TRENDS: Ideas in anion; events as they reflect social tendencies
Oak, Linton M.
TRENDS: Ideas in anion; events as they reflect social tendencies By Linton M. Oak Dual Power in France . . . THE French Council of Resistance ii • government within • government. The decision by...
...Life in Brussels is as hard after liberation as under Nazi occupation," Belgians report...
...Vol XXVI—Na...
...Which course will the French Communists follow—will they revert to the revolutionary pattern set by I^enin and Trotsky in 1917, or continue the National People's Front program set by Stalin in 1935...
...Six news agencies, accused of collaboration with the Nazis, were closed in the purge of the French press...
...and China would be hclpltee m Atia...
...The decision by the Cabinet to disarm and disband the Patriotic Militia (Guard) precipitated a crista in the (truffle for power between the Provisional Government and the Council...
...Kmil Ludwig goes further than Vansittart, Rex Stout or even Stalin: He ssys the Allies should grab everything they want in Germany—land, machinery, men, works of art...
...Inflation flourishes...
...So, maybe, after all, despite their loud protestations, the Stalinists do not really fear the election of Dewey...
...Jerome Tharaud has...
...Ur perhaps, as usual, Stalin plays a double game...
...GPU Atrocities in Lithuania .. . • Ignas Scfleynius of the Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania cabled that the Lithuanians, who so recently were suffering atrocities at the hands of the Gestapo, are now subjected to the red terror of the Russian GPU...
...Or a peculiar combination of both, blackmailing the government with the threat of civil war, as <lo the Communists in China...
...He told Herbert L Matthews of the N. T. Tim— that he lade Commmdat Togliatti "clever, agreeable, and easy to disease proW...
...facial arras .1 lh» tUrlal Daaarrall Tel...
...Uetrteaaat General ef the koala, seems to he...
...Antanas (iarmas, chairman of the Lithuanian Red Cross, who has denounced the GPU terror and who is reported drowned in the Baltic in trying to escape to Sweden...
...Everyone of us wsnts to be csptured...
...In those crucial months between the democratic revolution and the Bolshevik roup d'etat, the Soviets constituted a dual power, a challenge to the authority of the Kerensky government...
...The Ambassador to London Ts an aristocrat, Cooot Stono landlord, industrialist, and Liberal Party leader...
...This seems absurd...
...Figures are not available, but many civilians were summarily shot in numerous other Lithuanian towns—Daugliai, Deguciai, Salakas, Dusetai, Anta-liepte, Kamajai, Shvedasai...
...Does Moscow JteoJIy Woot Dewey Fleeted...
...Without American support, Britain and France could not effectively oppote the twerp of Ruttian imperialum throughout Kurope...
...The Soviets proclaimed the mobilization of all male citizens of Lithuania, a "neutral" State...
...Whoever loses in the presidential election...
...Italian Cea...
...The occasion for Moscow's bad temper was the United Nations' first attempt to include neutral nations in an international conference...
...Bishop Teofilius Matulionis of Kaisia-dorys, former chief of army chaplains, who visited the U.S.A...
...If Russia says today that Iran's "unfriendly" act "excludes the possibility of further collaboration," how about all of Russia's other neighbors who may dare to differ with Stalin as to their own best interests...
...etc.— before the war's end, "without debating or'giving reasons...
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...There is in France today a political situation which in some ways parallels that which prevailed in Russis from February to November, 1917...
...and on Dean Rev...
...its locals control many provincial towns throughout France "\N The Council, in which the Communists have Ave votes MoeercUcel Joe (ell...
...if and when elections are held, they urge a single one-party ticket so that there can bs no real expression of political choice and they can maintain their top-heavy representation in the Council and Cabinet...
...Confiscated Jewish property has not been returned...
...The Lithuanian Committee of Liberation has protested this illegal act of an occupying power...
...Mironas in southern Lithuania, Leliunai, Maletai, and Daugai, were deported to Siberia, and mass deportations are proceeding elsewhere...
