DESTRUCTION NOT ENOUGH
Destruction Not Enough THE desperate need for a restatement of Allied war aims and peace objectives becomes more apparent every day. The political upheaval in Germany—Winston Churchill has...
...The political upheaval in Germany—Winston Churchill has described it as nothing short of revolution—emphasizes the urgency of acting now to assure the plain people of Germany and her satellites that we have no intention of enslaving them or dismembering their countries, that we are interested primarily in smashing Nazism and Fascism and bringing their guilty ringleaders to justice...
...The fact that a considerable number of officers have turned against Hitler is conclusive evidence that he is losing the confidence of German society generally...
...THE demand for a restatement of Allied peace aims so as to offer the world a constructive, meaningful program of hope for the future does not come alone from cranky publications like The Progressive...
...We can shorten the war and enhance the prospect for lasting peace by abandoning the frozen formula of Unconditional Surrender and all that it has come to signify, and instead, hold out hope for a decent, democratic future to the common man of all countries...
...Commander Seely underscores this point in his excellent article on Page 5 of this issue when he reminds us that Hitler's troubles "have given us an excellent opportunity to convince the enslaved peoples of Europe, and especially Germany, that it is to their advantage to overthrow their masters...
...3,800.00 3,800.00 Total...
...As the bill now stands it embodies a dangerous weakness—one which experience has demonstrated may cost the people of this country billions of dollars...
...The central fact, which is not disputed, is that the fighting spirit of the German Army has been strengthened, not impaired, during the past six months of military reverses...
...Merlin Hull, Wisconsin Progressive, recently warned that "when some future Congressional investigation of war contracts comes along, it may discover what the bill really does for the big war contractors, and, also, what it will do to the Treasury...
...Southern Pacific Railroad was the oppressor of farmers in the early days, as depicted in Frank Norris' The Octopus...
...A recent issue of the New Statesman and Nation, the liberal weekly of left-wing opinion, carried an editorial captioned "The Mindless War...
...that Germany is now fertile ground for anti-Hitler propaganda...
...Goebbels: if Germany is to be destroyed, and no differentiation made between Germans by the victors, then why should not all German soldiers fight to the end in defense of the Fatherland...
...Said the calm, conservative London Times recently: "It is not enough to know what we are fighting to destroy...
...Warren himself has denounced the present plan as an invitation to the most extensive frauds in our history...
...5,995.00 4,375.00 (West's largest power company) 3,688.51 Holly Sugar Corporation (beet sugar...
...13,700.00 9,925.00 6,500.00 (Los Angeles open-shop crowd) Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R...
...Pacific Gas and Electric Co...
...184,231.00 The California pattern doesn't change...
...It should remember too that the Comptroller General's office was established to prevent a repetition of the staggering scandals which Congressional committees exposed following the last war...
...For some unaccountable reason Congress saw fit to deny its own agent, Comptroller General Lindsay Warren, effective authority to review settlements except where he is prepared to prove fraud...
...We still wait in vain," said that publication, "for any sign that the leaders of Britain and America realize that this is a war of minds as well as weapons...
...14,276.71 Canners League of California...
...of California...
...has for years been fighting the Federal Government, to grab the benefits and profits of government expenditures of millions of dollars in hydroelectric profits...
...Even the supporters of the bill admit this is virtually impossible because of the secrecy with which termination proceedings will be executed...
...15,400.00 Dried Fruit Assn...
...California 'Farmers' (From the National Union Farmer) THE 11 largest contributors to the "Associated Farmers of California," 1934-39, according to the La Follette Committee on Civil Liberties and Rights of Labor, a subcommittee of the U. S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor, were: Contributor Amount Industrial Assn...
...3,800.00 J. D. and A. B. Spreckels Investment Co...
...This interpretation of the basic weakness of Anglo-American strategy—its lack of a democratic program of hope for men of all countries, enemy and neutral, as well as victorious—is not confined in England to so conservative a journal as the London Times...
...Unless Warren is given the authority to review these settlements involving $75,000,000,000—authority which Congress originally intended he should have—we may find, as Rep...
...A Job For Congress WHEN CONGRESS returns to Washington after the Summer recess, it should take immediate action to strengthen the war contract termination measure which it recently passed to protect industry from loss when contracts for war ma-trials are brought to an end...
...The belligerent temper of the fighting nations, the attitude of the neutrals, the powers of resistance of the enemy can all at this critical moment be powerfully influenced in the direction of victory by a clear view of what the United Nations mean to build in place of Hitler's catastrophic New Order...
...He cited cases in this war and the last which cost the Treasury millions...
...Under present provisions termination negotiations will be conducted behind closed doors, without an audit, and with no possibility of proper administrative review...
...The effect of the speeches of Allied leaders has been to confirm the propaganda of Dr...
...85,398.22 Total for all contributions...
...The most urgent need of all, said the New Statesman and Nation, is "an agreed declaration of high policy by the United Nations designed to shorten the war and save soldiers' lives by stating to the Germans the conditions under which their 'unconditional surrender* could be negotiated...
...Congress should bear in mind that many of the Government agents in these termination negotiations are men who are either still on the payrolls of some of the companies involved or will be reemployed by them in the future...
...of San Francisco...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 31
