It Happend Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happend Last Week By LISTON M.OAK Tito's Government Represents Only Communists wirelest from Ntw* Agency Democratic Yugoslavia, February 4, 1944) *_""HE General Headquarters of the Yugoslav...
...The French committee has become more representative, the Commui.ist influence has waned, and the dangers pf dictatorahip by de Gaulle have been lessened if not eliminated...
...Steven Molyevu-h...
...At least one of these is a fellow-traveler hewing close to the party line...
...ffmer Davh WJm In OWI Dispof • . . . Elmer Davis won in the internal intrigue in the Office of War Information, and ousted three officials in the New York office, Joseph P. Barnes, James P, Warburg, and Ed Johnson...
...e • Whither ffossio...
...fig lasiness to Control Reconversion Plant . . . War Production Board Chairman Nelson signed an order, 2-141, which provides that no steps are to be taken by the WPB on reconversion without consulting industry advisory committees* It makes no provision for labor consultation nor with other government agencies...
...So the stage is set for complete recognition of the committee as a provisional government of liberated France, with approved plans for the reconstitution of French democracy...
...TPHE estimable New York Timet, in * an excellent editorial, says thst the time has come for Roosevelt to ask Stalin if the agreements reached *t Moscow and Teheran still stand: "The program announced at Moscow has been carried out to the extent thst the commissions provided in it have been created and are ready to act...
...But, if anything more has been accomplished in the nature of united action and cooperation in the settlement of the political problems that still trouble the United Nations it has not been revested...
...Cooperation of workers, farmers, businessmen and government can do the trick, said Wallace in outlining a new New Deal...
...Irifoni . . . Relations are more cordial between Washington, London, and the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers...
...In this government ninety-nine percent are famous Communists or their sympathizer...
...K. Smith, and other reactionaries and isolationists...
...the alleged "fascist" character of the Polish Government-in-exile...
...In 1943 we produced $190,000,000,000 worth...
...Sociolized Democracy, or Totalitarian Cammmahm...
...That is just too bad...
...However, in justice to the Republican liberal, it must stated that he is courageous, not only in recommending higher taxes, but in insisting once more that the dispute over the Polish border should be solved by United Nations negotiation, not by unilateral action- The civilised method is te sobsait year cose to the courts, not to gain possession by violence, he said...
...Washington did not wish Frenchmen ever to be able to accuse it of forcing upon them a government not of their own choosing;1* declares' Simms...
...But they professed to be ignorant as to why they were fired...
...Nearly all WPB officials are big business representatives and almost all industry advisory committees are also dominated by big business;, guess who will make decisions regarding reconversion ! Small business and labor will get another raw deal...
...Woodring in Sfop-*oo»eve/t Drive...
...Former Secretary of War Woodring it crganizing a stop-Roosevelt machine inside the Democratic Party...
...and in the name of all political parties by Dr...
...Britain and America must follow a more enlightened and democratic far...
...But Washington and London have not given tap...
...barring other federation efforts...
...But this will depend on how well we plan for full production and employment...
...CDGAR ANSEL MOWRER, Pott col-umnist, approves the Anglo-American pledge not to deal henceforth with Vichyites, and urges our State Department to cease flirting with the outmoded Xings of Europe and their ilk...
...Helping him are not only Bourbon Democrats, but Coughlinites, the pro-Nazi "We, the Mothers, Mobilize for America" organization, friend* of Frank Gannett and of Gerald I...
...Hitfceabocter Soandt Off Captain Eddie Rirkenbacker predicts that it will take twenty year* to clear the islands of the Pacific of Japanese guerilla aoldiers...
...SnV hai rejected any tripartite consultations offered by the American and British 1st mediation of the Polish question and i« proceeding to settle that question by making a Kremlin Vice Commisssr ol Foreign Affairs the Foreign Commissi' .of a Ukrainian republic dominated bf Moscow while his wife heads a simibtf regime for Poland...
...For if we do not, we can be sure thst the fesr of the Soviets epitomised in the Polish-Russian dispute will deepen through Europe—and fester...
...He didn't get around to reading the material...
...WiftxJe ond Me Jtette-Folish Dispute .. . Wendell Willkie is a busy man...
...Wallace said we should have a national income of at least $130,000,000,000 annually, and we could produce $170,000,000,000 worth of goods and services...
...Amity let we en French, Americans...
...Japan herself ma...
...Kaiv, Acting Consul Genersl Estonia, protested Russian plans to sb-sorb his country in the USSR, s« » violation of non-aggression trettis1 signed between the two in 1920, 193* and 1939, in which Moscow gusrsnte«d the independence and territorial in***-ritv of Estonia...
...The rest are ex-members or dissidents of other political parties who are seeking amongst the Communists to save themselves from political bankruptcy...
...Willkie admitted he didn't know...
...He oan't ead everything that he need* to know in order (o play his role as an expert on international relation...
...Talking at the Bankers Club in New York City, Rickenbacker praised Russia...
...what he saw there did not seem to be anything like the ideas of Americas Communist...
...That fear is now removed...
...ivkn Topalovich, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Yugoslavia...
...Hence hi* weak and evasive answer to a question directed at him after his recent speech, regarding...
...eign policy—0'' we.will drive Kuropets peoples into the srms of Stalin, opine* Mowrer...
