French Fascists Expected to War on England
SCHLAMM, WILLI
French Fascists Expected to War on England Flandin, Laval Seek Favor In Berlin By WILLI SCHLAMM Beneath the pathetic surface of a sinister de-ind thus not yet realized by a world which merely to...
...The next week pressure of his movement caused Coughlin in his January 21 sermon to announce "I freely choose to be identified as a friend of the accused, a .- -I do not disassociate myself from that (Christian Front) movement" Nothing has since been said of the original statement...
...Once -again the N.M.U...
...for 5th column attacks on American aid to the Allies has become even clearer in the light of additional information: 't: > ' v 1. The C.P.-N.M.U...
...If Germany has not- completely new weapons and techniques in storey-the methods she has so far used in the campaign against the Low Lands and France are by no means sufficient to smash British resistance and to occupy the British Isles in a few weeks...
...NMU Key Unit of CPA nti-A llyA ction In Americas By BILL HARPMAN -WASHINGTON,- P.uCjfipao .wcoks-.ag?^ The New Leader carried a series of articles on the communist National Maritime Unions' use of its strategic position in the shipping industry in moving Soviet agenta in and out of the United States and Latin-America, carry messages and funds for the CP...
...Plainly tJT enough, the French counT ^TjE^OP ter-revolution believes it i V^fl^S^y more comfortable to work * profitably for the indus|^ n^^^^ trially superior Germany, ^Bpl^H than to bear the costs of JB^^^^ ' *^ an unceasing French armaChurchill , meTnt . , I may be wrong, of course, but I expect very soon a downright French-German alliance, aimed against England...
...Such an alliance will not be just the result of ruthless Nazi police control over occupied France, but the voluntary policy of those French political and social forces who are eager to jump on the bandwagon to get a crumb of the booty...
...In the summation to the jury, defense counsel charged that the government case was a "plot to get Father Coughlin and the Christian Front," Apeing the Communist tactic, these men will now be trundled about from meeting to meeting, hailed as heroes...
...After several years in the company's chemical department the would-be Fuehrer organized the German-American Bund...
...established world union center which cooperates with the Allies...
...But the reason behind these nefarious maneuvers was shown in its warning/to N.M.U...
...Ford factories...
...The officers asked for delay for further negotiations, particularly because they were aware of what underlay this attack on the program of American defense and aid to the Allies...
...They prepared the break-' *^ C? "*unicl1—tne real overthrow of France's I Santal strength and importance...
...such Germans as Hilferding and Breitscheid...
...At the same moment Karl Kapp, German consul in Cleveland, pinned the Reich ribbon on the auto king...
...But under the impact of tragic blows the democratic world has finally awakened to the realization of what confronts it...
...SecMse-democracy required these defeats in -order to shed-the stupor and illusions thai have paralyzed its energies and to make itself fit for battle...
...It chose butter rather titan guns...
...3. A third point of attack by the C.P.-N.M.U...
...Yet we repeat: The war has just begun...
...France fellibecause her people refused to breed cannon fodder and march "like robots to the accompaniment of satanic music...
...We say it because we believe that it is precisely the defeats of democracy in the opening rounds of this titanic struggle which assure its ultimate triumph., -----~~7*^S...
...They spread Spirit of tired passiveness throughout France SMjke war broke out—the real reason of jjnj-JVs crucially wrong strategy, They did j^^^nt they had to do it cautiously, very 2g5*»*e<My> because France was still a de-while the Flandin and Laval acted ''2* French national interests because of definite political intentions, the French f*y*Went along merely because of mistaken, j^JNtPine love for peace...
...If you help England to survive 1940, you shall survive with her to see the world safe for your children...
...The New_ Leader carried stories by both this correspondent and Roy Tozier of the Friends of Democracy, exposing Cameron's relations with the Anglo-Saxon Federation, an anti-Semitic organization dedicated to the same principles which motivated the SOvershirts and the "Christian" Mobilizers...
...It fell because it was better...
...Not only Paris but France has fallen, while Britain fights alone, with her back to the ocean wall...
...Aires and reaching into the vital industries and land and sea transportation...
...Rudolf Neumann, outstanding pediatrician, Rudolph Leonhard, the ¦^e^r-pmr-fiermar/ Buszlflawski,' with Von Ossietsky on the Weltbuehne, and literally thousands of others...
...Through the Bed gates of Bolshevism will come the Black Reaction," wrote Plekhanoff...
