THE WEEK IN REVIEW

...The new measure eliminates the victory tax and sets new normal and surtax rates and exemptions while keeping actual tax burdens virtually unchanged...

...over civil liberties, issued a statement through its director, Roger Baldwin, criticizing some of the Government's tactics and methods, but reserving "any possible participation" in the defense of the 30 alleged pro-Nazis "until the issues are clear in the event of conviction and appeal...

...The poll showed that "the more education a person has, the less likely he is to favor dismemberment of the Reich...

...Surgeon-General Thomas Parran charged this week that some American food and drug exporters were shipping adulterated foods and drugs abroad, apparently for military and Lend-Lease use...

...The plan calls for an eight billion dollar permanent monetary stabilization fund to be subscribed by member countries on the basis of a complicated formula...

...A preliminary purpose for such cooperation and consultation will be to secure as great unanimity among the American people and the Congress as possible with deference to a basic postwar security program...

...Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, appointed a tri-partisan committee of eight Senators to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull...

...The U. S. circuit court of appeals in New York handed down a major decision last week when it ruled that a Selective Service registrant is entitled to classification as a conscientious objector because of "humanitarian considerations," regardless of "any obligations to a deity or supernatural power...

...Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Jr., outlined to Congress and the country the terms of a world currency plan tentatively and informally agreed upon by the representatives of 30 nations...

...Baldwin asserted that ACLU observers will follow the case closely, pointing out that they will be "particularly concerned to see that the Government's case conforms to the 'clear and present danger' test laid down by the Supreme Court...

...The vote on the bill itself, extending Lend-Lease for a year with the restrictive Wadsworth amendment, rolled through the House by a vote of 334 to 21...

...All servicemen need do, when Ford production lines start turning out automobiles again, is "to come in and go to work," Ford declared...

...The House Military Affairs Committee last week killed legislation to force draft age 4-F registrants into Army work battalions if they failed to find "essential jobs...

...Methods Denounced The Union declared that its decision not to participate in a case "in which freedom of speech and press is claimed" is based on the prospect that more substantial evidence than utterances and publications is involved and that some of the defendants are "Axis agents...

...Trial For Treason Not since the carnival days of the Hall-Mills and Snyder murder cases of the flamboyant '20s has the Eastern press had itself such a spree over a trial as it is having now over the sedition case being tried in Federal court in Washington, D. C. Some of the papers were represented by batteries of special writers, artists, photographers, feature columnists, etc., wh began to try the case in their respective newspapers, pro and con, even before a jury had been selected...

...Designating himself as chairman, Connally appointed the following Senators to serve with him on the special committee: Sens...

...The American Civil Liberties Union, watchdog...

...The United States would contribute about $2,750,000,-000, Britain about $1,250,000,000, and Russia about $1,000,000,000...

...Reel had told the hearing officer that he "believed it was wrong to participate in the conduct of war" and that his beliefs were based on "a study of the war of 1914-1918, its causes and results," the teachings of his father, and writings by A. Hamilton Gibbs and Dr...

...Charge...

...The Union, Baldwin said, has adopted a policy of not defending in free speech cases persons cooperating with the enemy "except where the fundamentals of due process are involved...

...Purposes of the program, Morgenthau said, are to promote stability of member nations' currencies, facilitate world trade by eliminating foreign restrictions, and give confidence to member countries...

...Henry Ford, mass production manufacturer of cars and planes, announced last week that returning veterans will get job preference at the Ford Motor Company plants after the war and voiced the hope that "other employers will do the same thing...

...Thomas E. Dewey will be elected President...

...The House Ways and Means Committee responded this week to the national demand for simpler taxation when its chairman, Rep...

...Wallace White, Maine...

...Alben Barkley, Kentucky...

...Carlson, Kansas Republican, was contending that the program was "a visionary scheme to destroy the value of the dollar and the American standard of living...

...Secretary of State Hull hailed the plan as providing the framework for a program "that will bring prosperity to our own country when the war is won...

...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, predicted last week that President Roosevelt's health will keep him from seeking a fourth term and that Gov...

...by general expressions of opinions of a similar character...

...Opposition to a peace of revenge was registered by 75 per cent of the college-trained persons polled, 64 per cent of those with high school education, and 54 per cent of the grade school group...

...The court's decision, which reversed a district court ruling in the case of Frederick U. Reel, 27, Madison, Wis., apprentice seaman in the Navy, greatly widened the area of exemption for those seeking CO status...

...James Wadsworth, New York Republican, was adopted without debate after having cleared the House Foreign Affairs Committee by a unanimous vote...

