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A° REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS

United States

The Case Of Sumner Welles

yu President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill were discussing new of-
fensives against the Axis at Que-
bec, strange developments were
brewing in the musty State De-
partment Building here which may
have a serious effect on United
Nations unity, Adam Lapin, head
of the Daily Worker's Washington
Bureau, reports.

President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill pointed to the
possibility in the near future of a
meeting with Soviet representatives
to cement closer relations between
the three great powers in the Unit-
ed Nations coalition.

Unquestionably the all-import-
ant key to Anglo-Soviet-American
cooperation, now and in the post-
war world, remains the speedy op-
ening of a second front in Western
Europe by England and the Unit-
ed States. And if this was decided
on at Quebec substantial improye-
ments in relations will result.

But impending shifts in the state

department threaten to strengthen
substantially the anti-Soviet clique
in the government and to under-
mine Soviet-American friendship.

Under-Secretary of State Sumner
Welles, who has been a leading
advocate of cooperation with the
Soviet Union and has opposed the
official policy of favoring the Vi-
chymen in France, is reliably re-

ported to haye been forced to
submit his resignation to the pres-
ident.

Slated to succeed Welles is
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge
Long, who referred to the con-
quest of Ethiopia when he was
U.S. Ambassador to Italy as “the
fruitful harvest of Mussolini’s en-
terprise.”

Long was also active, during his
service in Italy between 1933 and
1936, in fighting the imposition of
sanctions against the Mussolini re-
gime. He was reported to have said
that he was glad he took this be-
eause he “helped to avert a Euro-
pean war.”

Secretary of State Cordell Hull
is understood to have picked Long
to succeed Welles.

And Hull is also reliably report-
ed to have decided to promote
European Political Advisor James
Clement Dunn to Long’s job as as-
sistant secretary.

Dunn was the most fanatical
booster of Franco in the state de-
partment during the Spanish Re-
public’s heroic struggle of resis-
tance against invasion.

Both Long and Dunn subsequent-
ly backed a deal in 1941 to pro-
mote a $100,000,000 loan to Franco.

This loan never materialized as
such, but Argentina subsequently
made a $100,000,000 joan to Franco
with the aid of the United States
stabilization fund.

Both Long and Dunn are violent-
ly anti-Soviet. They are closely con-
nected with the appeaser group
in the state department which has
sniped at improved relations with
fhe Soviet Union, and has opposed

assisting the democratic move-
ments of liberation throughout
Eurdpe.

The one relatively bright spot in
the state department situation is
the report that if Long is promoted
fo assistant secretary of state
Adoiph Berle, one of the most sin-
ister anti-Soviet figures in the state
department, will resign.

Berle now outranks Long, and he
is said to resent having Long
promoted ahead of him.

Welles’ resignation is understood
to have taken place after a series
of policy clashes with Secretary
Hull.

The differences between the two
men were concerned largely with
relations with the Soviet Union,
post-war cooperation and the state
department's French policy.

Welles favored close relations
with the Soviet Union, while Hull
has been deeply suspicious of the
Soviet Republic.

Welles has favored definite
commitments by this government
to cooperate with the other United
Nations, while Hull has opposed
any clear-cut statement of policy
now.

Welles was an opponent of the
state department's policies in North
Africa, while Hull staunchly de-
fended the department's course.

After a heated discussion on

a

Soviet Offensive Rolls West
All along the See and central sect
marched away to a priso

shown here being

ae

ors of the eastern front Nazi soldiers, like those
n camp after the capture of Kharkoy, are being cut

off and surrounded as the Red army sweeps westward and town after town falls before the

gathering offensive.
announcing that Taganrog,

gun salutes.

Donets basin, and cleared

troops are approaching

On Monday this we
southern anchor
the Red army. Moscow’s guns
jubilant citizens when two more orders of the day,
of Yelna, in the northern Ukraine, and Glukhov
Gathering momentum
bled, despite fierce counter-attacks by
by Thursday had overrun Sumy, important center in the Ukraine,
the whole Kurs
announced in a fourth order of the day. Smole
strong points on the front, are now virtually enve
Mariupo! and Stalino, forcing a
Donets basin. Thousands of Nazis have been slain or ca
rog—and the retreating German armies

as the entire

are abandoning

k region of enemy troops.

ek Premier Joseph Stalin issued an order of the day

of the Nazis’ defense line, had been taken by
had hardly finished firing a salute to announce

the news to

issued on Tuesday, announcing the capture
and Rilsk, west of Kursk, brought new 124-
German defense system in the south crum-
hastily summoned Nazi reserve troops, the Red army

and Lisichansk, in the

These victories were

nsk and Briansk, the last two forward Nazi
loped by Soviet troops, while other Soviet
Nazi withdrawal from the important
ptured—35,000 were killed at Tagan-
huge quantities of war materials.

took Kiska without firing a
only
landed on Kiska.

stroyed by the Japanese, but

is now busily engaged in
roads and fortifications.

these differences.a couple of weeks
ago, Hull is reported to have told
the president that he would re-
sign unless Welles were removed
at once.

Hull was fully backed by lead-
ing Southern Democratic politi-
cians including Senator Torn Con-
nally of Texas, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee, and James F. Brynes, di-
rector of the Office of War Mob-
llization.

Apparently fearful of the political
consequences of Hull's resignation,
the president is said to have asked
Welles to quit.

One possible. face-saving compro-
mise under discussion is to send
Welles on a roving ambassadorship
to a number of countries, including
the Soviet Union.

But Welles is said to be unwill-

ing to accept this

the ground that his

be knifed by state

ficials in his absence

Canadians On Kis

American and Canadian forces are shown he
prepared to leave an unnamed Aleutian island for K
shot, for the entire Ja
a short time before the joint American-Canz
They left behind them crude mi |
on the beaches. Some installations had been pi
troops found machin
still intact with guns and ammunition. The inv:

digging in on the islar

Hull’s major cont
state department he
ries of reciprocal tr
and he has not bi
a major policy-make

ernment.

Within recent year

lated back and fort”
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appeasement clique
ment.

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to the chief policy J

their influence with
partment will be §
creased.

And Soviet-Ame

will unquestionably

Nazi Spies In Detroit

HE direct link between the
Wazis and the vicious anti-
Negro and anti-Semitic National
Workers League was definitely es-
tablished by the arrest of six Nazi
spies in Detroit last week.

The name of Dr. F. W. Thomas,
one of those arrested on the
charge of espionage, was linked
with that of Parker Sage, founder
of the fascist National Workers
League which conducted its sub-
versive activities in Detroit war
plants. Parke Sage, secretary of
the National Workers League, and
former organizer of the American
First Committee, Garland Alder-
man, and Virgil Chandler are now
under indictment for their part in
the bloody Sojourner Truth riot
of Feb. 28, 1942, which saw many
Negroes seriously injured.

Tt is also reported that Mrs.
Theressa Behrens, whose job, like
Thomas’ was to get information on
war production, was also a mem-
ber of this organization. As the
plot unfolds, additional figures are
revealed to be associated with the

National Workers
dore Donay, char
prision of treason

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Canadian

organization.
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confirm the charge.

ers League, :
Gerald L. K. Su
subversive groups.

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National Workers
January, 1942, he
until the arrest 0
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longer be maintall

Britain

TUC To Diseuss Indian Frees

RESOLUTION ealling for
freedom for India as “neces-
sary for the defeat of the Nazi
and fascist powers” will be pre-
sented to the annual TUC con-
vention, opening in Southport

September 6, by
and General Work
1,250,000 members,
_ain’s largest umiop
lution on the Int
be proposed bs

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