Reich Seeks South America Base in Exchange for Jews
OLIVER, BRYCE
Reich Seeks South America Base in Exchange for Jews Premier Chamberlain Offer of Tanganyika and British Guiana Believed Worthless By BRYCE OLIVER SiW Commentate at WEVD, New York 0gf,...
...In effect, what Dr...
...but not all the countries use up their quota allotments, and within recent years more people have left the United States than have entered it...
...on the other, it is a first-class political machine...
...THERE is one thing that every clear-thinking person understands by now: The recent outrages in Nazi Germany are not an accident...
...However laudable protests may be, however noble their purpose, their ultimate effect is nil as long as they fail to indicate a concrete solution of the much abused Jewish "problem...
...some of us thought that Biro-Bidjan would be that territory...
...Force and economic pressure is the only language the Nazi cowards understand...
...Dictator Trujillo, who has rebuilt the capital, now called Ciudad Trujillo, is modernizing the country—new roads, new construction, and new equipment for a growing army...
...but the government must not compete in the field of paying practice...
...Every decent American, regardless of his political and religious beliefs, has already expressed his indignation at the horrible tortures inflicted upon the German Jewish minority...
...So are the farmers and the white collar workers...
...Meanwhile, behind closed doors, the Grand Jury listened to Dr...
...Every monopoly in the nation will find itself facing speedy prosecution should the head of the anti-trust division succeed in beating the corporation lobby and get the fund* he needs to increase his bureau's efficiency...
...There were numerous other intellectuals who believed in freedom, equality and, above all, humanitarianism...
...117HAT can we as Americans do to help the victims of the /" Nazi terror...
...These pkfalls are all the more evident because 4e British offer to settle Jews in Africa and British Guiana are already out of the question...
...What is true of Germany today is equally true of Italy, Poland, Hungary, Rumania and other fascist and semifascist countries in Eastern and Central Europe...
...On the one hand, this medical state appears as a substantial economic vested interest...
...Shchedrin was not alone in his protest...
...but by nature the average Brazileiro canat be bothered long with racial hatreds...
...This way involves an arrangement between Berlin and some Western Hemisphere nation, by whiofe...
...which the Washington delegation Zpto obtain at Lima next month...
...He is the master-builder of one of the most profitable publishing enterprises in the world...
...National Dairy Products, and a few other trusts cut their exorbitant prices »nd raise their exceedingly low pay to the farmers...
...In the modern capitalist world, emigration has long beer a vital aspect of the Jews' economic existence...
...The black Republic of Haiti occupies the western third...
...Nor must one believe in the principle of a "Jewish Homeland" in Palestine to realize that Palestinian Jewry is economically ready and more than willing to absorb a major portion of the homeless Jewish exiles...
...1 TRUJILLO FRIENDLY TO NAZIS AN apparently inspired report came from Berlin this week that independent negotiations for the transfer of the German Jews were already under way between Berlin and the Dominican Republic, ruled by the dictator Trujillo, whose sympathy with Fascist-Nazi methods is the sorest spot of Western Hemisphere international politics...
...But in defense of isolation from the enward march of dictatorship, we must prevent an immigration desl between Germany and any Latin-American nation...
...Health, and Capiaia-Dan Gilbert, chief of State Attorney Thomas J. Courtney's police...
...But when on October 31 the President's Interdepartmental Committee on Coordinating Health and Welfare Activities conferred with a committee of the A.M.A., that august body still turned thumbs down on the proposal...
...CO-OP FIGHTS FOR INEXPENSIVE MEDICINE THE many younger and less prosperous doctors, the rank and file of the profession, are by and large in favor of some form of socialized medicine...
...They must run for life or face extermination...
...Further exposes of crooked public officials are expected to reveal why the milk trusts have made what have been called "fantastic" profits, permitting the payment of salaries far in excess of that paid the President of the United States...
...Not since the Great War has Germany, been so hated in the United States as she is today...
...employees—out of business...
...More than that: modern anti-Semitism, unlike Jew-baiting in the Middle Ages, does not even have to hide under the flimsy cloak of religious prejudice and superstition...
...Fishbein...
...Nor are the cries of sympathy raised at various periods by wellmeaning liberals, reformers and humanitarians...
