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 I By Linton M. Oak Warsaw's Tragedy fa Our Tragedy The Bolshevik* arc master* of Um propaganda technique...
...This was part of Moscow's campaign to discredit and defeat the legitimate, liberal, representative Polish government-in-exile and democratic Polish Underground which it directs, and to install a puppet government in Warsaw...
...The Polish Underground movement does not follow the direction* of the Polish government in London...
...They can say that it is impossible for Red Army plcnes to drop supplies to Warsaw patriots even though American and British planes did so...
...A thousand Estonians who fled to Finland from the advancing Red Army were handed over to Red Army officers to be shipped back to Tallinn...
...Senator Joseph H. Ball, liberal Minnesota Republican, refuses to campaign for Dawey, denouncing his "ersata internationalism...
...What chance of justice will they have in a GPU court...
...Komorowski of sacrificing 250,000 Polish lives the next week...
...the Germans put a price of 11,600,000 oh his head...
...Deril* Worker, August I: "The reader would do well net to get toe excited about Waraaw...
...The Communist-led Yugoslav Committee of National Liberation rejected the offer of aid by UNRRA because their demand that distribution be controlled by the Committee, not by UNRRA, was refused...
...Allied planes are delivering explosives to the underground in Germany of foreign workers...
...Doily Worker, August t: ". . . Th* Warsaw operation la still cloaked ha mystery...
...The Communists wsnt the credit and the use of relief as a political weapon...
...The Chinese Communist representatives returned to Yeaan from Chungking Where, after four and a half months, parley* with the Koumintang flopped...
...The tragedy of Warsaw haa deep and universal significance...
...Warsaw is a stronghold of the German army and the Red Army could not come to the assistance cf the Po'ish patriots...
...Or if the Poles had been given adequate arms they might have beaten the Germans themselves...
...it inherits the reactionary traditions and antiSemitism of Pilsudski and (Coloael Beek...
...In Its* the CP got 18 per cent of the votes in Paris...
...I admire him...
...General de Gaulle has been accepted by the great majority as the foremost leader of the resistance movement, and of the provisional government—but only until elect ion* ean be held...
...They hsve succeeded in including Jeanneney, stubborn defender of republicsn legality, in the government...
...But he is not a statesman—n'est cc pas...
...Its leaders have been too passive...
...He also urged treaty approval by a simple majority instead of the Senatorial two-thirds rule...
...The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals denied a rehearing to Harry Bridges, sentenced to deportation as an un-' desirable alien...
...it is mot Communist The Warsaw uprising waa a bluff, a political maneuver...
...The fact that their accusstions sre contrsdictory does not bother the Communists...
...General Komorowski was never within Warsaw during the uprising...
...When de Gaulle tried last March to*form a government of yea-men, be was blocked immediately...
...The Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM) has decided to include representatives of industrialists and bankers as well as from labor and farmers and the middle class...
...A tresqead*** air battle appear* to be raging over the crossing of the Vietala above Waraaw...
...General Komorowski has led the underground struggle against the Nazis for five years...
...Bigger Things Are in the Making DeUli Worker, August 1: "The Soviet newspaper I ti emtio **M today that great pans of smoke Ma*keted Warsaw and that the German* apparently were preparing to abandon the city, foHowmg th* evacuation of officials and come 2S.O0O Gerssaa civilians...
...But well-informed Argentine democrats declare that both Nazis and Spanish Falangists have already sent a lot of money into thst country...
...Communist publications in Paris, Moscow, and New Communist Party...
...He is accused of having carried Nszi fortunes from Europe for deposit in Buenos Aires snd Montevideo banks...
...Others charged with aiding the Nazis are Juan Ventosa Calvet and Francisco Assis de Cambo, leading bankers of Catalonia, now in Buenos Aires...
...With totalitarian*, no middle course, iioveompromise, no reconciliation, is possible...
...Robert Hannegan, Democratic national chairman, decried attacks in a pamphlet for campaign orators upon Colonel John J. Bennett Jr., as a fascist sympathiser who raised funds for Franco, and upon James A. Farley for trying to wreck the New Deal...
