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 American Intervention in Chinese Internal Affairs THE Chinese Communists have accused the USA of "actively...
...but •>'•¦ A merican intervention has been p...
...Aujust Claeasens speaks on "Is a United States of Europe Possible," Friday, Nov...
...12, st 6416 Bsy Parkway, Brooklyn...
...10, at 0 . m in the W. C. Labor Lyceum, Legion gt . . . Pittsburgh, Ps.: Victory Celebration, Sunday, Nov...
...Washington, London, Paris, have given evidence of willingness to compromise and to collaborate;—which is a two-way street—and to recognize Russia's special interests...
...Authentic Nazi documents seized in Germany prove that Hitler rationed aid to Franco in the Spanish civil war, to lengthen the fighting and divert attention from Germany's war preparations...
...William Rubinsen...
...Only when the greater evil, Communist totalitarianism, is defeated, can the lesser evil, the corruption, the tyranny, of the Koumintang, be dealt with, though meantime American influence can strengthen the liberal elements within and outside China's ruling party...
...12, at 241 South 4th St., Brooklyn...
...Wishful thinking succeeded, where party interest fsiled, in depriving the world of scientific procedures and extremely valuable information...
...NEW YORK CITY General aseaabership meeting Tuesday, Nov...
...Denmark's four largest parties received the following popular votes in the recent elections, as compared with 1943: 1943 1946 Social Democrats......888,000 C<>6,00fl Liberals.........................370,000 471,000 Conservatives...........417,000 372,000 Communists...
...it ia a threat to our democracy: its cost is tremendous...
...entk>n on the side of totali¦*i m ;s'H Tit* 1 i.u • n a«g »• si-»ii«.» in <ieft...
...If the USA, Britain, and France had intervened against Hitlerism in 1034, World War II could have been averted...
...All three of them should commit to this world government all of their military strength...
...L>el>s Banquet at 6 p. m. M J. Coldwell...
...The Italian Armistice terms were finally published...
...1 do not believe that it should be given to the Soviet Union...
...The Anglo-French-American policy of non-intervention in Spain was one of the stupidest blunders the democracies ever made...
...In bit 15-year tyranny, Vargas had betrays* everyone of his closest followers, who helped him to seise power in 1930, and now he is paying the penalty...
...However, the USA cannot withdraw from any area threatened by Communist totalitarianism without repudiating the principles of the Atlantic Charter recently reaffirmed by Truman— unless Russia withdraws in fact at well as in words (not only the Red Army but the Comintern), and effective arrangements are made for settlement of all these problems and conflicts by democratic means, under a UNO which is not a caricature of world government...
...The other lesson it ths degree to which people's wishes Influence what they believe...
...Nicaragua and Honduras, dictatorial Mates, have bad relations with revolutionary Guatemala...
...Many of them served time S» Nasi concentration camps, others in the Underground or the government-in exile...
...The Labor landslide could have been foretold with certainty en July 6, was foretold with considerable certainty on June 18, and could have been foretold almost as certainly considerably before that if our wishes and our fears had not undermined ear faith in a valuable instrument ef social science...
...The question is not, ««o»W », intervene • ''xlkans, Pelancl, Yugoslavia, Greece, etc...
...With the statement of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation that tax-exempt organizations have an income of 13,000,000,000, there is due a new drive to tax the incomes of unions, cooperatives, and educational organizations...
...He hints that American policy in China is identical with Russian policy in Eastern Europe...
...that elections should be postponed in favor of convocation of a Constituent Assembly first...
...Thanks to the insistence of the western democracies, the election was relatively free and the votes apparently were counted honestly...
...that Vargas was making "real steps toward democracy...
...This government should be founded by the United States, the Soviet Union and (treat Britain—the only three powers with great military strength...
...Semantics note: The Social Democratic Party supporting the reactionary Dutra for president of Brazil is not a social democratic party;, the Labor Party led by Vargas is rspt a labor party...
