Nazi Near-East Drive Revives 1914 Line-up
Nazi Near-East Drive Revives 1914 Line-up Nazis Woo Youth of Iran, Iraq Permanent British Tory Split Looms By BERNARD MOORE Assistant Foreign Editor of the London Daily Herald. (The...
...T'HE day following the Munich decision was an eventful one for * the German Social Democratic Federation in Prague...
...The party has held its flag high—and with honor—as long as it has been able to stand on free-fighting soil...
...It was the first Social Democratic Party to spring up in Austria...
...Chamberlain's achievements...
...That is precisely what has happened in England following the Munich Agreement—the outcome of the meeting of the Big Four, described in a well-known continental paper as the "Pork Butchers' Club...
...now—impoverished...
...It thanks all its members for the glorious loyalty they have, until the very last moment, displayed...
...They are a huge mass...
...Where are they bound ? they wisb.'tl«y knew...
...Prague had ordered Sudeten women and children to be transported to territory further inland...
...those on the lists would, of course, be the first to foe dropped...
...fathers and mothers walked in line with children to—who knew where ? Men, women and tots paced the road together...
...The German Social Democratic movement must draw from this development the proper consequences...
...Czechs Quitting Sudeten Vow Feolty to Socialism By HANS RHINELANDER PRAGUE.—The plight of the masses of Socialists, exiled by the Nazis from Hitlerite Sudeten area, is, indeed, a tragic one...
...cooked «?* by a so-called "protective committee," said to be controlled *f Hopson, whose Associated system has a large stock interest that bankrupt utility concern...
...Then came the report: Hitler was getting the Sudeten area...
...Now faaritt Ed...
...There are significant little pointers...
...One scrutinizes the Social Democratic organs of the Sudeten area, covering the past few weeks, and is, frankly speaking, amazed...
...And they dared to vote against the Henlein, Party in the elections...
...THE analysis points out facts not mentioned in a plan for We** * organization of the U. P. A L. Co...
...And liberty-loving peoples, everywhere, extend them sympathy and hope their acute problem will be solved...
...Also at the moment U kirn* possible to give them in writing...
...They waited and hoped in vain, however...
...ChamberUin, it was believed, had shown courage in meeting Hitler: his courage had wilted at the meeting itself...
...It has been written by the Prague * party leaders, who have been carrying on so heroically in these momentous weeks...
...CO mystified was the Glasgow Forward, official newspaper of ta« Scotch Labor Party, over "1'affaire Strachey" at ETHs Island, it put a man on the trail of the missing'Strachey membership i» the British Communist Party...
...Already, in Iraq and Inn and more obviously in Palestine and Syria, German influence has been making itself felt in traditional fashion...
...Toledanos, the revolutionary Stalinite who granted so many stirring interviews in New York City attacking Fascism, hasn't said a word against the certain torture and probable murder of 21 Jews...
...They didn't have the heart to leave' their pets behind...
...Slowly but surely he was being enmeshed in three separate nets...
...And they asked: How can it be ? Can we really doubt our friends ? In the midst of doubt, however, there were countless numbers of courageous men and women who held high the flag of Social Democracy...
...COR years now the grotond has * been prepared with typical German thoroughness...
...Why...
...The exodus of refugees was a sorry sight to behold...
...The Social Democrats will be the backbone of the new party, and it is understood that the moment reaffiliatior with the LSX is possible, they will rejoin...
...DLEDGES of American Jews that * additional money needed to guarantee the refugees' entry into Mexico would be paid were futile...
...In admiration, we pay our respects, in this hour, to the little" Czech nation, which must bear up under the strain—as we bear fro...
...President Cardenas, the man of the people, the expropriator of foreign wealth, the proletarian president, is directly responsible for what amounts to a death warrant...
...For, figuratively, the bells of England rang in one clamorous, delirious peal when it became known that the war that seemed a matter of hours only had been averted...
...Continued em Page Seven), Nazi Terror Rolls fast (Continued from Pace Four) T3E roads leading to Prague began to be swamped with Sudeten refugees...
...For 21 Jews mean little compared to millions in oil...
...Strachey should write for the jH| Worker' should obviously be on the subject 'Why I Am N#* Member of the Communist Party.' " gj| U. S. Closes In On Utilities Boss WASHINGTON, D. C.—This week Uncle Sam began to close in on Howard C. Hopson, elusive and defiant utility holding company magnate who has played hide and seek with the government since 1935...
...Says the Glasgow Forward: "Does the Communist Party refuse to admit him because « his previous connection with the Mosley Party...
