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 Crisis Near in Franco Spain • The Spaaiah Committee of Liberation, organised la Mexico City, ni welcomed to...
...They are delaying recognition by the Allies, he said...
...one in New York...
...floasjary In Co/Jopte...
...t ia feared that.300,000 Hungarian Jews and 60,000 political prisoners may be executed by the Gee tap...
...Ha is a fellow-traveler who resigned in 1919 in favor of Bela Kun...
...Fascism Afmlmt Capitalists mud Catholic*— , l«t Nov Caoaasittt...
...British forces found a starving, malaria ridden population driven te desperate measures, ripe for Communist propaganda...
...Must of them were thrown into concentration camp...
...Following the triumph of Franco—the fruit of the stupid "non-intervention policy" of the democracies and the treachery of the Stalinists—thousands of antifascist Spaniards streamed across the border into France...
...In the name of nstional unity and a purge of reactionaries they are massacring all opponents...
...Chaos reigns...
...If Stalin will permit American correspondents, diplomats, and military observers to go to "liberated" Poland, tho American public may finally learn about the Sovietization of that country...
...Ia TJrugury, Colombia, and Chile committees have been organized to aid the Junta, headed by Prieto and Barrio, and elsewhere ' such committees are being planned including...
...de Gaulle's radio speech on Oct...
...The needs of the Warsaw patriots were then listed, with full instructions as to where it was safe to parachute thorn...
...United Nations...
...he and Rakoal are possible leaders of a future pro-Soviet regime...
...One of the leaders of the .Spanish Maquis is Julio Hernandez, a former Madrid teacher, who waa a Socialist and a Lieutenant-Colonel in the civil warAbout 320,000 of the anti-Franco forces who could not escape from Spain at the end of the civil war am still imprisoned...
...It will not be *afe for him to return to Russia...
...Similar action is expected ia various Latin-American republics...
...Help me to get in teach with Marshal R«kossovsky...
...Horthy had received assur snces from Moscow...
...Horthy hoped to save his skin and.he Hungary's Badoglio, the same as King Michael in Rumania...
...A. C. Sedgwick, Time* correspondent, reports that the EAM-ELAS (National Liberation Front), "schoowi in the technique of revolution . . . sees a golden opportunity...
...It pleaded for quick aid: "Moscow, Marshal Comrade Stalin "I am ia personal contact with the commander of Warsaw garrison who ¦* leading the heroic partisan fight of the nation agaiaat Hitlerite bandits...
...The same thing happened in Loyalist Spain during the civil war...
...Notour radioed that a mass strike had krokaa oat ia Boot past and that two-thirds of the amy had deserted Stalest...
...If the press and our Government is insufficiently informed it is because Moscow has blocked the gathering of news, as Isaac Don Levine comments in the WorldT tit gram...
...These Maquis have repeatedly crossed the border to attack the Falange, seise arms, free anti-fascist prisoners...
...De Gaulle described the Communists' efforts to gain control as "usurpations of authority," endangering the war effort and plans for Fiance's reconstruction...
...The Philadelphia Inquirer'* correspondent in Moscow has been recalled because he can only sit in Moscow and report what the Russisn papers print, as foreign correspondents sll do...
...Indalecio Prteto and Martincs Barrio spoke to an enthusiastic session of Cuba's parliament on October 14...
...fleeing hideouts in the Pyrenees they prepare another raid...
...The editorial added "Tke primary British interest ia tke area Is security for oar cemmaakatkme to the aeptsra Meastorraneaa and Middle Boat generally, which presupposes a friendly Greece and Turkey with a peacofal hinterland...
...Today there are about 40,000 Spanish "Maquis" in southern France...
...Franco Faces fho Pacts . . • Gen...
...but oh ilm i day Soviet reserves were diverted from Wareaw to the Rumanian front...
...Moscow refuses permission requested by London* end Washington to send such observers—though Russia has representatives in liberated Italy...
...Isaac Don Levine states that when Premier Mikolajczyk first visited Stalin on August 3, the Soviet Premier promised him that the Red Army would be in Warsaw by August 0. On August 8, Stalin told Mikolajczyk that something had gone wrong, and that a Red Army officer had been parachuted into Warsaw to report to the Red Army as to what supplies were needod and where they should be landed...
...also instructions as to what German positions should be Fhelleil The message ended: "Tke heroic population of Warsaw trusts that in a few hours time you will give them armed support...
...The irany of it is tkajt the Communists, wko tried vainly to "expose" „ Priele, in the Dante Worker of Marck 4, 1»44, aa being linked with the Spanish monarchic in a vile plot ta restore Dan Juan to the throne, are now themselves courting the monarchists who have become disgruntled with Franco...
...Grou San Martin...
...RoOSEVELT told leaders of the Polish-American Congress that "nobody here has accurate information about everything that is going on in Poland...
...they seek to repeat in Greece what Tits achieved in Yugoslavia...
...Meantime, the Red Army officers in Warsaw consulted with General Bor and radioed to his superiors...
...the united front in the Papandreos Government is an uneasy one...
...Armed clashes have occurred In Athens between the EAM and the EDE8...
...leader of one of anti-Nazi Underground which opposes Communism, has been accused of being a reactionsry pro-German monarchist, just as waa MikhailoVitch...
...But the Communist-organised "Supreme Council"—largely a paper organization— claims the allegiance of 15,000 out of the 40,000 in southern, France, and seeks to have their followers recognized by the FFI...
