In War and Peace
In War and Peace Labor's "Price" Is a Socialist Britain ~M ONDON (Passed by the Censor).— Every problem of our society has been intensified by the coining of the war. None can be intelligently...
...While planning for war, the government must plan for peace and a new society...
...for the nation can no longer tolerate the grotesque waste of manpower and wealth which arises from unregulated private ownership...
...Joachim Ribbentrop's wife and his son—he had married on July 6, 1920—are not mentioned at all in the "Gotha...
...After 1918 they meant nothing else than a part of the civil name of their bearer...
...By its very Batee, such a revolution would attract the participation of a . smaller portion of the masses than did the October revolution...
...There are today 1.500,000 artisans and craftsmen in Soviet Russia...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop by an illegal misuse of the German adoption practice...
...Today, a Soviet citizen is forbidden under pain of severe punishment to fish or to hunt...
...r\URING the present struggle, the form of *^ the new order will be emerging from the oldt-The main outlines of the new order are clear...
...An engineer may earn more and live better than the worker, but his entire wealth consists in the fact that he lives with his wife and two children in an apartment of two rooms, instead of the worker's one, but the automobile in which he rides belongs to the plant by which he is employed...
...It is through the trade union that the immense technical knowledge of its members can be made available to improve industry and agriculture...
...It wiU » be necessary to emancipate private trade in order to give it an opportunity to develop and to supply the people's needs...
...A Stakhanoffite earning twenty times the wage of the average Russian worker is not for that reason regarded as a capitalist...
...Another outstanding figure of the Third Reich is Mr...
...Just as their knowledge and experience are essential to the proper organization of industry and agriculture for war, so are they essential tt> a proper organisation for peace...
...But would that be possible if Russia remains armed ? Would not the continued armament and militarization of Russia lead to a new rearmament of Europe...
...To be sure, it is difficult to imagine Russia remaining static **wiih the rest of the world undergoing profound transformation...
...Doctors and dentists are permitted to practice only in such clinics, of which there are not nearly enough, with-the result that millions of people must travel long distances to get relief from illness or tooth ache, and to wait for many hours before they receive it...
...It proves the party's claim that it is a democratic Socialist organization, determined to carry out first a program for the defeat of Nazism, and then a peace program to defeat poverty...
...There must be a fuller recognition of the functions of trade unions in the national life...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...challenged from two sides: from the left, by Trotzky, and -¦from the right...
...Ribbentrop had come into that business via the m a t r imony route...
...the banks, therefore, must be subjected to public control...
...HESE critics believe the* tbe less the hv * come of the rich is reduced, the more prosperous is the community...
...I17HETHER Russia can play an important part on either side " in this war depends on tbe morale within the Soviets, the condition of the army, the organization of industry and transport...
...Those key industries and services, upon which the well-being of the ination depends, must be transferred to public ^ownership...
...Moreover, the cultural cadres of the country are among these government officials...
...Millions upon millions live in holes, nooks' and corners...
...80,000' professors and teachers in higher schools...
...These enterprises are government monopolies...
...Polignac and "Ribbentrop once were colleagues, both of them being business representatives of European champagne firms...
...we are convinced that the existing vast differences in wealth poison the relation between classes in a way that is incompatible with the achievement of a common good...
...Two facts are important...
...Socialism never presupposed a ban in the ownership of one's home...
...Another man among the Nazi rulers is a certain Bernhard Rust, at present Reichsminister of Education...
...Joachim Ribbentrop in 1925...
...Freedom can be restored only by the gradual liberation of the human being from the state...
...industrial monopoly will have taken great strides...
...The direction of investment is a public trust to be determined in the public interest...
...Why therefore an adoption...
...There is a very reliable private catalogue of the so-called "noble families" in Europe, the "Gotha Almanac...
...Clearly, in order to win the war, we must use to the full the resources of the nation, and this cannot be done with, -ibut public durection anoVcontrol...
