TRENDS: Ideas in action; events as they reflect political tendencies; the cream of the news
OAK, LISTON M.
TRENDS: Ideas in action; events as they reflect political tendencies; the cream of the news By Liston M. Oak French Labor Urges Social Reforms LoUIS SAILLANT. .er.vUrv •* the T*m+ toml...
...Secretary of the Navy Forrestal is the latest to urge upon the USA postwar universal military conscription and a war economy...
...I do not agree with much that waa aaid in Life's editorial on the CIO Political Action Committee, which Lerner attacks as though it were fascist, not merely conservative...
...j* • Last a TotM rVem lapnat* ,,, "It k reassuring to know thai- Luce la mora cultural than Hearst, more literate than MeCormick, mere intellectual than Howard, mere aaave than De WHt Wallace...
...What bis qualifications may be for sny office concerned with justice is not clear...
...AH fourteen ignore the de Gaulle decree about a government news monopoly...
...de Gaulle objects because from the war's start to June 22, 1941, Thorez called it an imperialist war, acted as a Russian agent not a French patriot...
...The kaa of 250 alrajea could have been reduced by aauttk-iyiag, Jtot Russia refused Um nee af her airtelsk...
...This is serving notice to the world in advance that whether or not collective security it achieved, the USA intends to build up gigantic military power...
...nope the,U, 8. Army *nmek to maintain the state* an...
...Their demands are insatiable...
...but it hasnt the deep significance Republicans try to give it . . . Wendell Berge, Assistant US Attorney General, said "the time ha* come for labor union* to bo subjected to limitation* for tht common good...
...Church estates are exempted...
...they plan to utilize these weapons of economic warfare in the postwar race for markets...
...Particularly about the journalistic ethics involved in misrepresenting whst both Bullitt, and the Life piece about PAC, actually said...
...L. Champion: "Dewey, when in lllinoit, Aett like Bert MeCormick'* boy...
...The defeat in Maine was a rebuff to the CIO-PAC...
...er.vUrv •* the T*m+ toml Confederation of Leber (COT), told PWu AWunto UM that U» OCT «mU Jiwid the ¦alliaaekalha W ate...
...FDR ia expected to ask Willkie to take an important job in Europe soon...
...But l.ife't editorial was more factual, and less reactionary, than PM'* hysterical fulminations against the Polish Government-in-Exile, its defense of Moscow's determination to dominate all of central and Eastern Europe, its apologia for the Red Army's betrayal of the War«aw uprising...
...The State Department favors regulation not abolition of trade agreements between big corporations of various nations...
...Hitletr Rills See < est or . . . Karl goekukLER, ex - Loipsig mayor and ringleader in the plot to assassinate Hitler, was condemned to death by a Nasi court, with other civilians...
...In New York, tCifa accent* tilky, He agree* with Wendell Willkie...
...He opposes entrance ef American firms into sueh international agreements restricting free trade, competition for markets, and price-Axing...
...Thia agrarian reform ia calculated to win peasant support...
...Bor warned...
...Cartels are really "private government!," he says, subverting constituted authority, thwarting foreign policy, aad placing their special interests above aatknal welfare...
...Moscow has claimed that supplies caa not he delivered to Hie embattled patriate of Warsaw...
...The latter two are expected to join the Red Army in the invasion of Germany----Russian doctors have revived 12 dead soldiers by a new method of forcing air into the lungs and blood into the heart...
...Eisenhower on Germany instead of Murphy...
...otetUkal power, the and stoat toaastoke, the iMtwi ew>wlw, the Beak of flMN, naiiiiHis ef Um property af faaekte who nod to Cerasaw, Otter im pertaa t Mctol raakrma ekmamakd krtnai w«|» kereaeeo to wpwuli for the big Imhm hi Um mi of living, the control of proeu...
...Cartel*: Challenge to a Free World...
...The cartels constitute the major threat to postwar economic prosperity, Wendell Berga declares in his book...
...A lot of the heads of the 200 families who controlled pre-war Frsnce have been arrested aa collaborationist*, or escaped with the Nazis...
...Those cartels have, during the war, -established dominance of heavy industry in the semifascist South American republic, it was said by Sims Carter, assistant chief of the Justice Department's economic warfare section...
...The OCT aaatatalaad Its bold ca Um membership tfc rough ...l Um aorapattea by Um Nask, sad whoa it eallad a general strike on August It, its mem ben ware in Um forefront of Um fighting which liberated Park...
...he justified the Moscow purges and the persecution of the POUM and (NT in Spain...
...also that Um Jewish ghetto still exists in the French capital...
...Sosnkowski, President Raczkiewicz, conservative, refused to dismiss him aa commander-in-chief of the army, Stefan Litauer says in the London Sew* ChronieU...
...In hk death Carman dmnsrrsry baa lest aa iasportent ugwre...
...this would achieve two good results—utilise Willkie's high talents, and corral Republican votes for the President Soma are disappointed that Willkie was not appointed political adviser to Gen...
...The Polish Government-in-Eiile revealed that IN tens of aid have been delivered by British aircrlsft aiaee the narking began...
...Perhaps it would be well lor Lerner and PM'* readers to indulge in a little se'fexamination...
...It is estimated that of Parisian newspapers, the Communist I In man tie leads with 100,000 circulation...
...Lerner wants Life editors and readers "to examine where Life is going...
...Ha waa a leading Social Democrat and trade unionist, and waa a labor aktogato to the ILO...
