The News Reel
RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD
By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel f* less than a week after the Democratic National Contention had adjourned, the havoc President Roosevelt made ihere of his party and its chances was clear...
...The Baltic States have been "gleichgeschaltet...
...voted "right...
...For the Lettish sharpshooters, the proposed peace meant death to their hopes of independence for their country as originally promised by Lenin...
...It begins to look like F.D.R...
...are few .Russians in the ^Baltfc, States: only -seven per "cem4 jn Latvia' and „two-and-a-half per -cent in Lithuania...
...They increased their beet sugar production 200 per cent between 1931 and 1938...
...It was quite evident,, however, that these "non-aggression pacts" were not worth the paper they were written on and were merely the prelude to new and bolder aggression on the part of Soviet Russia...
...It will probably be edited by Travers Clement, with the capable assistance of our good friends Sidney Hertzberg, who uncensors everything, Sam Romer, who edited the Call before courageously leaving the U. S. to fight Franco, and our one-time mentor Sam Friedman...
...COME progress inside the Socialist Party can now be reported...
...A clause in the treaty of Versailles annulled the treaty of Brest-Litovsk...
...For the first timeS in American'political history we have a candidate for the presidency trying to stand on two platforms, his own and the convention's, the two being irreconcilable...
...I • Also, the j* must be wondering whether the President's reputation for political sagacity is not home-made and full of blow holes...
...Accordingly, after the fall of Paris, Moscow accused Lithuania on July 14 and Latvia and Estonia on July 16 of entering into a secret military alliance against Soviet Russia...
...The increase for Latvia was 150 and for Esto-nijj 250 per cent...
...These pacts solemnly declared that they "must in no way affect the sovereign rights of the contracting parties, in particular their political structure, their social and economic system, and their military measures...
...The average for the Esthonian workers in 1938 was 75 Esthonia crowns...
...I know beyond any doubt that there is no interest in his mind and heart except the best interest of labor...
...Then followed the "spontaneous" celebrations...
...Scotland Yard has learned that the Black Shirts have plans to release Sir Oswald Mosley from Brixton Prison immediately the bombing of London begins...
...They proclaim a "plebiscite...
...It no longer merely rushes in the bandit armies and takes possession...
...Georgia contains vast oil deposits to which Moscow was attracted in the manner of any capitalist government...
...For Lenin, the peace of Brest-Litovsk was a "breathing spell," necessitated by the military collapse of Russia...
...Julian Gorkin hesitatingly calls off the anti-Ally .campaign, and Loves tone himself feels more strongly pro-Ally than is generally known...
...By that sin fell, the angels...
...The three little countries became virtually self-sufficient in wheat...
...During their, period of independence, the Baltic States had made remarkable economic progress...
...Then take flax...
...Thus is the arrangement concluded between Moscow and Berlin finding tragic expression in the destruction of democracy in the Baltic States and Scandinavia...
...Thete...
...The Lettish warriors threatened to revolt against acceptance of the peace...
...The three countries are preponderantly agrarian, consisting in the overwhelming majority of small farmers...
...In 1937, mighty Soviet Russia exported 14,600 tons of butter, while the butter exports of the three Baltic States were 47,500 tons— three times as much...
...Soviet propagandists have made a great to do about the progress made in the USSR in the curtailment of mortality* the latest figures offered being 172 deaths for each 10,000 of population...
...Leo Huberman isn't feeling too secure, either...
...Those failing to vote—and in the way prescribed — were branded "enemies of the people...
...The statement issued by the State Department in Washington on Tuesday denouncing the "predatory" manner and "devious processes" resorted to by Soviet Russia in seizing domination of the Baltic States is fully justified by the facts...
...i- ' . • —5—jStalinism Shows The Way "Y0" maY 1,01 feel anv really burning, consuming enthusiasm ' "<* for the Soviet Union but you must hand it the laurel for one thieg, and that an achievement you would have said was impossible...
...He did not wish to be President again, says he, bat was irresistibly driven by his sense of duty...
...Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were freed, but as a consequence not of "world-revolution" but of the victory of Allied arms...
