Germany Doomed Until Nazi Lie Is Exposed
Germany Doomed Until Nazi Lie Is Exposed J Threat of United Strength of Democratic Nations Can Stop Fascist Aggression NAZISM. BUILT ON A LIE. MUST PREVENT EXPOSURE EVEN AT COST OF KILLING...
...The government released him—only to send him hick to Trinidad—but several people were shot and killed in the riot that ensued and three hundred were thrown into jail...
...The owners take the profits and the owners insist that the British Government maintain Crown Colony laws preventing strikes...
...In all the generations it has been nothing but a cyclone cellar for political neurotics...
...And what is the most desirable and profitable form of advertising...
...Here were an American people—speaking Spanish, it is true—who had no chance to exploit their own interests, for the simple reason that all the responsible jobs were filled from a foreign country—Spain...
...Ttfa away everything but the wages ,and then ?jatte the pay, and you create populations williag to follow ...the first Hitlerist fire-eater who ays: Papa can fix it...
...Actually it serves the interests of Big Business and the aristocracy as against workers, fanners and the lower middle class...
...Men of good will—but absent —think of these people impersonally and consider only the income they receive from a distant property...
...to British Bar Dadoes, long ''since pumped dry by absentee landlords...
...So our cocoa market is killed, and we have, on this rich island, only the wages from absentee ownership...
...For t h i s reason it is necessary to mobilize hatred of democracy and "Bolshevism" and to prepare for the bloody c a t h a r s i s of war which will serve, better than any other device to save industrialists and Junkers from the economic dilemma of • monopolistic capitalism and to perpetuate that hypnosis of the masses without which the N.S.D.A.P...
...This "leadership principle" was rapidly extended to all t h e numerous subsidiaries of the N.S.D.A.P...
...This categorical imperative of delusion forbids any admission of fact and facing of Unsavory t r u t h . It requires marching and pagentry, the blowing of bugles and the beating ef drama, She delirium of intolerance and t h e crusading fervor of "thinking With one's blood...
...Questions of "honesty" and "sincerity" are impertinent to a movement whose leaders are unscrupulous...
...For we can't go on turning...
...Even before the abortive beer-hall Putsch of 1923, Hitler had placed himself in the hands of industrialists, Junkers and reactionary politicians...
...For this reason it was necessary for t h e Leader of National Socialism to suppress the demand within the ranks for the "second revolution," i.e., socialism...
...He is told that something will be done as soon as Labor returns to power...
...After the reorganization of the party in 1925, be never again departed from "legality," nor did h e ever undertake to achieve power in defiance of his socal superiors...
...TRINIDAD NEEDN'T BOTHER TO JAIL DAYNE'S home, Trinidad, is his natural breed* ing place...
...out anything forever on the red side...
...Accept the Profits System, fit the collar to your necks and keep still, or fight it to its death...
...the only legal party in the Reich...
...Apologies here to the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...For this reason, above all o t h e r s , it was necessary a t she start to b um t h e Reichstag, to suppress the Communist Party and to terrorize the electorate in February and March, 1933...
...Maybe we, J1*1* on the island, say: 'Look here, this is our wand, and we want to have a little bit to say •bont who exploits our mineral wealth.' "But that does no good...
...He uses it to prepare for the inevitable war that is, in the long run, the only avenue of escape from doom for decadent and greedy ruling classes which have conjured up the genii of despotism to save themselves from the consequences of their own rapacity and folly...
...Well, I suggest, try plucking up your hearts and slinging the pink out the window...
...Yes Sir," and thereafter ensues a silence you could cut with a knife...
...and when the One Per Cent wake up to the fact that the newspaper is printing something unpalatable to our American Peerage, it gives a yank on its end of' the chain, and at the other an editor bobs up .says...
...Since the impoverished little men of the middle class cannot bring themselves to attack and destroy those whom they envy and emulate, they must discharge their aggressions vicariously and irrelevantly against Marxists, Jews and other scapegoats...
...Therefore, if the islanders, imbued with a ltitle spirit from the labor unions of the United States and Great Britain, attempt to organize and oppose the wage dictatorship, the Government of Barbadoes must oppose them with force...
...and tea Trinidad, Britain's richest possession, where the money stopped moving when forced labor on the African Gold Coast made Trinidad cocoa a luxury...
...j JVm still quoting Capt...
...Their answer will be given daring the coming year...
...SHALL THEY ESCAPE THROUGH WAR...
...You have now, poor harassed Liberals, only a doleful vestige of your once powerful Liberal press...
