THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW WITH the Republican National Convention less than two months away, the national political spotlight is focused firmly on the strange struggle for the GOP Presidential nomination....
...This is said to include $750,000 in Pennsylvania, Bethlehem Steel, Illinois Central, and Cities Servic^ stocks reposing in a deposit box of a New York bank...
...Out here we are doing what we can with what we have...
...At San Francisco, Ickes presented a novel plan for making Government-built war plants available to returning veterans...
...Asked if they thought the German people could get rid of their Nazi leaders if they wanted to, 53 per cent replied "no...
...Poll...
...MacArthur on the importance of his becoming the Republican candidate for President...
...Reichsmarshal Herman Wil- j helm Goering has $3,575,000 in cash and securities hidden away outside Germany...
...Repudiates 'Sinister Interpretation' Disturbed by this reaction, MacArthur this week released a statement to the press repudiating the interpretation placed on his letters—rboth of which, he pointed out, "were never intended for publication...
...11, acknowledging that Miller's description of conditions "is a sobering one indeed and is calculated to arouse the thoughtful consideration of every true patriot...
...Mac-Arthur, who made a surprisingly strong showing in the Wisconsin race and piled up 500,000 preferential votes in Illinois against nondescript opposition, who dominated the headlines...
...To every, family in the nation which is confronted daily with the stubborn fact of rising living costs, your last report will, of course, come as a complete shock," Murray wrote Administration officials...
...Philip Murray, president of the CIO, promptly, challenged the soundness of the report...
...The great point is to bring before them the real facts...
...Strangest phase of the scramble is the fact that of the three leading contenders on the basis of primary votes thus far, New York's Gov...
...It is utterly ridiculous at this stage of the war to have married men telling their families good-bye, giving up their jobs, and selling their businesses, only to be told the next day it was all a mistake and they will not be needed...
...He expressed gratitude to "those groups and individuals on the West Coast who have been brave enough and Christian enough to speak out against the vindictive, bloodthirsty onslaughts of professional race-mongers...
...18, 1943, urging him to "permit the people of this country to draft you" and predicting that the General could sweep every state...
...27 Miller wrote again, this time reporting that "there is a tremendous revolution on in this country...
...American casualties in the war now total 178,681, of whom 42,071 were killed, according to official reports released last week...
...Emanuel Shinwell, Labor member of the British Parliament, inquired in a speech last week whether Great Britain were becoming an "economic vassal of America...
...Names And Notes In The News Ickes...
...Robert Taft, Ohio Republican, summed up the national temper when he asserted that "the time has come to quit playing fast and loose with the existence of American men and their families...
...There will never be real friendship between the two countries, he said, if Britain is "placed in the position of a junior partner, and what is worse, a poor relation...
...The letters showed that Miller wrote MacArthur Sept...
...Officials solved the problem last week by bringing in 200 head of sheep from Montana to graze on the • 2,000 park acres...
...Shipped to North Africa to help win the aid of natives during the military campaign there, 40,000 portable phonographs have been returned to the United States because there were no takers...
...Query...
...Ickes denounced those who were "screaming that this situation should be resolved on the basis of prejudice and hate...
...Sen...
...Referring to the last amendment, Bowles said: " As a former business man, I should emphasize that the day the U. S. Government guarantees every individual business^ a profit, regardless of its efficiency—on that day private enterprise in America will be dead...
...I entirely repudiate the sinister interpretation that they were intended as criticism of any political philosophy or of any personages in high office...
...He warned that "if this system of left-wingers and New Dealism is continued another four years, I am certain that this monarchy which is being established in America will destroy the rights of the common people...
...Howard Smith, Virginia Democrat, is chairman, would grant jurisdiction in appeals from OPA regulations to the 93 Federal district courts, place price control over foodstuffs, petroleum, rubber, and other products in the respective war agencies charged with their production, and compel OPA to fix a price profitable to.all elements in an industry...
...We must not inadvertently slip into the same condition internally as the one which we fight externally...
...Rather it was Gen...
...Louis Post-Dispatch last week...
...Harold Stassen, and Gen...
...The 40,000 phonographs will go on sale in the United States as surplus commodities at ceiling prices...
...Perusal of the letters, he said, "will show any fair-minded person that they were neither politically inspired nor intended to convey blanket approval of the Congressman's views...
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...I will be glad, however, when more substantial forces are placed at my disposal...
...In a specific reference to the work of OPA, Murray told Bowles that an OPA report showed that the profits of food corporations represented the "sorriest chapter of the war program...
...My sole ambition is to assist our country to win this vital struggle by the fulfillment of which duty as has been, or may be, assigned to me...
...Postponement...
...MacArthur replied on Oct...
...No Sale...
...See McAlister Coleman's article on Page 8.) Also at San Francisco, Ickes served notice on California, Orgeon, and Washington, from which 112,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were evacuated in 1942, that the War Relocation Authority, operating now under his jurisdiction, would "not be stampeded into undemocratic, bestial, inhuman action...
