Japs Pay $7,000,000 a Year in U.S. to Halt Boycott
RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD
Japs Pay $7,000,000 a Year in U.S.to Halt Boycott By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel "TWENTY years frpm now,"-said Count von Bernstorff in 1921, I "the only kings left on earth will be in...
...Probably it seems to Herr Hitler now even nicer than that...
...About 25 percent of the total are non-Jewish...
...These men join the new British labor affiliate with the full rights they enjoyed in their own organization...
...The great lesson of the debacle is democracy's imperative need of the common interest and the common support...
...Green and Matthew Woll for months have been cooperating with the exiled Reich Labor movement and the German Social Democratic Party, contributing finances which have enabled Friedrich Stampfer and his colleagues to direct underground activity...
...The Socialist editors have been fighting back, exposing the Comintern backing of La Hora, Stalinite sheet...
...Togo, the Cameroons and Southwest Africa—taken by the Allied troops within a few months in 1914—are just a minute part of the colonial demands fashioned by Colonel Von Epp, Hitler's colonial advisor...
...to *io...
...Japan's most clever propagandist, Kiyoshi K. Kawakami, is now spending his time in the United States, living at 3729 Morrison Street, Washington, D. C, according to his record in the State Department...
...His statement can only mean that the Soviets are frightened by the reaction to their aid to Adolf Hitler, that the line will be to whip up friendship in the United States, that the red offensive in South America can be called off because of the successful rain of shells in northern France...
...These cries were only the front for a drive through all Africa—in direct conflict with Germany's secret plans for an overseas empire...
...Von -Epp is reported having fixed the allocation of these dominions between the Reich and Japan...
...Uruguay by a U-Boat, the Communist agency in Buenos Aires is trunding out its truckloads of invective, accusing the Socialists of war-mongering...
...Late in 1932 the German unions joined the Social Democratic Party in sending valuable records—and funds—across the border...
...Always it springs up again...
...Trade, always Trade...
...His office now denys that he is in the Japanese employ...
...The People Can't Be Kept Down /*\F course, we know that it will not last but there is no advantage in trying to fit the blinders...
...An eternal truth is not destructible...
...the steadily contracting of the globe under the touch of better communication, wider knowledge, increasing interdependence...
...Three great and ancient dynasties had fatten, in the War of Nineteen Fourteen and to them had succeeded sixteen republics...
...When German hobnails scratched Parisian cobblestones, they ground out not only the French will to resist but kicked ¦ into shreds what remained of the international Socialist machinery...
...And as for us, why, "O nations undivided, O single people and free, we dreamers, we derided, we mad blind men that see," we continne to bear you witness mat ye shall be...
...The Chicago Tribune Tower is a nest of Japanese propaganda activities...
...62,ObO Alien Entry in 7 Months Refutes Tory Press An intensification of the drive on the alien as a scapegoat by the labor-baiting press is one of the results of the transference ' of the Immigration and Naturalization Service from Madame Perkins to the new unit headed by Solicitor General Francis Biddle at Department of Justice...
...The Japan Information Bureau in the Tribune Tower, carries on for only $150 a month, they claim...
...You can frustrate democracy, head it off for a time or seem to hamstring it, but kill it you cannot...
...then the Italian Socialist Party and affiliated cooperatives—under Modigliani, Turati, Serrati—filtered across the border into southern France, then into Paris, to set up anti-fascist machinery...
...WoHes Endorsed Vargas— look Now...
...Von Epp has been ordered to make these claims appear smaller than the Luxembourg air force, in comparison with Germany's colonial plans today...
...From this colony German technicians and farmers can draw inexhaustible quantities of copper, palm oil, cotton, palm nuts, coffee, cocoa, rubber, timber maize, ivory, metals and minerals — enough for self-sufficiency once she can control the-lines of communications now dominated by the British fleet...
...He opened Mexican floodgates to Manuilsky, George Mink and a score of important Soviet agents...
