THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE significant debate over the shaping of an American foreign policy continued to hold the national spotlight during the past week. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who has...
...Racketeers...
...Claude Pepper, Florida Democrat, declared in an address last week that wage adjustments must be made to correct the "unequal sacrifices" of the country's 20,000,000 white-collar workers who were trapped "between rising prices and fixed or relatively stable incomes...
...W. C. Short, the commanders at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck Dec...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive who is a member of the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations which has been conferring with Hull, made it clear that he opposes any move to commit the United States to participate in such an international security organization before the terms of the peace itself have been written...
...Wheeler's intriguing suggestion that the Roosevelt position is now more nationalist than the Republican stand adopted at Mackinac last Summer, came during the same week that Sen...
...For two and a half years I have waited for the Navy Department to bring me to trial...
...Even so harsh a critic of the President as the Chicago Tribune hailed Mr...
...The statement was also important as the Administration's reply to the spokesmen for small nations who have expressed alarm at the prospect that the Big Three were moving to ignore them in planning the postwar world...
...Asked whether he welcomed the Communists' support of President Roosevelt for a fourth term, Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic National Chairman, replied this week, "I think that all groups...
...Krueger was reelected national chairman of the Socialist Party...
...Names And Notes In The News Trap...
...I have made it clear to all concerned that the future consideration of any plan worked out as a result of these conversations, the establishment of an organization, and the participation by the United States in it must depend upon the negotiation of just terms of peace," Sen...
...The fact is that the Republicans, with Dewey as their candidate, are very apt to find themselves more internationally inclined on the postwar peace preservation program than the Democrats...
...1, Sundays and weddings excepted...
...Kimmel said that "at the hearings before the Roberts Commission I was told I was not on trial...
...Hull described America's record as one of consistent championing of "liberty for everybody, encouraging them at all times and in all places," and then somewhat petulantly added: "I see no reason why this country, this great free people, who, through generations, have dedicated themselves to this wonderful human cause and preserved it—I see no reason why they should be catechized every morning before breakfast as to their loyalty to liberty, or their consistent desire of liberty for everybody and freedom for aspiring peoples everywhere...
...Said the Montanan who is now being wooed by the Administration: "It indicates that the President realizes he cannot set up a super-government to control "tariffs, immigration, financial, and other internal policies, and that he cannot create an international police force to keep the peace, as the internationalists propose...
...For more than two years I was kept in the dark as to what went on at those hearings...
...In the attempt to keep their heads above water, they are foregoing such essentials as medical and dental care, continued education, and in some cases, even proper food...
...Dubinsky pooh-poohed the excuse of AFL leaders that they were powerless to interfere with the autonomy of their locals...
...Welcome...
...2. To impose employment ceilings regulating the number of workers a company may hire and limiting replacements in non-essential industry to women workers...
...Sen...
...3. To seek transfer of idle and excess manpower in labor surplus areas to areas where labor shortages are reported critical...
...Socialists Urge Peace Offensive While the two major parties (See first column) were jockeying for position in the field of foreign policy, the Socialist Party, assembled in national convention in Reading, Pa., was busy adopting a platform which called for an immediate political peace offensive based on an offer of armistice to the peoples of the Axis nations...
...The platform opposed appeasement of Nazism or aggressive imperialism, and asserted that peace should be organized on the fundamental principles of equal rights of all peoples of every race and organized cooperation among all peoples for establishment of political and economic arrangements for the removal of the causes of war and for guaranteeing Security...
...Meanwhile, Admiral Kimmel, asserting that the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, demanded a "free, open, and public" court-martial "at the earliest practicable date...
...Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, chairman of the Republican Advisory Council Committee, announced the Committee would recommend unanimously to the Republican Convention resolutions committee that it adopt a foreign policy plank similar to the Mackinac declaration...
...This control to be invoked through three new rules is designed: 1. To prevent the hiring of any worker in essential or non-essential industry except by permission of the United States Employment Service...
...Sen...
...Dewey has not subscribed...
...Meanwhile, President Roosevelt's press conference declaration that his plans for the peace involve no impairment of independence, integrity, or administrative process, was being widely interpreted as abandonment by the Administration of its once rampant internationalism...
...Extension...
...This group, who "operate our schools, churches, hospitals, hotels, stores, communication systems, public services, and government agencies," have watched their savings disappear...
...A forthright demand that the American Federation of Labor rid itself of racketeers among its leadership was heard from the head of one of the AFL's biggest and most influential affiliates, David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union...
