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 Never Was the Fate of So Many Decided by So Few AT LAST the horrified protest of Polos against the arrest and...
...In Tito's concentration camps in Serbia, the guards wear the old Ustachi uniforms (the Ustachi were the Croat quisling forces under Pavolich...
...An American merchant marina of 20,000,000 tons operating and the equivalent in reserve, "to cut into former Axis markets," was urged by Vice Admiral Emory Land...
...V » • • Deportment of Political Idiocy • The agreement reached between the EAM-ELAS and the Plastiras Government of Greece represents "a victory for the popular movement which had taken up arms against Axis, occupation as wall as British intervention," in the solemn opinion of The New Republic (Feb...
...26) announced that all the judges of the "people's courts" will be choien by the Plenum of the Committee of Liberation, which is completely dominated by the Communists...
...French Socialist Program • The French Communists have now agreed to support the Socialists' demand for the nationalization of banks and public- utilities before the end of the war, Andre Philip, Socialist leader, stated, adding that de Gaulle would accept this program...
...The Yugoslavian Communist organ flattie (Borba) reports the confiscation of the property of all Serbs considered "enemies of the people," i.e., all followers of Mikhailovitch as well as the pro-Nazi quislings...
...Th* Army has decided that membership In the Communist Party does not necessarily mean that loyalty to Russia and Communism overrides loyalty to the United States...
...Th* Communist*' counter-demandc wen for a com plot* reorganisation of the government to make it a coalition with Communist* in key posts, and a unified high command with Communist generals holding equal power with the Kuomintang generals...
...The threat of confiscation has induced many to join the Communist Party, growing rapidly...
...Chaos threatens to engulf the country...
...The "Socialist" and "Peasant Party" leaders elected are individuals that no Pole in London or New York ever heard of—mediocrities unknown in prewar Poland and not active in the fight against Pilsudski, Beck, or the Nazis...
...IN SUMMARY: The new Belgian Government has made a frantic appeal for food and economic aid, declaring that no government can function long until the people sre fed and factories are producing again...
...The Polish Government-in-Exile, now betrayed by London and Washington in favor of the puppet Provisional Government installed in Warsaw by the Russians, handed Stettinius and Eden documentary evidence of crimea committed by the Red Army, the GPU, and the Lublin gang of stooges, including wholesale deportation of Polish populations...
...Communism has disappeared in Russia," he said...
...He declared that these terms art known in Europe and that they were published In the International Law Review in Geneva...
...Chinese Commuslilt Refute Compromise • When FDR sent Wallace to China to exert pressure on Chiang to reach unity with the Communists at Yenan, Chiang told him that every time he agreed to any proposal of th* Communist*) they increased their demands...
...With all opponent* removed, it will be safe for Moscow to carry out the "free and unfettered elections" promised at Yalta...
...On February 16, Herbert L. Matthews reports, "plain-clothes men" visited the publisher and al( boek-shops in Rome and forced them to hide all copies of the pamphlet *nd in many cases seised them in the name of*the Ministry of the Interior...
...Another paper, Glas (Voice), stated that "enemies of the people" will receive no relief—thus UNRRA food, medical supplies, clothing, etc., are used as a political weapon...
...The Cracow papers announce that all radios must be delivered to the authorities, and that typewriters and mimeograph machines must be registered...
...19) ". . . the EAM's military sacrifice against domestic reaction and foreign interference was not in vain...
...The Russians are deporting Poles from east of the Curzon line to western Poland, so that if and when there is any plebiscite, this area can be "proved" to be preponderantly Russian...
...After two weeks of fruitless negotiations with General Chou En-lai, this Communist leader has returned to Yenan with new Chungking concessions, including: 1—A readiness to recognize the Chines* Communist Party aa a lawfal political party...
...The calling in and exchange of bank notes to take inventory of the fortunes accumulated in cash and to stifle the black market, which is carried on mostly in cash...
