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 Dual Power in Greece • The entire Wiummm it under the rontr.J „f KAM-ELAS, <..«ek CmumniM front. Their »in«d...
...Finland's White Guard Militia defied the new Government's order to disarm them...
...This eriaia may prove a real test as to whether or not the Big Three can cooperate...
...The world hardly needs to be informed thai the Swiss are among the most democratic people on earth...
...Their »in«d bands have iliaplscad in* regular police, and they exploit the food shortage to increase their iirfl nonce, discriminating against other political groups, requisitioning food for their followers...
...2— Hungary will be one of the "Roman Catholic Stats Croup" to embrace Spain, Italy, France, Bavaria, Austris, and Hungary, and thus a "bastion against Bolshevism," with British support...
...Continued conflict between rival groups seems inevitable...
...Donald Nelson is to organize a War Production Board in Chins, at the request of Chiang Kai-shek, according to FDR...
...The ELAS "is m the saddle completely" in Salonika as in many other areas of Greece...
...Anti-Nazi jokes wore aJwaya current, and new they are sharper than ever hi ridicule of Next loaders...
...No criticism of the Swiss for remaining neutral during this aa every other war has emanated from anywhere except Moscow, la fact, Switzerland's friendly neutrality hss been sn ssset to the United Nations...
...The renewed attack by Soviet papers on the Iraaian Government Cor refusing U grant oil concessions to Russia has occasioned alarm in Washington and London...
...Only the presence of British forces can prevent civil war...
...That little democracy has been a shining example of sanity in a world goas mad...
...Hacket concludes: "Now there is a anieae historic opportunity for the realisation of a Bwauhsaa cmafederacy...
...Molotov's accusations aroused a storm of indigns-tmn smong the Swiss...
...The Daily Worker represents the Stilwell incident as a triumph for the Chinese Communist*, under the headline, "FDR Policy Aims st a United China...
...The United Nations haveispent *2«0,-000,000 in one year to aid Italy...
...Their only hope is for more Anglo-American troops...
...No cooperation can long continue if it is too one sided, or entirely for the benefit of individual members of the coalition...
...Mcroow managed to organise considerable opposition and criticism of Premier Seed's Government vithin Irsn, snd demonstrations against it as "pro-fascist...
...Is there the right to free expression of opiniea and of opposition and criticism of the Government...
...In 1921 Lenin surrendered Russia's oil interests in Iran, on condition that they would not be •;.v: n to any other country...
...Denunciations of other anti-fascist groups "by ELAS members are referred to ELAS authorities, whose codes of right and wrong are based on party principles...
...Aa East-European Switserland in the valley of the Danube ie ems way to avoid new postwar injustices, new irredentist movements and a series of new Rslkanic revenge msssacres...
...But at present the totalitarian terror of the Nazis is such that there in no hope of an internal rsvofct Postwar Britain must, double her exports, Sir Stafford Cripps said, m order, to achieve full employment The increase over prewar, exports would be SO percent in volume, but 125 percent >n value...
...Afany German usr prisoners, it is reported, are now soy tap that "JfuYtews of Get-snow* have eW to save the world from Bolshevism...
...Izvttita accused Irsn of fsvoring British and American oil firms at the expense of Russia, and charged '.hat American troops are in Iran although the USA lias no treaty with that country...
...but to Stalin that fact doasn't count Switserland was one of ths first to recognise ths Soviet Government, in 1918, but following the assassination of Vorovsky, Russian delegate to the Lausanne Conference of 1923, diplomatic relations were broken...
...Russian news agency Test remarked that Premier '.aed's policies ana "threatening the security of the country...
...Unrest ie growing sn Germany, Joseph Drineell reports ia the S. f. HrraU Trikmme...
...Premier George Papaadreou's Gov era stoat, la which the Commaaista are represented, has ordered the dissolution of both the ELAS sad EDRS, the two Isrgest aati-fascist guerrilla groaps, last as the French government has ordered the dissolution of the Workers Patriotic Militia...
...Their arrogance has brought revulsion...
...Have the people the right to turn out a Government of which they disapprove, are constitutional means provided by which they can make their will apparent...
...William Phillip Sims ssys that Chiang admits his model of leadership is Stalin, though he is not s Communists...
...paciflcstion and democratization will be guaranteed by an international security organization...
...trials* Off tW ON Imp+rlolitm...
...Iran could make Poland look picayune as a United Nations problem...
...Ike far* of Haafmry...
...The seven points, which sre "the tests df freedom," are these: , "1...
...IN SUMMARY: • Pietro Nenni, Italian Soeialiat leader and advocstc of the united front, denounced William C. Bullitt in si-most exactly the same language as did Pi for his fsmous Life article exposing Stalin's imperialist aima.....British miners voted overwhelmingly fer one big union, sn amalgamation of all mining trade unions of Britain into The National Union of Mine-workers...
