It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Russo-Finish Negotiations ... MoscoWs reply to Helsinki'* counter* offer of peace wu called harsh and unacceptable by Finnish leaders—they were...
...the Rhiheland and Northwest Germany, by the British...
...Recognising that the Axis is doomed, the native fascists are willing enough to sever connections with Berlin and Tokyo, if in reward they can get Washington's and London's okay, it is said...
...SfalluM Pan-Slavism . . . The London Polish-Slav Committee has joined the All-Slav Committee in Great Britain...
...Stephen L Wise and Dr...
...A coalition executive committee was selected with Ijulislao Larraguivel as secretary...
...Apparently that is the result 'obliteration' bombing is having on German morale...
...President Camacho of Mexico mediated a disput* which threatened to split the Mexican Railroad Union three ways...
...the Russians will occupy that part of Germany northeast of the River Oder...
...MoscoWs reply to Helsinki'* counter* offer of peace wu called harsh and unacceptable by Finnish leaders—they were substantially the same as Russia's original terms...
...In Mexico Father Eduardo Iglesias is confessor for the two fascist leaders, Gomes Morin of the Accion Na-cional and Torres Bueno of the Nationalist Sinarquistas Union...
...But the inevitable killing of civilians in the bombing of military targets is a far different thing from the deliberate obliteration .of civilian areas and populations...
...The long, bitter battle over the soldier-vote bill ended with a victory for the reactionary forces backing the "States' Rights" bill...
...Hitler's brutal methods in bombing Britain only served to stiffen the resistance .of'the British...
...Julin Mauiu, Peasant Party leader...
...Less critical of the Baruch plan for free enterprise than William Green, Murray joined with Green in demanding labor representatiea on all agencies dealing with postwar problems, an<t, full participation in the transition period in the task of assuring full employment, with government and business...
...The Berlin area will be under joint control...
...Labor leaders and liberal Catholics are alarmed by the apparent identification, by the fascists, of their movement and the Church...
...It is predicted that the Linkomiet re* Kime will fall if it fails to negotiate peace, and that Field Marshall Manner* heisB will then establish another dictator* ¦hip to wage war to the bitter end...
...There is a possibility that such a government might make a separate peace with Russia, in which case Rumania would become a battlefield between the Nazi*, and the Red Army...
...The veritable storm of angry protest which met Congressional action to rob soldiers of the right to vote, by placing too many obstacles in their way,, has been ignored...
...The alternative lies in the concentrated bombing of military objectives, accompanied by a clear declaration from our government and from Britain as to what kind of a post-war world we shall offer Germany...
...Rumanian Peace-Feelerj Mode . , . As a result of conference in Ankara between Rumanian emissaries and "responsible persons" (presumably Russians) changes in the Buchsrest government are predicted...
...Soldier Vote Steal...
...This action was due to the refusal by Eamon de Valera to expel Axis diplomatic agents who are acting as spies...
...Vienna is the gateway to the Balkans...
...Abba H. Silver te as* Bounce that "when future decision* sag reached full justice will be done to tUtf who seek a Jewish national home," AfcU that the United States has never jZT proved the British White Paper, which will close Palestine to Jewish immigration if it goes Into effect on March It, The National Conference on Palestine urged the passage of the Wagner-Tat...
...The Finnish Social Democrats and the People's Party were in a minority in •renins...
...An alliance between the native fascist* and the tin companies and other firms which would aeek financial and political support from Anglo-American capital aeems to be in the making...
...Premier Edwin Linko-mies recommended rejection, and the Finnish Parliament followed his advice...
...Badoglio threatened to resign (we wish he had) and Italian anti-fascists protested that tjiey did not want their fleet carved up...
...Of 2,000,000 women in New York State industries, only 60 percent receive equal pay for equal work, the State Department of ljibor states...
...They were denounced as accomplices of fascism...
...He denounced Matthew Woll as "the worst and most reactionary politician in labor's ranks...
...New York State and several others have such bills pending...
...It is planned to hold an All-Slav Congress soon, similar to that held in Moscow, as part of Stalin's Pan-Slav movement to extend Soviet influence throughout Central and Eastern Europe...
...FDI...
...Toledano praised the leadership of the CIO...
...commented that there was no disagreement between himself and Churchill, that he had said in his original, casual announcement that Russia would get one-third of the fleet or it$ equivalent...
...announced that the Italian fleet would be divided, Russia to get a third of it, every Italian from Badoglio to the socialists and Italian-American workers was indignant...
...Premier Ion An-tonescu may be ousted, and a transition cabinet may prepare for a democratic government headed by Dr...
