Duce Demands Crippling of British and French Life Lines
Duce Demands Crippling of British and French Life Lines Boycott Aggression Peace Hope Only in Economic Strangling of Fascist Nations Munition Makers Crippled League To Prevent Vanishing of Big...
...It lies on the French side of the Alps and although it is the original home of the Italian Royal House (as Hanover was of British kings) was in language and sentiment to be reckoned as a province of France...
...could best cooperate with it by direct affiliation, to which the I.L.P...
...When the Germans accepted their Weimar constitution, they set up a democracy for which they had struggled several times in the past...
...The French have a saying that to see others eat gives one an appetite...
...WIPED OUT 1,500 NEWSPAPERS •"THERE was doubt for a time...
...As a result of that long struggle, many thousands of western and Saxon Germans came to our own country, as I have said before, and it was their descendants who did as much as the Scotch-Irish to enable George Washington to win the seven years war with reactionary England...
...Some of the books of the most famous philosopher of all German history, Emanuel Kant, were publicly denounced and then burned...
...Curious as it may seem, our country did more than any other to break' down the German democracy, our leaders seemingly unconscious of what liberal Germans have done for us...
...The Communist sheet urges the men to J*** their bets on the tips of the Daily Worker dopesters, until JB> have raised their own dogs for the races...
...cmes oi-Syracuse, Agrigentum and Gela...
...be cost about ?1 and he won several puppy staSS* in the coursing field and then was sold for ?125 and he nW&f repaid his owner...
...We have no brief here for the huge American landowners...
...But for nearly two centuries since, by the Treaty of Compiegne signed in 1768, the Genoese (who got it from the •'Pis-ans, who got it from the Pope, who got it from...
...Because of its nearness to Italy and of the presence of these settlers, Italy, in 1868, entered into a Treaty with the ruler, thesis...
...He said more than once that all the lands on the Danube propeHy belonged to the Reich...
...Despite his demagogic slogans of democracy, he has set up a system which has never been equalled in the assumption of autocratic powers and brutal methods...
...In addition to these two creeds, purity of the Aryan race and absolute Hitlerism in education, some 1,500 newspapers were forbidden to appear and all the rest were instructed to( print no criticism of the new regime—if so, thair editor...
...a knnf inn nnn n,-,™,.,,, outers of religious freedom had come to our country to find liberty, basically, to enjoy democracy, before the American Revolution...
...property distributed will have to Wait for more than s year he-fore even part payment is made...
...As time went on, hundreds of preachers who did not surrender were imprisoned, Catholics as well as Protestants...
...It is the only Ink by railway line between Addas Abbaba and the outer world...
...It had only one thing in common with the Italy of Benito Mussolini—it was the traditional enemy of the ancient city of Geneva...
...The Tories dropped thousands of votes in every one of the seven districts, all a cross-section of the British electorate, many of them supposedly Conservative strongholds...
...3. United action in Parliament on agreed issues...
...But they would be no more fantastic than Italy's territorial aspirations which were the subject of a carefully organized anti-French demonstration in the Italian Parliament (save the mark) recently...
...spsSST writer tells a success story, urging his readers to follow tot pi footsteps of this unemployed worker: "Willie Turner was a dog that was bought for me to tiali for coursing...
...He ridiculed what the German Parliament was doing or not doing...
...PROGRAM AGAINST FASCIST AGGRESSORS 11/ITH the Jews being expelled, killed or robbed, education taken under Nazi control, all newspapers and books directed to follow Nazi ideology and religious .thrust back to the time before Julius Caesar—the Hitler resrime if its Suez Canal Control Claims Await Tories in Rome By BERNARD MOORE Chief N*w Leader European Correspondent I ONDON.—Would you be surprised if Portugal suddenly formulated a demand for the return of Bombay, third largest city in the British Empire...
...When they were admitted into the League of Nations, our non-membership and the intrigue of arms makers of England, France and the United States, defeated the young German Republic in its desire for...
...Two of their preachers, educated at Halle in Germany called upon all their people to volunteer to serve in George Washington's army...
...All the many Kant organizations were liquidated...
...There's no doubt that the Laborite leaders are determined to fight alone, ignoring maneuvers for a "National Opposition" to Chamberlain, not because it seeks to martyr itself politically, but because the supposed leader of the coalition, dapper Anthony Eden, is scheduled to be the next Tory Prime Minister...
...To most people, Djibouti ass a familiar ring...
...Ex-Cabinel leader Stanley Baldwin hasn't been wasting his time on the ex-Foreign Secretary without anything definite in mind...
