The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-11
Comment On
World Events

The United States, to its shame,
has reacted to testimony before the
United Nations on forced labor
within its boundaries much like a
country in the Russian sphere. 1t
has acted to suppress hereafter all
facts on forced labor.
Immediately following the 'front.'
page newspaper publicity given to
the testimony of Rowland Watts
and Albert X. Herring of the Com
mission of Inquiry into Forced
Labor, the U. S. formulated a
policy under which no further pub
lie hearings will be held by the
Committee on Slavery of the UN's
Economic and Social Council. Here
after the committee will operate
merely by sending printed ques-
tionnaires to the various countries.
But that is not all. Instead of
investigating the forced labor
charges, the U. S. launched an i'm
mediate investigation of the COM
missions Investigators. In Florida,
where the commission found exten-
sive peonage, the FBI started in
terviewing persons - not, it IS
charged, to apprehend those who
might be guilty of peonage, but to
attempt to build up case against
the commissions Investigators.
No objection was raised by the
u. S. when the commission pre-
sented testimony on forced labor in
Russia, Africa and South America.
But when it came to the U. S., the
U. S. said "No." Isn't that the phil
osophy of the Iron Curtain rather
than that of democracy?
! X x
The AFL Free Trade Union
Committee has sounded a timely
warning against haste in yielding
to Russian demands for expulsion
of the Chinese Nationalist Govern
ment from the United Nations and
it's agencies and replacing it with
the Chinese Communist dictator
ship. The committee declares that
the boycott of UN sessions by
Russian and its satellite nations is
not fatal and is no cause for panic.
"What would be fatal for the
UN," the committee continues, "is
for it to yield to bullying and
threats by any big power /. The
present situation in the UN pre-
sents a striking and appalling par
allel with the crisis faced by the
League of Nations in 1935-36 over
the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Then,
in order to appease and please
Mussolini whose marauder overran
Ethiopia, the League of Nations
deprived the government of the
militarily defeated
Emperor Halle Selassie of it's cred
entails and its right to have dele
cation in the 1886 Assembly. That
decision marked the death-knell of
the League of Nations.
"Let not the UN today-in order
to appease and satisfy another
totalitarian dictator, Stain, who
his Communists over
the Chinese mainland
unseat and expel from the UN the
militarily defeated
C hines Nationalist government
and replace it with the criminal
and foreign-financed Communist
J. \ \
"For the UN to follow the disas-
trous precedent of the League of
the AFL committee saysl
in conclusion, "would be tanta-
mount to signing its own death
warrant. And at this time, a death
blow to the principal International
agency and hope of world peace
will be more disastrous than was
he degrading demise of the League
If Nations.
"The hour is too grave for ap-
Of aggression and in
Justice. The time is most propitious
or a firm stand by the forces of
reedom and peace-in the interest
# freedom, peace and decency inl
relations.
says DR.. rockingham,
means for families like this "need-
ess worry, financial ruin and hu-
nan suffering"
One of the doctors who treated
Iirginia and Mickey as charity II
ases, said, "if my child was par
lyzed in an automobile accident
nd was put in respirator for a
ear, | would be a medical indi- Il