It Happened last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened last Week By LISTON M. OAK Russian Demand for Labor Battalions Stall Advisory Commission Plans for Peace *|*HE European Advisory Commission is reported stalled by a dispute over what...
...This will place them at a disadvantage in competing for postwar trade...
...hence his music was verboten by Naiis...
...MISCtLLAHYt The Methodist Church dropped its pacifist stand adopted four years age by a Tote of 371 to 300 at the geaeral conference . , . The Belgian Government in-extie has proposed a drastic plan te the Armistice Comsxiasioa of the Inter-Allied Committee la London, for the industrial and financial disarmament of postwsr Germany...
...This- scheme would put the German economy in a straightjscket, throttling all heavy industry...
...There is the group of Latin-American delegates who follow the leadership of Lombardo Toledano, Mexican Communist...
...He says the Digett needs to be' fortified with some mental vitamins, enriched with ideas, to guard readers against the danger of ideological malnutrition...
...Another American plane crashed at Pcpovopolje, Hersogovina...
...Continued battles with the Nails are reported by MikheiloviUh...
...Three Americans Saved by Cherniks .. . Mikbailovieh's headquarters in "the woods and mountains of Yugoslavia" announced that two Americans were saved by the Chetniks from a burning plane —engineer Richard Bernice and radio operator Edmund Flanagan, both from the Forty-First Squadron, Fodjia, Italy...
...Fedor Gusiev, Russian member of the Commission, proposed that all German soldiers should be declared prisoners of war and used in labor battalions to rebuild devastated lands...
...Harvard scientists in Harvard laboratories have discovered how to make synthetic quinine...
...its record is the most amazing success story in American journalism...
...lefereeffeeel Later OreeetaeHee . . . Russia sabotaged the work of the Internationa] Labor Organisation by refusing to send delegates...
...Washington and London had previously announced a tightening of economic sanctions against 15,000 blacklisted Arms sod Individuals trading with Germany, to continue after the war...
...Free Enterprise, or MoeepeJy, in Use of Synthetic qaimlmt...
...The dissident minority argue that partition of Germany will .turture violent nationalism and irred< ni ism and the lust for revenge...
...Cyaic'i Cerser . . . In arguing for a reversal of the pacifist stand of the Methodist Church, one clergyman maintained that "God himself has a stake in the struggle...
...It is the most powerful instrument of communication in the world...
...Which this impkas department thinks Is the funniest remark of the week...
...Victor Scruff and Friti Wolf, Social Democrats, also threaten to resign...
...The British Commonwealth has shown itself as tht most effective struct* re for regional security the world has known," said Prime Minister Curtin of Australia at the Empire conference in London...
...Franco did not suffer defeat, since he achieved "• mutually satisfactory compromise...
...Until recent date, Chopin was of Polish-French ancestry...
...Rprty's pet hate is devita mini zed white bread—so he compares the intellectual diet of the Digett to that...
...But Russia's influence on the IIX) is exerted, not only through those delegates who are friends of the Soviets, but negatively, through the absence of Russian cooperation...
...Orlemanski assures us that "Marshall Stalin is a friend of the Polish people . . . and events will prove that he is a friend of the Catholic Church...
...But now, mirsble dictu, he is kosher—I mean Nordic— for it is discovered that, like Shakespeare and Copernicus, he is German...
...Franco Hot Defeated . . . The recent agreement signed with Spain was not a triumph of Britain and the United States, the Earl of Selborne, Minister of Economic Warfare, stated in Parliament...
...Then there are several delegates from other countries who are either Communists or fellow-travelera...
...yet Russia has several delegates at the 11,0 conference in Philadelphia...
...The Spanish War Goes On . .. Etcetera . . . Our esteemed contemporary, the well-edited liberal Catholic weekly, The Commonweal, comments disapprovingly upon the fact that Our Sunday Yititor, Catholic periodical with a circulation of over 500,000, has published a "thunderous salvo for General Franco...
...Andres Ignaeio Menendes assumed the presidency pending sn election...
...John Winant, U. S. Ambassador, and William Strang, British member of the Commission, are reported to be opposed to this "slave labor" idea...
...In the same issue is a good article by James Rorty on The Reader'/ Dige»t, which now has a readership of 25,000,000 internationally...
...The firms include German chemical and banking interests, according to I. F. Stone of PAf...
