THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE Roosevelt Administration's foreign policy—or more accurately, its lack of one—continued to dominate the domestic scene during the past week. President Roosevelt made the...
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...United Europe...
...Creation of a United States of Europe provides a real basis for a lasting peace, Sen...
...Republicans—18 Millikin Reed Revercomb Robertson Thomas (Idaho) Vandenberg Weeks WherryWhite Wiley Willis Wilson AGAINST THE AMENDMENT—26 Democrats—15 Chandler Downey Hill Mead O'Mahoney Radcliffe Stewart Thomas (Utah) Tunnell Wagner Wheeler Republicans—10 Burton Butler Cappei Danaher Davis Langer S hips tea d Progressive—1 PAIRS Brocks (R) for, and Guffey (D) against...
...This policy was contained in an amendment to a bill extending the Lend-Lease act to June 30, 1945...
...Anti-TVA Amendments Passed Over in the other side of the Capitol, the Senate made news last week by voting to cripple the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...James W. Wadsworth, New York Republican, after various members expressed the fear that the President might use his Lend-Lease authority to commit the nation to economic or military entanglements...
...President Roosevelt made the rising demand for a statement of American war aims and peace plans the subject of an entire press conference, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull rushed into print with a rehash of old speeches and statements in an effort to silence the critics...
...The measure, which now goes to President Roosevelt foi certain approval, authorizes Congress to appropriate up to $1,350,000,000 for use by UNRRA in occupied areas liberated "by the Allies...
...The Secretary called for the establishment of an international agency which can—by force, if necessary—keep peace among nations...
...Entered in the race against the Willkie delegates are slates pledged to New York's Gov...
...After asserting that War Department contracting officers were showing no improvement in the administration of contracts, Warren added: "Of course, war at best is waste, but like the generals in the Army who try to spare their men, so should the contracting officers make an effort to spare the public's money...
...First, is the maintenance of the countries of eastern Europe between the Baltic and Aegean Seas as independent communities and their integration as an organic whole...
...Newspaper correspondents who • traveled with Willkie in 1940 and again last week reported his delivery and manner much improved, although he still suffers from the habit of talking too much...
...In determining our foreign policy," he said, "we must first see clearly what our true national interests are...
...Preliminary work in planning such an agency has progressed to the point where the State Department has asked Congressional committees to be prepared to sit in soon on conferences to draw up a working plan, according to a statement issued by Sen...
...A day later, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted unanimously to prohibit the President from making postwar economic or military commitments to other nations in final Lend-Lease settlements without specific approval of Congress...
...a world in which all persons, regardless of race, color, or creed, may live in peace, honor, and dignity...
...Kilgore (D) for, and Ellender (D) against...
...Unavailable.' The management of Baltimore's Lyric Theater has refused its use for a meeting May 21 at which Mrs...
...Thomas (D...
...The House voted, by the over: whelming vote of 285 to 58, for passage of legislation permitting United States participation in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration...
...At the present time, the paramount aim of our foreign policy is to defeat our enemies as quickly as possible...
...Another development of the week was the resignation of Leo T. Crowley as Alien Property Custodian...
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...2) the Soviet Government recognized the Badoglio regime in Italy in order to put itself on an equal footing with the United States and Great Britain in regard to obtaining information from that source, and (3) Britain and Russia are seriously at odds over the Polish border...
...Randolph Paul joined what the New York paper PM calls the "New Deal in exile" when he resigned last week as general counsel for the Treasury Department...
...Clare Boothe Luce, Connecticut Republican, after the conference...
...Thomas E. Dewey, Gen...
...Harold Stas-sen...
...Asked if the theater had been engaged for that date, the management said simply: "It is unavailable...
...Obviously irritated by attacks on his Administration's lack of clearly defined objectives, Mr...
...Comptroller General Lindsay Warren charged last week that the war profiteer is on the loose, and that' "shocking" developments will lead to a multiplicity of scandals growing out of war contracts...
...The Congressmen did report that Hull told them that (1) he...
...With the approval of Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill he called on the free peoples of Europe and Asia to open temporarily their frontiers to escaping victims of Nazi and Japanese atrocities...
...In general, his crowds were moderately large, but they were largely undemonstrative...
...He was joined by Lowell Mellett, confidential assistant to the President, who resigned to return to newspaper work...
...Willkie is the only avowed contender...
...Tom Conhal-ly, Texas Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...At stake are the state's 24 delegates to the Republican National Convention...
...for, and Jackson (D...
...The President touched on two other phases of the subject...
...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, declared in a recent address...
...This was the paragraph: "The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist together...
...Resignations...
