Henry Wallace and The Political Wolves
STOUT, JONATHAN
Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Henry Wallace and The Political Wolves Washington, d. c. —In order to meet The New Leader'* deadline, it wet necessary to write Oik before the Democrat*...
...More than a month passed by until we acted—and then to impose an armistice...
...That evidence has been in plain view for two years...
...Just how did he ttick by Wallace...
...Two months ago it became known that the skids finally were being greased for Duggan...
...The majority speak no Spanish, but only their Mayan or Aztec dialects...
...3—The Subasitch Government agrees that King Peter will not be permitted to retarn to Yugoslavia until after a plebiscite on that question...
...Except for the minority, which was and remained anti-Roosevelt to the end, the convention would have followed tradition and the 1940 precedent, when Roosevelt would not accept the nomination until he was given assurance that Wallace would be his running mate...
...From the very first we were unprepared politically for the events in Italy, and our leaden have constantly raiaguaged the situation...
...Those terms, the Italians are convinced, are harsh, bitter, punitive...
...average daily wage of workers, 60 cents...
...who ia now Sabasitcb's Minister of Finance end Commerce and Is currently Acting Minister ef War...
...Sava Kosanovich, who calls himself a "Croat Orthodox," and who worked here in America for three years with Adamic on the propaganda promotion of Tito before going to London to take a post in the Subasitch Cabinet...
...Ivan Cankar, a Slovene, who is Minister of Public Education...
...Sum: There is one thing worse than gagging on one's own words...
...The curious legend of Roosevelt's loyalty to his lieutenants holds on persisifrtly...
...When the whole fascist structure collapsed, we had no plan of action, but merely improvised...
...Roosevelt "sticks by his friends'," the editorial comment of the Washington Sfor of last Tuesday: "In tossing Henry A. Wallace to the political wolves, the President has taken a course which presumably was dictated by the unrelenting realities of national politics...
...The chasm between Roosevelt and Wallace deepenld when Roosevelt openly announced the end of the New Deal...
...The United Fruit Company and the Electric Bond and Share Company exercise strong influence...
...Cankar entered the Subasitch Cabinet against the public opposition of the leader ef the Clerical Party...
...Said Truman: "Naturally,I ex-pact the President to stick by his friends...
...Observation 2—There are none so blind as those who will not see...
...We are failing to distinguish between those who fought Fascism and those who committed fascist crimes...
...In Rome, the Allied commanders pay the Italian workers less than the Germans did, leading an AMG officer who had been a labor official here to resign...
...The signer of the pact that turned Yugoslavia over to Hitler is Dr...
...Satje represents Croatia which under Nasi nudging declared war ea the United States sad which still remain, at war with this country Satje waa Minister at Finance in the government under the Regent...
...It is interesting to see how Mr...
...David Lawrence, a spokesman 01 um conservative Democrats, observed earlier this week: "The significant thing is that this convention, despite tha rebellion and protests which come from a minority which might be termed the anti-New Deal faction, is a solid bloc behind President Roosevelt a* a political leader...
...None questions the fact that Roosevelt could have stopped the) scrapping long before the convention simply, by saying he wanted Wallace aa his running mat...
...Less than 15 per cent can read or write...
...Newt Review calls it "incredible," and points, not with superiority but bewilderment, at the fact that comics have no bold in Britain whatsoever except among children, and that only one newspaper runs a sole comic strip for older readers...
...Hull the perfect exit eve for Duggan, * - e e Balkan PoH«ce—The Doable Crass IT is learned an unimpeachable authority that tha War Department recently rejected a demand by Tito, leader of the Communist guerrillas in Yugoslavia, that tha British and Americana guarantee him military support in a campaign against General Mikhaiiovich, who wrested Yugoslavia from Nasi domination and led his country into the war an the side of the Allies...
...Observation s-Whenew liberals have asked Vhy Reaeivolt continued to tolerate ia bis efikisl family, bis cabinet, and other positions close to aim men wha have again and again betrayed the Now 0mI (before its demise), White House spokesmen always explained it as "the chiefs loyalty to his Untenants...
...The fact is, Roosevelt showed how he felt about the vice-president at the time of the famous battle between Wallace and Jesse Jones over the Board of Economic warfare...