...Latin-American Fascism . . . Bolivian newspapers owned by the tin magnates, Simon Patino and others, El Diario and La Raton, give qualified support to the new Junta which recently seized power, but warn that its "moral unity" would be destroyed if it permits the Left Revolutionary Party led by Jose Arse to participate in the government...
...Certain commentators believe that the Germans encourage their satelites to play at the game of seeking guarantees from Britain and America against the vengeance of Russia, when they withdraw from the war...
...The latter contributes to the Sinarquiat paper...
...Occupation of Ajitrlo and Germany...
...In Argentina, Father Wilkinson is the confessor for both Ramirez and his successor Peron...
...Ralph W. Sockman, defending the statement of 28 clergymen, liberals, and pacifists protesting the "obliteration bombing" of German cities, said that he believed the winning of the war in the shortest possible time and with the minimum loss of lives requires the bombing of military targets...
...The prospect now is that the bill passed by Congress, even if accepted by all the States, will in effect permit fewer soldiers to cast a ballot than the 1942 law...
...Eire insisted on remaining "strictly neutral...
...A counter-demonstration by monarchists flopped...
...Miscellany . . . Hull promised that the Allies will try to avoid damaging religious structures in Rome, in reply to the Pope's appeal that Rome be spared as a battlefield...
...Italian Fleet . . . When F.D.R...
...F.D.R...
...Censors havs strictly forbidden correspondents to mention the subject—if the Stockholm reports are correct, we can understand why, for the propaganda quoted is ineffective political warfare...
...Will veterans remember those whoae attitude is, "let 'em fight, but not vote...
...If not, he will veto the Federal bill...
...Recent change* in the Bolivian Cabinet, like changes in Argentina, are in* terpreted as signifying a split between native fascists and Nazi-paid fascists...
...Bourbon Democrats joined with Republicans to defeat the Federal ballot...
...The Soviet Government surprised "Washington and London by demanding that the Red Army share with Anglo-American forces the occupation of Austria as well as of Germany after liberation...
...Then Churchill declared that no change was contemplated in the disposition of the Italian fleet, that it would continue to operate under its own flag and the direction of the Allies, in the Mediterranean...
...Toledano—CP...
...President Roosevelt telegraphed all Governers to find out whether or not this bill will be accepted by them as supplementary to the laws of the various States...
...The threat of economic sanction* hangs over Eire following the ban on travel between Britain and Ireland, as • precaution against leakage of military Information to the Nazis...
...The Nazis retreating from Lwow engaged in a frenzy of slaughter of Poles, Jews, and Russians, the Polish Telegraph Agency reports...
...Secretary of State Hull reiterated his advice to the Finns to get out of the war...
...Governor Dewey of New York has declared he would not accept it...
...The probable division of occupation spheres in Germany, according to Frederick Kuh of PM, is this: Southwest Germany—Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony—by Americans...
...Italians Against Badoglio . . . The abdication of the King and the resignation of Badoglio were demanded by 8,000 Italian* of six anti-fascist par-ties at Naples on March 12...
...Je.perr, Jtwhk Hoasaloatf' • • « Roosevelt authorized Dr...
...It will disfranchise millions of soldiers, and has been denounced by labor leaders and liberals...
...Jewish immigration, to relieve the tragi* plight of hundreds of thousands *| homeless Jewish refugees, and the ettak 11 m ment of a Jewish democratic eesv monwealth...
...Hs said the Nazis have made the bombing of Rome a military necessity...
...A Swedish newspaper reproduced American propaganda leaflets dropped over Berlin...
...Churchill warned de Valera that this was merely the first step toward complete isolation of Eire during the critical period ahead—the invasion of Europe...
...Storm Over fire...
...Moscow also expects to entice or compel Austria to adhere to the Russo-Czech alliance, against "a future German menace...
...Washington, Illinois, Michigan, and Montana have equal pay laws...
...The Allied militry authorities gave permission for the mass meeting...
...for peace...
...Reactionary Congress* men have at last won in their long fight to oust Robert Morss Lovett from his job as executive assistant to the Governor of the Virgin Islands...
...Hurray fndorses Iorach Plan . ,, Philip Murray endorsed, in principle, the Baruch report on reconversion and post-war problems...
...But Congress was not responsive to public opinion...
...He said the coming Philadelphia labor conference plans to knife the international conference at London at which Soviet "trade unions" will be represented, and which the AFL refuses to attend...
...The Prime Minister said south-em Ireland is a "center of espionage...
...Wright-Compton resolution* in Caa* greaa favoring continued and increase...
...u Obliteration tombing . . . Dr...
...Expert on America* Labor . . . Toledano made a fiery fighting speech at the CTAL conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, the last week in February, in which he attacked the AFL for its "Monroe doctrine of labor," for "sabotaging unity of Latin American Labor," and for "supporting American imperialism...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 12
