Threat to America Lies Not in Aliens, But in Coughlin, Bundists, Communists, Klu-Kluxers
Threat to America Lies Not in Aliens, But in Coughlin, Bundists, Communists, Klu-Kluxers Washington is rightly disturbed over the fact that there is a totalitarian fifth column in the United...
...Canada Rounds Up Fascists, Too 1VJOR has this crushing of the fascist movement been limited to England...
...Most active of these is the Marquess of Tavistock, who, according to seemingly authentic reports, "had the hardihood to lay before former Premier Chamberlain surrender peace proposals which he claimed had come direct from1 Hitler...
...T And Ah...
...But I predict that my sug^Tf11 ot ,ast week about the American isolationist hymn would "T* tte hit and pack 'em in...
...But *¦» magnanimous and do not resent his neglect of my plea, which ¦jjfniade in the interest of art, of harmony, of the uplift, of *te*nous culture...
...The fifth-columnists in this country are a motley crew...
...Let her stay learn to dodge the bombs, adequate catalogue of all the things that, according to tie senatorial mind, would lead as into war would include mry known human activity except the chaplain's prayer, and - I eove that Senator Reynolds be appointed to censor even u»t appeal for grace which might easily involve some perilous Bis ministration along this line "should have more efficiency tew that be has achieved one of his chief objectives in the essenJab of national defense...
...Early in June all bridges wfll have been strengthened, most of them being replaced with stone and steel...
...but all practically united by their disloyalty to democratic ideals, their contempt for the moral standards of modern civilization, their hatred for the labor movement, and their glorification of secret intrigue and mob violence...
...By moving John Beckett from the House of Parliament to Brixton Prison for security, the police knocked the center out of pro-German activity in Commons...
...Manila is only 600 miles from Nagasaki, and Manila happens to be just as much American territory as New York...
...There is the sub-column led or inspired by Coughlin, going under such names as "Social Justice" end "Christian Front...
...Song, just song...
...Three of them ere financed and directed from Europe—the Red division by Stalin...
...He's an Eton man, Sandhurst and the Guards, son of a cbloncl, grandson of a general, and wealthy owner of Kelli Castle in Scotland...
...Dewey has a ten<Sr voice that I understand was r^cally trained to be a tenor: replica of Raymond Massey's J?™011* and is just too sweet for- anything...
...The first great lure for Japan is the possession of the Dutch East Indies...
...During the last two years new roads totaling 3,600 kilometers were constructed...
...Instead of leaders, it has paymasters...
...Japs Seek Truce To Raid Allies Special to The New Leadbb WASHINGTON, D. C — Reports that Japan seeks a trace in its three-year undeclared war against China are seemingly authentic in the light of recent developments...
...A very large proportion of our unnaturalized immigrants are of British or Canadian birth...
...There is Captain Archie Ramsay, M.P...
...And curiously enough, the def advances have been made afterthe wars that we have fought...
...Their personnel is largely native and mostly Roman Catholic, but it includes only a small fraction of our great Catholic population—the vicious little minority .who are willing to discredit their church in this country and betray their fellow-religionists in Hitlerland for evil purposes of their own...
...It is the Green and Blue and Yellow divisions that may at any time make the fifth column a grave menace...
...It was noted that the Governor's cards-on-table proposal hrtwght no response from the Whits House, but the Caesarians replied by grabbing off two more delegations for the totalitarian ita which is answer enough, if you stop to think of it...
...and the Brown by Hitler end bis gang...
...but there is a still larger number of naturalized citizens, and there are a good many natives—these latter mostly detailed for special service as "stooges" and "fellow travelers," who ere the most contemptible and tbe most dangerous of tbe lot...
...Motley's influence in the wealthy Harrow-on-the-Hill constituency was all inclusive...
...A. L. By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel njlSDOM...
...We mu^ not on any account send a lip to rescue the unfortunate Americans stranded in , because to do so would lead us into war...
...This improved sjsloui will effect a readier means of transportation of war materials and food supplies for the population...
...At Toledano'8 "suggestion" it was decided to push the organization of a continental industrial federation of maritime workers . . . at which Mr...
...From its capital in Chungking work has progressed on its roads, railways, airlines, telephones, and postal communication, thus effecting a tight transport and communications network...
...fritter Figure AS USUAL, the most sinister news of the week evoked the least • comment...
...Of the proposed 16,000 kilometers of other new roads, work on 11,000 kilometers is already under way...
