Nazis and British Dominate Europe As Tories Separate France from A Allies
DELL, ROBERT
Nazis and British Dominate Europe As Tories Separate France from A Allies Hitler ism Not Result of Versailles By ROBERT DELL Feretgn Correspondent of Manchester Guardian JkTEVEB were men like...
...Equally significant is the decline in the number of undergraduates taking non-scientific subjects in the Reich...
...The same also appeared in the Morning Freiheit, Yiddish organ of the Communist Party, •ecompanied by an editorial guarantee that the article covered the issue adequately...
...These obstacles were known to Soviet authorities, even as they knew that the only solution was through a gigantic reclamation program...
...Secondly, because "the greatest vigilance must be observed against the penetration of carefully planted spies and other fascist agents...
...the Glasgow news2Sro»en have dug up o clipping from the London Daily Worker ^September 29, 1937, in which Mr...
...On October 27 the Socialists organized the National Party of Working People and authorized the Socialist Party president Antonin Hampl, to open negotiations to create the basis for political activity...
...Quite as bad as Tanganyika...
...Since 1933 the Society has placed 520 scientists sal literateurs in permanent jobs in 38 countries, while 300 more ksw found temporary work...
...It is true that the British air defenses are rather weak, chiefly because enormous sums of money which should have boon spent on providing bomb-proof shelters have been wasted On useless gas masks, but the air defenses of Paris are magnificent, even if the French air force is inferior at any rate in numbers t othe German...
...Moreover, there are so many atrocities in these days in many parts of the world that people's sense gets blunted and the public has almost ceased to react to them unless, in the present case, they are particularly spectacular...
...I CAN find no explanation of * Neville Chamberlain's policy except the explanation that it is due to an obsession of fear of Soviet Russia and of what is called Bolshevism—a t term now used to cover everything that is not fascist...
...Following this attack, the president of this fascist Q> ganization, Ruben Moreno Padres, a lawyer, dstlSH» "The Van^aarz has the same ideology as Hitler, Mssn> lini and Franco...
...On September 30, 1931, the Soviet Government decreed that Birobidjan was to become a Jewish Autonomous Territory within two years...
...I should not like to say that it has made the defense of European civilization impossible, but it has certainly made it far more difficult The destruction of Czechoslovakia means that Hitier has been given the key position in Central Europe...
...Orders for this have already gone oat* the local sections...
...The stage is set—the Party of National Unity, which is to govern the Czechs, issued a manifesto on November 16 announcing a strongly totalitarian program hinting at anti-Semitism...
...Fertile soil proved to be either frozen tundra or gnat-infested taiga, swampy and impenetrable...
...Less than a year later the London Times was making propaganda for Hitler...
...AH these tactics are carried out while the party line officially seeks "to assist Labor to power...
...worked trains...
...the British Communists, despite their protestations that -we are prepared to work our fingers to the bone to get Labor arrforities," helped to defeat Reginald Groves, Labor candidate in the A vies worth by-election...
...A dark horse and most preferable of those marked "gutgeheissen" by the Reich Chancellor is Dr...
...Between 1927 and 1934, more than twice as "•any non-Jews as Jews had come to Birobidjan—a Jewish Autonomous Territory, in which five-sixths of the population was non-Jewish...
...The majority of them have not even been allowed to leave because Hitler needs Jews in Germany to keep anti-semitism alive and to give the Nazis the means of satisfying their sadistic love of torture...
...Coordinating Committees, Peace Alliance groups, and the International Labor Defense, which is the British section of the ti.n.r led in this country by the CP.'s Vito Marcantonio...
...As regards France, the explanation is that since the beginning of 1936 successive French Governments have had no policy of their own and have allowed themselves to be completely dominated by the reactionary British Government...
...Nazis and British Dominate Europe As Tories Separate France from A Allies Hitler ism Not Result of Versailles By ROBERT DELL Feretgn Correspondent of Manchester Guardian JkTEVEB were men like that ¦ ' .great American, Eugene V. Debs, more needed than they are today...
