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 Experiments in Forced Migration TRAFFIC is human lives has become a common practice. Europeans arc...
...And the union would still be confronted by all the same problems—like Palestine, and the Indonesian revolt...
...To argue that the rebels did not rebel against Japanese occupation, that they are using Japanese weapons and Japanese officers, that Dutch imperialism is not nearly as cruelly oppressive as German, Japanese, or Russian imperialism, that Netherlands rule brought progress to the rich island empire and improvement to its 70,000,000, is merely to evade the issue...
...I guess we will just have to consign homo sapiens to the fate of the extinct dodo...
...Russians could be terrible foes in sny fature wsr...
...4) iron aiinen aad steel works...
...Of tile Germans, 4,000 have been voluntarily repatriated, of the Japanese 80S, and most of the Italians have been returned...
...Sjahrir said that Indonesians cannot win in armed struggle against superior British-Dutch forces...
...Generel de Gaulle has appointed a commission to consider how France can increase her population by 12,000,000 in the next decade...
...The accomplishments of the Jewish Labor Committee representative in Sweden have gained the acclaim of all Jewish welfare groups in that country...
...Maybe backward people* ihouldn't met se forward...
...Z) iaowraaco companies...
...its wartime and peacetime uses are inseparable...
...We are obsolete...
...suppression of the Mack - Market and confiscation of the profits ef the alack marketeers...
...At least some of our Congressmen have intestinal fortitude...
...Moscow ignored the offer...
...Now the world is paying the price for bad statesmanship...
...He ssid the four-power government of Germany wsl "one of the boldest experiments in the history of international cooperation...
...We atarUd with the Japanese AmerkanaOn oar TV eat Coast, and have reached down into Latin American countries to round up "enemy aliens" for deportation...
...At a demonstration of 50,000 in Bucharest on Nov...
...TRENDS: Ideas in action...
...e • e Atesehomh fiiiemeso , lac problem ef atomic energy control can only be salved on the "world level,"' and effective international control is impossible In the present world...
...He sdded that the Church in Rossis is subsidised by the government Asked if say Russisn csa criticise Stalin he replied in surprise, "Why should snyone want to criticise Stalin...
...Human nature isn't ready for it, I admit, but neither is human nature ready for the atombomb...
...but that'* what comes of spj-eadtag insidious eubvereive propaganda about the Four Freedom* and the ideal* of the Atlantic Charter...
...They have received expressions of gratitude for the assistance rendered by the American labor movement during the German occupation, and for aid in the rebuilding of the free and democratic labor movement...
...the little gadget is eapable of destroying civilization If not the human race...
...The three major parties also agreed to extend social security...
...The Communist-dominated government of Petru Grosa blames the royalists for holding a demonstration against the decree prohibiting any but official demonstrations...
...General Groves, director of the Atombomb Project, ia the latest to reaf firm the dichotomy of our world...
...he said "sheer physical force should not substitute for moral principle...
...transportation aad distribution of electric power end gas...
...The National War Fund replied that it saw no reason why funds contributed by American people should be thus used by Russian War Relief, since UNRRA was ready to ship the clothing to Russia gratis...
...Europeans arc being moved about by the millions...
...The Congressional Colnier'Committee, whose members recently toured Europe, recommended thst losns to Russia be made conditional upon access ' to full knowledge about Russian armaments, economic production, fulfillment of Stslin's political pledges, including withdrawal of the Red Army from liberated lands, disclosure of the terms of trade treaties, non-political administration of UNRRA relief, and freedom for American correspondents in Russia to collect and send facts...
...At the same time, Russian War Relief informed the National War Fund that they intended to use National War Fund money for processing and shipping purposes...
...As a result of the intercession by Mr...
...The Dutch say they are net ready for self-government...
...f) light metal*, liouid air...
...Renner also rejected the Communist bid for a merger, saying that their enthusiasm for democracy is "too recent and too obtrusive...
...But a few weeks later the Russian War Relief appeared at UNRRA headquarters in New York and requested the 12.600,000 pounds of clothing...
...Attlee't request far "a state, ment of maximum and final .demands* for "territorial and economic expstuim in Europe" (how about Asia...
...Chancellor Banner, Socialist leader, declared recently that the People's Party is dominated by the old Heimwehr elements and big business tycoons...
...This, says the DW, is "deubletatk," and maybe that's true...
...An American military mission has been training the troops of Ibn Saud...
...Zimmerman's intercession also stopped repatriation of several thousand Hungarian, Rumanian and Carpathian Jewish, refugees who have found a temporary haven in Sweden...
...ZIMMERMAN ON JEWISH LABOR COMMISSION TO SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES By JOSEPH GODSON Charles s. Zimmerman, viceChairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, and Vice-President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' I!r.i,,n, is touring the Scandinavian, countries for the Jewish Labor Committee, at the invitation of the trade union federationa of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden...
...cement, explosives, soda industries and importation aad transports...