...If it were only foreign-born agitators in this country who are now directly and indirectly doing spade-work for Hitler and Stalin, they would not get far...
...r fttthe suggestion of this panic breeder would have, saved us a jaiim twenty months and a lot of hectic and costly haste...
...George Mink's name flashed into the picture...
...The Ce—dja* Socialist Party has not been molested or restricted except in one or two rare instances...
...guileless youth, have more •"Pert for the value of time Nomination yOUNG MR...
...It *** after the Spanish War that we democratized the election < Senators, and after the World War that we advanced denectary.by removing the political disabilities of women...
...There is of course a large alien element in each...
...Meanwhile, the Canadian Socialists' activities are unrestricted, although e good section of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation—that part of it led by J. S. Wood?worthis opposed to the war...
...Despotisms: make war with great ease Jot democracies with great difficulty...
...House and the executive departments —or is it perhaps only, that the legislative branch is more vocal...
...But it would be an equal mistake to ignore its existence, to underestimate its potential linger, to tolerate its activities or, in attacking one or two of its six divisions, to play into the hands of the others...
...i CaelfMon DBASON and good sense must endure the position taken by •* Governor Landon about the coalition fake...
...It started as the mercenary army of the old-fashioned, ' stupidly reactionary, union-hating employers...
...But we must not neglect the other three divisions, in which tbe foreign-born element is relatively small...
...Mink is an old hand . . . not to mention the capable assistance which he eon...
...The worst and weakest and flabbiest of democracies in a ifecn are the hybrid affairs that try to maintain the frippery 'm kings with democratic legislatures...
...publications continue to urge that the profits be taken eat...
...The Laborites have struck directly at the nerve center of what was the Cliveden set...
...m no clearer run than it was after Munich...
...feared, is more interested then the White...
...but certain events that have taken place within the last five or six years show that some rich and very up-to-date corporations in the field of heavy industry are quite willing to use it on occasion...
...Tohokai (Oriental Party) published a resolution this week urging the government to drew closer its ties of friendship with Italy and Germany, in addition m an accord with Russia...
...It's practical wisdom, that suggestion...
...We may conveniently distinguish them, by suitable colors...
...It has no rankand-file consciousness of its own...
...To conceive - that Major Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison, 'Ellen Wilkinson and the 11 others in the cabinet would for-one moment fail to guarantee return of all individual liberty is pacifist hysteria...
...Let us (just for...
...But even to extend the suspicion to foreign-born citizens would be barking up the wrong tree...
...Meanwhile on tbe Japanese diplomatic front there ilmukpad en intensive drive on tbe government for rapprochement with Russia...
...Britain Crocks Down On Fascists OTATEMENTS in The New Leader editorial columns praising *^ government control of British industry and finance have drawn fire from the anti-Allied press here...
...Democracy in this country hasn't dmajrted...
...Whether blunder or lie, it is a falsification, and a pernicious one...
...Not idle either was talk of future general strikes if any of the Americas went to war...
...fljfeffdy Advance . Of Democracy T 11 F\ "—who, I feel sure, must be a young person, exWP tramely young—writes me from Chicago to reprove er for my "un-Christian attitude toward Isolationists," and adds »B» nnmistakable acerbity that I must "know very well" that "S7• *ar jn which this country has engaged has been followed : *M sledding away of its democracy until now, it seems, we have etmey a drop left in the house...
...This it was after the war of 18J2 that we began to do away ^property and educational qualifications in the franchise and *Kdie foundations for the public school...
...It is the oldest of the six sub-columns, and the only one which is actually financed and directed by capitalists as such, in alliance with a low type of corrupt politicians, such as the late and unlamented Huey Long...
...Developments in other fields have kept apace...
...l/ipivmOTS ACTTve With this record to beck it up, there appears little reason to doubt Chungking's denial that informal peace talks are under way at Hongkong...
...nor anyelse...
...Worse yet, it is delusive and dangerous from the point of view of honest and effective democratic defense on every front...
...The fact of a foreign high command does not mean that their personnel here is particularly foreign...
...Official CCS...
...Johnny, o Johnny"5in his high register would be lovely...
...Nearly all of the German, Austrian, Italian, and Spanish immigrants of recent years are refugees in the strictest sense of the word, deeply imbued with democratic thought and feeling and deeply grateful to democratic America for the hospitality it has shown them...
