Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN An Oklahoma Breeze THE tone and manner of General Patrick J. Hurley's resignation as Ambassador to China suggested a vigorous hrcese Mowing out of...
...This is what the Auto Workers and Steel Workers have been demanding...
...Service, in the meantime, had been involved in the mysterious case of the six persons who, were arrested early last summer by the FBI on the charge of delivering and .receiving secret State Department documents...
...TllESE appointments were all the more curious because Atcheson and Service are primarily Chinese, rather than Japanese, experts...
...This was Eugene Doonian, Counsellor of the Embassy under Ambassador Crew, a diplomat of long experience in Japan, with on encyclopedic knowledge both of the very difficult Japanese language and of Japanese politics and economics...
...Are we ready for it...
...Walter Reuther's demand that General Motors show its books and agree to adjust wages in accord with the general economic picture presented by prices and profits called forth growls of anger from many high sources...
...The President and his advisers are realistic politicians...
...Enthusiasts for a national labor party should restrain their applause...
...Moss Murder ColM by Nome "Silent concurrence by the churches in imncler by starvation makes the church an accessory to the crime...
...to them is therefore not retributive justice, but murder...
...Philip Murray said: "The CIO will mobilize its entire membership and the American people to defeat this specific measure and all similar attempts directed against labor...
...As a result of the Potsdam decision, millions of Germans are starving now...
...Never have the minds of legislators and of organs of public opinion been so center...
...LaUimore's recent book, Solution in Asia, is rather artlessly conveyed in the following sentence in the publisher's blurb: "We shown that all the Asiatic peoples are more . interested in actual democratic practices, 'such as the ones they can see in action across the Russian border, than they are in the fine theories of Anglo-Savon democracies...
...Another noteworthy recent assignment to Tokyo is that of Owen Lnttimore, whose background of experience has been almost entirely Chinese, not Japanese...
...But this was placing a wage demand upon the very highest grounds...
...If the American labor movement were united, thil might be the right moment for the launching of I new party, a labor party, a genuine New Deal Party...
...The Crisis in Labor Relations NEVER have the problems of labor-management relations been so definitely formulated on a national scale...
...Most serious and interesting are Hurley's assertions thai he was continually sabotaged in trying to carry out an American policy of supporting the national government of China, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, by some of his own diplomatic subordinates in China...
...14 snd Nov...
...A Congressional committee of investigation, should one be appointed as a result of Hurley's charges, might take as one subject of study whether sympathy with Communism or intimate knowledge of Japanese conditions figured as a higher qualification in certain appointments to Tokyo after Dean Acheson replaced Joseh C. Grew as Under-Secretary of State...
...William Green is notifying the Democratic Party that it must earn the support of organized labor...
...Here was no conventional diplomats farewell, with assurances that he had enjoyed the most devoted cooperation from his staff and that all was for the best in the best of all possible state departments...
...What is hap...
...Dondero also des larsjxj that Jaffe, editor of Amerasia, which has long bftm known as a party-line magazine on Oriental affairs, before his arrest conferred with a representative of the Chinese Communist forces, identified as Tung Pi-wu, Chinese Communist delegate at San Francisco, and with Eta* Browder, then still Fuejuer ofTltft^AlBeriran Cofjjg munist Party...
...All ol which baas looking into, let the chip* fall where they may...
...This may be a turning point...
...Before the winter is over, five times as many Germans will die as died in Ihe recent war, according to Bishop Dibelius of Berlin...
...The Christian Century, issues of Nov...
...Another interesting subject of investigation is suggested by a statement of Representative George A. Dondero, of Michigan, as reported by an AF despatch of November 28 The Congressman asserted that one of the documents which, mysteriously disappeared from State Department files referred to the disposition of Chiang Kai-shek's forces...
...His threat is a turn to the left...
...The violent bursts of opposition from all elements in the labor movement which greeted the President's move were not caused by any specific words or policies...
...While they were sent to Tokyo, a man who would have been a far more suitable and qualified candidal for the post of political adviser to MacArthur was passed over and found it advisable to retire from the diplomatic service...
...The spirit of Mr...
...Now, it is a curious coincidence that, after being recalled from China at Hurley's insistence for alleged sabotage of his policies there in the interest of Communism, Atcheson and Service were sent to Japan as advisers to General MacArthur...