...But if China, or Europe, goes Communist, that will only hasten the armed conflict with Russia...
...17 and 18...
...Vargas, with the support of ths Communists under Prsstes, planned to create strikes and disorder to give the dictator an excuse to proclaim an emergency, postpone elections, and continue himself or a stooge in power...
...In the municipal election* in Budapest on October 7 the Small Landholders won over a combined Communist-Socialist ticket On November 5, in the first free election in Hungarian history, the two parties ran separate candidates, but the...
...28, under the auspices of the SDF...
...6. , . , Trenton, N. J.: August Claessens apesks on "British Labor's Rise to Pawer," Sunday, Nov...
...If Stalin really wants to avoid conflict and achieve cooperation, he can do it tomorrow—by abandoning his policy of isolationist, unilateral, aggressive imperialist expansion...
...These pseudo-liberal isolationists argue that if the USA continues to intervene in China and elsewhere, we might get involved in a war with Russia...
...The arrest of Vaino Tanner, leader of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, a» a war criminal, at the behest of Moscow, deals a blow to the idea that the cominf trials will be impartial, fair, and in accordance with democratic traditions of justice...
...Vladeek Branch meets on Monday, Nov...
...that Gomes is a reactionary...
...11, 6:30 p. m., at Astoria Mansion...
...National Secretary on Tour: August Claetsens will be in New Kngland on Dte...
...The aide returned to report he couldn't get the suto...
...Among the worst criminals sre Nszis and the "dregs of the displaced persons," according to Edd Johnson of PM, and they are "heavily armed...
...This Is ths first time that Norway hsi bad a Labor Government with a parliamentary majority, as in Britsin...
...of Canada and others will speak...
...the Communists have worked closely with General Medina, deposed ruler of Venezuela, and it was planned to make Caracas instead of Mexico City the center of Soviet propaganda and maneuvering in Latin America...
...The Foreign Affairs Commissar declined to reply...
...26, in Webster h*u...
...Decisive help from Russia or the democratic nations would have enabled the liberals to win—before the Spanish Communists gained predominance...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak American Intervention in Chinese Internal Affairs THE Chinese Communists have accused the USA of "actively collaborating with the Koumintang army in attacks upon the Chinese Red Army...
...The owner wanted 25 kroner, and that's too much," he said...
...the newsmen pointed out thst only in Russia snd her satellites is wartime censorship retained...
...What, he neglects to say is that neither Russia nor the USA will agree to commit to any world government all of their military strength and all of their secrets...
...Worldover Press reports that the day before Betancourt's coup, a plane bearing 24 Soviet Embassy officials arrived at Caracas, with others to follow to complete a staff of 60...
...But even a free election cannot banish inflation and economic stagnation...
...American intervention should be carried on openly, honestly, and more effectively—until the mutual threat to China and to the United States is ended by the unification and democratization of China...
...British Election (Continued from Page Sis) from this episode...
...they are not as onerous as rumored, and why they were kept secret so long only bureaucratic military minds can comprehend...
...This is whst probably bothered the Liberals of the Nsws-Chronicle most...
...The parallel between expanding Communism and expanding Nazism is obvious...
...Since the accidental (?) death of Oumansky, Ambassador to Mexico, the Soviet Government has not replaced him...
...they "obeyed orders without question er hesitation...
...Perhaps the Chinese civil war will bear somewhat the same relation to World War III that the Spanish civil war bore to World War II...
...Thtre was no food reason why nesrly everybody should hsve been sstonished and caught unprepared en July 20...
...Certainly we have, directly ami indirectly, for many years past...
...It was agreed before the election that all four parties will continue representation in 'he coalition government...
...Mid-Bronx Branch: Social and Welcome Home to Arthur Fassberg and Mitchell Rosenblatt, returned from the service, en Saturday, Nov...
...They asked the same freedom in collecting and sending news that is enjoyed by Soviet journalists in America and Britain...
