American Isolation Means World Suicide
American Isolation Means World Suicide Only Immediate Economic Action Can Smash Fascism By IRVING B. ALT MAN Editor, Dynamic America > ri the present world situation: what...
...capitalists...
...It proved that Holtzman's claim that Trotsky's son led him to a rendezvous with his father in the Hotel Bristol in Copenhagen in 1932, was a clumsy falsehood, for there was no Hotel Bristol in Copenhagen at the time nor was Trotsky's son in the city, then or ever...
...Both Bukharin and Rakovsky said they languished for more tkan 9 months in solitary confinement before they agreed to confess...
...There is a suggestion that the Mexican Government actually rewrite the constitution to conform with the wishes of Standard Oil...
...In a world where millions of colored people are the subjects of the white nations, the white man must be supreme—he cannot afford to lose face...
...We import 100% of our tsarequirements...
...IN 1924, when Lenin wrote his political testament to guide the * Russian 'Communist Party, there were only three men whom fee praised—Trotsky, Pyatakov, add Bukharin...
...The Communist Party, which is the American branch of the Russian foreign office, has begun a campaign to convince us that whoever opposes any of its policies, is a Benedict Arnold or an Aaron Burr, i. e., a spy and a traitor...
...And so they sent him to Paris, where he learned about Mexico...
...government with treason...
...R^ this time the peons were listening to him gfeedily, and when the great Diaz Jubilee came thejr saw with their own eyes...
...Stalin forces the defendants to say to the Russian people: "If you have no shoes, no butter, no comforts—we are responsible...
...All the companies were wen banded together, under Diaz, and foreign capital made' all its deals with him...
...The apologists of the Stalin regime would have us believe that in 1921 when Trotsky, as head of the Red Army, was chasing eat of Russia the white guard armies subsidized by England...
...The United States has asked = dtat the exact terms of the note be kept secret...
...Stalin has thrown Yagoda to the dogs, but whatever Yagoda S was done, as he used] to boast, on Stalin's orders...
...The Tories Cannot hope to stem indefinitely the rising labor tide...
...Begging the question of tie defendants' guilt, they say that the Moscow trials were a blow at Fascism...
...Perhaps this was a torerunner of the totalitarian corporate state...
...Mussolini greets Stalin as a fellow Fascist, crude in his ways but traveling in the right direction...
...Then came Victoriano Huerta, a drunken crook supported by foreign capital...
...He loves the od crowd about like Wilson did...
...THE key to the Moscow trials, as Leon Blum pointed out in connection with the Menshevik trials, is the necessity of the Stalin regime to find scapegoats for its domestic failures and international isolation...
...When he came back he told his family and friends about it, and they began to -hate him for it...
...self-incriminated witness, who confessed to incredible Hies of sabotage...
...To that celebration for the rule of the Dictator came the princes of royal houses and the princes of New York, London, Berlin and Paris finance...
...It proved that Olberg never went to Russia with terrorist instructions from Trotsky or his son...
...The greatest alleged' conspiracy of all history, involving-thousands over a period of years, and extending to every branch of Soviet life—and yet not a tingle document or scrap of material evidence to prove even one of the countless crimes...
...nor pur automotive and rubber industries as we know them...
...On the surface it is friendly to Hitler...
...CAPITALS** NEEDS ARMAMENT PROGRAM IT became clear that as house-building be* came less active, the continuance of capitalist prosperity in England came to depend increasingly on Government expenditure Upon armaments...
...COMPLEX TPHE defenders of the Moscow trials in this country are appar• ently seeking to import Stalin's methods of defamation and frameup here...
...By constantly stirring up trouble in Europe, and by creating national jitters...
...They argue that a non-interference-in-foreign-affairs policy is the surest guarantee for not getting the United States involved in war...
...Indeed, it was not so long ago that th*e work of (Jbotensky-Ossinsky was introduced to the American public, with words of praise, by none other than Miss Mary Van Kleeck, who defends the trials...
...They rejected the bargain...
...and the world, with recession in full force in both Britain and the United States, would be plunged again into a serious crisis...