...A total of 80.000 kilometers of road are in use in the National government-held sectors of China as compared to the 110,000 kilometers of road before tbe war...
...Then there is the Blue division—the followers of Gerald Smith, Pelley, Winrod, and the like—Which flourishes mostly in the Middle West and the Southwest, but has open or secret camps in all parts of the country...
...The democratic form of government," said he, "is the most ¦gjjiri' asset of peace...
...Let him abandon ***»«ech-making, jn wnich, one must admit, he hasn't bowled ¦¦JWy over, and give us song, ever joyous song...
...In that branch, along with a sincere and intelligent will to deal with the ugly monster, there is some blatant demagogy and a good deal of despicable partisan politics in the bad sense of the word...
...Tosbio Shiratori, former ambassador to Rome, has reopened his campaign urging Japanese support of She totalitarian powers...
...What's their relationship to the Vincent Lombardo Teledano's detailed and well-financed efforts to set up a penAmerican federation of labor...
...work that way...
...This organization is Canada's leading fascist party...
...democratic vietory of enfranchising the freed men...
...Let us suppose that in September, 1938, some fap?r of the U. S. Senate had demanded an appropriation 7mt* *°d a Balf billion dollars to .put this country in a state of "jftanr He would have been hooted and howled at from one gfrjBQ"iand to the other, denounced as a war-monger, a panic^—fcrv.a crazy alarmist, end a stooge for the munition makers, i-^^aecarding to the formula of Senator Nye) "of all wars...
...But the Rome-Berlin axis and the Berlin-Moscow "axis now thoroughly coordinate their machinations here...
...tt^e jecessary demand there for entry into the war in Germany since has more practical and immediate pertinence for us than the fall of Liege or the prospective bombardment of Dover...
...It may be partly through lack of knowledge or it may be with evil design, that the public is being given tbe impression that the fifth column is composed wholly or chiefly of aliens and even that most aliens favor the fifth column...
...ftnofds Holds »t fori tpthese days of gloom and boding disquietude, Senator Hill-Billy *Seynolds suddenly pops up from "behind a chair ringing the ;1I of a new terror...
...But jjgijfr *' any one that knew the Wild Beast and its objectives the Tfrj...
...He's the son of the Duke of Bedford...
...I am even willing to repeat the suggestion and to urge it ¦Kk details...
...Reports are that the Mexican police are after him...
...Arcand in the past two,years found most of his support in the totalitarian-minded Province of Quebec, where the Catholic church hold almost complete sway over 2,874,000 persons...
...Most of the men picked up recently—this, of course, excludes the necessary evil of interning thousands of German refugees, among whom may be Nazi agents— come from the nobility...
...the -psychopathic admirer of Hitler who almost put' a bullet where her brain should have been...
...Neither do you...
...Headquarters of Adrien Arcand, -party leader, and Maurice Scott, second in command, were also raided...
...Yon just can't make the tain...
...Certainly almost all of these are bitter enemies of the dictatorships which have brutally attacked eight of these countries and are threatening the other two...
...Guinness, the ale queen, a sister of Unity Freeman-Mrtfordj...
...Why does Toledano want such a federation when it's in conflict with the International Federation of Trade Unions, with which bis own union is affiliated...
...This he did, and to prove to the Boss he was good, Mink threw in as something extra a school for sabotage of the U. S. merchant marine...
...Informed circles here know of' at least half a dozen peers whose affection for Germany has brought secret service men down on their trail...
...Not only is it grossly unjust to the vast majority of our alien population—that is, of the immigrants who have not yet become citizens...
...So 2*"^^ Do I Love You So...
...Another clarification worked by the news from the front ought to be pf enduring moment to mankind...
...Four of the inconjniities have been hit in this cataclysm, and in three the king puppet folded up at the first touch...
...Proposed measures which single out the aliens for surveillance therefore miss the point...
...The same is true of very many Russians who have come here either before or since 1917, to escape the tyranny of the Tsars or the worse tyranny of the Soviet State...
...It criticizes the government opealy...
...The Chinese morale is good . and its military strength greater than at the beginning of the war in 1937...
...This anti-Jewish movement is now, destroyed...
...Free China ha* built 10,000 tons of small river boats...
...By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad A TEN-MINUTE fusillade of machine-gun bullets tore the world attention from European headlines, and for a moment fixed it on Mexico, Trotsky escaped, readers went beck to their arrowed maps of northern Europe, and the G.P.U, section Mexico, slipped unconcernedly out of the spotlight into its...