...It Was asked by democratic Germany to limit the armaments of all nations as she was limited...
...es-Said to acknowledge France at a protector Power...
...They asked the Parliamentary party for: 1. A united effort to secure the defeat of the National Government and the return of a "Labor Government...
...It was purchased from Turkey by France in 1855...
...It is as well to know their background just in can, during the talks, II Duce «V covers the original site of Ns-bothls Vineyard...
...TUNISIA DOMINATES TRADE ROUTES Adjoining the Italian colony af Libya, Turnisia has always beta regarded in Italian eyes as a. possible addition to the projects* Italian Empire and this bow seems to be slipping from tatir grasp...
...The Tories are playing both ends against the middle, Chamberlain for the Cliveden set and Anthony Eden for the general public and anti-appeasement crowd...
...Hundreds of other books were, burned...
...One company paid its secret spokesman there $25,000...
...and during March and April, 1933, and later, a great many of the Jewish people, of which there were only 600,000 in the country, were killed...
...Tunisia is the nearest African soil to Italy and in the nineteenth century Italian colonists established themselves on its shores...
...world disarmament...
...A new "civilisation" must take the place of the real civilization- -which began on the continent with John Huss and Martin Luther...
...The question was, would he succeed...
...Since then, Italian influence has been -considerable in the Protectorate bat,' recently, has begun to diminish...
...Reluctant to give up any sostiss of vital sports information, and almost dismayed by the dfjBsj of the English horse-racing system, the London Daily Works* fc* now teaching the proletariat to make money by breeding and...
...Thus Democracies became subjected to grave dangers...
...and finally he said-Communism and democracy, which he states are the same, must be destroyed...
...Properly to estimate the value of these claims one must delve into the history of the places concerned...
...In the middle of that stria is the fortified Italian island af Pantellaria, Italy's Malta, As Italian-occupied Tunisia wasid mean that the vital trade roosts to and from the Sues Canal would be under Italian control...
...4. An electoral agreement for by-elections and the general election, and mutual support for the candidates of the two parties, on the understanding that each party has the right to mete-tain its own policy on issues where agreement has not hsee reached...
...Was this wise treatment from democratic governments which had won the Great War...
...of Tunisia, under which she was to enjoy special rights in the Bey's dominions...
...The last time I saw any signs of the anniversary being celebrated was in 1933, my first autumn there...
...Italy was, consequently, indignant when in 1881 a French force invaded Tunisia and compelled the Bey in the Treaty of Kasr...
...An imposing list o fdemands which has sent a flatter of indignation and anxiety through a France split by internal disputes as France always tends to be at times of crisis...
...That would be just too bad...
...Italy's claim is based on the fact that as part of a political bargain under which Napoleon III accepted the adhesion of the Italian States in what was the beginning of modern Italy, Savoy and Nice passed into the possession of France after a plebiscite had been held in 1860...
...So, since the policy of appeasement apparently means conceding everything, or almost everything, the exigent claimant demands, Italy is rapidly preparing the ground for the visit of the policy's chief exponent next January...
...They lived in the up-country from central Pennsylvania to Georgia...
...Even to Italy some of the demands put forward by the explosive writers of the controlled Press must appear fantastic for they cannot be justified ethno-graphically and only very slightly historically...
...Since the general election must be called before the earlv nart ------ —------- ^ ^—• 'j . - of 1940, and it has been the policy of any party in power to anticipate the mandatory date by picking a moment favorable to itself, the British are clearing decks for a national campaign in 1939...
...More important still to the Italy seeking domination in tht Mediterranean, Tunisia is sts> arated from Sicily by a narrow strip of sea only ninety mues hi width...
...These . are some of the questions Mr...
...Duce Demands Crippling of British and French Life Lines Boycott Aggression Peace Hope Only in Economic Strangling of Fascist Nations Munition Makers Crippled League To Prevent Vanishing of Big Markets By WILLIAM E. DODD Ex-Ambassador to Germany AFTER the incredible carnage and economic *» bankruptcy resulting from the World War * when all nations and all peoples wished to out-lav war forever, the League of Nations which Wilson had persuaded France and England to agree to in the Treaty of Versailles, was set up...
...Martin Luther's day, the 31st of October, was no longer to be celebrated...
...pie most important conse-q^pnce of our procedure after thje World War is the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler...
...The Labor Party has suggested that the I.L.P...
...When next we read the morning papers, well read of Inmtttjff General Franco's big push against the Loyalist Spanish guws|* ment...
