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 Unanimity Is Totalitarianism LONDON approved Washington's proposal to concentrate all efforts henceforth toward...
...American policy in Germany (if we have a consistent policy) is certainly more decent, if not more shrewd, than Russian policy in their zone...
...As Dali puis it, Franco's emblem is a collection of aiiows, hII pointing in different directions...
...Franklin d. Roosevelt, however, said on Feb...
...American soldiers do not usually engage in the wholesale looting and raping of which Red Army soldiers have been guilty, but a German male resents the fact that German women succumb to the temptation of cigarettes, chocolate, food, money...
...Evidently this is a concession to the Chungking Government, described as Fascist by Moscow, and a betrayal of the Chinese Communists...
...Rape and seduction are different, but neither cements enduring friendship...
...The Secretary of Commerce estimates that there will be 7,000,000 unemployed in 1946...
...Kven among three Republicans, three Democrats, three Socialists, three Jews, three Catholics, three Protesjants, there will be differences of opinion, if all three individuals are honest and intelligent, on political and economic problems, or on literature or art...
...The American sympathy is SB percent with the Finns in their effort to stave off invasion of their own soiL That American sympathy by now ia sxiematic"Th* Soviet Union, m m mmtttt of ptactieal fact, as tottybody know who hat got the coutagt to fact ths fact, tha practical fact known to you and known to all (lie wotld, it run by a dictaloitbip, a dUtatotthip at abtolutt at any other diitatoitbip in tht wotld...
...The Allied Control Council ordered the seizure of all plants of the I. G. Farbenindustrie, big chemical trust, and at least .'10 officials will be tried as war criminals...
...Snafu, in brief—so British and American forces, which had been withdrawing, have been reinforced, just to make sure that peace is maintained, and the Russians do not seize any more than half of Iran...
...A German soldier returning home to find his wife pregnant by an American gets mad...
...And even if it were possible for Altlee, Truman, and Stalin to reach a unanimous decision after discussion and compromise of conflicting views, to impose that decision upon the rest of the world—the vast majority—would still be a violation of democratic ideals...
...Sir t'live Baillieu, president of the Federation of British Industries, said Hie industrialists are ready to cooperate with the Labor Government for national welfare, despite the Socialist program...
...The Kurdish tribes, aided by the Russians, are encouraged by the rebellion in Azerbaijan and are preparing to irvolt...
...that as a ntcans of reeducating (hem thi g should be instructed to disobey ut least one order daily...
...It has allied itself with another dictatorship and it has invaded a neighbor so infinitesimally small that it could do no conceivable, possible harm to the Soviet Union, a small nation that necks only to live at peace as a democracy and a liberal forward-looking democracy at that...
...Nor can any new world federation be established if Russia persists in a policy which is isolationist, unilateral, and aggressive...
...Another physicist, Ernest O. Lawrence, said that the products of the cyclotron, atom-buster, can soon be used to cure cancer and other diseases...
...Shortly after this speech by F.D.R...
...The civil war in China has been going on, with an occasional truce when armed conflict was replaced by political conflict, since 1927...
...Enormous plants will soon be able to distribute power, costing practically nothing, to large areas, Boris Pregel declared, "('heap power in unlimited ipiantities means abundance of cheap products and the reduction of working hours...
...Another democratic, free and unfettered election...
...Soviet style, has bee* held—this time in Albania, and mirabile diet*, the Democratic National Front, the only party which ran candidates, polled 95 percent of the votes...
...A republic which, without any question whatever, wishes solely to maintain its own territorial ¦ nd governmental integrity...
...GI'S ARE NOT PERFECT...
...The idea tlidn't seem to appeal to the American officer...
...There is every reason to believe that Stalin no longer exercises his former personal power...
...maybe they will not be quite so happy when General Marshall continues more effectively the policy Hurley tried, despite American Communist sabotage, to carry out...
...The Moscow radio announced that the Red Army will remain in Manchuria until Koumintang troops take over, at Chiang Kai-shek's request...
...Nor has our denazification policy been administered consistently or intelligently...
...We will all be heated soon by atomic energy—if not burned to death...
...Nobody with any pretense of common sense believes that Finland had any nlterior designs on the integrity or ths safety of the Soviet Union...
...Only between three—or .1,000,000— Communists or Fascists can there be unanimity, and then only by virtue of party discipline...
...28 that it will go on ten years more, at least, even if the USA helps the Chungking Government...
...SUPERFICIALLY NORMAL The American note to Russia suggesting withdrawal of all troops from Iran has yielded no results...
...Two monarchist, anti-Franco demonstrations were held in Spain this week— one in Valencia and one in Pamplona...
...Bevin said it is American control of Japan which has made Stalin mad, not the atombomb...
...They know that we dare not use the atombemb...
...Fair ready to house the UNO...
...If Germans leave the Russian zone, in desperation, to get to the American zone, it is only because American occupation is a lesser evil, not because we have a dynamic, progressive policy, coordinated with the policies of other victorious powers...