...Large numbers of alien agricultural workers, mostly Poles, have had to be imported each year to help gather the harvest • Immediately after the last war, the Baltic States had put into effect a comprehensive land reform by breaking up the old, archaic Russian communal system, the estates of the German barons . and of the absentee Russian and Polish landlords, and distributing the land to the peasants...
...1U|0E FINKELSTEIN apparently has turned from bib-carrying for Professor Boas to running the stooge New York Conference for Inalienable Rights...
...By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel f* less than a week after the Democratic National Contention had adjourned, the havoc President Roosevelt made ihere of his party and its chances was clear enough, but it never*was disposed "why he was moved to such strange errors on such pivotal ( occasions...
...He Stands on Two Platforms ALL of which is enough, but does not mention the spec-jff...
...trammeled choice, proving that there's nothing mean about the Soviet...
...The only possible, explanation is that he needed such a speech in his business at home...
...COONER or later the close collaboration between the Socialist ^ Party and the Lovestonites will break off...
...there was an evident turning to ¦ Willkie, not, alone by Democrats that cannot stomach theij third term iniquity but by masses of independent voters heretofore admirers of the President and now needlessly and gratuitously alienated...
...Hemorrhages in Coyoacan are probably not going at a premium...
...The first attempt to destroy the independence of the Baltic States occurred as early as January, 1922, when Moscow staged an abortive Communist putsch in that country...
...Unfortunately, the total effect of the Call's policy will be the weakening of pro-British sentiment in this country...
...No person is to leave his or her home until official evacuation orders come through from London...
...What Of it...
...How to Fight a Nazi LONDON...
...Georgia was overwhelmed by Soviet troops very much in the manner in which Stalin attacked Finland and has now wrecked the liberty and independence of the Baltic States: by setting up fictitious governments with the aid of the Red Army and by brutal political assault...
...Under threat of force and violence, Sweden is being compelled to yield to Hitler's demands for surrender...
...At a closed session of its N.E.C...
...I shall not only remain as a devoted personal friend throughout my life but as a loyal friend to his leadership of the QJJO...
...And good old "Authoritative Source" comments that along these ,:,-$nes.japan be expected to move without warning, and when-3**she is ready to walk inland grab...
...People are not so dumb as to fall for such obvious histrionics: The next blunder was in affording to the country a superfluous and most untimely illustration of the dictatorial mind at a moment when he was certain to be attacked as an in-\ cipient Fuehrer...
...No, the Soviet way has distinction, it has.elegance, it has.polish...
...the Dunne Brothers, are urging the * nomination of Daniel Tobin for the presidency of these United States...
...From Centralis to Herbert Biberman in Lo...
...I have known John L. Lewis personally for thirty-five years...
...T% UMBLINGS over Brooklyn these days, our Kings County bureau informs, are being caused by the rapid turnover of PM's staff...
...3. "Keep watch...
...Any one of the guild could have given the President better advice...
...So a citizen of Lithuania, asthenia or Latvia had a free and un...
...WAN BITTNER, regional director of the S.W.O.C., drope us a • ™ note we think should be printed...
...They order 1) the civilian population to "stay put...
...If Germany wins, Americans may shortly be instructed in similar manner...
...Referring to our comment on his support of President Roosevelt, he says: " May I say to you that I have joined no bloc against John L. Lewis...
...will replace Board Chairman Warren Madden with the war-orphaned John G. Winant...
...6. In factories and shops all managers and workmen should organize some system now by which a sudden attack, can be resisted...
...It has developed a new technique in imperialism...
...To complete ,the rape, there is already being put into effect a program of forcible "socialization" and "collectivization" which will reduce the Baltic peoples to the same level of misery to which the peoples of Russia have been degraded under the Soviet regime...
...tacular wreck the President made of the convention's platform...
...Their general economic development in the past twenty years has been along the line of state capitalism, based upon state credits, agricultural cooperatives, industrial syndicates and state bonuses, holding corporations and monopolies...
...And the comrades no like . . . Madden went along but Winant won't...
...When Soviet troops moved into Poland, Moscow's cry was that the Russians were marching to "liberate" tijeir "blood brothers," the White Russians and Ukrainians...
...peace fronts—their sign-painters are prolific—but each follow the same pattern in every city...
...It was through his genius it hoe obtained the most remarkable results of any labor organization in the world...
