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WORLD REVIEW
Norman Corwin, radio writer, returned by air to New York
, Sunday and reported he found no “iron curtain” in his 37,000 mile
lour through Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and other parts of the
world. . . Manilal Gandhi, son of the Indian leader, Mohandas Gand
hi, and editor of an Indian newspaper in Durban, Union of South
Africa, was among 34 persons fined or jailed last weekend in the
current Indian passive-resistance campaign against South African
discrimination. i
# * #
Italian Communists have launched a widespread campaign
against the politics of the Vatcian following the pope’s excom
munication of all Catholics who participated in the trial of
Yugoslav Archbishop Stepinac. Communist newspapers have
front-paged pictures showing Stepinac with Anton Pavelic,
Chetnik premier, described as a fascist who was never excom
municated. The Italian Socialist and Communist parties were
reported Sunday to have united on an eight point political ac
tion pact for next spring’s parliamentary elections.
* # #
Lt. Col. Richard Webb, commanding officer in Jerusalem, said
t Friday that Britain’s military policy there is to have her troops
“make such a nuisance of themselves that the bloody Jews will
stop protecting the Stern gang and other terrorists.” He said also
that the British would give up the mandate “if it were not for the
Russians. They are the key to the whole thing.” . . . Since the
liberation of Manila, 28 strikes have been won by the Filipino Con
gress of Labor Organizations with pay raises of from 75 to 300%
against such firms as Ford and International Harvester.
,* * #
British, Polish and Czechoslovak journalists conceded Mon
day that opposition parties enjoyed complete freedom in the
electoral campaign which resulted in a victory for the Com
munist party of Bulgaria’s Fatherland Front bloc. This nulli
fied charges in the commercial press that the Fatherland Front
exercised “terror or violence” against the opposition.
Freedom in new Poland
says Chicago bishop
“The Polish people are living
In freedom under a government
that is their government.”
This was the report which
Bishop Leon Grochowski, head
of the western diocese of the
Polish National Catholic Church
brought back to Chicagoans
this week from a five-month
trip to Europe.
* * *
The Catholic- Bishop told the
STAR that he found no signs of
anti-Semitic sentiment among
the Polish people and declared
that recent Kielce pogroms were
“purposely stirred up” by con
servative elements.
By JOHANNES STEEL
While it may be true that the
seventy-nine days of the Paris
Conference shook the world, it
cannot be said that the Secretary
any of the
H shaking. It is
true that Mr.
Byrnes was
permi 11 e d to
strut the stage
of world his
tory for a brief
moment, but
behind his
querulous voice
whic h w a s
never mistaken
for strength, the dominating
words of the prompter could
easily be heard. They were the
categorical imperatives of Sena
tor Vandenberg. The Senator
from Michigan kept Mr. Byrnes
strictly to the score.
When Mr. Byrnes made his ra
dio address to the American peo
ple upon his return from the
Paris Conference, he spoke in the
firm belief that he is the maker
of American foreign policy. His
speech, however, was made
against the background of a tre
mendous struggle between the
INTER NAT tONAL SCEN E
“THERE is freedom of reli
gion in Poland,” Bishop Gro
chowski declared. And contrary
to charges of the reactionary
Polish “government -in - exile”,
there is full political freedom,
according to the prelate.
“In fact,” he declared,
“newspapers freely criticize
the government.”
Bishop Grochowski cited the
havoc created by the Germans
in Poland and urged that relief
be sent to the Polish people,
especially winter clothing.
* * *
“HARD WORK of the men
and women of Poland seen
★ ★ A STAR COLUMN ★★★
Dollar diplomacy again
Army and Navy to take over the
State Department.
One interesting aspect of the
situation was reflected in the psy
chological preparations made for
the Byrnes speech. The stage had
been carefully set. The State De
partment had done the job on the
diplomatic level and the yellow
press had set the stage with a
carefully timed Red scare.
• * •
ON THE EVE of Mr. Byrnes’s
speech, State Department offi
cials inspired a number of dis
patches which appeared in the
newspapers the following day.
These were concerned with the
suspension of Czechoslovakia’s
credits in this country.
What is significant about this
story is the timing, for the fact
of the matter is that the Czecho
slovak Government was informed
of the suspension of these credits
over a month ago. In other
words, the story was not news.
It was an old story. But the stcry
was broken obviously in order to
coincide with the return of Mr.
Byrnes from Paris.
“We must not permit differences in economic and social systems to stand In the way of peace”,
said President Truman, opening the United Nations general assembly. Arrows point to Russian and
British delegations.
everywhere is having its results
in slowly bringing homes and
buildings out of the ghastly
wreckage and ruins which the
Germans wrought,” he said.
