Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 17, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 5 Winnipeg free press tuesday december 17, 1946 today s history Premier a Vamp moves in Azerbaijan Laid the persian reactionaries russian press is still commenting on the iranian situation and on the fact that Avam is yielding to pressure from his own reactionaries and submitting to influences from abroad with a certain air of detachment As though what is happening in iranian Azerbaijan was purely an internal iranian matter. Emphasis is placed in the rus Sian press on a recent statement by the . Ambassador in Teheran approving the dispatch of govern ment troops into though this according to the rus sians constitutes a violation of the june 13 agreement Between the Teheran government and Azerbaijan the tone of the russian press suggests that the soviet Union would Welcome a fair and reasonable attitude on the part of Avam and suggests that the Best solution would have been provided by the Azerbaijan offer that inspectors and journalists be sent anywhere in Azerbaijan where they can certify the forthcoming elections being fairly conducted. There is no doubt As anyone who has been in Iran knows that the progressive spirit is stronger in Azerbaijan than in other parts of the country and that without be ing necessarily attracted by bolshevism the azerbaijani ans have Learned from the russians much about social welfare education Hygiene. During the War russian doctors did much to improve Azer Baijan health services combating typhus malaria and venereal diseases. Such Phenomena As you still see in Teheran and Southern beggars exhibiting their rotting limbs to passers by children suffering from trachoma and so tended to disappear in North per Sia. Neighbouring soviet. Azerbaijan Armenia and Georgia Are psycho logically important As an exam be to the iranian azerbaijani ans for compared with Teheran and other parts of Iran they Are orderly prosperous Well run countries. They Are among the Best run and since the War among the most prosperous parts of the soviet Union and the iranian a Erbai by Alexander Werth Manchester guardian special what inevitably also impresses the iranians is that the russians have essentially a non colonial approach to the Asiatic Peoples notably in the matter of personal relations with them. Here As in other parts of the world the soviet Union assumes the role of a Friend of the people while America is Given the role of. Protector of Feudal interests. Much has been made of the Complete Equality in status and pay of russian and iranian labor in the future Oil concessions in the North and of racial discrimination alleged to exist in these matters in South Persia where the British Are much higher wages than native clerks. Teheran reactionaries and other supporters of the old order both persians and others would for these and Many other reasons prefer the russians to play no pan in North and Avam s latest is the move ment of Federal troops into Azer Baijan to supervise the Are considered largely to be dictated by such motives. British commences drive in their zone to create t Ondon. Arneri socialist Germany mild buy in extensively which can officials Here watching in by George Weller both groups wish to prevent. There Long political career lies Berlin s by David m. Nichol Erlin Ostrowski Cottbus although he had planned anians have in recent years been Given facilities for visiting them and seeing for themselves. Brevi ties Eire following her admission to the United nations Eire newspapers Are beginning to discuss defence problems freely. They Are particularly concerned with those prob lems that affect the British Commonwealth. The newspaper Irish Independent remarking that can Ada is too Distant to serve As chief Centre of Commonwealth defense says the Only feasible area is South Africa. If considered with adjoin ing territories of British Africa it seems to offer an Ideal solution to the Commonwealth the newspaper said recently. China conscription will be introduced in Shanghai on Jan. 1. Male Citi Zens Between the Ages of 18 and 45, with the exception of officials above a certain rank and journalists will be liable for compulsory military service. It is estimated that chinese in Shanghai will be liable for service. Youths of is will be required to serve two years in the people s militia for preparatory military training while older men will be drafted straight into the standing army for a Simi Lar period. Subsequently men of both these groups will be transferred to the Reserve in which they must serve until they Are 45. Weaver s son whose life a been filled with the vague an Complex politics which German seem to eat up now holds the mos important position in this coun try s emerging government. As Oberauer Homeister or lore mayor of Berlin he is the Highes official to be chosen by German in a area where All four occupy ing Powers share responsibilities whatever May happen in the Vari Ous zones it is in Berlin that Ger Many s future will be decided. Ostrowski was the candidate the social democrats who won Al most a Clear majority in the oct 20 elections. Now he must Wel free bitterly opposed parties inti something like a working unit. His task will not be easy it Wil require the utmost in tact discretion and unimpeachable honesty political cartoonists have pictures him As a Cook on a tight wire try ing to throw loaves equally in Al directions. Ostrowski at 63. Is Bald wears Horn rimmed glasses which he re moves when he talks Speaks Fluen English with an accent he Learned in Sheffield and in London before world War i. He was sitting in his overcoat in a chill office in the Willersdorf District of Berlin when i saw him. He hesitated to speak of specific plans. Germany the Taeg Liche Mundschau the soviet army s newspaper in Berlin has stated that despite the differences existing Between the big four Powers on Germany s future none of these differences is insurmountable and there Are no barriers Between East and West which cannot be broken Down with Good Faith on both sides the newspaper also Speaks favor ably of a possible 40-year pact guaranteeing Germany s disarmament. According to the newspaper the principle differences Between the soviet Union and the . Revolve around whether economic or political questions