Czechs Use Ghandism to Fight Reich's "Brown Locust" Invasion
HIRSCH, JOHANN
Czechs Use Ghandism to Fight Reich's "Brown Locust" Invasion By JOHANN HIRsCH Former Editorial Writer mm the Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung | ON DON.—Adolf the Conquer-or strangled a political prisoner...
...You ought to know," the Frenchman shouted back, "that in Germany the poor fish dare not open their mouths...
...Estimates of the British Foreign Office, which is usually well informed on these subjects, gave the figure at not more than somewhere around seventy or eighty thousand...
...At those meetings the Reich was represented by a- German prince with the historic name of Bismarck, Fascist Italy by an Italian nobleman, Count Grandi...
...Oh, under National Socialism yen would keep your cows, but they would take away the milk...
...Tens of thousands of Czech workmen — building workers, misters, metal workers, rail-waymesi—are being recruited and taken to vast labor camps in Germany...
...Last February, a similar Italian broadcast sent tkt Or»» Prince of Yemen scurrying te Paris...
...Now all the indication's from Italy are that the Anglo-Italian Agreement is shortly to be denounced, although in the British view such a step is really unnecessary since the4 rape of Albania...
...Zealand couples find the new government hat created economic conditions which make marriages esjjsgja the marriage rate has gone from 8.23 to 10.09 per thousand J^fli i...
...British merchant marine sailing through the Sues must o**' the Yemen coast and some of the Axis-fortified islands of h > get to India and the Orient...
...There was a standard of conduct below which no one wanted to be known to have fallen...
...For ail practical purposes—economic, military, political—she was part and parcel of the Third Reich after that...
...As if a cheerleader had leaped out on the field to direct the cries, a question was roared forth from the other side, "Which Benes...
...The systematically organised plundering of the country's wealth rouses the keenest fury...
...Smoky broadsides are being fired against Otto Wels, Fried rich Stampfer, Rudolph Hflferding, and other internationally famous German Socialists now living m exile abroad—all because they refuse to join the Parisian German Pop...
...Bafeh...
...Reminiscent of the pre...
...After the terrific shock of Munich, in a mood of despair and utter bewilderment, the weak, the defeatist, the unprincipled elements of the Czech nation got the upper hand...
...There they are not only made to work on roads and fortifications for their new masters but also te leam the German language and to listen to lectures on Nazi "knKnr," in compulsory evening classes...
...ular Front against Hitler, a CP.-controlled organization...
...WiWantBenes\ 40000 Czechs Shout at Nazis \ LONDON...
...We did not hesitate to give our fuU aid openly from the first days right up to the final victory," Mussolini declared in exchanging toasts with Franco's brother-in-law this week...
...Who doubts, that the Nazis can entertain such a preposterous plan of half absorbing, half annihilating a whole nation...
...Under Communism," the other replies, "they would take away your "cows and your milk...
...Otherwise they could net smuggle the material into Germeve Just as millions of Germans get "a birdseye view of tie ne** u from London, millions of Italians get their daily inf ornwtier free Paris, where Italian Socialist exiles handle the mikes . Large white posters bearing the word "Espionage" befiec lin as Herr Goebbels begins a counter-drive against British sat French propaganda...
...ensured by the Royal Italian Navy...
...THE boastings of the Duce cannot but help ™ remind us of the disappearance of Mr...
...Now, however, the Fascist States are making their own standard, a standard which is based on the open and boasted use of lies, of every trick that will deceive not only your foe but your friend...
...Mouthpiece of the German Communists abroad, the "Dentate* Volkszeitung" has just printed a sharp attack against the Executive of the German Social Democratic Party which now hfci Hi headquarters in Paris...
...It is estimated that there are some 20,000 exiles directing and engaged in this propaganda, espionage, and radio work . They prepare the phonograph records and machinery for surreptitious broadcasts t* the Reiek, publish travel and commercial brochures every third pass of which has anti-Hitler material, and the* photograph books and pamphlets on micro films...
...Labor leader Clement Attlee is seriously ill and scheduled t> be operated on...
...Der Fuehrer again had him deported...
...The Italians themselves declared there were not more than twenty or thirty thousand...
...fingers to his lips in warning, standing before a background a . guns and airplanes...