...The shooting of Werfel by the Gestapo gives rise to fears concerning many world-famous Jewish, Socialist and liberal personalities who had made Paris their home after being persecuted in their native lands...
...Beside the obvi?os internal and social goals, their program of the last ten years, is based on the fundamental idea that France must change her traditional policy of alliance with England for av^modern" policy of alliance with Germany...
...This refusal to produce for Europe's sole democracy recalls Ford's friendly relations with the German government...
...Hitler has engineers from his country employed in the Ford Motor Company today...
...Paul Reynaud, who bitterly fought the rightists in the cabinet and finally signed a peace, is in Northern Africa seeking to rally resistance...
...There JMKy one conceivable explanation: because the Ifanv regime represents the French counter-Wolution and has particular purposes, net at all Wroponding with France's national interests...
...T^^J^/ZZ^ ^/SJ...
...as .owch, as everybody who en-sjs th«" Sweet comfort of peace must admit in ¦pUity that France had complete license to ¦pr her terrible fate by any means—by signs/that armistice France did not improve her jpiinil fate,- but made it worse...
...Roosevelt of the U. S. Lines...
...They ask us to admire his housing developments, his hospitalization plaits and old-age security, his entire pseudo-Socialist penitentiary- And they contrast all this with Englishmen on the dole, with Frenchmen sleeping under the bridges of Paris, with our own homeless and unemployed, with our Arkies, Okies and Texies...
...That in signing the armistice with Hitler, a virtual ally of the Reich for all prac-J2|tfcor«oses of German warfare against^Eng^ Jjit was m this writer's opinion «efan un-*a*a\ate consequence of French defeat -but the intention" of the men behind: Petain, ¦PJKotagonists of the Great French counterjMNgj* With Nazis -T** men around Flandin and Laval made pos-••JJJ* when they were in power, the fatal Italian IjPgtt in Africa—the real end of the post-war Mfi*' of collective security...
...The.200 ruling families of France and the country-house masters of England hated the very thought of having to part with their money and their comfort To fight a war to make the world safe for democracy...
...This close connection between the Comintern agents here and the German fifth-columnists was disclosed when the British government protested the use of 40 German stewards on the S.S...
...Were that not so, we would not have witnessed the heroic resistance of the French people to the Nazi invaders, we would not now be witnessing the magnificent effort of the British people to resist to the end...
...The Czechs, the Poles, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Dutch, the Belgians...
...Much worse has* happened since...
...Latin-American countries, of a Pan-American Federation secretariat in competition with the International Federation of Trade Unions, the...
...it is difficult to see behind the broadshouldered figure of an old sol-f?Ae real forces, but a student of German-*&*at knows only too well the function of all 4*W Hindenburgs...
...The reason behind this move was obviously the immense strategic importance of controlling a closely-knit group of unions stretching from Detroit to Buenos...
...Only the British isles defend the rest of the worid against the cnrmag-inable threat of an eventual fight for life and death against * Wined, totalitarian Europe, throwing into the battle 400 million men and an industrial power which, if re-organized by the efficiency o? a victorious, controlling Germany, will surpass all dreams of American efficiency...
...stroy human freedom...
...Ford Plants Center of Nazi Industrial Activity in U. S. By VJNCEMT ROGERS Special to Tai New Leader DETROIT.—Germany had its Fritz Thyssen, America has its Henry Ford.: • ¦' 'i \ Word that the auto magnate would refuse to build planes for Great Britain was first received in Washington some weeks ago, but,was discounted by members of the Defense Advisory Commission...
...Oh, no, the real test between Hitlerism and democracy is yet to come...
...As little as someone who litres in ¦curity must reproach beaten France for ec-jPtmg...
...Meanwhile pro-Ally aid sentiment in America rises...
...At that time he permitted himself to be photographed, wearing the medal, as Fritz Heiler, German consul in Detroit, shook bands with him...
...It did not come," said an editorial in The Pilot, "as a result of the war and it had nothing whatever to do with the war...
...I believe that'the French navy was not surrendered by the present French government because of German extortion, but was a downright offer by Flandin and Laval as a capital investment into a future common business...
...ijfhy, then, has France acted this way...
...We are actually invited to admire Hitler's dervishes as being motivated by the "intransigeant spirit of revolutionists who are prepared to die for a cause...
...to 'act, as frriiot did—tor Abandon- the completely occupied flitry to maintain abroad the nation's claim ¦C$aAependence...
...No Jewish or colored lads have been selected thus far...
