Capital Comment
STOUT, JONATHAN
Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT The United States' where of Influence | r A8HINGT0N, D. C—The general direction of ¦I-.-American foreign policy took dearer shape. ( * -with Mexico's call for...
...This is in line with Fiench history, willi the French spirit, with all the democratic aspirations which are being devoutly voiced in France at the present time...
...In France —almost alone- have \w seen a nation rising proudly and solf-confidently from defeat ami degradation...
...As the process of liberal ion has gone forward in western and southern Km ope, the joys arising from (he ejection of German Oppressors' have been overlaid by suffering, confusion ami hopes deferred...
...During the time of Retain she fell under suspicion...
...This does not mean that ¦SaTetary Stettnius will play a swashbuckling role, or JBgJhtog of the sort, tin the contrary, the methods ¦jptftntmies to be used will be those of suasion and (•Htement, And that should offer a stark contrast to Jpt'leethods and techniques of Stalin and Churchill...
...The prospects of a new lease of life for European civilisation during the coming decade are increased by the renaissance of France...
...It has insisted on disarming the guerrilla forces, but it has moved rapidly to punish fascists and dislopal collaborators and to restore the economic life af.the country...
...Whether the great land masses and islands are to be divided between two empires pr among three seems to make little difference...
...Even a cursory reading of the French papers shows that the people over there are far from being exhausted by the devastating experiencea of the, past four years...
...resident Roosevelt and Secretary Stcttinlus made this ceremony the occasion for a restatement of our war aims...
...Women have, at Jang last, been given the suffrage...
...The de Gaulle government will hold IndoChllta as tightly as Winston Churchill will retain his grip on the last African colony...
...What happened in Washington is but a formal recognition of the patent fact that the Fiench are a great people...
...All of this means that in the end France, like Britain, will take her full part in European affairs and that, in the end, her influence will count on the democratic side...
...ie' the western hemispl...
...It has moved to enforce a draft of certain classes of its young men In order to create an effective army...
...We may he tore, on the other hand, France has been given her right of way In the regions which she considers in her own sphere of Influence...
...iy war plant* in other lines universally ages, pleasanter work, brighter prospects, conditions the only wonder was that the I forges over could have hoped to comejf'edtk other war plants for manpower...
...And the ile Gaulle government has proved that it can rule and that it is responsive to popular demands...
...The Forrest Davis articles ex^peru the view that Mr...
...He agreed to all of Stalin's annexe- ¦ tions in eastern Europe...
...But the foundry industry arstas adamant against these common sense sug• .* ' • France Herself Again 1 11K New Year's Day ceremony whereby France was admitted to the United Nations was the happiest omen of a troubled wartime holiday...
...This is in part the meaning of the appeasement of Stalin...
...lightly-, ."drolled "splines of million...
...Roosevelt's postwar peace ^¦?rested upon such regional understandings rather Hp* world organization patterned on the League ¦fcwns plan...
...tow will approve or grant average wage to 10 rents an hour above the established ha Board will now expedite wage boost for foundries and forge* by placing al_l r i a "blue ribbon" list for blanket certifiwer problem in foundries and forges alsn relatively simple for understanding, low-paid, the work is hard and dirty, tions are almost uniformly common labor, ¦acts for promotion to better jobs within i extremely remote...
...It needs help, but to the utmost limit It is helping itself...
...We are gradually finding out that de Gaulle, like Churchill, got his i/uiif pro quo at Moscow...
...adopted A.Jjndget for 1945 demanding huge expenditures...
...There is a great revival of'free and open discussion of both foreign and domestic affairs...
...There is no great gaiu for democracy in all 0/ this...
...Thus far official France—as fully as official Britain—seems to lie bent on the preservation of her empire...
...When the elections are held there will be Jn France a freely chosen and democrats government, dedicated to realization of a drastic program of basic social reform to be legally achieved...
...Working Women in the PostwpFira Frieda S. Miller The Expanding Frontiers of American Co-ops John Daniels Krutch's Johnson.................................auchiai...
