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 Does the Atlantic Charter Apply to the Baltic? ¦USSIAS MAN* HACK WtSTIN DR. ALFRED BILMANIS, Latvian Minister...
...sines the Government is too slow in carrying out the purge, the "people naturally take things into their own hands...
...On July 2.1, 1940, the United States Government condemned the devious process by which Russian incorporated these small countries into the USSR Will wa in 1944 condone the very same process—because Russia was then ati ally of Germany and now our ally...
...The Communist ELAS guerrillas are purging all active opponents, railing them fascists...
...Filipinos resident in the U.S.A...
...C. L. Sulzberger <if the N. Y. rimes reports that "The Baltic States question has been settled and agreed to by London and Washington...
...v m ~ m Chiang ftesftoffJcs His Cabins* . . . '* • Chiang Kai-shek ousted eight of the top Cabinet members, including H. H. Kung, Finance Minister, and Gen...
...The Polish people will never permit this Ssnscjs gang to return to power, but will remember "their crimes against Poland...
...Liberal Party leader Themistoclea Sophoulis charged that "life in the provinces (of Greece) is martyrdom...
...Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party, blamed de Gaulle for the disorders in France...
...In Moscow an employee of Time magazine, a Russian, asked: "If Roosevelt was already President, why was it necessary to elect him...
...The Brest-Litovsk Treaty gave that small country to Germany, but the Latvian people continued their long struggle for independence...
...But it is not the law that makes revolutions but revolutions that impose their law...
...Franc* Scuffles Hoc of Democracies . . . • The Churchill-Smuts scheme to ally Britain closely with the democratic nations of western Europe, for mutual military, politics), and economic aid, was dealt a fatal blow by the French Government...
...Florimond Bonte, Communist, made a fiery speech contending that France's fatal mistake was not to have tied her destiny to that of Russia, and that this mistake must not be repeated...
...Russia will probably demand that part of Rumania's reparations be paid in oil...
...Stilwell, recently recalled...
...stidski, Col...
...cannot now become citizens...
...He called for "a new legality...
...they would be released as jobs became available...
...tutional democratic Republic overthrows by Prases, It may constitute itself a Spanish Government In-txila • • * Most* of rYoiror Pofood Arh...
...Seven other Ministers sre on the board of the Finland-Soviet Association...
...Documentsry proof of this is held by the International Red Cross...
...This of course is a step toward totalitarianism...
...Moscow's Pravda damned de Gaulle's and Pierlot'a (Belgian) governments for attempting to disarm the resistance movement...
...All of liberated Greece except Athens and Epirus is controlled by the KAM-KLAS---The Belgian Chief of police resigned after having failed to prevent a demonstration of 2,000 armed Communists led by the two Communists who hsd resigned from the government, Fernand de Many and Raymond Dispy, protesting sgainst the disarming of the Resistance guerrillas...
...During the 22 years of its independence, Latvia has never been charged with any violation of treaties or of international law...
...Those capitals who believe Stalin's pledge not to extend nationalization to foreign countries should be reminded that the same pledge was given to the bourgeoisie of the Baltic States...
...A letter initiated by the American Civil Liberties Union urges Chairman Samuel Dickstein of the Committee to report this bill favorably to the House for action...
...Both deported Lstvisn workers to slave labor battalions S2.89S Latvian* were deported, 1,355 murdered, by the Russians between June 1940 and July 1941...
...Povilas Zadeikis, Lithuanian Minister in Washington, likewise protested the Sovietization of his country, as did the Estonian representative...
...ALFRED BILMANIS, Latvian Minister in Washington, hat accused Soviet Russia of mmd atrocities •flint the people of Latvia...
...Moscow's War and the Working Class damned the AFL for refusal to participate in the coming London conference of trade unions, and called for a new international organization^ to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions...
...One trouble spot will be Rumania, 90 percent of whose oil production is controlled by American, British, and French capital...
...Finnish editors complain that censorship is now more strict than it was before Finland got out of the war...
...WRS again points out that these followers of Pii...
...Chen Cheng is more friendly with the Communista than was his predecessor...
...latest of South Africa's discriminatory, anti-Indian laws is a Natal ordinance dividing the province into Jim Crow zones...
...119 are still In Spain and 121 ***, died...
...Another plan calls for the mobilization of the 600,000 unemployed in labor battalions for reconstruction work for a six months' period...
...This prewar ruling clique publishes Tydzitn, a recent iuuc of which accuses Mikolajczyk of "neglecting to tan appropriate decisions with regard to Soviet aggression," and attacks the four anti-fascist parties which constitute the Polish Government...
...The underground Latvian Social Democrats have declared that "the methods of both dictatorships are on the same lines...
...Bidault suggested the other day that France is having a revolution by law...
...About 10,000 were shot by the Germans, 50,000 deported, many more thoussnds (ailed...
...The underground antiNazi .-nil anti-Communist movement of all three Baltic States accuse the GPU of wholesale persecutions, deportations, and executions without trial...
...Alexandre Parodi, French Minister of Labor, announced a plan submitted to the Consultative Assembly, approved by the trade unions, for a far-reaching reform according workers a voice in the management of industry...
...He commanded Chinese forces on the Burma Tunnan front under Gen...
...Diego Martinez Barrio announced for the Spanish Committee of Liberation that a meeting of the Spaeish Cortes will be held ia Mexico City on January IB...
...He tried to persuade Stalin to resume diplomatic relations, but Moscow called him pro-fascist...
