THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW APRESS CONFERENCE which was singularly unproductive of news and a communique which concealed more than it revealed were the only two concessions at Dumbarton Oaks last week to...
...Luce's statement was "absolutely and unequivocally untrue...
...The bi-partisan bloc of reactionaries slaughtered every liberalizing amendment to the important measure on reconversion and demobilization, and passed a bill which contains almost none of the benefits of the moderately conservative George Bill passed by the Senate...
...Speeches written by the Republican National Committee for three GOP governors in behalf of the Dew-ey-Bricker ticket were revised in part by the governors after the originally prepared texts had been released to the press...
...He was defeated for reelection in 1942 after 39 consecutive years in Congress...
...The legislation, designed to help Negroes and other minority groups to secure wartime employment, is slated for rocky going in Congress...
...More troops are criticizing "monopolies and cartels" than unions, he reported...
...The Senate's War Investigating Committee (formerly headed by Sen...
...Michael Bradley, Pennsylvania Democrat, replied that he had it on high naval authority that Mrs...
...Although it was not stressed or even mentioned in connection with the Dumbarton Oaks conference, another development in the news last week emphasized the plan to use large-scale force to maintain whatever peace settlement is ultimately reached...
...Asked specifically whether the proposed arrangement would require consultation with Congress before American force could be used against a so-called aggressor, the President declined to answer, contending that emphasizing this problem was stressing details and forgetting the great object of keeping the peace...
...The America First Party (no relation whatsoever to the pre-war America First Committee) last week nominated Gerald L. K. Smith, Detroit rabble-rouser, as its candidate for President...
...They were especially dismayed by the fact that in no test did the liberal bloc muster more than 54 votes, and by the continued refusal of the Roosevelt Administration to take an active, aggressive position on these crucial home-front issues...
...Effective means for the peaceful settlement of disputes including an international court of justice for the adjudication of justifiable questions, and also the application of such other means as may be necessary for maintenance of peace and security...
...If this plan is necessary, let us understand it and debate it for whatever it is...
...Peacetime Conscription...
...Marshall, however, called specifically for a system of universal military training...
...Henrik Shipstead, Minnesota Republican, denounced the attempt to set up machinery to enforce the peace settlement before the settlement is made...
...The Nebraska progressive stood shoulder to shoulder with the late Sen...
...Robert M. La Follette, Sr., against involvement in World War I, but adopted a different outlook toward world affairs during his last years in the Senate and supported the interventionist policies of the Roosevelt Administration...
...Succumbing after a valiant fight for life, George W. Norris, one of the greats of American progressivism during his years of active campaigning, died last weekend at his home in McCook, Neb...
...The resumption of civilian production would be permitted regardless of whether one or more competitors in the same field are engaged on war contracts...
...President Roosevelt had talked vaguely a fortnight ago about national service for youth, but in this campaign year had avoided a clear-cut declaration on peacetime military training...
...Prayer...
...Casualties...
...Marshall said the American goal must be a small professional peace establishment "to be reen-forced in time of emergency by organized units drawn from a citizen army reserve, effectively organized for this purpose in time of peace...
...Harry S. Truman, Missouri, Democratic candidate for Vice President, struck the keynote of his party's campaign last week when, in formally accepting the nomination, he said: "The fortunes of the future, for which our boys have fought, bled, and died, must not be endangered by entrusting them to inexperienced hands...
...Criticism In The Senate The conference at Dumbarton Oaks and the White House approach to the problems under consideration at the Three Power Conference drew sharp criticism in the Senate last week...
...But it is an insult to our intelligence to tell us that it is not a plan under which we and our three great allies will dominate the world...
...The Chief of Staff said he favored such a course because the American Army must consist of the smallest possible professional organization with citizen reserves in keeping with the philosophy that a large standing army "has no place among the institutions of a modern democratic state...
...The Office of War Information declared last week that group lay-offs due to cut-backs in war industries was resulting in large numbers of women war workers "fading out of the labor market...
...A council composed of a smaller number of members in which the principal states will be joined by a number of other states to be elected periodically...
...Rejecting every plea by progressives for a broader bill which would build safeguards against widespread unemployment, the House majority knocked out Federal plans to retrain war workers for other jobs, return migratory employes to their homes at Government expense, and put 3,500,000 Federal workers under unemployment compensation protection...
...Bridges demanded an end of "diplomatic double talk" about the peace plans, pointing out that while the Administration is proceeding with plans for total world domination by the major powers, Secretary of State Hull "tells us that this Government has no intention to set up an organization in which these four big powers will run the world...
...Harry S. Truman) leveled a blistering attack at the Army last week for yielding to the pressure of real estate interests to abandon the luxurious Breakers Hotel at Palm Beach, Fla., as a hospital for war veterans...
