A B C of Africa Facts On the Continent The Reich Wants Next
A B C of Africa Facts On the Continent The Reich Wants Next Courtesy of the London Daily Herald. A FRICA has an area of 11% million square miles. It is owned—with the exception of Egypt,...
...The Chilean Fascists are organised into a party which ^ajfc *.J itself the "Partido Nacional Socialista" and its members am- I known generally as "Nacistas," names which are by no ausss "' accidental, as many Germans are among its founders and leaest...
...Ibanez fled to Argentina, his candidacy lapsed automatically, and from his exile he now urged bis followers t» vote for the third candidate, the candidate ef the "Popular Front," Aguirre Cerda...
...The others include the A. P. A., the Ku Klux Klan and the late Huey Long's Share-ehe-Wealth crusade, the latter being the only one that bears some close resemblance to modern fascism...
...Italian exports and imports were two millions and sixteen millions respectively...
...t^p The difference is that the old-time military dtetatoratafr »* exercised in the interest of the feudal aristocracy, the army officials, the church and the upper strata of the beau*1** while the newer dictatorship of European fascism is easts*** in the interest of a new class of upstarts, a white-cellar ''la»a*proletariat," who fought their way to power as much against*"* old-time feudal ami financial aristocracy as they did ajsfpt** real producers of all wealth, the workers and piaiaatl_Wf^ seized for themselves sole political power and the aenttal* economic power, the sole right to jobs, prestige and pries*!*"* excluding and superseding the old traditional masters...
...It has not prevented war...
...Pj contrary, as soon as the fascist braves of tbe praetorian cannot be used exclusively against the workers, but bsf**T...
...About a hundred retail were killed during the fight or executed as soon as they w«" captured...
...Coughlin might just as well have indicted President Wilson who, in the same period when the full implications of the Bolshevik dictatorship were not yet known, on several occasions declared his sympathy for the rotrslsz...
...Add to this the conference of nations of the Western Hemisphere in Peru next week and that one of its most important issues, will be that of checking fascist penetration of this part of the world...
...ilfL . The Chilean Nazis knew full well that Ross would _«jgfs that the power of the feudal aristocracy would be rj trenched and guarded, without any tender susceptibilities aarj legalities of a "democratic" regime...
...But bow...
...Why he does not include the Anti-Masons of the thirties and the Uuminati of the early Jeffersionian period, we do not know...
...and German S.W...
...of Chile, were thus again united against another MlaMlapTI competitor, the traditional militarist, and both also prefesww . as the 'leaser evfl," the constitutionalist Aguirre...
...His attempt to explain does not explain, for this is not the first time that he has peddled his stuff...
...and its chief is the half-German Gonzales von Mareen, wlpS|Hg to his "von," the particle of German nobility...
...The budgets of all these territories—except one, the smallest—when they were German possessions showed a steady deficit year by year...
...SQUIRT-GUN ECONOMICS *J"HE Grange is one of the most conservative farmers' organizations in the United States and it is interesting that its program, announced by its national executive committee, differs little from that of the big-wigs of capitalism...
...TPHE only two materials of which the provide * a large part of the world supply are sisalhemp (Tanganyika) and vanadium—used for the manufacture of steel (Southwest Africa...
...Not until these gangsters and blackmailers become a danger to this part of the world does our isolationist begin to awaken and recognize that it is a condition, not a theory, that confronts us...
...There is no comprehension of fascism as a post-war social phenomenon and carrier of a pseudoscience that differs widely from the normal' outbursts of rmnvism...
...The two Powers richest in African possessions are Britain and France...
...Exports from the Rhodesias totalled 11% million pounds...
...Social Science, he lists the Know Nothings and the Native Americans in the earlyperiod...
...How much better would it have been had the United States in the early post-war years recognized that it is a vital part of a world economy and had recognized its obligations to help- stabilize this decaying world...
...Finally AIsobbSlJ came back to power as a moderate constitutional coitstTvauve liberal...
...The mandated ex-German territories could (according to figures taken from a German source) supply Germany with more than sufficient sisal, with nearly enough phosphates, and with about one-third of the cocoa, one-quarter of the bananas, and one-seventh of the vegetable oils which she ordinarily requires...
...Aguirre Cerda was the candidate of the middte-ef-the road parties, the Liberals, the Radicals, the Democrats, of the missk and lower middle class and the intelligentzia...
...The Nazis and Communists of Chile again became bed-feBce...