...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, long one of the most relentless critics of Roosevelt inter-ventionism, concurred in the widely shared interpretation of the President's comment as a basic change in policy...
...La Follette s Statement Hull's determination to proceed with international discussions on the form of world organization met no major opposition in Congress, but Sen...
...This new Administration scheme, described in some quarters as even more drastic than the unwanted National Service Act, drew fire in Congress, and there were signs at midweek that the program faced major opposition...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who has invited the representatives of Britain, Russia, and China to participate in conversations on a proposed postwar security organization, made more front-page news when he issued a far-reaching statement virtually promising recognition to any peoples who assert their freedom effectively...
...The Socialist National Convention unanimously selected Thomas as the Party's candidate for President again...
...Army shoes in good condition are being sold for scrap and being ground into fertilizer, while the Administration is spending billions to send new shoes abroad as part of the Lend-Lease program, Rep...
...Certainly the Democratic platform cannot say less than the President said guaranteeing the country against any surrender of sovereignty in the postwar peace machinery...
...Drastic Manpower Controls The Roosevelt Administration's recurring demands for passage of compulsory labor legislation—known as the National Service Act—have met a cold response in Congress and the country...
...In his report to the convention, Harry Fleischman, national secretary of the Socialist Party, declared that President Roosevelt has led "a steady retreat toward reaction" ever since his "plague on both your houses" statement during the 1937 Little Steel strike...
...when they review the record of President Roosevelt . . . will reach the conclusion that they should support him...
...New South...
...Politics...
...The always restrained Associated Press described the Hull declaration as one of "potentially explosive significance for colonial empires such as those of the British and the Dutch...
...Irish Vote...
...The assurance given by the President that there will be no surrender of sovereignty is even more in accord with the views of the overwhelming majority of the American people than is the Republican declaration at Mackinac Island...
...Fertilizer...
...That is the major tenet of nationalist faith and one to which Gov...
...De Valera's party, Fianna Fail', which has advocated a program of strict neutrality for Ireland, gained three parliamentary seats...
...The Commission did not permit me to be present at the examination of witnesses...
...Sen...
...Calvin Johnson, Illinois Republican, charged during the debate on Lend-Lease appropriations in Congress...
...Sen...
...Roosevelt's statement as "acceptance of the position of the nationalists" who "stand for internatronal cooperation to preserve peace without surrender of American sovereignty...
...Last week the Administration moved to by-pass both when Paul V. McNutt, chief of the War Manpower Commission, announced that not later than July 1, the WMC would assume absolute control of all non-farm labor over 17 years of age...
...The report of the Roberts Commission does not tell the whole story of Pearl Harbor...
...Prof...
...C. Wallgren, Washington Democrat and a member of the Truman Committee, expressed the doubts of many a Washington observer when he wondered if "Congress will stand for it...
...More Nationalistic Than GOP...
...Pepper called for prompt action which would permit "urgently needed adjustments to correct present unequal sacrifices...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire and six of his cabinet members won thumping election margins in the Irish general elections this week...
...It denied my request for counsel...
...Congress moved this week to extend again the statute of limitations on the court-martial of Rear Admiral H. E. Kimmel and Maj...
...Maynard C. Krueger, 39, University of Chicago economist who was Thomas' 1940 running mate, refused to run this year because he is considering entering the race for Congress from the second Illinois district...
...It is Thomas' fifth straight nomination...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whose ful-minations against "politics" and "politicians" have many times filled the New York air lanes, declared this week that when he retires from politics he will spend his time bringing both the art and its prac-ticioners into good repute with the public...
...Tha report also condemned the President's support of a National Service Act, his insistence on the Little Steel wage formula, "his phony veto of the Smith-Connally anti-strike act," and his support of "deals with fascists and reformed fascists like Darlan, Badoglio, and Franco...
...7, 1941...
...That statement called for "responsible participation by the United States in postwar cooperative organization among sovereign nations to prevent military aggression and to attain permanent peace with organized, justice in a free world...
...Introduced into the Louisiana legislature was a bill making it illegal to wear coats or ties between June 1 and Oct...
...Adopting a foreign policy plank which represented a notable vietory for Norman Thomas, the Party'3 hard-hitting leader, the Socialists denounced the "slogan of unconditional surrender" for "prolonging the war and underwriting, with the lives of our sons, the maintenance of the British, Dutch, and French Empires in the Far East, and the Balkanization of Europe between Moscow and London...
...Darlington Hoopes, 47, Reading, attorney and former state legislator, was chosen as Vice Presidential nominee...
...La Follette said...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 24
