All Britons Back Decree Laws as Threat of Defeat Wipes Out Politics
DAVIS, JOHN
No Permanent Blackout All Britons Back Decree Laws as Threat of Defeat Wipes Out Politics By JOHN DAVIS Glasgow City Councillor GLASGOW, Scotland (Passed by the Censor).—The new situation in...
...Hence the whole process of separating one farm from another is so tactfully done that one is unconscious of the rights of private property thereby established...
...Sandwich, Dover, Deal and Folkestone brings to mind towns that were part of my boyhood...
...Had anyone told me a month ago that the British people would willingly drop all their political differences and accept dictatorial decree...
...IF IT is said by some of our American academic revolutionaries that the British people are no longer free and democratic and there is nothing to choose between us and the regimented Nazi hordes I want to emphasize that we have accepted the restrictions of the hew bill willingly, even enthusiastically...
...But when, after all his journeys, he takes a steahier at Calais and sails across the Channel, he is happy, fpr soon he will^see Dover's chalk cliffs and be home again...
...The really difficult situation is in Brazil, where the Government must maintain, officially, that is, an attitude of cooperation With the United States, but where, at the same time, the Government could not even exist without the support of the Brazilian fifth columnists at the head of ministries and the army and navy, and without the support of the German colonists of the three temperate climate states in the south—Rio Grande do Sul...
...with a swift trip one fall to Yorkshire to see the purple heather...
...the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament, the British MuseunKgone beyond repair—picture all this, and it still would not meln the end of the English Church or of the British Empire...
...Every kind of voluntary effort is being rapidly recruited among people who are...
...In the shadow of an attempted Nazi blitzkrieg, sanity, is penetrating into even the most slogan-crazed minds...
...And the report from Uraguay seems not to take into account the Uruguan "Fascios"—or fascist cells—which have been organized by the Italian minister, Serafino Mazzolini, which, in Uruguay, may be even more powerful than the Nazi party organizations...
...Consequently, only the expenditure ' side -isT "fevedlefl...
...The rush for n^apapen after every show and, the hurried look at the headlines bespeak an intensity of interest never before manifested in this normally phlegmatic people...
...They were as usual besieged by prospective purchasers...
...No Permanent Blackout All Britons Back Decree Laws as Threat of Defeat Wipes Out Politics By JOHN DAVIS Glasgow City Councillor GLASGOW, Scotland (Passed by the Censor).—The new situation in this country is so unusual, represents such a strange contrast to anything I. have ever known, that I must attempt a description of it for my America nr friends...
...7ERY little has been said in reports from the leading South " American countries regarding the Italian cooperation with the Nazis...
...And the Tories gasp...
...From the humblest to the, highest in the land there-is the-feeling that...
...Axis Goads U. S. 16 Move First Into Latin "Nations By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, New York THE Government of Argentina is considering a demand upon the Nazi "Government for indemnity for the sinking of the Seamship Uruguay...
...1 of the Machinists' Union, declares that "we still have many of our own members out of work" and that he has been able to supply the demand so far...
...They were typically English maiden ladies, but their existence had never been so cloistered that it prevented them from earning a living under the spur of necessity...
...Charles Sehl, business agent of District No...
...It has been explained that the Vargas statement, seeming to range Brazil on the side of totalitarianism, was intended for home consumption and was not intended to indicate Brazilian adherence to the Axis.- This is undoubtedly true, but the fact that Vargas considered it politically expedient to make such * statement in order to maintain his own political position is sufficient to raise doubts about what might happen should Spain's General Franco throw in his lot with Hitler and Mussolini...
...it certainly meant much to my two aunts who were in business together...
...ThVis is not because of fear of the consequences...
...THE general public represents a united pec* pie against Nazism...
...The world and not the nation, not even the group of nations, is now man's hope...
...The falling off of anhusiasm among pacifist groups is due to the general feeling now prevalent that more urgent .work must be attended to first The most ardent pacifist is now^prepared to...
...off the Spanish Coast a couple of weeks ago...
...we have added a hundred billions to our national wealth...
...There is, of course, no validity in any suggestion that the religion of the English Church can be saved by saving its buildings...
...Notably, in his "Holy Terror," a book which becomes quite important after one has waded through the early chapters, he has foreshadowed things to come...
...already have made England's acquaintance in times of peace when hospitality has been extended to them...
