It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK King Is "Stupid, Vile, Criminal Monarch/' Says Sforza, Calling for Abdication /*OUNT CARLO SFORZA, leading Italian liberal, delivered the Anal speech at...
...Another report to the Times from Berne said that a wave of anti-German mutinies had broken out in Bulgarian garrisons...
...He declared that the Badoglio Government's pretense* to eliminate fascists have been "a sham...
...TV A Does o Big War Job . . . The Tennessee Valley Administration (TVA) is one of the most important of the permanent contributions of the New Deal...
...Iro/ioas Turning fo Communism...
...In Naples everything is in the hands of the old fascist leaders and their satellites," the letter declared...
...Early in 1941 twelve large dams and a steam generation station were under construction...
...Max Ascoli has received a letter from Naples, outlining a grim picture bf southern Italy as a country of chaos, without food, transportation, or industry...
...Designs to that end are already being prepared...
...S.O.F...
...by the Communists...
...It Happened Last Week By LISTON M. OAK King Is "Stupid, Vile, Criminal Monarch/' Says Sforza, Calling for Abdication /*OUNT CARLO SFORZA, leading Italian liberal, delivered the Anal speech at the ^* recent cortfress of nix political parties in Bari, Italy...
...The cheme drawn up by the French committee for ¦ restoration of government in France after liberation has beta abandoned, due to criticism in the Consultative Assembly, and a new plan ia be discussed at the next meeting on Feb...
...King declared further that the proposals of Smuts and Halifax run counter to the conception of collective security through world federation embodied in the agreements of Moscow snd Teheran...
...The following resolution was adopted by the S.D.F.: "The City Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Federation pledged the full support of its neighborhood snd trade qnion branches and its institutions and affiliates to the American Labor Party in the coming primaries...
...The llillman plan, it was stated, would result in the capture and disruption of the A.LP...
...One of the dams, the Douglas, was constructed in the world-record time of twelve months, nineteen days...
...The TVA will em* tinoe to advance the development of the region and, indirectly, the prosperity of the whole American ¦ . la poet-war America, there sho«U ?< projects lihe TVA ia varioa* sewtoZ of the coaatry The great success of the TVA can fa...
...in tha spring primaries...
...Canada is a neighbor of the United States and Soviet Russia, he said, and must pre* serve friendly relations with them...
...He went much further than did Sam Grafton in his famous "moronic little King-" article criticised by the President...
...The new French colonial policy advocates the industrialization of colonies, more education of natives, a more liberal tariff, closer economic links, repudiation •f Nazi-Vichyite racial doctrines...
...One of the world's largest aluminum plants grew to three times its former sise, thanks to power from the newly built dams...
...The Hillman proposal cannot be sccep'ted...
...local government to be restored via municipal councils and mayors who were in office in 1939, except Vichyites...
...A large block of electrical power centers were built...
...Lotin American Dictatorships . .. Argentina has broken with Germany and Japan, due to Anglo-American pressure, and the United States is due to recognize the Ramirez regime and extend lend-lease aid...
...When Franoe fell in the spring of 1940, the TVA was quickly converted to war needs...
...to be barred from the A. LP...
...Communist, Paolo Tedeschi...
...We deplore the aid given to the Communists by a section of organized labor to capture control of'the A.L.P...
...attributed to the fact that it is a J/ ermaental corporation for ivgioual 4t» vetopment, which by law is assured » very large degree of autonomy...
...But that does not change the fascist character of the Ramirez dictatorship, which has suppressed all civil liberties and which is anti-Semitic, pro-Franco, anti-democratic...
...Thousands have been shot by the Gestapo in Bulgaria for aiding the underground opposition...
...This committee will cooperate with the central Committee of National Liberation in Rome...
...Not a single plant stopped or slowed down for want of energy...
...d tht, it can draw upon alt the flexibility uag initiative required for successful <,n*r...
...Its vast supply of power will be turned to peaceful uses...
...Mineral researches and processes will provide a basis for the production of many peacetime goods...
...Since one month's eeeaatie* of oil supplies will seriously cripple Spain's already almost bankrupt economy It la expected that Franco will capitulate to Anglo-American demands soon...
...They argued that Britain must gain the support of the democracies of western Europe and closer ties between the nations of ths British Commonwealth, to preserve the balance of power...
...The result of terrible living conditions and a new form of exploitation is that the people are turning to communism, the Neapolitan stated...
...The workers jf Argentina\ and Bolivia were congratulated on their exemplary resistance to Nazi influence...
...From 1933 to 1940 the TVA attained important results In developing peacetime resources—darns, rroil restoration, flood control, electric-power generation, fertilizer production, reforestation—but its war record has been even more imposing...
...s and Soviet Russia...
...BrHai»t futun...
...Not that non-communist C.I:0...
...He warned that Canada would oppose anything that would "separate us as sn entity from any other group...
...Packing the A.LP: State Commit* with such unscrupulous adventurers and enemies of every principle of Die A.urand every principle of democracy, not be countenanced...
...The revised project is based on ideas advocated by Andre Philip, socialistno final decisions until a general election...
...Or relations will be broken off entirely...
...Sforxa asserted that when the six republican parties organize a new government, they will ferret all fascists out, including the magnates of rubber, steel, chemicals, banks, and other industries...
...Jan Smuts and Lord Halifax have both declared that the peace of the world depends on the attainment of equal partnership between the Big Three powers—that the resources and manpower of the United Kingdom are too small to compete with the United Sta...
...In line with the present tactics of the Communist Party a)l independent labor parties are to be destroyed...
...The TVA also runs munitions plants, and many of its war products, such as concentrated fertilizers, have been sent to England...