...it ooeme tkot bigrer sVUny* are ua the making...
...Jt was not possible to send a(d to the Warsaw patriots...
...Everywhere crowds cry "Vive de Gaulle...
...This la not "the road to Teheran" or to collective security, bat the way toward continued conflict...
...Probably not...
...Many Socialists have already been arrested...
...Appeasement wins no favors from Moscow...
...There are other minority groups, such as the anarcho-syndicalists and Trotskyists, which have little influence...
...In brief, any critic or opponent of anything in Stalin's Russia is suspect...
...The new Mexican Socialist League, organised as a front by Communists, repudiates Socialism in its constitution because Mexico isn't ready for it . . . Hungary, now suing for peace with Russia, is to be part of the Soviet sphere-of-influenee...
...It seems that the dominant political forces in Paris today agree on one point, and one only: they all fear that de Gaulle might try to establish a dictatorship...
...A key figure in aiding the fascists to do this is Alejandro Zubizsrreta, of a large navigation company in Bilbao...
...Harold Laaki and E. M. Joad were denounced by Izveetio for urging a "soft" peace and for saying that "all peoples were responsible in sorrte messure for the conflict...
...Stalin, who did not hesitate to purge his closest comrades, thousands of Bolsheviks who with him and Lenin made the revolution, will surely not hesitate to purge Poles who do not accept blindly Moscow' dictates...
...few of them are in key positions in Paris...
...He has been our hope through four years of .Nazi oppression...
...it is all or nothing...
...Hull stated that the ousting of the Allied officers from Sofia by the Red Army was the result of a misunderstanding by local officials, and that the matter has been straightened out, and th* Allied Military Mission will be readmitted...
...His effort to establish strict IN SUMMARY: Some of the main political events of the week for those who do not read their daily papers carefully Moscow reports that the Rumanian Communists and Socialists have formed a joint committee to reorganise the Rumanian trade unions...
...Stella haa endangered the whale plan far international collaboration by his arrogant aailateral Poliah policy...
...Truth" is relative—whatever strengthens Russia and Stalinism is true...
...If you sling enough mud some of it will stick...
...Finnish war criminals are to be named later, Moscow said, leaving the field open...
...When the Russians reached Sofia, they forcibly expelled the Anglo-American Military Mission there, which was working on terms of the armistice____Bulgaria, said Secretary Hull, is delaying the armistice because of reluctance to withdraw troops from Greece and Yugoslavia...
...if elections were held tomorrow they would doubtless get at least ana-third of the votes...
...but some are probably just anti-Stalinists...
...Tread* Ja> Franco . . . FrOM various inform d Frenchmen I get this picture of France in October, 1944: Decisions determining the political fate of Franca have always been made in Paris...
...The Allied Labor News (Communist) says that the Argentine Colonels' Ixxlge (GOU-not GPU) has sent thugs to Uruguay to murder democratic Argentine exiles there...
...The Chinese retorted to Churchill's statement about "lavish American help" to China by declaring that it was "pitifully inadequate...
...it was premature...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M.Oak I By Linton M. Oak Warsaw's Tragedy fa Our Tragedy The Bolshevik* arc master* of Um propaganda technique called "the bis lie" by Hitler...
...George N. Shuster urged a peace devoid of grudges, thirst for revenge...
...The US Chamber of Commerce hat bowed to the inevitable—it announces that American business men favor an extension of social security...
...Here are the big bold lies about the Polish goverttnaent-in-exile and the Warsaw uprising emanating from Moscow and reflected even in the liberal press in USA and Britain: The Polish government in London conaisti largely of fascists, of criminal*, traitors and liars...
...But nowhere is de Gaullism organized as a party...
...The Department of Justice charged that the Chase National Bank and four other banking firms helped the Nazi Government to obtain foreign funds by a secret agreement to sell "blocked" .German masks to Nasi sympathizers here, for a 7 per cent commission...
