Nazi Revolt Threat Shaped Vargas Axis Turn
OLIVER, BRYCE
Nazi Revolt Threat Shaped Vargas Axis Turn By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator of WEVD, New York THE time has come for a roll-call of the Americas. The United States has spoken through the voice of...
...the north to Puerto Alegro' in the south, and connected -all points with other countries, where other German air lines, such as the Scadta in Colombia, the Sedat in Ecuador, took...
...France assume a form...
...It could not be overlooked and would force the Uited States to take immediate precautions looking to tha adequate, protection of Western Hemisphere nations...
...We shall now see how sincere the Argentine Government was in urging a policy of non-beHig-erence on the side of Great Britain and France...
...accomplishments to admit the advisability of both in complement to each other...
...And the government of Brazil has now spoken through the voice of President Vargas: For a new order, for "vigorous people who must follow the route of their aspiration...
...In a series of decrees he disbanded the Integralistas, threw them 'out of many government posts...
...But he a'ppears to divide his attentions impartially among various brands of Fascism...
...Nothing in the history of Pan-American relations has ever created so much consternation in the western hemisphere as the unexpected move of the Brazilian government for the Axis...
...Even if Hitler does not attempt to subjugate America, his victory ower > Eurone would bring about a general lowering of the standard of living of the American population, and chiefly'of the working people, because Nazidom could impose its trade terms on the whole world...
...U.S...
...But you are no less traitors to Socialism, democracy and all that makes civilization possible...
...A united, Fascist Europe would constitute a tremendous danger to the United States...
...M ' ¦ "Hre New Leader is glad to print this article of our German-American Comrade Siegfried Bernfeld- It summarizes in clear, succinct fashion the position of Social Democracy and organized labor the world over...
...The name of the Norwegian Nazi leader who aided the German invasion of his country lends itself somewhat better to such use than the names of Seyss-Inquart, who "paved the way for Austria's surrender to Hitler, or of Mussert and Degrelle, who headed fifth column treacheries in Holland and Belgium...
...But there are men in key places—in the Army and the Navy and other divisions of the service, who are ready to act as the Major Quislings of Brazil...
...Those calling themselves Socialists who do nof accept these self-evident truths in this moment of mankind's agony help sow confusion and disorganization in our ranks and merit our sharpest distrust...
...The Gestapo sent agents to the German ' colonies, and many of the old German families, themselves, complained of being blackmailed into semi-military organizations under German World War drill sergeants...
...But unlike the United States, at least two of these alien groups are settled in colonies which are al...
...WHEN Communists were for America's going to war on the side of Russia, "the man on the flying trapeze" defended collective security against fascism—except when he wai attending meetings of the admirers of II Duce...
...No decent human being, let alone a Socialist, can acquiesce in that...
...The men have organized a cooperative for the processing of cotton and for the securing of machinery...
...Argentine and Uruguay", dismayed and shaken, are reported arming...
...the erection of 887 new hangars, shops and miscellaneous airport buildings, and improvements to 555, Marcantonio Plays "Quisling" Role Here by Fighting National Defense By STEPHEN NAFT •yHE American Labor Party has the dubi-*¦ ous (distinction of being represented in Congress by the only legislator who voted against the country's taking the necessary measures to defend itself against a no longer improbable attack of Stalin's ally, Hitler...
...The victory of Nazi Germany would mean the extinction of all these peoples...
...Things angered him...
...Loans are* being made for the constructions of $500 cottages to families which are homeless, living, doubled up with other families, or who live in shacks...
...The members of these German colonies are considered German citizens by the Nazi Government, and any action against them might be regarded as a direct attack on German nationals...
...The broadcast added that "not a single one of these crimi- < rial Jewish refugees will escape ! internment in the Buchenwald ¦' concentration . camp, and their ' property, which had been stolen « in Germany, will be confiscated," All Socialists Stand With Allies and Civilization By SIEGFRIED BERNFELD Liberty is the highest virtue...
...It was fine for Brazil but bad for, the countries-with which the Nazis were competing...
