DEWEY SO FAR
Pearse, Vincent
DEWEY SO FAR "So High So Quick, So Flat So fast" By Vincent Pearse THE going- has been hard- at Albany for Governor Dewey since hit defeat lest November. Events seem to have conspired against...
...The editor, Marilyn Kaemmerle, who wrote the offending editorial, explained thst the meant that Negroes must have a lot of education to attain equality, and a lot of education of whites it alio required so thst they will get over their prejudices...
...1 Mitt Kaemmerle is a native of Kentucky, snd hailt from Michigan...
...chairman...
...The personnel has been reshuffled and only * few members of the committee are now hs th* government...
...But b« *>¦¦ *»«,¦««»«<» successfully to wage a war of nerves against the legislators, both Democratic and Republican...
...Republicans felt rightly that they were maneuvered into a foolish position...
...Except for the Ives anti-discrimination bill the Dewey proposals were exceedingly moderate...
...The reshuffle baa, if anything, incressed the unrepresentative character of Lublin...
...The UMW's demands on the mining companies will not be definitely formulated, however, until February 26, when the union's Policy Committee meets in Washington...
...But the Assembly wss reluctant to do to until the next dsy and then not before some ringing denunciations of the Dewey procedure by members of his own party...
...While a good portion of h)a present difficulties must be attributed to his own ineptness, this it not entirely the case...
...It started out quietly enough...
...an exact replica of it* predecessor, the < oinniii lee uf National Liberation...
...Prominent among them was Stanley H. Fuld, s former Dewey associate, now in private practice—but holding also the special post of liaison sgent between Dewey's office and the Todd investigation...
...Was Hull s liar, s fool, or just an honest old-fsshionel liberal states- 1 man who was deceived by Stalin ? • • • • Lyle Dowiing, qne of the most vehement Communists ever to join the Newspsper Guild snd long an employes of left-wing unions, is on the staff of the Italian edition of Star* and Stripei, the Army newspsper, according to the Daily Worker...
...Actually it has not worked out that way, but this remains the overwhelming opinion of the Todd inquiry...
...There is, of course, still plenty of time before the 1946 gubernatorial elections and perhsps the picture will change...
...Insnraneo now covers 16,500,000 employee*, double the number eight years sgo...
...Except on the Ives anti-dit-erimination bill„this does not reflect sny ideological clash...
...A crisis WM precipitated at the venerable College of William and Mary, Thomas Jefferson's alma motor, by an editorial in ths campus weekly, Flat Hat, suggesting thst after generations and perhaps centuries of edues-ttou the Negro might bo recognised as the equal of ths White man...
...Events seem to have conspired against him...
...skimpy might be a better word...
...8—A nation is the product of its history snd environment...
...ft, • Cordell Hull declared, upon his return from the Moscow conference in November, 1943, that "As the provisions of the Four Nations Declaration are carried into effect, there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of those special arrangements through which in the unhappy psst th* nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests...
...Life insurance in ths USA rose to a record of $25,-800,000,000 for sll firms in the business...
...Not a trace of dissension snd not a shade of politics) difference between them could be detected...
...Dewey was sensitive to the cool receptioiwststKnss since reverted to deritive comments about "our left-wing friends," by whom he means anybody to the left of John Foster Dulles...
...The case* are not strictly comparable, for the methods snd intentions of Ruuia in ita relations with Poland and Yugoslavia are different from those which appear to have governed the British approach to Greece...
...Socialist, aad Democratic 'Parties' were hold st Lublin simultaneously with the session of the now, so-called 'Parliament.' Bat all those conferences, meetings, snd solemn gatherings sre remarkable for one thing...
...NEWS ON THE FOUR WINDS Mine Workers Ready for Drive To Kill National Wage Freeze WASHINGTON (LPA).—Possibility of a nation-wide cool strike by April 1 wss being discussed by government officials in Washington Isst week following the rejection by John L. Lewis of a proposal that the United Mine Workers start negotiations for s new wage agreement before March 1. Lewis is expected to ask for s straight wsge increase, s differential for miners working second snd third shifts, snd also sn increase in psy for underground travel time —the so-called portal to-portal contract clause...
...When the present session of the Legislature opened Dewey's associates passed the word around that he was now going "all-out for liberalism...
...The new Polish 'Provisional Government' of Lublin is not...
...Things got off to s bad start shortly after the election when Hiram C. Todd's special inquiry into alleged Legislative crimes snd evil practice suddenly spurted to life Todd has not yet sought any indictments...
...The regime is totalitarian in character...
...former Republican Senate Majority Leader George R. Fearon, and a David Benjamin, chairman of the Brooklyn Republican law committee...
...Conferences of the Peasant...
...Hero's One solation, offered by Sforts—eend all the Italian prisoner* of war back to join the Italian army to fight the Natl invader...
...On Occupation of Japan aid Germany . .. • Sir Andrew McFadyesn outlined three principles to the Foreign Policy Association: 1—A durable peace is one thst will stand up to the test of conscience after ten or fifteen years...
...The report found rent-gouging to be widespread snd urged freezing at 15 percent above March, 1943, in lofts snd stores...
...They all speak with the same voice...
