THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW IN A WEEK in which the clamor of the campaign this is issue was going to press on Election Day, too early to permit analysis of the returns) drowned out virtually all other...
...I don't think it will work...
...Lillian Hellman, famed playright ("Watch on the Rhine," "The Children's Hour") bought space in Westchester, N. Y., papers to urge all citizens to vote, packed her bags, and left for a trip to Russia, without voting...
...The official Soviet explanation was this, as revealed by Tass, Soviet news agency: "In view of the fact, which has recently become known, that countries like Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain have also been invited to the Chicago conference, countries which for many years have conducted a pro-fascist policy hostile to the Soviet Union, the representatives of the Soviet Union will not take part in this conference...
...The order is being interpreted in such a way as to make casual conversation with a German "unnecessary contact" and punishable by fines of...
...The number employed now stands at 2,880,997...
...Major differences of opinion between Great Britain and most of the other nations at the conference claimed the attention of news correspondents as the delegates groped for a formula which would provide for international supervision of postwar civil aviation...
...Names And Notes In The News Conscription...
...Women veterans of World War II should not be accepted into the Veterans of Foreign Wars because "there's bound to be jealousy pop up," J. N. Brunner, national commander of the VFW, declared last week...
...Frederick Kuh, London correspondent for the Marshall Field publications, for instance, cabled the report that "a basic conflict between the United States and Soviet Governments has already created a deadlock and is threatening failure of an international conference being held in London...
...The new device will permit the photographing of the wave of heat rising from a human hand...
...The United States Chamber of Commerce, hard-shelled spokesman for corporate wealth in the nation, has announced its support of compulsory universal military training in peacetime...
...A confidential survey by the Office of War Information of probable home front developments after Germany is defeated brought a forecast of "brief but sharp" dislocations in civilian life, with an estimated 5,000,000 persons changing jobs in the year after V-E (victory in Europe) Day...
...Jealousy...
...A half dozen separate developments in the news during the past fortnight tended to confirm this interpretation...
...A poll of 250 Germans by neutral Swedes showed that 80 per cent are now convinced Germany will suffer complete military defeat, 15 per cent hope for a compromise peace, and five per cent believe in eventual German victory...
...The President, however, said that he had never heard of the plan to let Britain resell to the world American-granted Lend-Lease supplies, but the President's comment was made while the political campaign was still on...
...Krock reported in the Times that "in presenting their case at Quebec, the British conferees are understood to have pointed out their special necessities: Weakened finances and strained credit, war damage that includes widespread destruction of civilian housing and industrial plants, and other ravages of our common war which the United States has been spared...
...The proposal that Great Britain be given the right to resell non-military Lend-Lease supplies for exports, and thus reverse its Government's policy against this practice, was explained as compelled by these special necessities...
...Casualties...
...A speech by Marshal Stalin this week (see Page 2) confused observers further, for the Red leader asserted that "the only way to make new wars impossible is to create a special organization of the United Nations to preserve peace and security, give it armed forces, and make it responsible to apply them immediately to avert arid suppress aggression...
...Another development of the week was Russia's blunt refusal to resume diplomatic relations with Switzerland, at the latter's request...
...Decline...
...The British were so delighted at Morgenthau's endorsement that they generously applauded his scheme to dismember postwar Germany, strip her of her industrial capacity, and divided the Reich into agricultural states...
...Offense...
...Newspaper correspondents, however, including some with strong sympathies for the Soviet Union, were frankly skeptical that the official Red explanation was the real one...
...You know how women are in an organization...
...General Electric Company engineers disclosed recently they have perfected a new camera capable of taking a picture in one-millionth of a second...
...American casualties neared the half-million mark as November began, with 487,692 men and women killed, wounded, missing, or prisoners of war...
...New Lend-Lease Deal...
...25 to $65...
...The United States, he told the conference, insists on protecting the sovereignty of the air for the sake of military security, technological progress, and commercial prosperity, and while anxious to cooperate with other nations in reciprocal exchange of air rights, was opposed to any international monopoly, or cartel which could dominate and control world airways, as proposed by the British...
...Still another indication of changing Soviet attitude was the assertion by the Soviet Government newspaper, Izvestia, that American troops were in Iran without any agreement with the Iran Government...
...These observers have detected a growing desire on the part of Stalinist Russia to remain aloof from international arrangements, especially those which might interfere with her complete freedom of action in areas she regards as exclusively her own...
...Of this total, 151,237 were killed in action...
...The total of paid employes in the executive branch of the Federal Government has declined by 60,212 since Aug...