...The Department of Justice is not winning in its/fight to bust up international cartels, experts report...
...They will try to maintain supremacy over South American markets...
...PM) • • * Communists Give da Gaulle Tosif k Problem . . . The sole active persistent opposition to de Gaulle's leadership in both Algiers and Paris comes from the ('< mmunists, despite their two representatives in the Provisional Government...
...The United Nations concluded an armistice with Rumania...
...It is argued that cartels represent a world-wide trend, and American industrialists must enter them to compete with Britain, Germany, Franca, and even Russia, which to one gigantic national state-cartel...
...The German industrialists will seek to repeat their performance, in the period after World War I, when they established connections in the United States with many big corporations and German affiliates, to the advantage of Germany...
...Freed ia 1917, he became eae ef Use leaders of Um Underground Mo,sneart...
...Y. Tim—, barkd perhaps to avoid censorship, is a broad hint that two American divisions won Ukea from the front to help in restoring "order" in Paris...
...They want Thorez, now in Moscow, in the Cabinet...
...Yet I am not certain that I would be more enthusiastic about reaction because it is dressed np ia Yak ekthes aad an Oxford vocabulary...
...Herbert Morrison said that the coalition government and electoral truce will continue until Germany and Japan nre defeated, and defended Churchill as a war leader...
...De Gaulle, in hi* flrit 1'amian speech, pledged that the Provioionmli Government would surrender power «a soon as a newfiovernment can be eleeted...
...the rent rut ions against Jews remsined In force until the arrival af American troops...
...Assistant Secretary of State Berle says the State Department has evidence to prove the atrocities ef Nazis at the mass murder factories at Lublin and elsewhere in Poland...
...Among the twenty new victims of the renewed purge was Wilhelm Leuschner, former Hessian Minister of the Interior...
...Despite effort's1 of Nazis and Vichy to "reform" French* schools along totalitarian and anti-Semitic lines, they have largely escaped corruption, due to the resistance of Um teachers, except lor a change in textbooks...
...the forces opposed to radical social reforms are the Vatican, Russia, and the reactionaries in Europe supported by their opposite numbers in Britain and USA...
...Let me now congratulate PM for its "terse vei?e" by I...
...Max Lamer in PM...
...Unless Um liberal reforms asmmtoM by Um 4a Caulk provisional government arc carried tort, the workers will turn to romasuaim, he predicted Communists ara ia a majority in workers* committees In the Red Kelt •round Paris...
...Domettic Affair* . . . RoOSEVELT plans to scrsp the Little Steel formula and grant pay increases up to 10 per cent, said "reliable sources...
...fareraatleeaf Carrels— CbofJeaee ft) • Fran World . . . T*HE Department of Justice charged that the big German industrialists who have backed Hitkr are already preparing for another war by wtging economic warfare through German-controlled catels, based in Argentina...
...Russia ia carrying on peace negotiations with Finland, Bulgaria, and Rumania...
...I do at admire Luce's tendency toward American imperialism, but I like PJkf's justification of Russian imperialism even leas...
...Fleet a Men, Im Mid, want eocial aeenitrary as well as political MMmqr...
...Maynard Krueger said over WEAF that Europe cannot return to prewar private enterprise and solve its economic problems...
...He played aa Important rete ia the sppasttlan to the Nask, aad was Jailed ia a issMontraUon eaasp several times...
...Attached to another story ia Um -V...
...The Communistled Polish Committee of National Liberation at Lublin promised to divide up estates of mare than 126 acres among peasants by December 20, with no collectivization, to be paid for within ten years...
...Query to Lamer: la reaction kaa dangerous because it ia dressed op in the verbiage of liberalism ? Or does PM'* usual liberalism on domestic issues make its stupid gkrilkatlon of totalitarianism, its wishful thinking and Its blind faith In illusions, the more hsrmful in its uninformed discussion of international problems...
...IN SUMMARY: Some of the main political events of the week for those who do not read their daily papers carefully Foreign Affair* . . . PoLISH patriots in the Warsaw uprising have lost 80 per cent of their men, and are nearing "the limit of human endurance," Gen...
...The big boys have a well-organised campaign against cartelbusting with lots of Congressional support...
...the Socialist Populaire has 160,000, all twelve other dailies have a total circulation of 120,000...
...Cartels, whether German, British, Dutch, or American, are a tbrest to peace, cooperation, democracy, and prosperity...
...About 45,000 New York students are expected to continue on wartime jobs instead of returning to school, snd hundreds of thousands throughout the country...
...Marcel Willard, the new Minister of Justice, was an inconspicuous Communist lawyer in prewar Paris who loyally carried out Moscow's orders...
...Although the members ef the Polish Goveratnent-in-Exile arc unanimous in opposition to Gen...
...French uiwiwiito, mostly asneabaca*—toto...
...Eight prominent German officers had previously been executed lor complicity, besides an unknown number that "committed suicide...
...Laborite Ellen Wilkinson defended the British Empire at a labor conference as a democratic protective association of nations...
...If the USA should revert to the policy of using American dollars, economic power, to dominate South American countries politically, the Good Neighbor policy and cooperation will end disastrously, says Sumner Welles in Click...
...Rustia ended the thortett war isrWater*—her 99fteur* war with Bulgaria...
...He was slated to become Germany's "Badoglio," as chancellor of a government to replace Hitler and negotiate peace with the United Nations...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 38
