Capital Comment
STOUT, JONATHAN
Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT FDR Postpones Little Steel Revision Until AfterElection WASHINGTON, D. C- The Little steei formula win Mt be chanced before November 7. Reliable sources say...
...In our opinion-it is time fer ths dsWHinwO pawwii to iwako a at a. siaaeV...
...President David Dubinsky of the International Garment Workers Union was a guest of the White BOOM at the invitation of the President this After a eeseien of an hour, Dubinsky emerged ••'•'ng to face the third degree of the White House "I discussed UM Little Steel formula with the Presi**»f...
...They receded whan Moscow Insisted on sn immediate solution of the question of the Curzon line...
...They tacitly endured the Soviet attitude towsrd their conference in Cairo with the Bulgarian armistice delegation...
...2 That the Communist Party has not ia fart beea dissolved, but has merely "gone underground" for s temporary period, and will be revived again as soon as the "party line" does another I'-turn...
...The Soviet suthoritiea will proceed in a manner which net only differs from the notions and principles of tbe allies, but which will be contrary to their interests...
...America and Britain receded before the Soviet diplomatic attack when the problem of the Baltic states was being discussed...
...In confirmation of the third point, it is noted that Krowiler additionally threatened America that the act • if driving Communists out of American public life would be "an American invitation to Europe to plunge immediately or soon into the moat devastating civil war...
...The war has become less ideological," Chuchill says...
...They receded when the Soviet government pushed its nominee Tito to the front and Mikhailovitch to the rear...
...In confirmation of the second point, it is noted that to the length of dissolving the Communist Party itself for an indefinite period in the future...
...To Which Mr...
...Why is this necesssry...
...Browder Admints CP Is Agency of Moscow Th« question of the activities and influence of the '•"•"•unlets •*• emaaibsiy become a part of the alac«hm cesagahjg...
...Browder replied: "There are no relatione Whatever...
...to Wit: PetfpeM* all deri§ion IN Iht issue unlit offer KiteMas Day...
...That, it is pointed out, is the first public hint that the dissolution of the Communist Party is merely temporary, and was aimed to serve merely temporary political purposes...
...The world did not believe Mm...
...A Soviet sone of occupation in Germany has a somber and tragic meaning...
...sad, 1 Ceagreaa, which ia ia receee...
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...The result is a great new empire emerging before our eyes in the heart of Europe with over one hundred million people, aa a "protectorate" of the Soviet Government...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT FDR Postpones Little Steel Revision Until AfterElection WASHINGTON, D. C- The Little steei formula win Mt be chanced before November 7. Reliable sources say the President is "loath to make it * politicatl issue •ad therefore hap decided to d>f>r his decision until after the election...
...In the course of trying to slough Dewey, Browder committed the politics] faux pom tl publicly admitting: . 1. That the Communists here are in fart AmerIcaa repraaentatives of the Soviet Union...
...Steps "•»••» »hat ami must ha instituted now...
...The countei -move of Gaylord and Johnston to the appeal of the labor unions is . the transparently "cute" proposal that the issue be referred to Cpngreai for settlement...
...As though they dievt know (or did they think it wouia sup eveiyuwuy •he's notice...
...Another type of occupation ia foreseen for Austria and perhaps for the city of Berlin, where troops of the three allies will live sids by side as long as the occupation will last...
...Everything which ia net pre-Soviet, will ha branded aa "fascisC-and will he crashed...
...Il' is our conviction that Washington and London are on the verge of a fateful blunder...
...Borne tine before the end of next week the W»r Labor Board, after listening in dual agument* in the petitions of the AFL and CIO for revision of the ail ministration's wage policy and the Little Steel formula, will piesent its findings in a memorandum to the President...
...sisijbady seaport of being liberal, democratic av socialist will ha liquidated...
...Browder was telling the truth then, It is asked now, what basinesa is it of the Soviet Government what we do about Communists in the United States...
...Per years and years Adolf Hitler tried to sell to the world hi* brand of Germany as "the last bulwark against Bolshevism...
...Jls)|lbjagl, aVswdo, two days le-or swung a "clumsy round-house at Dewey . . . and knocked himmjU out...
...They will also proceed...
...b y that time, Wgea...
...Why shall not Red divisions parade on the Rhine shoulder to shoulder with the sllied armies, and why shall not Yanks and Tommies defile on the streets of tbe German east...
...In confirmation of the first point, political circles here point to the fact that Browder warned "American voters" who have accepted Dewey's "Program of Driving the Communists Out of Public Life" that confirmation of this would be interpreted l>y the Soviet Union as an unfriendly act...
