Nazis Open Simultaneous Drive on Three Continents
RIESEL, VICTOR
Nazis Open Simultaneous Drive on Three Continents Seek to Combat Effects of Pan-American Conference By VICTOR RIESEL Whether it's using pop-guns in Holland, foreclosing mortgages in Denmark, or...
...Daily incidents in nearly every •mail European nation reveal that Nazi agents are interfering with their lives...
...He was Gerhard Hentschke, commercial attache to Guatemala He will see President Mamfliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, which hag the largest German colony la Central America, and whose army is equipped and trained by Italians...
...Mall that aside, the philosopher will be likely to wish the Presi-aatted been more precise...
...He must give something to Mussolini and he has nothing but some hundreds of millions of dollars to hand out, which in ordinary days II Duce would have grabbed...
...ARMING TO THE TEETH I TPON one feature of the Message, Liberals that look with a profound uneasiness upon the progress and methods of the third term movement must have centered a peculiar discontent...
...In Denmark and Swede*, the Naaia carry out daily economic purges of their own...
...The same subtle, covert, invincible, absolute combination that has ¦et out to hamstring TV A, that beat Maverick and many another good nan In the recent election, that controls newspapers, vitiates public Maool instruction, manipulates elections and rules an empire within a republic greater than Tamburlaine's and as autocratic...
...Raich of the 777 varieties of religion did he have in mind ? And if rtbgion is a thing we can defend only by bombing and shattering our fe/iowmen of another shads of faith, it isn't enough of a success to st worth defending, is it...
...Of this amount $210,000,000 would be spent in the year beginning next July 1. Coupled with the $100,000,-000 additional for the Navy in the regular appropriation, this brings to $310,000,000 the cost of dealing during the next year, with what the White House regards as a threat to this hemisphere from abroad...
...Bat the outstanding mystery in American history is the strange subservience of the American State Department to Downing Street...
...At the same time Japan's army sprung its long-awaited offensive in the far South of China, where it hoped to cut the defending forces' communications and supply routes...
...It becomes clearer each day that the axis crowd is playing the sim-' pie game of trying to drive a wedge between Britain and France...
...for observe that it goes far to refute the belief—alas...
...tPor Zoll, the same chap who attacked 'the Jews in a pro-Coughlin malts meeting in New York City three weeks ago and is now in charge -of the regular Sunday afternoon picket lines around WMCA and the CBS studios, is the director of the American Patriots, Inc...
...Knowing full well that the testimony of people like Allen ZoO and tae crackpot Mrs...
...So Chamberlain is in no position to agree to the granting of belligerent rights to Franco...
...Zoll and several of his stooges, among whom was a Miss Hopper, protesting the appointment of Frankfurter to the high court bench for anti-semitic reasons, proved that the anti-Jewish movement in this country is in the hands Of several * men tied up with I Cough lin...
...The arrest was made by the Federal police in cooperation with the Geneva cantonal police...
...II Duce wants what Chamberlain can't give...
...It means political revolt at home during a general election year...
...Learning that the doors of the opera would be closed to Jews, Kleiber wrote the opera house: "Music is made for everyone, like the sun and air...
...The immediate cause of the trek to the highways is the desire on the part of the landowners to change the sharecroppers' status to that of day laborers, so that the croppers would be deprived of benefits from government crop reduction payment...
...LACKEYS IN KNEE PANTS Fthe underlying spring of the President's remarkable utterance was but another manifestation of that strange fascination the British foreign policy has exercised from the beginning upon the Roosevelt administration, we may well be uneasy when we remember that the chief aim of the British sinuosities in this country is to involve us in a war with Japan for the safeguarding of British investments and trade, and that two or three steps now by the Administration would make such a war inevitable...
...an air and submarine base to tnreaten Japan if she aimed at the Philippines or the South Pacific...
...The teams go into a village, organize it within two or three weeks -and then move on...
...Aa William H. Jones, one of the sharecropper leaders, said: "We have no place to go...
...s. Zoil Widely Paaflltasi > But the Frankfurter ¦afli% takes the prise for cheap pubJicKy-perverted political revenge...
...The Chinese are reported getting large shipments of munitioaa-and other war supplies 'front Kweng-ehow and Burma...
...That no opposition was expressed indicated a general fear on the part of the Communists, and .their sympathizers, of revealing themselves...
