It Happened Last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LiSTON M. OAK Benes-Stal'm Honeymoon on the Rocks? By wire /rem Londpn.— Exclusive. WITHIN the next few days a delegatioo of Czechs and Slovaks will arrive in...
...WITHIN the next few days a delegatioo of Czechs and Slovaks will arrive in London from Moscow...
...They combined in thi Reichstag 'voting to cut down Bruaniaf'l majority to a shadow...
...Foreign Minister J. E. Erkko, who just returned to Helsinki from Stockholm, broadcast a declaration that Finland was exploring every possible road to peace...
...One of their demands is federalization of Czechoslovakia, with independence for Slovakia and for CarpathoRussia...
...It is ominous in...
...a. maiuiala...
...One of the latter is Carlos Montenegro, who was Minister of Agriculture and largely responsible for the expropriation of Standard Oil holdings in Bolivia...
...Reactionaries flock Federal Soldier Vote fill . . . The Senate and House are still deadlocked over the soldier-vote bill...
...On the same day the Argentine Ambassador to Washington presented to President Roosevelt a plan for a customs union to encourage trade among the 1 .ii11n American countries and with the United Stares...
...Dahlke Iter Spiegel is printed by and for German war prisoners in a camp at Tnnidad, Colorado...
...Soviet-Finnish Peace Parity . . . The Finnish Social Democratic Party has been exerting pressure on the government to determine Russia's peace terms...
...Living Costs in Shanghai...
...Hence Mikolajczk hu postponed his visit to Washington...
...Frederick Kuh of P.M, on the contrary, writes that the Poles are yielding ts Moscow on all its demands...
...prefers to postpont such territorial changes until after tht war and, while prepared to mediate, doei not want to take sides and get caught up in the conflict...
...It is edited by a Nasi officer...
...Full recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation is being delayed by the determination of the committee to purge the French Army and Navy of Vichyttew...
...Pegler, Colonel McCormick, Patterson, Hearst, and du Pont would approve of two-thirds of the eighteen members, whose voting records are consistently reactionary, ¦ according to an analysis by the Union for Democratic Action...
...It ia dedicated to "the concepts of soldierliness and National Socialism...
...German War Prisoners . . . Per Spiegel ia a Nasi newspaper printed in America...
...But the Polei are not anxious to acquire German territory and with it the headaches that would inevitably come...
...What the Czechoslovak communists will drive toward, is, (I) federalization of that gauntry;,(2) inclusion of communists in law government, and (3) final absorption of part or all of ^'autonomous" Czechoslovakia within the USSR...
...Zdenek Kieilinger, long rumored to be Stalin's choice as his geulejtei within Czechoslovakia, be made Premier...
...Secretary of State Hull's warning to Finland to get out of the war occasioned naticn-wide debate...
...A compromise is expected this week...
...Meantime J. K. Paasikivi, former Minister to Moscow, made preliminary secret contacts with Madame Alexandra Kollontay, Soviet Minister to Sweden, Stockholm rumored...
...The Polish foternment-in-exile has refused again to capitulate to the Russian ultimatum...
...Prison .Atrocities . . . Norman Thomas has demanded Congressional investigation of atrocious handling of prisoners at the Medical Center of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Springfield, Mo...
...Recognition of French Committee Delayed by Faroe...
...He asserted that brutalities were of daily occurence...
...That country will not return to capitalism...
...They will also request the inclusion of communists in the government, and that Col...
...The territorial demands of Russia have not been exactly denned...
...for a change in the Czechoslovak) an government, more favorable to Moscow...
...They compellsd him to rule by decree...
...Other living conditions are proportionately high and frightful...
...The Russians have made new demands, including part of East Prussia, leaving Konigsberg within the USSR, and offering Poland the rest of East Prussia and other German territory...
...Vaino A. Tanner, Finance Minister, is lesder of the parliamentary group...
...Another Argentine Coup . . . A junta of pro-Naxi army officers (Croup of United Officers) staged a coup d'etat in Argentina, to prevent that country from declaring war on the Axis...
...The cost of a suit of English woolens is sbw* $25,000...
...Red Stir completely forgets that the last democratic Chancellor of Germany in 19M was Heinrich Bruening, leader of the Catholic Center Party...
...One document is a notarized writ which a prisoner drew up to file in a federal court, lor which he was beaten and thrown nude into a bare cell stripped of all furnishings...
...Several cabinet members were forced to resign...
...Washington Reaches Pacts With Governments-in-Exile . . . Negotiations have been concluded between the Norwegian, Netherland, and Belgian governments-in-exile and Washington as to the restoration of civil administration in those countries after the war...
...This Congressional committee, a counterpart of Senator George's Postwar Planning Committee, is under the chairmanship of William Colmer, poll-tax Representative from Mississippi...
