French Home Front Hit By Pro-Nazi
SCHLAMM, WILLI
French Home Front Hit By Pro-Nazi Defeatists As Army Holds on Somme Laval-Bonnet Clique Reported Close to Lebrun By WILLI SCHLAMM Ob May IB the Germans broke through the jjtjjt Maginot Line...
...running about freely in your country and making of it a springboard for counter-revolution against Mexico, against the United States, against all Latin America...
...Even in cooperation with Turkey and the Allies' Near Eastern army, Soviet Russia is much too weak to accept an Italian challenge...
...tk« defeatist group around Flandin, Laval iW Bonnet reportedly has increased its presort against the Reynaud-Mandel cabinet...
...I have consciously avoided raing any moral objections against the desperate attempt of Churchill to improve Anglo-Russian relations by appointing Sir Stafford Cripps to the court of St...
...They have even succeeded in forcing you to forbid the showing of films unpalatable to Stalin's government...
...That much may be admitted...
...German Consul Dr...
...It has happened before...
...Or are you already so much in the power of the Gestapo and G.P.U...
...Whether such an incident will develop here or in South America can't be predicted by even well informed federal agencies, who are now constantly watching the widespread German apparatus on two continents...
...We know the purpose of all this, Cardenas...
...Or have you already betrayed it...
...It happened in ° Austria, Czechia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium...
...In 1935 the Reich bought 4,113 tons of U. S. scrap;, in 1986 Berlin purchased 6,799 toes here...
...Robert Reiner of Robert Reiner, Inc...
...On the other band, Mussolini wants to act as a vulture, not for the sake of the art, but for practical purposes...
...Do not surrender your countSry to the Gestapo and G.P.U...
...Have you ever examined the pages of Toledano's press...
...And it is from the Communists themselves, including their organ in this country...
...We were oUif*d to • listen sharply for them until Clarchill, in his solemn speech of Tuesday, aid tfca omiri'ous sentence: "We shall carry oatke fight . . . even if alone...
...in 1937 the Nazis picked up 88,153 tons, and in 1938 230,903 tons...
...Why do yon threaten them with expulsion...
...hut in matjtd of life and death, mathematical iogic...
...This is evidenced by Department of Commerce figures...
...Or do you yet retain some measure of liberty and good sense—and patriotism—to enable you to emancipate yourself from the chains the Communazis are forging for your and your people's necks...
...Bat Washington did nothing aad data JaKf about it, Jsspits unanimous sta^taasat JKWMMV aiding the Allies by all methods short '-¦-A...
...It is a sword of Damocles to be hung over the United States that the Nazis and Communists are forging in your country...
...If ost .-will to resist remains intact, the French mfci well succeed in entrenching themselves f§* eastern part of the country,'until the Pit 194} brings rescue from the British Emitarspd the New World...
...they also state that the threat to cat Italy off from American resources has delayed her entry into the war...
...You accept its support.' You wink at its encouragement of the anti-democratic, anti-Mexican, antiAmerican conspiracy...
...They control completely the apparatus of education, the posts, the telegraphs and the coast survey...
...The rally was held under the auspices of the German American Soccer Glub of New York, the German Sports Club of New York, the Neptun Swimming Club, the New York Gymhasne Club, and a score of others...
...We, the friends of Mexico, have the right to demand an accounting from you...
...Many of these items went to Germany, in one form or another...
...Months ago this column frankly expressed the opinion that (if it were possible, as it is not) the Allies were fully within their right to accept even Fascist Italy's support against Nazi aggression...
...Draeger and Italian Consul Luca Dainelli spoke, overflowing with love for this country...
...They were followed by at least 250 airplane motor?, giving the Allies a potential air force increase of 500 planes during the next fortnight But this was offset by the continued shipment of U. S. scrap steel to Germany via Italy...
...Today we own Germany, tomorrow the world...
...It is from there that the work of establishing secret radio stations and secret refueling stations for submarines is directed...
...The point cow is that this country could have crippled Soviet production by catting off its materials...
...According to the Congressman "the first payment was $4,000,000 in cash in bills from the German consul of New York to Cary Byoir...