...These central offices, from which networks spread into all countries under dictatorial rule, were the headquarters for the world's exiled Socialist Parties...
...He registered with the State Department after the Federal Bureau of Investigation became interested in his activities and background...
...If Lean Blum...
...For this, of course, they hare been attacked by the German propaganda machinery...
...There can be no more open pro-Nazi gesture...
...Fascism over all—for the next generation...
...The world goes dictator accordingly...
...That one sneaking phrase, "No concern of ours," has done more to wreck democracy than the guns of Hitler, The most obvious of all the revelations of this ordeal is the truth of the fundamental democratic creed that the injury of one is the concern of all...
...After a thousand years of instruction, man goes back to school, virtually at the page and line where he began...
...Recently he turned up as a Nipponese propaganda man in the pay of the Japanese Board of Tourist Industries...
...If he had said that in twenty years the kings would all ha...
...This is a continuation of the organization which existed iv Norway...
...The influx of new capital, skills, and initiative have been demonstrable factors in prosperity...
...And the reason: why this most beneficient step was not taken...
...ftNE more reminiscence is pertinent...
...A third- Japanese agent is Gene Lamb, who accepted the hospitality of the Chinese people for years...
...Since then he has meticulously responded to every subdued cue whispered by the ^Soviet foreign oflBce...
...World Trade Union Confer Now in London BRITISH labor leaders, despite their other wartime jobs, are reorganizing free unions for those citizens of Nazi-occupied nations who were fortunate enough to be in England, or on the high seas when the Reichswehr rolled into their homelands...
...Once the International's machinery is recognized in London it will begin to draw on the AFL resources...
...indirectly subsidized by the German government...
...A union •f democratic countries for the preservation of democracy as * principle, and there would have been no such disaster as this...
...j_ The conflict was between two irreconcilable concepts of human society—between , Concentrated Power and Diffused Power, between Despotism and Democracy, between Force and Reason...
...Diplomats in this sole uncensored European nation can tell you if they will that Italy will get some Mediterranean island and continental territory at the expense of France, but that the Suez Canal and the lush African centers will become part of the German—African nation once England is blockaded and her colonial forces sucked into defense of the Isles...
...The South American dictators naturally feel a galvanizing endorsement...
...J By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad AS the international Communist press tries frenziedly to get out from under world-wide condemnation for the Soviet Union's direct responsibility for the strengthening of the Hitler war machine and the collapse of democratic France,- Lombardo Toledano spoke strange words down in Mexico City...
...The oppression or erasure of any democracy anywhere in the world is the intimate and vital concern of every other democracy in the world...
...He describes himself as "another Carl Crow" and lectures throughout the country as an expert on the Orient...
...It is that President Vargas If of Brazil, who made such speed to be the first in the Western World to heil Hitler, is the...
...On March, 1939, two months after Premier Daladier's triumphal visit to Corsica and Tunisia, Mussolini formulated his demands for "Tunisia, Djibouti, and the Suez Canal...
...a Gestapo raid on a munitions factory which had been turning out defective guns...
...Hisakatu K. Watanabo, 549 Market Street, San Francisco, receives $325 a month for propagandizing in that section...
...Injury of One Is Concern of 41/ DOST FACTO campaigning is the easiest and safest of indoor * sports and the least profitable, ordinarily...
...Turkey tears up her treaty with the Allies...
...valuable detailed information of industrial and military conditions inside Germany...
...Toledano, general secretary of the Mexican Federation of Labor, has often seen himself as the Lenin of the America...
...The Socialists are led by Dr...
...Still, we ought to learn from experience—or give up...
...Romania, Greece, Hungary fawn at the conqueror's feet...
...In 1933 those Socialist and labor leaders who-were not seized by the organization destined to be the Gestapo, reached Paris to hook up the central link of an underground, inside Germany movement which had depots in Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Poland, Holland, Belgium, ^Luxembourg, and Switzerland...