Bishop Grochowski went to
Poland last June to aid in re
lief work. He took to Poland
with him the relief supplies ga
thered by the nine local congre
gations of the Polish National
Catholic Church and by the Bi
shop Wallace E. Conkling of
the Episcopal diocese of Chica
.go.
The Bishop returned to the
All Saints Cathedral Church,
2019 Charleston St.
‘The ostensible reason for the
canceling of this credit, which
occurred more than a month ago,
was the fact that Mr. Byrnes was
annoyed when three minor Cze
choslovak officials applauded a
speech by Mr. Vishinsky at the
Paris Conference. The real mean
ing of this development is, how
ever, to be seen in the caption
which the New York Herald
Tribune put on the story when
it appeared. The first headline
read: “U.S. Suspension of Czech
Loan Warns Others” and the sub
head: “But Government Denies
New Policy of Cutting Off Aid
to Eastern Europe.”
• * •
OBVIOUSLY this step is tanta
mount to a declaration to the ef
fect that anybody in Europe who
expects economic aid of any kind,
or to trade with the United
States, or to buy surplus proper
ty in the United States, or to re
ceive real consideration from
UNRRA, must subscribe to Mr.
Byrnes’s foreign policy.
This policy was initiated for
all of Europe on the day that Mr.
Colonial issues to
highlight UN session
FLUSHING MEADOWS, N. Y. Delegates from im
perialist nations are resting uneasily as the United Nations
assembly tackles an agenda which includes colonial problems
in Asia and Africa as well as Franco Spain and the veto is
sue. The latter is expected to provide more oratory than ac
tion.
The Soviet Union again looms
as the champion of oppressed
peoples with the sanction by Vi
shinsky of the right of India to
bring up in UN sessions the mat
ter of discrimination against its
nationals by the Union of South
Africa. After Vishinsky declared
the UN charter permitted this
move, Indian delegates warmly
thanked Soviet representatives
and promised, “we will not for
get this action.”
The entire South African ques
tion may prove embarrassing to
the Union as well as Great Bri
tain. In addition to charges of
Byrnes spent the week-end with
Leon Blum in Paris recently, fol
lowing which the French Social
ist leader declared that since
France had received 500 million
dollars from the United States,
she would have to orientate her
foreign policy in accordance with
American wishes.
The Czechoslovak story is, of
course, merely one example of
what is going on every day, but
it is an indication of how the
minds of the American peop’e
are being worked upon day and
night. The Byrnes speech was oh
viously to be delivered at a mo
ment when the anti-Soviet bar
rage was to be even heavier than
usual and when a new Red scare,
complete with all the trimmings
of intrepid reporters discovering
mysterious agents of the Krem
lin, blossomed forth in the front
pages of the gutter press.
• • •
I THINK it is useful to remem
ber here that the Canadian spy
scare, which incidentally led to
the breakdown" of fundamental
civil liberties, broke out during
the meeting of the United Na
tions Security Council in Lon
don. These things evidently run
in patterns.
discrimination against Indians,
native Africans are fighting gov
ernment segregation in the Union
and are opposed to Union re
quests for the annexation of
Southwest Africa.
If the Vishinsky position is
maintained, it may serve to em
barrass the American delegation
by permitting open discussion on
the petition sent to the United
Nations by the National Negro
congress on the jim crow status
of 14,000,000 American Negroes.
Shortly after the assembly op
ened, Madam Pandit of India in
an address stated her delegation
“stands for the independence of
all colonial and dependent peo
ples and their full right to self
determination. The use of troops
for the protection of imperial
vested interests calls for unre
served condemnation by the Unit
ed Nations and for the demand
that all such troops will be with
drawn.”
* * •
THIS STAND also fits in with
the Russian position calling for
a report by the United States and
Great Britain on the present dis
position and strength of their
troops on the territory of their
allies in World War 11.
Se’y. Gen. Trygve Lie himself
warned the assembly that as long
as the 'Franco regime remained
in power in Spain, it would be a
source of trouble and supicion
HOWEVER, the strong resolu
tion passed last week by the
British Trades Union Congress
demanding that all relations with
Franco Spain be severed may
serve to weaken British opposi
tion. This revolt in the ranks of
the Labor government by the
BTUC, which narrowly missed
passing another resolution con
demning the anti-Russian foreign
policy of Bevin and Atlee, is ex
pected to prove more important
in reshaping British policy than
did the Wallace stand of several
weeks ago.
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