...We could write pages of .description...
...Since war broke out Italy has been baying for the Reich...
...In our endeavors to understand and help Mexico we knew that a revolution was not a smooth and easy play, and that not all .its^actors were saints...
...The Nazis already control some aviation landing fields, while the Gestapo continues to smuggle arms into Mexico—into the state of Chiapas, on the extreme south, in the direction of the Panama Canal, and into Sonora, on the north, close to the borders of the United States...
...the Flanders battle, could stand the ¦Bjfc' of a -restless drive, which would have ^jta for months, if neither a separate peace ^France, nor Italian military participation toto achieved...
...Why do you call them on your police carpet...
...Both the Nazis and Stalinists are utilizing the presidential campaign to get a death grip on Mexico and its people...
...We have a historical memory, Cardenas, and we believed that the Mexican Revolution was, with such variations as your country and its history provided, a continuation of the glorious revolutions of the past We knew that, like other revolutions, yours, too, had its heroes and its hyenas...
...To the best of our ability we have bent our minds' and endeavors to the cause of the Mexican people as an integral part of the cause of all mankind Never have we wavered in our patience and sympathy...
...We quote Diego Rivera...
...Again, it is not we, but Rivera who is speaking...
...This conflict between Italian and Russian interests is real...
...Qiyck progress of the Nazi offensive along the Somme line may Anally destroy Mussolini's reluctance —and expose at once Russia's unwillingness (and unability) to check Italy in the Balkans...
...But we had and still have faith in the honest soldiers of your revolution...
...Whh his furious drive against Paris, Hitler ad, beside the purely military goal, a twofold ttjeseciy cutting France off from all evento] communication lines to England, he hopes fcpnh the French into a separate peace—or, ¦ toU fails, ,to encourage Mussolini, who is *5ahit.reluetant, to plunge into the slaughter...
...Toledano...
...They will not permit the democratic peoples to go down in the struggle with Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini...
...U'En" lDC" at 20 ExchanSe Place...
...Sadly enough, it is not Up to the Allies' free will whether or not Russia or Italy may line up with the western world...
...U. S. Still Shipping Vital War Materiel to USSR and Italy Special to Tee New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — If France holds its lines on the Aisne and Somme through this week-end the Allied Air corps will be reinforced by at least 250 of the world's beat bombers...
...We speak to you as American Socialists, as tried and true friends of Mexico, as internationalists who fervently believe that the cause of freedom anywhere is the concern of freedom's lovers everywhere...
...Viereck is a Munich-born German, educated in America...
...You continue to permit "Popular," chief Communist organ, to do its nefarious work for Hitler...
...More of the rallies pictured above and the "sports" dubs will ice to it that it happens here...
...In ether words, Washington has permitted the Soviets to Itarm and modernize its oil field machinery and refining processes even during the invasion of Finland...
...The people of Mexico, "oppressed, hungry, disillusioned," want to control their own destiny...
...i' ¦j^P^gM of dollars of business has been solic?*hr4ood packages for Germany by the 325*' Inc' of Madison Ave., and the...
...taJBtanee,'as well as the new offensive itself t^ttatd to bring about France's spiritual etfispse...
...Your country is swarming with G.P.U...
...In March, 1940, no scrap west to the Reich bat 48,258 tons were shipped to Italy...
...We appeal and we wafti...
...Wr*TWi Hiler^cannot expect that his hordes, **tar the 'terrific exhaustion and the startling **0 in...
...They are filled with German advertisements, German-owned department stores, German-owned import houses, German-owned insurance companies and travel agencies...
...jke outcome of the present battle involves fwatt's national survival—and the French bcir it If they are able to react normally, tky might perform, the miracle now demanded hm them...
...The German conffly*.hat.l7 Battery Place on tie 17th and 12,000 Bundists Use Randall Island Stadium to Heil Hitler These pictures might have been taken at the Sportspalast in Berlin...
...These ar» terrible words, Cardenas, we know...
...We know it from the experience of honest newspapermen with Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini...
