TRENDS: Ideas in action;events as they reflect social tendencies
OAK, LISTON M.
TRENDS: Ideas in action;events as they reflect social tendencies By LIston M. Oak Commaeith Thraaren Civil Wor la Holy . . . • In a Daily Workar article Giuseppe Berti, editor of L'Uifita del...
...Ramie wiR he swprivod af the asanas af exactm...
...He attacks Coi...
...Berti quotes Pietro Nenni as accusing the AMG of retarding food distribution ia order to provoke db)-turbances a mang the starving people...
...He includes in his amalgam Herbert L. Matthews of the Sew York Tim...
...Hence they will get...
...The two rival Polish armies, one loyal to Lublin <u., M<scowl and the other to the leadon Governmeat-in...
...The Red Army i adjured to shun the sinful temptations of Buchares and other capitalist cities...
...The Joint Council of the Trade Union Internationals ef Minewerkers, Metalworkers, and Transportworkers, appealed to German workers over the BBC to collaborate with the foreign, workers in Germany to east Hitler...
...Haded ate vie wan reparaUosw M kiad Itoaseto the oppsattioe ef Sal aad Brimsan to M«r-gnathiaa's ataa the exsertaxian hi Wasaiagtea Is that eveetaal acaliag dawn ef Oilman industry will ha agreed upon by Britain and the United States...
...Pointing to the example ef the workers of Italy who helped liberate their, country, the appeal called upon German workers to repeat the performance of 1918 when the end of the war was hastened by labor...
...Tito haa laid claim to Italian Istria, Trieste and the Dalmatian fjoast for Yugoslavia and demanded a place for that country at the peace table...
...I. T. Zellsrs for "openly complaining of the growth of the CP In Italy...
...Russians have been isolated from capitalist civihti tion for 27 years...
...the Italians have demonstrated their will to be free and to fight with the United Nations for peace and justice...
...The Christian DeaaocraU refused unity with Communists and Socialists, hence Bonomi is ia a strong position...
...ejote, have at last achieved operational unity u. liberate Warsa...
...i ^^fffJ^S^SS^V^m •* Mteh Patriot, hi plies ware ai'spssd into Warsaw by flat Soviet atones, to aid saw Pats* aastosng, thma uaatieaii tinx, Msscew's p1«es>a<Oa Sept...
...I'mfa charges that Sicilian landowners are fostering separatism...
...The explosion, beinf prepared behind the scenes, is directed against the Teheran policies and against tt* antifascist CaaMton...
...VW Cams, ea-faartot aaw Tseatsrtod" to dwxaacisaund abet Masnw haa aa oatocttoae to sea retova Raseiaa Embassy who have letaatls branded Caret aa are-Nad, aaw fraternise with Mm at etotoseetie ii nasi ens...
...Bu mania hardly represents the best in capitalist rivilisa tion, but even in that poverty-stricken country there ar more consumers goods available than in Russia...
...a fifty year leans to Russia af the PorkkaJa peninsula near Helsinski for a Soviet base...
...Sforxa has proposed making Fiume a* international pert and Trieste a free pert under Italian control, aad to give up the Dodecanese Islands...
...Let 'em raise potatoes," seems to he the formula...
...The Staliim bureaucracy fat worried about their reaction to tli "glitter" of capitalism...
...Bu Soviet «itixens of course know, that material goods a« not the true measure of a country's culture...
...as one of "hundreds of other secret international agents and provocateurs...
...Moscow doesn't want the Loner group to get credit for anti-Naxi resistance in Slovak...
...All thia was predicted in faxe Veer tea e'er many montha nam...
...Since liberation, the workers have been operating many French factories whose owners were jailed for collaboration...
...Berti concludes with this threat of civil war: "The sfctastian In Italy haa Uhm become aa em: plosive aa a earlead af TXT...
...the cession of the Petssmo area...
...Douglas Rogers reports the spread of anti-Semitism in England...
...Meetings have been broken up with violence...
...thi it will conduct elections when their counttry is liberate to determine whether or not Slovakia will be nidi pendent or part of a reborn Czecho-Slovakian Republt Such, Mr...
...As for the support of the Rumsnsn people, the Communists can engineer that little matter, which the monarrhista could not...
...and to aid the Red Army, as the price ef centinea-tion of the monarchy...
...The impact of western civiliii tion upon the minds of these Red Army men is tb subject of discussion in Pravda...
...Kert Srhuechnigg, ex-fascist bat anti-Nazi Chancellor of Austria, ia alive in the IlacheawsMo concentration camp where Ernst Thaelmana and Ku dolafa Breitscheid were reported killed...
...Perhaps Russia can use him aa a front in the future Austria...
...and Oamsaaky...
...TRENDS: Ideas in action;events as they reflect social tendencies By LIston M. Oak Commaeith Thraaren Civil Wor la Holy . . . • In a Daily Workar article Giuseppe Berti, editor of L'Uifita del Papula, condemning the AMG for not purging Itahaa fascists, aedvtaet such "pro Niw" as William C. Bullitt, Luigi Antonini, Vanni Montana, t.'allcani, Ribarich, and other "sinister agents" are permitted to engage »¦ "anti-Soviet propaganda,'' aad conspiracy against "Italian democracy...
...nearly as isolated as 18th oentur Japan from the rest of the world...
...In a joint statement Churchill and Roosevelt declared...
...Everybody is to be insured against all the usual vicissitudes ef life, bat the dividends will be reduced...
...The Nazis have warned againat "a stab in the back" by such armed wqihats' groups, and admitted mass desertions from factories, as well a serious sabotage...
...The territorial demand caused consternation among Italians, who fear a Russian sphere-of-influence as a neighbor...
