Gov't Fails to Crack Down On Sabotage Agencies Here
ROGERS, VINCENT
Gov't Fails to Crack Down On Sabotage Agencies Here By VINCENT ROGERS There are some 20,000,000 persons of German descent, and about 7,000,000 '-=fWI<i»i4t'-<ke United States, the vast majority of...
...There are events the symbolic horror of which is just beyond man's mean ability to adapt himself to almost everything...
...Leandro Forno who in 1920 launched the first fascist movement in Vi-cenza, Italy...
...the heavy fighting infantry forces of we 19 weak National Guard infantrv PS* They lack sufficient artillery...
...It will have just begun...
...The various German tourist bureaus and travel agencies in the United States employ over two thousand men...
...preparing to defend their liberties and the freedom of the world...
...Curt Geyer, and all the other leaders, working formerly at the party headquarters, have been in the .new office for two weeks...
...It is there, with Havana as the centre, that another Communazi springboard for hostilities against the United State* is' being established...
...and if not free from Russian threats, Turkey will certainly not hurry to give that cooperation...
...parts of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and parts of the DJiboati railway, were ceded—pins recognition ef Italian concession demands in Ethiopia...
...Such action would immediately .cripple espionage and sabotage activities and stop suddenly the spread of anti-Semitic, anti-democratic propaganda...
...Men who have devoted themselves to investigation of Communist, Bundist, and Fascist activity during the past few years are urging immediate action—during peace time—against the fifth column men' and fronts so that the public would know, if war were declared by the United States, that those Germans and Italians against whom the government has not acted are loyal anti-Nazis and anti-Fascists...
...to'prddttce-amf t**sena' an^'ar^aanceor wchines...
...E. A. Otto, is director, announced at his headquarters, 331 Madison Avenue, this week, that the organization was set up after the visit of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Hirer's personal emissary, who also reorganized Bund activities while he was here...
...No Lone Island for Us And also these words of the President: - "Some, indeed, still hold to the now obvious delusion that we of the United States can safely permit the United States to become a lone island in a world dominated by the philosophy of force...
...This, not Hitler's approaching victory in the battle for Paris, is the outstanding, most significant development of the week, the most fatal week of the war...
...Reich Social Democrats Still Active in France The Executive of the German Social Democratic Party, it is learned from Dr...
...This was his answer to Mr...
...On Monday, too, we moved to place Army and Navy planes and other equipment in .substantial quantities at the disposal of the Allies...
...It will be America's reply to Hitler's blitzkrieg...
...not the...
...If Italy, now almost safe from Allied air attacks, can strike with'her 5,000 planes deep...
...Southern maneuvers rethat we have no armored divisions...
...He, Vargas, has proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the Axis Trojan Horse forces in Latin America...
...There is another bund camp at Newfoundland, New Jersey, only a short distance from the Picatinny Arsenal, a naval base...
...more important than the gigantic Maginot Line...
...And again someone prepares somewhere the most formidable defense of all times...
...Radio Station WOV has for years been the mouthpiece of Italian fascism here...
...All these speculations came very mAl^to the truth...
...and this is one of them...
...The French, of course, have no illusions...
...The purpose: to create a political and military diversion that is to tie the hands of this country and make it impossible for us to come to the assistance of France and England...
...have there not been rumors for some years that he favorably inclined towards fasciim ? ' There were reasons, a few months ago, to look for Italy's entrance into the war as a welcome Allfya Opportunity to strike With vigorous strength against the Axis' weakest spots...
...Mobilization of the National SSL?0* would provide hardening and ex-jr™n<e for a quarter-million men...
...National United Italian Association, Inc...
...On March 25, 1939, Mussolini formulated his demands—Tunisia, Djibouti and the Sees Canal...
...On Monday President Roosevelt east aside the firesftle chat manner and told the world, frankly, boldly and unmistakably, where the American people stand in this titanic struggle- Let every American, every Socialist, every trade unionist keep the President's words in mind: "Let us not hesitate—all of us—to proclaim certain truth*.;PveTwlielm1lBgsF;*sr *»" *' "nation, and this applies to all other American nations, are convinced that military and naval victory for the gods of force and hate would . endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western world—and that equally, therefore, the whole bf our sympathies lie with those nations which are giving their life-blood in combat against those forces...
...and Mr...
...whose fascist character has been amply illustrated in past editions of II Mondo...
...On Monday the United States dropped its attitude of neutrality and became, to all intents and purposes, a non-belligerent, preparatory to active participation in the war...