...H. G. Wells, an Englishman who is also a citizen of the world tomorrow, has done more than any other man writing in English to make popular the idea of world unity through a world state...
...WHILE it is true that'EnglandVgTeat contribution to the world has been in good government, and thati a military, naval and air defeat in the present war would be a serious blow to the British form of government, it would still be true that some ©f England's richest contributions would remain to benefit the world as a whole...
...A friend of mine, recently in America on a • lecture tour, returned to his home on the English southeast coast "for a rest...
...But so long as they (the Lloyds, Duff-Coopers, etc...
...FEELING in Argentina is running high because the sinking of the Uruguay followed immediately upon the expressions of sympathy for Belgium and Holland in the Argentine Congress...
...in Wordsworth's Lake District...
...Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, St...
...William Harvey, born 1578, in Folkestone, one of the towns now threatened, gave to medicine its knowledge of the circulation of the blood...
...sional fields and unskilled labor...
...About 14,600 workers were killed at their jobs, 91,500 suffered permanent impairments, and nearly 1,250,000 were temporarily disabled, Secretary Perkins reported here...
...The significant thought and events of today are world-wide in scope...
...and in Jhese seaside resorts my sister and I spent summer holidays, particularly in Yarmouth...
...Coming out of a theatre one night recently we heard the newsboys shouting their "specials," announcing the loss of Arras and Amiens...
...The hearty cooperation of all the trade unions in the present emergency rush on shipbuilding, armament, aircraft production, etc...
...In Philadelphia, sensational stories were given to newspapers that work at the navy yard and the Franklin Arsenal was beinf seriously delayed because of Inability to obtain men...
...And if the army and navy, plus the Nazi.organizations, would welcome the Nazis and Italians, it would be necessary to send only a thousand technicians Sp^LJL0...
...The report was as follows: "Uruguay, often used to launch political trial balloons by neighboring Argentina and Brazil, recently ran into embarrassing difficulties as a result of its strongly-worded Pan-American protest against German invasion of Holland and Belgium...
...One of these movements comprises the Nazi Party units...
...CINCE the astounding speech of President Vargas last week several attempts have been made to quiet the fears of the United States and other American nations about Brazil...
...insofar as there is vitality in English Christianity it will survive no matter what happens to brick and stone and mortar...
...The early experiments of William Gilberd, court physician to Queen Elizabeth, led to further discoveries which, three centuries later, have developed into the vast present knowledge of electricity...
...And in ease he might win there is a general feeliife that we ought not to ride our own pet hobby-horses at this time.' I want several members of the Churchill Government sent home...
...skilled men free to do Governmtnt war work...
...Prices today are almost onesixth less than in 1929, Nathan pointed out, and that fact is the basis of his claim that this year he nation's purchasing power will be the greatest in history...
...These are about as far distent from the eastern bulge of Brazil as New York is from Denver...
...we have established an agricultural program which has increased farm income by 4% billion dollars...
...Fascism to hold Brazil against any military effort that might be made...
...from any government I should have been inclined to incredulous laughter...
...London is no more essential to the continuance of the Empire than is Vatican City to the continuance of the Papacy...
...We have associated certain systems with^certain places, but the systems are greater - than the places...
...But around me I see a mass of people who are inspired with the necessity of defending the democratic liberties that the British people do possess...
...I am not going to' try to imagine London in the hands of the Nazis...
...Meanwhile, Argentina is hastening to root out fifth columnists, especially from the army and navy...
...According to my own information the Nazi-Fascist sympathizers are composed of anti-United States elements in high government positions...
...These issues are far more important than the financial considerations, for if Germany agrees to pay, then Germany must automatically admit the validity of claims for indemnity if the United States should send ships to the war zone...
...When the two billion dollars of bonus' "payment is further deducted,'the net cost is three billion dollars to the country since 1932...
...Paul's Cathedral blown up...
...In Uruguay, across the River Plate, an investigation has revealed that the, present governments of at least ten La tin-American republics are seriously menaced by two coordinated movements, according to a cable to the New York Times from John W. White in Montevideo...
...A report about Uruguay of considerable significance was published this week in the Hemisphere, confident weekly news report on trends in Latin America and Canada...
...The people are taking more easily to the new evacuation scheme in spite of the unfortunate experiences of the.-last...
...Yet the Italians are in a much more strategic position in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Peru than the Germans...