...DY opposing Roosevelt because his foreign *"* policy does not suit Stalin, Hitler end Mussolini, the Congressman is opposing sho the social gains in favor of the workers which have been introduced under the Roosevelt administration...
...But then, Marcantonio gave the Communist-controlled youth delegates the line they wanted to hear—advocating United States isolation from the "imperialist war' — while the First Lady advocated national defense...
...airport and airway program are the construction of 1,750,000 lineal feet of runways...
...He has had the honor of being applauded alternately to the strains of Fascist Italy's Giovenneza when attending meetings sponsored by the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, the Italian Red Cross (to raise funds for alleviating Italian sufferings in the Ethiopian campaign), by the Moscow-expropriated International, by New Masses and the Communist-front organization, the American League Against War and Fascism...
...How ably the Congressman has pursued every twist and turn of the Communist party line is shown by his recent utterances in behalf of peace, as reported by the press...
...The part played by the Work Project Administration in the rapid advancement of civil and military aviation during the last five years is graphically demonstrated in...
...Vargas, Brazilian to the core, began to feel that the Nazis were seeking not to help Brazil but to control Brazil...
...Hav-ng seized authoritarian power, he government has incurred the dislike of great masses of true Brazilians who have no love for the Nazis and do stand by the United States...
...These sites are now in perfect condition because of the WJ>A., it was recently revealed in Washington...
...President Getulio Vargas comes from the south—from an area influenced by the German settlers, and it is small wonder that Vargas, a product of such an atmosphere, should have some of the Germanic love of order and strong, one-man rule...
...For several weeks Argentina has been nudging the United States into taking the very step the President has now taken...
...Convinced that the United States would be reduced to impotence by opposing, disintegrating elements, alow action, and fear of making any warlike move, millions of people from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn had been convinced that the "Colossus of the North" was at last in a corner, daring not to offend the swift-moving Axis powers for fear of immediate retribution after the knockout of Britain and France...
...The money is being repaid...
...Some of Marcantonio's principal activities derive from his being president of the communist International Labor Defense...
...imperialism, which the Communists themselves, in the days of their late lamented Popular Front, termed "enlightened...
...Belgium, Norway, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...German air lines gave Brazil a lavish network of service from Natal in...
...over...
...The present war is a war for the liberty of mankind, for the restoration of human rights...
...The Communists do not call Marcantonio "comrade" in public, since it suits their purposes better to have him an official represents-tive of the American Labor Party than of their own movement...
...Democracy, in the highest sense, is a moral conception, regulating the relations of human beings and peoples in a peaceful, democratic manner...
...Preaident Roosevelt's call for full apeed ahead, and placing the United States squarely behind the Allies, fell as as fateful shook...
...Having the choice of remaining under British protection or falling under the German or Italian fascist heel, the colonial peoples of Great Britain, as evidenced by various declarations, have openly and unmistakably chosen the British...
...This.is the real "Fifth column...
...These men-might be able to defeat him in the plebiscite and open up Brazil to Naizi domination and invasion, "So Vargas must now go to these men, hat in hand, and agree to keep them in power if they will support him in the plebiscite...
...Commissioner of Work Projects, portrays the varied means by which W.PA...
...Settled on Land $786,000 in the form of land, loans and improvements was the cost...
...enemies of America...
...In this way Stalin'* aims ace furthered in ambush, just as they are by the so-called "Progressive Committee to Rebuild the American Labor Party," through which Communists seek to gain control of the party...
...Not yet...
...spoken through the voice of President Cardenas: For the AHies, For Freedom and Democracy...
...AND so Germany is winning -out...
...Stretching out toward Africa, she is now the first point for German entry into the western hemisphere if the Nazis are not stopped1 in Europe...
...But there has been an uncomfortable suspicion that Argentina may have been doing this as part of a game to maneuver this country into an untenable position...
...Except for this Trojan horse phalanx the American Labor Party favors defense measures...
...But since the Soviet-Nazi pact, the trapeze does not have to swing so far...
...Keep these simple propositions in mind as your guiding lines...
