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 Rejected Are the Cornerstone of Tito's Edifice "The first shall be last, and the first. . ." AMERICANS of...
...Not even Saniias Mikolajcsky is now acceptable to Moscow...
...they do not await a peace conference...
...Sure...
...It ii all part of the same pattern...
...a · ExARCH STEFAN, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, declared in a recent speech that "the Russian spirit found the solution of the great social problem...
...SuUbeigei blandly assures as that Russia wanta te "establ ish friendship** with all neighboring con tatties, """by aranhra?hx...
...not until June S, whan Russia was invaded, did the Communists taks any part in it...
...He is also hated because, in 1940 when he wit* Governor of Croatia, he failed to suppraes anti-Semitic demonstrations...
...Only about 10 percent ef the land in Serbia has been plowed or SOTMsL I« the rich farming area of Srem Mid Banat the main is not yet harvested...
...Despite the declaration of Stettinius, the Krise* Conference will be in effect ? peace conference, eves if Germany and Japan are not discussed, or any other specific peace settlements...
...Met dar twe centuries has Russia experienced such a religieua revival, he said...
...the Russians have requisitioned all horses and cattle...
...AMERICANS of Serbian.....I UM received report, from MHM inside Yugoslavia which reveal that «1 ? i. «rt weU .~lw Trto', tyranny...
...They began that battle on March 27, 1941...
...Hut it pill be, despite Roosevelt, and all the unrealistic "realista," who «0 arrogantly reject idealism...
...To be taken oat of a Wsad eensauUalio...
...recruits must provide their own dathes, shoes, bedclothes...
...That's what has caused a aeries of, wars...
...And those Croats who supported the Quisling Pavelich in serving the Axis, are now elevated to positions of power, in service to Tito and Russia...
...In «hart, by nvnreer...
...The people of that aw happy land an, of course, hungry, exhausted, ani bitterly disappointed...
...Fravdm recently renewed its attack on him for supporting the Polish Govsrnment-in-Exile ss th* only legitimate one, entitled to a delegation at Frisco, and for his chsrge thst th* puppet regime in Wsrsaw it persecuting democratic Poles...
...they even regiment chickens...
...The nhera ef the htearaw Patriarch, sent to all steraiaa Orthodox Churrhea an the AsMrkah calls -for "abstention fresa all political activity agahast the USSR...
...He declared that "we must forgirs them their atrocities...
...At the Congress of th* Bulgarian Fatherland Front it was decided that there shall be only one ticket of candidate* for the coming election*, so at to avoid splitting the votes among the live parties in this united front...
...He may not bo responsible for the slaughter of Serbs, but his name as linked to this atrocity in the minds of the Serbs...
...this ahowki disqualify him as Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia and as head of the Yugoslav delegation to San Francisco...
...The Kremlin wants "absolute assurance that the Soviet Union will be protected against the remotest possibilijy of foreign aggression...
...A few have escsped te - London, and their reports sre pitiful: Poland's - fate makes one deepair of the honor *f nationa...
...rs at oftri.1 exchange rates, bot bwye Wy to 4,000 dinar, on the black markeL Minor official, and Clerk« receive from 6,000 to 15,W0 dinars They pay the following price., on* kilo of bread ran dinam, of /at .1.00(1...
...The primary purpose of the new world organisation will he to free» the afsnaa fan pear Maaas, te ensure the domination of The Three, thus making impossible the peaceful correction of injustice* imposed unilaterally or mullilalcially, on the SMal nations...
...Their elation nt liberation fron the Natl terror was shortlived...
...Stalin—Great fteSetoes Leader Metropolitan benjamin, head of the Kuaaian Orthodox Chuach in America, returning from the Church assembly fat Moscow, called far a "hard" peace, • peaoe of rang—iw, art a ¦ aatitig for Russian Wag Relief...
...opposition elements in those lands...
...The prestige si Britain nad America have sunk: the Poles feel that 6,000,000 of their oomradra-innrma have died in vn» The Yalta Conference okayed Stalin's seizure of msnr than one-third of Poland, and the government of what remains will he datnlnntad by Moscow...
...This is a tragic error...
...Yiddish magazine...
...Th* tap kttan are Za vada taki, Cwamiasar of Political Muc at ion...
...The "peace," which is ss armed truce, is being made, and every parley malca one more pessimistic...
...So' do Franco and Poland and every devastated nation...
...Jl Sulzberger continues that the USSR wants the Bit Three "to be in a position to halt aggression...
...Stettinius has said that "By creating the world organization first and separating its functions from tin peace settlements, we place it above and apart from those settlements and leave it free to deal with thresh to the peace of the world that may later arise fron these settlements...
...and Tore tic...
...March 27 was the anniversary of Yugoslavia's entry lato the allied camp, and Tito declared this day a national holiday...
...Totalitarian Communism ooald hat have wan the hasysasoiy of Ennepe and Anin without the aawittang aid of intsBsrtnals who did asl realise, until ton Into, what was hsppraang...
