It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Revolt in Germany—Speculation and Prophesy... ElSEWHERI im this 1mm • Russian «nd m German, hot* Social Democrats and heta experts, fir* tMr...
...PoWsh Underground I eposes "Norienol Council" . . . Moscow has taken the step predicted by The New leader for months past: it has created a Polish Committee of National Liberation designed to take over all |he functions of government in territory liberate...
...Pope Pius condemned the newly formed Communist Catholic movement...
...1 * * • Pr«SS Freedom Im France . . . The decrees of the French "Provisional Government" in Algiers establishing a virtual state monopoly of the press has aroused considerable protest...
...Hull's attitude toward Argentina is "stiffening" as that Government continues to aid the Axis...
...6. The terms shall be binding only in rase of a transfer by Great Britain of fall power and responsibility of government to India...
...Among current postwar plans in Britain and America is one for a free flow of news throughout all nations, and the French decree is charged with violation of this ideal...
...Polish Government-in-Exile spokesmen in London staled that the Polish National Council has no broad mass" following within Poland...
...He declares that most of the workers he knew were anti Nazi, and that more and more are sabotaging on the job...
...It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Revolt in Germany—Speculation and Prophesy...
...6. the thwarted putsch and the purge which followed mark the beginning of the end...
...But in this, as in everything else, the Ci nnnunists exploit half-truths demagogically to gain aim ndancy...
...The action of Moscow in creating this new puppet i k me was unilateral...
...Marshall Ion Antonescu, head of Rumania's puppet government, which is tottering, la desperately seeking a way to save himself and his clique...
...The International Transport Workers Federation vouches for a report made by "a veteran European trade unionist who worked two years in different plants in Berlin and who left Germany recently...
...Though Algiers denies that the decree is an infringement of the freedom of the press, it does place very great power over the press in the hands of the Minister of Information and other state agencies to be set up in liberated France...
...Many Rumanian war criminal* have sough* refuge in Switsei land...
...It would set up a state-controlled news agency, with greater monopoly than was enjoyed by Reuters, the British government-subsidized agency, bey tween the two world wars...
...The only non-Communists in the Council, or the new Liberation Committee, are a few individuals who were split away from the Socialist Party and the Peasants Party...
...ElSEWHERI im this 1mm • Russian «nd m German, hot* Social Democrats and heta experts, fir* tMr interpretation of nwt enntt in Germany...
...A delegstion of labor and liberal leaders will so to Washington next week to present a petition for the pardon of the IK Trotskyists jailed for ex-pressing revolutionary opinions and thus violating the Smith Act...
...the internal collapse, without which the war could continue for years, may take many months, but it means the war's end this year er early in 1946...
...Likewise German Nazis und Junkers have increased their holdings in Argentina, in preparation for a possible foieed begira...
...Among the older workers there are still many who remain loyal to the old party organizations...
...whoever he may be, he wilt cooperate Closely with the Moscow Union of German Officers their orientation'will I* pro-Soviet, and...
...3. the Nazis did not engineer the revolt in order to purge the Army of oppositionists, but took advantage of it afterward to carry out a purge...
...Admiral Horthy and his junto in Hungary are also jittery...
...In many plants German anti-Nazis have established good contracts with foreign workers, especially French...
...7. one of the generals who planned the putsch will survive and become the German Ba-doglio—the moat likely candidate is General von Rund-stedt...
...They do not believe a revolt ia possible until Hitler has suffered complete military defeat...
...The leading underground Polish newspaper, WHS, recently published an article about the Polish National Council...
...5. Any transfer of population mast be on an absolutely voluntary basis...
...The Illinois Manufacturers Association advised its 3,500 members that they could legally ignore the orders of the War I.aboi Board...
...Tlie petition is signed by ll.OM individuals and about 3so onions and other organisations...
...Four British Trotakyista have arso gone to jail for terms ranging from )3 days to one year, for violation of the edict against strike agitators...
...They were members of the family of the late Baron Weiss, of Jewish descent, saved from the Gestapo by their close friend Horthy...
...Genera] Hoffmeistrr is the latest of a series...
...Japan's new Premier, Kuniaki Koiso, declared Japan "will maintain friendly relations with Russia...
...2. At the end of the war, a plebiscite on the basis of adult franchise will be held in areas where the Moslem population is in an absolute majority...
...After the middle of 1943 there was a tightening of the terror by1 the Gestapo...
...1%ere will lie a "hard" peatv for the German people, but a "soft" peace for those generals and Junkers who can surrender Germany to the United Nations...
...Evidently the British Raj does not want to break the deadlock and fii.d a solution, removing what the British Tories have always claimed was an insuperable obstacle to a settlement—the Hindu-Moslem dispute...
...He also attacked the International Labor Organization as outmoded and called for an .international labor group independent of the security organization...
...They consider the old parties to be sterile and without •igniurance for the future...
...Planeloads of Hungarian industrialists, with plenty of cash, arrived in Lisbon last week, seeking refuge fros> the impending fall...
