Balkan Rivalries Delay Nazi Attack on British Isles
Balkan Rivalries Delay Nazi Attack on British Isles Herriot and Blum Challenge Fascists Despite Gestapo The new phase of the war was taking, rapid shape this week over the entire vast theatre...
...Louis, an international vicepresident who was one of those who had signed a statement attacking the administration last month, swung over to Messrs...
...L»h" Italian-American is unaware,* of Mr...
...The Petain-Laval government was given to understand from both Berlin and Rome that establishment of a totalitarian regime in France would not save her from a draconic peace...
...16,679,583 for Aji Landon...
...Japs find that only the Western section of the U.S...
...has sufficient supply of scrap to permit its export...
...Europe's war has shut off German, English, Swiss and Scandinavian iron supply sources leaving Japan totally dependent on this country...
...Withdraws Threat to Form' New Third Party By EDWARD LOSING ¦ CHICAGO, 111.—If a split hit§ the Democratic party next week it will be the result of secret anti-New Deal organization by pro-fascist and diehard southern party hacks, among whom are John J. O'Connor of New York—he has...
...The great Corsican was not entirely a fool...
...In the issues of II Progresso of June 16, 19, S, 30 and July 4 there appeared lengthy editorials by Mr...
...Tokyo seeks some 130,000 tons of iron and scrap steel monthly, the New York Journal of Commerce reports...
...j«Ty...
...Loss of his place in the Senate was threatened...
...Some steel men estimate that when the latest Jap order is filled, Tokyo will have on hand a greater reserve of steel and tin scrap than in the United States itself...
...Such a specific shift—only 2,514,000 votes—under the electoral system would give the Republicans the 266 electoral tallies necessary for election...
...Already there is not much of this war material left on the Atlantic coast, despite President Roosevelt's recent statement that the U.S...
...He has on his hands the difficult if not hopeless job of digesting his far-flung loot and organizing the continent, under extremely difficult circumstances, into a productive working machine...
...Already there was a suggestion that Petain —the French Papa Hindenburg—may have to yield his post to a younger gangster, Flandin...
...i' tT...
...P»n'ence to hear Mussolini's speech...
...but that change would have to take-place in 29 specific states, those with the - most electoral...
...Communists Retain Control Of American Newspaper Guild Special to The New Leader MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Judging by what has already occurred at the national convention of the American Newspaper Guild, the union of newspaper workers will/be dominated by the policies of the Communist International...
...et«raily, rj Progresso Italo-Amerieano gives ft.0...
...Keeping the peace among the Balkan peoples while the totalitarian go through their pocket* is essential also to the larger military and stra...
...Japanese muntion interests are rushing to buy and ship a new order of 300,000 to 400,000 tons scrap steel before the U.S...
...This in itself may save the Third Republic, but it is symptomatic of the coming political battles in France, the consequences of which may be profound...
...How many of these will jump the bandwagon no one can tell now...
...All those who wilt attack ft— either inside or outside the Guild—will be accused of red-baiting, war-mongering, antiunionism, and sleeping with the publishers...
...June 30th|) A "minor*1 %atter is the distorting of news, frthe issue of July 6th there appears on the ¦J* page a headline splashed1 across 'the page: Persecution Against Italians in England...
...Stalin added his play by sending a Russian fleet to demonstrate off the Bulgarian coast as a reminder to Sofia that it must not do anything with regard to the Dobrudja— the Bulgaria irredenta now held by" the Rumanians—without approval from Berlin...
...percentage in 1936...
...Above is a copy of "Facts vs...
...V^.' While beating back increasing German, air raids on the British coasts, the Royal Air Fotee...
...For the present, 4dr...
...Fascist activity in Mexico nor of 3M«eWents between Italians and Germans jjSjj fte...
...The Communists have decided on refraining from being too blatant and will not try to make Milton Kaufman president...
...From Istanbul came dispatches telling of the expectation by the Turkish government of a Russian ultimatum demanding a share in control of the Dardanelles...
...At the same time London dispatches spoke of a Soviet diplomatic move in Iran threatening control of British oil resources in that country, which constitute a valuable source of supply fox the British fleet in the Mediterranean...
...The situation offers increasing confirmation of the opinion that Hitler must win the war this summer or not at all...