...Socialisation of medicine and dentistry presupposes the existence of an abundance of proper resources...
...IT is obvious that the Ribbentrop * story about the change of his name simply cannot be true...
...The Labor Party differs from its critics 1n its tests of fiscal wisdom...
...Count Polignac reports an in* teresting incident about his business colleague...
...There is a- certain Joseph Goebbels, now Reichsminister of Propaganda, who publicly boatsted that he had been tortured in a Belgian prison during the first world war, a story which proved pure fiction...
...The -revolution may come either as a consequence of war or through a . palace coup d'etat executed by the right wing of the Communist -?arty utilizing a favorable moment for the overthrow of Stalin...
...Ribbentrop...
...They are demanded by tens of millions of human beings, who do not dare to proclaim their demands publicly...
...In the laws relating to workmen's compensation, the employment of children and young persons, merchant shipping and shops and offices, a Socialist conception of industry makes possible a new approach to the definition of necessary standards which, in the daily experience of countless workers, have been too long-delayed...
...Small artisans, too, will have to be given their liberty...
...Joachim Ribbentrop calls himself Mr...
...Government persecution of artisans compels them, however, to return each time to the yoke, to the "state workshops," if thqy are not to starve...
...It is a special story about Mr...
...Instead of regaining each item of state control as a temporary infringement of the normal, the occasion should be seized to lay the foundations of an efficient economic system...
...Of course, Stalin's henchmen must be driven from the r «rmy...
...These slogans, too, are no longer possible...
...Socialists' FROM the leaders of the British Leber Party— Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal...
...In this manner it stated that this adopted son does of course not belong to the nobility...
...132,000 physicians...
...But as long as the t eeontry shall require an army it is ridiculous to demand the removal I *f all officers and generals, orders and decorations, e - ^Trotsky's second slogan calls for the destruction of the Soviet r jjreaucracy—that great mass of locusts-devouring the substance •me people...
...46,000 judges, prosecutors and public defenders (lawyers assigned by the government to defend accused hn the courts...
...Demagogues like Trotsky and his confreres on the right are merely trying to find someone against whom to incite the masses, and as there are no longer any capitalists in Russia they try to incite the people against the government employees, who least of all are responsible for the misery and enslavement of Russia...
...t The Labor Party insists that the principle...
...Trotsky, accusing Stalin of betraying the October revolt, believes -that the bloodstained play must be repeated from the very beginfciag, but under Trotsky's direction...
...The name "von Ribbentrop" indeed opened to its bearer the door to many circles- which had been closed, to the simple commoner Rlbbefitrop...
...Knowing that the methods of private enterprise cannot bring victory, it has been forced, over an extending field of industry, to direct what goods shall be produced and what services rendered...
...The "Gotha" mentions him simply as an annex to the legitimate lady Gertrude von Ribbentrop...
...But it would be a grave error ; :*:*Pply ^ to the entire jjovernment apparatus, for this would mean starvation for many millions who have no other means of earning a living than through government employmsB<Ml> Here are the figures showing the composition of ffce bureaucracy: . ,*V" v .1469,000 older administrators, directors of plants and factories, of collective enterprises, stores and other undertakings...
...This is not surprising, for the members of the "artels," like the population as a whole, are constantly striving to free themselves from control and oppression of the state...
...i ? The October revolution was a mutiny against the upper classes *by the lower...
...The author of this article is a distinguished Russian Socialist and economist, who participated in the preparation of the first Soviet Five-Year Plan...
...The editors thought it sufficiently important • document to print it this week (and next), delaying continuation of "How to Win-the War Series," which will be resumed immediately this document has been presented 1 in full...
...Other taxes, falling on excess profits end other forms of unearned increment, will be employed...
...159,000 artists, actors and miscellaneous employees in their fields...
...There are no longer any people to be robbed, and there is nothing to rob...
