Rauschning Predicts Hitler Will Seek Caucasian Oil Supply Before Invasion of Great Britain
Rauschning Predicts Hitler Will Seek Caucasian Oil Supply Before Invasion of Great Britain Vast British Defense Force Awaits Germans Special to The New Leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor).—One...
...and or single persons from $1,000 to $800...
...An executive order came through to speed up construction by adopting a three-shift, seven-day week schedule...
...The tax on a barrel of beer goes from five dollars to six dollars...
...However, in dropping it, the conferees adopted a resolution, declaring it to be a policy of the taxation committees of both houses to report an excess profits tax bill applying to all" taxable years after December 31, 1939...
...Thousands of young children are being steadily evacuated from large cities...
...As a bulwark to this measure, Congress voted $3,100,000 to finance the alien registration program and directed that the postmasters do the registering, the records to be forwarded to the FBI...
...They may determine the duration of the war...
...Even Lloyd George, who may soon enter the cabinet, is helping to devise means of once more beating off the Germans...
...and then France with 4,200.000 members...
...Bevin's new measures have already resulted in an upsurgence of arms production which the Laborites claim proves that a democracy produces' more efficiently than a totalitarian power once the free nation is properly led...
...In 1911, and he was speaking not of the war of 1939-40 but of 1914, which three years in advance he obligingly outlined for me...
...fn •ther words, as this column has yften remarked, the capitalist «?en), having reached in its develornjtteht the point where it can ? longer co-exist with democracy, resurrects the Tenth Century jifwith it annihilates democracy...
...Playing cards far a casual game of poker will bear a tax of eleven cents...
...A fuller system of military defense has been prepared but the censor would clip it out if this correspondent attempted any further description...
...Germany didn't want on her hands tint hotbed of trouble and strife...
...As soon as he acts emotionally he becomes confused...
...If he's wrong, the British are sure these defenses will be the first to turn Hitler back...
...Oppose dictatorships by intro-one...
...She runs on an anti-war platform—and is permitted to "do so...
...This is intended to establish orderly method, stop firms from stealing each others labor, and direct man-power into the vital war factories first...
...I asked him if it was the intention to annex Paris and he answered with emphasis No...
...The exclusion of Bnndists and Communists from the WPA started this week...
...Ualition Shews Third Term Way pJHTICAL reaction to the President's coup with his "coalition ad-* ministration" was not in the end what one might have expected, the mortal cleverness of the ruse after a time did not seem so ?ever and suggested a thought that it is well not to be too smart...
...Union Lobbies Use Congress Recess To Prepare Fight on Anti-Labor Bills By JOHN DONNE [Special to The New Leader ) WASHINGTON, Dv C: Washington is quiet now that Congress has recessed and the spotlight shifted to Philadelphia...
...He has clamped down on the theft by private industry of men in war time jobs...
...All employers in engineering, building or civil engineering work must hire labor through an Employment Exchange or an approved trade union...
...John Jones and speaks for the "British Peoples Party...
...The House-Senate conference ironing out differences in the measures, dropped the La Fol-lette and Connolly amendments...
...Belongs there with the other twittering cradle song that the, Hlhunrr- that enslaved production in Italy and Germany will h? satisfied wjth capturing it in France...
...for HPNoeomhf ^Jl^- JOHN T. FLYNN kindly illuminates the situation with the announcement that the British have in this country a propa-P™« and corruption fund of $1JB5JOOO,000 and so, we are to sur-bBb> »ts use accounts for the common American sympathy for the f*2»- Are you sure it is $165.000,000, John...
...A thousand plans and purposes have meantime occupied the minds of the French and the English...
...Five hundred million dollars of this fund is earmarked for farm benefit payments under the Agricultural Department's sou conservation plan...
...Both will do good jobs...
...This lowering of exemptions will also increase the payments of those now taxed...
...Even live-stock in Southeastern England are being removed to eliminate a possible source of food for any invaders who might land...
...And once more one may be J0nti to ask why, if we do not like tibe consequences we insist gpon maintaining the cause...