...DEMANDS FANTASTIC EVEN TO ITAUANS ¦TOR of the three partners in * the anti-Comintern Pact, Italy is the only one who has obtained nothing during the shake-up of the past few months...
...Germany has fought a thirty-years' war for religious freedom when the Jesuit priests got control, of certain governments in the southern area...
...SAVOY NEVER REALLY WANTED And what of Savoy...
...After 1848, millions of Germans who had tried to make their country democratic, migrated to the.Middle West and, in my opinion, caused the election of Abraham Lincoln under the leadership of Carl Schurz, who was to have been executed for his democratic activity if he had not escaped from Germany...
...He wrote his "Mein Kampf" in which he, or someone helping him, knew the ambitions of former German- leaders, urge...
...But American manufacturers, especially munition makers, had secret representatives in Geneva to defeat the legal request of Germany...
...Labor Party leaders aren't over-confident of a general election sweep, but they figure they have a good chance to push the Tories out in enough constituencies to give Labor a working majority in Parliament...
...It applies very well to the present situation...
...The I.L.P...
...would go to jail...
...The editions of the Daily Worker are pushed amongst tee unemployed, especially those jobless leaving the governments* employment offices...
...By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad BRITISH L4BORITES GIRO FOR GENER4L ELECTION MORE important now than the drum-beating of international politics is the coming British general election and the chance that the British Labor Party will kick Chamberlain and the Cliveden set down the flight of diplomatic stairs leading from 10 Downing Street...
...It was conquered by the Romans in 118 B.C...
...A British Laborite victory will reshift the European scene so rapidly, it'll leave in a dizzy state those who have been playing international power politics...
...Chamberlain in the sacred name of "appeasement," * • • IL DUCE LIMITED BY HISTORY IF we can judge from the Fas-* cist fulminations in the Chamber and the Press, Italy's aspirations tend towards the return of Savoy and Nice to Italy, the absorption of Corsica, the transfer of all or part of Tunis to Italian domination and, finally, the cession of the Red Sea port of Djibouti by France...
...Both of them were so successful that they were made lieutenant-generals and one rendered great service ttr 'helping to win the Battle of Yorktown...
...Bjw it's thoroughly inconsistent for a supposedly proletarian g»****^ ment, whose chief support comes from the trade unions, to the fascist nations who are in dire need of foreign exSMNB) and oil for their war machines...
...Herbert Tracey, director of publicity for the T.U.C., reports that not since the war have the unions grown so rapidly...
...the Vandals who got it from the France...
...What they are suggesting is that France shooid complete the betrayal of that unfortunate country by handing Djibouti over...
...Bombay, don't forget, came to Britain as part of the dowry of Charles the Second's royal bride, Catharine of the Portuguese house of Bragdnza...
...But they had a tragic time trying to pay what Erance demanded as war damages...
...Many Italians, exiles from their motherland, have become natnral-ized Frenchmen and during the past year or so the French base begun steadily to outnumber -tat Italians in Tunisia...
...The spur of land thrown out into the Mediterranean by the African Continent was the seat of the ancient Carthaginian Empire, became one of the Barbary States, was held for a time by Spain, then became a part, if a rebellious part of the Ottoman Empire...
...well read of the Italian warships, and of fighting *m bombing planes brinfring men to fascist rebels and destruetSlsfW a mutilated nation fighting the world's battle for the rigBtjp live as it chooses...
...New strength is seen in the rapidly growing Trade Union Congress...
...2. A united campaign in the country on agreed issues...
...In "My Autobiography," Benito Mussolini wrote "I desire our nation to conquer again, with Fascist vigor, some decades or perhaps a century of lost history.'* Yon see, not even II Dace thought then of going hack two hundreds years...
...Now Djibouti has never been Italian and has never had say connection with Italy beyond exasperating her during the Itskv Abyssinian War...
...national council wrote to the Labor Party executive, putting in concrete form the basis of cooperation as the Independents see it...
...Negotiations are continuing between the British Labor Party and the Independent Labor Party...
...It may be added that the membership of the 200 or more unions affiliated to the T.U.C...
...Chamberlain will havt to discuss when he visits Rome next month...
...GERMAN PEOPLE BECOME BITTER TJITLER began his campaign for the over-™ * throw of democracy soon after the Great War...
...The Italian argument now it that it is no use to France but is of vital importance to Italy in completing the subjugation oi Abyssinia...
...With Tunisia the Italians are on even shakier ground...