...Moscow enm not ' hesitate to) make a deal with reactionaries sad - moirar'ii-1* who can aerva their end—rare...
...those Fascists who could not escape to territory held by France, as well as bourgeois reactionaries with a newly-born lov* of democracy, joined the CP for safety—and found it In liberated Italy the CP is now the party which ussslly takes over the old headquarters of the Fascist Party...
...The Hungarian Communists, Social Democrats, and Other anti-Nazi parties reached an agreement last July on a Popular Front government to coma...
...The Polish Premier waa reassured that aid would be sent to General Bor (Komorowski...
...Captain Koaatantin Kalugin...
...It is impossible to estimate accurately the political complexion of the Spanish guerillas in France or of the 12,000 within Spain...
...There sre no American or British military or diplomatic observers in those parts of Poland occupied by the Red Army...
...Admiral Nicholas Horthy, long-'.ime dictator of Hungary, was ousted by a proNazi government headed by Ferencx Szalaay, fascist, when Horthy triad to surrender to the...
...or National Union', consists of diverse elements all the way from Stalinists to Catholic followers of Gil Robles, clerical reactionary who is a bitter enemy of the Socialists and liberal republicans...
...Ha got no reply...
...The primary Soviet interest ia the severity of bar own Ire*tier, which she might smite legitimately toy to eaaare by hriagmg Rumania and Bulgaria sad perhaps Hungary and Yugoslavia witkin a Soviet secerity system...
...la northern Italy, atill controlled by Massolini's pappet regime, provincial prefects were recently advised by, the Fascist Ministry of the la terior thst the social revolution against the beargeoisie mast be pushed witk all energy, Edgar R. Reaea reported hi tke Christie* Science Monitor Since "Bolshevism is the nstarsl heir te Fascism," the prefects were told, "there must be no farther persecution of Communists...
...So General Bor radioed to London for transmission to Moscow the message the Red Army Captain, Konstantin Kalugin, had tried to send...
...they have taken "justice" into their own hands...
...Frost Csaay Group 66*04, Warsaw...
...The Fascist Ministry's secret instruction* stressed that strong measure* must be taken againat the bourgeois and especislly Catholic members of the Committee of National Liberation, but not against Communists...
...Rival ftaorrilloM Clash fa Attaas...
...The London Tim** eetameatod about the Balkan situation, now being discussed ia Moscow by Churchill and Stalin, that British and Russian interests have never been diametrically opposed...
...A resolution was introduced pledging aid in the restoration of a democratic republic ia Spain, and severing relations with Franco...
...Even Negrin and del Vaye have been very- critical of this Supreme Junta: they do not relish the idea of cooperating with sack enemies af democratic Spain as Gil Robles and tke monarchists...
...of effecting a coup that would ensurt for Greece a Communist regime...
...But since those tragic days, a lot of these Spaniards—liberal republicans, Socialists, Communists, anarchists, trade unionists, antifascist Catholics— have fought fascism in Narvik, Crete, El Alamein, Tun.sia, and everywhere they could get a chance to light, especially in France's Underground...
...The Communists issued orders to show the greatest courtesy to the British and Americans...
...Franco, in his newly discovered friendship for France, urges the French Provisional Government to curb the activities of these Spanish Maquis...
...Italy from varied sources havs been reporting that "ez Fascists" not accused as war criminals as yet are seeking refuge by joining the Communist Party in droves...
...Policing this chaotic country will be tough...
...but the Polish Underground and the Polish leaders in London and New York have kept The New Leader informed about the main developments within Poland, and we have printed the facts, often scooping all other papers...
...This is partly true...
...Continued civil war looms...
...about 80,000 other refugees from Falangist Spain in other parts of that liberated country...
...By Liston M. Oak Crisis Near in Franco Spain • The Spaaiah Committee of Liberation, organised la Mexico City, ni welcomed to Cuba by the hi Proliant...
...No reply was received...
...General Zervas...
...We have lost the war-^ therefore we are victorious,' said Count Karolyi in Londor...
...Many reports from...
...Between these two extremes there are a few adherents whom the Stalinists managed to split away fraas the SP and Ike UGT (Socialist-led trade union)—renegades from the main organizations united ia the Spanish Committee of Liberation...
...They resist the order of the French Army Staff to enroll in the Foreign Legion or in labor battalions...
...These documents were captured by Allied forces advancing sgainst the Fascist-Nazi armies, and by the clergy...
...Nor will Moscow allow reporters for the foreign press to visit liberated Poland— except for one guided tour...
...at least a thousand of them in Madrid alone ere under sentence of death...
...Captain Kalugin joined the Poles in their last-ditch struggle...
...The Communists hsve violated an agreement signed with rival guerilla leaders, to joia forces under the Supreme Allied Command...
...The Communists' Supreme Vunta...
...After acquainting myself with the genersl militsry situation, I came to a conclusion that, ia sphe af the kereism of tke army and the entire Warsaw population, there are still needs which if made good weald permit a speedier victory over oar common foe...
...Fascists should seek a modus vivendi with the extremists, who are to inherit the Fascists' tssk of rebuilding Itsly on a totalitarian basks...
...In various parts of France the organizations controlled by Communists have sought to oust oflcisls named by the de Gaulle government and to install their own man...
...16 appealed to the French people to resist the blandishments, uf the Communists who ara threatening the authority of the Provisional Government and preventing It* extension through the country...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 43