...On the auto magnate's seventy-flfffa birthday he received a much be-ribboned award from Adolf Hitler...
...v • » • That democracy bears a- large share of responsibility for the catastrophe cannot be denied...
...and its Communist-dominated counterpart in Mexico and other...
...We are asked to believe by those who sneer at...
...revealed its role in the affair when, on June 7, its official organ, The Pilot, vociferously denied (although nobody had yet made the charge) that the strike had any connection with the Nazi war in Europe...
...Liepold is on intimate terms with Detroit's Consul Heiler and attends all social and political events arranged by the German consulate in and about the auto city...
...As a matter of fact, the President of the United States recently vetoed a bill to naturalize one of 'Mr...
...Trade union leaden hen estimate that these meetings attract from 70 to 100 German-born engineers employed by the...
...Will any one assert that life in most of these countries was worse than it was in Germany...
...that it was a foreshadowing of the denial of trade union protection in wartime...
...French Leftists Set Up New Legion French resistance to the Fascist invaders continue...
...And that isn't a prediction hot a thlreat...
...But if Hitler must run against the English walls with the combination of methods he has applied so far, then Churchill's grim promise that England will eventually re-conquer France from Petain, is not at all whistling in the dark...
...Yes, the free peoples of the world have just begun to fight' Let the Hamlets and defeatists be silent: ———A Warning!-A BROOKLYN ¦ jury hss disagreed and so the ,^0KL Christian Fronters are now §\«\ free to roam the streets...
...But when Flandin and Laval, through the medium of dumb generals, signed the treaty with Hitler, something even more serious, and more fatal for the entire world, happened: not just a conquered Europe, policed by German troops, but a continent, united along Fascist lines, began pooling its forces for future, common adventures...
...Last week we reported.the organization, by the N.M.U...
...Non-political personalities, scientists, men of conscience who could not endure the brutal per* ,*ecution of their friends, are also entombed...
...ca?<sg lrf.fl&>-^^*Ss\ False socialism, false internajmnjlMBs ^JHrxvy^ / /iSa^ tionalism, false pacifism—all of them fevv\ ' / Ji embodied in the treason of the in\ mS&L \*>^f^~~~/ vQPTv^S tellectuals—have had a great deal BfP BifesS^?iys?I As /'" 11J to do with the tragedy...
...They were conquered with treachery, bribery, Fifth Columnism working within...
...General De Gaulle is now in London organizing a French legion from among the poilus in the Dunkirk disaster...
...Did any one in his senses believe that these small, weak peoples could have possibly stood in against the military might of Germany...
...If France had gamed the Wttwt visible advantage from Petain's policy "f outright surrender—his attitude would be as ¦I-as wholly understandable...
...We leave it to the Hamlets and to those of little faith to chant their Jeremiads or hurl their smart invectives against democracy in this moment of immeasurable travail...
...ULm^^^* Father Coughlin hails the CoMBhJIn outcome stating that the "result will lie that the Christian Front movement -will emerge more vigorous and potent than ever . . .the resentment on the part of the victims is liable to .increase the wave of ..anti-Semitism...
...France fell because her leaders, misled by the Fifth Column of the Right and of the Left, failed to provide its people, with the weapons with which to smash the "intransigeant revolutionists" who have suddenly caught the fancy of dilettantes...
...The rebirth through Crucifixion cannot he far away...
...A new contract was being negotiated and the major issues in dispute were the wage scale and vacations...
...voted to strike despite the opposition of President John Green...
...Under the slogans of the Popular Front, deliberately perverted by the Communists—the pseudo-left wing of tile Fifth Column—many workers j ' • • the robbers, rob the richr The v^Sy . preservation of liberty was reduced yjHrra 1 to a "bourgeois conception...
...Largo Caballero and other Spaniards...
...The crucifixion of thousands of Socialists, laborites, liberals, Jews and other decent people doesn't matter any longer to these gentlemen of the neo-hard-boiled interpretation of history...
...the Czechs, the Poles, the Belgians, the Dutch, and others too numerous to name...
...After the season ends, those who wish may enter the Henry Ford Trade School, or get jobs in Ford factories...
...To go with'Germany (and Italy), the gentlemen realize, would mean, that France necessarily would become a second-class power...
...On that day Congressman John Lesinski of Michigan had inserted: "Mr...
...Despite William S. Knudsen's past record in dealing with labor, this reporter thinks the nation owes him a vote of thanks for having refused to appease the Dearborn industrialist and for unhesitatingly turning United States government orders from Ford to the Packard corporation...
