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 Back to the Good Old Days Ro.SIK the riveter doesn't went to gv back to empty inn slop jam. Jack the...
...In Summary AFTER a prolonged visit to Washington, the Chinese Premier, T. ' V. Soong, left for China, via London and Paris...
...The trial of the British traitor, Lord II» w Haw, has ended in a death sentence...
...The great allies of Greece and Yugo-i'mjt have turned these martyred1 countries into an arena for immoral diplomatic strife...
...Referring to his negotiations with President Truman, Soong declared before leaving that "all the problems we were discussing have been settled satisfactorily...
...It is again a question of the lesser evil...
...Do the communists suppose they can smash it T.Hhout harming themselves T'' In a previous editorial Vlavianos, for the first time, blamed Russian imperialism along with the British for "the present misery in the Balkans and in Greece...
...Jack the machine-gunner on a ?-29 doesn't want l<> co back to · Job as a /arm laborer...
...We are witnessing an amoral conflict of nstionsl interests...
...India is thus, for the first time, being placed on the same footing with British Dominions in mat...
...Twenty-three men and twenty-one women who had served under him are accused with him...
...In the top council of eight, »e-leeted by the Russians, are four admitted Communists, twe Social Democrats, two members of the Christian Il< murratie Union...
...Yet rigid silence has been kept about these negotiations, and there is no inkling of what problems have been so happily solved...
...Unfortunately the Communist Party of Greece, which, as it has confessed, committed some very grave, mistakes which harmed the democratic struggle, considered that the unity with other parties of the left no longer has great value end so began an attack on them...
...Since, this Winter, the food rations are expecfed to hit the lowest mark since 1939, the specter of utter misery and anarchy is hovering over the entire continent...
...Where is that brave new world, anyway ? American productive capacity doubled during the war...
...The ? Bremberg trial of the main war criminals stems to have been post-potted once more, but the trials of »mall fry are being stepped up...
...For...
...The true reason for the animosity of the Warsaw Government towards the Vatican lies, in the strained Soviet-Vatican relations...
...Russia as Well as Britain and the USA pursue,this opportunistic policy...
...This is simultaneously good and bad...
...Josef Kramer* head of the > Oswiecim concentration camp, in which 4,000,000 persons are said to have been put to death, is now facing a court-martial...
...The fact that Soong came to Washington ' from Moscow, where he had concluded a Chinese-Soviet Treaty, leaves no doubt as to the importance of his visit to Washington...
...American economy is in a condition of "unparalleled health...
...And maybe a million GI-Joes who have seen Paris, and Burma, and a lot of excitement do not relish the idea of a drab, humdrum existence in some little town in Maine, or Arkansas, or Nevada, or in the slums of New York...
...Sixty percent of Europe's Jews were murdered, the Institute of Jewish Affsirs reports...
...Despite this the republicans . . . were careful not to break the unity < f the left against Fascism...
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...But it means continuing temporarily in power many who will later be accused of being .war criminals...
...mankind has never mansged to esc: pe this dilemma...
...relating to peace .settlement...
...It recognises the fact that Japanese salvation must be through the efforts of the Japanese themselves...
...The OWI estimates that 10 to 12 million tons of food must be Imported into the liberated countries if "millions of people now suffering from malnutrition and hunger are to be enabled to assume their responsibilities in rebuilding their home-lends...
...The Office of War Information states that the food situation in Europe has reached a stage where "political and economic chaos for whole nations" has become an actual menace...
...British policy in limited by twe factors—the American control of the technological processes concerned «ith the production of the atomic bomb and, the complete dependence during flu« transition period ef Britain's economy on American financial aid...
...The riddle was solved a few days later when it became known that Ruskie wan particularly anxious to set up a trusteeship—with her partici* pation—for the administration of the Italian colonies...
...It is reported that many arrests have been made among Catholic priests in Poland...
...The Italian Communist leader and Minister of Justice, Palmiro Togliatti, has published an article declaring "that her colonies have always been a liability to Italy, and that they should be relinquished...
...The Chilean Communist Bianca Lux Brum attacked Spruille Breden, defended Peron, urged all South Americans to unite against Yankee imperialism...
...it will cost more to lose the peace...
...He proposes to work entirely through the Emperor and the Government, as the power behind the throne...
...Henry Wallace offers an alternative in his Sixty Million Jobs, but it will be rejected, not only by Congress but by the American voters...
...You can't blame them...
...The struggles going on among the Big Three, the decisions thee* arrived at in e series of conferences, have'little to do with the Four Freedoms, the principles of the Atlantic Charter, or with honor, justice, self-determination, national independence, or peace...
