Collective Security Can Stop New World War
P., HERBERT MORRISON, M.
Collective Security Can Stop New World War Strong Democratic Nations Must Organize Now for Peace By HERBERT MORRISON, M.P. Leader of the London County Council DERHAPS the. best way I can give...
...Two days later, ten new employees were taken on...
...Taken together, they represent the bulk of the nations of the world, the vast majority of mankind, and an enormous preponderance of economic, financial, and military power...
...Ten refused...
...And as that strength would be overwhelming, the war-like powers, in all probability, would keep the peace...
...Because officers and men of the camel corps and the armored cars, who vanish for weeks at a time into the Western Desert, are trained to hold their tongues...
...It is not that the peaceful and democratic powers are inherently weak...
...each would have its own Secretary of State, independently concerned with its foreign relations with the other national states of America and the rest of the world...
...Rumely had several times before that come under investigation for stock schemes...
...Really this r jg ^ther pathetic...
...Campaign Against President's Bill Cloaks Anti-Labor Drive by Business By BRYCE OLIVER WEVD's Labor News Commentator AMERICA is being guided through the "Third Crisis" of the American Government by one of the cleverest organizing brains in the stormy history of the last...
...A new Senate investigation is likely to be ordered, to follow the lines of the lobby investigation...
...There are tales of Italian officers who have been found wandering by accident a long way on the Egyptian side...
...And let it be remembered that this collective security, this positive collective organization of peace is by no means a new thing in the world...
...best way I can give you the * background of the international political scene is to paint a picture of how things would be in the United States if European conditions prevailed* in your country...
...There's a clue in a letter printed this week in the "New York Times...
...The conduct of foreign policy and military power in your country are controlled by the Federal Government in Washington...
...You have achieved, you are practicing, collective security within tbe territories of the United States of America...
...JpW did this deluge of protest arrive in the Senate and the House Office Building...
...They would, therefore, pursue a common foreign policy...
...FT doesn't smell so good...
...Will Mussolini keep els word...
...They would be deceiving each other in their mutual relations and repeatedly breaking solemn obligations...
...IF OUR 48 STATES WERE NATIONS 'TYRANNY and threats of more tyranny, vast expenditure on arms, wars and rumors of wars, plot and counter-plot, trickery and dishonesty, ruthless aggression against peaceful peoples, ignorant, narrow-minded and dictatorial government by mountebanks, a brutal crushing of labor organizations, spiteful, sadistic racial persecution, constant interfering with and the blackmailing of businessmen—these would be the characteristics of much of your daily life...
...BVedded in Arabic to a friend that the Duce is the son of a liuocn...
...Very ingenious, some of their devices...
...Minton, will be aimed at disclosing the source of the influence back of the reorganization bill...
...There is a lot of shrewd-kb in the Egyptian mind...
...A law was enacted against political coercion in this form...
...The firm said the bill would make the President a dictator...
...This was after the nation entered the war...
...Are people who sign their names to the telegrams unconsciously, innocently aiding this move ? Are business houses who insist that their employees sign the telegrams signing their own death warrants...
...But it has all gone for nothing—qs- less than nothing...
...It is no use trying to check those tales...
...At the same time there wltt Senatorial question of the purchase of the Newark "Star-Eagle" by Paul Block, a Hearst lieutenant, and of the purchase of the Washington "Times" by Arthur Brisbane, on money furnished by German-American interests...
...who later turned up in Berlin as the manager of the Hearst Bureau...
...Because the Fascist propaganda service has feeen spending such a lot of time and money and energy and infertility on the attempt to convince Egyptians that the Duce is their resHy true friend...
...They were asked to reconsider and still refused...
...Later on he bobbed up as executive secretary of the ,Committee of the Nation, another high-sounding patriotic name, which made propaganda for financial matters which the Hearst press played up to heaven...
...There are young and very sun-burned men in very innocent jobs in Cairo and Alexandria who seem to get a remarkable amount of leave, about which their friends never ask questions...
...The hrvestigntien and inter trial showed that Edward A. Rumely...
...which sounds complimentary, but is in fact very, very rude • jgjeed: even ruder than suggesting \hat he is the son of a dish-doth...