...United States domination (which to them means domination by North American finance...
...The same may be said of the British offer of British Guiana...
...The answer, in case you don't know it, is Dr...
...An example of the pitfalls ahead, created by t*e German-Jewish crisis, is shown by the reports of German negotiations with the Trujillo dictatorship of the Dominican Republic...
...This would constitute a serious hitch to Western Hemisphere solidarity...
...A territory will also serve as a strategic base for his creative efforts in all fields of human endeavor...
...It would be, in ease the solution should be made by ta independent arrangement between Brazil and Tm rasam is that the economic directors of til ImflJlm Government, already eager for closer cosantrcial arrangements with 'Germany, toaii be convinced toe easily that mass immigrstha of German Jews should be accompanied by nan immigration of German products and influence...
...And the plans, in this regard, are the plans which are drawing the United States into close proximity with Germany's power politics...
...Wherever health insurance plans have been adopted, in England and elsewhere, such plans have served both to raise the health standards of the population and to improve the economic condition of the doctors...
...In 1881, after the first wave of pogroms in Russia, SaltykovShchedrin, the famous Russian author, gained the everlasting gratitude of the civilized world for writing his famous proclamation of sympathy for the persecuted Jews...
...Above all, we must combat with all the means at our disposal the sinister fascist forces—of all shades and from all countries— who spread their poisonous propaganda in the United States...
...He jaam more easily stirred up against "America j, Imperial" than against any creed or breed...
...Some eraU^ing pitfalls have been prepared for the States by the Hitler Government, which 2Jbe expected to use all possible measures to _.Mt Central and South American nations ETwinnntting themselves to the Washington ^SjBcipal among these pitfalls is the necessity, Luck the United States Government feels keenly, j sevhsg off some unilateral attempt by Ger*f- t» effect the release of Germany's 600,000 j—?k "hostages" through an independent armpm* with one of five American Republics...
...For example, howwould it look to the world, and our own four and a half million Jews, if Washington should break up the deal...
...the Dominican Republic the eastern two-thirds...
...Chamberlain's offer looks generous to the world—and possibly to the Jews—but to Germany it looks like a cunning attempt to fortify Tanganyika against all comers...
...the Jew could change his religion and thereby escape the clutches of the Inquisitor...
...Tanganyika, former British colony, is known • contain gold...
...Milking the Public WASHINGTON.—99 of Chicago's foremost milk price boosters and their political aides will go an trial shortly in what may be the beginning of a nation-wide drive to make Borden's...
...TMMIiiO DICTATORSHIP MAY OFFER HAVEN IN order to prevent any unilateral arrangement between a Latin-American nation and Ger¦any, the United States stands in danger of fwng the charge*, that this country is no more esyer to help the Jews than Germany...
...Having shed a few tears, however, these humanitarians relapsed into silence and the Jewish "problem" had to wait for another dramatic event—such as the recent Nazi pogroms—before civilized mankind, once more shocked at brutality and bloodshed, would raise its voice in protest...
...Hugh Cabot, Michael M. Davis and other liberal medical and fay experts...
...Group clinics and medical cooperatives usually set up drug formularies which eliminate the highly profitable "ethical proprietaries...
...He could escape to other parts of Europe—even the inquisitors did not rob their victims of all their property—which were than sparsely populated...
...Yet the United States does not offer to accept them, and the United States even prevents them from going to a country willing to receive them...
...Incidentally, the paying practice includes industrial workers, many of whom, if they want to eat, can hardly afford to pay for medical care...
...Persecution of Jews is not a new phenomenon in history...
...True, German and jibs agents have agitated anti-Semitism in gas...
...One need not necessarily be a Zionist to appreciate the amount of Jewish blood and toil that was expanded in transforming the Palestinian desert into a flowering garden...
...Several years ago...
...Now, if ever, we must act—act with force and determination...
...These are just a sample of the complications that confront us as the United States prepares for the inter-American conference at Liana next month, at which Washington hopes to soKdffy the defenses of the Western Hemisphere...
...The A.M.A...
...It was the basis of the negoostiong which had actually been launched for ¦n return of Germany's lost colonies...
...Outstanding in the roster of state officials who allegedly helped milk companies forget about the anti-trust law, are Dr...