...Iran has refused any concessions to any foreigners until after the war, when a multilateral arrangement can be made...
...Pesters spring up overnight railing for the overthrow of Hitler...
...A cheering, House of Commons adopted for the Government's far-reaching social security plan Only one Conservative expressed complete disapproval...
...such is Moscow's attitude, exemplified by it* recent denunciation of Switzerland...
...Will the rights of the hsdiridasl, subject to his duties to the Stole, be maintained and asserted snd exalted...
...Is the ordinsry pessant or workman . . . free from the fear that some grim police organization under the control of a single psrty...
...will tap him en the shoulder and pack him off without fair and open trial to bondage or ill-treatment...
...Freedom of speech doesn't exist, A. C. Sedgwick of the Timet reports, and "terror acts as a deterrent...
...Many thousands of refugees from Nasi terror can thank the Swiss for their lives...
...The truth it jutt the apposite, / ornate •/ the war the probaoiitiy thtt /J«a*to will dtmtntte pesetasr- Europe it treatly i*-cr eased...
...Will these courts admiaiator open and wellestobHshed Mwa which are associated ia the hnmaa mind with the breed principles of decency aad justice...
...The American State l>»pai in" nt answered that the Americans in Iran arc technical, service troops operating a railroad to deliver lend-lease supplies to Ruttia...
...An article in the Chrietian Science Monitor by Gabriel D. Hacket on Hungary's future .says that there are three possibilities: 1—As part of the Russisn sphere-6f-influenee Hungary will be one of the states in the cordon taniuirt in reverse, pro-Soviet snd dependent on the Red Army...
...29 (he seven points of the ideology for which, : he said, the Uaitod Nations fight...
...Churchill s Seven Tests of Democracy: FbOM Rome...
...m the way one Washington official put it, predicting that while a compromise ever Poland Is possible, "Britain will never earn premise her position in Iran," la short and ugly words—Britain may be willing to nnerifice Poland's freedom and integrity, but will never surrender British imperialist interests...
...Her industrial equipment has deteriorated...
...This would prevent Hangary snd the root of the Daaubian states from continuing to be constant dangers of war and forever the football of the great powers...
...From where does the threat come...
...Their main political aim will be nationalization of the mines...
...Party rule is complete," says Sedgwick, though (he majority ere against Communist domination...
...Except Auseie...
...After the Germans Aed a month ago the EAM-ELAS carried oat *«n orgy of >i>u|iii|ri under the guise of purging pro-Nazis the ELAS got rid of opponents in other anti-Nazi groups...
...Churchill declared that these sre the tests which determine whether or not sny notion is pesceful snd democratic...
...Goebbels has « 1,850,000 in a safety deposit box in a German-controlled bank in Buenos Aires, it is revealed...
...InfernofioasN Cooperef-Jea Versus UaMarerwf 4crieo .. . • Editorializlng on Stalin's latest speech, the N. Y. Timet commented caustically: "If the success of ths new peace organisation depends on the continued cooperation of the great Powers, that cooperation in turn depends on who'is going to cooperate with whom and for what purpose...
...Other Nazi leaders have also deposited money in Argentina in preparation /or flight...
...Britain during the war lost most of her prewar export market, snd foreign investaumts...
...The Nszis made a desperate but completely futile effort to make Switserland as satellite...
...Winston Churchill proclaimed aa Aug...
...Izvettia accuses Iran of violating this condition in selling concessions to British, America nand Dutch firms...
...I it..u, Russia and Britain will abandon the idea that the Danube states must be in their tpheres-of-influence...
...The press pointed out that not only the Communist Party but Fascist snd Nasi organisations have been suppressed...
...Count Karolyl broadcast from London a call for all Hungarians abroad to rally in support of sn uprising in Hussgary...
...Will there be fair play for poor aa well as rich, for private persons aa well aa Government officials...
...i luWrsmrigujsJ ¦ SwfCfflc or Poses* ? . . . • Any country which does net pursue a pro-Soviet policy is ipse /acta pro-fascist...
...C. L. Hsia admitted that "there is room for reform" in the Kuominianc but said that Chungking has been making- efforts in that direction, but "reform at the demand of another power cannot be made the condition of cooperation between governments...
...The order takes effect December Iff The ELAS leaders agreed, it ie reported...
...Dr...
...The met ale of she Nasi youth ergaaisatieim has broken down...
...Are their courts of justice free from violence by the Executive sad free of all threats of mob violence and all association with any particular political parties...
...Prussia remains a stronghold of Nstionnl Sec la bom, but in southern Germany Nasi prestige is low...
...Among the ELAS forces in Salonika, Sedgwick writes, are about 1,400 German and Italian deserters, evidently Communists...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 46
