THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW P ME MINISTER Winston Churchill's wide-rang-ng declaration on British foreign policy (See Mil-ton Mayer on Page 1 and the War In Review on Page 2), found an answering if vague...
...Roosevelt had "completely lost the initiative in Europe...
...Sen...
...George S. Patton, Jr., from the list of names approved for Army promotion...
...Brehon Somervell, commanding general of the Army Service Forces, suggested before a conference of industrialists in Chicago last week that one way to help solve the manpower shortage would be to lock up the nation's night clubs and "put these crooners to work at something useful...
...Bridges, who has been in the vanguard of the fight for active American participation in world politics, called on President Roosevelt to proclaim anew that the principles of the Atlantic Charter will guide the United Nations in making the peace, and said the world seemed to be waiting in vain for assurances that old balance of power theories were not to prevail after this war...
...Unless the world abolishes greed, overcomes religious disunity, and levels national boundary barriers, this war will turn out to be a rehearsal for a more terrible struggle some time in the future, Henry Ford told newsmen this week...
...The most controversial provision, that outlawing commercial sponsorship of news programs, would apply to radio "commentators and analysts" as well as to routine, non-interpretative reports of the news on networks and individual stations...
...Omitted...
...Sen...
...I have noted that the armed services show little inclination' to play down their military and naval accomplishments, and I agree that they should not...
...There's too much sorrow among the families of our fighting men to waste any tears on a master of ceremonies out of a soft job," the general declared...
...Although' representatives of the member banks in America, Great Britain, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, and Japan were unable to attend in person, their wishes were made known by registered mail...
...Hull intimated to newsmen that he foresees, under the proposed peace organization, (1) a council of the four great powers, to deal with political questions during the remainder of the war and later guard world peace with armed force if necessary...
...and gradual resumption of peacetime operations without the shock and violence to the economy that would result from artificially damning blocking it off until the end of all or part of the war...
...And let's do without perfume and jewelry, if that will help get the war over sooner...
...William L. Dawson, Illinois Democrat and the only Negro member of Congress, was cheered by both sides when he said: "I, too, am an American...
...Transfer of naval vessels, he said, was a "wholly different story" from the transfer of Lend-Lease munitions, planes, food, etc., because we are engaged in a naval war with Japan and Russia remains at peace with our enemy in the Pacific...
...I think the public is entitled to know the facts at all times," Sen...
...Urging that all factories built for war production be put to peacetime use, Ford warned that one of the things we must look out for after the war is depression...
...Referring to the League of Nations fight at the close of World War I, Mr...
...Wheeler and White would: 1. Prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from banning newspapers from operating radio stations...
...Truman asserted...
...Henry Sloan Coffin, retiring moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church and president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, told the Presbyterian general assembly this week that "no plan of international cooperation to maintain order and secure peace has the slightest chance of success which does not get all peoples employed with a prospect of an equitable share in goods God makes available to our world...
...Wheeler, who is chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, conceded that the proposal evoked "plenty of controversy" in a closed committee session...
...Ford said that there was no need for idleness anywhere after the war...
...A Moscow publication, the International Review, slapped American treatment of German prisoners as being too lenient...
...Every rule that you may use to measure men, apply to me and see if I measure up...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW P ME MINISTER Winston Churchill's wide-rang-ng declaration on British foreign policy (See Mil-ton Mayer on Page 1 and the War In Review on Page 2), found an answering if vague echo in the White House, where President Roosevelt told a press conference that the first rough draft of a Roosevelt-Hull plan for a world peace and police organization has been presented to Great Britain, Russia, and China., The plan, the President emphasized, aims to create an organization in which all nations could talk over issues without in any manner taking away the independence, sovereignty, or integrity of the United States...
...H. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire Republican...
...Bridges made front-page headlines with his assertion that an American cruiser had been transferred to Russia...
...Rep...
...The FEPC, he said, merely sought to give the Negro a fair chance at employment...
...It can be done if a nation like ourselves will urge the idea and if the nations that are suffering for lack of a federation are given a free choice...
...He declared that the American people were entitled to know if naval transfers have been made as "a part of our patchwork policy of appeasing Russia...
...If we have to close the night clubs, I say, let's close them up, and the poolrooms and bowling alleys with them...
...Earl Browder, Communist chief who used to call for the destruction of the British Empire, last week told a New York audience that Britain must be protected in the world markets from the "free competition" of America's unlimited resources and mass production...
...Although the President indicated that initial discussion would be made by telephone and written messages, Secretary Hull said that the date for an early conference, probably in Washington, would be set soon...
...The Senate Military Affairs Committee has omitted Lt...
