U. S. Cliveden Sit Turns Flyer Into Nazi Fellow-Traveler No. 1
LUNDBERG, FERDINAND
Lindbergh, America's Quisling, U. S. Cliveden Sit Turns Flyer Into Nazi Fellow-Traveler No. 1 By Ferdinand Lundberg t`ttfjOETHING generally overlooked in Colonel iJ..Lindbergh's much discussed...
...On the east is the Atlantic Ocean, a Greater European ocean for control of which German and English airplanes and ships are now contending...
...While local European conflicts over strictly European questions (I mean questions having to do with the purely internal administration of Europe) are possible, the present ^conflict is not sne of them but concerns the larger Europe, the mole world...
...It has become something that the man on the street takes for granted...
...No footpaths cross auto"oJal* roads, and children can from one part of town to •"other, from school to home r in «raplete 'safety...
...The whole of the waterway from Gibraltar to the 'Indian Ocean, in normal times heavily traveled by American ships, is one Nazi objective...
...Politically, socially, and economically almost the whole World is European in all matters except local police adminStration...
...Perfection ? By no means...
...Now, if the European Allies had held the Nazis to a stalemate at the least, it might have been advantageous for the United States to pursue a strict policy of non-intervention, for a fairly even balance of power on the European continent would have guaranteed the United States against any one-sided European rule in any part of the world...
...Yet the circumstance that there will be no special observance is to me an impressive indication of how deeply and firmly the concept of government participation in its citizens' problems, of social security has become imbedded in the national consciousness of the American people...
...The question te be determined, of course, is...
...The route around the Cape of Good Hope is another...
...Let it suffice to say that the American worker—in commerce and trade and industry—now can face the uncertainty and hazards of the future with a degree of confidence he could never have known before...
...THESE concessions will mostly concern the * internal affairs of the United States...
...In the accompanying article Ferdinand Lundberg analyzes Lindbergh's speech, and exposes the men and ideology behind it...
...Needless to say the Associated Farmers and others of the corporate silk-hat "gentlemen-farmer" ilk are violently protesting "government interference...
...All these will take time, but if we could have gone as far as we have today in five short years there is every encouragement to believe that we can make equally'Impressive gains in the future...
...and about 50,000 blind people...
...Lindbergh, and here a nice point is raised...
...There are 16 such camps operating in California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and Idaho...
...The most important of these two groups are those who are engaged in domestic service and agricultural labor...
...In too many of the States the public assistance . laws were in effect on the statute books only, and had no i practical application...
...It was approved on August 14, 1935...
...If they succeed our internal affairs, in every department of life, will be deeply affected...
...These are the appeasers, the men for whom Lindbergh, the erstwhile flying hero of America's youth, has been speaking...
...GardenCities-r For Workers Tenements are not new as homes for workers—garden cities Me: Pioneered' in England in ' «ueh places as Letchworth, the Wee, is to establish homes as part of a residential suburban community, surrounded by "belts" of green lands, with individual plots tor worker's homes...
...The other three are part of the Fedttsl Security Administration projects- to provide low-rent housing...
...But if control of the ocean falls into the hands of those with radically different conceptions, It means that we will have to adjust our notions to those of the new conquerors—or fight...
...This apart, the collapse of the British Empire —which is pre-supposed in any visualization of Nazi victory—will mean a general collapse of all values throughout the world, labor values, commodity values, and security values...
...To appreciate these it must be recalled that when the Social 1 Security Act was first introduced in Congress, public assistance—which primarily includes aid to the needy aged, aid to the blind, and aid to dependent children—was being i administered by various States on bases which were in ¦' many cases highly inadequate from a social point of view...
...y&k "Civilization" may depend on peace between the United States and Germany, according to Col...
...If the balance favors a party that has conceptions of social organization bound, if put into practice within Greater Europe, to affect the United States fundamentally, then the United States as a matter of pure self-interest is bound to intervene actively to see that final organization takes place along the lines most suitable to its own development...
...Combining the best features of the circus camp and the trailer, the Farm Security Administration provides agricultural workers, in those regions where the need for their labor is of short duration, with trailers fully equipped with power plants, health clinics, water heating plants ,and camp tents...
...He wants us to be an isolationist in every respect wherein our intervention would embarrass Hitler, but he wants us to be an interventionist along those lines that would benefit Hitler...
