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 W. Oak Their Line Has Changed Again ... IN 1942, Stalin made a clear distinction between the German people and the...
...The plans for the coup were laid ears, fully...
...Comparing Harry Truman with Lincoln, the Daily Worker ssys thst the new President is "wholly devoted to ths policies of Roosevelt'' But many big business men, indecently rejoicing, have privately stated that "Truman is our man...
...From Time, April 16...
...The appeals of the Union of German Officers from Moscow are largely ignored, or received with cynicism...
...600,000 man were rejected by the Army for illiteracy...
...It waa net until July 20, 1944, that an opportunity came to penetrate the cordon of Nash closely guarding Hitler...
...Deadlock ON Polish Problem FOOLISH women who were in the Underground Army and who fought in the Warsaw revolt against the Nasis last August-September, were rescued from a Nasi concentration camp by American troops...
...But hundreds of thousands listen to broadcasts from London, and especially value the messages from Thomas Mann...
...When his country was invaded the Russians, to please Hitler, jailed Fierlinger and then expelled him from the Soviet Union...
...Benes tried to recall his Ambassador from Moscow, but Fierlinger retorted that he did not recognise Benes' authority and would take no orders from him...
...Unity of all southern Slavs, in close association with their northern brothers, was urged...
...He declared that in his district only about 20 percent remain Nazis, and over 35 percent are conscious}* anti-Nazi...
...he reports that many others were not caught, that eleven yean of propaganda and totalitarian terror have not changed their philosophy...
...It failed, and the Nezh launched a terroristic purge of both military and civilian leaders...
...with conservatives...
...One big job was to cement the alliance between civilian anti-Nazia and those in mili tary circles...
...The top Fascist leaders have been removed from office, bit formerly active members of the Fascist Party still occupy positions in the civil administration, in the Carabiniere, in the Army...
...At the recent All-Slav Congrett at Sofia, the head of the Orthodox Church in Bulgaria* Stephen I, stressed the need of all Slavs for s common language, and it was unsnimously decided to adopt Russian sa the obligatory common langusgs not only officially but for everyday life...
...Relief of the famine and epidemic of disease In India will require $1,200,000, the American Relief for India announced...
...China, Germany, Austria, Afghanistan, Korea, which would give the USSR 16 votes...
...Marshal Tito, dictator of Yugoslavia, declared that all Yugoslsvs are determined to "regain" all the territory now possessed by Italy and Austria inhabited by Slavs—Trieste and all of the Ittrian Peninsula, Gorizia, and Carinthia...
...The Social Democratic informant escaped...
...Mikolajcsyk la accused by the London group of trying to insinuate himself into this set-up...
...The Labor Party had conducted a long campaign against rearmament...
...Only about 56 percent of Americsn sdults have had an eighth-grade education...
...Thereafter far two years all the poisonous scorn of Hya Ehreuburg and other Soviet propagandists, and of Daily Worker editors, waa directed toward libarala who maintain that than are decant Germans despite the Nasi terror...
...The Communists have almost disappeared— those who did not go over to the Nasis were savage...
...Labor Tory Trace- Splitt With Open BREAKING their peace-pact, the British Tories and Laborites have started the campaign of oratory for the general election which ia to follow the defeat of Germany...
...persecuted...
...8tanislaw Mikolajcsyk, former Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile, declared (April 16) that "I accept the Crimea decision In regard to the future of Poland and the formation of a Provisional Government of National Unity...
...1944 The executive committee of the German Social Democratic Party, now In exile In London, has received reports confirming the view, expressed in The Ntw Leader at the time, that the attempted assassination of Hitler was the climax ef a long-prepared conspiracy to rid Germany of her enemies and ours—the Nazis...
...But the average wage is still far below the minimum necessary to health, or even subsistence, and the threat of inflation grows...
...There remains danger that despite their defeat in the civil war, the Communist-led EAM-ELAS forces will eventually win because of Hi iliiins support of the monarchists and other reactionaries and their lack of a real program of reform...
...The lacfemeade.ee' ef Csechosievoil...
...The purge has been all too slow...
...And to these dependencies may be added, perhaps, Iran...
...Over a long period oppositional officers sought te place reliable men In decisive posts in the Home Aran;, and in the police...
