REPORT FROM FRISCO

...This was especially noticeable among service men and among women with husbands and sons in the armed services...

...Molotov lost an important round in the diplomatic duel at Frisco when the conference voted 31 to 4 to issue an immediate invitation to the Argentine government...

...The Department of Labor itself," he said, "which might have worked out a sensible procedure, has been stripped of functions until a powerless secretary now presides over a skeletonized bureau that is the last word in sheer futility...

...The Treatment Of India While the Big 3 continued its jockeying, the delegations of the smaller nations waited anxiously for developments which would strengthen their hopes for peace and security...

...Some of the boys who have felt the bitter lash of Sen...

...Pandit said she was determined to fight for inclusion of a clause against imperialism in the preamble of the charter to be adopted by the United Nations...

...I am not here to disrupt the conference," said this eloquent little lady...

...The most deadly form of aggression is crippling the soul of a nation, and that is British intent in India...

...Texas Tom broke the story, only to have it officially denied afterward by President Truman...

...Overriding Army officials, the U. S. Senate last week added an amendment to the Selective Service law providing that no soldier under 19 years should be sent into combat without 6 months of training...

...Cut Back...

...That unhappy land, first to stand up to the conquering gangs of Adolf Hitler, was still unrepresented at San Francisco...

...You should be standing on your street corners, demanding freedom for us...

...If you acquiesce in denying freedom to others, you end freedom for yourselves...

...The Soviet Commissar took the floor and launched a dramatic debate after taking a series of lickings in the executive committee...

...Pointing out that in Australia the draft age is 21 and in England it is 18 years and 6 months, Sen...

...The State Department, the AFL charged, had denied priorities to 16 members of its executive council while providing transportation for 37 CIO delegates...

...Thousands of men and women have been imprisoned, many have been shot down, and thousands of homes have been demolished...

...Ratio...

...If Romulo can get support as well as applause, he could make an enormous contribution to world peace...

...Molotov in his new mood...

...Molotov was immediately in touch with his chief, Marshal Stalin...

...The women folks are getting mad...

...The skepticism here has mushroomed beyond the conference halls, and is now firmly planted in the hearts of the people of San Francisco...

...Truman was firm in making it clear to Molotov that the United States was in no mood to make further concessions to Russia's demands...

...Tom Con-nally's sarcastic tongue are secretly pleased at his discomfiture as a result of the premature announcement of German surrender...

...President Truman last week named Edwin W. Pauley, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, as U. S. representative on the German Reparations Commission...

...Pandit put her finger on a great and simple truth when she said that "every speech at this conference echoes the things we believe, but words are not enough...

...Bethlehem Steel reported last week that its profits for the first quarter of this year had exceeded last year's by 26 per cent...

...The Norwegian delegates had a lot of trouble getting settled because Secretary of State Edward R. Stet-tinius, Jr., had gobbled up so much extra room for his own comfort at the Fairmount Hotel...

...Mrs...

...He attacked the policies of the War Labor Board and the Smith-Connally Act...

...Moreover, she added, "without India's freedom, there can be no assurance of lasting peace in Asia...

...Report From Frisco By PAUL DAVIS San Francisco IF the newspaper correspondents and radio commentators publicly told the nation what they privately tell each other, the people of the United States would be far better equipped to fight for a workable program of international cooperation and a just and democratic peace settlement...

...SKEPTICISM took over from the beginning...

...Said the colorful Romulo: "Today one billion Oriental faces are turned pleadingly toward us for recognition of their human rights...

...Overseas...

...But India desires not to be misrepresented...

...Warning From Asia Rejecting a counsel of idealism for the moment—a counsel, by the way, that Mrs...

...India is the pivot of the whole system of imperialism and colonialism which always breeds war...

...But it is no exaggeration to say, in fact, it is only elementary honesty to report that at this writing, one week after the conference opened with so much prayerful hope, the prospects for success are far from being excellent...

...Sitting here in San Francisco where we can see what is actually happening, and then listening to the incredibly distorted comment of radio commentators as they flood the nation with a false and fraudulent optimism, one has a sinking feeling that nobody—neither the politicians, nor the newspapers, nor the radio commentators—actually believes in democracy, actually trusts the people with the facts of their own lives...

