THE DEADLY PARALLEL
The Deadly Parallel ONE of the strongest and most courageous indictments of the Yalta Conference and its Declaration of Crimea by the Big 3 comes, curiously enough, from Clarence K. Streit, founder...
...We Americans held up our hands in horror then, and the British thought the Nazi act so heinous that they went to war against Germany...
...As in the days of Prohibition, they have paid no taxes on their lush pickings...
...Whether the money is muster-out pay, traveling expenses, prisoner-of-war accumulated savings or the sole hoarding of the old folks, the racketeer is aware of this: "There is some $130 billions of savings in this country—much in veterans' names—that could be spent after the war...
...Streit, who watched world politics first-hand as New York Times correspondent at the League of Nations in Geneva, summed up the Big 3's failure at Yalta with this comment: "In essence, the Crimea policy is to seek peace by dividing world power in the hands of 3 men, while keeping each of them in position to draw a gun on the others, and everyone else...
...They had no such flagrant precedent then to encourage them as Yalta offers now to every future aggressor...
...They should now spend their time behind jail bars...
...Many of them, spending their blood money in the resort areas such as Miami and Miami Beach, have cleaned up in the black markets...
...Booby Trap For Heroes (From Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods) ACCORDING to the Associated Press, "the swindler has a new gleam in his eye...
...After more than 3 years of the war for the Four Freedoms it is a shameful commentary that the Army has only now seen fit to allow colored citizens to take their rightful places in the fight against the common foe...
...One inevitable result of this policy—if continued—is to concentrate more and more domestic power in each of these 3 executives, even in peacetime...
...These people have been a national disgrace since the beginning of the war and it does little credit to the Treasury Department that it has delayed so long in its round-up...
...Streit makes a powerful point when he draws on his New York Times experience at Geneva after World War I to point out that during the Manchur-iati, Ethiopian, and Rhineland developments, the Japanese, Fascists, and Nazis pointed to the record of others, particularly the British and Americans, to justify themselves abroad and unite their people behind them...
...In 1939 Hitler sought to take Polish territory in the West and gave Russia Polish territory in the East in compensation, to buy its neutrality...
...The highway, the Times correspondent said, glitters in the bright sun...
...The AP proceeds to list many of the schemes which the swindlers hope to put over and quotes Brigadier General Frank T. Hines as warning the service men about placing their trust in individuals they do not know...
...Golden Glitter THE New York Times reported recently that Allied military engineers inadvertently used a million dollars worth of gold ore to surface a road through the jungles of New Guinea...
...The Deadly Parallel ONE of the strongest and most courageous indictments of the Yalta Conference and its Declaration of Crimea by the Big 3 comes, curiously enough, from Clarence K. Streit, founder and leader of the Union Now movement...
...The parallel that 1945 is drawing with 1939, Streit makes clear, "is much too sharp to fail to serve aggressors again and again...
...These black market leeches have lived long enough in front of resort bars...
...In 1945 Stalin seeks the same territory in the East, and offers to compensate Poland with German territory...
...Change Of Bars Needed THE Treasury Department's announcement of last week that it is moving in to investigate the income status of resort and race track habitues, who have made a fat killing on the black markets of the war, has been long in coming...
...Like the virus of syphilis, Streit reminds us, this virus can make generation after generation suffer, and it is even harder to remove from the blood of man...
...The Treasury not only has the duty of collecting the money it has coming in back taxes and imposing the maximum penalty for tax evasion, but it has a clear duty to turn over whatever information comes into its possession to other Government authorities for prosecution...
...And the President of the United States and Prime Minister of Britain approve this, and gain considerable support for it at home...
...And what a commentary, that in the same week the U. S. Senate refused to confirm a man as head of the Rural Electrification Administration because he believes that Negro citizens should have the rights the Constitution guarantees them...
...That is poison both to democracy and peace...
...Anglo-American acceptance of Stalin's Polish demands, he contends, "merely proves that we are doing what we condemned the British and French for doing at Munich, and suggests we are likely to suffer the same results...
...Whom do you imagine he's after this time...
...Shameful Commentary THE disclosure last week by Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper, that for the first time in the history of the United States Army Negro troops have been permitted to join and fight side-by-side with white army units, should make all of us realize what a gulf exists between the preaching and practice of our democratic principles...
...Streit bitterly condemns the Yalta Polish "settlement"—not because he holds any special brief for Poland or for any specific boundary decision, but rather because he sees that we are scorning the use of impartial machinery to settle international disputes, even as we talk so glibly about the wondrous possibilities of such international organization...
...The AP replies: "He's busy setting booby traps for returning service men...
...STREIT is one internationalist who doesn't switch yardsticks of justice and morality every-time it suits his convenience...
...To most people, here is another illustration of the fact that whenever gold is put to a practical use it is usually by mistake...
...He's after their families, too...
...But the swindlers will continue to operate and they will get away with a large part of that $130 billion "nest egg" unless the authorities do something more than "issue warnings...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 14
