Million Nazis in Latin-America Set to March
LORING, EDWARD
Million Nazis in Latin-America Set to March Reich Air Lines Branch From Panama to Cape By EDWARD LORING Special to THE NEW LEADER WASHINGTON D. C.—National skepticism exists here over the...
...He doesn't worry about Hitler, because he doesn't like...
...Morrow and Co., Sew York...
...From Rio de Janeiro the line runs south to Sao Paulo, across Uruguay into Buenos Aires...
...Theatre Collection 'Broadside By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY 1 LBRARIAXS of theatre collections—books, pictures, program, publicity, scene models, and all records of the theatre—united two years ago...
...Efforts by isolationist leaders such as Nye and Johnson will meet with strong opposition...
...Walter Millis is a well-known journalist and t good democrat...
...Ex-Wizard Hiram W. Evans is having his difficulties too, a recent Federal Grand Jury investigating irregularities in the State of Georgia indicting him in two indictments charging mail fraud...
...Three weeks earlier the labor vste had named W. Daniel Boyd, one of the forty dismissed members of the American...
...In spite of the sputtfring tickle-tackle of TAC, Broadway is loyal...
...while quite human and sad at the sight of "how little wisdom is necessary to rule the nations," wishes, above all, to analyze and to under' stand...
...we have reason b» feel sac about it...
...Writing in this country, and discoursing upon the class phenomena of our own social structure, they mirrored, in a minor key, the S'rcit um Marx th*H prevalent in Furopean universities...
...His subsequent appoin-ment of Herbert Heimovitz as principal of the Landon High School caused the further injection j)f anti-Semitism as.an issue by Percy L. Thomas and W. C. Rivers, two of the board members who were beaten for re-election by the labor candidates in the primary...
...Victory in the primary on the Democratic ticket is equivalent to election in the regular balloting...
...Emanuel Stein, Professor of Economics at New York University...
...Barrett H. Clark is supervising the series...
...The contest of propaganda could use no bolder devices...
...Corey, et a!, as to the meaning of class (and need we say the middle class) in s re-evaluation of Socialist doctrine...
...Another interesting item is the one-volume history of the world theatre, the first concise but complete survey of this wide field, profusely illustrated, by Gorge Freediey and John Adams Beeves, which Crown Publishers will issue in the fall About sixty persons, and thirty institutions, are enrolled in the Association, which promises to do much to keep the story of our theatre available and alive...
...Also in Atlanta, Raymond Slim Bryan was the third East Point Klansman convicted of taking part in labor floggings...
...in Ecuador, where the white population is small, the 5,500 Germans there are an influential force...
...t 2—TAC's editorial says the United States have also been liars, and thjeves and crooks and murderers—in our Spani?h-American war, in the Mexican War...
...In this exposition of the ideas of Ward...
...Ti?§Ofric<rf World Rebuffs J&Ps §ro-Nq*i "Peace" Drive ' By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY OROADWAY...
...Friday morning, June 21, the subject will be Industry, the New Deal, and the War...
...Too Many Causes "117HY EUROPE FIGHTS...
...One Nazi air line starts at a base on the Brazil-French Guiana bolder, runs along the coast to Para and then to a large airfield at Natal, where Brazil juts out into the southern Atlantic...
...When he did land, they mobbed him with joy, as a hero and peacemaker...
...It reminds one that a petition beginning "We, the people of England" was once issued "by three tailors of Tillbury Stree...
...With all that, the book is very much alive and well written...
...Quoted as the prize retort of the week is the answer of an "average Local 802 musician" when askfd why he raps the Allies but not Hitler...
...Henry F. Grady, Assistant Secretary of State...
...It is perfectly obvious to TAC tyiat civilization could advance here, in complete callous growth to perfection, while all the rest of the world succumbs to Hitler...
...Meanwhile, an edict by Imperial Wizard Colescott of the Ku Klux Klan prohibiting the wearing of a mask was being ignored by other officials of the secret order...
...Federation of Teachers, as superintendent of schools...
...What matters democracy, when Russia is waiting In the theatre, where the play is upon the emotions, perhaps reason is lulled at times...