...TWHS7N 1 was last in Berlin in ^November, 1933, a distinguished diplomatist whose name is known to everybody said to* me:" "This country is not a normal civilised country and the German Government is not a normal civilized Government and cannot be dealt with as if it were one...
...As the example of Spain has shown, wars are still not won in the air...
...France has lost the admirable Czechoslovak army of about two million men and the extremely efficient Czechoslovak air force of about two thousand planes...
...If we could not count on the French army we should have to have conscription in England...
...Law and social sciences utodeatt numbered 24,161 in 1932-33 and no more than 9.684 is 1936-37...
...The shortage in scientists and technical experts of which the Soviet Government constantly complains, is in good measure a result of its own ceaseless war against the human mind, a war in which only the unfit survive...
...others have clotinahf shoes, leather bags, poeketbooks and wS8 Women's underwear in also offered to men who weren't "lucky" enough to have so nJQJ the assignment to "work" in the Sudeten asm under Henlein...
...With a present Jewish population of 17,000, and the territory barred to future immigrants from abroad, Birobidjan has been written off the books by Soviet authorities...
...France and Italy have ceased to count as factors in the European situation...
...Jt is recognised' throughout Britain that, regardless of what's happening in France, the CP...
...They are in Germany, tortured victims of Hitlerism...
...A*friend of mine in Switzerland told me that,when on" a visit to Germany he described to a group of young Nazis the horrors of war and these mere boys said, when he had finished, that that was what they liked.* Nazi Germany is a pathological case...
...In the eveaW they had to pick quarrels with Czechs and anti-Nazis hi punk houses.' "Each day they received instructions, which they had to cany out together with the Henlein men assigned to them as leaden...
...W. Morris, Labor candidate in the Hamstead byelection, and* so en down the line...
...Catholic and Protestant theological students SSW decreased sharply to 7,358...
...With their stooge in office, Czechoslovakia, already in the Nazi orbit, will adopt tin "Kultur" so widely advertised by the Hitler regime...
...Would it be pertinent to ask: What kind of Socialism is it to which the hounded victims of Nazi tyranny cannot adjust themthemselves...
...But it has not extended the hand of welcome to the victims of Fascism's greatest pogrom...
...Yet, asks the Glasgow Forward, when he was writing this -yea advising others to join the Communist Party, why was he ^ in it himself...
...That is the fact and we must never forget it...
...We are face to face with a new barbarian invasion more deadly than that which destroyed the civilization of ancient Rome, for the twentieth century barbarians, while they hate what is essential to civilization—the things of the mind and the spirit — have at their disposal all the material resources of modern civilization...
...The official reasons why the Soviet Union cannot admit Jewish refugees from Nazism are stated authoritatively by V. J. Jerome jn the Daily Worker of November 28...
...If France ever joined with Germany against England—still more if France, Germany and Russia combined against England, England would be lost...
...Instead, the prospect of immediate material gain by filling positions most severely undermanned...
...Dell's observations were also broadcast over Radio Station WEVD...
...There were in 1932-33, 3,589 studying modern langasgoi and only 842 in 1936-37...
...To him, Communism and Jewry are the twin enssdsi of mankinw...
...Despite kg denial that the International Labor Defense is communist, tfcose taking the trouble to check with the proceedings of the Seventh Comintern meeting in 1935 will find in Piatnitsky's ipeech the I.L.D...
...Even doctors' offices and chemist shops were plundered, for the stormtroopers have taken to dealing in all sort* of poison...
...They., were shot down at a moment's notice without a semblance of a trial and without being heard in their own defense...
...He reels off whole sentences cribbed ban Henry Ford and Hitler, while his followers «*pr»* their patriotism by ambushing Jewish citizens in *** alleys at night and clubbing them down...
...Chamberlain himself said in a speech in the House of Commons last year that the strength of England was almost terrifying and now he says that it is unnecessary to increase the pace of British rearmament...
...Various excuses, all untrue, have been made for the capitulation to Hitler at Munich...
...But Soviet Russia has not chosen to admit the refugees...
...tt *^W° reasons are iriven why the Jews must not look to the U.S.S.R...
...They need not have done this, for France is even more necessary to England than England is to France...