...And effective international cooperation cannot be achieved if any nation insists on the veto power and absolute sovereignty, Via< da (Dee...
...But unanimity is possible only within and among totalitarian nation...
...Gen...
...The Chinese Reds are glad that Hurley is out...
...This transferred and hidden wealth can never be fully recovered, but some of it is being discovered by the questionable device of offering a percentage to informers, creating an army of spies...
...Howard Rushmore of the Journal-American writes that a Russian spy ring, including agents of the Comintern, has operated fo"r two years with unlimited funds in an effort to steal atom-bomb secrets...
...EITHER w 1111,k we are justly indignant over the outrageous conduct of the Red Army in Germany, Poland, and other countries, it is necessary to acknowledge the (act that all reports indicate that Americans have also behaved badly—though not so atrociously...
...Stockholders will be compensated with government bonds...
...Everyone is out of step except Eleanor...
...The American Army report stated that in many instances notice of dismissal was accompanied by an appeal to join the Communist Party...
...Walter Lipmann...
...Or maybe a forced retreat under atombomb pressure...
...The application of atcmic energy to civilian industry is imminent, they declared, contradicting other scientists who have said it will take years, maybe decades, to utilize atomic energy...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Unanimity Is Totalitarianism LONDON approved Washington's proposal to concentrate all efforts henceforth toward solving international conflict through the UNO, rather than through more Big Three conferences...
...he forecasts huge profits for the next five years...
...One spy had possession of some secrets, given him by a fellow-traveling American scientist in 1943, Rushmore reports...
...THIS WEEK IN SUMMARY ^\l,ARMKD by the growing unrest in India, the Labor Government restated its intention to grant independence, and an all-party Parliamentary delegation will be sent to talk things over with the Indian Congress ami Moslem Party leaders...
...The first tentative faltering step toward democratic Socialism was taken by the French Constituent Assembly by the nationalization of the Bank of France and four private banks...
...Baker declares that the achievement of Russian science under the Soviets has been vastly overrated by clever propaganda...
...as a fitting consummation of this century of progress, it will make a good target for an atombomb some day...
...any Deputy to the Assembly could be recalled by his party at any time...
...It reasserted the "principle" of unanimity...
...The Communist dictator, Knver lloxha, remains in power...
...Especially if she also has a vcneral disease...
...Or perhaps another maneuver...
...Millions of dollars of Japanese assets In China and Korea have "vanished" into the pockets of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, White Russian, and other convenient nationals...
...John R. Baker states, in his Science and the Planned .State, that rigid control of science by the state is certain to defeat scientific progress...
...11, 1*40: "Here in a small republic in Northern Kuropr...
...The Chinese Communists threatened on Nov...
...Scientists and technicians have been bribed...
...This is the dilemma: the UNO will fail if there is not harmony among the Big Three...
...Of the 27 most important recent achievements in science, there are only two which can be credited even remotely to the Russians...
...Since then the Iranian Governor of northern Iran has been conveniently slain by rebels, other officials have been seized: otherwise, American investigators report, conditions are "superficially normal...
...Truman reiterated his stand in favor of large scale emigration into Palestine - but said nothing about opening American doors to displaced Jews...
...It is like the difference between seduction and rape...
...The French Communists pro|>osed a constitutional provision that would make party discipline a matter of law...
...Royalist as well as Church opposition to Uie Falange is growing...
...science can nourish only in freedom...
...eleanor versus franklin on finland - "Russia hasn't started any wan," Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted by the Ap in answer to a question about Russia as an aggressor...
...There is neither harmony nor unity...
...delegation will be unofficial and without power to negotiate a seKle-ment...
...Hut the...
...but Big Three conferences will likewise fail if there is not cooperation between them...
...He was connected with a Soviet purchasing commission, the FBI believes...
...Moses, NY Park Commissioner, if directed to prepare plans to make the site of the "Century of Progress" World1...
...And though the Russians have earned the bitter hatred of most Poles, Germans, eetc, the Americans are not dearly loved either...
...the league of Nations, by a unanimous vote, expelled the USSR as an aggressor...
...Other private banks will be under government control...
...Lucius Clay told the Germans that Americans do not intend to starve them, ami promised food to supply a diet of 1,550 calories daily...
...It is generally recognized now that the entire eerie* of parleys between heads of the British, American, and Russian governments have been a dismal failure, leading not to collaboration but the exact opposite...
...intrude Strut suggested to an American general in Paris that ths trouble with Germans is (hat they an too docile...
...It waft" a gesture of righteousness which nobody believed would influence the Russians...
...M Inn nimity and democracy are mutually exclusive...
...An exhaustive compilation of German opinions released by the United States force* in the American-occapied zone in Germany reveals that the ordinary Cer-inj'n is deeply resentful, including Germans ho are indisputably anti-Nazi ami always have been...
...ATOMIC AGE NOTES TllE harnessing of atomic energy to replace present sources of power in the near future was predicted this week by lending scientists...
...2) decisively rejected the proposal to curb national sovereignty and to abolish the veto power of the Big Five...
Vol. 28 • December 1945 • No. 49