...So we old stagers that, like the man in Stevenson's story "have seen a sight of times," bid you youngsters good cheer, and if you doubt me about this, ask that incomparable veteran, Chief Abraham Cahan...
...He that says that the downfall of democracy in Czechoslovakia is no- concern of ours is not of the covenant...
...The whole story in.a word...
...Sumner Welles, assistant secretary of state, recommended to us ••a grand person after a visit...
...It is estimated that about 100,000 Reich refugees are here, about one^third of them being'in New-York City...
...and associate of William Randolph Hearst...
...was with a sigh that he gave up Msrtfaith in'the monarchical principle...
...Kame Muracka has registered at the State Department as publisher of the Japanese-American Review, Commissioner-General to the New York World's Fair, etc., but fails to state how much money he is getting...
...Last year he arrived in this country posing as an independent publisher of Shanghai magazines...
...The French navy may give Germany that superiority and negate Hitler's need for partnership with Italy...
...Another is Carroll Lunt, who has long been attached to Tokyo's bureau of propaganda abroad...
...merely trampled down, not killed, since all the fuhrers of all the world could not kill it...
...Vargas but his style of tfetatorship, which seemed to Ma Welles just too nice for anything...
...Working overtime to profit from the attention focused on the Germans, Russians and Italians, the Jap agents are strategically placed...
...against the facts...
...With the others in the exodus from France is the International Federation of Trade Unions, with which the American Federation of Labor is affiliated...
...Last week he doubled on himself again...
...It is insured by...
...Two weeks ago the Allies were "mad-dog imperialists"—a few days ago he told the Congress of the Confederation of Latin-American Workers that Mexico should speed all aid to the Allies...
...Communists there actually defend Germany's right to sink neutral ships, charging all who urge the Argentinians to stand against Germany with "pro-imperialism...
...Now Toledano tells his agents he's pro-Ally...
...In recent months the Nazi and Communist newspapers have been in unison in their blasting of the Socialist Party and its newspaper, La Vangauardia—as fine a publication any section of the International has had...
...They have constantly brought fifth column evidence into Congress, where it has been ignored until recently...
...Democracy has not been destroyed...
...i ') Dictatorships Are Rampant TJ7HAT the results will be is already' apparent...
...the day of the people had begun...
...Another prominent Socialist is Senator Mario Bravo...
...But it has been crushed to earth in Europe and elsewhere...
...Agents Here Lecture, Distribute Free /News' By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—Japanese propaganda in the United States costs Tokyo more than $7,000,000 a year, more than Berlin and Rome spend here annually...
...To him democracy is not a living faith...
...We shall not see the return of the people to power, but you will see it...
...In cooperation with Minister of Labor Bevin the International Federation of Transport Workers has set up a Norwegian Seamen's Union in Great Britain...
...La Bora, like the Communist dailies in Mexico City, is...
...same President Vargas that Mr...
...Nicolas Rapetto, activist on the Committee of Argentine Action for Support to the Allies—a group similar to the William Allen White committee in this country...
...For one reason, it has perdurable roots in the unquenchable demand innate in human beings for things better...
...The huge backward wave that Germany started will dash itself against democracy M every corner of the world...
...Hundreds of audiences in Western U. S. are familiar with his quaint pictures of the wonderful Jap...
...The Latin-American Federation, of which Toledano is president, waa created by the Commissars as a trade union transmission belt in the vital South American agrarian, shipping and mining centers...
...For all that and all that...
...Their name alone has'been changed...
...A recent economic analysis by Professor Bernhard Ostrolenk of the City College of New York demonstrates that the flow of an incoming population has always led to the material increase in production, consumption and national income...
...Three new names have ' been added to the list of agents operating out of that building...
...back on the thrones and more powerful than ever, he would ljave been viewed as insane...
...At one time" he was vice-president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co...
...It will function in close consultdtion with the British National Union of Seamen, to which are also being transferred Danish, Dutch, Belgian, Polish and now French ship workers...
