Red Revolution in Reich

...TPHE great depression revealed the in* ability of private enterprise to cope with the disasters it produced...

...up another question: To what extent is Adolf Hitler's Third Reich already bolshevistic...

...Neither a Goebbels nor a Himmler is conceivable without the example set by Moscow...

...AUTARCHY, trade monopoly, quarantining against the world "™ market, four-year and five-year plans, the "organizing of consumption," with the resultant scarcity of -necessaries, overwork, speeding system—and all this lauded with wild propaganda clamor as the eighth wonder of the world, which is due only to the Fuhrer's goodness and wisdom—from beginning to end- it matters not whether one speaks of Hitler or of Stalin...

...The only persons who can have an interest in such a change are those who would like to save the existing system by disguising it, not those who hate it and wish to do away with it...

...He went to Panama from Washington to campaign on a pro-democracy platform...

...Before the rise of Hitler there was a very large socialized sector in Germany's economic life...

...That the Nazis can expropriate "Aryan" just as well as Jewish capital, when its owners become troublesome, is illustrated by the case of Thyssen...

...This showed pretty well how the land lay...

...a barrier to the best prevention and relief, including specialist care, that medical science can provide...

...This is only so far true, that in Russia the campaign of plunder was directed against the bourgeois, in Germany against the Jews...

...It was he who f^feke the wishes of the United States Government in the purely "•^-American matters concernjag the attitude* of the western hemisphere toward the war...

...PARIS.—Hitler has invaded Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg...

...You are fighting not for your future In Hitler's army and in his war factories, but in the open afid secret struggle against the Hitler System and against the Hitlerian war...

...OOCIALIST economic planning will raise the standard of living, and will be supplemented by a wide range of social services...

...For seven years Communist working men in Germany have struggled bravely against Hitler and for democracy...

...The community must not again be left exposed to the jerry-builder and the rackrenting profiteer...

...But in Russia the capitalists have been expropriated and in Germany they have not—is not this a great difference...

...in both countries it is parties that rule, and the German bourgeoisie are not the dominant element in the governing party, but rather they are Its trembling subjects...

...We demand that this courage and this imagination shall be given full national opportunity...

...Some -stories were woven around the sending of the cruiser Quincy to South American coast ports, i«obably for the purpose of overawing Nazi: leaders at Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and /Buenos Aires...

...The experience of the war is throwing a fresh light on some'problems of regional organization...

...What Hitler was not able to accomplish—the rooting out of Communism la Germany—Stalin has achieved Not to bolsbevise Germany, hut to free her from either brown or red bolshevism, is the task of the next German revolution...

...To support his candidacy, about eighteen independent political parties, all more or less anti' fascist and democratic, formed a coalition to campaign for Alfaro...

...The organization which is essential to the safety of the nation irt war, and without which victory is impossible, is, in its underlying principles, equally necessary in times 'of peace...

...A'rnulfo Arias, who was not otherwise described, was elected as -president without opposition...

...the recent death of President ^Arosemena, the Government of ' ranama answered like a well-balWced rudder to the hand of the Washington government at the . .*heeL Dr...

...This was the ^election last Sunday In Panama, '"Were the Axis came out top best -'tjforie of those bitterly contested 'skirmishes for position in His" panic- America...

...supposedly an out1 landing pro-American in Pan| American affairs...

...The Labor Party will give the unemployed a fair deal...

...The provisions of school milk and meals must be greatly increased...

...Arias got about "100,000...

...Every individual, therefore, can use his efforts to oppose tin Hitlerism war...

...But the press, which has never until now given serious thought to a basic study of the other Americas, bogged down completely on the most significant devdopment of all...

...Hitler must die, so that Germany may' live...

...i Germans, Revolt...

...Red Revolution" in Reich Would Have No Meaning By FRIEDRICH STAMPFER IF HITLER FALLS, will Germany go bolshevist...

...This whole new-fashioned system for dominating the masses was invented by the Russian Bolshevists (Communists) and taken over by the German Nazis...

...The Labor Party holds the view that, wisely ^provided and efficiently administered, these services are 4 a definite addition to national well-being...

...What will now come is Hitler's doing—is the fault of the criminal whose rule you have submitted to fur seven long years...

...national wealth, and the other into active and valuable citizens...

...Above all, it would arrest the decay of men...

...Life Line Periled New Panama President Seen Front for Mussolini By BRYCE OLIVER Nevoa Commentator at WKVD-, New York fyOR the past few days, the press of this nation has been stressing excitement over the Fifth Column in such countries as Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina...

...It is, however, altogether false to maintain that the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class, is the ruling power in Germany...