...He fought for a few days' delay in acting on the invitation to Argentina, but was defeated by a vote of 28 to 7, winning the votes of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Belgium, New Zealand, Greece, and Iran...

...Soviet Russia is known as a tough and wily trader, and it is not unlikely that having determined how far she can go and get, her spokesmen may settle down to the formulation of the basic charter which is the main business of this conference...

...Names And Notes In The News 18-Year-Olds...

...The results were not long in showing...

...Press and radio correspondents at the San Francisco conference outnumber delegates 6 to 1. * * * Casualties: Chungking announced last week that China's total war casualties since 1937 were 3,100,000...

...A free India, she said, "would do much to help shorten the war against Japan...

...Not all aggression is by guns and ammunition and airplanes...

...When Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden nominated Stettinius for the posts, the Russian Commissar put his foot down—hard...

...Mrs...

...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, declared, "It is all right to be generous, but it seems to me that the people of this country have been more than generous and have done far more than their part in this war with reference to food, ammunition— and American boys...

...Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of -Jawaharal Nehru, India's great progressive foe of fascism and imperialism...

...The official Indian delegation to the San Francisco Conference, she told us in carefully chosen words, "has not the slightest representative capacity, no sanction or mandate from any responsible groups in India, and are merely the nominees of the British Government...

...The increase was in net profits...

...It is their hope and their prayer that the peace which this conference is seeking to secure is one that will not neglect the uplift and development of socially and economically depressed areas and peoples, but one that will help raise them to a plane of living where they can become not merely bystanders, but effective collaborators in the promotion of human welfare...

...Notes From The Frisco Front One of the greatest bursts of applause went to a hustling little Filipino, Z3rig...

...He demanded and secured a "compromise" under which the chairmanship rotates among the leaders of the Big Four sponsoring nations...

...There was, however, an undercurrent of skepticism everywhere...

...Profits...

...Carlos P. Romulo, resident commissioner of the Philippines to the U. S. and chairman of the Philippine delegation...

...It should not be I, coming to you Americans who fought for your independence, to tell you India wants her freedom...

...Asserting that England and Canada have a greater stake in the war than America, Wheeler said that it "was only a short time ago that no boy or man from Canada was sent overseas unless he actually volunteered...

...We have had a non-violent revolution since 1921...

...The American delegation here has made no secret of its conviction that Mr...

...It had been universally understood that Secretary of State Stettinius, as chairman of the host delegation, would serve as conference chairman and as chairman of the executive and steering committees...

...If India's non-violent revolution against Britain breaks out into open war, she told us, the United States would be bound under its agreements as a member of the world organization to participate in that war, and on the side of a hated imperialism...

...Breaking a long silence on labor issues, John L. Lewis, fiery head of the United Mine Workers, lashed out at "political" control of labor unions in an article in Collier's Magazine last week...

...The American Federation of Labor charged that the CIO was receiving preferential treatment in the matter of Pullman and hotel reservations to the San Francisco conference...

...Stettin-ius, propped up by Truman's firm hand, refused to yield to Soviet demands for recognition of and representation by the Made-in-Moscow Lublin regime...

...Perhaps, by the time this reaches readers of The Progressive, that skepticism will have broken through the vapid cloud of mushy-mouth nonsense you get over the radio and will have reached the rest of the nation...

...Most of the reporters, however, were content to write brief reports and their papers to publish even less...

...As against this Soviet victory, however, there was the continued deadlock over Poland...

...In Belleville, Mo., last week a beef-hungry woman entered a butcher shop, brandished a revolver, the required red points, enough cash to cover the transaction, and carried home a beef roast over the objection of the butcher...

...This is exactly what the people who are here in conference claim to desire...

...Pandit has found quite ineffective in America for all our vaunted ideals—this courageous Indian woman put the issue out as one of hard-headed realism...

...Some of our colleagues, including Bert Andrews, able correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune, have raised the possibility that the Soviets "are actually not ready for the formation of a world security organization unless they can get their own way on everything they ask, and are determined either to stall the conference indefinitely, or pull out of it in a (Continued on Page 3 as the Week in Review) way that would make successful establishment of such an organization impossible...