...If it does then Col...
...Increasing military pressure at this time" is something Hitler does not like at all...
...Does Col...
...Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune...
...Henry Ford, James Mooney, head of the Foreign Trades Department of General Motors and Knudsen's assistant on national defense...
...We must be vigilant to protect the gains already made and our plans for the future, against the assault of all types of reactionary forces...
...LINDBERGH'S plea for "nqn-interference of America in the internal affairs of Europe" was also homespun for American prejudices...
...What connection have the Nazis with civilization ? Scholars throughout the world for several years have cited facts tending to show that the Nazis were falling back upon medieval and even pagan political and social conceptions...
...Saying that American foreign business amounts to only 5 per cent of our economic activity means little, of course, when we consider all the subsidiary domestic economic activity that is dependent upon the 5 per cent of activity centered in foreign,trade...
...Originally a program which provided only monthly benefits for retired workers, it has become a program for the entire family unit...
...With such developments go others affecting the well-being of every citizen...
...European political currents affect the Pacific, however, in those areas that border upon Canada, Siberia, the Dutch East Indies, Australia, Latin America, Madagascar, Africa, and the French and British island possessions...
...The frequent gosion to "foreign war," foT example, was jomething meant to strike an especially responsive chord, yet almost every war except a rivfl war is a foreign war...
...It is spreading all over...
...Do not forget that of all the things that we must defend—in peace time and in war—none is more integral a part of our national progress and hope for the future as social security...
...It is this which is to me the , outstanding aspect of the role social security plays in ! America today, and the strongest guaranty for the liberalization and advancement of the social security program ¦ in the future...
...It has become a part of his stake | in the government, together with his civil liberties and other social rights...
...it was extensively amended last summer, with most of the amended provisions going into effect January 1, 1940...
...The internal administration of Latin America may be either along lines roughly corresponding to ours, as now, or it may be along quite different lines to which we must adjust ourselves—or fight...
...All structures are **»°n plots of grass...
...If the United States cooperates with a victorious Germany on the world stage it cannot at the same time practice isolationism, but will be a post-war pro-fascist interventionist...
...They have broken through, and are pounding the last bastion of European opposition...
...Then beyond this there is the problem of liberalizing existing programs, and affording new types of social security beyond those now included in the Social Security Act...
...and president of the International Chamber of Commerce...
...Judging by his latest speech and lils writings about race and geo-politik in "Readers' Digest...
...Should it not have been fought...
...But the Nazis and their Italian and Russian allies are opposed to independent labor organizations,, gnd favor low living standards for workers...
...Perhaps Col...
...J • : jQeverness glistened in those parts of the lying colonel's speech that were especially dejjgSjd to fit American prejudices...
...Among them are Thomas J. Watson, president of the International Business Machines Co...
...We are already on official record as favoring the inclusion of large segments of our population which at the present time do not have the protection afforded by the Unemployment Insurance and Old-Age and Survivors Insurance programs...
...Lindbergh's idea amounts to...
...Perhaps he includes within the scope of the word the dragooning Of women into bearing children...
...For this new program now provides supplementary benefits for the aged worker whose wife is also 65 or more...
...But does anyone believe that this is all thev want...
...In the first place, there is the continent itself...
...Depleted State and local public treasuries, inept adminis. tration, and a lack of standards were all contributing i factors...
...The colonel's speech makes him out to be a traveling salesman for Hitlerism, and it is no wonater the speech was roundly applauded in the Nazi press...
...Lindbergh has something especially Nazi in mind when he introduces the conception of "civilization...
...Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati...
...To the south lies Latin America, virtually an economic colony of Europe...
...I think that these circumstances have ' not received enough attention...
...If it is- the former, lien .the United States can afford to stand aside...
...If kj, is what the ideology of latter-day nonSgjyention comes down to irf the mouth of its principal spokesman, its shining knight, then ^ideology must be regarded as decidedly jnppery...
...and treasurer of the Republic Finance Committee...
...These "government ladies" are social workers sent by the FSA to each individual family to which it has made a loan...
...And, it goes without saying, :the airways over these waters are also objectives of Nazi planning...
...about 800,000 dependent children...
...in accordance with modern fractional architecture and de-' «*Sn...
...and Greendale, Wis""fin, near Milwaukee...
