Soviets Ask Tones for Control of All Scandinavia
SCHLAMM, WILLI
Soviets Ask Tones for Control of All Scandinavia Seek Aaland Islands, Dominating Bothnia Gulf, as Neutrality Price By WILLI SCHLAMM Always wherever people have suffered and died, Herr Staiin has...
...In the March issue of the Fiery Cross, official publication of the night-riders, the Klan reveals that "in answer to a question from a newspaperman at Cincinnati Mr...
...Understandable military speculations make England wish that Russia will not join German's eventual attack on Sweden...
...Conservative papers, like the London Observer, suggest that England would solemnly recognize Stalin's conquests in Poland and Finland, if and when he were gracious enough to declare his neutrality in the European war...
...Although apparently merely a reflection of the pro-fascist super-patriotism campaign inspired by the 800 odd semi-military, uniformed organizations set up along Nazi lines, the Klan...
...The Goldberg declaration was adopted only after heated debate...
...Tens of thousands arc purged in We bloody orgies of a dictator...
...It can be surmised from recent Klan propaganda that its "pro-Americanism" program consists of alien-baiting—in cooperation with North Carolina's Senator Robert Reynolds, Vindicator chief, anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism and labor espionage...
...But instead of profiting from that bottleneck of Stalin's thieving policy for the easy stiffening of their attitude, the magicians in the British Foreign Office manage to make the worst of it...
...Today millions willingly I* to the front to challenge the measureless *?J*repeated attacks by the totalitarian barr?*'*'1* on peoples whose only offense is a M*e to live in peace, and so the old dream i**h» comes to life...
...public place is watched by the Gestapo ft the OGPU...
...Frontiers are closed to those who JiWld-escape from these slave states...
...Now, K seem, he has made up his mind...
...How shall we...
...Already Nazi and Communist agents are active in Central and "South America, and both also fish in the troubled waters of Mexico...
...Moreover, we should clean house in every organization that harbors Nazi-Communists...
...However, throughout the sections mentioned, especially in districts-where the control of the die-hard anti-New Dealers is threatened by administration sentiment and the revival of the fight on the poll tax...
...In short, Soviet Russia is this year not onlj entirely unable to sell food to Nazi Germany, she is, if the present danger of a catastrophic cally bad harvest does not vanish, completely cut of the picture so far as any military adventures on a larger scale are concerned...
...It is entirely up to the English people, whether or not they are still in love with that amazing Mr...
...He is obviously bwy using the Norse tragedy as a welcome prop for a new trick within his old game...
...If there be any who have lost faith in the masses to think, act, and organize for human emancipation, let them step aside...
...This is a terrible anti-climax to the dream J* » New Age of freedom and democracy, but RJp not all black...
...The mere rebuilding of normal Anglo-Russian economic relations, after Russia has murdered Poland and raped Finland, would be strange enough...
...The European conflict will leave heaps of ruins, devastated cities and enormous debts, but there is no other way to destroy the barbarism that threatens all mankind...
...All Aid to Freedom] If we are to keep the old dream of a New Age of freedom alive, it is our duty to see that supplies are withheld from the dictatorships and that generous ?American economic and financial aid should be extended to those who are fighting for the freedom of all peoples...
...But KKK strength is insufficient to warrant attempts to set up political dens there...
...j KKK Revives Anti-Catholicism Drive for '40 Election By VINCENT ROGERS For the first time since the Ku Klux Klan hit the rocks as a result of tb;e old New York World's campaign, the KKKf appears to be ready to do permanent business, hid for respectability by unmasking itself, and attempt to participate in the November national elections...
...This column does, not know much more about the sacred secrets of the military sciences than the gossip that one can shoot in both directions...
...This appeal was embodied in a resolution on war—one of the many resolutions adopted— which became part of the New York Social Democrats' action program worked out last Saturday and Sunday at the SDF's annual city convention...
...Jpfc* There is no normal life for millions "™jer the galling yoke of totalitarian dictator-*™P*- They do not live and will never have * rO*!00* to ''ve in these slave states...
...The American Federation of Labor was represented at this congress which decided to fight for the eijrht-hour dav ¦Tit gave its primary attention to this ^JB;the ensuing years the workers, organized m anions, political parties, cooperatives and f?j?ational societies, assembled in great meet-afi in many nations on May Day to celebrate fcir successes and to plan for the future...
...Chamberlain...