...I LIVED for years in Wallasey (near Liver* pool)', in London and New York before seeing tha white cliffs of Dover which no Englishman can behold without a lump rising in his sentimental throat...
...Some left-wing academic theorists might describe this war as a capitalist war but the people of Britain know1 they have a vital interest in the victory of the democratic forces and the measure of their enthusiasm for victory is the innumerable restrictions they joyfully accept It might be said that in this people's war there is a united British people determined to see it through to victory...
...all are in this war...
...In a flippant mood I once suggested that Westminster Abbey should be brought over here, brick by brick, like the castle in "The Ghost Goes West" but this is not a time for flippancy...
...the least politically inclined persona are determined that Hitlerism shall not...
...services and miscellaneous industries for 1,400, railroads for 800, and public utilities for 500...
...This survey supplements a recent statement issued by the heads of the American Federation of Labor skilled trades division, John Coyne of the Building' Trades, Harvey Brown of the Machinists, John Frey of the Metal Trades and Dan Tracy of the Electrical Workers, that no shortage existed, and that the American Federation of Labor unions could supply several million skilled men in two months' time...
...in some way not needed in the fighting forces...
...Don't forget that millions of men have been unemployed for/4 decade...
...They are ten years older than in 1930...
...the British Empire would still be the British Empire even if governed from (say) Ottawa...
...Since the minister has not been recalled it would indicate that Guani, himself, is under some political compulsion within Uruguay to permit the minister to Germany to "get away" with this breach of faith with the Uruguayan Government And so it is fair to ask: What is this compulsion within Uruguay...
...My father was born in Lowestoft, my mother in Great Yarmouth...
...When the matter is debated in the Chamber there might be some objection from one or two of the I.L.P...
...My summer vacations had been spent in other parts of England—in Devonshire, with its rich fed earth and deep green grass, its strawberries and cream...
...invasion of South America might conceivably be a peculiar invasion...
...Social Security Board of state employment offices in April showed 5,100,000 active job seekers registered...
...Trade unions which hitherto flirted with the Communists fa their various stunt campaigns are how passing unanimous resolutions in support of the war effort...
...As might be expected in Scotland where Labor politics is traditionally pacifist, the Glasgow City Council has been slow to cooperate in anything connected with the war...
...A living system can continue to flourish even when transplanted...
...Trade union leaders who enjoyed the pleasant luxury of preaching pacifism while the Allied armies kept the menace of fascism from these island shores have been shocked out of their dreaming by the tremendous strides of the mechanical Attila.' Several well-known pacifists have already indicated that the new turn of events in Europe has -converted them to the realization that Hitlerism must be destroyed before there is »ny prospect of a better world...
...invasion, that must not perish from the.earth...
...and .nothing must be permitted to interfere with its successful prosecution...
...The world is headed for tremendous changes, and the value of a country will be measured by what it is able to contribute to the welfare of the world as a whole...
...These contributions have been made in science and medicine, in literature and religion, and in other great human activities, and these will endure whatever happens to individual Englishmen or to the Empire...
...in North Wales, climbing mountains...
...The Empire itself has undergone changes already so that it now consists of a commonwealth of nations...
...Whatever sacrifices are necessary to achieve that-erid will be willingly accepted by the British people and just as willingly by the British Labor Movement If--there is anything the invasion of the Netherlands and the German mechanized blitzkrieg in France has done it has wakened the British Labor Movement out of its casualneag...
...A good season means a great deal to the local" townsfolk...
...74,600 Workers, Industry Death Tell WASHINGTON, D. C—American industry took its usual toll of dead and injured workers last year...
...The man who was served before me bought one of each of the three papers and presently I saw him in tears under a street light reading of our losses...
...in any case, a historic building should be left to risk destruction in its own setting rather than be transferred to a setting where it does not belong...
...The industrial, political and civil rights which we have been inclined to accept (as in the nature of things - now take on the appearance of preciousness...
...It was a long time before I visited Dover, not until years after my first coming to America...
...A visit to his home from London means a pleasant train journey through the Sussex countryside of breathtaking beauty...
...This change of atmosphere is due to the change of Government Britain has.put Munich and" all it represents in casUalness, in surrender, in pro-Nazism, into .the discard and is facing the hard realities of the present grim situation...
...In Wales the boundaries of fields are marked by little stone walls...
