British Colonies Fear Nazi Racialism;Natives Rally to Empire's Defense
Weyl, Nathaniel
British Colonies Fear Nazi Racialism; Natives Rally to Empire's Defense By NATHANIEL WEYL Co-Author of "The Re-Conquest of Mexico" IF the Nazis succeed in their program of blitzkrieging England...
...same bill, gave concrete assurance...
...In terms of the Polish experience, it is pretty safe to assume that Hitler would exterminate those Negro millions who were not needed for his forced labor projects...
...Theodore Draper, of the National Students League, who was to become an editor of the New Masses...
...While the tion: it does not permit the Gov- finance the same sacrifice that it 300,000,(KM inhabitants of British India are will demand of human resources...
...new law...
...The 14th for example...
...g' (or over 16% on capital as defined by the Act) Canadian Industries, Ltd...
...James Ashford, who represented the Young Liberators Club of Harlem and who a year later was elected to the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International...
...refused to be limited in any-way...
...leader,- and others, expressed the fear that the Canadian Governmént would use its power to mobilize all manpower but would draw back from conKripting finance and industry in e same way...
...Neither Negroes nor Indians has a frte hand...
...Significantly enough, all except Green at that time denied they were Communists, each claiming to represent bona fide organizations...
...There'they are already supported by be purely a conscription of poor a strong coalition, led by Hertzog (prime men and not also a conscription minister until 1939), former War Minister of rich men...
...He served a term as a judMJft then was appointed to the tel to fill out an unexpired teak Politically, he sports u tt surface the full hue of "»ItU'l progressivism...
...Japan might acquire the Dutch East Indies, the Malay Peninsula, Indo-China, Siam, and Burma...
...There were other important days in the Julys of the past...
...the superior natural fertility of these "second and third rate races...
...10,836,923 (#<Jver-28% on capital) Consorted Mining and Smelting Co ' (cur oVër.S^pó on capital) International Nickel Company-j (or&k&Sfeön capital) 4,985,714 1,471,660 29,477,973 forde thfrÖÄeröment^o-state in general-terms what it intended to do pn$|H$he...
...The Congress is Mr...
...The next day Czar TTicholas was shot at Ekaterinburg...
...On that day "of 1789 people of Paris stormed the Bastille...
...More, you have been pf great financial aid...
...They also expressed fear that conscription of manpower for the defense of Canada would prove only the entering wedge for conscription of men for overseas service...
...What toi« can these people play whose orientation is not indigeneous to aïd whose conceptions of youth's needs is not rooted in the problems an organization whose main function is the defense of Soviet foreign policy...
...The almost dictatorial powers conferred on the government by this legislation will be accepted as necessary by a large majority of Canadians today—provided that these powers are used for the conscription of wealth as well as manpower for home defense...
...The figures, he the colored people of the colonies would either said, wohld approximate as fol- welcome a Nazi victory as a stage in the disernröent to conscript men for overseas service...
...Within the Liberal party strong objection came from the French-Canadian bloc...
...tions were to continue lending If Britain is defeated, the Nazis will meet money to the Government at a sympathetic welcome in the Union of South 3Y*c/c or higher...
...and hundreds like It...
...The most stubborn fight for guarantees -nfajs put up by the CCF "group (socialist...
...an imperialist war, as paying the excess profits tax en- * the Stalinist press so vociferously asserts, acted last year...
...The Union of South Africa JN discussing the impact of imperialism, it is has a poor-white population which resents and ft Wejj to remember that the Netherlands fears colored competition...
...As in Poland, depopulation would take many forms...
...Already, said Mr...
...He has fcn|) the "interests and the utilitia MclNary's selection it 1 » textbook illustration of the eha...
...James Lerner, who was Youth Secretary of the American League Against War and Fascism and who later was to be a candidate on the Communist Party ticket, and Waldo McNutt, who left the Youth Congress to become organization secretary of the same American League and later Kansas organizer for the Workers Alliance...
...The stakes of the present German campaign are not merely control over western trade unions and forced to take less pay for of white settlers and the Crown accordingly the same work...
...All these measures have been applied in Poland to Jews and Slavs alike...
...Destroys Chances for a Progressive Youth Movement __________By DANIEL BELL •piTE progressive youth movement is split and discredited...
...Coldwell, then we have a prepared to serve as the organizational ma-right tci ask that the Government chine for an All-India defense program and also assure that the excess for energetic Indian participation in the war...