...It was offered by Louis P. Goldberg as a substitute for the majority motion placed before the convention by Algernon Lee...
...Other resolutions adopted at the convention of the Social Democratic Federation will appear in The New Leader in succeeding weeks...
...To say that the Atlantic is a barrier to totalitarian attacks in the Western Hemisphere is moonshine...
...The English press is full with hidden but for students of European affairs understandable indications that the status of the Ashland Islands may be "reconsidered...
...There are indications ^. of a forthcoming complete cabinet shake-up fc|_ Bucharest—and it seems to become mere of TV change of regime, than of men: Beside-Codrer** nu's brother-in-law and political heir, oW Brat?anu, the most ardent pro-German in mania, and the two outstanding anti-Semiti demagogues of the nation, Gusa and J***"*6...
...Nation •fter nation has fallen prey to brutal con-*e*t Men, ¦women and children in unfortified mies have been killed...
...A roll call tally revealed it had been accepted by a vote of 42 to 31...
...The delegates expressed resentment against the growing pressure being brought to "bear on our free public education institutions by various religious groups, violating the traditional American separation of church and State...
...And it seems that joyful whispering goes through the conference rooms in Downing Street: "After all, if Stalin says so himself . . ." All that is yet in the cooking...
...Membership during the past year totaled slightly over 2,000...
...The philosophy of Social Democracy must also be carried to the masses...
...Uft lecomes Abnormal Tire totalitarian despotism of Russia had its Ihle imitators in Italy and Germany, and they »*0n followed the course of their Russian Bisters...
...Somebody arming a prospective enemy, occurred only once—when Hitler got, in Munich, the lion's share of Czechoslovakia* arsenals...
...Federation delegates unanimously voted to commend the New York City Board of Higher Education for its determination to push a fight in behalf of Bertrand Russell...
...Ere this appears in print, another blitzkrieg may carry the totalitarian war to Sweden, Holland, Belgium or Switzerland, or it may strike one or more of the Balkan nations...
...Backs USHA Ext?nsioa After a debate on...
...The convention congratulated the American Labor Party on its victory over the Communist-created "Progressive Committe to Rebuild the ALP" and called on Federation members and institutions to cooperate with Labor Party leaders in an effort to increase ALP strength and make of it the basis for a national political party of democratic labor and progressive forces...
...Startled by the alarming facts, the dependable Leland Stowe reported last Thursday about the unbelievable disorganization of the British expedition to Norway, one can comprehend why the harried British General Staff recommends the payment of almost every price to avoid in Scandinavia a simultaneous battle against Germany and Russia...
...J^hH?B Impossible yj^t dream will never die so long as people We to nght for ?t It lives even w;thin the JJ^Jfarian pig sties, where -human beings J"** and wait for the opportunity to strike ?T* against their enslavers...
...No part of the world is now safe from the totalitarian bandits...
...But what Stalin (covered by an ominous secrecy as far as the 'Anglo-Russian negotiations in London are concerned), appears about to extort from England, goes far beyond all sensible allied sacrifices...
...You are needed more than ever in the long struggle of mankind to be free...
...Soviets Ask Tones for Control of All Scandinavia Seek Aaland Islands, Dominating Bothnia Gulf, as Neutrality Price By WILLI SCHLAMM Always wherever people have suffered and died, Herr Staiin has seen the opportunity for a nice little bargain...
...Men have gone before the squad or climbed the gallows in other ffM in vindication of the ideal of a larger PWdom for humanity...
...Today...
...J do not know a «ingle answer, but I know a lot of ether questions- And every single one of them implies a sad alternative: Either the combined Allied forces are technically unfit to carry out even a minor military operation—or their political leadership's qualification is below any discussion...
...talking at least that one for granted, one is much more bewildered...
...To compromise on this issue is to invite death and give the barbarians a foothold which they will use in some crisis for their masters abroad...
...How is it possible that the Nazis made more progress, in the first crucial day of their Norwegian, campaign than the Allies in 16 days...
...even if it were admitted, for the sake of the argument, that an eventual Russian promise of keeping out of Hitler's Scandinavian burglary could be trusted more than any other oath Stalin has so far sworn, how could England's word be trusted, by Europe's trembling small nations, when they must see that she is inclined, for the sake of questionable strategic advantages, to honor murder and pay for rape with recognition and even with helpful deliveries of important" Taw materials from over sea...
...This too is be» ing investigated by the Department of Justice...
...Nazi Germany has given convincing evidence for her firm belief that Romania will never 'fight against her on the Allies' side: Dr...