...They are Suejiro Ogawa, who receives $300 a month, being connected with the Japan Foreign Trade Federation there...
...Until recently, State officials in Washington believed some of this fund would be diverted to a Nipponese offensive in South- America to compete with the Axis propaganda...
...In addition, Germany does not plan to neglect spreading its welt kultiir over Tanganyika's 360,000 square miles, Ruanda-Urandi (Belgian), 21,000 square miles, also Southwest Africa's 323,000 square miles—and Egypt, which controls the Suez Canal...
...It is insured by the persisting records of the old heroic struggles tm win free from the former kings...
...Italy apparently thinks she has won her battle, the opening shot of which was fired on December 17, 1938 by Count Ciano when he sent a note to M. Francois-Pancet, French ambassador to Italy, in which he destroyed the FrenchRome accord of 1935...
...The weak nations still uncrushed by the thundering car makes haste to climb upon it...
...I mean that what we have gone through utterly annihilates the selfish ostrich refuge that what happens to democracy in another country is no coneern of ours...
...So he said, and expressed the reasoning thought of his time...
...Concentrated Power, Despotism, Force has won, and Democracy goes down to its most disastrous defeat...
...Von Bernstorff was a statesman of experience and learning, a shrewd and tutored observer of men land manners, an expert in history...
...The day of Icings on earth was: over aid done...
...Jouhaux, Abramovi-.ch...
...Welles was good enough to endorse for us not only Mr...
...The Anglo-French Trade Union Committee, organized several months after the war, may not be dissolved if Jouhaux and other French labor unions reach London where they can function in the name of the three million members of the French Federation of Labor (C.G.T...
...But insured above all else by the certain and visible collapse of the social, system of which the horrors of the last three months are the typical, perfect, inescapable product...
...it is only a political gadget...
...Choicest amongst these is the Belgian Congo...
...merely Trade...
...We Arm Enemies INCIDENTALLY, if we care to review causes, we might well fttcall that if the four democratic nations whom Japan flouted «ad kicked in the face when she played Dillinger on Manchuria, k*d taken steps to vindicate and uphold the treaty Japan was macerating, there would have been no fall of France and no threat to America...
...He is paid for his writing, lecturing and motion picture exhibits in addition tohis expenses...
...His superiors regard him so highly that they pay him $12,000 a year, ostensibly to'be a newspaper correspondent...
...Once rid of capitalism, any human good is possible...
...Recently he was hired by the Japanese at a salary of $1,000 a month for a special job—the nature of which was vaguely described as "public relations counseling...
...And henceforth let us be equipped with this infallible test tube...
...In this instance its resurrection is insured by physics as well as by morals...
...And there you are...
...The United States is making the same error committed by the British when they failed to ration Italy with a day to day supply of oil, instead of permitting II Duce to put in a six months' supply...
...Required reading on this technique is Stephen Naft's article in the last edition of Living Age...
...Belgian Congo, wealthy central African state, is more than nine hundred thousand miles in size, with a population of 23,000 whites and ten million natives...
...This may gasg_som»- hint at the vastness of the Japanese propaganda machine here...
...A lurid article in a recent Sunday' tabloid pictured a defenseless America at the mercy of "35,010 alien visitors who arrive here each month on foreign passports and then disappear into our nation's life...
...This is a flagrant disregard for facts...
...The tremendous " demonstration that separate democracies cannot defend themselves against despotisms is enough...
...Germany has not forgotten that New Zealand—now ruled by Socialists —and Australia participated in the dissection of the kaiser's big world empire...
...but whether as fiihrer, duce or dictator, kings they still are—after all these centuries of struggle...
...It was designed to sabotage any movement to aid England, and what used to be France...
...Argentine Socialists for years have demanded federal action against the Nazi network...
...In Article 119 of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany renounced in favor of the Allied Powers all its rights and titles to its overseas possessions...
...Trade...
...Socialists Expose Commnnexi Ties In Argentine BECAUSE the Argentinian Socialists back their government's move to demand payment from Germany for the sinking of the S.S...