...This may well lead to a general uprising of the desperate workers that would wjpe out-hundreds and thousands of factory and plant directors, but on the morrow after such an event the workers would still have to return to the machines and wnjk...
...of constitutional government apply net lees fully to the economic than to the political life ' of a nation...
...This is the first time that the actual Labor Party's program for reorganisation of the British social and economic structure has been printed anywhere in America...
...The Labor Party demanded then, and it demands now, that wartime organization shall be undertaken in the full knowledge that there can be no going "back...
...This "young" man, now 39 years old, used to travel about Germany with an order of the Iron Cross of the First Class on his coat — until a German penal court discovered that he had bestowed that decoration upon himself...
...We are, therefore, compelled to assume that any revolution that Blight occur in Russia would be a political one...
...There must be, also, that control of the location, of industry which is urgent for the public health, for the preservation of the countryside, and for a new life in the distressed areas...
...The Labor Party is an alliance of workers by hand and brain...
...Without these first measures of public ownership, effective planning in the interest of the whole nation is impossible...
...He now resides in Paris...
...Through their joint effort, the resources of Britain will be restored to her people...
...He * wanted to be the bearer of a titled name...
...interesting sidelight on the character of the present successor of Prince Bismarck...
...The truth in this case is easily "discovered...
...The restoration of private trade in the mercantile field would be of great benefit to the state...
...What is happening inside Russia, now that the press censorship is stricter than ever before...
...The proper organization of the consumers in the cooperative movement has its us'ssatlal place in any scientifically planned society...
...Large numbers of these government officials detest Stalin with all the feTvur df their souls...
...Today only government clinics are available for medical and dental attention...
...They only had to sign some papers at a notary's office, the contents of which a judge had to confirm, the latter of course being quite unsuspicious of the true circumstances...
...In allocating the financial burden of war, there should be a definite intention to bring ubout a fairer distribution of wealth, and not an attempt to preserve existing inequalities...
...From firstmmd-study, of official sources, he has compiled, in the accompanying article, facts and statistics which answer some of the questions the world is asking...
...He seemed to be very proud of the change...
...It is an...
...Thus, the railways, the coal industry, and a substantial part of arms production should be made national services during the war, and the public regulation of finance should be strengthened and consolidated...
...who has aroused the hatred of millions, by his methodical destruction of those who created the Soviet Union...
...Today he is typical of the gang who have already ruined Germany and the larger part of Europe, and who are threatening the whole civilized world...
...In normal times that man would have been one adventurer . among hundred of similar others...
...For example, if a peasant need* a pair of shoes and there is no "artel" in his village he must travel for miles to a "state workshop" to obtain them...
...He was a businessman of considerable means, married to a rich woman and already father of a son...
...It can " be overcome only by means of intensive building of millions of .homes...
...Miss Gertrude won Ribbentrop, says the Gotha Almanac, adopted on May •15, 1925, a certain Mr...
...No shoemaker, tailor, seamstress or carpenter is permitted to work for himself or herself...
...The so-called Ribbentrop adoption is a clear case of title swindle...
...The editors of that European "social register" are very reliable...
...The Bolsheviks had promised the Russian people heaven on earth as soon as they should become Blasters of the country...
...The national debt will have immensely increased...
...There.are no more rich to be thrown out of their homes or against whom to wage war...
...First, Mr...
...There has been none of that bold, effective, but carefully-prepared planning which is the Socialist conception...
...A Soviet engineer may earn twice the ' wage of a worker, but his earnings are still very much less than he earned under the czarist regime...
...This chap formerly had been ejected from a post as high school teacher by a disciplinary court because he was mentally deficient...
...pIE October revolution also raised the slogan of nationalization ^*of"banks, factories and stores...
...Germany no longer had kings or princes who could have had the power of knighting one of their subjects...
...Hasty improvisation is not enough, either in peace or war...
