Völkischer Beobachter (May 21, 1944)
Roosevelt will den jüdischen Weltwährungsplan erzwingen
Morgenthau möchte den Wall-Street-Spekulanten die absolute Kontrolle über die Weltwirtschaft Zuspielen
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Die Folgen der Unterwerfung unter die USA und die Sowjets
Engländer warnen vor einer nationalen Katastrophe
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Tarnungsmanöver auf Befehl Moskaus –
Auflösung der US-Kommunisten
dnb. Genf, 20. Mai –
Wie Reuters meldet, soll die seit 25 Jahren bestehende Partei der US-Kommunisten den einstimmigen Beschluß gefaßt haben, sich als politische Partei aufzulösen. Daß diese angebliche Auflösung nur aus Tarnungsgründen erfolgt, geht aus dem weiteren Inhalt der Meldung hervor, wonach dafür eine neue, nicht politisch aufgezogene Organisation gebildet werden soll.
Genau wie seinerzeit bei der Auflösung der Komintern wird also auch nur das Firmenschild geändert, um unter einem neuen Namen umso ungestörter die Befehle Moskaus ausführen zu können.
Da weite Kreise der USA den Kommunismus ablehnen, wird auch Herr Roosevelt erfreut sein, daß die Kommunisten, die unter Verzicht eines eigenen Kandidaten für die Wiederwahl des Kriegshetzers und politischen Freundes im Weißen Hause stimmen werden, sich ein neues Mäntelchen anziehen wollen, das Roosevelt ermöglicht, sich noch mehr als bisher für die Jünger Stalins einzusetzen, nachdem seine Frau schon vor längerer Zeit als erste Kommunistin bezeichnet wird.
U.S. Navy Department (May 21, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 410
For Immediate Release
May 21, 1944
A single Liberator of the 11th Army Air Force bombed Shimushiru and Ketoi Islands in the Kurils on the night of May 18‑19 (West Longitude Date). No opposition was encountered.
Shimushu Island was bombed by Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Four before dawn on May 19. Large fires were started at an airfield. Anti-aircraft fire was meager.
Nauru Island was attacked by Mitchell medium bombers of the 7th Army Air Force during daylight on May 19 (West Longitude Date). The phosphate workings and defense installations were hit. Explosions and fires were observed. Anti-aircraft fire was intense.
Ponape Island was bombed by 7th Army Air Force Mitchells on May 19. An airfield was the principal target. Meager anti-aircraft fire was encountered.
Remaining enemy positions in the Marshall Islands were bombed on the night of May 18‑19 and during daylight on May 19 by Catalina and Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, Dauntless dive bombers and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and Navy Hellcat fighters.
The Brooklyn Eagle (May 21, 1944)
REELING NAZIS FIRE ITALY COASTAL ANCHOR
Report foe puts torch to Terracina
Believed falling back to join Germans at Anzio beachhead
By Reynolds Packard
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6,000 ALLIED PLANES SMASH INVASION TARGETS
Supply lines hammered in record blitz
Foe’s French, Belgian defense areas hard hit by 4,250 sorties
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Eisenhower alerts Europe’s underground
His first orders broadcast over ABSIE tell patriots to gather data on enemy movements
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Marauders rip Myitkyina Line; city’s fall near
Junction with Chinese infantry in pincer maneuver imminent
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Wallace off for report on Siberia, China
Expert in Russian affairs is accompanying the Vice President
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$5 million budget cut approved by Council
Finance Committee report calls for sale of WNYC, Mayor’s radio station
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Ship job examiners protest firing edict
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Yank pilot clips rooftop in blasting 5 Nazi flying boats
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Roper: People of Gaeta shower victorious Yanks with flowers
Quit hills to welcome rescuers
By James E. Roper
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New Liberal Party lines up for Roosevelt and Wallace
World peace unit plank is adopted
The new Liberal Party, organized by former right-wing leaders of the American Labor Party and allied groups as the nucleus of a potential national liberal party, threw itself once into the 1944 national campaign yesterday by voting by acclamation to nominate President Roosevelt for a fourth term.