...Between 1925 and 1938, Lithuania increased her wheat production eighty per cent...
...that crude, mediaeval practice is good enough for backward countries like Jipan, Italy and Germany...
...Watch the party periphery begin to whoop it up for friend Madden . . . the fellow traveling National Lawyers Guild has already sounded off...
...They carried some sort of automatic rifle or gun...
...had his own line of strategy and at no time did he ever question the rights of any officer of the CJ.O...
...The three little Baltic States 'had also accomplished a great deal in the past twenty years in the developments of reads and railroads, power s t a t i an s and merchant shipping...
...The Lettish sharpshooters yielded and accepted what Lenin himself termed the "shameful" peace...
...In Estonia the number is 26,000...
...It was only a question of time, of the schedule agreed upon last August between Stalin and Hitler...
...The Baltic States constitute a rich .food supply for Russia and Germany, in addition to having other economic attractions...
...There were parliamentary "elections" in which only pro-Commu-nist tickets were permitted...
...In Lithuania it is not much more...
...Bullitt of the State -Department is out with the usual assurance that this isn't Fascism and-Petain is perfectly grand...
...Instead, they proclaim a plebiscite—yes...
...You will find them confirmed in the Year Book of Agricultural International Statistics and the Statistical Year Book of the League of Nations and International Trade Statistics, also a League publication, and presented in a recent article by the ^ distinguished Socialist economist Yurievsky...
...Sixty-four per cent of Estonians...
...but much chagrined, politician these post-primary days...
...PHE National Defense Commission will shortly reveal plans to * convert the National Labor Relations Board and its 22 regional offices into a War Labor Board—if the emergency (we mean war) necessitates such action...
...Into such messes do we step when we try to compromise the monarchist : with the democratic theory, or dance after the pied- piper of an extravagant personal ambition...
...Mike Quin has warned the brethren to prepare for a change in slogan...
...In the production of dairy products, particularly butter, they achieved a position in the world market second only to Denmark...
...2. The people are urged not to believe rumors—and not to spread them...
...The blow-off comes in Chicago on August 31, when the "People's Peace Federation will be host...
...90 per cent voted as Stalin dictated...
...all run by key men in the National Maritime Union, the Transport Workers and the Social Service Workers . . . net to mention my own discredited union . . . the American Newspaper Guild...
...This is intended to keep the roads clear of refugee autos, carts, bicycles and the other conveyances typical of fleeing civilians, which caused havoc to French transportation last May...
...Cooper's Ministry of Information.' These instructions are considered as important as those given to the armed forces...
...He is *^ calling a conference which will meet in Chicago or Washington sometime in August to set up a rival national unemployed organization...
...Behind this program of Tartar "Socialism" now being imposed upon the Baltic peoples is nothing more than old-fashioned, brutal economic robbery and imperialism...
...And they're going to have a conference...
...Control of these exports will net Soviet;Russia more than 200,000,000...
...This cry cannot apply to the Baltic States...
...Yes, as the Communists say,.,, this is an, "imperialist" war...
...The Baltic states became free and independent, and the Soviet government solemnly recognized their independence...
...Score One for The Column | j CIX -months ago, the Venerable Shepherd of this little flock ven-tured to remark in this column that President -Roosevelt was manifestly playing for a re-nomination, that his pursed-lip silence about the matter was only a ^device to keep the runway clear of competitors, and that if he succeeded in his ambition he would split his party wide open, divert to an extraneous and unprofitable issue a campaign that ought, to deal solely with the country's desperate economics and end- in shattering the President's fair reputation...
...Do not tell him anything...
...Fine...
...In the whole of Latvia there are only some 50,000 industrial workers...
...J • » » ,1 IKE cockroaches heading for under the table garbage the morning' after last night's refugee relief penthouse party, hundreds of phoney peace groups, committees...
...It was because this policy suited the aspiration of the Lettish people— and of all Baltic peoples—that the Lettish sharpshooters supported the Bolshevik revolt against the Provisional government...
...And whom and what does he represent when he goes abroad...
...When Vargas overthrew the constituted government of Brazil .and made himself dictator, closely patterning Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, Mr...