...The Nazi movement is a frontal attack on Western civilization...
...That the attacks on the Jewish firms were carried out efficiently is evidenced by the nightly barter in Czech goods which u flourishing throughout the city where Nazis meet," So writes One of the agents of the International Transport Workers Federation's underground movement...
...A comprehensive plan for resettlement of persecuted Jews of Eastern Europe enlisted the financial support of Jewish organizations throughout the world...
...Until the tide of battle turns, there will be no Piece in either land for men of integrity and independence...
...What the Germans need is psycho-analytical treatment, but unfortunately one cannot apply psycho-analytical treatment to 70,000,000 people...
...Thousands of such men are now available for the asking...
...prefers a Popular Front to a suceesaful Labor Party...
...as 'indignant people' in front of Jewish shops...
...toward the refugees, they are able to reconcile advocacy of boycott of Nazi imports for America, with the constantly improving trade relations between the Germany of Hitler and the Russia of Stalin...
...for refuge...
...Why...
...340 applications were rsetefly received from Austria...
...The loss of the Czechoslovak fortifications means that at least thirty German army divisions which, in the event of war, would have had to be kept on Germany's eastern frontier can now be diverted to the west...
...Hodza, disliked by the Slovaks of Bratislava, who has suddenly become acceptable to the German Foreign Office...
...The control of Bohemia makes it easy for Hitler to dominate the whole of Central and Eastern Europe...
...With boundless territory and natural resources, it is underpopulated...
...USSR Shuts Door to Jews Despite Publicized Need for Many Workers Refuse Admission to Refugees on Grounds That Nazi Victims Are "Petty Bourgeoisie" By BORIS SHUB COVIET RUSSIA has made no secret of its dire shortage of professional men and technological experts...
...They are won by invasion or blockade, and England and France could have blockaded Germany all over the world...
...What these "great purposes" are, apart from building a Jewish home, the Stalinist writer leaves unanswered...
...M. Bata, the shoe manufacturer...
...I use the adjective advisedly, for one of the chief characteristics of Hitlerism is its sadism...
...They have been hounded out- of a 11 t h e profes- '' dftf-" sions and even ^kmwGt^ to a great extent Oav^S^' out of commerce J^m ^EL& and industry and /¦ Tjfij deprived of the /^\^B / B means of earn-ijJk V ¦^¦J ing a livelihood...
...It is therefore absurd to say that Hitlerism is the consequence of Versailles...
...We are launching a nationwide campaign"* direct terrorist action against the Jews in the **J near future...
...LEARNING SAGS SHARPLY UNDER NAZI "KULTUR" THAT Germany is committing intellectual suicide is not staruinf news with men like Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, Albeit Einstein and thousands of other prominent scientists, philosophers, historians, novelists, engineers and doctors seeking work—ear work— in strange lands...
...Why...
...Jew-Baiting in Mexico BJIEXICO CITY.—Leaflets entitled "Jewish "* Jewish Blood and Still More Jewish Blood Hn» Flow," have been distributed throughout this city M a fascist organization called the Mexican Nationals Vanguard...
...The three gangsters were arrested and released after payment of 75 pesos by ™* Nationalist Vanguard...
...It has been alleged that England and France were too weak from the military point of view to risk a war...
...lijijluue 30, 1934, Hitler murdered more than a thousand socalled Aryan Germans, including some of the men to whom he owed most, in a single day...
...HITLER OMNIPOTENT TO CENTRAL EUROPE "THE Munich capitulation, which * is the latest of a long series of capitulations to German bluff and blackmail, is an international disaster...
...Seme S_A...
...QUR enterprising colleagues on the Brtish Glasgow Forward v are rather intrigued by Mr...
...The Treaty of Versailles, which was not really more unjust than most of the treaties that have been made by the conquerors after a victorious war, might have been ,the cause of a desire for revenge and of militarist feeling...
...The causes of Hitlerism lie much deeper and go much further back than the Treaty of Versailles...
...If this were true, Chamberlain and his colleagues in the British Cabinet would deserve to be shot, for what in that case i nOeajnO \jalic K/X v&HT...
