THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, who arranged to be "drafted" for a third term by the Democratic National Convention in 1940, is playing a somewhat different political role in this fateful...
...Nelson , received powerful support from James F. Byrnes, director of the Office of War Mobilization, who approved the Nelson proposals which, in effect, will permit small business to begin reconversion to peacetime production in the immediate future...
...Plan Under Attack Creation of the $8,800,000,000 stabilization fund was under sharp attack in this country...
...I am happy to be able to announce that a monetary fund has been born," Morgenthau told the press last weekend...
...Labor, the organ for the Railroad Brotherhoods, pointed out that "international bankers expect to control the bank" and hence "control the world...
...After many years of public service, therefore, my personal thoughts have turned to the day when I could return to civil life...
...If the people elect me, I will serve...
...This launching of reconversion on a modest scale came during the same week that the Department of Commerce released a report showing that 1,073,000 American business enterprises closed their doors in the two years between the attack on Pearl Harbor and the end of 1943...
...His emphasis on his role as Commander-in-Chief did rub many a voter the wrong way, and Republican strategists were quick to open fire on this aspect of the announcement...
...Every one of our sons serving in this war has officers from whom he takes his orders...
...Frank T. Hines, chief of Veterans Administration now handling special reconversion problems...
...I think it is an unusually fine demonstration for the whole world that 44 nations can get together and iron out difficulties and work together to produce a plan to aid postwar money matters...
...Such officers have superior officers...
...There is every indication, he said, "that the reason for the action and its attendant secrecy is that the powerful financial interests represented in and associated with the National Association of Real Estate Boards and its affiliated organizations are dominating land-disposal programs of the Government...
...Free elections are needed in war as well as in peace...
...Estimating that more than half of the nation's 62,500,000 workers are employed in war activities, Hines said that probably 20,-000,000 of these would have to change jobs when the war ends...
...Gen...
...The Senate Small Business Committee, meanwhile, issued a statement urging that small businesses be given a "head start" over large corporations in reconverting to peacetime production...
...But we of this generation chance to live in a day and hour when our nation has been attacked, and when its future existence and the future existence of our chosen method of government are at stake...
...a board in which we have only a minority interest...
...Roosevelt announced his candidacy for a fourth term by agreeing to serve if "so ordered by the Commander-in-Chief of us all—the sovereign people of the United States...
...In order to make the 3hift over from war to peace activities, many of them will need retaining, interim unemployment compensation, and location in peacetime jobs...
...President Roosevelt's announcement that he is a candidate for a third term rated third play in the Stars and Stripes, U. S. soldier newspaper in Rome...
...He charged that both the "motive and the method" are "dangerous...
...The President's announcement created little enough stir in the nation, for it was almost universally known that he was a candidate for a fourth term...
...Patton pointed out that Will Clayton, surplus war property administrator, had "secretly" turned over to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation responsibility for disposing of the land...
...Roosevelt "run as Commander-in-Chief," adding that "this business of running as Commander-in-Chief is a myth...
...Roosevelt Is Reluctant The President professed to great reluctance to run...
...A Gallup Poll announced last week purported to show that endorsement by the CIO Political Action Committee will do a candidate more harm than good...
...Its "birth" was announced by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., near the close of the United Nations monetary conference which has been in session at a luxurious Summer retreat in the White Mountains for several weeks...
...If the convention should carry this out," said the Chief Executive, "and nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept...
...Third Play...
...But if the people command me to continue in this office and in this war, I have as little right to withdraw as the soldier has to leave his post in the line...
...Patton demanded that the job be turned over to the Farm Security Administration, asserting that disposal of the surplus lands gave the nation "a major opportunity to make good on one of the great promises of American life—the establishment on the land of independent, prosperous small farmers...
...As a result of decisions reached last week, the Nelson program will go into effect on a staggered basis, from now until Aug...
...He said he longed to retire from the public spotlight, but felt he had no right to withdraw at this point in the nation's history...
...Taft charged that "the whole elaborate machinery seems to be designed to cover up the fact that our money is, in effect, to be loaned away by...
...Asked if they thought Russia "can be trusted to cooperate with us when the war is over," 36 per cent said "no" as compared with 27 per cent who answered in the negative in November, 1943...
...Officials estimated that unless future military operations require sudden and increased demands for manpower, monthly induction quotas can be cut below 100,000...
...All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River, to avoid public responsibilities, and to avoid also the publicity which in our democracy follows every step of the nation's Chief Executive...
...Mr...
...Their spokesman was Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson who bitterly denounced the Nelson program last week...
...Robert Taft, Ohio Republican, denounced the proposal because the United States will provide nearly all the real assets while countries with currencies much weaker than ours will be in control...