must be settled first. The americans say that economic revival is the most important Factor. The russians say political problems must take precedence. With the British the differences Are chiefly whether Ger Many will have a federalized or theatre what Berlin he Sale is Unity and Justice. People Wil not mind scarcities so much if they now that what is available is icing distributed Ostrowski was born in a Village near Cottbus in the textile Region of Germany. Friends helped with Lis education. At 17 he entered the University of Berlin studied the ology for a time but quarrelled with his superiors. At 20 he went to France and became a teacher in the French schools. There he came under the influence of the French socialists heavily involved at that time in the dispute about separating Church and state. He returned to Germany in 1906 As a teacher first in private schools and then in the Public school system. H e began his political career in Earnest As a District Leader in the socialist revolution of 1918 in Berlin. For most of the period until 1933, when the nazis came to Power he was Burgmeister or mayor of one of Berlin s 20 districts storm troopers arrested him in his office in March 1933, but he escaped and spent the next year As a fugitive in the German county Side. By 1934 conditions had settled to a Point where he could return to Berlin but could find no work. The nazi labor office banned him fro one Job As manager for foreign artists came to ber Lin s famed Winte Garten. In 1938 i departed from his socialist principles sufficiently to become an Eite manager for the next five years. From 1943, when his Home was bombed out until the end of the War he lived outside Berlin travelling some with forged papers and getting food from friends. During All the nazi period he said he was organizing what was actually planned or achieved is More difficult to Dis cover. He met his friends a Library with which he was connected but there were no arrange ments he said for sabotage fur revolution for setting up a new government. As the advanced in 1945, Ostrowski was overrun an to be in Potsdam and move immediately into Berlin. He spent the next four weeks helping the soviet forces sort out known nazis in the area. For several months before he be came Burgmeister of Wilmers Drof last Tay he was the social democratic party s Secretary for municipal affairs. He was chosen Burgmeister by the British occupying authorities the americans big lukewarm and the prussians openly opposed for the stand Ostrowicki took against the soviet sponsored socialist Unity party. Troubled silence Britain Mon Day drove sharply ahead with its plans for socializing the Economy in its German zone As Well As its Economy at Home. Britain s Laberite Cabinet is mov ing firmly towards a Colucc Tivisa system in Germany with German officials in charge. Saturday John Hynd Britain s minister for Ger Many served notice to . Lucius d. Clay and Wil Liam Draper that the programme of Public ownership announced by foreign minister Ernest Bevin on oct. 22, would enter into effect immediately. Clay is Deputy military governor in the . Zone in Germany and Draper is chief of the economics division of that regime it was reported sunday that Bevin in route from new York had cabled a request that the Cabi net hold Back the German collectivist programme with a Strong implication that Secretary of state James f. Byrnes and american Public opinion disapproved of it. Bevin. However telephoned a denial from mid Atlantic that he had tried to slow Down the Cabinet s hand in Germany and the govern ment Here then issued an official denial. A a Resolution to continue the a drive towards state ownership in Germany was again pm Here when the government press said that Byrnes in talks on German Aid had interposed no objection to the socialization of Ger Man Industry by British Fiat. The British consider that although the zones have been merged through America s acceptance of part of the British Supply burdens no economic control has passed or will pass o America since the latter never asked for it. Moreover British socialists in Power in commons and German socialist in an occupied status have agreed that preserving privately capitalized Industry in Germany might mean that . Interests is regular and close interchange of views Between the German Anc British socialists As denoted a recent visits by the former Here. The Cabinet s decision to push state ownership in Germany arms the anti american group of rebels led by r. H. S. Grossman of coven try with a new weapon in their Effort to steer British foreign policy into lines More sympathetic to the soviets. Their programme is to bring Bri Tain into friendlier relations with Poland Romania Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia and the chinese communists. A new foreign policy is in the making which gains Britain greater leeway and bargaining Power be tween the . And the russian bloc. Black Market charges Berlin dec. 17 the army announced monday the Fil no of formal charges against two . Army officers and one Ameri can civilian accusing them of operating a huge Black Market ring throughout Germany and other european countries. Hie news interpreted says . Educational system producing neurotic generation by Arthur j. Snider Chicago daily news service Lua git Book learning i tossing your youngster for loss Don t throw up your lands and conclude he s a misfit. There Are More significant neurotics is achievements to be won in the u. S. 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The republicans have consistently disliked the reciprocal Trade agreements reached by the . Under Secretary of not a single incident or riot has Ever in wartime and afterwards thanks to the Ameri can tradition of kindness and de declares Purdy. Purdy s Survey shows that out of an estimated bag of Jap prisoners of War and disarmed former enemy military personnel Only Between and re main to be cleared in the . Repatriation programme. America s Jap captives have been held in Camps in the Philippines Okinawa the boning Guam Truk and other Caroline islands and the Marianas. Air transport agreement dec. 17 the United states and Uruguay have signed an air transport agree ment permitting lines of both coun state Cordell Hull. 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