...Byrnes mentioned George Atcheson, Jr., and John S. Service as the two men about whose activities in China Hurley had complained...
...This sort of statement certainly calls for searching investigation and the production of all relevant evidence...
...FoR the first time since 1933, labor is solidly against an Administration policy...
...The rigid provision for a 30-day cooling off period for all important labor conflicts might ia many cases work distinctly to labor's disadvantage...
...After the conference had failed to reach an agreement on .the basic matter of methods of negotiation, the President suddenly announced en December 3 appointment of fact-finding committees for the automobile and steel industries, and proposed to Congress a law to cover the problems left hanging by the Labor-Management Conference...
...Ihe heart of his scheme is the appointment of fact-finding commissions with power to subpoena the records of industrial concerns...
...Labor fears that this address will set off the reactionary drive which has been in the making since the war days...
...Herding millions from their homes into a partitioned country in which only \'< percent of the industry is operating, and ths' at only five percent of rapacity, is nothing less than a death sentence for most of these unfortunates...
...They have had no trial...
...SlNCE the objectives of organized labor and of the President are similar, the trade unions leaders had a right to look for sympathy and suppoh in the White House...
...When driven to desperation, we too will turn left...
...The violent criticism is due more to the way in which the President's scheme wss sprung upon the country and to the effect which it will hive upon Congress and upon public opinion than to any action which Truman proposes...
...He was officially cleared of this charge, although two other defendants, Philip Jaffe, editor of Amcrasia, and a State Department official named Larsen, pleaded guilty...
...Harry S. Truman has no guarantee of trade union votes in 1948...
...The leaders of labor were flabbergasted...
...By no stretch of the imagination can these doomed babies, their mothers and the aged he called war criminals...
...They have made a false step, but they will find Ways to retrace it...
...upon them...
...Dondero expressed the opinion that "some influence" was exercised to prevent "com-plrle administration of justice...
...pern of...
...And the successor of Samuel Gompers is not suggesting a swing to the Republicans...
...It is possible that out of the debate now going on new concepts of issues may arise—and even new political alignments...
...In the long run, purchasing power must balance production—and the bulk of the purchasers are the producing workers...
...That is the question...
...In demanding that the arithmetic of industry should be placed upon the conference table, labor was thinking of the national wage bill in connection with national purchasing power and the welfare of our entire economy...
...It was a hard-hitting, uninhibited statement, with specific charges that should be thoroughly and fairly investigated and general reflections on the course of American foreign policy that might well serve aa a "Stop, look and listen" signal...
...This is plain talk with clear implications...
...If there are men in the State Department whose ideological enthusiasm for Communism, whether of the Chinese or Russian brand, carried them to the point where they undermined the work of their diplomatic chief and favored the replacement of a friendly government in China by a Communist dictatorship, it is high time that Secretary Byrnes knew about it, tliiit Congress knew about it, and that the American people knew about it If Hurley's charges ovrrshoot the mark, the diplomatic officials affected have a right to lie cleared...
...This country needs it...
...William Green went further: "We are no different from the laboring men of Great Britain...
...The efforts of the trade unions to raise wage scales and to stabilize purchasing power fit in with the President's campaign for his legislative program, particularly the Full Employment Bill, increased unemployment insurance and adequate provisions for health...
...The chief opponents of this proposal will probably be the industrialists...
...Secretary Byrnes supplied the names which Hurley withheld in his prepared statement, although he has repeatedly expressed his willingness to give names and concrete details at an appropriate time and place...
...Keeping the food supply at 1,200 calories a day, when it is admitted that 2,000 calories is the minimum required to sustain life, snd that mining Coal, farming and other forms of heavy manual labor basic to a going economy require even more, is a slow form of mass murder...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN An Oklahoma Breeze THE tone and manner of General Patrick J. Hurley's resignation as Ambassador to China suggested a vigorous hrcese Mowing out of the plains of his native Oklahoma...
...These tame professionals openly advised the Communist armed party to decline unification of the Chinese Communist Army with the National Army unless the Chinese Communist* were given control...
...In making their arguments for increased wages, the auto workers and steel workers had the same objective...
...His language on this point is plain and unambiguous: "Our professional diplomats continuously advised the Communist* that my effort* in preventing, the collapse of the national government did not represent the policy of the United Slate...
Vol. 28 • December 1945 • No. 49
