It Happened Last Week
It Happened Last Week Food IS a Political Weapon... THE United Nations Belief and Rehabilitation Administration has officially stated that relief shall not be used for political purposes. But the...
...Sir Arthur Salte • of Britain, Senior Deputy Director of UNRRA, stated at a recent press conference that the only way te get thipeaenta to Poland it through Rus-¦ian held territory...
...the first would be advisory and the second would make the decisions and enforce them by means of an international police force . . Churchill evidently said "thus far and no farther" to the Russians snd drew the line at Communist domination of Greece...
...The result is that the Communist RAM has agreed to work with the Papandeou (Social Democratic Premier) Government, which Britain backs...
...UNRRA can now ship food only to those areas controlled by the Red Army...
...On the contrary the British Minister to Yugoslavia, Ralph Stevenson, said at Cairo: '"All accuiationi of the Partisans that M,kha,l„v<tck it a Fcutitt collaborating with (he occupational forces are completely unfounded.'" MISCELLANY— A Summery ef Seme of He Week's r «im< el ffveafs E DEN said the fate of Europe depends en how well Britain and France can work together...
...can Russia pass any one of these testa...
...Rumania switched sides...
...Halifax declared that the world's fate depends on unity between the United States and Britain...
...It haa "stifled democracy," Bun Fo said, urging a leftward turn and compromise with the Communists . . . Symbolic...
...that 400,000 ham been deported to slave labor in the Reich...
...It is a matter of record, however, that Allied instructions to Mikhailovitch were not to risk his guerrillas unduly, but to conserve them against the day when the Allies would be powerful enough to march with him...
...the shooting was actually done by collaborationists armed by the Nazis . . . Gen...
...But the first violation of this principle has already occurred...
...As chairman of the Inter-A 111 e d Economic Council and later as Food Administrator, Herbert Hoover employed his control of food for starving Europe aa a political force...
...Poland has suffered the Nazi blight longer than any European country, and the need of the Poles for relief is more desperate than those of any people...
...The Balkan structure of Nazi satellites is tailing fast...
...A host of ethers including Stalin state that world peace depends oa the amity of the United Nations, enforced by the power ef the Big Three...
...He urged that all colonies be internationalised . . . William Randolph Hearst Jr...
...Bulgaria declared herself neutral...
...German troops are withdrawing...
...young King Peter arrested the Germanophile government and declared war on Germany...
...de Gaulle and st Notre Dsme was done by jittery young Maquis...
...Greece lies athwart the British life-line to the East . .. The British ousted Ambassador William Phillips from London as political adviser to Eisenhower, it was reported, because he severely critizied Britain's policy in India and recommended that the USA support India's fight for independence . . . The war Department has stated that the segregation of Negroes in post exchanges, movies, buses, would be ended . . . The Socialist Party contended that Roosevelt's Bremerton speech was political oratory, and that under the Service Men's Voting Law, other parties are entitled to equal time on the radio...
...Austrian and German socialists have explained that threats by the Allied Commissions that their desperate need for food and other economic aid would not be met unless they "behaved," halted their far-reaching socialist reforms in the period after the First World War...
...Britain, Russia, and the USA have agreed generally on the structure of an international league to maintain security, it waa announced...
...It was said that Tito had been more active in the field, hence merited more aid...
...The Hungarian revolutionists were starved into submission...
...Why the British abandoned Mikhailovitch is still one of the war's mysteries...
...Senator O'Mahoney has introduced a bill which provides that surplus land which the Army and Navy don't want permanently would be available to veterans...
...2.: "A Communist-led minority, mostly Creations, is nsing the war to wrest control of Yugoslavia from the Serbian majority...
...exile...
...Hungary by Hitler, according to terms offered by Russia...
...The reward will be the recovery of Transylvania, given...
...A Roman celebration of the liberation ef Raria became a riot when a Communist tore down an Italian monarchist flag and hoiated the red flag with hammer and sickle...
