U.S. ISOLATIONISM PLAYS INTO HANDS OF EUROPEAN RAIDERS
Oneal, James
U.S. ISOLATIONISM PLAYS INTO HANDS OF EUROPEAN RAIDERS Weakens Anti-Hitler Nations By JAMES ONEAL WITHIN one month to a day after Dictator Hitler ordered Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor,...
...The League has just issued' a public statement in which it demands that "we drop the humane attitude towards this Jewish question...
...I The Power Trust, of course, was gallantly to the front, ably ¦gported-hy the Munition cohorts, the Railroad Battalion and the' PSgf J^w*!^' Jy"yt think, has the One Per Cent displayed a Msmfc^s^BjQnafrmwflsnvTl Inij, or a more reckless courage in the charge, i -.1 trmt I 4Mlf net be deemed unduly prejudiced if I remark that •rW g*t to hand if to them for the masterly strategy they displayed m this historic occasion...
...Hitler's power tactics during the past few days verify the reports that Nazi troops, planes, tanks and "big guns are being maneuvered into position throughout the continent to finish Spain and march on Czechoslovakia within the next month...
...The result was the abnormal Ku Klux Klan and eventual defeat of tiie northern dictatorship...
...If the Czechs are coordinated into the Nazi slave pen, Hitler will not forget his "blood brothera" in Switzerland...
...Hew curious to have to note in the Twentieth Century that the ¦Hsst statecraft is the frankest...
...Maryland, for example, it was learned that 30 per cent of the jyrc* between 16 and 25 years that is in a position to be employed .*^*J*saly idle...
...wl t ,der the social system yon so strenuously uphold, exactly 1 ^S"*" has yanth...
...Lincoln's statement that a nation cannot remain half free and half slave, that it will eventually become all one or the other, is also true of the world...
...Two-thirds of the jobless have never had full-time *y«syinapt, and a large number, being interviewed, admitted a vita^ ,2**2Jasaent...
...Hitler's Nazia -jam the Ku Klux of Europe...
...And what of Poland ? It is reported that a secret agreement is already under way through which Poland will trade part of the Polish Corridor to link East Prussia with Nazi Germany in return for Polish conquest of Lithuania...
...The Nazis already have five ! American newspapers...
...Mussolini never anticipated the appearance of Hitler's troops at the Brenner Pass, the gateway to the Tyrol, where jsl quarter-million German "blood brothers" are ruled by the Italian dictatorship...
...By VICTOR RIESEL Nazi seizure of Austria was the signal for revitalized activity of the Fascist American-German Bund here, although its leader, Fritz Kuhn, is waiting patiently in Berlin for Hitler's orders on American tactics when the Fuehrer himself returns from Vienna...
...It is our duty to cooperate with the democratic nations and build up a system of world security and Vet the terrorists of Berlin and Rome understand that there is a limit to their provocations...
...Chamberlain's stuffed doll that he called "Realism...
...They have carried it into Spain and Austria with bombing planes, tanks, machine guns and cannon...
...The expansion of this hideous Thing throughout Europe means a new Dark Age on the Continent and the blotting out of the best of modern civilization...
...It was heartily welcomed there, but our isolationist impossibilists immediately attacked the mere suggestion that we owed some responsibility for the preservation of peace, security: and free-dom throughout the world...
...WE bad forgotten our own Civil " War and its aftermath...
...The next best weapon in the reactionary armory is ridicule of sayfMsg progressive, and a comic story with a simple and obvious applicability...
...1 mi to to Europeon Nods The Bund claims that it is an "essential part of the movement of the 100,000,000 Aryan (White Gentile) Americans, fighting to reconstitute our country a free and sovereign, God-fearing, saoraL social and national United States...
...The realities of "Realism" are now somewhat too apparent...
...On the other hand, Italian fascism may be compensated by a big share in the Spanish booty and thus repair the crack in the Rome-Berlin axis...
...Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando were the modern counterparts of Stevens, Sumner and Wade...
...Cooperating together, the two dictators have never fully agreed as to their respective aims, and Hitler has outwitted the Rome terrorist...
...Vienna Coup Sigh For U.S...
...Irked by their having been left out of the cabinet, they intend to stir up a row over the abandoning of the forty-hour week in the munitions industry—something to which the workers in the industry have agreed...
...the C,"* pie*** don't tell me anything about Reds and Moscow and g aorrible Communists...
...This would make a stronger buffer between Germany and Russia...
...If the Conservative government had from the beginning played m the level with France, Britain would not now be in this sad state »f hanihation...