...Rudolf Bern, admirer of the Reich, the power behind the Agrarians, and Dr...
...If' British and French statesmen had remembered that during the last five years, the state of Europe would not now be what it is...
...CHAMBERLAIN SEEKS TO SAVE FUEHRER...
...Then the censor clamped down and nothing has been heard from the new party...
...ADECADE ago, the Soviet Union made its Balfour declaration—a home for the Jews in Birobidjan...
...w * • T*JE must not forget that for ** more than five years the treatment of the Jews in Germany has been such that a pogrom would be more merciful...
...improvement so marked of late that the Soviet trade delegation to Berlin was recently quadrupled...
...To top it all, Dr...
...By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad NAZIS SET TO PUT STOOGE AT CZECHS' HEAD STRANGE things are seen, these days at Nazi district meetiag* in- Berlin...
...No such program was undertaken at any time...
...On the day after that massacre the London Times said that lor the first time in history the Government of a civilized country had been guilty of a typical gangster crime...
...General Gamelin, head of the French general staff, said in a report to the French Government that, in spite of a certain weakness in the air, the military and naval superiority of England and France to Germany were so great that Germany could not win a war against them...
...There are intelligent politicians in both countries, especially in France, but intelligence without character is not enough, and many of us in Europe have come to the conclusion that character and moral courage are even more necessary in politics than intelligence...
...With the abandonment of one military theory in fa<vor of another, the curtain rang down on the Soviet Balfour declaration, and there was, as always, a Communist to explain the shift to the satisfaction of party members: "What is needed is not the Territory for Jews, but workers for the Territory...
...On the other hand, France is the buffer state between England and Germany and the French army is part of the British national defense...
...JJt would be extremely foolish for the Stalin regime to borrow trouble by inviting refugees from one tyranny to witness the operations of another...
...This decree too* issued eleven days after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria...
...In Spain, as in Austria, Mussolini has been outwitted by Hitler...
...Birobidjan was intended as a Jewish buffer to absorb the first shock of Japanese invasion...
...A prominent Nazi leader said in a public speech in 1933: • "The answer to the Treaty of Versailles is that the German people has left the path of Western civilization...
...does its best to kill votes for the British Labor •arty by spreading propaganda that the Labor Party alone cannot sfpe to win the general election, and that therefore there must snir>- with the Liberal Party and a section of Chamberlain's "for* Conservative Party...
...Most prominent of those mentioned to succeed Benes art Dr...
...They have set up Peace Councils, Councils of jfctior...
...Soviet Russia has sought recognition as the champion of humanity and of all progressive forces, and as Fascism's most implacable foe...
...men have watches, rings, necklaces, bracelets ana other valuable jewelry to offer from a OsSfl ingly unlimited supply...
...It could not posibly have been the cause of such horrors as the persecution of the Jews, which is the logical application of the racist doctrine which is the fundamental dogma of the Nazi religion...
...The party's organization committee has prohibited membership to Jews, and has forced the government to destroy all pictures and busts of former Presidents Thomas G. Masaryk and Edusrd Benes...
...Strachey, writing under the sLow "Communist Party and Labor Party," appealed to his ^aoers to join the Communist Party, f Write3 Strachey: ' "Vet us then devote intense efforts thi3 winter to the building -« of the Communist Party precisely because that is the one E| by which we can ensure the immediate revival of the Labor S^^fke Communist Party at that time had 7,500 members...
...Otherwise, how would it have been possible for the great German poet Heinrich Heine to foretell what is now happening in Germany almost in detail, as he did more than a century ago...
...The reason of this policy was, that so long as France has allies, there was a risk that England might be drawn into a war with Germany because of a German attack not on France itself but one one of the French allies...
...The fear of Bolshevism is often nothing more than the fear of democracy and the nickname is used^to conceal the real aims of the people who use it...
...men, who suddenly vanished in September, have re-appesnsl We thought at the- time that they were et military service, but now they have been tailing us about their 'great deeds.' They had been sent in civfioji dress to the Sudeten German area, where their task was to ae...
