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...Chiefly to the ¦active aid of England-and the United States, Butcher Franco of Spain owes his dictatorship and his success in overthrowing the constituted government of his country...

...Otic -of <¦ thv - most interesting documents is a letter signed by the "Duce," Baldi, who gives orders to the whole Fascist bunch in Mexico to "be prepared" for the 7th of July, which means that the Fascists were planning a coup on election day...

...then it exploited Guernica and Badajoz...

...When you said that the (British Empire became too rich, you had, of course, merely its rich families in mind, it is no news to you, I hope, that three of the European continent's five richest families were, and still'are, Germans: the Henkell von Donnersmarcks, the Krupps and, believe it or not, the Hohen-zollerns...

...Lewis will be happy to learn that his third party colleague Dr...

...Colonel Lindbergh's special mentor and host in Washington is Major Truman Smith, formerly a military attache at the U.S...

...Before he makes another experiment along that line he should consult M. Molotoff and get fresh pointers...

...Stimson and Colonel Kiox, the critical bombing only increased in fury, and Woodring started his caustic cracks...

...You could not have had in mind this phenomenon of our world's common, social injustice in dividing a nation's wealth, when you gave your Chinese explanation for Europe's war...

...But their pictures of ladies in bathing-suits remain unrivaled...

...Since you could not think of Hungary, it is obviously Germany you had in mind when you used the rather exaggerated term "Central Europe"— poor, too poor Germany...

...Roosevelt's White House guest during the American Youth CongresR siege of Washington-!—is in charge of all arrangements...

...Peace, or a Nazi soldier would drill them full of holesJ ! Of course, this arrangement would mean that we should have to give up some ancient fantasies of ours about a free press and assembly and elections and speech and contracts and things of that kind, but there would be peace—lovely peace...

...PUT Hollywood today has a new degeneration of stars . . . turn-™ ing from the CAUSE to other fads...

...or Cagney and the crude commissioner Lionel Stander bellowing class-conscious phraseology all over the lobby Of the Film arte every time a Russian film came through...

...I do not see how anybody could escape this consequence...

...That something would happen was blazoned even on the skies of Europe by mounting thousands of fighting aircraft...

...If any of these birds should display the least originality, he would be shooed from his perch...

...There is a proverb in China which says that 'when the rich become too rich and the poor too poor, something happens.' When I saw the wealth of the British Empire I felt that the rich had become too rich...

...1 Our, rather overheated anti-British friends over at...

...Being a student of European affairs, you certainly remember the figure Herr Hitler gave a few months ago as the costs of Germany's rearmament: during four years, said Hitler, Germany spent about 100 billion marks—40 billion dollars—for arms...

...COME of London's most important and reliable newspaper-men, associated with the London Economist, will bet their next paycheck Chat Maurice Thorez...

...It is made to the nation by a member of Congress who seems to have dugt up the facts from official sources and with his own research...

...That it was the ^niet method by which two thousand years ago...

...So what did you really mean when you spoke about Germany's unbearable poverty ? Perhaps jou meant Germany's annual national income...

...He who accepts the alleged difference in -national wealth between the British Empire and Germany as any justification for Germany's attack on England cannot help but justify, in advance, any Central and South American drive against the U.S.A...

...I challenge you, dear Colonel, to prove me wrong in a single instance...

...4,500 Italian Agents Work With Gestapo Inside Mexico By JOSE GONZALEZ MEXICO CITY.—Public attention here has been recently focused on Fascist activities, as a result of the publication by the paper "El Popular" of numerous documents which prove beyond any doubt the existence of an Italian Fifth Column in Mexico...

...We Promise, fo Change j Tie Style Sheet M f|NE of my esteemed correspondents this week rebukes me for M a headline that appeared over one of my paragraphs a few -»eeks ago...

...I Every fifth column lieutenant in the United States njust be looking our country over, laughing gleefully at a government which permits active cooperation within its borders wjith its inevitable future enemies—or why are we spending 20 j billion dollars for defense...

...He now announces that he will lead the assault upon ^Gibraltar with the purpose to drive England from the possession that in some ways is most precious to it...

...Lindbergh's Soldiers' Field audience, bj/ the wa/y, wah the typical Coughlinite, anti-Semitic crowd so familiar to j New Yorkers...

