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 Irrepressible Conflict Deepens WINCENTY WITOS, Stanislaw Miko?ajczyk, and W?adys?aw Kiernik have formed a...
...The Yugoslav Committee of National Democratic Union in Switzerland reports that L. Markovltch, university professor and leader of the Serbian Radical Party, and K. Kumandi, of the Serbian Democratic Party, have been assassinated by Tito's secret police...
...Bulgarian Communist Czer-venkov said on August 22: "Georgi Dimi-trov is the true father of our Fatherland Front...
...In the Russian zone of Korta there i* no shortage of Koreans—-rained by Russian and ('hints* Communists—for civil administration...
...The occupying French troops will have to suppress rebellion by force, as in 1930...
...to China te negotiate the first commercial treaty with the Chinese...
...Exactly a century agro, in 1844, ih* USA sent Caleb dishing...
...Annum has been taken over by the Independence league, a Nationalist-Communist organization...
...Their parties—the Socialists, Labor, and Peasant parties-have been reorganized, and they have lo*t leadership...
...Within the government they occupy minor posts...
...But I fear that Dailin is a bit over-optimistic...
...Since liberation, 36 Koreans have been killed by the Japanese police...
...Greek Royalists assail the Regent, Dsraaskmoa, who is in London conferring with the Foreign Ministers of the Big Three, demanding an immediate plebiscite on the question of the return of King George, rather thsn an election later supervised by foreigners...
...Marshall ami Admiral Kins to explain the slowness of demobilisation...
...This may mark an Important maneuver In the grim fight going on throughout the Russian sphere of influence In central and eastern Europe againat Communist domination...
...The greatest problem is ??ck of discipline among the workers...
...Izveslia" stated that the Soviet Government "etands firm on the principle of not permitting interference in the internal affaire of Rumania...
...Hungarian Communist Rakosi said on August 9: "The Hungarian Communist Party always advanced with a great display of force...
...There is great opposition among (he natives of Indu China to the return of that colony to France...
...Every able-bodied citizen must take part in reconstruction «oder thin decree...
...democratic powers (possessed with the atomic bomb and economic power), has given new hope to the genninely progressive forces everywhere...
...Labor brigades sre recruited to be sent to colonize "economic vacnama" in border regions from which Germane and Hungarians have been expelled, and into the mines...
...in nient of the elections...
...Democratic Poles remark Utterly that the former satellites of Nasi Germany in eastern Europe enjoy greater protection from Britain and the DBA againat Russian domination than 4M Poland, trat nation to fight againat Hitlerie?a...
...In Hungary opponents of Communism are gathering courage...
...That is why We need a general and serious Compulsory labor decree...
...Independence for Korea...
...Uut of 25 American soldiers assigned to see that a hapless lot of Russians went home, 21 turned up ai hoepital cases and sought to he excused from the onerous assignment . . . Special [Soviet I agents have been sent "into the American zone to round up hesitant Kus-Kians...
...Firmness pays: Bulgaria's semi-totalitarian Fatherland Front liberalised the election laws and legalised certain opposition groups, in response to the criticism by Byrnes and Kevin...
...A wave of strikea is threatened...
...The main struggles between totalitarianism and democracy are still ahead, and the tremendous power of the USA may not always be thrown into the battle on the democratic side...
...The advocates of a "hard" peace for Japan, as for Germany, have gained the ascendancy in Washington and London, • Volney Hurd reportu in the Christian Science Monitor (Sept 11) that "I'ndst the Yslta agreement I American stA British authorities] sre committed i«> shis expatriates bark to Russia whether the exiles want to go or not...
...But the militia (the only police force) remains in the control of the Communist Minister of the Interior...
...General Hodge said: "There are many factions...
...Both were anti-Nazi and were badly treated by the Gestapo...
...Washington and Londoa refuse recognition to the puppet regime set up by Moscow in eastern Kurope, bul oka red the Mon-cow-sponsored regime in Warsaw...
...Miko?ajczyk, Kiernik, Popiel, and Sta?czyk, tbe democratic Poles who were formerly in the government-in-exile in London, have faced great difficulties since they joined the new government "of national unity" in Warsaw...
...In contrast to the USA, the Australian Labor Government is not clcsing down government-owned war plants, or selling them, but utilizing these plants as part of the Labor Party plan of providing full employment...
...only if this power is wielded with wisdom, and by liberals, will, it save the world from further disaster...
...George Dimitror, secretary el the Comintern until its "dissolution" in 1943, renounced his Soviet citizenship in order to ?iecome the Tito of Bulgaria...
...There have been "riots" in Saigon and elsewhere...
...They are operated by the government, or jointly with private firms...
...Since King Michasi dismissed the Groza Government of Rumania, It has continued its campaign of terror, arresting, on August 28, 37 political opponents, including Flueras, for IS years leader of the Rumanian Socialist Party recently replaced by Titel Petrescu, end members of Maniu's Peasant Party and of Bratianu's Liberal Party...
...The Mexican Government, first te recognize the new Spanish Government-in-Exile, has given it access to funds hitherto frozen, and will soon turn over to it the Spanish legation buildings...
...Yugoslavs opposed to Tito's totale in kiiikiii make the same complaint...
...They protested that the Communists were planning the capture cf all the parties of the Father l.-nd Front and persecuting sll critics ·· "Fascists...
...The twin dangers of Communism and Fascism cannot ho averted merely by the power given America by our grea...