...It was easier for England to permit the rape of Austria by Hitler...
...and if you can't pay us, our government will make you do it...
...The evidence shows that the logical structure of the trials rests on the testimony of eight men in the Zinoviev, the Pyatakov and the recent Rykov-Bukharin trials, wno alleged they were intermediaries between the exiled Leon Trotsky and the other defendants...
...But he escaped, because he told the guards the story, and they set him loose...
...In other lands, too, are simple folk who love peace, hate tyranny and fully appreciate the dangers of fascism and dictatorship...
...Soon it will rise sufficiently high to sweep toryism out of power...
...The apologists of the Stalinist trials would hate us believe that of the 60 leading political figures around Lenin who survived Mm all but Stalin were spies, assassins, and wreckers...
...The rest is more recent history, with the present government kept in-power by the labor anions, and the American financial interests attempting to undermine Cardenas just the same as they attempt to undermine the President at home...
...In insinuating that Vicethat President Roosevelt, the Senate, and the Department of Justice are abetting treason in not bringing criminal impeachment proPresident Garner is guilty of treason, Browder is also insinuating ceedir.gs against him...
...Trttaky was a British spy...
...STEEL EXPORTS IN HUGE RISE OTEEL exports for 1937 increased 160% ovei 1936, and the export orders increased in importance in sustaining production while domestic orders were at a low point...
...for, without borrowing for arms-making, Capitalism could not in these days find profitable ways of employing the available supply of labor and capital resources...
...How many people realize that without imports we would not have our vast steel industry as we know it today...
...asked Madero pitifully...
...What does he think this country is, Russia ? The Moscow trial represents a challenge to the conscience of mankind Those who defend them, stamp themselves as fellowtravelers of judicial murder and frameup...
...The leading hgure in the Socialist International, Leon Blum, present premier of France, has denounced these trials in language •ore vehement than he used in 1931 when the same frameup technique was employed against the Mensheviks...
...England first came out of the economic slump by embarking upon a vast housing program, such as is now being urged in this country...
...The stories he told got around, and at last even this son of a great family Was arrested...
...Early in the Diaz dictatorship, the lands were owned by the great feudal families and the church.- The landowners formed companies, ineluded Diaz in them all, and invited foreign capital in to exploit the lands they held...
...On Vyshinsky's standard of evidence, Stalin, by cooperating with Blum, who supposedly cooperates with Trotsky in condemning the Moscow trials, is an enemy of the Soviet Union...
...How can we w halt the murderous onslaught of fascist Zgwstion...
...Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party,-has publicly declared in discussing the Moscow trials (Daily Worker, March 19): "Thomas Jefferson had his Aaron Burr and Roosevelt has his^ Garner...
...He was fought hy the bfrjdit Villa, apd there is a story 4hat the oil interests, despairing of bringing Carranxa into camp, decided-thfit the bandit was all right and supported him...
...The people of Mexico were ignored...
...What is the Chamberlain government...
...American Isolation Means World Suicide Only Immediate Economic Action Can Smash Fascism By IRVING B. ALT MAN Editor, Dynamic America > ri the present world situation: what should America's foreign policy be...
...Only recently, there were rumblings of an incipient fascist rebellion, fi¦•Med by New YorkT^London and Berlin .Removal of the United States arms embargo would confront the democratic 'Cardenas government aah the same assassin gang that has wrecked reform movement in Mexico until the awaeafvfpne may reasonably ask if it is possible that •"•Hew Deal Government of the United States yaki actually wet-nurse the undoubted willing"•"•of Standard OB, Shell Oil, and great mining r™J*J*ts...
...Because Hitler is responsible for the prosperity British capitalism is now enjoying...
...It was easier to permit Germany to rearm than to prevent it, but observe the consequences...
...criminals, spies and degenerates...
...The disruption of international trade and the chaos of the monetary exchanges brought great losses to British capitalism...
...There's a tragic story of blood and murder back of this latest crisis...
...But there was one difficulty...