...The post-war period will, like the last, see a great housing shortage and a demand for new standards...

...There wasn't much to it...

...This is party that nominated Arias, *ho decidedly prefers the fascist . *^of doing things...

...UNLESS, however, there is careful planning now, in war-time, for a great program of economic and social development after the war, the end of hostilities may well bring industrial disaster...

...The erection of publicly-owned plants in the mining areas for the extraction of oil and other valuable by-products from coal, to be worked in conjunction with the socialized mining industry...

...As part of the development of publicly owned and publicly administered resources, it would go to the root of the unemployment problem...

...The Communists say it too...

...The revolutionary antithesis of Hitlerism is not dictatorship of the proletariat," but democracy...

...Alfaro, — *Wte" enthusiasm for the United democracy is well known...

...The extension of maternity and child welfare, of the care of children in the pre-school years, and of open-air nursery schools, is urgent...

...The aged and infirm must be given that security and modest comfort which hitherto have been denied them...

...They were not to vote...

...The Labor Party proposes such a program to include, among other items: The reequipment of socialized industries, and also of industries not yet socialized, but requiring drastic measures of reorganization under public control.» Electrification, including the electrification of the socialized railway system...

...Agricultural development, including a vigorous extension of afforestation and forest holdings, based on the public ownership of the land...

...Do not give rise to the impression that Hitler's will is the will of Germany...

...At every turn of the campaign ; the government obstructed Alfaro until supporters began talking revolution...

...His aviators have bombarded open cities in Holland, Belgium and France...

...TTKOSE GERMAN working men who voted the Communist ticket up to March, 1933 were earnest opponents of Hitler and his system...

...The employees of the numerous governmental departments and the public institutions were far from being rightless slaves...

...g That's about the length and "breadth of the story as it ap'.peared in our biggest and most "complete newspapers...

...Neither in Germany nor in Russia does any class rule...

...The German Republic of 1918 to 1933 was anti-bolshevistic...

...A FTER the War of 1914-18, the nation began at long last to deal with housing...

...People of Germany...

...Civilian lives have been lost...

...The artistic devices by which an economic system can fabricate whatever quantities of paper money it needs, without directly producing inflation, was prepared for Schacht by Russia, In "The Experiment of Bolshevism," by the German economist Arthur Feiler, which was published long before the rise of Hitler, many pages are taken up with explanations of the Russian manipulation of valuta which exactly fit the" later masterpieces of Herr Schacht...

...TJITLER WOULD perhaps disappear, and be succeeded by some **other ffihrer...

...On the importance of a healthy and vigorous system of local government, we lay great emphasis...

...And that is why Arias, with fascist support, was elected president of Panama with almost no opposition...

...Arias, formerly minister of Panama to Rome, has been remarkably outspoken in praise of the fascist regime and everybody in the American tropics imjizes that in a showdown between the Axis and the United States he would be sympathetic to Mussolini...

...There must be ample provision of parks and open spaces, a rigorous planning and control of developing areas, and the constructive preservation of the countryside...

...A big reception...

...An hereditary Second Chamber like the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism...

...In general the social relations in republican Germany resembled that which prevailed in the Western democracies rather than those of Soviet Russia...

...There were about 100,000 votes Cast and Dr...

...Only with such slogans as these could the nothing people be aroused for struggle against Hitler...

...This program would provide extensive Return to bondage—it Hitler wins employment in many industries and in many different districts...

...His opponent, according : to...

...The whole effect would be a change of firm names, not a change of the system...

...While Hitler was staging frenzied rhetorical attacks upon the Soviets and assuring the world that he and only he could-and would defend it against the dangers of Bolshevism, German conditions were steadily becoming like those in Soviet Russia...

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...The Allies are determined to fight with all their might to obtain the final victory and to give blow for blow...

...It is no accident that after the fall of the German Republic their leaders no longer spoke about the "dictatorship of the proletariat," but about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of organization, the Rights of Man aa proclaimed in The Great French Revolution, government by law, equality of civic rights...

...And that's what makes last Sunday's national election in Panama of such great importance to "'the United States...

...But there would remain the cult of "leadership," complete lack of civil liberty, police rule penetrating into every nook and corner of the people's life, depression of wages, the speeding-up system, shortage of the necessaries of life...

...moral support of proAmerican interests within Pan!ffia were placed behind an op**x&g candidate who could be | Wonted upon to be pro-AmeritV1- This man was Dr...

...press, was Dr...

...It would add to the national wealth, and save expenditures on unemployment benefit and assistance...

...If you take part in this struggle for Hitler, if you share the guilt for his crime, then, woe to Germany...