...EINSTEIN VS...
...Hauge cursed him fluently...
...Sequeiros, Mexican artist, accuses of participation in the plot to assassinate Trotsky, and Rivera, once Trot*ky't friend, now on good terms with Staliniiia again, have each contributed 1,000 pesN toward a new pseudo-liberal daily newt-paper in Mexico City...
...Untrained and often unarmed German police are unable to cope with the criminsls, nor esn the occupying military forces suppress them...
...But they are not agreed on how and why...
...Maggin's home, 1245 Grand View Place, near 167th St...
...The Soviet Government is not giving the Chinese Communists help and not directing the affairs of the Chinese Communists...
...We are in international power politics up to our neckties, and must stay in it willy-nilly...
...The secret of the bomb should lie committed to a world government...
...Hungarians regaided the Socialists as partly responsible for the kind of government they have had to endure since "liberation" by the Red Army...
...In Summary NORWEGIAN Prime Minister Einir Gerhardsen's new Cabinet is composts' of Labor Party men whose average sf* is 44, youngest Cabinet in Norway's history...
...Debs Celebration, Jan...
...Unveiling of monument to the late Alexander Smith, pioneer Brooklyn Socialist, Sunday, Nov...
...Brooks Atkinson, Moscow's latest convert to Soviet "democracy," solemnly cablet the Times: "The Russian official record in China is beyond reproach...
...Branch will be organized...
...On November 11 there will be an election in Yugoslavia,, on November 18 the Rumanians will vote...
...Branch 3: Annual Dinner, Sstur-(jay, Nov...
...We believe," the Board resolution says, "that the energies of all Americans, through their government, should be con-n minted on the solution of the economic snd social problems which produce war and not on the development and accept ance of a policy of militarization which defies the ideals for which we profess to be fighting st this moment...
...A crime wave is sweeping Germany, as well as Polsnd and many liberated lands...
...No ¦arty wants to take nolo responsibility fur solving tho desperate economic and tough political problems that "peace" has brought Further stare, this arrangement gives the Commaaists far ¦ore power thaa their i.umcrical strength justifies...
...Bensonhurst Branch meets Monday, Nov...
...The democratic and reactionary countries and forces' within each country of Latin America are lining up for the coming struggle...
...Desperate men resort to theft to fill their bellies, and hungry women sell their bodies for a loaf of bread...
...When the latter are withdrawn, ths danger will grow, for economic conditions will worsen before they improve, • Mololov spurned the request of foreign correspondents in Russia to end or ease the censorship of despatches...
...Discussion on continuation of meetings with other Socialist groups and with the possibilities of joint activities...
...Yah, I'll get the car," grumbled his aide, "but if you keep on this way it's sure going to be an expensive war...
...and S.P...
...J p. m., at W. C. Branch 183 Houston St...
...In several of these republics the reactionary forces are powerful...
...war is not impossible...
...Philadelphia, Pa.: Debs Banquet, Wednesday, Nov...
...18, 8:30 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 159 Mercer St...
...leadership in obtaining agreement of the nations of the world to disarm, and to create an international police force, was ths answer of the CIO Executive Board to President Truman's proposal for compulsory peacetime military training...
...The small nations of Scana SDF NEWS NATIONAL New Haven, Conn.: August Claetsens apeak* on "Lit* snd Work of Eugene V^tor Debs," Saturday, Nov...
...PAf repeats the Communist line—that the Brazilian army coup was reactionary ; that the signal for it was gives by Ambassador Adolplr Berle...
...Sam Stein, an esteemed member, died last week...
...The coming election campaign in Mexico, and its proximity to and friendship for the USA, its distance from South America, made it desirable to establish a new center in Venezuela's capital...
...Algernon Lee speaks every Saturday, 9:30 p. m., over Station WEVD...
...The Army learned of these schemes and decides to depose Vargas and jail the Comas, nist leaders...