...There are other issues...
...To repeat: The May Day dream is not dead, but it requires fighters, not featherbed soldiers, to bring it nearer realization...
...these unbelievable blunders, 'wi?>h«*a.to,pjay terrible for their politicians' easy-going policy...
...Mr...
...But for a stranger, who fully sympathizes with England's cause in this war, it is every day more a mys< tery novel than a love story...
...Millions of human beings are JJhnented in the lockstep of totalitarian •Jjjpotism...
...The 'BVpress* and publishing houses have be-Sjj prostitutes in the Nazi-Communist wthels...
...Unmasking of the Klansmen coincided with the news that the Invisible Empire was determined to extend its influence inside the Halls of Congress...
...condemnation of any attempt to increase fares in New York...
...Science, art and., literature are placed in t^fciB...
...While England (the world's wealthiest nation with the world's poorest leadership) apparently does not doubt that she now negotiates merely a trade treaty with Herr Maiski in London, she is opening, perhaps unknowingly, another door into the civilized world for Stalin...
...And even more of a mystery novel, as far as this writer is concerned, are events in Norway...
...advocacy of a national system of compulsory health and maternity insurance, and support to such legislation as the Wagner National Health Act, and condemnation of the present wave of prosecution of labor organizations which has been instituted under the anti-trust laws by : Thurman Arnold, Assistant U. S. District Attorney...
...v*-9* 8«re, the destruction of the dictator-2jP« Will cost a heavy price, Jaut where in an advance in human Ifreedom been ¦pSf wjtjjout involving many sacrifices...
...In fact, the conquests of democracy have teen contemporary with the rise and increasing power of the labor movement...
...But, as we have experienced, such misfortune marches quicker than the Anglo-French expeditionary force in Norway...
...are supposed to join the new cabinet...
...Faking her readiness to remain neutral in the Scandinavian cataclysm, Soviet Russia managed to take the first steps toward unlimited control over Finland and virtual control of Sweden...
...The cause is simple: the relatively smal mobilizations of September (Poland) and De> cember (Finland) were sufficient to turr, Russia's economic life upside down, which, oi course, will only increase certain innocent college professors' enthusiasm for the Russiar brand of planned economy...
...In the first World War, German submarines attacked nearly a hundred miles on" the American Atlantic coast in 1918, while today bombing planes can reach South America from Africa...
...and that's why his nation will lose a 'lot of battles—and win the last one, before she iWa lost the last bit of its sympathy for the amazing amateurs, who have led the world's bigg*st Empire in its gravest hour...
...This statement was submitted by a minority of eight of the resolutions committee which consisted of 20 delegates...
...an Allied drive from Northern Norway to counteract a Nazi invasion into Southern Sweden certainly would be endangered, if Russian forces were at the same moment pushing, through crippled Finland, into Sweden's arctic parts...
...How could it be explained that the Nazis, who have to send their supplies to Norway chiefly by air, use more and better beavy artillery than the Allies, whose heavy artillery could almost freely be brought across the sea ? How does it occur that the Nazi air force in Norway has almost complete control over the sky, murdering the weak Allied expeditionary ttoops, although a few dozens Allied planes could change the picture, as it is reliably established by competent reporters from Norway...
...Already the Federal agencies are tnying 17 Klansmen for participating in night-riding floggings which led to the death of one man...
...The concentration in charge of sadist keepers, has swai-W*ed up millions of fighters for democracy...
...He spreads propaganda that there is a Vatican plan to have Hull, Garner or some other old man become president and then "upon his death a Catholic will take over and deliver the government to the Pope," SDF Urges Support to Allies, U. S. Embargo of Reich, Russia By BILL ROBERTS Pointing out that only if the United States does her share now will she be able to exert influence at the post-war peace conference, the Social Democratic Federation last week-end urged an energetic American policy ki favor of the Allied democracies, and government embargo on Russia and Germany to replace the unofficial moral boycott which the Administration has been supporting...
...With our knowledge of the Trojan Horse policy of the two dictatorships, it is folly to say that the outcome of the titanic struggle in Europe is no concern of ours...
...Apparently he has submitted Stalin's best word of honor saying that the boss, once having naval bases on the Aaland Islands (after a slight correction of the March treaty with the Finns), will safeguard Sweden against his German ally...
...is basically operating along anti-union, anti-Catholic lines these days...
