Reich Labor Front "Efficiency Impresses Some Americans, Suppresses Afl German Workers
SCHLAMM, WILLI
Reich Labor Front "Efficiency Impresses Some Americans, Suppresses Afl German Workers By WILLI SCHLAMM 1MILITARY invasion is not the beginning "** but the final touch of the totalitarian war ....
...In the Saturday Review of Literature of June 15f>(Waldo Frank complains bitterly-^-and justly so —that Professor Max Lerner has indulged in a typical Stalinist amalgam...
...True to their nature, however, they merely bring confusion at a time when there is an imperative need for intellectual clarity...
...One hundred marks, you see, represent the two weeks' wages of a highly skilled German worker, and if a skilled worker in New York wanted to spend his wages for two weeks on a vacation cruise he could get for his money a cabin on a luxury steamer...
...that the threat of the fascists to destroy all the values that civilized mankind cherishes most, is now .a grim reality...
...At times they impress one as market-place brawls, although our writers, unlike market-women, operate with literary and philosophical curse words...
...And nobody realizes the danger more thsS the Irish thinkers and politicians of all parties, including the most extreme left groups...
...Until now we have not tasted war as our continental comrades have, war that has devastated their land, destroyed their towns, uprooted their homes,'sent them as derelict refugees to foreign lands...
...Most of them have in mind, of course, the Comunist distortion of Marxism...
...And the greatest critics are the greMtt defenders today...
...It is not only the immodesty of these men and the obscurity of their language that makes one cry out in anguish...
...no bestiality wss sa» horrible, no debasement was too mean to suit their sadistic sem*> The treatment of enlightened reformers...
...e For the Nazis, propaganda is not just a .method to proselyte but a military instrument of first importance...
...Certainly the new situation appears to have gives tat British people a new and fresh determination to complete the jt» we took on hand last September...
...in safer places, of how our people are comporting themselm in this emergency...
...Lewis Corey, on the other hand, disappointed in Stalin's "Transition Period," comes forward with a "new" Transition Program where the proletariat, stripped of its title as the "Vanguard of Socialism," would make a sort of united front with the farmers, engineers and other useful section of the American middle-class and work for a socialism that will "express and realize the interest of all useful functional groups .within society...
...Archibald MacLeish, who as a man of letters and social thinker towers above the.se contemporarie-s of hi?, is undoubtedly right when he says that what we have today is not Miltons and Voltaires but pedantic scholars and superficial scribblers and that history will indict the present generation for having failed to produce men of letters capable to guide the destinies of nations...
...A beautiful idea, no doubt, but in terms of presentday reality it is merely empty and meaningless rhetoric...
...One wonders why Mr...
...Lerner suggests that I—like Spengler—have fashioned *& philosophy acceptable to Hitler...
...Witt it impede the economic, social and cultural process of civilized society or accelerate it...
...Max Lerner, on the other hand, who chides Frank because he "delights" in war, calls upon us in * another issue of the same"Viagazirre to "face the realities of the war, understand that it is an outgrowth of a revolutionary situation, and that we shall not mend the world until we have fulfilled in our own way these revolutionary forces...
...IF, several months ago, some one on the *¦ Left had predicted that political axewielder Malcolm Cowley would resign from the Comintern's League of American Writers, charging that its activity paralleled that of Father Coughlin, Henry Ford, Catholic Fascists and the Chicago- Tribune, that prognostics tor would have been verbally shillalabed by every intellectual from Columbia University to...
...TPHE greatest criticism of the British Empire is offered against * our handling of the Irish and Indian problems...
...I am not suggesting even for a moment that we do not have writejrs of courage and vision...
...For this reason the leaders of all three political partial of the Dail have made a united appeal for volunteers to meet the danger of German parachute troops who might desire to make the Free State a jumping-off ground in their attack on Britain...
...Never before, it is true, was it so necessary for us to revaluate our views honestly in the light of present-day event*—the essence and soul of these events...
...job machinery, his history as a fellow-tourist through the purge period, and Nasi pact months...
...because any other radical solution of world problems is a question of the far distant social future...
...The fundamental basis required for human advancement is threatened...
...TD the average man or woman in search of a solution for our present social, economic and political chaos these programs will offer little enlightenment...
...The greatest mistake committed by honest men and women inspired by anti-war sentiments is that they refuse to analyse the purpose and content of a given war...
