Inside and Out
EVERETT, MURRAY
By MURRAY EVERETT Inside and Out The Communist Scandal in Italy A LARGE NUMBER of the clever fascists ia Italy lave been taking eat "insurance" by joining the (om-ananst Party. The altuation...
...6°) on the inside maneuvering* of world politics: "American correspondents have been persuaded, for the time being, that it would not be healthful to attempt to reveal the inner details of the Manipulations, political tug-of-wars and the sheer lack of accomplishment that have dogged all inter-Allied negotiations through recent months...
...The Joint snti-Pascist Refugee Committee, the Communist front that succeeded the ill-fsted Rescue Ship Mission which blew up when Mrs...
...This would mean that the Communist would share in the total proceeds raised through Community ('bests and other war fund drives, and not have to raise money on its own...
...The Unlfed Mine Workers Journal, which has been consistently lambasting the Administration, •a It* current issue takes a slam at the House ef Morgan...
...The full 4ie to the charge, however, was given by ex-Ambassador to England, Joseph Kennedy, who himself was an isolationist and opposed American entry into the wsr...
...This characterization, he growls fiercely, splits Allied unity and mocks at Stalingrad, it is in the class of Ninotchka...
...Roosevelt resigned, has been trying for more than a year to be accredited to the National War Fund...
...The move was made just before King Michael swapped horses in mid-stream...
...The most interesting thing, however, Is Kent's motivation .According to Kennedy: "Home place along the line Kent seems to have built up an anti-Semitic complex, and I am convinced that this attitude waa the driving power for hi behavior in London...
...It seems that Mr...
...Every party closed its membership books, fearing the iafax of disreputable elements...
...Tft* Chips Fall Where They May JOHN T. MCMANUS, whose movie reviews for PM always follow the dictum that art should never be for arfs sake, is in a dither about The Donghgirlt, that hilarious satire on Washington life...
...the C.P...
...Emphasis mine...
...Lphor Notes Cl<> will move Sidney Hillman into the background suit future statements will be issued jointly by Phil Murray and Hillman, with the ("10 President getting top billing...
...There has been a slight improvement in one quarter recently—not that covered by the Phillips-Murphy-Reber resignations and appointments—but for the moment correspondents are barred from delving into that...
...The Wall Street firm, the miners claim, ht really for the election of Roosevelt, but "their game this year would seem to he to have enough f* the big bankers make noises like Republicsns ta make the GOP feel good and to take the Big Business curse off of the Democrats, if thst can ha done by artful dodging...
...Pitzele is also behind the rumor, which the GOP High Command is playing up strong, that Wayne Morse would be named Secretary of Labor il Dewey won...
...Martin Dies, the lameduck Congressman from Texas, has put his eleven-year-old son on the congressional payroll as an office clerk, Drew Pear-aen reports, at a salary of $2,400, plus 15 per cent for overtime...
...Here is what Geoffrey Parsons Jr., writing from London, reported this week (Sept...
...Mel Pitiele, the labor editor of Butineu Week, ha* become the confidential labor advisor to Tom Dewey...
...Morse, a former member of the War Labor Board, recently won the Republican Senatorial nomination in Oregon with CIO-PAC backing...
...The detail* of the Tyler Kent story were made public because an isolationist wolf pack charged that Kent had been "railroaded" to prison to forestall exposure of secret correspondence between Winston Churchill, who wss not then prime minister, and President Roosevelt, plotting to bring America into the war...
...The Vac mom •/ Power Politics Do you think, dear reader, that in the welter of news stories filed from the various capitals of the world you are getting a comprehensive picture of the political situation today—in line with the vaunted tradition of the American free press...
...The altuation became so scandalous in eae province that the Socialist press made a public apreer...
...Last week, the President's Control Board, headed by Joseph E. Davies, approved the request...
...One result of Pitzele's brain-trusting will be to rele-•ate the carpenters boss, burly Bill Hutcheson, to the background...
...Kennedy revealed that Kent had been in contact with Nazi agent* and that his espionage was so serious that in one of the most crucial periods in world history the entire cables communication system of the U. S. had to be shut down for two weeks because the codes and cipher key were in Nasi hands...
...Here is a young socialite scion of a notable diplomat entering a diplomatic career, entranced with a White Russian girl who is in contact with Nazi secret agents via the Italian diplomatic pouch, England with its back to the wall as the Nazi armies speed across Fiance and Germany in full possession of the most secret diplomatic ciphers as well as important correspondence between the United States and Britain...
...Kent never batted an eye...
...After strong protests, the National War Fund decided to review the application...
...The full story will as toM shortly ha The New Leader...
...lie situation ia reminiscent of Spain during the civil war...
...Infr/aae If the Tyler Kent story had been spun by Eric Ambler it couldn't have been a slicker spy tale than the true life episode...
...The Com-kaniat Party, with the lowest membership figure, invited everyone to join sad its ranks swelled...
...When Kent waa arrested, I asked him how on earth he could break trust with hia country and what he muat he thinking about Its effects on hia parents...
...He played up and down the scale of an intense anti-Semitic feeling, showing no remorse whatever except in respect to his parents...
...McManus is vexed by the Eve Arden take-off on a Soviet woman sniper here on a propaganda tour, the model obviously having been Ludmilla Pavlichenko...
...was forced to hold hearings and expel large numbera of persons...
...Andre Visson, the usually well-informed analyst on •"teal European affairs, reports that "Soviet diplomats inquired among their British colleagues . . . what *ht British reaction would be to the restoration of ex-King Carol...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 37