The action, climaxing a two-day convention in the Hotel Roosevelt in Manhattan, was voted by 1,124 delegates who. shortly afterward, also now chose by acclamation Vice President Wallace as their nominee for reelection. The same method was used to vote the renomination of Senator Robert F. Wagner for a new six-year term in Washington.
Claim 400,000 votes
Convention spokesmen predicted at the close of the proceedings the new party would poll 400,000 votes lor Roosevelt. The new party comes into existence less than 60 days after former right-wing leaders of the ALP withdrew from the latter organization after a losing primary fight in March which involved the issues of party control and alleged ALP domination by Communists and their so-called fellow travelers.
Under the state election laws, the new political group, in order to place the names of the President, Vice President and Senator Wagner on the ballot, must nominate by petition as an independent party. Its nomination of the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket will require 12,000 signatures of state voters, with at least 50 from each county.
A demonstration of between 10 and 15 minutes was staged when President Roosevelt’s name was presented to the delegates in a nomination speech by Samuel Shore, vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the most powerful union group behind the new party.
Delegates parade
Horn-tooting, cowbell-ringing, banner-waving delegates paraded around the main ballroom, in which the convention was staged, and went into a similar demonstration later when the nomination was made.
Mr. Shore said:
In hours heavy with uncertainties, we need men who are unswerving in their certainty of principle, their devotion to justice, their loyalty to ideals. Small men cannot perform great tasks – no matter how big their ambition or how wealthy their backers.
The speaker placed the President’s name before the delegates without a reference to a “draft” movement.
O’Leary endorses choice
Joseph V. O’Leary, former State Controller, made a seconding speech. The convention howled with laughter later when Prof. William Withers of Queens College, in another seconding speech, declared:
It is a privilege to second the nomination, not of an Ohio Governor, not of a naval officer from Minnesota, not of a Pacific war commander, not of a man in a blue serge suit, but of a real liberal, the greatest of them all, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The nominations came after the convention, at its morning session, had adopted a declaration of the need for the formation of the new party and a program containing 12 planks.
The plank dealing with foreign policy called for the immediate creation of a United Nations Council and the post-war creation of a permanent international organization with power to maintain peace and carry out its decisions. One of the specific recommendations was for the formation of an “effective system of international policing to suppress aggression.”
Rejects isolationism
The plank rejected “isolationism and imperialism for American” and warned against alliances of the big powers, declaring that after the war there must be collective security and world organization.
The platform also included planks on a post-war economic policy; the transition from war to peace economy; democracy and equality; labor’s rights, agriculture, cooperatives, civil rights, education, housing, social security and civil liberties.
Prof. John L. Childs of Teachers College, Columbia University, was elected party chairman. Alex Rose was chosen chairman of the party’s administrative committee, and 21 members were named as vice chairmen, including Andrew R. Armstrong and Alexander Kahn of Brooklyn. The vice presidents include Mr. Dubinsky of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
Browder: FDR retirement would be disaster
The recent visit of Father Stanislav Orlemanski, Polish-American Roman Catholic priest, to Moscow means “the opening of a final opportunity for the [Polish] government-in-exile to purge itself of its anti-Soviet personnel and policies and merge into the new Polish government which will undoubtedly arise,” Communist leader Earl Browder said yesterday.
Speaking at the opening session of the Communist Party’s final convention as a political party, at the Riverside Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, Browder declared that the American Communists would support President Roosevelt for a fourth term and added that the President’s retirement now, if it were to come, “would be a disaster to our country.” That is so generally recognized, he declared, that “Republicans-for-Roosevelt clubs are springing up all over the country.”
Browder announced dissolution of the Communist Party as such and said it would carry on as “a new non-party organization through which we expect to contribute to the common cause of the progressive majority of the American people,” under a new name such as the American Communist Association or American Communist Political Association.