THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE special Congressional investigation into the disaster at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, neared the end of its first phase this week with the resignation of the Committee's entire...
...The official pointed out that all foreign securities had been declared by individual owners during the war in order to bolster the Government's foreign credits...
...In a letter to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Thomas said he was "reliably informed" that the British Government owns 434,000 shares of GM common stock...
...of 6,000,000 law-breakers in a new crime wave which may rival the gangster era of the "Roaring Twenties...
...Action On Housing President Truman moved this week to crack the nation's number one crisis—housing...
...Appointed to the board were Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of the War Labor Board, and Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College...
...It shows no sign of life, although we have not put a pulmotor on it...
...The U. S. Supreme Court this week granted a stay of execution to Japanese Gen...
...Marshall said that Maj...
...When the liberal group announced its determination to fight for the Senate measure and, failing there, to vote against the synthetic substitute, Democratic leaders, including Speaker Rayburn, Texas, and Rep...
...Alben Barkley, Kentucky Democrat, that he, too, may quit soon...
...27, 1941...
...GM's British Stockholders Congressional action on President Truman's demand for fact-finding, cooling-off legislation in labor-manage-ment disputes was postponed until after the holidays, this week as Congress prepared to recess...
...Barkley characterized as "tragic" the resignation of the entire legal staff, headed by William D. Mitchell, aged New York lawyer who was Attorney General in the cabinet of former President ..Herbert Hoover...
...Thumbs Down...
...The Senate turned thumbs down last week on a proposal to give each member of the Senate a $2,500 annual expense allowance and then rejected, 45 to 23, a provision to increase the pay of members of Congress temporarily from $10,000 to $13,300 a year...
...After heated debate, the United Nations Organization voted 30 to 14 in London last week to have its permanent home in the United States...
...Walter C. Short, ? then Army commander in Hawaii, had been alerted against hostile action Nov...
...Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska, Republican whip, calling for an investigation of all State Department policies...
...Phony Jobs Bill Passes A weak, almost meaningless "Full Employment Bill," designed to be a face-saving device for Tory Democrats and Republicans, rode through the House of Representatives last week by a vote of 254 to 126...
...Others high on the list were Fred MacMurray, film star, $419,928...
...A dispatch from London quoted a British Treasury official as explaining that the Government's wartime control of foreign securities held by British subjects had been misconstrued by the UAW as ownership of General Motors shares...
...nese code messages, known as "magic," flatly contradicted conclusions reached by the Army Pearl Harbor Board that a "wind" message was received in Washington four days before Pearl Harbor...
...Mistake...
...Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, to exempt the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and an amendment by Sen...
...Congress last week completed action on legislation empowering President Truman to reorganize Government agencies...
...Secretary of State Robert Patterson admitted that the destruction of a cyclotron in Japan by U. S. occupation forces "was a case of mistake in the War Department...
...Douglas MacArthur had been blamed by the press, but Patterson made it clear that the general had acted on specific instructions from Washington, * * * Salaries...
...The President's decision to reinstate Government controls on building materials and request Congressional approval of price ceilings on sales of homes represented a smashing victory for Chester Bowles, OPA chief, who opposed the removal of controls on Oct...
...The UAW promptly announced its willingness to cooperate, but GM officials were silent...
...The President had asked specifically for passage of the measure by Christmas...
...World Capital...
...Government experts last week reported a brighter job outlook ahead with indications there may be three million fewer unemployed by Spring than they had previously predicted...
...Mc-Cormack, Massachusetts, Majority Leader, threatened and cajoled the liberal forces into surrendering without a fight...
...Truman went ahead in the case of the General Motors strike, appointing a three-member fact-finding board to investigate and report on the GM-UAW dispute which has made 213,000 workers idle...
...The Wherry resolution, Sen...
...John B. Hawley, Jr., munitions maker, $400,000...
...The end of the investigation also marked the death of a resolution by Sen...
...Testimony placed before the Nuernberg trial of Nazi war criminals disclosed that Hitler aides admitted killing 6,000,000 European Jews...
...The White House housing program is aimed directly at curbing inflation in the home building and real estate i markets, stimulating construction activity, and relieving the housing shortage...
...Hoover said he resented the charge that veterans were responsible for lawlessness, pointing out that the most despicable offenses are committed by juvenile delinquents...
...2Gen...
...Tom Connally, Committee chairman, said, "is lying calmly on my desk...
...Marshall the first 13 parts of Japan's 14-part war message on the night of Dec...
...Gen...
...The Committee studied Hurley's charges that career diplomats had sabotaged his anti-imperialist efforts in China and elsewhere, but could find nothing conclusive...
...Both Democrats and Republicans have attempted to use the investigation for partisan advantage...
...Stay...
...Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hurley Probe Fizzles The investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee into former Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley's "expose" of State Department policies sputtered and fizzled out last week when the bellicose Hurley failed to turn up with corroborative evidence...
...6 when they were intercepted and decoded by our intelligence, 6Vice Admiral T. S. Wilkinson, former Chief of ? Naval Intelligence, testified that the Navy provided special equipment to break Japanese codes for Admiral Thomas C. Hart's Asiatic Fleet at Manila, but did not make any available to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's...
...Rayburn, McCormack, and others told the proponents of a more adequate bill that the Democratic Party dared not go to the polls without passing some kind of a bill, weak as it might be...
...He suggested, therefore, that Attlee "make known" to General Motors that "profits are indeed the concern of the workers and the owners of any company...
...Some members of the Committee," he added, "have a different view than that entertained by counsel, either as to the scope of the inquiry or as to what is pertinent evidence...
...7, 1941, neared the end of its first phase this week with the resignation of the Committee's entire legal staff and the statement by the Committee's chairman, Sen...
...Democratic leaders blackjacked the attempt by House liberals to fight for the Senate version of the bill and even succeeded in preventing a record vote on the Full Employment Bill passed months ago by the Senate...
...A striking development in the General Motors case was the announcement by R. J. Thomas, president of the UAW, that the union had proposed that the British Labor Government intercede as a stockholder in the battle against General Motors...
...Mitchell said that he and his associates felt it necessary to quit because the investigation was taking longer than scheduled...
...Marshall Accepts Blame The resignation of the legal staff came in a week marked by these major developments in the investigation: ¦'• IGen...
...These stocks, he said, were held by the Government, but were the legal property of the individual owners...
...Thomas pointed out that the company had refused to discuss profits in bargaining with the union, and added that he was confident the "present management" of GM "does not reflect the thinking of the vast majority of the owners of the corporation...
...J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned last week that wartime juvenile delinquents are spearheading an army...
...Hoover bitterly assailed U. S. Communists for "applying the Fascist smear to progressive police departments, the FBI, and other American institutions in order to conceal their own sinister purposes...
...15 as premature...
...Nicholas M. Schenck, movie mogul, $391,860, and Albert Bradley, General Motors, $350,432...
...However, when Short replied indicating that he interpreted the ordered alert to be against sabotage only, nobody in the War DepartmentJ;hought of pointing out his error to Short...
...nese consulate in Hawaii five days before Pearl Harbor because a Navy officer was annoyed at the FBI for doing likewise without consulting him...
...Massacre...
...Their current estimates place the total of those who will be seeking jobs by March at "no more than five million," instead of the eight million estimated earlier...
...The stay was granted to permit the Court to consider his appeal for a civil trial in this country...
...I accept full responsibility," Marshall said...
...Tomoyuki Yama-shita, who has been sentenced in Manila to hang as a war criminal...
...Names And Notes In The News Good News...
...And above all, we are certain that it by no means reflects the attitude and opinion of the British Labor Government, a substantial owner of General Motors shares...
...3The Navy stopped tapping telephones in the Japa...
...The House measure, which now goes to a conference committee, ignores all mention of full employment or Federal responsibility, but merely creates a three-man advisory council to report to Congress on measures that might be needed "to assure a high level of employment...
...4Army and Navy officers handling intercepted Japa...
...Taking action urged two months ago by Frank Stark in The Progressive (Oct, 22 issue), the President ordered reinstatement of priorities of building materials and announced that he will ask Congress^-for legislation fixing price ceilings for new and old houses...
...The time has come," Barkley said at a time when less than a tenth of the witnesses scheduled to appear had testified, "when I must determine whether my duties on the Committee outweigh my obligations as Majority Leader of the Senate...
...George C. Marshall, then Army Chief of Staff, * told the Committee that his personal opinion during the last week of November, 1941, was that war with Japan was imminent and that Japanese hostile action was liable to break out "at any moment...
...A proposal by Sen...
...Crime...
...Reorganization...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, to exempt the Federal Power Commission, were rejected...
...Ranking behind Mayer were Charles E. Wilson of General Motors, $459,041, and Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines, $425,548...
...The "wind" message referred to was a coded warning to Japanese officials abroad that the break with the U. S. had come...
...Meanwhile, Mr...
...Sherman Miles, then Chief of Army In-» telligence, testified that he was "solely responsible" for failure to deliver to Gen...
...5Maj...
...Arrests of girls under 18 have increased 198 per cent since 1939, he said, and arrests of boys under 18 have increased 48 per cent for homicide alone, 70 per cent for rape, 39 per cent for robbery, 72 per cent for assault, 55 per cent for auto thefts, and 101 per cent for drunkenness and drunken driving...
...A U. S. Treasury report on big incomes disclosed last week that Louis B. Mayer, motion picture magnate, topped the list with a total of $908,070 for personal services in one year...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 51