...3) "To provide occupations, and to provide a decent standard of living for our men in the armed forces after the war, and for all Americans...
...None of the actual sabotage was enemy-directed, the FBI said...
...Roosevelt said his objectives were these: (1) "To win this war wholeheartedly, unequivocally, and as quickly as we can...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, who arranged to be "drafted" for a third term by the Democratic National Convention in 1940, is playing a somewhat different political role in this fateful year of 1944...
...The nation's military forces have now reached peak strength—11,300,000 men—and from now on induction calls will be on a replacement basis...
...Herbert Brownell, Jr., chairman of the Republican National Committee, charged that the President was using the title of Commander-in-Chief as "a pretext to perpetuate himself in political office...
...Nelson had prepared four orders providing for the gradual resumption of civilian production if and when materials and manpower were available, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Big Business clique within the WPB had fought the program...
...10 per cent answered "more likely to vote for," 53 per cent replied "against," 20 per cent said it would make no difference, and 17 per cent had no opinion...
...The President is the Commander-in-Chief and he, too, has his superior officer—the people of the United States...
...Peak...
...I would accept and serve, but I would not run, in the usual partisan, political sense...
...Either you run as a candidate or you don't...
...2) "To win this war in such a way that there be no further world wars in the forseeable future...
...Each of the 44 nations participating in the conference must decide by legislative action whether to participate in the fund and a companion project—a 10 billion dollar world bank for worldwide reconstruction and development—-which, with the establishment of the fund, have held the stage at Bretton Woods for the past few weeks...
...Thus, the first step—production of a wide variety of aluminum products for civilian use—was made possible this week for the first time since early 1942...
...Still clinging to the military lingo he loves, Mr...
...A growing proportion of the population is skeptical of Russia's postwar aims, according to a recent Gallup Poll...
...The percentage who felt Russia can be trusted remained the same—at 47 per cent—the increase in the number of skeptics coming from the ranks of the previously undecided...
...During that period 572,000 new businesses were organized...
...To give small business this head start will require the most careful planning...
...Sabotage...
...Therefore, reluctantly, but as a good soldier, I repeat that I will accept and serve in this office, if I am so ordered by the Commander-in-Chief of us all—the sovereign people of the United States...
...A grim reminder that the big problems of readjustment to a peacetime basis will be with "the war worker and not with the veteran," was placed before a Senate investigating committee last week by Brig...
...Charles Halleck of Indiana, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, joined the attack with the assertion that the country would not let Mr...
...James Patton, president of the National Farmers' Union, warned last week that returning service men and small farmers have only a slim chance of getting any substantial part of the 8,000,000 acres of land bought by the Government for the war emergency...
...A Monetary Fund Is 'Born' A global monetary fund of $8,800,000,000 was "born" at Bretton Woods, N. H., this week...
...Such domination is intolerable...
...Skepticism...
...Nelson Wins A Round The first round in the significant fight over reconversion was won last week by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, who had tangled with the military and naval bureaucracy...
...First display went to the Normandy campaign and second to the Russian advance beyond Wilno, * * * Reminder...
...Hines was more op-timistic^over the outlook for returning war veterans, expressing confidence that the GI "Bill of Rights" and other legislation would provide adequately for their needs...
...Asked, "If the CIO union supported a candidate, would you be more likely to vote for that candidate or against him...
...The FBI disclosed last week that it investigated 16,295 reports of suspected sabotage and found 1,736 cases of deliberate destruction in the fiscal year which ended June 30...
...Mr...
...Roosevelt is the first of 32 Presidents of the United States to claim that the title of Commander-in-Chief makes him a soldier and to use that title as a pretext to perpetuate himself in political office...
...The fund, designed to stabilize world currencies and promote international trade, would call for the United States to put up $2,750,000,000, Great Britain $1,300,-000,000, and Russia $1,200,000,000...
...Under terms of the order, surplus aluminum—there is an estimated current surplus of more than 3,000,000 pounds—can be used to make kitchen utensils, including pots and pans, and toothpaste tubes...
...Names And Notes In The News Warning...
...The publication pointed out that "neither American labor nor American agriculture is represented at Bretton Woods, yet labor and agriculture may be affected more seriously by the decisions made there than any other group...
...Small business can perhaps overcome some of the handicaps resulting from the wartime concentration of production in the hands of larger concerns if it is given an early opportunity to reconvert," the Committee said, "and is assured adequate materials from stocks not needed for war production...
...CIO Influence...
...Mr...
...The people, who ultimately, in one way or another, will pay the bill, have nothing to say...
...Such would be my choice...
...The President announced his decision in a letter to Robert Hanne-gan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who had written his Chief to announce that more than a majority of the delegates were lined up for a fourth term...
...Rep...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 30