...threw out German professors and schoolteachers...
...Does New York's Quisling, the elected candidate of the American Labor Party, act according to the policy of his party, or does his vote, his speeches, mirror the policcy which the totalitarian regimes wish to see fostered in this country in their own interests...
...Among other accomplishments noted in the W.P.A...
...Vargas, being Brazilian, was naturally inclined to th;e German proposal...
...Approximately 85 per cent of all work on airports throughout the country in the last five years, ft was pointed out, has been done by WJ»A...
...Therefore: Socialists who characterize this, war as "a "capitalist" or "imperialist" War speak the language of the Communazintern...
...Creates Farm Co-ops For Migrants ¦While Department of Agriculture officials told the LaFollette Committee that standards of living of the American farm workers are the lowest of any occupational group in the country—the yearly average for sharecroppers is $415, for white farm labor $264, and $251 for Negroes of all tenure groups—the Federal Security Administration was pushing its work of aiding the farm laborers...
...Not the German bunds or the Italian organizations of rank and file...
...The United States has spoken through the voice of President Roosevelt, and Mexico, has...
...By a miracle Vargas escaped assassination, and by a hair's breadth Brazil escaped the domination, then and there, of Nazi iGermany...
...The return has been the increase of the average worth of each family from $28 to $1,473...
...Thus he is bringing nearer to American workers the threat of reduced living standards...
...American - interests wished to dictate American terms...
...Goebbels, was undermining Brazil's nationalism and Brazil's natural ties...
...workers have added nearly 5,000 miles of new airways to the nation's flying facilities since 1996...
...Examples are the German colonies in the temperate southern states ' ; of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catherina and Parana, and the Japanese colonies in the rich . state of Sao Paulo, center of the coffee and industrial area...
...Drive them from your ranks...
...We betray our Socialist convictions when we betray our comrades...
...is rounding out the second year of a cooperative farming project for dispossessed farmers...
...Under a recent announcement of minimum wage recommendations for garment workers under the Minimum Wage and Hours Law, 45,000 workers, representing 70 "per cent of the garment workers in the South who have been getting sub-standard wages, will receive increases bringing their earnings to minimum levels...
...It may be preliminary to Joint action by Argentina and Uruguay against the threatening German colonies within Uruguay and Brazil...
...The roll-call of the hemisphere is being taken...
...At the recent meeting of the New York Youth Congress, "the radical Congressman" received a louder ovation than did Mrs...
...We are confident that as this action gains momentum and should the situation on the battlefields of...
...Currently, 135 ah-port projects are in process of construction, of which 27 are for naval or military use...
...We remain, as always...
...Differences of social and economic ideas divide the Socialists from the prevailing social order in the Western democracies, but an unbridgeable gulf separates us from the ideas and practices of the Third Reich, Stalin's Communist International, and Mussolini's fascist state...
...a series of exhibits which were a feature of the National Aviation Forum, held at Boiling Feld, Washington, D. C. The exhibit, according to Col F. C. Harrington...
...And the knock-out of Britain and France has been expected...
...WASHINGTON now watches " for action from Argentina...
...i - ¦ * * » \7ARGAS once saw the danger...
...The United States has made the step, and the next logical move for the Argentine Government would be the creation of an incident looking toward belligerence...
...Yet it was in the name of the Americas worker that America's Quisling cast his vets against defense measures and has made k* frequent exhortations for isolationism...
...Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia...
...Who is really fighting Fascism...
...This Government of Brazil, authoritarian as it is, has been staunchly pro-United States...
...The latest scientific knowledge is at the farmer's disposal...
...workers...
...Nazi capital penetrated rapidly—in copper, in oil lands...
...Do not tolerate traitors and opportunists in your ranks...
...We are proud that the Social Democratic Federation of the United States did not hesitate for a moment to take this position...
...Do not forget for a single moment that it is Socialists who are waging a battle for life or death in England, France...
...Earl Browder himself could not have followed more faithfully the current line of the Daily Worker...
...The free news, furnished to the Brazilian press from the propaganda bureau of Dr...