...Desperate people, eager for a Fuehrer, are losing faith in a democracy that does nothing to combat Fascism —and permits feudal capitalism to rule...
...Payne had assured the boys and girls that he ¦would take care of their troubles for them, and they believed him...
...Like millions of other disinherited sons of the Kleinburgtrtum, he discharged his hatreds not upon the remote authors of his poverty but upon Jews, Marxists, liberals, pacifists and other convenient targets...
...Hitler's own d^eep-seated awe in the face of his social superiors, i.e., the magnates of land and money, typified the attitude of the entire Kleinburgertum...
...Dears...
...te "Suppose you know of an oil deposit...
...MUST PREVENT EXPOSURE EVEN AT COST OF KILLING ITS OWN HENCHMEN—UPON THE ABILITY OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES TO EXPOSE THE INHERENT WEAKNESS OF HITLER DEFENDS THE FALL OF THE NON-FASCIST WORLD...
...P.S.—If you think this description of the newspaper business as it is today makes it of tbe madhouse, mad, sometime I will tell you about the book publishing business as at present conducted in America...
...And these so hopelessly bebetudinous that I think only the proofreader can get through them—and, of course, he is paid lor the task...
...Cipriani, a friend of the leaders of the British Labor Party, has urged that British labor do something about this...
...Blind obedience to dictatorial commands was magnified into a doctrine and an article of faith because any departure from blind obedience would inevitably have revealed the actual role af the N.S.D.A.P...
...What I can safely advise, I think, is a strict dietary regimentation, looking principally to an abundant supply of vitamins A, B, C, D. E and F: also, X. Y. and Z. I think these will be found efficacious in this sad season of loneliness and depression...
...And these wages were predicated upon a demand for jobs just twice as big as the opportunities for jobs...
...It beats down all criticism...
...If he should go on strike, ha would meet with much kindly and understanding sympathy...
...But with all this, an absentee ownership in Spain took all the profits out, leaving behind only the wages of labor...
...With the aid of crack-brained Gottfried Feder, he formulated a program: the "25 points" of February 24, 1920...
...In its appeals for popular support the party pretends to serve the interests of workers, farmers and the lower middle class as against Big Business and the aristocracy...
...And the exhibits from that corner of the national psychopathic ward will make the aberrations of tbe newspaper business feok tike just mild dementia, t...
...But When those who a r e the victims of delusion and self-deception ultimately find themselves ground" down into bitter poverty by their exploiters, when at last they discover that they are merely cannon fodder for the military BaafjHjfe . they have themselves created for their own destruction, then truth will...
...For this reason it was necessary for t h e leader to resort to soothing reassurances as a means of obtaining dictatorial authority front a docile parliament...
...By BRYCE OUVER rf you want to find out how—and why—fascism develops and spreads, go where I did...
...I hope this is so, but until I know I must be more or less concerned about it...
...as the tool of monopoly and feudalism...
...The National Socialist Party, as a private militia, is the paid instrument of the demagogue-dictator who serves industrial monopolists and feudal aristocrats...
...And so a nationalist party arose, u^ing a technicality to prove that Spain never had the right to cede Puerto Rico to the United States...
...Capt...
...Krt stop, Puerto Rico—with the people turning toward fascism because democracy has failed them comjjetely...
...Here's the situation, as I heard it from Capt...
...We have nothing *ore to say...
...I mean, the dock strike...
...But, above every thing else, I should aecommend strong doses of the philosophy that looks for causes and faces facts...
...Hitler and b is aides could not, and c an never, afford to permit such a revelation...
...And as the local bank, when it is not actually owned in Wall Street, is a subsidiary of one of the great giants of High Finance, or is under its thumb, the trail of might leads straight back to the One Per Cent, that own Sixty Per Cent of the national wealth and Sixty-five Per Cent of the national power...
...he dared to come back...
...BARBADOES THROWS •EM INTO JAIL TTHERE"S the case of Barbadoes, a green—oh ' * so green—island on the Great Circle route from New, York to Rio...
...It isn't really America's fault...
...After a frustrated Austrian corporal had become member No...
...Fascist propaganda from abroad at America's doorstep doesn't have to operate...
...Consequently, they gathered in a great mob to demand his release from jail...
...It imbues the people with its own fanaticism...
...When our oil is pumped dry, maybe they will say: 'All right, now you can do as you please...
...By FREDERICK L SCHUMAh Professor of History, Williams College, Author, "The Nazi Dictatorship" P VERY regime which breeds impoverishment And despair must, ^* if it is to survive, fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time...