...Problem for Congress His attack on Frankfurter can be traced back to Coughlin, who more and more is emerging as the one-man holding corporation for anti-semitic organizations whose purpose is to make as much noise in as many places, at the same time, as possible...
...The Nazi press campaign warned the Netherlands to curb its Jewish population and charged that shots had been fired at German diplomats in Holland...
...They were agent* of the Italian and German governments, revealing that the fascist countries had formed a single espionage unit to work on special cases...
...In the Atlantic a special new fleet unit of 35 vessels is created— four battleships, eight first-class cruisers...
...But there no longer is any doubt that Italy and Germany are working out a well-organized scheme' with Chamberlain—as the Americans put it—the "fall guy...
...But Chamberlain, during his "tea" with Bonnet and Daladier, was warned I to make no arrangements except for direct negotiation between France and Italy...
...The f Binpaajiii 'whose camps are placed along government roads and consist of a few makeshift beds on which the refugees huddle together —are sharecroppers, who live under a feudal condition which binds them to landowners' holdings and puts them virtually in the condition of ateves...
...These refugees are seeking shelter from a system that has tried to keep them on a lower than subsistence level and is threatening to bring them still further down...
...rejoice and be glad that however tardily the discovery has been ¦sde-r-in that quarter1—it has been made...
...Chinrte Need Funds But Chinese, who still control 99 per cent of their country, have other ideas...
...Ernst Neumann, Nazi leader in the former German territory of Memel, announced his new Brown shirt organization, an outfit similar to the S.A...
...Either conclusion must give the greatest satisfaction to the Fascists that are running the British government and a wallop to the elements in Britain that are trying to rescue their country for decency and freedom...
...Attack LoGuardia In an explosively indignant voice, the German announcer declared that the now famous statement "amounts to a declaration of war on the totalitarian states" and that K was "almost unbelievable.'' Without apparently being aware of his unmitigated gall, the Berlin broadcaster proceeded to say "its impudence and overbearing tendencies*' were typical of so many Americas politicians...
...So far as restoring "prosperity" is con-**ned, we are exactly where we started—the pump handle going fran-•kaliy up and down and nothing coming at the spout...
...The Army is asking for no more numbers...
...Loyalists Block Neville If the Tory Prime Minister tries anything else he alienates the French and drops them right into the lap of the German Foreign Office—which Bonnet and Von Rib-bentrop would like very,much...
...MEM THREATEN FLORIDA CITRU5 STRIKERS TAMPA, Florida.—Four hundred members of the Kb Klux Klan paraded through the streets of Winter Hsven this week, threatening violence to sU ikons w»» la fighting for union conditions in the citrus plants...
...Guam, an outpost far out in the Pacific, would be fortified as...
...Mussolini please •^Mr...
...public relations counsel...
...The trade unions of this city went into the convention determined to oust the Communists who, for the past three years, have filtered in and plotted to control the organization...
...Little opposition is expected when the Administration demand for $1,110,000,000 for the Army and Navy hits Congress...
...feels that it just so much more hurts his chances for a presidential nomination in 1940...
...When this fountain of consolation, so necessary in these hard times, is denied to any human being—and merely because he belongs to a different religion and race — I carmot collaborate, either as a Christian or an artist...
...The union men were successful and easily controlled the convention...
...The trade union men picked 35 candidates for delegates and elected the entire list giving them a majority if the delegation of 50...
...it wants more equipment for a force-of 400.000...
...The Communists had constituted a solid group under caucus orders and the only way to prevent their control was to organize, in turn, the anti-Communist forces against them...
...So it appears that the only thing Chamberlain can offer II Duce is money and it begins to appear that the deal will close that way...
...Beal's conviction grew out of a violent episode in connection with the defense of their union headquarters by Gastonia strikers against a police invasion, during which a police officer was fatally wounded...
...The girls even repair highways, get conscripts for the army, and transportation for war materials...
...Medical authorities expected that, unless immediate aid to the campers were forthcoming, serious diseases from malnutrition and exposure would spread...
...It was later established that the shots had come from some youngsters' air rifles...
...Largest F-L Subsidiary Votes Unanimously to Oust Stalinites Special to The New Leader ST...
...There are some 25,000 German-Americans who now owe allegiance to U.S...
...Testimony during the trial revealed that in order to get money from the corporation, the farmers had to sign a declaration that even after they had nepaid the loan they would net sail the land without the Vogelgesang Company's permission—which was never given unless the buyer was a Pro-Nazi German...