...By announcing that the British Government **s ready to open Tanganyika to the German Jews, Chamberlain fas good as stated that, after all, Germany could not have it back...
...The New York Ttimes well summarized the result of this conference in its headline: "Doctors Still Bar New Health Deal...
...The Wandering Jew Anti-Semitism Must Be Wiped Out Now, Not Forgotten When Nazi Pogroms End Protests Useless Unless Followed By Refugee Influx Into Free Nations By LEON DENNEN Author of "Where the Ghetto Ends" IT is hard to write calmly of the tortures and indignities to * which the Jews of Germany are now being subjected...
...when it is necessary to divert the attention of the masses from their miserable conditions...
...Of course, Washington is going to prevent this if possible...
...Journal derives a large part of the revenue from drug manufacturers through the system of "ethical proprietaries...
...And this may turn out to be a strong trading mat for Latin-American nations which have reason to fear that Western Hemisphere solidarity means, in reality...
...Anti-Jewish agitation, as is commonly known, is invariably encouraged...
...I*HE expression of our indignation, however, protests and * prayers alone are not enough...
...As Americans we have a right to demand that Great Britain keep the doors of Palestine open for Jewish immigration...
...Or, as Professor Sidney Hook recently put it: Only in a society which is based on the principles of democratic Socialism —which recognizes the value of cultural diversity and tolerates religious differences—will the Jew be emancipated with the rest of humanity...
...Pending the result of the Department of Justice prosecution, the Group Health Association is negotiating for the purchase of a hospital, and everywhere the voluntary health insurance movement, cheered by finding the administration on its side, is moving ahead under the stimulus of the Association of Medical Cooperatives...
...The doctor too, for that matter, are out of luck...
...Today, however, the "Soviet Jewish Autonomous Territory" is but a sad dream and the stony silence maintained by the "Socialist Fatherland" in the face of the greatest human tragedy of modern times—the shrill protestations and breast-beatings of the American Stalinists notwithsanding—is immigration, and Germany has the, people who need a new home...
...1.000,000, his present allotment, is less than half of the amount he needs and what many leas important agencies receive...
...Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Chicago Board-of...
...Chamberlain knows, and all Washington knows, that the Hitler Government, as it now stands, would never permit the German Jews to take advantage of the offer...
...The whole world is shocked at this new wave of Nazi bestiality...
...The irresponsible act of Herschel Grynszpan, the hunted Jewish boy driven to desperation by physical and mental torture, may yet be evaluated by history as a deed of heroism rather than as a criminal act, since it brought out into the open a condition which had long existed but which those who now protest loudest sought to ignore...
...Louis, and elsewhere...
...Thurman Arnold...
...Modern medicine is relatively good, relatively complicated, and very expensive...
...As long as the Jewish territory depends upon the whims of the Stalins and the "good-will" of the Chamberlains, it will remain within the realm of vague, unrealizable dreams...
...Fishbein is also credited with being the chief of the ramified propaganda and lobbying activities of the American Medical Association...
...The-' probability that Hispanic-American relations will become more and more involved in the »**ish refugee question ¦ is apparent in the evi¦mce, already so clear, that the British offer of African colonies was not even sincere...
...IN the era of Hitler, all avenues of escape are closed to the Jew...
...Roosevelt-appointed head of the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice, is drawing up plans for a force of 1,500 lawyers and investigators, so that he can establish regional offices throughout the nation and extend the anti-trust penalties to all violators...
...Gilbert is indicted as having directed a war against the independent companies...
...The ufa» ? the ripest of all for a unilateral Germ totstion of her own "Jewish problem...
...America has acquitted itself nobly and courageously in these dark days in the life of the Jewish people...
...At least a third of America's 120,000 physicians receive a net annual income of $3,000 or less...
...WE cannot demand that the Jews go to Tanganyika or British Guiana, because it is too apparent that that is purely a matter far the British...
...The only true solution of the Jewish problem in the light of present-day events, I believe, is territorial concentration...
...Why are Thurman Arnold and his bright young men trying to get a Federal Grand Jury to indict the American Medical Association under the anti-trust laws...
...also to evidence that the District Medical Association staged what amounted to both primary and secondary boycotts in the attempt to put the Group Health Association—a medical cooperaive organized by H.O.L.C...