...H i 's •ohocrvient to Msassw...
...They did not voice any protest, when e new Polish government was set up in Lublin...
...Aa a reaalt, Washington political drciee •""•Op art giving the manor closer attention than ^batata...
...Nsve we not been told, again and again, that harmony and confidence reign between the allies and that the great hopes for collaboration in the postwar world are well founded...
...Weighing the counter-pressures of labor and big business, the President therefore has offered a compro•'»• to take the Matter out of the political arena...
...Why shall they be kept hundreds of miles sway from Breaiau and Konigrberg and from all appioaches to the Soviet borders...
...Political circles hero ar* still chortling over frewder's clumsy footwork in his Madison Square GarIan speech last Thursday...
...There ia another system posaible...
...And now the addition to it of a great German territory with alt its potentialities, economic and military, sets the crown to the new edifice...
...If Mr...
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...Under this slogan he begged for Britiah bertcvetenee, for French neutrality, far alliance Of Russis's smaller neighbors...
...that: A. The preaeat reactionary majority ia Congress •eeldni give labor the sweat of it a brews...
...But even from a purely cynical point of view, even leaving any democratic issue aside, the formation of s great Soviet sone in Germany is a defeat for the other allies...
...they not only will punish war luminal* which is necessary...
...But not in Germany...
...They receded when I he Eremlin pressed for an unilstersl Soviet-Czech alliance...
...so •hot whatever political advantage labor can Ob' s " thresgh Hi voting power woald...
...Two of the factors which have threatened to make a solitical issue of a raise •a^aaa^aaassssaaaaaasssssssaM in the Little Steel formula before November 7 are a •air of gentlemen named Gaylord (President, National Association of Manufacturers)., and Johnston (President...
...Their system of internal policy In their part oT Germany will he the reverse of the democrscy which the sllies allegedly are fighting for...
...In short, political analysts here pointed out, Browder is notifying the United States that there exists a Comintern, made more powerful by the upheavals of the war, which is prepared now to swing into military action to enforce its dictatorship over Europe...
...In accordance with Soviet demands, about 3e per cent of the territory of Cermany with about 30 per cent of her population is to constitute a sone of exclusive Soviet occupation...
...The Soviet authorities not only will take lo tbe east machinery, railroad equipment, personal belongings which ia natural...
...1. That the Comintern la not dissolved (ss the Kremlin tried to persuade the world), but also has "gene underground" and atill continues to function , «s aa agency of the Soviet Government—aa of old...
...They left to Moscow the formulation of agreements with Rumania, and Finland...
...They recoiled when the Soviet government, in violation of the Atlantic Charter, claimed the annexation of East Prussia...
...The future occupation of Germany by the allied forces, which in itself is natural and necessar), is planned as three separate occupations: the British in the Germsn west, the Americsns in the south, and the Russians in the north and east...
...chief C.armaalot ('^asmiaeer, N'otieaal Affairs...
...will act he back hack In sisslea again aatil after Election Day...
...Moot of those wvM ha imported from Moscow...
...And if we drive Communists out of Aster lean public life, why should the Soviet Union regard It as an unfriendly art...
...J" '• week Dewey reiterated his pledge to reeaere the r*"11" •* M mrowder...
...I esprossed the *** that maintenance of the purchasing power of • • • " c a n workers to the most important factor ia malnwar prerperiiy and full employment...
...Ia contrast to this statement iti Madison .Square Garden last Thursday, political circles here point to Browder's testimony before the House Committee on un-American activities in which he was asked: "What are the relations of the Communist Party of the United States with the Government of Soviet Russia...
...One wouldn't think so from his big threats...
...Earlier in his speech last Thursdsy, Browder said: "We are relatively a very small group In Ameiicail political life, an infintesunal minority...
...Have concessions to Moscow not exceeded any reasonable limit...
...The civil government far the sone of Soviet occupation will be formed after so many models nf Garntet***) ftp*fft+*nt•*•» •>•* M+•*?•>*•*, 4#pft«M«fidjnrii on M*>***f>w...
...Thereafter, the fate of the formula will rest in the letter's hands...
...Jaet as they did in the formerly occupied territories ia the Baltic or in Eastern Poland, to annihilate all eiisling or potential democratic element*, groups, parties and institutions...
...It is the first public admission that the fraudulent, stage-managed "dissolution" of the Communist Paty was loaded with sub-rosa qualifications which were kept a carefully-guarded secret until the heavy footed Browder slipped on s mental banana peet last Thursday...
...U. S. Chamber of Ownmiroo...
...What Kind of Fourth Reich...
...Dubinsky replied to questions...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 41
