SECRET COVENANTS
Secret Covenants ARMED TROOPS patrol the spacious grounds . at Dumbarton Oaks, the Washington estate where Russian, British, and American diplomats have assembled. All discussions go on behind...
...President Roosevelt made our point best eight years ago...
...The case against the holding company has been investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and turned over to the Department of Justice with a recommendation that prosecution be brought...
...These ruthless forces of monopolistic wealth and international cartels thrive in wartime and occupy invisible thrones at the peace tables...
...The foreign policy of America is of vital concern to every American...
...The subject should be thoroughly debated from every conceivable angle, and ordinary citizens should be encouraged to discuss and debate the issue and not be intimidated into silence by those who are pursuing the fatally anti-democratic policy of "secret covenants, secretly arrived at...
...All discussions go on behind locked doors, and not only the press and public, but members of Congress as well, are barred from approaching the secret meetings...
...Meet Mr...
...Never have so many persons' future been threatened in the interest of so few...
...A glance at his record as a utility hold-in i company lawyer will dispel any fears along those lines...
...The global-mihded intelligentsia has concluded the overture...
...Indeed, Mr...
...In the first place he is a specialist in international affairs, having been the attorney for the international nickel cartel whose brass knuckle treatment of American metal consumers is too well known for comment...
...Boehm later went to jail for the perjury...
...Fascism in Europe after the last war was one of the bastard children bred by these greedy, ruthless parents...
...According to his petition, Dulles is one of the men who assured him that his perjury in an SEC probe would have no personal consequences...
...They are deciding, these diplomats are, how the postwar world shall be governed, what kind of organization shall enforce the peace settlement, and how coercive power will "be brought into play to silence and suppress any uprising against that undetermined settlement...
...As representative of the Republican candidate for President, Dulles speaks for the Republican version of America's interests in his conferences with Secretary of State Cornell Hull...
...Dulles A GOOD BAROMETER to the democratic and humanitarian objectives being moulded into international politics at Dumbarton Oaks is the etttiy of John Foster Dulles on the stage as the spokesman for Tom Dewey...
...Louis was served on the Wall Streeter as he left the company of Wendell Willkie, another red-hot world reformer who once headed a utility charged with bribing and corrupting public officials...
...The National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the American Bankers Association are now joined by the great mouthpiece of the utilities in advocating enforcement of a peace settlement which has not been divulged to the American people...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., that the same greedy forces which wrecked the peace after World War I are now at work around the world, has been echoed by Harold Laski, noted British author and analyst...
...Behind the troop patrols and behind the locked doors, a question of the greatest significance to all the people is being settled by a handful of men, none of whom was ever elected by the people to any office...
...The haughty refusal to permit the press, the public, and even members of Congress to listen to or have a hand in the shaping of these critical decisions is paralleled by an equally ominous attempt to "remove the issue from politics...
...Mr...
...Then, a different man in a different mood, he said that "all the wisdom of America is not to be found in the White House or the Department of State...
...Louis, has brought suit against North American and its officials, alleging that the company corrupted legislatures and elections with a $5,000,000 slush fund...
...The curtain is ready to go up on the great tragedy of our day, "Peace By Force...
...Conspirators At Work THE recent warning by Sen...
...Dulles was being hunted by process servers as a defendant in one the most sensational utility scandals in the nation's history...
...The Department, for some reason, has failed to act...
...As a member of the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, Wall Street lawyers, he has handled much of the perpetual litigation of the huge North American Holding Company, whose name has come to be a synonym for scandal in the utility field...
...we need the meditation, the prayer, and the positive support of the people of America who go along with us in seeking peace...
...Boehm's suit is based on the charge that he suffered damages for taking the rap for his superiors in the North American system...
...Iti the second place, the selection of Dulles will make certain that no embarrassing moral issues will injected into this discussion of "realistic" peace aims...
...The subpoena with which Boehm's attorneys hope to get Dulles out of State Department sanctuary to St...
...When one considers that both old parties lean toward any kind of a peace as long as there is force connected with it, Dulles is a splendid choice as official kibitzer...
...Frank Boehm, a former high official for North American's principal subsidiary, the Union Electric Company of St...
...Dulles' North American chickens were coming home to roost last week, making it necessary for him to go to Washington via backdoors and alleys...
...Said Las-ki in a recent article: "From every point of the globe one sees little groups of conspirators trying to make their private interest identified with that of the public well-being, of which it is the antithesis...
...Laski, of course, was talking of the same interests which Bob La Follette had in mind when he said in his speech to the last Progressive Party convention: "Progressives know that the forces which worked secretly to defeat the 14 Points at the (Versailles) peace table are now at work in every country...
...The totalitarian liberals have moved the glittering scenery into place...
...Dulles' well publicized entry brings the whole cast out on the stage...
...This is only a polite way of seeking to suppress debate on what meager scraps of information are tossed from Dum-bar ton Oaks...
...The attempt to place the subject on a pedestal so high as to be beyond the reach of ordinary mortals and to endow it with a sort of myjtkal air is the worst kind of murabo-jumbo...
Vol. 8 • September 1944 • No. 36
