THE WEEK IN REVIEW

...The Murray report calls for (1) Creation of a modern transportation system, with emphasis on mass aircraft production...

...Walter George, Georgia Democrat, ranking member of the Committee, issued a statement denouncing the proposed change...

...God himself has made the nations interdependent for their full life and growth...

...Kilgore and his associates had issued a report which was more concerned with the political question of what to do with postwar Germany than with the economic consequences of monopoly and cartels as they appear in the trade and economic structure of all nations...

...Claims of organized labor that the rise has been 44 per cent were rejected by the President's, committee...

...Postwar Conscription Although there has been evidence of growing reluctance by Congress to pass peacetime conscription legislation now, President Roosevelt last week renewed his demand for early action...

...I feel that the members of the Republican Party can afford to get behind proposals to develop natural resources to their fullest extent, and can support any measure designed to maintain wages and increased purchasing power...

...5) Improvement of the nation's highway system...

...Demands for a relaxation of the Little Steel Formula, under which wage increases are held to 15 per cent above the Jan...

...Close, told press interviewers last week that because of "pressure from various sources," NBC served notice on the Sheaffer outfit that "it no longer will sell it time on the air if I am not dropped...

...World Organization Meanwhile, the Senate bloc determined to ram through approval of the world security organization proposed by the recent Dumbarton Oaks Conference before the terms of the peace settlement are known, bestirred itself when Congress reconvened...

...Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist, renewing her criticism of the Dumbarton Oaks scheme as a device to perpetuate power politics, spheres of influence, and imperialism, insisted that the United States take a "firm stand" in demanding that our Allies renounce claims for territorial and political aggrandizement...

...Dispatch pumped a home town boy who came home for a rest— Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of if the Democratic National Committee...

...A sharp critic of the Roosevelt Administration, Close had been regular Sunday commentator for the Sheaffer Pen Company...

...Roosevelt who picked Truman as his running mate...

...Public ownership of major basic industries is a prerequisite to international controls of internationally operating business," he said...

...THE WEEK IN REVIEW AS ALLIED ARMIES sought desperately this week to administer a knockout blow against Germany on the Western Front (See Page 2), the non-military interest of the nation was more than ever focused on a wide range of critical postwar problems...

...1, 1941 level, were promptly renewed in labor's ranks...

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...Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he was opposed to the plan, and Sen...

...This was somewhat the same position taken last week in an historic statement by Catholic bishops of the United States in calling for an international peace organization founded on moral law, repudiating power politics, and rooted in the principles of the Atlantic Charter...

...George Aiken, Vermont, progressive-minded Republican reelected Nov...

...It is not therefore a question of creating an international community, but of organizing it...

...Another major decision was to "bait" Gov...

...Any international peace organization or treaty that does not have the support of at least two-thirds of the American people and of the Senators representing them wouldn't have much hope for success," he said...

...3) A comprehensive housing program to provide modern living facilities at a cost within the reach of all workers...

...To do this we must repudiate absolutely the tragic fallacies of 'power politics' with its balance of power, spheres of influence in a system of puppet governments, and the resort to war as a means of settling international difficulties...

...Report On German Cartels The subcommittee on War Mobilization of the Senate Military Affairs Committee issued a report last week recommending that not only Germany's munitions industries, but all "primary indirect munitions industries, including the metallurgical and chemical industries," be dismantled and removed to the devastated areas of the rest of Europe...

...He would not say whether the service should be largely or exclusively military, or whether it might include non-military training...

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...Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the People's Lobby, Inc., characterized the report by the Kilgore group as "a recognition of the problem, but an evasion of the solution...

...Roosevelt picked Truman, and only Truman, in a telephone conversation between his train, bound for the Pacific Coast, and Hannegan, at Chicago at the time of the convention," the Post-Dispatch reported...

...7 with labor backing, asserted last week that the outcome of the recent elections was a mandate to the Republican Party to liberalize its policies in domestic affairs...

...He told newspaper men at a press conference that he would move for Congressional adoption of compulsory universal services for the nation's youth this Winter...

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...Harley Kilgore, West Virginia DemocraUand chairman of the subcommittee, the report asserted that in seeking to make Germany permanently incapable of making war, the victorious Allies must set up an international authority to "take over the economic controls formerly held by Nazi cartelists...

...Adoption of such a proposal would add $5,500,000,000 annually to the pay envelopes of 11,000,000 American workers earning less than 65 cents an hour...