...COULD NOT INTERFERE WITH MUSSOLINI I 1NDER the circumstances she could not ^ seriously interfere with Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia...
...BRITISH PEOPLE NOT FOR CHAMBERLAIN DEHIND the government of Chamberlain are the British people...
...Our exports jtceeded our imports by* approximately $250,lOO.OOO...
...The broad Atlantic and Pacific oceans protect our inores and isolate us from the contagion of European and Asiatic wars...
...Whoever refuses to examine the evidence cannot offer an opinion without revealing himself or herself to be a blind partisan or propagandist...
...there waa only tea man whom he condemned as disloyal urging that he he leiaosed from hit party post—and that man wet Stalin...
...Garner's political views than I am from Mr...
...But what about the confessions, you may ask...
...This would be comparable to saying that out of the 54 American revolutionists who signed the Declaration of Independence all but one turned eat to be British spies...
...It proved by witnesses *and documentary evidence that neither Berman-Yurin nor David saw Trotsky in Copenhagen as they alleged, or received terrorist instructions from him...
...D U T Madero, the dreamer, wasn't able to cope ^*with the forces of finance...
...How many people know that without our foreign trade we should have more unemployment and a lower standard of living, since costs would be higher, due to lower volume of .production...
...It proved that Pyatakov never flew to Oslo to see Trotsky in December, 1935, for officials of the only air field which could possibly have received him, certify that no foreign planes landed during the entire month...
...But even the rich, feudalistic families of Mexico were in the minority...
...They cry: ¦Let us keep out of other people's war...
...By BRYCE OUYER WEVD's News Commenfofor •THE formal protest over Mexico's expropria** tion of national oil deposits, as made by the United States...
...And at are not thinking in terms of profits for...
...And yet it was only yesterday that Stalin -Inned the reward of merit upon Grinko, and upon ObolenskyOssinsky...
...it may be easier to allow him to do likewise to Czechoslovakia, to Hungary, to Rumania, to the Ukraine—but why add more...
...The fascist peril, still - in embryonic stage here, will develop into a major influence far destruction unless we employ every means ts check it...
...If Stalin believes the evidence of the last trial that England is conspiring to overthrow Russia, why does he offer an alliance to England...
...Meanwhile, Cardenas has called a special session of Congress to cope with the crisis...
...HE testimony of all these key witnesses is demonstrably false * and the case collapses like a house of cards...
...Listen, then, to what Mussolini himself wrote of the Moscowtrials in his paper, Popolo d'Italia: "Stalin does not resort to castor oil to punish leaders who are so criminal as still to believe as Communism...
...Under the proposed HoareLaval arrangement she hoped to be able to divide the .¦loot in Ethiopia with II Duce...
...State Department, is the most serious, development in the Western Hemisphere since Woodrow Wilson listened for two days to the demands of Standard Oil for war with Mexico...
...But human experience teaches that the easiest way frequently is the most unsatisfactory way, from the standpoint of concrete results of a lasting character...
...Certainly anybody who calls himself a Socialist, a friend of the labor movement, or even a liberal, must cry out with indignation against these totalitarian trials which Stalin offers us as a proof that he has established Socialism...
...100% of our coffee and tea, ffw of our nickel, 95% of our platinum, 75% altar sugar, 60% of our mercury, 25% of our atfle and hides...
...It was easier to permit Italy and Germany to "non-intervene" in Spain, but what are the results...
...Diaz was Santa Claus, apd the American and British Governments protected him accordingly...
...AND then came the oil discovery...
...We import 100% of our rather requirements...
...These figures give you but a vague impression of the tremendous importance of foreign trade to the United States...
...That plan calls for payment in oil— the very oil they wanted...
...But what my listeners may not know is that, according to Soviet law itself, unsubstantiated confessions are not regarded as valid evidence...
...Farm implements export sales took up the slack in domestic orders, and were $0% of total salesTn 1937...
...While it is not generally recognized, ii is nevertheless a fact that our foreign trade, directly and indirectly, affects the interests of every individual in our country...