...You raised enough money to finance the New York delegation to the July 4th Geneva, Wis., convention...
...He is a member of Thf N** Leader staff and an editor of Heritage, a monthly y®"® publication...
...There was no opposition to the principle of the^ bill, all parties agreeing that the war situation (temands widé"" powers for the dovèrnment...
...By contrast, Nazi Germany has declared semi-officially that her colonial policy will be based on the fundamental principle that colored people are inferior...
...The publication of these hitherto unprinted facts is somewhat inopportune at the moment and beyond the scope of this article...
...copper went to Ger- W ment was enthusiastically supported by On the other hand, the beginnings made in many j and copper and aluminum the Boer population of the hinteriand which the establishment of Negro colleges and tech•nrnnt *rv 1 TO I TT 1 1 Tl 1 1 on * <: • i • t. . , ° meal schools in Africa have been hesitant and unimpressive, and the discrepancy between per-capital expenditure on the education of native and white children throughout British and French Africa is scandalous...
...He stated that the excess profits tax would be raised to 100% and that the Government would mobilize industry...
...Un-prèparedness in Europe has caused Canadians to abandon the beBef that this continent can hope to remain isolated from world affairs...
...Hitler approves "the wholesome aversion for the Negroes and the colored races in general...
...Then he began a la career, and entered local politi as an assistant district attwM...
...the last three centuries...
...Premier King steadily...
...The revolutionary path is now easier...
...As the Nazis hate Negroes even more fiercely nme, , . , ^ , , . --------------- -.....- -------, than Slavs, it can be assumed that similar "Their prototypes in both Great t0 ™rk at loW TT...
...The people of South Africa, India, and other colonies prefer the rule of Churchill to the dominance of Hitler and the chances of a glorious "freedom" two hundred years hence...
...Hehaswtedfr scores of New Deal meaHMkht fought for farm legiglatS* (i co-author of the famous McSarj Hughen bill which bought" plus farm products during tl Hoover regime...
...From its inception the Congress has followed the Communist line...
...which *io?ed:;thr4e «raMmêgts theÄ-jelves and supported one moved by the Social Credit group...
...London and Paris are the hubs of world empire...
...The Minister of Justice, Mr...
...There Was no answe"r...
...As the statement of one of the organizations leaving tie Congress puts it: "That story had its beginnings in 19U when young Socialists played an important part in organishf what was then held out hopes of becoming a genuine insttfr , ment for united youth action...
...Can -the Prime Minister of jCanada rise in his place tonight £nd &ay that there will be no profit'to Canadian employers out bf the' present emergency...
...Canada, Australia, f0i(j growth of population occurred between and New Zealand...
...Mac- quate <.natiVe reserved areas" and virtually Innis,'are not giving the coopera- conipelled by passport regulations and va-tion necessary at this time...
...Significant advances are being made in such fields as public health and soil erosion control...
...They have been applied to create Lebensraum for German farmers and quel...
...N behalf of the CCF group i^ Mrv Maclnnis moved that financial and industrial resources be -mobilized by nationalization before any mobilization of manpower took place...
...While British,and French colonial rule is These astounding growth rates are the reoften oppressive, Nazi domination would be suit of ambitious irrigation projects, scientific infinitely worse for the Negro people...
...Bose was arrested for having conferred with Mussolini and Hitler...
...From January 1, 1939, Dr...
...We want to see Canada's participation in the war carried on so that when it is ovser the rich wiU not be richer and the poor poorer as they were after the last war...
...This amendment ywas...
...Its most grievous sin, however, is that by its actions It has led many a fine youth organization to vow "never to g*t its fingers burned again," and thus retire from an active social citizenship role in our democracy...
...0r the,lr imperial!* policies are least reactionary in terrorist methods would be applied on a vaster Britofi rdXnce have hdd up whlte masters" ^ are exclude^ from the areas where there are no influential groups scale in Africa to prevent pop^atfon inc^ the productive effort of these countries, to the disaster of France at least...
...Why the recent invitations to many prominent and wealthy' figures in New York to a private dinner to meet "Youth Congress leaders" and discuss their problems and their "financial plight...
...For the curio collector are the items that on ,the same day but...
...One warm July 12, in the year 100 B. C., Julius Caesar was born —and his imprint is still around in sunny sections of Italy...
