It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK A United Nations Council Now? Secretary Hull'i plan for « new League of Nation* envisages a United Nation* Council composed of representatives of the...
...The Berlin correspondent of a Stockholm paper reported that five US aviators hsd been lynched in Germany...
...blocked a gigantic land-grab •nd power plot by private utilities and real estaters In California...
...French Socialists Meet . . The first Interf'ederal Congress of the French Socialist Party in liberated territory was held in Algiers on March '13, 1944...
...for coddling German war prisoners...
...Roosevelt "dearly -exhibited his towgaminded determination to enroll the Soviet Union a* a sincere and willing collaborator in postwar settlements...
...The purpea* of the apristng was to forestall elections which the rrvolutionistes said would be meaningless without the participation of their candidate, Velaaco Ibarra...
...Hull has invited the British, Russian, and Chinese Ambassadors to discus* the first draft of the plan in Washington...
...Some who take this viewpoint are isolationists who only pay lip-service to collaboration...
...an organized world society...
...Revolution in Ecuador . . . A revolutionary junta seized control of Ecuador in a coup d'etat that cost 40 dead and 200 wounded...
...He said the American merchant fleet will be over 15,000,000 tons...
...lzve$tia criticized the U.S.A...
...Davis says he follows "a soft policy instead of the firm line urged by certain advisers, . . ." If this is so, and it would appear to be true, how the dictator in the Kremlin must be chuckling to Molotov, "I made fools of them all at Teheran...
...Opponents of its immediate creation argue that US participation should depend on protection of our national interest*—we should go in only if we get the kind of peace we want, but should give no blank check at this time...
...Forrest Davis says that the difference between the diplomacy of Wilson and Roosevelt lies in FDR's conviction of the necessity for "finesse, a statecraft that cannot always be exposed to view...
...A union of intellectuals is urged by Einstein, to struggle for a super-national world organization to prevent wars...
...7ord predicted last March that the war would end in two .months...
...The asset value of Ford's company is now over a billion...
...Davie reported that FDR exercised" all hi* celebrated charm on Stalin, and when Churchill and the Marshall quarreled, the Hudson Valley squire was moderator...
...Editorial aside: We wonder if FDR can believe that any decentralizateion took place, or is planned by Stalin...
...Like the Methodist*, the Baptists at their convention reversed their traditional anti-war stand...
...Their lobby has sought to revise the Act and have army engineers carry Out the projects...
...The Hull plan is similar to the machinery of the UNRRA, In which the big powers form the executive and the smaller nations the assembly—which is far from satisfactory to the small powers, who, collectively, •rant mora authority...
...The Social Security Act ha* led to the mushroom growth of commercial home* which take cart of the aged receiving social insurance benefits...
...that the US should take the leadership in launching and making the -Council work, and forestall these powers which have taken unilateral action ia the settlement of disputes...
...He mentions Stalin's "reassurances" about the independence of Finland, Poland, etc...
...But be said collaboration for peace must be built around the four victorious powers...
...Eden also disclaimed the idea that the world is to be dominated by a three-power dictatorship...
...The proponents of a United Nations Council now, who are in a majority in the Senate, argue* that creation of such machinery of international cooperation is the only way to gat a ju*t peace...
...Ten per cent of births in the U.S.A...
...His effort was to generate good-will, to create a reciprocal "spirit of confidence...
...Forrest Davis' article* in the Sattvepoat have been widely discussed...
...Wfcof Rooffy Hoppeeed of Tefceros...
...The plant is a masterpiece of engineering and mass-production methods, but troubles due to bad labor policy and neglect of the housing problem caused delays...
...And to this Davis add* that FDR "voiced hi* belief in the Marshall's good intentions...
...He cited greed, caused "by religious disunity," ¦is the cause of wars...
...Italian Bishops of northern Italy have taken an anti-Naxi stand in condemning transportation of Italian workers to Germany, and forbidding their congregations to read Crociate Italics, and criticizing those priests who support the puppet Fascist regime in Nazi-occupied Italy...
...Tjvo years ago this firm was fined $15,800 for the interstate shipment of . adulterated medicine...
...all agree on the need for acme form of international collaboration, but differ as to whether a new world organisation should be created bow or alter the war...
...FDR indicated, that be ha* already talked with Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek about the basic idea...
...A Council is needed for the joint solution of conflicts and problems now and during the long period of recenatructiosw- A final peace settlement will not immediately fellow the war, they itate...
...He now says "the end is not far distant...
...of 3,000,000 babies born this year, about 125,000 will die, and 7,600 mothers will also die in childbirth...
...Goebbels encouraged such lynchings, and said Allied airmen bailing out over the Reich will no longer have the protection of the army and police...
...At thi* point, the Marshall volunteered a sweeping declaration oi hi* desire to conciliate his neighbors, saying fatly that he had no desire to own Europe...
...The "feroof DoshjV for a Three-Power World . . . Eden denied that Churchill and Roosevelt had agreed at Teheran to give Russia a sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe, or that they made any secret agreements whatever...
...Ford stated last week that ''We have progressed so rapidly in developing machinery for killing that humanity could not survive another war...
...The big three will apparently be assigned various spheres to police...