...Hitler has marched on timetable precision, but the British and German high command know that Germany has suffered severe losses in men and machines which even the booty captured in France won't make up—except in one field...
...This raised the workweek to 56 hours...
...Theory of inoculation, may be...
...Again and again, the cry of "phoney" has been raised by discerning editors...
...Until recently, the work being done by a group of contractors, some of them union and others non-union, was on a 40-hour week basis...
...AFL Protests John P. Coyne, head of the A. F. of L. Building Trades Department, made public a number of complaints sent in by unions engaged in defense construction work...
...In addition, important public buildings, utilities, factories 'and rail 'approaches to vital centers are under'heavy police and military guard...
...These will be put into gun factories...
...One of these is H.R...
...The anti-war Glasgow Forward is still publishing attacks on the government for warring on Hitler—this despite imminent danger of invasion...
...Br?fa?n Still Permits Anti-War Publications A NTI-BRITISH elements here—especially those on the so-called ¦¦"left—granted with pleasure when London's Parliament clamped the recent conscription bill down on the Isles...
...His past capacity of ice-cold calculation will desert him...
...But no one forgets the hundreds of instances in the past ¦when the world counted on supposed German weaknesses...
...The lowering of the exemptions is a permanent development...
...Yet upon ^faction the economic sources of the whole tragedy are obvious, agcitrn takes' on nationalistic spasms and jim-jams only as a ¦Irf— *i profitable playacting and ip^ey...
...in the printing plants of Great Britain...
...The probability of severe attacks on -this country is being faced...
...Green urged adoption of the amendments by the House, not because he favored all of them but because he was anxious that some action be taken...
...Ote Determination Wed Germany three weeks after we start," said the German officer that was •explaining to me the substance of German strategy, "we shall be in Paris and then we shall dictate our terms of peace...
...There was a period during the war when so-called American radicals charged France with fascism when Paris took severe action against her fifth column...
...They are organizing particularly against a measure introduced by Senator Morris Shep* pard, Texas democrat, which calls for the establishment of a "National Industrial Defense Corps...
...Open spaces such is race courses, golf links, sand leaches and the like are being mlide useless for the landing of German transport planes by the digging of .zigzag trenches^ and the raising of iron obstructions...
...He is St...
...Donald O'Bryne, a member of the British Union of Fascists is seized by police after they learned he is illegally armed...
...The defense program has the unanimous support of all England...
...Gone now these trade unionists who crowded into meeting halls, elected officers, fought as oppositionists...
...The ^K^^l London Society of Compositors and other print- ^^H^WJ ing unions, where scarcity of work and news- I ¦hS print has forced many out of jobs, have been H urged by Bevin to release men, skilled in ban- ¦ dling printing machinery...
...By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad INHERE is still in America a pathetic handful which calls it-* self "socialist," wails over the continu?os victories of military fascism, and then smugly appeases its collective conscience by crying "Keep*America Out of War...
...Every factory, every farm, every manEBk agement is being ordered to work by the Factory and Welfare Advisory Board which ¦K Tfc Bevin set up...
...Ralph Barnes' dispatch of Russo-— s Nazi differences / created a stir...
...Well, in &st ten months six superior European peoples, nv>st of them **»>red Nordics, have folded up before such^war conditions as the *krior Chinese have ruggedly endured for, three years...
...Lfoyd George According to the Manchester Guardian, Rauschning reported that "this brings him into collision with time...
...By their definition, any group seeking to free the 11,500,090 European trade union members now reduced to road workers and water carriers for the Aryan, is "hysterically war mongering...
...The Minister of Mines is refitting men who have long been without work in the mining areas, and also men who have been driven from those sectors by continued unemploy-^^g^^ ment...
...went out on strike, and organized social and educational departments—even as do our own American unions—which are still free...
...We are to remember that from the beginning our news- of this ftrlns been doctored, twisted and bedeviled for some purpose unhealed but certain...
...Several similar measures now pending in both houses will also be fought strenuously...
...These purposes must be admitted to have largely failed...
