Tories, Vested Interests Attack Tugwell In Move Against Puerto Rico Reforms
LOW, MATTHEW
Tories, Vested Interests Attack Tugwell In Move Against Puerto Rico Reforms Charge Governor Responsible For 'Absplute Starvation' By Matthew Low Tory reaction at home and vested interests abroad...
...The appointment of Crjpps as ambassador to Russia.was a mistake Jordan says...
...The main crop is sugar for export and some 100,000 tons of shipping are required to keep the island alive...
...The "revolutionary," or outspoken fascist National Socialist elements are partisans of the most active collaboration with the Axis even to the participation in the war as allies of the Axis, and the "traditionalists"—partly the monarchists—aim to regain the independence of Spanish policy and are for neutrality, as is Franco himself...
...There can be little doubt that General Mikhailoviteh is fighting the Germans and Italians...
...This is most notably true in France where large ? a ? i t a 1 s t groups working with the Nazis maintained persons high in the de Gaulle entourage, as Louis Levy charged in London...
...Political motives become more obvious in the Times-Herald crack that "there's a poverty-strieken little island on the edge of the Caribean Sea that this country has overlooked in its program of world-saving...
...They have dressed up things into a . fantastic scare-crow called "Tugwell" in an extremely shrewd campaign to frighten people away from "planning" and "reform" ideas during and after 'j the war...
...Some have made war-time modifications, others are still giving it straight...
...Tugwell and the specter of socialization...
...That Puerto Rico is currently in a bad way can't be denied...
...The pound sterling will decline in importance in world trade...
...Among the artists exhibiting is Nicholas Mochamiuk, a young wood carver whose animal sculpturing has attracted wide attention...
...Are we going to restore the Malaxa works to Herrn Malaxa and Carol...
...The income which wu Owing from virtually all parts of the world paid for her large imports of food and raw material...
...In the August ISth New York Times, Ray Brock, writing from Turkey, comments on the forays and expeditions of General Mikhailoviteh and reports that the Turks were watching the Mikhailoviteh campaign with great sympathy...
...Another "gem" is to be found on page 13: "First Lady Starts Propaganda for Next Communist Move...
...And what will'take place in liberated countries will set the tone in which the peace will be made...
...Draja Mikhailovitch, leader of the Chetnik guerillas...
...Clippings and Comments By DANIEL BELL AW?ASEMfiSiT psychology « a strange tiring...
...At the same time much of the capital of the banks of this country is invested 1 today in United States Bonds...
...What of Hungary's large chemical industries which were absorbed by the I. G. Farben...
...Before the war British, German, Belgian, French, Czechoslovak and Swiss capital was heavily represented in the Hungarian chemical industry (that's real Balkan politics you see...
...published last month in England by Philip Jordan, the London Sews Chronicle correspondent in Russia...
...After the Spanish shake-up, the Goebbels weekly, "Das Reich," wrote that Franco arrived at his decision "when the divergences between revolutionary and conservative (or traditionalist) elements neared . their climax...
...About $7,500,000 ha* been sold or drained off in two years of war...
...Most of the ammunition for the campaign was collected by reporter Homer Bigart, who took a quick trip into, the Caribbean, and came home with a series of articles on the war-time food and general economic situation for the N. Y. Herald-Tribune...
...It still keeps its heart open for Father Coughlin on its pages, and says so...
...Informed, responsible Puerto Ricans say that the governor is earnestly and steadily trying to improve the lot of the Puerto Rican people, and if the war hadn't come, his work would be much further along...
...We don't need "Social Justice" any longer to return to its place on the stands of hate...
...For once we can be wholly satisfied with the political as well' as the military preparations of a great offensive operation...
...Three of his pieces are also to be exhibited shortly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Artists for Victory Show...
...3rd, Franco himself became "Spiritual and Legimitate Chief of the Falange," replacing his brother-in-law, Serrano Super, who at the same, time was removed as Foreign Minister...
...The '35,000 is a bottom figure which could easily be augmented to triple that number with nearly full equipment That General Mikhailoviteh to a large extent is responsible for the large number of Axis troops is admitted by any observer of the scene...
...Currying favors from America politically will be the other way...
...What she needs'from Spain is voluntary and active cooperation...