...Last week Dr...
...This plan takes time, but within a year the Chinese will have several thousand of the world's most expert pilots, and the planes for them...
...Many of the migrants have been forced out of their homes by eviction notices and other forces beyond their control...
...New bases will add to the effectivenes of the fleet and Hs air force...
...And wherein daes that condition differ from the lettres de cachet and the Bastile in the days before the French Revolution ? Two or three years ago I asked one of Mooney's lawyers what was the Mason that when everybody knew perfectly well that the man was innocent it was always impossible to free him...
...Labor Front chief, warned all emmigrant Aryan Germans that they were Nasi citizens, merely living abroad temporarily, aad tbst they must "stick to their poets and help build German trade in every country...
...units in Germany...
...Grove Food Problems While they made the most of the slight equipment they had with them, a weather forecast of rain or snow made their condition even more perilous...
...THE NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL BIG BUSINESS IN BLUFF CO tar as I was able to observe, the passage in President Roosevelt's 5 Message that in its implications had the most significance was the ¦a&sage that had the least editorial attention...
...Without much warning, the German press opened a barrage against Holland this week, a mote interpreted as the first step in a drive for the rich Hatch East Indies...
...In the near east, in Australia and Socialist-controlled New Zealand, the story is the same...
...The national government has five large factories building aircraft, producing observation and pursuit planes, while other factories specialize in bombers...
...We don't know whether this will do us any good, but it will show the people what we are op against...
...Umbrella-carrying Neville Chamberlain is on the spot...
...THE OCTOPUS *T*HE general and reasonable rejoicing over the tardy release of Tom Mooney should not obscure certain sobering reflections that pertain to the pleasing event...
...Many of the Ku Kluxers wore no masks or hood...
...In these six years and these enlightened processes we have in-2**ed the national debt from twenty-two billion dollars to forty-two ¦ahon dollars with the promise that it will be forty-three or forty-*ar bilhon in another year...
...Robert Ley...
...As strike leader he was held technically responsible, although it was not contended that he did any shooting himself...
...Billing would be along anti-Semitic lines, receive publicity in the daily press, and hand the "American patriotic front" the propaganda openings ft constantly seeks, the Senate Judiciary - (pa»f<aad-ira«t--^<%oe> Committee permitted these people to take the floor...
...I will offer a prize for a rational ex plana lion...
...As usual the Army and the Navy are furiously demanding...
...The prediction that Europe may see war this Spring is not a new one in the world's capitals but coming almost as an official United States statement it becomes a tacit indictment of the dictator nations and accuses them of new aggression plans...
...Record U.S...
...wants a quiet year so that it can cut into the market which will be created here and abroad by 198f ¦ inevitable crisis...
...Hearings on FDR Appointees Forum for 1940 Hopefuls Cough/in Allies Spnad Anti-Stmltic Proooeoaaa is Attacks on Fronkfsrter Before Saaata Judiciary Gomm/rtee—PWd FumdM fa be Increased WASHINGTON, D. C—A carnival holiday spirit bung over the capital this week as the boys, with their eyes on the 1940 election, opened up a series of side-show hearings into the qualifications of the recent liberal appoinments by President Roosevelt...
...Every pilot must put in six months of military training and then about twelve months in an aviation school for elementary and technical training, fallowed by six months' of specialized frying under foreign instructors...
...Moreover, a report now making the rounds in well-informed circles has it that the United States is actively stepping into European politics in an attempt to alienate Italy from Adolf Hitler, oh several issues besides the refugee question which was discussed last week by Ambassador Phillips and Premier Mussolini...
...President Roosevelt has summoned us to arm to the teeth for the ¦dense of religion...
...women Mownzt* Although little has been heard of them, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek has organized thousands of girls' squads of 10...
...only too ¦•¦Mil in our broad land—that the intelligentsia of America is com-teted exclusively anS at all times of the Lord's left over dumb bells...
...Either the President does not know what nearly every other intelligent person now knows well, that the whole performance at Munich, being merely a stage play in Bluff, there was not the least danger of "a war that threatened to involve the world" in anything but measureless laughter...
...LOUIS.—Strung out along 100 miles of highway in Missouri today are old and young men and women, all weary and hungry, who are stirring evidence that Europe has no complete monopoly on starvation' conditions and refugee camps...