...The Italian Communist paper, VniUt, reported that sporadic violence is frequent in the provinces, and that Sicilian separatism ia flaming up...
...Unemployment benefits will last only thirty weeks instead of indefinitely...
...S* pretty female faces, "with sinful mouths' all paintei up, and short dresses...
...i__ IN SUMMARY: Some of the main political eveats of the week for those who do not road their daily papers carefully EARNEST BEVIN, British Minister of Labor, hss cut the number of "unemployable*" in Britsin from 200,PO0 to 18JM0 since be took effiee...
...Pigeonholing the Beveridge Plan, the British Government offers a new serial security plan which whittles down the benefits the people hsve been promised...
...The veneer of demagogy * thicker than any logic there may be beneath it . • Attorney General Biddle denied that the CI0-M* violates the Federal law regulating political contributions...
...Pietro Nenni, Socialist who favors unity with the CP, said, "We do not want civil war hat we will accept it if it ia imposed...
...But it makes insufficient provision for children, aad does not relate its scale of benefits to the cost of living as the Beveridge plan did...
...math-, eaeamt by atstoumg Gersaaa stove saber swttalMr* to >«s*ir devastated area...
...However, the new plan is far better than anything proposed is America...
...He accused Benomi af indirectly aiding a plot of the reactionaries to divide the country into two Uses...
...The Italian Government will be accorded full diplomatic status...
...tee eat a arse r srsnrees • • • • Moscow objects to carrying out jliorgenthaus plan to dismantle German industry until after Germany has made "payment in kind" for damages done in Russia...
...Meaeew can aad was eel labor a. e with anyone who wist serve the aesraeees 'af Raaatea imperialism—aa long aa he is useful, and until the Communists rsn reorganize their forces to the Balkans snd elsewhere...
...Benes will learn, is the fruit of rapitulatio to Bolshevik demands...
...No oae wants an explosion until northern Italy is liberated...
...During the period of rehabilitation and training, they received a living wage...
...This has been an ag old ambition of Russia—free access to a warm-wat port...
...the payment ef MOO.000.000 worth of goods, as reparations ia kind...
...If these intrigue* are not crushed immediately, severe repercussions and csexaequenres wHI follow...
...UNNSA will begin relief for starving Italians...
...The War Labor Board Anally admits that * eeat af living hag risen so much as to ceuse "»» * favorable disaaritv far labor...
...It all reads like a (irearh ment to the Crusaders by the medieval Church, or i Puritan sermon in old New England...
...Britain aad USA yielded partially to Russia's demai that UNRKA distribute supples rhefly to aationa am I devastated by war and which put up most resistant • • • Element Gottwald, Cxerh Communist in Mosco' ignored Bene* and the Czechoslorakian Government-ii exile in London in bis report on the resistance of tl Slovak Partisans...
...The Renault firm made * 120,000,000 worth ef war materials for Germany...
...The Renault factory will be nationalised...
...Since democracy and prosperity are interlinked, how can a peaceful progressive Germany arise if that country is divided into three spheres axtd reduced to an agricultural economy...
...1 The first step toward economic sanctions again* Argentina will be taken Oct 1 when American merchw' ships will cease picking up cargoes at Argentine port* • * * * Dewey's threat to tell the "unvarnished' truth ib*1 FDk implies that hitherto the GOP candidate has ben giving us varnished stuff...
...The convictions of Trotskyiata far agitating stiikes have bean quashed ia higher courts of England...
...King Minks si...
...Warned agains "the tawdry brilliance" ef "these deceitful phantoms o pseudo civilisation," the Red Army is urged to "lool into the soul of the people," always good advice...
...Aad which of the German generals in Moscow's Free Get aisjry Committee wM he then- stooge to the third of Germany to be occupied by the Red Army...
...Unless Germany's productive capacity is maintained I | iraj...
...to eeat she Premier, lea Aatowosra...
...The weekly family allowance is to be % shillings, as opposed to I shillings under the Beveridge plan...
...increased aid in their political and economic rehabilitation, and the Allied Control Commission, will drop the word control from its title...
...Ce^nrmecxt fa Motto ia 6e>raaaiay ¦ « • * General Eisenhower called est organized* ci Us ef foreign workers in Germany to take "immediate actian according to the prearranged plan," diaclosing that rTvistaace groups have been organised within the Reach, with liasun established between them and Allied military ieaders...
...The I LP nails this as a "victory of the workers against unjust and repressive legislation...
...Russian terms for Finland threaten the very existence of that tiny republic: the restoration of the 1040 boundaries, fixed by Moscow...
...Moreover, the Slovak Partesns declared their Slevi National Council is the supreme authority there...
...le*\#00 ef theaa have been placed in productive work...
...Louis Renault, leading French industrialist, has been jailed for eel La bo ration with Nazis...
...Fenner Brock-way, denounced by the Communists ss a "Trotskyist-Hitlerite agent," pretests as a denial of the freedom of the press the refussl of the British Government to permit the London Daily Worker to send Clement Dutt .to Euros* as aa accredited War correspondent...
...But now Red Am soldiers are outside Soviet borders...
...Charles A. Day**, former Rumanian Minister to isa, dasaas the story sheet (are...
...Russia is expected to press the demand soon that Turkey demilitarise the Bosphonis and Dardanelles and make the Straits s free channel...
...I« a Urge force ef Aaeericaa stones Inpi • aaposies to the Peliah patriot* Too little aad toe late, bat wilnsmad neisithsleas...
...Carat has'tergeAl close cpllaberatioa between Ram atria asat ttw*-J* Me ad i ami wis eea...
...The loss ef Trieste would cause a new wave of irredentism...
...Boncmi threatened to resign if his government did not receive the sap pert of all six parties represented ia it The Communists pledged support...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 40