...Employers would have no trouble at all in pettinp all the skilled men needed," Sehl said, "if they would lift the cruel and absurd age restriction and cut out too-rigid physical examinations...
...iSome time ago the Ministry of Labor and the Engineers' Union asked us to allow our skilled men to leave our employment for munitions work for the duration of the war...
...The outstanding industry so far as fatalities are concerned is agriculture, with deaths estimated at 4,300, and in addition, this industry had 13,000 permanent and about 240,000 temporary disabilities," she said...
...Considering the power and influence of the German and Italian population of Uruguay, the Uruguayan Government may have a "very difficult time, without the aid of Argentina, to maintain a position of animosity to the Nazis...
...But it is also a famous centre of the herring industry where Scotch girls make the long journey from Scotland every autumn to prepare the fish for market immediately after the boats come in...
...Hours of labor do not matter, men are getting outside themselves and their interests in their service to the nation in its extremity...
...English literature has given to the world such men as Geoffrey Chaucer...
...Dramatic refutation of that statement were hundreds of men seeking work who stood in line for hours outside the main gate of the Franklin Arsenal...
...Other government reports cite the fact that for our 24 billion dollar debt increase, the nation today has 19 billion dollars worth of tangible1, usable assets in the form of roads, parks, buildings, airfields and other kinds of new constructions...
...Work is like a holy crusade...
...religion, such great leaders as John Bunyan, George Fox and the Wesleys...
...Such intention, stated von Ribbentrop, found Germany prepared to sever diplomatic ties immediately...
...In that time the national income has'risen from 40 billions to over 70 billions...
...Mazzolini—just by way of a little background— began his work for the Rome-Berlin Axis several years ago when he was the Italian consul at Sao Paulo...
...An inspiring lead from Westminster is receiving a unanimous response from the British people...
...The law of gravity enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton paved the way for Albert Einstein...
...The importance of the prospective action lies in the reputed determination of the Ortiz Government to admit of no avoidance or postponement of the issues involved...
...are cooperating with the more progressive members of the new administration I shall not press my objection...
...He was born in Colchester...
...in England always by the hedges...
...ft the most encouraging thing I have aeon since the, war started...
...Following the protest, signed by all twentyone American republics but sponsored at Montevideo, the Uruguan minister to Germany was summoned by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...The onljr criticism I have heard of the emergency laws,'which now control all persons and property and make them subject to the needs of the country in its fight with Nazism, is that they are eight months late...
...One of those arrested was the son of the President-of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies...
...others will see it for the first Htime and may pause for a moment to note how neat and' well ordered it is...
...It.has.,beeji said that capitalism does not create altruism, that the workers' struggle to live is so intense so personal, that self-sacrifice on a large scale is not possible so long as society is thus arranged...
...f*HE most significant part of the report is that Foreign Min* ister Gauni was piqued by the action of the Uruguan minister who informed Ribbentrop that the protest, so far as Uruguay was concerned, was not to be taken so seriously...
...The Englishman loves to wander all over the face of the planet, for''sheer delight in the wanderlust...
...He enjoys walking along the 'promenade watching the ships that sail between England and France...
...Picture London the victim of wholesale destruction—Westminster...
...If Argentina takes this stand, Argentina will be the first nation to stand up to the Nazis for their' rights at sea...
...Actually, this is not so...
...Why cannot employers realize these facts and remove arbitrary hiring requirements...
...And many more: active pacifists have quietly dropped all activity...
...I want a more aggressively anti-Nazi personnel in the positions of power...
...The Other is the fifth column, composed of Nazi-Fascist sympathizers...
...William Shakespeare and John Milton...
...The antiquated government bookkeeping system doesn't permit a double entry ledger...
...Charges-have now been made at Buenos Aires that the sinking was made possible only through secret naval intelligence transmitted to Berlin from the Argentine capital...
...The average Englishman is a gardner, as anyone from Francis Bacon down will tell you;' he makes -sr-sraxden--of afe cwufitry just as much as in the patch of ground around his house, formally termed a garden, where flowers surround well-kept lawns and trees provide shade against the occasional hot days of summer...
...Is it possible that Uruguay is making loud noises in the press about opposing the Nazis, but at the same time" giving Hitler private and secret assurances that he should not pay too much attention to these noises...
...The Pope would still ,be head of the Catholic Church even if he ruled from an island in the Pacific...
...TfAKE an example from our local authority's * experience...