...another very large proportion come from Poland, Czecho-Slovakia Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland ' end France...
...wholesale and warehouse workers union it about due...
...The incomparable Reynolds7 is on watch...
...Concurrent with the new status of the Netherlands East Indies' has been tbe collapse of the recent Japanese major offensive in northern Hupeh and southern Honan...
...Of the 11,000 kilometers of old roads to he unproved, the job has already been finished on 9,000 kilometers...
...By arresting Sir Oswald Motley, they not only picked up a crack-pot self-styled fuehrer but one of the most important cogs in the pro-Hitler machinery inside Britain...
...He was married to Mrs...
...The- truce would afford 1 Japan an opportunity to profit both strategically and financially from the European war, thus alleviating domestic discontent...
...It contains but few persons of foreign birth or parentage...
...espionage and other work below the Bio Grande...
...There is no ground, for panic fear...
...Alas...
...The Capitol, it is to be...
...We don't knoio what isn't true...
...Lombardo Toledano is chief of the CTAL...
...of war and that all war industry be nationalized...
...The instant the first German parachuter drops from crooked-cross marked planes, the jails will bulge with fascist sympathizers whose leaders are already jailed...
...And perhaps the worst mistake of all would be to leave untouched the "I'm-Not-a-Coramunist-Buts" a«d the "I'm-Not-a-Fascist-Buts" —the stooges and fellow travelers and undercover men of whichever color—who have dug themselves in, not only in labor unions and other popular groups, but in the newspaper and magazine world, in publishing houses, in theater and movie and radio, and also—it is sad to have to say it, but it must be said—in old-party politics and in public bureaus and administrative positions from Podunk and Toonervilk all the way to Washington...
...Our battleships a»y be no good, our airplanes negligible, our destroyers too heavy, Svt, thanks to Reynolds, we're going- to fingerprint every alien, atf I guess that will hold invaders for a spelL Sg...
...A breathing spell appears necessary to permit the consolidation of occupied positions end the freeing of Japan's hand hi Europe as well as the Orient...
...Canadian police, in thirteen swift raids, last week raided Quebec cities and picked up six truckloads of swastikas, photographic equipment, cards, maps and anti-Semitic pamphlets from the homes and offices of the National Unity Party's members and leaders...
...popular ballot whether they wanted slavery instead of •jNr^it arbitrarily decided for them by a most undemocratic it was the Civil War that abolished slavery, one of the ¦orkra notable triumphs of democracy, and then added the We...
...Three weeks ago, The New Leader exposed Mink as one of the Comintern agents assigned to put the American seamen's organization in the Stalinite apparatus...
...It was after the •taken War that we enabled territories entering the Union to *2« by...
...In brief, the greater part of the foreignborn supporters of the totalitarian regimes have been here long enough to acquire citizenship, and most of them have done so...
...Colonel Lindbergh with emphasis assures us that we are safe here against any chance of invasion...
...They simply ignore the-fact that British "regimentation'' is in-the hands of some Of the world's .leading and moat active Socialists whole anti-fascist philosophy.is unimpeachable...
...we only believe it—if * e**' and try hard enough...
...Many of its members were Ku Kluxers in the nmeteen-twenties...
...Quietly China has been rebuilding its countryside repeatedly bombed by Japanese planes...
...Lest of all, Yellow is the right color for a division which has no theories of any sort, which is composed of professional labor-spies, professional scabs, and professional gunmen, together with a miscellaneous lot of silly dupes and casual hirelings...
...Until the present administration, it, had slowly and **ftriaUg though unevenly inc -eased...
...Are we...
...He is also head of the Mexican Federation of Labor (CTM), which, at its recent 13th National Council meeting, criticized the Dies Committee and urged the cooperation of Mexican workers with those in the CIO of this nation...
...Now he's in Mexico, with Manuilsky and other effective operators...
...This is a fact which can easily be verified...
...CANDIDATE DEWEY has chosen to ignore my .. Wggestion that he introduce song tn.his meetings, thus supplyf*their present lack of zip and the perfect vaudeville touch...
...A genuine eoalition cabinet would be a nice device for these tumultuous times, tit s two-party government would be nothing but a dragging kite-tail to one man's inordinate personal ambition and would help "nothing...
...Since American belligerency will be directed solely against Germany and Italy, the pieces begin to add up . . . especially if one- remembers that Toledano commands at least 50,000 armed men and a network of military cells in Mexico...