...In June 1940 . a thousand planes may make the world safe— not for democracy, just safe...
...They are collaborating closely with the French Socialist Party,-which forms part of the Reynaud government ¦ i . They have been joined by many German Socialists formerly residing in Holland and Belgium...
...the New York Branch, Alpini National Association, in Rockefeller Center...
...after all, we have won more time to prepare the most .formidable defense of all times...
...On Tuesday the Daily Worker informs us, Batista visited Communist headquarters in Ha-vana, when pledges of support were exchanged between Communist leaders and the Cuban aspirant to Hitler's role in the Caribbean...
...Their Mediterranean fleets cannot strike vith full force, because naval strength is not sufficient If not combined with strength in the skies...
...However, at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Italy made extensive claims for parts of East Africa...
...Desperately enough, it all depends on a few hundred air planes...
...Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare of a people without freedom, a people lodged in prison, handcuffed, hungry, and fed through the bars from day to day by the contemptuous, unpitying masters of other continents...
...Jane 10th, the jackal struck...
...The struggle is moving toward the final, inevitable line-up, in which ----------the New World, the United States of America, will take its stand—sword in hand—by the side of' the embattled hosts of liberty and civilization in the Old...
...This, of course, is only the beginning, the first trickle of the mighty streams of weapons, armaments, planes, tanks, guns, ships, that will, before long, take its course from this side of the Atlantic toward the battlefields of Europe...
...The London treaty of 1915 had satisfied Italy's colonial claims...
...Rudolf Breitscheid, Dr...
...Through these media they have succeeded in multiplying their number...
...German agents are just as active...
...Each of these centers is a nest of fascist propagandists...
...The full list can be obtained by writing to II Mondo, 80 Fourth Ave...
...and even the appointment of a cynical fe'llow-trav-eler to the post of British ambassador to Moscow will little change the fact that Stalin is Stalin...
...France Fights To Gain Time for World to Arm By WILLI SCHLAMM Mever was France greater, never the French nation more magnificent, than in this moment -of dark trial...
...The Allied Near East army is morally and materially weakened, by the slaughters in France/and the Low Lands...
...About two weeks ago a nVw Nazi Bund camp was opened near Passaic to train the "Hitler Youth of America...
...But the war will not be over...
...Can the Allies dare launch Ian offensive on the fronts around the Mediterranian f As much as the Balkan nations now make love to the Axis—secretly, almost all of them are praying that the answer to that momentous question of an offensive may be in tlwjf affirmative...
...few hundred air planes' at hand which are necessary to cripple Italy's war industry...
...Although the German Red Cross recently refused an offer of cooperation extended by the American Red Cross the Nazis have set up The American Committee for German Relief Fund, Inc...
...Gaetano Ferri, who speaks of himself as "a fascist of the first house...
...The United States federal authorities are fully aware of what occurs...
...Imperial Rome Educational Center...
...magnificent France of today expects that the New World will not stubbornly continue to erect a traditional defense system, whose base would necessarily collapse, if Europe's Western coast Were allowed to fall into aggressive Prussia's ruthless hands...
...When the sinister ' test came, little Czechoslovakia's abandoned fortifications proved to have been far...
...j? -..-•»* *¦ But at least she has won the right to expect that the rest of the world wfll not repeat the fatal error...
...Hans Vogel, Friedrich Stampfer, Dr...
...Italy's cause was certain...
...The mobilization of America's enemies on this continent under the direction of Berlin, and with the active aid of Stalin and Mussolini, has begun...
...Their trade isn't exactly flourishing—what do they do with their time...
...No action is being taken...
...And on Stalin...
...Italian Legion...
...Tlpr twenty -years the France of the Brass M and Red Tape has built up a tremendous aty of the traditional type...
...Some of the broadcasters, identified in the Italian Who's Who, are Giovanni Favoino Di Giura, former secretary of Italian Fascists Abroad...
...In Boston Francis P. Moran, who is considered Father Coughlin's No...
...these demands were partially settled by the Bonin-Pichon agreement of that year...
...and a score of others...
...Committee pro Italian Language...
...But this clarification is all to the good...
...Rudolf Hilferding, Dr...
...Against terrible odds, in the midst of a shamefully coward and defeatist world, France apparently has made up her mind to fight to the end...
...Actual fifth column agents and their followers here constitute a.minute group—probably no more than 100,000 out of the 27,000,-000 who may soon.find their home countries enemy nations...
...On June 9th the Nazis opened Camp Nord-land, a German-American Bund recreation center...