...Although, according to point 5 above, the Subasitch Cabinet was supposed to be comprised of eight officials, there are only six men in the government because Subasitch has as yet been unable to prevail on any representative Serbs, who make up three-fifths of the population of Yugoslavia, to enter his cabinet...
...Sum: Wallace's persistent New Dealism was one •f the reasons the anti-New Dealers ganged up against him...
...One Italian editor said "Jt eight or ten more Italian cities get into the state of Naples, where three-quarters of the citizens live by beggary, prostitution, peddling and black marketing, Italy will cease to exist...
...For instance, one of the persistent argument* used by the reactionaries against Wallace was the question: Suppose he end* up in the Whit* House...
...Hull's head to foist Daggan on the State Department as chief of the old Latin-American Affairs Division...
...2—The Subasitch Government recognises and legalises post facto all the actions tsken by Tito...
...On September 3, Marshal Badoglio signed an armistice, the terms of which have not as yet been revealed...
...if HIND THI REVOLT IN GUATEMALA PaRT of the explanation of the revolt in Guatemala: the annual salary of the dictator, Jorge Ubico, $160,000...
...Mikhailoviteh rallied the Yugoslav people to continue the war on the Nasis on the side of the Allies...
...The President ended that scrap by virtually dismissing Wallace as administrative head of BBW...
...Tito's demand was supported by the British, but the War Department took the position that its original agreement to give arms to Tito was on the basis that America was willing to help anyone who wished to fight the Germans and not for the purpose of helping Tito aeise control of Yugoslavia...
...Hull's throat ever since 1935, when the hand of the White House reached across the street over Mr...
...but there are none so blind as those who will not see...
...The food ration in Italian cities is lower, in many case*, than the minimum calory requirement* and approaches the German starvation diet for Jews...
...In that time, the Germans had poured division after division into Ialy filling the land up to the boot...
...4—Thst the Allies will support enlv Tito and net Mikhailoviteh...
...Whan they thought that tha Badoglio government would totter, the Allied Control Commission, aided by the Communist* led by Togliatti, insisted that the anti-fascist parties entej...
...But none seemed to regard the endorsement as the personal attitude of K...
...Lewis f«>r Dewey—Ne Comment ThOMAS A. DEWEY this week received the editorial endorsement of the United Mint Worker* Journal It did not...
...Allied strategy was predicated on a step-by-step occupation of Italy with AMG moving in as an auxiliary army to keep order in liberated areas...
...Political events in Italy ia this oae year of freedom may be aa evil partes* of the ckaes to come an the continent of Europe...
...At the time ef that pact, to avoid the freesJag ef Yugoslavia Government funds in America, Sntje ordered approximately lie .m.oe* transferred from Americas beaks to Argentina where the money Is still being used by the Nasi Puppet Government ef Croatia te assist Hitler's war ef arts against America...
...Every resident must pay a road tax of one to two-dollars a year, or work for 15 days on the highway...
...The Washington Star gave open voice to this question in an editorial earlier this week...
...Prince Paul, who concluded the pact with Hitler that brought Yugoslsvia Into the war ea the side ef Germany...
...They feared that a new cabinet would repudiate the arm la tie* term* or use them to rally the Italian people...
...The sixth member of the Subasitch Government is Dr...
...That is said for those who appeared to nurse a hope to the last moment that Roosevelt would repay , Wallace's loyalty by going to bat for him on the vice-presidential nomination...
...if he hasn't, he is arrested as a vagrant and sent to a forced-labor gang...
...The Tito-Subasitich agreement, it is learned from reliable sources, waa signed on June 16 at Bari, Italy, before the formation of the Subasitch Government, and contained the following eight provisions: 1—The Subasitch Government-in-exile recognizes ike legality of the Communist adminiatratien and institutions created by Tito...
...carry the imprimatur of John L. Lewis...
...As governor of Croatia, Subasitch introduced anti-Jewish laws in Croatia...
...If his health ahould break und*r the cumulative strains of the years, the vice-WMijmt would take over...
...The German-owned coffee plantations have been expropriated...
...Jutje, the man who signed the pact with Hitler, referred to the intrepid heroes of the coup d'etat as "rebels...
...The new premier himself, Dr...
...Indians and mestizos make up 98 per cent of the population, but .the government is dominated by the white, "creole aristocracy...
