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 Russian Intervention in Iran A THREAT TO RRITISH POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST MOLOTOV voiced innocent surprise when...
...American capital is said to have warned Italy that plans for socialization must be abandoned in order to get loans...
...This mass assault on women was accompanied by a similar one on property witk wanton damage...
...th, * P- m., at 7 East 16th St...
...ami Ksdii* Ave...
...J.S.V...
...it was "Hungarian Nazis" in Red Army uniforms who were guilty of raping and looting...
...Flushing...
...But 1 doubt if Europe ever has seen the mass misery that will be suffered during the coming months- -especially in Poland, Germany, the Balkans The relief afforded by UNRRA will be pitifully inadequate...
...IN SUMMARY: THE Tito dictatorship won 90.48 percent of the votes in Yugoslavia's "free and unfettered" elections...
...Defending himself, he admitted production had fallen off 60 percent, but attributed that to the fact that t,he government-set price of coal was far below cost...
...17) that the Communist-led KAM "has received considerable funds liom Moscow, and...
...Sixty Labor member* of Parliament damned the Government for continuity vf Toty imperialist policies in the car Hast to retmpose Dutch rule on Indonesia...
...In Summary •applies distributed are used as a poltti-*sl weapon by Tito partisan...
...S. State Department proposed to Russia ami Britain the withdrawal of all troops occupying Iran by Jan...
...Tim Yugoslavian Communist oigan Horba on Oct...
...the company had no reserve capital...
...they were hekj 12, hours, then one was rejected entirely, the others cut about 25 percent...
...In Czechoslovakia the CP by devious devices, got 36 percent in regional elections...
...From nearly every European country iop.,11.- pile up to add to the terrible picture of a ruined, hungry continent...
...But not being a realist in politics, he doesn't know that no such possibility presently exists...
...He insist...
...Oppenheimer made it clear that atomic energy can be utilized only in large-scale projects...
...only 5 percent in Austria...
...It seems that wherever the Red Army goes, it is followed by Fascist bands, in Soviet uniforms and with Russian guns, speaking Russian fluently, who rape and loot so as to discredit the great Red Army, which all alone won the war...
...31 ; Annual S.D.F...
...2 stated: "la Vienna alone the number of oti< ially recorded eases of rape withia the Russian controlled mm exceeds 100.000...
...The Prime Minister, Paasikivi, a conservative banker who is officially pro-Soviet, denfed that President Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil Manner-hcim, ultra-reactionary, had left Finland for Portugal to Beek political asylum...
...Labor Lyceum, Roosevelt Rd...
...had themselves photogiaphed with smiling faces behind baskets full of human eyes...
...22, 8:30 p. m , W...
...There are scarcely any facilities for gathering news and hardly ever an opportunity for meeting officials...
...A Parisian journalist said cynically that each of the three largest parlies in Fiance draws its inspiration from m foreign capital...
...1, 2 p. m., in City Office...
...Last March only 3(5 percent of the "cross-section" queried believed war inevitable...
...Harold l.uski accused Attlec of following "a criminal policy'' in Jura and India...
...And maybe the people will be still hungrier when and if the "new system" is set up...
...hat fluffed...
...Chicago, III.: General membership meeting...
...Thursday, Dec...
...In France the CP at such received only 13 percent of the votes, and are a major political power only through their united front with resistance groups, enabling them to get 27 percent of the ballots...
...Arnaldo Massone, president of the argentine Chamber of Commerce, declared that the Peron regime is Fascist Like all dictatorships, it vastly expanded existing civil and military bureaucracies, and introduced four new ones -a bureaucracy of employers...
...The I, ,„)„„ Ti ihiiii< of Nov...
...Renaonhurst Br.: Meets Mun-iliy, Dec...
...fhe exacted Stalinist revolution in frdin/x...
...Banquet to Ben-limin Kaplan...
...Te»h* "Life and Work of Eugene Victor Zjft Also at Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Dec...
...J, 7:30 p. m., at the Flatbush Unitarian Church, Beverly Road and E. 10th St., Brooklyn...
...There were protest strikes and demonstrations all over Italy...
...Theatre Party, January list...
...6 . . . Philadelphia, Pa.: The Debs Celebration which was to have been held on Nov...
...He le-ports that Greece is torn between two extremes, the royalist Populists and the EAM Communists, the Liberals being bankrupt...
...Its possible use* are infinite...
...Speakers: S. Weiss, snd Max Gaft...
...30,01)0 political prisoners are in concentration tamps worse lhan the Nazis...
