THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW SECRETARY OF STATE Cordel Hull presented to the nation this week the tentative outline of a ''world security plan" designed to enforce the peace settlement—whatever its terms...
...Willkie had appeared to be in good health, but developed a strepto-coccis throat infection and lung congestion...
...Harry S. Truman, Missouri, joined in denouncing the "smear tactics" of the GOP in trying to hang the Red label on the Roosevelt Administration...
...Member nations will be required to contribute to the' forces summoned into action by the Security Council...
...The tabulation showed a total of 2,935,171 registered births and 88,000 unregistered, marking the first time in U. S. history that the total exceeded the 3,000,000 mark...
...John Bricker, also put-in an active week stumping the Middle West...
...Births...
...There is no system of distribution in the- preliminary charter, which refers only to "agreements" among the nations to provide men and materials...
...Denouncing virtually every phase of the Roosevelt Administration, Bricker hit especially at "12 years of government by crisis...
...Dewey took to the air with the charge that Mr...
...See Sen...
...The soft disclaimer does come a little late...
...I have never sought and I do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to communism, or fascism, or any other foreign ideology which would undermine the American system of government, or the American system of free competitive enterprise and private property...
...nor is there any indication whether Congress would be expected to authorize the use of American forces in the separate cases arising, or whether an attempt will be made to secure blanket authority from Congress and perhaps wink at the Constitutional mandate that Congress alone has the power to declare war...
...Harley Kilgore, West Virginia Democrat who is chairman of the Senate's War Mobilization Committee, last week offered a provocative plan for dealing with postwar Germany...
...The Secretary of State was doubtless thinking of the major differences of opinion among the Great Powers which were not resolved at Dumbarton Oaks, and which remain to threaten the permanence of the final settlement...
...Truman also assailed as "demagoguery and chicanery" the Republican strategy of "lifting words and sentences out of their proper context and deliberately misrepresenting the facts" in attempting to use the words of Administration followers to indict the Administration...
...Roosevelt declared, adding that "labor baiters and bigots and some politicians" use the word "communism" and apply it to any social legislation and to the views of "foreign born citizens with whom they disagree...
...Death took Wendell Willkie when he was only 52...
...2) reduction of personal income tax rates...
...Such action may include demonstrations, blockades, and other operations, by air, sea, or land forces of members of the organization...
...3) lowering of income taxes on corporations until it "no longer acts as a drag upon production and a barrier to jobs...
...Let Germany keep her industry, but break up her industrial monopolies and reform them as the individual companies they were before...
...Dewey issued, statements acclaiming the results at Dumbarton Oaks, but the news created hardly a ripple in the national political campaign, attesting anew to the fact that both parties have joined forces in a conspiracy of silence on the major issues of foreign policy...
...This body would have little power and would confine itself largely to discussion and recommendation...
...Thus, if Russia, or Britain, or America, or China, and "in due course," France, com mitted acts which everybody else on earth thought was a threat to world peace, the organization would be pow...
...Defeated by President Eoosevelt, Willkie became active as an internationalist, toured the battle areas of the earth, and wrote One World, which had a fantastic sale...
...Some political propagandists are now dragging red herrings across the trail of the national election," Mr...
...The Russians insist that each of the Great Powers be free to veto a charge of aggression' lodged against itself...
...Some Unanswered Questions It is the Security Council which would determine when there is aggression or the threat of aggression and be empowered to act, by force of arms if necessary, to prevent interference with peace...
...Libby appealed for world cooperation among all nations, economically and politically, in a system based on the concepts of cooperation developed by the Pan-American Peace System...
...Coronary thromhosis set in and soon took its deadly toll...
...Dewey's campaign running-mate, Ohio's Gov...
...The Bureau of £ensus last week released final figures on the country's birth rate for 1943...
...Total American casualties in all theaters of wars stood at 417,085 last weekend...
...Libby pointed out that although the intervention of the United States may have saved Russia and Britain from military defeat, "we have not saved the peoples of Europe from slavery," but rather "have changed their masters...
...Smith, the man in the brown derby who won national acclaim as "the Happy Warrior," succumbed at 70...
...Kilgore's peace formula was almost entirely ignored by the press...
...But doesn't that soft disclaimer come a trifle late ? Only last week in Madison Square Garden Earl Browder, the head of the Communist Party in America, proclaimed to 15,000 cheering adherents that the election of my opponent was essential to his aims...
...The 'Red Herring' Again Both President Roosevelt and- Gov...
...In addition, there would be several cooperating agencies included in the general network—an Economic and Social Council to grapple with the world's economic ills, and an international Court of Justice to pass judgement on disputes...
...Of this number, 94,531 were dead...
...In what was obviously a defensive mood, the President cracked back at Republican charges that Communists are playing an influential role in his campaign...
