WASHINGTON AND THE NATION
STOUT, JONATHAN
Washington And the Nation The Same Old Coalition By Jonathan Stout t fate Lender Washington Correspondent |gi%A8iitNOTON. D. C. — The anti-Civil JHe Rights filibuster has served indirectly...
...dure points out that of the incumbent Republican Senator:, up for re diction I.id November, "lour of them ran significantly ahead of Gov...
...It's a straw in the wind...
...And even the Southern fllibustei ers may find themselves with something difficult to explain when the President points out to Southerners the price they have paid for then prejudices...
...LOWERED LIVING COSTS from mid-December to mid-January are accounted for in government reports by price decreases in clothing and housefurnishings, and not in food...
...As a matter of fact, vegetables and fresh fruit went up in price 8.7 percent...
...And Mat is, that the filibuster is exasperatingly dewing the Fair Deal program which the people *lpd for...
...But an examination of the situation nearly indicates that this does not denote bad P«ith with respect to the civil rights program...
...THE 5-eent cigar Is now back for the shopping...
...V filibuster is delaying the raising of minjTOitrn wages from 40 to 75 cents an hour, jjtf Souterners as well as Northerners and Xtsterners...
...At the Yalta conference, Vishinsky told the State Department's Charles Bohlen that Russia would never let small nations judge the acts of the great powers...
...It is delaying repeal of the TaftHartley Act for workers in every part of the nation...
...He would have a ,P*ple story to tell...
...MICAEL J. GALVIN, who has just been confirmed by the Senate for appointment as Under-Secretary of Labor, has for 16 years been associated with the law firm of lierriek, Smith, Donald, Farley and Ketchum in Boston, one of the three largest law firms in New England engaged in labor law...
...It is delaying extended Social •M$urity- coverage for the American people everywhere...
...Berlin, where the Soviet Union has isolated and encircled three great powers with impunity, is also a source of satisfaction and confidence...
...Voted down, too, was a resolution to lower ADA dues to one dollar a year...
...REP...
...three of them ran significantly behind Gov...
...It believes, as a matter of national policy, that •farm support prices should be used to serve as "insurance" against a price collapse, rather than as an inducement to growers to overproduce...
...SpF PACT, the Administration's greatest yength right now lies in a negative fact...
...The new Foreign Minister,, some thought, would attempt to "appease" the United States, to yield and find common ground for agreement...
...W. D. CRUCE, Republican Floor Leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, lias sent me an interesting two-page letter I'd like to share with my readers...
...Capitol Notes and Comments THERE HAS BEEN a quiet Senatorial conference with trade unton representatives here to seek labor unity in presenting a program to Secretary Acheson designed to bring greater labor participation in the State Department and in the diplomatic service...
...And, adds Rep...
...EVIDENCE FOR SUCH OPTIMISM is lacking...
...Inidentally, it is the-finder of reality pointing to ie task that lies before liberals and labor in »e 1950" campaign...
...Americans know Salin's new foreign minister well...
...From the Kremlin's point of view, all current developments must be overshadowed by the tremendous Communist triumph in China...
...Nor does it see fit to explain the removal of Foreign Trade Minister Mikoyan or tlie new tasks to which the Soviet leaders may or may not be assigned...
...An Editorial— Visliinsky: Front and Center THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT does not feel obliged to explain why Vyacheslav Molotov has been replaced as Foreign Minister...
...MOREOVER, it is far from certain that Moscow views the present world situation as one of failure for its own policy...
...The fljpcieerat-Republican coalition is too strong to f(§ worn out by such tactics...
...Last Nojember ther« was great elation'when the elecfon results showed that 54 Democrats had won fe agai«ft| 12 Republican...
...THE ARREST of Judith Coplon, Justice Department employee in the Alien Registration Section, was followed by revelations by Rep...
...The latter is also first vice-president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union...
...But now it can be told...
...There is little reason to expect a change In Soviet policy--a change for the better, at any rate...
...That this was true of the Alien Registration Section, which is in charge of registering Foreign Agents under the law, was known in Washington as early as 1943...
...Almost any of the six million members of the Russian Communist Party would be less objectionable to the West than this arrogant, cynical, and impertinent gentleman...
...the three who ran behind had conservative records...
...The non-Soviet world, however, is surprised and indulges in guesswork...
...D. C. — The anti-Civil JHe Rights filibuster has served indirectly to illumination on t>ie strength of the Bliiplnistration forces in the Senate...
...But had it succeeded, it would have given the Communists precisely the propaganda weapon they were seeking to smear Antonini, Montana and the Italian-American Labor Council as foreign agents of an enemy nation...
...As long as his policy hits no serious snag, there will be no improvement in the international climate, whoever is the nominal head of the Soviet foreign office...
...The letter pui ports to show facts and figures to dispute the viewpoint of the Wall Street Journal that "if the Republican ¦ Faity had taken a more conservative and cxtreni" position in opposition to President Truman, it would have won.'' Hep...
...In Russia, Vishinsky is known as the author of the MVU's unofficial motto: "Give us the man and we'll find a law to convict him on" The prosecutors at the Minds/.enty trial in Budapest and the clergy trial in Sofia are, after all, only poor imitations of Moscow's skillful advocate of death...