...Lindbergh therefore *** /tends in a somewhat peculiar light...
...These then are, very briefly, the gains which have been made under five years of social security...
...True, this business could just as well be handled elsewhere, and if it were merely a question of a transfer of power it would be a different matter...
...Hire in America there are four *»eh towns...
...Lindbergh and his Nazi friends may profess to believe otherwise...
...Americans, understanding their own desire not to suffer European interference in their home affairs, can also understand a similar appeal on behalf of Europe...
...Certainly these two groups are in as great a need—if not greater—of the protection of these programs as those who have it now...
...William R. Castle, Undersecretary of State under Hoover...
...Unless a war is a civil affair it is bound to || "foreign," involving as it does a clash of interests between two sovereign states...
...like a postgraduate MachiaveSi the ghostwriter for Col...
...As these world values fall the total social organization of the United States will be affected...
...The~war of 1812, tie Mexican wars, the Spanish-American war, fhe Philippine war and the World War were all, on the other hand, "foreign"- war...
...f. f*OL...
...Europe also includes the whole of Africa, all of the Mediterranean Sea, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the whole of the Near East, Russia and Siberia, the Gulf of Aden and the Bed Sea, the Indian Ocean, India,-French IndoChina, the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, British and French and Dutch West Indies, Dutch Guinea, British Honduras, and all the sea lanes and air ways around these and many other parts of the world...
...More than **tty per cent of the town ' is ****alands...
...If control of this ocean lies' in the hands of those who understand world political, social and economic organization more-or less as we do, it means one thing to us...
...Willi Schlamm has already demolished Lindbergh's conception of a "poor Germany" fighting against a "rich England," pointing .out thit "poor Germany" had no difficulty building one of the most expensive war machines of modern times, a machine that would cost the United States about $80 billion to duplicate...
...Might I in passing urge that every one familiarize himself with the details of this expanded Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program...
...Under these plans, administered by the States themselves, the Federal government matches, in varying degrees, the amounts which the States themselves under proper social and administrative safeguards give to those in need of these three forms of public assistance...
...police torture and minute surveillance over the lives of the citizenry represents civilization, if the burning of books and the destruction of major works of art represents civilization, if the hounding of death of respected artists, scholars and scientists represents civilization, then the Nazis truly represent a phase of civilization...
...In areas where the demand for labor is fairly steady, the FSA establishes permanent camps where the workers can receive adequate shelter, health and social facilities...
...It is not necessary, then, to criticize any further Lhtdv bergh's conception of the "have-nots" fighting the "haves"—a conception that was made *ta Berlin, like so many other parts of Lindbergh's speech...
...But the Nazis have not been held...
...Lindbergh let the mask fall with respect to his isolationism as well as his pacifism...
...And perhaps robbery and looting, burning and pillage, fall within the scope of the conception' the colonel has in mind...
...In addition, a greatly expanded employment service, which is an integral part of this program, helps these unemployed workers to become reemployed...
...General and precipitate deflation will be the order of the day, plus a long train of bankruptcies and a severe rise in unemployment...
...Unemployment insurance was a word unknown to all i but a few social pioneers who foi many years had been . vainly trying to secure the adoption of unemployment insurance laws in State legislatures...
...The Nazis already have military hegemony over all of continental Europe...
...By offering such a plan we would, of course, he interfering in the affairs of Europe, but fir this connection it would be in a way desired by Hitler, who has often of late called for pence-so that he might consolidate his territorial gains...
...These are the men who will create an American totalitarianism unless they are exposed, and treated as they were in England, driven from political power, and forced by publie opinion to resign from the influence they now have...
...And while conflicts over the etinies of the larger Europe can conceivably ^localized in Europe the present conflict, after ae collapse of France, can no longer be so localized...
...Democracy in Present Crisis By Mrs...
...and their implications should not be overlooked...
...ALTHOUGH I do not wish to go into great detail in 1 *"* reviewing the progress which has been made under the Social Security Act, a few facts are noteworthy...
...But once the balance begins to favor one party preponderantly the United States must become interested in "internal European affairs" simply to protect its own doorsteps...
...We are now in a period of national stress and there will be some who will wish to sacrifice social and civil liberties under the guise of temporary' necessity or expediency...