...Socialist local authorities, with courage and imagination, have shown what can be done within their present powers...

...was - arranged for him but when he arrived in Panama some of his supporters were mobbed and the police (a la Jersey City) made no effort to protect them...

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...the labor relations which prevailed in this field bear witness that an increase in the influence of the government in industry does not necessarily mean slavery to the state...

...on the contrary, they enjoyed much more liberty than did the workers employed in private industry...

...It is natton¦iatic and accordingly leans somewhat to fascist or Nazi prin' ^jPles, but at the same time that * was nationalistic it respected 1 ¦**ed States interests...

...The German bourgeoisie, however, has never stood out courageously against the state, and least of all during the seven years of the Hitler regime...

...The Labor Party will utilize medical discovery to the full...

...It requires no blueprint to show why...

...But these rifles, grenades and machine guns were German arms...

...J*HIS Government was held in Power—and is—by a party ! jailing itself the National Revohjttonary Party...

...For those in need, assistance must be sufficient...

...From the mouths of the same persons who had preached the crusade against Hitler-Germany, they must listen to the silly talk about an imperialistic war" being waged by England and France against Germany...

...You are still being deceived...

...nor to see them left stagnant and wasting, after the profit has been squeezed put of them...

...The Labor Party proposes that the end of this war shall see a determined effort to deal with the problem decisively...

...It gave individuals the fullest freedom of speech and press, of thought and action—perhaps even more freedom than was consistent with the common good...

...but it does not accept the view—inherent in the capitalist system—that large-scale unemployment is either, necessary or beyond the nation's power to prevent...

...The procedure of the House of Commons must be reformed to enable it to grapple with the problems of the positive state...

...The same holds good for the undeservedly renowned Hjahnar Schacht...

...Lack of means must not be...

...The cabinet system and the grouping of the departments need a thorough overhaul, and the areas and functions of local government require adaptation to the needs of a new time...

...The provision by the community fOr its members, of security—against the economic ' deprivations of unemployment, ill-health, and old age, and of services which develop bodily and mental health and generous living, is in the forefront of Labor's program...

...Building in conformity with careful regional planning, to include houses, schools, hosptials, holiday camps, village halls, and other public buildings and amenities...

...nor must tenants be left without protection against excessive rents...

...Reasons are being given you to justify this crime of Hitler's, but these reasons are false...

...Before explaining the significance of just what has happened, I.will give you the surface reports as they appeared in the press of the United States...

...In War and Peace British Labor Demands Socialist Economic Program to Meet War Strain I dNDON (Passed by the Censor).— Socialist planning of the nation's economic life will make possible a new direction for the -social services...

...The harsh injustices of the "means test" must go...

...And so the charge that Alfaro's people were concealing arms did not get very far...

...we must see that political power rests effectively, in accordance with popular will, in the popularly elected chamber...

...fVNLY AFTER Hitler's access to power did the ideological and " practical approach to Wshevistic policies begin...

...It was smuggled into the Reich...

...And the German Social Democracy, flattered and courted and ogled through recent years, is now once more their "Hauptfeind," their chief object of attack...

...Hitler tells you that the struggle which is now beginning will decide the fate of the German people for the next thousand years...

...in the Third Reich individuals are compelled to sacrifice their well-being and their liberty to the state, weiring it ever stronger and more powerful...

...Every individual counts in the Hitler - system's war - making...

...Boyd, who took over presidency after Arosemena's ; 4*ia» was...

...to endure the bitter experience of seeing Stalin shake hands with Hitler, of hearing their former leaders, at a word from Moscow, forswear all that they had upheld as sacred truth...

...We German Social Democrats appeal to the German people: Overthrow Hitler and save Germany from the terrible results of the total war...

...The hammer and sickle would take the place of the, swastika...

...Ricardo J. Alfaro...

...Join in the struggle against him, each in his place, each according to his opportunities^ Germany's fate is at stake, your own fate, and that of your children is at stoke...

...But the state, in the Third Reich, is simply the governing party—or rather the bureaucracy of the ruling party—with the Third Reich at its head...

...In view of all this, we have to ask: If Germany should some day become bolshevistic, wherein would it then differ from what it is today...

...Take every means of nuking opposition to this criminal war of Hitler's...

...The exiled German Social Democratic Party issued the following appeal to the German people...

...Every individual has in his hands a particle of the decision as to the future of Germany...

...In many industrial and agricultural enterprises the private "captains of industry" would be replaced by government officers, who would be pushing members of the Nazist party...

...This 'jnay have been true, to a certain .extent, and also it has been neces. sary—especially , lately...