...I t was therefore necessary from the o u t s e t to silence all oppesitiba or criticism by organizing the p a r t y on a s t r i e t ly military basis...
...Thinking Puerto Ricoans of the laboring class realize that victory for the Nationalist Party and independence mean suppression of civil liberties and the end of the attempt t? stop the exploitation of the workers...
...I mark you A on that answer...
...Good...
...The conditions of i t s exposure rest with the peoples and governments of the non-Fascist world...
...For in the crazy processes of this crazy business, in the mad competition in mere bulk and weight of output, we have destroyed the forests that are the only source of our print paper and on April 1 next the price of print goes up to $50 a ton...
...How shall the loss be met and profits made ? From the advertising...
...Barbadoes was excited, and when Payne led a march on the Governor's residence to expound the principle that those who produced the wealth of the island should have part of the wealth, he was summarily arrested...
...The "Badgian" workers fell for Payne in a big way...
...Lots of sugar plantations there, all owned in England...
...He met defeat, disgrace and imprisonment because his masters were more powerful than he and were not ready to use his movement for their own purposes...
...LIBERALS NEED SUITABLY MILD TONIC WHAT shall they do ? I know nothing about this from personal investigations, but I am told on excellent authority that a simple tonic of iron and quinine, obtainable at any drug store, is good for that tired feeling...
...The more copies they sell the more money they lose...
...Cir...
...Its "rank and file is loyal by virtue of uniforms, buttons, flags and fanfare wherein millions lose their minds and find their souls through the thrills of parades, pageantry and persecution...
...Caesarism rules by bread and circuses...
...Less than three weeks ago I was in the capital at San Juan and saw it develop...
...That's the concomitant of Crown Rule...
...Orders came from the top...
...Let us, therefore, enter the union as a state rather than separate ourselves...
...This misrepresentation is as often unconscious as deliberate...
...Schools established to the number of 2,700 where none had existed before...
...Because under the present wildly insane competitive system virtually all daily newspapers are manufactured at a loss...
...Cipriani—is how fascism develops...
...A. Cipriani, sole La bo rite member of the Trinidad Assembly: I'm quoting Capt...
...The party which begins its career with anti-capitalistic and anti-feudal slogans ends its career as the docile slave of capitalism and feudalism in their most vicious form...
...The money received from sales and subscriptions does not cover the cost of the white paper in them...
...Drooping Pink Geraniums of the forward urge—what shall ye do...
...True, is it not ? So, then, at one end of the chain is the newspaper and at the other this absolutist One Per Cent...
...In this paradox lies the secret of the internal dynamics and the external behavior of the Nazi movement in Germany during the past five years...
...National Socialism" thus becomes a hollow phrase...
...I fear they are today greatly worried as they find themselves alone in a harsh, cruel world, alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide, wide sea, and with only a dreary echo of the press that used to be...
...Disease attacked effectively...
...AFRICAN FORCED LABOR KILLS COC04 TRADE "?rlNCE tne P^P16 of the island had a monev crop...
...I t s ideology and i t s practices have at a l l times been conditioned and determined by t h e necessity of preventing any exposure of the lie...
...On t h e c o n t r a r y he disowned those of his followers who took "socialism" and "revolution" seriously, and constantly reassured Junkers and i n d u s t r i a l i s t s that they had nothing to fear from the movement...
...NAZIS HAD TO SILENCE ALL OPPOSITION THIS contradiction inevitably generated resentment among sack proletarian followers a s were converted to t h e cause and even among some of the less naive burghers who swore by the swastika...
...And eventually there comes someone who convinces those people that if they will only follow him—give him carte blanche—he, like Hitler, can correct a silly situation...
...Here were wild appeals to Pan-Germanism, to revenge, to frenzied patriotism and anti-Semitic racialism...
...In the whole history of Liberalism, remember, it never achieved a stricken thing...
...REMEMBER:' NEWSPAPERS UVE ON ADS IJOW then shall this loss be met...
...But now the African Gold Coast produces all the cocoa that the world can use, on forced labor...
...By and large, department store advertising...
...The United States took over ' Puerto Rico in 1898 by the Treaty of Paris, and did what I'd call a good job...
...Things are bad this year, » we can pay you only 40 cents a day instead w^M cents.' "And our people are unable to say 'no' to that because the government refuses them the right to use organization for the purpose of a strike...
...So then the department store has a stranglehold upon the newspaper t (_____ . . It has .my son . And as the department store must be financed, and the bank is the only source of financing, the bank has a stranglehold on nhe department store, has it not—even when it doesn't own the store outright...