...Mexico who have for generations exploited the Mexican peon...
...Such demands, you will say, would be fantastic and you will be right...
...The Conservative vote dropped sharply during the past seven by-elections—as much a% 10 per cent in the Bridgwater election, 7 per cent in the Oxford poll, 4 per cent in Dartford, 8 per cent in W. Lewisham, and so on down the line...
...SELLING PUPS TO THE PROLETARIAT i""VNE of our favorite British newspapers, the Glasgow Forward, informs us that the British Communists have once seaW streamlined their propaganda...
...Since 1931 the rise has been at the rate of nearly 300,000 per year, as the following table shows: Year No...
...Savoy was never identified with the historic glories of Italy and was never regarded as an integral part of the country...
...It was not long before Hitler was proclaimed within his own country, a greater soul than Jesus Christ and both Catholic and Protestant religions were to be persecuted and absorbed into the paganism which had prevailed in Germany a thousand years before Julius Caesar...
...Ethnographically, p o s s i b ly, Italy's strongest claim among them is to Corsica, separated from the Italian island of Sardinia by the narrow Strait of Bonifacio...
...Or would you be surprised if King George of Greece suddenly laid claim to parts of the Italian island of Sicily wnn its ancieni urees...
...of Unions Membership 1933 _ 1,082 3,661,000 1934 _ 1,065 3,854,000 1935 _ 1,054 4,106,000 1936 _ 1,041 4,504,000 1937 - 1,033 4,956,000 More trade unionists and fewer unions mark the progress made during the last four years...
...was over 4,500,000 at the end of last year, and is now approximately 5,000,000...
...betting on racing greyhounds...
...maintains what would be comparable to an isolationist position in this country...
...but he began * to "purify" the German race by forbidding all relations with the Jews...
...Washington said if the Germans had turned against us, the Revolution would have failed...
...The next piank in his program was the absolute control of aii tlie schools, from the lowest to ^the highest, with over 1,600 teachers and distinguished university professors dismissed...
...In every one of those battleships, planes, tanks and big *«**s...
...the restoration of the medieval empire To do that and more, he demanded the restoration of the areas annexed in January, 1918, under the Treaty of Brest-Litovak and damned everything in the Treaty of Versailles...
...The French and English armament manufacturers did the same so they could sell arms ar*A r\ + \\t* — —" ....1J ~— *- „ fl m i ~__1 T .1_ T*r:l___ was thus defeated on his major poiats, and the League of Nations became an ineffectual instrument...
...MEXICAN OIL AIDS FASCIST WAR MACHINES "THERE seems to be little doubt left that the Mexican gov**** * ment is going out of its way, if not to be friendly, at least t> establish the most amicable trade relations with the Hitler Re's* and Fascist Italy...
...One CP...
...Only three days ago, Efrain BuenwaerSj Mexican Secretary of National Economy, announced thstee Italians whose lands would be appropriated would be reimbatsal immediately, although American landowners who have had taOS...
...5. The right of both parties to participate in confersWef called by either party, when such conferences are extended to working-class organizations beyond the party itself...
...She has seen Germany, the senior partner, push her frontiers out across Austria and part of Czechoslovakia while Japanese forces thrust deeper and deeper into the Chinese plains...
...Corsica has had no connection with Italy...
...Later, a monument was erected to the man who had been most effective p'-ior to Hitler in ruthless anti-Semitism...
...The new Italy says H. A. L. Fisher in his "History of Europe" "was rid of an obscurantist and priest-ridden province which it would have been difficult to educate and costly and impracticable to defend...
...What is most probable is that, just as Hitler ordered the whipping-up of the Sudeten problem until it became a major grievance so Mussolini has ordered the preparation of synthetic grievances which will enable him to demand concessions from the French for an Italo-French Agreement and from Mr...
...I When France reoccupied a large strip of Western Germany, when the German people in their bitterness and economic bankruptcy sought to find a leader, and the League refused a third time to order all countries to reduce their armies to the size of the German army, Hitler was able to overthrow the democracy of his country and abolish the national assembly...
...and no publishers were allowed to issue new books without the approval of Nazi Party chiefs...
...Two weeks ago the IX.P...
...general council has objected because of the difference in positions on rearmament and collective security...
...And his great difficulty is that if there is to be no limit to the retrospection permitted in such claims he will have to be prepared to go back beyond the days of the Roman Empire to the time when Corsica was the Greek island of Cyrnos...
...but in the course of the next six hundred years was seized first by the Alemanni, then by the Franks...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 51