...It is difficult to know precisely what the Russians are up to...

...Scores of newsmen climbed San Francisco's famous Nob Hill to the Mark Hopkins Hotel for a press conference given by Mrs...

...J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production Board, told a House Committee last week that almost one third of the war controls will be abolished in the next 3 or 4 months and at the end of the war in the Pacific all would be abolished...

...Beef Roast...

...Now we have a new generation, an embittered generation, determined to wrest freedom from those who try to hold us down...

...The incident was not in itself crucial, but it was most important in revealing a frame of mind...

...Skepticism, no less than a more positive emotion, is contagious...

...Pandit, a gray-haired woman in white, did a fine job in pleading the cause of India before the packed press conference...

...Mrs...

...Lewis asserted that "politicians" are to blame for wartime industrial strife, that there is no labor movement because other labor groups are mere "political company unions" which have been "bellwethered into the abattoir of partisan politics" by their leaders...

...Women are realists,' a housewife said...

...Preference...

...One of the strangest developments at this strange conference is the treatment of India, not only by the Great Powers, but by the nation's press...

...The eternally suspicious Russians brought their own cooks, waiters, chambermaids, and cached great supplies of vodka, sturgeon, and caviar on their own private ship which rides at anchor out in the bay...

...Something may still come out of San Francisco— something great and worthwhile—not a magic formula to solve all problems, to be sure, but a great and hopeful beginning toward true international cooperation...

...They sought repeatedly to shift the emphasis to economic phases of the conference, for, as many a representative of the smaller nations made clear, the basic economic problems confronting the world must be tackled and solved if any organization is going to be worth more than the paper it's written on...

...I tell you," the butcher told reporters, "there's going to be more of that...

...Molotov had succeeded in ramming one of his objectives through the steering committee—which virtually means automatic acceptance by the conference...

...India's freedom, therefore, is an acid test of the principles for which this war has been fought and the continued denial of India's freedom by Britain is a negation of those principles and of the sacrifices that have been made to win victory...

...Albert B. Chandler, Kentucky Democrat, disclosed on the floor of the Senate last week that the Army has recnjted up to its legal strength, 8,050,000 men, and that 5,150,000 are overseas...

...Under this theory, Andrews reports, "Russia may not want to enter into any world organization before it has taken what it wants, for fear such an organization would seek to thwart it in the taking...

...On the subsequent motion to issue an immediate invitation, Molotov could mobilize the votes of only 3 other nations—Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Greece...

...Labor...

...An honest skepticism based on obtainable facts is far healthier in providing a climate for results than a polly-anna bubbling over based on wishful thinking and faked optimism...

...A colleague of ours, Lawrence E. Davies, did a bit of truthful reporting for his paper, the New York Times, when he wrote: "The 'little people' of San Francisco were trying hard today, with a wistfulness amounting almost to desperation, to believe that the United Nations Conference would make some progress toward giving the 'little people' of the world a feeling of security from future wars...

...The proposal for 3 seats for Russia was approved by the hocus-pocus device of determining that the White Russian and Ukrainian Republics, states of the U.S.S.R., which have no more autonomy in foreign affairs than do Texas or Pennsylvania, are entitled to separate representation...

...It is typical of the mood of certain groups in America who are determined to buy "security" even at the expense of freedom for millions of fellow humans that so little is said and nothing is done to wipe out the blot of imperialism and the cause of future conflict that make up the problem of India...

...Appointment...

...It was clear almost from the moment of his arrival that V. M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was not in an especially genial mood—doubtless the result of the crisp answers he received from President Truman when he conferred with him at the White House before leaving for San Francisco...

...Besides the 400 millions of the people of India there are another 200 million subject peoples in Asia who have been under various European imperialistic powers and are now under the subjugation of Japan, who are also looking at the freedom of India as the assurance of their own freedom...

...Pauley announced that he is not a "soft peace" man...

...Certainly there is evidence to support such a theory, and the cocktail lounges of San Francisco are alive with rumors, but we feel it is a mistake to embrace such a conclusion until further evidence is available...

...There was quick endorsement of the Soviet demand for 3 seats at the conference, and subsequently on the Assembly of the United Nations organization...

...Not so, said Mr...