...The...
...Unlets these principles . . . govern the relations between nations . . . the basis of civilization cannot be preserved...
...Prime Minister Smuts has opposed such laws...
...Bonte revealed a new Communist interest in imperialism when be ssid that France must become a great Mediterrsnesn and African power...
...Russia was accorded favored treatment in trade policies...
...TO...
...Leino has been imprisoned during the entire war...
...Bilmanis demanded that international law, the promises of the Atlantic Charter, treaties still legally in effect with various powers, and moral principles for which we say we are lighting, be observed...
...Russia's scowl of disapproval has not only killed, temporarily, the idea of a bloc of western democracies, and forced Premier Seed of Iran to resign, but caused the ousting of Foreign Minister and President-elect Msrcel PiletGolax of Switzerland...
...To exchange German domination for thai ef the USSR threatens continued oppression and even complete extermination for the Latvian nation...
...The left trade union leaders who at first collaborated with the Russians were disillusioned...
...Leaders of Belgium's various resistance groups agreed to disband and surrender their arms, to avoid civil war...
...Kung is a brother-inlaw of Mine Chiang...
...The Nasi invaders maintsined the identicsl social insnrsnca sad controlled trade aaien scheme set up by the Communists in 1940 in ptsee of the prewsr free trsde anions...
...IN SUMMARY: Some of the main political events of the week for those who do not read their daily papers carefully • Social Democratic papers in Helsinki and Stockholm have been reporting an impending split in the parly for the past month...
...One Gosamunist, Yrjoe Leino, was included in Premier Paasikivi's revamped Cabinet...
...It has been approved by the State and Justice Departments, by the American Legion and...
...that the Red Army be expelled and Bolshevik agents who committed atrocities in Latvia, as well as Naxi agents, be tried as war criminals...
...Barrio was than the President ef tin Cortes,' About 128 of the original 470 Deputies sat expected to attend...
...These outrageous acts are performed not so much by the Intruding Red Army but by the Cheka (GPU or NKVD) which follows...
...Ho Ying-chin, War Minister, both long midst severe criticism...
...But Hull has said that the USA has made no secret agreements, and that this government "till sia,ids firm against "any form of intervention on the part of one State, however powerful, in the domestic concerns of any other sovereign State, however weak...
...The Latvian Underground (including social democrats and trade unionists ( issued s manifesto in February 1944 damning both varieties of totalitarianism...
...Bilmanis denied that Latvia was ever a buffer state or any menace to Russia...
...A bill pending in the House Committee on Immigraton, HR 4826, would remove this discrimination...
...The irony of the situation is that while Moscow ii attacking the Polish Government as "pro-fascist,'' the real fascists are exploiting its difficulties, blackmailing it, trying as hard as does Stalin and the Lublin Committee to discredit...
...Both occupant*— German* in still occupied districts and Bosheviks in newly invaded places—apply most cruel terror against the local populations...
...by labor organisations...
...Recognised in 1*18 by Britain, Latvia in 1920 signed treaties with both her big neighbors—treaties violated by both—and ia 1921 was admitted into the League of Nations...
...Poland's democratic forces...
...Only Germany among the powers ever recognised de jure the incorporation of Latvia into the USSR...
...The Iranian oil tangle is only a prelude to the scramble for oil in the postwar world...
...When Hitler and Stalin made their infamous pact which gave Germaay the green light to stsrt the war, the Red Army took over Latvia for a yes/ and Sovietised it, until in 1941 the Nazis invaded and vainly triad to Naxify Latvia...
...He said the Communists are aazious to avoid disunity, hence apposed the February elections and proposed a single joint list of candidates if they are held, "one party, one program, one nation," is the CP slogan...
...Property collectivized by Kussis wss taken over by the Nazis...
...Beck, and Smigly-Rydz failed to lead IK* resistance to the German invasion in 1939, but sought safety in flight leaving the defense to the workers and peasants...
...Included among the victims are a number of ex-Communists...
...His successor, Gen...
...Moscow paid the International Nickel Co...
...According to international law it is a sovereign state...
...The latest issue of WRN-Robotnik w Wales, PoliU Underground Labor paper, to be received here warm Poles against the machinations of the prewar Sanaejs crowd, who try to exploit the dispute between the Polish Government-in-exile and the Soviet Government teo regain adherents and reestablish their authority...
...On the eve of his departure with de Gaulle to Moscow, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault told the Consultative Assembly that France will not enter any alliance which excludes Russia...
...Spanish Parliemeat to Moat Jan...
...Ho was a leader of the reactionary wing of the Kuomintang...
...The first major debate in the new Assembly was "Russia's day," commented Harold Callender of the Times...
...The Cortes will plan the restoration of the eeasa...
...about 6,000 Greeks have mysteriously disappeared in the Salonika area since that city's liberation...
...120,000,000 for its Petsamo nickel plant, now Sovietized, though the plant coSt only $7,000,000...
...A minority group of "leftwingers" plana a new party that is pro-Soviet, and they are encouraged, of course, by the Communists...
...Zhdanov is the Russian director of the Sovietization of the Baltic...
...Chen Cheng, ha* a reputation as one of the ablest ef Chinese officers...
...He indicated that France's postwar orientation will probably be toward the east rather than the west...
...xt, last meeting was held La Figwerss, Spain, on rears* ary 1. 1989...
Vol. 27 • December 1944 • No. 48