...an egg costs 26 cents on the Black Market...
...warned against excess in the purge: "Half of our country rises to accuse the other half...
...B.t.r.d a. CM...
...No comprehensive program if ready to be put into operation to hold employment at a high level...
...The economic and political disabilities forced upon the Jews of Rumania continue in effect...
...Stalin wins...
...JaassM II mi...
...A group of about 2,000 Spsnish anti-fascists, probably anarcho-syndicalists, are established in a stronghold in southern France and are resisting FFI efforts to dislodge them...
...No.rmh,, 4, 1*44 .7, Nit Trldld.d sits...
...William Green demanded that the Balfour Declaration made 27 years ago promising etsablishment in Palestine of a national home for Jews be given immediate effect...
...on relatives of Ignas Schey-nius, former Lithuanian diplomat and editor, joow a writer in Sweden...
...in seventeen, at first defied the government order—the first real challenge to de Gaulle's authority, which recognition by London and Washington sought to strengthen...
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...he has more than one weapon in his political arsenal...
...s shrewd monarch...
...The United Statee would abandon the European democra&te...
...Moscow's intervention in American politics, the activities of the American Communists on behalf of Roosevelt, constitute a liability—not an asset—to the Democrats...
...In Spain also during the early months of the civil war, embryonic Soviets—workers, peasants, and soldiers committees—sprang up, seised shops and factories, divided estates, began a social revolution...
...Canada S1.SS- mm* »»ar I* fa Na* Vara I. N . March I, I IT*, foreign caaalrlt...
...W«.Mntion Bara.a: lltl Trinidad...
...General Aaro Pajari, Finnish commander of the troops which have driven the Germans back 125 miles, was arrested as a war criminal on orders from Moscow...
...On the same principle, any nation might refuse to sit st a conference with Russia, because of her totalitarian dictatorship, and her continual interference in the affairs of other countries, either directly or through the instrumentality of the Comintern...
...The World Jewish Congress scored the armistice terms between Rumania and the United Nations...
...Unless something drastic is done to prevent it...
...saaaiats "are not at present anti-monarchist " I aiberts aaw no reason way Italy caaaet go leftward aneer a monarchy, like the monarchies of Bagaad, Sweeea, Norway, and Denmark...
...Vladas Miionas, former prime minister, who was murdered immediately upon reoccupation of Vilna by the Red Army...
...not 4,000,000, as estimated by some Administration experts, but 11,000,000, Boris Shishkin forecasted in the October issue of the American Federal ion let...
...De Gaulle has also ousted them from the Spanish Consulates which they seized...
...they were suppressed by the Loyalist Government, with the Communists most violently opposed to their continuation and to the revolution...
...Whether the Militia will actually be immediately disarmed is another question...
...A German corporal wrote his wife just before he was captured by American forces: "This is hell...
...De Gaulle and his Cabinet stood firm, and the Council backed down, to avert civil war, but also reasserted its right to participate in government decisions...
...unemployment in USA after Germany is defeated will be...
...The GOP candidstes have fully exploited the fact that Stalin's American agents support Roosevelt, and in a despicable, demsgogic way...
...Defeat of Japan may jump the total of unemployed Americans to 20,000,000...
...This refusal is significant It means that Russia will not collaborate with any nation Stalin considers "inimical to the Soviet Union," like Switzerland...
...be is moving leftward with the Hasten masse...
...I lit NKW LBADBR It in...
...What poteible rraton could Stalin have for want...
...Matter...
...Russia will not sit at the same table with Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain to discuss postwar aviation problems...
...Iran...
...these survivors are now being accepted by their 'Aryan' neighbors on the same friendly terms that prevailed between Jews and non-Jews before Hitler...
...The Prince opsin pleasantly shoot cossntaaiaa, socialises, and Italy," Matthews reported...
...The Communist Greek ELAS refused to surrender their arms in Athens, though the rival guerillas, EDES, complied with the order...
...The French press comments bitterly on Roosevelt's statement that France will not immediately take her place in Allied councils...