...Meanwhile, also, it is reported that the Department of Justice is poking into the records of similar performances of medical societies in Milwaukee, Chicago, St...
...Naturally, holding the Jews hostage as she does, Germany will not permit them to depart for the benefit of a Great Britain which now has been forced to turn against Germany once again...
...In the face of this seeming unanimity, one might ask, what's all the shooting about...
...with a proposal that he and other drug manufacturers subsidize a big radio campaign against health insurance...
...In addition he syndicates a dailyhealth column in over 200 newspapers, is the author of fourteen books, and has a dozen miscellaneous consultant and retainer jobs...
...We must demand that the United States open its gates to Jewish as well as non-Jewish refugees...
...Today, the many corporation lawyers that are employed to break down congressional legislation against monopolies regularly advise their employers to disregard statutes against trusts while the legal technicians find easy ways to evade them...
...In fact, the current battle, whether it is staged in the courts, in Congress, in the State Legislatures, where compulsory health insurance bills are now pending, or in the newspapers, could be billed with essential accuracy as "The People vs...
...Should even all the 600,000 fermtn Jews want to enter the United States, their number would be negligible in a country inhabited by 130 million people...
...Common decency requires that the United States, which has protested so nobly and loudly agains the Nazi outrages, should follow up its protest with action and modify its present immigration restrictions...
...In exchange for the immigration and the financial commercial and technical aid,-the ambitious Trujillo, of course, toys with the notion of giving Hitler what Hitler wants—an assured base in the Caribbean, within easy striking distance of the Panama Canal...
...is willing to let the unprofitable health services be socialized...
...The right of asylum has long been a respected tradition in our country...
...Resolutions passed by this assembly approved much of the government program...
...Arnold points out, only a few of the outstanding names in America's corporate enterprises have been brought to court as lawbreakers when they disregarded statutes curbing their activities...
...Young Doctors Lead Fight For Socialized Medicine By JAMES RORTY Author of "Our Master's Voice" •"THE battle for socialized medicine is on, and it is * primarily labor's battle, since, as our health services are now organized, labor is out of luck...
...At present...
...The Jews need a territory large enough to absorb several million people...
...A German base, within bombing distance of the canal, would force us to doable our a seal force, in order to maintain equally powerful fleets on both sides of the Canal...
...The 'Jews of Germany cannot indulge now in beautiful vistas, in great dreams...
...Why not grant the unused quotas from other countries to the German refugees...
...Hence, it is not surprising that, according to a recent Gallup poll, a majority of American doctors favor a system of compulsory health insurance in this country...
...xrth America and the West Indies alone are Possible...
...and affects as well the purse of drug manufacturers...
...In this manner socialized or cooperative medicine hurts the pocketbook of the A.M.A...
...Reich Seeks South America Base in Exchange for Jews Premier Chamberlain Offer of Tanganyika and British Guiana Believed Worthless By BRYCE OLIVER SiW Commentate at WEVD, New York 0gf, German-Jewish migration problem loomed I^L week as a likely stumbling block for the States' program of Western Hemisphere Sitr...
...WHAT would be a concrete solution of the Jewish problem T As a Socialist I believe that the Jewish question is a social and economic problem deeply rooted in the existence of bourgeois society...
...He needs assistance and Germany is willing to give it...
...Both the economic and the political power of the A.M.A...
...FISHBEIN is editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the A.M.A.'s organ for the laity...
...If she is forced to permit the escape of the Jewish' hostages by international pressure—and such international pressure is taking shape—she will want to be the gainer...
...There is a way that Germany could permit the Jews to escape—even with some of their property—and still be the gainer...
...Why do informed Washington observers say that the New Deal's National Health Program—a ten-year plan involving progressively mounting expenditures up to $850,000 annually—is going to face the stiffest kind of opposition when and if it gets on the floor of Congress...
...Last year the Journal grossed $840,000 from its advertising contracts, and showed net earnings of $670,000...
...The A.M.A...
...The Washington Government professes to seek sanctuary for the Jews...
...This is the great island republic—now a dictatorship—spreading between Cuba and Puerto Rico...
...Only political innocents will believe even for a moment that the looting and murders that followed the assassination of Ernst vom Rath were spontaneous and not deliberate and planned...
