Act Now to Keep War Away from America
An Editorial Act Now to Keep War Away from America Every honest man and every decent woman in the " United State* is living in suspense Jtoday, eager to get fiie latest news from the European...
...The President made that statement in what all correspondents described as-"grim" terms...
...But it must be tamed into a speedy mechanism manufacturing Ant for Britain and France, and lastly for the U. S. forces...
...Credits, freedom of trade with the Allies, and facilities of transport would help yet more...
...This war is carried Out with machines, material, and labor...
...They have the mechanics and pilots...
...That will depend on how long it takes the three totalitarian dictatorships, together with imperialistic Japan, their logical ally, to mop up the Old World...
...The democracies are behind in their orders now...
...We have no powder industry, no plants for shell loadings...
...Army supplies are short 1,200 critical items that industry does not produce in peace-time...
...Those little countries have more excuse . than we, but we may learn from their fate...
...Of course we don't Believe them...
...Hundreds of patents dealing with military equipment in the United States are held by the German firm of Km pp...
...JWwiiaipna" are to be started within the irw days in and around Times Square, at Jl...
...Immediate speeding up of shipment by private industry would soon give added help...
...The two systems cannot both survive...
...Even from that point of view, the question before usjjis not Shall toe go to war...
...And the New World is well worth looting...
...The dominant |«jovision /j**1"historic measure provides...
...They haven't received their first requisition of 4,000 planes and ha*ve called for 4,000 more...
...The question is How com tee prevent war from ¦ coming to us...
...Even if we cherished n+ (deals, even if we cared only for ourselves and looked only a few years ahead, we could not hot dread Nazist victory, could not bet know that tike Allies are fightiqg jour battle as well M their own...
...And there will be no .escape...
...A nation of 40 million and one of 80 million...
...the ***od offers benefits...
...Dewey, who was the only candidate to be formally entered, received 200,000 votes...
...j : We have been dozing...
...In other words, the ^renters appearing in...
...Last week he told reporters who asked concerning a rumor that, he would become assistant secretary of the Navy, "Forget it It's too hot" Ah* M. Landon and Colonel Knox, both of whom are prominent in the GOP leadership, are also seen as possible appointees to a new, coalition cabinet...
...Most probably there was not a stratesv „ at all, but merely^the downright super-human - - e. undertaking-of masses -of human beings to survive, almost with naked fists, the onslaught of mechanized monsters...
...There can be no lasting peace between them...
...The utilities executive rolled up 14,000 votes in New Jersey despite his almost complete lack of a state organization there...
...Its oppression continually generates unrest at home...
...Up to a certain point it can live by destructive superexploitation of its own subjects...
...It is a fair question, and easily answered...
...fighting planes would be more effective than a dozen congressional appropriations...
...Now the world trembles...
...hundreds of anti-aircraft guns and combat vehicles, 75,000 trucks and ears...
...An Editorial Act Now to Keep War Away from America Every honest man and every decent woman in the " United State* is living in suspense Jtoday, eager to get fiie latest news from the European war-front, hoping for the best and yet fearing-the worst...
...He *w Jurats the old gathering spot of the Bund, faajfrksner Hall on Second A venae...
...Now the bill is presented...
...i aisBrdmg to those who proposed the [new taANqae, it has certain distinct advantages, frto-'nrst place, the very • anonymity fo...
...The Allies need planes now...
...everybody else these days, trying to sell' his particular and brand-new strategic panaceas for counter-offensives in France, is just ridiculous...
...There may be additional reasons —.perhaps treachery and certainly the most unbelievable inability on the part of Gamelin and his school—but the fundamental, the really fateful reason is the essential issue of this war itself: a war between a democratic world which prefers, to the last' moment, butter to guns, leisure to compulsory labor, life's happiness Ho the grim efficiency of ants—and a totalitarian war economy which, for seven years, has centralized'the sum of all abilities, of all energies, of all resources of a nation of 80 million people...
...This equipment is onlyjthe beginning...
...Five million desperate civilians blocking the march route of their own army, serving virtually as a shield for the Nazi columns who have driven them with • deliberate terror into wild panic—has history ever seen a similar nightmare...
...But most of all through .unwillingness to look unpleasant facts squarely in the face, to break with outworn tradition, to meet new emergencies...
...President bis greatest support, however, there was considerable uneasiness felt over his press conference remark that he does not expect strikes to occur during the intensified arms production period...
...By comparison the VS...
...The U. S. army needs tons of powder, explosives, and shell casings...