...Walter Millis...
...What Might Have Been AS an investigation cf the many and complicated causes and events leading to the present conflagration...
...There will be five formal sessions for discussion...
...Page contents himself with, "the validity of these (remarks* vf» not be considered here...
...if difE- ^^Psjj^^fe cult to keep cr.e's detach—er.t confronted BlBS al with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin...
...Marquis W. Childs, author of "Sweden: the Middle Way," and Rev...
...He received the maximum penalty of three years in prison and $2,000 fine...
...fteofo andWtitm By Ellas L. Tartak Europe Fights Again "pHERE is a story that when Daladier, flying home from * Munich, saw a vast crowd waiting at the Paris airport, he told the pilot to circle the field before landing, as he was afraid they were there to lynch him...
...A national ampaign will be instituted con- -acting sports clubs, student organizations, women's organiza-ions, central labor bodies, aberdasheries and department tores, asking people not to pat- : raize Gantner and Mattern or -iolden Gates products...
...The Camp Tamiment office announces that this year's conference will be exceptionally popular...
...From here a section runs north to Porto Velho and back into Brazil...
...According to custom the conference will open on Thurs-- day evening, June 20, and will continue until Sunday, June 23...
...Headed by George Freedly cf the New York Puojjf Library, they have just issued their first "Broadside.'' a jok-page get-together of active workers in the field...
...We of the theatre" is a bold claim...
...I * UNDER that fixst-pagfe scarehead come some smaller headings: v'TAC Mobilizes Show Business," "Warmongers Capture Alvin Theatre...
...in Peru on the West coast are 3,300...
...Frank Bohn, a well-known authority on international affairs...
...A victorious Germany could control that trade and coordinate it into a world-wide barter system...
...weekly, The Herald-Tribune, was beaten in a race for the state legislature by Charles Luckie, a young labor attorney...
...nif goods Workers Brand Gantner Products Unfair Gantner and Mattern, manu-acturers of swim suits, has been ilaced on labor's unfair list, xrais Nelson, manager of Local 55 ILGWU, . announced this ?eek...
...TAC, in case you don't know, is the self-styled "Theatre Arts Committee" that with a megaphone, a loudspeaker and what have been called the tail-pieces of the Federal Theatre, has been valjantly holding the American stage for the coming of Stalin...
...And who are "we of the theatre...
...Klan officials in Colorado, at a state meeting in Denver, announced that they were continuing to meet with masks and that the "Imperial order" was just a publicity stunt by Colescott to take the heat off the Klan during its present difficulties in Georgia and South Carolina...
...Merle Vincent, of the Wages and . Hours Division of the United States Department of Labor, and Bela Low, Social Democrat, engineer and economist...
...While every candidate has slipped in favor, Willkie—two months ago unknown— is second and still rising...
...In his chapter on Sumner he is con- ' tent to set forth Horace Kaller.'s eulogy of Sumner as "the otUT realist among our sociologists" against Bernhsrd Stern's stUek on Sumner as a "stark Social Darwinianist," whose ideas are "on-relieved by humanitarian sentiments which he ridiculed...
...0 WHY EUROPE EIGHTS, by Walter Millis...
...The next session will be the new Congress, which takes oijice January 3rd...
...John T. Flynn will attack the Roosevelt legislation, from a radical point of view, and Henry Hazlitt, editorial writer for the New York Times, will present a conservative point of view...
...The- Administration relief bill, providing for one billion dollars smarting with the fiscal year of Jtily 1, with a provision that the money may be used in the first eight months if necessary, passed the House without amendment...
...His heart is in the right place, but he is saddened by the spectacle of a world tragedy which might have beer, averted had there been more courage and foresight...
...Those who suggest it, however, become the bug-a-boos...
...This usually the basis the designation of America as a great middle class, e. p. Bingnanw A regrettable fact is that nowhere throughout the book is th«* an explicit statement of Page's own views, or a weighting of the views of the men he treats...
...Reactionary attempts, led by Rep...
...however, comes nearer to the furali-ment of the two aforementioned tasks...
