Saul Saltas person
also: Saul Tass, Saul Tost, Saltas, Tass, Toss, Tost, Taas, Haas, Saul Levitas
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Claims (7)
Saul Saltas member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“was murdered on 5 December 1952, and this left Saltas as the main informant in many of these locations. The informant's reports were for AFL eyes only, but most of them had been published and their opinions appeared in the New Leader or Eur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 10:48
Saul Saltas member_of
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“When they went in, the people like William Polly and bought up all of the industry, they groomed a political elite that allowed them to be the plantation overseers and oppress all of the rest of the people there. They did it throughout Lati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 31:08
Saul Saltas member_of
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“Starting in 63, he was infiltrated with the Center of Labor and Social Studies Incorporated in Rome, Italy, which focused on training and assisting underdeveloped countries on their road to development. These activities made TOS an energeti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 8:46
Saul Saltas member_of
The New Leader book_quoted
“The new leader served as a trustworthy source of information and opinion for members of Congress and the political elite. The magazine had been founded as an official mouthpiece of the American Socialist Party in 1924. Due to its dedication…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 6:17
Saul Saltas spied_on
Morocco book_quoted
“The Moroccan political situation paid much attention to the nationalist movement inside of all of these countries. He emphasized that none of these nationalist movements were communist. One of them even had worked with Coca-Cola when the Fr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 23:10
Saul Saltas spied_on
Algeria book_quoted
“several high-position officers in the State Department. While Harris and Hayes belonged to his personal friends list, he also established a relationship with writer James Farrell, F-A-R-R-E-L-L. Most of Todd's African contributions to TNL d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 21:41
Saul Saltas spied_on
Tanzania book_quoted
“Its correspondence of French affairs in the early 1950s was a Dutch reporter, Saul Tass, T-A-S. In his The New Leader contributions on North Africa, Tass continually appealed to the U.S. government to put pressure on the French to end colon…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 7:45
Mentions (25)
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lesson, and then we will open the floor up for comments. This is chapter four of our book that we're reviewing, and this is called Not an Ugly American, Saltas, S-A-L-T-A-S, a Dutch reporter as an agent of the West in Africa. So we start of…
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newly anointed person in charge. And I'm not exactly sure how you spell, say this name, but the last name is B-O-U-R-G-U-I-B-A. Bourguiba, Bourguiba. His first name is Habib, H-A-B-I-B, who was exiled by the French to a bleak hotel in a Tan…
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interview and article was the work of Saul Tass, the new leader expert on North African affairs during the 1950s. In other words, he was the anointed person that was going to produce all of the media. In particular, the struggles for indepe…
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It is no coincidence that Toss focused on a pro-Western view of not just Bourguiba in this article of the new leader. And he was considered to be very, the reporter was considered to be very biased. So in the article, he, let's see.…
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Its correspondence of French affairs in the early 1950s was a Dutch reporter, Saul Tass, T-A-S. In his The New Leader contributions on North Africa, Tass continually appealed to the U.S. government to put pressure on the French to end colon…
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The consequence would be pushing them into the arms of the communists, at least that's what he believed. In emphasizing the anti-communist stance of nationalist movements, Toss tried to reassure his American audience. Later in the 50s and 6…
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Starting in 63, he was infiltrated with the Center of Labor and Social Studies Incorporated in Rome, Italy, which focused on training and assisting underdeveloped countries on their road to development. These activities made TOS an energeti…
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intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…
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and Serafino Romaldi, R-O-M-U-A-L-D-I, on Latin America. And then they moved into North Africa. Together with Saltas, one of the guys, Barat, F-A-R-H-A-T, Hotched, H-A-C-H-E-D,…
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was murdered on 5 December 1952, and this left Saltas as the main informant in many of these locations. The informant's reports were for AFL eyes only, but most of them had been published and their opinions appeared in the New Leader or Eur…
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They enriched the perceptions of their American principles and readers with their non-American perspectives. It was essential for their role as agents of the West, and Saul Toss exemplified this identity. Toss had been a determined anti-com…
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in the Dutch Labour Party. Disappointed with the dogmatic Dutch Social Democrat Party, he soon developed an outspoken, radical, socialist political opinion, challenging communists as well as social democrats for lacking a fighting spirit, w…
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Later in the 1930s, Toss turned hostile to the unquestioned socialist admiration of the masses. He stopped believing in Marxist dialectics and pointed to the overwhelming support of the German proletariat for Hitler. Marx had been wrong in …
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led by the nucleus of educated leaders who could prepare the road to socialism in a more rational way. Tost was Jewish and had to go into hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In this period, he kept reading and writing, f…
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You have to find that totally crazy that he's basically advocating for all of the same policies as Hitler while he's in hiding from Hitler and denouncing Stalin, who was trying to eradicate the Nazis. In 1945, he reconciled himself with the…
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hoping for a new post-war labor party that would oppose totalitarianism and fight for a just society. Toss was hired as a foreign desk reporter by the socialist Democrat newspaper called Hot or Old, which had its origins in the wartime resi…
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He soon became one of the star reporters of the paper. He warned his readers against further expansion of Soviet communism and called for a greater alertness among the Western states. The 1948 coup in Prague reaffirmed his suspicions and hi…
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compared the communist police force to the German Nazis. Prague in 1948 became a radicalizing turning point in his reporting. Ta's dedication to fighting communism was equaled by his anti-colonialism. He was a student during colonial law an…
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Dutch West Indies. So he's anti-colonialism while earlier he was trying to be one of them. Hearing the experiences of colonial rule opened Haas' eyes to the injustice. One of them, a guy by the name of Sjahrir, S-J-A-H-R-I-R, became a close…
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NATO politics, French politics, and other foreign affairs. In the tense Cold War climate of the 50s, his opinions usually fit very well with a radical anti-communist pro-Western profile. New chances arose when Saul Levitas was looking for a…
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In 1948, Toss had offered Levitas a contribution on Czechoslovakia, but Levitas had declined, instead suggesting that Toss write from time to time on important events in Holland. That would be of interest to American readers. Toss was also,…
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There was an interview in the summer of 1948. Politically, the three of them were basically all in the same pot. Tass' arrival in Paris coincided with the increasing activities of nationalist parties in Morocco and Tanzania. For Tass, it wa…
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Toss could easily relate to these fighters for freedom and win their trust. His anti-colonialism and references to his friendship was helpful with his friendship with the Indonesians. One of the students was a Tanzanian, Mosmadi, Mosmadi wa…
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was Tassa's introduction to Bourguidab, the leader of the Nationalist Party, and later the first president of the independent Tunisia. These connections gave him the opportunity to extend his network to other nationalist leaders in Morocco …
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and the European Office of the Union, AFL. The embassy employees were hardly able to connect to North Africans nationalists because the U.S. administration strongly supported the French. The AFL's policy was to limit communist influence in …