...The basis for lasting peace is fundamentally an economic one," Kilgore said...
...The Security Council is thus "empowered to take such action by air, naval, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security...
...Willkie again sought the GOP Presidential nomination in 1944, staked his hopes on the outcome of the Wisconsin primary, and suffered a crushing defeat...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW SECRETARY OF STATE Cordel Hull presented to the nation this week the tentative outline of a ''world security plan" designed to enforce the peace settlement—whatever its terms might be—and stand guard against future aggressions...
...Germany, under the Nazi set-up, built up a great series of industrial monopolies in steel, rubber, coal, and other materials...
...League foundered...
...The preliminary charter does not settle the most perplexing problem of all—the one on which the old...
...Frederick J. Libby, director of the National Council for the Prevention of War, asserted in his publication Peace Action this week that a "thousand hideous developments throughout the world point to the inescapable conclusion that the pacifists and the America First Committee were right in fighting to the last ditch against the involvement of the United States in the wars of Europe and Asia...
...Real, and in fact, the only seat of power would be the Security Council which would be composed of 11 nations...
...He asserted that "reckless words" have been dragged into the campaign to "mislead and weaken the morale" of America's armed forces and their families at home...
...The Hoosier lawyer was formerly president of Commonwealth & Southern, a huge utility firm, and subsequently became a Wall Street lawyer with far-ranging connections...
...Vindication...
...President Roosevelt's running mate, Sen...
...That is the same Earl Browder, now such a patriot, who was convicted as a draft dodger in the last war, convicted again as a perjurer and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the campaign for his fourth term...
...La Fol-lette's article on Page 1.) President Roosevelt and Gov...
...Dewey continued last week to slug it out on political issues as the political campaign headed into its final phase...
...Bricker's Line Of Attack Earlier in the week Dewey presented a six-point tax program to the nation with' the assertion that today's high taxes are not only to pay for the war but also "to pay for the waste and extravagance of the sprawling bureaucracy built up by the New Deal in the last 12 years...
...Roosevelt changed his tone and approach, gave a far more serious, far more pointed talk than he did in his first address before the Teamsters' Union...
...Kilgore asserted that any plan, like Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's, which proposed to strip Germany of her industry and divide the country into small farms, would not prove workable...
...4) shortening of the present list of excise or nuisance taxes...
...Dewey Points To Browder Responding to the President's disavowal of support from Communists and Fascists, Gov...
...Speaking to Democratic Party workers in a nationally broadcast address, Mr...
...5) complete overhauling of the existing confused and complicated tax laws and creating a basic tax law which can be expected to remain simple and generally stable, and (6) establishing and proclaiming a consistent national tax policy—one directed at achieving full employment and a rising national income...
...erless to act if the offending nation exercised its veto power...
...Death last week claimed two of the "nation's most colorful political figures, Alfred E. Smith, Democrat, and Wendell L. Willkie, Republican...
...My opponent softly denies that he welcomes the support of arty person or group committed to communism or fascism," Dewey said...
...Plan...
...It calls for the creation of an Assembly of "all peace-loving states...
...Dewey's tax program provides for (1) revision of the present exemptions so a man who makes as little as $11 a week no longer would have an income tax taken out of his pay envelope...
...The GOP candidate for Vice President pointed out that President Roosevelt had declared the existence of "a national emergency" 59 times, and had resorted to "coercion," "executive ultimatums," "patronage" "political favors," and "reprisals" in ruling the natior Names And Notes In The News .8 Two Deaths...
...Casualties...
...His bid for the Presidency was denied in 1928, and he made only infrequent appearances on the public stage thereafter...
...He skyrocketed to fame in 1940 when he captured the Republican Presidential nomination after a 11th hour entry into the race...
...It recommends that Germany's industrial monopolies be broken up and distributed among German workers and returning soldiers...
...Hull's unveiling of the charter for the new United Nations organization was accompanied by a sober warning that the road to peace is still very long and difficult...
...In recent months he had criticized both major parties for failing to take what he regarded as a more forward-looking stand on foreign and domestic affairs...
...Now, that is news...
...Roosevelt plans a "government-owned America" and that "little by little the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state" which is "essential to the aims of the Communists...
...He was four times governor of New York and gave that state some of its most progressive legislation...
...The plan hatched at Dumbarton Oaks is, in several major respects, similar to the ill-fated League of Nations which emerged from Versailles a quarter of a century ago...
...The other six members of the Council would be elected by the Assembly on a rotating basis...
...There is nothing to indicate the means by which the United States would furnish its share of the forces...
...The monopolies soon got control of Germany, brought Hitler to power, and forced virtually the whole world into war...
...Permanent members would be the four nations which are establishing the organization—Britain, the United States, Russia, and China—and "in due course," France...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 42