...Whet matter which wins—so long-as Russia is whfile and holy...
...Saturday night Max Liebman, creator of the famous Broadway Straw Hat Revue, will stage one of his famous shows for the conference guests...
...In Atlanta, the recent flogging of Pierce Toney, union organizer, brought swift action by the Federal government, culminating in the conviction of two Klansmen...
...Thus Walter Millis in his latest book.* The story of international relations, conflicts and negotiations in Europe since the Versailles treaty has been told by many authors...
...Across the border in Chile, which has huge nitrate sources, are 200,000 Germans...
...A branch line runs inland, while another runs south to Rio de Janeiro and heads across the continent, through Bolivia (fields at La Paz) into Chile and ends at Lima, Peru...
...And, together with the author of "Why Europe Fights...
...Hon...
...In the legislative halls, the noise about the House passage of the Smith amendments to the National Labor Relations Board h^ died down with the realization thiit Senate action on these bills isv impossible* Senator -Thomas, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, as well as the other Democratic members of the committee, agreed that action at thjis session is impossible if the projected adjournment date goes through...
...Briand and Stresemann died before they had their chance...
...Other Ku Kluxers are being brought to trial, and Henry Cauthon, the leader, will be arraigned on a more serious charge of kidnapping and crossing a .county line, which involves a far heavier penalty than assault and -(battery...
...The "Fathers" of American sociology have found a student who has adequately expounded their ideas...
...Which brings me to a sentence in the editorial: "We of the theatre have been fighting the threat of war wherever it lifted its head: in Germany, in Spain, in China, wherever...
...New Dealers contended that this permits the htemstringing of Federal agencies, ahd would mean the destruction of social and labor legislation...
...IS TAC preparing totsay that we too are "just *. like Hitler...
...War-mongers...
...In Jacksonville, Fla., union-minded voters licked a combined K.K.K...
...Hook...
...This sounds more like a battle than a "declaration of peace...
...Mali* Train Army Bolivia, too, had its army officers trained by the Nazis...
...Thatjthe United States should be left .flat, undefended—because it's no better than the Nazis...
...With administration leaders scheduling June 22 as the day for adjournment, and with the national defense bills the main business of Congress, Washington seeks diversion in speculations on the Republican national convention, opening in Philadelphia on June 24...
...In the past years, Klan-supported candidates had swept the voting...
...The speakers 1 will be Robert J. Watt, interna-j tional representative of the American Federation of Labor...
...At least, there tu a good chance...
...This was the stand adopted by the Glenn Frank policy committee some time ago...
...Just why a union musician should like an English scoundrel more than a German scoundrel is not at once clear...
...This is considered strong enough to take effective control of several southern Argentine...
...Anyone who needs argument on that point either is a moron, or has an axe to grind...
...There are now nearly 1,500,000 pro-Nazi, patriotic Germans in South America...
...him—but "The English and the French—they're liars, and thieves and crooks and murderers, too—just like Hitler—but about them I've GOTTA talk—because I LIKE them personally...
...Million Nazis in Latin-America Set to March Reich Air Lines Branch From Panama to Cape By EDWARD LORING Special to THE NEW LEADER WASHINGTON D. C.—National skepticism exists here over the ability of Rome and Berlin to penetrate South American nations despite the recent revelations in the daily press of the strategic positions held by Axis agents...
...Others on the platform will be Louis Waldman, chairman of the National Council for Social Democracy, and Edward Keating, former Congressman and editor of "Labor," the journal of the Railway Brotherhoods...
...but the TAC News tries to pass it a load of knockout drops...
...The idea that America is deeply concerned, involved, in the European events, TAC airily brushes aside as the absurd phantasmagory of a foolish few...
...Argentina, where the army is Nazi-trained, has 236,000 Germans, organized into- a supernumerary government of their own...
...but none of the stage's wfldest antics is more absurd than the "Special Crisis Issue" of the "TAC News," distributed free on Memorial Day.—Only TAC wants you to take its word for gospel truth...