...It did a good job before the war, and its wartime achievements have been phenomenal, according to its chairman, David E. Lilienthal...
...To the contrary, they are welcome, as alwaysBut a large union cannot in all fairness demand representation on the A.L-" State Committee on the basis of J** entire membership when the vast gr jority of these members are not enrolled in the A.L.P., are not voters for the A.L.P.,and in the bargain have notrrtoos communists at the head of such a umon...
...Action Party, Vincenbo Calace...
...new plants sprang up, and old plants were expanded...
...Spain has' retained its Blue Division on the Russian front, despite protestation to the contrary, and has failed to release Italian ships interned in Spanish ports, in addition to supplying Germany with war materials...
...The TVA is perhaps the biggest and best experiment in Planning in any democratic country...
...The black market is flourishing, while those with fixed .omes starve...
...Writes Neapolitan . .. Dr...
...The Allied Military Government is surrounded by fascist elements which form a gang for mutual support...
...Throughout the Balkans the German Army and secret police are being seriously harassed by the growing number of Partisans and underground movements...
...Last week several high officers of tire Bulgarian Army were seised by Heinrich Htmmler's, agents...
...in 1936...
...This program, greater in terms of the material required than the building of the Panama Canal, equaled the building of nine such structures as the famous Boulder Dam...
...The Social Democratic Federation was one of the affiliated organizations that helped buil 1 the A.L.P...
...which left the top cryptofasrists untouched...
...Labor Democrats, Francesco Cerwbuona and the Socialist Party...
...Furthermore, a virile and effective Labor Party to New York can stimulate organized labor in other states to organize Labor Parties and eventually bring into existence s national labor party...
...since its inception because Social Democrats are devoted to the cause of independent , political action...
...inflated prices...
...Australia and New Zealand, however, have accepted the "principles of partnership and unity" proposed, and agree to act in concert with the United Kingdom...
...It has been reported that the Allied Military Government plans to turn over the administration of Sicily and southern Italy to the King's Government...
...The AFL executive council sent fraternal greetings to Latin American organised labor, and seeks to develop closer cooperation and concrete plans for aiding them combat fascism in future...
...Munitions plants will be converted to the production of fertilizers for the restoration of the soil...
...Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada replied last week that existing provisions for collaboration between ths member nations of the British Empire are -already 100 percent effective...
...The Gestapo continues to operate on Spanish soil...
...In order to "emerge with honor," and enjoy prestige at the peace conference, Sforza said, "we must get rid of the dead weight of a horrible past," and ensure that Italy will never again be driven bark "into the arms of those madmen, the Germans...
...Social Democrats will aid in the fight against the Communists and the determination of the State C.I.O...
...A lot of Allied flour is on rale on the Mark maikel af...
...There must be no return to "the system of exploitation of any single group of Amer-' icans for the benefit of another group of Americans," the message stated, • ? • French Imperialism Reviving . . . The "French Committee of National Liberation does not envisage the liberation of French colonies, but plans the development of an equitorial empire in Africa, with increased representation of natives on administrative councils, Ths colonial conference gave this answer to Jan ¦Smuts' prediction that Frapce would not be an important power for a long time...
...Pledges Support to All...
...Appeasement of Frooce fo fed?, „ The United States end Britain have suspended oil shipments to Spain, aid threaten further economic sanctions, in retaliation against Franco's continued aid to Germany...
...The TVA's participation in post-war economic reconstruction will be of at least equal value...
...A permanent executive committee of the congress waft elected, composed of representatives of'the following parties: Liberal Party, Professor Arangio Ruixj Christian Democrats, Rafaele Corvolini...
...It is regrettable that a well-informed and experienced labor leader like Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, hss been taken in by the machinations of the Communist elements.attempting to cspture the A.L.P...
...loifcae Underground Resistance Growing . . . "Nearly every man, woman, and child, in Bulgaria, Rumania, Greece, and Yugoslavia, at the risk of their lives, are organizing secret societies to free their countries from the Nasi yoke," reports Joseph P. I^evy, New York Timet correspondent, from Ankara...
...Although a few-of the more extreme proNazi officials were kicked out, the repressive m sures have not been repealed...
...Stmts denounced Victor Emmanuel as "a stupid, vile, abjectly criminal monarch," and the Badoglio Government as "a putrid corpse...
...And TVA kept ahead of the demand for electric power...
...It has loyally supported the A.L.P...
...Fight Aqaimti Communists ENDORSING the decision of the Nee York State Committee of the American Labor Party to oppose the "llillman Plan," the City Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Federation has pledged its support in the Spring primaries...
...The policy of appeasement, intended to prevent all this, has not succeeded, though it did reduce Spain's exports to the A*is...
...Emmanuel is growing stronger in t,he U. S. State Department, according to rumors...
...Levy states, including not only peasants and workers but government functionaries und Mime police officials...
...to support Communists, in their attempt to rapture control of the A.L.P...
...Evidently the communists were defeated in their demand for immediate local elections which they could control...
...Social Democrats are convinced that * Labor Party can also appeal to citizens generally, to liberal and progressive elements, on a broad program of economie and social advancement...
...The delegates of the six anti-fascist parties unanimously adopted a resolution demanding abdication and the formation of a liberal government representative of all six parties, with fall powers in the present emergent y, to intensify the nation's war effort and to solve the urgent economic and political problems with the support of the masses...
...leaders or members ever were, or...
...Won...
...the present Consultative Assembly to be enlarged as territory is liberated, to act as an advisory body to the provisional government...
...But opposition to Victor...
...local elections will follow a general election which will be speeded as much as possible...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 6
