U. S. ECONOMIC POWER ABLE TO STOP FASCIST AGGRESSION
U. S. ECONOMIC POWER ABLE TO STOP FASCIST AGGRESSION Fake Neutrality Must Be Abandoned Now By JAMES ONEAL IT is impossible to foretell the * next move of the terrorist oi Berlin, but he has...
...he has built tremendous armaments...
...It puts Conservative England beyond the need of any more* bunk as to where it stands in the FascistPgpuiar Front fight, and it charms the average English Bourgeoisie ma an all-powerful amulet...
...Notation, subjugation and profit-grabbing can go on there withmtt suggestion of alarm...
...Strongly financed, and spurred to almost fanatical activity by the abse-rbtion of Austria into the Reich, the Sudeten Germans have suddenly become the largest single party in the Czech Parliament...
...Possession of this gold is an immense power that can be...
...There is little doubt that the whole situation will mature within three months—and much sooner if the reactionary, Torybacked forces in France murder the Popular Front...
...While deLlano was denounced by Franco for stating "we will soon deliver Gibraltar to Vts ri,jhtfuf owners," the Laborite London Daily Herald's correspondent there Insists that the radio General, although having spoken out of turn, knew *of actual plans to blast the British off the Rock in time of conflict...
...Czechoslovakia with 3,500,000...
...he has seized Austria...
...while Prof...
...It is true that he has suppressed the out-and-out fascists, the "Integralistas," but he may be playing to Washington gallery...
...That means to tear them apart in war, and he is equal to attempting it...
...One Japanese firm in New York City alone is known to have suffered losses of $1,500,000 this year compared with its business in the same period last year...
...Tories Help Frame* Without this credit, neither the Nazis or the Fascists could have shipped the vast amount of munitions to Franco which have been pouring into Cadiz and Seville during the last two months...
...t. _ TORIES AND FASCISTS SUBMISSION—and abject at that—would seem to be the substance of toe Chamberlain-Mussolini alignment and the virtual extension to London of the Rome-Berlin axis...
...Czechoslovakia will likely fall to the Nazis before that time...
...As this is being written, Konrad Henlein's Nazi Sudeten German Party, already swelled by fusion with the Agrarian Party, are —jflgUji negotiations, which of course will be forgotten the moment Hitler controls Czechoslovakia, with the Clerical Party...
...A couple of weeks ago came the order froin Ber^n "deniapdjng that all German citizens in the United merit m New -i orx that the n...
...She is compelled to resort to all sorts of substitutes because of her lack of raw materials...
...It is his reactionary policy of dealing with the dictators which is now shaking the Blum Cabinet...
...Thomas" Capek, 7r...
...Undoubtedly annoyed with the ability of the Popular Front Cabinet, under Blum's expert guidance, to meet two parliamentary tests successfully, Chamberlain is playing ball with the Laval forces in the French Senate, encouraging even the sabotage of French rearmament plans in order to hasten the smashing of the Blum Government...
...Chamberlain Dooms Democratic Nations EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES EXPECT ALL DANUBIAN STATES...
...Informed diplomatic circles here expect some sudden action by the fascists in Spain to crush the starving loyalists within a month, despite the secret aid of France...
...To be sure, there are differing interests in the nation and even to a city, but this does not prevent people as a whole, regardless of class interests, from quarantining against yellow fever, any mere than it makes it impossible to pat down gunmen, to fight fires and to enforce sanitary measures that endanger the health of all...
...Contrast such proposed peace pressure with what is actually being done under our hypocritical neutrality policy...
...There will be a showing of the withdrawal of a few regulars, but the bulk of the 120,000 now assassinating liberty there, being "volunteers," mil continue to dismember civilians and accelerate the return to the Thirteenth Century, with the Conservative Cabinet cheering from the tide lines...
...In short, an American policy of cooperation to maintain peace and collective security does not nee as sarily lead to war, and those who urge it certainly do not want war...
...As same newspapers hail Chamberlain's surrender to Mussolini is "s promise of peace in Europe...
...Tory Reaction The one man now most responsible for Hitler's power policy is Chamberlain...
...Thus, the fascist move in South America shows signs of following the same course which ended in the "Anschluss by Force" of Germany and Austria and the opening of demands upon Czechoslovakia...
...The win* fit Spain was not anticipated, but even this has become a piece in his European Nazi mosaic...