...The pay-off on this creation ef Cuurchiuvalliun power-politics la that the new Yugoslav Government does not include a'single representative ef the intrepid patriots who rebelled against Regent Prince Paul's pact with Hitler and whose courageous coup d'etat overthrew Prince Paul, replaced him with the youthful King Peter and under the military leadership of Gen...
...Jura) SuteJ...
...The root source of the trouble *eesa* to be that we are afraid of what the Italian people will de...
...The Communists are Dr...
...Tito's demand was a supplement to the agreement between him ana Ivan Subasitch, new pro-Communist Premier whom Churchill forced on the Yugoslavs...
...Many cannot pay and work in roadgangs under miserable conditions...
...Duggan's championing of Lombardo Toledano'a various Stalinist causes in recent years has particularly irked Secretary Hull...
...We are afraid to give the people a free hand...
...The Bonomi Government today is largely without power...
...The six men who now comprise the Tito-Subasitch Government include one man who personally signed the pact, and three Communists...
...and particularly so in dealing with *o wide open a horse race a* thia one...
...Use the following, therefore, a* background against which to judge the meaning of that result: Observation 1—The choice of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate is more important than that of the Republican nomine* because in the case of the Democrat there exist* the possibility that he may AnUh eat hi* term as President...
...That make* thia a risky proceed in...
...The test of our political policies in Italy ia the morale of the Italian people and the degree of their participation in the reconstruction of their country, Judged on (At* 6a*is—and taking into account all the evidence which i* available up to date—these political policies have not achieved notable success...
...average daily wage for farm workers, i ft cents...
...But the other anti-fascist parti** did not want Badoglio and named Ivano* Bonomi at Premier—the first victory for Italian democracy...
...It also would be highly inaccurate to say that it came as any surprise to anyone in Washington...
...At the time of the pact Subasitch was governor of Croatia, elected by the Croatian Peasant Party which is headed by Dr...
...London has evidently insisted that Badoglio bo taken into the Cabinet, and has supported King Victor Emmanuel...
...In the July days of 1913 the workers of Milan, Turin, Genoa, Florence called general strikes which paralysed the** citie...
...On the social and economic side, we find terrible poverty and a wild, ruinous inflation...
...To which should be added, by way of illuminating the manner in which Mr...
...Equally inaccurate would be the impression that this means any significant labor support for Dewey—or—don't he, will he—or won't he...
...INCtfDttLE COMICS British publications have been expressing amazement at a disclosure by The American Scholar that ten million comic magasines are sold en U. S. newsstands, while, on Sunday mornings, some 40,400,000 children read 2,600,000,000 comic sections of Sunday papers...
...Subasitch publicly supported the action ef Matchek when the latter, as vice-premier, voted for signing the pact with Hitler...
...Drago Marusich, a Slovene and representative of Tito;1 and Streten Vukosavljevich, a.well-known Yugoslavian Communist and representative of Tito...
...Under Churchill's pressure, the Yugoslav patriots have been ousted from the goverjiment-in-exile...
...Every native Indian must carry a card showing that he has worked for 160 days each year...
...Following the recapture of large sections of Italy, the Allies instated that tha Badoglio government remain in power...
...It is widely accepted, and finds expression in such forms as the comment of Senator Harry Truman ef Missouri on the President's letter about Wallace...
...In the United States, only the New York Time* and Chi itlian Science Monitor run no comic strips at all...
...WarWovcr Prut...
...the cabinet Even on June », whan the Cabinet entered Rome, Togliatti insisted to the last that tha Badoglio Cabinet remain...
...In Rome the old aristocracy which fated the Oar-mans have reopened their salons to win* and dine AMG official...
...X...
...Matchek...
...The only way eat far Italy is to permit the democratic revolution tha people waat without outside interference*, without the interference of the AMG and Stalin'* puppets...
...Ivan Subasitch, also a Croat, publicly supported the Yugoslav pact with Hitler...
...Last week Dr...
...Roosevelt has gradually obtained complete oontrol of the party...
...Many municipalities have been forced to retain their fassist officials...
...Duggan's place is being taken on a temporary basis by Norman Armour, American ambassador to Argentina who recently was recalled from Buenos Aires for "consultations" in Washington...
