Failure of Strong U. S. Action Will Turn Into Munich
SCHLAMM, WILLI
Failure of Strong U. S. Action Will Turn Into Munich by WILLI SCHLAMM A ghost walks in the glorious Havana sunlight, an old European acquaintance of this writer—the ghost of Collective-Security. A...
...It is now placing orders for 12,000 trucks, which will double the number of such vehicles bought by the Army since the World War...
...This department has ordered $35,000,000 worth of clothing and supplies, such as blankets, shoes and hats...
...Reports of Revolution Spread Through Cuba By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at Station WEVD, New York Behind the scenes of the Pan-American conference ib Havana, revolution is brewing...
...A German worker tunes in on a British broadcast...
...New York...
...Books and Writers By CUAS L TARTAK % Wither Democracy...
...Definite arrangements are being made for construction with government funds of a number of plants at strategic inland'locations for producing powder and TNT...
...at the merchant, distrusting his wife ami still hiding his distrust out of fear of the regime...
...Our conclusions may strongly influence the cootst of future history—that is what makes our responsibility so he...
...Coupled with the low wages are the erection of company towns...
...Jewish children or children of mixed parentage are subject to insult and humiliation...
...The authorities have bee» informed and Se?ora Fraa Sa* Martin is said to have feff-i* vana hurriedly for a safari*** in Miami...
...It has ordered l$ll,000,000 worth of gas masks and the plant expansion necessitated by these orders...
...This is the breeding-ground of the anti...
...No doubt is expressed that these are life stories, actual happenings...
...Negro workers who talk back to white foremen are killed without conduction...
...Long an ardent pacifist, she has been in leading progressive movements for decades...
...118 p. Inside Nazism By TON/ SENDER •THE author explains that the purpose of his book was to asswer the question: In what state of- nerves, morals, economic and health did the German people enter the war...
...I will have to pay for my wrong guess with my money—and my head...
...Although not in a proportion satisfactory to progressives, the administration has ordered much government construction...
...A sound policy of collective security is incompatible with the outworn clich?s of "non-interference," because an eventual barter agreement between Brazil and Nazi .Germany is for the United States by no means less unbearable than the landing of a Nazi expeditionary corps on Brazil's soil;-and if the U.S.A...
...will certainly take no revenge, but just forget about it...
...Inspectors from the Minneapolis office found as many as sixteen persons living in "a house built of rough lumber and slabs, and covered with tar paper, bits of tin, cardboard, pulpboard — anything, : in fact, that would keep out the wind and the cold...
...Ai...
...A num- ber of single men lived in one shack and did their own' cooking...
...It does not trouble the reader with statistics or historical analyses...
...Buster Walker, local head of the N.A.A.C.P...
...Rumblings of revolution, according to information reaching New York and Washington from private sources in Havana, are accompanied with whispered charges that Batista has double-crossed the United States with regard to German refugees...
...The indictment of two southern manufacturers by the U.S...
...The most valuable chapter in the book is the one dealing with, the economic shortcomings of our democracies, the course o? in-, employment...
...and are just happy, until they get arrested...
...1940...
...But where democracy may be perverted in a number o? cases, the dictatorships have exterminated thousands of innocent human beings...
...The Burke-Wadsworth bill will pass Congress this summer in a somewhat modified form, providing the government with- a registered man-power reservoir of many millions...
...In Minnesota, the heaviest fines yet assessed under the Federal Wages and Hours Act was levied on the Park Region Timber company and the Northern Pine manufacturing company of Brainerd, Minnesota...
...The profit was entirely Hitler's...
...were entirely within its rights to prevent such a. landing, even by force (as it most certainly would be), them it is also wi|hin its rights to prevent a white landing...
...Streamlining is taken seriously in the new U.S...
...May Havana not -become a second Geneva...
...Are these really the "stories of a truly average ehar-acter that happens to perfectly average people" as the author contends...
...The only other Montana primary race of national interest— the Wheeler nomination was a landslide—was the Jerry O'Con-nell comeback campaign for the Democratic Congressional nomination...
...For it turned out, you see, that Collective Security does not include only rights and guarantees, but also duties and risks...
...He was defeated by Jean-nette Rankin last week for the Republican renomination...
...Thus, mere caution, and common sense advises me to act in favor of Germany, because in that case I cannot make a mistake...
