It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK Reconversion Plans in Britain and France ... Dr. Hugh Dalton, one of the authors of British Labor's postwar program and president of tbc Board of Trade,...
...Areas that were "blighted" before the war by the concentration of industry in other areas will be benefited by this relocation plan...
...The importance of democratic control of nationalised property is stressed, by tripartite administrative bodies consisting of representatives of management < including labor), government, and consumers...
...a large-scale housing project was advocated...
...abolition in Germany of all military training...
...prisoners...
...The Kuomintang has promised a constitutional democracy after the war, but maintains that it is impossible, during the war which for China has lasted.more than seven years, and while Japan hold* a large section of the country, to hold election* and adopt a democratic constitution...
...Actually Vansittart does not urge as "hard" peace terms as do the Stslinists theFe days, leversing their former program for Germany...
...J. Howard Pew of the Sun Oil Co...
...She and her children were arrested in April, 1942, when the Germans seized as many relatives of Chetniks as they could find, as hostages...
...Greek Jews numbering 1,600 have already come, many of them professional men needed in the country...
...occupation •f Germany by an Allied army and air force...
...The management stated that the Nisei were loyal to this country of which they see citixens, but the workers insisted they be fired...
...resaarattea af the German psipls...
...Japanese occupation authorities In Bali, the once-famous island "paradise" of the South Pacific, are embarking on a campaign to inculcate "advanced culture among the Bali people, who for centuries have been influenced by superstitions derived from a special branch ef Hinduism...
...The United State* consumes only 6.4 pounds of rice per year as compared with 107 in Cuba and 127.4 in Puerto Rico, for every inhabitant Few figures speak more eloquently ef the unbalance of diet in semi-tropical lands, and the importance of such a central foodstuff...
...cent and civilian production will rise 30 per cent...
...There are more than 2,000 of them throughout Great Britain, and 281 in the London area alone...
...FDR elenisa that his sending of Donald Nelson on a special missis* to China was sn eclipse of the WPB chairman an'' would delay reconversion...
...President Co-macho announced a campaign to reduce illiteracy in Mexico...
...Nssi official statistics state that 271 Norwegians have been executed...
...Mexico's 48 per cent illiteracy rate is the highest of any Latin American country . . . The Army censors lifted the ban on leading matter for soldiers...
...The International Typographical Union has returned to its affiliation with the AFL, by a referendum vote in which a substantial majority favored rejoining the federation...
...The National Association of Manufacturers seeks legislation exempting big business, from prosecution for violation of the anti-trust Isws as the price for cooperation with the government hi planning for reconversion...
...The investment ia war plants in the USA totals nearly $22,000,000,000...
...Wavell said the Indian* must reach an accord first...
...The British Tory does demand: (laroaditioaal surrender of Germany...
...Such racism, comparable to the shameful strike in Philadelphia against the employment of Negroes, is deplorable, ymd is an example of what Harold Ickes wsrna labor against in the article on page 8 of this issue...
...Admiral Kimmel disputed Truman's statement that he and General Short were not on speaking terms at the time, but Truman insisted a court-martial would prove his charge* correct . . . The AFL Executive Council urged acceleration of the reconversion program to avoid mass unemployment if the shooting stops soon...
...complete demobilisation and disarmament ef all German armed forces...
...about 300 more have been secretly killed by the Gestapo...
...The law which exempted firms from prosecution during the war for monopolistic practices "requisite to the proieeution of the war" is deemed insufficient...
...cvacnation ef all territories invaded] by Axis pewers...
...Satisfactory adjustment of 702 cases from January 1 , to Jane M was announced by the Fair Employment . Practices Committee...
...The number of Norse prisoners In Nasi, jails in Norway or Germany is about 18,000, of whom only about 1,360 are prisoners of war...
...The Communist call for national unity and democracy is demagogy...
...Senator Truman assailed continued rivalry between the Army and Navy, which was largely responsible for the Pearl Harbor disaster, urging unification of services...
...The machine tools on these premises will go with the plant...
...The disposal and control of these plant* is regarded aa nuiial to full employment, and will be allocated according to a broad plan to promote balanced distribution of industry throughout the country...
...The Daily Worker, attacking Sumner Welles for his criticism of Hull's Argentine policy, says he was misted from the State Department because be "deserted the solid ground of continental anti-fascist solidarity," and attack* his opposition to "the spirit of Teheran...
...Brovrder says Wallace was sent to China to tackle the problem of antagonism between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and accuses Welles of siding with the "reactionary intrans'igeene* of the KuetninUng," . . . The DW reprints a letter from Bernard Baruch complimenting the CP sheet for its editorial praising toe Baruch Hanock plan to sell government-owned plant* to big business and otherwise aid private enterprise in the postwar period...
...Thus the trend in Britain and France, in plans for reconversion and disposal of government-owned plants, is the opposite of that in the USA, where big business plans to strengthen its monopoly in the immediate post-war period...
...arrest and trial ef persons believed guilty of war criases...
