THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW ADOUBLE-BARRELED INQUIRY into the operations of America's fabulous Lend-Lease program was assured this week when the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to join with the Truman...
...Presenting facts obtained from the Library of Congress, Sen...
...The War Production Board revealed last week that there is no prospect now that distillers will be allowed to produce any alcohol for beverage purposes through 1944...
...Their disclosures were confirmed by the British who were aroused because the blame was being placed on them, rather than upon the Roosevelt Administration...
...The miners, who had ended their strike last Spring when the government took over the mines, have vowed not to work without a contract under private ownership...
...George Meaney, secretary-treasurer, and the 13 vice presidents were also reelected...
...Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, newly appointed British viceroy of India, arrived in New Delhi this week with the announcement that his first mission is to get India producing for British victory...
...In the field of foreign policy, he called for a joint global policy to be pursued by the U. S., Britain, Russia, and China "as a preliminary to forming a Council of the United Nations...
...There was hardly any part of Calcutta where I haven't seen human beings looking like corpses and starving wretches rummaging in dustbins and garbage heaps for a few food grains...
...Meanwhile, the Bureau of Internal Revenue exploded the shortage myth by reporting that whisky stocks on hand at the end of August were sufficient, at the present rate of consumption, to last seven years and two months...
...Meanwhile, Lewis and the UMW cleared a major hurdle on their road home to membership in the American Federation of Labor...
...The per capita debt of the United States and possessions, as of September, 1940, aggregated $293," he pointed out...
...The Calcutta Statesman, British-owned, estimated this week that the Bengal famine death rate might be higher than 9,000 or 11,000 weekly...
...it is sold to an Australian concern, which, in turn, sells it to a Canadian corporation, which sells it to us...
...The British sell the goods to wholesalers and retailers and collect ad valorem taxes as well as income taxes on it...
...A few days later, Sen...
...Appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee in bitter opposition to the drive to saddle the nation with a soak-the-poor sales tax, Murray demanded the scrapping of the Little Steel formula and higher wages for labor...
...2. The convention declined to vote on a resolution which would have placed it on record as approving the Roosevelt Administration...
...The convention's action paves the way for early affiliation of the miners in the Federation they left in 1935 to found the Congress of Industrial Organizations...
...It is also a question of free enterprise against monopolistic control...
...Then we put the nickel into Lend-Lease material and send it back to New Caledonia for an IOU...
...Wendell Willkie, Wall Street lawyer and former utility magnate, launched his second bid for the Republican Presidential nomination rt St...
...Raid...
...A. J. Ellender, Louisiana Democrat, reported that a thorough investigation had convinced him that "we have been the sucker to the nth degree...
...Byrd, a millionaire apple-grower, has wangled an increased maximum price for apples out of the Administration, the publication charged...
...In a report written for the Senate's Postwar Economic Policy and Planning Committee, Sen...
...Doctors cautiously expressed the hope that penicillin holds out definite promise of becoming the long-sought-for non-toxic substance against syphilis...
...The British Complaint Comments of the same or similar character came this week from other members of Congress, regardless of their party affiliation or their stand on foreign policy, as the nation awoke to the need for a far more alert safeguarding of American interests around the world...
...The people of the United States," he said, "are ahead of Washington...
...Cool Toward Administration Other AFL convention actions: 1. William Green was reelected to his 20th term as president...
...Is it a surprise, therefore, that the British can keep their debt so low...
...O'Mahoney asserted that "a large part of this unused capital is in the hands of the large corporations which hold the major portion of the war contracts...
...At the present time, this is the way we get our nickel...
...All symptoms of syphilis disappeared in four cases following the use of about 120 grains of penicillin, the rare drug secreted by the green mold of cheese, it was announced last week at the wartime conference of the American Public Health Association in New York...
...Withdrawals from warehouses were said to be running at a low level, since a large part of the liquor now on sale consists of water, spirits, and other adulterants...
...Candidate...
...Ellender asserted that the national debt will be equal to the combined public debt of the rest of the world by the end of the next fiscal year if the present rate of war spending is maintained...
...He made no comment on the frightful famine which is sweeping large areas of India...
...4. The convention unanimously adopted a report reaffirming the Federation's policy against race prejudice after it had heard A. Philip Randolph, Negro delegate of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, accuse several unions of racial discrimination...
...The product is mined in New Caledonia, where the Free French have slapped on an additional tax of 17 per cent...
...The AFL's hostile attitude toward a number of Administration policies was shared last week, in part, by the president of its rival organization, Philip Murray, leader of the CIO...
