THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW WITH the war in Europe racing toward a dramatic climax and the San Francisco conference of the United Nations less than 10 days away, the Roosevelt Administration was up to its...
...Flynn, who has frequently been reported seeking to conciliate the Kremlin and the Vatican, was mum on his mission to London...
...The public is not prepared, and should be prepared," Maverick warned that the nation faces the -most severe depression in history if small business and returning war veterans are not taken care of...
...Recognition of the Farrell government followed Argentina's action in declaring war on Japan and Germany, expelling and detaining Axis agents, and complying with other conditions of recognition laid down by the 20 other American nations at their recent conference at Mexico City...
...In addition, Japan is fighting against the United States of America and Great Britain, which are the allies of the Soviet Union...
...Meanwhile, the Polish government-in-exile in London charged that 14 Polish leaders disappeared after accepting an invitation to confer with the chief of the Soviet political police...
...Japan—Germany's ally-helped the latter in her war against the U.S.S.R.," said the note...
...Polish Situation Snarled The entire episode of the additional Assembly votes has put the State Department in a bad light—for all its current high-powered publicity campaign...
...Maury Maverick, plain-spoken chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, last week denounced the "mania" for secrecy that grips officialdom in Washington...
...Robert M. La Follette, Wisconsin) voting against the conscript measure, and 18 Democrats joining forces with 11 Republicans in support of the bill...
...The impasse seemed to have been broken at Yalta where the Big 3 agreed to establish a new, democratic Polish government whose membership would have the support of all 3 of the Great Powers...
...financier who was a top war mobilizer under Woodrow Wilson ; Patrick J. Hurley, who was Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover, and Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of the Bronx, were bouncing around the British capital performing secret errands for President Roosevelt...
...We've got to de-industrialize Germany and Japan—at least for a generation—so they won't go to war again...
...Negro Record...
...This statement confirmed the assertion of foes of the legislation that it was not necessary for the successful conduct of the war—especially in view of the fantastic record of production made by...
...Of this total 3,355,000 worked for the Federal Government and 3,168,000 for state and local bodies...
...den decision to abandon America's claim to 2 extra votes on the proposed Assembly of the United Nations...
...There seems to have been no progress toward a settlement along the agreed-upon lines since Yalta, however...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW WITH the war in Europe racing toward a dramatic climax and the San Francisco conference of the United Nations less than 10 days away, the Roosevelt Administration was up to its neck this week with frenzied preparations for far-reaching political action in the realm of foreign affairs...
...But as soon as the fighting is over it works just the other way...
...Interviewed by a reporter for the Army paper, Stars and Stripes, the 75-year-old broker said that "one reason I am over here is to hold the big stick over the big boys to make damn sure they're not going to foul up the peace...
...The treaty has another year to run, and the Kremlin's action was by way of serving notice that Russia did not intend to renew the pact in 1946...
...We begin to feel sorry for them...
...Another significant development in the field of foreign policy this week was the restoration of Argentina to good standing in the family of American republics...
...The Soviets were reported this week to be making a new effort to whip together something that would be acceptable in time for the San Francisco conference Apr...
...Defeat of the measure seemed assured when James F. Byrnes, retiring as War Mobilizer, admitted that the Administration wanted the measure for job control in the postwar period...
...He called for the creation of a Federal credit agency to insure loans to small business men...
...More than 1,300 German war prisoners at Camp Devens, Mass., voluntarily signed a petition last week appealing to the people of Germany to overthrow Hitler and make an immediate peace with the Allies...
...The Administration announced it would not seek the 2 extra votes, but will support the Russian demand—"if made...
...Labor Draft Killed Outstanding development on the home front duringf the past week was the Senate's action in killing the Roosevelt Administration's proposal for authority to conscript American labor...
...The word had leaked out a week before that one of the secret agreements at the Yalta conference of the Big 3 was a Roosevelt-Stalin decision to seek 3 votes apiece on the Assembly, partly, apparently, to balance the 6 votes of the British Empire...
...The Bureau of Census revealed recently that more than 155,000 separate governmental bodies are functioning in the United States...
...Secretary of State Stettinius disclosed that the United States and 19 other American nations had decided to resume normal diplomatic relations with Argentina...
...A vote against the Administration's measure was the "last chance" to save the nation from such a fate, Morse said in a powerful address which clearly made a great impression in the Senate...
...Hurley's next stopping place after London is Moscow, and there he hopes to break the long deadlock over the Polish regime...
...Called the "Shooting Star," the new plane is propellerless and can be operated over ranges comparable to present ranges...
...The Poles' London regime said that the missing leaders included a deputy prime minister, 3 cabinet members, and the last commander of the now-disbanded Polish home army...
...3Greatest stumbling block in the path of Big 3 unity ? just now is the explosive Polish question...
...Bernard Baruch, Wall St...
...he only prolongs, the war...
...Reds Denounce Pact Baruch alone was in a talkative mood...
...25, for they know how bad it would look if Poland, first nation to resist Hitler, were denied a voice at the gathering of the United Nations...
...Yet at that very moment it is imperative that we start the movement through the Suez and the Panama Canals of the units needed in highest priority for the acceleration of the campaign in the Pacific...
