Nazis Plan Danzig Grab on Belief London Won't Fight
Nazis Plan Danzig Grab on Belief London Won't Fight Adolpfa Hitler and his inner circle—Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goering, Von Ribbentrop and Joseph Goebbels—will shortly move to absorb...
...Following an attack on totalitarianism which he made from his pulpit in 1987, the ftttsl was arrested by the Gestapo...
...etthew WoU, vice-president of the A.F.L...
...Tt i -- now vital'-.- imiortant to the Communists "to make the New Deal part of their 'popular fro:it.' If the New D.'nl doesn't repudiate C P. supprrt...
...Oat Tom Mooney is now hatcheting for the CooHounist party...
...Last year he entered the G.O.P...
...AH German propaganda is centered around the idea that London and Paris will back down...
...Realizing that these tactics, if coupled to the official Catholic Church, would arouse wide antagonism against it, Catholic officials throughout the country are protesting Coughlin's liberty to publish anti-Semitic propaganda in his Social Justice...
...Reverend L. M Birkhead...
...This correspondent can vouch for the reports that French visitors here are being recalled on advice to evacuate their women and children to homes on the Atlantic coast...
...The Montanan has a strange record...
...Before he was kept hidden from the entire world, Niemoeller declared to hk followers throughout Germany: "They laugh scornfully, 'At last we have got him,' and arrest 800 more, but«what is the result...
...Aasriean Catholics do not wish union of (Jsrea snd State, Talbot pointed out...
...Sunday night the Front grew bold enough to invade the Madison Square Garden and attempt to precipitate a riot among the 18,000 followers of the anti-Coughlin, veteran anti-clerical pamphleteer and leader of Jehovah's Witnesses, Joseph R. Rutherford...
...Hitler's existence is due only 30 per cent to that pact, and some 30 per cent to the nonoccurrence of a bourgeois revolution and the lack of a centuries-old background of freedom...
...In the meantime, he is giving Coughlin full support...
...Communist tactics prevented armed resistance to Hitler and his terror...
...Various Federal credit agencies and corporations wouM directly administer the program outside of the Treasury Department and the "economy" boys hint that this is a method of new bookkeeping "outside" of the budget...
...Thorkelson, after a sharp debate with House majority leader Rayburn, succeeded in extending his remarks to the Record...
...He must consider free speech, but rill tear in mind the necessities of the Catholic Csjfcfc" Father Talbot added...
...In the meantime the Bund continues its activity and prepares to celebrate July Fourth In its...
...that American Fascism was powerful on 12 important fronts...
...Mooney, speaking over WEVD, charged that the Friends of Democracy, among whose directors are John Dewey, George Gordon Battle, Van Wyck Brooks and others like them, was an "anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, pro-fascist organization...
...be wrecked," Waldman concluded...
...Any one criticizing the New Deal is immediately branded an 'enemy of the people.' Democracy is disserved and criticism is stilled bysuch tactics...
...The speeches to be reprinted consist of **•« delivered by the following: Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School * Social Science...
...Henry laith Lei per...
...The Parisian newspaper "LTSpoque," mouthpiece of the conservative Deputy De Kerillis, reports a conference supposedly held between Hitler and the |German inner circle...
...If he's arousing isiliuiitism, he's arousing greater antijfcicism...
...fgftot Attochs Coughlin aseosstions against totalitarianite flag-wavers x tse U. S. came from leaders in their fields...
...Thorkelson Aids Coughlinites Whoever is behind the Coughlin-Moseley-Bund combine has obviously gotten to Congressman Thorkelson of Montana...
...O'Connell was the Democratic nominee for re-election and because of the congressman's contact with the American League for Peace and Democracy and other stooge Communist fronts, Jim Farley stayed out «f the campaign...
...Hitler for Putsch Now At the same time the Turks want the French to force Armenians, emigrating from Hatay before the Turkish occupation, to leave without their money and property...
...The Bund has just secured a new organizer in the Milwaukee area—Chief New Moon...
...A feature of the uisrussion on totalitarianism and culture was Eugene Lyons' analysis of the sweep of what he termed "red terror" against those who were anti-Stalinites...
...S,yc7.s Describes "Ted Terror" Arr.vei . g z_ i; .1 i< n on the curbing of Am l i e n Fr.y -. Waldman declared that "we're due for 1...
...4/*tb»r Francis Talbot, S. J., editor of Jk- Henry Smith Leiper, secretary of the ,*jw»l Council of Churches...