...Of such criminal folly I had evidence in the early months at 1?4?, when I visited Syria .at the invitation of General Weygaad...
...reconvened it, naming its ninety-five new members...
...In September we were told that the shake-up in the Spanish government was primarily concerned with internal Spanish affairs and not with her foreign policy...
...But what of 1944—if rese-tionarv «Jementu return t/» nffi«.' Franco and Spanish Neutrality By GEORGE DECKER General Franco dissolved the National Council of the Spanish Falange and...
...The N. Y. Daily News has picked up this line and told Gov...
...He was not interested in beating the Germane...
...There exist in North Africa and there will exist everywhere the problems of relief, of administration, political andeconomicproblems...
...Tugwell in so many words to get-the-hell-out of Puerto Rico...
...About one-half of these investments were in the British Empire, one-fifth in Latin America and one-fifth in the United States...
...Editor Defends Coughlin,News, Hits FDR as'Red' By WALTER K. LEWIS Hitler attacks "Democracy," "Judaism," "Communism," "Free Masonry" in one all-out blast Some of our domestic pro-fascists ¦ and proto-fascist...
...In Rumania the Hermann Goering Werke took over the giant Malaxa and Reshitza steel works...
...Fabian society, is that Britain exists today only by selling large chunks of her principal to pay her war costs and food costs...
...Franco's pledge of neutrality is sincere, but the force praying the strongest will mark the ultimate decision...
...taikeo darkly of destroying Russia, the bugaboo, and taking on the Nazis at leisure...
...In June, 1940, Weygand urged French capitulation to the Germans.] Jordan's explanation of the Hess mission is that the Nazis knew this and thought British higher-ups were still prepared to attack Russia...
...At the outbreak of the war in 1939 the United Kingdom had security investments, direct investments and income productive resources aggregating roughly $25,000,000,000...
...capitalist extraordinaire...
...Just last week the U. S. government in effect stated publicly that Carol was undesirable by arresting two of his agents who were seeking to arrange his entry here...
...Administration- spokesmen in Washington have not as yet come to the defense of New Dealer Tugwell, but have made several efforts to stop the reactionary front from making further progress...
...lutes-Continent Press, declares these men to be' from Montenegro, Boca and Sandshak...
...As has been written, we are now receiving "Hull's dividends," including s. new arrangement with the Governor of MatJlfriqpe...
...In both instances the almighty dollar will rule...
...Tugwell has driven the territory into "absolute starvation...
...The position of the pound sterling, reflectisg England's position in the international capitalist sphere, has deteriorated recently in terms of the dollar and the currencies of other countries, particularly those of Latin America...
...Practically any loans made today for foreign consumption are "political" loans not only in the sense of government throwing around it* weight for reasons of politics, but that the government will guarantee the success and re-' payment of foreign loans made by bank...
...But the shape of the post-wsr world will be sketched by finance...
...that the Spanish, troops in Morocco resist tile Allied counter-offensive until the Germans arrive and that the Spacish army aid her in guarding Spain's...
...The Malaxa combine was run by a group which was dominated by King Carol...
...Allies have many friends among the Spanish people, but Franco and the Spanish ruling party cannot be considered as friends of the democracies, but only as Spanish politicians interested in safeguarding the neutrality of their country...
...Tugwell's alliance with Marin's democratic forces on the slogan of Pan, Ticrra ? Libertad (Bread, Land and Liberty) is called "dangerous" politics...
...de Franee and Stal Street—viz the Beck government in Poland A Hitlerite Germany commanded loans more easily than the Weimar republic...
...The German military forces are, of course, able to break Spanish resistance, but in this case 1 just another occupied country will be of no value to Germany...
...Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes (under whom the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico, an "unincorporated territory" comes) has flatly opposed a Senate investigation of conditions in the island, contending that it "would serve principally as a sounding board for a few people who nope to make political capital out of the effects of the war upon Puerto Rican economy...
...He had sent French airplanes to take aerial photographs of .both, Baku and Batoum...
...Despite the fact that the Council was dissolved as a matter of course at the expiration of its term, it was an event of great importance, presenting Franco with the opportunity to consolidate his power by the nomination of members of his own choice to the new Council...
...that is why Hess came...