...At one point, a grandmother walked, leading a goat...
...We hope that in the TNtr future we shall be able tt speak to the conscience of the whole democratic world...
...To those of us who have, in these difficult days, stood together, we say: We hope you will keep up your courage and continue your faith...
...After the strain of Berchtesgaden and Godesberg, followed by a week in Czechoslovakia in the throes of dismemberment without an anaesthetic, I decided to take a short holiday in a tiny Sussex village...
...Swiftly, Hitler has followed up his victory in Central Europe...
...The Czech army and the masses of Social Democratic workers were ready to defend the territory to the last, confident that the aid promised them by democratic nations would be forthcoming...
...positions, so that they might be seen by passersby and identified...
...Men and Women, old and young, ill and phyhically fit, wander further and farther away8 from home...
...THE rapid developments in Europe and elsewhere since the Munich Agreement are calculated rather to help this movement than to hinder it...
...They would not surrender their liberties or political rights—under any circumstances...
...Strachey still on probation or what...
...I found, indeed, a very shrewd appreciation of the real situation...
...Babies, Aged, III, Maimed Flee Advance of Nazi Terror Cardenas Oils Fascist Axis with Blood of 21 Jews fly VICTOR RIESEL SOMEWHERE on the high seas 21 Jews are steaming at a npid clip to concentration camps and death in Nazi Germany...
...Today, the party quits its activity in the ceded territory...
...And'it might be said that one letter wovld not suffice far all that has happened t* Czechoslovakian Demoeraey;\^ would at least need a bask...
...Teplitz...
...tomorrow it may be Prieto, Besteiro, or Caballero...
...The party saw the light of day in 1864, in the city of Asch...
...the second a Center Catholic Party...
...There will be only three Czech parties in the near future: one resembling the British Labor Party, consisting of Social Democrata and the Leftist National Socialists, formerly led by Bea...
...Pages and pages of these sheets—and columns upon columns of the Prague Social Democratic organ—are filled with declarations by workers' groups which express faith in the party and devotion to the principles guiding it...
...Turkey, Germany's former ally and keypoint in Germany's Near East scheme, is hourly expecting news of the death of its strong man, Kemal Attaturk...
...So they trekked on . . . days . . . nights...
...and many other centers...
...It began as the Austrian unit of the "Allegemeiner Deutsche Arbeiter-Verein...
...ordered two of the multi?ariee» Associated "finance" subsidiaries to send owners- of UtiHtt» Power & Light Corporation an analysis* of its securities prepared by the commission...
...It has been an illuminating experience returning from the grim despair of Czechoslovakia to this country...
...That hope, though, had not materialised...
...Surely the International itself will take tab into consideration if it can sac must act in this question, which is not simply a local problem of Czechoslovak minorities, bat one of vital interest to the whole of world democracy today...
...Specially trained Nazis travel these countries as commercial agents...
...Not a word from him who attacked the leaders of the Socialist "I...
...They have decided our lot withcut consulting us...
...Once comparatively well off...
...And behind it all is resentment at the way in which British public opinion has been deliberately misled during the summer months...
...r * The protective committee violently objected against sendmf the security owners the information provided by the S.E.C...
...We ask you...
...they are well known to you as well u - - to the entire International...
...employees of German banks and firms are sent back to the Fatherland for "refresher" courses...
...It releases from their duties all those who have heretofore served it...
...The refugees are not entirely despairing, however...
...The next article that Mr...
...They were well trained during the period of the "Social Fascist" era...
...And tragic it is...
...I'HE declaration is pathetic...
...5 "He??g??s, bound "to newer lands, are convinced that Socialism ?ill eventually be realized and that it will prove to be not only their own salvation but the salvation for oppressed humanity By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad CAD-FACED men, leaders of the socialist parties, legal and anderground, of every nation, sit around the conference table in Brussels, and listen to de Brouckere, president of the Labor and Socialist International, read a terse, dramatic letter from comrades in the Czech Social-Democratic Party, signed by Souknp, Hampl, aifS Dundr...
...A widespread appeal to the nation invites support for the new national Party of Working People, which will form the nucleus for opposition to the new right-wing forces making themselves felt under cover of German pressure and with German subsidies...
...There is bewilderment at the demand for more and more armaments—a demand completely at variance with the claims of Chamberlain, the Peacemaker...
...Those mammoth German maneuvers which were the stormy petrels of the coming trouble...
...J. Necas, former minister of Social Welfare, and two Czech Social Democratic leaders, indicates that the strategy has already been planned and the offensive begun...
