THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE HISTORIC Senate debate on the Connally Resolution—?a proposal to commit the United States now to joining in the post-war enforcement of the peace settlement—held the center...
...Some of his remarks leaked out to the press, as did the comments of some of his colleagues on the five-man committee...
...American civil agencies abroad, he reported, are numerous, "but too often they are either working at cross purposes, or worse to relate, in some cases they have no apparent purpose...
...After praising the fighting abilities of the British soldiers and the sacrifices made by British civilians, Russell declared that he had come home "with a healthy respect, bordering on envy, for the efficiency of the British in the administration and handling of their relations with other nations and in their own vast domain...
...Sponsors of the original Connally Resolution, led by Sen...
...Asked by Prof...
...Sauthoff, who is the author of a resolution calling for investigation of extortionate profits in the food industry, has written OPA Chief Chester Bowles asking for copies of the confidential reports so that they could be submitted to the House Committee on Agriculture "in accordance with the purpose of my resolution...
...I think the President will always see Mr...
...Claude Pepper, Florida Democrat, angrily accused Connally of trying to "browbeat" the Senate...
...Reply...
...Throughout the rest of the country, however, there was more grass-roots interest in the first full, on-the-record report to come from Sen...
...Asked if he knew the accused, Dahlman said he did...
...The press in Great Britain and the pro-British press in America denounced the Senators in harsh terms for implying that Britain was doing a far better job of looking out for her interests than the United States was...
...He said he could see only "inevitable conflict and confusion after the war" if the United States attempts to "rely upon even so splendid an ally as the United Kingdom to protect all of our interests...
...The good element should prove victorious in time...
...The government promptly excused Dahlman as a witness, for the man he had tapped as the accused was a special agent for the FBI...
...Yes," Dahlman replied as he stepped down from the witness stand and tapped a man on the shoulder...
...John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, sought unsuccessfully to write the Atlantic Charter into the Connally Resolution...
...So great was their insistence on the original language that Sen...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt replied: "I wonder what people think influence means...
...Mistake...
...Can you point him out in the courtroom...
...I believe, even now, that there is a strong element of good in Germany...
...The President's message, the longest in his 11 years as President, assured the nation that there will be "enough food to go around," denied that there will be a "meat famine" this Winter, and declared that the subsidy program is proving reasonably successful in increasing production and maintaining fair food prices for the consumer...
...Popularity...
...Commenting on the announcement that Mr...
...I have no apologies to anyone for any statement I made," Sen...
...Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, Sen...
...See editorial, Page 12...
...Chinese troops are poorly equipped "and in their present state of affairs are confined to defensive action...
...But the WLB rejected the Illinois wage scale and ordered instead a new rate which, while giving the miners $1.12% more a day for 8% hours, would have actually meant a cut in hourly rates of pay since the men are now getting $7 for a seven-hour day, with no allowance for underground travel time...
...Langer proposed to put the Senate on record with this declaration: "There shall be a public restatement of the Allies' peace terms, based on a disavowal of any advantage, either in the way of indemnities, territorial acquisition, commercial privileges, or economic prerogatives, by means of which one nation shall strengthen its power abroad at the expense of any other nation, as wholly incompatible with the establishment of a durable peace in the world...
...Action On Foreign Policy The Russell report to the nation came while the Senate was still embroiled in verbose debate over the Connally Resolution—a vote on which was scheduled for this week...
...Elmer Davis, head of the Office of War Information, last week roundly denounced newspaper critics of his agency...
...Poll...
...They maintained that there was a strong element of good in Germany...
...Russell deplored the fact that many of our allies and some of our late enemies have too high expectations of the amount of relief and rehabilitation the United States will be able to supply when the war is over...
...Abundance...
...without raising a storm of furore and resentment throughout the United Kingdom and the British Empire...
...Arthur Capper, Kansas Republican, for instance, said he was supporting the Connally Resolution because it would serve notice to the world that the United States will go the limit for world peace, "and also serve notice that the government and the people reserve the right to pass on the program before finally accepting it...
...Names And Notes In The News Food Profits...
...I am convinced," he said in calling for an even larger program of subsidies, "that to abandon our present policy would increase the cost of living, bring about demands for increased wages which would then be justifiable, and might well start a serious and dangerous cycle of inflation—without any benefit to anyone...
...Criticism of the resolution came from two groups in the Senate—one composed of the extreme internationalists who wanted to "strengthen" the measure and the other composed of Senators who wanted to amend the proposal so that American collaboration would be dependent on the willingness of other powers to subscribe to the professed aims of the war, as stated, for instance, in the Atlantic Charter...
...Asked by a newspaper reporter if Harry Hopkins' influence with the President was declining, Mrs...
...Hopkins, not only because of the work required but also because of the pleasure of their friendship...
