é ee | rage brackets were 'Politicians and al- esponsibility. Wage low a subsistence expansion sagged. the money coming a - 225 =. 200 A £150. ers pe eA iy ae - 100 90 60 => the offensive. Hit- *— that. Time serves Mizease the disparity ye: Nazi foree and b Allies. : 9; Where do you M@iGermans to stand? # It zremains to be \ © they can stand fmost any cost, such mtres and defence ance. The. German Si ; How long do itler now? before conceived, % alone precludes aq struggle: superiority must _ military Bevacudte territory? broken not later than Noyvem- 73ut- they must try. § Dvinsk, -Lwow -(al-. i the Red. ;Army) iti Gap on the Hast-~ agreb-in‘the north=— ans, -and Paris and=- ds. or: falls: with * This summer the‘ sha degree of in= : ° Hitler AS it © ‘disparity of forces 22 of Anglo-Ameri- - “come earlier than November. f headed by 100 German generals, march B way to internment camps. They were cap- 50 50 « 50 easy :) il 5 Hey pt A5 Greece... 49 fran 25 Pern 25 Uruguay 25 Venezuela 15 Bolivia an 19 Luxemburg ig. Iraq. 26 8 bthiopia = 6 Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Eeuador, Guatemala, Haiti 5 Adi others 0 16 8,800 Determining the quotas of each Darticipant was the main issue ef controversy at Bretton Woods, Army Doomed tat or, whose analysis of the situation on the fight- i since June, 1941, recently answered the guestions It is eértain that Ger- losses in the comine grow. man “months will be higher than in the summer and autumn of 1918. The peak of battle muSt be ex- pected in the second half of the summer and the German machine should be ber.-_ A new strategic fact will enter the picture when the Rus_ Slam offensive on the southern ~ “sector of the Eastern Front is buttressed by an Anglo-Ameri- can offensive in the Mediter- ranean, Into this strategic pic- ture. Marshal Tito’s forces fit perfectly as a link between the Russian front in the Balkans and the Anglo-Americans in the south:.~ Tito’s services to all the Allies. have been invaluable. With consummate skill and dar- ing, he is tying down German Forees out of all proportion to his own -strength—forces which needs desperately in western and eastern Hurope. Hitler will fall with the Ger- man war machine, if he does not go before. The collapse could joods Conference The method adopted was based upon future trade possibilities, rather than upon prewar levels. This fact in itself is of major importance; since it shows a break with the past in planning fiscal readjustment of world trade balances. The fact that in the short space of twenty days 44 nations could reach unanimity on such a complex question as a foreign exchange stabilization .tund, augurs well for the early days of postwar trade readjust- ments. qe plan devised | at Bretton Woods is not a solution to the whole problem of financing post- /war reconstruetion. It is, how- ever, 2 good start because it raises barriers against bilateral agreements or deals between a few individual nations which would tend to squeeze out the smaller nations, or depress their currency as a means of gaining commercial. advantage in world markets. The loss of wheat markets to Canada in a “whole number of Huropean countries following the last war did not arise becazuse the people of those countries did not want to eat bread’ made from Ca- nadian wheat. It arose from the systematic depressing or “depre- ciation” of their currency through manipulation of powerful sterling and dollar bloes of big: finance capital. _, The objective of the exchange. stabilization + fund. “is to: assure “that.the proceeds of a ‘eountry’s exports can be spent freely for thé purchase of goods in any part of the world.” The plan does not guarantee the total elimination of artificial trade barriers, empire preferences, and so on any more than the Teheran Declaration and the Atlantic Charter can guar- antee a’ perfect: world. - What it does do is to lay..down the. ele- ments of a foundation upon which ean ‘be biult an effective barrier against a repetition of the para- lysing debacle of the nineteen- twenties. A STUDY of the deliberations and decisions of this historic conference reveals two main de- velopments: First, that the sec- tion of the people in all the capi- talist states concerned generally referred to in political nomencla- ture as “financiers,” ‘financial experts,” and “international bank- ers,” have been compelled to leave the Munich road (in many cases perhaps very reluctantly) and set their feet upon a new pathway. —the pathway visualized at Te- heran. Secondly, that the plan extends to, the smajl nations as well as to ‘the large, strengthen- ing the historic overall invitation of the Teheran Declaration for “. ... the cooperation and active participation of all nations, large and small, whose peoples in heart and mind are dedicated . . . to the elimination of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intoler- ance.”’ The decisions of Bretton Woods, backed by the concious determin- ation of the world’s peoples to build a peoples’ peace, can help to restore the use of money to its original purpose, as a medium of exchange rather than a weapon ot “tyranny and slavery, oppres- sion and intolerance.” SHORT JABS by OF Bill The Purblind Reviewers ([CBADING the book reviews in the capitalist newspapers one is compelled to believe that the owners of these journals are easily: Satisfied with the type of writer whe reviews books for them. Some of these reviewers display the most blatant ignorance of the subject matter of the books about which they write. Together with their - literary style, or lack of style, this profound ignorance puts them in the same class as the critics of whom Byron wrote such a scath- ing denunciation in “Hneglish Bards and Scots Reviewers.” One such piece of conceited political nonsense appeared in last Saturday’s Vancouver Province. The reviewer, who signed himself “LE.,” had allegedly read Upton Sinclair’s new book Presidential Agent. In this book, Sinclair, through the eyes and mouth of a char- acter named Lanny Budd, describes the political turmoil in the Europe ofthe Austrian and Czechoslovak erises. He hobnobs, says the reviewer, with highranking Nazis, Hitler, Goering and the rest of the now desperate gang, and finds out all their secrets for the information of- President Roosevelt, whose “agent” he is. Naturally, Says the reviewer, he is in with the Clive- den set and knows all about “the controlled press over there” (presum- ably in Britain), and “from his omnipotent position he hands a rare laugh to the appeasement policy of Neville Chamberlain.” Having thus detailed how the story unfolds, whoever he or she may be, I.E., then furnishes the whole point of the review in the following neatly turned sentence: “It is all rather naive, perhaps irri- tating if you get the feeling why didn’t Budd tell us all this before we got into such a holy international mess.” Further on he (or she) _ writes, “Readable enough if you don’t take it too seriously or don’t let Budd’s encyclopaedic Superiority of affairs get you.” Quite a lot of “get” and “got” about this reviewer, what? I.E. had probably never heard of Upton Sinclair until he (or she) skimmed the pages of Presidential Agent for the reviewer’s usual re- ward of keeping the book: for I.E., presumably, a dubious reward. For this is not the first book Sinclair has written about the evils of fascism and how.to deal with them. was being made the testing ground for the Nazi tactics of ageres- sion and war weapons, he wrote No Pasaran, a story about the International Brigade. as in the latest one, but I.E., if he (or she) was born then, probably had ears stuffed with the same kind of intellectual cotton wool and It is not a sample of wisdo after the event, to irritate or excite the tisible faculties of gentile, unsuspicious souls like I.E. who don’t want to take things “too seri- It is\a statement of the meaning of Hitler’s moves at that time and their almost inescapable consequences, consequences which we see and hear today with eyes that have no blinkers on them and ears from which the cotton wool has been blasted out at incalculable cost in blood and suffering to all the democratic peoples throughout the world. : Here are some quotations from that leaflet. “The little republie of Czechoslovakia, which since 1919 has been an outpost of parlia- mentary democracy in Central Europe, is no more!” “France, Roumania, Poland, Lithuania, Jugoslavia—who knows which will be next!” “Chamberlain has reared up a juggernaut to attack the British and American people.” “The Communist Party at the time of the Munich “agreement” denounced it: as a robbers’ pact which could only lead to war. .... Since then the majority of the Canadian people have seen for them- selves the truth of what our party said.” “Let your voices be heard, wherever you are, individually and collectively, against the policy of knucklinge down to the warlords!” “Stop Hitler!” : “Nio recognition of Hitler’s status in Gzechdéslovalial” “Let Canada speak out to help save the intended victims of the fascist firing squads.” ; “Act now to save democracy and peace!” “Stop the fascist war advance!” The Friends of Labor? ‘[A8o8 has more’to lose from socialism than the capitalist, the busi- ness man, manufacturer, importer, exporter, salesman or profes- sional man, says J. M. MacDonnell, former president of the National Trust Company. Isnt it wonderful, the solicitude, the cone¢érn some of these mort- gage sharks expend on labor, organized and unorganized. MacDonnell wants to save labor from the two kinds of people who want socialism, “a few who have debts and are discontented ...anda group of social theorists whose human sympathies are in most cases admirable but who entirely lack political or administrative experience.’ 2 Tell it to the German soldiers on the Eastern front! One-sixth of the world is already demonstrating the political sagacity of its socialist leaders and their administrative experience is such that the accomplishments of their army has earned it the name of the “amazing Red Army.” ; Only a fool would say that the men at the helm of state in that socialist country, the USSR are lacking in political or administrative ability, for these are the joint factors, which, with the single-mind- edness of purpose of the people have made the Red Army so suc- cessful. For me, the Ked Army and its victories is all the answer I need to the drivel of-men like MaeDonnell.