It Happened Last Week
OAR, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAR Poles Clean House... Reds Execute 23 Underground Leaden The Socialist and Peasant Party leaders in the Polish Government in-exile have bom struggling...
...Orlemanski writes that "Eastern Prussia should he given to Poland...
...We want democracy—and democracy and •nti-Semitism cannot be combined...
...German civil servants of long standing, who were forced into the Nasi party, will be utilised, officials stated...
...And give Poland a terrific headache...
...Robert J. Watt argued for seating him because he is a bona fide representative of the trade unions that the government has suppressed...
...opposed the Russian demand that the underground forcea merge with the Polish units within the Red Army...
...Big Three Reach 4qreemenf...
...The government at last began presenting evidence to prove that 29 Americana in the biggest sedition trial in our history were agents of the Axis...
...Polish underground leaders who have just arrived in London state that Poland's underground army awaits the signal from Allied headquarters to start an uprising when the invasion occurs...
...These people' have been bombed from their homes, and the subway accomodations, however bad, are free...
...If Stalin demanded that Roosevelt be removed, even the Republicans who hate him would indignantly reject the proposal...
...Lawrence Dennis had previously asked that all of them be tested for sanity, stating that three—Smythe, Dennett and Washburn—are crazy...
...In areas of Poland taken by the Russians, all Poles between 17 and 55 are being drafted into the Red Army...
...Amnesty was granted the 21 Jewish soldiers who deserted the Polish army to enlist in British forces...
...G-5—Experts on Civil Affairs, Ready far D-Doy . . . A heterogeneous group of British and American civil experts, known a* G-6, will accompany the armed forces invading Europe, *o reorganise the governments of places liberated as fast as they are taken, expelling Nazis and Quislings but utilizing those in civil service who serve involuntarily now...
...Those who refuse to betray their own government and take the Red Army oath of allegiance to Stalin will either he executed or exiled to Siberia, as tens of thousands of Poles were during the Hitler-Stalin pact period...
...No invading army ever had such difficult and complex civil tasks as this one will have, and no army ever had such a corps of trained men prepared to do the job of preventing chaos, starvation, and epidemics...
...HHtw Has Shown Us the Way . . Totalitarian liberals solemnly protest "Polish interference in American politics," but they applaud Russian interference in American affairs, particularly when the Communists can exploit such people as Orlemanski at the vehicles of their propaganda...
...The idea ia to bring the iaaue before the Supreme Court again, which ruled in 1937 that Georgia's poll tax was constitutional...
...And this implies that the big three have reached no final binding agreements on postwar problems, including a new world federation...
...1,700 Americse professors aigned an appeal to F.D.R...
...that unless the western democracies grant full recognition to the French Committee of National Liberation as the government of liberated France, to administer territory as conquered, de Gaulle may make a deal with Stalin...
...The fight between these group* has been •haipened by the fumbling way in which the problem ©f anti-Semitism of certain Polish officers was handled...
...Last year officials of the Marion, hid., plant were found guilty but their sentences suspended over the protest of the GuvoM merit...
...The American Civil Liberties Union will lie suits challenging the poll tax in each of the eight southern states where voters are taxed for the privilege...
...Tofedoito'i Tribulations . . . Although Lombardo Toledano has been elected to the governing committee of the ILO, the Toledano-controlled paper, El Pdpular, has condemned the ILO as "merely a tool of the defunct League of Nations," and praised Russia for not sending delegates...
...the British are to control the area between the Elbe and the Low Countries...
...One defendant, Edward Smythe, shouted a demand for a mental test...
...they killed Otto Theodor Zeitsch in Fort Stanton, N. M., and hid his body in the pantry...
...the United States will administer southern Germany...
...to aid the Jews by intercession with Britain en behalf of free entry af Jews into Palestine...
...In the subways, he writes, there is "as atmosphere of evil smells, bad air, mosquitoes, possibl* infection, and unending noise...
...Greek Social Democrat, to get all Greek factions together in a coalition government, including the Communistled EAM ami the Liberals...
...One must be completely exhausted to sleep...
...The Premier thought that a firm attitude backed by public opinion might dissuade Russia from pursuit of her demands too ruthlessly...
...It was hinted that Communist agitators were partly responsible for the whole mess—their purpose being to discredit the Polish government...
...Wendell Berge, assistant attorney general, warned against cartels under government supervision in the postwar world...
...Other anti-Nazi Germans have been murdered by Nazis in American camps...
...Hitler has shown us the way...
...As fast as practicable reconquered French territory will be turned over to French authorities under the French Committee for National Liberation, but in Germany a military government will hold power for a long time...
...for selling defective wire to the Army and filing fraudulent bills...
...These underground leaders, who refused to foreswear allegiance to the Polish government-in-exile...
...the Berlin area and Austria are to be jointly occupied...
...He also pointed out that 83 per cent of the land is owned by individual peasants...
...Polish Jews do not need the protection of Britain or Russia...