...Harry Sauthoff, Wisconsin Progressive, demanded last week that the Office of Price Administration make public confidential reports which are said to show fantastic profiteering by the "middlemen" in food industries...
...Hopkins, who have lived at the White House in their 16 months of marriage, would soon move into their own home, Mrs...
...The President acted only after the expiration of the Oct...
...I shall be sorry when they go...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE HISTORIC Senate debate on the Connally Resolution—?a proposal to commit the United States now to joining in the post-war enforcement of the peace settlement—held the center of the stage in Washington during the past fortnight...
...and Mrs...
...After many months of bitter dispute, the War Labor Board had appeared to be on the verge of approving an agreement which would have been acceptable to the miners and the operators, but the White House intervened at the 11th hour and blocked approval...
...They have been the nicest guests one could possibly have...
...That's him," he said...
...Robert M. La Follette, Sr...
...New Mine Crisis The American flag flew again this week over the nation's coal fields as President Roosevelt ordered Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes to take possession of the mines in the name of the government and commanded the more than 500,000 striking miners to return to their jobs...
...The Senate line-up over the vague and ambiguous Connally Resolution gave little indication how that body would react to more specific and binding proposals for collective security...
...Influence...
...Any man in a position of great responsibility will call upon others for opinions, but in the end, he isn't going to be influenced to do things he himself has not decided upon...
...Russell reported, with some of the boys commenting "on the very apparent lethargy of the British war effort in that area...
...An OPA official sought to explain the suppression of the reports on profiteering by saying the agency was in the business of curbing prices, not profits...
...The Illinois agreement proposed a basic wage of $8.50 for an 8% hour day, based on the time they entered the mines until they left...
...Russell had previously reported to the Senate in secret session...
...The OPA reports, which have been kept under cover, are reported to expose the fact that food wholesalers have increased their profits by as much as 600 per cent over 1939 and meat packers by as high as 638 per cent...
...The practice of newspapers "of trying to find out what the facts are is not as general as it was 20 or 25 years ago," Davis snapped...
...If the war is still on in 1944, 51 per cent of the American people will vote for President Roosevelt, but he would get only 22 per cent of the vote if the war is over then, according to a poll taken by Fortune...
...Morale Lowest In India Assuring the nation that he meant no offense to Great Britain when he made such a statement, Sen...
...Robert Reynolds, North Carolina Democrat, offered an amendment which would provide a guarantee of independence and territorial integrity for subjugated nations, while Sen...
...Typical of the replies was one from Frank E. Davenport of Coventry, victim of a Nazi "annihilation blitz," who wrote: "My city has been hard hit by air raids, but time, even to a tortured mind, is a great comforter...
...The morale of American troops in India is "lower than in any other theater," Sen...
...The Georgian proposed coordination of all civilian agencies abroad "in the hands of some two-fisted American who has an understanding of American interests in all international matters...
...Three University of Chicago sociologists said last week that there will be no shortage of marriageable men after the war...
...A. M. Low, British scientist and inventor, whether they would destroy every man, woman, and child in Germany if they could accomplish this by pressing a button, a decisive majority of readers of the London Sunday Chronicle answered "no...
...The chairman of the Senate inspection committee criticized the failure of the United States to get full credit abroad, particularly in Turkey and Russia, for its Lend-Lease shipments, and he expressed great concern that "our post-war interests are being neglected and we stand to get very little or no return from our immense expenditures...
...Russell said: "If offense be found, I must say that our British allies have become unduly sensitive if an American citizen and Senator cannot discuss the operations and policies of his own government...
...The UMW had sought acceptance of its contract with the Illinois owners as a preliminary to making it a model for the entire nation...
...Its growth should be encouraged...
...Russell asserted last week when he decided to lift the veil of secrecy which has kept his report from the public...
...Walter George, Georgia Democrat, and Sen...
...Richard B. Russell, Georgia Democrat, who was chairman of the special Senate committee which recently returned from an inspection tour around the world...
...William Langer, North Dakota Republican, introduced an amendment which was virtually identical with a proposal made during World War I by the late Sen...
...Arthur Vanden-berg, Michigan Republican, resisted every effort to amend the measure as it was reported to the Senate by the Foreign Relations Committee...
...Frank Dahlman, 69, Chicago, 111., was testifying for the government in its prosecution of Karl Sautter, 43, former German-American Bundist...
...31 deadline found the United Mine Workers still without a contract with the mine owners...
...government counsel asked...
...Roosevelt said: "The Hopkinses feel they have a right to a home of their own...
...FDR Urges New Subsidies President Roosevelt made news in another sector of the economic front this week when he sent a 10,000-word special message to Congress urging it to continue and to increase the Administration's $800,000,-000 food price subsidy program to secure an adequate supply and prevent a "serious and dangerous cycle" of inflation...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 45