...These were the people who backed Father Coughlm'i rally at the Hippodrome a few years ago...
...ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SANCTIONS EFFECTIVE AS GUNS •THE important first thing would be for the * peaceful and democratic states to come together in some form of association and to cooperate among themselves in a firm way for the mutual advantage of all of them and the collective well-being of the continent as a whole...
...TPHIS is only one bit of testimony regarding the way that deluge * of protest was organized...
...Let us consider what sensible people would do to pull these excessively independent, quarreling, bickering, imaginary states of America together into an ordered democratic community...
...The peaceful and democratic nations—yours, mine and the rest—must pull themselves together and exercise their vast influence and authority for the positive promotion of peace, for bringing to an end drift and vacillation, and for the development of that peaceful and rational cooperation between nations which is essential to the freedom and the happiness of mankind.___ Mussolini Gets Egypt All Wrong SrCf SPENDING HUGE SUMS TO nSrEAD PRO-ITAUAM PROPAGANDA, BUT ¦JGTrTIANS HAVE FEARED AND MISTRUSTED ITALY EVER SINCE MUSSOLINI ATTACKED ETHIOPIA...
...result of the operations of this committee, guided by the , leaius, Rumely, a storm of telegrams from all over the nation, "n-TptOtesting against the Reorganization Bill, have now scared -HBCrsss into emasculating the bill...
...And then the time would come when they would see trouble coming nearer to themselves, when they would see that increasing numbers of states were likely to become the victims of aggression or external interference and that their own independence and security were likely to be damaged...
...PtRrtheeasbreV.it was shown that a Hearst correspondent, William Bayard HaU, had taken part in a German propaganda conference, attended by Dr...
...And like Hearst, the legislative agent of the Committee, Edward A. Rumely—once imprisoned for actions considered inimical to the welfare of the nation—has defied the subpoenas of the Senate Committee...
...Is this tearing, hating attack on Roosevelt a fascist move St bottom...
...To me, it seemed the firm was being the dictator...
...WTho, knowing this, believes in protestations or in propaganda ? Therefore the Egyptians do not love Mussolini...
...That comes later...
...But they are not afraid...
...1*HE Hearst "Deutsches Journal," itself, was edited by one * Gustav Schweppendick...
...The effect of all this propaganda has been to increase distrust of Italy lad tel»trengthen friendship for Britain...
...They look on him as a bad man and a bad neighbor...
...Charles E. Coughlin, at Royal Oak, Michigan...
...If the peaceful powers were to be successful in the organization of a collective security, it would be essential for them to make it equally plain that any aggression againtt any one of them by the war-like powers would have to be treated as an aggression against all of them, and that in that case the war-like powers would meet with the resistance of the collective economic, financial and military strength of the peaceful powers...
...You would be faced with the problem of discouraging the war-like tendencies of the quarrelsome states and establishing over the whole continent a secure and developing peace...
...they would merely go on cheating and twisting, for they have a cynical contempt for ethical standards...
...The chief of the German spy and propaganda- service at that time was one, Dr...
...There are the Italian armies in Libya...
...Says the letter: "Well, I was one out of the 300 out of 380 persons in our firm who were told to put their names to telegrams sent to Senator Wagner, and if we did not, that it meant our jobs...
...t ¦ r191ft, these was a Senate mewOiaetftwi » ******** W the enemy within...
...Italian diplomats may suavely hint that Egypt would be much safer if she dropped the British alliance and made a "reinsurance" non-aggression treaty with Italy...
...Senator Minton's Lobby Committee is already in receipt of much testimony of the kind...
...Besides, the Italian propagandists have such a lot to contend vrth...
...Possibly there is none, and yet there is circum-***tol evidence that there is...
...Rumor has it that 20,000 of them are armed...
...And his propaganda service cannot build illpsions in face of the realities across the desert...
...Forgetful of their duty and their interest to promote the existence of a peaceful, free, and secure America, they would'selfishly go on their way refusing to concern themselves about the positive organization of peace in the geographical continent of which they were a part...
...FRONTIER itself runs through the desert, a natural no-man's * land, where there is nobody for miles but a few roving Senussi —and the vigilant frontier guards...