...Captured from Miss Viola lima, the original maneuver followed the "united front" line of cementing relations between young Socialists and Browder's boy scouts...
...TITITHIN the framework of this intolerant, ** caste philosophy, one can visualize the structure of a Nazi-dominated Africa...
...Your role has been one of protection...
...Lapointe, repeated his assurance to the contrary and agreed to a slight modification which satisfied all but two mem-beijj...
...are Abbott Simon, Jack McMichaoi, Frances Williams, Ed Strong, Rose Troiano, Herbert Witt, Jean Horie and Joseph Cadden...
...Realizing that the Regulations under the new Act would be all-important, the CCF leader tried to -make sure, that Parliament would have a chance to discuss them...
...The native people would be openly enslaved...
...His interest in agt culture is personal, not academi Between sessions, on his 600-aa fruit ranch near Salem, Orega he carries on extensive plan breeding experiments and maki his farming pay...
...It is important, therefore, to know their background, political connections and loyalties...
...In Britain, pn the.o^her hand, Labor Cabinet Minister Clement Attlee, who in-jtrodqced .the...
...On the whole, went to Italy...
...Coldwell, some JL5,QÖ0 plants have been taken over by the British Government to be- operated entirely under public control...
...The group challenged the ruling and a recorded vote lined up Social Credit and the one-woman member (Unity) with them.-- Social Credit later moved .that all war financing be done through . the nationally - owned Bank- of Canada and not through privately-owned institutions...
...McNary «1 born on a farm in 1874, na Salem, Ore., educated in the Itc public schools before entarii Stanford...
...That is in line with the notion which calls fascism "historically" progressive...
...Thus Fascism will consolidate Europe, and in the turmoil the colonies might be able to cast off the shackles of Imperialism...
...The Prime Minister promised to give consideration to calling Parliament oftener but refused to be tiedrdown-to anything definite...
...The Union of administration of Jafa h»s increased economic South Africa is a Dominion, or self-governing opportunity to such' an extent that a ninecommonwealth, like Eire...
...I mean the removal of entire racial units...
...British West "Africa is "a "isrs and 1930...
...On that day of 1940 the people of Paris will be ruled by a Nazi* gauleiter...
...can vote, except for a minority of Cape Colony ; £ » • colored people...
...The broad lines of such a division of spoils can be guessed approximately...
...rvEMANDS for a guarantee of another sort came from the Conservatives...
...Should Allied naval power be de-to mobilize all the human and material resources of Canada, stroyed, there would be no satisfactory means The law has only one limita- ---' of communication among them...
...On the same day in 1779 West Point was first fortified...
...I categorically charge that each of these individuals is1 a Communist or a fellow-traveler...
...An indication of increasing deference to the mores of primitive African groups is the emphatic recommendation of Lord Hailey's commission that trained anthropologists be attached to the East Indies, the conscious favoring of small native land holdings against the plantations by government...
...On July 10, 1896, William Jennings Bryan in Chicago—only 44 years before next week's Democratic Convention—brought the house down with his "cross of gold speech...
...while on that morning but in 1938 Howard Hughes, producer of Hell's Angels, now used by American pilot schools for train-(Continued on Page Six) A.Y.C...
...Such profits were Oscar Pirow (a personal friend of Hitler), and ominous...
...I call attention to their Communist affiliations not to apte an emotional symbol but to point out that their lovalties a*»4o an organization whose main function is the preservation of 4fe* Soviet Union and whose policy both domestic and foreign is do-pendent upon the turn of the Soviet foreign policy...
...The United States is able to protect Canada and the West Indies, but Fifth Column Canadian Industry Sabotages War Efforts CCF Urges Conscription Of All Factories OTTAWA, Canada (Passed by the Cejsor): On May 20th, work^throughout this hemisphere is being U without a recorded vote, the Canadian Parliament gave These ^^ and semi^olonial ^^ the Government what several members called the broadest cannQt ^ protected if Britain is conquered...
...Its original presiding committee included among its nine Browder members Gil Green, a secretary of the Young Communist International...
...ter headings entitled "PoBtie and "How to Balance the Ji tional Ticket...
...form part of the Canadian coastal defense...
...Wh^ thfs" fear that the Canadian Government will hesitate to___demand of industry and integration of empire, or else would fold their hands and remain aloof from the conflict...
...ruled out by the "Speaker as was a similar one moved toward the end of the debate...