...Even before the intervention by Byrnes r u I ? vin, the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Union had ? icripltated a crisis...
...Ives to the princi-I It < of unity accepted by the executive committee...
...In Poland the Communists—Polish and Russian—have followed tbe tactics to which Byrnes and Bevln objected In Bulgaria and Rumania, with the object of suppressing all opposition...
...The executive e mmitteee will soon publish a program l.i the unification of the peasant movement in PJand...
...Opponents of Cummu- . u'-: .ti'iahixi laiiism and Russian domination, find themselves mure ani more ivolait d. The new executive committee <it the P»:4rnt farty, completely overhauled, I ir Mi heil the following veiled threat on A ii'JUst 21: '"fhe peasant fraction represented by <-i;;»ns .Miko?ajczyk and Kiernik is try-injr to organize a separate peastnt party under their command...
...no Japanese have been killed as far as is known...
...That's easy: too many officers would have to return to lower paid civilian jobs...
...Czerhoslovakian Premier Kierlinger described the eompnlsory labor decree, on August 24, as "pupalar democracy...
...Talk to twenty people and you get twenty different stories...
...The entire Lublin district committee of the Peasant Party and important members of all parties all over Poland have been jailed...
...About 80 percent of the Greek workers employed by the British in the Athens and Piraeus area went on strike, demanding a 75 percent increase in wages and better food...
...Both extremes, royalists and Communists, arc becoming more provocative, with dashes between them increasing, Despeiate economic conditions ars strengthening the Communists in the KAM...
...T. Dobroslavsky, Bulgarian Zveno leader, stated on August 23: "Calmly and proudly the Fatherland'Front places its (ate into the secure hands of Soviet diplomacy...
...Zoltan Tildy and Ferencz Nagy, both of the Smallholders (Peasant) Party, and Arpad Szakasits of the Social Democrats, have all spoken out against strong-arm tactics pursued by the Communists...
...a loaf of bread costs 40 cents, th* A ? reports...
...The average worker gets about 80 cents daily...
...Congress asked Gan...
...Their leaders resigned from the government and denounced the Father!.'nd Front as merely a Communist front, and demanded post-I...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak The Irrepressible Conflict Deepens WINCENTY WITOS, Stanislaw Miko?ajczyk, and W?adys?aw Kiernik have formed a new party in fulami, "Polaki Stronnicktwo Ludowe," or Poliih People*i (Peasants) Party, and plan to publish a paper...
...Tension arises when American and British troops to whom the whole thing is distasteful are compelled to be actual policemen and to use physical persuasion to make these unhappy Russians leave the Anglo-American areas...
...They have permitted only the appearance of opposition while working energetically to capture control of all of the parties represented in the coalition governments of these countries...
...It is especially unpleasant for Americans to force displaced persona from the Sbvte tired Baltie States to return home...
...Forty years ago the USA betrayed Korea to Japan ha an attempt at appeasement Will wo betray Korea to Russia now for the aame reason 7 0AN&MOUS INAS Henry George, who was againat poverty, lectured In Great Britain in ISM, and yon see what happened...
...The final attitude of the executive committee toward the Miko?aj-c.yk-Kicrnik group will depend on how they will adapt them...
...Protests brought an order from Mac Arthur to replace these Japanese as soon as possible "consistent with safety...
...V. Nagy wrote in tbe liberal Magyar Nemzel that the principles and methods of the British Labor Party, not these of Russian Communism, should be followed by the Hungarians...
...Stalin flatly rejected Anglo-American demand* that the government of Humania be more representative...
...The Slovak Commissariat of the Interior has been authorised by the National Council to estsbUsb forced labor camps for those convicted by "Peoples Courts" of activities "threatening national reconstruction and public security or expression of hostility to the State or eta •ion of work...
...It shows whst comes of letting strange, visionary, impracticable Ideas creep into a country L. H. R. in ?. Y. Times...
...In Summary The United States has informed Tito that Yugoslavia will not get economic aid until the Yalta pledge of democratic rights is fulfilled, C. L. Sulzberger ssys...
...They "confessed" to subversive propaganda and "preparations for political crimes...
...Yes, General, and talk to twenty Americans and you get twenty opinions...
...That is how we realized the land reform in fcur weeks time...
...As David J. Dailin writes elsewhere in this issue, the Communist ' wave of the future" is ebbing throughout Kurope...
...I • Chileans have protested the US proposal to make their Easter Island a US naval base...
...Evidently encouraged by the protest made by Secretary of Slate Byrne* end Foreign Minister Ilevin, that the Fatherland Front regime in Bulgaria i ? totalitarian and the electoral lawn are dewigncd to disfranchise the oppe-Hition, and the subsequent postpone-••mit of the Bulgarian elections and revision ef the objectionable laws, the fOliah opposition is renewing its ••:rog<?le against Communist tyranny...
...A letter from an American soldier in Iran reports that there remain in that country about 6,000 American troops, instead of "only a few hundred" as stated by Jamas Reston in the NY Time., citing the State Department as authority...
...Enthusiastically celebrating an independence that will be a long time in coming, the Koreans insist they can govern themselves, but Americans cite disputes among them as evidence of incapacity tor democracy...
...wealth and by the atomic bomb...
...KoREANS were incensed by the decision of American military authorities to continue Japanese in office in southern Korea...
...It is not true that this in merely the result of Japanese propaganda...
...The victory of the British Labor Party, with its program of gradual and democratic socialization, plus the new political offensive of th...
...there last asonth...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 37
