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 The Postwar Race tor Markets Aviation Parley Presages Conflict BRITISH export* in IMS were little nor* than •...
...This baa become a question of great import to labor and capital alike...
...But the parley largely avoided this issue...
...Hitler would applaud thia action...
...In his ode to liberty there is no suggestion that when all barriers are down the huge financial resources of the American agencies might enable them to dominate the world...
...Ore., post of the American Legion will not recognise the fact...
...If there is commercial advantage |o an American news association «in making its news service available in other countries, there is, under the plan I advocate, the sanje opportunity for the British or any other news agency to make its news service available in other countries...
...Union practices limiting efficiency are to be abandoned if employers meet certain conditions safeguarding the unions, particularly guarantees of full employment, and the nationalization of some key industries...
...TBI* ia likew w* t r ue of the civil war in Grme...
...Since Russia was not represented, lb.' question of the right of planes bound for Moscow to do this cuuld not be discussed...
...e * • The Dietoforsfcip of Haeaer • The Belgian Government headed by Premier Pier-lot Is not fighting against the resistance movement, hut only against that section of it led by the Communists...
...There it no gelid foundation for any faith that It will be different thi* time...
...Postwar Britain will desperately need vast quantities of raw material* and food, and to pay for them must have increased export*, 60 percent higher than before the war...
...suggests that among those who would never be missed are Admiral Leahy, James F. Byrnes, Jesse Jones Will Clayton, Leo T. Crowley...
...Future war or peace will depend partly on whether there is collaboration between the great air powers...
...The old gem* ef power politics is being played in murk the same way a* for decade* pest Th* more it changes, the sear* it remains the The N. T. Tim- said eJitorially that th* new Free*s , Russia* part "serve* to leeeeere Russia aad t* dsm*n strata France's i»te pendente...
...Biimarek said Hint whoever dominate...
...Just as th* alliance now signed by De Gaulle aad Stalin la set basically different from that signed by Stalin and Level before this war, and similar to that which existed before World War I. the United Nations organisation pre-po**d is net very much mere hopeful thee the eld League of Nation...
...Former Prime Minister Brody of Carpatho-Russia, the Ruth-enian part of Slovakia, has been arrested by the Cl'C...
...Answering this attack in the N. Y. Timet, Cooper points out that the alternative is control of the news by either governments or cartels...
...Bat this Is nothing new...
...Prewar Britain derived a substantial part of her national income from investments abroad, which have been seriously reduced...
...Bohemia dominates Europe...
...S'lciss papen report the lynching of lix high Xazi nffieiali in Cologne for which 30 eivUiam were hanged...
...f 30,000 Serbian peasants was confiscated...
...And it is improbable tliat Russia would grant the right of intermediate stops, since it would break the Russian state monopoly cf foreign trade...
...For a free press simply cannot be tolerated by a dictatorship, anywheie...
...This means in effect freedom for American aviation Arms to capture the lion's share of the world market in transport by air...
...Sir Stafford Cripps, expelled from the Biitish Labor Party in 1939 for his advocacy of a united front with the Communists, will soon be readmitted...
...The Chicago Tribpne, would be worth hearing...
...The agreement reached leaves any nation lice to refuse any or all of the Ave freedoms of the r. r. Thi...
...There is no justification for monopoly or governmental control t here...
...But if the Eeonomiit is speaking for Britain in wanting to maintain, exclusively for British interests, its effective control over vast world communications, a thing that Reuters, the British agency, does not itself demand, then perhaps more than ever the issue that there should be equality for news transmission over all international communications should be fought out even in advance of the peace...
...The air parley established an interim council to function until the permanent convention can be ratifled, if at a-l...
...Immunity does not mean that a foreigner, whether a diplomat or newspaperman, can remain in any foreign country where he is persona non grata...
...Cooper, like most big business executives, experiences a peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage...
...Ia the pressat fsmin* conditions, the people would have demonstrated against any govers-m*at he declared, stressing the necessity ef immodists shipment* of mod to the ssantiim liberated from th* Xsts bat net from the dictatorship of hunger...
...Of the "left" parties only the CP has not declared against the monarchy...