...XS January 2,1937, a "gentleman's" agreement ^ was signed between Britain and Italy...
...withering fire of machine gun bullets and Spanish women and children were mangled by the high explosive bombs dropped by Prince Bismarck and Count Grandi just as much as by the Italian and German pilots who had been smuggled to Spain...
...PUT here's the real story...
...It is, indeed, a duty to those who lost their lives for democracy in Spain, to those seamen who were killed by bombs simply because they were obeying the rules of international law, that the world should realize, how shameless was the deception to which it was subjected by Berlin and Rome...
...Cinemas, thanks to their darkness, lend themselves, best of all public places, to the voicing of popular feeling under a dictate*ship: the hoisting of the British end French Sags in some film thriller shown in Prague tod repeatedly to eager acclamations of the public which rose and broke into singing the Marseillaise— until the Gestapo ordered the particular scene cut...
...it could have turned an old foe if not into a faithful friend, certainly into a reliable vassal, gaining from her full economic cooperation in peacetime (and for her war preparations), and even valuable support in wartime itself...
...Other posters show a German sokfier...
...If it we're not rather sickening it would be amusing to read of the high moral indignation of these two gentlemen when their countries were accused of breaking the undertaking to which they were solemnly pledged...
...Well, answers the second peasant, "sea...
...Its job, you will recall, was to coordinate the application of the agreement under which the Powers had undertaken not to intervene in the Spanish S -——«conflict...
...HP HE heroes of national libera- -* tion, hastily dethroned in September, are being restored in the people's hearts with increased -glories...
...Get out of the country," he shouted, "and if I find you* hi Trieste in 1940 111 put you in a concentration camp...
...Wage rates have gone up 27.7 per cent...
...Hitler exiled tile man...
...In those fields, full overtime is given...
...On the left bask sat a Frenchman and caught plenty...
...To talk of having given aid "openly" is, of course, nonsense...
...Coming to Prague a few months afterward, the Reichschancellor found the anti-Nazi again confronting him...
...So far this systematic transfer of population has been confined to the industrial strata and to the unemployed...
...I see," says the first peasant, "this wouldn't be too bad...
...In March the Czech nation lost her liberty but regained her soul...
...But you would keep the milk all right...
...you would have to work on your farm and get paid by the State...
...Braenmr and the German-Nationalists, Trevinanus and Dr...
...how, with an air of injured virtue, they expressed surprise that the English chairman could have sunk so low as to permit such charges to be brought before the Committee...
...The jubilant Czechs who had shouted first answered immediately, "Both of them...
...One feature of the Nazi rule, however, is seriously disquieting: it is the cross-migration, methodically organized throughout the country...
...but he was a hero for those minutes...
...A few years later, Hitler arrived in Vienna to find the same anti-Nazi there...
...Benes...
...That sounds ingenuous but the point is this: in the old days diplomatic peccadillos were not rare, but no one ever wanted to be found out...
...Probably the young man had missed the ball, or perhaps his head had failed to contact with sufficient force against the sphere...
...We want Benes...
...IB, 1937— note the dates—not less than 100.000 men I nt'l Diplomacy Farcical as Axis Admits Spain Invasion (Continued from Paec Four...
...has ordered all amadaSj at quit such organizations within 12 days...
...Membership of the world's largest trade union, the Bmat Transport and General Workers Union, tod by Ernest Bern reached 678.360 at the end of 1938...
...What actually is this 'Socialism' one hears so much about nowadays...
...Now under Socialism these two cows would no longer belong to you bnt to the State...
...There are about 10,000 active underground workers in the Reich who maintain Unison with centers in Britain, France, Switzerland* Holland, and Belgium...
...her ideals and traditions, was dispersed by the resounding steps of the invading soldiers...
...The Paris section of the S.P...
...How is it," shouted Hitler angrily across the stream, "that you are doing so weU, while I get nothing...
...a net gain of tt} 452 n two years...
...asks one of them...
...And at every meeting of the Committee this German prince and Italian nobleman lied and lied and lied again...
...gaiiMUllims Even M. Zyromski, leader of the pr^-Connnuakt faction of the Socialist Party, has obeyed the order and haajS , drawn,from the Friends of the U.S.Sit anc the • Pe&re and ia...