...To equip a million men the minimum fighting force consistent with safety—the Government needs 240,000 automatic rifles, 1,500 anti-tank guns, 3,000 field artillery pieces, 1,000 tanks...
...Such is the situation the new French command has to master...
...But let us not fool ourselves so far as the reasons for an eventual French breakdown are, concerned...
...There are reports that when the President called in producers to discuss the plan to manufacture vital material, he was informed that they were filled with Japanese and Russian orders...
...Ideas are contagious, and no censorship can be absolutely thought-proof, especially in times of peace...
...The others, if they fought at all, would be fighting on the wrong side...
...Suppose we coldbloodedly consider only our own interests here in the country of our birth or of our choice...
...Strong pressure now could increase this total—but to be effective against the Nazis all these planes should be shipped to the Allies instead of being permitted to fill airdromes...
...The tremendous manpower needed to handle the aircraft Roosevelt demands is best illustrated by authoritative figures, which indicate that 320,000 trained men are needed for 10.000 planes...
...Merely the first step into the darkness is done ¦ but irrevocably...
...Perhaps the most devilish detail of the Nazi drive is a fact almost overlooked in all the dispatches and analyses, thirteen of which are far less than a dozen: five million French and Belgian refugees, bewildered, crying, machinegunned from the skies, roll backwards along all the roads the French reserves must use for their operations...
...First, because totalitarianism is economically inefficient...
...But why can we feel so sure that if totalitarians win on the other side, they will bring war to us...
...Hitter te Use Old Strategy The English mean.it...
...But there are millions who are saying it sincerely enough, without realizing what it means...
...Promises Arms Drive Won't Hurt Labor Laws WASHINGTON, D. Coresident Roosevelt's election to a third term came close to a fOregon* conclusion this week as Republican strategists gloomily admitted that the defense speech had aroused national enthusiasm and the coalition maneuver had placed GOP chiefs in a position which meant loss of standing for them ne matter in which direction tyey turned...
...The last week has thoroughly changed the structure of the entire world, although we shall need time to realize it fully...
...Beyond that point, it must depend on looting abroad...
...Criticism in Washington is that the President has no arms plan and that despite his speech, little has been done to aid the democracies...
...Although the President has asked for 50,000 planes, only $89,000,000 of the vast war budget has been assigned for the purchase of this type of fighting arm...
...in the new provials, onlookers will believe that the vociferous "allfite is simply another well-meaning s**w expressing his opinion...
...a secondary ! importance Ttt« the new method of fomenting...
...Herbert Morrison, Labourite Min5'5 ^>Ply...
...outlay is only 4 per cent of the national income...
...Earl Browder and Frits Kuhn and Vito Marcantonio and Michael Quill all say they will fight if and when the United States is invaded...
...for we gov-to take over immediately all [the prinairplane and munitions factories^ and any industries the output of whlch.|isi neces¦JMo keep these factories suppBed.1 I ^*J»ied with the fulfillment ofI this'task, the y "gtions Board is presided river fcrfArthur jj****«>d, Laborite, as a member of fiat inner «siinet...
...The Allies' annual budget will come to about the same amount...
...McWUliams, totted to haunt the Lower Bronx in the St...
...Introduced by Attlee,a land was immediately accepted by the British Parliament, transforming the entire English nation into a single gigantic army, confiscating all English wealth for the army...
...On hand there is enough to equip only 68,000 troops...
...That is, about one twenty-fifth of this nation's energies will go to build the Army and Navy...
...But this law is beyond.all doubt evidence of England's resoluteness literally to sacrifice all for victory's sake...
...But how could all that happen—the Nazi walkover through the Little Maginot line, the fantastic mechanical inferiority of the French tank and air forces, the initial breakdown of an army systematically trained for 22 years in preparation for this very moment...
...U.S...
...Who dares to see through that veil of bloody incidents, stupid, singular mistakes, ephemeral victories...
...He who refuses to believa in the sincerity of such British boldness may honestly ask himself whether or not, only two days ago, he believed that the English Parliament would with a single stroke confiscate England's banks, industries and even landlords' property...
...At old Christian Front *Mt meetings, the speakers were immediately *tabd for what they were...
...One or two of them would be in some safe hideout...
...If it succeeds, then hell will haVe lost its horrors forever...
...What we failed of doing might veS have stopped Hitler's armies...
...How could it be otherwise...
...We may' have to pay with a guilty conscience very soon, and with blood and fears a little later on, if we still palter and delay...