...Brendan Bracken, Churchill's man Friday, retaliated by reminding Bevin that he wrote in March, 1989, that Britain is "organizing for a war which may never take place...
...11, 1946, Anno XXIII"—I.e., the 23rd year of Fascism...
...TMrfyrw* Votas for Russia...
...The question of territorial aspirations in the Greek section of Macedonia it not of interest at present," Tito said modestly, but sdded that Yugoslavia would not "oppose" the desire of Slsvs in Macedonia to unite with her...
...The report came from a Social Democrat who took an active part in the organization of the abortive revolt Its failure reduces the chances of accelerating the downfall of Hitler by an Internal uprising—and shows the impossibility of revolution against a totalitariaa regime...
...They predict a now Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era...
...Democratic forces" in Germany henceforth will be those who cooperate with—i.e., scree—the conquering Russians...
...The Communists sccuse him of being pro-Nasi and a war criminal—but the Nezis don't know It The women liberated stated that many of their leaders had been shot as bandits by the Nasis...
...80 percent of those in the areas formerly conquered by the Nazis have only the clothes on their backs...
...Sixteen Polish leaders of the Underground previously loyal to the Polish Government in London, who recently "disappeared," are reportedly in Moscow conferring with Molotov on the composition of the now provisional government, to break the deadlock...
...Im December, 1944...
...fa Fascism leinf Destroyed...
...A receipt issued by the Banco dl Sic ilia has this dateline: "Jan...
...Ai long as Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, remain in the Soviet sphere of influence, with governments that must be pro-Soviet and in which the Communists will hsve Increasing influence, none of them will ever dare to vote contrary to the dictates of Moscow...
...Voulgaris was a follower of Vcnizelos, pro-Allies in World War I, and last year he suppressed the Communist-led mutiny in the Greek fleet in Alexandria, incurring the wrath of the EAM...
...Have Faith...
...ACCORDING to the Greek Communists, the ousting of the Plastiras regime was a victory for the monarchists a;-»->ir British imperialism...
...They will be jus* about the right age for military service when World War III starts to save the world fur democracy, sad no doubt they will all have been subjected—girls asd •boys alike—to compulsory military training to preserve peace...
...However, the fact is that Moscow has pursued, as usual a double line, changing from one to another as exigencies dictate...
...0 French workers got their second wage increase since liberation, with equal pay for equal work...
...To discuss the security proposals," said Roosevelt Answered Stalin: "What is there to discuss...
...Later he became Csecboalevakian Ambassador to Moscow, for many years...
...One leaflets li headed: "Fascists...
...ho am we red that it was not srong enough...
...Bracken said Britain will never accept a totalitarian Socialist system...
...Unless there ia a miraculous change in the present trend, Russia will not have three votes in the Assembly of the new world organisation, but ten or more...
...Now that the defeat of Germany impends, the usefulness of the Ehrenburg hate-propaganda Is ended...
...The assassination of the Fuehrer waa to be the signs I for a general attack on the S3 and S A. The Army was to swear loyalty te Coeeael-Qraetal lack...
...The American Communists were not Informed in advance of the impending shift is* emphasis in Soviet propaganda: during the weeks preceding Alexandrov's attack on Ehrenburg both the Daily Worker and the New Masses reflected Ehrenburg's "sll Germans are beasts" line...
...IN 1942, Stalin made a clear distinction between the German people and the Nazis...
...for every American killed, a dozen children have bean born...
...According to Ehrenburg everyone, from the Vaticen to Tht New L*ad*r, who pleaded for an intelligent, enduring peace built not on vengeance against all Germans but on justice, were damned as pro-Nasi...
...Arthur K rock, astimsting in the Timet ths difficulties Truman will most within ths ranks of his own party, writes that ths lmw Presidents thinking "will bo much mora along conventional economic and social Unas," and he will "surround himself with assistants who havs not been admirers of Mr...
...George Alexandrov, more authoritative than Ehren-burg, slaps him down in Pravda for "his" theory that all Germans, not just Nasis, are collectively guilty for the atrocities and the war, though Ehrenburg's line was not invented by himself...
...a new lev-era stent under Geerdder asm Leaschner was to pt formed, to end the war...