...Ths Government to paying $20,600,000 monthly to 1,120,000 men, women and children for old-sge and other social security benefit...
...Then came the highly-publicized Bottle of the Commercial Rents...
...Who It Seper/or and Why...
...Ernest B. Morris, former Dewey appointed District Attorney of Albany County...
...But 24 hours after the open hearings the committee suddenly reversed itself snd urged a 25 percent boost in lofts only—omitting stores, also offices...
...It is this uncanny unsmity more than anything else that makes s foreign observer so highly sceptical about the political identity card* produced at Lublin...
...All in all, these episodes coming so early in the session have not added up to s picture of executive-legislative harmony...
...O The resource* of the nation's largest bank, the Chase National, rose in 1944 to an sll-tim* high— 65,160,000,000...
...In verbiage his opening message left little to be desired: a broad public housing program, anti-discrimination legislation, a sweeping plan for combatting juvenile delinquency, even plans to extend the soldier vote...
...From th* London "Economitt" of Jan...
...Dewey's major problem, now as before the election, it his inability to got along with the Republican-controlled Legislature...
...Over 700,000 who hsvs not asked for benefits art entitled to them, the Social Security Beard stated...
...Frank L Wiswall, former Albany County G.O.P...
...There is talk of free elections and the will of th* people but under these conditions the terms sre almost devoid of meaning...
...TOTALITARIAN "DEMOCRACY" IN three liberated countries she question of a new government is causing misery among the people themselves and division and distrust among the Great Allies...
...But right now st Albsny they sre ssying: never hot a politician risen to high to quick, nor fatten *• flat to fait...
...Hearings were held by the Joint Legislative Committee investigating the New York City commercial rent situation, following issuance by this same committee of a report of its own sight-months investigation...
...The situation became acutely embarrassing for the Governor...
...With the exception of the Minister of Agriculture, a former Peasant Party depnty, 'the whole Lublin cabinet has emerged to power from ntter obscurity...
...She is a fellow-traveler of the UAW, and so, very conveniently, shs permitted herself to bo defeated snd acknowledged at the end that "maybe we ought to keep the pledge...
...It began very much to look ss if sll of Dewey's close friends had lined up with the landlords snd high-rent boys...
...Last Weak a similar Civil right* bill wat defeated in Oregon...
...Orders then suddenly came from ths Governor's chambers to freeze rents at 15 percent, The Senate changed its position within sn heur...
...The worthy trustees of the college in* dlgnantly demanded disciplinary action, and faculty control «f the college paper...
...Manpower shortage...
...Last week the CP-led New York local of the American Newspaper Guild arranged a debate over WMCA on the question: Should ths no-strike pledge be repealed...
...The difficulty remains, however, thst the degree of Miipport it achieves will not alter the Lublin Government's attitude to thoee who do not support it...
...Depo.it* roes to *4,g86,O0O,OOO...
...The student body dodded *> suspend publication rather thai have the paper ¦npervised, on the idea that "I don't agrso with what you say, but I defend to th* death your right to say it...
...All those Members Of the committee who played some part i> prs-wsr Polish politics hsvs been dropped...
...Others included: Ex-Senator Lester Baum, a prominent New York County Republican...
...There is skepticism as to the practicability of any world security organisation, and cynicism as to worldwide disarmament Only an Internntlonal agreement outlawing peacetime conscription eoold avert a poatwsr armament* race, and the shanoso of sash sn agreement an shnoot nil...
...Democrats have been quick to remind Dewey of his many campaign jibes about disharmony on the Potomac...
...At a public hearing in Salt Lake City on a civil righta bill George Ballif described how Negro workers st the largest stool mill in ths West, Geneve, are fad in the Provo city park because no restaurant in that city of 20,000 will serve Negroes...
...The bad feeling engendered by this episode has lingered on...
...Reporters were puzzled by the sudden reversal...
...Then they began to examine the list of lobbyists who appeared to argue against the rent freeze...
...He asserted that "the wider and tighter you mske your control [of a vanquished country], the more completely you make yourself responsible for the political snd ecoBomis...
...It is mostly personal...
...While this was an obvious bid for Liberal Party and American Labor Party voters to give him a second chance, there was for a brief moment an inclination to see if the words were backed up* with action...
...Suspicions ss politicians at Albany always are, this was immediately viewed as Dewey-inspired, with a view to keeping recaiitrant members in line during the session...
...One of the reasons the Army and Navy insist on peacetime conscription is the prevalent belief In high circles that war with Russia within a decade is inevitable, Worldover PVsss reports...
...Southern teachere who earn at little as $41 monthly testified before the gensto Education Committee urging 1300,000.000 yetrly in Federal subsidies to states for schools...
...For ths affirmative Edith Rhodes was selected...
...But instead of acting promptly hs waited until the Assembly bad passed a 25 percent bill and the Senate wss on the verge of doing so...
...it gives student* ideas...
...Perhaps the trustee* ought to stop the teaching of anthropology...
...life of an alien people "We can't make people moral by an act of Parliament, and wo cant make a nation democratic by , treaty...
...2—War hss never been stopped by concentrating on today's aggressor or by safegusrds sgainst today's weapons...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 8