...Charles Edward Russell—— —The News Reel ifcjjjONS of Americans watched with dismay anda profound Iffcsquietude the extinction of democracy in Europe, but if the V. ftectiop was an index, |e\* of...
...And when we add the fact that three days after the nrrender the French people did notiknow of it nor of its terms, mi then add the strange inertia oj, the...
...Joffre and the Marne disrupted the plan for 1914...
...If Rauschning is right these defenses will have been wasted...
...More than 2,200,000 in lojver income brackets'* will pay taxes for the firsf ^me because of the reduction of personal exemptions for heads of families from $2,500 to $2,000 for heads of families...
...Meanwhile, the philosopher may be interested to recall that the foUtical party that in 1912 sought to safeguard the republican f?nciple by limiting the presidency to one term of four years is lev marshalling the way utterly to destroy that principle by giving «• a president for life...
...These' seem curf&sly superficial reasonings, yjit revolutions in national alignments...
...Rauschning Predicts Hitler Will Seek Caucasian Oil Supply Before Invasion of Great Britain Vast British Defense Force Awaits Germans Special to The New Leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor).—One of the few men in England who early in June predicted that Hitler would not invade the Isles but would turn first toward Paris and take it in accordance' with the Schlieffen-Moltke plan, last'week predicted that the German arniies would be forced to take both the Romanian and Caucasian oil fields before attempting to cross the channel...
...Those who cannot be trained for any I Bss**<S9 work will be provided for by the state and re- ^^P^V-^^W* lievc others in their families of the responsi- H/ ^??tffl bflity for dependents...
...Other experts here agree that Hitler needs the Soviet oil production but feel that Stalin will chose not to fight but' to make a trade deal turning over Caucasian oil to Berlin despite the rumored differences between the pact-partners...
...real reason rjir ^ have dictators and why Europe has been made Fascist...
...553 which, in contradiction of the recent Supreme Court decision, would allow wiretapping by certain federal agencies...
...rl Then Bevin plans to transfer to war work Il> .^M skilled men -now in other trades, especially those MM jbJ...
...He Republicans, taken at first aback, rallied with fierce denunciations...
...His sweeping measures mobilize labor by imposing rigid control over employment in certain industries...
...wine and liquors, a dollar increase too...
...strongly armed, have been organized...
...poorer parents are aided by the government...
...His election was "interpreted as evidence of the united will of the nation to iwin the war...
...If they succeed in reorganizing Brit?j production the Mes will not...
...The Germans have captured 1,570 American-made planes which were delivered to France during the past year...
...Sir Walter Citrine and Hugh Dalton have important posts...
...He is not immediately jailed—and only after persisting in attacking the government is he arrested and jailed for three months...
...Czechia with 2,372,000...
...Other features of the bill include provisions for punishing incitement to disaffection in the- Army and NaVy by means of printed matter, makes unlawful an alien belonging to a group which advocates the overthrow of this government and adds to the categories of deportable offenses...
...Ash the isolationist what he plans to do about resurrecting the continental socialist movement built by Jaur?s, Kautslcy, Vander-velde, Modigliani, Hilferding, Bauer, Adler and the rest, and you are reminded that "after all...
...Isn't it ;tt»,ooo,ooo...
...So perverted is their psychology, that.their tactics demands, from so-called socialists and radicals, vituperation, not against Germany, exposes, not of Italy, but fusillades against Great Britain...
...5* may not be notably efficient In carrying out pious impulses IE *e can have them and talk of them as well as any people J*»Cninese Are l^KXB?TALLY, I am moved to remark that the Chinese, in the ?•«ttled view of Europe, are an inferior people...
...It's mainspring, laid igrtfqvcUv is Germany, Italy and wherever else it has gone, is the aatrti of production on a subsistence basis...
...Watt called the grim roll of unions wiped oat fay Berlin: first Austria with a membership of 520,000...
...It never occurred to him W instead of strife he was preparing the way for an alliance or l?eged alliance that would resist the process of destruction, any sore than he foresaw that the German Empire, now towering to niashadowing and undreamed-of heights is equally sure of destruc-thm when its time shall come...