...There mechanized cavalry division being cre-2*^The nearest approach of the American* to...
...His name is Captain Otto Stennes, and he was Germany's chief agent in the Ruhr and Rhine regions when those sectors experienced heavy sabotage...
...now Mussolini may well become a decisive asset for Hitler's race against time...
...U.S...
...Behind the seemingly innocent activity of "teaching the Italian language" these organisations conduct tiie boldest foam of fascist propaganda...
...Space prevents a listing of all the fronts created here by the German and Italian governments...
...Polimeni, who prides himself "an ambassador of Italian ism in America...
...Once more Stalin has an opportunity to be of momentous service to his fellow fascists...
...That was Stalin's contribution to the Duce's stab in the back...
...Shipment of the rifles, and the field guns in April and IW Hay would have changed the situation in ifflg* today...
...The action of the American people will also come in time...
...into the Southern parts of France, Weygand's ajhny may soon be in the unhappy position of Poland's trapped, but never defeated, troops...
...France's present strategy is as simple as ire all acts of true human dignity: being punified for a criminal lack of machines, she is ssolved to produce an abundance of bravery Ski sacrifice, so that theoutgide world hagjthe...
...They desperately need every" single one to prevent the French retreat from becoming a rou...
...When Mussolini called for colonies again in 1935, the Rome Accords signed by Laval* and II Duce supposedly settled all claims' a strip of French SomaliUnd...
...Lictor Federation...
...Even if England's and France's colonial arm-• ies were to invade Italy's Ethiopia and) Lybia— Mussolini would be able to get back these temporarily lost colonies (and some fat adjustments in addition in the forthcoming, final partition of the booty...
...The play is proceeding along the long-prearranged lines...
...Its headquarters was recently moved from Paris to a city in Southern France...
...It is known that Federal agents after long investigation have separated the saboteurs from the others in the national groups —buf the war fever when it spread doesn't work with the science of the F.B.I...
...ident Roosevelt's speech and the Nazi-"•Pned diversion in South - America have J...
...Western Europe's appeal for eventual allies in the Balkans and for her formal Turkish ally is gone 'because' of last week's events...
...This maximum would turn out to be as useless as the splendid Maginot Line is over there, if the European basis of any conceivable defense of the New World is permitted to collapse...
...He •Bed in General Marshall and within a few •7* the Allies bought 600,000 Enfield rifles, British 75 millimeter field artillery guns, Browning machine guns, 5,000 Stakes mortars...
...Behind Mussolini's thrust this week at strategic Djibouti—an effort to close the Suez Canal route and thus choke the life-lines of the Allies' resources — lies a story of thrust and parry, compromise and betrayal...
...There are gfthan 70,000 airplane pilots in the United ^Kes outside the armed services, many .of FDR for Action as Vargas Fires First Axis Shot atU Jy By the time these lines appear in print Paris, the capital Of world democracy anil world civilization, may be in the hands of the Barbarians...
...Some 1,500 persons attended...
...They lost because they were cut off from all supplies of modern ammunition...
...They reveal that as late as March 14, 1940, long after unanimous Wtunent for "all help short of war" had crystallized, certain Army officials pre^ Hated-the sale to England of 1,80%000 Enfield rifles lying idle in government Hwhooaes...
...And millions of American.hoy* wffl,grow up in the peaceful landscape of free America, if the New World understands in time, that France is more than a countryside "somewhere over there...
...To^help Hitler, Mussolini stabbed Frances in?ne back...
...ever felt the tran-leendental beauty of that shrine of mankind's proudest and most subtle heritage...
...Names of Fascist Groups In this month's edition of II Mondo, Italian anti-fascist magazine which has-for years urged the government to take action against H Dace's network here, the editors reveal the names and addresses of 7 fascist centers in New York City alone...
...And when We say, that the war will have just 'begun, we have in mind, of course, the entry of the United States into the conflict...
...Thus spoke the President of the United States on Monday, when he denounced Fascist Italy for plunging her stiletto into the back of France...
...J** the United States has more than 1,000,000 "™ of military age who have had first-class r™*Jy training and who could, fit quickly into ?**e«i army...
...II It is of little use to fool ourselves: the skunk, though it naturally stinks, knows whenlto do it: While Fascist Italy, entering the war, would have been a terrible liability for HitlerJ the Allies paid gladly for her neutrality, instead of chosing the proper moment at their own convenience...
...Losing the Paris region, after the loss of the Northern industrial territory', means the loss of almost half of France's productive power...