...You see, these gentle but somewhat anaemic persons, being congenitally defective in the vertebral End solar plexus regions, are peculiarly susceptible to shocks of this kind, and are, in fact, overgiven to the melancholy attendant upon a superfluity of white corpuscles...
...Their more ardent followers were anxious, and are today anxious, to deceive themselves r a t h e r t h a n face disillusioning realities...
...When the lies fully exposed, Germany will again be free The lie will be exposed without world disaster only if demovera t ic forces in other lands combine to make Nasi aggVeaalOa dangerous and impossible by collective defense against i t Tpe lie will be exposed amid universal desolation and death if the N.S.D.A.P...
...cannot fulfill its purpose...
...The secret of this paradox can be simply stated: the lower middle class, however much victimised and exploited by the forces of monopoly and feudalism, can never focus its resentments effectively against monopolists and the feudal gentry because its members constantly dream of becoming themselves business magnates, monopolists and privileged gentlemen of leisure...
...NAZISM'S BASIC PARADOX AND UE 'T'HE National Socialist Party plays these roles because,its ideol* ogy and program are based at bottom upon a gross misrepresentation of its equal function in society...
...For t h i s reason he found it necessary . on Bloody Saturday (June 30) of 1934, t o murder Gregor Stressor, Ernst Roehm, Kurt von Schleicher and scores of others, inside ana outside the p a r t y ranks, who questioned the Leader and opposed his subservience to J u n k e r s and industrialists...
...Cocoa...
...When to its cost we add linotype expenses, the press room, overhead, staff salaries, commissions, taxes, insurance, and the like, the loss on circulation becomes, to the initiated mind, a total appalling...
...Maybe he will be, some day...
...He offered the first hope in centuries...
...That's what happened in the United States possession of Puerto Rico...
...And do you know why ? Well, not because all newspaper proprietors are rascals, traitors and low persons, but just because the newspaper business, under the present organization of society is just plain bughouse...
...National Socialism" is built upon a lie...
...cuses are therefore indispensable to distract and hypnotise the victims of exploitation, to propagate intolerance/ fanaticism, mysticism and nonsense, to persuade the poor that guns are preferable to bread, and to-deflect the resentments of deluded multitudes away from their masters onto foreign "enemies" and domestic scapegoats...
...Labor in the United States is making headway...
...Private property rights were inviolate, even though held in a foreign land...
...For this reason it was necessary to suppress parliamentary government and civil rights, to outlaw SocialDemocracy, to b e t r a y the Nationalist allies of the N.S.D.A.P...
...The Liberal Press/'AnOld Lady in Pants" - By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL I HOPE my friends in what, by a figure of speech, is called the * Liberal "movement" will not be too much cast down by the defection of the Scripps-Howard newspapers from the Liberal cause...
...Underpaid, I shoald say...
...And this Nationalist Party, using terroristic methods, attempted to deny the right * to free press and speech to those who said: "Look here...
...And the population, incensed, would follow Payne to -the death if...
...We may even make tovernment decrees, but if the Colonial office in "radon decides someone shall have the exploita™>n privileges, that's the law...
...Now more than ever...
...We are kit with only the wages of labor, , *nd because labor is unable to bargain as a Power, ww accept what the absentee ownership «oooses to give...
...is permitted to attempt the escape of war...
...Here were "socialism" And "nationalism" combined in meaningless but effective slogans—"The.Common Interest Before Self," of trusts, municipalization of depart meat stores, cancellation of land mortgages, confiscation of feudal estates, death to the usurers and profiteers, etc > • • • ITS METHOD SYSTEMATIC HALLUCINATION *?*HIS verbiage was devoid of all content in action because of * the inner contradiction within the movement which lisa at the root of its subsequent frustration, its sysematic hallucinations and its final prostitution into an instrument of economic oligarchy and political despotism...
...We have oil and *fPhalt, but all the profits go to London and New rork...
...Their doctors tell them they mustn't be worried...
...Bughouse ? How bughouse ? say you...
...7 and later leader in the autumn of the year of Versailles, this group became the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (N.S.D.A.P...
...Under the liberal, democratic system of America, nothing could be done about that...
...Corporal Hitler was himself a maladjusted -middle-class youth, victimized unwittingly by the complex disorders of decadent capitalism and bankrupt imperialism...
...hi suppress the Catholic Centrum, the State Party, and all other political groups and, moreover, to make the N.S.D.A.P...
...I am speaking about white paper...
