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 Murder in Poland THROUGHOUT central and eastern Europe where the Red Army advance., atrocities are new takte»...
...But seldom is it done so openly and bluntly as m FDR's letter to the Texas politician...
...They will decide whether to merge with the Communist resistance organization, the National Front, as did Emmanuel de la Vigirie's followers, or join the Socialist Party, or start a new party...
...Liberals and Socialists are being shot aa "agenta of Germany...
...What he meant, I think, is that the action of the Greek Communists is more in line with Leninism and Trotskyism than with what the world has been officially told ia Stalinism...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Murder in Poland THROUGHOUT central and eastern Europe where the Red Army advance., atrocities are new takte» place ef which we ret only very partial reporte...
...A delegation from the main Serbian organizations in the USA petitioned Roosevelt to .send aa Anglo-American commission to Yugoslavia to investigate...
...So they turn to the phony, demagogic leadership of Stalin...
...The United States would not grsnt transit, visas through the Panama* Canal to three who are in Venestjaja and Columbia...
...Jones' friends in Congress, led by Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, backed by Senators Pappy O 'Daniel and Harry F. Byrd, seek to emasculate the job of Secretary of Commerce...
...Osu bka-Morawski said on January 2, in Lublin, that the Provisional Government "will stamp out all possible opposition encouraged by the Polish Government in London...
...Every body knows that politicians get together in smoke-filled back rooms and make «11 sorts of deals, rewarding friends-and punishing enemies...
...Civil War in Greece...
...IN SUMMARY: • King Peter of Yugoslavia ousted Ivan Subasich as as Premier and asked Milan Groll to form a new Cabinet...
...Andre Michalopoulos, Greek libera], writes in the Christian Science Monitor that in the civil war "the extreme elements of EAM-ELAS" got complete control over that "united front...
...The long stalemate over distribution of relief in Yugoslavia was broken when Tito finally agreed to permit 100 Anglo-Am rican UNRRA observers into his domain to watch the Yugoslavs pass out the supplies...
...The Provisional Government, reportedly functioning in Warsaw barracks, has decreed total mobilization for war and reconstruction, work and is sending committees from Lublin to orgsnize distribution of land and safeguard private property...
...Those in Europe could not get transportation...
...Subasich hinted he would defy the King and merge with Tito in JMfrade...
...Paying political debts in this fashion smells of the kind of politics long' associated with Tammany Hall...
...He praises John Sophianopouloa, the agrarian Socialist leader, and Sideris, leader of thai Labor Party, who are in the new Cabinet, and says other members are good democrats and men of integrity...
...Stalin will not miss its meaning...
...After months of dispute while thousands starved, the USSR has at last opened two ports to ships bringing in UNRRA supplies for liberated areas in Poland snd Czechoslovakia...
...The Italians feel: "We were not only defeated, we were considered an enemy country, though a most of ua ?re anti-fascists...
...The interests of Greece and Britain coincide...
...Breed end Wine...
...The only basic fault in Britain's policy toward Greece lies in Churchill's predilection for monarcha," Michalopoulos thinks that Plastiras should come to terms with the non-Communist elements in EAM-ELAS...
...Thus about 60 were kept away...
...These things need emphasis: any social revolution or civil war in Europe will be captured by the Communists snd exploited for the power-politics purposes of Moscow...
...Ilya Ehrenburg, broadcasting on January 2 from Moscow, declared: "If the Polish Government in Lublin can now discuss the future of their country, it owes that first of all to the Red Army...
...announced a change in the line of the French Communists by disowning all irregular armed groups...
...The Polish Press Agency in Lublin reported today that judges and prosecutors had arrived in the newly liberated cities of Lodz, Cracow, Kielce and Radom to supervise a purge of traitors and German agenta...
...He broke his pledge in Greece...
...Michalopoulos castigates the Papandreou government as monarchist and reactionary, without giving evidence...
...Acting Sfmetary of State Grew stated ^that the USA hopes to see the unification of the various elements in Yugoslavia and a free election...
...Trevor Evans states in the London Oatly Expret* that the British Communists have 49,300 members, as compered with 14,500 prewar followers...
...The Provisional Government will not hesitate in the sharpest possible measures to render enemies of our nation harmless...
...They have looked to America, to Roosevelt, to five them that inspiration, and they have looked in Vain...
...the Provisional Government is taking over their authority...
...thajMMr way "that there could be a free democratic elemmwf ia mmV s tripartite supervision of Tito, the King, and Mikhailovitrh, who is still in the Bosnian mountains witk Jtousands of followers, where American Anibassadasptichard Patterson consulted him recently...
...Voting should not take place until the Poles in prisons and concentration camps and Polish soldiers fighting in Italy and elsewhere can return, Premier Arc.'szewski stated...
...Maurice Thore...
...That is what infuriated Churchill...
...Ten deputies in Argentine could not come because the Argentine dictatorship would not guarantee their right to re-entry...
...The UP stated that that was in defiance of Churchill—but was it...
...The Polish Underground army is faced with extermination, Washington and London were informed, and Churchill and Roosevelt were urged to find a way to halt the liquidation of Polos who ara anti-totalitarian...
...An ironic aspect of the campaign for a strong ' Italian army at the front ia thia: the Communists are most active in urging a big army, and other parties fear that the Communists will be in positions of control therein, ami therefore have embraced the idea and urge recruiting...
...Foreign Minister Shige?Uteu declared that relations between Japan and Russia are smooth and the neutrality pact firm...
