It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Revolt and Sabotage Sweep Through France WHILE generally observing Allied High Command orders to refrain from premature insurrection*, and to limit...
...they will not permit Britain and the United States to dictate their ' destiny...
...He has published over 3,000,000 words...
...Landlords get only 5 per cent of the harvest, tompsred to 50 per cent formerly...
...Sabotage of railway lines, telephones, electric power, etc., has become a serious handicap to the Nazis and Vichy-ites all over France...
...After the four-hour tty, every soldier, civilian, and official has duties to perform at road-building, and other community labor...
...Snow predicts that the Kuomintang and the Communists will compromise and avert civil war...
...Liberated Normandy patriot* hailed de Gaulle as *our • <>n- taut hope . . . the only leader foi as...
...Vichy's authority having collapsed in various areas, the Germans took over direct control and instituted martial law and Gestapo terrorism...
...De Gaulle may have dictatorial imbitions...
...This becomes more and more apparent as the invasion pushes onward into France...
...deal with any French, minorities our generals may prefer, refusing to reach an agreement with the French Committee of National Liberation which is now the French Provisional Government whether we like it or not...
...The threat of civil war and revolution is held over the heads of United Nations leaders to compel them to...
...Today SS per cent of union members, CIO, said they would vote for him against Dewey, compared with 86 per rent in the 1936 election, and 79 per rent in 1940...
...Grafting middlemen »nd merchants are eliminated, the government cooperatives handling all trade in surplus products...
...It lowers American prestige...
...The French are bitter about being pushed around by the Nazis...
...In the period when the war We* were contending for power, he opposed Chiang Kai-shek...
...But our exploitation of this advantage thus far has not been very skillful...
...Hearst Anti-Jap Campaign Backfires . . . The West Coast Hearst papers are alarmed...
...Labor and liberal forces urge passage of the Kil-gore demobilization bill in preference to the Murray-George bill which the Administration favors...
...On *"sy 85 the Los Angeles Examiner carried a headline, **wtarn Congressmen Seek Japs' Return to West g i l t " Hearst's Washington man, Ray Richards, ret r i ed that eastern and midwestern politicians are ••eking to prevent Japanese colonization in interior W east coast states...
...The United Nations have a "fifth column" of their own within all occupied lands and within Germany itself—potentially a most powerful weapon...
...It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Revolt and Sabotage Sweep Through France WHILE generally observing Allied High Command orders to refrain from premature insurrection*, and to limit themselves to isolated actions against the Nazis, many thousands of French underground patriots—some estimated the figure at half a million—have come into the open and are fighting furiously throughout southwestern France...
...One of the reaaons given for these dismissals was that the two Serbs serving Mikhailoritch had offended the Communist-led South Slav committee, headed by I>ouis Adamic...
...Richards had . r i t t e n many »t»ries for Hearst papers throughout the East and MidPJjJJ smearing all Japanese-Americans and "urging ""•twwe to their resettlement there...
...The Chase National Bank, under indictment en charges of making foreign exchange available to smugglers of industrial diamonds to the Axis, has been investigated by the FBI for selling special Nazi marks in this country and South America...
...The Kil-gore bill provides for more liberal compensation for the postwar jobless...
...James G. Patton, president of the Nation*] Farmers Union, warned against "the blind greed that rules our food policy," and urged unity of labor snd fat mere to prevent the "stampede back towaid scarcity in the postwar period...
...FDR announced that "arrangements have been made to bring immediately to this country approximately 1,000 refugees...
...Why not more...
...The quarrel carried on by de Gaulle with Churchill snd Roosevelt, continued since the invasion of North Africa and the "Darlan^deal," came to a crisis with the Invasion of Europe...
...Crushing Finnish resistance would protect the flank of the Red Army when it drives southwestward into th* Baltic States, which are claimed as an "autonomous" section of the USSR...
...The Polish Govern men t-in-exile broadcast an appeal to Poles forced to Aght in the German army te desert . . . Cdeuard Bene* predicted the collapse of the Reich within a few months...
...The Daily Worker hop...
...They are blamed for recent Chinese defeats, and accused of keeping 60,000,000 "of our best allies" immobilized and threatened with "a stab in the back...
...Edward Skillin Jr., editor of the liberal Catholic magazine Tfte Com mom tveal, wrote that Staarqulsm im Mexico la a growing threat that may lead to bloody civil war...
...In this hsliere-it-or-not town of 2,000 newly*built caves in the barren hillside, the people neither smoke nor drink...
...Four governments-in-exile Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Luxembourg—have recognized the French Committee of National Liberation as the Provisional Government of .France...
...but it seems ;vident that not only the French anti-fascists in exile, >ut the underground within France and the people of Normandy where our armies have won, support htm in overwhelming majority...
...Strikes in several factories are reported...
...Its leaders art fervent Catholics, although it is disassociated from the Church...
...srst-inspired racial hysteria threatens mob vio*• prevent resettlement of Japanese-Americans **toJy on the West Coast, but in Colorsdo and other *•*•*• But 22,000 of them have already been relocated "Kcessfully...
...For example, the Daily Worker of June 14 carries an editorial assailing the Kuomintang leaders for their "anti-Communist mania...
...When Snow Anally gets around to use of the term Communism, he dismisses it by saying there never was any Communism in China, and the "defunct"* Comintern didn't control the Chinese -CP...
...Reynolds, who is chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, launched the fascist Vindicators Association in 1939, which flopped and dissolved in 1942...