...Well, **¦ act so that you would notice it...
...1I7E, the American people, by our ** inaction and indifference, share a heavy responsibility for the rise Policy After Big War Hit Democracy of the dread Nasi spectre that now haunts all Europe...
...IS CZECHOSLOVAKIA DOOM tOt IUAZI GERMANY was still di-gesting her Austrian booty when the long straggle of the Spanish Republic against fascism entered a new crisis with the prospect that General Franco will add Spain to the European fascist bloc and thus menace both Britain and France in the Mediterranean...
...Thus twenty years after the end of the World War, peace is less stable than when it ended...
...With the brutal conquest of Austria, darkness is settling over Europe...
...It has prepared a vicious letter, iu...
...Neither the United States nor the Allies did anything to encourage the Weimar Republic...
...Make Opon Attack There's nothing subtle about the new Nazi drive, which gets its impetus in New York City...
...Germany is massing more troops in Spain and Austria than would be neceaaary to crush the Loyalist government or keep Austria subdued...
...Those fifty thousand men, besides threatening Prance, will keep Italy from grabbing too much from Franco while Germany is left out in the cold...
...Despite Hitler's naive and obscurantist letter of assurance to Mussolini and the letter's short and meaningless telegram to Hitler in Vienna, there is realisation in Rome that Hitler made a boob oi his Rome partner...
...No other interpretation can be given to the fact that all roads leading to the eastern section of Austria are jammed with war materials and soldiers...
...There are at least three camps with military drilling grounds and 16 central headquarters in and about the metropolitan area...
...Bearing the brunt of the attack in Nazi appeal for membership at* of eourse the Jews...
...The average wage of these that could And any em-"Pjjjj^waa, about $ 13 a week- And they saw no chance of any<h» ^v.ery vear- thousands of young men and young women issue from ^^jmlymitiea and the schools to project themselves upon the same C?**Bh wall...
...It's apparent that • the Fuehrer, who will proclaim himself something entirely new at the meeting of the "Reichstag" in Berlin on Friday, is maneuvering himself into a position where he can keep Great Britain, France and Italy subdued as he proceeds to re-arrange the borders of Central Europe...
...Early in 1933 he became Chancellor, and in' March, when Roosevelt became President at the lowest depth of the depression, Hitler held his "election" and the German Republic perished in an orgy of brutality...
...ypfsswonan the inevitable struggle will be ten times as great did as desperate...
...Duphunny of Cornell...
...Invaluable time (and much gasping) would have been saved if this obvious fact had been recognized long ago...
...At the same time, Soviet Russia, the one nation which could dispatch enough planes, tanks, and even men, to turn the tide in Catalonia, hides behind the flimsy excuse that it is too far from the scene of battle...
...They ignore entirely that it is perfectly obvious who the "nearby State" was that sent • the Loyalists enough men, munitions and big guns to roll the Insurgent advance back thirty miles...
...Russia was blowing out her brains, leaving a-^stodgy killer surrounded by official sycophants to do his will...
...The Berlin terrorist struck at an opportune moment...
...THE HOLE OF MUSSOLINI A ND Fascist Italy ? There is little *" doubt that Mussolini was groggy over Hitler's march into Austria, as that conquest reduces Mussolini's brutal regime to a secondary place...
...The Rome-Berlin axis may yet be broken...
...Meantime, the German people kept their heads and Hitler made little headway...
...This work has been relegated to a spurious League of American Nationalists which publishes reams of anti-Semitic material "warning Gentiles against the Jewish invasion and urging them to employ and buy from Gentiles...
...THE NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL CO...
...But the war debts were held by American bankers, and Allied force collected the installments and forwarded them to American usurers...
...A referendum was to be held to decide Austrian independence...
...They required the Germans to pay the war debts of the Allied victors and the threat of armed force compelled yielding to these impossible terms...
...It is the duty of the organized workers and all others who cherish democracy to do their utiacct to foster the ideal of collective security as against the international anarchy that has brought the worki to the brink of another terrible catastrophe...
...The public ownership of this form of public supply has brought tka advantages and conveniences of electricity into thousands of ' **•*» where such additions to life had never been known before...
...Then, of course, the Nazis in the Sudeten will "invite" the German troops in to "protect* them...
...impotence and defeat...
...became critical of dictatorships and hinted at the need of a "quarantine" against them...
...Throwing off any- pretenses of working within the structure of American traditions and mores, the Nazis, for the first time since Berlin set up their newspapers and Bund headquarters, declared themselves for dictatorship, tie "leadership" principle, openly incited attack—economic and physical—upon the Jews, and flashed swastikas across their sheets...