...I. readily agree with Max Lerner that one cannot simplify discussion of human affairs and, as Charles Beard once wrote (quoted by Lerner), human societies are very complex, very tangled, and our thinking about them must not too rudely break the web...
...Hollywood...
...There are Irishmen who suffer from the one absorbing ides ttst continuous injustice has been done to their island throughoBt history, and they leap with ecstatic fanaticism into the cauldron of individual terrorism even though they know that the chance* a* that they themselves will be enveloped in the boiling broth...
...Settles 352 Controversies The...
...A Berlin workman or whitecollar employee can spend a week skiing in the Bavarian, Alps, including rail fare both ways and lessons from an instructor, for forty-four, marks...
...it is determined by and based upon concrete situations and clearly-defined social and political objectives* The aims of a war may be condemned or justified by one who is guided by a definite social philosophy...
...of the clock of progress for generations...
...KTOT that our writers are indif7 ferent to the present chaotic state of the world...
...The Nazi Nobody Knows," Saturday Evening Post, July 27, 1940...
...British Prejer Fighting for Liberal "Empire" to Yielding to Nazis IKIIil "y...
...Just now the whole of Britain, irfdeed, the w^ole world is waling 1 for the mass bombing attack on this little island...
...Frank, in turn, believes that Max Lerner is a bad reporter, a bad logician and a poor liberal...
...They refuse to understand that morality, ethics, philosophy if they are to be an integral part of our every-day life must also take into account definite sociopolitical concepts...
...And if Waldo Frank condemns the apathy of men and' women who "were not even ready for the bombs," how can his detestation of war be absolute and not relative...
...Is it a war for freedom and democracy or simply a war of imperialist conquest...
...We as*» seen how they treated the Jews in Germany...
...A war for the sake of war is criminal...
...Many of these papers are now appearing in the provinces, to which they removed when Paris fell,, and they share the presses of hospitable local papers...
...But even one who is schooled in the jargon of our social philosophers and critics will discern that these are not programs for action but programs of escape and despair...
...It is noteworthy that not in one of theee programs will one find any reference to a definite sociopolitical philosophy...
...But never before, too, was it so necessary for us to reassert our devotion to the cause of democracy and, more specifically, to the moral principles of Social Democracy...
...Speaking to 15 million American readers, Mr...
...1 was, however, opposed to the last World War since at that time it seemed to me no Socialist or internationalist should have been concerned with which side would emerge victorious...
...In the United States, where the population amounts to only twice that of Germany, 80 million persons go to the movies— every week...
...Fpw socially-conscious Americans fail to realize today that the death-struggle between the ^wers of totalitarianism and democracy is rapidly approaching its final stage...
...This "Strength Through Joy" movement exerts mystic/powers^ on the reasoning of the democratic world, it is the outstanding feature of the ideological penetration which precedes the military attack...
...There is a degree of democracy and selfdetermination in the British Commonwealth of Nations that bespeaks a wider freedom for all its people in the future...
...Deuel, read by 15 million Americans, gives at last a few figures about that miracle of "Strength Through Joy," which institution he calls himself a main cause for "the Nazis' successes with labor...
...There is hardly a liberal or radicjal writer, from the lowliest editor of the New Republic to Granville Hicks, who has not rushed into print with some "positive" program of "action" to save democracy...
...Deuel's "astronomical figure" merely reveals that every one of these members took part in some sort of "Strength Through Joy"-event about three times a year (events include ordinary film showings, "festive" meetings, and similar affairs...
...Under American conditions, this levy would net about 450 million dollars annually...
...Archibald MacLeish's recent indictment of the "Irresponsibles," the post-war writers who, in their zeal to destroy the fiction of military lglamour, have helped to destroy all faith in moral principles, and Lewis Mumford's vigorous and unequivocal defense of democracy in his "Men Must Act" and ^The Corruption of Liberalism"-will help to dispel the fog which enveloped liberal thought in the United States for the past two decades...
...To hand over our colonies or ourselves to this despotism weans not merely turn the clock back, it would destroy the mechaa...
...Conciliation Service of the U. S. Department of Labor dis-' posed of 352 situations involving 99,348 .workers last month, Secretary Perkins reported this week...
...few of them have anything to substitute for the Marxian "dogma" which they either want to revise or discard...
...N his Chart for Rough Waters * Waldo Frank makes a convincing case against American isolation...
...I always suspected that an intellectual is a man who writes but cannot read...
