Hitler Drive Hits Land of Historic
BUTCHER, HAROLD
Hitler Drive Hits Land of Historic Battles: Liege, Ypres—and Waterloo By HAROLD BUTCHER IT was early in the Great War. Belgium had * been overrun.by the Germans and now refugees were...
...spy Job for isfator Nye JBEaT HO, there, Senator Nye...
...Correspondents report that all orders for the Nazi cells in Transylvania...
...Asleep at the twitch...
...Anti-war sentiment is falling off throughout Britain...
...In his absence a miniature Corneas general stag runs the Nad machinery...
...No sooner has the nation, begun to awake to the peril of *¦ position than Business, through Representative Vinson, proJ** a bill empowering the Presioent to suspend the Wages-and**tts Act and the Act that now provides decent living conditions ^workers employed on government contracts...
...This country is being P^paganded into war...
...When I did get round to it, my "invasion" of Europe was by way of Ostend after a trip from Dover, during the later stages of which, according to the pal with whom I traveled, I turned a particularly ghastly shade of green...
...Belgium had * been overrun.by the Germans and now refugees were arriving in England...
...The news of Harold 'J...
...Recently the -Swath Wales Tribunal let off two left-wing Socialist as war objectors despite their attack on the government along the lines of the usual "imperialistic" charges...
...For example, in Antwerp, which supplanted Bruges as a seaport and commercial center, the Cathedral and the churches of St...
...It is...
...Fortunately, I felt better by the time we landed and passed through customs, where, I believe, my only indiscretion was in tipping the porter too much...
...The Labor Party calls on the nation to recognize the day of the old order is done...
...And do yon «••» where the howl would have been the loudest...
...But its Socialism is built on a profound faith in the people of Britain and a determination to press for necessary social changes upon the basis of Democracy and Justice...
...The Adoration of the Magi, by Rubens, k in the Antwerp Museum...
...More than any other part of Belgium, Bruges has, in fact, managed to stay where it was in the Middle Ages, but like the civic fathers who insisted on up-to-date airs from the belfry chimes, the city must take its place in the modern world, if, in no other way, as a center for enchanted tourists...
...Whether . it was "manifest destiny^ 'that took me across the Atlantic Ocean before I made a trip across the English Channel I do not know...
...During the debate, Ellen Wilkinson, MP, left-wing member of the Labor Party's executive committee, told the delegates...
...Romania has the oil wells vital to the German machine—and King Carol hasn't been shipping of late...
...And this time you don't have to twenty years and bring out a Senate committee to try to "•Ww the malefactor...
...a^^STEND, "Queen of Watering Places," was all that—summer residence of the Belgian Royal family, a luxurious modern city wi*h Casino, Thermal Palace, spacious promenade, magnificent beach...
...Step It the 'Moment It Starts •PHE DRAWING OF LESSONS from the present murderous * antics of Aboslutism is, at this distance, safe enough, and while popular, is viewed by the sophists as 'of little worth...
...AH this may be possible before the race learns again the jjUniitable evils that attend Concentrated Power arid he willing to ibide by democracy when once it has been achieved with sacrifice gnd sorrow...
...Belgium gave to the world one of the most illustrious schools of painting to which belong such artists as .the brothers Hubert and John Van Eyck, Memlinc, Roger de le Pasture (Van der Weydenl, Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens...
...crudest stages of human Ration are to spread again over theworid...
...And two or three million lives...
...How now...
...resolved into vapor, emerge ^ajn in nebular form, solidify, and through uncountable ages come ^ain to produce and to sustain life...
...place...
...Belgian refugees were cordially welcomed in England and although their English hosts discovered they were ordinary human beings after all, some amiable, some difficult to get along with, their plight was their passport and England did her best for them...
...Missing *• Opening "JUSTNESS AS USUAL" and right on the job-^for itself...
...It may be that there amst come another succession of Catos and'Brutuses, Winkelrieds gad Tens, Miltons and Vanes...
...otherwise her masterpieces • of art and architectiure could not have survived...
...f . 5. Under the existing system of...
...And Waterloo recalls an even older conflict...