...So long as Soviet Russia furnishes Hitler with more than onehalf of the materials he requires for the production of high explosives, so long as Germany supplies more than 20 per cent of **>viet Russia's imports, a satisfactory answer will be difficult even for V. J. Jerome to devise...
...0 long as it was deemed good military theory to encourage ¦tyco'on*zat'°>n at any price in human privation, the Soviet wrVernment was not averse to accepting the capital of American organizations to develop Birobidjan...
...Within its borders are Russians, Ukrainians, Tartars,' Georgians, Armenians, Kalmuks, Bashkirs, Buryats, Yakuts, Tadjiks, Kurds, Chuvashes, Circassians . . . and Jews...
...He was above all a man of character, and the lack of men of character in English and French political life is one of the causes of the present deplorable statt> of...
...L / They hove been 7 \ N reduced to the I v J condition of ^"V helots and, if ^^T/^|' ' they" have been JJJ p& allowed to leave _. the country, Hitler they have been stripped of everything they possessed before they left...
...As early as 1926, a Soviet authority urged the colonization of the region, despite what he described as extremely unfavorable conditions of climate and soil, because of the "predatory designs of Japanese imperialists...
...listed as a fraternal subsidiary of the Third International...
...Soviet Russia needs them badly, but it will not have them...
...WHY DOESN'T STRACHEY JOIN...
...As in this country, the Communists work through their stooge jaaocen: fronts...
...It is abundantly clear from reading the hastily prepared theses of the Communist Party's official writers in this country that the door is locked...
...General Sirovy, who could unite tkt votes of both the right and the left...
...Emil Hacha, a capable jurist oni president of the Supreme Court...
...even foretold the pagan revival which is one aspect of the Nazi movement when he said that the old gods would shake the dust off their statues and descent from their pedestals...
...If Franco wins in Spain that country will be dominated not by Italy but by Germany...
...As m often happens they are masochists as well as sadists, thaf is to say, while they love inflicting torture on others they respect anybody who inflicts it on'themselves...
...He has the protruding eyes of a drug aeon* and enjoys the constant protection of two gunmen...
...As one of the Communist Party's hack writers now puts it...
...There are still some 1350 dispVoi scholars on the Society's rosters...
...The fact remains tragically simple, the Birobidjan promise has been broken...
...We are not in alliance with the G**man embassy, but we have its full sympathy and sp* proval...
...affairs in Europe...
...This is being written just, as the Czech nation, only a few short months ago the finest democracy in Europe, is having a President picked for it by the pro-Germans...
...It is European civilization that is in danger and, if the e'efrr .' of Western civilization is left :i the hands of men like Nevi'!c Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier it will perish as surely as did the civilization of ancient Rome...
...On May 7, 1984, the decree took effect, at a time when there were only 10,000 Jews in the area compared with W.0OO Don-Jews...
...Chvalkovsky, friend •/ the Reichsf uehrer and pro-Xazi Agrarian leader...
...For that reason they are trying to save Hitler and Mussolini now just as they saved Mussolini in 1935 at the time of the Abyssinian affair...
...First, because of their "class status and outlook, bourgeois, or petty-bourgeois," which makes it difficult for, them to "adjust themselves to a Socialist economy and culture...
...Three Vanguardists made an unprovdna assault on a small Jewish businessman, blackjasfcisf him into insensibility...
...The nation's leader, Joseph Stalin, belongs to a race which constitutes less than two per cent of the population, and which is as distinctly un-Russian as the Hindus are un-British...
...The following table, compiled by the "British Scotsman," compares the number of university students taking scientific conrtei in German universities in 1932-1933, when Hitler seised power, with those of 1936-1937: ? 1932-33 1936-37 Medicine _ 32,437 22,797 Engineering _ 14,477 7.649 Chemistry _ 3.543 2,058 Math and Sciences_ 12,951 4,616 The total number of university students under the Hitler regime abas fallen more than 42 per cent...
...tAnother article by Mr.' Dell, analyzing the background of the present European situation, appears In The New Leader next week...
...the ythor Party has millions in tingle memberships, the trade unions B tie Cooperatives.—Ed, Note...
