TRENDS: Ideas in action; events as they reflect social tendencies
OAK, LISTON M.
TRENDS: Mean in action; events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Union HOW soon ran atomic energy be utilized industrially ? The anitwrr, wrote...
...Since the paper money has almost no value, farmera refuse to sell their produce, and requisitioning follows...
...To refuse, sh« said, implies, that "we don't trust our allies," and distrust is not "conducive to peace...
...now for the first time freedom from want is within reach...
...Senator Owen (irewster of Maine charged that funds for Arab agitation come from Britain...
...All the Polish district officials will report to the Russian general...
...The Manchuria-North China com plex lies at the bottom of the present deadlock between the Soviet Union and the State Department...
...Eden, leading the Opposition, declared that the powers given the government "are such as no government has ever before asked for in peacetime...
...The main obstacles are economic and political, rather than scientific...
...He said Britain could stop Arab agitation against immigration to Palestine in 24 hours...
...lost their popularity and prestige...
...The USSR is supposed to withdraw its own force* from Manchuria by Nov...
...9 Two-thirds of the world's inhabitants have always been undernourished...
...Whether or not it was organized by Communists, it will be the forerunner of further demonstrations, and riots, in the coming bitter winter...
...For the next five hours doctors labored to bring him back to life, and then he was shot...
...The secrecy surrounding the brief visit of Mikolaczyk to this country as Polish representative at the UNO food conference in Quebec may be due to his unwillingness to lie about conditions in his country, where he discovered the Russians in almost complete control...
...that what has hap-pened in Syria, Lebanon, Trans Jordania, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia was planned by British imperialist agents two years ago...
...They added that upon the maintenance of American leadership in atomic research depends the extent of American influence in the international field...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Union HOW soon ran atomic energy be utilized industrially ? The anitwrr, wrote William I...
...As desirable as democratic elections are, food comes first...
...American forces are nevertheless penetrating other cities of northern China...
...robbery will be punished by denth...
...I. Hut how it can be expected to do so while the Americans pour their own armies into China is a puzzle...
...The UNO has already proved to be as impotent as the old League of Nations...
...This will make the nation militarily impotent...
...A mood of cynicism, defeatism, and futility hovers over the Quebec conference on* food and agriculture, due to the failure of the Foreign Ministers Conference at London and Moscow's growing isolationism...
...The fight for freedom and democracy will continue...
...amnesty is to l-e granted to political prisoners...
...We cannot lit such resource* be wastefully used as have other resources, and we cannot trust the secret to individuals...
...that all key posts are held by Communists...
...There are still 33 small nations which have not yet withdrawn recognition of the Polish Government-in-Exile in I-ondoTt, including Australia...
...With al| its (anils, the U. S. Government is the most trustworthy power now existing...
...The logic of this legalism escapes me...
...press and radio remain under strict, Russian censorship, and in addition the Communist-led printers' union refuses to print anything that ths leaders disapprove...
...But politics makes it impossible...
...They are holding them for the Kuomintang armies...
...Hungary is plunging toward ruin by runaway inflation, and ? rime increases as people go mad with hunger...
...Vannevar Bush stated that no effective defense against I he atombomb is in sight...
...Under the Potsdam agreement okaying Russian seizure of German property' in her sphere of influence, as reparations, the Russians have looted Austria, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, "so that the countries which were the first to be despoiled or exploited by Hitlerite Germany now are, because of their first spolation, being forced to undergo a second one," as John Mac-('in mack reports in the ?. Y. Times...
...While the Ministries of the Interior and Justice are held by Communists, no free election is possible, they declared...
...that more than 120,000 opponents of Tilo remain in jail despite the amnesty...
...The trouble i* that no world organi-r...
...Under these desperate economic conditions elections lose significance, even if free...
...special military tribunals winch have long functioned in political trials are to be abolished, Salazar pledged...
...5...
...American Armio- in North China Joseph starobin wrote in the Daily Worker of Oct...
...Since there are no classes in the USSR, there is only one party, and there will be no opposition candidates to the Communist slate, selected by the top leaders...
...Admiral Purnell declared that the theory hut not the method of production of atombomb* is known to Germany and Russia, a*nd that not even Britain could produce this weapon for at least five years The admirable Admiral added that the atombomb may make the Navy obsolete, but he still favors a big Navy...
...Thus all tha parties outside of the Communist-dominated Fatherland Front have refused to l'« ? tic i pate in the elections...
...If such a nuclear union 01 western bloc becomes anti-Sovict, it will be due to Communist Russian aggression...
...Horace M. Gray of the University of Illinois testified before a Senat« committee...
...As a result, British and American owners of property in these countries are annoyed...
...Eisenhower confirmed this...
...Harvey Gibson, Red Cross commissioner, reported that conditions in campa for displaced persons in Germany have vastly improved since the investigation made by Earl Harrison in June...
...lion exist* that ran be trusted with the ferret, nor under prevailing conditions is it now possible to create it...
...I, u · From the Balkan* . . . A f\ SERBIAN diplomat named Stoh has recently eseapril from Titoland and he reported to Vladimir Matchak, Croat peasant leader opposed to Tito's dictatorship, that there is general discontent in Yugoslavia...
