THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW HOWEVER much it may sound the same on certain issues, the Truman Administration is beginning to look less and less like its predecessor. The transformation was heightened last...
...This, I think, must be the direction of a successful liberal movement in America...
...Calling for action in projecting an American program, Sen...
...A "trick corporation plan" which would swindle taxpayers out of vast sums of money has been launched by "shrewd manipulators" of Wall St...
...Tremendous pressure on the nation's rail system as a result of the redeployment of hundreds of thousands of troops, accompanied by bitter GI complaints that they were compelled to ride across the continent in hot, dirty day-coaches, led last week to drastic curtailment of civilian travel in Pullmans...
...This disclosure followed the announcement last month that Elliot had borrowed $200,000 from John Hartford, food magnate whose Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company has been under scrutiny on monopoly charges, and had settled the loan in 1942 for $4,000...
...The Roberts retirement leaves Chief Justice Harlan Stone as the only member of the court not appointed by President Roosevelt...
...In presenting the document to the Senate, President Truman said that "the choice before the Senate is now clear...
...His criticism, he emphasized, was not directed at "anyone in the theaters of operation," but was aimed at "some of these swivel-chair gentlemen who get on a plane and in a few weeks come back with more ribbons on their chests than Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, or MacArthur...
...Bushfield, South Dakota Republican, for instance, announced he would support the charter in the hope of ending war, but he revealed he would make a fight for reservations which would prevent the American delegate at the United Nations Security Council from plunging this nation into war without authorization of Congress...
...The choice is not between this charter and something else...
...Conscription Battle Ahead Congressional action this Fall on the bitterly controversial issue of peacetime conscription appeared certain this week after a special House committee reported favorably on the establishment of compulsory military training for youths...
...BYRNES SHAKES UP STATE DEPARTMENT James F. Byrnes, former U. S. Senator, former Supreme Court Justice, former War Mobilizer and Assistant President, was sworn in as the new Secretary of State last week, and promptly brought 3 special assistants into the stuffy old Department: Benjamin V. Cohen (once of Corcoran & Cohen), formerly with Byrnes as general counsel to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion...
...Truman in his letter of resignation...
...A strong coordinated system must be created and utilized so that American agencies will neither conflict with each other's objectives, nor be subject to being played against each other to the detriment of American interests...
...The time has come when I must take a rest," Hopkins wrote Mr...
...Hitler...
...Moreover, civilian Pullman service on all trips of 450 miles or less was ordered discontinued as of July 15...
...Swindle...
...Boren, Oklahoma Democrat and chairman of a special House subcommittee, contended last week...
...Most important shift in a week which saw a general exodus was the resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and President Truman's announcement that he will appoint War Mobilizer Fred M. Vinson to the post when he (the President) returns from his Big 3 conference near Berlin...
...Racket...
...Elliot Again...
...Washington observers were convinced that the showdown struggle over peacetime conscription for America would come next Fall and Winter...
...The committee, headed by Rep...
...At the same time, Arne C. Wiprud (See John Frank's book review, Page 11) resigned as chief of the Transportation and Public Utilities Section of the Anti-Trust Division in order to enter law practice with Thurman Arnold...
...Brig...
...But the banker in estimating annual revenue to determine the amount of bonds that can be issued include as revenue the amount of money formerly collected from customers and paid to the Federal Government...
...The transformation was heightened last week when a series of resignations and replacements brought new faces to major Cabinet berths like State, Agriculture, Labor, and Justice, and paved the way for still more new men in important posts, the Treasury, for instance...
...T. G. World, air inspector for the First Air Force, disclosed this week...
...Stone was originally appointed by President Coo-lidge, and was elevated to the chief justiceship by Mr...
...Bad Planning...
...JUSTICE ROBERTS STEPS DOWN President Truman will soon make his first appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court bench...
...A woman who was the assistant to Adolf Hitler's dentist asserted emphatically in Berlin last week that the bridges and teeth of Hitler and his girl friend, Eva Braun, were among the dental work on jawbones showed her by Soviet officials...
...There were reports—all unconfirmed—that a drastic overhauling of the State Department was imminent...
...Harley Kilgore, West Virginia Democrat who is chairman of a special Senate subcommittee investigating the war program, asserted that lack of an established foreign policy has resulted in the failure of the United States to obtain sufficient return for the enormous contribution made in this war...
...As this was written at mid-week no member of the U. S. Senate had indicated he would vote against ratification of the charter although several, of course, have criticized and continue to criticize certain provisions of the document...
...Full production after the war, and the elasticity of our economy, depend on the release of new and independent initiative in industry...
...Billions of dollars have been spent on projects which the War Department has not justified before any Congressional committee, Engels asserted...
...Morgenthau, long a close friend and neighbor of the late President Roosevelt, was slated for the axe from the beginning...