...Swell for people who like that sort of thing.' . ' 'My own taste turns more td the tree-iand grass-covered cliffs of Devon or the rocks of Cornwall—or, to confine my remarks to Belgium, the medieval beauty of such a city as Bruges which cast a spell upon me and made me regret we were trying to keep a fairly tight schedule...
...W/W They Always for Surrender...
...A representative of Denmark's 500.000 trade smash mem-, bers sat in OB a Paris International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) conference last week...
...Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2. g-ArW which, we might profitably, consider what happened to Kotl^.when it had adopted the One Man fantasy...
...But it would have saved democracy and perhaps civiBtstkm...
...One must believe, however, that short of a ruthless war such as the world has never known, Belgium in her beauty will survive the present conflict and will again welcome tourists with open arms...
...For if the German Republic had endured there would be no •sTin Europe today...
...fcsree of the Usdesf Chorus ^fO THIS I might add a little chapter of history now wholly •/forgotten but most profitable for pondering in our quiet hours, if any...
...Italy will be Jugoslavia's problem...
...Fighting, and yet not always fighting...
...The Communists in the union had made every attempt to capture offices therein and exploit the organisation's f8,000.000 treasury...
...So it may be that some such (jperienee is, at hand for the human race...
...Jto/y's Way— mOwrs Pf Rome, Signor Mussolini's charming young acolytes run to ,- and fro in the streets yelling, "Down with democracy P* It is pleasing to note that in pur own country the same school of Ihonght proceeds with quieter but -much more effective aethods...
...Sauveur and the Church of Notre Dame, beautiful Gothic buildings dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries...
...In.Belgium one cannot escape memories of the World War...
...more millions of lives wasted in tj^ hopeless misery of absolutism and more insurgents pining in dungeons or walking to the scaffold...
...Standing on a bridge in the City of Bridges, one wants to say, Canute-like, to the wave of time, "Stay where you are...
...It merely says that Roosevelt must have another Una and goes out and cops off another delegation...
...then and without pussyfooting « Cliveden...
...Others may go to sleep, but it never closes J...
...The Laborites want Hitler's defeat but have no intention of palliating the abuses they fought in peace time...
...The atzed nations have it in their power' and have had, to block ajression and prevent war by refusing to deal with treatyfcmkers and international bandits...
...Almost all business is in German hands...
...Typical of the Labor resentment against Comintern activity is the vote taken by the powerful National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Congress in Blackpool last week, when a CP resolution calling for "an end to the imperialist war" was defeated by an 81,445 to 54.264 vote...
...G*doW Business...
...Close to the Hungarian border, the site is peopled by Bo- . manians, Germans and Hungarians—the last two groups cooperate closely...
...German school children wear their own uniforms...
...And a leap backward of l thousand years...
...Communists are Suspected of having distributed leaflets recently advertising German propaganda Utile* over the so-called ¦ "New British Broadcasting Station" at the gates of a North London aircraft factory...
...Lay hands upon him, Senator, arid earn *-*»Tubn dollars reward and the world's eternal gratitude...
...DELGIUM is a land where the big battles of history have been fought...
...When could they say till now that talk'd of Rome That her wide walls eneompass'd bnt eweJSaan...
...British Unions Fight CP . WHITE-HEATED anti-Comm*oi»t fury sweeps British unions...
...Hist, Senator...
...We have but to remember what happened to the people of Holland—civilians, men, women and children— when, in violation of treaties, covenants, promises, humanity, decency, the rudimentary essentials of civilized society, he burst in upon them hurling bombs...
...Shortly afterward the AngloFrench Trade Union Council will meet...
...Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp are noted for their art and architecture...
...If this was purely an imperialist wax, the imperialists would have prepared better for it and would he fighting it more energetically...
...These postcards were roughly printed, and reveal the waive- , length of the station, which is in Germany, and the broadcast hours...
...Happened *» Borne JV^fc for meditation—serious at that: Rome, thou hast lost the, breed of noble bloods...
...Many of their works are found in the ehjirches and museums of Belgium, another reason for making a tour of this little country so attractive...
...Adolf ^Jdsr is doing the whole job and doing it so well that npbody else *** turn a hand...
...4. The notion of "appeasement" with a Homicyial Maniac clothed with unrestricted power is as perilous as it is unKorkable...