...We get the whole breath-taking savor of M. Molotoff's pronouncement only when we stop to realize that it comes from a government that has just achieved the imperialist rape of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Bessarabia and has within a year gobbled the best part of Poland and virtually annexed Finland, g ! Historically, Satan is believed to have once undertaken to rebuke sin...

...Of course, the pro-Fascist and reactionary papers in Mexico publish Italian material...

...The specimen I now exhibit,1 ladies and gentlemen, is affectionately known through the Department as Ambassador Bullitt and is quite a pet...

...h * * * f\l R perpetually annoyed friend John T. Fli/nii—who ha si made quite a profit out nf opposition to the Sew Peal—rail now rest easy...

...UR colleague Roy Tozier, the most effective anti-Fifth Column investigator this side of the Pacific, recently suggested that we hear things on the right as well as the left...

...Probably, in one way, hi is correct...

...Let us rejoice that we can at all times lose ourselves in the contemplation of the mystic phenomena of the Communist psychology...

...WLRB CHAIRMAN MADDEN will not be re-appointed, we learn, * ' and Tovarisch Secretary Nathan Witt has begun pack it g the board's apparatus with men not exactly hostile to the Party line...

...Arthur is now being investigated by tke Los Angeles police and the F.B.I, for his^fhare in promoting the Red reign of terror in the movie colony during 1936-37...

...He saved Czechoi-Slovakia, Austria and Germany from the Reds...

...is how in Berlin participating in anti-British aati-Amoricaa propaganda...

...To such a degree of cleverness has its training reached that it will repeat .nearly anything that it is taught to repeat...

...Then, of course, after Germany began her troublesome adventures and the whole world's economy began to tremble, Germany, too, had to suffer...

...Behold...

...I j And Hitler's side partner and ally, Stalin, did he save Russia from the Reds...

...Atta boy.O gallant Colonel...

...what I am concerned with is a matter-of-fact judgment...

...But as in all other respects, Nazism itself is the sickness from which it pretends to cure Germany...

...My objections have nothing to do with the type of foreign policy you advocate for America...

...IT'S time to report that dowpite all talk of anti-fifth do!umi% activity, the Communist Party is more successfully building its fronts today than it was during the popular front period...

...All control of the demonstration is in capable Stalinite hands,' for Abbott Simon—dear, dear Mrs...

...As a matter of fact, as long as Germany did not start her policy of "autarchy," she had to pay for each and every raw material on the world market not a penny more than the British Empire, which owned the territories producing the raw materials...

...Observe, if you please,-the fnteresting absence of originality in this comment...

...Of course, the answer is that there are no more reporters...

...Observe with what grace, what certainty, what chilled steel impudence it frees itself from fact, assumes the imaginary to be the real and reverses the ordinary processes of reason...

...State Councils—we think of them as local Communist Parti headquarters—have endorsed the Soviet occupation of the Chicago Stadium, as have the N.M.U., the International Woodworkers, the Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee, the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, the Fur and Leather Workers, ind my own totalitarian union, the American Newspaper Guild...

...Italian officials such as Mastretta, Baldi, Puppo and others, often parade through the streets of the town while the population salutes them, Fascist style...

...Some of the lads recalled Cagney walking into the vegetarian restaurant, at the corner of Holly wood Blvd...

...the totalitarian Some pulled down the Roman republic reveals an almost Startling lack of originality andij ingenuity in the Mark Anthonys a Bris day...

...First of all, permit me to ask you which parts of Central Europe you had in mind...

...By WCTOft tUBSEL l_IAVING heard that Sally Rime has tamed her special baboon * * invention over to the Advisory Commission on National Defense, we wandered—in sheer patriotism—over to the Park Central the other night to watch her perform...

...At the same time his controlled press overruns with venomous attacks upon the United States, as the vilest of the vile...

...What did Hitler do...

...Smith was in military intelligence and during his stay in Germany made intimate contact with many who are now important Nazis...

...Secretary Edison was to create the impression of a bi-partisan administration and spike the guns of^Republican criticism...

...Bat-'We 9tiH -must -examine how much truth is in your statement concerning Germany...

...Nothing is easier...

