It Happened Last Week
OAR, LISTON M.
II ll.-iii|iriiik<l Lasl W«M*k Finland Fights On... A SEVERANCE of diplomatic relation* with Finland is impending in Washington as a result of the coup d'etat of the Nasi* in Helsinki. The Germans...
...In Stockholm a Free Finniah Committee is 'being organised, probably headed by Juho Erkko...
...The British Secretary of State for War again refuted to accredit a war correspondent for the Daily Worker...
...The students sre demanding s free university...
...A rival beauty chorus of Brkker beauties from another agency just as spontaneously urged support for Bricker...
...Arms were carried away...
...Millions of oppressed peoples yearn for liberty...
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...Ideal* of freedom are again at stake...
...De (s-aalle Optimistic...
...Student* and lailioad workers are protesting the suspen-sio nof constitutional guarantees of rights...
...Should I try to make it a* iKc/««ii« of all important event*, except war newt, et •pace permit* 1 Any trnggettieme wiU be appreciated...
...Miscellany...
...Th* enjoyment of liberty—for the Polea, let u* say, or the French or the people of India or Africa—is te be made proportionate te the brute force which they can put into the Held...
...The expulsion of Procope, Finnish Ambassador, was due to the failure of Washington's effort to get Finland to accept Russian terms before the offensive started...
...A* we celebrate the glorious Fourth in 1044 w* are probably closer to the revolutionary fathers than we have ever keen...
...W* are sacrificing for them as well for ourselves...
...3,7M> have been ousted from their posts...
...This ia FDR's "Great Design" at Teheran, and his concessions to Stalin on the Finnish question and the Polish problem flow from it...
...Hack markets, inflation, etc., in Rom...
...on June 24 he spoke of "all our valiant and dear allies," and he said his aim was "to preserve the cohesion of the western powers...
...The key to many of the actions and decisions of the President lies ia hia desire to win the confidence of Stalin and to draw Russia into full partnership in th* peace," Anne O'Hare McCormick writes...
...At Turin the anti-fascists almost succeeded in capturing the city...
...The Germans forced the government headed by Risto RytT to continue resistance to the Red Army, at the point of bayonets...
...It is expected that Social Democratic refugees from Finland will Join this committee...
...Seven German officer* in th* high command have been executed for opposition to Hitler and for ridiculing and slandering the fuehrer...
...We, too, are lighting a war of independence...
...characterised as "criminal" the anti-American propaganda in Alliens which followed de Gaulle's outburst of wrath against the U.S.A...
...Coaciii.tary . . . Our relations with the French Committee lor National Liberation improved as Cherbourg was handed back to the French...
...To preserve discipline, employers have been empowered to deal with workers under military law, the paper states...
...It waa th* outline of world toward which we have been working but which still lie* in the future...
...Then a commentator might draw attention to the fact that the word includes everybody—not just those who have an overpowering supply of tanks and bombers and flame-throwers...
...Renewed mass execution* sre taking place in concentration camp* in Poland, particularly at the infsmou* Oswiecint camp...
...Only a few Finns have ever been pro-Nasi...
...for Roosevelt's policy of non-recognition...
...The accent is on power—and this surely implies that at some point in the equation American power will alao assert itself,' Mrs...
...The Social Democrats will probably be ousted from the government soon, and a Quisling Cabinet formed...
...It waa a grand ice* conception...
...It it intended primarily far theee who de not havt Hm* te read the daily paper* eartfully.—Listen M. Oak...
...But we stood up for ourselves...
...The President, Uen...
...US have be**) arrested and about 800 more will be soon...
...Nasis shot 200 youths in Navara...
...This news, according te the International Transport Workers Federation, may confirm a recent story of labor unrest In Japan carried by the Japan*** newspaper Ota km Mainichi, which reported a worker*' demonstration in the Uneo Park of Tolrio last December, organised by the Shakai (Workers Party...
...LaaWr Us«*M# Mara** Jop*a Faced with a severe manpower shortage, the Japanese are resorting te the conscription of all unmarried women between 14 and 40 and sre sandbag all school classes into the factories, according te a report la th* German paper Dtuteche Allgtmtine %titun...