...These fugitives ace...
...Last spring he dropped all pretense of pro-democratic sentiment and endorsed the Christian Mobilizer movement led by Joe McWilliams...
...wandering, homeless, afraid to contact their families...
...The RFC may lend private business $500,-000,000 for plant construction improvement and installation of machinery...
...The ?. S. now has its great opportunity to show whether it has learned anything from the League of Nations, in America the target of popular and pretty much justified contempt...
...In ten short stories we take a glance at the life of two youar lovers ending in suicide...
...loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for plant construction...
...Well-bred girls, of course, cannot ask to be kissed...
...WHAT'S DEMOCRACY TO YOU...
...The refugees are supposed to be Jews and a small number of non-Jewish anti-Nazi Germans, but according to the scandalized and actually alarmed opponents of Batista, most of the so-called "refugees" are Trojan Horse Nazis...
...And so far as these neighbors' prid& and prejudices are concerned—ask the Norwegians and Belgians now, whether they would not have been happier now if the Allies had had a bit less respect for their neutrality...
...By Joseph Gollomb...
...AH colored people suspected of being members are terrorized...
...There high rents and high prices keep living at the barest, subsistence level...
...Almost 20,000 sawmill and woodworking plants in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and eastern Texas, employing nearly a quarter of a' million workers, pay an average of 15 to 20 cents an hour...
...branch, has been driven from the town...
...and Germany wij»s finally, then...
...is imperialistic if it keeps the Americas out of Hitler's orbit...
...will spend $190,000,000 for this purpose...
...A Negro organizer working at the Wood and Waters company, at Gibsley'was rushed into hiding to escape lynching...
...And the bat is an attempt to give a picture of German middle-class life onir basis of actual happenings and especially of the decrees andfE^-lications of Nazi sources...
...THE LIGHTS GO DOWN.' Middletotvn Nazi Version...
...The illustrations .are well selected...
...Southern Federal appointees are in the main, political hacks more intent upon retaining the good graces of the machine and holding their jobs...
...In Gibsley, La., a cyclone fence holds them back, and in Crosset, Ark., a high fence surrounds the town...
...In sober reality (and I want to put it as brutally as it appears in reality), alliances* between a big power and a small power against another big power are only possible if . and when that small power has good reasons to fear both big powers alike...
...He is sent to jail, for listening to foreign broadcasts is a grave offense under the dictatorships...
...The Stalin dictatorship is overlooked...
...and relaxation by the Securities and Exchange Commission of restrictions in the Securities Acts to give industry a freer hand in financing itself with private funds...
...The state-controlled press seriously discusses plans for compulsory supplying "qualified Aryan youths to unite with fertile girls and women" in order to produce good Aryan stock...
...Living conditions in the tracts owned...
...It also shows that the main economic shortcomings of the democracies can be overcome by democratic methods...
...The two companies, owned by a joint holding company headed by Edward Sullivan, S. J. Zeman.and S. W. Locke, were shown to have «jnployed eight-year-old children at pay as low as 4 cents an hour...
...For a few years the European nations went about shouting "Collective Security, It's Wonderful...
...If only 34 million lived under dictatorship in 1932, the reference mu* be to Italy alone...
...They are unable to secure work in neighboring towns, for the residents fear the ire of the Brownsville whites...
...Many arrests haw bees made secretly, but the pistrtf continues...
...Department of Justic for evasion of the Federal law and wage regulations is expected to crack the situation open...
...Twenty j years ago the most devoted /advocate of "non-interference in other nations' internal affairs" would not have preached that this principle obliges the U.S.A...
...That neither sounds nor is it nice, but it is true...
...Language is public property, and at a time when the Soviet jail is called the world's most progressive democracy, and England 1 is blamed for having violated Belgium's neutrality, none should be surprised to learn from some college professor that the U.S.A...
...Shackers' Peonage Spreads Misery Throughout U. S. Lumber Districts By JOHN DONNE WASHINGTON, D. C.—The national notoriety which the Okies, the Arkies and the Grapes of Wrath gave to California's corporate farming areas will be plastered over the lumber industry spreading: from Minnesota to Arkansas as the conditions of the "shackers" becomes more widely revealed through the efforts of the Federal investigators enforcing the minimum Wages and Hours Act...