...Other major changes announced in Washington last week: * * * HOPKINS LEAVES WASHINGTON Harry L. Hopkins, who was President Roosevelt's most intimate friend and adviser, ended his 12-year association with the Federal Government when he resigned as special assistant to the President...
...Clifford Woodrum, Virginia Democrat, issued a murky report which was signed by 10 of the 13 Democrats and 6 of the 9 Republican members...
...It is between this charter and no charter at all...
...A "huge racket" in fraudulent discharges and transfers of soldiers has been "nipped in the bud" at Mitchel Field, Long Island, N. Y., Col...
...Reservations cannot now be made until 5 days before the day of departure...
...Kilgore, in demanding early formulation and enforcement of a clear-cut American program, pointed out that huge quantities of Lend-Lease war supplies are piled up in Europe and are of no further use for legitimate Lend-Lease purposes—yet no thought whatever has been given to transferring the material to the Pacific theater...
...In his letter of resignation to President Truman, Arnold wrote: "I believe that economic forces are moving toward freedom of business opportunity and a truly competitive economy in the postwar world...
...A Dutchess county apple-grower, Morgenthau has never been accused of greatness either as administrator or as a fiscal expert, although he did launch spasmodic efforts to win public and Congressional support for more equitable ability-to-pay taxes...
...Foreign-Policy Demanded The demand for an effective and affirmative American foreign policy, voiced so frequently in the columns of The Progressive, was heard last week in the halls of Congress...
...Committee members emphasized that their recommendations were for training only and "not any character of military service," adding that "service would be required only in the event Congress should in the future order conscription of the youths to be trained...
...with powerful utility connections, Rep...
...Clear sailing ahead was predicted...
...Tax Melon...
...Tom Connally, Committee chairman, predicted that hearings would be concluded in a week and that the Senate would speed action, ratifying the charter overwhelmingly early in August...
...Meanwhile, the U. S. Senate, handed the United Nations charter by President Truman last week, launched hearings this week before its Foreign Relations Committee...
...Engel, Michigan Republican known as the watch-dog of Army spending, charged last week...
...Hopkins has suffered from a severe stomach ailment for more than 8 years, and performed his recent duties, especially his last mission to Moscow, at great risk to his health...
...Two days later David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, announced that Hopkins had accepted the post of impartial chairman of New York women's coat and suit industry for a salary "in the neighborhood" of $25,000 a. year...
...Donald S. Russell, assistant to Cohen and formerly a law partner of Byrnes in South Carolina, and Walter Brown, former Washington newspaper correspondent, and radio station manager, who has served Byrnes as public relations adviser...
...Last week Justice Owen D. Roberts submitted his resignation, stating that after 15 years of service and on reaching the age of 70, he wanted to retire...
...About 75 per cent of all Pullman cars and first-class railroad coaches will be assigned to military transportation...
...conscription as such if and when the issue were placed before it...
...The Senate War Investigating Committee disclosed last week that faulty planning resulted in American armies fighting Germany being sometimes without ammunition for their cannon while there were huge tonnages of air bombs they couldn't use...
...Industrial invention and a new age of transportation have created industrial opportunities, for all sections of this country which never existed before...
...These corporations then issue bonds against the revenue of the property...
...Names And Notes In The News Waste...
...THURMAN ARNOLD SHEDS ROBES Thurman Arnold, colorful, hard-hitting former trust-buster who was kicked upstairs to the Federal judiciary by the late President Roosevelt, last week resigned from the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, to return to the practice of law and work for "a truly competitive economy in the postwar world...
...Roosevelt...
...The former tax revenues would not be passed on to the public in reduced rates, but would be diverted to their own pockets in the form of interest on these revenue bonds...
...Kilgore pointed out that "in order to accomplish this, foreign staffs must be strengthened, financial support must be provided, personnel must be improved...
...The House last week passed a tax bill which opponents said ignores small business and low-paid individuals but provides 5 billion dollars of relief for business and industry and "cuts a melon" amounting to millions of dollars for some railroads...
...Terming the plan "Swindle, Inc.," Boren said "it's a simple scheme: Wall Street bankers would convert the $16,000,000,000 private utility industry to a form of tax-free but fake public ownership by the formation of 'non-profit' corporations...
...Train Travel...
...As a result of a "loophole" in medical administration, he said, soldiers were found to have obtained "fraudulent medical discharges on payment of several thousand dollars," and some had "purchased" transfers to units not alerted for overseas duty...
...The War Department is "throwing hard-earned tax dollars down a rat-hole," Rep...
...This type of report was widely denounced for its weasel-words in many quarters, although there could be little doubt that the committee would be for...
...Elliot Roosevelt, second son of the late President, was revealed last week to have borrowed $50,000 in 1939, with the knowledge of his family, and repaid only $20,800...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 29