...Action by enemy submarines and military shipping needs of the United Nations offensive have cut that figure in half...
...its recent October, 1942 issue, bas joined the forces of "modification...
...Behind the whole splash about trouble in Puerto Rico is very clearly what reporter Bigart has called "Dr...
...With a New Deal regime in Washington and a strong British Labor Party in London, strong pressures can be exercised te see that democratic governments are not discriminated against...
...Although Mikhailoviteh is the main leader of .the resistance-forces, there are other groups...
...William M. Malison...
...However, it is no longer possible to separate domestic and foreign policy in Spain, because the divisions in the ruling groups coincide with the varied orientations of the foreign policy...
...Post-war Europe is going to he very much poorer than ever before, and there is going to be a wild scramble for foreign help...
...In it Koch writes: "If the question were put outright] ?: 'Is Fascism a serious threat to freedom?' we would with equal firmness answer: No!'" Koch devotes many pages in the November issue and in preceding issues to the defense of Fascism and—according- to Koch himself -^4ts corollary, the Corporative Order, as a "guarantee" of true freedom...
...to inspect and see for myself something of the French war effort in that country...
...But th$re are .Croats, Slovenes,' Moniencgrans, and smaller nationalist units...
...Bolivar · Pagan, Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in Washington, has hinted that he will call for Tugwell's impeachment at the next session of Congress...
...The conservative press has been particularly virulent...
...The answer was given a week previous in the staid financial pages of the Herald Tribune under the innocuous title of Ik S.-British Step to Guard the 'Pound...
...One not entirely unnlausible explanation for the flight of Pierre Flandin to North Africa is not political but economic, that Flandin was acting on behalf of such interests as the new Comite des Forges-Hermann Goering Werke tie-up, in seeking to arrange protection for properties owned jointly by these two...
...It is evident that Spanish neutrality is of the utmost, perhaps of decisive importance to the Allies, ; and therefore Spain must reckon with the strongest...
...In liberated countries, there will be problems which will not be solved by military occupation alone...
...THE key role of American capital in any * post-war world underscores in part .a growing partnership of the banking fraternity with government...
...Others are the natural result of the economic situation in <rermany, others again are temporary extremes, and not the essence or true expression of the regime...
...spreading defeatism, confusion, and 'best serving the Nazi, ratherthan the Allied...
...against General...
...The progressive^ program . of social reform and reconstruction started by Gov...
...In Congress, reactionary Senators Millard Tydings (Md...
...Xbis .writer has just received the November issue...
...Hanson Baldwin in a round-up in the New York Times last week reports that Mikhailorviteh has been fighting the conquerors while the - Communist partisans carry "on a somewhat indiscriminate campaign...
...In further defense of Hitler, .Koch asserts that Nazism is destroying the "decayed and evil fruit of Liberalism" and therefore improving the religious stock of all Europe...
...IS column possibly may have been bearing * down too hard on the complicated financial side of events...
...Cooperation with Darlan is bringing fruitful results...
...In The New Leader of August 22 and August 29, this campaign was spotted and^-tW questions raised: why do...
...and Dennis Chavez (N.M...
...On Page 4 in discussing "smear sheets," namely newsletters ] exposing anti-Semitic and antidemocratic organizations and...
...On the domestic scene, this column pointed out that the Chase National, Banker* Trust, Tint National, Guaranty Trust and J. P. Morgan Bank led a pool of 400 bank* in underwriting one billion dollars of General Motors capital expansion only after' the United States government guaranteed the loan...
...Despite liquidating her capital investments, thus losing income from investment which paid for her food imports, Britain today has moved into the debtor orbit of the United States...
...Ofttimes the "main enemy" is at home, as when the French induabjjial interests, which had been fighting the Germans in the war of 1870, united with the Germans tc crush the Paris Commune...
...A XKW YOBJk TIMES -editorial writer, citing *Va recent study showing-the qfrtujsjb/.jU»-amounts of British investments m India—compared to the total capital in the country—»cor», fully asked "vulgar Marxist dogmatists" what that did to their theory of imperialism and exploitation...
...2, 8:30 p. m.: "Present Battles of Protestant Faith," Dr...
...That view of the world struggle was by no means confined to Wey-gand or to the French...