...A CZECHOSLOVAKS reader writes from London: The new Cscchoslovakian Prime Minister, Zdenko Fierlinger, went to Moscow in 1920 as the head of the Cscchoslovakian mission for the repatriation of prisoners of war...
...Ernest Bevin charged that the Conservative Party was mainly responsible for this war, thst it helped Hitler to become strong, and failed to wsrn the country of spproaching war...
...People who for all these years avoided association with the anti-Nazia now fraternize with -them, assure them they never really believed in Nazism...
...William Green reveals that there has been an increase in productive efficiency of 72 percent during ths wsr, the equivalent of 7,000,000 workers...
...Thus Stalin gains ttill another weapon in his drive toward the Mediterranesn...
...The Allies have been in Sicily 19 months and the bank is under their control...
...They call Admiral Voulsjaris "an outright Fascist," and damn the minister of labor, Cassimatis, as the reactionary "who signed the decrees of the late dictator Metaxas abolishing constitutional rights in 1936...
...65,000,000 Russians urgently need clothing, Henry J. Kaiser reported...
...Now the line has switched back to Stalin's 1942 speech...
...He evidently feela that his immediate demands are enough—for the moment...
...Only a few Social Democrats have become Nasis...
...The Free Germany Committee In Moscow snd throughout the world has appealed to "good" Germans to get rid of the Nasis...
...Has Fascism bean destroyed in Italy...
...He also reaffirmed hia belief that "close and lasting friendship with the Soviet Union Is the keystone of future Polish policy...
...Roosevelt's inner circle," i.e...
...At Teheran and at Yalta eloquent declarations were made about uprooting every trace of Nazism in Germany...
...The American birth rate has increased over 30 percent since Pearl Harbor...
...Samples of Italian Fascist propaganda have been received here by La Panlm...
...when the Americans approached he was transferred...
...Bat Moscow la adamant in rejecting him, and in insisting that the Lublin puppet regime be represented at San Francisco...
...The Abortive Kevott ja Germany Im Jmly...
...This means postwar unemployment—unless planning , prevents • "We set a floor under profits, not a calling over them...
...The first practical preparations for revolt began in the spring of IMS...
...The Now Deal is dead...
...We Will Return Soon...
...Bevin declared that British foreign policy as evolved by aucceasive Conservative governments over two decades has "brought not only Britain but the who)* of civilisation nearly to the dust" He torpedoed the idea that he will ba another Ramsay MacDonsM...
...From whom does Fierlinger now talcs aidersi...
...Despite'this Fierlinger has long been a great admirer of Stalin and Soviet ism, and when he returned to Moscow in 1941 ha was cordially welcomed...
...The Social Democrats in cooper* at ion with other anti-Nazia, of whom the Catholics were most important, surveyed the tanks and the forces available, alloted specific duties, contacts made with all the small underground groups which had survived the terror snd purge...
...Nor will other Labor leaders...
...and join a Tory coalition after the war...
...But this will not save him from continued vilification from Moscow and its agents, or make him acceptable to Lublinites...
...Thereafter diplomatic relations between the Caechoelovakian Government-in-Exile in London and its Ambassador in Moscow were severed, but Fierlinger remained in Russia as a friend of Stalin, until he recently became Prime Minister of the government of which Eduard Benes is President...
...The Higher Democracy Department • "At Yalta, whan Roosevelt brought up the matter of a world conference, Stalin looked surprised snd asked: "Why...
...I objected that I thought this sn extreme statement...
...the Russians are again the best friends of "German democracy...
...A veteran Washington correspondent told ma recently that In twenty years at a political observer he bad never teen so much corruption in tho nation's capital as now—not even under Hording...
...Chester Bowles...
...And if the general principle, that "autonomoua" republics such as the Ukraine have a right zo a vote, eventually Ruiaia may get a vote for each of her 16 autonomous republics, making a total of 32 votes...
...They reported that their former lesder, General Bor, bad been held in another camp in the same area until recently...
...Three, at the Moscow Conference in October 1944, proclaimed to an applauding world that all vestige of Fascism In Italy was to be destroyed...
...They won another of the long series of battles against the German people...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 16