...the trend in Ecuador is uncertain—there has been a revolution nearly every year for 13 years past This is a poor shoving for our good-neighbor policy, and indicates that Yankee imperialism is not as enlightened as it might be...
...Speakers: August Claesaens, Aaron Levenstein, and others...
...William A. Rusher wrote to I'M protesting the suppression of an important part of Albert Einstein's statement regarding the atombomh...
...On one proposal Russia, France, and the German Social Democrats are agreed — the internationalization of the Ruhr, Germany's industrial center...
...2, and- will make a coast-to-coast tour between December 20 and January IS, speaking at S.D.F...
...It gives some basis for hope that eventually free elections may take place .•ven in Poland and Yugoslavia, if Britain and the USA insist that the • alta formula be, carried out there as in Hungary...
...Although this is contrary to officially announced policy, it h*a been and will be unavoidable, so long as Communist Russia continues to intervene, whether directly or through the agency of the Comintern...
...Einstein implies that the UNO as it exists is not a real world government worthy of trust...
...Newark, N. J.: Newark J.S.V...
...General Wede-meyer has denied this...
...It is announced that American marines will be withdrawn soon from the Chinese theatre...
...It h»» declared that "Everything that ha* been ruined will be restored," that the people will enjoy economic as well as political democracy as its Socialist program *»' realized...
...meetings in a ¦umber of cities...
...Joseph Shore, pioneer Social Democrat, will be honored at a 60th Birthday Dinner on Sunday, Nov...
...The landslide for the conservative Small Landholders Party in Hungary was not so much a vote for the agrarian leaders as it was a vote against domination of the country by a foreign power...
...CIO HITS CONSCRIPTION PLAN Washington (lpa>—An appeal for U.S...
...Get me a car no matter what it costs...
...41,000(1939) 254,000 As in France, a coalition government will be necessary...
...Only the naive believe that Russia has observed her promise in the Soong-Stalin treaty to stop interfering in Chinese affairs...
...Along with agrarian reform and socialization of certain basic industries and the banks, the Balkans need a NEP—capital from the USA and the functioning of old-fashioned liberal capitalism, for prolits...
...The atombombs dropped on Japan were firecrackers compared with what will be developed in ten or twenty years...
...The peculiar isolationism urged by pseudo-liberals...
...the Chungking Government has announced that American officers will modernize and equip China's army...
...Early returns indicated that the Small -Landholders got about 58 percent of the ballots, the Social Democrats 22 percent, and the Communists, who held all the advantages as the party in power, got only about 14 percent, The Small Landholders Party, like •he Catholic MRP in France, received the support of Hungarians of every ¦hade of political opinion from extreme reactionaries to progressive...
...IN SUMMARY: uavia, Australia, and New Zealand, gave the prewar world the best examples of peaceful progress toward social democracy, and in the postwar period will continue this evolution, ssdly interrupted by wsr...
...a new world federation should be created before we turn over the atombomb secret to any nation...
...12, 8:30 p. ra., at 862 East Trcmont Ave...
...and Mrs...
...Upheavals Ahead la Latin America The Venezuelan revolution spoiled Soviet plans for a new center of activity, it seems...
...Jens Christian ¦ Hauge, 30-year old Minister of Defense, has retold a story of the Underground days...
...But Betancourt, an ex-Commu-nist, is termed a "Trotskyite" by the Communists...
...Hat the USA intervened in the Chinete civil war...
...He seemingly approves the demand raised by the N. Y. Herald-Tribune (and Daily Worker) that American troops be withdrswn forthwith from the Chinese theatre...
...Lewis L. Ncttleton, London financial expert for the N. Y. Times, cables: "Although one would have thought Britain's Labor Government had ita hands full of pressing and difficult problems concerning rehabilitation and urgent international affairs without harrying on its nationalization program, it is displaying speed and determination in proceeding to put fhia policy into effect, which is surprising and disturbing to the business world...