...turning the secret over to she UNO is "mere escapism," for it means taming It over to highly nationalistic and aggressive states (our British friends are too polite to mention Russis...
...He demanded removal of those who "sold their honor to the Japanese.'* (Inly the sympathy ef the outside) world Can win us independence," he declared, urging an "amicable" settlement with the British and Dutch...
...And thus for it has fsited to improve the desperate economic situation in Germany, he admitted, blaming France for obstructing action toward an effective central administration...
...it will certainly be used it' there is another war...
...He is accompanied by Irving J. Brown, a member of the Machinists Union, and formerly with the War Production Board and the Foreign Economic Administration, the represent stive of the AFL Labor League for Human Rights...
...woul|t readily be answered by Stalin...
...Actually the atomic bomb is to be used to serve a political ultimatum on the Soviet Government," the Communists think...
...The atomic physicists object to the straitjacket imposed Upon them by the May-Johnson bttl, yet urge that the secret be given to a nation where every scmaeist haa been in a strait jacket for two decades...
...i At the San Francisco conference, Which launched an ersati UNO, the colonial peoples clamored for a hearing...
...The London tnnnnil Sana up British scientists' opinions: the secret of atombomb making can't be kept on ice...
...The General Confederation of Labor submitted a pro-' gram, and the three French parties have reached accord en the following points: Lksaidatioa ef every vestige of the Vkhy reghsse...
...It selves nothing to blsme Russian (or Jspaneee) imperialism for the whole damned mess...
...Pew Americans know that Jhr government, during the war, brought some 7,000 enemy aliens resident ia Latin America to this country for internment or exchange...
...But the Dutch remain stupidly adamant against genuine concessions looking toward real self-government Americans as well as sll white people are losing face in all of Asia...
...8, honoring the Rumanian King, 20 persons were killed and at least 100 injured when armed bands of Communists sought to break op the celebration...
...Of course, there is an alternative, but I hesitate to mention it...
...Iranian democracy is a secondsry consideration...
...And Ruseia is throwing in support to pro-Soviet political forces in northern Irsn...
...The Red Dean of Canterbury, Com-munist fellow-traveler number one, toM the Madison Square...
...r with any overt act...
...During the past two weeks, both Indonesian and British-Dutch casualties have been heavy...
...There were •bout 6,000 Oi mans, 1,700 Japanese, and 200 Italians...
...In leas blunt terms, eur rented elder stateaean, Bernard Bsruch, kai said the same thing...
...Vice-Admiral Daniel Berbey contributed his solution of the Chinese civil war: let the Chinese Communists have Manchuria, he said, otherwise it might become a separate state like Outer Mongolia...
...no control is possible unless there Is an effective world federation...
...all nations are collectively guilty...
...The Greeks demand northern Epirus, and think that recognition of the present Communist dictatorship is not quite in accord with Truman's recent grandiloquent declaration, since Albania was an ally of Nail Germany, and the present dictatorship is Communist...
...FRANCE MOVES TOWARD SOCIALISM DELEGATES of the Communist, Socialist, and MRP parties are still negotist-ing aa agreesent en a program of legislative action as the basis for a coalition government in France...
...Persistent reports are reaching this country to the effect that UNRRA supplies sent to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia never reached their destination...
...t) merchant marine...
...The rebels accepted aid from Japan during the wyr, and will seek aid wherever they can get it...
...Since they have had no hearings, they don't know with what crimes they are charged...
...But tvvehetisii, net ia the USA, but ia the V8SH...
...The security of the Western Hrmisphere w*a the shabby excuse given...
...of the great sunassic aad financial ovselafaehlps frees cosstxol ef Use national economy...
...remta...
...Sutan Sjahrir, moderate Socialist and Nationalist leader, became premier and offered the first hope that the conflict can be settled by negotiation...
...he warned that by 1973 the USSR will have more men of Bghtiag age than the USA, the British Commonwalth, France, end Germany combined...
...I hope so...
...Though the South American countries from which they came are) willing to take them back, the State Department insists an deport . ing them .to Germany or Japan, where they will be strsngere without means of earning a living...
...Dean AI range of the Liberal Party has urged Governor Dewey to initiate a legislative investigation of the political uses of straw votes.' He points out that on Oct 15 The N. Y. Daily Newt erroneously predicted a vote of over 70 percent for O'Dwyer, based on an alleged sampling of public opinion...
...The realtors can't see "why private so* terprise in the USA should be asked te finance a socialistic system is Esgkesi which seeks te destroy private ester, prise...
...Zimmerman, tha Swedish Government agreed not to force some K,(MN» Polish Jews, from German concentration camps, to return to their homelsnd against their will...
...Indonesia* *evoi* Foreign minister soebardjo made a radio appeal for Russian aid, damning Britain for "paving the way for reimposition of Dutch rule in Indonesia...
...But bow they hats the trend toward democratic Socialism in Europe I The newsletter ol the National Association of Real EiUte Boards says: The British Government reserves the right to pick up any mag on the street and turn him into s bricklayer—this is forced labor...