...Moreover, in despair of contributing anything to world stabilisation, the President turned to the nest alternative—an immense increase in national armament...
...It certainly won't require the fifty thousand Nasi soldiers | which Hitler has sent into Francos m'Tit^i r>eaapii1 ^^^r^ control wb^ <1» Italoa .wSff, about 150,000 strong, armed with the moat modern fighting equipment Hitler and Mussolini could find, fights its way into Catalonia...
...Two megalomaniacs -thirsting for power have forged a new philosophy of government, a regime of dictatorship and slavery...
...nOFITS ARM MENACED WHILE the clamors over these air-raids was going on, vehement "shouts arose from the serried ranks of the One Per Cent for • Congressional investigation of TV A. It is to be noted that nobody demanded an investigation of the reason for this concerted assault at this time...
...An assassin's bullet ended this hope and gave the vengeful Stevens, Sumner and Wade their opportunity to enslave the southern people at the point of bayonets...
...A victorious Spanish fascism also means two fascist powers across the French border, Hitler on the East and Franco on the South...
...Besides all this, Hitler knows that H Duce isn't as enthusiastic over the Rome-Berlin axis now as he was two months ago . . . and Hitler wants the mining sections of Spain for himself...
...ISOLATIONISM PLAYS INTO HANDS OF EUROPEAN RAIDERS Weakens Anti-Hitler Nations By JAMES ONEAL WITHIN one month to a day after Dictator Hitler ordered Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, to meet him in Germany, German troops marched into Austria...
...bnt following the world depression Hitler's sadistic movement forged rapidly to the front...
...Blum'j Greatest Fight In the meantime, Leon Blum faces the greatest test of his Socialist career...
...Meantime, we refused to join the League of Nations and the election of 1920 brought complete isolation from European problems except as the periodical pound of flesh was exacted by our banking bouses...
...Throaten French Rear The same situation obtains in Spain...
...The French Communists are howling about officailly opening up the border to Loyalist Spain, knowing that Blum's cabinet would probably fall during the opening days of the House of Deputies session if he did so...
...Faced ,by bitter rightist groups who termed to form a national cabinet, the danger of having France's vital Mediterranean life lines cut by the fascists and the Nazis, the desperate Loyalist need for immediate military aid, the threat of warfare on France's southern and western borders, and a sabotaging CummaniSt Party, Blum must keep his cabinet in office or tarn the government over to minority right-wing groups and the possibility Of Fascism in France...
...Local units have already been established all over the country in which the German language limitation is ignored and non-Germans take an .increasing part every week...
...Eager to achieve, fed upon the hope to achieve and ^wng fa reality nothing to Sj?Jpme but a place in the breadline...
...During the long rule of the Republican Party from 1920 to the financial crash in 1929, we did little to help Europe and much to harm her...
...architects of atmospheric castles and artists in hopeful jfsSa^T" B*rn*T* McFadden and Prof...
...So Senator Neanderthal supplied it in a Senate debate •as" aa obliging newspaper dug it out of the Record and sent it upon fi» travels...
...On the other hand, the Czechs have little hope of averting the new Dark Age unless Britain and France support them...
...Hitler realizes that the international situation has been reversed and that the longer he waits the stronger his enemies— the democratic nations—become...
...But that was ¦ot really needed...
...Neither government was able to agree on a policy regarding Hitler's raid...
...The cat-o'-nine-tails that cut bleeding welts in the faces and bodies of Vienna victims the past week is a symbol of what fascism means for all humanity...
...Both ^wtre hatched fn the same egg of intolerance, greed, and revenge...
...MASTERLY STRATEGY MEANTIME, have our Fascists been asleep at the switch...
...The German people were enslaved to the Allied Powers...
...And of the United Press, Mr...
...Work starts as soon as Kuhn returns from Germany...
...after ten centuries of independent existence and so much of d power and influence, Austria falls into the Fascist net-work, and impressionable people, who have managed to fortify themselves against jig march and plain significance of events, gasp and shiver...
...All indications are that Czechoslovakia will be raided by Hitler, but it is probable that the Czechs will fight rather than submit to the Nazi noose...
...Jjj* this condition, representing a vast and terrible social SjJWJIj tnat Press valets try sedulously to hide, I should be : Sf'p *• some words of pregnsnt wisdom from those ; 2...
...We ventured upon a policy of economic nationalism that brought retaliation abroad which, in turn, blocked the trade routes of the world...