...Germany has prepared for total war by spending about 15 billion dollars—or more than onethird of the national income—to equip and care for her blitzkrieg soldiers...
...Yet this will be only fraction of the sums SDent bv belligerent nations...
...but resolved by a huge Conservative majority...
...If it occurs, France and the world will have paid with destruction for having dreamed too early about social progress: this world is too small to permit social progress alongside of totalitarian compulsion...
...Last but not least, the Fifth Column controls patents vital to U. S. production of weapons...
...In the past, the New York Mayor has often been reported under consideration for a cabinet post However, he has always scoffed at such stories...
...Time presses...
...But it is a fact...
...Lord Beaverhrook, j conser¦WChurchi...
...Planes, Not Gunless Army, Can Aid Allies Effectively Now By VINCENT ROGERS Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. <t — More money will be spent for defense by the U. S. government during the next fiscal year than in any other period of its history with the exception of 1917-18...
...spontaneous totalities sentiment, but because some eight or it German agents are reported resurrecting st anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Boosevelt jjkis has been evident ever since the Duke of U?Goburg* Hitler's, -personal envoy to the 5ietfrA3wiCan , Nazis, passed through the •Xy <m a pep tour...
...That sum will buy about 1,400 planes a year—if the manufacturers can make them...
...It will not come this year, maybe not for a few years...
...Now is the time to keep war away from America...
...Rumors of a projected coalition government have angered thousands of New Deal voters who would object to the presence of such men as Colonel Knox and Alf M. Landon in the cabinet...
...F v • Why has America failed...
...To divert popular discontent, it must have continuous war-danger and recurrent wars...
...JkJEW YORK'S Mayor LaGuardia may get the Secretary of War post in...
...Special investigators New York Dally News staff have unsjfcl evidence that he was followed into the w by other organizers, fie mea are coordinating the discredited kff movement with Joe MoWilliams* Christian latlsers and the Christian Front...
...session of Parliament, JBritiibj Labor *«w leaders were given virtual control of the j*6'*-economic life...
...The plan itself (and it is a very definite plan) is naturally a mere outline: if the -English isles must be yielded, the Empire would continue with the blockade against a Hitlerized European continent, preparing with all the huge industrial resources of...
...The only man who knows what shall and can be done in order to turn the tide, is Weygand—if he knows it himself...
...Let us not stop to hope and pray that the , human factor, the dignity of self-confident, free men will turn out to be more essential than the accumulated arsenals of hell's weapons...
...It was also pointed out that there is no embargo on shipments to Italy, Russia, or Germany and that constant shiploads of vital war produce have found their way into the totalitarian, anti-Allies nations...
...All the terror and all the glory of recorded history pale in the face of that undertaking...
...or the Balkans may burn...
...i I jf ] British Laborites Control Notion's Economic Life y^DON.—tUnder the terms of 'the EmerPowers Defense Bill passed, fe last j...
...It seems that he plans to proceed with his old tricks and, for instance, to offer France—if the Channel region is completely occupied and France isolated from England—a separate peace...
...If omy a miracle can save France,—here it is...
...or France, attacked by Italy from the South, may be -smashed...
...The world cannot indefinitely continue part totalitarian and part democratic It is not big enough to contain both...
...We can understand that an American prefers this country to Europe as a place to live, but why he should prefer burial near his own burning house to a safe home for his family and a foreign grave for himself that is hard to see...
...racial fafaaik tried out...
...Ff • Yet we do nothing—well, not quite nothing, but not the tithe of what we could have done without any risk of oar lives and without any money cost beyond'what we could easily afford...
...Before we could outfit any army, three blitzkrieg wars could be won and lost in France...
...im Avenue (fitting's Casino) sector, has mtd 'into Yorkville, where he has set up sssfasrters for his Congressionali drive...
...and Ernest Bevin, General SecreTransport Workers iTJnkjk) who is F.D.R...
...The entire world will not accept it...
...Partly under the influence' of the ''"fifth column...
...May be that France will be conquered by the Nazis...
...Talk of putting an American army in the field is futile for more than a year...
...England, this amazing and always startling England, faces invasion and wants to carry on even if London were to be given up...
...twelve hours daily and a 40-hour week...
...But strange as it seems, these are the*days when Hitler, the Nihilist, is -threatened with becoming Europe's last conservative, one who does not understand the world any more...
...Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the other parts of the Empire, in close cooperation with the Americas, weapons for tiie forthcoming liberation of Europe...