...The only solution is revolution...
...The outstanding role which the Jewish Labor Committee has played during the war in assisting the underground general and Jewish labor movements haa been appreciated by the democratic European governments...
...Psr from withdrawing as agreed, the Red Army in Iran ia being strengthened...
...See John Dewey's article in this issue...
...The American Civil Liberties Union is trying to defend their legal right to an open hearing, and to choose the country to which they will be sent...
...The government will seise ssy private property—if it so desires...
...Involved in the dispute for Iran is |100,000,000 invested by American oil companies, and more than that by British, and they hate to give it up...
...1 of maid fuels...
...Most of these supplies will be found in Russia...
...The Seonomitt concedes that this solution is impossible now, but it has hopes...
...The power to predict a reonlt, backed by an appearance of ecienttpe objectivity, can become a power to produce that reevlt...
...And whether next year or after World War III, they will win political independence...
...Apr** mei le aWiVffe • American industrialists and big bu-ineosmeu "understand" Soviet Rexii and can do business with a big customer who always pays her debts and is net presently a serious competitor...
...The remaining Japanese and German* are now interned a wait in« deportation...
...American lend-lease weapons are used by the British to suppress the revolt, but we follow s "non-intervention" policy...
...Juliu Maniu reports that over 1,000 have been arrested...
...friSSSSS ef the presa...
...UNKRA and Russia Unrra recently offered Soviet Russia 12,000,000 pounds of clothing contributed by the people of the United States, Smaller quantities were accepted by ether governments...
...Indonesians are funny people—they want to govern themselves...
...nationalisation ef key industries pracMatty aegaalgofi jm trusts, aa follows: l) large banka and brokerage hi—ss wsw nationalisation ia indispensable to national control of credit...
...If you put the problem that way, you can place your bets on sheer physical force...
...her Hitler's "final demands...
...The USA and Britain agreed to recognise the Albanian government if given assurance that democracy will prevail...
...13 over an editorial damning the British Prime Minister's demand that before we turn over the atombomb secret to Russia, Stalin must tell us what his policies and plans are, and clarify Soviet foreign policy...
...Jf flop's Atom tomb Plan Menaces World Peace" • This is the headline of the Daily Worker of Nov...
...The only practicable kind of approach ia to begin with a nuclear union of those nations which have achieved a modicum of democracy—the USA, the British Commonwealth, France, and other anti-totalitarian powers...
...but H met, that ia the fault ef Dutch im-perislism...
...But If so, the USA and Britain should net be eat tent with farther assurance ef toed tent ions...
...Some of my liberals friends will shudder at the whisper of the dread word—Socialism...
...The Greek government objected, saying that assurance will assuredly be given—but not observed...
...if it fails, it will make further cooperation more difficult...
...Even the USA haa engaged in the business of forced migration to • minor extent aa compared with European nations...
...Garden rally that there is now perfect harmony between Church and State in Ruasls...
...remove...
...The MEI declared that they would not aak now far roostabliahmsssi of the subsidies te , parochial schools, although they reserve the right te bring up the question ef state aid to religious schools later...
...Russian War Relief ignored this objection and has subsequently resigned from the National War Fund...
...But even if each a union of relatively democratic powers could be achieved, it would still find itself in conflict with totalitarian Russia, determined to get the atombomb—and use it...
...Socialism is Utopian— but so is the proposed of Captain Stassen for an international police force under UNO to bomb into limbo any nation which dares to stsrt a war...
...the only way the atombomb can be abolished is • by abolishing the sovereign state, and creating a world state so powerful that no lesser unit can pursue any secret project...
...From that day- the-morale of the good, government forces (both for Goldstein and Morris) sagged...
...Genre-ment officials can enter any home sad decide how many people should live there...
...o,ntGOMERT warned against impending bread riots in Germany...
...full frasfism ef thought, conscience, and expression...
...In Summary Marshal sir be rn a r rv-j...
...Thane people are not charged with being Nazis...
...The Nationalists threatened a holy - war of the Moslems...
...the Communist Minister of tbe Interior says S00...
...Forher CoagMfa and tew Deoa of Conferbury when fho Red Dean said that Coagklta's program was "95 percent correct...
...The Swedish Government consented to allow these Polish Jews to •ngage in employment...
...General Eisenhower also recently warned that unrest ia the Reich is just one step from organised revolt • The vice-president of the Austrisn People's Party, Baron Bumballa, resigned, charging that the party remains reactionary, and under the influence of clerical Fascists and anti-Semites, as -was its progenitor, the Christian Social Party of Dollfuss and - Schuschnigg...
...All the vague generalities about trustee ships and peaceful progress toward self-government and a new enlightened policy of the big powers toward the smaller nations and colonies accomplished exactly nothing...
...Russia eventually received 24,000,000 pounds of clothing contributed by the American people...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 46
