THE WEEK IN REVIEW

...THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE national spotlight played this week on the "great debate" over foreign policy, revealing that this peculiar "debate" contained more confusion than controversy, more hair-splittings than basic conflict, more political jockeying than genuine debating of issues...

...Roosevelt has made no attempt in recent months to discuss the nature of the peace settlement which this organization would enforce...

...Truman, now the Democratic candidate for Vice President, has written that the "root cause" of the catastrophe was Kimmel's failure to cooperate with the then Army commander in Hawaii, Lt...

...Dewey, and Mr...

...Pointing out that he persistently had been denied an opportunity to defend himself publicly, Kimmel said it was "grossly unjust to repeat false charges against me until I am afforded a hearing in open court...

...There has been a growing feeling that as far as the issue on foreign policy was concerned, this was to be a "fixed fight" with the debate "removed from politics...

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...The shift resulted apparently from reduction of the undecided voters...

...Dewey of New York, the GOP nominee...

...Dewey accepted Hull's invitation and designated John Foster Dulles, the Wall Street lawyer and the Governor's mentor on foreign affairs, to confer with...

...It must promote a world opinion that will influence the nations to right conduct...

...Government officials asserted last week that American railroads have overcharged the Government $50,000,000 for hauling war freight in 1943...

...Dulles was being chased last week by process-servers who want to serve a subpena on him in a court action involving sensational utility scandals in the notorious North American holding company...

...He emphasized the belligerent nature of his present attitude by devoting much of his discussion with newsmen to the need for occupying Germany and Japan when the war ends...

...For more than two and a half years I have been anxious to have the American people know all the f acts...

...Although some intellectuals and professional hair-splitters thought the Democratic plank was far superior to the GOP version, the voters generally failed to get excited about either...

...That would be the rankest form of imperialism...

...Retort...

...Thomas said he found it "ominous that at the very moment that this pact is under consideration, the President urges a year's compulsory service for our youth to the political state...

...Her spokesmen cannot sit at the same table with Russian delegates because the Soviets are not at war with Japan...

...The Progressive Party, which never polls heavily in the primaries, cast a lighter vote than ever before, and there was still doubt at mid-week whether it had succeeded in qualifying a full slate of state and Congressional candidates...

...The real story of the Pearl Harbor attack: and the events preceding it has never been publicly told, This has not been my decision...

...Like all political parties and movements, the GOP is split on the issue of foreign policy...

...Four weeks ago in the Fortune poll the standings were Roosevelt, 49.2 per cent, and Dewey, 42.7...

...The Republican document, however, does recognize that there must be an attempt to get at the causes of war since force alone cannot preserve the peace...

...Legislation providing for establishment of a Missouri Valley Authority project similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority was introduced in the Senate last week by Sen...

...The state GOP, which had many intra-party contests for state and county offices, rolled up a much heavier vote than the Democrats and Progressives combined...

...Thomas Cites First Need Meanwhile, in the nation's third political camp, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, took a hand in the Dewey-Hull-Dulles act by emphasizing that "the first necessity is that we know what sort of peace the postwar world organization is to enforce...

...The latter said he "was delighted" to confer with Dulles, a veteran internationalist who has performed special assignments for the State Department...

...He had made it clear several months ago that he opposed the idea of a superstate with an international police force and that he opposed tampering with American sovereignty and integrity...

...After describing Dewey's fears as "utterly and completely unfounded," Hull said he would welcome discussion with Dewey in a "non-partisan spirit...

...Your innuendo that Gen...

...Harry Truman, his running-mate, and with Robert E. Han-negan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, regarding campaign plans...

...Dewey denounced the Roosevelt-Hull reliance on four-power control as "the rankest form of imperialism," which "would subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations holding the conference...

...Taft described Dulles as a man "with the Wilsonian view of the League of Nations" whose opinions are not widely at variance with those of Hull...

...To decide upon it now is to give up the fight for a rational world free from the burden and curse of militarism and war...

...He urged AFL members to support or oppose candidates for office on the basis of their labor records, regardless of party affiliation...

...The proposed project will be analyzed in subsequent issues of The Progressive...

...Of course I hope that good may come out of the public and private discussions of postwar organization between Secretary Hull, Gov...

...The House Military Affairs Committee is investigating reports that Axis war prisoners are being "coddled" in the United States...

...A Fortune Magazine poll disclosed last week that President Roosevelt's popularity with the general public has increased in the past month...

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...Robert Taft, Ohio Republican influential in GOP councils, interpreted the Dewey designation of Dulles to work with Hull as having removed basic foreign policy as "a major issue" in the Presidential campaign...

...The kind of world organization we seek must concern itself with the basic causes of world disorder...

...But I expect very little, so long as both sides separate consideration of postwar machinery for enforcing the peace from the nature of the peace to be enforced, and seek to commit us Americans to a plan for underwriting settlements, the nature of which we can only guess...