...We depart, however, firm in the hope that a new day will dawn...
...Now we have lost that soil...
...Triumphantly the German soldiers entered the Sudeten area...
...T is of interest to note that when the" wires brought reports to * the effect that Czechoslovakia would be betrayed by its friends, these organs immediately voiced protest...
...No sooner did it become clear that this sector would fall prey to the brown-shirted monster, than scores of factory workers—whose affiliations with the Social Democratic Party were known—began to lose their jobs...
...The movement which wfll accomplish this is the movement which canreally liberate all eppressed nations—Sfciglrsm...
...Yet, so far as I could learn, there was not a soul in it who believed that Chamberlain had secured peace in Europe whether in "our time," in his time or anybody else's time...
...Reports are current of a number of suicides among Sudeten refugees...
...These* tragedies are widespread in Carlsbad and in other Sudeten German towns...
...Time and again Hitler and his lieutenants insisted that they were only normal troop movements, scoffed at the suggestion that they were directed against Czechoslovakia, and rated the Czechs in fish-wife style for saying so...
...Prom many points they came: Bodenbach and Aussig, ?gar and Each, Reichenber and Carlsbad, Marienbad...
...And Lombardo Toledanos, that "fiery" leader of the left wing trade unions—the C.T.M.—in Mexico, said nothing...
...German money flows through Nazi agents in Cairo and Bagdad to finance newspapers, clubs, anything likely to enhance German prestige...
...Tradition is hard to break down in this country among the electorate as well as in Parliament...
...It is only natural that Hitler should seek, as Britain and France on their side are already seeking, that Turkey's new ruler should be a friend of Germany and a friend of the "Drang nach Osten...
...In another decision, the S.E.C...
...Not even the Pinkerton men could have located what obvieeelv was never there, but, asks the Forward, why is Mr...
...Within the German minority of skeletonized Czechoslovakia, the German Social Democratic Federation has a very slim chance of functioning and working effectively...
...We have become victims of this decision...
...Today, as we part from the labor movement in the Sudeten area, we make our bow with sorrowful hearts...
...Since time immemorial, economic domination in the Balkans has meant political domination, too...
...Forced persecution and the murder of men like Mark Rein, Andres Nin and the others are too stiff a price to pay in exchange for munitions from Russia...
...What is to be done ? T Where to turn ? The answer to these questions is still to be found...
...But the fact remains that five men—there were six Mart Andres Nin was murdered—all bitter anti-fascists, were senteaeti to long terms because they were mortal enemies of the StalinitM, whose manicured tenacles are now comfortably wound around tae Spanish army in the form of "political commissars...
...Glorious, indeed, is the history of German Social Democracy in the Sudeten area...
...Those who wished to save their posts were compelled to join the Henlein Party...
...They have^set an example which will be remembered as long as there is a trace of freemen left upon this planet...
...Nothing is cheaper than the Communist cry of "Fascism...
...It is difficult to persuade the English voter who all his life has marked his cross against the Tory candidate's name to switch over to the Opposition, although he is dissatisfied, even angry, with his party's policy...
...His Minister of Economics has just returned from a visit to Turkey, to Bulgaria, to Jugoslavia and Rumania, touring the traditional route of the German "Drang nach Osten" —the Drive to the East...
...Bare news items reporting the withdrawal of the Czechs iron the L.S.I, hid from world Socialists the heartbreak of the Csech democratic leaders as they set about reorganizing a counter attack against rightist government planned to succeed the Syrovy cabinet A statement issued this week by Dr...
...The Federal Power Commission announced that the Supreme Court has ended an injunction obtained by Hopson from a Federal appeals court in Philadelphia...
...Whether" the leaden of the dissidents—the Edens, the Duffs, Coopers and the Church ills—are themselves prepared to break with tradition and found a new Tory Party, remains to be seen...
...Istanbul is not to be the terminus but the junction ?f the Drive to the East...
...FVESPITE the decent world's hcrror of Jews living in roadside ditches between the Czech and German borders, and in open, muddy • fields between Nazidom and Poland...
...Family suicides, too, are recorded...
...For the German Social Democratic Federation was the last vestige of the Social Democratic labor movement in Germany...
...and the third a Conservative Party with the Agrarians, the National Union Party, the Fascista, and the Small Traders Party as its reactionary backbone...
...Nazi Near-East Drive Revives 1914 Line-up Nazis Woo Youth of Iran, Iraq Permanent British Tory Split Looms By BERNARD MOORE Assistant Foreign Editor of the London Daily Herald...