...Maybe you meant the famous raw material troubles about which Hitler always complains...

...Here, for a notable example, is M. Molotoff, Foreign Affairs Minister of tie Soviet He gravely professes to Bee in the alliance of the American republics against Fascism the depraved, reckless, limitless "imperialism" of the United States, against which he warns the rest of the world and applies the seal of Russia's condemnation...

...Thus you wanted apparently to make America aware of the fact that poor nations, contrary to poor individuals, should not be prevented from re-distributing wealth by force...

...Butcher Franco Displays Ingratitude ."••§] -117HATEVER else may be in the mind dictatorial we know not, ?" but assuredly gratitude has no place there...

...A prominent Fascist named Et-tore Bresso acts as liaison officer between the propaganda chief of the Fascio, Riccardi, and the German propaganda bureau...

...had begun to lose its color...

...By the way—would you recognize Mexico's and other South American nations' right to war on the United States...

...This is particularly ungracious in the Butcher, since at the height of his success he declared with 1 raptured speech that never, never would he forget the help we had given him...

...He saved Italy from the Reds...

...Which probably doesn't disturb our busty-eyed labor hero...

...Fantastic though it may sound, it is now amply clear that sojme of our more important Senators are knowingly cooperating wifch the "peace mobilization" ordered in this country by the Soviet Union...

...been happily disposed of...

...The . Ambassador's song about Petain is, of course, the song sung in similar precincts by other specimens of this genius...

...on the .contrary, these two nations loved their poor man's way of life so much that they fought to the last minute of their independence against their tough neighbor's plan to include them into his bold scheme of attack against the Western World...

...And right smack on the front page, too, the fl'orfc-ville Beobachter says . . . "the author supplies honest answers on thos% subjects to anyone who wants information about ihe New Deal...

...In addition, the Socialist Party—the New York local of which this week expelled Jack Altman from its Central Committee for anti-Nazi expressions —should be rather perturbed to learn that Norman Thomas' running mate in 1936, George Nelson, is also supporting the Communist "peace" front...

...Austria and Czechoslovakia, on the other hand, were certainly not nations of millionaires, but went well along nonetheless for almost twenty years and had definitely not the slightest desire to wage war on the British Empire...

...What dklPetain do...

...the Socialist's Writers anti-War Bureau are having their political delerium tremens over Harry Elmer Barnes' support of...

...Ifct The California, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Washington...

...French ComaMuust Uadet...

...Inasmuch as the newspapers quote you correctly, you told your public in Chicago: "It has seemed obvious to me for many years that conditions in Europe would have to change, either by agreement or by war...

...Now that Charley Harrison has exposed Curran's missing link to the Communist Party, the Pilot, know ing that the National Maritime L'nion rank-and-file is non-Jewish, smears The New Leader columnist in typical "Schmelka Ginsberg' 'stjyle...

...During the same year, "rich" France had a national income of about 450 billion francs (then 12 billion dollars), which makes a per capita income of about 11,000 francs or 290 dollars...

...Really, I wonder what you had in mind...

...That adventure of ours in championship of a despotisms—what connection had it with aspirations for the Third Term...

...Who am I to persist in enjw once it has been brought home to me...

...Even before Hitler came into power there were in Germany, of course, many, many, many poor men...

...With W. Colfax Miller of the C.P.'s Lincoln Brigade, Irving Reis, Biberman, Jons Ivens (notorious Dutch Communist Party propaganda agent) Orniz commissared the Hollywood]Film Guild, an affiliate of the Stalinoid Association of Documentary Film Producers...

...And no more newspapers—except as salesman—trick sheets...

...The maneuver won to no such results...

...He, being human, could hardly be otherwise than resentful, in view of the perfectly cold-blooded way he was thrown out of the bolt to further the President's personal ambitions...

...To most Mexicans the reality and threatening work of the Italian fifth column has been a shock, as public opinion was only aware of the Nazi undermining here...

...When you, dear Colonel, and this writer were for the last time in Europe, five independent states belonged to the central part of that continent: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland...

...When an August 31 the Chicago Stadium is filled with (30,000 placard-bearing Communists, they will he addressed by Senator Gerald P. Nye and Senator D. Worth Clark...

...If the methods of B.C...

