THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE UNITED STATES SENATE was embroiled this week in what was widely billed as an historic debate on foreign policy although the resolution immediately before it was broad enough...
...Tom Connally, Texas Democrat who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was the author of the compromise concoction which was reported out by the Committee by a 20 to 2 vote, Sens...
...More than 100 labor leaders have appealed to President Roosevelt to intervene in behalf of Alton Levy, former union organizer, who was court-martialed, stripped of his post as sergeant, and sentenced to four months of hard labor, ostensibly because he was loud in his criticism of Army discrimination against Negroes at the Lincoln, Nebr., airbase...
...Twenty-four years ago, after World War I, we cruelly turned over to the Japanese Empire, with only 60,000,000 people, more than 40,000,000 of Chinese...
...Vice President Henry A. Wallace, long the target of Tory publicists, made news last week with an article in the Saturday Evening Post affirming that he has always believed in the system of free enterprise, and is concerned with destroying the excesses and abuses which prevent the system from working at its best...
...War's Price...
...Johnson and La Follette contended that it was unsound to commit the United States now to preserve a peace settlement whose terms we do not know...
...Reversal...
...Louis address apparently did nothing to increase his popularity among rank-and-file Republicans, according to the Gallup Poll...
...School Aid Bill Killed A bill to provide $300,000,000 in federal aid for public schools was all but killed by the Senate last week when it ordered the measure back to a committee pigeon-hole...
...1, 1941...
...Names And Notes In The News Politics...
...Douglas MacArthur whose percentage rose from 15 to 19 in a month...
...To the autocracy of the Orient we delivered 40,000,000 republicans of China...
...The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which holds patents for treatment of foods to provide vitamin D, is one of "the most malignant trusts in the annals of monopoly," Ass't Atty...
...Senate observers agreed the bill was dead for this session...
...I said then that if the Senate permitted this action, it would stamp us forever in infamy...
...More specifically, the President told leaders of the AFL, CIO, and Railroad Brotherhoods who met with him at the White House that he would create a special committee to determine whether government figures on living costs are adequate...
...The veterans could commute by helicopter to cities many miles away if they didn't like farming, he explained...
...The destructive practices under which monopoly thrives must yield to the needs of the common man," Wallace asserted...
...Pepper Calls For Showdown A block of the Senate's more sizzling internationalists, led by Sen...
...The death of the measure was assured after the Senate had adopted, 40 to 37, an amendment by Sen...
...Free Enterprise...
...Weaker Sex...
...William Langer, North Dakota Republican, which would have prohibited the exercise of racial discrimination in schools qualifying for the federal grants...
...The veteran Sen...
...A new survey of public opinion disclosed that he now commands 28 per cent of Republican strength, whereas his total was 29 per cent a month ago...
...We thereby increased the strength of Japan, and made her capable of becoming our deadly enemy in the Pacific...
...Claude Pepper, Florida Democrat, and Sen...
...It followed this action by voting against any increase in estate and gift taxes, thus slashing another $400,000,000 from the Administration's request...
...Thomas E. Dewey of New York continues to lead the GOP parade with 32 per cent of the Party vote...
...Only contender listed by the Gallup Poll to show a substantial gain was Gen...
...The Committee majority voted first to wipe out entirely the Treasury's provisions for $6,500,000,000 in additional taxes on personal incomes...
...John H. Overton, Louisiana Democrat, for instance, charged that the Langer amendment was "an attempt to foist upon the states the concept of mixed schools for Negroes and white...
...Wendell Berge charged last week...
...Plan...
...Labor Demands Action Faced with insistent demands from organized labor for a showdown on wages and prices, President Roosevelt reshuffled the top command of the Office of Price Administration, accepting the resignation of Prentiss Brown as administrator and installing Chester Bowles in his place...
...Wendell L. Willkie's widely ballyooed St...
...Sens...
...Nye and Sen...
...John W. Bricker of Ohio, who has eight per cent of the GOP vote, the same as a month ago, according to the Gallup Poll...
...The railroad workers of this country have been trifled with in a manner that would enrage the dignity of intelligent Americans...
...Johnson of California made this significant comment: "It is now proposed by the Administration leaders in the Senate to give the Roosevelt Administration a blank check to be used in the determination of our foreign policy, and a blank check which hasn't even the virtue of the former League of Nations in clarity...
...The Foundation, which has no formal connection with the University of Wisconsin except that it contributes substantially to campus research, "acts as a screen behind which a group of monopolistic chemical, pharmaceutical, and food companies control vitamin D," Berge testified before a Senate committee...