...These guards received immunity from Tito on condition of joining his army...
...The public food ration is reduced to 1,400 caloriea, barely enough te sustain life, compared to 2,000 when the Germans occupied Belgium...
...Lotezf News From Tire'* Jugoslavia • Out of 600 officers of the regular Yugoslav army, formerly led by Mikhailovitch, who have been interned in the Middle East, only 46 have Joined Tito's army, and of these" only seven are Serbians...
...I'olitika (Nov...
...Chairman May of th* Senate Military Affairs Committee threatened an investigation...
...Acting Secretary of State Grew denied a demand for the publication of the secret terms of the Italian armistice, reported to be unduly severe...
...He seised power in 1930, and there have been no legal political parties since, so the selection of candidates will not be simple...
...This has happened again...
...Admiral Standley stated that Stalin has abandoned all thought of world revolution...
...He says he has possession of a document proving that the big industrialists of Brasil are contributing $16,000,000 to perpetuate the Vargas dictatorship and their own privileges / with it Part of the money will ha ased to hay two prominent writers mm each big newspaper...
...One Polish officer commented acidly: "Never was the fate of so many decided so cruelly by so few...
...Argentina's threat to declare war on Germany seems to be a shrewd move to overcome hostility and gain representation at the San Francisco meeting to form a world security organization...
...events as they reflect social tendencies By Liston M. Oak Never Was the Fate of So Many Decided by So Few AT LAST the horrified protest of Polos against the arrest and deportation of members of the former Polish Underground, now dissolved and at the mercy of the Sad Army, has been backed by the British Govern-ment- G. H. Hall, Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, declared that Britain "attaches great importance to the freeing by the Soviet Union of all members of the former Polish Underground Army who fought against the Germans...
...It will be interesting to learn who will attend and who has been dropped from th* Commie's Plenum...
...Lombardo Toledano of Mexico and Vasili Kuznetsov of Russia, both Communist trade union leaders, were among those honored by being received by the King snd Queen at Buckingham Palace...
...Frank Gervasi, of Collier'*, spoke to the Overseas Press Club Wednesday in praise of the Yalta declaration...
...the result was thai fifty Italian sailors invaded the office oi the Socialist newspaper AvanU and wracked it This is reminiscent of the "squandrism" of the fascists of twenty-five years ago, snd, as in 1919, the Socialists are organizing defense committees...
...His Beatitude Christophoros, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, predicted that Russie will turn toward capitalism and nationalism...
...2—Inclusion of a high-ranking Communist official in a national military council...
...it Bogus "Democracy" in One of Oar S.sf "Good Ne.gkbori" • Brazilian dictator Vargas has promised a free democratic election soon...
...Grew denied that there was any provision for such slave labor, but did not discuss the other items...
...The Socialists charge that the sailors were incited to wreck the AvanU office by the Communists...
...What An Hie Secret Term of Hie Italian Armlttlca...
...Stalin, he stated, made many concessions...
...In a population of 44,060,000...
...Asked what they ware, he hesitated, and replied, "Why, h» promised free elections in the liberated countries...
...The Socialist Party urges: A tax on profits made between 1940 and 1946 that would rise almost to confiscatory levels...
...No compensation except that of doing good work for a good cause, and may bo a chance to learn something...
...pretending to he Communists, they will give the police tfcojaamss of all who are against the government—the police will do the rest...
...They came from east of the Curzon line...
...3—Inclusion of Communist representatives and representative* of Other political parties in the Executive Yuan, with a view of forming a sort of wartime cabinet 4— Establishment of a commit to* of three to consider a reorganisation of the Communist Army and the question of their supplies with Government and Communist representatives on th* committee having equal status aad with po*sibIy sn American Army officer presiding...
...The letter in Sharp's possession, from one hig induatrislist to another, states that secret agents hats been placed m all the large factories...