...The principal evidence eSt JWtft jjJMtil ¦ Biesasld, chief of the United States Secret Seavssfcja* BB»Uln George Lester, chief of the Secret SerVtee ntv***i«*tfn|ujM bid newses of W. ft Been*, the late Arthur BasbejaegdPi& lea* than friend Edward A- Homely, came out very jaawlsWftiy...
...ft Boa for one or another reason they are not popular with tfie Spptians, who look on them, by and large, as undesirable aliens...
...Rumely at that time was apparently remote from Hearst, except for the connection through Dr...
...Jimmy's opinion is shared (if not always so vigorously ex-ss—ei) by practically the whole of his countrymen...
...feel really sorry for them sometimes...
...The minutes of that conference were appropriated by a Secret Service Agent and showed that Hale had advised on American propaganda to offset the tension created by the sinking of the Lusitania...
...Heinrteh Albert, k testified that Hearst, himself, personally, had visited AIBert% oAeas , at 45 Broadway, New York, oh June 24, 1915...
...But if he tries any funny business here—finish...
...Incredibly cheap wire-]ms sets, for example...
...All the time it would be made abundantly clear to the peoples of the war-like states that every advantage of military security and social and economic opportunity was available to them if and when they were prepared to make firm agreements for peace...
...They will pick up only one wave-length—that of the Bari station...
...No less would it have to be made clear to the war-like governments that if they continued to disturb the peace of the American continent, and if they continued to break treaties, then the peaceful powers would have to treat them as bad neighbors and decline to do economic or financial business with them...
...It was Gannett, who bought out various newspapers with power trust money, just as German money has been and still is used to buy American newspapers...
...They would have to cooperate for military purposes as well, and it -would be necessary for them collectively to have such military strength that their capacity successfully to resist aggression against then was so obvious that aggression would not take place...
...His Henry VIII act in Novem-Jr, separating the Coptic Church in Abyssinia from the Coptic (lurch of Egypt, was a typical blunder...
...Broken treaties, reeriminationt violent speeches and threats against other countries would be the order of the day, and interference by one country with the-internal affairs of other countries would be practiced...
...And the powerful Hearst press attacked the lobby committee as the "Blackguard Committee...
...And the head of that Committee, Frank Gannett, supports Rumely's defiance...
...They would reach agreements as to the opening up of markets on the basis of equality and making raw materials available to each of them on a fair basis...
...And a law was enacted—the National Labor Relations Law—against coercing wage earners to vote against union organization...
...Excellent sets: with only one fault...
...h By W. N.EWER «sfBjl8 Mussolini...
...That was the inquiry to ascertain the source of influence behind the deluge of telegrams— even from graveyards—protesting against the Holding Company Bill...
...There's a connection between the actions of the German Imperial Government in this country in 1917 and the actions of the Roosevelt Haters, Inc., today...
...This new Senate investigation, under Indiana's...
...What they lack is not material strength but the strength of political purpose and democratic determination...
...Mussolini," ^Jimmy Hassan repeats, "is a bad man...
...Europe—and indeed the rest of the world, including the United States—has now reached the point where all the peaceful and democratic powers must come together for the disciplined leadership of the world towards peace and security, or when in a short time all of us— your country as well as mine—will be drifting and sliding head-long into a universal smash...
...ANB of their biggest handicaps is that there are some 60,000 or 79,000 Italians living in Egypt...
...But, of course, the thing goes far deeper than this...
...And he capped it by, at the same time, irritating the heads of she great Moslem University of El Azhar by expelling some of its missionaries and teachers from his new "Empire...
...where every individual was denied all freedom, and where governments were spending money in other states for the purpose of stirring up dissension, disturbances, revolutions, and even taking a direct part in so-called civil war that really amounted to invasion of an officially friendly state...
...said Jimmy Hassan, glancing from the British pjloyal Air Force camp at Aboukir to the blue waters of the k-j^where Nelson won his peerage and Casabianca stood on the rLjng deck, "This Mussolini is a bad man...
...Ie tee accompanying article W. N. Ewer, ace correspondent of the LaborHe London Dally Herald, looks ever Egypt, soon to hold Its national elections, sedgets soma tirst-hamd information which Indicates test n Duce will continue his double-crossing romtlmv term long time...