...Even the vagi-promises given by The Three at Yalta are bainf violated...
...Krame WS* ousted from his pott SS Minister of National Economy, indicating ? continuing trend toward conservatism...
...In amaunin...
...One can hardly realise in this country how mach sacrifice and courage, it rank to print in nnaergrouad printing shops sura ? magazine and to distribute it under the watchful eye* of the Gestapo—especially When the writers, printers and distributors wen Jews...
...Sure, So does every other nation...
...But it...
...They argue rant whatever injustices have been done to Poland, the Baltic States, and other «mall nations, the machinery by which peace can bp araurrd will he ant up, and injustices can' be corrected to some far fntare...
...Croats deserted the Yugoslav army in large numbers In 1941, and Croatia waged war against the Allies...
...By so doing it sum net only solved the social problem of the grant Russian country, but also of the world...
...The London DtnVnnuV P#l«li of Msrch It published the following telegram from Constsntlnepl*: "Twenty live young Polo* **eap*d from Kumania to Greece to ealiat in the Polish Army in Italy...
...Among those jailed at Paracin are General Drmitroje Kivltovie and Ms brother Peter, Stairrslav Kumanudi and hie sen Kosta, Alexandersachn Ntkehxjevie, and Stevan Mikhailovitch, formerly raraiaaar to Manta, all ef whoa fought under Dreja hxisxaarassfttoh agetnet the Geratene...
...2 cocks for over IS liens...
...Hence Stalin's demand for three votes In the Assembly, and veto power, so that, thai future world organization cannot he turned into an anti Soviet alliance...
...One lltritM dollar to worth WO din...
...Monde...
...C. L. Sulzberger of the ?. Y. Timet writes that "the Kremlin's principal desire...
...We are losing the peace...
...Food fa slwsUfel hi »stgrada ? yen tara tao saohaaraHw saira, A* throaghrat the fcnSsratnd lsuras, there U economic stagnattoa, laalsHia, the Mae* market evil...
...Delegates," La., Coaamntiist Consmissars, nave been assigned to each privately owned institution — factories, banks, etcetera...
...The old League of Nations was made part of the Versailles Treaty It is not intended that the new league should be thus tied la with the peace settlement...
...of meat —1,000 dinars...
...Chaos reigns in Poland— political and economic, runaway innatson neither Polish, nor Gorman, nor *» sian money has any Axed value...
...His Holiness Patriarch Nioodean hailed the Groxa government and the return of Transylvania "thanks to the trust ef ear great Alkas, handed by the Soviet Union, our sister in Orthodoxy...
...is security," either through ? world organization to maintain peace or through acquisition of a wide sphere of Influence and strategic frontiers in central and eastern Europe...
...Je wis* Socialist Mae.i— fpsaiindsd Im Parat...
...in probable that the peat* was suspended in reprisal for two articles published by Unser Stimm*, one criticizing the policy of the Lrajif Committee and, the second "|—'-|g the practices of the French Communists...
...Sehrfceroer on So vie t Foresaw To Wey ? an almost infantile effor^ toanalrxe Soviet foreign policy...
...The MstonpsliUn denied that hhe Russian Church will "pray politics" as it did under the lawn...
...which he escribed to "fear sf Americans" and propaganda...
...T*hat explain* the ilesire to modify the old Ruseo-Terkish Treaty...
...shevisaa, disguised aa democracy...
...Frisco WIR I« ? Pence Conference IHOSE "experts'' who insist that the San Francim Conference ia not a peace conference, nre m;«t«ir^ While it hi true that such issues as the polish problem, the Palestinisn problem, the Chinese problem, fat colonial problem, will net even he rtasmsstJ at Frists, it ia aleo tree that in this real world the proposed raw' moral security organnartien cannot be separated from all thane concrete problems...
...in summary— • Under the shadow of Impending defeat, the Nnsis remain methodical...
...The Ustachis were largely from the civil guards and Hie Peasants Protective Guard, legalized and financed under orders frasa Dr...
...The Ustashk ander Pavelich killed nearly 800,000 Serbs...
...They have bee* a rrented by th* Eins and deported to Bulgaria, which is under Borkt domination They are actually in a Soviet NKVD prison.'' • » · Never before in history hs* sny country been partitioned by bar own allies, and a foreign puppet government imposed upon her...
...i Unmet Stimm«, appearing twice ? wrak in Paris with a circulation of about 10,000, was regularly published during the Nazi occupation by a heroic group of underground workers belonging to the Band...
...Roosevelt is not avoiding the errors Wilson mas*, but is repeating thaw...
...The National and Agrarian Banks were also confiscated...
...So did the architects of the infamous Versailles Treaty...
...And this "expert" goes on: "the fioviet TTnton wanta to rectify ? actuation on its southern ? pletnetie flank...
...Poland's Agony through the Ironclad Soviet censorship partial reports are leaking out which confirm the worst font of friends of Polish democracy...
...never attack her'again, and to force Germany to repair the damage that Russin has suffered...
