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 Roosevelt's "Millionaire Team" Wins THE Uibostor led by fear liberal Senatcre—Cteodc Pepper, Jim Mirny, Joseph...
...f'.M, the Liberal Party, and the four Senators are to be congratulated for preventing Senator Connelly from railroading the appointments through the Senate without due consideration of their merits for this big job...
...It affects about 600,000 Americana—and I refer to the physical disease not the political, which affects many millions...
...It is unfair to Dunn (or to Berle) to accuse them of responsibility for American policy toward Loyalist Spain, for as-ample...
...The Communists declare that the defeat of FDR's appointees would have been "a major rebuff" and a defeat for FDR's foreign policy, which they praise...
...at To.,e WHk Sro/le—He Like...
...Indian newspapers charge that the British Wsr Office program of Army education includes the three following statements en India, which are supplied te British troops: Gandhi is the Indian Congress's 'elf-appointed dictator...
...Very few escaped prisoners have been caught, Geneva assert...
...Further, the United States and Britain largely displaced Germany as the purchaser of Spain's wolfram and other war materials...
...In his second letter, addressed to Jordana, Franco's Foreign Minister, Hayes objected to anti-Russian propaganda in the Spanish press, and stated that a distinction must be made between opposition to Communism and hatred of Russia...
...but it makes me suspicious...
...Sam Solon, European correspondent of The Ntw Leader and the London N*w»-Chr«nicU, reports that he found no evidence af any putsch against the Pierlot Government such as Churchill said the Communists bad orgaolwd...
...It tends to confirm my opinion expressed two weeks ago —that these changes signify mora appeasement of Russia, an anti-British orientation, and the strengthening of big business and isolationism in the government...
...Senator Meed votad against Holmaa and Clayton, and annouacad that W«toer would have done to too had he been preaant...
...Hayes' letter challenging Frannco's assertion that his regime is not fascist is quoted in the article by Lindlay and' Weintai, and it is scorching indictment of the Falanga as fascist, and a defense of democracy...
...Provision was made for labor participation is tee management of the northern coal mines and the K*Result Auto Works when they were taken over by the French Government...
...Epilepsy costs us aoO.OOO.OOO yesrly, and this cost could be drastically reduced if the public realised that IS out of every 20 epileptics are employable, and if proper medical care were given every sufferer...
...His remedy for unemployment is unregulated free private enterprise...
...Sabotage ia factories is oa the increase, particularly daring air raids...
...Ghandi is the mouthpiece of India's money-lending class...
...But writing in the Daily Wotktr about Bates, George Morris calls him "an outcast from progressive ranks...
...he is his own foreign minister...
...on MacLeish 49 to 25...
...Such a, menace can be overcome, in the long run, only by creating living standards which make the growth of Communism impossible...
...How msny resorts is the USA in 1944 discriminate against Jews—and Negroes...
...He has blamed the depression on interference of government with business...
...e • • In Germany under tha Weimar Republic, there was only one resort which refused to admit Jews— Borkum in the Frisian Islands...
...to 19...
...The United States does not agree with Franco that a war against Russia is inevitable, Hayes continued...
...Since then ha has followed faithfully the party line, ai evidenced in bis speech at the American Labor Conference December 16...
...Hayes also, the argument runs, insisted on the withdrawsl of the Spanish Blue Division from the Russian front Other demands made by Hayes, acting of course as President Roosevelt's agent, far FDR is hit own foreign minister, were granted by Franco...
...Any attack on Russia," ha wrote, "is an attack on an important ally of the United States," while "complacency toward Nasi Germany is complacency toward an enemy of the United States.'' Hayes pointed oat that the Vatican had denounced Nazism in stronger terms than it had denounced Communism...
...I hope that he is right...
...he denounced the depredations af churches but also criticised those who saw nothing but Bolshevism in the Loyalist Government...
...he formulates our foreign policy, whatever it may be...
...It is unrealistic," wrote Hayes to Jordana, "to believe that any country can overcome a possible Communist menace within it* borders by attacking Russia...
...Soma executions have taken place...
...The fact that the (Communists applaud our foreign policy and FDR's Stats Department doesn't prove them wrong, necessarily...
...The Itaily Worker castigates those who opposed swift confirmation, calling them "Irresponsibles...
...Epilepsy ia Greek for seixure...
...Over 50,000 traitors and collaborationists have been arrested...
...Communists . . . • The swift transition from a totalitarian to a democrat' c regime is an explanation given by Rene Hislaire, editor of llelgium, for the boiling point reached in Belgian politics...
...Carlton Hayes wrote two letters to Spanish officials explaining why Franco Spain was considered a fascist dictatorship, and further explaining the policy of the USA toward Russia...
...I was afraid h« wanted my job...
...Lets baa* Churchill sad Roosevelt will draw the appropriate conclusions...
...They went to Spain after France fell and Hitler was insisting that Franco declare war against Britain, whose conquest seemed unrninent...
...msa and would-be intellectuals...
...In this I do not agree with my colleague Jonathan Stout...
...The use of Gibraltar as a base was protected...
...98 is 5m7«j»y— the Ghost is Out a/ the Clo»4t...
...As to Dunn and Holmes, I reserve judgment...
...The British blocked the effective use of economic sanctions to force further concessions from Franco...
...Fier/of Goveramesf vs...
...It is a government of national unity, constituted, until the Communists resigned, of representative...
...The real teat hi eamia«-wUI Britain and taa USA Matinee appeasement af France when it is ao longer dictated by military eapodiemcyt • • • LefcW Maaaaaaiaaf Commrrteas ia France...