...The conquest of Austria does not help her...
...While the press of the world said nothing about it, Quiepo deLlano has been jailed for broadcasting plans /or pushing the British off the Rock...
...Important Nazi organizations are being fitted into the pattern...
...Hitler thinks of Bismarck's unification of the German states as unfinished work, the work of a "little German" •compared with Hitler's eventual aim which is to include all German minorities in Europe within a German Empire...
...But this, I must think, fees injustice to the sweet and flexible Hull...
...Hitler * most violate the sovereignty of fifteen, European nations...
...How do you like it...
...On the other hand, isolation and neutrality do not necessarily insure that we will keep out of any world conflict...
...Also, what a relief...
...The pattern is being established here...
...An American journalist, returned from a visit to Brazil, praises the dictatorship in that country because the dictator is such a nice man...
...It is becoming obvious here that Chamberlain, through his pro—Nazi stooge foreign minister, Lord Halifax, has offered to extend ail aorta of credit to Hitler, following his past months' policy ef financing the Italian invasion of Spain...
...It is no secret that Chamberlain will leave the French out of the scheme of things when his pacts with Hitler and Mussolini aw completed...
...C ' ft is passing a law (under orders) to abolish ail non-partisan control of the Civil Service and to give that great vital artery of influence into the sole command of an autocrat chosen by, and responsible only to the President...
...We can also intensify the boycott of German goods, and should Europe be involved in a war with Germany, we should frankly aid the anti-fascist nations in our trade policies, even to the extent of permitting them to have credits and thus have access to oar farm products and raw materials...
...machinery for smoke and gas warfare have been sent to Spain...
...m. Or...
...They have formed their "bunds" to support him in an emergency, an emergency which might arise at almost any time because Vargas represents the ne...
...All these aims are also listed in his autobiography...
...Unity la Doager In order to understand the Nasi possibilities in Brazil, it is necessary to appreciate the fact that this great nation, larger than tint United States and now in cussing toward a population of 50,000,060, is torn with internal strife...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO BE PART OF REICH SET-UP WITHIN 2 MONTHS...
...Through Vargas, the South has shown more signs than usual of accepting and approving 'Federal control ••'"at* Rio...
...He added: "He » seeking to put a smoke screen before the flmericaii people when he talks about disbanding the Nazi Bund in the United States...
...Ayiesworth's chain of newspapers endorses the Fascist rape af Aastria on the ground that the Austrians speak German...
...WHAT can we do...
...In Berlin it is also admitted that Austria's heavy shortage of cerDemocratic Nation Must Act Soon tain foodstuffs and materials, especially cereals and mineral oils, will aggravate the Reich's own shortage and, in the event of war, increase I Germany's weakness...
...With the right-wing forces in France howling for a "strong national" Cabinet, while at the same time refusing to form one with Blum and the Radical Socialist Party, the country faces its gravest threat from Fascism if the present Cabinet falls...
...Deadly bombs manufactured in this country are imported by Germany...
...3) diplomatic or military intervention by the fascist state for the destruction-' of democracy...
...The southern states, such as Bio Grande do Sal and Santa Catherina, are heavily populated with Germans...
...Even the unofficial boycott' of Japan in this country has already injured the finances of Japan...
...This, Vargas has taken from Brazil...
...Only with a reactionary cabinet in France will there be a four-power pact between Italy, France, Germany and England...
...He even desires expansion of his dictatorship ¦ aver Germans living in other parts of the world...
...They are minorities in fifteen nations and five of these nations have more than a million...
...But of course there is mueh jwre comprised in that greasy compact...
...Moreover, Germany's foreign trade, after suffering a severe loss in January, slumped to an even lower level in February...
...Membership may also be extended to other national elements filling the requirements of our membership application...
...norges suDSTanTtoTea Up to this very moment, charges in Congress of anti-democracy activities by Nazis in the United States have been regarded by many of the legislators as exaggerations...
...I f s an open'secret that there are big- Italian guns mounted in concrete emplacements at La Linen which could shell the Rock interminably...
...Well he knows that his duty is to say, "Yes Sir," and follow the Chamberlain lead...
...Finally, it can hardly have escaped the notice of the judicious " I sail" i ill by week the special writers that have most space in the daily press and the speakers that are most heard over the radio Bsram mere and more reactionary...
...The British will then face the loss of control of Gibraltar and Suez...