...A thorough investigation by Assistant Solicitor General Daniel Duke resulted in the conviction of Henry Cauthon of East Point, "boss of the wrecking crew," and Dan 'Edison...
...But if the theatre Jeally holds the mirror up to life, there's no nee* to worry about its people...
...Through a vivid chapter depicting the America of the years on both sides of the century turn—the march of monopolies^ tb* flaring of labor violence, the literature cf protest, the PopulifM, the muckrakers...
...A very large crowd is expected, and the directors of the camp are warning their regular patrons that it will be wise to make reservations well in advance...
...and reactionary business interest ticket in the Democratic primaries this week...
...Not a name appears to identify to readers of this throw-away, the members of the TAC...
...Eastman...
...Sumner and Giddings, products of a New England, uphold the status quo, see class as "natural" and profess a Spencerian all**' matic evolutionaryism...
...The book is well Wtj»" ten, excellently notated and documented...
...Neu- York...
...Most of thau have* tried to be detached in their search for the cause of the present devastating conflict...
...A numbflt.M projects are listed...
...T^he bill permits courts to review decisions of scores of Federal administrative agencies and overrides them on questions of fact as well as of law...
...Let's look at how they're trying to get a tic-TAC-toehold in the theatre...
...And there ^^^"G^^^B is no one cause: there are so many causes— Efiof Tortofc among them the - timidities, the vacillations, the superficial optimism and slowness of the European democracies being at least one...
...What is TAC's axe ? Whether they intend it or not, it is sharpened now to help Hitler...
...Price $5.50...
...In addition, there are 200,000 Japanese in Brazil...
...But it was fumbled...
...Thus Ward and Sumner—both drawing from the coolfe* theories of Gumplowicz and Oppenheimer—come to oppo*it* positions...
...Few have succeeded in either preserving their 4 & detachment or ir...
...269 pp...
...A branch of this line centers at Trinidad in Bolivia, which is a strategic inland Nazi base, practically militarized...
...Plans have been made to wield n effective boycott against this lace now on strike...
...Tiny Uruguay has 10,000 Germans, not considering the hundreds of thousands on its north-arn border as close ^s Brazil's Sao Paiulo sector...
...Some Republican observers think it likely that the platform Will assail the New Deal for lagging in getting.the arras program under way but that it would still try to catch the isolationist mid-west vote by stating that the Republican . Party is opposed to sending American soldiers to Europe...
...1940...
...but their very brazen tactics lend themselves to examination, as typical of what is being done in other fields as well...
...From Buenos \ires it runs south again to the ap of South American Tierra Del Fuego...
...Willkie, an anti-isolationist, is now second in popular demand, displacing Taft in the latest Gallup poll...
...The Thursday night session, dealing 2 with American Foreign Policy, f will hear Dr...
...Toney, an organizer for the Textile Workers Union,, was kidnapped late in May in Atlanta, driven to the city dump and flogged by twenty Klansmen...
...Save for a noisy ntinority, the people of the theatre have both eygs and hearts...
...First choice of the so-called "smart money" is still . Robert A. Taft...
...In this small Latin country, home of vast tin deposits, are 3,000 well organized Germans...
...Isolation Pushed Strong attempts will be made, however, towards the adoption of a plank pledging unlimited aid...
...Why Euro}* Fights" displays a breadth cf view, a wide range cf information and a careful weighing of evidence which distinguish the true historian and scholar...
...Willkie Forges Ahead From the ranks of the thirteen candidates, including the four or five "dark horses," Wendell Willkie forges ahead amazingly— especially in popular...
...He has little convention voting strength, but hopes to emerge as a compromise can-' didate...
...Notice that cute repetition of "wherever"— covering the failure to mention any of the countries destroyed since the German-Russian pact...
...s The subject announced last week by the program commit-n tee is: America, the War, and the 1940 Election...
...They love peace—everybody except a pervert loves peace— but they know that England and France are waging desperate war ujjon an outcropping of barbarism, matched only'by isolate instances in all the world's cruel history, now threatening all that mankind has fought t, upbuild, in its fierce drive upon democracy and aumane institutions...