...The treatment of the German people produced an abnormal psychology of frustration and humiliation, of bitterness and hatred, and made them receptive to some wild demagogue like the unspeakable Hitler...
...Its complete similarity to the Nasi organisation and propaganda in Europe can be readily seen in the above quotes from its nation-wide appeals for membership...
...The fact is that the great object lesson of the cheap and , «fScient service demonstrated by TV A gravely menaces the whole siructore of the profits system...
...Certainly, troops en route to Italy via the Brenner Pass would not go through Vienna...
...Invaluable time (and much gasp-jag) HSl be sawed if H could be recognized now...
...Let us turn to that task with a will...
...Look around yon and note what advances "Realism," which 3t Fascism's stage name, is making in your own country if you stall hare doubts of all this...
...Just uunrtf the question...
...Lincoln had favored a policy of reconciliation and of help to the stricken South...
...With the Austrian population already controlled by the German secret police and army, with the press completely Nazified, with Nazi bayonets at every polling place, with the Jews disfranchised and anti-fascist workers pursued into every hiding place, there is little doubt that Hitler's terror will transform the Nazi minority into a tremendous majority in favor of the rape of the nation...
...It's obvious that Hitler has moved his soldiers in to threaten nance's near, along the Pyrenees, should the Blum government open fire when the Nazi forces begin the nutcracker attack along the northern and southern borders of Czechoslovakia...
...Our policy of isolation continued until last October when President Roosevelt, in a notable speech...
...which it vehemently sinks to new depths in vituperation, which is being systematically rnpiVH to hnnd"**^** of t"Ho"0*T*Hff «f executives in charge of personnel throughout the nation in an effort to eliminate the hiring of Jews and drive them from all economic fields...
...V I • • * • w COLLECTIVE SECURITY IX/E do not want war...
...It lis estimated that there are 136,000 German troops massed in Austria and "protected" by some 400 of the most modern bombers and swift pursuit fighters, as well as heavy forces of tanks and motorized equipment which can rush a large-sized, strongly equipped army to the French or Czech frontiers in a few hours...
...Perhaps the fact that Geo—sj*a economic and financial conditions are bad and that she will have to nurse Austria rather than gain strength by her conquest also gives some consolation...
...Among the demands of the Bund is the establishment of an American Labor Front, similar to the one which is directed by Ley in Germany...
...The conquest of the Swiss Republic would also line France's eastern frontier with a Nazi menace from Belgium to Italy...
...When .every thing else fails to make the riffle, you can always fit public attention to public affairs by asserting (with the proper dram-beating, of course) extravagance and waste...
...When the abominable peace treaties were imposed on Central Europe, the German people were the chief victims...
...Literature haw spread throughout the metropolitan area among its ten million people calls upon the German-Americans ". . . who, as Americans, realise that it is your duty to help outlaw Jewish-International in all its disguises,, and who, as sons of Germans, would defend your 'Old Country' against malicious defamation, helping our I.S.A...
...The war debts could be paid only in gold or goods, so Congress jacked tariff walls up to unprecedented heights to prevent the inflow of goods...
...J We have said, and we repeat it, that isolation does not even isolate us from the fascist plague now rampant across the Atlantic...
...Masses Troops in Spain It was learned from authentic newspaper circles that their correspondents abroad have definite evidence that...
...We should rather ask what is our share of responsibility for this terrible impasse...
...Even despotic Hungary may have to choose between Nazi conquest or line up with Hitler, because Hungary's population contains nearly 6 per cent of German "blood brothers...
...This is the first time it has been prominently displayed in their publications here...
...The Communists in France are determined to make trouble...
...Hitler was encouraged to raid Austria, knowing that irresponsible isolation would continue to be the policy of the United States...
...France is pledged to this support, while the British Tory government, following its old policy of indecision, is non-committal...
...Sudeten Nazis Stir In the meantime, the German Sudeten Nazis are growing bolder and have warned the Czech parliament that autonomy must come rapidly for that district or "it would be too late...
...When we face the facts, we are compelled to admit that we have contributed to it...
...hile the masked batteries suddenly let loose with all they had, ijUbuU discern without field glasses the stalwart forme of the most pfcap*ahsrf»«SsS' moat daring commanders from the Caves...
...The United States was still isolationist...
...Special to The New Leader LONDON.—Spurred by definite reports that Hitler intends to capitalize on the general European paralysis which followed his capture of Austria, every nation this side of the Atlantic, including the usually neutral and peaceful Scandinavian States controlled by Labor Governments, are fortifying their borders and rearming at a rate never before encountered anywhere in the world...
...Hitler wanted no vote of the Austrian people until after he had conquered them...