...other entrepreneurs are boycotted and forced out of industry and commerce, which are dominated by Nazi banks, in turn run from Berlin...
...In little old U. S. A. rep...
...Fifth column headquarters for Romanian Nazis is Sibiu in Transylvania, which is in a strategic position for the crippling of the fortified line which King Carol has thrown up between Timisoara and Satumare...
...Everyone was sympathetic, and crowds everywhere turned out to greet them...
...If this a so and if my observation of Nazism on its native heath has taught me anything, I should think the next course of instruction likely tp be thorough...
...Sibiu will be the German door to Romania...
...But perhaps when the acute stageof the abrasion passes, so likewise passes the memory thereof, and does not come back except with the original fetters...
...They were also left lying about on the pavements or on window ledges for the men to see as they left the gates...
...When they are old enough they go to the Reich for long training and return to become part of the corps which m ULimnHiatsd by Fritz Fabrizius, a former captain in the Austro-Hungarian army...
...Time passed, and I came to the United States, ' never before having been abroad, not even no one of those week-end trips to Belgium...
...Jacques, St...
...I am, speculatively, most curious about this point, because if there is to be in those far-off <Jays another Apostleship of the Bended Knee and it is voluble cad sedulous, I shall have to think that this pupilage of Man about the fundamentals of democracy is likely to be perpetual...
...In Sibiu is the General Stat* of the local Nazi Fuehrer— and like Henlein in the Sudeten, he has completely Hitlerized the German there and turned the town into a potential army camp for Ton Braachitseh...
...It declares that only a bold, Socialist 'planning of the foundations of our system can give us the faith and the power to meet the claims of those who will bring us victory...
...3. • There is no corner of the world in which democracy can be annihilated by despotism without shaking the democratic structure in all the rest of the world...
...Yes sir...
...Hitler Drive Hits Land of Historic Battles: Liege, Ypres—and Waterloo By HAROLD BUTCHER IT was early in the Great War...
...Copies of the throve ways are in the hands of Home Office agents...
...William Green has wired his active, support and accepted his election to the vice-presidency of /the International Federation of Trade Unions...
...Seseeeh and Bessarabia are issued from Sibiu...
...Brussels is both a well-to-do modern city with roughly a million inhabitants, and a beautiful medieval survival...
...By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad MORBIDITY grips the left in this country as super-mechanised ™* Nazi,divisions bum then- way te within mortar shot of the JSffel Tower, fiat there in sandbagged streets the iWUmaWeWSl labor and socialist movement's high command works feverishly helping the Allies streamline war industries and organise daily the increasing network of sabotage apparatus in German-held territory...
...The statement added that "our democracy is still an incomplete democracy...
...Fabrizius hat been in Germany for months mapping out possible routes into Romania...
...That is exactly what you want it to do as you enter the Cathedral of St...
...Rouse yourself to the call of duty, 0 valiant sentinel insidious foes...
...Fifth Column Active h RomaniaCUCH STRANGE items as the confiscation of 10,000 motorcycles by the Jugoslavian authorities and the banning of war headlines and maps by the Romanian officials are signs which make for tomorrow's screaming headlines...
...John McGovern, ILP member of Parliament, has appeared for several "C...
...either one thing or the other—it is democracy or despotism, and - nothing between...
...During the first three months of 1140 the Romanians seat only 75,254 tons of petroleum to the Reich instead of the 570,000 tons which the recent trade agreement stipulates...
...AUT WHAT I SHOULD MOST LIKE to know, if I could, is If whether, when up the same old toilsome path, through prisons, bnroings, firing squads and the rest of it, Man has regained the perception that the sanity of life on this planet is incompatible with Concentrated Power, whether there will be in those days i cult that will vociferate that the form of government is uniaiportant, that the extinction of democracy in one part of the world is no concern to democracies elsewhere and that there is sothing worth fighting for, anyway...
...It will provide treachery See that which has taken Norway, parts of w"1grJ...
...Important international labor strategy sessions will be held in Paris next month . . . if...
...The Labor Party is a Socialist Party...
...When went there by an age since the great flood But it was fam'd with more than one man...
...Merely to list some of its principal places is to bring back those memories—Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Ypres, Malines,«Mons...