...And there is little reason to believe that Stalin—still the chief architect of the all-out offensive against the West—is either disappointed or defeated...
...It lias nothing to say on Andrei Vishinsky's future program in foreign affairs...
...Of course, what they wanted was to break the influence over Italian workers here and abroad of the anti-Communist as well as anti-Fascist Italian-American Labor Council...
...VWhen the President spoke of "getting on a tettn...
...And hailed as a signal That prices are dropping...
...In 1943 the Alien Registration- Section instituted proceedings against Vanni Montana, secretary oi the Italian-American Labor Council, of which Luigi Antonim is president...
...Also voted down was a resolution to declare the ADA a Democratic organisation and permit its chapters to enter the Democratic Party where such action would consolidate the reins of political power in the hands of liberals...
...Even the hard-boiled members of the New York Stock Exchange were optimistic...
...And Rep...
...y * * * f. THERE HAS BEEN a good deal of questionBig of the Administration leaders' good faith pm the Senate in their handling of the filibuster...
...In other words, control of he Senate is in the hands of a coalition of 64 iepuhlican and conservative Democratic SenaThis explains in a nutshell what has happened j the splendid platform dratted at the DemoMtic convention, and its eventual implementaon in the Truman "Fair Deal" program...
...Clothing prices declined 1.9 percent...
...And it might be added, hat if the liberals and iabo;- succeed in giving lie Administration a real working majority in »ext year's elections it will break the hold of KS"»v>«*a»*votive coalition...
...New$ item...
...of Republicans and Pithern Democrats over Congress for the t time since that coalition came to power 1938...
...If the Politburo had really decide* on conciliation, it could easily have found personalities more suited for such a course than the prosecutor of the Moscow Trials...
...The proceedings wen- aimed at punishing Montana for failing to register as a foreign agent and at charatiming him as an Italian agent at a time when the American and British armies' were preparing for the invasion of Italy and the overthrow of Mussolini...
...When Bohlen objected, Vishinsky snappily retorted: "The American people should learn to obey their leaders...
...It would amount to re•IWhding the pepole what they voted for, and pointing out the men who stood in the f% of their getting it...
...So far, there has been agreement on a general program that would call for giving labor an Assistant Secretary of State, several ambassadors (particularly to labor governments abroad), and a set-up of special political advisers on international labor affairs attached to the office of the Secretary of State and to the offices of the directors of the five geographical divisions in the department...
...AT A SPECIAL MEETING ol the Washington Chapter of ADA, attended by 30 of its 800 members, the government loyalty probe program was condemned and chapter delegates lo the ADA national convention in Chicago next month were instructed to work for an ADA plank demanding a loyalty probe limited only to "security sensitive" agencies...
...The Council suggests the 60 percent support progiam on potatoes this year will materially reduce the incentive for overplanting...
...And it tastes like one, tool Richard Armour never came to light...
...The Russian people nii^ht consider this behavior as customary for their government...
...THE NATIONAL Potato Council, composed of the leading potato planters of the nation, takes an interesting position on farm parities...
...Housefurnishings decreased 1.1 percent...
...An amendment to remove this limitation and permit the loyalty program to extend to any government department was voted down...
...Administration leaders this time attempted pone of these tactics designed to wear out the pibuster...
...again" and going to the people with the *j*y of the 81st Congress, this is one of the "fags he had in mind...
...In times past, the tip-oil on whether the Ad"minfstration really intended to "break" a filibuster, came on such points as keeping the |>enate in session at night and over week-ends...
...Dewey...
...How this effort was stopped dead is another story...
...JDn the contrary, it is simply a confession of fyeakness of the Administration forces...
...Nor cab the aolemn pledges of Communist leaders the world over to commit mass treason if war comes, be regarded as a defeat for Moscow...
...At first, some quarters greeted the news from Moscow with hope: Molotov's release meant a repudiation of his stubborn policy by the Politburo, an acknowledgment of Soviet defeat, in Berlin at least...
...Nixon of California that the House Committee on Un-American Activities reported to the Justice Department in 1*946 that the Alien Registration Section is rife with fellow-travelers...
...Cruce closes with, The vote of the people, and the amazing numbers who stayed at home, indicate clearly that a positive, constructive, liberal program of the Republican Party, consonant with the views of its founder, Abraham Lincoln, would have resulted in victory...
...People in the South voted for it, too...
...One example of how this branch of the Justice Department was used to further the political objectives of the Communists WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS The 5-cent cigar reappeared in New York yesterday for the lint time since the war...
...Cruce, "the four who ran ahead all bad liberal records...
...At a dinner conversation, it was Vishinsky who offered the United States a deal: You take Latin America, we'll lake Central Europe...
...Dewey...
...As Vice-Premier and member of the Politburo, Molotov himself may control Vishinsky's policies from the Kremlin backstage...
...It would serve Mjty to punish the endurance of the AdministraSPn's small group of faithful...
...Food prices went down only one-tenth of one percent (or about enough to put in your eye without blinking...
...It's a portent, an omen, A forecast, a clue...
...It took the filibuster I show that the Administratian cannot count n ov«f S2 Senator!?, or precisely one-third of la Upper House...
...Such a program will result in victory in 1950 and 1952...
...stocks rose the day after Andrei Vyshinsky's appointment...
Vol. 32 • March 1949 • No. 11