...At this, the impartial investigator is confronted with a most unedifying but unavoidable question...

...Commissar Herbert Biberman, who once earned almost as much as his movie stajrs by directing the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, now is being investigated for activities strangely pro-Nazi...

...1940, think what grist this is to the mill of the advo-eate of the simian theory of mankind...

...Lindbergh Is Practical TTHE various* worthy Keep-America-Out-of-War societies and * committees have been accused of being but a noise and lacking any practical suggestion of a way by which a democratic state can be made to survive in a totalitarian world...

...by Colonel Lindbergh...

...We ran into some of the boys who abashedly turn out what is known to the trade as Class B firms...

...UfHENEVER our leading Stalinites are in a spot, they puftl out • their rather shopworn anti-Semitism as a cover all...

...The members of the Fascist Party here devote themselves not only to such innocent pastimes as goose-stepping and shouting their typical "Eia, Eia, Alala," but to more objectionable activities as Fascist propaganda, anti-democratic and especially anti-United States agitation, military training, espionage under control of Nazi agents, and interfering with Mexican interior problems...

...I am not an expert—a type of man, you do not like, I am told— but I do know a few things about Central Europe...

...Sure enougnT"the talk turned to the hysteria which has hit the Hollywood Stalinoid center...

...What did Franco do...

...More and more I am impressed with the fact that in all the great world of nature there is nothing like this...

...The rightist weekly "Todo" has been proved to receive materia] from the Italian Legation, which it publishes, provided the Italians buy copies, which arc then distributed throughout the country...

...ousted !Com«-rounist Mike Quill, he ran independently for the City Council in the Bronx, appealing for the Coughlinite vote through political advertisements in Irish papers which declared that his expiilsion was really a war on the Irish...

...Major Smith, it is reported, "advises" the Colonel on [his speeches...

...By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel JF, as Representative Shafer asserts, the totalitarian of America j» are trying with relief checks and food stamps to buy the ending of a republican form of government here, the'fact has a certain appalling significance to those irhp believe in democracy, but an ; fcttrest of curiosity to the studferit of history...

...otherwise you would have to endorse, if you were to see in poverty itself a justification for taking up arms again-st the rich ones, each violent social revolution—and in that respect you are certainly beyond all suspicion...

...President Roosevelt may not succeed ^'breaking that historic precedent, but he has already supplied Posterity with an imperishable example of the unsmartness of being smart...

...The inconsistency of this statement and its doubtful tone show that the Italian minister, Count Marchetti (who has a reputation as not being a fanatical Fascist), is prepared to drop the too active Signor Baldi if the Mexican authorities take definite steps to put" to" endTJTtlfe propaganda and spionage activities of Mussolini's admirers...

...The pul>-licity given to Baldi's plans probably obliged him to wait for a better opportunity...

...Thus, What did Mussolini do...

...ufftff Slags | f A Popular Tune j | IN the next cage, ladies and gentlemen, you will find that singular * creature, the Featherless -parrot...

...The Republicans promptly disowned Mr...

...Ill say so...

...He saved Spain from the Reds...

...If words have a meaning at all, you have offered with these few, but certainly beautiful sentences a clean-cut theory on how the s present European war came about—a theory, may I add without the slightest intention of questioning your motives, which repeats in a cultured man's language Mussolini's and Hitler's justification of their war: poor, "proletarian" nations are fighting for their life against rich, "plutocratic" nations...

...In retrospect it was Generalissimo Franco who saved the West Coast swimming pool comrades, for about July 1936 the CP...

...and Argy le Road, burdened with a load of pamphlets and books released jby the C.P.'s International Publishers...

...Even before we clear the German issue, we are certainly in full agreement that the U.S.A.'s wealth, if compared with South American conditions, surpasses Britain's .economic superiority over Germany at least a few hundred times...

...May I ask you, dear Colonel Lindbergh, why poor Germany and not that by far poorer France has waged war against too rich England...

...A Letter to Lindbergh Solicitude lor "Poor" Germany Ignores an Item Called Nazism From WILLI SCHLAMM - Former Editor-in-Chief of "Weltbuhne," Republican Germany's leading liberal weekly...

...Ambassador, do a stunt now to entertain these intelligent spectators...