...the Austrian ex-Chancellor Eldresh and Hanish and Josef Zeliger...
...Not only do individuals take their own lives...
...As the days wore on, the ranks of women and children, who fled from the border towns to the big cities, grew...
...All the consequences art describable...
...The workers, mobilized, took to arms enthusiastically...
...The Netc Leader's Chief European Correspondent) LONDOON.—It*was, I believe, Sir Robert Walpole who delivered himself of the famous epigram: "Today they are ringing the bells...
...True, we lay down the great heritage which we have so devotedly guarded and we leave the lost battleground...
...They were ready to go through all the horrors which war entailed, if need be...
...Sentences were handed out ranging from 11 to 15 yean whi/f only two of the prisoners, Escuder, technical ediic of LaJPufrJh, TrotskyTte newspaper, and "?rebull were acquitted...
...And now that his objective is secured, Hitler blatantly declares that, months ago, he made up his mind to liberate the Sudetens, by force if necessary, by October 1. INHERE is a basis of common* sense in the British which makes it impossible for the average man faced with this situation blindly to accept the Premier's childish belief in Hitler's assurance that this is positively his "last...
...There were many in the village who expressed themselves as ashamed to be Englishmen...
...that the stately waters of the Tory Party are threatening to burst through the banks...
...This Verein has cut a niche in the labor movement in Continental Europe and has produced a number of outstanding "Socialist leaders, as, for example: Schiller, Zeff, Eldresh and Hanish...
...Now all would be gone: freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, liberty of religious worship...
...The party flag, though, is unstained...
...we ask you in the name of the Party to take note of the Party decision that the delegates cannot take part in this conference...
...note.] "Anybody wishing to become a member of the Connawait Party, it is understood, is, or was, supposed to be on proWjsi for a certain time before being allowed into the Party members^ "Is Mr...
...On that day, it issued the following declaration: "The die is cast...
...Public opinion in Britain, recovering from the almost hysterical relief of the last days of Septem- ber, has swung around to a cold criticism of Mr...
...Today it is Gorkin, Blackwell, or Andrade...
...tomorrow they will be wringing* their hands...
...We pray that, despite the recent events, the Czechs may yet see happier days...
...Strachey, theoretical harbinger and official line-layer for the Kremlin is English speaking countries, not a member of the Communist Party...
...And there is a strong —a very strong—feeling that not only did Britain's "political realist" sell out on Czechoslovakia, but that he has sold out on Britain and the British Empire, too...
...It has established t precedent in Spain for the wholesale persecution of anti-»talnuta...
...The plan wa...
...press during the past weeks hasn't hesitated in Britain, France and America to label as fascist the English Independent Labor Party, the Thomasite Socialist Party, the struggling Czech Socialist Party, the Blum Socialist Party, and the late Otto Bauer...
...The Loyalist government could do no greater injustice to itself and to the vast army of anti-Stalinites throughout the world who are sending millions of dollars to aid in lighting back the Fascists, and who work fervently daily to secure official government action which would in some way aid Government Spain, than to incarcerate Gorkin, Andrade, Arquer, Bonet, and Gironelk because the communists hate them...
...Grandfathers and grandmothers mingled with young folks in the march...
...He has written lengthy articles to the 'Daily Worker,' for the Communist Party and is regarded as representing * Communist point of view on the Left Book Selection Commit** [A communist innocent front...
...that the downfall of the brown-shirted monster will yet be a reality...
...And they ask: What next ? Meanwhile, the exodus of Sudeten German refugees continues...
...Thousands of other, however, stayed home, ready to go through the horror of war and all it entailed—so that they might not have to leave their homes and properties acquired after so many years of sweat and labor...
...Only a couple of weeks ago, Hopson was haled before the S.E.C...
...To make matters worse, lists of employees were prepared and posted in prominent...
...I The motive for this action was clear: the Nazis, coming into power, would have something "to go by...
...1 Development in Prague moved thick and fast...
...The Czechoslovak Party is of the opinion that it is asMsasi sary to explain its reason...
...of the resignation from the human race of the Nazis who prey on women and kids...
...With the accession of the Sudeten area by the Nazis, the party loses its entity...
...And masses of people began to flee...
...There is anger, too, at the revelations that years of heavy taxation, the fulsome publicity accorded to the Minister for the Coordination of Defense, have produced nothing but a state of unpreparedness now being used as the excuse for, Munich...
...But already the wringing of hands has begun...