...Not so long ago he threw everything in his editorial typewriter at the Committee for Cultural Freedom for saying the very things he so apostately prints in a recent edition of the New Republic Tovarisch Cowley with the worst instincts of sn outgoing Stalinite with ingrown Stalinism remembers that he helped organize the League in 1935, and that he was its vice-president for years...
...and whenever you ask these helpless intellectual victims of totalitarian propaganda what makes them so hopeful for Nazism's progressive function, you hear always and everywhere the stereotype: "Strength Through Joy...
...The destiny of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada rests entirely with the parliament, of each dominion...
...Cowley's apostasy should hardly eradicate memory of his facile vituperation of those who bled decency at a higher premium than ubiquitous CP...
...it pointed out that a confused ill— .informed and timid American democracy, in • attacking Hitlerism, is attacking something - vital, dynamic, rich in content, and capable of infusing its followers with a flaming faith...
...TOO, detest war...
...Called "Defense for .What...
...No other proof was ever offered to me, neither in print nor in discussion...
...feSr ' The fact is that the British conception of empire is nOW0mf' better than its critics have alleged, even if it is worse that II admirers imagine...
...T'HE fact is there have been black periods in the history of th* * British Empire, but there is a time factor in history as m BrfSt things, and the ,days of exploitation of nationals for the bensit of the mother country are over...
...There is something quite different involved...
...The irresponsibility of our liberal literati is perhaps best demonstrated in their frivolous attitude towards the present war...
...I am, of course, interested in these two writers only in so...
...Although, it seems to me, a little more simplicity, lucidity and modestywould enable a greater number of innocent souls in search of truth" to comprehend some of the "truths" propounded by them...
...And the only material- proof for its point is the statement that Nazism "admits the lowest sectors of the social scale to cultural advantages hitherto .¦denied to them...
...Whatever is in store for the British people in the p'eseay' fight, it certainly is the united and determined will of our pesfw that the fight should continue even though it is continued sloBa, Intellectuals' Obscurantism Cloaks Hesitancy to Clearly Face War Issue By LEON DENNEN I BELIEVE we have an immense stake in this war, James Truslow Adams, the historian, recently wrote...
...But these are voices crying in the wilderness...
...Le Petit Journal, the organ of De La Bocque, La Croix, the Catholic paper, Le Figaro, L'Oeuvre, Le Temps, Le" Journal des Debats, and Paris-Soir, always strongly 'rightist hnd pro-fascist papers, are all that is left of the great French free press...
...Are these gentlemen opposed to all wars including the present war, or is it that they would not mind to perform the functions^ of literary George Creels witnout relinquishing the mantle of Randolph Bourne ? Is there any wonder, as John Chamberlain reports, that the youth of America distrusts all tags, all slogans and even all words...
...IN terms of present-day life and * reality this "literary" (or is it philosophical ?) debate isn't worth the paper it is written on and would indeed be ridiculous were it not so tragic...
...Cowley's break with the League, his- letter in the new pathetic New Republic, is hardly worth noticing, except for the fact that it is typical vindication of the critics of red totalitarianism and all its Stalinoid fronts...
...I Some of us have been life-long critics of imperialism, and at have not been sparing in our criticism of the black patches in tat history of the British Empire...
...Deuel praises so highly in his article, were actually built as troop transports (and used as such fn 1940) and paid for with "Strength Through Joy" taxes...
...various shibboleths and archaic theories, are either unable or unwilling to face reality and think their Way through to a new orientation...
...All that our "Men of Letters" (particularly those who have become disillusioned with the fleshpots of Stalinism) are capable of, however, is unthinking and brash rhetoric Their literary debates and quarrels carried on in the weekly journals lack all coherency and direction...
...A few weeks ago we were told by the excellent writer of "Topics of the Times" ef a highly significant editorial, "The Williams Record," a college paper, published in its final .issue of the college year...
...Lerner identifies me with the Associated Farmers...
...in opder .to pick off England...
...Nazis Mold 15 trench Dailies In Own Image 'Before the fall of Paris the French press offered to the citizen'of France 60 dailies and 12 weeklieai representing every shade of opinion from Monarchist" to Communist, and all in vociferous and often slanderous disagreement with one another...
...The Imperial Parliament" has no say in the internal arrangements of these states, or in their external policy, They represent a WW* of free states, based on something like the principle of federal union, which is much talked of these days...