...Expressions from public officials which fly in the face of the living experience of the people do not inspire confidence or improve national morale...
...I can only say, as I have said before, I have not sought the office nor do I seek it now...
...MacArthur replied on Feb...
...A. L. Miller, Nebraska Republican, has been writing Gen...
...Newspapers backing President Roosevelt for a fourth term or Dewey, Bricker, or Stassen for the Republican nomination opened heavy fire on this Mac-Arthur letter, contending that the General had indulged in a political attack on the Roosevelt Administration and had criticized his Commander-in-Chief, the President, for not making more supplies available for the war against Japan...
...To construe them otherwise is to misrepresent my intention...
...Shortages of manpower and lawn mowers have resulted in the unchecked growth of grass around Lake Springfield (Springfield, Ill...
...Appearing before the House Banking Committee to urge reenactment of the Price Control Act, which expires June 30, Bowles warned that the three proposed "hardship" amendments would "blast" price controls, create price chaos, and "set off the greatest orgy of wartime profiteering this country has ever seen...
...Meanwhile, new pressure was being exerted on Dewey to make his own position clearer and define his stand on vital issues...
...In Washington he revealed that black market operations in gasoline are spreading to such proportions throughout the country that they are jeopardizing the civilian gasoline rationing program...
...Give The People The Facts On Jan...
...2, saying: "I do not anticipate in any way your flattering predictions, but I do unreservedly agree with the complete wisdom and statesmanship of your comments...
...President Roosevelt released a report prepared by his aides which purported to show that the stabilization program has brought "tangible—indeed bankable—benefits to all groups," especially in reducing the cost of living...
...I have devoted myself exclusively to the conduct of the war...
...Costume jewelry, bright cloth, and chinaware were better lures, officials explained...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes made news on several of the home fronts during the past week...
...Douglas MacArthur, not one is an avowed candidate for the nomination...
...that they can go back home and pick up the scattered threads of their lives—but not securely, for they might be called again on a moment's notice...
...More Manpower Confusion An epidemic of new, confusing, and conflicting orders regarding the draft, especially the abrupt decision to halt the induction of men over 26 pending a combing out of the lists of those under that age, brought sharp criticism throughout the nation of the Administration's muddling methods of handling the manpower problem...
...The three amendments, submitted by the committee of which Rep...
...Thomas E. Dewey, Lt...
...More than 2,500,-000 gallons are lost daily to legal channels, he revealed...
...It happened this way: Rep...
...Hershey, or Secretaries Stimson and Ickes with all of them...
...Sixty-four per cent of Americans polled by the National Opinion Research Center believe that the German people would like to banish their Nazi leaders but are unable to do so...
...This statement by MacArthur was widely interpreted in the press as indicating that the General was receptive to the nomination but would do nothing to seek it...
...Miller, for instance, called on Dewey to stop being coy and shake off his "prima donna complex...
...Casualties...
...Hein-rich Himmler, the Gestapo chief, is credited with having about $2,000,000 in cash and securities outside Germany...
...They were written only as amiable acknowledgments to a member of our highest lawmaking body of letters containing flattering and friendly remarks to me personally...
...There is hardly a day goes by that a new order is not issued, that President Roosevelt does not differ with McNutt, or McNutt-with Gen...
...While Dewey is clearly far out in the lead in the GOP Presidential sweepstakes, it was not the New York governor who made most of the news last week...
...Joachim van Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister, has $3,165,000 worth of foreign currency deposited in Dutch and Swiss banks, not to mention $6,676,000 worth of insurance, according to this report...
...You should announce that you would serve but for one term, this to eliminate the fear of a military dictatorship in the years to come...
...Murray Challenges Data Meanwhile, there was a sharp dispute in the nation over the benefits of the Roosevelt Administration's "hold-the-line" order which called for strict control of wages and profits to curb inflation...
...Bowles Opposes OP A Amendments A hard-hitting attack on the attempt of the Smith Committee of the House -of Representatives to amend the expiring Price Control Act was launched last week by Chester Bowles, head of the Office of Price Administration...
...Like Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people and if given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis...
...Last week, violating the clearly marked injunction "Personal" on the letters he received from the General, Miller released the correspondence to the press...
...Paul Joseph Goebbels is reported to have $4,635,000 tucked away in a vault in Buenos Aires...
...Secret investigations by British sleuths have disclosed that the highest ranking Nazi officials have tucked away multi-million dollar nest eggs far from the Reich in preparation for the day they flee for their lives, according to a copyrighted story in the St...
...The high constitutional processes of our representative and republican form of government in which there resides with the people the sacred duty of choosing and electing their Chief Executive are of so inspiring a nature as to be beyond the sphere of any individual's coercion or decision...
Vol. 8 • April 1944 • No. 17