...But it seemed to me that such a title, represented by the little word "von" was even of greater value under the Republic than had been the case during the times of the previous Empire...
...They must work together in the "artels...
...The new housing constructed does not begin to .provide for the increase...
...And also: "Seize the homes of the rich...
...The United States has 1,543,006 wholes sale and retail establishments...
...Joachim Ribbentrop changed his name to Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1925, i. e. during the time of the German Republic...
...Among them were some outspoken political swindlers who today are despotic rulers of over 150 million people in Central Europe, Poland, Scandinavia, and the Low Countries...
...Take, for example, his slogan that "the military aristocracy . *"h its decorations" must be driven out...
...But their places were taken by 987,000 others...
...Although life and bitter experience have completely shattered the illusion that it is possible to build a new, free society on Leninist principles and methods, Trotsky continues stubbornly to preach this very same idea and "to hold out the original Bolshevik promises...
...but each year of its experience has shown more fully the essential identity of interest between the worker byhand and the worker by brain...
...During the past twenty years the population of Russia has increased 25,000,000...
...As long as Stalin and his totalitarian regime remain in power, Russia cannot liberate herself so that she may once again breath and work freely...
...That made it easy for him to find an accomplice...
...TIE first question to be asked is: is a revolution really possible in Russia...
...It is neces' l*ty to reduce the army very considerably...
...They make privilege ever less conscious of social obligation...
...it is also the obvious instrument of the democratic control of industry...
...i ,v 'The belief and hope is expressed that after the war Europe will disarm...
...Former titles like "von," "baron," or "count" had been declared meaningless by a special German law...
...In normal times the judge would however be compelled to annul that fake adoption as soon as the circumstances are brought to his knowledge...
...3*2,000 first-aid medical workers, midwives and sisters-of-mercy...
...Strai^e^p«3biis are-gmogg M33 associates, men with whom association of decent and respectable Germans in normal times would never have been possible...
...What does that mean...
...Alike to the scientist in his laboratory and the administrator in his office, Socialism offers relief from the servitude to financial interest and business nepotism...
...He paid in cash...
...But what kind of revo'"hition...
...Even if we were to assume that all party members are In government employ, there would still be left more than 7,500,000 persons depending upon the government for their existence...
...This Mr...
...Czarist Russia had 1,166,000 trade establishments in 1912, both in the wholesale and retail fields...
...Polignac reports that incident without even understanding its special meaning...
...Vested private interests must give way tomiblic needs...
...The charge that the bureaucracy devours fifty per Cent of the national income is ridiculous...
...Such an operation, while liberating Russia from the noose that Stalin has thrown ..about her neck, would not bear the character of the October revolution of 1917-19...
...they are even sceptical whether expenditure on public health and public education is as fruitful as private expenditure on luxuries...
...The Admiralty.has been made responsible, for both naval and mercantile shipbuilding...
...The Gotha, edition of 1932, last pre-Hitler edition, shows clearly what happened to Mr...
...If we add those employed in Soviet commercial and meitktJDf - institutions, we get a grand total of 9,200,000 persons, comprising the Soviet bureaucracy...
...After 1918, there was a hurried return to "business as usual...
...left to the change of private decision it breeds domestic waste, colonial exploitation, and, only too often, war...
...The horrible housing conditions pre" vailing in Russia can be remedied only if private enterprise is added to government effort*, Small homes confiscated by the government, particularly in the provinces, must be returned to their former owners...
...But there are no longer any rich in Russia today...
...Two-thirds of the private wealth in this country belongs to leu than half a miflioa persons, marry of whom, under our property system, have done nothing to earn it So the Labor Party proposes to revise drastically the system of death duties, not only est just in itself, but to help in breaking that ugly tradition which binds poverty in one generation to poverty in the next, and perpetuates great fortunes by unearned inheritance...
...Sea trans, port is under close control...
...The natural resources, transportation and heavy industry can and should remain in ttofr hands of the state, provided the state is democratised and returned to control of the people, but there is not the slightest reason why individuals...