...Tommy Corcoran, and Harry Hopkins...
...Big business behind the G.O.P...
...Hit iii Denmark A severe blow at the Nazis attempt to fix their' grip on North Sleswig, the province ceded by Germany to Denmark after a plebiscite in 1920, was struck by the Danish eourts last week, when theyi prevented the German Vogel-gesang Mortgage Company from foreclosing on a farm owned by Danes...
...An announcement to this effect was made today by Louis Waldman, attorney for the Beal Defense Committee, who has just returned from a visit to North Carolina in the prisoners' behalf...
...Carey had passed -the age of 70 at hie death...
...Upon calm reflection, would you call this bats, dementia prae-*•*> Paranoia or just plain co-coo...
...The issue between the Communists and the Farmer-Labor Party came up early in the proceedings when William F. Wright asked the presiding officer what action was contemplated on the State Committee resolution to expel all known Communists and their 'fellow travelers" from the party...
...Every one has been a valet to the British Foreign Office and every American Ambassador a ductile lackey in knee pants...
...They 'are also used as a counter-espionage force...
...At the same time, the German short-wave broadcasts from Berlin went after the British-American combine in international politics...
...Arms Budget Assured By Ambassadors Congress Sara to Approve $1,610,000,000 Expenditure for War Deport masts — Navy Wants 45 Air and Naval Bases...
...France, U. S., Loyalists Tie Tories' Hands Chamberlain Unable to Satisfy Dace's Desnaaas la Rome Parlay...
...All in an effort to prove that there is a wide-spread anti-Jewish movement in America...
...All of Roosevelt's appointees have been well received in all political camps...
...A few days earlier nine people, key men and women in an espionage ring, were arrested in Switzerland at a border town about two and a half miles from Geneva...
...Besides all this, such a move would be a deliberate break with the American State Department which is on the verge of lifting the embargo on Spain—or at least is ready to ship boatloads of food into Loyalist territory to show its dislike of Hitler's and Mussolini's tactics...
...Kleiber, now a citizen of Argentina, quit the Berlin State Opera in 1935 to indicate his opposition to the German racial program...
...the bulk of the funds for their respective divisions...
...a fascist outfit which works in close cooperation with the German-American- Bund...
...The Ramsey County organization is the most important subsidiary in the Federa- * tion...
...Few if any important cuts will be made by Congress in the President's spending and lending program, which proposes some $14,-000,000,000 of Federal Government outlays in 18 months — a rate of 18,000,000 a month, nearly 200,-000,000 a week, or about 30,000,000 dollars a day, excluding Sundays...
...If the Republicans lose that election they wont want to lose it to a "radical" like Hopkins...
...400 K.K.K...
...In the meantime the much-heralded independence of Congress is just so much publicity from the typewriter of Franklin Waltman, G.Q.P...
...Japs Seek Peace Before Britain Turns to Orient China, Training Thousands of Pilots and Mobilizing Women for Prolonged War...
...Or his devotion to the British influence has developed into mental strabismus and he cannot see the fake in the pro-Chamberlain propaganda that seeks to hide the commanding part British Toryism played in the Munich farce...
...Later when a motion was made to concur in the State Committee's action, not a single vote was cast against it...
...Its standing force will remain at about 165,000 with a national guard support and reserve that could bring the total trained force to 400,000 in a hurry...
...JMrtHS IN THE WILDS, E are so much concerned about the desperate plight of the Jews . t^at we are sending a special mission to ask Mr...
...After that the Japs will get a dose of straffing which they have never before taken...
...On the same day Dr...
...Let not the acid tongue of Cynicism frame slurs upon this amiable person nor with two-edged words remind him that if he had not been •sleep he would have discovered these facts thirty years ago...
...The same journals that report this "stroke of wisdom tell'as also u,,t m Berlin hundreds of Jews are being arrested every day be-f**"*Jhey have not complied with the order to leave Germany by » WI.U day...
...Japan went into China net only to colonize the vast empire but to use it as a j una ping-off place for a "self-determination drive," outlined in the now notorious Tanaka Memorandum, to take Siam, Burma, the Dutch East Indie* and infiltrate the Philippines and Australia...
...Appointments Approved President Roosevelt, it can be authentically reported, is worried lest John Lewis suddenly decides to whoop up a Labor League boom for one of his cabinet and interfere with his plans for a Now Bail nominee in 1940...