...Walter Winchell, who of late has become an authority on such news, reveals that Nazis Busy, Tee a German secret agent has just arrived in New York by way of San Francisco, where he saw Reich Consul Fritz Wiedemann...
...Nobody is surprised if a skunk Stinks...
...He did not mince his words...
...Now she pays for her...
...Perhaps the Swastika flag tomorrow will ravish Paris, most beloved flower of Western culture—an idea which is bodily painful to everyone who has...
...The President spoke in time...
...Hitler's two jackals worked in unison as was to be expected^ ~ At every critical moment, beginning with the Moscow-Berlin pact, which lit .the conflagration, Stalin has added his bit to the military and diplomatic ¦ moves of the totalitarian...
...We may be thankful to the Brazilian dictator, however...
...In a note on Dec 17,1938, Foreign Minister Ciano declared that the Rome accords had been "suppressed by events," that the creation of the "Ethiopian Empire had established new rights of fundamental importance...
...To encourage Japan to strike at the United States, if need be, Stalin at the same time announces an agreement with Tokyo relieving the Japanese miltarists of any possible embarrassment in Manchukuo...
...Rudolf Katz, its American representative and Executive Secretary of the German Labor Delegation in U.SA.., is continuing its activities without interruption...
...Roosevelt's attempt to mediate the questions of claims and avert a war...
...continuing the routine of defense preparations after the stronghold of Czechoslovakia was,destroyed meant next to nothing, simply because the traditional prerequisites no longer dated...
...Yes, the line-up in this hemisphere as well as in Europe is proceeding according to plan...
...It was through Vargas that Hitler and Mussolini chose to make their reply to President Roosevelt...
...And that this end must either mean the end of Nazism or' the end of the entire world's common hope for free man's happiness, even the blindest among the Mind will suddenly conceive, should Hitler really pass the Arc de Triomphe...
...Their activity is favorably reported in columns of II Progresso, Italo-Americano, and II Corriere d'America...
...Yes, the situation is moving toward the final, inevitable showdown...
...This additional contribution at the present moment is to keep Turkey from fulfilling her obligations to France and England., Turkey has refused to move because she is not certain of Soviet Russia's stand...
...and is now collecting money supposedly for war sufferers...
...On Tuesday, too, came what may be regarded as the first shot fired by Hitler and Mussolini against the United States—through the Bra* zilian Dictator Vargas—the first shot in ah unconcealed attempt to mobilize South America against this country and the fighting European democracies...
...The largest of these associations consists of "Educational Centers" affiliated with the National United Italian Association (N.U.I.A...
...Thousands of Lafayettes are now dying in France for the sake of American freedom, praying that their sacrifice's message may be heard across the ocean...
...The Jackals Break Loose On Monday, as Mussolini took his place actively by the side of Hitler, Stalin announced "the normalization" of Italo-Soviet diplomatic relations...
...Italy's colonial empire is extremely vulnerable, her industrial centers entirely open to large scale air attacks, her communication lines at the mercy of the Allied fleets, her huge coasts terribly exposed to naval gunfire...
...August Klapprott, director, spoke from a Nazi-bedecked platform covered with swastikas...
...Gov't Fails to Crack Down On Sabotage Agencies Here By VINCENT ROGERS There are some 20,000,000 persons of German descent, and about 7,000,000 '-=fWI<i»i4t'-<ke United States, the vast majority of whom are loyal Americans, loyal democcats, energetic anti-Nazis, vehement anti-fascists...
...At his Turin speech on May 14th, however, II Duce declared, that there were "no problems in Europe sufficient to justify a general war...
...Hitler marching down the Champs Elysees—no, even our pretty rotten world of opportunistic comfort at any cost can-sot stand the vomit such a picture would cause...
...Without quick and effective cooperation with Turkey the Allies have little chance of punishing Mussolini...
...It is underscored by the immeasurable power, the overwhelming force of America—once mobilized—and by the vitality, the determination, the unconquerable spirit of the American people...
...There fe z8(Practically useless horsed cavalry division j*Te Mexic*n border...
...But this is not a]L Simultaneously with these moves, the Soviet press, echoed by its agents in this country, intensifies the cries against America's defense program, while solidifying the Communist tie with the little dictator Batista in Cuba...
...This order continued in effect dur-jtthe Flanders fiasco despite the pressure of J&td purchasing agents...
...if they are now determined to fight "on the Somme, on the Marne, oh the Seine, on the Loire, on the Garonne," they know perfectly nil that, by doing so, they cannot win the war tat merely time...