...Chamberlain, aad he is highly proud of that, never does lose his -C*bl head...
...16 of these are in Manhattan, 13 in Kings County, six in the Bronx, and one in Richmond...
...other countries under its ruthless Vjk brought chaos and demoralization all the world...
...Among these were a call for financial aid to the German underground movement...
...understand that the British Air Force is able to attack Sylt, but unable to attack the Nazi troop .concentrations in Southern and Middle Norway—although these are recently established military, bases, certainly with less anti-aircraft equipment than an old naval base like Sylt...
...Millions of Writers began to dream of a New Age of freedom and democracy when the last barrier $h the fulfillment of democracy—industry— VnU be taken over by'the nations and operetta for the common welfare of all humanity...
...Moreover, they negotiate in London not just a trade treaty...
...The convention was forced to adjourn late Sunday night before it could adopt a report approving the New Deal program of social and labor legislation, and the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration...
...m ?ans*nd out of one of its decisions came the custom of celebrating May Day as a international holiday WBDor...
...Maiski, it seems, was successful in kidding the London Foreign Office (and no one will wonder after reading Sir Neville Henderson's "Failure of a Mission," this disarmingly frank story of a well educated fool's adventures in Berlin...
...Your guess is as good as mine, but I am of the opinion that the English and the French people, to whom the fina] victory will probably belong despite, all...
...Many other resolutions were adoptedj during the course of the three sessions, presided over by Algernon Lee, city chairman of the Social Democratic Federation...
...Their chief stock in trade will be anti-Catholicism with emphasis on Jim Farley's and Frank Murphy's relations to the present Administration...
...Every home, factory, "school," store i*i...
...Because exactly that does not happen...
...5vme...
...as a means of raising additional revenue for much-needed slum clearance and low rent housing in this city...
...Colescott rails against what he says is "the second drive the Catholic Church has launched against America...
...has a very realistic reason: in the form of a very serious mess, Russia expects the catastrophe of an unusually bad crop in late 1940...
...The two-day session was held in the Rand School of Social Science, 7 East 15th Street...
...Acting on the theory that the proposed Ninfo-Laidler five cent telephone tax wpuld he a luxury impost, the delegates endorsed the ALP councilmanic delegation's move...
...Nor can we hope to escape the consequences of an enslaved Europe...
...For it must be seen that Stalin's recent flirting with the Allies (the Moscow "Trud" even addressed a few compliments to France—just three days after Reynaud decreed that disseminators of Communist propaganda of capitulation would be punished by a firing squadron...
...But now he dares just that...
...Claessens reported that the new New York City division of the National Council for Social Democracy, under the chairmanship of Louis Waldman, prominent labor attorney, had been active, had held mass meetings in such auditoriums as Carnegie Hall, and on March 29, 30 and 31 had held a successful three-day conference on "Labor's Rights and Civil Liberties...
...Let us have confidence in our class...
...To your posts, men and women of Labor and democratic Socialism...
...While in 1939, on April 15, about 18 million hectares were sown in Russia (which was a bit below the normal average), the official figures for the same deadline this year are merely 7 JBiJlion hectares...
...Ctodius, Hitler's economic troubleshooter, has just arranged that Germany will par for the Reman?an deliveries with a few hundred Mesaer-schmidt planes and with guns produced in-the Skoda plant...
...Nazis and Communists march ¦der the jame infamous banner in an attempt ft .a world totalitarian revolution...
...591) to assure continuation of housing programs throughout the nation, and that immediate use be made of the full $300,000,000 authorized by constitutionalpmend-ment for public_housing purposes in thifc state...
...recommendation of a plan of action for SDF aid to the cooperative movement...
...This resolution will be acted upon by the City Executive Committee, to which all unfinished business was referred...
...Finally, we must strengthen democratic trade unionism and challenge the native totalitarians, whether they are Catholic, Protestant, or Atheist...
...Present Klan leaders, from the Imperial Wizard down to the lowest chief Cyclops in local dens, are preparing for political action in three sectors, the Southeastern states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and central-eastern New England...
...When Stalin extorted the treaty of Moscow from desperate Finland, he did not dare to demand the Aaland Islands because he expected Sweden and England would not tolerate it and would finally fight...
...The convention then urged that immediate favorable action be taken by the House Rules Committee in support of the USHA amendments (S...
...Although KKK activity is directed to a large degree against the Catholics, attempts have been made to terrorize and blackmail Jewish merchants throughout the South...