...it was s criminal adventure for which General Komorowski (Bor) should be punished...
...The Moscow-organised Polish Committee for National Liberation is progressive and represents the Polish people...
...and Russian planes finally dro>ped "token deliveries" at the urgent behest of Churchill...
...They can readily call for an upriaing on July 30 and denounce it ss premature en August 1. They can deny that there is any real fighting going on in Warsaw one week and accuse Gen...
...Allied plans for disarmament and neutralization of Bulgaria have been disrupted by the Red Army invasion of that country...
...He is the logical choice to succeed Soankowaki...
...Fair . whom dees the bell toll...
...Since its liberation many things, previously uncertain, are now clear...
...Truth is a weapon in the struggle for power...
...every Pole who believes in democratic Socialism is ipse facto anti-Soviet, and may be tried as a war criminal...
...This is Bolshevism...
...Churchill and Eden failed at Quebec to persuade FOR to extend full recognition to the de Gaulle regime as the Provisional Government of France...
...Ir, Algiers there was only a handful of Communist*, PFi representatives, and Parliamentarian...
...The right-wing in the FFI and the country generally will probably get about 20 to 25 per cent of the votes cast...
...All the former members of the Parlia uiciiL of the Third Republic agree that its authority must be restored, thst de Gaulle has deprived Parliament of its powers...
...The Red Army withheld from a determined offensive lor political, not military, reasons...
...And be hasn't even shown that he is a great general...
...Can de Gaulle achieve in Paris what he achieved, despite wide opposition, in Algiers...
...The fact that the anti-Nazis in Warsaw seized half of the city and held part of it for 63 days against the Nazis proves that if the Red Army had seriously attacked in August the Germans could have been deflated...
...The Communists and Koumintang failed to reach agreement on a single point, since the first demand of the Chiang Kai-shek Government waa that the Communists dissolve their separate army into the national army...
...More Soviet troop* h»»e doubtless established bridgeheads...
...The reaction of the average maninthe-street is this: "De Gaulle...
...Retreating Germans in northern Italy are dismantling hte factories and shipping equipment to the Reich...
...He was in Warsaw directing the uprising since its beginning on August 1 when the Red Army artillery at Praga could be heard in the capital...
...The tragic results will affect Italian economy for decades...
...The Russian GPU has organized, through the Lublin group, a Committee to Investigate anti-Soviet Activities...
...It waa not coordinated with the advance of the Red Army...
...It weald not sarprlse aa to hear very, very »**• that Soviet troop* had eroasel the Vistula in fore...
...But far from welcoming this conciliatory gesture, Moscow sharpened the attack through its agency, the Lublin National Liberation Committee, threatening to bring Komorowski to trial aa a "war criminal," along with all other Poles involved in leading the uprising...
...It tells for you...
...Dedlo Worker, August 4: ". . . Th* battle of Warsaw Is ragbag with new fary...
...German resistance has stiffened as a result of proposals to dismember that country...
...The Argentinian dictatorship has promised not to give asylum to Nasi war criminals or to allow them to deposit funds in Argentina...
...They have demanded that de Gaulle raise from 20 to 40 the number of members of Parliament in the Consultative Assembly, which has a total of 90...
...Britain wants France to share in the responsibility for th* conversion of the Rhineland into a demilitarised zone and other decisions on settlement with Germany, contending that American refussl to recognize de Gaulle is hampering plana for Germany...
...Fearing the overthrow of Franco, many Falangists have already settled in Argentina...
...Some of them are doubtless fascists...
...The idea is that if your lie i* big and bold and constantly reiterated, people will react by thinking that where there is so much smoke there must be some Are...
...The Red Army i* mainly after the balk of th* Wahrmacht which is mere important than a capital city or a border liae...
...The Communists are the strongest, and best orgaiihwd...
...In Algiers the Gaulliats were yes-men...
...The people* of central Europe most be guaranteed peace, free trade, security...
...What are the main political forces shaping the future el' France...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 41