...The Malist is making its contribution to confusion...
...Some of the capital was taken over by the Germans when they occupied various countries, other shares were transferred before occupation to neutral banks...
...It agrees with the Daily News' scrupulous attack on the Kosher meat preparation as a "Black Market," and lauds the Daily News generally...
...the economic imperialists, has "a master plan for busting the sugar corporations and exorcising private enterprise...
...the map of Europe, high Allied: leaders suli refused to see Nazism ,ae the mam threat but...
...A recent report shows that from February 1982 to March 1941 the Federal Government through .l...
...The net effect of the Communist campaign ean only be to harm the fight of the Yugosia vie people against the Axis both .within Yugoslavia and abroad...
...Horace L. Friess...
...Here is a real jigsaw puzzle...
...Tories, Vested Interests Attack Tugwell In Move Against Puerto Rico Reforms Charge Governor Responsible For 'Absplute Starvation' By Matthew Low Tory reaction at home and vested interests abroad have combined forces in concerted political warfare against Rex-ford Guy Tugwell, America's governor in Puerto Rico...
...Roosevelt issued sometime . ago about women power in the factories, on the field of battle, etc...
...you would think that-this war was not a war against Fascism, but a special little private war against Governor TugWelK This amazing performance, this loud, violent and libelous kind of political attack . depresses and disgusts those Puerto Ricans who care deeply for the welfare of their country and not for any special interests of their own...
...Wednesday, Dec 2, 2:30 p. m.: "Workers Movement and Middleclass in American Literature," Mrs...
...Hitler's recent declaration to liquidate four million Jews is glibly dismissed by Koch with: tlSttoy of those restrictions are simply normal restrictions during war-time...
...Means of guaranteeing freedom for the citizenry are provided for in a Corporative Order," writes Koch...
...Wage-hour laws are disrupting industry...
...and he would show these photographs with the same sort of excited pleasure that a ruined debauehee will .exhibit indecent photographs to the curious...
...This is the backdrop of the political maneuvers that are piying the day's headlines...
...This . will justify our course.'" The Guildsman is being circulated widely through the U. S. mails...
...In the pre-war Europe democratic and socialist governments couldn't function because needed capital was denied them by foreign bankers, while reactionary element* with little support among the people were able to rule by virtue of alliaece» with...
...In this rearrangement of -· · -forces, with the problem of post-war loans looming largest on the international political horizon, may be foreshadowed the active alliance of capital and government in a new international world...
...and others...
...Mikhailovitch'sforces are variously estimated to be between 35,000 and 100,000 men...
...Those who axe .politically close to the doctrines of Stalinism are.objects of far greater suspicion tp_the Russian mind than those who are opposed to .them, for the more dangerous opponent is be who offers a programme similar but yet different from, that which .you -are trying yourself to sell...
...Since that time, the campaign has been accelerated...
...the first and the largest maps that I saw in his headquarters were not maps of Turkey, and of how to go to its aid...
...Glory...
...These are going to be some of the interest* clawing behind the sugared acreer of peaceful poet-war .readjustments...
...The dollar is emerging as king...
...And in business circles in New York the same campaign is under way as Jose'Ferre, of the Puerto Rico Iron Works, blasted Tug-well's administration...
...So in the early days of this war, when the Nazi war machine wasjracing in high gear ov^sr...
...On Sept...
...The situation is complicated by . the fierce racial grouping and rivalries...
...Similar remarks have been cabled from San Juan by Luis Munoz-Marin, president of the Puerto Rican Senate, and leader of the Popular democratic party, Samuel Quinones House speaker, and Jose Santi-banez, head of the Liberal party, all of whom are highly sympathetic with the Tugwell administration...
...Some observers have not been content merely to state the facts...
...In older to strengthen the Spanish will to guard her neutrality, the Germans must be prepared to intervene with sufficient forces...
...There has been talk of U. S. reconstruction loans to Britain...
...Widespread currency devaluation and money wars may be one of the chief weapons as the various countries fight for feed and goods...
...Atlantic coast This coast is not so well fortified as the French coast and the German army in Spain would be * all the more exposed to the attacks of the Allied forces...
...Wednesday, Dec...
...Koch in Father Coughlin style borrows' the device of using m higher authorities to bolster his ¦ stand...