...after the commission's agents had scoured the country fM" months trying to serve a subpoena on him, but when questioned he refused to answer...
...The people find it difficult to reconcile the Premier's professed belief in the sincerity of the German Fuehrer and the facts of the crisis now being slowly revealed...
...F. T. U." because they refused to accept Russia's demands for "workers' sanctions...
...Negrin and his cabinet colleagues know that the official CP...
...note.] _ ,^ "He can evidently advise people to join the Communist and to follow the Communist Party line when he is not i» w Communist Party himself...
...President Cardenas—an honorable man!—gave the orders personally to deport the Jews...
...They comprise business people, professionals, and workers who have played a prominent part in the life and the activities of the residents there...
...But the Tory electorate as weH as the Parliamentary Conservative Party would be split asunder if the voting choice lay not between the Tory Party and the Opposition but between two factions of the Tory Party...
...for nowhere more than in that storm center of Europe does the man who pays the piper call the tune...
...The Big Powers have decided to leave the Su?eten area...
...at another an aged man trudged along, showing a sheep the way...
...His death will reveal the fundamental weakness of government by dictatorship—the succession...
...We must part with organizations and institutions which we have, built \*ith so much enterprise and energy...
...Long live the Socialist ideal...
...There are signs, however, that the placid stream of British party policies is nearing the rapid...
...And- Germany is in luck again...
...tjOR these exiles, the future is black indeed...
...The number of Jewish refugees from the Sudeten area is unusually large...
...Turned back by President Car- . denaa of Mexico to the country where Hitler has made life impossible for them, the Austrian and German Jewish refugees, among • whom are women, know that torture and rape await them...
...Concerning the Great Betrayal committed against Czechoslovakia by the Powers, Social Democrats everywhere view it as a "monstrous wrong...
...We pray that a generation, a happier one, will have the good fortune to take up and continue our fight and that it will serve well the cause to which we are ready to dedicate our lives...
...Now the Communist press is overjoyed...
...Already Germany has begun the business of outbidding France, Britain and Italy for economic domination in the Balkans...
...And observers are shocked...
...ere and there were children who paced the road, carrying their lottery along with them...
...Since trains, autos, and wagons were denied to them, they were compelled to go by foot...
...dear comrades, to accept the greetings of all Czechoslovakia crucified in our tines...
...Social Democratic elements in Czechoslovakia had hoped, until the very last moment, that English, French and Russian aid would be forthcoming...
...In their hearts glows the hope that Nazi barbarism will yet pee its doom...
...Parties of Iraqis and Iranians, Arabs from Syria and Palestine are invited to Germany, correspond with Nazi youths and are pumped full of Nazi propaganda and hatred for Britain and France...
...The /line-up is becoming i more and more like that of pre-war years, and Neville Chamberlain has made the biggest contribution he could to Germany's aims by helping to make the country of Hitler and the Nazis a country to be feared, a country whose word is law...
...With this barrier removed, the commission will go ahead with its investigation of charges that exorbitant fees of "service" companies owned by Hopson and other insiders of the Associated Gas & Electric System are looting six subsidiary power concerns in Pennsylvania, thus raising the cost of electricity for consumers and, also, "gypping" unwary stockholders...
...The Securities and Exchange Commission flatly turned down a demand by Hopson that its probe of certain "investment" companies, also Associated subsidiaries, be conducted at secret basr*^ ings, with the doors barred to newspaper reporters and the pabfle...
...Apparently, history was repeating itself: what had happened in Germany and, subsequently, in Austria, was happening in the Czech country...
...That these factions exist is clear...
...of the sadism of Fuehrer-worshipping aboriginals called stormtroopers, somewhere on the Atlantic 21 Then and women are being tortured aboard the HamburgAmerican liner Orinoco—because the "people's" President Cardenas must sell oil to grease the RomeBerlin axis, because Nazi advertisers pay high rates to sell Fascism in Mexican newspaper media, because for months Mexico has been subject to an increasingly vociferous antj-Semitic campaign, inspired by the German legation, through the Mexican press...
...IOY was unconfined this week in Communist Party headquarten here and abroad when the news was flashed that five of the seven Poumists, active anti-Stalinites all, many of them with Wnf records of good work done for the working people of Spain, wan sentenced to heavy prison terms by a Loyalist Tribunal of Espionage and High Treason in Barcelona...
...a a • MOW that village has been, since Britain had a Parliament, a stronghold of Toryism...
...The trouble began'even before the Nazis "got their hands" on this territory...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 45