...Lawrence Seaway, with action also on the extension of the Tennessee Valley Authority principle to the other major American watersheds, new housing and health measures, development of foreign trade, and the granting of enormous loans to foreign nations...

...2) Rehabilitation of the nation's railroads and railway equipment...

...Major - developments of the week in the principal fields of postwar planning were these: Foreign Policy...

...And the election will have a tremendous effect on Congress...

...I have always been for the domestic policies of the present Administration, even though it has made a good many flaws and has been unsuitably applied at times...

...A somewhat different approach was made by other spokesmen for organized labor wh'o appeared before a Senate subcommittee to urge that 65 cents an hour be fixed as the minimum wage necessary to eliminate sub-standard conditions...

...After all," she pointed out, "we are not a negligible quantity in this war...

...6) Expansion of foreign trade, and-* (7) A comprehensive national health, education, and security program, including improvement of the school system, and an overhauling of the social security system to extend its benefits...

...The commentator contended that he was found objectionable because of his discussion of "the danger of commun* * * Mandate...

...The Democratic boss confirmed earlier reports that it was Mr...

...We hold that if there is to be a genuine and lasting world peace, the international organization should demand as a condition of membership that every nation guarantee in law and respect in fact the innate rights of men, families, and minority groups in their civil and religious life...

...Joseph Ball, Minnesota Republican, asserted that "the sooner the machinery is set up and brought before the new Senate, the better...

...Hannegan disclosed that part of the Democratic strategy was to keep Sen...

...Right now the chances of getting a world security organization approved are better than at any time since Nov...

...Meanwhile, the War Labor Board, which has jurisdiction over wartime wage disputes, was stabilized with its present membership when President Roosevelt refused to accept the resignations of three members, William H. Davis, WLB chairman, George W. Taylor, and Frank P. Graham...

...The President declined to be drawn out on questions dealing with the content of the compulsory service...

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...In my judgment," Aiken asserted, "the election returns indicate that the people would gladly support a Progressive Republican Party...

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...Another program came from Philip Murray, president of the CIO, who submitted a seven-point plan for approval at the CIO's national convention in Chicago this week...

...4) Regional development of natural resources, such as the TVA...

...The National Broadcasting Company cracked down last week on one of its most widely known commentators, Upton Close...

...While many a student of world affairs wholeheartedly subscribed to this latter comment by the committee, some felt that Sen...

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...Postwar Employment A wide variety of recommendations dealing with the problems of postwar production and employment were laid before the nation during the past week...

...The desires of the people for such an organization were expressed very clearly in the election...

...Truman was chosen as "just an average American calculated neither to hurt the ticket nor to interfere with the place of the President as main candidate...

...In a declaration signed in the name of the Catholic bishops of America by the administrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the church leaders declared that the security council planned at Dumbarton Oaks "must not be an instrument for imperialistic domination by a few powerful nations...

...Cost Of Living A special committee appointed by President Roosevelt reported last week that for the bulk of the nation's wage-earners, the rise in the cost of living amounts to 29 to 30 per cent...

...George Meaney, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, wrote the President proposing that the Little Steel Formula be modified to permit wage increases to 30 per cent above the Jan...

...The current campaign to revise present Constitutional requirements to permit ratification of treaties by a majority vote of House and Senate, instead of by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, ran into powerful opposition in the Senate...

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...A special House committee on postwar economic policy also gave the nation a preview of its recommendations, maity of which paralleled the President's proposals, especially in the fields of public works and foreign trade...

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...The Kilgore document reported that extensive testis mony "has established beyond question that the international cartel system has been subversive of political security, full production, and the expansion of full trade...

...Some curious sidelights on the Democratic Party's conduct of the 1944 campaign in behalf of President Roosevelt turned up last week when the enterprising St...

...President Roosevelt was reported preparing a program for submission to the new Congress which would seek peacetime prosperity by granting tax assistance to business, planning large-scale public works, acting at once on the $277,000,000 St...

...The war is currently costing the United States 250 million dollars a day, the President revealed...

...He asked them to stay on "until, we knock out Germany" and they agreed...

...Dewey into the role of an angry prosecutor, Hannegan said, and this was accomplished by the President's opening speech at the banquet of the Teamsters' Union...

...Harry S. Truman, Vice President-elect, Out of the limelight so that the fight was sharply Dewey vs...

...It must not allow any nation to sit in judgment in its^>wn case...

...The myth of 'regulated cartelism' is exploded," he asserted...

...There isn't the slightest justification for a change in the fundamental constitutional system at a time when we are trying to work out far-reaching international agreements...