...and I should say also that the ascetic mind and the mind that eaehews the more earthly pleasures is one that Russians find inimical...
...The partisan and ¦ Communist bands are small and alone are certainly not responsible for the estimated twenty divisions of troops "bojding down" Yugoslavia...
...Nothing was done right...
...tacks not only have a communist but a racial appeal...
...Lectures at Elliott Institute John L. Elliott Institute of Human Relations, Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West and 64th Street...
...What has been happening, as this column pointed out previously in a discussion of tee post-war plans of the British...
...Mikhailo-vitch, a Serb, is attacked, according to the Daily Worker, by Slovene, Montenegran societies...
...contention that the lay Catholic magazine "is more outspoken than Social Justice and in effect more, sympathetic to the doctrine of Nazism than the Bund's own Free American...
...but were maps showing how best and most easily British and French troops could move up to the Armenian plateau and attack the oil wells of Baku...
...The Maust, published by F. Harry Sattler of P. 0. Box 198, Meriden, Connecticut, in...
...signs his work Nimo, has done a number of fascinating cats, giraffes and deer...
...Curiously enough, the at...
...A statement of "74 patriots" repudiating Mikhailoviteh, released by the Moscow news agency...
...The Washington Times-Herald (Cis-sie Patterson, publisher), which wouldn't touch a social reform with a ten-foot pole, has suddenly become uncontrollably sentimental about the poor people who "live in huts above swamps, in rags and misery and pick over uncovered garbage dumps...
...Now, when Spain holds a key position in a very important theatre of the war and her complicity would be of the greatest value to "Germany, Franco must consolidate his internal position as strongly as possible in order to resist German pressure, supported by the "revolutionar^"— accenting to German terminology —elements in Spain herself...
...were not maps that might the quicker haa/e enabled the French in Syria to damage the actual enemy's influence in that part of the world...
...Here Is what the financial writer " vulgarly" wrote of British investments: '/This vast reservoir of oversea* assets played an important part in the pre-war earnings position of Greet Britain...
...It is more than likely that the - Tory hearts are bleeding not for the "frail, hollow-cheeked native children" but for the somewhat pale and frightened vested interi eats which have not been too . happy under Tugwell's progressive government and are even more anxious about the future...
...On Page ^of the August The Guildsman, Koch projects one of his many subtle attacks on the democratic order: "Distinctly improper is this clamor for democracy, when it takes the form of antagonism to so-called 'Fascism,' in other words, to corporate developments or, to be more definite, to a system which implies regulations or restrictions of freedom...
...The most disagreeable partners may" be the" Snost useful ones...
...Monday, Nov...
...French Nocth Africa, the first European territory occupied by Allied troops, may already be considered as the first liberated' territory...
...Art Note—Mocharaiuk, Young American Artists Open Shew at Morqn...
...Added to this is the fact that a .number of guerilla bands were sheer bandit groups out for the spoils...
...Tugwell," cry spokesmen for...
...What is goipg to happen to the properties absorbed into the Hermann Goeriag Werke or I. G. Farben, for example...
...the event of a drive through Spain, it would be necessary for Germany...
...A. Koch- editor-publisher of the monthly magazine The Guildsman which advocates Nazism .as a philosophy...
...In this issue we provide further proof to our...
...Smears on Mikhailovich Increase For the past four months the Communjst press \bes been conducting...
...He attacks the Communists for having helped mightily to pave the way for Hitler...
...r* ----:---j the R.F.C...
...Ctfy, the...
...Several such ghastly stories are toid in a book, Russian...
...Communist* sow these seeds of dissension...
...Who is to get what...
...There can be no harm in saying bow that the old gentleman, was infinitely more concerned with the hopes of an attack by the Allies on Russia than he was concerned with the necessity of beating the Germans...
...This process which was in motion before the war has been accelerated by the last three years...
...Gallery A Christmas exhibition of small oils, water colors, drawings and wood carvings by contemporary American artists opened this week at the Marquie Gallery,-16 West 67th Street...
...Money was wasted...
...Enter Ambassador Joseph Davies...
...German pressure and must be prepared to defend her neutrality...
...Correspondent Martha Gell-horn, in her recent report on Puerto Rico, has written...