...On the broad question of the rights of nonGerman racial groups to a place in the sun, he declares: "We are obliged to depopulate...
...Bell has had *** experience in youth affairs at City College and in graduate work at Columbia University...
...In addition to the gallows and the firing squad, there are subtler methods, such as the sterilization of" "inferior" peoples, on a huge scale, the permanent segregation of men and women in separate labor battalions so that they are never able to reproduce, the relaxing of all health standards so that epidemics may run their course, and, finally, the herding of "undesirables" into miserably inadequate reserved areas with infertile land so that they die of disease, malnutrition and hunger...
...It was even willing to pass a resolution condemning dictatorship—with Gil Green a member of the special resolutions committee which drew the measure...
...In the accompanying article, Nathaniel Weyl, distinguished young American writer on South, American and Asiatic affairs, shows why the overwhelming bulk of Britain's colonies prefer the imperialism of England to the yoke of the Nazi racial theories...
...The armed forCes stationed there are woefully For the' duration of the war the Government has power inadequate...
...I The legislation is an indication of the Canadian Government's belief that immediate and thorough preparations must be made' to defend the Dominion...
...CHARLES L Me NARY How to Handle A National (GOP) Ticket A 66-year-old Republican wh has never seen or met Wendé Willkie is the "junior runnin mate" of the 44-year-old utiKtw magnate...
...By GRACE MclNNIS Secretary of the CCF Parliamentary Group of Africa and Australia and of all Asia below the Russian and Chinese frontiers...
...With two exceptions they had no quarrel with the need to defend Canada...
...To his cwd is the development of the "in perial prune"—as well as the ii troduction of the filbert indusb to his state...
...If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the spilling of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove trillions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin...
...There he was a cba of Herbert Hoover who-,«* dubbed 'Charley' "a shade ti radical...
...However, the British Indians seem more clearly aware of what is happening than the dialecticians of Thirteenth Street...
...Last week he crashed to his death over Libye...
...This was overwhelmingly defeated, both liberals and Conservatives voting against it...
...Coldwell, acting CCF parliamentary...
...Canada's export of nickel went * jntIL very recently, this pro-Nazi move- staffs of all Crown colony administrations, to Japan...
...This amendment was voted down...
...Natives Rally to Empire's Defense By NATHANIEL WEYL Co-Author of "The Re-Conquest of Mexico" IF the Nazis succeed in their program of blitzkrieging England into surrender by autumn, the economic and political face of the world will be changed beyond recognition...
...profits tax be raised to 100 In °f the fact that there are five Labor T. C. Douglas, another CCF Party representatives in the British Cabinet, member, wanted'to know if the it is most probable that India will soon be banks and other lending institu- given dominion status...
...blank cheque ever given to its executive by any parliament...
...askM Angus Mac-Innis, CCF friember for Vancouver...
...They pointed out that while the' bill gives power to the Government to mobilize material as Well.as human, resources, it does pot.f{H$e it to do so...
...His biography in the vCa gressional Who's Who is not di tinguishable from most of ti other Westerners...
...These actions have acted as a brake against any attempts by, new progressive youth organizations to ' establish themselves in the field...
...The most Italy might obtain would be a part of the Near East and Africa north of the Sahara...
...Instead of the present British effort to increase Nagro landholdings, German imperialism would evict the natives from all land desired for white settlement...
...The Reich would preserve a mammoth Negro slave corps to do the work needed on the roads and plantations and in the mines...
...vehemently anti-Nazi, the English Tory class * * * has seen to it that they received,neither arms MR...
...I know of your earnestness and sincerity, of your great aid to such causes as the Children's Crusade for Children in war-stricken lands...
...Now we have seen those Hop* go down in the long hard fight which the League and other progressive groups have waged to keep alive the democratie faith in face of the forces which have at last accomplished it* destruction...
...Roosevelt These will be interesting days— if they don't prove fatal...
...In 'Canada there is hardly a big business interest in the country that is not now represented in an advisory capacity to the government...
...As the Communist line swung to' the right, the A.Y.C...
...Today it is the most active sponsor of the slogan originated by »od the property of the C.P.—The Yanks Are Not Coming...
...in 1883 the Bowery Theatre was the first American auditorium to use electric footlights...