...The limitations of American foreign policy are...
...Th* same sort ef alliance* were mad* after World War I, and didn't give security to anyone...
...Similarly, if the newspapers of the Eastern Hemisphere want the services of the American news agencies, or any other news-agencies, they properly should have them...
...An international air administration must be part of any world security organization...
...This question is going to become more and more important to the peace and progress (if any) of the world...
...IN SUMMARY: • The Slovak insurrection has been suppressed by the Nazis, who captured 8,00(1 parachutists...
...Now that pressure from Washington seems to have succeeded in prying loose a few of the reactionaries around Chiang Kai-shek, it would be nice if there were pressure from Chungking to help us get rid of a few of the reactionaries around Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Britain doesn't believe in free competitive enterprise^—because in such competition all the advantage will lie with the USA...
...American aviation Arms do not want any sort of controls of a political or commercial character— in ithi'r government regulation nor cartels...
...The main conflict is between the American view that trade must be made "free" by multilateral and reciprocal trade agreements— free competition of private enterprise—and the Hritish view that the empire preference syatem must continue and be supplemented by cartel arrangements, with the government, industry, and labor as partners in the race for markets The same antagonism is revealed by the recent dispute between Kent Cooper, director of the Associated Press, and the London Economist...
...Britain's productive capacity for consumers' goods has declined during the war, while America's increased...
...Cooper, the Eeonomiit writes, "demands freedom of access to news, freedom for agencies to compete or to exchange news and an end to preferential rates of transmission...
...In Italy the Communists have taken a position contrary to that they have taken in Greece their flexible tactics enable them to maneuver with anyone who will help pave the way to power...
...illustrated by Berle's statement that "international organization at this time in economic and political Aelds must be primarily consultative and fact-Anding...
...The London Eeonomiit comment* that the plan of Kent Cooper, Associated Press director, would enable American news agencies "to dominate the world...
...For instance, the average American textile worker can produce up to ten times as much per hour as can the Hritish worker...
...The Economist's comment as to diplomatic immunity is even more inept...
...The comments of Marshal Stalin and the Generalissimo on the proposition that the war is being waged to secure extraterritorial rights for, say...
...Every morning the Nazti paint out ilogam placed on walli during the night...
...It does mean that in such case he would leave the country without being arrested and uncivilly deported and without any other indignities being imposed upon him...
...One of Mr...
...The Fronco-Raisiao Pocf...
...The International Civil Aviation Conference held at Chicago is a part of the peace settlement...
...Cooper's happier suggestions is that news correspondents abroad should enjoy diplomatic immunity, without any of its responsibilities...
...This air parley brought to the surface, aa did (he International Business Conference at Rye, N. Y., hitherto concealed antagonisms between the United States and Britain...
...Japanese-Americans are dying for the lulled States at the fighting front, but the Hood River...
...If democratic Britaia is an obstacle to any scheme for press freedom internationally, how much larger an obstacle totalitaiian Russia will prove to the...
...Contrary to the usual news stories, report* fiom inside Yugoslavia state that opposition to the Tito-Subasitch Government (supported by both Russia and Britain) continues strong...
...The British account of what is going on in world affairs is not the only account of world affairs that should be disseminated...
...British success in capturing export markets will depend in large measure on trade and monetary agreements with the USA...
...Furthermore, Britain has contracted a $12,000,000 foreign debt during the war...
...His desire to prevent another Goebbels from poisoning the wells will be universally applauded, but democracy does not necessarily mean making the whole world safe for the AP...
...The American advocacy of freedom of the air prevailed...
...Berle urged a gradual evolution from bilateral rights to multilateral freedoms...
...Nor government subsidies to enable foreign powers to compete successfully with the American giants...
...All of this is to the good as long as newspapers in the Western Hemisphere want the Reuters service...
...Six active msmbsri of the underground resistance srs aew ia the Cabinet Jef Boas, Socialist trad* union loader ef Belgium aad assistant director of the International Labor Office, stated that the demonstration* ia Binasals against th* Pierlot Government were really protest meetings against hunger...
...Of primary importance is the question of competition for traffic by air...
...The recent Trades Union Congress considered the question of raising British productive efficiency...