...2. thi» conspiracy had tha support of many offtc«ra of the Army, business men and others, but under totalitarianism thert cannot be a widespread, concerted, carefully-laid plan to seise power,>rith mass support...
...The Communist Party of Poland, now known as the Polish Workers Party, published a proclamation creating the Polish National Council...
...The Argentine Ambassador to Washington was recalled...
...The British Viceroy refused Gandhi permission to talk to jailed Congress leaders...
...But as in the case of Yugoslavia, Churchill and Roosevelt may be compelled to appease Stalin...
...Simultaneously Dr...
...If the verdict favors a sovereign Moslem State, border districts will obtain the right to choose whether they will join the new Moslem India or the new Hindu India...
...The Working Committee of the Congress Party is still in jail, so these proposals had to be made personally by Gandhi...
...The India, League of America hoe urged Rootevelt to force the ietue—to nee American influence to tee that Gandhi hat freedom to negotiate an agreement between leaden of the Congrett Parly and the Motltm League...
...The Cripps plan demands agreement between Moslems and Hindus before any settlement is made, and it must be within the terms of the present constitution, with the British Viceroy retaining his full powers and privileges...
...E. N. Malinin writing in the Leningrad Zee-da says security must be safeguarded not by all nations but only by the big powers by whom all decisions would be taken with the small nations merely participating in discussions...
...The prewar French press was one of the most venal in the world, and the French are anxious to avoid a repetition of this experience, to purge the press of all fascist, collaborationist elements, and to prevent control by "feudal capitalists...
...John Crider says in The Bureaucrat that there are 3,000,000 civilian employees on the Federal payroll, or one out of every seventeen of the labor foire of the nation...
...4. the failure of the general* proves the extreme dlsVulty of a successful palace revolution and the impossibility of a social revolution under totalitarian terror, at least until more catastrophic defeats have been suffered...
...Deadlock In India . . . Gandhi's far-reaching proposals to end the political deadlock in India have elkited only the statement in Parliament that the Cripps Plan still stands without change...
...Aiding the .pinion of an inexpert American, my pnu is that 1. there «u « concerted plot for a coup d'tUt which was thwartod...
...How Sfrona Is The German Underground...
...However, with the support of the conquering Red Army and the Communists, support can be enlisted...
...The great Indian Nationalist leader was described as a "bamboozler" by Viscount Elibank...
...6. Hitler knew before the attempted assassination of wide discontent and of danger* to the Nazi regime, and was prepared for it...
...do Gaspari, head of the Christian Democratic Party (Catholic) said "There Is sonething immensely attractive in the universal trend of Communism...
...Moscow will still control...
...among the younger ones numerous oppositional circles hare come into existence which will hsve nothing to do with the old parties...
...The Yugoslav National Commuter headed by Mikiiailovitch has stated that the new Tito-Suba-sitch regime will only increase discord...
...7 it will lie harder to get rid of them than it was to get rid of Badoglio, the King, and fascists in Italy...
...This may result in compromise and "unification" between the legistimate Polish Government and Russia's puppet Polish Committee for National Liberation...
...Why is it that although no German general raptured by the Anglo-American forces has yet made an anti-Hitler statement, nearly all of those raptured by the Russians piomptiy denounce the Nazis...
...But those who have protested against this decree of the French "Provisional Government" have not protested against the utterly totalitarian character of the press in Russia...
...Miscellany . . . Local 764 of the United Mine Workers, of which local John L. Lewis is a member, came out for FDR...
...4. In the event of separation, a mutual agreement Khali be entered into to safeguard defense, commerce and communications...
...Since the above was set in type a report has come that Stalin has agreed to receive Mikolajczyk and other delegates of the Polish Government-in-Exile, yielding to pressure from London...
...Gandhi's proposals, which have not been answered by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, are, in summary: 1. The Moslem League must cooperate with the All-India Congress in the formation of a transitional government...
...3. It must be open to all parties to advocate their points of view before the plebiscite is held...
...The Rumanian Iron Guard has been instructed by the Nazi's to be ready to take over the government...
...Hence the decree sets up a too-strict censorship to permit a truly free press...
...WHS continues with an expose of these other "non-Communist" organizations, proving that all of them are Communist "fronts" of various sorts...
...Seeking to make the impression that the Communists were not alone in barking this Council, the proclamation was embellished with six other, allegedly non-Communist, signatures...
...It in important to note that the Polish underground papers are not only anti Communist, but very critical «>;' Sosnkowski, Kukiel, and other conservatives in the Polish Government-in-Exile, and of the Constitution of 1! .15, by means of which the old fascist, anti-Semitic Sauncja hopes to climb back into power, and oust the democratic groups which now''control the Polish Government-in-Exile...
...It is also reported that the generals in command of the Polish troops in the USSR and those in London have taken the first steps toward unification of Poland's armed forces...
...Ignoring Premier Mikola-jetyk'g offer to go to Moscow to discus* disputed questions with Stalin, the Russians propose to install their own puppets in power, the Polish National Council, both Communist-dominated...
...from the Nazis by the Red Army...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 31