...Sen...
...While American and German boys were dying this week on the battlefields of Italy, the annual meeting of the Bank for International Settlement was being held in Basle, Switzerland...
...He seeks, he said, an organization capable of seeing that if any nation or group of nations should run amok that there would be unanimous world opinion to stop them...
...Russia has taken many "unilateral" steps, including the "entry of Russian troops into Poland without any statement that they came as liberators and not as conquerors," Bridges asserted...
...2) an assembly of all of the United Nations, to which neutrals would be admitted immediately and enemy powers eventually, and (3) a world court to settle international disputes...
...All materials not required for war should be released immediately for production of needed civilian goods "to lessen the danger of inflation from suppressed buying power," the Missouri Senator declared...
...In the war we were called to the colors, but we were not called back to work when the war ended...
...In contending for a program which permit a gradual resumption of civilian production, Sen...
...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, and Wallace H. White, Maine Republican...
...FCC Amendments Proposed Legislation designed to prohibit commercial sponsorship of news broadcasts was introduced in the Senate last week by Sens...
...Rep...
...But if overconfidence is not caused by such disclosures, it will not come from telling people the facts about war production...
...Meeting...
...Names And Notes In The News Ford Formula...
...Truman urged the removal of wartime orders and restrictions "as fast as possible...
...The President said that the discussions to come would concern machinery, not principles...
...Slap...
...The Roosevelt-Hull Plan Earlier, Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced that he had extended invitations to diplomatic representatives of Britain, Russia, and China to discuss the Administration's postwar peace organization...
...Robert Ramspeck, Georgia Democrat, summarized Southern sentiment when he said that the FEPC "has done more harm to the Negro race than anything that has happened in my memory...
...It was with this in view, he said, that the Truman Committee came out in opposition to the "creation of new and more involved regulations and restrictions such as the manpower draft advocated by the armed services...
...The victory came by the narrow margin of four votes, 123 to 119, and only after the appropriation for the FEPC had appeared doomed in several test votes...
...The railroads, he said, are short more than 100,000 workers, and many other industries are below the "minimum manpower they must have" for war production...
...Bridges declared that since the conference of the Big Three at Teheran last Fall, the President had permitted "scandalous attacks" on the Atlantic Charter to go unchallenged...
...Peace Plan...
...The chairman of the Truman Committee took issue with representatives of the nation's armed forces who felt that to tell the public that a large number of the country's war needs "have been met or shortly will be met" would create over-confidence...
...Advocating a "universal currency for a universal economy with a universal market," which he said would be a long step toward a desirable world federation, the auto magnate declared that such a federation could not be achieved by force, greed, or power...
...Other provisions in the sweeping amendments to the Federal Communications Act sponsored by Sens...
...3. Limit radio stations to the use of 50,000 watts for broadcasting, except as an experiment...
...Truman On Civilian Goods In a sharply worded address in New York last week, Sen...
...Asked to comment on Bridges' statement, Stephen Early, secretary to the President, refused to confirm or deny the comment about the naval transfer to Russia, but indicated that the story was true...
...Truman declared that such a plan would "permit an orderly...
...Speaking of his services in World War I, Dawson pointed to a scar on his forehead resulting from the burns of mustard gas...
...Committee members said his case would be given further consideration...
...Harry S. Truman, Missouri Democrat, chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee, called for a greatly expanded program of production of civilian goods as the demand for military equipment slackens...
...The plan is reportedly the one which Secretary Hull has been discussing with members of the special Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations...
...They pat the prisoner on the head," the article said, "and he replies by putting his feet on the table...
...Manpower Source...
...He demanded to know if Mr...
...The Bank is almost completely run by Germany...
...Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans fought passage of the appropriation, the former because the FEPC is regarded as a threat to-the pattern of race relations in the South, and the latter because they claimed to be opposed to government by "executive order...
...Bridges Attacks Foreign Policy Vagueness, of course, has been an outstanding characteristic of the Roosevelt Administration's foreign policy for«some time, and it was that lack of clear-cut direction which drew the fire of a leading Senate internationalist last week—Sen...
...Roosevelt called the Hull-Roosevelt plan more cynical and domestically wise...
...New Line...
...House Approves FEPC Funds President Roosevelt's Fair Employment Practices Committee, which is designed to prevent discrimination in war hiring because of race, creed, or color, won its first Congressional recognition last week when the House allowed a $500,000 appropriation,for the FEPC to stand in a $1,033,358,367 War Agencies Appropriation Bill...
...2. Require radio stations and networks to grant equal time to political candidates and public speakers to be heard in answer to issues raised in original broadcasts...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 23