...It began in 1910—28 years ago—at the "Jubilee" of Porfirio Diaz in Mexico City...
...In international matters «e cannot find protection from fascism by biding behind a national wall...
...What do you think would happen to our automobile industry, which supports four million Americans, directly and indirectly, if we were cut off from the sources «f rubber supply...
...And besides that, there is likely to be a storm of protest right here in America—from the labor unions...
...Because Britain's Empire interests could not afford* a defeat of a "white" nation by a "colored" nation...
...Dial ran the Scientificos, and the oil companies got the oil and alL "Even t$e"spirit of the Constitution was smashed to rob file people of thi Republic...
...Stalin in the past claimed that the defendants were his closest joUaborators...
...That's the situation, but if Roosevelt gets the proper information upon his return to Washingtor., there may be a new story...
...If finance-capital is in the saddle in Britain and France's "200 families" are sabotaging Premier Blum's efforts across the channel, how can the United States hope to get these countries to act unitedly in a common interest...
...The reality of the situation is that we are living in a capitalist world and that we are dependent upon existing arrangements for survival...
...Stalin is unable to understand the subtle irony involved in the laxative system of castor oil...
...If Russia were attacked by Germany and Japan, could we say it ia none of our business...
...But the British people are more decent than her * economic royalists...
...The reader will ask: How can we co-operate with nations that are unwilling to co-operate...
...Old Venustiano Carranza traveled to Mexico City and saw what wai happening...
...This created a shortage of labor in some enterprises, and sc* Diaz obligingly corrected that situation...
...And no sooner had Krestinsky testified in the last trial that he met Trotsky conspiratorially at Merano, Italy, on October 10, 1933, then the Commission presented to Ambassador Troyanovsky documentary evidence from its files, that on that date Trotsky was in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, a village in the French Pyrenees almost 700 miles away, and under the watchful eyes of the French secret police 24 hours a day...
...In official Soviet texts on Criminal Trials, edited by the State Prosecutor Vyahinaky himself, we read that materially unsubstantiated confessions, sad testimony of defendants implicating other defendants, constitutes "the least meritorious" of all kinds of evidence...
...they believe that if given enough rope both Hitler and Mussolini will hang together, in time, as the resources of Italy and Germany become exhausted because of war activities in Spain and elsewhere...
...History is repeating itself in this protest by Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...They say, "all right, if we can't have It our way, you can't sell it, and if you can't sell it, you can't pay us...
...Berman-Yurin, David, Olberg, Holtzman, Pyatakov and Romm in the first two trials, Bessonov and Krestensky in the third...
...MADERO LEARNED OF SUFFERING AND the story finally was told, by word of mouth, by patriotic men of education and good family—among them Francisco Madero, who had found out about it in Europe...
...That, it would seem, is about to become the official view of the Russian government...
...ISOLATION MEANS NATIONAL SUICIDE DY this time the reader will have guessed " that this writer favors co-operative international action to check the aggressor nations...
...There are some people who, unable to look the evidence of the Moscow frameups in the face, prefer to talk about the danger of Fascism and the international situation...
...If they are guilty, can he be less so...
...jyj right-minded men ana women hate war jnd wait peace...
...OIL INTERESTS WORKED THROUGH BRITAIN A ND here is the utterly sinister story back of the American protest to Mexico...
...When the Russian -Devolution occurred, its enemies proclaimed it to be the work of •^niap...
...These investments bring her unearned increment amounting to five, billion dollars a year...
...The best interests of the liberal, labor and socialist movements are served not by the apologists of the firing squads, but by those who condemn Stalin's foreign and domestic crimes...
...This is true...
...Two-thirds of those who shared in the gayety were the foreigners who drew their wealth from Mexico...
...Its fangs an taking root in the body politics of South » • • IU THEY OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS...
...If this were withdrawn there would be a serious slump...
...The rearmament program, involving the expenditure of seven billion dollars over a period of the next few years, is creating jobs for workers and profits for bankers and munitions makers...
...It is a government representative of the financial and industrial interests of Britain...