...but the people there are starving, banditry spreads over the land, and democracy becomes impossible...
...10, 1946...
...but we are as far from it as ever...
...With the knowledge we have gained, it should take much less time to develop atomic power for peacetime purposes than it did to harness it for military use.'' Most impartial scientists agree with this view...
...The Agrarian and Social Democratic parties of Bulgaria appealed to the people to boycott the phony elections set for Nov...
...The Nisei are showered with praise—but discrimination against them and their relativea continues on our West Coast...
...the right of habeas corpus is to be recognized for the first time...
...incidentally, it will destroy competition and benefit Amerran buainess in Asia...
...But actually it is a step toward the further Sovietiza-tion of helpless Poland...
...But under the Magnuson bill for atomic research control, the results of governing m til research "could be turned over to some private corporation on a monopoly basis," Prof...
...The bill "amounts to public taxation for private privilege," he said...
...It is only in the democratic countries that the least possibility exists for the people to block the abuse of atomic power for imperialist aggression...
...By these democratic reforms he hopes to survive, with British help...
...Eleanor Roosevelt is the latest of innocents to support the Communist demand that the secret l>e give u to Soviet Russia...
...that Russians...
...Production of atomic power must continue to be a cooperative project, under strictest governmental control and ownership...
...The British Labor Governmrnt extended domestic wartime controls for five years...
...state of siege was declared by the Hungarian Government, due te widespread banditry...
...The suppression of banditry and sabotage is the pretext for this latest instance of the return to the ways of Tsarist Russia...
...that in the Liberation Front the Communists have almost complete control—the other parties only serve as camouflage...
...come the elec' ¦ turned" nppon store the freedom of the press and sufficient political freedom for political parties so that they could conduct an electoral campaign...
...IN SUMMARY: Let the Facts Speak . . . NOTIFIED that he was about to lie taken before a firing squad, Pierre Laval drank poison...
...The atombomb makes a world federal government more imperative than ever...
...The Rumania...
...By its very nature uranium and other sources of atomic energy cannot be turned over, with the secret of its use, to private corporations for exploitation for profit...
...17 that the strong protest of Chu Teh, Chinese Communist leader, prevented American marines from landing at Chefoo in Shantung...
...Hunger marchers staged a demon st ? at ion before Mac Arthur's headquarters in Tokyo...
...he announced the reorganisation of his secret police, which was modeled along the lines of the Gestapo and NKVD...
...J. R. Oppenheimer, leading scientist on the atombomb project, urged "world-wide control of nuclear energy," as have most of the atombomb scientists...
...American military authorities in Japan declare that they will soon move to break the monopolistic stranglehold of the '/.aibatsu—Japan's big industrialiats -upon the economy of that land, if the Japanese themselves do not do it...
...The picture of Portugal drawn hy Henry J. Taylor is unwittingly contradicted by dictator Salazar himself...
...The Drum cratic Party led by Nikola Mushanoff made a similar statement...
...The Dailu Worker calls Truman's announcement that the USA will not share tin atombomb secret "the most sinister expression of an imperialist drive for world domination...
...1 s'Tiee with Justice...
...It tan and should continue developing atomic energy faster and better than any other other nation is capable of, and in closest cooperation with Canada and Britain, with whom we need union how...
...Owen Roberts that "the United States should explore the possibilities of forming · nuclear union with nations where individual liberty e-sts, as a step toward the projected world government...
...The Red Army does not stop at seizure of German property, but takes what it wants...
...More than half of Brazil's exports during the first six months of 1946 were to the USA...
...Aa in other states of central and eastern Kmnpe, the situation is rapidly approaching that which existed in Russia between 1918 and 1921...
...Along with other dictators, Stalin has decreed elections to the Supreme Soviet, to be held Feb...
...Secretary of Agriculture Anderson declared...
...Ijuirenre, is that, "it depends on how much effort, in money and resources, we are willing to devote to it...
...Aft r all, admirals, except in Switzerland, need a fleet...
...Urging tiie necessity of Federal aid for scientific research as essential to national defense, Secretary of War Patterson and Or...
...It has been revealed that the Nisei— Japanese-Americans — formed a secret unit of the U. S. Army which operated skillfully and heroically in the Pacific, winning top decorations (while their parents, cousins, and sweethearts wera subjected to vile treatment in the USA...
...At Potsdam it was agreed that Russia should get a naval base in the Spitzbergen Archipelago in the Arctic, Pertinax discloses, as a counter-move to British and American bases in Iceland and Greenland...
...Ain't unity wonderful...
...it lian Provincial Governors Im Poland The Warsaw puppet regime was forced to accede to a demand made by Moscow -that a Red Army general it hencefoiIk lv be in effect the Provincial Governor in every I'olisk province...
...hut then, rationality is taking a terrific beating these days...
...In proclaiming "free" elections to be held on Nov...
...The Soviet authorities in Rumania have abolished censorship by Russians of British and American correspondents...
...these states were to lie consolidated into an Arab Federation under British protection...
...Modern science has made it possible to provide everyone in the world .with plenty to eat...
...Implied in all this is the totalitarian rhamrttr of the Portugese regime since Sola tar's assumption «/ power, though hie dictatorship was never as bad as those of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 42