...The only consolation we have today is that Washington declines to act on the announcement of the cocky Hitler that Austria has disappeared as an independent nation...
...M. H. Aylesworth, of whose activities for Profits I told you last week, is an inferential director...
...Nazi Drive AMERICAN HITLERITES REVIVE ACTIVITY IN FORM OF ATTACK ON JEWS — C4LL FOR DICTATORSHIP AND FASCIST LABOR FRONT— KUHN AWAITS FUEHRER'S ORDERS IN RERUN...
...Konrad Henlein, the Nazi Czech leader, has been ordered to create disorder which will bring repressive government action...
...AMERICAN RESPONSIBILITY OUT we in the United States should not lecture the European peoples on the bloody abyss that yawns for them...
...Therefore by any means, or all, it must be destroyed before *** ohject lesson goes farther...
...And the agency that pulled the string and shot the missile o'er the propect wide, was the United Press...
...On the other hand, we should understand that the fate of Europe is eventually the fate of America...
...Tie great game of Double Cross seems to have an unaccountable lihire for British statesmen...
...So this reliable piece of heavy artillery was brought out and put into position and fired with loud acclaim...
...The moat significant development of the week in this country was Sp sudden nrftrT*~g of all the forces of Reaction in a manifestly well 'wBfffcL' carefully planned and adroitly generalled assault upon TV A...
...France was in the midst of another cabinet crisis and Britain had not yet ended hers...
...In the meantime William Kunze, publicity agent and national organizer of the Bund—Kuhnjs first lieutenant—is completing a rapid preliminary survey tour upon which will be based a new national drive to build a powerful American Nazi organization...
...J • * * EFFECTIVE WEAPON WHAT I admired most about the tactics displayed was that for "the first time among the Beneficiaries of Exploitation there was1 she ¦ a "seme acquaintance with the American psychology...
...H4T CHANCE HAS YOUTH...
...Anybody that will look at the situation can f •« 4*»4 reason...
...fi« irffl not be recognized now, nor until it can be no longer 0«htmt or evaded...
...After this, anybody ready to bet they will come a flop whenever there is S real contest had better grope for another thought...
...HITLER'S ready bayonet lost no time in ripping the sawdust «* out of Mr...
...This was a breath of fresh air to the people of the democratic nations of Europe...
...It will then be perceived (doubtless with more gasps) that capitalism and democracy can no longer co-exist in this world and that one or the other must perish...
...Russia's orgy of murder, during which it eliminated its best military, industrial, naval, propaganda and diplomatic brains, is responsible to a large extent for Hitler's fearlessness today...
...Here, too, Hitler's tactics are obvious...
...We later paid for this measureless folly in the crash of 1929, but this crisis also afflicted Europe and became a world economic earthquake...
...Neither do " we want the slavery of dictatorship...
...In the face of the apparent protests of most of the lower strata rf the British caste system, the jiggling prime minister can hardly proceed with his scheme of a sweaty partnership with the red-handed Absolutists of Europe...
...Its charm is inscrutable, but its conse-fseaees are plain enough...
...The President had not even hinted at any alliance, but the isolationists declared there was some secret agreement with Britain...
...I.' ¦. • • * Ul4T GAME OF DOUBLE CROSS aJTR...
...All Nations Arm To Meet Hitler Threat HITLER INTENDS TO TAKE CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND SPAIN WITHIN A MONTH—TATE OF DEMOCRACIES RESTS ON BLUM—COMMUNISTS PLAN SABOTAGE OF POPULAR FRONT CABINET...
...From their attacks it becomes obvious that their future tactics will be based almost entirely on anti-Semitism...
...Likewise, when no longer can the fact be concealed or evaded that the strangling rope 'is at the throat of every democratic country still left upon this earth and that the principle of democracy is in a death grapple with Absolutism, revived and rejuvenated for this exact purpose...
...has shewn what good things are within the reach of the people *¦*¦' production for use supplants production for profit...
...to proft by Germany's experiences...
...i*: They seem easily to' be moved to gasp—when gasping is ttmhtlrii when is disclosed the next move by the powers behind Hitler and Mussolini,- there will be more gasping and shivering...
...last, somebody has had the wit to investigate the situation and ^*he prospects of that part of the youth of this nation that is ¦J*1* to win to a means of livelihood and a career and finds no of either...
...The best of its culture, including science, art, literature and the civil rights for which humanity has fought for centuries, will be dragged into the Nazi brothel and prostituted to the purposes of the gangsters...
Vol. 21 • March 1938 • No. 12