...The simple truth is that in 1938 Germany's workers and employees had to pay about one per cent of their total yearly income to Dr., Ley's ingenious creation, the "German Labor Front" which runs the "Strength Through Joy" organization—a neat, round 350 million marks a year ($140,000,000...
...Cowley has deserted the Browder boys, creating himself in the image of Thomas Mann who quit a long time ago over the issue of totalitarianism...
...The turnover of the organization (Strength Through ..Joy)," says Mr...
...U. S. Labor Dept...
...the influence of refonsW in modifying the nature of JJritish Imperialism and the insists character of Nazi-fascism...
...Robert • Ley and the German Labor organizations which that gentleman controls, Mr...
...In one breath, then, Professor Lerner accuses Dr...
...not one of them refers to an organized group which is to realize these programs in life...
...No one made us any presents, the 40 marks came out of our own pockets, and no American magazine made any fuss about it...
...This anomaly is due to two things...
...The principle that holds the integral units of the British Empire together is friendship and mutual understanding and a common desire to maintain the best elements of civilization...
...It is not at all to preserve any particular territorial status quo, because life, whether of individuals or nations,, is always in flux...
...Which produces the more nearly astronomical figure of 4 billion persons participating annually...
...Lerner mean when he tells us to "face the realities of the war...
...Two hundred and twelve of these situations were strikes, threatened strikes, lock-outs, and controversies, , Apostasy, Inc...
...Against this conception of empire what is the Nazi ideal* How do the Nazis treat supposedly "inferior" people...
...but hope must be abandoned in the event of a Nazi victory in thii war...
...And their tragic end to inspire ra % fight better...
...Your intellectual, having become disillusioned with the politics of Lenin, Stalin and with the whole idea of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, distrusts now all politics and all politicians...
...Ley...
...John Chamberlain, too, has a program...
...Frank of being a Hegelian, a Spenglerian, and Anti-Rationalist and a friend of the Associated Farmers of California...
...All of these program-writers agree that Marxism must be revised...
...A worthwhile democratic structure has been hammer** into shape by generations of pioneers who have handed dowa S rich heritage for us who have the privilege to follow them...
...far as they reflect and mirror what thousands of other American liberal intellectuals are thinking at the moment...
...Nor can I in this limited space discuss all the ideas of men who think of themselves as nothing less than spiritual guides, apostles and leaders of souls...
...But in the Saturday Review of Literature of June 15, frightened by Lemer's assertion that he "delights in war," Frank tells us that his "own detestation of war hag never been relative...
...But on this earth we must be guided by different principles...
...Now there has been a complete reaction to this hysterical satiBritish attitude in view of the decided threat to all liberties wits the advance of fascism...
...IiTfnodern life, however, wars without a purpose do not occur...
...Now he bids for the job of dismantling it, after consistent maligning of those who for a long time warned that the League was a literary facet of the Comintern...
...There may be debate on the stage which the primitive ptosis of any area have reached in their faltering steps towardsJMg determination...
...As the international crisis deepens, with each new victory for the totalitarian powers, they grow more bewildered, more confused...
...But even a staunch opponent of war and bloodshed can support a war if he supports its basic ideology...
...The total number of personal participations rose from 11,700,000 in 1934, the first year 'Strength Through Joy' operated, to 93,660,000 in 1938, the last full peace year...
...It cannot be static, and historians as well as biologists can testify to the need for constant change...
...L'Avenir and Le Montagne are also widely read, and are reported by American newspapermen in France to be of a "leftist" nature...
...Everything that makes America doubt whether England is really fighting democracy's battle, everything that makes America ask herself, whether in fact the Nazi .revolution does not represent, after all, some barbaric but "objectively" progressive order, • is of direct strategic moment to Hitler's gen. erals...
...Ley was returned to them in the form of subsidies for vacation cruises and similar over-advertised "achievements...
...Its attitude towards morality, however, ia relative and not absolute...
...The provincial papers, which were always good, have stepped into the breach created by the absence of the Paris papers, which normally circulated all over' the country, and have greatly increased their circulation...
...The Nazis do not attack . physically before their prospective victim is isolated from the rest of the democratic world...
...He also paints a gruesome picture of what happened in Europe "to men weakened in their unconscious resistance to war by the kind of peace they were suffering...
...On the other hand, an inspiring tradition of political, ehfcV educational, and religious liberty has been established withm *k* framework of the British Empire as a result of the labors of esrtf reformers...
...The present war, however, is not merely a war of conquest but also a war of ideologies — the struggle of democracy versus fascism...