...But it would not be a revolution, but rather a last effort to prevent social revolution by a tricky maneuver...

...the reports carried in the U.S...

...Full medical care will be made available, through the local authorities, for everyone who needs it, whether in the home, hospital, or at the clinic...

...Any employer in Germany can very quickly be reduced to poverty by the cutting-off of credit, of materials, or of labor-power, and for fear of the concentration camp he must silently submit In such a state as Germany is today, the existence of a strong and self-conscious bourgeoisie would be most welcome, for it would be some kind of a counterpoise to the party dictatorship...

...To stabilize this new political order a system of Propaganda plus Terror was set up, which was directly copied from the Russian...

...the grim debris of • industrial devastation must be cleared away...

...At last, convinced that the pro-democracy campaign had ' been completely broken down by strong-arm methods, Alfaro instructed his supporters to go on an election strike...

...American secret service agents looked into the matter and whispered some curious things.' Among them were: "If Alfaro had arms they would naturally be arms furnished by the United States, and therefore American arms...

...In a series of raids they disclosed some caches Of arms, which Alfredo and his supporters swear they knew nothing about...

...Such a change as this is not impossible...

...It has bowed and trembled...

...They have carried on a rashly open propaganda, for which many have gone to the concentration camp or to the scaffold The Communist workers were hunted down like wild game by the Sturm-Staff el and the Sturm-Abteilungen...

...This is one of the questions most frequently put to a German traveling in the United States...

...It was almost fantastic—the Sumner in which the Arias supporters swept the pro-American iAlfaro out of the running...

...Many more special schools and classes are needed for children with physical or mental defects...

...And now these old-time rniiifcuiiimm have...

...The school medical service must be rapidly developed, to secure the early detection and treatment of all "physical defects and illness...

...The only thing that remains of the pro-American force is that silent protest of no vote...

...We are not prepared to watch resources and workers lie idle—at the cost of the future—until it seems profitable to private enterprise to use them...

...General planning, closely associated with the proper location of industry, must be conceived on regional lines...

...The fact is that after all these years, the Republic of Panama has now elected a" president whose views, admirations and associations are so dangerous for the United States that his election, at a time when our own people are beginning to realise that the danger is real, amounts to a victory for the Borne- Berlin Axis over the U. S. *W this at the key point...

...Ill-health is a loss to the nation, against which -the nation owes it citizens the best possible safeguards...

...I * . * * "| TP to now, Washington's dipfM lomatic maneuverings have made the Republic of Panama a airly safe place for-the canal, h other South American capitis it has been said, with a bit if- asperity at times, that Pansma^ City is a capital in name only, and that the real decisions of the Panama Government have Jfeen taken at Washington...

...Dr...

...Ill-health and ill-feeding compete with unemployment in taking heavy toll of our people...

...And J*t, it was this very government which made the strange election « Arias a possibility...

...V All reports coming out of Germany make it evident that a working-class Communist movement no longer exists there...

...The Labor Party is not prepared again to watch-the- grim-spectacle of distressed areas and decaying men, when a policy of Socialist development can transform the one into sources of...

...In the German Republic the basic function of the state was to assure to all individuals the m.Timntn of liberty and Well-being...

...There must be a great program of houses to let at rents which the workers can afford...

...They say that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie prevails in Germany, in Russia the dictatorship of the proletariat, and that this is a distinct difference...

...There is a tragic sense in which war is a great public works program in relief of capitalism in crisis...

...In other words a bolshevistic revolution cannot be effected in Germany, though it may be "staged," and the actors in the play would be the Nazis themselves...

...Therefore we say to all of you: to the soldiers at the front and at the base, to the men and women who are working in the munition factories, to the farmers and agricultural laborers, to the forced laborers who are constructing fortifications and building roads, to the railwaymen, to the sailors and to all who have to work for Hitler's war...

...Do not be accomplices either in your acts or in your obedience, in your silence, your toleration or your approval...

...THE Labor Party recognizes that an economic and social program of this magnitude will call for reforms in the machinery of government...

...In order to answer it we must, in my opinion, first take...

...Little Panama held presidential election and Dr...

...And how was it, people in Colon and Balboa asked, that the Government was so quickly able to "discover" small caches of German arms, so close to the canal Washington also has been interested to' know...

...Reports like this are beginning to awaken the somewhat somnolent people of this country to the dangers...

...These can be undertaken without impairing at any point a full respect for the spirit of parliamentary democracy...

...This, apparently, was what-the government was waiting for...

...drastic and rapid slum clearance, and tile abolition of over-crowding...

...You have been deceived and misled...

...Hitler has begun the total war...