...Government officials point oat that there could be no embargo on shipments to Italy because II Dace is technically at peace...
...The meeting was not picketed by the Communists...
...And even Stalin's deep-rooted love for Hitler cannot prevent the growing of fear in Russia that Italy's predominance in the Balkans must make Russia helpless prisoner in the Black Sea, as she became in the Baltic when ,StaIin allowed Germany to start the war and use it for the virtual conquest of Scandinavia...
...Machine...
...It is he, not you, who will be believed...
...Unlike those of selfish interest and narrow vision, we understood the...
...Through all these decades bur hearts have gone out to your people...
...Patman Exposes Berlin's Publicity Agency Here By VINCENT ROGERS Because sentiment in the United States for aid to the Allies is materializing with greater rapidity thfcn Hitler's advisors had foreseen, government authorities here expect some attempt shortly By Berlin to divert and fix American energies in a manner which will physically prevent shipment to London and Paris, or which will neutralize sentiment for the fighting democracies...
...French soldiers' bodies, his (ML.Column is doing the job in Paris, "•selling the big offensive, Hitler has by no ¦tails dropped' the idea of a separate peace flta Trance...
...We may still hope for one or both developments, but we have to face this hoar's gravest danger: that a sinister conspiracy of defeatist French politicians may destroy France's wiH to resist, just when Weygand's army has started to fight with true heroism...
...They practically dominate your so-called Mexican Revolutionary Party and through it the electoral machinery...
...In January, 1939, U. S. merchants seat 11,635 tons of scrap iron to Germany and 26,055 to Italy...
...U.S...
...For it is only evidence of strength, and nothing else which can really neutralise Italy— either quick and demonstrative material help for the Allies from the New World, or an impressive French success in repulsing the Hitler drive...
...But through the barrier of official stance leak some sinister rumors...
...They control the unions of the Mexican Confederation of Labor, led by the notorious servant of Stalin and the G.P.U...
...that you dare not confront your accusers?j Are you already the fuhrer of a fascist state under "Socialist" coloration...
...Think, Cardenas...
...Your candidate Avilla Camacho, is "in the clutches of the Stalin-Hitler combination...
...President of this board, according to Winchell and Congressman Dickstein, is Dr...
...Wfcr has .doubtlessly promised Mussolini a ¦to war and a quick victory...
...But it would finally destroy our generation's chances of ever again seeing the light of a decent peace...
...But you know the rest...
...Acae than that—whispering is spread in diplomatic centers, where inside news is tafst and sold, that the President of the Mitch Republic, Mr...
...The mounting influence of Stalin and hsAj^enchmen in Mexico is a grave peril to the United States and all the American nations similar, if not, greater than Nazism...
...Or do you prefer to feign ignorance...
...Edited 1914 Paper George Sylvester Viereck, author, and Carl Byoir, a New York City public relations man, are the real brain trust of Nazi propaganda in America, it was revealed in Congress recently...
...J* dej^y of Mussolini's entrance into the 5 j...
...But the Churchill cabinet would have to pay terribly if it honestly believed in the actual possibility of Stalin's sudden divorce from the Axis...
...And the center of the conspiracy is in the German legation in your capital, Cardenas...
...That leaves him loitering...
...it is but normal...
...They had the time of their life heiling Hitler, doing the Nazi salute, marching to totalitarian music, and learning how to be good Reich citizens...
...work together for the glory and interests of Berlin and Moscow, of Hitler and Stalin, the two mortal enemies of mankind, of liberty and civilization...
...French Home Front Hit By Pro-Nazi Defeatists As Army Holds on Somme Laval-Bonnet Clique Reported Close to Lebrun By WILLI SCHLAMM Ob May IB the Germans broke through the jjtjjt Maginot Line which Game* in faoilt during the last three peace years...
...consisting of not much •a*, than |he...
...As far as mathematical logic goes, the chances for successful fNBch resistance against -wild Nazi onslaughts j?t no better odds than 1 to 50...
...er is well aware that, while his mecham columns pound against the improvised Mkih defense line...
...There was no lack of the refrain...