...it w...
...Paris expects war...
...national director of the Friends of Democracy, scored Tom Mooney's radio attack on his organization...
...The big-wigs of the industrial and financial world will not take the initiative in releasing vast funds for investment and because of this paralysis of action millions of workers are still without jobs...
...and California progressive movements which, because of state laws, have to work through the Democratic party machinery by capturing nominations...
...Niemoeller, now 47 years old, served as e naval officer for Germany in the World War...
...His copy appears regularly in Social Justice and it is recalled that he was General Moseley's right-hand man during the Dies Committee hearing...
...Preceding Seger was Matthew Woll...
...There 'are 23 Democratic Senators up for reelection in 1940, nearly all of whom are counting on Roosevelt support to send them back to Washington...
...They anticipate big new deficits and—the bow-wows...
...the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the Wisconsin Progressives who may, on the basis of the antilabor administrations of Governors Staseen and Heil, carry those states...
...In the words of on* political observer for whose sagacity this correspondent can vouch...
...Either the private owners cannot or will not begin operations...
...la'.ion to curb subversive groups' attorn;-: t jnuermine and capture the government...
...Even the dullest banker and politician should be able to understand this idea but many are rushing for smelling salts to ward off fainting spells...
...Birkheod Raps Mooney Speech At an earlier session...
...farther charged that the German governing was administering slow poison to the (hftolie Church...
...Under attack...
...Among those who spoke to the representative jadienee of labor's political and industrial lead¦m and many active heads of eastern progresmovements, were Father Francis Talbot, f, J„ editor of the national Catholic magazine, J—rirf Rabbi Israel of Baltimore...
...The fighting started when Rutherford charged that the Catholic Church supported Hitler...
...Today you can't laugh off C P . influence in ;he United States...
...The fact that Broun's Nutmeg has attacked our outfit indicates that we're in for a concerted Communist drive against us...
...100,000 ministers are affiliated with the Council...
...For the first time in decades, the Congressional record, at his insistence, contains anti-Jewish material...
...Bend Defies New Laws Because he turned renegade on these who elected him, Thorkelson, a political freak, k a one-term man...
...In direct charge of the news service is the London embassy at Buenos Aires...
...As in Spain where a combination of national and social forces thrust t i e Stalinite leadership into important places, the • have been able to penetrate into high Amtrican civil service spots...
...Others who spoke at the conference were Professor Heimann of the New School for Social Research...
...as a detrimental influence in his Church...
...Alexander Kahn, general manager of the *«*teh Daily Forward...
...Whether they will or not is much affected by Soviet Russia's attitude...
...To satisfy the silver states and logroll for the hard money crowd, such men as Senator Pittman made deals in complete contradiction to foreign «snd domestic policy...
...Lyons' address is published on page 8. Gerhart Seger, former member of the German Reichstag and now rditor of the New York Neue Volkszeitung...
...It would be ester in¦ gratitude to become bitter in the fees of seek facta...
...Dictatorship of Left and Right Hit at Tamiment By VICTOR RIESEL CAMP TAMIMENT, Pa—All totalitarianism «M sharply scored as inimical to the best interoto of world culture, religion, industry, labor, jyj government this past week-end by nationijjy prominent leaders during talks before the ?ta annual session of the Tamiment Economic and Social Institute...
...The presidential proposal at least has the merit of breaking the dam of timidity or sabotage or both which prevents a flood of capital from flowing out of the private money vats of its owners...
...A An Irish-American Labor Party meeting was routed by the Front last week...
...In circles too close to home for comfort, a psychology is being developed that our future depends on one man...
...Activity among the Indians continues...
...Well-informed correspondents of the London Daily Herald report that a crisis will develop this next week, the first step of which will be the disappearance of the "independent" State of Slovakia...
...In the meantime, the Maginot Line is fully manned, the British and French land forces completely coordinated under General Gamelin's command, and the London-Paris fleets linked under Downing Street's direction...
...Senator Wheeler had ne choke but to...
...Criticism of his salesmen is also being voiced in important Catholic circles and pressure from within the Church is being put on Archbishop Mooney...
...These suggested projects include non-Federal public works such as sewage disposal plants, water works, bridges, hospitals and other municipal projects...
...The Catholic Press Association, powerful group of Catholic publishers, this week went on record as resolved to fight all anti-Semitic propaganda...
...Jwtrj was considered half nuts...
...Reverend Birkhead pointed out that the Mooney attack was directed by the Communist party, in whose - hands the former labor prisoner had placed himself...