...I think that for the readers of this newspaper the tremendous social and economic implications of such family protection need not be elaborated upon...
...Ernest T. Weir, chief of National Steel Co...
...If American business is to enter areas under Nazi control it will therefore .have to .carry on this business through a huge export* cartel, with each business house participating in the cartel being told what and how mtich-' He can sell, how it must be priced, etc...
...Lindbergh really believe it ? Does his ghostwriter really believe it...
...Such a cartel adapted to a Nazi world order would handle a tremendous amount of business and would control a sizeable chunk of American economic activity...
...A survey of 360,000 families, which have been on the program for periods ranging from one to five years, shows that their net incomes have been increased by about 45'v, or $58,000,000, and that they have added a total of nearly $83,000,000 to the wealth of their communities, From Hitler to Hoover IJMBRELLA-ISM is beginning to cast its ribbed shadow over this nation, creating an American Cliveden —, Ferdinand Lundberg calls it the- Lindbergh set...
...But the geographical borders do not define Europe, however much Col...
...But if Greater Europe is involved, and if Nazi . :5M 1 plans for Greater Europe menace the United States and seem likely to be carried out, then it is no longer a question of the "internal affairs of Europe" but a question of the internal affairs of the United States...
...These are the men who urge commercial—and political— liaison with Germany while they cry against interfering in Europe when aid to England is mentioned...
...Gov't LadiesAid Farmers More than 800,000 needy farm families who were considered unsound financial risks by all relief sources except the Farm Security Administration, now have "government ladies" working together with them on the process of rehabilitation...
...Like other countries that have had to adapt them to Nazi conquest, the United States will have to organize itself increasingly along Nazi lines— or fight...
...One, a private development, is Radburn, New Jersey, Parted during the depression and **ver carried to completion...
...Herbert Hoover, who if you recall was once president of these United States but who now has' some influence through his directorship in several of the more powerful insurance companies...
...The Revolutionary War and the...
...But either through the government in Washington or directly to the business interests the Nazis are going to demand certain concessions...
...AS an "isolationist" Col...
...These mobile camps are the FSA's strictly functional solution of the problem...
...The Nazis, for example, do business in terms of entire output, entire crops, and seem to prefer barter to money exchange...
...Most American ^rs have been foreign wars...
...1 By Ferdinand Lundberg t`ttfjOETHING generally overlooked in Colonel iJ..Lindbergh's much discussed Chicago speech ' ?$s Machiavellian cleverness and ^duplicity...
...They put the families on a proper diet, teach them dressmaking and cooking, instruct them in home economies, plan the planting of the crops, and even nurse them if necessary...
...As long ago as the 18th century the United States made war against the North African sultana and pashas who were preying on American commerce in the Mediterranean...
...These men exert strong influence on-our industrial life...
...and most important of all, it provides monthly benefits for the widow and dependent children of a worker covered by this program if he should die, regardless of age...
...The United States is bounded on four sides by Greater Europe, and the fortunes of Greater Europe are of deep concern to every American, On the north there is Canada, a European dominion, and if Canada is to be a German, Japanese, Russian or Italian possession t bargained for at a peace conference it means Something to every American...
...Whv should' not the United States have its Lindbergh ? * ij By suggesting that the United States "cooperate" with Germany, Col...
...Of what does Europe consist...
...London is the vast clearing house for shipping, insurance and credit commitments, and the solvency of large areas of the world depends entirely upon London...
...American business men are going to seek to reenter these areas, and the Nazis will welcome them with open arms...
...its $385,000,000 investment)^/ successful is attested to by the fact that $130,000,000 has already been repaid to the FSA although the full sum isn't due for several years...
...More than two million needy aged are receiving financial aid under this program...
...As for Federal old-age insurance, this was completely unknown and the possibility of its adoption in this country had seemed | almost Utopian...
...What can the Nazis do to the United States if they achieve their main objectives with reference to Greater Europe...
...Lindbergh suggests that we keep out of European affairs, he want* u? to "take the lead in offering' a plan for peace...
...I TNDER unemployment insurance every State and territory in they United States is now paying benefits to eligible jobless workers who lose their employment through no fault of their own...
...THE internal affairs of Greater Europe, then, are on our back and front doorsteps...
...Yet, although Col...