...And that is the Mediterranean...
...Your capital has become the seat of t Communazi counter-revolution on this continent...
...After that he was paid $2,000 and $3,000 a month, and on October 1, 1933, he was given a contract signed by German interests, which was approved by the Nazi German Minister of Propaganda, giving Byoir $6,000 a month to assist in spreading German propaganda in America...
...Are you really preparing to stifle the expression of your people's will before the date set for the presidential election?* Or do you plan to defy their will by force not before but after July 7th...
...Executive work is doneby Albert Degener, ex-off ice boy of that organization...
...Do not betray the revolution...
...They were snapped at Randall's Island, the attractive new municipal stadium which lies under the Tri-Boro Bridge—built with the taxpayers money...
...A far-flung Communazi espionage and sabotage organization has been established in Mexico, and you, Cardenas, are silent...
...You have permitted Communist cells and Stalinist parachutists to seize commanding places in every part of your government...
...These folks who support the gang, under all circumstances, would not be ashamed to cry tomorrow "The Yanks Are Coming...
...tapo, too, is entrenched in your government and, as everywhere else, the Gestapo and G.P.U...
...We now appeal to you in this solemn morn ert—when hundreds of thousands are1 laying down their lives for freedom on the battlefields of Europe—not to shatter our faith...
...In 1917 he changed the sheet's name to the "American...
...Keynote speakers asked for friendship between Germany and America...
...They feel the danger of the government machine falling into the hands of the Stalin-Nazi totalitarian...
...Out of the depths of an entire Boon's will to survive, forces may suddenly which make .utterly invalid all sober aJeulations...
...Let him be our witness, supported by the testimony of reputable newspapermen and others who desire only to save your country from a fate worse than Spain's...
...Your intimidation of newspapermen eager to tell the truth is no answer to Rivera's indictment but an affirmation...
...But tomorrow's news can extinguish that ephemeral episode...
...For it is clear that -without such a *8sp»e even the capture of Paris must not •taeuarily end effective French resistance...
...It's Robert Sherwood, in his stirring play "Th^ere Shall be No Night" who gay* "such love will conquer all...
...Which shall it be: with the Gestapo and the Comintern or with the Mexican people and the peoples of the Americas...
...type, hi addition to ttBpaandi of Enfield rifles and field guns...
...During the nearly ten months since Wat broke, the Russians have imported 81 per cent more war materials from the United States than they did before September, 1939...
...for if it is *W * short war, Italy can dare to enter, toto Germany can "at least try to carry on— "jartial-victory in' Western Europe this year #**»t enough to prevent the continuation of SI?0 * 'world-wide scale in years to come— Jw*rtld in such a case have not the slightest because the Balkans and all the toy- Bflropean territories of economic imIJ**ce would1 then be exploited exclusively W Qtrttany...
...It is from him and his party that the call comes to all the Americas to unite against "the common enemy—fascism, communism and Stalinism...
...It is no tradncer of his country who speatts when Rivera charges you with intention to falsify and rape the> will of the Mexican people la the coming elections...
...American fleet when Hitler gives the order, and for the destruction of Allied shipping on this side of the Atlantic...
...Its appeal is the same as that c' Viereck's ''Fatherland...
...The consuls exercised their arms in a series of Nazi and fascist salutes...
...Congressman Patman revealed that these two men began to represent Hitler here early "in 1933...
...This is published by the German Library of Information, its editorial offices are on the same floor, and next door to the German Consulate at 17 Battery Place...
...Food" Shipped To Reich Via Italy A lehetne whereby "food" parcels were shipped 'Mj*rn|any via Italian ships—not subject to or seizure by the Allied blockade authorig« because of Italy's "neutrality"—was dis2"W *is week by the Joint Boycott Council JO* Jewish Labor Committee and the Amer~9f Jewish.Congress...
...Why, Cardenas...
...On August 16, 1939, there appeared in New York a new weekly, "Facts in Review...
...It is to Mexico City that the secret general staff of the American Communist Party, directed by no less a satrap of Stalin than . Manuilsky, has been transported to help Toledano, his so-called unions and his press do their work of conspiracy and destruction...