...What distresses one most is the Franks' and Lerners' lack of intellectual courage and clearly defined ideas...
...The war of 1914 I regarded—and still do— as an imperalist war...
...According to the official Nazi reports about 30 million Germans were compulsory members of the "Strength Through Joy" organization in 1938...
...JOHH DAVIS GU~,„ow City Councillor f^LASGOW, Scotland (Passed by the censor).—Events take place ^* so rapidly and under present circumstances postal service...
...Today our Labor Party is the best and front of the people in defense of the empire and all it stash for in the world...
...While only comparatively small scouting parties of Nazi bombeh have up to the present disturbed our nightly rest in some placet here, the prospect of incessant bombing in our industrial cental is in the air...
...IN these circumstances I want to say something to our friends...
...It is generally conceded that even the Irish difficulty will be solved given goodwill and understanding between the two peoples...
...The Indian National Congress Party, appredatittf the government's policy, proposes deserting the policy of nonviolence in order to resist Nazi aggression...
...Even the papers which ar...
...When I lived in Vienna we used to spend about 65 Austrian shillings for a week's skiing in the Austro-Bavarian Alps, including rail fare, instructor, and board (with plenty of butter)—just 40 marks: That was before 1938, of course—before Strength invaded Austria and Joy became a government business...
...The two magnificent "Strength Through...
...Deuel tells us...
...The vast majority of our organized workers, too, have long since come to the realization that the existence of a free, democratic America depends upon a decisive defeat of fascism — wherever it threatens and all that it stands for...
...Having made the discovery that the Democratic State is a "limited racket," he would now throw in the waste basket Soviet Russia's NEP (Lenin's famous New Economic Policy) and substitute for it a "permanent NEP," for, he tells us, "NEP was Jeffersonian before it was Russian, and there is no reason to go abroad to look for the native article...
...He can do so for the simple reason that in modern capitalist society war is inevitable...
...On|y our radical and liberal writers, enraptured with their own .rhetoric and shackled by...
...Because of certain reasons which I carefully explain," writes Mr...
...We are not any braver than other people...
...Wallace R. Deuel recently published an appraisal of Hitler's "Strength Through Joy" in the Saturday Evening Post...
...The death of free journalism in France is perhaps best indicated by the fact that the dailies appearing in Vichy now have only one sheet of news, except for one day in the week...
...Deuel believes this 93.7 million person participation to be an "astronomical figure...
...Pierre Laval's paper, Le Moniteur, is among the most important of these, since it is usually the first to get official news...
...The extent of these successes is indicated by the fact that S trade union (one time an outlawed organization) has placed st the disposal of the Government a million dollars free of intaeit for the prosecution of the anti-fascist war...
...Frank and Lerner may be they write not as social critics who understand the dialectics of life but as absolute moralists...
...On the statst of India and other colonies, notably in tropical Africa, the whsj| structure of the British Empire is condemned...
...Today only three dailies remain on the osee loaded kiosks of Paris, and these have.been completely taken over by the Germans...
...Joy" ships, which Mr...
...Luxury cruises, with a few days' stay at Bermuda, are available from 45 dollars per round trip from New York...
...However divergent the views of Messrs...
...Frank, "I do not accept the season's hysterical adoration of Grapes of Wrath, and because (for obviously different reasons) the Associated Farmers of California also do not accept the book, Mr...
...Deuel—unquestionably as good a democrat as anyone, I am told—sends .word from Berlin that "Strength Through Joy" has transformed Germany, so far as the workers- are concerned, into a sort of promised land...
...Indeed, the Attlee-Churchill Government httJJMf in the "Colonial Development and Welfare Bill," recently pastai in the House of Commons, that its deliberate policy is to encearaf* the placing of responsibilities of government in the hands rftBB* native peoples...
...But even assuming that "Strength Through Joy" would' have to pay an additional 100 marks for each one of these 600,000 passengers during five years, it would still be a mere 60 million marks as compared with the 1.5 billion marks the Germans had to contribute ' during these five years to "Strength Through Joy"—an equivalent of 4 per cent (or just about the interest a bank would pay on the sum collected from the German workers by Dr...
...I am a fervent supporter of Great Britain in the present war—even of America's entry into the war— since I realize that before we can begin to plan our new society we must first destroy Hitlerism and all other form= of dictatorship...
...Of course, somewhere on another planet, far from this sinful world, all wars, at all times and under any circumstances, are negative phenomena...