...Senator Bridges charged (that the terms provided for the cession of colonies to Britain, of Fiume to Yugoslavia, part of Piedmont and Elba to France, and the sending of 2,000,000 workers to do slave labor reconstructing devastated areas...
...It condemned Communist totalitarianism in strong terms...
...The one-party dictatorship must go," said Chou, but of course ho meant China, not Russia, and he also meant that the Communists must be given th* opportunity to sab* stitute their dictatorship for that of th* Kuomintang...
...I do not believe that even Stalin is an atheist" the former American Ambassador to Russia said...
...Almost as much praise, obsequious adulation, is showered upon Tito by the Yugoslavian press as upon Stalin in the Russian press...
...But the industrialists are worried—there is growing unrest »nd even the army is seething with discontent Sharp adds that the V argot gesture will be applauded in Washington "$inee the%fflcial policy is disinclined ' to oppose internal fascism in a country actually aiding the war on tie Atis...
...e . ^ t WANTED—Research workers, filing clerks, on a volunteer basis, for work in The Maw baa dor...
...after the war he will disband the Rod Army...
...K. * * • t A leaflet was distributed In Italy inciting the Navy to mutiny against its "fascist officers," which naval officers ascribed to the Communists, but which sounds more like Trotekyist propaganda...
...also all men between 16 and 66 must register...
...leas thai 4.000,000 are eligible to VOta, Electoral controls are completely in the hands ef the dictators political machine...
...The Army has countermanded "previous confidential Instructions' barring Communists from officer training and some nineteen various assignments involving military secrecy," according to the Chicago Tribune...
...A capital levy on fortunes exceeding 100,000,000 treats, these funds to be devoted to the aid of war victims...
...The Polish-Government-in-Exile charged that the Russian and Polish Communists, some of them camouflaged aa Socialists, are preparing such conditions as will make independence merely nominal, and will "load toward the absorption of the whole of Poland into the framework of the USSR," as an autonomous Soviet republic, •»•It is reported that the Yalta capitulation to Stalin on Poland caused such consternation and dismay among Polish soldiers fighting the Nazis on the Italian front that at least thirty have committed suicide in protest...
...February 1 was the deadline he set for "all Yugoslavs to save themselves...
...The National Committee of the Communist Political Association will hold a plenary session on March 10 to 12 at 13 Astor Place...
...For the first time in 600 years, except during the Nazi occupation, the Director of the University of Cracow is to be appointed by the government, not elected by the university's Senate of teachers...
...Shotguns were fired into one home near Fresno, California, and another was destroyed by fire last week, bringing to ten the number of such atrocities around Fresno since the Nisei began to return to their homes from relocation camps...
...More drastic confiscation of "illicit profits" derived from commerce,with the Germans...
...and leaders of the Polish Underground are herded in concentration camps taken over from the Gestapo, for probable future deportation to Siberia as in 1940—there wasn't room enough in the prisons to hold all of those arrested...
...The Higher Democracy in Poland • The first "elections" held in liberated Poland were at Cracow...
...The difference between this and a similar Belgian experiment would be that check transfers would remain free during the exchange to avoid interference with normal commerce...
...and that the AC will reduce its staff and power, enabling Italy to become self-governing at last...
...Many followers of the Communists were disgusted with their new conservative line and switched allegiance to the more radical Socialista...
...The Catholic chaplains of the Polish Corps fighting in Italy published a pamphlet about the menace of Bolshevism to their country and to freedom of religion...
...See Listen M. Oak, on Fridays...
...Roland Hall Sharp, Chrietimn Science Monitor correspondent la Mexico City, thinks that the calling of elections is aa empty gesture to try to "remove the stigma of fascist dictatorship from the Vargaa regime...
...While their sou are fighting for the USA in Italy, Japanese-American homes on the Went Coast are being attacked...
...Herbert L. Matthews reports that Americans will in future "share authority with the British in the Allied Commission in Italy on equal terms...
...The Allies will again be presented with a fait accompli...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 8