...perhaps it will be a thoroughly modem war, carried out with gigantic dun- ping of goods instead of air fleets, with trade emissaries instead of expeditionary corps...
...Whom has Hitler conquered...
...Prom a patriotic French point of view there was Mt a single argument for signing that shameful fccument...
...members that there will soon be erica against it of " 'sabotage, and 'treason' and fifth column' and 'Trojan Horse' and 'Communist'," in order to prepare them for the reckoning day when they will be revealed as the tools of Stalin and Hitler...
...V The use of the NJI.TJ, by...
...Let us castigate the traitors...
...the CP...
...A French legion of about 15,000 will be armed by London and put in the field within a month...
...Il^ H§l§§^ faj —T™7 \ 1 but 061162111 il a11 there was> HI?$§^ (?|5 /-?> ^mrn nevertheless, so far as the honest I???^^^^J^-C cT???~mw eVen though shortsighted elements W^^Z^^K?M th$i —°^ 'a^°r were concerned—and they ---j__S^~~~J^^ were by far the vast majority—a ^^^^^9 " ^mim, genuine faith in the goodness of JT HASN'T WON YBT...
...Cameron^s Sunday night sermons are notoriously reactionary...
...Real Test Between Hitler And Liberty Yet to Come Two weeks ago, as the Nazi .hordes were driving toward Paris, we wrote that if Paris fell the war will have just begun...
...Alone, against terrible odds—but not at all Without hope...
...it gave her not a single A?ite,-she would have lost by refusing her sig-srtare to her own death sentence...
...Franz WetjeVShoi In Paris by Gestapo Dispatches from Paris report the tragic execution of Franz Werfel, world-famous Austrian-Jewish novelist who was a?i exile ta Paris...
...And because democracy understood too late the enemy with the Janusface— Hitlerism and Bolshevism—democracy permitted itself to be caught unprepared for the ordeal...
...But she did not...
...On the other tod, the Petain regime, endorsing'that death ¦Btence,- has abandoned the one chance, France itiB had: to hope for a resurrection after a final British victory, and to make that victory more Jijenee's fate is by now not a bit better than Mgitrm's, although Petain refused...
...France fell because its people and its statesmen failed to recognize in time the need of tanks and guhs and airplanes—the bitter, unfortunate need...
...emotional antifascists" that Natic*d?M??Sh?Bi^Bha*?^w job for most of Germany...
...the free peoples of the world have only begun to fight...
...The Jnly issue of Fortune magazine re-cards that 67.5 per cent of America favors aid to the Allies, as against last winter when only 26 J per cent of the population had favored send-ind aid to the enemies of Germany...
...It is the French counter-revolution many years prepared with an exten-Wi.*nd elever program for just such a moment...
...There is still something left to do for men who are unsophisticated enough to defend themselves, and intelligent enough to do so in time...
...But it will be, nevertheless, the most ruthless war of all recorded history, destroying the happiness of hundreds of millions of men, million of homes, hundreds of cities, dozens of states...
...France and other free communities have fallen victim of illusions, of failure to grasp in time the dangers and problems arising from the totalitarian world counterrevolution...
...it is the beginning of its resurrection...
...Let us not encourage them by citing the social "advantages" of Hitler Germany over the democracies...
...The N.M.U...
...Its fundamental error—the root of the fatal mistakes responsible for the calamity—lies in the fact that it came to understand too late the real meaning of Hitlerism and the real meaning of Bolshevism—that malignant, treacherous farce which not only paved the road for Fascism but was its mother and its seed...
...Would you say this was a mark of superiority over democracy...
...Let England hold until the American people can add their might to...
...On May 30, Local 16 of the Industrial Union of Maritime and Shipbuilding Workers of America (C.I.O...
...Ford's personal secretary, Henry Liepold, is closely associated with the German-American Vocational Society (Dentsch-Amerikanische Bernfsgemeinschaft), which is considered a -Nazi industrial agency devoted to place men in U. S. industry...
...But there is a single fatal weakness in England's position: the vulnerability of her munition and pls^ne factories from the air...
...And a bold, a far-reaching enterprise it is...
...The bloody union of Stalin and Hitler has thus brought about the «nity of action of Communist and Nazi cells on American-flag ships for anti-Allied activity...