...The most serious feature of this policy of flagrant disregard,for solemn undertakings is the indication that old standards of morality in the international field are no longer of importance...
...It was all a game being played out in a committee room of the British Foreign Office while men fell beneath the...
...Goebee/s rVffftfeeed ef Effective Irfffsh Propel cede > Afour-cornered radio, propaganda mud espionage war is the preliminary heat before the main'fight—with all Europt ra i creaking grandstand which may collapse any* minute.' Italy has just moved quickly against the British to Pdflh Empire life line to India at Yemen- U Duce revived the ckd km that the British and French are about to occupy the Yemen p» montory of Shekh Said, at the southern end of the Red Sea...
...No sports meets may be held in Czechia, until June 80, the Gestapo declared this week, following a Czech anti-Nazi demonstration which Was held spontaneously during a Prague-Berlin sports contest in the protectorate...
...Most of them, especially in the towns, know German pretty well...
...But the homecoming this week of the German and Italian "volunteers" has revived old memories of that unfortunate Non-intervention Committee...
...ne spi" —Benes does not sleep—has come to be the general watchword in towns and villages throughout Czecho-Slovakia...
...It makes the German administration none the easier 1 Exasperated by impenetrable Czech non-cooperation in all fields, the Nazi authorities resort to ever harsher methods, thereby adding new fuel every day to the burning hatred of the People...
...All of which, you may well say, is ancient history...
...cannot keep any army of 100^000 men abroad without maintaining supplies and, Forze .\rpiptt points out, this service was...
...eriy" outfit...
...THIS will certainly not break * the spirit of the Czechs...
...In the early months of its career, in 1936, it was probably the most publicized body in the world at the time, already receiving the floodlight of publicity that had been transferred, owing to unfortunate circumstance, from Geneva...
...German Socialist leaders in Paris point out that these* art tbj tactics the German Communists used against them in pre-Hitk...
...a& day* tinsBLP...
...Put back Benes," one side of the field shouted...
...Berlin is learning that it can't afford to let Czechs get together...
...We want Benes...
...I understand," nods the first...
...authorities find it pretty awkward to interfere with such an ell too rare show of devotion by the Czechs...
...Czechs Use Ghandism to Fight Reich's "Brown Locust" Invasion By JOHANN HIRsCH Former Editorial Writer mm the Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung | ON DON.—Adolf the Conquer-or strangled a political prisoner in March...
...No fish took his bait...
...since March they don't understand a word if . some German soldier addresses them...
...The painful disappointment over the betrayal by the Western democracies, so acute after Munich that it made the Prague populace tear down British and French flags wherever they saw them, has given way to hopeful sympathy once more...
...wTuto Gestapo men stood about in bewildered helpless-nesS?*Oj,00© Czechs in the Moravian town of Prostejav threw back their heads this week and enthusiastically shouted in unison,' so that their voices resounded through the German-police-ridden neighborhood, "We want Benes...
...This section now becomes the testing ground far jUw Comintern policy since the Communist parties of Great BrlUii and the United States are negligible and rapidly Rmintegratiag, Informants from Paris reveal that the German Cemhtusist centers there are, not very subtly, preparing another change ef line towards Socialists, liberals, and progressives After mow than three yean of "united front" effort*, both the Frencl and British Socialist and Labor Parties overwhelmingly rejected action with the Comintern...
...they can't speak a word if they are summoned to some German official...
...CeaffaesfaJ Corroesaf v "THERE'S no hope of immediate large-scale Jewish settlement n * British Guiana...
...Workers Abroad E>RICES on invectives have fallen sharply since the French tJoau * munist Press began to "discuss" the decision of the recnu Socialist Party Coat less at Nantes...
...Now the tak is ekael up again, estimating that the British Foreign Office » sr|h< the French to land troops...
...Here again the Czechs respond with a nasty joke: shop windows which were once packed with all kinds of good things — luscious oranges, bananas, choice apples, fresh green vegetables and at toast a dozen varieties—now show only empty shelves decked with brown paper, and display a single exhibit: the portrait of the Fuehrer...
...were transported to Spam...
...Today the incident is being related with relish in all the corners where .Czechs who hate the Swastika gather to tell of the right on the Gestapo...