...While German forces were denuding the occupied regions of cattle and food supplies, Hitler's puppet government at Vichy was striking its first snags...
...Federal rearmament officials complain 5that the Japane.se purchases have increased scrap prices by 300 to 40© per cent which means that in addition to helping Japan stock its arsenal for use against England and the U.S., American taxpayers are being hit by this export trade...
...Diplomatic circles believe that Japan's belligerency over the arrest by American marines of some of her plain clothesmen, is provoked by either well stocked reserves of war materials, including scrap, of course, or a promise from the Axis that they would supply by overland routes the vital materials which the U.S...
...The economic disorganization combined with the British blockade is rapidly creating a situation on the continent against which Hitler's military might will prove helpless...
...No American newspaperman would want to head a captured organization...
...The peace he has wrested from France gives no assurance whatever of ultimate victory...
...Leon Blum, one of the men upon whom the hatred of the reaction is centered, appeared cballengingly at Vichy, ready to face the music and give battle...
...Italian origin...
...Helena...
...World history with its African victory, j.Jfcto'y of civilization over barbarism...
...Altogether, the government was confronted with ominous rumblings of opposition...
...Back F.D.R...
...The CI.O.'s headquarters,.here have been set up and will be run by Philip Murray, who is pledged to Roosevelt...
...Italian Dailies To Boost Duce Italian language dailies controlled by Generoso Pope have largely taken over the work of spreading, the Duce's propaganda, which the Italian consulate has been compelled...
...Wheeler Forgets "Peace...
...Even those who run Garner's headquarters in the Sherman Hotel know that they can do little but be a clearing house for the anti-Boosevelt forces, through whom they may be able to link to Roosevelt a strong conservative as vice-presidential nominee...
...But it might also be extremely dangerous for the Axis should military resistance from Turkey set off the conflagration in the Balkans, which Hitler seeks to avoid at all costs...
...continued to carry the war into the enemy's country, raiding important military and iradu*trial objectives in Germany and France...
...J?*"1* the Ethiopian war, Pope was loud in ** Protestations of love for Italy, j On January 24, 1936, at a pro-Fascist meet2j' ^ said (in II Progresso of that *4ate^ : gg* «te proud to be sons of that Italy led by Mussolini which will produce a glorious...
...While the likelihood is that Hitler will be able to sit an the lid, there remain* always the danger of a Balkan conflagration which may de&y his program...
...To counteract possible antagonistic public opinion here the Japanese are hiring important Americans and intrusting them with the job of creating goodwill...
...These plants were scheduled to swing publicly over to the Kaufman-Pasche group at a strategic moment...
...distorted reporting of the news featuring admiration of Mussolini and justification of the Fascist rwernment, with any items unfavorable to Fuciim passed over in complete silence...
...Tha- ward -heeler crowd here...
...Crawford is a forlorn hope for the opposition...
...The British navy virtually completed the immobilization of the French fleet—by direct attack or surrender forced on French warships scattered over a wide area in the Mediterranean—-and chased the Italian fleet to the shelter...
...We have in mind Turkey and control of the oil fields of Iraq and Iran...
...Pope whose obvious purpose was to persuade Italian-Americans that they are victims otf an unjust persecution and that Mr...
...4 If Kaufman, Pasche and Company continue backing Wilson, he will be elected president, turning the ANG into an outright section "of...
...J» of the essence for him...
...are Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode, Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Alaska, Hawaii...
...Generoso Pope Uses U.S...
...p^ tt>e present war, all headlines emphasize pBWto or Italian victories and anything un*"Sr»ble to the democracies...
...We may assume that he will have no difficulty in attaching Scandinavia to his peca&ite war economy...
...Mussolini was given a demonstration of the fact that "Mare Nostrum" remains only a Fascist aspiration and that Britain still rules the seas—a fact that may yet prove decisive in the conflict...
...to softpedal as a result of exposure by anii-Fascist jtalian labor groups in this country and a ?frp warning administered - by Secretary of State Hull...
...I, translate litjj?By: "The United States unready for de?** or for sending airplanes to Britain...
...Meanwhile, the situation in France was not moving very smoothly for Hitler...
...The Communist unions may be able to wipe that out this year...
...losses to the British fleet at Oran...