...that Germans must flght until the Allies modify unconditional surrender terms . . . Andre, Lebord, French Underground leader, estimates that SMM Frenchmen have heea executed by the Nash...
...reported from Paris that the shooting at Gen...
...Moreover the Allies neglected to provide him with the necessary weapons...
...Russia has succeeded in blocking UNRRA plans to feed Poland until Poland's political fate is decided...
...He said that despite blunders the Anglo-American occupation is the first instance in history of an invading army that collaborated as friends of Italy...
...the Ruaaiant refuae permission to UNRRA to paaa through this territory until the disputes with the Palish Government -in-Exile are settled] and the future government of Poland is decided...
...William Philip Simms wrote in his column of Aug...
...for once I agree with the Communist sheet, but would add a list of others to be defeated, including Kuusinen . . . Tha newly organised Italian Confederation of Labor (including Communist, Socialist and Catholic anions) presented demands to the Bonomi .Government, urging subsidies for half-starved workers, and government intervention to compel owners of closed factories to operate them, with the alternative of nationalization under worker-control...
...There are approximately 8,000,000 Serbs aa againat 3,600,000 Croats and 1,400,000 Slovenes...
...lust ruled that the SP was correct, then reversed itself . . . Big Business has often ridiculed "New Deal bureaucrats" for their political squabbles...
...Mfkko'fevffc* Ousted .. . General draja mikhailovitch, chetnik chief, waa ousted from his position as Commander-in-Chief of the Yugoslavian army of resistance by King Peter, a position he had held since resistance to the Nasi invaders began...
...T. C. Gregory, then one of Hoover's aides, boasted in an article in World'i Work in 1922 that the Hoover Commission was to be credited with the overthrow of the Soviet Government of Hungary headed by Beta Kun to whom Count Karolyi turned over power...
...In his speech ef farewell to the Italians, Churchill laid down seven tests ef democracy...
...When in modern history haa any such alliance of powers lasted more than a few dsradesT) . . . Sun Fo accused the Kuomintang of becoming reactionary in trend, violating the principles ef Sua Yat-sen, his father and founder of the Chinese ruling party...
...But the War Production Board fight between Donald Nelson and Charles Wilson seems to show that big business men can scrap just as much as politicians...
...DiUmar, Nasi radio commentator, admitted that the defeat of Germany ia near, and stated that Germany now fights not for victory but for the beat peace terms possible...
...Yet Moscow will permit no food to go to them, nor can plans for relief after liberation be completed by UNRRA...
...No proof of the charge that Mikhailovitch has been cooperating with the Naaia haa yet been made public...
...Count Sforza proposed that Fiume, a source of dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia, be made a seat of the new international organization...
...In a civil suit 47 msjor railroads were accused by the Federal Government of violating the Antitrust Act by fixing rates in collusion and jointly retarding improvements in service and equipment in the West, thus preventing free competition . .. The Ford Company was added to 25 organizations indicted by the Federal Government for monopoly in the sale of wood alcohol . . . Want to buy a million acres...
...I editorialised that Finland's salvation liea in the defeat of Baron Mannerheim...
...The War Dept...
...Will food he ased after World War II to prevent the thorough-going social reform needed, aad to ensure the dominance o/ the Big Three, m aa effort to return te the economic stats* asm ante helium...
...The government has acquired over 34,000,000 acres during the war...
...He insults the French Forces of the Interior of which the Maquis are part...
...Perhaps ten millions have died of starvation during the Nazi occupation...
...Whstever unrra's intention* msy be, the inexorable fact is that food is a weapon today aa it was after the last war...
...Simultaneously food waa supplied U> Beta Kan's enemies, and, in Russia, to the counter-revolutionary forces under Wrangel, Deniken, Kolchak, etc...
...that there is a total ef 12,000,000 foreign workers in Germany .. . Syngman Rhee, president of Korea, appealed for arms for the Korean army in China so that they may participate in tha defeat of Japan, and asked for recognition ef his governmental...
...There will be an assembly of all "peace-loving" nations and a council of the big powers...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 36