...11,500,000 yards of woolen cloth to provide uniforms ior 1,000,000 men...
...And a strong, straight, openly proclaimed and executed hemisphere policy of the U.S.A...
...The Chemical Warfare Service plans sufficient offensive and defensive equipment to care for itself on any battle field...
...Apartment houses along the high-priced Malancon are said to be swarmiag with Nazi shock elements...
...During Germany's critical years of unfinished preparedness, the unfashionable si ogan gave its neighbors such feeling of guaranteed safety that none cared tool much f o r| building sufficient strength to withstand Hitler...
...Suppose Brazil is invited to join in a common policy with the U.S.A...
...THE blurb-wrapper of this little book1* begins with a statement from the book itself: "In 1932, before Hitler took power,.,!*, tatorship dominated 10,000,000 square miles, 34.000,000 people...
...The statement is erroneous and...
...neither is there anything wnmg with the idea of peace or of ham and eggs, and all that...
...The scene shifts...
...and were happy, until Hitler arrested them, one by one...
...The first chapter gives a vivid picture of dictatorship—Nazi dictatorship at work...
...The essential brutality of the Nazi State, its contempt of the individual, is brought home to the reader...
...Elisha Davis, a filling station owner who was one of the leaders in the Negroes' attempts to vote, is being sought by Brownsville hot heads...
...Only the same events may not reflect themselves in «*• actly the same way in the average middle-class families who haw to meet them...
...At this most tragic moment of European and work* history one must be eager to get as full knowledge as possiblrtf those decisive things that are going on in a country dominated bf totalitarianism...
...Thorkelson achieved considerable notoriety during his one term in office...
...Two months ago he flew to New York from Washington to be guest speaker at a Christian Mobilizer mass meeting—one of the most rabidly anti-Semitic gatherings it has been New York's misfortune to house...
...The amount set by the Wages and Hours Board is 30 cents an hour...
...Havingt'witnessed the efficiency of that psychological mechanism in half a dozen European nations, this writer is fully convinced that this imperfect world of ours cannot produce such a thing as cooperation between states if this cooperation is not enforced by straight, impressive, unmistakable pressure...
...if I act in favor of the U.S.A...
...Of course, nothing, is wrong with the idea of collective security...
...democratic movements...
...Liberal Montanans were grateful when The New Leader exposed the Congressman's tie-up with Italian, Fascists here and in London...
...Mae-millan Co...
...They want a job and bread, H. these are not forthcoming they'll follow a Hitler, a Father Coughlin or a Stalin...
...by the companies were deplorable," the report reads...
...The performance will end, I am afraid, as ghost stories usually do: the ghost will vanish...
...In Dierks, Arkansas, 450 employees live behind a barbed-wire stockade...
...taxpayer...
...While the unfortunate sailor Max Munks is murdered for Us underground activity—his death means also the end of the lif»-«t his old mother who dies in the clinic of the courageous Pwfessst Scherbach...
...O'Connell, a former favor- 1 ite of Communist fellow traveling organizations, beat three other Democrats and will run against Miss Rankin...
...Children are subject to military discipline...
...Once granted that the U.S-A.'s safety is vitally dependent on a coordinated policy of all Americas, there are merely two possible ways: One can abhor the resolute enforcement of that co-' ordination so much that one prefers to go down rather than to nourish the suspicion of being "imperialistic"—the surest way to be called a nation of liberals, but merely as an epitaph...
...but if you are the right boy, they will never forgive you for not having kissed them without asking...
...The concept of Collective Security was in Europe one of the most amazing cases of that peculiar state of mind which Americans know' at its best as Father Divine's "Angelism": people go about shouting "Peace, It's Wonderful...
...We read of the farm boy who comes to town seeking^' better life and lands in jail—to meet there the heroic Pastor GiS* hardt, who finally escapes the torture...
...The government will spend about $700,000,000 eventually for this, plant construction and for the equipment of the proposed armed force of 1,200,000 men...
...Grave injustices were com-mitted...
...If that is not so, the small nation- necessarily turns toward the big power she fears most...
...The lumber companies are able to evade the law—and most of them arrogantly and openly defy the statute—because of their control of the local and state political machines...
...that Grau • was defeated only through the theft and destruction of ballot boxes...
...The shortcomings of democracy are taker, up...