...If Eisenhower makes a deal with some Darlan or Giraud who may arise in liberated France, there will be plenty of trouble.l e d Army Open* Offensive * , « . . . , Finland . . . Stalin has been accustomed to ending his orders of the say with "Death to the fascist invaders.'' Five days after the Anglo-American invasion of France began, Stalin launched a drive against Finland, and signed bis orders "Death to the German and Finnish invader...
...If the French people feel that the regeneration of their devested land requires a revolutionary, socialised democracy, London and Washington cannot stop them by dealing with" French conservatives...
...appease Moscow...
...It was merely a party of agrarian democracy...
...our political warfare remains weak...
...Miscellany . .. Reactionary Senator Robert R. Reynolds (Dem., N. C.) announced the organization of a new "American first" group, the American Nationalist Committee of which he is chairman...
...Armed with supplies parachuted by the Allies, they are reported in possession of many communities...
...This Social experiment is in th-» Province of Shansi, ruled by paternalistic dictator General Yen Shi-shan, whs rose from water-carrier to the first Republican Governor of his province...
...Add to this the overweening fear tha* European revolution would not stop at ousting the Nazis—the futile desire of Churchill and other Tories to restore the status quo ante bellum...
...Southern poll-tax Senators threaten a filibuster to kill the KEPT...
...they operate on a regular four-hour work day, and anyone violating his oath of office is supposed to make smends by committing suicide...
...In charge of the Red Army was General Gororov, who broke the Mannerheim line in 1939-1940, when Russia attacked Finland during the period of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact...
...that Vice-President Wallace will intervene with Chiang Kai-shek in favor of unity with the Chinese Communist...
...Chairman Pogue of the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed that the USA airlines plan to expand their postwar commercial air operations in overseas transport from the 80,000 route-mile* alresdy approved to 140,000 miles...
...So this was a ~JJ of Hearst's chickens coming home to roost, ss the Citizen comments...
...After four years in exile, General de Gaulle returned for a brief visit to invaded France before his projected trip to Washington...
...PeteraolJitlc S h e a r ! Lo in Shooti . . . A Chinese Utopian colony is described by Guenther Stein in the ChrUtian Science Monitor...
...It is opposed to the New Deal and to internationalism...
...Thus while calling for democracy and unity, as is their habit, the Communists are maneuvering in China as in Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece, and elsewhere, to Strengthen the influence of totalitarian Russia...
...The Gallup Poll report* that while labor will vote for Roosevelt against Dewey t to 1, there has been a defection from FDR among both CIO and AFL members...
...FDR and Eleanor said they didn't sgree with Churchill's praise of Franco—but the USA is participating in the International Fair at Barcelona, with Ambassador Carlton Hayes speaking at a banquet of the American Chamber of Commerce there, hailing "continued fruitful commercial relations" between Franco Spain and the USA...
...But we reserve the right to...
...The Democrats have lost their majority in the House for the first time in thirteen years...
...they cannot wait for clarification of national policy and agreements with other powers to prepare for the competition that will follow the war's end...
...The Nazis exacted severe reprisals, with mass arrests estimated at 6,500 during the first two days after the invasion, mass executions of hostages...
...arlyway...
...Momy raised was used by the Nazis to Anance propaganda by Bundsmen...
...The invasion has given new life to the Gentian underground: in Berlin and Frankfort suppressed papers reappeared, calling for peace and the end of Nazism...
...The United Nations have signed agreements with the governments-in-exile of Norway, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and other nations, regarding the restoration if civil authority in these countries when liberated...
...This view is not, supported hy renewed Communist propaganda against the Kuomintang...
...The planned humiliation >f the French leader only causes deepening resentment among nil French groups from extreme conservatives to ultra-radicals...
...Britain and the United Statea should break the deadlock and do likewise...
...He has assailed the Allies' plan for France, and the French provisional government has named administrators for the liberated areas...
...they have exactly half the Representative...
...he may not be trustworthy...
...L. K. Smith of the America First Committee...
...For as a result of the Hearst Jwpeign, many politicians—even the liberal La U a*«lia—urge the return of the evacuees to the evacu»Warea...
...The attitude of Roosevelt toward ie Gaulle is puzzling...
...Churchillian Toryism may in fact drive the French Government and people into the arms "of Stalin...
...New York* City Council and Board of Estimate ruled that city-aided housing project* that discriminate against tenants because of race, creed, or color will be denied exemption...
...Snow on C(lino . . . Threof of Civil War a Communist Weapon . . . Edgar Snow, writing in the Sattvepott about the Chinese Reda, calls them "partisans" and "guerillas," instead of Communists, and sings a peaen to their nobility...
...American aviators who are shuttle-bombing from Allied aud Russian bases were royally entertained in Moscow at a banquet at a cost of $840 per guest...
...The bank insists the transactions were legal...
...He is closely associated with Gerald...
...The lack of a clearly defined and democratic foreign policy and war aims which would arouse enthusiasm among the - European peoples, the conflicts of national interests, absence of close international cooperation through a United Nations Council, failure to reach an understanding with the French Provisional Government in exile headed by de Gaulle—all these are factors detracting from the effectiveness of our political warfare and use of the underground forces...
...Until anti-Communism is completely rejected in China, our ally will face the danger of serious defeats...
...His visit to London has produced »o tangible results in the way of more cordial rela-jon...
...He joined the Communists in 1939 in opposition to the Kuomintang, but repudiates Communism nqw in favor of a system he thinks has all its advantages without the •rftcts...
...One more step in the appeasement of Stalin and his Yugoslavian agent Tito was taken with the dismissal of Constantin Fotitch as Ambassador, and of Miloye Sokitrh as delegate to the United Nations Information Board, by the new Yugoslav Premier Ivan Subasitrh, formerly governor of Croatjs...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 25
