Trends: ideas in action, event as they reflect social tendencies
OAK, listor M.
ld< at, in action; events a* they reflect social tendencies Bulgarian Jewish Communists Secede from W$rW Jewry AT A MEETING held in Sot* on January 8, 1945, the "iMdei" of the Buig.n.n Jewish...
...These goods should be used first of all for relief and rehabilitation of war devastated countries, through UNRRA and other agencies...
...And far similar reasons...
...Further more, the next government of Germany will be organised by Moscow aa was the government of Poland, but with gracious concession* by Stalin to the indignant protest* of Churchill and Rooaevelt...
...By the time hostilities end the outlines of all major settlements win have been drawn, by Moscow...
...he favors rigid control but not stripping Germany of its industries...
...He pointed out that New York City was forbidden to buy supplies at the auction...
...Mayor La Guardia characterized this auction of surplus goods as scandalous...
...a new phenomena, but its control ia being strengthened rJtcafnss* Week (Feb...
...He is going ta create a big, carerally organised economic diTutioe, and its chief goal will be trade expansion...
...3) comments: "Russia's blunt request far $6,000,000,000 in long-term postwar credits, quietly supplemented by a f 10,000,000,000 request from Britain to help revive Empire economy, suggest what ft is going to coat Washington t« sell its program"— substitution of United Nations darwieaa far unilateral action, spheres of influence, and power politics on the eld imperialist basis...
...Russia will come in, to help give Japan the final knockoat blow, but Stalin will get • free band in Korea an* Manchuria a. be got a free hand in the Baltic, and throughout eastern and central Europe...
...Ben Gurion reports that 80 percent of Rumania's 810,000 Jaws are prepared to emigrate to Palestine as soon as visa* are available...
...This msy embarrass the American Jewish Conference, which has recently admitted Jewish Communists to its ranks...
...Departmen* of Prophesy • Now 111 stick my neck out and venture a prediction: The Nasi* are panicstriclten, and Germany will collapse within thro* months, probably sooner...
...demanded of Germany by Russia, because of the repercussion on the home market...
...Btmnen Wttk (Feb...
...Freedom of fhe Press—Sevier Sfyfe • The U. S. State Department ie supporting the demand that American correspondent* be admitted into the Balkan*, under Red Army control, to report what ia going on, Acting Secretary Grew announced...
...Russia made a series of highly Important political decisions, unilaterally, with out consultation with her allies...
...Gating once more into the crystal ball, I will venture the prophesy that after Germany goea down, Japan will be defeated within a year, certainly, and assuming that Russia declares war on Japan, probably within six months...
...The Burgeffmeister himself is criticized for his walk as director of a corporation that produced munitions for the Nazis...
...a few "quisling" Social Democrat* and liberals will be given posts, but the power will be wielded primarily by Communists and the Union of German Officers and Free Germany Committee now in Moscow, all puppet* of the Kremlin...
...events a* they reflect social tendencies Bulgarian Jewish Communists Secede from W$rW Jewry AT A MEETING held in Sot* on January 8, 1945, the "iMdei" of the Buig.n.n Jewish Community and the Jewish MetiOM of the Fatherland front adopted resolution* declaring Uieir independence from all Jewish fc organizations, Zionist or otherwise...
...Roosevelt favors drastic decentralisation of German industry and removal of heavy industries which produce armaments...
...Treatment of Germany • Britain and the United State* are against the huge reparation* payment...
...160,000 Bulgarians, Badio Sofia reports, throhged the Square facing the Palace of Justice in Bulgaria's capital to hear the official promulgation of verdicts against TOO persons condemned as war criminals...
...But while Stalin and all his agents agreed, and eloquently declared that there is only one big job—to wis the war—they proceeded to act sa aa to make It impossible to postpone settlement of political problems until the war's end...
...Bagrlanoff, who was sentenced to death, never loved democracy.- But it is an undeniable fact that, at the last Bulgarian premier under German occupation, he acted with Russian approval and was supported throughout by the Soviet minister in Bulgaria...
...JkVNaaghton was defeated in the Grey North by-election to Parliament by the Progressive Conservative (Tory) candidale, with the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidate a poor third...
...1,000,000,000 worth of surplus Government-owned products are to be disposed of, and the disposal thereof promise* to become the nation's greatest postwar scandal, if the policy is to be disposal through ordinary business channels...
...The Jewish organizations of Bulgaria and their institutions and buildings have been captured by the Communists., although in prewar Bulgaria the majority of the Jew* there were* Zionitti...
...The Labor Progressives (Communists) supported MeNaughten...
...The price we have had to pay for continued "unity" in the Grand Alliance has been high, and we shall have to pay a still higher price to preserve it into the peace —and to get Russia to declare war against Japan...
...The Ceev sistoire, or Jewish Community Council, will maintain contact, however, with the Jewiah Anti-Fascist Committee of Moscow...
...The Nisei can light and die for Aaeeriea, but they cannot hunt and fish...
...This defeat of the governmental candidate, of the Liberal Party, ia a Mow to Prime Minister Maesenaie King and hi* conscription policy...
...As Anne O'Hare McCormkk writea in the Timtt, "It ia Sow «r nmm...
...Tm» Iff Tftrt* Decide tne World'i Fate • Roosevelt and Churchill insisted, for a long time, that postwar problem...
...Anti-Nan Germans will assassinate many Nasis...