...Later, it will be recalled, Soviet Russia seized Mongolia, in exactly the same manner in which Japan occupied Manchuria, and has been ruling that country through a puppet government of Moscow's creation...
...gold roubles annually...
...The typieal holdings are between five and fifty hectares...
...i--:' - j '_ ''ops Have an IjMovaf/on, Too...
...And when that day came, said Lenin, Latvia, like the other Baltic states, would be free and independent...
...Although the three peoples axe intensely democratic —having played a leading part-in the rev* olutionary movement for the overthrow of the Czar is t regime when they -«rere within the confines of the ^Russian Empire—in recent years they had fallen under modified totalitarian governments as a consequence of the impacts exerted from Moscow and Berlin...
...We could name scores of C?P...
...I j .. -,( The result was that the hand-picked convention adjourned .without a cheer, the Democratic .campaign started heavily handicapped and...
...4. "Do not give any German anything...
...ngeles, to Brooklyn's Pitkin Ave., the streets will soon crawl with typical May Day crowds doing the peace demonstration...
...These few figures speak volumes...
...When you receive an order, make quite sure that it is a true, order and not faked," reads the-pamphlet.-"Most of yon-know your policemen and your A.RJ\ wardens by sight, you can trust them...
...Industrial workers are very few...
...The Esthonian 88 kilograms...
...Which reminds us of the wag at the Astor bar the other night...
...She overheard us saying that a fool and his money are soon party-lining . . . and retorted that "Riesel is always talking of PM...
...Under the mask of "Soviet democracy," old-fashioned Russian imperialism, practiced by Stalin to a degree eclipsing anything that has gone before in the the hard-working, highly-cultured blood-stained history of Russia, and profoundly democratic peoples of the- three little Baltic States have been robbed of their freedom and independence...
...At that time, Moscow discovered that the three small countries, with a total population of 6,000,000, constituted a danger to the security of Soviet Russia, and compelled them, in October, 1939, to sign a series of "non-aggression" pacts, under which Soviet Russia obtained naval and military bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
...1 And the people are supplied with nicely printed ballots...
...The new puppet governments and "parliaments" voted meekly to end the independence of their countries and to join the U.S.S.R...
...Hugh Gibson of he State Department was good enough to assure us that this again was all right and not at all Fascism...
...Jerry O'Convel?, former transmission belt Congressman, fear of whom forced Wheeler to dig up the anti-Semitic Thorkeiotm...
...Neither in Georgia, Mongolia nor in the Baltic States has there ever been any mass Communist movement...
...70 per cent of Latvians and 75 per cent of Lithuafuan^ are small peasant proprietors...
...I did not see anything like artillery...
...In 1937, for example, Soviet Russia exported 5,102,000 tons of lumber in various forms...
...The Estonian—681...
...headquarters...
...And now, under pressure of Soviet bayonets, the Baltic states have again been stripped of their independence and transformed into satrapies of Joseph Stalin...
...Soviet troops saw to it that the people...
...As regards lumber, we find that Soviet Russia possesses 200 times as much forest land as the three Baltic States combined...
...In character and culture, the Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians are far removed from the Russians, being much closer to the Finns and -Scandinavian...
...They are in grey uniforms...
...Under the policy proclaimed by Lenin, the various nationalities inhabiting the Czarist empire had the right to self-determination, "not excluding complete independence...
...Mighty'Soviet Russia had only 1,281,000 tons of shipping in 1938, .as compared with 371,000 for Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
...Each voter was required to bring a passport to the voting place to be stamped as proof that he had cast his ballot...
...And so John Lewis' "peace" became so much dearer to the Senator...
...The world revolution proved an illusion, however...
...Wheeler ins worried when he learned that Jimmie Graham's Montana State Federation of Labor would not wofrt...
...By seizing .the Baltic States Soviet Russia will increase her tonnage by about onothird...
...Doric simpicity...
...They . forget to add that the imperial- . ism is one-sided—on the side of 1 Soviet Russia and Hitler Germany...
...While we are investigating nuisances, pests aad national perils, there's a noble opportunity opening up to|investigate the Career Man...
...The first, of course, was his /most unhappy speech of ac-, ;j«ptance in which, having made (certain to air men that he had Jong yearned for a re-nomination, maneuvered for it, nad elbowed "all other contestants from the track that be might-have it cinched for himself, he undertook to play the Suffering Martyr for the g*ke of Duty...