...Tanner is on trial as a war criminal, at the insistence of Moscow...
...The I...
...He said the concentration on the development of the atombomb interrupted the pursuit of the use of atomic energy for peacetime purposes, and set scientific research back live years...
...The Russian Bear, it appears, has not withdrawn into winter hibernation, even if he is ill...
...The lot of the foreign press in Moscow is not at all enviable," Churchill says...
...L. L, Liberal Party dab...
...National Action Com-aMtr- 8D.F...
...Joseph l.ew-nihnl sad August Claessens, speakers...
...Not so Vianno Tanner, hated by the Communists more than Mannerheim, • A group of 21 deputies in the Finnish parliament, representing all parties except the Communist-led Demorratio Union, protested against continuous Communist propaganda over the Finnish radio...
...Debs Celebrations: tfewerk, N. J., January ft...
...And now the "Red Army Prepares for Elections," Moscow proclaims to bo held in Feb., 1946...
...ANOTHER CRISIS IN ITALY FeRRUCIO PARRI resigned as Italy's premier after the right-wing parties, lh« Christian Democrats, Liberals, and Democratic Labor withdrew from the Cabinet...
...28 to Jan...
...Janos Ksti rha/y, leader of the Hungarian Parly in Czechoslovakia, the only member of Ihe Slovak Parliament who voted against the anti-Semitic laws in 1941, has been deported to Russia...
...the State did not pay its bills promptly...
...The Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (in Iran) was created by the Communists in September, 1946, when it became apparent that the Tudeh (Peoples Party) was unable to mobilize sufficient support...
...THE COMMUNIST WAVE RECEDING ThK Austrian Socialists, unlike their Hungarian comrades, shared victory in the election with the conservative People's Party—precisely because they rejected the Communist offer of a united front...
...it was for his health...
...f, 11 a. m. He will also speak at I . «. at the Labor Lyceum, Chelsea...
...NEW YORK CITY Branch organisers and secretaries meet: Saturday, Dec...
...The conscience of the man who guided the work of 600 of the world's greatest scientists is bothered by the fact that he shares responsibility for creating the greatest "power for destruction in history...
...Algernon l.ee...
...8th, 8 p. m., Central Plaza...
...In Iran, British and Russian imperialist interests meet and clash...
...The reasons for this are primarily political • General Joseph Mc.Narney, succeeding Eisenhower as commander of tIS forces in Europe, predicted a ten-year occupation of Germany, or longer...
...it couldn't pay decent wages...
...Derek Patinore writes in the C.S' Mvmtm (Nov...
...50th Birthday, Saturday, Dec...
...one-¦ftk ef the adult women population...
...Anti-Semitic hooliganism, sponsored if the Peron dictatorship, spread through Buenos Aires...
...City Central Committee meets Wed., Dec...
...The vitally important post of chairman of the Security Council Committee of the UNO is to be occupied by a Polish Communist, Zygmunt Mndelcwaki, Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the puppet Warsaw regime...
...Moscow wants only autonomy for northern Iran, Molotov said, and, of course, a pro-Soviet Iranian Government...
...Joseph I>eventhal of the J.S.V...
...Four leaders of the former Polish Underground Puzak (Socialist), Zwier-zynski (National Democrat), Slypulk-nowski (National Democrat), and Hag inski (Peasant Party)- were graciously released from Soviet prisons and sent to Warsaw this week, before the expiration of their sentences for "espionage" against Ihe Soviets...
...There were no opposition candidates...
...The Comintern agent lived in Moscow in prewar years, and was unknown in Poland...
...Algernon Lee speaks every Saturday evening over W.E.V.I...
...27, and after it was over arrested one Jew...
...Tuesday, Dec II...
...Saturday, Dee...
...the former premier failed...
...August Claessens, National Secretary, sill be present...
...The Spanish (.overnmenl in Kxile states that Franco has slain IS.OOO opponents during the past year...
...There will lie a third world war within 25 years, 44 percent of the American people believe, according to the National Opinion Research ('enter of the University of Denver, and 67 percent thought war will come within 50 years...
...Russian newspapers...
...Within Russia the higher democracy will work more smoothly, and achieve a 99.99 percent victory for the Communist candidates...
...Finland seeks a lean of $150,000,-00(1 for reconstruction, and should get it, despite the fact that Finland is drained to pay reparations to Russia...
...The outstanding fact of the postwar ri'H thus far is the abysmal failure of the Communists to mobilize a muss base, their only hope of success without resort to terror, maintained by the Red Army...
...Nothing was said about willsliawal of Red Aimy tioopn liom Lithuania...