...Army Officials 'Balked Arms Sales to Allies in March, April By GEORGE SNORT : Special to The New Leader .WASHINGTON, D. C—An amazing story of sabotaging aid to the Allies by S. War department was told this week by the columnists Drew Pearson and Wxrt Allen...
...The Maginot Line would bawl jsaved France if she had...
...Finding themselves after ?ears of political decay, they have found a new Eaith in the world's final readiness to rescue ie home of the brave and the home- of the !ree...
...This would prevent occurrence here of the riots in the Italian sections of London and Canada when Italy entered the war...
...Characteristic organizations included on the list of Italian fifth columnists are: The Association of Italians Abroad...
...The significance of the reply is underscored by the simple, terrible fact—terrible, indeed, for Hitler and Mussolini—that the war potential of this country is twice that of the whole of Europe...
...These function under direct control by a section of the Italian government in Rome...
...May God and her own intelligence prevent America from ever realizing too late that 1,000 planes over France now would accomplish what 100,000 planes in the skies of the Western Hemisphere cannot accomplish later...
...To help Hitler and Mussolini, Stalin is preparing to stab Turkey in the back if she brings her forces into action...
...1 agent in New England, is distributor for "National Ameri-' can," a monthly publication directly affiliated with the official Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda bureau in Nuremburg and Urfurt, where the •notorious* "World Service" is published...
...They were as "true as the appraisal of the Maginot Line's iisjgnifi-cence...
...a minimum of machines now, in'Europe, is far more important than a future maximum, prepared for the New' World...
...more intense interest in the condition of armed forces...
...r .This writer remembers, with physical, pain, how he was told in Paris in (October 1938: "Don't worry about Czechoslovakia...
...and all the money, (3 the sweat, all the material were spent in sit when France permitted the destruction of • angle momentous cornerstone of the structure, jsss which her traditional defense plan was Wit...
...Giacomo Capozuchi, an avowed fasist...
...When Roosevelt heard that the Army had Wdtuted such sales he immediately .ordered biliary of the Treasury Morgenthau to take •8 lepal action to change the situation...
...We learn that most of the active German Social Democrats, who formerly lived in Copenhagen, have succeeded in escaping to Sweden...
...He told us frankly that so far as he was concerned, Brazil takes her stand with the "virile" totalitarian against the "crumbling" democracies...
...The arms ¦at in Flanders could have been replaced im-**diately out of the arsenals...
...The U. S. Army withheld 2,180 y&ih 75s because of the situation in South _ ttese purchases were of sufficient quantity "¦•"tnt several hundred thousand men for a **Wl British Expeditionary Force...
...Many of the small group of Germans and Italians who pay lip-service to their fatherlands -do so under pressure of business blackmail or threats to their families back' home...
...In fact, the week's "developments have served to emphasize that we are already in it...
...Early in June, the Italian leader's spokesman, Virginia Gayda, warned the United States against any attempts at intervention...
...These men might have died in bed, had France understood that Czechoslor vakia is hot a "small, almost unknown country'' (as Chamberlain put it in September 1938...
...permitting Nazi Germany to reach the Balkans through Czechoslovakia, and thus to -free her right flank from all pressure, France, rendered useless, in a single moment of spirit-*sl weakness, her entire defense system, 'so drrerly and expensively erected during past Srt% '¦¦ ¦ • ¦ .¦ decades...
...Camp Follower, I ONDON...
...It has been named Camp Berg-wald, and will train one thousand American-born children of German parentage to love Nazism...
...Russia is .neutral, you know, and thus applying all possible pressure on Turkey in order to prevent her from fulfilling her pledged duty of supporting the Allies...
...full of materials ** useless to this coiintry...
...but even if Sat were to happen the French nation, at least, has lived up to her history and her grandeur: she has conquered her fears, she has beaten the jittering forces of capitulation, she has overcome the temptation of a separate peace...
...Such an island may be the dream of those who still talk and vote as isolationists...
...politicians' fault with millions of her sons andi ,daughters, with the beauty of her national heritage, With misery beyond all imagination...
...Dante Ali-ghieri Society...
...in 1938, refused t<f accept the destruction of her Central European'strongholds-or, in 1939, if Gam el in had attacked Germany while Hitler was busy in Poland.| Italy's geographical misfortune could have been used to bring about a decisive showdown in §he general European'conflict, if the Allies hat forced the showdown a few weeks ago, while they yet had freedom of movement '' \ [• Now England and France-just have...
...V A few things happened and changed the picture...
...It is entirely natural that Mussolini acted as he did...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 24