...Sherwood praised th* loyalty of Japansso Amor Irans and FlNpnino...
...r Poiee who are Communists...
...The peat* settlements are being made now...
...But nothing was said about the essential rate aktywa hp the Serbian people under ¦ikhailovitch in the fight against the invading Hash...
...Storei and factories are closed for lack of good* and raw materials...
...Russian Communism ban achieved real equality nad han abolished the chains of slavery...
...Stalin confronts Churchill and Roosevelt with ? blunt refusal to carry out th* understanding they had nt Tnlta to include in th* new provisional go tm meant at least a few such men ss Mikolajczyk...
...Henra the insistence on the Big Three domination of the new security brganization...
...They are carrying out a thorough purge of all critic* and opponents of Communism aa "Fascists and areata af Germany...
...All university buildings in Belgrade, and all libraries, were destroyed, and with them the rich literature and records of Serbia...
...Me praised Stalin for drang ewwrything he can to noeriaa religious resurgence...
...Also, shrouds and coffins are made to prescription...
...In a stana the asmsLinlii1 caprtaihrt world eraraastted raicide, ftrst by appeasement of Fascism, dingraiail as a bulwark against Bolshevism, and then by appeasement of Kol...
...He (damned the Vatican's "attitude of leniency" toward Germany, as anti-Soviet and pro- Nazi...
...The largest bank, Hipotekaram, has keen taken over by the Communist-led National Liberation Committee and its administration of 106 were ousted...
...and "Democratic" parties, and a "Bund," and always manage to find a few mediocre, little known members of th* bona fide parties who will split away and serve st "loaders" of th* Communist-organized parties...
...H* had urged nationalization of heavy Industries and deflation...
...Every legitimate Polish institution hat a phony counterpart created by the Communiati: thut they have organised "Socialist," "Peasant...
...A tat of puupiB nre doing ? wice yah of deceiving themselves...
...My old friend, the hiutorixn of m45, will write that "it hi inconceivable that W many intelligent raraaranV taran, ? ran tery ago, failed ss completely to understand Russian foreign potiey...
...Ivan Suhasjch...
...A. recent decree rends: "One cock is allowed for 1 to IS hens...
...Recently 700 Yugoslav Chotnika, rescued by the Bed Army from a prison eamp in Pomerania, arrived in Belgrade...
...Many had the courage to declare their allegiance to Mikhailovitch...
...Production in the factories that were riot destroyed has declined sharply since liberation...
...The principal organizers of the resistance in 1941 are now called traitors, war criminals, Fascists...
...Kassian trends am disturbing French Catholics, particularly th* barrage agllnst the Vatican, and the probability that in Austria the Catholic and Soclalitt Parties will be eliminated — none others exltt — and a new indasiv* political front organised In the sxsme of unity...
...Russia wanta to make' dure Germany will...
...Unser Stimme (Our Voice), organ of the Jewish Socialist Bund in Paris, wan suspended by the French police on April 9. No moUTtj for this extraordinary measure of the French suthftif lies has been given...
...Despite the rigid control by the army the workers refuse to work at slave labor for wages that are nearly worthless...
...They an disillusioned, not only by whit Russia han donn, bat by the betrayal of Poland by her weitem Allien...
...Needlera u say, the Vatican dera net demand that Catholics abstain from political activ-ttlcra against Italy...
...It will carry on work of tht Moscow, Teheran, Cairo, and Yalta conferences...
...Stalin's new relifjiovg polic* Tt l>aying dividenda...
...Only the Partisans have plenty of bread...
...Chief of Stat and head of theaJsK VI...
...In the "I'olieh" army, all of the sAVer* from the rank of major up are either Russian...
...they wen all tranafenad to the concentration camp at Paracin, the second largest camp in Serbia, established by the Russians, where a large number of the Chetnik officers and soldiers who collaborated with the Kad Army in the capture ef Kragujewatz in October, 1044, are incarcerated...
...In s story from Moscow shout the denunciation of the Russo-Japanese Pact, C. L. Sulzberger cabled: "Th* population, although far from surprised, wss nevertheless stunned...
...What he meant is that iU politics will be in amend with the Kremlin's dsn!a tea Though he ones led the extreme reactionary light wing of che Orfhsaar Chare*, the Metropoliten has rang been praBoerat, and wry useful to Meeeoer...
...These are the figures who are proposed by Moscow ss the "deinocrstic forces" to be included in the new provisional government according to the fake formula agreed upon at Yalta, with the Lublin Committee as the mein base...
...camp only to he thrown in a Ooeamowist samp ie sranie hu* to he accused of "collaborating with the Germans" is to add hhnut te injury...
...Ner wtfl "a free and unfettered election" ever be held in Poland ss long ns the Comma-nitta can prevent it...
...The world organization cannot b* separate and apart from the blunders now being mads* but must enforce there, aa the alternative to wax...
...Konsense...
...Robert Sherwood is one ef th* few who hnvo had the courage to urge postwar amity with Japan...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 15