...Most of the A. F. of L. unions in Duluth have already withdrawn from <he F.-L.P...
...eight of the newest and 15 old destroyers, together with" submarines arid planes in an undisclosed number...
...Former Senator James P. Pope has been approved by the Senate Agricultural Committee for a directorship of the TV A. Little objection will be found to Hopkins, aside from the ballyhoo of men like Vandenberg who want to ass ike appointment as a lever to lift the WPA into state supervision...
...We are now launched upon a continuation and extension of this •aeration, when six years of utter failure has demonstrated its fataity...
...No reason," he said...
...Help...
...Pork, bread and coffee, distributed in small qualities, are the provender for most of the sharecroppers...
...Several are suspected of being Communists but the whole delegation is bound by a unanimous vote to carry out the policy of purging the party of the Stalinites...
...Most of the 1,000 migrants are Negroes...
...For the first time in oar political history, a President has openly traversed the secularization of the government plainly indicated by Article I of the Bill of Rights...
...Of course, little was said about last Easter's Italian press and ra-dio campaign of the same nature...
...They search out stores catering to German trade, sellings books, clothing, etc., written and produced by German refugees, and threaten to enforce local boycotts unless the refugees are fired and the books destroyed...
...The nationwide effort to obtain the labor man's release is backed by well-known writers, trada union leaders, a number of Congressmen, and others...
...Behind the straggling front line trenches and the foraging guerrillas, Chiang Kai-Shek 'continues to whip a modern army into shape...
...PAUL, Minn.—A motion concurring in the State Committee's decision to oust all Communists from the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was unanimously adopted by the Ramsey County Convention meeting here last week in the Labor Temple...
...In addition there are three workshops for assembling imported planes...
...Begins the Production of Fighting Planes...
...Alaska and Kodiak Island in the Aleutians would be developed as new protection for the Northern Pacific...
...The Army wants more airplanes...
...A. F. of L. men declared that unless this policy was ratified by the state convention their unions will be unable to continue their affiliation with the F.-L.P...
...Axis Seeks to Diviao London, Paris...
...An Arkansas traveler going into Missouri will stumble across them every few feet, their ranks steadily growing, their reristsnce to pneumonia steadily decreasing But the aged men, the babies, and the ill have chosen to go out on desolated reads, steep fa turns, and lie in the open under rain and snow, rather than give way to a landowner control that will kill them off even quicker than the vicious sharecropper system that they are fighting to retain...
...livery girl get* 120 a month...
...I This means plainly the seal of approval upon the illimitable swindle of Munich and leaves to us one of two conclusions...
...Nothing but the Power Trust...
...NEW DANGER QN'E of the country's notable educators, starting suddenly out of his trance, shouts aloud: "This country is in danger of Corpocracy...
...KLEIBER QUITS LA SCALA TO PROTEST ANTI-SEMITISM LONDON.—Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born and anti-Nazi conductor, has refused to lead a performance of the Milan La Scala opera as a sign of protest against Italian anti-Semitism...
...Jim Carey was one of -the lead ing founders of the Socialist Party and an intimate associate of Eugene V. Debs, Victor L. Berger, and Morris Hillquit in this work in 1900-1901...
...Cabinet members who really have been pushing themselves for a try at the Democratic Presidential nomination are being discouraged by the White House kitchen cabinet now composed of Harold I ekes...
...the Nazis, only last week, forced the managing director of Raffen and Company, an old-established Copenhagen iron and steel firm, to resign because he was a Jew, and the company would have last most of its business if the Germans effected a boycott...
...Accumulated Wealth is menacing the Republic...
...isn't particularly worried by Hy, Hopkins, Michigan's Senator Van-** denberg wasnt slipping up on any chance to break into the front-page headlines by merely formalizing the inquiry into the qualifications of the Department of Commerce's new chief...
...Roosevelt's plans have suddenly been sharply revised...
...milk for infants has just about disappeared...
...But most of all the Army is asking for money to be spent on "educational orders" that will be used to equip industry with machines and tools and dies that could be utilized in case of need to turn to mass production of war equipment...
...Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — With both Ambassador Kennedy and Bullitt telling horror stories to the Senate and House Committee on Military Affairs there's little doubt that the President's re-armament program will be passed by Congress despite the fight of the isolationists...