...Titrt'i Something |trf*fl Somewhere OUT at that, I venture the suggestion that we have not yet had D the full-story of the abject caving of the Petain government...
...Significantly only Army men, representing chambers of commerce have testified for the bill...
...5138) was passed by the Senate this week and goes to conference...
...An additional fund provides for more than 500 additional Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to combat the activities of spies and saboteurs...
...County Council know that he is turning ^^^^^k »^ out guns, tanks, anti-aircraft and other, ma-Morrlson teriel in sufficient quantity to fiold off even the Hitler army...
...They will be enrolled as soldiers without pay and, when the initial disorder of their local organizations is straightened out, they will spend more than half their spare-time watching for parachute troops...
...m Con Talk mnty—lf Not Act AFTER six months we are stilL without authentic or other in-- formation as to why with so liberal a showing of righteousness jk abrogated the trade treaty with Japan...
...For this is the choice employment of man, to build with blood and sweat, tears and slaughter, the imperial structure doomed to ruin...
...Wonderful it ¦ that twenty-six years later it should come to be realized in all its details...
...Where they are fit for training "they wiH be placed under in- ^^^^^^^^^ 8tractors, and later work in armament pro- S duct i on...
...Ernest Bevin This is expected to absorb thousands of building trades workers iwho were thrown out of jobs last spring...
...It is not it nature...
...Sma'.l bodies of highly mobile troopsc...
...cent of the bombs with which Chinese people were blown to bits, ¦ot when the treaty had been safely stowed and the way was clear P* stop the bomb business so far as we were concerned, we kept Bftht on with it and the Chinese continued tio be blown to bits— *ith our aid...
...The bill, now in the Senate Military Affairs Committee, would authorize the enlistment and arming of picket workers in factories who would be supervised by officers of the government's military agencies . Opening for Spies Ostensibly their job would be the "detecting and reporting of acts of sabotage and sedition1' and in "suppressing armed insurrection...
...While the statutory debt of forty-five billion dollars has not yet been reached, regular Federal expenditures are expected to exhaust the old debt limit without the extraordinary defense expenditures...
...A flagrant example of exploitation is the southeastern naval air base now under construction at Jacksonville, Fla., at a cost of $12,000,000...
...Isolationist vocabulary narrowed down to "I told you so, Britain is a dictatorship...
...The La Follette proposal imposed excess profit levies up to forty per cent...
...only one has dominated the German...
...It swept away the htt chance of pretense about the President and the Third Term and *kmred plainly that from the beginning he has wanted it and planned for it and risked for it all the reputation for disinterested Mrrice that his previous record htd created...
...The "forgotten man" faded into just another political device with the "coalition cabinet...
...Denmark, 491,058...
...The heavily burdened cigarette will pay six and' one-half cents tax per pack, an increase of half a cent.- Gasoline and auto taxes are also raised...
...Bevin, in his capacity as Minister of Labor, has tacTded -the problem of putting to work Britain's 900,000 jobless...
...Smug in their offices, garrulous on speakers' platforms, glorying in their self-righteousness the "militant" American radicals still don't See the swastika on the wall...
...The income taxes are expected to raise $319,000,000 in the next fiscal year, and $580,000,000 a year for the next four years...
...The Smith alien-registration bill (H.R...
...A London fascist—during a street corner speech—tells a Croydon crowd that Hitler can be trusted "whereas we cannot trust our politicians...
...The lowering of the personal exemptions, besides creating the additional two million taxpayers, will force an additional 2,700,000 wage-earners to file a return, although the exemptions will not subject them to the tax...
...The new law requires a tax return from all persons earning more than two thousand dollars, whether subject to tax or not...
...In chief, ofeniV from the •Sjjiredness of France to the marvelous efficiency of tlfe German "Jitter machines...
...In B8S «tatistical matters we must be accurate, you know...
...Citrine is a Privy Councillor...
...A. F. of L. leaders hit the measure as opening the door for undercover men, labor spies and anti-union guards, and as being directly contrary to the LaFol-lette-Thomas bill, already through the Senate, which outlaws labor spies and industrial armies...
