THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW AFIRST-HAND REPORT of military and political developments in all the theaters of war in which Americans are active was placed before the Senate and the nation this week by a...
...Roosevelt's has been in domestic affairs must not be trusted with any more blank checks either at home or in foreign policies...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Massachusetts, and Ralph 0. Brewster, Maine, both Republicans...
...A majority of Americans feel that the nation's number one problem and issue in the years between 1944 and 1948 will be jobs and post-war economic readjustment, a Gallup Poll showed last week...
...Roosevelt will seem like an "amateur" and Churchill like a "19th Century fossil" to Stalin...
...American boys are buried there now...
...1 /"\ "I submit that a clear, frank statement of na-J-V/» tional aims, based on national interest and guided by justice, would accomplish more good for the world and would cause less hatred and disillusionment later on...
...erations program of the Office of War Information, Lodge said that "frankly, I now wonder whether I was right...
...pended in building some $500,000,000 worth of airfields around the world, we have "no post-war rights of access to any of them...
...Our present news censorship as I saw it on the front enrages and disillusions our fighting men in the truthfulness of their leaders and at home it breeds apathy...
...2. Corporation rates will be raised to yield $1,100,-000,000...
...Reversal...
...Since Pearl Harbor there have been 105,-205 military casualties—20,134 dead, 28,226 wounded, 32,905 missing, and 23,970 imprisoned...
...Federal Coal Mines Administrator Harold Ickes warned last week that "the coal situation is getting worse every week and will continue to worsen until the United Mine Workers and coal operators sign a wage contract...
...Strong pressure for the dismissal of Cox as chairman was exerted by the press and by public-spirited organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union...
...7"There are large areas of the world where our ? British allies have complete control of the cable system...
...Our fighting men rapidly are learning that our propaganda which makes all our allies good and all our enemies bad is the bunk...
...New Tax Program Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., this week submitted a new war tax program calling for the levy of $10,500,000,000 in new taxes to the House Ways and Means Committee, where it received a cold reception...
...Perhaps the most notable report to reach the public was the terse, fact-packed, ably prepared address of Sen...
...The usually moderate leaders of 1,000,000 railway workers charged last week that President Roosevelt is delaying settlement of their wage demands...
...The dangerous results of sugary and overdrawn propaganda should be apparent to us all...
...We should use our admitted power and influence to restrain imperialism...
...The Ickes viewpoint was strongly supported by the United Mine Workers Journal, which asserted that "bureaucratic bungling must give way to a common sense appraisal of coal production, which in simple language spells a satisfactory basic wage agreement in the coal industry...
...Lodge urged that the United States acquire commercial rights on landing fields we are building in foreign lands...
...Members of the committee, who have just returned from a world flight which enabled them to inspect American military installations and confer with American commanders and troops in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, are Sens...
...Civilians in Algeria and Morocco have more American gasoline than people in the eastern states...
...It is one of the biggest military factors staring us in the face...
...If anything it helps the enemy by getting us to underestimate them...
...Lodge said he hoped the paper money being ? distributed by the Allied Military Government (AMG) in Sicily and Italy did not constitute a promise "which the already overburdened American people are neither rich enough nor numerous enough to keep...
...The background of the case, in brief, is this: Cox accepted money from a Geor- || gia radio station whose interests he 3 had represented before the FCC...
...By making a military alliance, however temporary, with one country, America abandons her traditional impartial role of peacemaker and becomes a partner in imperialism of Great Britain...
...Charge...
...3Sen...
...E. E. Cox, Georgia Democrat, ^ yielded to public opinion and resigned as chairman of the special House committee charged with investigating the Federal Communications Commission...
...Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt meet together...
...Whom our rosy censorship and propaganda helps I do not know...
...The American Federation of Labor is now at the peak of-its power with 5,939,021 members, a gain of 456,440 over last year, according to an official report filed at the opening of the AFL's 63rd annual convention at Boston this week...
...Their report to the nation took the form of joint press conferences, public addresses in the Senate, and an off-the-record report to the Senate sitting in executive session from which press and public were barred...
...What is more important we must work with them...
...Cox launched a revenge campaign, secured House passage of a resolution calling for an "investigation" of the FCC, got himself appointed chairman, and proceeded to smear FCC officials at one-sided hearings...
...On the whole, however, he found the personnel of American civilian agencies abroad "of a high caliber," and "there was a harmony and teamwork among them which might be emulated in Washington...
...2Formerly a strong supporter of the overseas op...
...I can say that it is a major factor in the whole Pacific picture...
...Land...
...The f FCC exposed him and turned over its evidence to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution...
...Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission, told the CIO shipbuilders' convention that "labor leaders are smarter than management...
...nThere are many islands in the Pacific essential ? to the military security of the United States...