...Captain Fritz Wiedemann, to London as net to under, replacing Dr...
...m Between 1935 and 1938, Nash showed, an New ZealsM has attained a forty-hour, five-day week, except in fields such as farming which cannot be organized on that basts...
...GENERALLY, the attitude of the Czech people towards the invaders is not provocative...
...to create "Living Room" for the German nation by removing the Slav inhabitants of the herder countries to the East and reserving these "free toads" for dense colonisation by German peasant-pioneers...
...The figure of 100,000 men in four months is in itself revealing...
...Bat—and this consideration alone enables us to see the whole Czech-German problem in its true proportions—let us not forget that the best allies of the oppressed nation are today to be found among their commandeered oppressors who in their own turn are viciously Oppressed by the same tyranny...
...You have two cows, haven't you...
...With them went 1,370 motor vehicle...
...Real ruler of the "protectorate," of course, is the German Gestapo, and those Czechs who allow themselves to be used by the Nazis for staging the sorry spectacle of present-day "public and political life" in Czechoslovakia, are obscure and shady individuals, generally despised by those they pretend to represent...
...And the GeVnjsV...
...of how they drew themselves up to their full heights, looked down their aristocratic noses and refuted the "base and monstrous" charges leveled against them...
...Bey, what's the use of being left with nay cows if I couldn't have their milk...
...by the way...
...TIE "brown locusts* are ever Czecho-Slovakia...
...From various sources comes news that Frits Platen, • Swiss Communist, has been liquidated in Moscow on the now imihi-mad-dog-spy-saboteur charge...
...The comparatively small clique of Nasi gangsters not the German people—is the real enemy of Czechs and Germans alike...
...All this is <***« with the knowledge and somewhat covert cooperation of theevtks'-tries...
...Production has zoomed «9.8 per cent, farm production ha# . gone up 40.4 per cent, electric power has soared 60.8 pOf cent, exports have increased by 25 per cent while imperto have been boosted by 52.6 per cent The building boo* has more than doubled activity in the construction industry...
...You may say that approval of this is approval a? hypocrisy, but the fact remains that fear of universal condemnation kept a check of sorts on breaches of international obligations...
...Benes, flooded with ab.use in autumn as the man whose— allegedly—uncompromising policy led the nation into disaster, is becoming an almost legendary figure...
...But rarely in history have we had the opportunity of seeing the heads of states boasting of the cunning with which they tricked other nations, glorying not only in the methods they employed but in the very fact of having deliberately lied...
...Thus the more murky secrets only emerged with the publication many' years later of diplomatic documents...
...derstanding with the bourgeois Hitler opposition within and oat-side Nazi-Germany, collaborators of the Centrist Dr...
...Nor will they be broken by concentration camps (of which a number have already been established in the "protectorate") and the other paraphernalia of despotism...
...New read what Ferxe Arssate says...
...Frits Ebcrt...
...True, ft is a small nation, many times outnumbered by the German race...
...A report by the British Guiana Refugee Com mission to the Advisory Committee on Political Refugees Masted that hope by revealing that the territory offered by the Uritiik Government is unfit for refugees from middle-European eeuutnes London corroborates rumors that Hitler now seeks te send km close friend...
...This certainly supplied him with the sorely needed Czecho-1 Slovakian gold reserve and gained him a few more immediate financial and strategical advantages (by no means unobtainable through patient negotiations), but it forged a disheartened people, more than half-willing to compromise and to "accommodate themselves," into a united mass of fierce hate against the conquerors...
...The flew...
...Playing the fools, they fool their masters...
...In the dark days of September last, at Munich, the whole of Czecho-Slovakia was delivered, bound and gagged, to the Nazi jail...
...The danger, which was very real between September and March, that the Czech nation should sink into « spiritual morass forsaking all...
...It was known soon after that/ while the final text of the agreement was being drafted, Italian "volunteers" were being shipped to Spain from Italy...
...The odds are that they will soon do away with the humbug of the "protectorate" altogether and will abolish the last remnants' of Czech self-administration: the remaining Czech authorities and the sham "Party of National Unity," tolerated up to now in order to keep up appearances...
...Top...
...Well, 111 explain it," says the Other...