...It would be a dire mistake to treat the fifth column as an essentially foreign thing...
...the Black by Mussolini...
...It wot hie, entry ear&Jfcomtirol of a small Use of M.P.'s who will be picked shortly...
...Remember Secretary Hull's declaration of the American policy about those indefensible sources of supply...
...There are six principal subcolumns, differing in their methods, their theories, and their ulterior aims...
...convenience, and without any implication of disrespect for the Emerald Isle) call them tbe Green division...
...Bcfc Shoe Co...
...Guilty of Labor Lew Violation The Beta Shoe Company, condemned by both the American Federation of Labor and the Conjrress of Industrial Organisations as having unfair labor iranMbea, was convicted by Cbe Talked States District Court tggaV mow ot viitotiie of Teimal Wage aad Hour laws and fined *18,086...
...Descendants of the Pilgrims, and the Cavaliers are not necessarily immune to the totalitarian views...
...The Guinness family was the very core of the pro-Hitler set, and it is being carefully watched...
...expect from Joe Curran, and the ubiquitous Harry Bridget, whose raid on the CJ.O...
...There is little reason for Chiang Kai-Shek to accept e truce offer...
...Wisdom cryeth out in the streets and no man reW rsrdeth her...
...The rise of the war spirit in Japan and...
...It now operates 4.500 kilometers of railroads, and is hwikhog iange radio stations in seven big cities, el a sharp contrast to Japanese propaganda which depicts tbe National Government es being en a desert patch in a remote hinterland...
...I'fear'me my correspondent has been taking seriously tbe "Essies of the Short Circuit...
...The time to stop aggrression is when the aggressor begins to aggress...
...Who cares for "*wy when one can get song, Beautiful song...
...Threat to America Lies Not in Aliens, But in Coughlin, Bundists, Communists, Klu-Kluxers Washington is rightly disturbed over the fact that there is a totalitarian fifth column in the United States...
...It makes its- appeal chiefly to a certain type of people who brag that they are Americans and Protestants, but whose religion and patriotism consists in hating the Catholics, beting tbe Jews, hating all kinds of foreigners, hating Negroes who do not behave like sieves, and hating all who are not as ignorant and bigoted as themselves...
...You don't even have • "Wly a dance...
...increased its airways total to 10,000 kilometers...
...Also, in consonance with all prevailing ~*J...
...Free China now has four-fifth* as much road mileage as it had before the hostilities...
...How about that in the lurid light of the present situation ? Just for a hatful of trade we forgot it, Just for a chance to sell cetton and tools...
...that in a critical situation a good many impoverished farmers, ruined little business men, and unemployed non-union working men can be "steamed up" and called into service, and that there are retired army officers (and perhaps some on the active list as well) wso stand ready to take command in an armed insurrection organized from above...
...These reports of Japan seeking a truce gain added credence in light of the fact that in the last war the Japanese made fabulous profits...
...yhere have been no -fifteen German generals cashiered for iaccmpefcence...
...Isolationists have seized the conscription law as vindication of their charges that a democracy in war must become totalitarian in Nazi style...
...It would be a mistake to exaggerate the importance of the anti-democratic fifth column...
...Look at the ..2*** riecukw in Milwaukee, Mr.J)ewey, if you wish to know T* *** thing works...
...There are others whom the Labor chiefs want locked where the Fifth Column can do little good...
...Chine Strong Japan would gain time for tbe replenishment of its depleted munitions reserve a swell as settling tbe troubled political situation in Manchuoko, where puppet king Henry Py-Yi is reported showing sympathy for China...
...No, sweet youth, I don't konw tlat...
...Tf- Brethren, let us be light-hearted despite the deep black headfan...
...This is all apart from the hold which tbe Comintern apparatus has on the Mexican government itself . . . which will become evidentfcif Camacho loses in the July 7 presidential election...
...Early in June, delegates from every trade union center in South America—and from John Lewis' CIO—will meet in Mexico City with the central committee of the Confederation of-LatinAmerican Workers (CTAL) "to study the situation of the working class of the Western Hemisphere in relation to the European war and the economic offensive of imperialism in the Americas...
...the wisdom of the sage Clemenceau...
...It was native German Nazis, aided by native German Communists, and partly financed by native German capitalists, who undermined and wrecked the German Republic and who have thereby broi^ht on the Second World War...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 22