...Under the guise of guard duty against the Irish Republican Army, London's territorial forces have been doubled at anti-aircraft batteries and balloon barrages...
...John T. Flynn...
...Responsible for this is the permeating influence of the Commun:>ts...
...Pointing out that he had introduced two bills in the House striking at civilian military organizations, Voorhis declared that legislation should be passed curbing American agents and agencies of foreign dictatorships...
...The inner circle expects Britain and France to back down despite Polish President Ignace Moecicki's broadcast that Poland is ready to fight...
...My conception of the proper work of the committee is that it should do the best job it can to probe movements trying to establish a totrlitarian government here, and which are directed from abroad...
...Said Talbot: "If Father Coughlin is a thorn in the side of the Jews, he's a bigger thorn *-#tide of the Catholics...
...Seldom in the past months has there been such strong sentiment for a third Roosevelt term...
...Setback on Silver Seen Insuring FD 3rd Term Drive WASHINGTON, D. C—Although President Roosevelt may still have his way on the money bill now in conference, the crossing of party lines to raid the treasury for the silver states has so aroused him that a third-term drive appears almost inevitable...
...Judging from the House's treatmnet of the Senate money bill and the Senate's treatment of the House's relief bill, the President's power isn't as deflated as the "Republicrat bloc" would like it to be...
...I t is particularly dangerous in the United States for radical and labor movements to pattern tactics on the style of the totalitarians...
...This section of Mr...
...Smears FD's Sound Spend-Lend Recovery Plan WITH billions of dollars lying idle in banks and millions of wage workers still idle, President Roosevelt has suggested a plan.^J^^^SS^^fi^ volvinir nearly four billion dollars over a number of years...
...M. Birkhead, national director ffj *r'*nds of Democracy...
...that organized religion was partly responsible for present ecoaoauc ehsos, and that U. S. Communism and NMian are subsidized from abroad...
...Congressman Jerry Voorhis and Louis Waldos highlighted another important session of I* conference when they discussed the ravages d dictatorship on government...
...BRITAIN LAUNCHES FREE NEWS SERVICE IN ARGENTINA Powerful Reich influences in Argentina, served by the German Transocean Service which supplies "news" to the Argentine press, will be fought by Britain henceforth through a British official wireless news agency formed this week...
...We have more to lose by losing our political foundations than by dropping a few temporary political victories...
...Democratic state chairmen everywhere are supporting Roosevelt and the sentiment is that he can get the nomination which means that the Tydings-Glass clique will split off and support the G.O.P...
...The Friends of Democracy's program lumps the Russian dictatorship with the German and Italian," Reverend Birkhead told this reporter, "and the Communists are angered by :t...
...vicepresident of the A . F . L . . who called upon the American people to awaken to the danger o f the Axis, scored the isolationists, and urged labor unity so that the nation might mon fully be prepared to face the bigger issue...
...that he will carry the 46 electoral votes of New York State...
...It wst Father Talbot, opening speaker of the ————^ *» •» m A rxrya t\t +\\a m^ct session ana one ui uie musk important and respected American Catholic writers, who attacked Cough...
...There is a difference between constitutional rights and permitting those rights to those who would destroy them," he added...
...The earnings derived from such investments would constitute a revolving fund to finance any new projects that may be available...
...He condemned all totalitarian "isms" •4 the Communist drive for a "united front," scored as a prelude to fascism...
...The program would provide orders for vast quantities of materials now waiting for the skilled and unskilled hands of millions of workers and stimulate industrial revival on many fronts...
...Labor power in vast quantities is wasting away in idleness...
...He decried the trend towards the discussion of leaders instead of parties and programs, and traced it to the influence of totalitarian parties —the Communists on the left and the Nazis and Fascists on the right...
...Authenticated charges were made that Father Coughlin was arousing anti-Catholicism...
...speakers...
...CongressHj Jerry Voorhis...
...The facts do not sustain the critics...
...Joseph Dane, formerly CzechoSlovakian consul in New York...
...Der Fuehrer is alleged to have said that Germany must go ahead, take a chance on war, occupy Danzig, and defy the democracies, since "there never was a more favorable time for Germany...
...If Russia signs the pact offered by the British—an agreement in which London has compromised on every point —Hitler may not move...
...The President had good reason to lose his temper with the correspondents of certain antiNew Deal sheets...
...nrged that legislation be passed curbing indpieat fascist forces in this country...