...democracy cannot be imposed by decree...
...The Vicar General of Lublin who declined to urge armed Poles (obviously opposed to the present regime) to come out of the wood*, was arrested...
...Back to •normalcy," the inflation-deflation, boom bust cycle, back to planlessnesa, the chaos of free enterprise, back to cataclysmic depressions and masa unemployment, back to the further development of monopoly capitalism, back to the causes and conditions which led to Fascism in Europe and World War II...
...Bach attempts in its own sphere of influence to impose a regime to further its own interests...
...Ruuia declined to participatt uitk the USA and Britain m tupervitiny Weihen» in Grete...
...New Statesman ft Nation," London...
...Vloviono» DamM Conflict Between Pulsion and friffsft Imperialism T/iE NATIONAL HERALD, liberal Greek newspaper published by Basil Vlavianos, commenting on the report from Athens that the Communist Party of Greece had made a violent attack on the Socialists and Agrarians cooperating in th« KAM, says that "the deep differences between the Socialists and Communists never disappeared...
...Profits totaled $6,400,000.-000...
...it never is offered a positive good as an alternative...
...Hie division of Kurope into spheres of influence is assailed...
...The American general, who is evidently not so stupidly reactionary as many liberals have portrayed him, has given encouragement, at least verbally, to the democratic tendencies of the Japanese people...
...It is said that during his recent visit tp London, Lord , Wayell, the Viceroy of...
...His sudden enlightenment end public statement precisely at the moment when the fate of Half Is being deter-nrmed1 in London, sounds not only an* patriotic but is a downright betrayal of his country...
...Amei i-rans are also denastfyittg German industry...
...Henry the mechanic who tot flOO a week at a war plant doesn't rant to take a job as a truck driver at $35...
...Membership in Berlin's 18 trsde unions is 200,000, a third of the prewsr figure...
...But it leaves Emperor worship, shintoism, the feudal-capitalist, totalitarian system virtually untouched...
...The London Conference of Foreign Ministers has invited .a number of na-tioas, among them Ihdia, to submit their views on the treaty with Italy that is now being discussed...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Back to the Good Old Days Ro.SIK the riveter doesn't went to gv back to empty inn slop jam...
...Conquest of the Kuriles plus participation by Russia in the Tangier ad--ministration marks the first recognition that Russian interests and influence extend all the way from the Atlantic te the Pacific and te the Mediterranean...
...It is analagous to the policy, so passionately damned by pseudo-liberals, of making deals with Darlan, Badoglio, and their ilk in Italy and Germany (and when necessary with Communists) and then proceeding, however slowly, to undermine them, and deal with more democratic, stable, reliable antl-Faaclst elements...
...The mystery enshrouding his visit is in line with the prsctices of secret diplomacy which have become ever more customary since the Teheran Conference...
...Forty leading industrialists of the Ruhr, including Hugo Stinnes, were arrested tiy British authorities...
...The Warsaw Government has denounced the Polish-Vatican Concordat of 1926...
...This paper hes until now applauded the cooperation of Communists and Socialists against Fascists and the royalist reactionaries...
...For the war is" over and the government will no longer provide a guaranteed market for goods, and the old differential persists between productive capacity and consumer purchasing power, between supply and demand...
...But Kosie the riveter and Jack the machine-gunner and Henry the mechanic will have to go back to slops and slums and struggle to feed the kids...
...It- is probably a temporary policy of expediency, for which a lot can be argued, as contrasted with totalitarian blueprints...
...It cost Americans $280,000,000,000 to win the war...
...profits increaaed 120 percent after taxes, the War Production Board State...
...because that would hi iiiterferente in the affaire of another nation...
...but it makes the road back difficult...
...We needed a war to five us economic health...
...masterpiece of Metki-oveltian hypocrity, Stalin deserre* e inf da...
...The conflict be* Uveen Yugoslavia and Greece "exists ? lily because .of the conflict between lyissia/and England...
...India, insisted on granting India .this privilege...
...The Archbishop of Vilna was deported to central Poland, and the Bishop of Luck to Russia...
...The republicans have suffered impor- ' tant political damage on account of their cooperation with the Communists, from which the latter halve benefited immensely...
...Amerlcon Policy In Japan MaCARTHUR has decreed the dissolution of the Jspanese military caste— easy to decree but not so easy to carry out—and imposed s strict military censorship on the Japanese press and radio...
...The German Communist Party sponsored a resolution in the Berlin trade unions to end the eight-hour day, arguing that the tasks of German lalior demand a longer work-day...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 38