...Rep...
...Appearing before a Senate subcommittee, a large delegation of Negro ministers stood in silent prayer for favorable consideration of a bill to establish a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee...
...The director would have supervision of contract termination and disposal of about 100 billion dollars worth of surplus war property...
...Roosevelt ridiculed attempts to compare the proposed organization with the old League of Nations, asserting that he could find 50 differences between the League covenant and the proposed international organization...
...Long before the emergence of the New Deal, Norris was one of the great champions in Congress, first in the House and then in the Senate, for legislation in behalf of the common man...
...Reminded that Hull had insisted the conference was limited to discussions of enforcement of the political settlement, the President snapped back that the reporter was quibbling', Details' Not Revealed The communique issued by delegates at Dumbarton Oaks announced "general agreement" on the structure and aims of an international league to maintain peace and security, but the announcement did not discuss the substance of the proposed security league or the means by which armed forces would be put behind the league...
...Fade Out...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull, obviously annoyed by the demand for abandonment of secrecy, announced that the conference was concerned solely with exploratory discussion of the single question of enforcing the peace...
...Clare Boothe Luce, Connecticut Republican, charged last week that "Admiral Nimitz urged the President not to go to Hawaii on the grounds that it would place a needless strain on the Air Force and naval personnel responsible for the President's safety, and accomplish nothing militarily...
...What is this international organization going to regulate, and operate, and enforce...
...H. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire Republican and dyed-in-the-wool internationalist, warned the nation against a postwar world of "big ruler politics...
...Progressive forces in Washington were greatly disturbed by the action in the House...
...Total American casualties for all services were 343,191 last week, an increase of 25,345 over the week before...
...One of the principal provisions in the House-approved bill calls for the creation of a one-year Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, with a $15,000 director, charged with formulating policies to bring about the transition from war to peace...
...George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, came out publicly for universal peacetime conscription of the nation's youth...
...The action of returning "to luxury use one of the most ideally located hospitals available to injured soldiers" was described as "extraordinary" by the Committee...
...The statement asserted that the proposed International Organization for Peace and Security should provide for: "1...
...Breakers...
...with full opportunity for competent citizen soldiers to acquire practical experience through temporary active service and to rise by successive steps to any rank for which they can definitely qualify...
...Tories In The Saddle A coalition of Tory Democrats and Republicans last week gave Congressional progressives their worst drubbing of the current session of Congress...
...President Roosevelt told his press conference that the conference at Dumbarton Oaks might well establish machinery for supplying food and going forward with financial arrangements...
...American soldiers are opposed to strikes but they are "not damning unions," R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO United Auto Workers, asserted last week after returning from a tour of the European war front...
...Even so hard-shelled a conservative as Bernard Baruch, the former Wall Street financier who advises the Roosevelt Administration on domestic policy, characterized the House measure as "certainly inadequate...
...It proposes to "get out the vote," he said...
...GI Attitude...
...In defending this type of arrangement at his press conference, President Roosevelt declared that the smaller council, dominated by the great powers, could act more quickly than the larger assembly if anybody kicked over the traces and violated a frontier...
...Rep...
...An assembly composed of representatives of all peace-loving nations based on the principles of sovereign equality...
...Of the total, 284,838 were in the Army and 58,353 in the Navjr...
...They're getting the cart before the horse at this secret meeting...
...Names And Notes In The News Politics...
...Sidney Hillman, boss of the CIO's Political Action Committee, told House investigators last week that the PAC is obeying the laws in the campaign and does not wish to "capture" any party...
...Gen...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW APRESS CONFERENCE which was singularly unproductive of news and a communique which concealed more than it revealed were the only two concessions at Dumbarton Oaks last week to public resentment of the secrecy which surrounds the U. S.-Russian-British discussions of international organization to enforce the peace settlement...
...George W. Norris...
...Another provision authorizes resumption of civilian production whenever such production does not require labor or materials for the war...
...Truman gave the President great credit for the nation's military successes, and emphasized the importance of retaining him to deal with the "dominant leaders" of our Allies...
...Joseph O'Mahoney, Wyoming Democrat, asserted that the "propaganda was too strong for the three governors, and it will be too strong for the American people...
...He was 83...
...he demanded...
...President Roosevelt helped keep the secret by characterizing as a mere quest for details all questions on how the proposed international organization would function and whether its powers would set aside the Constitutional requirement that Congress alone can declare war...
...He gave his name to many a major piece of legislation, but students of his life agree that his successful fight for development of the Tennessee Valley under a unified, socially-minded TVA, will rank as his greatest achievement...
...Sen...
Vol. 8 • September 1944 • No. 37