...The "Tito" of Albania ia Enver Hoxha, Communist commander of the Partisans there...
...The Council adopted a motion by the Communists to ask de Gaulle to abolish his secret service—but no action has been taken to abolish the CPU...
...1 N.w Vara, a.d., tar let af 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in...
...The relative etrenglh of Rutfia in Ik* game ef power politic* would be increased by American withdrawal from international collaboration...
...in H):i5, has been murdered by the Russian secret police...
...The CIO will send 12 delegates led by Murray, Hillman, and R. J. Thomas...
...All the" inhabitants of the parishes of the Rev...
...yaar...
...Count Sforza was appointed Italian Ambassador to Washington, Count Caran-dini to London...
...If there is to be any real international cooperation to preserve peace, all sorts of nations must collaborate—capitalist and communist, democratic and totalitarian, monarchist and republican, even some that are semi-fascist—unless we are ready to invade several countries and impose a government of our own choosing upon the people...
...If Russia objects today to Switzerland because that government is "anti-Soviet," how about the Kuomintang Government of China tomorrow, or the government of the United States if Dewey is elected...
...The Militia, in which the Communists are the maindnving force, has boon acting as a vigilante organisation, making arrests, seising factories, ignoring government decrees and appointments...
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...IN SUMMARY: Some of the main P°Htical ev«nts of the week for those who do not read their daily papers carefully • Terror gripped Denmark as the Gestapo intensified attempts to smash the Underground, dismissing all of the 14,000 Danish police force and taking over the policing of the country, herding scores into concentration camps...
...George Tucker of the New York Timet and Philip Jordan of the London Xewt-Chronicle reported that after a four-day investigation all along the frontier, they could find no evidence to support the story that the Spanish Maquis had crossed the Pyrenees to rsid Frsnco Spain...
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...But if Stalin desired the election of the Republican candidate, he could help hits most effectively by behaving exactly as he has don...
...Switzerland...
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...Portugal in Anti-Soviet Axis...
...In Belgium ss well ss in France the underground guerillas are resisting the government's effort to incorporate them into the regular army or disarm them, and constitute a dual power...
...The French Government moved to isolate the Spanish Maquis in southern France, 12 miles away from the border, which is closed so right that they can carry out no more raids into Spain...
...This Militia ana the Council of Resistance are a creation of the underground movement, and constitute a sort of embryonic Soviet of workers and soldiers...
...700 in Siauliai, and 400 in Kaunas, Scheynius reports...
...The Communists seek to introduce totalitarian methods into France...
...Bishops Reinys, Karosas, and Paltarokas are missing and their fate is unknown...
...The Russian GPU has executed 600 patriots in Zarasai...
...They are opposed to municipal elections...
...the government is not strong enough at present to enforce its order in many areas, and the Communists may in effect nullify the decree...
...They state that all the fighting was by |local guerrillas within Spain, and that they "acted inrematarely and were foredoomed to defeat," which ia what this writer said last week...
...Following denunciation of Iran's premier for rejection of Moscow's bid for oil concessions, Soviet organs denounced Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain as "pro-fascist, anti-Soviet neutrals...
...The AFL will not send delegates to the World Trade Union Conference to be held in London January 8 because the "unions" of Russia will be there, and they are not free...
...We may expect to Soviet Representative here Grymfco hear warnings from Pravdm any day now of an impending invasion by Swiss imperialism of the socialist fatherland...
...Here, obviously, is the first big job for the new United Nations' security organisation—to check Swiss and Iranian aggression...
...si Is If mlf 1 • Crown Prince Ussfcart...
...In Vilna the Soviet "People's Court'' passed death sentences on the relatives of Dr...
...Harold Denny reports from Aachen that Germans there concealed many Jews who survived the Nazi purge...
...It males* a mockery of tha whole idea of international cooperation...
...Dewey elertedf A Republican adminittration would probably crawl back into the ehetl of iiolatiotnem...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 45