...and for the first time since the war the agriculturally rich country, aeeusr tomed to comfortable and opulent ways of living, is experiencing if not an actual famine, at toast temporary shortage of certain food stuffs aad articles of everyday use '. - At Easter time, when from time immemorial every family * Czecho-Slovakia used to pot a large basket full of gaily colored green, red and blue eggs on the breakfast table, there were no feggs on the Prague markets...
...Eden went: the Anglo-Italian Agree-, ment was rushed through...
...Gustav Noske, and Philip Scheidemann are eksigsj with being "traitors to the proletariat, who try to come te tr...
...would still have to feed them...
...Trouble at that point now would mean that the P tiaa would have a small-sized war on their hands just when the} re nefetiei ing with Moscow, involved in Tientsin, and watclag Cestui Europe...
...RauschafaiR...
...Reich Jokes That \Didnt Win GoebbelsPrize] | TERR HITLER was fishing on ** the right bank of the Rhine...
...how, at last, unable to restrain their wrath, they turned round in righteous indignation on their accusers and charged them with exactly the same offenses...
...So much water has passed under Europe's bridges since that sensational event that, like the asseverations of the German prince and the Italian nobleman, its.importance has been lost sight of...
...Sports Item By Dick Reynard LONDON.—The associated societies of Tear-Down-Newj Zee landers is probably holding an emergency session to recuperate this week, after a visit to the city by Walttf Nash, New Zealand finance minister, who presented chafB and graphs which vividly proved how the Labor-govermd island has progressed under its present leadership...
...Of course we all know that German and Italian help bad been promised to Franco long before his military insurrection against the Republican Government took place...
...For when he was withdrawn from the game, thunderous cries rolled across the field, as the Czechs saw an opportunity to voice openly their love for a leader who represents free Czecho-Slovakia...
...The grapevine reveals that one »f tkt larger magazines ie about to spring a scoop em sabotage ertrrttvi of a "certain foreign power" in this country...
...The occasion was a soccer game, from which a mediocre player named Benes had been withdrawn...
...Negrin was scoffed st as the product of an overheated imagination...
...Dirckeen...
...Now tell me also what's this 'National Socialism...
...Anthony Eden from the British Foreign Office...
...For while the Duce was ordering men, arms and ships to Spain he was at the same time instructing his Ambassador in London to deny with all the plausibility which Count Grandi undoubtedly possesses that anything of the sort was happening...
...Even when, reluctantly, Italy began to admit that perhaps there were some "volunteers" in Spain, the figure of 1Q0.000 quoted by Dr...
...is the Italian Navy's own organ, so yan can be sure that it to even more official than the usual ran of Italian newspaper...
...40,QAo tons of ear material and 750 guns...
...eminent, are attacked by the Stalinite preet as "social /sfrutf" and "class collaborators...
...and what they preached fell on fertile ground among a disillusioned population...
...e) y Aad JAew...
...INSTEAD they preached sub-* mission to the German overlords, calling it "collaboration...
...And now what's 'Communism...
...As such it was the body to which complaints of breaches of the Agreement were brought...
...It would be, I feel, an unforgivable omission if the perfidy revealed by the cynical boasting of the leaders of the two Fascist States were to be allowed to be submerged by news of Royal visits and other items of intelligence such as have crowded the details of the "volunteers' " return out of the columns of the press...
...acquiescence in German hegemony, calling it "conciliation...
...But her spectre appears to become more troublesome to her murderers than that of their lesser victims, more troublesome and more dangerous in any case than the living prisoner had been...
...Improved Way TWO peasants, in a country not conquered by Hitler, were discussing pontics...
...The Czechs are far too realistic and practical a people to fail to realize their helplessness for the moment...
...Eden told Chamberlain that his experience of the Italians had led him to the conclusion that you couldn't believe a word the Italians said...
...But there are grave anxieties that it may he extended to the agricultural sphere, in accordance with Hitler's inveterate colonization ideas...
...Chamberlain, deliberately shutting his eyes t; the reports coming from Spain, refused to accept that view...
...Don't forget that ail this time Italy was bound by solemn international agreement not to intervene in Spanish affairs and, specifically, not to send war materials or guns...
...inquires the first psssanf perplexedly...