...Not the least qualified judges of whether the Moscow trials helped or hurt Fascism are the fascists themselves...
...He makes a clean sweep with the methods of Ghengis Khan...
...From day to day, it is becoming more clear to them that their present government is betraying their interests for the sake of profits for the owners of capital...
...They all owed part of their riches to Diaz...
...Yagoda, exg_ pU...
...Mexico City was gloriously aglitter with unbelievably lavish receptions, balls, opera parties...
...It is authoritatively estimated that fee re are some 14,000,000 people in the United {Rates dependent upon our foreign trade...
...Now, if Stalin believed that the leaders of the Socialist International are plotting with Trotsky to dismember Russia, why should he insist upon cementing the Franco-Soviet pact which, to be effective, must be implemented by Blum and other leaders of the Socialist International...
...Then Britain made the pretense of opposing Italy...
...He abolished the public lands, and so every peon had to work for the Scientificos, and pour part of the proceeds of hit labor into the foreign banks...
...and as this limit is reached not even the most favorable conditions as to low-interest rates can stimulate further demand...
...Well, there is no gainsaying that the Chamberlain government is a hard nut to crack...
...ut it is known that the note makes pointed refugee to Washington's friendly action in maintuning an embargo on arms shipments to Mexico on behalf of the Cardenas Government...
...that under a system of socialized capitalism we would have a wider distribution of goods produced here for domestic consumption...
...Don't blame Stalin...
...Stalin renders a commendable service to Fascism...
...If we lose oar foragin trader, does it not matter...
...She led fifty-odd nations to invoke sanctions against Italy, but she herself continued to send oil—the only product Mussolini really cared about—to feed the Italian ships and airplanes...
...It has a great amount of foreign investments...
...But what can I do...
...A policy of doing nothing in any given situation frequently appears, at least on the surface, the easiest way out...
...In the meantime British bankers and industrialists are gathering into their coffers the huge profits from their government's armaments expenditures...
...Continued capitalist prosperity now 'depends on demand for armaments...
...There is common understanding that if we do not rid the world of war will rid the world of us...
...The new houses were mainly for the middle classes...
...Its virulent character is corroding Canada, aided and abetted by the reactionary forces within the Catholic Church...
...Human hopes for a better social order everywhere depend upon an understanding of the truth about the' Moscow trials, and the lessons which they teach...
...Why did she do this...
...Britain's economic depression started about seven years before that of our country...
...LET'S LOOR ' AT THE RECORD WHO were the intermediaries...
...This is the decree by which Mexico took over the oil for the deplorable reason that the oil companies of the United States and Great Britain refused to -pay the wages established by die laws of Mexico and upheld as constitutional hy the Mexican Supreme Court...
...To desl with the present war situation in Europe and Asia, one section of our population, composed of pacifists, nationalists, nazis, . fAtasts, conservatives, and left-wing socialists, is advocating a policy of isolation...
...The fascist pptfaajai is epidemic and mortal, and is reachay oat to poison the minds of men everywhere...
...In magnificent defiance of scientific fact, he declared oil was not a mineral...
...But will it...
...As everyone knows, the houses' built in the course of this boom were mainly either for sale or letting at rents well above what the average working-class family could afford...
...Wall Street Fights Mexico Democracy SECRETARY HULL...
...I am further from sharing Mr...
...Britain's capitalists are in the saddle...
...dbd on the other side of the national trade jjpr we find the following interesting facts: jflcr foreign trade during the past year apfpximated over $6,000,000,000...
...Karl Radek, himself a defendant, stressed the fact that the testimony of all the other defendants in the second trial rested on the intermediaries, and the prosecution made the same contention...
...Already, those interests have such a strangle hold on the public traitor Chamberlain in London that the British Government is helpless to save the vaunted British democracy...
...Little Francisco Maderp, son of one of the great Scientifico famines, turned out to be a bad egg—from the standpoint' of his family He didn't care for business, didn't bother about money —wanted to paint...
...This writer firmly believes that a policy of isolation, carried to its logical conclusion, is a policy of national suicide...