...Those who say "We are good Americans" but try to find excuses for Nazi Germany expose themselves immediately as pro-Hitlerites...
...He gives aid and comfort to the enemies of democracy...
...Such is the Stalinist leader Lombardo Toledano in Mexico...
...It must receive our unstinted, unlimited support...
...opponents of imperialism in all its forms and manifestations...
...A Socialist who says that we have no interest in the preser-> vation of bourgeois democracy does not know what democracy 1 is...
...But there was" a drawback to this, and Vargas saw it...
...Vargas himself must now stand for a plebiscite, which will determine whether dictator will .continue as president...
...But when the order came from Moscow to oppose not only American help to the Allies, but American national defense, did be not reverse his position as radically and Sf suddenly as the rest of his comrades...
...She may be about to make such a move...
...Congressman Vito Marcantonio's vote against the defense program at the present moment, when a world is collapsing and when we may soon have to face the victorious Nazis immeasurably strengthened by the plunder of conquered countries, is a vote to open the door of America to the united forces of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin...
...Some of them pursue the same policies for the same paymasters under Communist slogans...
...These should be the guiding lines of every Socialist...
...You are not the Fifth Column...
...You are its convoy...
...The inescapable answer to this question compels us to take the side of the Allies, to support the cause of those who are defending the civil and political rights of Europe against the onslaught of Nazi barbarism...
...America is demanding to know where you stand, for the Brazilian announcement, flashed 1 from the deck of the Minas Geraes, makes certain that the war will come to the Americas...
...In some parts of South America his naming denunciation of Mussolini and his Nazi partner, coupled with a clear warning of Latin-American involvement in future developments and the dash of United States fighting ships to the South Atlantic, created an even greater sensation than they did in this country...
...it is beyond and above all party doctrine—the only possible basis for the peaceful development of mankind and the security of the rights and liberties of the individual...
...It is time for all to speak...
...In other words: For the Axis...
...Last week the 15th New York Assembly District Club of the American Labor Party adopted a resolution denouncing Congress rasa Marcantonio for his activities in assiduously following the Communist party line...
...The "Fifth Column" comprises men of power, high in governments, who* cannot be got rid of...
...This is the real reason for his statement Tuesday night...
...Southern industrial workers, too, are being benefited...
...And so* United States warships are there as precaution...
...is how Vargas went over x> the Axis: The Vargas Government itself s in a-precarious position...
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S * Charlottesville speech caused excitement and suspense throughout South and Central America, according to press and diplomatic advices reaching the United States this week...
...Hispanic-America, gorged with German and Italian short wave radio broadcasts and free press services, was taken by surprise by the boldness of the President's speech...
...And here's the complication...
...For such feats of athleticism in the days of the "united front," Congressman Marcantonio several years ago won the title "the daring young man on the flying trapeze...
...This was the role of the Quislings in Czechoslovakia, in Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium...
...And the enemies of democracy are also the...
...Each farm has been laid out on an individual plan...
...Democracy is much more .than the sum-total of political demands and practices...
...It is more, much more than that...
...had built a total of 197 new airports and landing fields and 'made improvements and additions to 372...
...In New Madrid County, Mo., the F.S.A...
...The term "Quisling" has become a generic denomination for the leaders of fifth columns in various countries...
...In November of 1938 the Nazis struck...
...The Quislings of the countries now conquered also posed as superpatri-ots of their fatherlands...
...All other considerations must take second place as against this supreme truth...
...When wffl the American Labor Party awake to the need for ridding itself of the Quisling in its bosom...
...Here...
...The Communist International and its entourage or the peoples of the Western democracies...
...We are proud also that the Social Democratic Federation was the first organization in this country to call for material aid to the Allies, a demand which is now sweeping the country and has begun to find expression in action...
...A Socialist who says that it does not matter to him who wins' this war helps cripple the active forces of resistance in, our ranks,and strengthens the front of those who are the open or secret allies of Fascism...
...In a recent inventory of physical accomplishments covering the -period from July, 1935, through December, 1939, it was shown that WJ.A...