...When Franco with American and .British help bad over-.thrown the constituted govej-niment of Spain and made himself dictator after the pattern of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Vargas, ^Mr...
...By seizing control of the Baltic States, Moscow obtains a monopoly on world flax exports...
...To talk, as does Moscow now, of "dividing the land among the peasants" (preparatory to their enslavement in collectives) is pure travesty...
...If you keep your heads, you can also tell whether a military officer is really British or only pretending to be so...
...We hastened to assure the lovely creature that we had the magazine "Friday" in mind this time...
...His sudden love for "peace" has been much dampened..by ' an energetic double-crossing at the hands of John Lewis' Labor's Non-Partisan League...
...The 6,000,000 people of the "Baltic States were secretly conspiring to attack Russia's 160,000,000...
...These . Baltic peasants are intensely individualistic, passionately devoted to the land and eager for cooperation—provided it is voluntary, not forcible...
...In .a way without precedent for arbitrary and autocratic assumption, he held up the convention and the country Until he knew that his orders about the Vice-Presidency bad been carried} oat...
...brotherly love into anti-aircraft batteries as the black wing dive bombers begin tearing the guts out of British women and children—not to mention the only free labor movement left abroad...
...This means that with his average monthly wage the Soviet worker can buy 254 kilograms of bread as compared with 375 for the Esthonian...
...Stalin's rape of the Baltic States is not a new development in Soviet policy...
...He could vote for annexation to Russia or he could "Wote for annexation to Russia...
...While professing to believe in the autonomy and even independence of nationalities inhabiting Soviet Russia or formerly part of the Russian Empire, the Soviet "regime had from the beginning imposed a draconic centralism upon the peoples of Russia...
...It was in the brain and heart of John L. Lewis that the CJ.O...
...This is more than the USSR received for its .entire wheat exports in 1937 and one and one-half -times 'the value of its oil-product exports...
...It was all done in a "democratic" way, in the best manner of the totalitarian regimes...
...Should the German people j?row weary of the hell on earth into which he is about to lead them he can always tell them he tried to make peace but Germany's implacable foes thirsted for her heart'8 blood...
...and forums are crawling out of as many boles in the wall at...
...These are the seven rules for British civilians...
...As on other occasions in recent months, gullible journalists continue to speak of a coming clash ¦between Hitler and Stalin, refusing stubbornly to perceive the diabolical pre-arrangement between the two...
...This development may wo« add luminously to the glories of ^iomocracy, but at least it clears away and refutes an ancient '*c&ndaL It is evidently not true that St?lin has no sense of humor...
...Within a democratic framework this system would have lead, naturally, to genuine socialism...
...p*ain dealing with plain facts Upon I "Wring office the new Japanae Foreign Minister announces that of ,; wnr&e Japan is launched upon a policy of expansion What of it Of course, she expects to share the domination of the world with Germany and Italy...
...The people continued to- struggle far the restoration of democracy, which had made greatest progress in Estonia...
...Yet these three little countries had * been exporting a very considerable amount of lumber as measured with Russia's exports...
...v - And so the good Senator fountl that professional "peace" was not so wonderful...
...to support President Roosevelt...
...The seizure of the Baltic production of butter will net the Soviet Government 100,000,000 gold rubles annually...
...Once more the world is witnessing a demonstration of the cy-nisism and hypocrisy which have guided the Soviet Government from the beginning in the matter of the rights of nationalities...
...It was the story of Finland all over again...
...Bat this love ef international tranquility failed to interest too . the Montana section of John L.'s Labor League . . . whien proceeded through some: of its Stalinite commissars to charter the Montana Progressive Council...
...More than one old-time political reporter must be wondering today,how on earth all this came about...
...For Nome Consumption...
...Jt/IIDWEST Trotsky i tes...
...rJftUT if the Russians have k new gadget in imperialism, the Hf Japanese must be admitted to have introduced a wholly novel •expedient in diplomacy...
...Under the arrangement, Stalin has grabbed the Baltic States and is preparing to annihilate completely the independence of Finland, while Germany, having seized Denmark and Norway, is now proceeding to coordinate these countries, together with Sweden, into the German political and economic sphere of influence...