...P«M fleet in control of the Mediterranean...
...Landon only 37.5 per cent If in November 5,5 per cent of the voters change their ballots from Democratic to Republican, Willkie wins...
...Fiction" issued regularly by the German Library of Information, which has its offices two short rooms away from the German Consulate at 17 Battery Place...
...Rome jP Berlin decide to recognize injustices sufJ*"1 by Russia in 1919...
...Members of the opposition had been warned by those active in the anti-Stalinite Progressive Guild group of New York that the Communist national administration had planted men inside the ranks, led by Max Ways of Philadelphia, Hafry Martin of Memphis and two other members of the International Executive Board...
...otherwise there would have been 8o last-minute attempts to draft the unwilling incumbent Washington correspondent Kenneth Crawford, who was disgusted by Communiar tactics daring his short interim term as ANG president...
...cooperated with Eastern pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic groups-r-and the Tydings, Smith, Byrd crowd from below the Mason-Dixon line...
...Consolidation of the continent under Nasi hegemony and with the greatest possible spied, is a life-and-death necessity for Hitler in the stupendous contest with Great Britain...
...Pope .is able to go ahead full steam, thanks to lack of attention by...
...3? °» 8uch statements appeared in II Pr»Italo-Americano during 1935 aid 1936...
...We are not unaware, of course,^that the Nazi occupation troops in France would help crush any popular movement against the Vichy regime, but it is not without significance that the better France apparently has no intention to take things entirely lying down...
...A conflagration in # Balkans, combined with the famine advsncnf upon Europe and inability to bring ¦ 111 Haiti quickly to her knees, would seal Hitler's fate...
...is.a- powerful figure io^ammany Hall,, t friend of Jim Farley's, and a dominating wsonfege in Italian fraternal orders by reason jpls complete control of all the big j Italian i^niage dailies in New York...
...Sufficient is the fact that by controlling the votes of about 900—out of 2,400 paid up members, and 5,000 listed oil the lolls—the Communist New York Guild members control Local New York and therefore the hold the balance of power throughout the country...
...Behind the naval, air, and diplomatic activities there were indications that the Axis powers were completing preparations for an early miss assault on the British Isles—their final and most desperate bid for victory* There were indications...
...For this reason the Munich conference attended by Ribbentrop, Ciano, and the Hungarians Teleki and Czaky — with Hitler as the umpire — was devoted to an attempt to keep Hungary from aggressive action against Rumania, while pressure was continued upon the latter to surrender territories to Hungary and Bulgaria...
...The Montanan, ¦who only a week ago was boasting of what he trould do to that 'war monger" .Roosevelt, has Suddenly stopped plumping for "peace at all cost" This is typical of the Senator and motivated only by, the fact that he found his constituents not at all pleased that he*was consorting with John L. Lewis and touring the panacea circuits in search of support for a vice-presidential bid...
...leader, writer for the San Francisco News, close colleague of transmission belter Tom O'Connor, now working for PM...
...The attempt to force upon the country a fascist constitution with the consent of a rump parliament met its first resistance from a group of deputies and senators headed by Herriot, president of the Chamber, who succeeded in forcing the government to submit the ¦constitution to a plebiscite...
...Can Hitler deal Great Britain the knockout blow this summer...
...Only Vice-President Garner remains in open opposition to the President This, oi course, will he used as a bargaining weapon...
...Japs Pay Gen...
...While Hitler was seeking to consolidate his economic position in Scandinavia and Stalin w»f doing the same in the Baltic states, as step* ir the gleichschaltung of the continent, attention was centered on the political situation in TVajtcc and in the Balkans...
...i*fcolic Priests Insulted, and Dragged to and Other Shameful Episodes...
...J2*2*e only point emphasized in this epiJ^fLthe bravery of one of the German Goebbels Uses U.S...
...is strongest in New York and through Labor's Non-Partisan League and the Progressive Committee to Rebuild America will indirectly help Willkie gain votes there by sabotaging the A.L.P- pro-Roosevelt campaign...
...American 2,000,000 tons of scrap...
...Roosevelt received 62.5 per cent of the popular vote...
...No %"*er psper had any such news...