...the conference progreara it is reported that revolatie* * being discussed nightly ia ¦am* of secret meeting piases to ¦» vana...
...against Nazi Germany...
...He first hit the public spotlight as a Fascist when he was seen openly advising General Van Horn Moseley at a Dies<3om-mittee hearing...
...is exactly what all American republics secretly wish and wait for, though they don't dare to say it aloud while Hitler is listening...
...Collective Security blunder, especially if this policy limits itself to friendly advice, some economic relief and old-fashioned "non-interference...
...In seven years it spread to 25,000,000 square miles, 310,000,000 human beings...
...Congressman Thorkelson will no longer be in a position to insert anti-Semitic speeches in the Congressional Record, as he so often has in the past...
...No unknown Negroes are permitted in the city, nor are Negro newspapers sold in Brownsville...
...Administration officials are at work on three courses: outright construction of plants with government funds...
...and every single European nation was wholly against Collective Security when she was expected to do something for the support.of another nation...
...at the manufacturer in love with his pretty partly Jewish secretary...
...The point this writer wants to make is this: The sound policy of hemisphere defense is in danger of degenerating into a' copy of Europe's late...
...The trouble with these excellent ideas is that their vendors don't reveal how it can be done...
...we read the story of the district supervisor of the Gestapo who becomes human and warns his prospective victims in order to save them iron cruelty...
...Since a virtual war-time industrial structure must be built from the ground up there is room for much agitation for government ownership of defense plants—a sure method of removing private profit from war industries...
...To the millions without work it is difficult to speak of the blessings of democracy...
...similar to the ruthless mining camps established by the "coal barons" in the twenties and earlier...
...The series end with the story of a literary editor, who for six years serves on a Nazi newspaper and write* th* way he is told to—until he is caught making some remarks 0B the manuscript of the Fuehrer's speech...
...Everywhere you go in Havana," according to one highly-placed informant, "you hear the German language and it is not spoken by Jews...
...The process and its reasons are simple enough...
...By Erita Mann...
...The nation already has become ' aware of the brutal lynching of Elbert Williams, thirty-three year old Negro, late last month...
...Forrar and Rinekart, Inc...
...This will place the armament, synthetic rubber and smelter (gun metal) industries in private hands, raising considerably the government's defense' cost...
...Despite pre-convention hesitancy to call for wide compulsory training, sources close to the White House expect the President to endorse the Burke-Wadsworth bill—if it is modified along lines suggested by General Marshall...
...For a direet road leads from Geneva to Munich...
...The author's plea for a speedy and just reorganization o? our economy, for a greater degree of social control over industry...
...This information was used effectively against him in the recent campaign...
...I am unable to conceive what this obviously sound policy of I self-defense has to do with "Imperialism," which term— if my memory does not betray me —means economic expansion by force (while the recommended policy, ,to the contrary, is mere resistance against such an expansion by totalitarian powers from over sea), But if somebody pleases to call it "Imperialism," nothing can prevent him from doing so...
...It is the strange silence of the book on the inhuman realities of Stalin's dictatorship, of its affinities with the Nazi regime, that makes the book one-sided and raises the question of intellectual -candor...
...Or does this series sin on the side of too much optimism in its hope a speedy downfall of this barbarian regime...
...Drive Gains for Gov't Control o? Arms Plants By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C^r—As the Administration continues along systematic lines to turn the United States into one vast arsenal as rapidly as possible, it becomes more certain that the Army will be training at least 750,000 men by September 30, and close to 2,000,000 by September 30 of 1941...
...Expectations just befdretjii election were that the Communists would carry out tnwr agreement to vote for Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who-aj* parently won the election...
...The man in the street will soon come in for educational gas mask training...
...The plan most favored by Army men calls for private management and operation of the government-owned plants...
...The mobs have invaded neighboring towns looking for "persons who maiy be harboring fleeing Negroes...
...It is a well written and engaging, booklet, a sort of "man-to-man talk" on the meaning of our democracy to- the averaage man...
...Every single European nation was wholeheartedly for Collective Security, so far as her support by other nations was concerned...
...Army...
...for providing jobs for those out of work, will appeal to all to whom democracy means justice and freedm for the individual, bread as well as civic liberties...