...Obviously determined to prevent AFL groups from wandering into the CIO's Political Action Committee, Green asserted that "we cannot afford to tie up with any political party or to become identified with a political party...

...The Storm Blows Over The one-day-old storm quickly blew over...

...Such a proposal would be rejected by the American people...

...7, 1941 attack and predicted that the American people "will be amazed" when all the facts are known...

...It must create an international tribunal to deal with international disputes...

...The organization would call on the armed forces of its member nations to meet all threats against the peace settlement, but would not have its own overall world police force...

...Wisconsin, which has thrice given its electoral vote to President Roosevelt, showed a strong Republican trend in the primaries last Tuesday...

...Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican Presidential nominee, broke the calm with a sharp attack on the proposals which the Messrs...

...Dewey Blasts Imperialism' For 24 hours or so last week, however, it appeared that there might be a genuinely democratic debate on foreign policy, instead of the "hush, hush, what will people think...

...Westbrook Pegler, the acid-tongued, anti-labor columnist will end his career with the Scripps-Howard papers at the end of his present contract and will join the Hearst chain...

...Interest in postwar foreign relations was heightened greatly by the swift advance of Allied arms in all theaters of war, and by the gathering of American, British, and Russian diplomats at Dumbarton Oaks, an ancient estate in suburban Washington, to discuss plans for an international organization to enforce the peace settlement...

...The Republican Party response to the Roosevelt-Hull position has been mixed and muddled from the beginning...

...Back from his Pacific journey, President Roosevelt last week conferred with Sen...

...On the same day, other newspapers featured the fact that there was inter-party harmony on major questions of foreign policy...

...Roosevelt had received and enthusiastically accepted such a gift was first published by Drew Pearson, Washington gossip columnist...

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...See Page 1.) President Roosevelt, whose chief aide on foreign relations, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, was host to the Dumbarton conference, took no direct hand in the proceedings himself...

...Aroused by Dewey's blast but anxious still to keep the Republicans from raising a rumpus on foreign policy, Secretary of State Hull issued a statement which categorically denied the GOP candidate's analysis but did so in a calm, conciliatory manner...

...Mixed And Muddled' Mr...

...Kimmel declared that the Roberts Report "does not contain the basic truths of the Pearl Harbor catastrophe...

...He said he did favor establishment of an international organization dominated by the Big Four— Russia, Britain, China, and the United States...

...Last week, after returning from his tour of Pacific military establishments, the President stressed anew, and in grim language, the harsh objective of "Unconditional Surrender" and made it clear that Allied leadership had no intention of holding out further hope to the democratic elements in enemy nations...

...China is to be summoned to a subsequent conference at Dumbarton Oaks...

...Disguise it as he may, that service will be military...

...Harry S. Truman, in Collier's, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim-mel, who was deposed as U. S. Pacific fleet commander after the Pearl Harbor disaster, this week demanded an end to "untruths" about the Dec...

...Washington was to blame," he charged...

...Aroused by an article by Sen...

...The Wall Street lawyer called for full debate on the issue, but added that he and Dewey are willing to "cooperate" w-ith President Roosevelt in working out basic ideas for a "durable and lasting peace...

...The New York Governor, who only a year or so ago was advocating a straight-out alliance between the United States and Great Britain, asserted last week that "the fact that we four have developed overwhelming power as against our enemies does not give us the right to organize the world so that we four will always be free to do what we please while the rest of the world is made subject to our coercion...

...Roosevelt and Hull were offering for adoption at Dumbarton Oaks...

...attitude...

...The resulting storm of protest led the President to order the gift returned with the suggestion that a burial be accorded to the momento...

...Roosevelt, obviously irritated, snapped back that it was a fool question...

...Asked at a press conference regarding the political implications of his recent trip, Mr...

...MVA...

...Your statements alleging failure to cooperate and coordinate our efforts are equally false...

...It must develop international law...

...Spurned...

...The poll showed 52.5 per cent of the public favoring his candidacy while 43.9 supported Gov...

...W. C. Short...

...Short and I were not on speaking terms is not true...

...The Republican platform is similar, if not identical, to the Democratic platform in many expressions on foreign relations...

...It is a sign that even the President himself expects little from his so-called great design for peace...

...Dulles...

...James Murray, Montana Democrat...

...The White House, obviously acting in response to many complaints, announced last week that President Roosevelt had returned to a "well-wisher" a letter-opener carved from the bone of a Japanese soldier...

...Probe...

...Overcharge...

...The story that Mr...

...The country was completely puzzled by last weekend...

...William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, called on its members last week to "reject any and all appeals to become partisan or to become identified with political organizations...

...Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard chief, said the decision was "by mutual consent...

...Dulles issued a statement which enabled some editors to headline the story like this: "Foreign Policy To Be Major Issue...