...Russia's refusal to attend the aviation conference in Chicago because neutrals like Switzerland were present gave rise to the fear that the Soviet Union might boycott other international conferences, including those on critical problems of the peace, if she could not exclude all nations whose designs or intentions she suspected...
...Adolf A. Berle, Jr., chief of the United States delegation, announced that freedom for competitive private enterprise was the basis of American policy on civil aviation...
...Perhaps more significant than the preliminary debates at Chicago was the news of a nation that wasn't there—Soviet Russia—which is boycotting the conference...
...Povilas Zadeikis,-Lithuanian minister, complained in a note left with the State Department last week that the "liberation" of Lithuania has virtually been turned "from Axis enslavement into a new domination by the Soviet invader...
...1, the Civil Service Commission reported last week...
...Dentists...
...but a great silence prevails when it is asked on what basis shall routes be allocated,or traffic divided...
...The story said that "conjecturing over Russia's diplomatic course divides into two camps, which 'say: "1...
...Camera...
...Complaint...
...It is reliably reported that they asked the President, and he sympathetically received the request, that he take these things in account with respect to fixing the time and conditions of the renewal of competition for postwar export markets...
...Under these circumstances, imprecise formulae mean in reality arbitrary power, or petty deals to exclude competitors where one can, and divide traffic and profits where one must...
...This unusual scheme, according to Krock, who has excellent connections in the State Department, was first proposed at the Roosevelt-Churchill ¦ conference at Quebec and won the approval of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr...
...Suffering civilians soon will not have to wait so long for a dental appointment, the War Department disclosed last week in announcing that it is releasing several hundred dental officers from active du*y- * * * Forecast...
...A reduction in munitions production of four per cent below the goal for September was reported last week by the War Production Board...
...Another provocative disclosure in the field of American foreign relations during the past week was the disclosure by Arthur Krock, chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, that President Roosevelt is...
...Women should have their own organization," he said...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW IN A WEEK in which the clamor of the campaign this is issue was going to press on Election Day, too early to permit analysis of the returns) drowned out virtually all other domestic developments, the International Aviation Conference at Chicago alone made non-pdlitical headlines on- the home-front...
...Fly Leaves...
...Asked whether he did not fear this possibility, Undersecretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., said he thought and hoped that the present incident would have no further repercussions, and that the Soviet Union would not in the future continue to stay away from international conferences because she did not like some of the names on the invitation list...
...The Soviet delegation is bitterly opposing this proposal, demanding, instead, that the new agency be purely consultative with the character of a research institute...
...The Soviet Enigma Berle notified the conference that the United States "will support an international organization in the realm of air commerce having power in technical matters and having consultative functions in economic matters and the political questions which may be connected with them...
...The recent order from Gen...
...The British proposal to acquire two and a half billion dollars worth of American supplies in order to sell them to other nations is said to have received "a cordial reception" from President Roosevelt, Krock said...
...Purpose of the London conference is to set up an entirely novel organization for regulating all of Europe's inland transport, on the waterways, railroads, and highways...
...American and British delegates have proposed that the new organization shall possess executive power, even if that involves a certain sacrifice of national sovereignty...
...now considering and discussing with a British delegation a "supplemental, second-phase Lend-Lease proposal" under which Great Britain would be given $2,500,-000,000 of non-military supplies for resale in its export trade...
...Poll...
...Advice...
...Russia has her eyes focused on the rich oil reserves of Iran, and is currently seeking to break down Iranian resistance to Soviet plans for immediate exploitation of the petroleum resources...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower prohibiting American troops from fraternizing with the Germans in occupied territory is being enforced so rigidly that the doughboys now refer to chatting with civilians as "the 65 dollar offense...
...Stalin For Organization An Associated Press dispatch from Washington by Sigrid Arne summarized "the unique course the Russians have taken through the United Nations conferences...
...or even what is 'equitable' in these matters...
...Payroll...
...This strict disciplinary procedure, w^hich even prohibits GI Joes from asking for street directions, playing with children, or have dates with German girls, was instituted after high Administration officials became disturbed at reports that American soldiers were dining and talking with German civilians in territory wrested from the Nazis...
...The Russians are still so suspicious of us that they are trying to surround themselves on all sides by friendly nations, and the other United Nations must play along with her until she gains confidence...
...James L. Fly resigned as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission this week to enter private law practice in New York...
...Berle, who was elected chairman of the aviation conference, criticized the British plan without mentioning it by name when he said: "It is proposed that an international body should allocate air routes and divide the traffic...
...The Russians-are cutting out for themselves a special position in the world which at this point isn't clear...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 46