...Let no man make any mistake, that Van A. Bittner and Philip Murray know John L. Lewis and we will always be his friends...
...The average wage of the Soviet workers is approximately 260 rubles per month...
...IF Herr Hitler has a percentage of the intelligence his adulators and press agents say he has, he must have known perfectly well that the only effect of his "Peace Speech" upon his enemies would be to cause them ,to clench paws and make them harder boiled to resist him...
...Nice spot for friend Nathan Witt and Ed Smith to be in...
...If German forces come to England they'll find that government has prepared every living soul — in some way — for the invasion...
...And now that the French Fascists have destroyed the Republic and made Petain dictator after the pattern of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Vargas and Franco, Mr...
...Malm's Baltic Grab Three States Seized by Russia Feed Maw of Soviet Imperialism By MALCOLM HASTINGS In February, 1918, the writer of'these lines heard Lenin address a meeting of some 2,000 Lettish sharpshooters in Petrograd on a question vitally affecting the fate of their little country, Latvia...
...The Russian worker can buy 35 kilograms of meat...
...so this is to serve notice to people around town 'that the July 29 meeting at Town Hall, dedicated to "enerising traditional American democracy...
...they don't.even bother to change the address) has invited the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Jewish War Veterans to participate...
...The Tanks Aren't Coining" being outmoded by the rapid herrassfncnt of Joe Stalin...
...If it goes o4, a diplomat will not have to be any :~*»e of a liar than an ordinary man...
...Watch for them...
...Np more camouflage, no more press 1 «genting about the horrible iBelgians or the fierce, oppressive , <Whs...
...In 1938, the figure for Esthonia was 145 for each 10,000 of population and only 126 in poor little Lithuania...
...no other ballots being received...
...We cite them to prove the nakedly brazen imperialist motives which guided Moscow in grabbing the three Baltic States...
...was conceived...
...Hov# does he get that way...
...The Russian worker can buy 212 litres of milk...
...Hide your food . . . your bicycles . . . maps, if you have a car put it out of action . . . hide your petrol . . ." 5. "Never block a road unless you are t(jld which you must block...
...For this reason it became necessary for Lenin to address them...
...We can just see Morrison loading a pile of S.P...
...f SUGGEST some instruction or common agreement among the ** grand young "career men" -of the State Department as to what 'they mean by Fascism and a; Fascist government...
...Although Soviet Russia produces 65 per cent of the world's flax output, Soviet flax exports are not much greater than those of the Baltic States...
...In 1937, for example, Soviet Russia exported 33,500 tons of flax, while Esthonia, Lithuania and Latvia exported 31,200 tons...
...Since Wheeler and O'ConneU .are bitter enemies, the Montana Progressive Council opposed Whetirr in the primaries and helped Jerry to win the Democratic nomination for Congress...
...He assured them that the peace he proposed tr> sign with Kaiser Wilhelm—it was signed on March 3, 1918—would be only temporary, that the day was not far distant when the German workers would rise in revolt, when the "world revolution" . would nullify whatever arrangements it was necessary to make with Berlin to save the Soviet regime...
...On a certain Sunday...
...Before independence, they had produced no wheat, they became successful wheat-producing countries...
...I TNLESS the British censor kills the story, American papers ^ will soon reveal that in secret hide-outs, at some fifty points in London, fascists are building an organization in readiness for the invasion...
...i' • Y"y-'R not so progressive friend Senator Wheeler is a much re-^ lie ved...
...Then you can help by felling trees, wiring them together or blocking the road with cars...
...It is diverting but it is too T^VoUdionary...
...became the Council's' chief...
...There is no landless agricultural proletariat in the Baltic States...
...by'the comrades...
...To speak of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in the Baltic States wpuld be sheer nonsense...
...It was a great victory for Stalin, for "Socialism" and "proletarian democracy...
...And think.of what, tongues «*" come out oj what cheeks at future international conferences...
...If you see, anything suspicious note it caretri??y and go at once to .the nearest police officer or station, or to the nearest military officer...