...Belgian workers are in the habit of demonstrating over grievances, but this does not mean that they want a violent social revolution, much leas totalitarian Communism...
...The War Department has revoked its exrlusien order against Japaneae on the West Coast and ruled that all those whose loyalty has been proven may return to their homes...
...Dun, *pd Holmes, and brought out facta about soma af them which ara far from flattering...
...Sir Samuel Hoare, British Tory, was responsible for many things for which Hayes has been blamed by American liberals...
...I'm afraid he wants my job as Supreme Commander...
...Carlton Hayes oad Frame* Spaia...
...They have been accused of being "anti-Soviet," which is okay with me, but 1 am unconvinced that their record proves that they are against Communism for liberal reasons...
...Ha declared that the Falanga had the same basic characteristics as the Fascist and Nasi parties...
...and Robert LeFellette -with support from law liberal awl aotaa ioosstlonmt SeoaUrs, failad U block tha eenarmatioa af Roosevelt's asmraeoe u tka reorganised State Deeartaaent Bat it forced aariova c seen deration af Clayton, Rorke-fellar, Marl posh...
...It seems that Bates can't quite make the grade...
...They must be consulted e* all matters concerning the management end general conduct of the business...
...The USA "looks forward to continued cooperation with Russia by the United Nations," and he urged Spain to do likewise...
...Thus ends an unjust military decree...
...One fact emerges clearly—they are FDR's appointments...
...Attack Teheran...
...Ralph Bates ia a fellow-traveler who split with the Communists when the Hitler-Stalin pact was signed...
...But the government is determined to observe due process of constitutional law, not to permit the thirst for revenge ta get out of control and result in the death of innocents...
...He has been an implacable enemy of the Nazis...
...Answered King George, "That takes a load off my mind...
...4) Here is a story current in inner circles in London and Washington Ssid General Eisenhower to King George, "I am worried over the tremendoua popularity of Genera) Montgomery...
...they are tied in with big business...
...Hislaire stresses economic difficulties in Belgium as • he main source of trouble...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Roosevelt's "Millionaire Team" Wins THE Uibostor led by fear liberal Senatcre—Cteodc Pepper, Jim Mirny, Joseph Guffey...
...On December 14 news came from Paris that the Consultative Assembly had passed a general law providing for such participation in all joint-stock concerns employing as many as 50 employees and in all industrial and commercial branches of public works...
...Attacks upon Hayes by American liberals as an appeaser led to his resignation, rejected at that time by Roosevelt The picture painted by Lindley and Weintai is that of a liberal Catholic who hates fascism, and who did has daty as ha saw it, aader a policy determined ky fciieivilt, and probably ¦winasflailii aa asuch as say diplomat eoold ia a dMacalt and complex situeiioa...
...Once anyone has differed with the omniscient party line about anything, he is forever suspect...
...He has always opposed the progressive features of New Deal -capitalism...
...Hislaire declares that the new Pierlot Government "has no more trace of fascism than there would be in an American government of Henry Wallace, Sidney Hillman, David Dubinsky, and Vito Marcantonio...
...FDR alone is to blame for that stupendous error, as he is to/blame for the lack of clarity in our foreign policy today—and lack of intelligent liberalism...
...The DW objects mildly to Dunn, but for the sake of "national unity" they are ready to approve even this "anti-Soviet" career diplomat—national unity "against British intervention in Greece and Italy...
...Stettinius, Clayton, end Rockefeller are men of treat wealth...
...Clayton is an economic royalist who believes in latsiei /air* capitalism...
...Whether or not you agree that Hayes is a liberal, the authors reveal, some interesting things: Hayes did not support Franco during the Spanish' civil wsr...
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...Yes, but what nation overthrew the Teheran Government, and made the Teheran agreement a mockery...
...Near Stuttgart, foreign workers mutinied, fled, end seised food from railroad cars...
...the only demand for home rule comes from a small group of Indian "professions...
...In the case of joist-stock companies, two members of the labor committal shall act as an advisory body and shall be present at all meetings of the board of directors...
...StaJia told de Gaulle, it la reported, that da Gaulle la the toughest diplomat ha had aver dealt with, but that ha liked these tough...
...In the December issue of Harptr''*, Ernest a Lindlay and Edward Weintai defend Carlton J. H. Hayes, our Ambassador to Spain until Norman Armour was nominated last week, to replace him, as a liberal Catholic who did his alloted job quite efficiently — to keep Spain out of the war...
...But the opposition of Weat Coast landlords and businessmen to the return of the Nisei continues, led by the Hearst preaa...
...The task of Hayes and the British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare was not easy...
...Tht Prottttani had a front-page title, "Liberal...
...The committee shall be informed of the profits that have been mads and may make auggestions aa to how these profits shall be used...
...Spain, however, was desperately in need of economic aid, and thie economic weapon was exploited to keep Spain "neutral...
...4) Two dsys after General Eisenhower's directive te slave labor in Germany to "desert, go into hiding, and do not follow tha retreating armies," reports from thru Swiss newspapers told of 50,000 workers admitted by Berlin te hsve "escaped" from western Germany...
...The vota oa Clayton wn 61...
...Germany could not march through Spain to prevent the success of our invasion of North Africa...
...of every anti-fascist party...
...The labor, committees will be elected by the votes ef ail workers above It years of age...
...FDR, the DW states, is appeasing neither Stalin nor big business, and the President is smart to get big business support for his foreign policy...
Vol. 27 • December 1944 • No. 52