...Wadsworth said his amendment "assures a proper and workable relationship between Congress and the Executive in the formulation and administration of our postwar economic and military policy...
...Maloney Maybank McCarran McClellan MacFarland McKellar Overton Russell Smith Tydings Walsh (Mass...
...He has stumped the state for days, putting in an enormous amount of work...
...Names And Notes In The News Profiteering...
...Walsh (D., N. J.) for, and Hatch (D) against...
...Eleanor Roosevelt is to speak under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Hull reaffirmed his devotion to the Atlantic Charter, although it has been clear for several months that its principal provisions are being honored in the breach...
...In a second comment, the President pledged anew to the people of the Philippine Islands that they would be granted their independence when the "yoke of Japanese domination" is broken...
...The other, preventing TVA from spending its receipts without specific authorization from Congress, was said to have a much better chance of passing...
...One passage in the statement, he said, deserved the attention of those who were wandering around asking bellhops if the country has a foreign policy...
...The Senate voted unanimously last week for final passage of the "GI Bill of Eights" which provides World War II veterans with hospitalization, education and vocational training, loans for homes, farms and businesses, employment service, and unemployment benefits...
...Two definite steps are necessary if such a plan is to work...
...Roosevelt presented newspaper men with a statement on foreign policy last week...
...The amendment was introduced by Rep...
...The MacArthur slate shows the marks of inept and inexperienced political generalship on the part of his Wisconsin backers who have put together a weak group of delegates, who may, however, poll a surprisingly large vote in spite of the caliber of the individuals running...
...The letting of contracts, he declared, too often reflects a spirit of "greed and avarice" rather than of patriotism plus legitimate profit...
...Douglas MacArthur, and Lieut...
...Connally said he had not been informed of the details, but he thought that the preliminary plan contemplates formation of an international organization somewhat similar to the League of Nations, but with more power to prevent aggression...
...Henrik Shipstead, Minnesota Republican, presented figures last week showing that during the past 10 years Congress enacted 4,553 laws while, in the same period, President Roosevelt has issued 3,703 executive orders having the effect of law...
...Twenty-three first-term Republican members of Congress went away from a two-hour and 20-minute conference with Hull complaining about the vagueness of the Secretary's comments...
...The second step, he said, is further restriction of German influence in Europe "by a federal organization of western Europe, and the integration of Germany into this new order, such federation to be based on human liberty and national equality after the pattern of Switzerland...
...Silence is still the settled policy of the State Department," summarized Rep...
...The Stassen group has no candidates in the Congressional district where it would be expected to be strongest—along the Mississippi—because of headquarters bungling...
...Unanimous...
...Showdown In Wisconsin Wendell Willkie faces the crisis of his career Tuesday when Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the Presidential primary...
...Crowley continues as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Foreign Economic Administrator...
...Beyond final victory, our fundamental national interests are the assuring of our national security and the fostering of the economic and social well-being of our people...
...Despite these comments by the President and his chief lieutenants on foreign policy, the demand for a more specific statement of American policy continued to grow...
...The following, not recorded as voting, were announced as against adoption of the amendment: Truman, Pepper, Lucas, Murray, Green, Clark (Idaho), Wallgren, all Democrats...
...Runner-Up...
...Here is the roll-call vote by which that latter amendment passed the Senate last week: FOR THE AMENDMENT Democrats—21 Bailey Byrd Clark (Mo...
...Brake On Executive Rule L Meanwhile, the House of Representatives took two steps which indicated that it was prepared to cooperate with other nations in specific international enterprises, but was not prepared to sanction a completely free hand for the President...
...See editorials on Page 12), Of the two amendments passed, the one requiring Senate confirmation of the appointment of employes who are paid $4,500 or more, appeared doomed to defeat in the House...
...Warning that peace does not lie in a tripartite power alliance among Britain, Russia, and the United States, Wheeler opposed attempts to "barter away" small nations or "divide them into spheres of influence dominated bjr the great powers...
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...took a specific plan to the Moscow Conference for the postwar disposition of Germany, but that the British and Russians ruled the subject out of consideration...
...Only Willkie, however, has a full slate of 24 delegate candidates...
...The Dewey organization had a full slate, and a strong one, but its ranks were thinned out when the New York Governor publicly repudiated the primary campaign in his behalf...
...Comdr...
...Hull Embraces Charter Several days before the President's press conference, Secretary Hull took note of what he euphemistically called a "growing interest in the nation's foreign policy" by pasting together excerpts from speeches he has delivered during the past two years...
...He has admitted that he must capture at least half the Wisconsin delegation if he is to have a chance for the GOP nomination, and his speeches, his delivery, and his antics grew more desperate as he bucked an apathetic public...
Vol. 8 • April 1944 • No. 14