...Moscow compelled the three states to establish pro-Soviet governments and Russian troops were moved in large numbers into these states, — The-rest followed quickly and the tragedy was concluded this .week by the incorporation .of the ¦three countries into Stalin's empire...
...Moscowjs rape of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania is part of the deal with Berlin concluded in the Stalin-Hitler pact of August 23, 1939 — the pact which unleashed the catastrophe of the Second World War...
...The full story of the arrests, exile and executions of the genuine leaders of the Baltic peoples remains to be told...
...Sumner Welles: of the State Department assured us that this was all right, was not Fascism and Vargas was just grand...
...Lenin's address to the Lettish sharpshooters mentioned above had to do with his efforts to prevail upon his party to accept the peace of Brest-Litovsk, which Kaiser Germany at that moment was seeking to impose upon Soviet Russia...
...What about the economic interests of the) workers of-the Baltic States as they are likely to be affected by the Soviet invasion...
...sir, a plebiscite, and speaking of ?•"-.democracyr what do you know about that...
...The troops go in, of course, but they don't at first proceed to bat the daylight out of the annexed populations...
...We hear that some 35 persons have been fired , . . with Friend David Ramsey heading the exodus...
...The tragedy of the three little states began with the conquest of Poland by Hitler, assisted by Stalin...
...All in favor of immediate annextion to the Soviet Union...
...X\AVID LAiSSER will try to buck the Workers Alliance...
...In the Bolshevik coup d'?tat of November 7, 1918, they played a decisive role, being,-the backbone, together with theKronstadt sailors (whom Trotsky massacred some fhree and a half years later for demanding liberty and honest Soviets) of the Bolshevik uprising...
...In 1921, under Lenin and Trotsky, Soviet troops invaded the Socialist Republic of Georgia, destroyed its independence and imposed upon it the Bolshevik system of terror and violence...
...More than 20,000,- . 000 pamphlets telling the civil population what to do if the Germans attempt to invade the isles, have been distributed *by Duff...
...Nearly anybody can vote...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL One of our typewriting fingen is aera de combat, «e forgive our inability to point accusingly this week . . . but finger or net, our seme of rumor still is keen . . . to here's the keyhole news of,the week...
...From which one may surmise that the Hitlerian hypnotism is all of'success compounded and if it gets a wallop out goes the chief prestidigitator through the alley door...
...Under that peace treaty, Latvia, as well as the other Baltic states—Estonia and Lithuania—were to become parts of the German sphere of influence...
...The Baltic flax competed successfully with Soviet flax in the world' markets, thus causing considerable annoyance to Moscow...
...It was only a question of time before democracy in all three states would have been restored...
...j I • Ordinarily, old V. S. (which stands equally for Virtuous Sage) doesn't go much on J this prophecy business, but such are the weaknesses of our human nature that now and then he admits a bull's eye...
...In accordance with this pact, Stalin and Hitler are dividing the Northern countries between themselves...
...Inevitably it was ,a performance to throw the chill of fear into even the most fervent admirer...
...L . The Lettish sharpshooters were part of the Russian army under the Czarisl Teg$me...
...Your report should read something like "At 5:30 tonight I saw twenty cyclists come into Little Squashborough from the direction of Great Mudtown...
...Sascha Zimmerman has resigned from the Keep America Out of War Congress...
...a sort of road work training for the semi-final peace boat at Randall's Island en August 4. ¦ Out City College friend Waiter Neff, secretary of the Emergency Peace Mobilization Committee of Greater New York *f 381 Fourth Ave...
...In the same year, Esthonia, -Lithuania and Latvia exported 2,430,000 tons or 47 per cent of the Soviet lumber export...
...What Is ¦ Fascism...
...But they're really perturbed...
...is more interested in cherishing'traditional Soviet frontism...
...7. "Think before you act, but think always of your country before you think of yourself...
...Reverend Thomas L. Karris, former secretary of the League for Peace and Democracy, has been, resurrected for this «orkjand js.gettipg a typical build-up...
...the other day, a resolution was adopted offering English workers the party's "sympathy...
...President Lewis of the CJ.O...
...Dear Lillian Symes will probably have another columnar spasm, but we would like to record that our prediction thai the Call would be taken from Gerry Aliare?s editorship and brought to New York is about to be verified...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 30