...Moreover, the spread of Russian Soviet socialism to other peoples has followed a harsh pattern: the arrest and exile m execution of largo groups «t p»rwM> not only feudal landlords' and rich 'bourjui,' bat of noo Communist mtoU lortual* as well . . Mewrer thinks that the liberate...
...If as Stalin alleges, the Polish government-in-exile is in fact fascist, his ease is atrengbtened...
...We were, and always remain a sincere and faithful friend of all our Allies, great and small...
...We greet with joy the spectacular successes of our Russian comrades...
...Kxcerpts from mis aeriarauon rrau as follows: "The government of Tito-Ribar-Pijade represents no one but the I mnnunist Party...
...hold out for five years, he stated...
...Very true, Mr...
...Rickenbacker termed the Russian economy "communistic state capitalism...
...Commenting on this, William Philip Simms denies that this marks any change in American policy...
...Willkie made a fool of himself...
...European peoples will not accept totah...
...Wallace Plans Mew New Deal . . . Henry A. Wallace, whom Rayburn Is rivaling for the vice-presidential nomination, declared that we can pay the interest on our gigantic war debt and atill enjoy a standard of living 60 per cent higher than before the war...
...Europe is moving 'left' . . . The people loathe fascism...
...On the contrary, the attempt to establish the dictatorship of a minority only impedes the complete fulfilment of these aims...
...The representatives of the great majority of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians want especially to emphasize the tact that if the great majority of our people are against the Tito government this in no way means that it is anti-Soviet and anti-Russian...
...We hope he will be better informed the next time he makes a speech dealing with the dispute between Russia and Poland...
...Except for the Communists, they almost at firmly repudiate Soviet domination . . .Soviet totalitarian socialism, with its negation of democracy and personal liberty, is regarded . . , as-a perversion of 'true' socialism...
...Another move in the right direction is the inclusion of French troops in the invasion forces when the sero hour comes...
...She is making bsj own independent alliances in Europe and is...
...A Soviet official told him, "We tried that twenty years ago and found it didn't work...
...la nan communism if they are allowed to have socialised democracy...
...WiHkie, but the attorney tor the defense should be in possession of all the facts...
...This declaration is signed in the name of the Yugoslav Army by General Mihailovich, in the name of the Central National Committee of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by Dr...
...a • • * Mewrer Petes the Quest ion...
...But if, as The New Leader has proven, it is a coalition, representative government controlled by liberals, labor, socialist and peasant leader*, that evidence i* relevant...
...Serb*, Croats and Slovenians are Ht fighting to exchange the Fascist dictatorship for the dictatorship of • snail Communist minority, but are ¦ghtiag te create a free, democratic and national State cleansed forever of all forms of dirtatorahip...
...It has always favored the closest cooperation with the French," he writes, "but the obstacles posed by de Gaulle have been more than Washington could hurdle...
...The dictatorial Communist government of Tito-Kilter I'ijude is not only incapable of uniting all the Serbs, Croats and Slovenians in a common struggle of liberation against the occupation forrea, but it also the creator of confusion, chaos and disorganization in this struggle...
...Willkie has been provided with the facts about the Polish government-in-exile, proving it the most liberal government that Poland has ever had — and more progressiva than most European governments, in exile or not...
...But almost equally they repudiate 'monopoly capitalism'— international banks . . . What the majority seem to favor is a partly socialised democracy, on the Danish or the Swedish model...
...Britain has signed two financial and mutual aid agreements with the French committee, interpreted as ensuring full recognition as a de facto government eventually...
...On the contrary, even more demonstratively after Teheran than before, Russia, while joining in the settlement of questions affecting western Europe, has so far rejected every attempt to carry out the Moscow program in eastern Europe and has proceeded to setth European problems of interest to herself by unilateral action according to her own methods and her own progrssv She has refused to submit to the European commission created for sac* purposes either the problem of the re-constitution of Poland or the problem of the Baltic states, which both the United States and Great Britain recognise as independent entities...
...This government, to the joy of the occupiers, continue* by its terrorist actions and the destruction of century-old national institutions of our country to instigate civil war, by continued armed attacks upon our liberation forces and by slanders and calumnies in the country and abroad...
...port to the advanced democratic liberal-labor-socialist forces and to the social aspirations of those peoples, out of [tar of social revolution, and because ot have followed a policy of military expediency...
...This same plea which we send to our great Russian ally, applies also to Great Britain and the United State...
...We will have a depression, and the national debt will crush us, only if we fail to mobilise our resources and skills for peacetime abundance, the Vice-President stated...
...It Happend Last Week By LISTON M.OAK Tito's Government Represents Only Communists wirelest from Ntw* Agency Democratic Yugoslavia, February 4, 1944) *_""HE General Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army in oeeup'ed territory, and repre-" sentatives of all sections of our national life, and of all political parties except the Communists, have issued » joint declaration concerning the attempts on the part of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia "to destroy our people's faith in the constitutional government of Yugoslavia...
...There is no need in Yugoslavia for the establishment cf a dictatorship ot a Communist minority for our people to be • faithful ally and flncere fighter against Fascism, or for its affection to be gained for the friendship and the alliance* with our Russian brothers...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 7