...The strongly anti-democratic character of the ''Polish _ Provisional Government" has been once more revealed in the statement broadcast by the Moscow radio on Sunday night The'statement said: "The Provisional Government wiO demand absolute obedience to' all' its decrees, as well as to orders and commands issued by the security administration and citizens militia...
...Far from resenting British intervention, the Greeks welcome it...
...He also rejected the idea that this war is also a social revolution, and said nationalization of industry should be postponed until the wsr's end...
...We should not be treated as repentant sinners, as inferiors, aa war criminals who are on probation...
...we must restore our national dignity...
...He insisted that the Polish Government must participate in any settlement of Poland's fate by the Big Three...
...Rut he considers the Regent, Archbishop Damoakinoa, and General Plastiras, the new Premier, as democratic He writes: "To say that this tragedy of errors conceals some deep Machiavellian plan to further the interesu of the British Empire at the expanse of the* Greek people ia nonsense...
...But more immediate is the matter of Italian national pride...
...It is true that the Trotskyists are relatively stronger in Greece than in any other country, but that fact haa nothing to do with Churchill's indictment...
...The King hopes for American support...
...Nothing, nothing in human history is more heroic than the Warsaw uprising of August-September, 1944, against the Nazis...
...This international force would remain in Poland until a free election could be held...
...French Communists' New Line . . . • In s bitter mood, 400 delegates of the National Liberation Movement, main non-Communist resistance group in France, met in Paris at their first Congress...
...He states that the Com-munsts represented about 16 percent of the organl-zation...
...But, Moscow decrees through the Lublin puppet regime, this magnificent (even if ill-timed) resistance to the Naaia aided them' Tke business about the Red Army "safeguarding private property* is an anti-climax...
...Italians, like the Chinese, place dignity and other spiritual values above bread and wine...
...Roosevelt's manner of doing it will strengthen the fight sgainst Wallace...
...Ha was backed by Kevin's union...
...The Kremlin dictator has pledged his aid in suppressing civil war and social revolution...
...They were a real power until recently...
...Tadensez Komorowski (General Bor) in a proclamation, asserting that his "provocative uprising in Warsaw and later surrender of arms considerably aided the Germans...
...They charged that Wallace's nomination for the post was "dictated by Sidney Hiilman...
...They declared that tens of thousands of Serbs hsve been jailed or shot by Tito's dictatorship...
...All opponents of Stalinism are being eliminated...
...Dorothy Thompson is the latest to win the wrath of the Soviet press, lzveetia chastises her for opposing the Balkanization of Germany and a vengeful peaca which would punish decent Germans along with Nazis...
...The United Press reports from London that President Bones of Czechoslovakia has agreed to recognise the Lublin puppet regime, and also that he is willing to cede Ruthenia to the Soviets if its inhabitants so desire...
...The sUf Ress Rewsjreis ? Frfgwof , ·. • Roosevelt's letter to as Secretary of Commerce in order to reward Henry Wallace for bit "utmost devotion" to toe Big Boss during the election campaign has shocked many liberals...
...the Teheran agreement to divide Europe into spheres of influence was a major blunder which, if not corrected, will lead to World War III...
...Churchill's scathing reference to Greek "Trotskyists" is simultaneously silly and astute...
...Five million Poles have died in vain...
...The failure of the Allied Control Commission, under British direction, to understand thia psychology is perhaps even worse than the failure to improve, economic conditions...
...It is not justified by the fact that Wallace is a liberal and Jones a reactionary...
...This is Stalin's reward to de Gaulle for collaboration...
...only a democratic foreign policy on which Britain and America are agreed can save Europe from Communist totalitarianism—the old Tory tricks of Churchill will not work...
...Bert Papworth has been elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, the first Communist to gain a place on thia body...
...Italians are even more sensitive than Frenchmen, whose attitude haa been: "We were defeated, humiliated...
...Read this United Press dispatch from Moscow: MOSCOW, January 20 (U.P...
...A. C. Sedgwick, Times ma a in Athens, reporte that the pi evading feeling ef Greeks is that since the British armed the ELAS originally, it is their duty now to disarm them...
...British imperialism and Russian imperialism are in conflict, and British imperialism is the lesser evil, by far...
...Wholesale murder is being committed by the GPU (NKVD), the Russian secret police...
...The Polish Provisional Government denounced JLieut...
...9 Their plan to set up a Spanish government-in-exile wss postponed by the exiled liberal Republicans and Socialists in Mexico City headed by Martinez Barrio and Indalecio Ptieto...
...The difficulties of transportation in wartime prevented assembling all deputies to the Cortes who are in Europe and elsewhere...
...The failure ^f democracy to five Italians direction, guidance, hope—to make their incredible sacrifices meaningful—ia dismal...
...He continues: "The first task of the government must he to purge the police, t? reorganise the armed forces, to institute proceedings against collaborationists and 'black market' profiteers, to set the stage for free elections aa soon aa possible— and Plastiras is a man who will see to it that elections are free—and to get down to the vital and urgent business of restoring the health and economy of thia ravaged and devastated country that has given so much ' for democracy...
...As for the Trotskyists (and Dwight Macdonald), events in Greece prove how unreal is their theory that once a social revolution starts, it will sweep the .Stalinists aside...
...This can mean only one thing—Polish Underground fighters who followed the leadership of General Bor, as they "II did, are considered by Moscow aa traitors who "aided the Germans...
...even aa in the infamous Moscow purges thousands of Bolsheviks were shot aa agenta of foreign imperialism...
...Tin- Polish Government-in-Exile hss asked the United Nations to set up an inter-Allied military commission to administer liberated Poland...
Vol. 28 • January 1945 • No. 4