...President Roosevelt sent the gathering a message saying that "the conditions of lasting peace can be secured only through soundly organized economic institutions fortified by humane labor standards, regular employment, and adequate income for all people...

...The restrictive amendment, introduced by Rep...

...John Haynes Holmes, * * * Tax Relief...

...Robert Doughton, North Carolina Democrat, introduced a bill which will make it unnecessary for 30 million of the 50 million individual taxpayers to file income tax returns...

...CO Victory...

...Specifically, it was alleged that the accused (including Mrs...

...Wadsworth said it was designed to prevent the President from involving the United States in "reckless commitments" in the military, economic, or diplomatic field when final Lend-Lease settlements are made after the war...

...Walter George, Georgia...

...International Labor Conference Meeting in Philadelphia last week was the International Labor Office of the League of Nations...

...Doughton said...

...No Revenge...

...A sizeable majority of the American people—63 per cent—oppose dismemberment of Germany after the war, a nationwide survey of public opinion disclosed last week, according to the National Opinion Research Center...

...The two major topics on the conference agenda were (1) plans for orderly demobilization when the war ends, a vast task involving the need for finding employment for 130,000,000 persons released from wartime pursuits, and (2) the formulation of a new international charter of social rights...

...While Secretary Hull was insisting that the stabilization plan would do much to achieve "world-wide prosperity and immeasurably strengthen the prospects for an enduring peace," Rep...

...In foreign relations it is of the highest importance that our country present a united front...

...The remaining 20 million would have to grapple' with greatly simplified forms, Rep...

...All the "no" votes were cast by Republicans...

...Some 350 delegates representing most of the Allied and neutral nations of the ^earth assembled for the 26th annual conference of the agency which was founded to set fair labor standards on a worldwide basis...

...While the Senate was acting to take a hand in the making of American foreign policy and the House was moving to prevent the President from making "reckless commitments" with Lend-Lease settlements, the United States was actively participating last week in two unspectacular but highly important phases of international cooperation—labor and currency stabilization...

...Only 26 per cent favored dividing up Germany and 11 per cent were undecided...

...Harold Knutson, Minnesota, for instance, charged that the plan "would set up a superworld government which could fix the value of every nation's currency...

...Warren R. Austin, Vermont, and Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republicans, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive...

...Purpose of the proposed consultations, Connally said, was to develop "each other's slant of mind with re-of future international spect to various phases questions...

...Lend-Lease With Restrictions This move to give the Senate a chance to exercise its constitutional authority to have a major hand in the shaping of foreign policy came shortly after the House of Representatives voted, in extending Lend-Lease for a year, to forbid the President to use Lend-Lease international commitments without first getting Congressional approval...

...Guy M. Gillette, Iowa, all Democrats...

...Veterans deserve the "first call" on postwar jobs because others have "made a lot of money out of this war and the servicemen have made nothing," Ford explained in a letter to Federal officials dealing with postwar problems...

...Names And Notes In The News Preference...

...The Union's director said that "despite our non-participation, we express regret at the Government's resort to the 1940 peacetime sedition act which we opposed in Congress and have challenged in the courts as a violation of the First Amendment in the one major case brought under, it against members of the Socialist Workers Party...

...Where substantive offenses can be shown to have been committed, it is sounder public policy to try each person in his own district rather than to attempt to spell out a conspiracy, especially...

...Unimpressed, several Republican Congressmen denounced the plan...

...Three other amendments, one proposing to give Congress authority to force our Allies to return usable Lend-Lease munitions after the war, another designed to make all final Lend-Lease settlements subject to Congressional approval, and a third whose purpose was to restrict Lend-Lease aid to nations actively fighting the enemy, were rejected...

...4-F's...

...It revises completely the withholding system against wages and salaries, effective next Jan...

...1, to deduct the full tax liability of persons earning up to $5,000, thus relieving 30 million taxpayers of the necessity of filling out forms...

...We would contribute 30 per cent of the gold, but would have only one vote of nine on the executive board...

...The defendants are 28 men and two women who have been indicted under the Alien Registration Act and charged with conspiring to overthrow the United States Government and set up a Nazi state...

...The Union also deplored the use of the conspiracy statute "against persons not closely associated" because of "the ease with which the guilt of one is attached to others...

...THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE ROOSEVELT Administration moved this week to avoid one of the major blunders of Wood-row Wilson's tragic course after World War I. Accepting the State Department's invitation to provide for Senate participation in the shaping of American foreign policy, Sen...

...Prediction...

...Elizabeth Dilling, George Sylvester Viereck, William Dudley Pelley, Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, and Joseph E. McWilliams) had distributed books and pamphlets which follow Nazi propaganda lines and were aimed at demoralizing the armed forces...