...Lodge, who is an Army major and a trained newspaper man...
...The possibility of strike votes was emphasized by Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods...
...While we are exhausting our own domestice resources, vast British supplies near the Persian Gulf are virtually untouched...
...Prophecy...
...The other is a fear, which I think is unreasonable, of the expansion of our foreign trade and of our world-wide aviation...
...Lodge suggested this might be "a fitting subject for reverse Lend-Lease...
...There is much real dissatisfaction among our "? men abroad with what they conceive to be the censorship and propaganda policy of the government...
...He said that there were two foreign impressions of the United States...
...Comments which I heard ranged all the way from criticism of the cigaret advertisements which always portray field officers as clean-shaven and neatly pressed, to disagreement with the practice of portraying all our allies as being perfect...
...He criticized some of the OWI overseas activities as confusing, wasteful, and in some respects downright harmful...
...Cox yielded last week, submitted his resignation with a maudlin statement that he could not longer endure "scurrilous" attacks on "a reputation I have been a lifetime in building...
...End Of A Shameful Chapter One of the most shameful chapters in American legislative history came to an end last week when Rep...
...Some of these places must remain in American hands...
...If we'd done that to Germany in 1918, there would have been no resumption of the war and Hitler would still be a harmless painter...
...AFL Gain...
...The principal features were these: 1. In the field of individual incomes, rates will be raised and exemptions lowered to provide an additional $6,500,000,000...
...But also, it is just as vital to them, if not more so, that they work with us...
...Shaw dismissed Churchill's talk of an Anglo-American alliance as being similar to the Atlantic Charter and the covenant of the League of Nations—"fine phrases" intended to fill one's "belly with east wind...
...When we capture a wounded German on the field, we take him to a hospital and take as much trouble and care for him as for one of our own wounded...
...One is an expectation of gifts and favors from the United States which are far beyond our capacity to confer...
...For reasons of security I shall not say how many American lives would be spared if we receive this aid...
...3. There will be stiff increases in the taxes on "luxuries"—liquor, beer, tobacco, travel, pop, and gum —to raise $2,500,000,000...
...8Expressing admiration for Russian courage and ? recognizing the need for Soviet strength against Nazi Germany, Sen...
...Richard B. Russell, Georgia...
...Again, I was impressed with the dangers of overstatement and making promises which are impossible of fulfillment...
...9There is need for a definite policy for relieving ? men overseas after they have served "a certain length of time...
...Conclusions which stood out in Sen...
...American blood has been shed to get these places...
...Lodge said, however, that "it is also true that the whole character of the Pacific war would change if the United States had access to the Pacific coastal area of Russia...
...Striking at the effort to embroil the country in an alliance with Britain, Landon declared that "there never has been and never will be any integrity in power politics...
...In that same period home front accidents have claimed the lives of 80,000 workers and injured 7,000,000...
...We have a right to know what Britain's future plans are beyond the fact that she intends to hold her own...
...A year ago Land brought down a storm of union protest when he urged that "union organizers ought to be shot at sunrise...
...Problem...
...Warning...
...4. Increased estate and gift taxes will raise an extra $400,000,000, Names And Notes In The News 'Plain Talk.' Asserting that it was "time for plain talk in view of the obvious attempt to present the American people an alliance with Great Britain as an accomplished fact," Alf M. Landon, Republican Presidential nominee in 1936, declared in a radio address last week that "any Administration with a record so unsympathetic to democratic processes and customs as Mr...
...Secondary rank was awarded the problem of writing a lasting peace...
...This time we shall have to deal not with Poincaire but with Stalin...
...The 87-year old playwright predicted it "will be very amusing" and "great fun" when the Messrs...
...5Integration of American air, land, and sea forces ? in all theaters is commendably close...
...Turning to Germany's post-war fate, Shaw said: "Stalin knows we shall have to set Germany on its feet again, in sound health, instead of spending the next 20 years sitting on her head...
...But we let Clemenceau and Poincaire try to kick Germany to death when she was down...
...Lodge's memorable report were these: 1While the United States is producing only 25 per ? cent of the world's petroleum products, it is contributing 60 per cent of the supplies being used by the United Nations...
...The National Safety Council disclosed last week that accidents to workers on the home front greatly exceed those among men in the armed services...
...We want to work with Russia and Great Britain...
...Application of new and more productive methods of land use will result in a farm production increase equivalent to 1,000,000 new farms...
...James M. Mead, New York, and Albert B. Chandler, Kentucky, all Democrats, and Sens...
...6While American money and labor have been ex...
...Accidents...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW AFIRST-HAND REPORT of military and political developments in all the theaters of war in which Americans are active was placed before the Senate and the nation this week by a special Senate investigating committee...
...George Bernard Shaw did some predicting last week...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 41