...Where is the isolationist m the face of these developments) He has his back against the wall...
...He wants a fascist fist he can use is Spain, a fiat that would be anti-Semitic if he had his way...
...Me bos ievrfee* premmm writer* to pimch-kit for him...
...But it seems that the followers of Ibanei and the Kaessef had no great confidence in the outcome of the eleetisst, law decided, therefore, en s putsch, hoping to be weefeead a} part of the army and the gendarmes...
...One other point may be worth a mention in view of Hitler's claims...
...as we are now in the initial stages of war with the fascist powers...
...WHY did the Chilean Nacistas vote for the Popular Wat *T candidate Aguirre when Gustavo Ross was s msn wee* nearer to the political and economic outlook of the Fasdsttt_ The answer to this question is quite easy when one laaaeewgi the peculiar situation in Latin America...
...Washington, who lived in the eighteenth century, formulated the isolation policy, but it is of no more use today than would be the policy of one section of a city to refuse to cooperate in fighting a contagious disease raging in other sections because that section had not yet become afflicted with the malady...
...no infringement of State rights, farm prices consistent with the American standard of living, speeding up industrial employment, and opposition to corporation and chain farming...
...It is owned—with the exception of Egypt, Liberia, and the Union of South Africa— by six Powers, whose total area is 660,000 square miles, seventeen and a half times smaller than Africa...
...Africa supplies only 3.7 per cent of the world's raw materials...
...militarists win suppress them at one fell swoop, as did Basse** Vargas in Brazil...
...Their candidate had ass the support of the "Socialist Union," a dissident group of Socialists, and finally of the Communists...
...It has become the fashion for some people to label everything they do not like as, fascism...
...But now nothing else was left to the Communists, and they all voted for Aguirre...
...France has AM million square miles of African territory—37...
...In 1936 her contribution to world trade was 6.7 of the total—compared with Europe's 51.7 per cent...
...Exports from tbe Gold Coast totalled 12% million pounds, sad imports (of which 7% million pounds' worth came from Britain) 11% million .pounds...
...T'HE dictator was overthrown in 1932, when a series of lajk * teen revolts and revolutions swept Chile, and carried sa*3| politicians for a few weeks or months to an insecure presidential chair...
...Writing in the quarterly...
...Aguirre was elected with a small majority, and one of ea»je)a* acts was to prohibit or restrict Communist activities...
...Thus they would secure themselves a breathing which to further prepare themselves for another stroke t»jSM The two totalitarian parties, the Stalinist and the Nastd...
...If the baby gets the colic, or the cop on the corner acowls at a jaywalker, there are those who see fascist spooks...
...A JEFFERSONIAN CANDIDATE PAUL V. McNUTT, former Democratic Governor of Indiana, torn the market for a presidential nomination in 1940...
...The Nacistas, toe, aefsW the theory of the "leaser evil" and came to the ccncfasW* *? as long as they cannot take power, they would be better ef I^C a democratic regime, which will not or can not take taesWifS measures of suppression as the feudal militarist Ross weaaM»| could...
...The Communists explained their support of Ibanei by poiaoar out that he represented the "lesser evil" as against the festal "imperialist" Gustavo Ross, that Ibanei "had a following aoMSf tbe masses," etc...
...Africa, which went to the Union of South Africa...
...We stood apart The result...
...the self-governing dominion of the Union of South Africa (with its mandated ex-German territory\, the Rhodesias...
...if farmers follow such advice, they will merely deliver themselves to those who exploit them...
...Little gangsters—Poland, Hungary, etc—imitate the big ones and begin to run amuck with gats in hand...
...It should also be noted that this holy man is a supporter of armed insurrection in Spain and the clerical fascism represented by General Franco...
...SEEING FASCIST SPOOKS ^^ND now it is a professor of sociology in the University of Colorado who has discovered that fascism has appeared in the United States five time and at least twice before the Civil War...
...How does the Grange "expect to deal with the menace of the corporation and chain farm through State action...
...m The Chilean Fascists saw in Gustavo Ross another V*W who first pampered the Integralistas, the Fascists of his OJaWW' to destroy the liberal opposition, and then smashed his I*5...
...Imports totalled 9% millions, and half of them came from Britain...
...Its leading features are demands for "self-determination by farmers," a balanced budget, amendment of the Wages and Hours Law...
...These groups tea* formed "a "Popular Front," opposed to the "United Freei* so proposed by the Communists...