...and, if the Allies win the war, it will have to undergo further changes—assuming the present belief in federal union survives the ordeal of battle...
...The Uruguayan minister minimized the protest and calmly claimed that the initiative had been forced upon the Uruguayan Government...
...The cynic will say that the situation must indeed be desperate if such contributions as these are stressed instead of what to many will seem the all-important contribution of the Empire...
...Our home was in the inland Essex town of Colchester, noted chiefly for Roman ruins and oysters, although the oysters actually come from nearby Brightlingsea...
...In such an instance, Spanish African air bases would be made available to the Nazis and Fascists...
...admit that all hope must be abandoned if Hitler wins...
...Meanwhile, there was no incentive for boys to take up the machinist or any other trade...
...In German hands the English countryside would still be beautiful—witness the beauty of the German countryside and the German love of flowers—but there is an English quality about the land now threatened by...
...We refused to do so because we were inclined to pacifism...
...There were 1,538,000 worker*, available for 4,953 types of ee>>v cupations exclusive of profta...
...Besides, there is always a path through those fields along which anyone may walk, and voluntary organizations to protect public paths quickly spring up if a farmer dares to plough over an ancient path and to take from the public what belongs to it * * * » PNGLAND in other hands than English would ^* not be England, for the garden that is England is quite as much the product of nurture as of nature...
...If England Were Invaded British Culture Remains to World Despite War Outcome By Harold Butcher WHEN the Germans have invaded England by one of the methods so obligingly described in New York newspapers ..they will find one of the loveliest countries of Europe—but they will Thave no time to admire the scenery...
...Last week the same Tequest was made to the Glasgow Council and it was agreed to allow 1,600...
...representatives, but otherwise it expresses the unanimous will of the Labor-controlled council...
...It might-just might-be an invasion of a type so peculiar m SuTATSST U^dS^^^eiin the^Gov't, Unions Deny Lack of Skilled Labor WASHINGTON, Bv C.--Tia industrialist-sponsored drive to beat down labor Btandarda\ly shrilly crying of a lack of afcJMt labor for national defense met asharp rebuff by the government this week in the detailed report issued by FederaJ Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, showing no general shortage of skilled labor anywhere...
...New Deal Ups Annual Income J4 75 Billions 'Boosted by New Deal reforms, the national income for 1940 will be "within hailing distance of the .previous high water mark," „ Robert Nathan, national income expert of the Department of Commerce predicted this week...
...Santa Catharina, and Parana...
...V Contrary to War Department statements, an inventory by the...
...Many of - them will...
...And yet that is exactly what has happened...
...The Uruguan diplomat was shown the note and asked if it signified if Uruguay was ready to break off relations with Germany...
...This group included 23,006 technicians, also 675,000 skilled craftsmen and 858,000 sem% skiljed craftsmen, 858,000 semiskilled workers...
...The planned evacuation of children from such places as Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Harwich, Clacton-on-Sea (where a Nazi plane was brought down recently...
...The second largest fatality total is found in construction, in which 2,800 employed workers, and 400 self-employed workers were killed...
...A personal experience in this regard will indicate the general feeling...
...In' fact the more politically conscious and active' one has been, it appears, the more enthusiastically does such a one embrace the self-sacrificing and self-effacing decrees...
...The wholesale and retail trade group ranked third, with 1,400 deaths to workers and 400 to self-employed proprietors, or a total of 1,800...
...Manufacturing and mining (and quarrying) industries each account for a total of 1,800 deaths...
...The expected total of 75 billion dollars is about 5 billions higher than last year and about 6 billions'less than in 1929, the high for all time...
...there is no law against propaganda, even iantUwar propaganda...
...and insofar as England is making contributions to the world as a whole she has no need to fear jhe future...
...Tfcej had been attracted by a mere m-N mor that the arsenal was to go on a twenty-four-hour shift, to speed the manufacture of ammunition...
...Great Yarmouth, with Charles Dickens associations, was, and is, a great place for "trippers/' people who rush down from London for a week-end of sea air...
...This amenability, this inclination to cooperate, to withhold criticism, to sacrifice our eternal right to find fault, is characteristic of the new temper of the British people...
...At Bat' it seems we have a government which is seriously concerned with waging the war against Hitlerism...
...The German embassy, is under-suspicion, and has been stoned by mobs who we're broken' tip by police action...
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