...Knpland will never allow Germany to control Calais or Antwerp or Rotterdam, and for that reason any British Government will always support France in resisting a German attack as the British Government did in 1914...
...fought the proposed Labor candidate in the recent Oxford by-election campaign...
...What Neville Chamberlain and the pro-German group that he represents are afraid of is much less the danger of so-called Bolshevism in England than the danger of it in Germany and Italy if Hitier and Mussolini fall...
...With the destruction of Czechoslovakia this policy has completely succeeded and the joint declaration signed by Hitler and Chamberlain at Munich was the first step towards an AngloGerman alliance in the form of a four-power pact in which France and Italy would be junior partners...
...The same kind of war is going on-m Germany...
...At this moment the horrible treatment of the German Jews by the^Nazi barbarians is causing a ware'of indignation to sweep over the United States and rightly so, bat we must not base our .indictment of the -Nazi regime solely on spectacular atrocities"df this kind...
...John Strachey's adventuTaiJ* this lecture-ridden country...
...France has become a vassal state of England, and Italy a vassal state of Germany...
...CA?\ra lUvUO BwUli3 spent during the lent three years on British rearmament, but it is not true...
...The government prides itself for encouraging the many races to retain their heritage of language and custom...
...But the actual figures of university attendance are shockinc evidence of mental disintegration in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler...
...They represent the best of pre-Nazi Germany's medical schools, laboratories, and en^gineering institues...
...Such then was the prelude to what is happening ro Ciechoslovakia today...
...According to program, there were to be 100,000 Jewish families settled in that territory by 1937...
...What made this suicidal policy on the part of the British and French Governments possible...
...Human memoriae.are short...
...Talkir.e of British Communists—the line there continues unfgMjjhes the CP...
...Would it be proper to suggest that there is little difference between a regime which says that all Jews are Communists, and one which describes them as "carefully planted spies *od other fascist agents...
...Kundt, who was one of the negotiators httween the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs, has formed a Genua* National Socialist Party in Czechoslovakia...
...Moreno Padres has the physique of the rabble-rouS* Goebbels (German propaganda minister), withost eloquence...
...Britain...
...Amused by Strachey's piece is *»• •Mew Republic, repudiating the charge that he is or has been a "'nfffi*'-''• of the British Communist Party...
...At our place several S.A...
...Without fanfare or grabbing at publicity, the British Society for the Protection of Science and Learning for the past five yen* has been handling the academic side of the international refug*» problem...
...Make no mistake about it...
...The explanation of the Munich agreement is, that the objectives of Chamberlain and Hitler are not different, but the same...
...Yet it offers them no haven...
...We assume responsibility for the attack on a Jew * Nov...
...Surely such a state has place for at least one hundred thousand German Jews...
...Preiss, president of the Zivrto Bank, who double-crossed his own country to negotiate with the British long before Munich...
...Yes, Gold Shirt elements are in our orgjpi»> tions and they are welcome...
...Already at least fourfifths of the key positions, including economic positions in the territory under Franco's control, are in German hands...
...Immediately business is adjourned, the room becomes a veritable bartering market of stolen goods—loot takes from- merchants, Jewish and "Aryan," formerly hi business in the Sudeten area...
...No problem in economics or in race confronts the Soviet Union in its choice, no question of unemployment or assimilation...
...to try to turn the pioneering work of Birobidjan into a 'red' Palestine would help neither the millions of refugees nor the great purposes of Birobidjan...
...A few days later he called for a constituent Congress to draw up a constitution and elect officers...
...Because England must in her own interests join with France in resisting any German attack, it has been the deliberate policy of the British Government to separate France from all its eastern friends and allies and intern it, so to speak, in western Europe...
...It is not a racially homogeneous state, nor does it aim to become one...
...Soviet Russia is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world with 18 persons per square mile, compared to 600 in Great...
...Chamberlain and those behind him, one of the most important of whom is Montague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and one of Hitler's best friends, are putting what they believe to be the interests of their class before the interests of their country...
...pERHAPS if Communist penmen cannot give satisfactory answer to the attitude of the U.S.S.R...
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