...The split in the Democratic Party it not dangerous enough to prevent the President from controlling the convention...
...Did he have the power and control to make the "sticking" effective...
...Cankar is a member of the Clerical Party, largest Slovenian political party to which belong CO per cent ef the Slovenes...
...clergy never took pact in the civil administration of the country...
...On the political side the Allies are following a mistaken policy which stem* out of the Armistice terms...
...The result should be in by the time this reaches you...
...No laws may be promulgated, no real purge undertaken without AMG consent Quixotically, we are holding anti-fascists now in power responsible for the war and for the crimes of Mussolini...
...Last March his name appeared as an honorary member of the Pro-Tito Communist Propaganda Committee in this country headed by Louis Adamic...
...That is choking on the words of a friend...
...It was practically a direct reply to that announcement when Wallace picked an opportunity shortly after to proclaim that the New Deal ik not dead...
...The most positive indication of that is the fact that no step may be taken by the Italian Cabinet without the permission of the Allied authorities...
...Said the Star: "There is no blinking the fact that the President, if re-elected, might not prove equal to another four year, in the White House...
...The Italian army is still lad by generals who served fascism well...
...Adams, the Journal't editor...
...t—All diplomatic and military personnel wh* hsve opposed Tite are to be eliminated from the government and army...
...The Guatemalan worker lives on an unvarying diet of beans, tortillas, coffee, with occasional fruit...
...Sum: That was one of the reaaons the reactionaries ganged up against Wallace...
...Miho Krek, who is s supporter of Mikhailoviteh...
...5—The Subasitch Cabinet shall comprise two Serbs, two Croats, two Slovenes end two representatives of Tito...
...k 7—Tito is recognised as Commander-in-Chief ef all eombattant groups ia Yugoslavia...
...A conservative monarchy would be more to Churchill'* liking than a thoroughly democratic republic...
...This situation hat led numerous Italia* worker* to scrawl on walls in the dead of night "Down with Everybody...
...Duggan at that time was 80 years old and was the youngest chief of a bureau in the State Department...
...An Editorial— Italy a Political Laboratory •JuLY 25 will mark the passing of a year since the fall of Mussolini and the beginning of the end of the Axis...
...The recall of Armour and the necessity of finding a temporary place for him here until the problem of our non-recognition of the Argentine Government is ironed out, finally provided Mr...
...It always has been the prerogative of the man at the head of the ticket to name the second place man...
...These two instances—and a host of others—have been showing plainly through the past two years that Roosevelt has steadily been moving to the right, while Wallace maintained a left position...
...Anti fascists cam* into the open to lead the demonstrations...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Henry Wallace and The Political Wolves Washington, d. c. —In order to meet The New Leader'* deadline, it wet necessary to write Oik before the Democrat* decided on their vi< e presidential nominee...
...The grain cottae-tions, organised by the Communist Minister Gullo, ha* retained the fascist wheat-collection ¦ true tar* ("A*n» massi") and merely changed its mum to "People** Granaries.'' These wheat collections will bt under tha supervision of local committees composed of two landlord representatives, two agricultural workers, a person nominated by the local Bishop and a representative of the Carabinleri In pro-fascist Italy the representative of the police and...
...That was on* of the pivotal fact* in the battle royal at Chicago this week...
...Lombordo Tofedono Loses • Friend JLqMBARDO TOLEPANO, Stalinist pretender to the mantle of high commissar of Latin-American labor, lost his best friend in the State Department this week with the resignation of Lawrence Duggan, chief of the state Department's Office of Mexican Affairs...
...Could Roosevelt have stuck by Wallace...
...We are afraid of "tew much" democracy...
...Despite the friendly exchange of letters between Duggan and Secretary Hull, expressing mutual esteem, which marked Duggan's exit, it is no secret in Washington that the latter has been a bone in Mr...
...In connection with a totally different discussion...
...8—The above agreement is to be kept secret until after the formation of the Sebaafctrh Govern stent...
...But we were unprepared...
...It is time to asssy the events of that year...
...The Socialists and labor leaders who organised the anti-Fascist demonstrations such a* tha Socialist leader Guiseppi Faravelli were captured and thousands of workers and their leaders were slaughtered or Jailed by Kommel...
...Minimum cost of basic diet in Guatemals City, 50 cents a day...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 30