...Oakland, Spokane, Seattle and St Louis., The American Naxw- dominate the '¦ American Patriotic Front" and control four newspapers...
...But these aren't ordinary times...
...Even where Spain is concerned the pro-fascist Tories are checkmated...
...The adoption of the «nti-Gom-munist resolution makes it mandatory for all ward clubs and the central committee to oust Communists and their sympathizers from membership...
...The admirals want 15 of these built immediately, 11 in the Pacific and four in the Atlantic...
...The Nipponese stooge government at Nanking issued an appeal for peace to the nine huge provinces still controlled by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek...
...The Loyalists have captured valuable mines which will deprive Italy of metals she has been using to secure foreign exchange...
...About a billion was spent during the past fiscal year on both departments...
...This the trade unionists did by bringing in their own list of labor candidates for delegate to the state convention...
...Total Cost $1,610,000,000 Besides this the* President proposes a "new national defense program" which will cost $500,000,000 when completely carried out...
...He has again raised the ante and wants more d e m o c r atic c o n c e ssions than the mere purchase, at a r i d i c ulously tow price, of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad and a part in the administration of the Suez Canal...
...It is aa undeniable but puzzling fact that since the days of Greas-h»m and Ilney, more than forty years ago, there has not been one American Secretary of State...
...BRUSSELS...
...Unless the Japs get peace before the rather hysterical flying Prime Minister Chamberlain "succeeds" in' appeasing Hitler and Mussolini, the Nipponese will never be able to exploit the vast Chinese territories, ports and waterways she now nominally holds...
...Rather let as...
...Although the G.O.P...
...Despite tins it wae estimated that no less than 25 known Communists and their sympathizers sat in the convention...
...Strong la Western U.S...
...He said: ^"A war which (meaning "that") threatened to involve the world in 'fames has been averted...
...The Navy wants a start on construction and improvement of 41 bases, 25 of them for the Naval Air service...
...Only a day before the Prime Minister left London, the German anti-British press campaign became so intensely virulent that Chamberlain was forced to issue an official statement denying the stories of atrocities in Palestine which the Nazis are spreading...
...Italy attacks France but suddenly sweetens on Britain, whom she attacked violently only six months ago, while Germany attacks Britain and sidles up to France which, according to Mein Kampf ranks with the Jews in Hitler's hatred...
...Aged, III Missouri Sharecroppers Face Starvation in 'Refugee Camps' ST...
...Help...
...But they can rest easy...
...Truly, in view of certain widely spread, deeply rooted and vehemently acclaimed feelings on this subject, the scrupu-Wtiktt inevitably think that the reference savors too much of 1940...
...While the leader did not revert his identity, he spoke openly of KKK plans to crush all strike...
...On the advice of the nation's leading admirals and generals the President has decided to survey defense needs year by year and take steps necessary to match the strength of Germany and Italy...
...So satisfied are the National Socialists wkh their own power, that they no longer keep secret their underground activity in other nations...
...Special to The New Leader...
...There no longer is any intention to darken the skies with new planes which would be obsolete within two or three years...
...Besides, by smearing Hopkins, the G.O.P...
...If the United States and Britain follow through and extend goM credits, the Jap* are in for a longer war than they now contemplate...
...rnoiifctiTi iMrwHWRs have known...
...They are still out on the roads...
...And either ought to give an American grave concern...
...The Army, too, wants to clear up "bottlenecks" in power and transportation...
...A few days later the Nazis, in line with their decision to launch a counter-offensive to the United States' Pan-American drive, appointed the first of their proposed increased diplomatic delegations to Central and South American nation...
...Mora Money to W.PJL The first test on- administration strength comes this Friday when the administration, which originally wanted a $700,000,000 WEA deficiency appropriation, and is getting $725,000,000, will try to get the full $850,000,000 sought by Roosevelt...
...Franco's "Cham b erlain drive" failed to make impressive gains, while the Loyalist's southern push on the Estramadura front has netted Barcelonia as much territory as the rebel offensive has gained in Catatonia...
...Jones is one of the "camp policemen" whom the sharecroppers have chosen in their own self-government set-up No violence or other disorder has cropped up among them...
...The Navy wants to build up its air force by 200 planes a year for the next five years...
...Well-trained, intelligent, good-looking men and women, picked for their loyalty to the Nasi regime, are rapidly spreading fanwise into the most effective economic, political, industrial and military espionage orgftp iz&tion...