...The Republican Government of course did not bestow any nobility upon any citizen...
...I think we can try to answer these question on the basis of available facts and their inescapable logic...
...He may have found that elderly lady in the Gotha...
...According to Trotsky (in his manifesto of the Fourth Inter;.*atipnal), the objective of the coming revolution in Russia must he fie realization of the slogans of" the October revolution...
...The Republic had abolished all existing privileges of former German noblemen...
...Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, and the score of others in the British cabinet — comes this stirring call for nationalization and conscription of wealth fat peace ae well as in war...
...Of him the "Gotha" says only that Mr...
...It would put new •en in authority, with new political principles and methods, but it -Would not have the character of the upheaval of 1917...
...All the aforesaid indicates clearly that the social material and psychological conditions that made possible the October revolution - are no longer to bef ound in...
...stabilize the prices of some essential foodstuffs...
...The Communist dictatorship "¦'has robbed everybody and arrogated everything to itself...
...The congestion is indescribable...
...Joachim Ribbentrop is not listed as a nobleman in the Almanac...
...None can be intelligently faced save in terms of national eco^oinjc" l_j planning...
...Plenty of explosive material has accumulated in Stalin's huge barrack, but who will set off the fuse...
...She helped him to satisfy his ambition...
...What we have in Russia is the "socialization" of misery and the enslavement of all...
...All the reforms mentioned here are now being widely talked about in Russia...
...She probably had no funds like many of those elderly people who had lost their savings in Germany's inflationary, period which ended in 1924...
...j,' . The Russian Communist Party has a membership of 1.600,000...
...Without Socialism, these changes will fall most heavily on those least able to beer them, Any great social change necessarily requires a wise administration of the national income> and no administration is wise that is not founded also on justice...
...The German Republic did not recognize any titles or any nobility...
...The state controls and dispenses everything...
...Therein he told me that in acknowledgement for bis splendid war service he just had been ennobled...
...When the professions are set free, the people, who are now1 suffering from lack of medical and dental facilities, wiH find this condition much improved...
...j It is both economically right ami socially just to raise the sum required for a vigorous social policy from those elements in the aailsa who contribute relatively little to social efficiency and too often waste their resources unproductively...
...Financial power is central to the whole economic structure...
...It appears in a new edition every year...
...250,000 engineers;''919,000 middle technical personnel...
...What "would be the social and political character of a revolution ,in Russia...
...The Soviet government has forcibly combined them in 45,000 "artels," under control of the state...
...Future historians doubtlessly will dub him the epithet of the greatest adventurer of all times...
...They work in the socalled "state workshops...
...Lenin had raised the slogan: "Rob the robbers, rob * flie rich...
...Karl Kaufmann, , since 1933 Reichs-Governor of Hamburg...
...Already the Government has been compelled to bring some degree of order into the chaos of capitalism...
...2,439,000 bookkeepers, economists, statisticians...
...1 They increase every defficulty in meeting the needs of a rapidly changing world...
...There is a very simple solution which is evident for everyone who knows something about1 German law, German custom and — German adoption tricks...
...But the domains of activity mentioned do not exhaust the field* where private initiative must be restored...
...If this condition continues to prevail, no one will have a home...
...In 1925 the commoner Mr...
...The state is all...
...The Labor Party will deal firmly with the shameless practices of tax evasion which here developed in recent years...
...The alternative is simple: either Russia wirl be given freedom to think, to work, to live, to create, or the Stalin regime will be Russian Revolt...
...Much of this necessary interference wjth private interest^ however, has been half-hearted, ill-devised, and accompanied by muddle and avoidable delay...
...The free trades and professions must also be liberated...
...It will, therefore, be necessary to restore gradually a sector of private enterprise...
...Now, everybody with some knowledge of the legal and constitutional situation of the German Republic will immediately comprehend that in the story as told to Polignac something must be wrong...