...If the Senate does not really favor this nation taking a full and fair part in world affairs after the war, nothing is to be gained by leading either our fellow-countrymen, or our Allies, by any acquiescence in carefully-chosen ambiguous words to a contrary impression...
...I said then, and I repeat now, the blackest page in all our history was written when our name was signed to the treaty delivering Shantung to Japan...
...The Vice President characterized the transportation industry's manipulations a "public be damned" policy and called on Congress to strip its power...
...They contended that the cost of living is rising and profits are increasing while wages remain frozen...
...Treasury Department experts have submitted data to the Committee showing that corporations are making record-breaking profits on the war effort, but the NAM cooked up its own batch of figures to "prove" that corporate wealth could not absorb another tax increase...
...I've talked enough to management and industry to know they don't want women in industry after the war," he said...
...A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, expressed general opinion when he said: "This case has been kicked around by government stabilization functionaires since July...
...We are in grave danger if the Senate takes this precipitous action now of doing just such acts of cruelty against democratic peoples elsewhere...
...Hiram Johnson, California, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin, voting by proxy against action by the Senate now...
...The labor leaders had demanded scrapping of the "Little Steel" formula under which wage increases are allowable only to a level 15 per cent above that prevailing Jan...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE UNITED STATES SENATE was embroiled this week in what was widely billed as an historic debate on foreign policy although the resolution immediately before it was broad enough and vague enough to win support from Senators who rarely see eye-to-eye on international relations...
...British officials were reported this week to be concerned over the sharp increase in venereal disease, illegitimacy, bigamy, and juvenile delinquency which has resulted from the breakup of family life in Britain and the sociological and psychological strains of war...
...Running fourth, behind Dewey, Willkie, and MacArthur, is Gov...
...Meanwhile, officials of the "Big Five" railroad operating brotherhoods unanimously approved the taking of a strike vote by their 350,000 members because of their disgust with the four cents an hour wage increase granted them by the Roosevelt Administration...
...The Connally proposal, which appeared certain to win Senate approval, recommends : "That the United States, acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world...
...Pepper complained that the resolution "must have a studied ambiguity when Sen...
...This, however, represents a three-point drop from his September total of 35 per cent...
...Johnson Fears Imperialism Connally and his majority bloc replied with a report which emphasized the fact that "it is impossible at this time to blueprint a plan for curing all the ills of the world," and which claimed that "as an expression of the sentiment of the U. S. Senate, it (the Connally proposal) is highly significant of an advanced and responsible attitude toward foreign relations...
...R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers of America (CIO), complained last week that women in industry do not tackle their own problems, but depend too much on men for their solutions...
...Southern Senators who had supported the measure charged that Langer, an opponent of the bill, had sponsored the anti-discrimination amendment because he knew its adoption would compel them to turn against their own measure—which it did...
...The Wall Street lawyer's strength is lowest in the Middle West...
...George Aiken, Vermont Republican, proposed last week that free farms be made available to returning soldiers...
...Pepper, Ball, and several of their associates issued a statement which said, in part: "Nothing is to be gained by keeping anything back from the American people, or their Allies, about the real sentiment of the Senate with respect to the nation's foreign policy...
...Eddie Rickenbacker explained last week that he has changed his mind about communism because communism in Russia "is not what I was led to believe it was from communistic elements in America and England...
...Treasury Tax Plan Killed Heeding the advice of the National Association of Manufacturers, a solid block of Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee, aided by a group of Tory Democrats, voted last week to emasculate the Treasury Department's program for raising $10,500,000,000 in new taxes, thus paving the way for imposition of new soak-the-poor levies...
...The Senate must now issue blanket authority that might be used to do as great a wrong to some of the free peoples on earth as was done to the Chinese when we turned Shantung over to Japan...
...Sen...
...Joseph Ball, Minnesota Republican, sought to have the Foreign Relations Committee make the American commitments for participation in post-war collective security more sweeping and drastic than provided in the Connally compromise, and when they failed by 16 to 5 vote, carried their fight to the Senate floor this week...
...Barkley can agree on it...
...Also slated for the axe this week was the Treasury's demand for an increase in corporation income tax rates from 40 to 50 per cent...
...The heads of the nation's most conservative unions were reported to be unable to hold their men in line any longer...
...Trust...
...Wallace also made news with a speech in Dallas charging that Wall Street-inspired "plunderers" were tightening their stranglehold on the nation's railroad empire and were plotting to seize control of new forms of transportation...
...Appeal...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 44