...Key to the preparations for the handling of large numbers of men is seen in the $63,000,000 in contracts let by the Army's quartermaster corps...
...In the light of all European experiences, hemisphere defense is only possible if and when the leading nation accepts the responsibility of strength and makes perfectly clear her unshakable determination to enforce such a policy against all whims, doubts and fears of weaker neighbors...
...Many millions of these pro-testives will be ready by September 30...
...hence, misleading -in its population statistics...
...The anti-labor companies admitted guilt to 34 counts of charges of failure to pay the minimum wage and sundry other counts dealing with falsification of records...
...Or one is determined to make matters completely clear and to carry them "oute—then one has to say so in time, openly, unmistakably...
...at Professor Habermann, the university teacher of law, who carea the Nazis by his ironical lectures before his law class...
...Later he franked much material for Fascist groups, much of this was his own anti-Jewish, anti-Democratic insertions in the Record...
...Miss Rankin, a nationally known pacifist, was a member of Congress in 1917, where she was one of the handful who voted against President Wilson's call for war on Germany...
...R describes the life of the ordinary worker, of his family and children under Nazi rule...
...10'tolerate a foreign invasion of some small South American republic, even if she had formally agreed to the rape (and what else could a weak nation do in such a case...
...Government ownership of armament plants and shipyards will save millions for the U.S...
...The book has considerable value for the layman, in its simple presentation of the trickery, inhumanity and deceptiveness of the Fascist dictatorships...
...Mobs Hunt Negro Leaders In Tennessee Vote Terror MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The reign of terror unleashed late in June against Negro voters of Brownsville, Tenn., who had sought to register for the November presidential election, redoubled this week as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples appealed to the President to take immediate steps to halt the violence...
...Between $200,000,000 and $300,000,000 of government funds will be used for this type of plant...
...The major task of building 50,000 planes, a two-ocean navy, thousands of tanks, guns and training military and civilian personnel will cost about $15,000,-000,000 during the next few years...
...In all the ten stories people get into conflict with the existing Nazi order...
...This institution betrayed a sound idea because red tape and diplomatic clich?s prevented Europe's leading powers from enforcing the continent's common interests against the sabotage of shortsighted members...
...Who would not like ham and eggs every morning, peace and collective security all the time...
...During the last twenty years the methods of invasion have changed somewhat, but not the j indisputable, unquestionable, right of the United States to bar any type of foreign invasion in this hemisphere—and to do it by adequate means...
...Where then is Soviet Russia, an older dictatorship with some 160 million people...
...In Washington, officials rafa* to admit any knowledge of-ft* situation, but it has been rs* marked that one of the Pti*Bf* supporters of Batista has PJ Count Nicolas del Rivera, V*" prietor of Diario de la Mas Mi one of the greatest ncwstMty* in Latin-America, and that Q*a* Nicolas, former Cuban mrBtstsf to the Vatican, is a cjttsaB'll* Cuba while in Cuba, and a citi** of Spain when in Spain, wW many of his interests lie...
...Some, of the misery among the "Shackers" was described in last week's- New Leader...
...Navy Department officials are now at work on a program of government and private shipyard expansion to build new-warships — the U.S...
...A report filed by government investigators adds still more vivid details of the life in northern Minnesota hovels: called lumber camps...
...She defeated the avowedly Fascist Congressman Thorkelson by 1,000 votes, polling 6,870 to the anti-Semitic's 5,868...
...I venture the assertion that Hitler would have had much harder going had not the ghost of Collective Security charmed Europe during the 1930's...
...We may then find that our 701 warships and 2,000,000 soldiers are inadequate—requiring a further outlay...
...Even if he is not a Fascist, every Brazilian politician will say to himself: "If I act in favor of Germany and it turns out that I have bet on the wrong horse, this nice, liberal U.S.A...
...As a result the professor comes to hate the regime which he serves...
...A bit frail by now, bat still of a strange charm for a naive crowd, still using: the old jests and telling the old tales...
...revolt against Machado, are dedans...
...The omission is quite characteristic of the whole book...
...The story of the Mooney-Billings case, of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is told with simplicity and objectivity...
...Thorkelson, Fascist, Loses Congress Seat BUTTE, Montana...
...No sanitary facilities were provided...
...The supporters of the ?bsW Grau San Martin, former president and one of the organizers of the A.B.C...
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