...Individual initiative and ability must not be restricted, but must be directed to the service of the community...
...the Russion cities—and the cities alone can make a revolution...
...i-She belief that the future revolution in Russia will be a political . ooe is...
...Soviet Russia, which is a much greater and more sprawling country, has only 332,000...
...Joachim Ribbentrop was 32 years old...
...It holds every human being in its grasp...
...Those still in private hands will be required to plan their structure and methods...
...What elements would be likely to succeed Stalin...
...Todaythis promise is belied by universal misery and squalor...
...Yet, no program of world reconstruction can...
...It has had to introduce controls of various jindg- It has intervened with subsidies to...
...This view Labor emphatically condemns...
...Therefore its program for building a Socialist Britain is not less urgently addressed to* the black-coated worker than tc his fellow in field, factory and mine...
...To grapple with the inert mass of war-debt, an annual capital tax during the war and a bold capital levy afterwards are indispensable...
...IT was a strange group of ad* venturers Who in 1933 succeeded in capturing the machinery of the German Reich...
...are Positively dangerous to the future revolution...
...INHERE can be no doubt...
...Russia would once more be covered liy hundreds of thousands of commercial establishments, restaurants, coffee house* and hotel...
...This is precisely what the executed Marshal Tuchachevsky Wed to do and the reason for which he was executed...
...But what are the facts...
...We must keep this carefully in mind if we are to evaluate properly the possible, if not probable, revolution in " Russia...
...Another process of "leveling" would mean to kill the nation...
...It will further steepen the graduation of income-tax and surtax...
...These men are now trying to conquer Europe . . . and then, the world, t The most outstanding figure among them is Adolf Hitler, son of a petty custom official in Braunau, whose original name was Alois Schicklgruber...
...AFEW weeks ago we learned some facts about another man belonging to the same outstanding Nazi group...
...There you have the story of the nobility of Joachim Ribbentrop...
...This is a dangerous "Pgan...
...The industries and services so brought under national direction will have to be reorganized as a condition of their efficiency, ami this task will be pursued with vigor...
...In 1930 he had marr i ed Anna Elisabeth Henkell, daughter of the senior partner of that famous champagne house...
...V Drive for New Russian Revolution Must Be Based on Campaign for Second N. E. P. By E. YURIEVSKY &ABIS (Passed by the Censor) j—In the serious discussions now - Sender way as to what kind of world this will be when the war k is over, little attention is being accorded to the prospects in Soviet f'Russia...
...The slogan, therefore, must be not "down with the bureaucracy" but "down with Stalin and his gang...
...Houses "nationalized" by the government have fallen into decay and disrepair...
...But despite these characteristics or perhaps because of them these men developed a special criminal energy, typical of all those who are today firmly established in their high governmental positions...
...In the Paris Soir of March 28, 1940, a certain Count Maxence de Polignac published some details concerning his relations with Mr...
...a i The trade unions, also, must be treed from the mean restrictions of the present law...
...THe number of party members has materially declined in reimS years, but not all Communists are government officials...
...Joachim Ribbentrop transformed himself into a Mr...
...It is ridiculous to make the people suffer by "socializing" limited resources while interfering with the development of new resources, which can come only with a greater measure of freedom...
...be undertaken without taking into consideration that vast country, with . "ne 170,000,000 people...
...In the Gotha register we find the name of an elderly unmarried lady, Miss Gertrude von Ribbentrop...
...should be forbidden to engage in hunting and fishing...
...It would compel the state to improve its own efficiency because of the new competition...
...Another slogan of the October revolution was: "Peace for the workers, war on the rich...
...The railways have been partially unified...
...The freedom of artisans is likewise essential...
...The individual and the masses are slaves...
...His slogans...
...Germany at that time was a democratic Republic...
...Is a revolution possible in that northern sector of Enrope dominated by a man...