...e when there is a chance to pile up dividends and keep labor...
...Those remaining hundreds of thousands of oil tons are wanted by the Nasi Economic Ministry—and the road into Romania has been well pounded by the Trojan Horse...
...therefore it conceives ¦of reconstruction in Socialist terms...
...Yet here in a few that might well be taken seriously and hugged close to out shirt fronts...
...Bruges, where medievalism has 'come to: stay, has a famous belfry with a chime of bells that used to play an ancient hymn—until the civic fathers substituted modern airs, symbolic of the fact that time won't stand still...
...They mean that the two pro-Allied Balkan nations have finally been forced into desperate measures characteristic only of war...
...It was not until I -had lived five years in New York (including a summer return visit to England) that I finally jplanned and took a Continental tour...
...The standard of life of millions of our fellow citizens remains inadequate...
...Laski's speeches at Bournemouth, which barely made <the American press, understates the Labor Party's demand for the establishment of a Socialist system.' Laborite leaders told, the press two weeks ago that ". . . the Labor Party believes that the nation is ready for a new social order, whose foundations must be laid NOW...
...Ny Chaarles Edward Russell -The News Reel IT MAY BE, of course, that Man is destined to go to school again...
...Andre are proud of their masterpieces by Rubens, Van Dyck and others...
...One might think that the human neck had been long fuoogh abraded with the yoke to need no more instruction than that contained in the records...
...Even politically shrewd prophets will make no definite prophecy...
...Jfta* Garni smews this, but the same "neutrality'* paralysis which opened the Low Coantries stalks Romania...
...When Hitler overthrew the German Republic and started the ¦arid hellward, Marshal Pils^sdski, who was then at the head of tie Polish government, foreseeing some of the devastating possiasHicg of the coup, proposed to the French government joint internauon to head off the madman and restore the republic...
...Of the men who registered in Scotland recently, there were only 398 conscientious objectors...
...Young Germans crowd the streets, swaggering about in the' Tyrolean hats and white stockings which were affected by the Sudetens...
...2. There can be no compromise on an issue of vital principle...
...I was among those who went to see them as they entered the county borough of Wallasey, on the Cheshire side of the Kiver Mersey facing Liverpool...
...A- ean easily imagine now what a storm of disapproval his tlsn would have started if France had agreed -to it...
...Paul .and St...
...1 it auy be that all his costly tuition in the past has been wasted 2(fe»* rePeated- So™ geologists hold that the earth mast 2faauy fall back into the sun, be...
...Banat...
...L The time, to oppose Aggression 1s when the Aggressor bepns to aggress—right there and...
...His report was a dirge - and a call to action...
...It was revealed that leaders of the Danish labor movement, organized in 1899, had seen in the last month the wiping ont of the seventy unions affiliated with Denmark's Trade Union Center, and swift Nazi action taken against these who led the 500,337 organized working men and women...
...It may be that even & physical enslavements of primitive eras are to be restored, ft auy be that we must have more Neros and Caligulas, Geislers gad Philip the Seconds, Alvas and Ivans...
...Bournemouth Farley Urges Socialism "THHERE are those who bandwagon their ideologies and depre* cate the courage and ability of the British Labor Party...
...Their trials start immediately...
...To all thinking men it has been demonstrated that peace with such a being is merely an unhealthy dream...
...Now that war has again broken out in Europe one's thoughts of Belgium's past and present become entangled with the uncertainty of her future...
...O.'s," some of whom were freed...
...This staff, is directly responsible to the German consul at Bramhov who visits Sibiu twice a week for long talks with forty leaders...
...Among its many points of interest should be placed the Maison des Corporations, seat of the medieval guilds—the Bakers' House, and Grease Dealers' House, the Cabinetmakers' House, the Coopers' House, and so forth...
...Across those forts and pill boxes the German machine must roll—first through Hungary, then south to Bucharest and the Black Sea...
...It may be that the despotisms of the...
...society, there is no hope of * nee except in the sanctity of international agreements...
...Wounds are still too raw in Holland arid Belgium to - determine what has happened to the membership—about 1,500.000 strong—of the unions in those used-to-be nations...
...and even sections of the French Maginet lane extension...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 21