...Joe Curran's National Maritime Union, Watson's Newspaper Guild, Mike Quill's Transport Workers, Flaxer's Municipal workers, and others, working through the newly formed -State Industrial Union Council, may be able to cut sufficiently into the New Deal votes to hand the G.O.P...
...kesdlines emphasizing every German and Italian victory and every British defeat...
...He changed his mind about ''peace," John Lewis and Anglophobia when he learned from his men that the folks back home might go to the polls with a definite dislike for their senior senator...
...Panie in London...
...Yet time...
...There is one phrase Hitler would have found , particularly pertinent— "Empires die of indigestion...
...roso Pope's flamboyant praise If MusaoP*«nd his pledged loyalty to Fascist Italy...
...Down in the lobbies the professional vote counters figure Willkie's chances good even against a Roosevelt and Hull ticket...
...Kaufman and Pasche...
...tegic problem confronting Hitler and his Soviet and Italian gauleiters in the Near EasJ...
...Obviously the anti-Stalinite forces are losing...
...And if anything can make Wheeler change Ids mind on vital issues, it's a threat to his Senate post...
...the part of the American press and the federal authorities to what is printed in foreign language newspapers...
...Turkey is aroused and gives indications of fight...
...These men, with Clyde Beals, editor of the factional Guild Reporter, have consistently followed the Communist Party line for years...
...No, Hitler has not yet won the war...
...Balkan Rivalries Delay Nazi Attack on British Isles Herriot and Blum Challenge Fascists Despite Gestapo The new phase of the war was taking, rapid shape this week over the entire vast theatre of the conflict...
...The Communist Party has been bringing heavy pressure on the GuiULmembership, fearing that this time the opposition was strong enough to unseat its men high in ANG officialdom...
...O'Ryan $50,000 per Month By VINCENT ROGERS Although the State Department is fully aware of Tokyo's intention to pull an important Far Eastern coup using the alleged insulting arrest of Japanese marines as an excuse for some drastic anti-American, anti-British action, the United States is permitting economic directors of the Nipponese war machine to strip this country of its vital scrap iron supplies...
...He boasts of h influence at the Italian consulate, which has dten resqrted to terrorism and threats .to kuamen in the old country to bring recalcitrant Wian businessmen in line for the right parties...
...Hitler's vanity was, of course, greatly flattered as he stood at Napoleon's tomb the other day contemplating his conquests...
...This became apparent early in the week when alleged members of the anti-Communist opposition began "confessing" and switching to the increasing bloc behind National Executive yjte#President Milton Kaufman, Vice President-Morris Watson and Secretary Vic Pasche...
...This country could cripple the Japanese military machine by embargoing scrap...
...He backed the anti-semitic Jacob Thorkelson against Jerry 0"Connell because the latter let it be known he would run for the Senate against Wheeler...
...Pope/s method at present is editorials' in fcfense' ox- the Italian-American community inpposedly a victim of unjust persecution...
...CIO Chiefs Rebuff Lewis...
...Although he has blasted the Kaufman-Pasche group, he will refuse to run...
...Pope's paper is their valiant defender...
...Satisfied with their squeeze play which crippled the opposition with "confessionals" a la Moscow, before it jWfc started, the Stalinites are backing George Wilson, fellow-traveling San Francisco C.I.O...
...The presence of Russian warships off Varna was taken as an effort to exert pressure upon Bulgaria to permit Soviet troops to pass through her territory in the direction of the Straits...
...The British declare that they are ready In general, they have shown inspiring initiative* in the past fortnight, which must compel Hitler to realize that his main task of world-conquest lies still before him...
...can now fill such orders...
...Roosevelt enters the convention with 707% votes pledged to him oat of a total of 1,09...
...As usual, Communist caucus hotel rooms have been set up to direct strategy...
...Failure to achieve such a knockout would place him before the necessity of waging a prolonged conflict, with the prospect of ultimate disintegvetion of the Nazi power...
...alsoa...tJnat the grand assault upon England, wofcjd pj|%companied by a move against Turkey by teovtplkussta, m a*-, cordance with instructions fronT Hitler and in line with the Stalin-Hitler pact The last-named move may, however, precede the main blow against the Britisr...
...But even now an American embargo might be too late...
...On this question Stalin continued during the week to play the role assigned to him by Hitler...