...a few^ days later some of its members gathered < in Journal Square and threw eggs at C.LO...
...John T. Flyiwi, magazine writer and financial expert, and Dr...
...And judging from the recent maneuvering of White House strategists, Roosevelt intends to keep that power in the hands of the New Deal for another four years...
...Private ownership is still the basis of our economic system...
...bMd leiper Address Session "vile keynote of the first session—the disasiMf effects of dictatorship on religion — was • Struck by Rabbi Israel, who blamed orWsed religion for not launching an earlier est on the social abuses of a "materialistic Wnr" Dr...
...These talks are a matter of record in the local press...
...The Russian, German, and jfrsUn dictatorships were singled out for particular condemnation...
...There has been too much emphasis on the Treaty of Versailles," Seger pointed out...
...The various Federal credit agencies on the whole have a good record, beginning with the old War Finance Corporation, extending to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Hoover and other such agencies...
...Convention delegates from Wisconsin and Minnesota favorable to Roosevelt have been pledged...
...Algernon l/tt, president of the Rand School...
...Despite a verdict of "not guilty" handed down by the Potsdam Appeals Court, Niemoeller was rearrested, retried, jailed for a short period and, after his second release, was again imprisoned by the direct order of Hitter, "who shouted, "It is Niemoeller or L" The priest at present remains incarceretsdlm a concentration camp and his physical condition is unknown...
...The former, while in the House, also went out of his way continually to attack Senator Wheeler...
...Because Thorkelson, a Scandinavian, appeared respectable, stable and had a non-political record in Virginia and in Butte, Montana, where he practiced medicine, he won the support of many who were alienated by the tactics of Jerry O'Connell...
...kid Voorhis: The greatest danger to democracy is the Popular Front...
...Jerry .Voorst...
...opinion on Father Coughlin, one facte -:=ining that he is entitled to free SJSKn and another element waging a fight to est up the Detroit radio priest in the interests «f tse Catholic Church...
...during the session on dictatorship and labor told the story of Hitler's smashing the German labor movement...
...Well-informed circles know that the Turks are following the Russian lead...
...it's up to Archtostoj Mooney to take whatever action he deems ¦sSBBpr...
...Henry F. Grady, vice-chairman of the United States Tariff Commission...
...and Chester Wright, editor of the Inter¦aosaal Labor News Service...
...Angora now demands the surrender of the French schools in the Syrian province of Hatay, which has been ceded to Turkey...
...New Leader to Publish Tamiment Speeches Sections of the major addresses made at Tamiment Conferences will be published * succeeding issues of The New Leader...
...kwris Waldman, member of the national ¦*"»ittee of the Social Democratic FederaGwbart Seger, former Reichstag member...
...Full churches, wh* praying congregations...
...If Moscow turns Strang down . . . Turkey, taking its cue from the Soviets, is making it tough for the French by holding up its pact with the Quai d'Orsay, although the general terms of the treaty have been agreed upon...
...Thorkelson Stooges for Coughlin in Congress As Catholic and Protestant indignation against Father Coughlin increase sharply this week, the Detroit Radio priest's new affiliate, the "American Christian Front," definitely established itself as a ring of flying squadrons ready to break tip opponents' meetings throughout the East...
...In the two formerly Progressive states the minute Democratic parties have signified their willingness—on orders from Washington— to turn their machinery over to the FarmerLabor Party and the Wisconsin Progressives in order to assure national New Deal support...
...Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking at the same session, blamed the Vare, Grundy and Pew machines and the split labor movement for the resurgence of anti-labor legislation in Pennsylvania...
...Roosevelt and the country this week saw a preview of what would happen in a non-New Deal 1941 Congress...
...Eugene Lyons, editor of The Americas Mercury...
...The California "¦tssive, a member of the Dies Committee, ¦•hoi a program for a moving, militant de•P»ey...
...The RFC for seven years showed a surplus and, as the United States News points out, the present status of the ten major lending agencies shows an operating profit of $414,000,000...
...He voiced apprehension of a moral terror, rampant in American politics, which is branding opposition to a political philosophy as "Fascism" or "Communism...
...These are the reports flashed to Washington by official American observers abroad...
...There are already some 300,000 German troops concentrated along the Polish frontier in Northern Slovakia, the State Department learned...
...With that deadlock facing millions of the disinherited and their dependents, either the pri-s vate owners must act or Federal power must move in...
...A few weeks from now, paralleling last year's events, the German army, backed by Italian and Japanese maneuvers, will march into the Polish Corridor...