...A* we approach th* end of this war w* tend to forget More and more the idea gain* acceptance that only the powerful have the right to rule or to be free...
...If the Germans can spare the forces, Finland will probably suffer the fate of Hungary and other satellites...
...Skeptical reporters found that th* voluntary exhibition was all arranged by a fashion models' agency and thai the spontaneity of the Dewey dames was bought and paid for...
...McCormick continues The newspaper Sotinl-Dfinockintti of Helsinki printed a statement that "we got into the war against the will of the vast majority of the people...
...He say* th* revolt is due to Nasi elements, but this is very doubtful...
...ware assured that the fifteen gorgeous girls who paraded through Chicago'a Hotel Stevens wearing Dewey sashes and pinning Dewey buttons on customers were working girls who volunteered enthusiastically for th* job...
...President Avila Camacho ordered a ban against Mexico'* fascial SinarchisU in several states, and th* editor of SI Sinaiqmiitt was indicted for subversive activity...
...Jorge Ubico, is an absolute dictator...
...Hanson Bsldwin says in the Timet that the fall of Cherbourg i* probably th* beginning of the end for the Nasi war machine— they have loat their last chance for victory unless they have secret weapons of undreamed of potentialities...
...On May i de Gaulle spoke of "dear and powerful Russia...
...A wave of strikes it sweeping through Naxi-held northern Italy with insurrections throughout Tuscany...
...Th* nation's anniveraary celebration will be a good time to recall our first ideal...
...Poletti alao took action to solve the complex problem* of food...
...These An* thing* were asserted—not just for Americana—but for "all men...
...The French "Provisional Government" radioed aa appeal to Petaln to acknowledge his guilt for the French calamity and to dissolve th* Vichy regime...
...When the Continental *> Congress assembled we were a small nation far off oa the edge of the civilised world...
...We did not propose to he disregarded...
...He sees in the military accord "a good augury" for negotiations on a wider scope, dealing with political and economic problems...
...Aa !dlt*rl«l— Independence—for Whom...
...i i * ' ' ' -¦• • •' < * Note fo the reader: I would like to know whether yea feel that tkie lilting ef mieeellaneoue event* e/ the patt week ie vmilh while...
...General de Gaulle made an optimistic speech informing the Consultative Assembly in Algiers of the agreement mad* with the Allies for cooperation with the underground resistance forces...
...Revolt I* Qaatemafe . . . Martial law wa* decred in Guatemala to suppress a general atrike In which several have been killed...
...Why not solemnly repeat in concert aa we used to do on July Fourth: "We hold tktte truth* te he eelf-evident: that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ri§htet" We might put the emphasis on th* word all...
...Synthetic Vel.st.ry Hired f *r.nsi*sm .. . Photographers and reporter...
...Thia paper alao reported th* quelling of new food riot* in the arsenal town of Kagoaehina, and the arrest of 164 person* including th* Deputy Miteuhaachi, a leader of the Farmers' Union...
...The Courrier Republican...
...The cleavage between the U.S.A...
...But acute observers remarked that the bona Ada Bepublican delegates wan rather deficient in aex appeal—always excepting Clare Luce, of course...
...regional commissioner, "swept th* fascist heads of every Government agency out into th* street," in "the ntoet vigoroua twenty-four bout* of adminhrtration that th* Eternal City has ever »een," report* Timet' Herbert L. Matthews...
...We have a right te be proud of the men of 1774...
...They set down idea* of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" which could not possibly be realised in their day...
...and Argentina deepened as the American Ambassador was recalled "for consultation...
...We are growing accustomed to hymns and prayers and other ceremonials over the radio...
...I, uston M. OAK Mempower Sserr.ee...
...The Buffalo CIO under Communist influence passed a resolution condemning the Trotsky ite Ijobar Action and urging the FBI to investigate It...
...The report added that the Farmers' Union had keen diseelved.— WarUevier Pre...
...These Communist Redbaiters believe in freedom—for themselves...
...The Polish underground seised far several Mom th* town of Piacaow and freed 400 political prisoners, awaiting execution, in one of its most daring exploits...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 27