...And yet this was the only kind of evidence the public prosecutor introduced...
...The Commission of Inquiry, on the basis of documentary evidence in its possession and shortly to be published, was able to show that the testimony of these men was completely false...
...Do you believe that the United States is a self-sufficient nation...
...No, not any more than the confessions of those charged with witchcraft— however they were obtained—is proof of the existence of witches...
...There_was L trouble over that because the Mexican Constitution followed an did Spanish custom, vhich provides that the owner of'land has the use of the top soil, but that the mineral wealth beneath belongs to the State...
...ft would*also appear that the much.vaunted achievements of the oossian Five Year Plans were carried out under the exclusive lead*!f^rp 0 f wreckers...
...Vrnen people fight far democracy in Spain, aren't we concerned...
...The straws in the wind indicate a decided political trend in favor of the return of Labor to power...
...The last trial made clear the methods he used to gxtort earlier confessions—threats of torture against the defendants' families and the cruelest forms of solitary confinement for months ob end...
...AT BEHEST OF STANDARD AND SHELL MAGNATES, COMBATS MEXICO'S EFFORTS TO ENSURE PAYMENT OF FAIR WAGES TO ITS OIL WORKERS...
...That, in 1918, when Lenin was proposing to sign the Brest-Litovsk Treaty ceding the Ukraine to Germany, Bukharin and Pyatakov planned to assassinate him because, forsooth, they were German spies...
...When China struggles to maintain her independence in the face of Japanese aggression, have we no concern in the matter...
...The American note suggests that Mexico never will be able to pay Standard Oil and Shell and the other companies according to the Mexican plan submitted...
...It serves no useful purpose to argue that all this trade is carried on for private profits...
...For the good of her imperial interests, Italy had to win in Ethiopia...
...Let us not forget that the Stalin regime has consistently refused to join the labor boycott of Nazi Germany, that it still trades with Japan supplying it with oil for its war in China, and that, until a few short weeks ago, it kept Mussolini supplied with gas, oil and ujher materials which he used with such deadly effect in Ethiopia and Spain...
...It owed its emergence from the last depression more to this factor than to any other...
...But Stalin has been behind every disastrous policy which has afflicted the Russian people...
...The lands were acquired by some foreigners at 25 cent, an ?re...
...That note was not sent until the British Government, in spiritual partnership with the oil corporations insisted upon it . The oil corporations, at first turned back from Washington, wqrked through the British Foreign Ofnce—actually used a foreign government to bring our own government into line...
...It proved that Romm could not have met Tsotsky in the Bois de Boulogne on the dates he gave because Trotsky was in a distant part of France...
...During the past few months, as the common people of Mexico have gained more and ¦ore power through the CardenasMJovernment, 'fascist movement has been nursed along by the towers of privilege...
...The Mexican people had no part in it, and the half-starved, barefooted peons were ready to be told how it had happened, that this was not their land—that much of the wealth they created went to foreign lands...
...And so the government starts...
...Logic" of Moscow Trials Condemns Stalin's Brutalitarian Dictatorship By SIDNEY HOOK BEFORE we can intelligently discuss the significance of the Moscow trials, we must ask: were these trials genuine or were they frameups ? Before we can intelligently answer this question, we must examine the evidence...
...Bow nice, if true...
...The boom in house-building was the means of stimulating other branches of industry even in the face of continued depression in foreign trade...
...Are they other people's wars...
...REMOVAL OF EMBARGO WOULD AID FASCISM ¦J'nE point of the reference to arms is bitingly plain...
...NOTE 15 THREAT TO MEXICAN SOVEREIGNTY 'T'HIS note of protest is a burning shame net 4 only because it supports the criminal career of the oil crowd but goes even further...
...Are not the confessions themselves evidence of guilt...
...In fact, Browder rs practically charging the U.S...
...Be firm," replied Carrara*, and when Madero promised, the old General weert away to raise an army to avenge little Madero, because Carranxa knew that if Madero' kept his promise, and became firm, he would be assassins ted That's just what happened—assassination Sy the "ley Fuga—with representatives of American oil interests named in the plot in jjaajfig City...