...Publishing Company, headed by Frits Ktjhn, chief of the Volksbuad, was preparing to establish four weekly papers — in Boston, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Seattle...
...gation of everything that the true I Brazilian holds dear — liberty, based upon the United States "constitutional" ideal...
...Of special significance is the fact that Nazi activities in Brazil today are analogous with Nazi activities in the United States where, recently, it has been discovered, the membership rolls of the German-American Volksbund have been thrown open to all white Gentiles, whether of German extraction or not...
...Incidentally, the charge in The New Leader last week that the Nazi membership rolls were now open to white Gentiles other than those of German extraction is fully substantiated in the membership clause of the Volksbund...
...DUT there is still another reason '** why economic pressure by the United States will contribute to the defeat of Hitler's aims...
...Chamberlain in playing along with them will exert even more pressure in an effort to crumble the Blum government and smash Loyalist resistance...
...That war is intended to place a fascist power in the rear of Prance, the ancient "enemy...
...FOLLOW THE LEADER TPHERE are those, I know, that will suggest a connection between • the Cardinkl's unusual views on the Christian virtues of wholesale murder and the extraordinary tenderness the State Department has mown toward the Italian brigands-now insured a free hand to complete the throttling of democracy in Spain...
...Frankly abandon the neutrality which helps the fascist powers and that treats them as equals of the democratic powers...
...Even if Germany is linked with Italy, it is a notorious fact that the latter la even more poor in raw materials than Germany...
...Some day, perhaps, there will be a vertebrate American at the head ef our foreign affairs...
...That such a nation has been found there can be no doubt whatsoever...
...Vargas those "Aryan" states will control ail of vast Brazil...
...Add to these a fascist "black shirt" orgajiizattac comprising some 60,000 "white Russians" and Americans who have been led to the belief that the most important political ntJ6*pfmmx in the country is antiAdd to it all the statement by Hitler the other day that he intends to defend bis nationals, no matter where they are located...
...Bat r fear that today that revered and sacred precinct is to . the amiable Secretary but a headache and a pain...
...Thus Hitler has succeeded Attala as the Scourge of Europe...
...And what a novelty that will be...
...happening there...
...Even in the days of Jefferson — when these ties were fewer — neutrality, isolation and embargo did not prevent us from being drawn into the Napoleonic conflict...
...SPAIN...
...Jean Albert Bede, of Columbia University, will speak on ''France and Central Europe...
...His policy of "guns before butter" has brought toe German standard of living to a low level...
...he remilitarized the Rhineland...
...It is true that Vargas has defied the Nazi power in Germany...
...The financial and economic situation of Germany is by no means strong...
...vjr...
...State," will discuss Che question "Is Czechoslovakia Next...
...To believe that the United States can escape the consequences of this terrorist's aims is folly...
...Any slight disaffection in the national Cabinet there will throw Parliament into turmoil and give Hitler the chance he has been waiting for without fear of hinderance from any other power...
...If "it cant happen here" it couldn't happen in Brazil, and yet it is...
...This policy did not keep us out in 1812 and in 1917...
...RCK TO TSsTlSflf CENTURY J'HE provision about the withdrawal or alleged withdrawal of Italian "* troops fffisi 3p%in will fool nobody more than nine years of age...
...Nevertheless, the organization parades the flag of Hitler, displays the swastika, marches to the goose step...
...Now he has tolled to the American public and our response will show how much Baeerity there is in our favorite Preachments...
...CHOKING OURSELVES THE Spanish Ambassador has made appeal after appeal to the State Department "that the rights heretofore allowed to every other legitimate government to defend itself against bandits shall be allowed V Spain, defending the democratic principle, not alone for its own Wintry but for all the free peoples of the earth...
...The coming congressional investigation should inquire whether there is any connection' between the Nazis and the anti-tabOr organizations...
...He cannot well continue to line sp with that axis, so now what, the poor dear msn...
...U. S. ECONOMIC POWER ABLE TO STOP FASCIST AGGRESSION Fake Neutrality Must Be Abandoned Now By JAMES ONEAL IT is impossible to foretell the * next move of the terrorist oi Berlin, but he has made known his purposes in his autobiography and we may anticipate not the next move bat e aeries of moves to accomplish his •aims...
...used without declaring war...
...rats these manifestations—and a few others—into your serious consideration and ate if they portend a holiday before us...