...On the contrary: they are all avowed'" and staunch defenders of our democratic way of life...
...The complete German domination of the press is such that of the 15 dailies and four weeklies ripw remaining in France, the liberal and radical journals such as Le Fopulaire and L'Humanite have completely disappeared...
...My limited knowledge tells me that all phenomena are conditioned by our real life and are organically bound to it...
...we do not look wits any easiness of mind to the prospect of myriad bombers harlittf devastation and death from the blue sky...
...In five years "600,000 persons have taken part in these high-sea cruises," Mr...
...The majority of our vocal intelligentsia refuses to realize that when blood flows freely and bombers carry death to thousands of innocent men, women, and children, it is futile to de°n the cloak of the "objective'^historian and evaluate "critically" all the phases of this gory drama...
...This is done through the •Strength Through Joy' movement...
...Reich Labor Front "Efficiency Impresses Some Americans, Suppresses Afl German Workers By WILLI SCHLAMM 1MILITARY invasion is not the beginning "** but the final touch of the totalitarian war . against democracy...
...Deuel, "reaches astronomical figures...
...Just what does Mr...
...It is therefore understandable why we meet this danger at' continuous bombing or actual invasion with hearts of steel instsaf of stone...
...But my de* testation of war is relative...
...The British people can only grieve with the victims of Nasi aggression and pledge ourselves to continue the fight untjj tfe brute beast of totalitarianism has been destroyed or the entire resources of the British Empire have followed the European democracies into eclipse...
...Just as England had to be "neutralized" before Hitler could kill Czechoslovakia, the Nazis must "neutralize" the U.S.A...
...Unlike Frank and Lerner, who seem to have the secret of a higher ethic, I cannot reduce all phenomena in the world of reality to an abstraction...
...t TSE opportunity to influence democracy's intellectual youth in such fashion it to Nazism an asset of immeasurable Value...
...The concept of the absolute moralist is at best Utopian and more often reactionary...
...But we have the disastrous experiences of our ill-fated frienb in Europe to learn from...
...Calmly they spin ' their intellectual webs...
...To trouble democracy's conscience during the European war is a military achievement, tantamount to so and so many army corps, capital ships, air squadrons...
...W COULD not help chuckling when I came' * across the following highlight in Mr...
...Dealing primarily with Dr...
...Let us hope, nonetheless, that the boys at Williams and other American colleges' have still a chance to improve their education and to read the facts, before they finally make up their mind that American democracy has something to learn from Hitler...
...Nazism, wrote the college paper, glorifies the worker and the farmer...
...left, which the Germans have permitted to exist because they never offered any resistance, show the marks of restraint...
...Les Dernieres Nouvelles, which the Germans themselves put out, Le Journal, which has become the army newspaper of the Germans, and Le Matin...
...Waldo iFrank visualizes—somewhat laboriously to be sure—"a socialized state of America which will be a union, of persons and groups of persons working in an economy of plenty, a union of peoples and a confederation of peace...
...Because I have certain differences (carefully expounded) with Marxist socialism, and so does Spengler, Mr...
...Socialists, trade "ha* ists, or even religious reformers has been equally barbaric...
...THE "Strength Through Joy" miracles, used * for publicity propaganda all over the world, constitute the most effective bluff in modern advertising methods...
...This, however, must not be confused with the "Planned Collectivism" of Professor Max Lerner, the enfant terrible of American pseudoliberalism...
...A progressive social' ant political philosophy is also deeply concerned with problems of ethics and morality...
...A small part of the German working masses' contributions to Dr...
...Deuel's extravagant appraisal of "Strength Through Joy": "Costs to members are kept at correspondingly low figures for 'Strength Through Joy's' other activities...
...A round trip to Madeira, for example, with landings at Lisbon and Madeira or the Azores, costs only 100 marks...
...The firm belief that if Hitler and his black and red satellites win, force, not spirit, will rule, and free men will be crushed by rulers >drunk with power is widespread and profound among the people of the United States...
...But Mr...
...art hampered so that one's comments on changing facts tend to become unreal by the time they are published in another country...
...They have done so, furthermore, at astonishingly low cost...
...Even though the world is in flames and democracy is in danger they insist on remaining "reflective" and weigh with the precise scale of the scientific analyst the minutest details of the events of ojir day...
...They fail to ask themselves the following vital questions: Is this particular war that I am opposed to a war of aggression or a war of defense...
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