...Think of it...
...It was not made solely upon the representations of the oil people who conferred with Hull on Monday...
...So the Scientificos enslaved the people...
...Bessonov testified that he met Trotsky in Paris at the end of July 1934—this time in an unnamed hotel— when the records show that Trotsky and his entire household were away from Paris, f • e • WHAT ABOUT THE CONFESSIONS...
...In England the majority of people disapprove of the tactics of the Chamberlain government—and there is the powerful Labor Party...
...By these acts, Stalin himself aids Fascism abroad, and by the trials and the executions he enthrones the methods of Fascism at home...
...That is to say, none whatsoever...
...And British workers have jobs in the armaments and allied industries, so that there is a diminishing relief problem and little likelihood of revolutionary sentiment among the workers...
...How were the oil companies to own the oil they took oft if the State owned it ? Porfirie got around that for them...
...Hitler -has a great nuisance value to British capitalism...
...to invite fascism into Mexico as a pro*e™» for American and British finance...
...Between Stalin, the executioner, and the very idea of socialism, there yawns an impassible gulf...
...Her stake in maintaining the economic and political status quo is, therefore, very considerable...
...We import 100% of our jute, tax and fibre...
...With a people's government is England and France collective action by the powerful democracies will become reality...
...head, was honored by Stalin for arranging the Zinovievgjamwnev trial...
...In order to carry out this bloody judicial, farce the prosecutor was compelled to violate Soviet criminal procedure on every important point...
...It may be that France and Russia would join in parallel action with the United States, but how about the Chamberlain government...
...For example England...
...What schools there were were religious and the people didn't even have a chance to learn about it...
...Here, then, is the key to present British foreign policy...
...The showtrials are a device to protect himself and postpone the day when he will be tried for the crimes of which he accuses others...
...Why ? . . . Why for the simple reason that Standard and Shell, controlling the world markets, have already shut those markets to Mexican oil...
...Thanks to Hitler England has economic recovery...
...They couldn't buy him, but they already had his family, ano they could get his friends...
...Roosevelt's, but I am confident that Mr, Browser's insinuation of treason against Mr...
...Behind the mansions of the French economic barons are the common French workers and peasants...
...So came the ^reform revolution, with Madero at the head of the Government...
...The leaders of the Socialist Inter* national were accused at' the last" trial of having plotted, together with Trotsky, for the dismemberment of Russia...
...Foreign Aggression Concerns U.S...
...Garner has as much basis in fact as the accusation of treason against the Moscow defendants...
...Al^Jftady, those same powerful interests are attempting to suppress every effort of the present French Government to beat back the onward march of fascism...
...There always had • been free, public lands,, which the people Could use for farming and grazing...
...KEEP out of other people's wars...
...England lives off its trade with the colonies ami the rest of the world...
...And there was a thinly veiled threat in the Bote handed by the American Ambassador, Josephus Daniels, to the Mexican Foreign Minr hrter Eduardo Hay...
...When Wilson, sickened by the double dealing between Huerta tad his foreign friends, refused to recogaiae aim, the plot to return Mexico back to the Sntatiftoai failed and Carranxa marched Jn- H e hot onTy marched in but he formed the new constitution, once again proclaiming oil the property of the State and restoring the lost free lands to tat people...
...That- Stalin and his associates themselves do not believe tfce fabricated testimony of the Moscow trials is evident from the following eloquent fact...
...In Wall Street there was jubilation because the Washington Government first applied economic sanctions, by withdrawal from the silver market, and fallowed this blow at the Mexican currency with a diplomatically worded demand that Mexico's labor government "reconsider" the Presidential - decree of March 19...
...T H E BENEDICT ARNOLD CP...
...But our State Department suggests that this will not pay, and can't pay...
...When in the heavy machinery industry domestic orders fell about 10% of production capacity, export orders brought production up to 90% of factory capacity...
...It's a nice game if it works out as expected...
...But there is a limit to the demand for houses of these types...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 14