...Complaints have already begun ia captured German cities such as Aachen that the Allies are utilising the Services of Nasi* and "half-Nazis...
...If [the Big Three) cannot approach the German problem with the levelheaded statesmanship that pats world security ami the future order af Europe before any national interest, there will he nothing to build an international organisation on, »nd no p»?ar...
...The life sentence meted out to Constantino Muraviev, a leader of the progressive Agrarian Party who, together with Nikola Mushanoff, broke relations with Germany and revoked all Nasi and anti-Jewish laws, is • blight not only on the Bulgarian people who are at present entirely dominated by Moscow, but also en progressives in the United States, since oar country ia a signatory to the Bulgarian armistice terms...
...The Jewish Communists oppose migration to Palestine, considered the only salvation under prevailing economic conditions for most of the Jews in the Balkans...
...And the totalitarian liberals of America and Britain will defend this as progressive and democratic...
...Diipotal of War Surpluses • Theodore Bourguignon bought a searchlight from the Government through Surplus Liquidators at an auction at Maspeth, L. I., for $31, and sold it back to a Government defense plant for $235...
...The demand was made far (he banning' of Hebrew studies in Bulgaria...
...He admitted, however, that policies regarding Russian occupied area* are determined by Moscow...
...ana have nothing in common with Jews of Palestine, the United States, Britain, ami Other countries...
...The right to know" ia net recognised by Russian authorities...
...Americans and Briton* have bean excluded, with few exceptions, ana representatives of the Office of Strategic Services were expelled...
...Disposal through ordinary business channels should come last, not first, with small business favored over big monopolistic business...
...They declared that the Jews of Bulgaria are Bulgarians of Jewiah faith...
...How ean the American Jewish Communists whoop it up for Palestine and Zionism, and collecting funds for Palestinian Jews, square Soviet action in the Balkans with their protestationsT * ' » » ' ? Tfc...
...Mary Seidner bought some ship floor strainers (whatever they are) for $3.25 and sold them back to the Government for $12...
...Chur chill and Roosevelt will again be attacked as supporting German reactionaries...
...Russia has objected to the bombing of industrial planta in eastern Europe, because it ia planned to transfer industrial equipment to Russia, and from what is left Russia will demand' goods...
...Germany ia the greatest test af tripartite agreement...
...e • Canadian Defense Minister Geo...
...The AMG says, capable anti-Nasia are net available— so the tame situation is developing in Germany and in Italy...
...It seems probable that Roosevelt, with all bis goodwill and) his Atlantic Charter, will f.il as miserably as Wilson tailed...
...The Zionist movement was characterised as "chauvinist and bourgeois...
...While there ia no doubt that some of those sentenced are genuine war criminals, included among them are also Nikola Mushanoff and Constantino Muraviev and Ivan Bagrianoff—three former premiers...
...S) states: "It leeks increasingly as tkeaigk William L. Clayton, ssststset aanatarj, ¦ going ** be the big man ia the department He knows what he wants, and hew ts) get it He ia trjf far the ablest ef the Stetiiaiaa side...
...Secondly, they should, be sold to governmental agencies, federal, state, and municipal...
...That is the dieision *f the Wyoming State Legislature, which decreed that Japanese- Americans cant take eat hunting and flaking licenses in that benighted state...
...He cannot say, "This is the program of the United States for the winning of the peace," because there it no program en which Roosevelt, the Congress, and the people, are agreed...
...FDR is relying on Americas economic newer aa a diplomatic Trees an IN SUMMARY: • A shorter rout* through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea to Kuwit hu been ifi, and the withdrawal of American troopa from baa baa started This will make it easier far Russian influence to increase...
...America's passive role enabled Stalin to get away with his arrogant decrees enforced upon Poland and other liberated lands...
...All that London and Washington can do is object and protest and, maybe, threaten...
...Higher OmmQcracy' at Work • While the Bif Three were meeting to settle the fate'of the world, Stalin's agents were eliminating all the pro-Allied and democratic persons in the "little countries...
...The result will he early dissolution of Parliament and a general election, at which the CCF hopes to become the largest party in Parliament...
...should not be considered until the war eras won...
...Roosevelt is at a terrific disadvantage, and has been all along, because he cannot declare with authority that the USA arm back with armed force aid with the consent of the senate, any aglsaWfcwBi he might make...
...Churchill thinks thia will be dangerous, and pave the way for Communism...
...But while Britain has placed obstacles in their way, Russia has positively forbidden their exit from the homeland, evidently, besides suppressing Jewish democracy and Jewish education...
...The guerrilla warfare threatened by the Nasi* will not be vary serious or lengthy...
...One of Stalin's favorite tricks has always been to create amalgams of "innocent" and "guilty" so as to make kit executions palatable to liberals everywhere...
...The meet i hk at which these resolutions were passed was stormy, with many shouting protests, but no one Was permitted to apeak against the proposals...
...In the meantime, nothing has been heard about the venerable octogenarian and great Bulgarian democrat, Nikola Mushanoff What fate has Stalin prepared for him...
...Although politics will dominate this country's relations witk certaia f countries, Clayton and his bold new international * program are likely to soar late the Haaetight very seea and altiatatefy to be the dominant force in shaping foreign policy...
...even the Nasi youth will turn against their leaders in bitter disillusionment...
...7s e *eoI Po wer ft* ft* Stmt* Daportmemi • Big business influence on the American State Department is not...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 6