...Nazis Plan Danzig Grab on Belief London Won't Fight Adolpfa Hitler and his inner circle—Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goering, Von Ribbentrop and Joseph Goebbels—will shortly move to absorb Danzig and Slovakia, close in on Jugoslavia and Romania, and threaten world war if Poland fights for the Free City...
...He added that he was seeking substantial evidence of Russian and German money financing local communists and fascists, since he was "personally convinced that such a practice obtains...
...primaries and won...
...He is definitely slated for defeat...
...He expects London and Paris to back down and boasts that Germany, Italy and Japan can lick all the Axis -enemies...
...Down With Jobs.' Wall St...
...100,000U.S.Ministers Lead Prayers for JailedAnti-NaziPastor Prayers for Pastor Martin Niemoeller, antiFascist Protestant preacher who fi now in a Nazi concentration camp, will be said in many churches throughout the United States this Sunday, under the sponsorship of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
...Many industries are closed or are working part time...
...The representative is one of two or three in the national legislature who are openly anti-Semitic and pro-fascist...
...The British agency will supply 2,000 words free daily to Argentine papers, magazines, local news agencies, and radio stations...
...Alexander Kahn, general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, spoke at the annual memorial services for Morris Hillquit, in the grove which bears the name at the late revered man who for nearly 50 years led the American progressive labor and Socialist movements...
...back Thorkelson, as did the Montana labor movement, including the Railroad Brotherhood chiefs...
...Gerhart Seger, editor of the Neue tslksseitung: Leon M. Birkhead, national dimjm of the Friends of Democracy...
...y Voorhis,'California Congressman...
...Fernando st Los Rios, former Spanish ambassador to the 0. 8...
...Louis Waldman, pnaunent labor attorney, was permanent chairWide and varied was the range of the confereace...
...The sudden influx of young Nazis into Danzig is supposed to be the direct result of an agreemen for direct action made at a reported meeting on the Italian-German border this past week-end between Hitler and Mussolini...
...Governor Olson will make a powerful New Deal ally, and there is every chance that Lieutenant-Governor Patterson will replace Senator Johnson after the next election...
...H- r r ;ed carefully worked-out legislation to stop these forces, telling the conference that he oppos d permitting the prerogative of participating in elections to those who do not believe in democratic processes, and who would deprive others cf freedom once they won...
...TWe are two considerations involved—free ifsMfc and spiritual control...
...The economy boys who voteThemselves an extra clerk and jack up the price of silver in a deal of pure Sftica^rS arefobbing on each other's shoulders and predict financial bankruptcy for the government...
...This means investigation of the Communists as well as the Fascists," Voorhis said...
...Since he has joined the committee, all members have agreed that there is to be no political smearing or false charges, the Congressman told the audience...
...Leiper outlined 12 concrete dantn making for American Fascism...
...camps throughout the country...
...secretary of the Federal Council sTGfcBTches...
...BvraM nf Qmlth Carolina advises nothing The F. D. R. proposal wade to Senato more complex than that the ideral Government should provide funds ft1 -"projects at a low rate of interest, "it being cfceifriy understood that the projects themselves shift be self-liquidating and of such a nature as to furnish a maximum of employment per dollar of investment...
...Favors Probe of Communists The Congressman, one of the leaders of the House progressive bloc, responded to the obvious interest in his Dies Committee work by telling the conference that many people expected him to "force the shelving" of the quiz of the Communist Party, but that he had no intention of doing so...
...father Talbot revealed that there was divided Csfltti...
...The Cheek is unequivocably opposed to dictatorship nd develops best in a democracy, under a «n*SB of presidents and prime ministers re•eisiMe to the people, stated Talbot...
...Der Fuehrer's success can be attributed —about 40 per fi-nt—to the depression...
...In speech after speech, Thorkelson pledged himself to vote with the prOfftssslfrN bloc and for all labor measures...
...The White House can now count on at least four powerful state groups for backing in 1940 —the American Labor Party, whose strength assures F.D.R...
...On Saturday afternoon...
...There will be military parades and uniformed drills fei defiance of the recently adopted laws of New York ana New Jersey, according to statements issued in the Bund press not long ago...
...Waldman Decries Name-Calling Louis Waldman, prominent labor attorney, member of the State Executive Committees of the American Labor Party and the Social Democratic Federation, warned again the tendency towards a monolithic party idea in this country...
Vol. 22 • July 1939 • No. 26