...But this does not imply that if we abandon isolation and neutrality it necessarily means our participation in a European conflict...
...0 accomplish his aims...
...Certainly, the greater the disruption in France, the faster will Hitler accelerate his march on Czechoslovakia and Catalonia...
...Chamberlain is throwing France and the Czechs overboard, giving the Italians de jure recognition of Ethiopia and Hitler a free hand in Central Europe...
...Austria never had any large exports of the raw materials that are needed by Germany, and a Geneva dispatch declares that, while Germany's man power and strategic position has been strengthened, she "ha* saaei Is ¦¦, dpnbled her deficit im raw materials and increased by 5* per cent her deficit in food...
...Here in the United States, the principle of allegiance to foreign governments has never been accepted...
...His services to banditry have...
...Tories Sacrifice France The effect of Chamberlain's policy is epitomized in the sheer gall of the Italians when they warned Blum -and the French government, during the British-Fascist "peace" tales, not to aid the Loyalists and that any such assistance would mean war...
...Bycalling upon German citizens to resign membership, Hitler called upon almost none of the membership...
...There are hundreds of ties that bind as today to Europe...
...It is Chamberlain's control of the Tories which has doomed democracy on the continent...
...W Congress (under orders) is passing a law to put into the PresifrptV hands all power to reorganize the governmental departments * he may see fit...
...ZS m^g^jj peace and collective security is a policy of sanitation against the spread of a -Mack siagae before all nations are destroyed by the disease 2 THE NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL rtralLE in Europe Fascism goes from victory to victory, the carefu W observer most note with profit, but without exhilaration, a string gf curiously suggestive happenings in our own country...
...Unrestricted help for Japan, fighting to force Fa*cism upon China...
...An Austrian Cardinal, in the name of the Prince of Peace gml the meek and lowly Jesus, lands the massacre at Barcelona 'as "a triumph of Christian civilization...
...They believedown m Santa Catherina and do Su!—that throng...
...These are France with 1,700,000...
...According to one competent observer close to French Government circles, it would surprise none of the military officials on the continent to find the whole of Danubian Europe within the direct or indirect rule of Germany in the next two or three months...
...and "many a time and oft" they have considered secession...
...I charge that Hitler's order for Germans to get out of the Volksi u n d is a tie,'' cried Congressman Dickstein in Congress...
...Special to The New Leader LONDON.—Hundreds of armed, speedy motor boats which were shot across the Austrian border from Munich early last week are now patrolling the Danube, ready to make every Balkan country which borders on the famous river —Hungary Jugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria—mere outpost of the Nazi Reich...
...He has already accomplished fo.ur major objectives preparatory to raiding other nations where his "blood brothers" reside...
...GAPEK TO SPEAK AT RAND SCHOOL FORUM A symposium on France and1 Czechoslovakia will be presented at the Rand School Forum in the Peoples House, 7 E> 15th St., on Saturday, March 26", af 2?30 p...
...That is: (J) creation of "revolutionary" sentiments...
...The point is that most of the Nazi membership is Americanfascism boring from within...
...staff and author "of "The Caeehbslovakwr...
...There are more than 13,500,000 Germans in Europe outside of the Reich...
...An incipient Hitler from the junkerland of Wall Street openly threatens a Congressional Committee that Capital will withdraw from industry unless taxation is reduced upon the rich—and he gets away with that threat...
...It is still trying to pass the infamous Sheppard-Hill measure aimed to create a totalitarian state whenever the spectre of a war can be conjured up...
...Or "peace «t e*f price...
...It is true that conditions there are more propitious for the Nazi pattern than they are in the United States, but if the pattern is carefully fol• lowed—and it appears to he SO followed—Washington most soon come to grips with Berlin in Brazil, for the fate of Pan-Americanism lies there, in a nation traditionally the closest of all to the United States bat now beginning to ausw'to as a possible rival of the United States in the western hemisphere...
...It is probable that many of the bombs dropped on men, women and children in Barcelona last week were manufactured in the United States...
...It is even reported that Mussolini's •'concession" to Chamberlain in Spain is that Italians will be withdrawn from Spain after Franco's victory is assured...
...a former member of President ~ Masiryk...
...Culturally and practically, they are separated from the Brazilian Union...
...REDE...
...The United States today also has the major portion of the world's gold supply and there is a flight of more gold to this country...