...Nevertheless, the telegrams showing Hearst's interest were made public...
...At that time, Hearst owned the "Deutsche* Journal*' ftM the Secret Service discovered that there was a private WlrS between the "Deutscbes Journal" and Dr...
...On the Supreme Court Bill we were asked to put our names on telegrams sent to Senator Copeland...
...These two laws have been passerWBut there is no law to inhibit the employer from warning his Employees against refusing te sign telegrams of protest—even though the telegrams may cost the employees dearly...
...There would be a number of states in the center under one-man dictatorial government, where only one political party was permitted to exist, controlled by a single person, where every newspaper publication was a government-controlled organ, suppressing or twisting much home and foreign news, and was not permitted to express or to report any opinions out of line with those of the government...
...ngO-ITALIAN minority is very, very small indeed...
...Somehow news gets through of things happening behind the long line of barbed wire that the Italians have put up some distance their side of the border...
...The trouble with governments that idealize war and violence is that they have no respect for such efforts and appeals...
...quarter century...
...Father Coughlin was visiting Hearst at San Simeon, and living in a luxurious suite at Marten Davfes" Hotel Warwick, irj New York...
...They would be competitively rearming against each other and^the rest of the world...
...But they definitely dislike Signor *»ou»i...
...Heinrich Albert...
...Charles E. Coughlin entered the picture, through the efforts of George Le Blanc, an investment counsel at 1 Wall Street, and Robert M. Barries, of the Stock Exchange firm of Harriss and Vose...
...They have complete confidence in the readiness and the ability of Great Britain to deal with the matter if necessary...
...And now you find Father Coughrm stirring up people to a protest likely to crush the President's prestige, and Rumely organizing the whole -business, and the same organization that brought Father Coughlin to the Hippodrome gathefng the money to make these things possible, sad employing Rumely...
...What the British Labor Party is asking is that the advantages of the collective security which you have within your country, and which we have secured within ours, shall now be extended actively and courageously to the collective organization of the peace of the world...
...So lo^g as the peaceful states were disunited and lacking in coordinated policy between themselves, it would be of little avail for them to conduct isolated spasmodic negotiations with the aggressive states and to make to them weak-sounding appeals for good will and better conduct...
...Then you will realize not only that the countries of Europe are making a mess at their relationships, but what a great blessing it is for yon that national government has existed here since quite early days...
...Around the same time...
...In the election of 1936, wage earners were warned in their pay envelopes to vote against the man they wanted to represent them...
...Every means should be taken by the Ministers of the peaceful powers to let it be known to the peoples of the war-like powers that justice, security and equality were available to them on equal terms with the cooperating peaceful powers, and it would then be for the peoples of the warlike governments either to restrain their governments from pursuing mischievous policies or to overthrow the dictatorial tyrannies that had become a menace to them as well as to the peoples of other countries of the American continent...
...Here the Rev...
...now the legislative agent . of Gannett, the power trust pnkJUber, bad accoj^aasygft frjtoj . Dr...
...The name was invented by Indiana's Democratic Congressman Samuel B. Pettingill, who permitted him-**X to be used as an innocent tool of organized hatred against *e President...
...In the present situation, the Minton Committee has subpoenaed the records of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, and the Committee, like Hearst, has gone to court to prevent those records from being made public...
...Very estimable citizens, many af them, probably most of them...
...THAT is what sensible American people would * do if, within their own continent, they were faced with difficulties similar to those which face us in Europe, difficulties which are also a matter of concern and anxiety to the American people themselves...
...So this time we signed the telegrams which were put in front of us, though we were for the bill...
...The war-like powers would thereby, as President Roosevelt put it, be placed in quarantine...
...Oee section of the frosty, If am agreement witk the Italian Duce cam be tailed see*, indicates that anti-British propaganda is Horthefn Africa and tee Near East must cease...
...The TSdrd Crisis" is the name applied by powerful politico-financial merests to the present crisis in Washington to the struggle over J» Reorganization Bill...
...Albert...
...Each state would constitute a national state with its own foreign policy, there always being present the possibility of conflict and war between the states...