...It is the statement that Mrs...
...And finally: '"We have been attacked and defamed for 'defending Nazism' by-writing thus, when, in truth, we were defending Christianity by protesting against a wrong attitude toward Nazism, when by 'defending Nazism' we sought to further a realization of our motto: 'To restore all things in Christ, particularly here in our country where the break of a new era with all that implies will also come, and sooner than is realized...
...Suner remained a member of the old Council and retains his membership in the new one, but he is no longer in a key position...
...Tugwell has, as a consequence, been upset, and there are vast, social and economic dislocations...
...It means, for example, that kindred interest* can recognize each other across national' lines easier than these interests can identify themselves with their own country...
...There is also little doubt that the divisions of German and Italian troops immobilized in Yugoslavia are there because of Mfkhailo-viteb's forces...
...Mikhailoviteh is a .Serb, and hie main backing comes from the Serbs...
...Therefore the latest Cabinet changes were to be considered as "the most important event of the Spanish internal policy since the civil war...
...pumped 12 billion dollars into U. S. business, the largest single item being banks and trust companies...
...What ho of Malaxa...
...periodicals, The Malist says: "The Malist to date has not investigated these publishers to determine their status for publishing an un-American sheet urging depression of other publishers, that are not in accord with their foreign and monopolizing principles that appear mixed with Masonicism, Communism, Atheistic Judaism based on hatred and aggression...
...At the end of a passage heaping praise on Nazi Germany and infamy on the Allied cause —with particular bitterness evidenced toward Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Allied war effort in particular — Koch poses the question: "Should not Catholics follow the example of the Pope in refraining from denunciation of Germany...
...Algernon D. Black...
...On Page 3 of this publication in a box set off from the rest of ' the page there is a legend reading: "This space was reserved to advertise Social Justice magazine before it was biddled and became a victim of un-Amerieanism...
...Ersatz is being turned out throughout the country...
...It attacks Free Masonry as a factor for getting the world embroiled in a war, and then goes on to ask readers to purchase war bonds...
...have violently called for an (official investigation of the administration of Puerto Rico on the grounds that Gov...
...From fbe evidence it .is apparent that Communist leaders have made an alliance .with the bandit.groups on the one hand, and various racialists on the other...
...THIS department nominates its favorite project * for poet-war problems: unscrambling the .new Nazi economic union with the older capitalist interests of occupied nations...
...Darlan obtained . the adherence of - French West Africa and Dakar—-an important victory...
...Stupidity was rampant...
...A goodly number of capitalists remained in countries occupied by the N a ? i s and worked with them— while maintaining strong contacts a-broad...
...Collapse and revolution were imminent...
...Page 8, November issue...
...Liberals such as myself are regarded with greater dislike than out and out reactionaries...
...are still echoing that line...
...Jordan is by no .means a fellow-traveler...
...The prospect of "government-managed industry and government-regulated cooperative farms" is repudiated, and all education in that direction termed "cheesecake...
...The island covers...
...The pictureBigart painted constituted perhaps the most devastating indictment in the history of public administration...
...Service men and women in uniform admitted free...
...area ol about 35 by 100 miles, with s population of almost two million and is just about one of the mos: crowded places on earth...
...The Guildsman' Justifies Nazism By THOMAS LEE RICE Special to The-New Leader CHICAGO, I1L—In last week's issue, The New Leader exposed Edward...
...Also exhibiting at the Marquie Gallery are Milton Avery, Ronnie Elliott, Nathaniel Dirk, Nicholas Takis, Gerrit Hondius, Arnold Friedman, Joseph Soiman...
...In any case, American capital will emerge from the war in the strongest position, while Britain passes into the decline...
...Mochamiuk, woo...
...From innocuous items buried in its foreign page, the Daily .Worker now-.prints large front-page articles attacking Mikhailoviteh and his Chet-niks...
...30, 8:30 p. m.: "Science and World Economy," Dr...
...Foreign" capital wants "safe" government* which will not disturb the statue quo and expropriate "foreign" investment...
...The Nazis never seized any of these plants outright but manipulated stock ownership...
...This operation is the beginning of the long process of liberation...
...All this behind the guise of being "The Voice of a Christian...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 48