...Embassy in Berlin...

...order to get rid of the reparation payments) and until the economic world crises, Germany was the richest nation on the European continent — absolutely and relatively...

...I guess they have peace in.X>enmark, dkm't they...

...Coalition Move iJ| loomerong -OHOMINEItT among the liew enemies that President Roosevelt Wi has created appears former Secretary of War Henry Woodring...

...Wky do we leave such work to be done by Representatives, partisan, more or less discredited, of &ght weight with the public...

...civilization now portended in -%-laily news, I am grateful to my correspondent for tatting *y attention to the error, -Which-1 «haU try not to repeat...

...In 1929, the last pre-crisis year, Germany's national income was 76 billions mark, about 30 billion dollars—a per capita income of about 1,200 mark or 480 dollars a year...

...They Cashed in on the bodies of dead Loyalists and developed a million dollar source for the party...

...The number of Fascist agents and militians in Mexico is estimated at 4,500...

...If that is so, excuse me when I bother you with still other figures...

...Francis Townsend, who is also soliciting Christian Mohilizer support, will speak at the August 31 rally...

...or the ambulance for the Loyalists...

...These documents, the photostatic copies of which have ben put into the hands of the Minister of Interior, Lie...

...All of which leads up to the grapevine message just delivered by armored truck...

...It read, "Communism, the Hand Maiden of Reaction," and this member of the flock thinks the line inaccurate and unjust tofcommunism, the savior of the world...

...He saved France from the Reds...

...hip can but waltz around the same track after twenty centuries of experience...

...He's eminently practical about it, as practical as a washboard...

...Garcia Tellez, are letters, circulars, orders and lists of Fascists, generally signed by the "Zone Inspector," Signor Baldi, the chief of all the Fascists in Mexico...

...It is rumored that Baldi and his most conspicuous lieutenants will be asked to leave the country, a step which would be unanimously backed by the Mexican people...

...56 can be successfully duplicated in A.D...

...What do you think, dear Colonel—would it not have been some hardship even for America, the world's richest nation ? But poor Germany could afford it, and her peoples still had something to eat and even a beer occasionally...

...Extend now the right hand of fellowship to Fuehrer Hitler and cooperate with him in his pious designs to control file world—and its commerce.^ He's really a nice fellow and of course if we hitch up in partnership with him, he will do us no harm and we shall have peace...

...The Guild has just folded, and all the Hollywood innocents are scrambling for safety...

...And may I ask lyou, against whom the United States must now wage war, since its per capita income scarcely surpasses poor Germany's ? (The United States' per capita income was in our history's best year, 1929, about 600 dollars and dropped in 1933 to 340 dollars, improving in 1939 to about 530 dollars...

...but they were certainly not poorer than the inhabitants of London's slums and Britain's thoroughly rotten boroughs...

...It is curious to notice that the Italian Legation almost did not protest against the revelations of "El Popular...

...All in all: beginning with 1924, since the nightmare of inflation was over (a catastrophe, by the way, which was artificially produced by Germany's nationalistic government and big finance in 1923 in...

...Another interesting point that is being made clearer now is the underground connection of Italian and German Nazi-Fascists, especially as regards propaganda...

...And that self-appointed guardian of the American proletariat John I...

...But this argument is the worst possible...

...For the Stalinists the U. g. must be "all this and a haven, too...

...A rather strange statement was issued, acknowledging that Baldi's signature was obviously genuine and weakly insinuating that the letters or part of them might have been forged...

...On the sarn^ platform that day u-ill he Joe Cnrran, Max Yergaii, Vila Morcrintonio and a. scare of American Stalinite stalwarts...

...Council lost no time in getting on the band wagon...

...There are also some photographs taken during a ceremony in the Casa d'ltalia of Mexico City, with a display of black shirts, black flags, Roman salutes, goose-step parades, and so forth...

...Since the United States has double the German populace, she would have had to invest in four years 80 billion dollars to equal poor Germany's armament expenditure...

...This curious bird has its habitat in the State Department of the United States, where for diplomatic reasons it bears the.name of the Career Man...

...Shall we not...

...In other words: poor Germany spent in four years, merely for arms, the total of France's national income of more than three good years...

...the Communist mobilization demonstration...