...The Fuehrer uses it to buttress industrial monopoly and agrarian feudalism...
...The party, as a political instrument, fools most of its members most of the time and in turn fools enough of the populace to keep its masters securely in the seats of power...
...If you the proper connections in London you get J~* right to exploit the property...
...Which will yon have ? You can bet you can't be for both orach longer...
...Deprived thus of the Liberal press once your pride and joy, what shall you do, O ye of feeble spirit but lofty brow...
...Through oratory, hysteria, artistry and organization he won a following...
...COME lies live long...
...It's the srichest possession, foot * foot, in the British Empire, but absentee ownership has created among the 420,000 people a feeling something like this: "If only some leader would come along, able *ud willing to bind us together against the distant Jandlords, we'd make a God of him...
...On January 5, 1919, Anton Drexler, a muddle-headed locksmith of Munich, established a so-called "German Labor Party...
...Obedience was due from the bottom...
...v U p o D *M w e r "•-HI h*ng the issue af whether the despotism of the N38.D.A.P...
...Yet they dare say nothing, and sympathetic newspapers dare say nothing because of nationalist (fascist) bombs...
...He could he the Hitler of Barbadoes...
...For this reason it was necessary to organize systematically the persecution of t h e J e w s and to intensify that persecution in every new crisis...
...It is one thing or the other...
...As a mass movement, the party is the agency through which the fears, hopes, phobias and dreams of millions of desperate little men are realize<i—not tangibly but vicariously, not materially but symbolically...
...Cipriani, grey,-intensive: "You can't do anything here unless you're a Political friend of someone in authority at the Colonial office in London...
...Its officers are loyal by virtue of jobs, honors, graft and spoils...
...Any questioning was intolerable...
...Others, I know, would recommend a little rum with an infusion of cassia buds, but I am unalterably opposed to these strong liquors for weak minds...
...Down there, just a stumble off the American doorstep, you see why the uninformed turn to fascism, as they did in Germany, because outside owtersrjp hasn't the sense of a Missouri mule...
...This paradox manifested itself in the party from the beginning...
...It was applied to t h e S t a t e and to t h e whole of German society after t h e p a r t y came to power in consequence of that conspiracy of politicians, industrialists and J u n k e r s which gave Hitler the Chancellorship in J a n u a r y , 1938—five years ago...
...Of the causes of his wees he knew nothing, since he was economically and socially illiterate...
...It blindly obeys the Fuehrer...
...Lift up your souls, crawl out of the cellar, get upon your two feat and admit the fact that there is no longer any No Man's Land in this fight...
...Fascism or democracy—Hitler or co-operation...
...He persuaded himself that he was master of his masters as well as of his followers...
...They now have to hnild an extension of the jail at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, to take care of all the prisoners...
...Correct again...
...The people learn the possibilities of the land...
...next Martinique, in the shadow ef murderous Pelee, where the home folks claim their deputies in the French Chamber are more reactionary than Alf Landon...
...will collapse within the Reich from its own corruption or will drag most of western civilisation to ruin w*ta' it in a second world war...
...Cipriani.] This is the "ciiest island in the empire...
...PUERTO RICO NATIONALISTS FASCISTIC DUERTO RICO, which may become, before ~ long, the 49th State of the Union, is a seething inferno of embittered labor...
...And this—to leave Capt...
...TWO DULL OLD LADIES IN PANTS OO now you can see, faint-hearted Liberals, why you are left thus *^ stranded with your ears all astrain to catch the feeble mutterings of the only semblance of a Liberal press you have left, the quavering voices of two dull old ladies in pants, the Nation aad the New Republic...
...Fascism Seeps Into America Through the Carribbean Isles FRUITS OF OPPRESSIVE ABSENTEE OWNERSHIPWORKERS SLAVE WHILE OWNERS PROFITEER— LABOR IS WEAK IN ORGANIZATION— PUERTO RICO STILL EXPLOITED BY SPANISH CLIQUE...
...For example, if the sugar marPoor, our workers may be told: Sorry old...
...Gather a few duds together and set sail for the one-time fcamts of the buccaneers in the painted Carribean...
...Last summer a feHow by the name of E. N. Payne went from Trinidad to Barbadoes to tell the workers what nincompoops they were...
...But you see," he remarks, "they don't return, and our people seek the advice of leaders who say: 'Leave it to me...
...The Gaesarism of the modern age carfnot supply bread, for it serves masters who enrich themselves through scarcity of bread and abundance of guns...
Vol. 21 • January 1938 • No. 5