...Discharged employee* of the Field Service Division of the War Shipping Administration 'testified that there is a let of payroll padding, labor overloading and other trends in ship repair yards in New York and Boston...
...FDR told Stalin how the American federal system works, the division of powers, and the President, says Davis, "has wondered if their discussion In sny way influenced the marshall's decision to decentralize the Soviet foreign office and the Red Army in favor of the sixteen constituent republics...
...Ford profits for 1943 were $45,428,089 after taxes and all other charges, an increase of 400 per cent over 1942...
...It is difficult to believe that he was ss naive at Teherari as Davis portrays him...
...Secretary Hull'i plan for « new League of Nation* envisages a United Nation* Council composed of representatives of the United State*, Britain, Russia, and China...
...The new government declared itself against all NaziFascist activities, and pro-United Nations...
...He assured the Russian of his own complete good faith...
...Wide sale of adulterated drugs, which caused the death of one patient, was charged to the Winthrop Chemical Co., a firm already under investigation for its alleged monopoly of German patents for the production of atabrine...
...Miscellany . . . Britain agreed to modify the ban on the use of secret codes to permit General de Gaulle to communicate with the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers regarding hi* conference with Churchill and Eden...
...American tanks supplied to Ecuador under lend leas* played a major role in the coup...
...are without medical care...
...Turkey demanded more war material aa the price of entering the var---By a four vote margin the House appropriated $500,000 for maintenance of the FEPC...
...Lend-Grob Scheme Blocked . . . A Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Carl Hay den (Dem., Ariz...
...Hull favors the organization of a United Nation* Council and Assembly at once, but seek* the approval and support of the Senate and the public, to guard ¦gainst lapsing back into isolationism after the war...
...A trusting soul, our President, if Davis is right Or ia FDR fooling Stalin—and Davis...
...why does Senator Styles Bridges object to that, if he doesn't object to sending thousands of planes, tanks, guns te the Soviets...
...A resolution urged the purging of newspapers in Algiers which have supported Germany and Vichy and which continue publication...
...The provisional government is composed of five political parties, united hi the Democratic Alliance, including the Conservative* as weil aa the Communist* President Carlos Arroyo del Rio resigned and found refuge in the Bolivian Embassy...
...Roosevelt's reliance on the Russian's bona fidei," wrote Davis, "furnishes a key to . . . what has been termed appeasement...
...They stated this department has saved the Government 110,000,000...
...This would level the Soundary barriers between nations...
...Admiral Land proposed that one-third of the merchant ships belonging to the Axis be taken by the U.S.A., and the other two-third* divided anion* the rest of the United Nations, stripping Germany and Japan of all their merchant fleet except what is necessary for coastwise and inter-island trade...
...American Century...
...The Senate Foreign Relations Committee i* divided in opinion about this plan...
...Hoary Ford Agaimt War— •of No* Agotast Profits . . . After a long ordeal, Henry Ford's Willow Run plant has at last reached a production level of cne Liberator bomber each hour...
...it would be a long step toward a world federation...
...The Catholic Church gained 474,454 members in the past year, bringing the total in the United States, Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands to 23,419,701...
...and a United Nation* Aaaembly through which UN •mall power* would have some participation in decision*—but not enough to satisfy them...
...Labor members joined with employers' apd public representatives on the Regional War Labor Board in San Francisco in condemning Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists, AFL, for defiance of WI.B directives...
...and that it must strive for economic as well as military and political agreement...
...that the world organization must be flexible...
...Confidence was expressed jn the French Committee of National Liberation under be Gaulle,-and in the Consultative Assembly...
...Small states, says Davis, according to FDR's theory, must rely on "the self-restraint of Moscow and...
...Representative Jerry Voorhis has been fighting the attempt of the power trust and big landlords to get rid of these safeguards .Specifically, the Act restrict* the amount of land an individual can buy to 160 acres, in government projects for the reclamation of arid land, anil provides that power developed shall be sold first to farmer*, and the surplus sold a* public interests direct It tons curbs Und speculator* and utilities...
...Than the President told she Marshall about the good-neighbor policy, and recommended a similar policy for Russia in Central and Eastern Europe...
...Pity the poor Indian—and Pole, and Finn...
...It faces snother contest in the Senate...
...So Russia got a cruiser...
...They sought changes in the Reclamation Act which protects small farmers...
...General Luis Laarea Alba assumed the leadership until the arrival of exiled ex-president Velasco Ibarra...
...He urged "a universal currency for a universal economy with a universal market...
...The Interfederal Council also urged preparation of legislation to be enacted in liberated areas to erase all traces of the Vichy regime and prepare the political, economic and social regeneration of France...
...Another meeting was held May 15, but no news has yet arrived about it...
...AntiFascist demonstration* of student* and street-lights between Fascist* and worker* broke out in Rome...
...Asked whether he consider* Russia a satisfactory collaborator in the broad task of planning for the liberation of Europe, FDR answered, "Absolutely...
...A survey by the Federal Social Security Board reveal* that many of these sged person* are abused...
...The core of his (FDR's) policy has been the reassurance of Stalin," Davis wrote...
...More than $40,000-000 was added to the firm's reserves, and its assets were increased by S196.000.000...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 23
