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...He has no interest in a permanent AI.P and he has no qualms aho.it working with Communists because he feels he can ditch them along with the psrty...

...The Chinese Communists have let Chiang: bear the brunt of fighting the Japs, while they have husbanded their strength and resources, aided by the Russians...

...He has had his experiences with Communists and does not permit any of them to hold office within the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...

...That is unacceptable not only to the Finns, but slso to the Swedes, Norwegians and Danes...

...Sidney Hillman's maneuvering* will be checked and a strong party can surge forward...

...And it was instructive to note that all of these tangled threads formed an international web, at the heart of which smiled, the inscrutable smile of Ally Stalin...

...Hillman now states .that he is- ready to accept Mayor LaCuardia's "peace plan"—one df whose points is that no Communists should be elected to the State Committee...

...And thst's why Stalin's recognition of Badoglio without consulting his allies came as such a shock...

...All of the Scsndinavians are mindful that after occupation by Soviet troops, no country ever came out looking the same, as in the case of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...

...That is the promise he has made (o his own people who have protested his actions...

...They're no longer worried about Mikhailovich...

...It said, aa diplomatically as the written word allows, that: 1, Iran though certain other nationa wvin to have forgotten about them, America is still sticking by the Atlantic Charter and the Moscow Pact...

...jtelian people greeted the invading Americans {'** British because the Italian people have no doubt the Americans and British will ultimately depart Hi ie«y« the running of Italy to the Italians...

...The latter is in a real dilemma...

...This was a round-up of what was furrowing diplo-matte brows this week in Washington: 1. The Americans, already irked by Stalin's failure to consult them in the recognition of the Badoglio regime, are Anally showing a lively apprehension over the situation in Eastern Europe...

...Because it is now perfectly plain that they can have Yugoslavia without giving away anything...

...On the othei hand the Communists arc working with Sidney Hillman, as they worked earlier with John L. Lewis, because they hope to capture the party machinery and use it for their own purposes...

...The possibility of a Soviet hegemony over China means the emergence of Russia as a Pacific power...

...It is in the post-war world...

...The fact is that the final victory of the United Nations is already dis-coui.ted...

...At the showdown, however, and on Russian instigation, Tito has now repudiated King Peter and the legitimate Yugoslavian government...

...I The British sir beginning to suspect that backing Stalin's political finagling in the Balkans will leave them holding the bag (empty), with the Russians ousting them as the dominating power in the Mediterranean, through which flows the life line of the British Empire...

...In the Soviet-British deal which gave Balkan hegemony to the Russians, it had been agreed that the Russians would permit King Peter to retain his throne...

...But this year poses the final issue...

...President Roosevelt can run again on a clean arid untainted platform...

...Mixed reactions *2*°'Jr Mw becoming evident as the Red Army beyond Russian borders...

...Their reports to the State • Department disclose the falsity of the Communist propaganda campaign as regards that country...

...The Australians also are worried about that picture...

...i. The Poles are near the end of their hope u> find in acceptable formula for rapprocheiuent with the Soviet Union...

...That being so, it was depressing to note, in the face of a rising graph in the military fortunes of the United Nations, that the reflection of the international political scene should be ae pessimistic...

...o ftulmhm Alomq Diplomat »• w Bf and largo, the foreign diplomats in Washington inolvMusli* are dependable mirrors of their govern-Beats' views, fears, doaires, etc...

...In the second place, only tho presence of nn American and British army in China after the war ends will save the exhausted Chinese army from being wiped oat by the Chinese Communists...

...This is the sort of party Sidney II ill man proposes...

...That is one of tho reasons the Allied armies in the Pacific are driving...

...Why is that...

...He knows they would not be loyal to the union but to the Communist Party...

...They are given no information worth sending to our military leaders planning for the invasion of the French coast...

...Roport From Yugoslavia The State Department is now in possession of the first reliable information as to the situation in the Halkans...

...There have been several times in the past three years when political relations got so low it looked like a crisis...

...That doesn't make the United States happy, either...

...oo The Sit oof Jon ill China China also contributes to the pessimistic political picture...

...Why did the Russians and Tito double cro„* the British...

...Despite this, the Yugoslavs arc in despair over the future...

...Our liaison officers report that most of Yugoslavia is under Mikhailovich'* control and that he remains staunchly pro-United Nations, but that he lack* supplies and arms with which to conduct any sort of a real campaign...