...Her colonial subjects there number 30 millions...
...The six < Powers are Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Belgium...
...servants when they revolted...
...He is healed as a "Jeffersonian Democrat with progressive tendencies," one who would keep us "out of untried and dangerous experiments...
...Among tbe first actions of Ibanei were the arrest of six at.a* eight Communist deputies and both Communist senators, all their deportation to the Juan Fernandez Islands, reputed to h the island scene of Defoe's famous novel, "Robinson Cnastf (Incidentally, the other two Communist deputies retasfHSr seats and salaries by pledging allegiance to Ibanei...
...A HOLY ANTI-SEMITE A BLATANT clerical demagogue...
...Thus they only imitated their comrsoa ef Berlin, who, before the ascent of Hitler, voted with the Nam a the Prussian Landtag to defeat the bated "social-fascist"" Steal Democrats...
...This week we weieaa Stephen Naff, former Latin-American ----"TfUgJM for the Hevas and other international news OfagjgB 1*HE "missing link" between' tike fascist and thels^jjji^-, * bolshevik economies was shown to exist in Turkey bysT* vious guest columnist...
...That would not be surprising, considering what Russian Jews suffered under the Czar...
...But how...
...while the gold from New Guinea and Tanganyika and the diamonds from Southwest Africa would also -be useful...
...When it is announced that the recalled American Ambassador to Germany will remain here and that the recalled German Ambassador to the United States will hot* return here, it is evident that diplomatic relations of the two nations have been broken...
...The —ifisauTJ the Nacistas in the recent presidential elections was at tsaJs...
...Economic, financial, trade and currency cooperation would have helped to restore a Europe we had helped to destroy...
...If Coughlin a quotation from the American Hebrew of 1920 is correct, it does not support his case...
...His long continuance of martial law in two counties against strikers discloses that military, power in breaking strikes is not an "untried and dangerous experiment" that he would exclude from his program...
...Out of a decaying Europe and impoverished millions of human beings came two Dillingers—Hitler and Mussolini—with a third one-r-Franco—forging, to the front, and a fifth one—Japan—joining the other three...
...An anomaly in South America, Gaga still maintains a parliamentary regime in which Despaa3 Liberals, Radicals, Conservatives, Socialists of two psjliti, ^ Communists of two brands—as well as avowed Faseists-^S pete for parliamentary seats...
...How does the Grange expect "self-determination" by farmers an age where their economic position is determined by the j world market, and how does it expect adequate legislation for agriculture by invoking State rights, considering that agricultural problems are national...
...Belgian African trade amounts to roughly four million pounds in exports and imports of seven million pounds...
...They were soon dislodged by canons...
...Imports totalled 145 million pounds...
...By invoking the old ghost of State rights...
...Recent events in another country ttmm not only a striking similarity in methods used by the bostae asset brothers, the Fascists and^ Communists, but actual pJSfiB, operation and well-nigh perfect political union...
...But these are also national problems beyond the range of State action...
...All the others were outburst of nativism, carrying with them not the slightest suggestion of the establishment of "a--dictatorship enforced by terror...
...The Chflssl Nacista "anti-imperialism" is of course directed ¦ u llielsssj against British and American influence, and can be perfectly reconciled with the Nacista aspirations...
...At Dr...
...Incidentally, the share of the enitre African continent in world production is relatively small...
...ginning of the campaign General Carlos Ibanei, the resetSS former military dictator who came to power in 1926 by a pam which overthrew the liberal regime of Alessandri—-with ** assistance of the gendarmerie, whose commander he was...
...per cent of the total continent...
...Portugese exports totalled four million pounds.' worth and imports three million pounds' worth...
...Thomas Jefferson's heirs should bring suit for defamation of the character of their famous ancestor...
...On September 5, a few hundred Nacistas nfeasted s tearbaildings in the capital, among- them the University aas the Workmen's Insurance Building—but no military aid appears...
...They have no principally defend, but they do prefer to remain themselves in sbsomts#g than to share the fruit with or hand it over to shabby coae* tors...
...British African colonies produce 42 per cent of the palm oil, nearly 60 per cent of the cocoa, and i.2 per cent of the copper in the world...
...Ibanei, the candidate of the "Nacistas," was endorsed by t bloc of parties which adopted the name "Alianxa Uhrrtadsrs/ copying the name from the Brazilian leftist "Alieaaca Lftsrtv dora" which was led by the revolutionary hero Caries Prerteo, s member of the Communist Party of Brazil...