...The Government will lease, not sell, these government owned plants, for a ten-year period, thus giving small firms a chance to operate them...
...the others are politics...
...If, as the Commies charge, Mikhailovitch is (no Nazi, why did they torture his wife to death in a concentration camp...
...The 28 Communist deputies of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers accused Franco of sending marauding bands across the Pyrenes to fight French patriots, and demanded the arrest of Franco agents in Algiers...
...Donald M. Nelson predicted that with Germany's defeat war production will fall 40 per...
...In order to put over their propaganda, the Japanese military authorities have organised what they call a "Bali Cultural Research Society...
...Keonitotona Commenitf Rivalry Cosfissti . . . Negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Chi* nroe.t'ommunist Party, taking place in Chungking for two months past, have failed to bring any agreement...
...The Kuomintang insists that the Communist* cannot maintain their own separate government and army, add demands that the Chinese Bed Army (about 370,000 soldiers)' submit to the authority of Chiang Kai-shek, as proof of the sincerity of Communist protestations about national unity...
...demilitarised police force* in Germany...
...4 resame af some af the week's Mala pelificol events and trendsfar ffcasa who do aaf read ffctir daily poper carefully Hull assailed as "utterly unfounded" the fears expressed by Dewey that the conference of the Big Four will arrange to rule the world by dividing it into spheres of influence...
...Reconversion plans thus far contemplated would strengthen monopoly industry wants to be assured that the government will "give adequate protection to businessmen undertsking le> cooperate with agencies of the government in developing reconversion plans and activities...
...There are colored Jews in Ethiopia (the Falasha), snd their spokesmen have been urging the government to make way for the entry of Jews in larger number, • » • • One great wartime development in Britain is the communal restaurant...
...Newt aa the Fane Wiasts...
...The wife of General Mikhailo-viUh died in the concentration camp of Oswiecira in Poland...
...Walter Reuther of the UAW said that in the next five months there will be nearly 300,000 workers laid off because of cutbacks...
...attacked the recent Anglo-American petroleum agreement as a step toward a "super-state cartel," the antithesis of American free enterprise...
...What Is Voasetforfe.me- . . . Several readers have corrected my error in implying recently that Lord Vansittsrt advocates dismemberment of Germany...
...Other employees of the railroad supported the men...
...no loans to Germany without the approval of the Allien...
...These eating places, publicly owned and administered, have won such repute for cheapness, cleanliness and courtesy that many observers are convinced the people will demand their retention after the war,— ( WorUovrr Press...
...William Green directed the AFL to organise 1,000 political action committees, and Phil Pearl spanked Dewey for refusing to write a Labor Day message, and the Republicans for joining the bourbon Democrats to kill the Kilgore Bill in the Senate...
...MISCELLANY...
...literate citizens will be required to teach illiterates...
...Hugh Dalton, one of the authors of British Labor's postwar program and president of tbc Board of Trade, announced that Britain will not sell govern •tent-owned plant* to the highest bidder at auction...
...drives will be launched against adoption of legislation proposed in Florida, California, and Arkansas to outlaw the closed shop...
...restoration of, or compensation for, loot, machinery and equipment...
...Bali is surrounded- by Muslim'" religionists, but has been Hindu for many generations...
...cloning down ef Germany's war potential...
...taming ever to the A Mies MM* Gestae* members • • • Workers Fare* ff ailraaa* fa Firm MM . . . Track laborers employed by the Illinois Central Rail* road, and member* of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, went on strike and forced the railroad to discharge 6» Japanese-Americans evacuated from the West Coast...
...Inter-A Mad aeaswr-vieton ef Carman radio and all prepsgands...
...The .Viceroy of India, Viscount Wavell, rejected Gandhi's request for an interview to discuss bis proposals to solve the rivalry between Moslems and Hindus...
...Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) reached near-epidemic proportions in five states—New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia —with the total of cases largest in 28 yesrs...
...The ITU will be represented at the November convention of the AFL...
...French leaders, commenting on this British plan, . stated that the property of French capitalists, acquired in large part by the Naii invaders, cannot easily be returned to the original owners, and that "the only practicable and progressive way of surmounting the Confusion" into which industry has been plunged is to nationalise such property </.<¦ RtvHt Librt...
...That Jews may be encouraged to settle in Ethiopia is indicated by the fact that Emperor Halle Selassie lias lieen talking over possible plans with British advisers...
...The American Communists have a new "front"—the American Committee for Spanish Free-dull), decorated by Bishop Lewis 0. Hartman and 90 other stooges, fellow-travelers, and innocents...
...of which $6,000,000,000 is private and $18,000,000.000 is government investment . . . Victor Reuther of the United Auto Workers declared that the Selective Service rilling that a returning veteran i* entitled to his old job regardless of seniority would pit one group against another, and that a veteran with two years' seniority could take a job away front a non-veteran with ten years' seniority...
Vol. 27 • August 1944 • No. 35