...Although pointing to the influence of the ideas of European sociologists on the development of these American thinkers, Ot-Page shows how the dominant strands in their thinking are woven from the American scene...
...Strachey, whom the communists once hailed as a mastermind, said recently that the English communists seemed to prefer Hitler to England...
...Both .received the maximum sentence of $1,000 fine, 12 months on public works and six months in jail...
...Ward, Cooley and Ross spring from & Middle Wrest and reflect its virile faith in democracy and progrff...
...Labor, Gov't, Notables I To Speak at Tamiment 1 The 1940 Tamiment Conference will deal with' the mjbst serious problems confronting the American people today...
...By electing Ted Dewitt, of the Building Trades Council, and James Ross, railway unionist, to the school board, labor obtained a 3 to 2 majority that insures the rehiring of 40 teachers fired last year for union activity...
...Efforts t$ bring the Walter-Logan bill on tiis list was beaten back after a spirited 2V-2-hour debate...
...On Saturday afternoon there will be the annual Morris Hillquit memorial program in the Hillquit Memorial Grove...
...But the German government need not .depend entirely on an invisible trade infiltration to give it control of South American nations, where generals and armies ^ere always for sale...
...Among them is the Princeton Univerntl Press' first volume of the series of "America's Lost Plays," wfaifh when complete wiii comprise 100 American plays never befqB published...
...Is this the advance notice of sabotage and Trojan horse ? Ernest Hemingway*earlier this season, put a play called "The Fiftl^ Column" behind the footlights...
...in Venezuela, owner of some of the most fruitful oil wells in the world, are 4,000 who pledge allegiance to Hitler...
...The vote was 20,044 to 19471...
...The defense will be in the hands of Dr...
...sentiment...
...Sam Melson, editor of the K.K.K...
...By JOHN DONNE Special to Tbe New Leader WASHINGTON, D. ,C...
...This is especially true in light cf the recent controversy on the Left—viz...
...Many of the apparent "discoveries" seem quite stale and vapid when one reads Albion Small, the vigorous Lester F. Ward aad other pioneer American sociologists...
...And the Baldwins, 'Chamberlains and Daladiers—well, France and Engignc are now paying dearly for their fumbling and lack of vision...
...Here it cuts across Argentina and 3hile to Santiago...
...And he sees only too well that there were too many causes, historical, political, inherited and recent, which have tended to bring about the second world catastrophe within then 25 years...
...Their position is fortified by the fact that Latin America must live by exporting raw materials, from which it derives its income — about $1,000,000,000...
...There exists a network of Nazi air bases covering strategic territory, all of them within easy flying distance of the Panama Canal...
...There ire enough tourists to hold any ¦ne of the airfields the Nazis de-ide are strategic enough to force . showing of strength, in order o dominate a certain section...
...No one knows what air bases he Nazi army has secreted on jrivate "estates" nominally be-onging to South American "citi-Jens...
...its publication in «P comparatively virgin field was needed...
...Xcr is this ^Bit «if column inclined to blame the aforesaid writers...
...And what is there atithe Alvin...
...Green to Be Present William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will be present on Friday night, June 21, to discuss Labor, the New Deal, and the War...
...Senator Van-denberg, once a leading member of the Senate isolationist group, has publicly urged "all help possible to the Allies short of going to war or impairing its own defences...
...piRST, the calm and colossal assumption that * their point of view is held by the great majority...
...It is already apparent that a clash on the war question will split the resolutions committee, and possibly carry over into the convention...
...Are they afraid mention of the background might turn the throw-away into a give-away...
...Incidentally, if you have hiddea away that photograph your grandfather kept, of his favorite star, or the playbill your grandmother cherished, of her first theate party, there's no better place to send it than to the Public Librar}'' Class and Sociology By DANIEL BELL ¦r?^HE growing re-emphasis on class as a key matter for social . science inquiry and discussion requires the sharper integrate* of a conceptual framework from which to guide our body of research material...
...faber of New York, to impose pampering restrictions and to substitute a local dole for the Federal" program was hooted down...
...The speakers will be Algernon Lee, president of the Rand.School...