...The reason was that every government had a conscience in international affairs...
...Their place at home is taken by Germans who are being given the lobs of the skilled wankers and of the key-men in all the important Czech-Stovakton ind net rial plants...
...Not just little diplomatic evasions but what Kipling called "water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-fringe, time-locked, steel-faced" Lies...
...Germany, by some clever diplomacy, by tactfully handling the situation, could have achieved a lasting success at that period...
...What is more, the Navy was engaged in roughly 250 naval engagements of one sort or another...
...M Int'l Diplomacy Farcical as Axis Admits Spain Invasion Duces Volunteers By Bernard Moore ly BERNARD MOORE New Leader's Chief Correspondent In Careee I ONDON.—Do you remember an august body of diplomats, known by the name of the Non-intervention Committee, which for two-and-a-half years dragged out its miserable existence here in London...
...Der Fuehrer raged...
...Forse A rmate...
...During the iter ¦ oaths -from December 15, ISM, te Apr...
...Platten is the Bolshevik #a» arranged Lenin's sealed car trip into Russia in 1917, and tpi thcd in Moscow since 1923 . . . another old Bolshevik liquidated...
...I HAD the curiosity, this week, to look through * the files of th% Non-intervention Committee's meetings...
...WHEN Hitler took power in "' " Germany, an anti-Nazi who had once saved his life was brought before him...
...Next came the inroads into the private economic sphere, exercised by various devices ,as compulsory transfer'' of shares and industrial interests, the winding up of Csecho-Slovakian companies or their affiliation to German trusts, the closing down of large textile mills in Northern Bohemia so as to eliminate sorely felt competition, the enforced direction of certain Czech exports, especially of food stuffs, into the "Altreich" (Germany...
...Then there were the Italian submarines which, in the words of the paper, sowed terror in the Mediterranean basin, while they were doing this, destroyers and power torpedo-boats engaged in "numerous operations of war against enemy units (Italy was not technically at war), effectively bombarded coastal defenses and principal ports and sank many other vessels in Sicilian waters...
...UT they are obviously losing «* patience in the face of the insuperable passive resistance which they encounter everywhere...
...The notice carries the words, "Spies, Trait** Saboteurs" . . . reminiscent, eh T Magazines and newspapers are full of spy storiesy saw>do*** of shoyt films are being used to convince the people that Oar-many is being overrun by British and French spies and p*1*** agandists...
...The shad-lent of them are the Czech Fascists, whom their German paymasters now apparently want to use for wrecking the "whole rickety structure...
...But the most effective warning against underg"'*™ , activity are the ominous red posters, appearing with itfT^easw nerve-wracking frequency, announcing that another anti-HJtJertw has been decapitated...
...las tan are smeared in traditional Sulinn^sfyfe if- t43Bpt*thto hasn't stopped the rapid withdrawal of French SoesaV tota than* the "para-Communist'"—as Jack Sandford puts it...
...On the other hand, whenever the "Fuehrer" appears in news-reels or the German soldiery is seen goose-stepping over the screen, loud laughter is .heard from the dark depth of the stalls...
...In tMe beet 1920 and 1923 tradition, the Social Democrat* new organizing, in exile, the underground opposition to the Reiek fa...
...ftis name is being whispered from mouth to mouth: He is in America working for our liberation, he mobilized the world to release us from the Hapsburga 20 years ago, hell release as from Hitler too...
...Together with the German and Austrian smokers the Czech nation will bring tits day of liberation...
...While the British are swinging into the propaganda field * j large scale by building a "news" bureau for Lord Perth, terse ambassador to Italy, the British Broadcasting Corporation is is* ing six German broadcasts a day into the Reich So effecti* '» this barrage of anti-Nazi news that German political refm the continent have eased their direct propaganda work and are devoting themselves to the organization of decentralized units led by former anti-Nazis of all parties...
...Czech spectators vociferously shouted anti-Reich slogans during the match, qnd frequent brawls between German soldiers and Czecho-Slovakians broke out...
...jet next to the Aden protectorate...
...Instead, Herr Hitler preferred the brutalitarian method of totalitarian conquest...
...Czecho-Slovakia was not the first political prisoner to be murdered in Nazi jails...
Vol. 22 • June 1939 • No. 25