...Industrial employment of the idle millions...
...That publication is quoted as claiming some Jewish credit for the Russion revolution...
...The German Colonial possessions in Africa handed over at Versailles to the conquering Powers were Togoland and the Cameroons, divided between Britain and France...
...The total exports of British Africa in 1937 were worth 92 million pounds...
...jOf this colony's 7 million pounds' worth of imports 60 per cent were purchased from Britain and her possessions...
...Many of tbe surface features of moderate* dictatorships have distinguished these regimes: suppress*** civil liberties and all opposition, the stifling of free Ihoajet a* ¦ the free press...
...An approximate yearly total of exports from French Africa is 56 million pounds' worth, with imports totalling the same...
...Belgian Africa, 940,610 square miles in area (eighty-five times larger than Belgium herself), produces eight per cent of the world's copper...
...So-eWilti Nacistas, the whole Ibanez bloc and all the Faanst* of CM...
...The country is Chile...
...In the recent presidential campaign the feudal conservathes, the Army, the Church, the big landowners, as well as the leadhg financial interests, presented Gustavo Ross, the rich and reactionary Minister of Finance in the Alessandri cabinet, as tsar candidate...
...If it carries its economic thinking into this field, it will urge squirt guns to meet the heavy artillery of any prospective enemy...
...bat it was staged according to Hitler's RsaBahssar* Putsch of Munich...
...The total exports of the ex-German colonies in 1936, it is pointed out, amounted to less than one per cent of Germany's imports...
...Balance the budget...
...Goebbels has declared that "the basic materials of modern industrialism are coal, iron, oil, cotton, rubber and copper...
...These German colonies had a total area of about a million square miles and their total native population was between eleven and twelve millions...
...The Grange also wants a high stage of preparation for national defense...
...Not in one of these six materials could Germany's requirements be at present met to any serious extent by the mandated territories...
...Britain's territory extends over 2,692,700 square miles—less than France, but her native subjects number nearly 62 millions...
...The "Nadstas* and the Ibanei Alianza used radical, Socialist-sounding etogess, and anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist phraseology...
...French African colonies produce 41 per cent of the phosphates and 13 per cent of the groundnuts (for edible oil) in the world...
...Father Coughlin'a two recent radio addresees can only be interpreted as an attack on the Jewish people of the United States...
...That backward eaa> nent seems to have been the teacher of present-day Europe, Almost all Latin American countries have had aulkw dictatorships and police regimes for the largest part of **JjJj hundred years...
...ISOLATED ISOLATIONISTS AMERICAN isolationists now face the stem (act that isolation has not isolated the United States from die world...
...The "Popular Front" dj4 netsaa* the Communists in their bloc...
...They •rfaatsaV » "March of Victory," modelled after Mussolini's Msrdt ea Rome...
...German East Africa (now Tanganyika) given to Britain, apart from a small piece which fell to Belgium's lot...
...Among them were the then leader of the Socialista, Wttmaduque Grove, and Carlos Davila, Ibanei's former ambassador to the United States, who promised to establish in Chile the "tra» Socialism" which "will satisfy ail classes...
...Townsend's old age national convention in 1936, Coughlin included a distinct anti-Semitic note in his speech and his weekly paper revived the stupid forgery, the "Protocols of Zion," which has rendered service to anti-Semitic morons for decades...
...As long as the feudal militarists are in power, thef * refuse to stand for any such democratic nonsense aa their rivals or competitors to organize, to propagandise, t*J** etc, as they are allowed to do under democratic regimes...
...I WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By STEPHEN NAFT [Eugene Lyons h en tour...
...and tbe Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
...Of the total of 298 million pound's worth of exports from all Africa in 1936, only 12 million were contributed by the ex-German colonies...
...Jjji The feudal militarists of Latin America are old haad» ¦* grabbing and holding of power...
...selves to reach out for power or a larger share of the sWafj...
...IN 1936 Kenya, with two battalions of the King's * African Rifles permanently stationed there to defend order, exported 8 V* million pounds' worth of maize, coffee, sugar, tea, tin ore, cotton and cottonseed (for cultivation), hides and skins, ivory, tow and wool...
...British Africa, including areas held under League of Nations mandate, consists of Nigeria and the West Coast colonies...
...Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Nyassaland in the East...
...4fH...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 49