...A Jewish nation in South America, under British domination or continued ownership, would be fine for Britain—just as fine for Britain as it might possibly be for the Jews...
...Germany .would gain a foothold, dangerous to the United States, in the Western Hemisphere...
...behaves very much like a trade association, and, like trade associations in other fields, the A.M.A...
...Why did the Roosevelt administration take the elaborate pains to mobilize its labor and farmer allies (C.I.O., A. F. of L., Farm Bureau, Farmers' Union, and numerous consumer pressure groups) at the National Health Conference last July...
...We still live in a world of, racial obsession, national jingoism and class wars...
...He needs something the workers and progressives of the world will neither forget nor forgive...
...Moreover, there is one thing we must now understand clearly: The Nazi myth of racial superiority has forever destroyed the myth of Jewish assimilation...
...fjQg the standpoint of the Jews, themselves, their well-wishers, a transfer of Germany's atippy hostages to Brazil might be the best nation that could be found...
...More than 600,000 Jews are faced with extinction, and a way must be found to rescue them from the clutches of the Nazi beast...
...Germany is in no mood now to permit any advantage to Great Britain...
...We must join with President William Green of the American Federation ef Labor in urging the intensification of the boycott upon Nazi goods and services...
...The situation of the Jews in Germany today is a thousandfold more horrible than during the days of the Spanish Inquisition...
...President Roosevelt's poignant indictment of the bloody Nazi terrorists will remain a cherished document in the annals of American democracy...
...Bat from the standpoint of Western Hemisphere safety, the settlement of the Jews in Brttil might be the worst possible solution...
...In the days of Torquemada...
...The Hitler Government would reason, quite' rightly, that the establishment of s great Jewish nation in Tanganyika, under the suzereignty of the British Government, would insure forever the rich British holdings in the African territory...
...MEDICAL PROFESSION'S POLITICAL OUTFIT DR...
...Bloodshed, terror, persecution of Jews, Catholics, Socialists, liberals, Communists—that is the philosophy of Nazism, fascism, in action...
...Can we, however, remain indifferent to the Jew's sufferings, trusting implicitly that Socialism will automatically solve his problem...
...would be very much deflated if the National Health Program went into effect...
...Thus any steps taken in the direction of making- medicine available to the masses of the people is bound to be fought by the drug trade as well as by the A.M.A...
...Ose of-these is frazil (an ideal nation to reGermany's Jews because of the traditional tolerance of Brazilians), and another is _ The three lesser nations are Guatemala, »jg Bca and the Dominican Republic...
...But in order to prevent it, Washington may be forced to walk into an embarrassing, almost untenable position...
...Moreover, it is well known that the total quota for immigrants from all the countries is about 150,000 per year...
...Fishbein has built up over the past twenty years is a State within the State...
...Families earning less than $3,000 a year cannot afford to pay for adequate medical care, and repeated surveys have shown that neither in country nor in city do the majority of our people receive anything like the medical care they should have...
...The border of the two republics was the location of the frightful slaughter of Haitians, living in the Dominican Republic, which shocked civilized nations a few months ago...
...Morris Fishbein, than whom there is no more formidable politician in these United States...
...The Jew is everywhere a weak minority, hence a convenient scapegoat...
...Trust Busters WASHINGTON.—America's trusts may soon find themselves obliged to recognize the iaw...
...A glaring example of what might be expected in this respect occurred about two years ago when a prominent manufacturers of "ethical proprietaries" circularized the entire membership of the A.M.A...
...Bundesen's role in the mulcting of farmer and public, the charges state, was that of "bringing into line" those dairies which refused to "co-operate" with the big companies...
...Last September the Association's House of Delegates met to take action on the President's proposed National Health Program...
...If there had been no Merschel Grynszpan, the Nazis would have had to invent him...
...e • • REICH WOULD EAR TANGANYIKA AS REFUGE CO this offer of Tanganyika is made only to inform Germany that the game of "appeasement" is off...
...Unfortunately, philo-Semitism which (swayed by vague emotions of sympathy rather than by social concepts) is always ready to add its voice to the Jew's mighty lament—politely ignoring bis battle-cry for freedom—can no longer help the Jewish minority in its sufferings...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 48