...the Klan Ts functioning with that smooth efficiency that comes on^r out of abundant funds...
...In a report submitted to the convention at the opening session, August Claessens, executive secretary, stated that the local section of the Social Democratic Federation has 29 neighborhood and seven trade union branches...
...The totalitarians have disemboweled every organization here that has trusted them, and they will destroy all others where they are tolerated...
...That't apparently, why Stalin for weeks has sought an improvement of his relations with Western Europe...
...The convention charged that the attack on Professor Russell's appointment is an attack upon academic freedom...
...He who holds the Aaland Islands (a Finnish possession) is unchallenged lord over Finland, rules the Gulf of Bothina and thus the Baltic, controls Sweden's connections with other nations and thus her fate...
...And it may happen that the Allies, because they were so ansdow not to risk a few regiments In N?Twtjr^liPV quick, though perhaps unsufficiently preftiM move, will have to victimtte divttfehs and -perhaps armies to win back the Balkans from K«*i domination, May Day Finds Democracies Fighting For Internat'l Civilization and Freedom By JAMES ONEAL «FTY-ONE years ago an international congress of trade unions, Socialist organizations and other organizations of the work-mS...
...It is now a case of figlrt or submit, and submission by the free peoples means that the torch of freedom will be extinguished for decades to come...
...Apparently well-financed organization campaigns directed out of Atlanta, Georgia, where the national headquarters were recently suddenly expanded, have reached as far west as Ohio...
...The little Fascist and Communist dictators must be told that there is no liberty here for those who would destroy liberty...
...To push KKK political organization through-cut the South, the Imperial Wizard has Just appointed a score of Klan organizers, trained in Florida and Georgia last winter...
...It still inspired mil-lfoSB of the "working masses, but the rise of the Communist dictatorship in Russia, its ?Wtroction/of the political, economic and co-«perttive organizations of the working class, its attempt to bring workers' organizations in al...
...public.- .bousing, in which former State Assemblyman Nathaniel Minkoff* participated, a resolution .-'was adopted condemning private capital f&r'-fafflng a provide decent, safe, and sanitary homes for those with low incomes...
...So does he this time...
...In coincidence with such proof of an amazing Nazi faith in King Carol, the versatile man (notoriously the best businessman among the Kings) released all arrested Iron Guard gangster?, whose leader Codreanu was shot in -1W8 on Carol's personal order...
...Colescott said the Klan will canvass Congress to learn the stand its members take on the pro-Americanism program before the next election...
...Night-ridings, floggings, and cross-burnings are hardly necessary for the function for which it is being subsidized—labor espionage and terrorization...
...And Chamberlain's inconceivably dumb diplomacy may very soon have lost an excellent opportunity...
...And when Stalin dictated the dismemberment of Finland, he recoiled from asking for the notorious Russian naval bases in the case of the Aaland Islands, realizing that such provocation would be unbearable even for democratic Europe...
...By #e first decade of this century, they and their iffies in other groups of the population had fettered down old barriers to democracy in ¦cut of the leading nations...
...For years, though unsuccessfully, Sweden, with English support, has demanded from the crippled League of Nations that the peace treaty of 1920, forbidding Finland the fortification of these islands, be changed in favor of Sweden's and Finland's most vital defense...
...Most of the SDF members are in trade unions, the Workmen's Circle, the American Labor Party clubs, relief societies, anti-Nazi boycott committees, and other liberal, labor and progressive groups...
...If things cannot be improved very soon (which seldom happens in Russia ¦ the misery of 1933 threatens a sinister come back...
...The resolution on war appears hi fall on page eight...
...That dream was jjhattered by the first World ¦War, but it nevW aied...
...How is.it possible that Germany in one single day could land in Norway, despite the Allied sea blockade, more troops than England and France, unchallenged rulers over the North Sea, have landed during two weeks since...
...For two weeks Carol has waited with his final decision: he wanted to see, whether and with what strength the Allies are acting, affctrOMt neighbor, so easily defended (comparad mtik the hardships, Allied intervention in Romania} would encounter, was attacked...
...There are strong indications that Chamber-Iain (joyfully bearing the rotten Munich umbrella, when he meets Herr Maiski) even reflects upon allowing the materialization of Herr Stalin's old and daring day-dream—the occupation of the Aaland Islands in the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia...
...The free peoples of Britain, France, Norway and Denmark are fighting our battles as much as they fight their own...
Vol. 23 • April 1940 • No. 17