...But the patents will be owned by the Polaroid Corporation, which will y license to chemical firms the right to make the quinine^" The Polaroid Corporation is linked to big drug' and chemical firms which might form a cartel to restrict the manufacture and sale of this new drug...
...Both American and British trade unionist* are overwhelmingly opposed to any such scheme for reconstruction of devastated...
...In due course of time even Heine and Schiller might be honored .with Nordic ancestors by thi Nazis...
...The wounded American pilot, Staff Sergeant Raymond Green, Fifteenth Airferce, Bari, Italy, was rescued from pursuing Germans...
...The AFL executive council again rejected the request for affiliation of John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers, whereupon Lewie angrily withdrew his application . . . Ernest Bevin, British Minister of Labor, endorsed Polish aspirations for independence and expressed confidence in the ability of the Polish government in-exile to build a democratic Poland if protected agsinst aggression of powerfnl neighbors . . . American and British oil experts have reached a tentative agreement to govern the development end distribution of the world's oil resources, with equal opportunity for both great powers...
...areas of Russia, or other countries, hy German slave labor...
...One success was, evidently, that of Eden in persuading Stettinius to support Britain's position that the democracies should capitulate to Russia's imperialist demands in Central and Eastern Europe...
...August Weben, German liberal, has resigned from the London Free German Committee...
...British, Russian, and American representatives have been drafting armistice terms for four months...
...For its foreign editions carry advertising...
...Who was it that said, "I can take care of my enemies—God save me from my friends...
...Robert Watt and Percy Clarey, American and Australian workers' delegates, supported a resolution for the reconstruction of German trade unions, defeated 9 to 2. This resolution had previously been supported by the International Federation of Trade Unions...
...ami Britain must stick together...
...Stettinius, returning from his mission to London, reported to Hull "a most successful trip...
...Originally the committee was unanimously opposed to dismemberment...
...Yes—but for what...
...It is in every country's interest and in the interest of any general security scheme that that structure should be maintained and strengthened...
...Franco cocperated with the enemy as much as he could until it became too dangerous," the Earl of Selborne admitted in his candid statement...
...On the way to the hospital a group of Partisans attacked the Chetniks and captured Sergeant Green...
...He added thai economic warfare would continue after the war against blacklisted G erasen Arms...
...The United States delegation favors the policy that the United Nation*, in the peace settlements, should make provision for the safeguarding of world-wide standards for labor, and urges the ILO to prepare for an important role in framing peace terms...
...Stettinius says the U.S.A...
...The Commonweal cites a few of the misstatements, such as that Franco has had no propaganda office...
...Moscow Fevers Dismember mesf Of Germany . . . War and the Working C'oss, Soviet organ, denounced those who use the Atlantic Charter to justify "the sorailed Polish Government...
...It Happened last Week By LISTON M. OAK Russian Demand for Labor Battalions Stall Advisory Commission Plans for Peace *|*HE European Advisory Commission is reported stalled by a dispute over what should be done with the German army after its defeat...
...his parents,, the Nazis say, were Alsatians nsmed Schopptng...
...Spain gets its oil, and cuts down on export of wolfram to Germany...
...It would violate the terms of the Hague Convention, to which Russia is not » signatory, which -" provides for the immediate repatriation of all prisoners of war, after peace it signed...
...Also assailed as "profascist" are those who claim the Atlantic Charter Van* any territorial dismemberment of Germany...
...This was cited by both Sir Walter Citrine and Sir Frederick William Leggett, British delegates, as an impelling factor in their opposition to action by the II.O on the crucial question of what to do about Germany...
...Santa Cheese sponsors Max Lamer on WOR, replacing Sam Graftoa . . . CIO Political Actio* Committee plans te.raise I5.000.eov campaign fund . J ..Larry Tajiri, Japanese-American editor of PacUU Citizen, predicts that Utah's New Dealers, Senator Thomas and Representatives Robinson and Granger, will all be releeted , . . President Marlines of Kl Salvador resigned after thirteen years as ruler of the coffee-growing Central American republic, as a result of a strike...
...Rorty, commenting cn the Digett'i invasion of the foreign field, says it is making smjoth the American w«y, "even to the veiled houris of the Arabian oases, who as yet do not know what it is their best friends won't tell'them, hut will shortly learn...
...This crisis results from a fight over whether the committee should approve dismemberment of Germany, in accord with Moscow's new line...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 20