...In southeastern Missouri more than 1,700 families are being aided...
...Do hot permit the more or less clever Nazi and Com-munazi agents divert you to false lines and to the acceptance of false slogans...
...F. D. Roosevelt...
...THE most confusing—and the * most serious—situation is in Brazil, where the United States has its closest ties...
...Brazil, like the United States, has large numbers of aliens...
...The struggling, bleeding, fighting workers of Europe send you their eternal contempt WPAs Airfields Speed FDR's Air Defense Plans Those who have attempted to make an issue of defense instead of relief have been forced by recent figures of W.P.A...
...Those who challenge these undeniable truths are not true Social Democrats...
...Germany took the always-increasing cotton crop and ¦Germans furnished cotton machinery in exchange...
...28,000 German Jews In Holland Hold by Gestapo STOCKHOLM.—The Nazi radio in Berlin, in a broadcast this week, announces that no less than 28,000 Jewish refugees residing in Holland had been trapped and are now in the hands of the Gestapo...
...You are only their transmission belts...
...MOW every country in Europe and Latin America harbors similar gentlemen who do not always have to be'Nazis...
...It can remain practically stationery and still contact both Mussolini's and Stalin's sections of the totalitarian arena...
...This war is being fought for theJ preservation of the foundations of civilization and,democracy, without which the rebirth of the Socialist and labor movement is unthinkable...
...The boycott extended to all Jews and anti-Semitism was one of the primary points of the Nazi Green Shirta, the Integralistas, whose leaders had aided Vargas with his authoritarian coup and were now occupying important places in the Government at Rio de Janeiro...
...The German military organizations in southern Brazil are prepared,/ and both Argentina and-Uruguay fear border clashes with them...
...In order to stave off revolution against this government, Vargas has been forced to keep many of Hitler's "Fifth Column" men in power...
...Preventing their countries from securing adequate means of defense is a typical "Quisling" activity...
...Upon this state of mind in Latin - America...
...Undoubtedly the Congressman was applauded for his stand not only by Italian Fascist and Soviet patriots, whose meetings he has frequently attended, but by the 20,000 or more Nazi Bundists who are drilling and arming in New York and New Jersey under the no longer ludicrous slogan: Heute gehbrt uns Deutschland und morgen die game Welt (Today we own Germany and tomorrow the whole World is ours...
...requiring American intervention in 'the war, that the American people will not hesitate to draw the swyrd in defense of world democracy...
...Vargas is a Brazilian—first, foremost and all the time—but the German barter system enabled his government to acquire both money and production iri exchange 'for 'Coffee, cotton", tin, copper, citrus fruits and the scores of Brazilian things and materials which the United States would not take...
...But there is a vast difference be-' tween Nazi imperialism, which seeks to reduce highly civilized peoples like the Czechs, Poles, Danes, Norwegians, Dutch and Belgians to the status of colonial slaves and to transform all Europe into a Nazi colony, and British...
...Under the circumstances, it is sheer hypocrisy to pay more regard to the fate of the "oppressed" Hindus and African Negroes than to the calamity that has befallen the European peoples, threatened with extermination...
...To those alleged Socialists and pseudo-internationalists who have assailed us as "war mongers" (and other assorted fakers and confusionists) and to those who echo their defeatist sentiments, we say: ' No, you are not the official allies of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini...
...Argentine naval craft have been sent up the Uruguay River and the River Plate coast of Uruguay...
...President Roosevelt's plea for air defense was predicated on the existence of air bases to handle the increased squadrons...
...The Thyssen interests of Germany were willing to develop the iron =ore deposits—greatest in the worlds—on Brazilian terms...
...most states within the state...
...Also, it is not surprising, in view of this, that he should have welcomed the support of German organizations to clean house in Brazil, rout out inefficiency and make the most—for his own country—of the German barter trade...
...Germans who resisted were warned about relatives in Germany, and some were boycotted...
...It was Argentina that suggested it...
...American labor could not compete against Nazi-enslaved labor without a sharp drop in wages and living standards...
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