...They J§ NAZI permitted themselves to follow the ^Wli^Xi LABORATORY false light of a cowardly pacifism y g ^* \* ' --¦—' and the illusion that "social reform" /'S<^~^kl\ alone was a sure bulwark against / Si^il \ those who were conspiring to dey^J^g^J^^^jLj...
...January 14th, the day the plotters were arrested, Father Coughlin grew afraid of tito product of his incitements, "roundly disavowed" all connection with the men, charged they belonged to "a so-called Christian Front which was actually of Communist or Bundist origin...
...Ford now employs William J. Cameron as his radio mouthpiece...
...And were not these also the instruments Hitler used to great advantage in his conquest of France...
...Bte.truth is somehow hidden by the fact that jfe?S*^y>CT3| °W* and a -bit -mediocre,- heads "Rupverriment...
...This demagogic demand to send about 1,000 seamen, stranded in this country, back into the Nazi hell, which their homelands are today, is part of a plot by the C.P.-N.M.U...
...A momentous step in that direction came with the French counter-revolution though the world these days is scarcely aware of that event...
...but while the great French revolution was conceivable only in a France eager to lead Europe, the great French counter-revolution prefers German "protection" to the eternal tension of con-trolling, in alliance with, ? England, the European r^f J\ balance of power...
...And we Bay it also because- democracy, once truly and finally aroused, commands the resources for victory, both spiritual and material, which no totalitarian state or combination of such states can possibly match...
...every Mil 1ii.ii in knew it...
...If that is so, nobody can underwrite England's power to overcome weapons, yet unknown to the world...
...that this was really a denial of the right of shipyard workers to strike...
...But let us not permit ourselves to fall into despair and hopelessness quite unjustified by the unconquerable power inherent in democracy and in the determination of free peoples to see it through to the end...
...raised the smokescreen of false charges: that only war propagandists and employer agents were trying to tie up the strike with the war...
...A few weeks ago, we expressed our conviction that even if Hitler occupied the whole of Europe, the war would not end, but merely develop from a war between European nations into a war between continents—into the first real world war...
...Concern is felt for Dr...
...But this picture is all a lie...
...Among thqse who maybe in the fallen city an many leaders of the International Socialist movement—such Russians its Dan, Gersey and Abramovitch, such Italians'as Modigliani, Rossi, and Pietro Nenni...
...There is not in the whole of history a single instance in which a slave state managed permanently to keep a free community in subjection...
...Some there are who go even so fir as to say that the Hitler hordes who struck down France and are now preparing to strike down England and America, are not a "driven, automaton army...
...The N.M.U...
...William L. Standard, counsel of the N.M.U., declared: "The Belgian, Dutch and Norwegian seamen did not want to sail under Allied flags . . . but wanted to leave their ships and get home to give what assistance they could to their families...
...The Congressional Record of June 6th, 1940, page 11760, has been called to our attention...
...on the Allied war effort was the fomenting of a strike in the Kearny, N. J., shipyards in order to disrupt the construction of naval and merchant vessels for the United States government and the Allies...
...Mr...
...transfer of merchant ships, tied up in American ports because their nations have been overrun by the Nazi hordes, to the Allied flags, for these'will then be used .to help' in The t? ?i against the Hitler menace...
...Such a struggle will not start tomorrow, of course...
...But the working class, too, in many of its elements, was not much better...
...Its imagination was caught by the beautiful cadences of French poetry rather than the power of Hitler's Panzer divisiones...
...and provide safe hideaways for Comintern agents sought by the police...
...From now on the problem of sending arms and planes to England becomes the most momentous military detail of England's battle for the sake of the world...
...The N.M.U...
...They accepted 2??J*ly (in fact, gladly) the re-militarization [ggy'Rhineland—the real beginning of Ger-I'^y** military power...
...Now, at last, Flandin and Laval can live up to the real meaning of their political conception...
...And above all, let us not permit ourselves to fall into that most contemptible form of defeatism: recognition, direct or indirect, of the superiority of the enemy...
...fefsrice Salvaged* Nothing §Mb pact strips France of everything she m? pos?ibly lose with or without her s'igna-'if has' spared her not a single of all the ann?iations and pains, a wholly defeated nation aijht possibly suffer...
...What we are witnessing is Golgotha...
...To be sure, we too are not free of the corroding influences that undermined the strength of France and brought her to her ruja...
...French Fascists Expected to War on England Flandin, Laval Seek Favor In Berlin By WILLI SCHLAMM Beneath the pathetic surface of a sinister de-ind thus not yet realized by a world which merely to over-seasoned food, France tfperiences a perfect counter-revolution, ?rfhe armistice itself is counter-revolution...