...Naxis Marder Fellow Prisoner . . . Three Nazi prisoners of war are to be prosecuted for manslaughter in El Paso...
...The ILO workers' delegates adopted unanimously a condemnation of the Argentine government as fascist, and pledging aid in fighting for the rights of Argentine labor...
...Ignacy Schwarzbart, Jewish Deputy, urged legislation making antiSemitism in the army a crime...
...De Gaulle declared the deal between Admiral Darlan and General Clark void...
...The resignation Of General Sosnkowski and of Marjan Kukiel, Minister ©f National Defense, is demanded by the seven Socialist and five Peasant Party leaders, with the probable support of four Christian Democrats, in the National Council...
...Russia never adhered to the Geneva Convention regarding prisoners of war, and insists on drafting all German soldiers captured into forced labor battalions...
...0° Australian war brides await transportation to join their American soldier-husbands...
...He adds "Taking over Eastern Prussia would wjn the war and win the peace...
...A Council for the Salvation of-Jews in Poland has been set up...
...Nevertheless, the progressive forces in the Polish government, led by Adam Ciolkosz, socialist Minister of Labor, pressed their effort to gain control from the military group, not aa reconciliation with Moscow, but in line with their consistently liberal policy against anti-Semitism and for civilian control of the army...
...And if the U.S...
...Emanuel Scherer, leader of the Jewish Socialist Party (Bund) in the National Council, in urging the ousting of Sosnkowski and Kukiel, said, "It is not merely a question of their anti-Semitism, but of their reactionary influence, generally, which Socialists wish to eliminate...
...The United Nations have signed pacts with three governments-in-exile, Norway, Belgium, end the Netherlands, governing control of civil affairs after liberation...
...They ridiculed the Communist lie that the Polish government-in-exile does not control the underground...
...It is rumored that Washington and London hava dropped opposition to this plan...
...Hia superiors testified that he wrote his pro-Japanese stories on assignment, with their okay...
...The 2,000,000 Germans there should be evacuated...
...Progress is reported in the efforts of Premier Papandreou...
...He considers it impossible and unjust to transfer 6,000,000 "Poles from the eastern lands demanded by Russia, to the west, and 8,000,000 Germans from East Prussia and elsewhere...
...In short, the Russians demand that the Polish underground shall obey Moscow's orders...
...Their task is made more difficult by Russian demands that the government be reorganized to fit Moscow's ideas...
...Ciolkosx, who was once jailed by Pil•udski, declared that "We want to clean our own house...
...Later officials of the Pawtucket, R. I. plant were sentenced to jail for the same crime...
...la chare at pafssaara Hassle . . De Gaulle** reminder to London and Washington that France has another possible "friend" is interpreted u a warning that he has made no final and binding mm mitments to any power...
...Eddie Rickenbacker, air ace and labor-baiter, praised the Russian leaders, said they can't be blamed for their suspicions of the U. S. and Britain, called for universal military service in America like the USSR has...
...The European Advisory Commission made a chart dividing conquered Germany: Russia is to occupy territory east of the River Elbe...
...the 17 per cent owned by big landlords will be divided after the war...
...Reds Execute 23 Underground Leaden The Socialist and Peasant Party leaders in the Polish Government in-exile have bom struggling against antiSemitism in the Polish army, and against the conservatives in the Cabinet, ever sine* the coalition was organised...
...The British maintain the protocol is still binding...
...The Senate Military Affairs Committee heard experts predict unemployment of 19,000,000 immediately after the war—unless reconversion plans are enacted into legislation...
...The Government is again prosecuting the Anaconda Wire and Cable Co...
...Toledano had fought to oust the labor delegate from Argentina, Luis Giroia...
...Heiser Wright, New York Daily /Veins copy editor accused of being an agent of Japan, was found not guilty...
...in MISCELLANY The Poet Office banned Strange Fruit, then suspended the ban so that the publisher could mail it at the risk of prosecution under postal laws prohibiting mailing of lewd literature...
...The authoritative Whitehall Letter of London reports that "Unofficial agreement on all major problems of the peace, including the likely shape and form of a new League of Nations with Britain, the United States, and Soviet Russia as key members, was reached," by the representatives of the big three while Stettinius was there...
...Another lie was nailed by Mikolajczyk who denied that there is any plan to segregate Jews in any territorial ghetto, or to prevent exiled Jews from returning to postwar Poland...
...Premier Mikolajcxyk charged that 23 commanders of Polish underground Af hting anits were execated by the Red Amy GPU after they had established contact and joint action against Naxis...
...Toledano finally withdrew his opposition...
...London's Poor Sleep la Seaways .. . Richard L Tobin reports in the New York Timet that thousands of London's poor still sleep night after night on cots in the subways, though there are enorm' ous new shelters deep underground that have never been used...
...The Provisional Consultative Assembly changed the name of the Committe for National Liberation to the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
...demanded the removal of a Canadian or Mexican official, how the totalitarian liberals, who applauded Statin, would howl about imperialism...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 21