...They're not permitted to go near the battle fronts...

...L Scandinavian diplomats were uniformly despondent over failure of efforts to take Finland out of the war...

...If the Communista can be beaten back again it will mean the final repudiation...

...Michael Quill is a Communist...

...And the Scandinavians uniformly do not want a Russin occupation of any part of the Scandinavian peninsula...

...Hillmnn lias made his alliance with the Communists because lie seeks, to use the Amerjcan l^ahor Party as his personal instrument in 1944—and th n estroy it...

...Such trust and affection must be deserved...

...On the contrary, thorn is ovary expectation in tfcei, aunds of bejnf • haiuod to the Soviet chariot in „,r way »r iaotbor...

...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Hull Statement Backs Atlantic Charter WASHINGTON, D. C—The statement by Secretary Hull this week defining the basin of American foreign faiitf was a most diplomatic document...

...But that is not the sort of party a free and democratic organization wants...

...So long as the *¦ Army was fighting on Russian soil, its victories •"•roeted here with unalloyed joy...

...the advances of the Red Army evoke mixed This was not always so...

...And Stalin, ignoring his allies when, indeed, he doesn't attack them—as in the case of the Yugoslavs, Poles, the Vatican, Wendell Willkie, David Dubinsky, etc.—goes on consulting only his own desires and keeping his own counsel about the future...

...And that is the bleak outlook for the Yugoslavian nation...

...They're not permitted to observe the enemy in action...

...Karh time the situation was saved by an international conference, such as the Roosevelt-Churchill talks that produced the Atlantic Charter, the Moscow Pact conference, the Cairo conference, the Teheran Declaration...

...U S. Mission Sons no Action in Russia The American Military Mission in Russia has sent back word that they might as well go home...

...Karh time political relations improve for • time, only to run afoul again of the reef that aai wrecked each conference result—Stalin's unilateral foreign policy—and again a crisis appears...

...The strangest picture in the nation's capital this ••at was presented by the diplomatic corps...

...There is an easy way to peace between the Finna and Russians...

...Hillman's sincerity...

...As the Russian army invades Rumania and prepares to sweep into the Balkans, the outlook for for the maintenance of Yugoslavia's freedom and sovereignty is very black...

...DON'T LOSE YOUR PARTY BY DEFAULT 'TMIK primary fight in the American Labor Party is reducible to a simple question: shall the ALP remain an independent party, controlled by liberals and trade unionists, or shall it become a false front, manipulated and controlled by the Communist Party...

...Why the yen to occupy Finland . . . unless there are imperialist dreams of expansion...

...There is a simple and effective test of Mr...

...4. The Yugoslsva are in despair over the problem of Tito, King Peter and General Mikhailovich...

...If he decides to oppose the invading Russians, the world wide Communist propaganda machine, of course, would exhibit that as proof that Mikhailovich is on the side of the Nasis...

...Saul Mills, Hillman's assistant campaign director, is a Communist...

...TB# Poies, the Y ugoslavs, the Finns and others la ins path of invading Ked Armies have no such assur-tmcm...

...The terms Stalin offered the Finns are such that it would mean military occupation of Finland by Russian troops...

...There seems to be a clear realization of this situation among military men in the Pacific area, both ours and the British...

...And for five ye rs it has had to fight for its life, pouring tens of thousands of dollars and important human energy into primary campaigns to stave off the marauding Communists...

...On this basis the British supplied Tito with arms and helped build him up...

...American liaison officer* have just returned from Yugoslavia, after spending time both with Tito and General Mikhailovich...

...The Finnish Peoce Terms And in another quarter, Scandinavian diplomats now question Stalin's sincerity in the matter of ending the war with Finland...

...cause of this is the deep doubt that Stalin has •• to the intentions of the Soviet Union...

...This embarrassed the British, particularly after the whole British royal family attended the recent wedding of King Peter to his Greek princess...

...In con-tfiit to the war news—which was uniformly good on W fronts, and rousingly good on the Russian front— l»***r Row was a study in blue...

...1 And when those certain other nations violate the Atlantic Charter and Die Moscow fact, don't complain to Uncle Sam about it...

...1 The Turks are on the anxious seat over the Dardanelles...

...7. The Chinese are unhappy about relations between Chiang Kai-shek and the leaders of the Communist Eighth Route Army 8. The Australians are anxious about the future of the Pacific and their place in it...