...And this program, in a nutshell, is the war wist England on Germany's side...
...Leon Blum, Edward Herriot and Paul Boncour, all former premien, are now in London helping the British prepare for the renewed battles...
...When, on June 3, the officers recommended ending the strike, about 20 per cent of the 4,500 members present voted for the CP...
...France fell not because life for the French people was worse than it was for the Germans...
...the enabling quality 01 a great social idea...
...He has set up a series of youth camps where the sons of World War veterans an shown prefennce—although the camps are, ostensibly available to all...
...It is of utmost significance that .'Henry Ford launched a national Youth Movement" of his own during the week of June 1 22...
...Let us by all means recognize the mistakes...
...Oh, yes, there was- also something nauseatingly bourgeois among both the propertied and working classes...
...Perhaps Nazi Germany does have such new weapons, which have been kept in reserve for the outstanding and most difficult part of her attack—true to Hitler's strategic principle of surprising and crippling every new country with a brand new trick...
...program of obstruction...
...is trying to use American ships as a feed-line for getting Nazi agents into the British colony of Bermuda...
...So far as France is con-*|»d,"Flandin and Laval, the driving forces jtottbehind will pretty quickly move to the group is not just a bunch of paniey capi-tBBpnists...
...Let us drive these forces from our midst...
...When France was beaten, Hitler had physical power over the entire European continent...
...And being credulous, it embraced the Popular Front, that cup of poison concocted by the Communists and designed to vitiate its life force...
...And perhaps not a single shot will be fired...
...He is now in a New York state prison...
...Let us admit the blunders...
...the hosts of liberty, and the defeats of today will be turned into the glorious victory of tomorrow...
...And what, may we ask, are the actual accomplishments of this superior Hitlerite state over which some gentlemen now enthuse...
...TiglTflfl jostling passerbys, raucous- W jJS>V ly shouting against Roose- JL^W velt and the.Jews...
...Werfel's novels and plays such as the Forty Days of Musk Dagh and the Eternal Road, dealing with the plight of minority peoples, had established him as one of the most moving and powerful writers of our generation...
...is trying to prevent the Bill Harpman is a veteran Washington newspaper man who joined the New Leader research burean recently established in the cap?tol...
...For behind an eventual British defeat lies the tempting outlook of economic control over the entire rich world—under German bosses, all right, but nonetheless pretty profitable...
...maneuver is being carried through by means of inducing some members of the crews of these ships to allow the...
...We say this is not the demise of democracy...
...France fell because of too much ease and comfort and the good things of life, which the people were not willing to exchange for "regimentation...
...to tie up these ships so badly needed by the Allies, and to give these men to Hitler as more cannon-fodder for his military machine...
...Why not add these as qualities to the picture of Hitlerite superiority...
...Article 19 of the armistice' signed by the Petain government requires France to turn all German refugees over to the Nazi government...
...defeat...
...Hitler's citizens for illegal entry, who at the present time is employed in the engineering department of the Ford Motor Company...
...We proclaim it as an uncontrovertible historical truth...
...But England carries on the fight...
...It is to come in England and in America...
...It is taken from the propaganda arsenal of Goebbels and Stalin...
...It is still not too late...
...this was merely a device to fire good union men...
...I 2. The C.P.-N.M.U...
...No, England is not doomed...
...They ask us to be impressed with the fact that Hitler "pot the nation to work," "that "he instituted many effective reforms," that he subsidized marriage and encouraged the indiscriminate breeding of cannon fodder...
...Believing in peace and yearning for peace, democracy failed to grasp the peril that was being prepared for it and to concentrate its energies and its mind upon the one task of meeting the issue...
...immediately threw up a smoke-screen of the usual demagogic charges—the British were trying to dictate the composition of the crews of American ships running down to Bermuda...
...Being humane and socially-minded, it preferred the forty-hour week to tanks...
...union to institute lawsuits against their companies ¦ on the ground that they should be paid their wages at once and given transportation batik heme...
...thus Flandin and jSSw to offer their program over and over 'jHRratn a grain of salt: Now,.at last, the ^wcounter-revolutioB can -move unhindered and with full steam fchead...
...Ford was the first in America to hire Fritz Kuhn...
...We say this not in a spirit of easy bravado but in full consciousness of the catastrophe .that has befallen mankind...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 26