...Us soon as Italy withdraws mem and war material* from Spain, tin British will ratify their mew treaty with Mussolini," roads a mew dispatch which has just come ever tee wires...
...Rumely went to Bast View for failing to inform the Government that it waa Osrssan mosey he used for the purchase of the Mail...
...They may be Wsfdistl or Monarchists, for Nahas or for Nokrashi, Copts or Mos-jta», townsmen or villagers...
...If you lived under European political conditions, each of your forty-eight states would have its own army, air force, and if a setfooard state, a navy...
...The stovepipe hat of J™*** Sam, ever worshipful of the clever and successful, should *> Edward A. Rumely, legislative agent in Washington of ••organization calling itself, ironically: "The National Committee JM!iboki Constitutional Government...
...And it smells less rosy in view of pub* Kshed suggestions, never refuted, that Rumely, once the agent of Germany, is a Nazi agent now in this country...
...Three weeks later, on the ground business was bad, the ten were let go...
...SAT storm of protest by telegram was caused by a radio appeal 'Irthe Rev...
...And very quietly and quickly the job of rebuilding the Egyptian army into an efficient modern force is going on...
...Egypt has no illusions about Signor Mussolini's professions of friendship for Islam and the Moslem countries...
...Albert...
...Whether they saved themselves would depend upon'' whether they acted collectively for the organization of American peace in time, or whether they continued their selfish and vacillating policy for so long that it would become impossible to save the American continent...
...A number of your states, removed by some distance from the principal centers of trouble and disturbance, would refuse to worry about the developing sickness of your continent...
...The toughest job any publicity man ever took on is to sell Fascist Italy to any country within a thousand miles of Abyssinia...
...Since 1935 Italy is permanently under suspicion in all these parts—suspect of loj^ring with intent to commit another felony at the first possible moment...
...They do not think much of the Italians...
...On ^•srf*06' 't would appear to the average newspaper reader that *¦¦)* could be no possible connection between Father Coughlin •HJfcmely...
...But odd stories leak back to Cairo from that no-man's land...
...Refusing to cooperate with the great majority of the other states who were peaceful, they would witness the passing of the initiative in international policy away from the democratic and peaceful states and into the hands of the fanatical and irresponsible dictators of the warlike and aggressive states...
...HANG TOGETHER OR HANG SEPARATELY" TiyELL...
...The man who stands out as the guiding genius of this organ-Mi hatred, into which hundreds and possibly thousands of mis-piided business leaders have poured their money, is none other HPS Edward Aloysius Rumely, a man whose connections with ¦» enemy in 1917 was regarded as so subversive that he was ¦Bssaeed to a term in East View Federal Penitentiary...
...There are 60,000 Italians in Egypt itself...
...j. Rumely went to prison, but there was also evidence adriunad at the Senate investigation that the Hearst interests were in B* game...
...Bus is the man, operating under a cloak of ideals, who organ-iiiS-toe false storm which threatened to undermine the prestige— ¦dhence the power—of the President...
...But somehow— Not all the diplomacy, not all the propaganda can remove the impression of that boastful massing of troops in Libya, on Egypt's western border...
...IN the investigation of the Holding Company lobby, the then * Senator Black subpoenaed telegrams concerning W. R. Hearst, the publisher...
...Business houses used their economic power, the power of life or death over a man's job—to swell that chorus of protest with the sig- -natures of employees who had everything to gain by standing with the President—the way they voted...
...They would cooperate socially and economically with a view to promoting trade with each other...
...Albert for the purchase of what was then an HnpePUtul eve* ning newspaper, the New York Mail...
...Another of their troubles is that over and over again just as ttej think they are making some progress, their Lord and Master 4m something which spoils it all...
...And with an expressive gesture he tnfows an imaginary Duce into the shining waters of Aboukir Bay...
...Let us return to our consideration of the problem as if it were a problem of the United States...
...There's a shocking similarity between the way this protest was organized among frightened employees and similar fake protests of the past...
...If they were sensible, the peaceful states would wish to be just in their relations with the war-like states, but justice conceded in the teeth of threats and aggression is, experience indicates, more likely to encourage than to discourage fascism...
...This isn't surprising, in view of Gannett*s able service to the public utility corporations in their struggle to prevent the public from learning about the power trust...
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