...Ellender disclosed that Great Britain is spending $18,000,000,000 this year on war expenses, whereas the United States is spending "in Lend-Lease alone $1,250,000,000 a month, or only $3,000,000,000 less than the British are spending for their entire annual war effort...
...Ralph O. Brewster, Maine Republican who was a member of the party of touring Senators, added this comment: "The British irritation at our discussion is difficult to understand because our criticism has been directed not at the British for looking out for themselves, but at the failures of our own government to look after American interests as a result of our inadequate representation on the diplomatic front and in the other civilian agencies now active in the foreign fields...
...In domestic affairs, he denounced the anti-labor Smith-Connally Act, the Administration's scarcity program in agriculture, the White House concealment of news, and the President's distortion of the value of "enterprise...
...The U. S. Treasury, he disclosed, has invested 78 per cent of the $20,000,000,000 spent in new war plants...
...Names And Notes In The News Starvation...
...I saw corpses in every village I visited...
...O'Mahoney declared that more than 70 per cent of all war contracts were centered in 100 large corporation units...
...Power so long held breeds within itself certain abuses which ultimately destroy a democratic society," the Wall Street lawyer said, adding that he has dedicated himself to "the removal from office of the man and the group who exercise it...
...At its annual convention at Boston, the AFL last week voted overwhelmingly to empower its executive council to negotiate for readmission of the UMW...
...Charging that the Administration had failed to keep living costs in check while freezing wages, Murray said that "the time has come when we must stop dealing in terms of theory and get back to the basic facts...
...Booze...
...The workers can't eat statistics...
...Today it stands at $935, and our appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30 for war purposes alone aggregated $97,000,000,000...
...The Wyoming Senator, who headed the famed Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC) several years ago, recommended federal incorporation legislation and legislative controls over business to preserve opportunity for small business...
...Cure...
...Harry F. Byrd, Virginia Democrat who leads the Senate fight against progressive legislation under the guise of economy, "has just engineered a raid that will cost the taxpayers, as consumers of apples, an estimated $30,000,000 a year," Labor, official organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods, charged last week...
...How We Get Our Nickel Sen...
...James B. Reston, London correspondent for the New York Times, cabled this interesting report: "Resentment on the part of the British officials Available to this correspondent is based on the salient assumption by the Senators that the United States had asked for more oil from Persia and this had been refused...
...Herbert L. Matthews, war correspondent for the New York Times, reported last week that the retreating Nazis set on fire, with hand grenades and gasoline, the precious, 200,000-volume library of the Royal Society of Naples...
...that we had asked for unlimited use of air bases we have built on British territory and this had been refused, and had requested the right to establish bases after the war on British territory and had been turned down...
...O'Mahoney Sounds A Warning Sen...
...The decision was reached after members of Congress had had an opportunity to digest some of the sensational facts uncovered by the five Senators who toured the battlefronts of the world, and after Sen...
...Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming Democrat, warned the nation last week that "unless we put idle money to work (he estimated there was $77,500,000,000 on hand and available for investment) in the postwar world, we will be face to face with the greatest economic disaster that this or any other country ever suffered...
...In a speech carefully designed to win friends from large groups in the nation, Willkie lashed out at the Roosevelt Administration but dedicated himself to a program which differed only in degree and emphasis from the policies currently being pursued in the White House...
...But so far as one can discover in this capital, none tof these things has happened...
...Vandalism...
...We get an IOU from the British government for Lend-Lease goods...
...This question lies at the very core of the problem the committee must face...
...Pandit Friday Nath Kunzru, delegate to the All-India Food Conference, issued a statement after visiting the famine areas in which he said he saw "horrors well nigh indescribable...
...Miners See Victory Ahead Restoration of the nation's coal mines to their private owners by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes last week brought a wave of unauthorized walkouts by miners...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW ADOUBLE-BARRELED INQUIRY into the operations of America's fabulous Lend-Lease program was assured this week when the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to join with the Truman Committee in a sweeping investigation...
...In contrast, Great Britain's per capita debt had increased only $57 in five years, being $107 in 1938 and $164 today...
...The five globe-encircling Senators had reported that America's needs were not being adequately protected by the American government...
...They want to maintain democratic principles and they believe in economic freedom as well as political freedom...
...Louis last week...
...Let no one imagine, therefore, that it is merely a question of free enterprise against government control...
...John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, urged the men to return to the mines, predicting that the War Labor Board was on the verge of approving a contract, which would be acceptable to the UMW...
...3. Delegates condemned activities of the National Labor Relations Board, the War Labor Board, and the War Manpower Commission, denouncing especially "the rapid increase in arbitrary regulation and control through directives...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 43