...public becomes aware of this depleting of its' war resources...
...The convention details are of little interest to the general public...
...New' York's 46 electoral tallies are not included' in this analysis, but there is a good' chance that Willkie may take them...
...He would have done better to stay in Berlin and spend the time reading Napoleon's memoirs written on St...
...the Communist fellow-traveling apparatus in this country...
...T: j Pope...
...Mail to Distribute Reich Propaganda German propaganda agencies function brazenly here, utilizing hundreds of mailing lists to distribute their campaigns of hate...
...Pope asks: "Let me ask once and again for an end to this wave of •• ' suspicion and discrimination which disturbs the serenity and damages the interests of citizens of...
...The diplomatic conference at Munich this week had to do, however^ w$t"h * more difficult problem—the Pandora's box iff the Balkans...
...Arandora was sunk by a submarine...
...If accompanied by a severe defeat inflicted upon the Italian navy by the British, this would radically alter the entire war picture to the disadvantage of the totalitarians...
...The future maybring greater opportunity for action...
...Wheeler switched to the President when he learned that the strong sections of the C.I.O.— the auto workers, the SWOC.and others—would actively campaign for F.D.R., as will the .Railway Brotherhoods...
...Their fiction -is made "Fact" and actual facts are made out to be "Fiction...
...Experts reveal that by halting the flow of scrap to the Nipponese the U.S...
...Obviously he intends using the derivative munitions against other forces beside those of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek...
...But England, too, was not quiescent...
...State Department files reveal that O'Ryan has registered there as an agent of the official Japan Economic Federation at a "salary" of $150,000 for the next three months...
...This would be .impossible...
...Dispatches indicated that not only France but Italy too, as the rest of Europe, would face severe famine this winter...
...The Communist section of the C.I.O...
...This is double the Mikado's war needs...
...General O'Ryan, who commanded the 27th division of the AEF during the first world war, has itfs't left for Tokyo where he will consult with important Jap officials...
...But that political omnibus is already well laden with every other hat-in-the-ring-thrower from Paul McNutt to 3urton K. Wheeler...
...Behind F.D.R...
...A Russian move on the Dardanelles, designed as a thrust in a possible farther direction—across Turkey to the British-controlled oil fields of Iraq would be extremely dangerous for England...
...This is ail part of the process of denuding U.S...
...U.S...
...According to the most authetic sources, some of them directed the original Communist caucus in the early days of the Guild, when the late Heywood Broun cooperated with them...
...of its ports...
...This occurred early in the week when Julius H. Klyman of St...
...Bay that if only 2^4^00 (in 29 states) of-those who voirf :ibctfi«t President slfift' their votes to Willkie It-will be elected H the other voters stay put...
...would force Tokyo to buy 6,000,000 tons of ore elsewhere to make up for the...
...It was becoming increasingly clear that the government at Vichy cannot hope to be anything but an instrument for Nasi economic exploitation of France...
...In 1936 some 27,476,673 persons voted for -.Roosevelt...
...Herriot also took the lead in repelling the shameful plan of the counter-revolutionary government to throw a sop to Berlin and Rome by trying Daladier, Mandel, and other political leaders for alleged responsibility for the war...
...These publications go through the United States Mail without interference while they viciously attack the country which affords them this protection...
...the state...
...Four years ago "Mr...
...June ?RL) "And why does base discrimination con!¦¦» to deprive fathers of families of their *°ric with excuses too transparent to hide the "fl meaning of such cruelty...
...T)fce geographical situation recalls the disposition .of forces that warned Napoleon's titanic wrestle with the British Lion...
...votes that ran the highest G.O.P...
...The Montanan faces a primary within two weeks, which will decide whether he goes back tp the Senate...
...Last year Tokyo imported 2,026,764 tons, an all-time high, equivalent to 89 per cent of all Jap scrap imports...
...could cut off...
...Governor Lehman carried New York by only a 62,000 plurality in 1938...
...The latest of these agents is Major-General John F. O'Ryan, former New York City Police Commissioner...
...And if Japan could find this tonnage she would have to revamp her steel industries which have been built to handle scrap, not the raw ore...
...None of these accusations are supported by the least shred of evidence, but Mr...
...of scrap steel...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 28