...But the prospects there for free expression of the people's will are so dim that the opposition parties are boycotting the elections...
...America remains the main hope of all decent, democratic people everywhere—for financial aid, for food, for liberty and for the future pursuit of happiness—and the Chinese, remembering our traditional open door, good neighbor policy, want us to remain in China...
...The second man might choose to start a rival enterprise, when what was wanted was his co-operation...
...Seised documents reveal how Nasi scientists msde prisoners st Dachau into "zombies" with marionette-like behavior...
...One is the Importance of the problems raised by the fact that publication of forecasts can significantly influence the very things forecast, cither making them come true or falsifying them...
...Maybe this throws light en how the nkvd obtained confessions In the Moscow purge trials...
...i.imau-nut threat to national unity and progress, but should insist that there, as well as in Greece and the Balkans, all form* of dictatorship must yield to democratic method...
...17, 8:30 p. m„ at Dr...
...it should not be repeated...
...With all its faults American imperialism is generally against at least the worst forms of reaction—Fascism, Communism, and other varieties of dictatorship—though of course the danger is ever-present that a future American Government may intervene against the trend toward democratic Socialism...
...He ordered an aide to get him an automobile for some urgent emergency...
...This is war, man...
...at the New Era Club on Friday, Nov...
...1:30 p. m., at kit Lebanon Cemetery...
...Claessens-East Bronx Brsnch meets Monday...
...If report are accurate, this Hungarian election is the first solid triumph of the new Anglo-American policy of demanding that the promise of democratic elections in liberated countries must be fulfilled, whoever wins...
...A firm policy resulted in a relatively free election, resisted until a week ago by Voroshilov and the Hungarian CP...
...Ws vigorously protest your recommendation to Congress and consider it s msjor snd tragic error of your administration...
...And the Socialiett paid the penalty for thtir united front with the Communittt —for their opportunist...
...Poet, New Republic, Nation) is as reactionary as any other brand...
...There American military authorities wisely discriminated against certain ultra-nationalist members of the reactionary People's Party, offspring of the Christian Democratic Party of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg, who were formerly members of the Heimwehr and Sturm-scharen, clerical-fascist organisations, as unfit for office...
...City Convention will reconvene on Nov...
...The dictatorships are Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia (democratic until last year), Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil...
...Einstein said: "'I do not believe that the secret of the bomb should be given to the United Nations organization...
...South of the USA border, the democratic and semi democratic governments, or those in which the trend is progressive, are Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Chili, and Uruguay...
...at Second Ave...
...This is unique in a Balkan election, and unprecedented in a country within Russia's sphere Of influence...
...One Hungarian Communist remarked to John MacCormac, "You American* and Britons Seem to be more excited about our elections than we or the Russians...
...Luis Carlos Prestes sought refuge in the Mexican Embassy...
...The November 25 elections in Austria will be freer...
...The only candidate in the Brazilian presidential campaign deserving liberal-socialist support is Gomez, termed a Fascist by the Communists who have conspired with Vargas...
...City Executive Committee meets Wednesday, Nov...
...r*4 ON ATOM BOM I SECRET • Lt...
...Hungarians Vara Against Puppet Regime The nearer you get to the Soviet border, the smaller the vote for Communists...
...The editors replied: "The statement was cut for space reasons and that paragraph, among others, omitted in order to speed the buildup for his main statement that we SHOULD give it to a world government...
...more revolts are oc the agenda...
...Either course would be like the action of a man with capital, who, wishing another man to work with him on some enterprise, should start out by simply giving his prospective partner half of his money...
...Russia likewise rationed aid to the loyalist Republican Government but for different political purposes...
...It is also revealed how close Franco was to defeat in 1936...
...Sharper opposition was expressed by the president of the CIO's largest union, R. J. Thomss of the United Auto Workers, who wired President Truman that peacetime military training "can be of no contribution to world peace...
...A new S.D.F...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