...That makes as accomplices in the fascist war against the Spanish Republic: K...
...Switzerland with 2.860.000...
...A comparison of the known facts, in Brazil (where the mailed fist has begun to appear) and the proven facts in the United States will, however, dispel all doubts that the road is being opened here for the Nazi diplomatic and military pattern...
...It is still in pursuit of the TVA...
...He is now prepared to teat other nations, apart...
...I am sure, no relation to any preferences of any clerical order bat result from his pious resolve at his mother's knee never to do anything without consulting Downing Street...
...On the other hand, if Europe becomes all Nazi, the madman is equal to intrigues with his "blood brothers" here...
...According to the evidence offered in Congress by New York's Congressman Dickstein, there are now 450,000 members of Nazi organizations in the country, trained as storm troopers in 28 camps...
...This leaves the German Social Democrats the only German party outside the coalition...
...To top it all, Lord Perth has promised Mussolini a huge man and Count Ciano will complete negotiations when he comes to London shortly...
...He might as well have shouted up a blind alley...
...It is plainly preparing to garrote Philippine independence at the instigation of the sugar barons...
...2) disorders...
...Which means that France will be dismembered, after a violent civil war, by the Germans and Italians...
...fight oa SUBMIT V/HAT is the use of prattling about "peace" and shuddering about war when it is so plainly evident that the world faces this tremendous and inevitable conflict between the human liberty that has been wen by centuries of struggle and the last and worse phase of that Absolutism that in other days liberty has painfniiy out battled...
...We can help to stabilize the currencies of the nations endangered by the agevssions or Hitler...
...Bat that involves recognition of the Ethiopian outrage and . ether steps fraught with peril...
...Millions of dollars daily im portable radio stations, huge Krupp armored trucks, pursuit planes, Junker trimotored and Heinkle bombers, huge quantities of artillery, antiaircraft guns, munitions, bombs, huge cannon, Fiat bombers, Savors and Capronia fighting planes, light and heavy tanks, thousands of high-powered automatic rifles and...
...Iff help for democratic Spain, fighting for the vital principles % oar faith...
...Suspicions which have been growing in Washington and New York that the fascist blow against United States democracy will be struck through the Republics of South and Central America have been solidified by what the press calls a "thinly veiled threat" from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro...
...Getulio Vargas, office-mad president of Brazil, comes from the South...
...ea how do we make It jibe with the sonorous phrases of the Cfeego speech...
...Nazis Push Vast Drives in Alt American Countries PLAN BIG ANTI-JEWISH NEWSPAPER CHAIN IN THE UNITED STATES—VARGAS GETS WASHINGTON SUPPORT TO FIGHT NAZISBUND HERE ADMITS NON-GERMANS...
...It is to be fight or submit, and which do you prefer...
...Here is the clause: "Membership in this Bund is j primarily to all Americans and prospective citizens of Aryan blood, of German extraction and of good reputation...
...Also, it will demon**te whether we are really willing to sit down and bite our finger•m while Fascism, having conquered Europe, proceeds through economic control to get the stranglehold on our own throats, i" i' -. .-¦ _ UfOT4G?0 DEMOCRACY BECAUSE there can be no evasion of the ugly fact that if we had allowed to the Spanish government the rights allowed to every **her established government, Spain would not, be disarmed and helpma at the feet of the Absolutists, and Mussefmi would have suffered jfPfc a devastating blow to his prestige as would have checked or "•ttered the Fascist advance...
...In fact, they already take his orders here and in Central and South America...
...The Getulio Vargas dictatorship has been warned, according to advices from Berlin that continued opposition to the aims of German organizations in Brazil would have an "adverse ^ffect" upon German-Brazilian relations...
...They produce more than half the world's steel, three-fifths of the world's oil, and seven-eighths of the world's automobiles...
...This country could never be successfully attacked except through a Western Hemisphere nation aiming to become our rival...
...Poland with 1,350,000, and Russia with 1,000,000...
...it provides the easy mind and the unruffled sleep about India...
...He withdrew Germany from the League of Nations and sabotaged the League...
...FNALLT, there is the economic strength of the democratic nations, the New York Times points out that France, England and, the United States alone possess twenty times the gold owned by any other nation, and-they also control half the world's shipping...
...As the Anglo-Italian talks become more amiable it becomes more apparent just who will get what...
...I "fcat, in plain terms, is the picture...
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