...Joe Cnrran thinks he can obviate the evidence of four case loads of documents by throwing the name "Schmnelson'1 at Harrison . . . it's there in black and white for the NMU membership . . . only, they can now convince the public that their union is not part of -the Soviet fifth column here...

...But at this Ambassador Bullitt pecks at his Perch and becomes as sileiU as.the Gazooza...

...There were other party whip-snappers . . . Arthur Omit;:, for example...

...ui old newspaper men wilt look upon the disclosure with a different discomfiture...

...Switzerland —completely cut off from almost all raw materials—has been for decades, and still is, not a poor nation, but one of the world's richest...

...We always did warn the "uncensored" crowd that their anti-British propaganda would develop pro-Nazi sentiment...

...when the A.L.P...

...So let...

...The purpose Of* his discomfiture and that erf...

...As a result, the German-owned ADiario de la Guerra," a strongly pro-Nazi evening paper ran by a German with Mexican citizenship, Schumacher, recently issued a special supplement number on the Tunisian problem, and the Italian claims to hegemony in the Mediterranean...

...In some parts of the country, as in the provincial town of Chipilo (State of Pueb-la), Italian agents have obtained complete control of local institutions, to the degree that some towns are practically Fascist colonies...

...which paraded through noisy Los Angeles streets preceded by a raucous brass band . . . or Ernest Hemingway puffing iato town and raising $15,000 in a few minutes by insulting the colony's bigwigs...

...C.I.O...

...Last week Witt, with the genial cooperation of Ed Smith, promoted "goon squaders" Bob Gates and Fred Krivonos, th»i men who spied on Elinore Herrick...

...He's the son of Sam.uel (Haunch, Paunch and Jowl) Ornitz, who tours the party line, too...

...His hook, "Country Squire in the White House* now tops the German-American Bund's Bcobar.htrr's list of "books you must read...

...Man is a monkey: monkey does as monkey sees...

...While other actorfc de-loused themselves, Lionel Stander pivoted wit hthe pact ahd is also being probed by a Grand Jury...

...Practical from the word go...

...When I saw the poverty of Central Europe I felt that the poor had become too poor...

...Vhen General Krivitsky exposed the comrade crowd, Joe North' dug up the "Schmelka Ginsburg" stunt...

...us examine ¦Germany's poverty...

...can begin raising funds out of it . . . sort of nipped in the budget...

...Or did you mean, dear Colonel Lindbergh, that Germany, in spite of her tremendous national income in these good pre-crisis years, has merely eaten up her national capital...

...You bet, when you come to practicality, you know your stuff...

...Dear Colonel Lindbergh: If a man who merely crossed the ocean by steamboat is at all entitled to express an opinion on foreign politics—may I ask you to consider a few objections I'd like to raise against the address you delivered in Chicago on August 4, 1940...

...This is the case in Chipilo, where the boss is a Fascist diehard named Mastretta, who owns a private radio station there...

...Do yon know another poor nation which was able to invest such a sum—without any foreign loans, almost entirely collected from its own people...

...To call Communism •the "hand maiden of reaction'* is so inadequate as to be inaccu-n...

...II'' Mofofoff Points Me Finger of "Imperialism" f IN these times of anxiety, of uncertainty, of grave concern, let * us account ourselves fortunate, brethren, that we have a subject to which we can turn for diversion, for infallible and varied interest, for always fresh manifestation of a fascinating mystery...

...It appears that there are active Fascist centers in all the main cities of the Mexican Republic, such as Puebla, Monterey, Tampico...

...Remembering tfiat Cmnimunism produced Stalin, produced fcnwdinj, destroyed the Spanish Republic, produced Hitler and largely responsible for the collapse of democracy in France, >nd maiden" is manifestly just an old dish cloth of a word, "hat I .should have said was that Gommunism was the father M»4 motW of all the leaders:and all the influences that have in the'last twenty years marshalled the vast parade back to the ?«*le and promised the eclipse of...

...Our friend Jay Leyda of Moscow, who has been fired bkr the Modern Museum of Art Film Library, now finds his documentary film front crumbling even before the CP...

...This reproach has now...

...The recently organized New York City C.I.O...

...Leiserson opposed these promotions...