...The Senate's decision to kill the measure represented a tremendous setback for the President who had 4 times demanded of Congress the power to draft labor and freeze workers to their jobs...
...2President Roosevelt made headlines with his sud...
...The Kremlin announced the establishment of a new regime, but the selection appeared to have been as much a unilateral, made-in-Moscow product as the Lublin cabinet and both Washington and London have withheld recognition...
...Hitler knows the game is up...
...Put down your weapons immediately, stop the war, surrender...
...Petition...
...Gibson said that a recent inspection tour of battlefronts convinced him that "such differences as exist between soldiers are not due to racial characteristics, but to such factors as training, motivation, and environment...
...A storm of protest swept the nation, and Mr...
...The Department had insisted from the beginning that each nation was to have only 1 vote on the Assembly...
...A sergeant, one of the first in the city, declared: "We are supposed to hate people—be very tough customers...
...Plans are being made, public and private, national and international, which ought to be made public," Maverick asserted...
...Hurley, who is U. S. ambassador to China, stopped in London en route to Chungking, but declined to discuss his errand there...
...The Senate's vote was decisive, 46 to 29, with 21 Democrats, 24 Republicans, and 1 Progressive (Sen...
...Wayne Morse, Oregon Republican who was formerly a member of the War Labor Board, successfully hammered home his point that passage of the bill would add greatly to the danger of postwar regimentation and dictatorship...
...13, 1941...
...3 (20 days after Yalta) said that each nation was to have 1 vote...
...Reports from Cologne last week indicated that American troops weren't paying much attention to the nonfraternizing rule as applied to German civilians...
...American labor and management...
...Therefore, the note concluded, "the Soviet Government by the present statement announces to the Japanese Government its desire to denounce the pact of Apr...
...A previous Census report gave the number of civilian employes of governmental units as 6,503,000, including 1,306,000 teachers and other school employes...
...Well informed Washington correspondents reported that he has been intrusted by the President with the task of attempting to hasten the stalled negotiations for the creation of a "broadened" Polish government...
...Stettinius replied: "I cannot comment on that...
...Roosevelt, always a shrewd judge of public opinion, promptly retreated...
...Governments...
...At first it was thought that Secretary of State Stettinius and his Department associates had been kept in the dark regarding the Big 3's secret deal, but Stettinius insisted last week that he and his colleagues knew all the time...
...Recognizing the "very human desires" that men in Europe and their families at home will want to be done with war when Germany is beaten, Marshall maintained that the immediate dispatch of U. S. forces from Europe to the Pacifie will save lives and shorten the war...
...In addition to units of the Federal and the 48 state governments, there are in this number 3,050 county organizations, 18,919 town or township bodies, 16,220 municipalities, -108,579 school district units, and 8,299 units operating in special districts...
...Truman K. Gibson, War Secretary Stimson's civilian aide on Negro affairs, declared this week that "the record being made by Negro soldiers gives the lie to any charge that Negroes cannot and will not fight...
...Plans are being made for V-E Day...
...Shooting Star.' The Army has announced that a new rocket propelled airship, said to be capable of 800 miles an hour, is in production...
...The moment hostilities cease in Europe, there will be an overwhelming urge in every man to rejoin his wife or his family or to see his girl," the Chief of Staff acknowledged...
...Names And Notes In The News Secrecy...
...Disappointed...
...Patience...
...From the beginning Moscow has supported its own creation—the Lublin regime—while Washington and London have backed, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, the London government-in-exile...
...Personal envoys of the President were crowding into foreign capitals with special instructions on secret missions, and it was clear to many a Washington observer that it would take a prodigious amount of skill, foresight, and determination to weave the many threads into something resembling an American program and a democratic foreign policy...
...Also we've got to see that those subsidized slave labor countries do not again flood the world with their cheap products, lowering the standards of living of the United Nations...
...The appeal, which will be broadcast to Germany, declares that "the dead have no future...
...Under the present system, he pointed out, Big Business can obtain capital at low interest rates, but small operators, who are the backbone of the nation, must rely chiefly on mortgages and short-term loans at high rates of interest...
...We should discuss all this in the open...
...Sen...
...The world press was filled with speculation on whether the Soviets would soon be in the war against the Japanese, but there were no official words or acts to support either the affirmative or the negative...
...See below...
...Why was it then," the press asked last week, "that the State Department on Mar...
...In the note he handed Naotake Sato, Japanese ambassador to Russia, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viaches-lav M. Molotov asserted that the world situation had changed radically since the signing of the Russo-Japanese neutrality treaty...
...Canada, Britain, and the Netherlands promptly followed suit...
...Three different special envoys turned up in London during the same week...
...Meanwhile, these major developments played important roles in the shaping of United Nations policy: 1The Soviet Foreign Office made dramatic headlines ? with a 200-word note denouncing the Russo-Japanese treaty of 1941...
...George C. Marshall, U. S. Chief of Staff, appealed to the nation last week for patience and understanding when the Army begins to shift hundreds of thousands of boys from the European to the Asiatic front without a furlough at home...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 16