...As a consequence, the Russian people have much less fish today than they had before the last war...
...If the war is to be won with the least suffering and hardship, Socialist principles must be applied...
...OUPLED with the liberation of private trade, there must be 8 restoration of private housing construction...
...It is ridiculous to have individual shoemakers and tailors working for the state and thus make it impossible for anyone to buy a suit of clothes or repair a pair of shoes anywhere except in a government establishment...
...During the 'early post-war years Polignac was associated with the well known Pommery Company in Paris, while Ribbentrop represented the German firm Of Henkell...
...To destroy them by driving them from their sources of livelihood would be to deal a gratte blow to the country...
...the cost of living will have risen substantially...
...J The Labor Party was born of the immediate needs of the working class...
...Jfte are frequently told that Stalin will fall when Hitler collapses, „^bst there will be a revolution in Russia...
...Of course nothing will happen to the impostor under the Nazi dictatorship...
...This is certainly a good slogan insofar as it concerns i 2**m's administrative satraps, big and little, in government oft"B*» jails and concentration camps...
...It has undertaken the bulk purchase of food imports and raw materials...
...257,Q00 librarians, club leaders and journalists...
...This is confirmed by past experience...
...She in turn is the daughter of a Prussian general who was knighted by Emperor William I in 1884...
...In 1925 Joachim Ribbentrop sent me a special and very cordial letter...
...that, after the war, the national war effort must be turned to the building of a New Britain...
...It is quite possible that Stalin may be driven from the Kremlin...
...Can Stalin control the Russians sufficiently to enter a largescale war...
...To repeat the slogans of the October revolution, when a skilled worker received as much as a common laborer, a Worker as much as an engineer and a professor as much as a janitor, is to summon the country to new bankruptcy...
...There must also be public ownership and control of coal and power, of the basic forms of transport, and, on a steadily increasing scale, of the land...
...Jn 1937, according to official figures, 861,000 artisans deserted the "artels...
...Men Who Run The Third Reich By RUDOLF KATZ Formerly League of Nations Representative on the Chinese Economic Council...
...Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supplies...
...In point of trade development, Soviet Russia occupies a position very much at the bottom of the scale among the backward countries...
...That great movement has already established for the benefit of some five million families a great equalitarian sector in industry, and is destined in the future to play en even greater part within that sphere which it ha* made so specially its own...
...All those facts are well known in Germany...
...Second, he boasted to his French friend to have been knighted by the German Government...
...For example, the commercial apparatus in Russia is working very badly...
...Everybody jn Russia understands now that only Work can create wealth and happiness...
...His name in the future would be Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Both in Russia and Germany the state has taken everything into its hands: food, clothing, housing, the theatre, the press, books...
...Every person listed in that catalogue has to produce legal evidence in case of doubt...
...Few houses have been built since 1929...
...FHE supreme interest of a nation at war compel the adoption of planning lieasures by a government which, by natural inclination, repudiates planning...
...The whole performance is illegal...
...It proves that the Leber Party makes no compromise with the Tories because of the national emergency...
...Joachim Ribbentrop, known to the world today as Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Joachiin Ribbentrop...
...TPHE chief objective of the future regime in Soviet Russia must * be -the country's emancipation from the fetters of Stalin and the dictatorship .And this involves not only politics but economics...
...They know their business well...
...The people :may rise and wipe out the G.P.U., while the Red Army, directed ..by its officers, may exterminate the commissars...
...MOW the trade union—as the experience of * * dictatorships has made manifest—is net only the worker's primary safeguard...
...In common with enlightened economic opinion all over the world, Labor unhesitatingly affirms that urgent national requirements, as judged by democratic opinion, should be the first charge on the national income...
...Such restoration will be urgent after the war...
...In War and Peace Labor's "Price" Is a Socialist Britain ~M ONDON (Passed by the Censor).— Every problem of our society has been intensified by the coining of the war...
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