...His 'victories' are costing him too much in time, in material and in human lives...
...Think again...
...Fnuiee must have changed marvelousty from the France I used to tjxft if a majority of its people can easily fit their necks to a conqueror's heel...
...Expulsion of the entire New York Herald Tribune staff from Germany is taken hei-e as an indication of the emphasis the Reich places on its Soviet relations now...
...The commodity taxes are expected to raise an average of $700,000,000 a year...
...Ostensibly, it was done ¦**use we were ashamed of the fact that we were furnishing 56 Jo...
...In my judgment, there lis more of this surrender jjfiir on the fire and when it is cooked, the world is likely to be fiffehed more at the subtlety and hidden power of the Fascist 4f«torate in many lands than at Germany's mechanized warfare...
...And Europe is now Fascist...
...Sale of four billion dollars of "national defense notes" was allowed and the national debt limit was-^ncreased to $49,000,000,000...
...Sadly Mr...
...And when was this...
...In war time they lead a democratic nation against all totalitarianism...
...K • ' f&n when.the news o/rtAe collapse of France teas followed jgrty icith first-hand information as to the regimenting of labor 'TQtrmany, we remained more or leas unenlightened...
...British and the strange impotence of the far-famed British fleet, the wise man would take meets on anything in the crook liiie that might be concealed in '.kit business...
...Nearly 500,000 men have volunteered to serve as Local Defense Volunteers...
...And those who JH^w r know the dynamic former leader of the Lon-K~ * Jk "dor...
...Hugh Dalton has charge of blockading the continent...
...do not come fjom such ^qous origins...
...Yet one thing it achieved beyond question...
...a surprisingly large number of Democratic and independent •Titers stood aloof with disdain or disgust...
...Families capable of paying for their support must do so...
...Another Communist choses to fight for the Parliamentary seat left vacant by the death of George Lansbury...
...Today France is fascist, the result of a putsch by the traitors and defeatists—whom the Reynaud government tried to intern...
...Alien registration wfll open, therefore, in aboift two weeks...
...A Communist incites to riot in Hyde Park and he gets off with a firm warning...
...All she wanted was some of the northern French ports, so as to have harbors on the Atlantic, and to bring France down to the political importance of Portugal...
...Wise man...
...The Federal debt is now $42,918,-209,181...
...These include General W. E. Gill-more of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and Colonel Clark S. Wrenn of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, author of the plan...
...Herbert Morrison, Minister of Bta m. *H Supply, has created a Board of Experts on VBmr the production of armaments...
...The taxes on amusements, tobacco, beverages, and manufacturing are in effect for five years...
...The conservative American Federation of Labor—so frequently the butt of "radical" invective—takes its international duty seriously and is organising effectively here and abroad to salvage what it can for the once free labor movements on the Continent...
...Congress Delays Proposals to Tax Heavily All Defense-Industry Profits Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Young America paying twenty cents for a neighborhood movie on a weekday night is going to pay a tax toward national defense...
...It is now a criminal off ease to hire a man normally employed in coal mining, agriculture, horticulture or forestry for work in other trades...
...The Treasury was asked in the resolution to submit studies and a report on this matter by October first The Connolly amendment provided for the assessment in wartime of drastic super taxes on individuals and corporations...
...yy ? Rauschning r-i " ?i says that Hitler ^ < Vj< has not won the VW^^^^_Z/ war, and that i Just as LudenI dorff Der I yi ^Z^/fl F?hrer will be I . / forced to face Pt/^ibl East for a while T^f^^tdtf until he has ^^fTTf ¦ secured, via an overland route, ^7 m3 sufficient raw materials to e?W feed his army . and industry...
...hnpires Grow, mplres Pall WHEN Bismarck induced President Thiers to launch France into ™ihe Colonial Empire field, he did so with the genial thought 8*he would thus bring France into conflict with Great Britain and ttkin would thereupon destroy France and save Germany the ra?ble and expense of destroying her...
...All firearms in gunsmiths' shops have been seized, and every resident must now carry his or her identity card...