...And, curiously enough, as the Russians advanced in Mind and Rumania and increased the pressure on nnland, the diplomatic corps looked bluer and bluer...

...And they are constantly being placed in the humihtating position of having to ask the American correspondents for reliable information...

...As is Stalin's, of course...

...Only this week Tim Holmes, until 1942 a member of the top Communist Bureau in the state and one of its leading organizers, swore in an affidavit that Michael Quill, Abram Flaxer and James Lustig, all active in the lei't-wing faction, reported regularly to high Communist leaders on details of union matters...

...Tito was to be brought into the government and Mikhailovich either demoted or ousted...

...In the first place, China provides tho bast base for carry* ing war to the heart of the Japanese Empire...

...Thin is beginning to look like a chronic affliction, like intermittent fever...

...What, then, should he do...

...Kugene P. Connolly is a Communist stooge...

...DON'T LOSE YOUR PARTY BY DEFAULT— VOTE RIGHT—VOTE AMERICAN LABOR MARCH 28 —DON'T FORGET THE DATE AND VOTE RIGHT...

...Let him flatly and unequivocally repudiate Michael Quill, Saul Mills, Vito Marcantonio, et al...

...Abram Flaxer is a Communist...

...Why aren't the Russians...

...Crucial questions of union strategy such at> strikes and negotiations were decided, not by the vote of the union membership, acting in accordance with union interests, but by the Commurist Party leadership on the basis of the party's political considerations and the party line...

...There didn't seem to be a happy face anywhere along Embassy Row this week...

...He is a shrewd and effective politician and there is reason in his apparent madness...

...But Sidney Hillman is playing a crude and specious kind of power politics...

...Hull statement, in addition, is designed to play la important role when Undersecretary of State Stettinius goes to London to initiate talks with the British and Russians on political matters as a prelude to mother meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Status...

...And it is accurate to observe that each one of the anxieties noted above has its source in the unpredictable, unally like conduct of Ally Stalin, and could be instantly allayed if Stalin chose sincerely to put the interests of the United Nations and a post war family of nations at peace above the narrow nationalistic and imperialistic interests of the Soviet Dam The whole world seems to be pleading with Stalin to please, please behave like an ally...

...V'ito Marcantonio is a Communist stooge...

...Why the punitive urge...

...Among the Communist lies which they nailed was the exaggerated reports of Tito's strength, anil the lie that Mikhailovich has ever collaborated with either the Italians or the Germans...

...If he remains true to his trust and to his government, he must regard the approaching Russians as much of a foe of his king and country as the Naiis...

...These are obvious facts...

...The British are at fault for this...

...The Hull statement followed a series of communi-ntions between the United States and the British in which the latter were told that American public opinion till not stand for ignoring of the Atlantic Charter •si the Moscow Pact—as in the case of Russia's bull doling of Poland and Yugoslavia...

...Meanwhile a strong and important Labor Party —which offers the only political home for the liberal elements in New York—is caught in the twists and turns of this vicious wheel...

...They can't all be out of step, but Joe...

...If the Yugoslav Minister of War decides not to oppose the invading Soviet army, then he is equally done...

...And that, of course, is the key to all these worries...

...The Finns are ready to do this...

...The/ are all related to the future...

...The thinking in international relations is now beyond that point...

...In the words of Lenin, just quit fighting...

...Of course Sidney Hillman is no Communist...

...toward* China...

...that marks the big difference between the ••rids attitude towards the Russians and ine real " United Nationa...

...T*w» ii tvident in Washington the strange phe-"""•"•n that whereas victories of American and ""*» armies in various quarters of the global ""•Wli brinf nothing but joy throughout the United '"•"i...

...he wasn't even consulted hi the matter (and, privately, he's pretty sore about it, <M...

...Reliable'reports here are that the Communist Eighth Route Army has now grown to the extent that, left to themselves, they can crush Chiang Kai-shek any time they get ready...

...e • . } It's rather wonderful that one ally chit inspire such universal confidence in the future...

...Kvery single fact that has emerged in the primary fight makes that issue crystal clear...

...The Hall statement is the direct result of a crave deterioration in the political relations of the United Nations...

...We set down this list, not to call names, but to point up an obvious situation: that these men have a primary loyalty above the interests of the ALP, a primary loyalty to the Communist Party...