...Moscow demands that "enemies of the Soviets" be kicked out of the government, including Social Democrats like Tanner, as well as reactionaries like Mannerheim...
...Conscientious objectors smuggled documents out of the prison describing in detail savage attacks upon prisoners by guards, over a period of three years...
...Ham Fish is the ranking Republican member...
...Royburn Plans Chaos . . . Speaker Sam Rayburn haa appointed what he jocularly terms a "people's planning board...
...These communists, while not desiring to create an open break between Benes and Stalin, are oppesed to Benes' policies and are working...
...The Polish ci inmunist "Koaciuszko" radio in Moscow claimed that "all influential political parties fighting against the Nazis are represented on this Council...
...Soviet Russia hasxinaisted that Finland surrender uncondiflonally, to suffer the same fate as the other Axis powers...
...Brooks Atkinson of the Timet reports from Chungking that an ordinary nod in a restaurant in Shanghai costs about $600 per person, which is considerablyhigher than in Free China...
...Paasikivi has praised Russia, saying thst the Communist system has certain commendable virtues, and collaboration with it is possible...
...Interesting in this connection is the criticism that has been leveled against Benes by the Communist - Czechoslovak newspaper, Sowv Czetko ¦ Slowoentko, which quite characteristically criticizes Benes for inactivity inside Czechoslovakia...
...Colmer announced the purpose of the "planning" board is to save free enterprise—i.e., freedom from planning...
...Anglo American diplomats hold that this purge on the eve of continental invasion would interfere with military efficiency...
...view, of Russia's attitude toward Poland, and it acquires additional significance because of the recent decision of the Russian Supreme Soviet to "grant autonomy" to sixteen republics...
...The U.S.A...
...Russia opposes any rapprochement between Sweden and Finland, now or later, and demands the ending of trade with Germany, Wendell Willkie says he is unmoved by Pravda't rebuff...
...Polish Commvniili Oroonize a Notional Poop/e s Cotsctf" . . . Inter - Continent News, communist "news" agency, reports the formation within Poland of a People's National Council—or in other words, a communist-led Polish Soviet...
...The Senators favor the Green-Lucas plan for a Federal ballot—which is the only way the majority of soldiers could get the right to vote—and the Representatives favor the Eastland-Rankin "States' Hights" bill, which in effect would deprive most soldiers of their vote...
...No agreements has been reached with the Danish Government because it is within Denmark...
...After the war it will be the business of the newly elected French Government to decjde what should be done with those who collaborated with Petain and Laval...
...The War Department states that under the Geneva Conference the United States cannot prevent war prisoners from printfhg anything they like...
...President Ramirez remained in ' "office: •------- ¦ — ......- — It is thought that these officers were deeply involved in an Axis py ring, and had to act fast to forestall exposure...
...He still believes Russia should not settle the polish boundary question unilaterally or by force, but through, a United Nations organization...
...Bolivia Cleans House . . . In a bid for recognition, the Bolivian regime fired several Cabinet Ministers who have been too intimate with Axis agents or who are too bitterly opposed to "Yankee imperialism...
...Against him were the Nazis and the Communists...
...Progress towaid an agreement with the French Committee of National Liberation has been made...
...nor does Britain approve...
...ftulu the PeUsk people it represents before it can consent to the Curzon line as the basis fur negotiations...
...Moscow is bringing pressure to bear upon Sweden to further modify her foreign policy to conform to Russian ways, it is reported from Stockholm...
...Polish Rnssion Conflict Cearlaeoa Unoooted . . . James B. Reston, Times cot respondent, and Ned Russell of the Tribune, bots report from I.ondon that the efforts of the British Government to break tat deadlock in the dispute between Poland and Russia have failed...
...The Poles are willing to work out an ethnographical boundary, but ~NNM»t have...
...For two yean , Bruening stood in the trenches for th« defense of the Weimar Republic, having by his side Liberals, Progressives, _ Socialists...
...Tht Poles will neither accept the Curzon lint as the boundary, or agree to change iti personnel...
...I am sure that after Russia has won the war communism will further strengthen its position...
...Communisti helped to destroy German democracy st a time when it was being defended by the Catholic Church...
...T1* black market rate there is $110 in pupP*1 currency to one American dollar, wto* in Free China it is 80 to one...
...Commenting on the attack on th* Vatican by the Communist paper R'i Star, Simeon Strunsky writes in bit column in the New York Time*: "Red Star has no trouble at all remembering the details of the conspiracy b» which the Catholic Church suppesedly brought Hitler into power...
...This information, which is exclusive with The New Leader, comes from ordinarily trustworthy sources...
...Coffee Co*" 1800 a pound in Shanghai...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 8