...Tomorrow Nazi Germany may have lost the campaign in France and thus the war...
...Landon and Knox, on the other hand...
...Meanwhile Wendell Willkie moved closer to a commanding position among anti-Dewey forces at the June 24 convention of theGOP...
...N.Y.to Wash...
...Partly under the influence of shortsighted business interests...
...Anti-Semites Unite To Smear Efforts To Support Allies PUrist activity has increased throughout the asafry not because Of any...
...That necessity may never come, if only we give the needful aid in time...
...Sudden Change Possible That the reorganized French General Staff wants either to throw back the German spearheads in the Channel region or to push through the advanced Nazi line west of Arras, is obvious enough: the chief aim of the French army now must naturally be to prevent the Allied forces in Northern Belgium from being cut off...
...small numbers at unexflg* but strategic points throughout the city, ffffi hoyantage Is that the Christian Front J*imoot be held responsible for the public §*&We*s'taat will be* the hoped-for iresult *j*.iui^meots started...
...The Allies need mechanical aid now...
...One of those who do not recognize the deeper meaning of the present probably is Hitler...
...Aid to the Allies is the way to keep war away from America...
...Let us awake...
...Whatever the actual course of events may be— if Hitler succeeds in the conquest of Europe— our generation will perhaps never again experience peace...
...war economy for seven years and social 'progress for years of excellent labor achievement...
...Second, because totalitarianism is frightfully oppressive...
...Armament totals, which will be approved by Congress will call for $3,126,000,00 in round figures—the largest outlay for arms and preparation ever made by the nation in peace time...
...So rapidly has FD's popularity risen in proportion to Nazi drives in Europe that at least a dozen Senators have already rushed to place .themselves on the Roosevelt side and wipe out tiie impression of being anti-New Deal which they had created in the past Willkie loom Grows Senate approval of the reorganization order shifting the Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Department of Commerce is attributed by all in to the shift of at least a.dozen Senators into the New Deal column...
...With British realism, which in fateful hours never lacked bold imagination, and with British stubbornness, the world has always underestimated, they face the issue...
...with inno«i bystanders—about the Jews and their "i«V in the present war...
...They could be built anytime in the next few years...
...If the Nazis vis in Western Europe, it will come—and serve us right if by our sloth we have helped the Nazis win...
...or England be invaded...
...at the Dutch and Belgian frontiers, for it was material and not soldiers that the Allies lacked...
...Let us awake and think and act...
...Partly because of politics in the vilest sense of the word...
...Since 1983 the Roosevelt administration has spent $7,928,450,525 for the army and navy, yet the land force has only 300 tanks, 744 antitank guns, and about 400 anti-aircraft cannon...
...Quite logically, hatred of democracy has always been a cardinal point of Russian Communist, Italian Fascist, and German Nazist theory and practice...
...Among those who have given the...
...But if it fails, the war will go on: it will be widened from a war between European nations to a war between continents—to the first real world war...
...But the next moment's news may change the entire picture...
...Every day counts...
...Those seven hundred army planes, sent over at once, would help...
...have stated that they will refuse any cabinet bids unless the President promisee them that b» will wt seek a third term, _ j ____ British Expropriation Law Evidence Of Eight to Finish against All Fascism By WILLI SCHLAMM The last and only barrier between Western civilization and German hell, the French army, is still not broken* exposed to the fury of all hell's murderous gadgets the French army, shamefully misled and criminally unprepared for the" explosion, has not collapsed...
...directly charged with fthe ad^•^•tive detail...
...m Britain and France it comes to about one-half...
...Inquiries concerning these rumors have been constantly met by the President with the noncommittal statement that Republicans have been • aiding the administration in the past and might do so again...
...American productive capacity can save the Allies—before 1941...
...democratic groups, which previously held t*w*r-*Beetings in order to offset the Front (¦Nfptk, will now be unable to anticipate and when the...
...li No doubt, if we are timid and greedy and stupid (sough, we can wait for war to come to us...
...German interests control factories which can bottleneck production...
...The regular street seeing* formerly held, by the Christian Front ?iijrelegated to...
...Fronters will be spreading y,'1jjjospel...
...If the rumors of LaGuardia's appointment are true, the War Departments in the three greatest democracies will have been placed under the guidance of men whose careers have shown them to be sympathetic to the labor movement...
...Fifty thousand planes a year would cost $4,000,000,000...
...The aircraft industry is supposed to be turning out 12,000 planes a year...