...This applies to the news-collecting business as well as trade...
...It removed from its war memorial the names of sixteen Nisei who have loyally ser>rd their country in (his war, in order to serve notice that "Japs" are not wanted back on the West Coast...
...Surely the gathering and distribution of news is one field in which there should be freedom...
...About forty participating powers are expected to sign the separate bilateral agreement granting the Arst two freedoms (political) and twenty five (mostly in the Wi stern Hemisphere) to sign the agreement giving all five, political and economic...
...Kent Cooper and other advocatea of a free press and free news agencies do not face the central prolilem: how is it possible to apply their plan to the USSR, or any other totalitarian country...
...Hull told us that such a world organisation would make alliances an4 spheres of influence unnecessary...
...3 • One of the stark realities of European power politics is that Germany has started two world wars, and despite defeat and disarmament, might conceivably •tart another...
...Ten percent of Britain's prewar national income came from export*, against 2 8 percent lest year...
...Surely the Eeonomiit does not want the activities of all news agencies except the British confined to their own countries, as was largely the case before Reuters, reorganized and owned by the British newspapers, withdrew its cartel domination over the news activities of many countries foreign to England...
...AU other European nations demand, first of all, security against this threat Hence their anxiety to cement alliances between themselves, and especially with Russia...
...How times haveThanged...
...international authority set up has no authority except to consult and advise...
...Thet beautiful scheme has beea abandoned—it was killed by Stalin...
...It would .mean political suicide for Malm to permit »oy real freedom of any sort...
...After long delay the Rumanian Government, under Red Army control, has abrogated the anti-Stmit:c lawi of the Antonescu regime...
...The "Afth freedom" urged by the Americans but refused by the Britons is the right of intermediate traffic stops along an international route: Will an American plane flying from New York to Paris have the right to stop at London to discharge and pick up passengers and cargo to take to Paris, in competition v.ith British planes...
...ft a Free Press Possible I* Postwar Europe...
...Rui-lian refusal to participate made failure inevitable...
...This liai weakened the pact between the Socialists and the Communists...
...In this, as in other postwar issues such as civil aviation, commercial practices are habitually confused with such big words as liberty and the rights of man...
...Its evil effects were seen clearly in prewar France, for example, and today in Russia where there is only the official government press—publications of the trade unions, the party, the Red Army, etc., are all equally controlled, and they all print the same "news," follow identical editorial policies, so that Russians have wildly distorted ideas of what is happening in their own country and eleswhere...
...Adnl)ih Berle argued that air rivalry can lead to war as rivalry on the tea A as done in the putt...
...This would turn the fourth estate into a king that can do no wrong...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak The Postwar Race tor Markets Aviation Parley Presages Conflict BRITISH export* in IMS were little nor* than • quarter of export* in 1938, and are (till declining;—* Joes of f»62,OO0,0OO...
...Teheran Conferences...
...le It stems, superficially Hut it actually dm just the opposite...
...Although Serbians constitute 61 percent of the population of Yugoslavia no prominent Serbian leader has consented to enter the Tito Government, which is predominantly Croatian...
...I. F. Stone, making this comment in The Nation...
...Riott followed and Cologne i» in a virtual ttate of tiegt, with iniping at Elite Guard Nan's...
...Since there is no free competition within Russia, how can Moscow permit competition of Ameii an, French, or British planes with Russian...
...Hoes anyone doubt what power n ill dominate Bohemia after thie ua> f The "solution" of the crisis in Italian politics hag strengthened two extreme groups—the monarchists and the Communists...
...Nothing seems to justify excessive optimism over the results achieved...
...nor are the measures for safety thus far taken new...
...It is only cne feeble st p away from chaotic cut-throat economic rivalry in the air, which Berle called "anarchy...
...For example.' the Reuters agency was quick to see this and is now selling its news in the United States and South America for the first time...
...Weakened also is the Committee of Liberation...
...Nearly 40,000 have been arrested in Belgrade alone—including not only col-t laborationists, but anyone who opposes Tito or supports Mikhnilovitch...
...The lain...
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Vol. 27 • December 1944 • No. 51