...The largest poll in Austrian history—!K) percent of the electorate—gave the People's Party 85 seats in the National Assembly, the Socialists 77, and the Communists three...
...The Finns must export nearly all products to Russia to pay reparations and cannot now trade with the West...
...Allen Raymond rabies the IIfmid Tribune, from Trieste that Vene/.is Gi-ulia, claimed by both Italy and Yugoslavia, suffers from the fart Dial ils fate-is uncertain it has neither capitalism nor socialim...
...The police made no effort ** step the pogrom, on Nov...
...Wherever within the Russian sphere of influence, or in countries which have undergone the hard experience of occupation by the Red Army, there has been an election relatively free, the Communists have lost out...
...The capitalists are frightened and are reluctant to do business, and "a lot of people are going to be colder and hungrier before some new system is established...
...t p. n...
...Guest of Honor, Councilman Louis P. Goldberg, Dec...
...1 they were given 10 minutes to get ready...
...and a bureaucracy of the Fascist party apparatus, he said, but Peron has not succeeded very well in organizing the employers or the workers...
...Of the 16 Polish patriots arrested, 11 le-main in jail, and Padjak's fate is unknown...
...a bureaucracy of the Fascist militia...
...Most Greeks will vole as tiny think Britain and the USA desire, he writes...
...So he insists on control on a "world level...
...The "fascist" one-tenth of one percent will then be liquidated...
...The Austrian and Hungarian elections, as Anne O'Hare McCormick writes, are "a striking demonstration •f the Humians' failade t« maintain in the political ti.ld tk* prestige and popularity Uiey won in battle...
...ind Mermaid Ave...
...and Charles Dann of the Work men's Circle also spoke...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Russian Intervention in Iran A THREAT TO RRITISH POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST MOLOTOV voiced innocent surprise when informed that the Red Army occupying northern Iran did not permit Iranian troops to enter that area to quell the revolt, in violation of the Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1042...
...14, at Culture Center, W. 28th St...
...FINLAND SEEKS AMERICAN CAPITAL, RUSSIAN POLITICS POLITICALLY, their orientation by dire necessity is eastward, but economically, they look toward the West for aid: Finland, Poland, and many other states...
...Dinner I'elebrahon, 76th Birthday, Julius Ger-Wr, Dec...
...But the inspiration given the Catholic liberals (MRP) by Rome anil that given the SFIO by London does not make either of them an agency of a foreign power, while the CP is not only inspired, but takes orders from Moscow...
...7th, 9 p. m. Topic: "The J ew and tat World Situation...
...He wroto . three stories while there...
...An illustration is given by R, H. Mark-ham in the CS Monitor: "Rumanian manufacturers, bankers, and merchants are pictured [by the Communists | as, carrying out a'great plot to destroy themselves in order to inconvenience their political opponents...
...1. Most American troops have already been withdrawn...
...Center, Fi iday, Dot...
...15, 6:30 p. m., Hotel HcAlpin...
...Ciljfnrnia: August Claessens will speak it steetings in Loa Angeles, Hollywood, San Diego, Dee...
...31 published this: "The Vatican, by publishing slanders in the pastoral letter (regarding the murder of priests in Croatia], is defending such criminals as (hose Catehoiic priests who in 1941...
...meets Friday, Dee...
...at 9:30 p. m. . . . tossing Events: Old-Timers Reunion, Dinner, meeting...
...Plana for many activities...
...5, 8:80 p. m. . . . William kirlin Br.: Salute to Councilman-elect Louis P, Goldberg, member of our branch, welcome home party for veterans and greetings to new members, Sunday, Dec...
...The electoral law was amended so that those who abstained from voting were counted as approving the government...
...Slovakia is being ruthlessly purged of its Hungarian minority: 1,000 were ousted en Nov...
...28 was postponed to the latter part of January...
...Raymond alto reports that UNhHK supplies tent Yugoslavia are being tola on th* black market in Trieste, and that SDF NEWS NATIONAL Bmtea, Mane.: August Cleassens speaks -gjjt'y Million Job*—Dream of Pos-JSf Dorchester Forum, Sunday, Ok...
...and S. P. meet, Tuesday, njt...
...Well, doubtless Man-lierheim will feel more healthy in Fascist Portugal than in Russian dominated Finland...
...Labor Lyceum, Test*: "Debs...
...Tanner, Finnish Social Democrat and head of the cooperatives, said that Russia is negotiating a military alliance with Finland...
...Entertainment and refreshments...