...But labor lobbies are using the breathing spell to consolidate their forces against the many anti-union bills which have been pushed by interests taking advantage of the current defense sentiment...
...this is America...
...London's arterial roads and the Thames are constantly patrolled...
...Labor spokesmen this week hit back at employers who are using national defense as an excuse to knife labor standards in defiance of President Roosevelt's assurances that labor's rights will be respected...
...These are the men who have never tolerated the Communists...
...Nothing else seems so phoney 0 the notio7i of a France submissive tot a German yoke...
...Just for the record it should be noted that the British Independent Labor Party is still permitted to publish the London New Leader, attacking "British imperialism," and excoriating the Laborite cooperation with Churchill...
...Luxembourg, 21,837...
...Hitler will become uncertain...
...The sentence is three months...
...It is known that William Green opposes several of the amendments'and will urge the Senate to drop them...
...Norway, 323,156 members...
...Meanwhile the Senate Committee on 'Education and Labor, headed by Senator Thomas', voted to postpone consideration of the Wagner Labor Act amendments, despite heavy pressure by the National Association of Manufacturers which circularized each Senator this week...
...Finland, Latvia, Estonia with 150,000...
...Belgium with 946,61...
...Would it not be strange and instructive if the most adroit strategy ever known in American politics should prove to be fist a boomerang for the skilled politician that threw it...
...We may expect great mistakes from Hitler...
...be invaded or starved out—current hysteria notwithstanding...
...About 3,500,000 persons *ill be tabbed...
...Holland, 806,836 unionists...
...The bill provides not only for the recording and fingerprinting of incoming* aliens, but also of all aliens in the United States over fourteen years of age...
...Taxes Temporary This heaviest Federal tax load since the World War goes into effect soon as President Roosevelt this week signed a bill estimated to raise an additional $4,692,500,000 in the next five years...
...Bevin entered Parliament this week, running unopposed on a Labor constituency...
...BniHsb Labor Speeds Production WHAT hope there is to turn back a Fascist European continent— " for France too will soon be at war, with England—lies in the hands of a few Laborite members of the British government: Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Arthur Greenwood, Hugh Dalton and a few others...
...Last weekend during the Camp Tamiment conference on Labor and the War, this columnist heard Robert Watt, AFL representative in the International Labor Office, tell of the tragedy which rolled over one national trade union center after -another until all the great labor movements but fhe British were destroyed and their leaders dead and missing...
...us were moved tb inquire as PX real causes of tbe_d?bacl...
...These are the men who in peace were the stanchions of the International Federation of Trade Unions, and the Second International...
...And when the movie price goes up on Saturday, the tax, one cent per each ten cents, hikes proportionately...
...The overtime scale is being ignored...
...Trlere is, I know, a fond notion jtirosd that somehow we can keep the cause and dodge out of the results, but that belongs to the infant tel?ss...
...To facilitate the defense program the act authorizes the Treasury to borrow immediately against the five-year proceeds of the measure...
...The same ay is now being raised against 'England...
...But a |j*Mact like that need not interfere with \the cherished joys of that still chase the Aryan myith...
...These are dubbed "Ironsides" after the commander of'hope defense...
...Bevin is creating a Building Ministry to improve housing in rural areas...
...The least they can expect from the American labor and radical movements is the cessation of traitor talk that Britain's loss would inconvenience no one but the president of the Bank of England...
...The plain intention, < course, was to spike the Republican guns, shut off Republican criticism of the administration and so make an easy insurance of the Third Term...
...The President also signed a $918,000,000 agricultural appropriation bill which included millions' for removal of surplus farm products, a problem made more serious by the loss of foreign markets...
...That is the...
...Refusal to register means a stiff fine and jail sentence...
...Strangely enough it isn't the "militant Socialist," and the other radical sects, which are concerned with the destruction of the movements led only yesterday in full splendor by Jouhaux in France, Mortens in Belgium, Kupers in Holland, Hindahl in Norway, and Anderson in Sweden...
...Poland with 890,000...
...The latest order from Japan for this urbane instrument of •^suasion consists of 8,000,000 founds of scrap iron for bombs...
...Yes...
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