...It is insured again by the questing spirit of man that dictatorships cannot choke...
...There a last stand will be made—for now - only in the British Empire—and little Switzerland—are there free labor and Socialist organizations...
...The South Manchuria Railway is only one of the numerous agencies through which Japanese propaganda ^sues to the American public and business interests, but the expenses for its N. Y. office alone amounted to $57,145 last year, the government records show...
...An associate of the Tokyo apparatus here is Glenn^Griswold, publishing director and editor of Business Week for many years...
...Yet such a forecast would have been perfectly verified, while the requiem he sang over his beloved theory seems now like the grimmest irony...
...Certainly during his lengthy visit to Moscow, some years back, the commissars in charge of his comfort and entertainment, did little to disabuse the Mexican labor leader of such romantic notions...
...The kings are back just as they were a thousand years ago, only far more powerful, more ruthless, better equipped, more absolute, far abler...
...But an analysis of the State Department's list of paid foreign propagandists reveals that the Japanese have intensified rather than diverted their efforts to other countries...
...These men and their party are one of the^ most important organizations in stymying of the Nazi-Fascist-Communjst infiltration in South America...
...He was by conviction and training a monarchist, and it...
...Dan, the Italians, the Czechs, the Dutch, the Belgians and the other leaders of what a decade ago was the flourishing Second International can escape to London, what can be salvaged will be resurrected...
...Italy, Reich, PlansClash On Division of Africa Special to The New Leader ZURICH, Switzerland.—Regardless of the treaties Germany and Italy may sign with the unrepresentative French cabinet, Adolf Hitler—with the aid of Italian colonial troops and machinery—rwill attempt taking not only the 953,000 square miles of African territory Germany held before 1914 but every foot on that continent now controlled by the many governments he has destroyed...
...His epitaph upon it was honest and apt—from his point <jf view...
...William Green is one of the I.F.T.U.'s presdents...
...These figures cover all non^&mericans who passed through the port—quota and non-quota immigrants and visitors...
...flaring up of sudden strikes in the northern Reich—these were signals to the political world that an organized underground movement existed in Germany, directed from headquarters somewhere near the borders...
...Japs Pay $7,000,000 a Year in U.S.to Halt Boycott By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel "TWENTY years frpm now,"-said Count von Bernstorff in 1921, I "the only kings left on earth will be in packs of playing ..cards...
...We are permitting the Japanese to do the same—and it may be used against us in the immediate future...
...He lined up his unions, peppered them with Stalinite "educational directors.'' howled for a popular front, screamed for collective security, beat the drum for isolation...
...The same urge that leads them to invent better transportation drives them toward a larger freedom...
...The Japanese Importers and Exporters Association of Chicago has also taken quarters in the Chicago Tribune Tower...
...Hitler has vindicated them by doing what most of them would like to do if they had the nerve and the armored cars...
...There's the raison d'tre of the Jap agents here—to keep the United States placidly building the Nipponese army and naval machinery until it is in a position to shut off the Pacific as the Germans are shutting off Europe...
...President Vargas of Brazil leads them in a paean of praise...
...If Britain retires its forces to the Isles, then Mussolini will suddenly discover -that Colonel Bitter von Epp has not been idle during the war in the west...
...If England continues to fight, if Egypt declares war, if the British navy bottles up the Mediterranean and starves out II Duce's East African colonies, then the German drive for all Africa is postponed...
...Most of them worked out of Paris...
...lashed the democracies for their "imperialism," and finally created for himself and the Comintern agents behind him a trade union army of 100,000 C. T. M. members...
...London, Socialist later national's Last Stand \ SERIES of fatal train crashes...
...A survey by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service reveals only 62,026 aliens arrived at Ellis Island in the seven months from October 1939 to April 1940— compared with 113,686 for the seven months prior to October...
...First in exile came the Russians, under Theodore Dan and Raphael Abramovitch...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 25