...The Daily Worker, that we learn of a Communist "militia" of 100,000 in Mexico (armed and financed by Stalin and Hitler) and waiting only for an auspicious moment to seize power and establish a Communazi dictatorship at our doors...
...But it is as "little a Bride as a woman's unexpected and supertaean courage in saving her child from a *tdly danger...
...the addresd of Carl Byoir and Associates is 10 East 40th Street Nazi Trad* Board Walter Winchell, whose source of information —according...
...And this column suggested such a possibility a few weeks ago...
...Patman also said that Byoir was public relations counsellor for business interests worth about $18,600,000...
...Stalin...
...For nearly 30 years, Cardenas, your country has been in the throes of revolution, struggling to emerge from the shadows of dictatorship and feudalism into the sunshine of liberty and social emancipation...
...They are girding for battle...
...There no longer can be any doubt that many of the Nazi guns and planes now hammering their way towards Paris are made oat of American metals...
...has Sttfc place...
...But the same trend which put Stalin into Hitler's bed is still working and has even increased for the past months: the political and material bankruptcy of the Stalin regime within Russia deprives her of any possibility of daring a military conflict with a major power...
...It is from the Daily Worker, too, that we r learn of the march of 250,000 men on May Day in Mexico City, flaunting the bloodstained banner of Soviet Russia and shrieking slogans made in Nazi Germany against England,, against France, against the United States, against democracy and for totalitarian dictatorship...
...Westrick has a large sum of money deposited to bis credit in...
...Look across the Rio Grande and you will see that a mighty revolution is sweeping the thought and policies of the American people...
...ruling, late this Weak by Attorns^ Ctttml Robert Jackson, exjftffatt *M JJHts to .*•> government ordnance of the 75 Mm...
...They are awaking at long last to the peril that confronts them and the world...
...apparently caused by a twofold Italian towsBSM-f-rora Washington as we'd as front ¦ alarming news • reaches Borne...
...These left Stapleton, Staten Island, last Saturday and Sunday aboard fast steamers...
...to newspapermen about town—is J. Edgar Hoover, revealed recently that the Board of Trade for German-American Commerce, Inc., is a Nazi front...
...Not that such a reversal would be unbearable for the Browders...
...C' " v • . Bat what about the Soviets...
...On the contrary—the murderous mjraidvon -Paris, of no particular military...
...The address of the G,-A," Commerce, Inc., and Degener, is 10 East 40th Street It is expected that these men will cooperate ; with- a Drl Westrick, who is now on his way to Waafington, D. C.,: where he ,'$nopes to preaerye German-American trade after the war ends...
...a West Coast bank, according to investigators...
...Daring the first three months of 1940, Moscow bought $59,090,072 in military material compared with $32,509,00 during the same period of 1939...
...These are charges of Rivera and his Revolutionary Party of Workers and Peasants in a plea addressed to the peoples of the American continent...
...These bombers are crack aircraft, weighing from ten to 16 tons, costing more than $300,000 each...
...and Gestapo agents...
...An Open Letter Garden Permits Mexico to Become Vast Gestapo-Comintern Base You are engaged now in a political campaign in which, .although you are not a candidate, your own future, the future of your party and—what is more important—your country and its revolution are at stake...
...Nor are we unaware of the espionage against the United States you are permitting these Hitler-Stalin conspirators to pursue...
...tht4gm» need them tato woe* to"oatdt iba *M*Jmt ping these gufcs to England and France, tat to bolster the WeygaadXtoa, li»mmT%tmtfc* War Department MMMfef Jt sett total toll hundreds to Finland in Afrik...
...And if America's intention to help the Allies materially crystallizes quickly enough, Mussolini may loiter even more and for a much longer time...
...obstacles, the difficulties, the pitfalls confronting your people...
...And why do you seek to terrorize newspaper* men who tell the American people what is happening in your country...
...Are you already so completely the prisoner of the conspirators...
...Cardenas, these are terriblecharges...
...Think—and act before it is too late...
...But they 'are not merely our words...