...Mallen (leader of the fascist Gray Shirts), to August more than half of * * * . ColonialsChurchill TTHE arrest of Subhas ' Chandras Bose, former president of Ghan-di's Congress Party who left Ghandi to form his own group designed to rally Leftists into organized action, focuses attention on a theory now gaining currency among some left-wing "intellectuals" here...
...Their purpose in life will be to serve as beasts of burden for their German masters...
...But they took issue with compulsory mobilization at this time, claiming that the voluntary system had n ot yet beeft given an adequate trial...
...Then comes the world workers revolution...
...hates England...
...Similarly, in British India, . _ . "crown colony," directly subject to the British: popniation rose from 1Ö0 to 353 millions in Europe, but domination of the two ^continents government.—Ed...
...Which reminds us that on July 13, 1859, America's last pirate was executed in New York...
...COLDWELL cited the nor military training, profits made by certain cor- * * ? porations...
...But there was a determined, three-day battle to lows: Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd...
...labor for porterage and private mining corporations are being abolished...
...About 600 million Africans and Asiatics, or five times the United States' population and two-sevenths of the world's people, would be distributed as booty between Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain...
...But I remember, too, the prestige which you have accorded the American Youth Congress and its leadership...
...This is highly remniscent of Piatintsky's hailing of Hitler's attaining power in 1933 for "after Hitler destroys Social-Democracy, the Communists will wipe out Hitler...
...Following the Stalin-Hitler pact, the American Youth Congress shifted...
...Germany would seize the rest—British India, Australia, and two-thirds of Africa...
...In The Voice of Destruction, Rauschning quotes Adolf Hitler on the American Civil War: "The beginnings of a great new social order based on tlje principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed by that war, and with them also the embryo of a future, truly great America...
...became a "junior popular front"—out to cheer collective security, "twentieth century Americanism" and the peace policy of the Soviet Union...
...They are to be given no rights of self-government and just enough education to enable them to work efficiently...
...July of 1940 may change the course of modern civilization and culture as have other Julys in history past...
...The Indian National Congress, representing the overwhelming majority of the politically conscious Hindu masses, has just voted active support of Great Britain on condition that If yoiing men are to be con- substantial steps be taken toward Indian free-scripted to defend Canada, said dom at the end of the war...
...On that day of 1777 these United States adopted the stars and stripes as our national flag...
...Admittedly the most important individuals in the A.Y.C...
...In West agriculture, the introduction of public health Africa, the British have prevented Europeans services and, in the case of the Netherlands from grabbing- native lands, have encouraged local self-government, and fostered Negro-owned agricultural cooperatives...
...What role can these people play whose orientations (Continued on Page Seven) Plastic Age ^HE final words of a discordant six-year history are beiaf written this week as the American Youth Congress meets »t Geneva, Wisconsin...
...The white inhabitants of the The "'two hundred families in Union find Hitler>s racial policies agreeable, this country who own the re- xhe Negroes are already segregated in inade-' sources of Canada, said Mr...
...Accordingly he moved that for..the duration of the war parliament should not be prorogued" or adjourned for more than 90 days at any time...
...Was this bill to Africa...
...Silent, undemonstrative Chark Linza McNary, resident on Cap toi Hill for twenty years, wi make the race for the vice-prai dency with a man whose politiet philosophy he hated so much',1| ran away from the Republics convention rather than See ti "ignominous" nomination...
...Roosevelt's inclusion of Republicans in his cabinet...
...Throughout Africa, the enormities of forced This gun...
...in Canada in 1939 after |F this were merely...
...First shots of the First World War dug into Serbian soil on July 28, 1914, and on July 15, 1918, thousands of American boys went orver the top at Chateau Thierry...
...To a great extent you are to blame...
...July-History's Danger Line Memo to Mrs...
...France has admitted a few of her African subjects to full citizenship in the Republic...
...On the 19th, in 1933's July, General Balbo led a squadron of 24 Fascist seaplanes to New York...
...The actual work of an organization always centers around the individuals who make up the staff and who administer policy from day to day...
...Minority leader in the Senat McNary's urbane figure and si nual acclamation as the bet dressed member of the Upp House, belies his dirt fsnail avocation...
...Part of that story is told by Daniel Bell in his rapid perspective of the Wisconsin conclave...
...They renewed their plea for a National Government to include representatives Of the Conservative party, citiiig Mr...
...I NEED not recapitulate for you the six-year history of the Youth Congress...
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