...One owner of a coal mine was arrested, charged with sabotage...
...6, 0 |> m., st Mil Washington Ave,, Bronx...
...New York Debt CelebroTlon A Huge SuCCCIS • Some 400 representatives of the S.D.F...
...3, 8:30 p. HI., at 6416 Bay Parkway...
...Local New York, New Year's Eve Affair, Rand School, Dec...
...So the State seized the mine, and production fell more than before...
...II, 2 p. m., at V/.C...
...resents the "slander" in the "capitalist" press against the Red Army...
...Prince Umberto asked 85-yeai (Id Orlando to form a new cabinet...
...but the very attempt is symptomatic of the illness of Italy and of Europe...
...Elaine Wald-nian, pianist, rendered selections, and Gregory Motion read a "Tribute to Eugene V. Ill lis," written by August Claessens...
...Debate: Should we favor joint action lie-tween S.D.F and S.P...
...ATOMIC ENERGY IN FIVE YEARS Or...
...Sounds like a sentence out of the bogus Protocol of the Elders of /.ion...
...The very responsive audience contributed about $2,000 to an organization fund lo strengthen the S.D.F...
...Alluding to the fact that during and al'ier World War I more persons wers killed by epidemics and starvation than on the field cf battle, Foreign Minister Bevin commented: "While the Channel could be used to stop Germans, it cannot stop germs...
...The Democratic Ameiiean Lithuanian, a Communist front, assembled their meager forces in Pittsburgh to demand that US troops lie wtthdiawn from China...
...Coney bland Br...
...The Peoples Party got about SO percent, the Socialists 45 percent...
...Whether they obtained their release by a promise to serve the puppet Warsaw regime as a camouflage for Communist domination is not staled...
...The approaching winter will be the woist since the 30 years war, the cor-ti -pond" nt- state...
...David Zaslavsk...
...The Democratic Party is a camouflaged Comintern agency organized by Hussein Bi-Rya, who got his training in Soviet Baku...
...It becomes apparent that if Russia is to mle, C*nt'»l and Eastern Turope, it will be only by the same means employed by Hitler—permanent military occupation with the aid of a few quislings...
...a bureaucracy of Fascist syndicates...
...In Lower Austria the numker ef recently infected cshch of venereal diaeaae officially reported t* medical officers is above 50.00O...
...August Claessens speaks at Brighton Beach W.C...
...and J.S.V...
...Judge Jacob Panken, Louis P. Goldlierg and Morris Wablinsn delivered eloquent tributes to the memory of Debs...
...all Greek Communists use the well worn Moscow phtases about enemies of the new democracy, which means that if you are not a Communist you are a Fascist...
...With an "independent" Iranian Azerbaijan (which ultimately will ask for union with Soviet Azerbaijan) and a docile Iranian Government at Teheran, Turkey could be forced to capitulate to Russian demands on the straits...
...Randolph Churchill reports from Helsinki that it is not true that censorship has been lifted in Moscow...
...J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, atombomb physicist, says in Liberty that "It is quite feasible that a city like Seattle should be completely heated from an atomic energy source in less than five years...
...Many other spots in Km ope likewise suffer in this transition era...
...The only steady source of news is the...
...British and American oil concessions would also lie jeopardized...
...Atomic energy will not supplant, but supplement, present sources of energy, he said...
...They got 17 percent of the votes in Hungary...
...Branch 1, Bronx...
...Coining immediately after the fake election in Yugoslavia this result is eloquent of the profound difference between Communist "democracy" and "bourgeois" democracy—no capitalist party in the world so completely distrusts the people as does the Communist Party...
...Whenever and wherever the people speak freely, it is against Communist totalitarianism...
...branches, many affiliates, tiade unions, Workmen's Circle and cooperative organisations gathered at a banquet celebrating the 90th anniversary of Eugene Victor Debs last Sunday evening at the Park Central Hotel, New York City...
...The United Press, Reynolds Neut, and Alunclienter Guardian reported that the visit of A. P. (jiannini, American banker, to Italy, and his insistence that Italy should have "a strong conservative government" if it wished foreign capital, was the cause of Parri's fall...
...Few ordinary Russians car* to be seen in the company of foreigners...
...Buffalo, N. Y., Jsaoary 12...
...In Iran, as in too many countries, the USA and Britain are in the embarrassing position of backing a semi-feudal regime against a revolt which, like that in Greece, is not merely a Communist plot, hut also a legitimate movement against reactionaries...
...And this despite the fact that the Communists enjoyed every advantage over the other parties, especially money, papers and transport...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 48