...On August 10, 1914, he began publishing a weekly paper "The Fatherland," which rushed to the defense of Germany...
...However, it J^^Bithat these packages—shipped as perSJJjJPtoperty of Italian sailors—contains vital IVtaKafa and minerals needed by Germany for jSL...
...But we never knew Rivera to falsify...
...With the aid of these armed Communist mobs the agents of Hitler in your country plan to create a diversion south, of the Rio Grande when they deem it necessary, so that the United States may find it difficult to go to the help of France and England in the war...
...It is because we are deeply concerned with the outcome, which will profoundly affect us in the United States, too, that we address yau at this moment—a heroic, tragic moment for the whole of Western civilization...
...But even this sonata to* lata...
...We are not unaware of plans to establish submarine bases along the Mexican coasts to be used against the...
...Lebrun, is inclined to tank.this group...
...They are the words and warning of the greatest living son of yonr revolution, the one Mexican universally respected in our country as a great artist, and equally great patriot We do not quote ourselves...
...Even that would rto ced the war—as long as England remains resolved to carry on to the finish...
...Washington then could ' have aaed its diplomatic corps to force Russia to halt its shipments to the Reich military and cease sabo^ tage activity on the home fronts of the Allies...
...he is not eager to serve as an auxiliary lieutenant in Hitler's army...
...You know now who helps pay Toledano's paper and printing bills...
...We know what this implies...
...On Sunday, May the 12, more than 12,000 German"Americans" met in a so-called "sports festival...
...You have your choice, Cardenas...
...today Weygand 101 ft> Bold a defense line along th Somme the Aisne which he had to create in three glfe of defeat and despair...
...jf?V*S:'(»mpanies operate through the "Deutsjf1, BSndels- und Wirtschartsdienst on the nS* B°or at i7 Battery Place...
...And the Churchill cabinet runs the risk of victimizing much of its moral capital in an adventure which may end not only as a failure but even as a practical aid for the Russian side of the totalitarian conspiracy aimed at destroying the British Empire, For the time being, however, the renewed Anglo-Russian flirting has somehow slowed, down Italy's eagerness to march...
...Although such an unhappy oeetellation, ¦ if existing, explains why the flffkfcas .Georges Mandel has still not comitataiy silenced, the traitors—I refuse to beftat the rumor., But the mere fact that it eild be spread with some chance of being Waved shows a cancer working in -unhappy lance's bleeding body: this nation 4s now at Mclimax of a crisis unparalleled in- her his% eterytnfetf can happen daring- such' a i ?r—the miracle as well as downfall into the atot misery...
...But they weren't...
...But it is not only Toledano's press but virtually the entire Mexican press that defends Nazi aggression, while the Communists pursue the objectives of Moscow's line...
...We are told you are not a Communist, Cardenas, but you are playing a perilous game by making a marriage of convenience with Communists, by encouraging their activities, by permitting them to organize and arm mobs to be incited and used against the freedom of ' your own people and the peace and security of the United States...
...It was charged in Congress that Viereck "was a partner of Byoir, and that "these two men direct all Nazi publicity here...
...The activities of this bloc, pursued with your blessing and cooperation, are "not only un-American, but against the whole of civilization and human rights...
...The ¦ Communazis may need you for some time longer but you, too, will go the way of all pseudorevolutionary flesh, Cardenas, when they no longer have need of you...
...He thinks, of course, of Fascist Italy's selfish stake...
...if and when the boss who finances the show were to give that order...
...And now Mussolini sees good y*"* Set only to believe in England's resoluteness to proceed, if it must be from overseas, but also to expect American cooperation with the British Empire...
...We had faith in you, Cardenas, because we believed you to be the continuator of the noblest representatives of the Mexican liberation movement from Juarez to Diego Rivera...
...Enthujaitic writers have called it the French gift of performing miracles...
...Or have you already surrendered it...
...Rather than concentrating all' his forces on the rather dangerous attack against France, Mussolini would prefer a stroke against the Balkans, and from there against Turkey, Egypt and the Suez Canal...
...The Ges...
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