...this u apparent the consistent working out of a BBbr "regional understand ings" which Forrest Davis l*n Booscveli \ blesaing forecast authoritatively in the ¦ferny Ere mug l>„gt two years ago as the main line *lP*"t* House policy...
...RB^tfce next guy thai mentions the Atlantic I barter 9jB month washed out with soap 1 rW»?<At» »ked$ further clarification on the meaning ^¦flyc**' enssgee in our State Department...
...m™*" qa* Political Morality—a Father-Son Debate \ "• if * Hollywood in 1944...
...At the moment, the addition of a fifth to the four great powers which have been recognized as having a right to sit at the renter of the United Nations Security Council may seem not to promise any definite change for the better...
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...with Mexico's call for a meeting of foreign ¦MMH'd Wettem hemisphare nations, excluding IBiMiaa...
...Pa ' Regimentation more than a year of governmental efforts by method* to solve the manpower shortage in and forge shops, the War Labor Board has lopted 1 he WI'H Labor Division's previously 'an of offering higher wages in order to inIto Uke these underpaid and otherwise a adopted by the WLB, it waa explained, over plant* which an falling- badly bchedule* bicauei of manpower shortages I Manpower Commission has bean unable by other means...
...France, as the nucleus of a federation of free dttlocratlc nation* fo western Kurope, may become the last best hope of that wee-torn continent...
...fJft'WPH Labor Division brought out these facts Bjsjg than a year ago and suggested raising wages saga, change in the lsbor relations policy of the foundry ktfcfjtry to provide opportunities for promotion from Ms) sonunon lsbor status...
...parsons Under False Colors —the Association For a Democratic Germany.........gerhart h. se&er and ruoolp katz Forecasts F^r 1945...
...maintain parity with the other two, ¦L organ...
...Their programs are more sober, more realistic, more thoroughgoing than they Were before the eclipse...
...For a brief moment, at least, an effort was made to breathe the breath of life hack into the Atlantic Charter...
...Jy Russia and Britain dividing Kurope and Asia jWp»a»n them, it heroines imperative fur the United' ^•tes, in ordei i...
...fiy J. Jpdate of the Forrest Davis articles now heroines ft ia merely a coincident thai two years the time when Russia and Britain made their | jff bilateral agreements dividing up Europe and ¦ ¦Pear E*»t into Russian and British hegemonies...
...The French Government has...
...It will o)„„ In «tr»ng«h»-¦wnlt'l hand when he meets Stalin ami Churchill MRP^'*''"?' jaBppK Mete, eospled * Ith the earlier Washington ¦kamiUtieM el Churchill in Italy and Stalin in ?jeJ*a4, Means that Roosevelt ia withdrawing into HB aheO of the weatern hemisphere aa the United Aptes* spehere of influence, and will let Churchill •I ska Stilm fight it out between themselves for Sanaa, treat which we already have »i**"«< «r '5 Wfcadrtfcal (riceat for i*><= casual fact of the exLjMiisi*a| Uaphj ' blood and treasure no that fsSi&gdJKjU?tt?lplr n«) have something to fight HpHMMpneadspheie conference, although (ailed Sp^aily by Mexico, actually of coui e will 1"' dominates by the United States...
...But the fight of the underground end everything that has happened since D-Day shows that the people over there are SCOT sound, that they are still the children of the revolution...
...Thta Meeting, it is significant to note, will fcjjtees a eftriferenee of the United Nations end another Kir MMBg Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin...
...But France is not totalitarian...
...L fcee;it is obvious that t!ie postwai world is lo he iJaWed op int...
...B^»eH-kno»n here Chat the friendliest collabora^^Hpbte between Washington ami Mexico City and, Hbl, It may be taken that the Mexican call for yiim'nn in no way conflicts with Washington's plans, fijpiainvaoae of the meeting will be to forge a single "Claws hemisphere policy which all the American MNwtil support with unanimity at the later United pHM conference...
...The old political parties have achieved a vigorous new life...
Vol. 28 • January 1945 • No. 1
