gaulle...
...He continued that within Argentina and Braxil "some elements are intensifying alarming preparations for a clash...
...by 1970 Russia will be much more industrialized...
...So economic pressure continues, although Franco promised to pursue a policy 6f "honorable -neutrality...
...Rnsso-Finnish Pooc...
...is bunk...
...There is simultaneously dislike of both disorder and a centralized State...
...Per Capita Income Doubles in U.S.4____ The per capita income of the "average" American was $520 in the 1935-1939 period...
...The French hope for collaboration with Britain and the United States, but on a basis of equality, with France regaining her colonial empire...
...France's to 37,000,000...
...But two-thirds of the families in this country had incomes of less than $3,000 last year, as compared with nine-tenths in the prewar period...
...Koreans Sack to Join United Notions...
...Berne reported arrest of Japanese officers in Rumania acting as spies for Russia...
...This would mean civil war in Poland, if carried to its logical conclusion, unless the real Polish government in London capitulates to he Russian ultimatum...
...sheet comments approvingly...
...Especially liked was Churchill's praise of Stalin and Tito, and his okay of Russian plans to set up a sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe...
...Churchill's recent speech assuring Russia a free hand in Central and Eastern Europe, this may mean that the British will demand as the price for giving Russia this sphere of mfluenee 4ha* Germany be "strong and independent" in actuality, and not under Soviet influence or domination...
...The Polish government-in-exile protested against Communist disruption within the Polish underground, which results from the setting up of a Communist-led "National Council" to negotiate with the Ukrainian Government, and the "naming of the Communist General Rola as Commander in Chief of Polish armed forces...
...The very influential Timet holds that Europe's health requires that Germany be an important economic and political power within the framework of an international organisation to guarantee collective security...
...Big Business Hat Huge Reserve Fund tor Reconversion . .. The Department of Commerce also released figurea which prove that the plea of big business for higher profits and lower taxes so that postwar reserves can be built up...
...Great Britain's population will have dropped to about 42,000,000...
...Browder Loves Churchill . . . The Daily Worker sings the praises of Britain's Tory Prime Minister...
...But by the same date the population of Russia will have increased to about 222,000,000...
...The Italian Committee of National Liberation protested Churchill's recent endorsement of Badoglio and the King, and urged abdication...
...222.000.000 Russians . . . After another twenty-five years have passed (about the time when World War III is likely to break out) the population of the United States will probably have been stabilized at approximately 135,000,000...
...The importance of achieving cooperation between the big powers is underscored by these statistics...
...Interpreted in connection with Mr...
...Over 3,400 Catholic institutions have been confiscated by the Nazis in the past four years...
...Just as Russo-Finnish peace negotiations reached the critical stage, the Red Air Force unleaehed a 600 plane attack on Helsinki, almost obliterating Finland's capital...
...1o Mot out Germany from the nations would be neither practicable nor morally acceptable to the civilised world, the editorial continue...
...Churchill revealed full accord with the USSR," says the Daily Worker (February 27...
...Dismemberment would fun (he flames of nationalism, and make the task of keeping Germany divided insupportable...
...The expected aid from Turkey has not materialized...
...The Allies are also dissatisfied with the neutrality of Turkey...
...But many fear de Gaulle's dictatorial ambitions...
...Russia Prepare* Way tor Polish Civil War . .. The pro-Soviet Polish National Council, puppet of Moscow, has kindly consented to discuss with "autonomous" Ukrainia the Russian-Polish boundary on the basis of the Kremlin's Curzon-line proposal...
...John L. Lewis, once heroized as a fuehrer by the Communists, now demands ousting of all Communists from unions, and says Hillman and Murray are "prisoners" of their allies...
...The Jewish Telegraphic Agency announced that It has inaugurated a news service to the Jewish press in Moscow This is the first news ever received by the Soviet press from any except the official government agency, Taxs...
...These figures are from the Department of Commerce...
...Business will have a reserve of from $47,000,000,000 to $58,000,000,000 available...
...He added that the Russian peasants are rapidly mastering machinery...
...Germany's to 64,000,000...
...What Finland fears most is that Red Army troops will occupy their territory to intern the Nasi troops, and that Russia will demand governmental changes, and eventually engineer the creation of a Kuusinen pro-Soviet regime...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 10