...One bland, smooth-voiced announcer coupled the horror stories of "British atrocities in Palestine" with the American attitude which "threatened international peace.'' Most of the pungent invectives were reserved for Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate (Foreign Relations Committee...
...Special to The Sew Leader HONG K 0"N G. — Staggering along under the heaviest arms budget any nation has ever carried, and suddenly regimented by a completely Fascist cabinet, Japan last week launched a two-fold drive to bring the war to a sharp finish during the next two months...
...So the Presto set has been letting his intimates know privately that it is too early la think about the next President...
...Neither will an armed reserve of millions of men be created, or a vast naval construction program launched which would dwarf the programs of other nations...
...There are now four first-rank schools in China training pilots and new ones being organized to absorb the long lists waiting to get into the old schools...
...gjAjy^ay, good luck to our special representative, to Mussolini and JJt**# Ke will have an interesting journey, though a trifle cold at '"**<*» of the year...
...Armament in the next year is expected to absorb about one sixtieth of the national income...
...A day or two / later, the German government's shortwave stations were covering the world in six languages referring to Mayor LaGuardia as "the notorious scandalmonger and half-Jew...
...And the reason they have not complied is because *¦*» is no place to which they can go...
...What compensation shall be made to an innocent man from whose ¦pan of life twenty-two years have been ruthlessly and arbitrarily snatched ? 'And what shall we say of the existence in a democratic community of a force outside of and independent to the law that for twenty-two years can keep in prison a man that has incurred its esarfty and for those twenty-two years defy and defeat every effort to obtain the operation of justice in its victim's behalf...
...Especially strong in the Wast and Mid-west sections of this country, the Nazi youth Jiiovemsat has been growing rapidly of late...
...Bunds controlled by Maw lin...
...Nazis Open Simultaneous Drive on Three Continents Seek to Combat Effects of Pan-American Conference By VICTOR RIESEL Whether it's using pop-guns in Holland, foreclosing mortgages in Denmark, or stirring up Australian Bushmen, the worldwide offensive of the Third Reich increases with systematic intensity during the first weeks of 1939—a year in which the Nazis expect to outdo their Austrian and Czechoslovakia:* coups...
...They know the President is counting on Hopkins to bring some sort of governsneat-labor-industry cooperation and that the government and bmdasai won't suffer too much from sueh industrial peace...
...At present, the food problem is becoming particularly grave among the children...
...Each group is stationed in villages training the people against air raids, caring for wounded soldiers and pepping up the morale...
...BBAL COMMITTEE TO FILE FOR PARDON SOON A formal application for a pardon will be filed soon with Governor Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina by Fred E. Beal, leader of the 1929 Gastonia textile strike now serving a 17 to 20 years' prison term in that state...
...Needs Peace New Japan wants peace now, not only because of internal unrest, bogged down armies in China, crushing of her foreign trade and the staggering and mounting war debt, but also because the Nipponese want their armies free before the series of crises in Europe ease up sumciently to permit Germany, Italy and especially Britain to turn to the Orient...
...WOSPfCT/NG FOR PROSPERITY pOR six years we have been emptying the national treasury and . piling the national debt that we might try to bring back a mythical "prosperity" by priming an imaginary pump...
...Las Angeles, San Diego...
...Hitler please to let the Jews leave Germany...
...SOCIALISTS SHOCKED BY JtM CAREY'S MATH News of the death of James F. Carey in Lawrence, Mass., on the last day of the old year came as a shock to the older generation of Socialists who remembered the brilliant young Irish-American who was a power in the Labor and Socialist movement in Massachusetts nearly 40 years ago...
...The net result of all 5j* staggering outlay has been the creation of a permanent pauper 'has and naught besides...
...There are Bund camps in New York, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Schenectady, Cleveland...
...It sounds like another edi-^ of madhouse, but there it is in black and white...
...The Japs' new drive is aimed at cutting the recently finished road from Burma, opened three weeks ago to motor traffic...
...Jim Carey was a shoemaker and a member of his union in Haverhill when in 1899 he and Lewis M. Scates were elected Socialist mem-berg of the State Legislature and .late in the same year John C Chase was elected Mayor of the city...
...It's a problem Congress will have to deal with sooner or later—the moment it can get its mind off the exigencies of the 1940 campaign...
Vol. 22 • January 1939 • No. 2