...Only very bold and farsighted leadership in France, republican Germany and in England might have stopped the trend -to another war...
...Bb^^^ The task is well r.igh superhuman...
...But |he nearest I've ever seen to that mobilization was an abortive parade of misguided youngsters orj the sidewalks of Times Square...
...In the same way, TAC is bellowing a ballyhoo that hews to the party line—let fall who may: France, England . . . the United States...
...Anti-Semitic KKK Nominee Beaten in Fla...
...The session on Saturday morning, June 22, will be devoted to the economics of the "New Deal...
...Formally, the Republican Party is committed to isolation...
...W. G. Sumner...
...William C.:Kernan, the well-known radio speaker...
...is'tfeppased to have "phonies" like ^ .fleas on -a beggar's dog—the theatre is the hime of make-believe...
...foreign policy he is anti-isolationist, on domestic issues he is strongly anti-New Deal...
...But such leadership was signally lacking...
...R. G. Casey, Australian • Minister to the United States, and Dr...
...Two-thirds of the front page is covered by one heading: BROADWAY DECLARES PEACE Broadway, in this sense, consists of TAC and Herman Shumlin, chief theatrical stand-out against the benefits for Finland...
...isolating the rure ar.i only microorganism responsible for the deadly BMjj^S fever r.cw devouring Europe...
...CLASS AXD AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY, by Charles' Hunt Pafi*-Published by the Dial Presz...
...Is TAC trying to make the fifth column come true behind the J scenes...
...Except, of course, Russia—which is showing TAC how...
...the rife graft and corruption, the turbulent bustle of a closing frontier—we see the melding of the thought* of the 'Fathers" of American sociology...
...Junny how these party peace-howlers grow funous at any reference to Finland...
...Paraguay, storehouse of oil and otter raw material, houses 20,000 Germans, a force strong enough to take over the government...
...This njeasure .which also passed the hpuse, seems destined to sleep peacefully through this session...
...At the final session, on Sunday morning, June 23, the subject, Labor, Social Democracy, and the War, will furnish opportunity for a general survey of the situation faced by the American people...
...The rush for adjournment has sBarply drawn the liberal-conservative battle lines in relation to "must" bills, which will be rushed through at this session...
...Small, F. H. Giddings, C. H. Cooley and E. A. Ross on class...
...Sherwood's play about Finland...
...In vast Brazil, much of which has never been explored by white men, there are 900,000 Germans belonging to various types of organizations', * majority of which are devoted to military training, "friirinff" and the use of arms...
...Notice the war-like tone of the four-page tabloid...
...Could it by *ny chance be that they are having a hard tinfle stifling a guilty conscience ? i But the most significant point in TAC's attack on the United States rtimes in a column called "Broadway Peace...
...But the German air net-vork, with its secret ramifica-ions, is strong enough to domi-iate many a Latin nation...
...Charlw Hunt Page has written an excellent and readable book...
...He was convicted of the lashing of Joe Otwell in March, 1988, and the attempted beating of James Wilkes in August of the same year...
...There was the Versailles treaty, the absence of America and Russia from the beginning of the League of Nations, there was Mussolini, Japan, and—finally—Hitler...
...Taft and Willkie Seen GOP Choices for Nov...
...The Italian fascist organizations are also strongly organized there...
...Melson ran an anti-semitic campaign, his weekly publication attacking Harold Cohn, managing editor of the Jacksonville Journal...
...Bijt two other facts jump out: ' 1—Only a person without historical consciousness or conscience could call the French and English "just like Hitler...
...still further North in Colombia, only an hour from the Panama Canal, are 3,600 from the Reich...
...Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C —The Ku Klux Klan anti-labor campaign, subsidized by southern industrialists, is being hit hard by a combined union and government drive...
...And through these men there develops the tangied skein of the duality of the concept of class as it appears :n pi'eser.t-dW American sociology: Class, a socio-economic aggregate whose Unctions are rooted in a functional cleavage cf an economic nttiBtl and Class as a socio-psychological phenomenon wherein stB«ti*l* cation is reflected by social attitudes...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 24