...Actually, the air corps reports, only 500 planes are finished each month...
...Let us face the worst: What will happen If Paris and even London are occupied...
...To foresee what such a changed world would look like is beyond the limits ofimagination...
...Suppose we put aside all humane sentiment and all ideals of international solidarity...
...a state transformed into a single super-factory, and a state where life became sweeter every day...
...While American corporations had seen the defense plan as an opening wedge for abolition of the Walsh-Healey act and the entire New Deal program, FD pledged" that the social legislation of the past seven years Would be preserved, i . El The President's wishes today exert even more than the usual pressure on Washington legislators...
...This country couldn't develop such "a force within a year...
...In Germany it's one-third...
...No, this is not Socialism, although labor leaders will execute that law,- and although an eventual British victory may secure a planned economy, created for war purposes, for a more humane future and for more humane goals...
...a few scattered ballots went to Taft and Vandenberg...
...If the Government here expects to cut into this production, the Allies will be hurt Tather than helped...
...supporter, in charge of aircraft ™"**on...
...What the one gains, the other loses...
...Let us stop crying "peace" when there is no peace...
...The technique is this: Oristjan Fronters will be assigned to busy «aei corners, where they will strike up conations—ietween themselves and...
...Tou are startled because Nazi Germany has so much more of them than France...
...These items include range-finders, firing controls, parachute flares, bomb fuses, gas masks, search lights, and telescopes...
...Not to mention the certainty that thousands of carefully selected Nasi specialists are pouring with these refugee masses into France...
...Nothing must go to Germany, Italy, Russia or Japan, all potential enemies of this nation...
...Payment for Preparation The answer was given on Wednesday, May 22, in London: in the ninth month of war, seven years after Germany had done the same, England's entire resources were mobilized for the struggle...
...Recently the Department of Justice revealed that "we have reason to believe that a number of foreign interests, and in particular German interests, have entered into restrictive agreements with American producers with the effect, if not with the deliberate purpose, of throttling American capacity to produce certain essential war materials...
...is merely, a- first step toward an even more momentous decision: to move, if it must be, the center of the British Commonwealth of Nations across the seas and from there to fight Nazism...
...but she will not accept their peace...
...They know that it would take years—years of an unlimited, real world war...
...This world has changed...
...It is reported that the Government has asked for bids on 10,000,000 gas masks which will take many, many months to produce...
...That our generation has the doubtful privilege of experiencing such a moment is certainly no consolation for the millions who have died and -will die in horror...
...His tricks are old-fashioned, since he' started with his hell something which is .even more powerful than a war, a world revolution...
...a new, broadened Roosevelt cabinet, according torepoi-ts here this week...
...The war would go on...
...Partly—let us be frank— partly out of instinctive cowardice...
...tfieet and Broadway, at Willis| Avenue ** HBth Street, and at other advantageous "¦*» around the city...
...J And after all, we are not called upon to send armies abroad...
...Third, because every totalitarian state rightly regards the mere existence of democracy anywhere as a danger to its own existence...
...The impression that "it's safer to be on Roosevelt's side" is nowhere stronger today than in Congress...
...If, on the other hand, the tide of battle is turned and Nazist Germany is finally smashed, then there is no reason to fear that war will come to our doors...
...The American who says he will risk being killed on American soil after invaders have got here, but will risk nothing on an effort to keep them away, has curious ideas...
...For it is apparent that the historic decision of May 22, 1940 (a confiscation of all English property, carried out by'Morrison, Bevin and Attlee...
...Yes, in this cataclysm everybody is in everybody's rear...
...Well) re-' member what you have beard for the last few years from Berlin and what from Paris: while you have scornfully noted that the German masses must not only sacrifice their food for the sake of guns and tanks and airplanes but must also produce these gadgets twelve- hours daily, you have been proud, on the other hand, of the gigantic social progress of the French people during the past years—social insurance, the 40-hour week, and comfortable vacations...
...j Christian Front leaders recently discussed a ¦» method for spreading anti-Semitism in the *jr of New York...
...NoBody but a charlatan could be bold enough to suggest,, three thousand miles from the fire, a cool-headed analysis or even a criticism of the strategy, the Allies have applied during the last few days...
...Norway and Holland and Belgium waited for the enemy to attack...
...An embargo now of material to the Axis and the loan now of 1,000 UJ5...
...And • while the French people know, precisely because of their achievements, what they are fighting for, the German soldiers have the things to fight with...
...And a single event may render all wise strategic intentions completely useless...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 21