...It is hardly necessary to point out what Nazism stands for socially: oppression of minority peoples, bizarre race theories, book-burning, opposition to free thought and free speech, authoVitarian organization of every department of social life in line with exploded conceptions of human nature, history, economics and sociology...
...Austria had its Seyss-Inquart, Czecho-i Slovakia its Henlein, France its La Roeque, andi England its Sir Oswald Moseley...
...Labor in England and the United States today is highly organized, and the labor organizations of the two countries complement each other in the world market...
...systems, shopping centers "¦¦streets were built to ac^ •""^todate this growth...
...These communities are 9*eenbelt, Maryland, near Wash' ¦Cton...
...Much remains to be done, and the Social Security Board hopes that it can play a leading role in bringing about further advancements...
...Why should this be ? Well, for one thing the economic organization of the United States dovetails pretty much on the world plane with the economic organization of England...
...Permanent camps are quite useless however in such sections of the country where the demand for migrant labor lasts from only four to six weeks...
...As economic penetration carries Nazi labor standards deep into the world market, buttressing traditionally low German, Italian, Russian and Japanese standards with military forces on a world scale, American labor standards cannot help but be affected adversely...
...Those impressed by Col...
...Perhaps he also includes aimless procreation by soldiers on leave in concert with hapless women, total strangers, in order that the State shall have children...
...These are complete towns planned...
...The waters to the west of continental Europe are a third objective...
...Lindbergh (come out from behind that typewriter, William R. j Castle) neglected to mention, however, that the internal affairs of Europe are often really the affairs of the whole world...
...Lindbergh's reasoniog might stop to ask themselves if they believe the Nazis are concerned with the affairs of Little'or of Greater Europe...
...I should say that he is as far away as the Brown»House of Munich, and that he is noth.ing but a Nazi masquerading as an American' hero...
...It will not occur to many that within so short a time we have set up in this country, and have in full operation, a unified and cooperative system of national attack on some of our basic problems of social insecurity...
...This export cartel, and Nazi economic dominance over wide areas of the world, would unquestionably affect American labor standards...
...it provides monthly benefits for the married worker who dies leaving aged parents who were totally dependent upon him...
...That this method of securing...
...ANNA M. ROSENBERG Regional Director Social Security Board A FEW weeks ago the Social Security Act was five years old...
...And as the corner stone of this social security program the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program is now in full operation...
...Anyone who imagines that bard-headed American business men are going to abandon the rich commercial areas under Nazi control is simply daydreaming...
...and Captain Torkild Rieber, late of Texas Oil Co...
...But the Nazis are out to install an altogether different type of organization, an organization that is just about the antithesis of the one with which we conduct our affairs...
...That was a "foreign" war...
...I imagine that most of the people of this country— including those who are now directly participating in the benefits which have become possible under the various programs of the Social Security Act—will not note August 14, 1940, as a day of any importance...
...Migrant Caravans A CARAVAN of moving camps, following the crops and the seasons, settling and pulling up stakes with the Okies and Arkies, is the Federal government's ingenious way of combatting the disease— laden, ramshackle pestholes usually provided for migrant workers...
...not whether a war is "foreign" but whether it involves the general interests of the country...
...Lindbergh is far away from the mainstream of American thought and ideals...
...Today, five years after, through the instrumentality of the Social Security Act practically every State in "the Union has approved public assistance plans in the three categories I have just mentioned: aid to the aged, aid to the blind, aid to dependent children...
...The Nazis are rapidly reaching out for objectives of deep concern to the United States...
...Such proposals must be combated with determination and vigor...
...So long as^the contenders for power within Greater Europe' are fairly evenly balanced the United States, seeking to guard its own interests, can remain more or less disinterestedly on the sidelines...
...War of the States were civil wars, but just because they ycce_ a domestic product they are surely entitled to no special preference...
...Advocating "hands off" the "internal" affairs of Europe at this point, then, comes down to inviting the Nazis to do their damnest about interfering in the internal affairs of the United States, and this is what Col...
...Surely no legislation within our time, affecting so great a proportion of the entire population, has had a similar effect...
...But to achieve these new goals one thing must be uppermost in our minds, as it must be in the minds oT all those who look upon social security as one of the foundations of a democratic form of government...
...The Social Security Board has established about 500 field offices in this country where full information may be obtained about its details and where every assistance is rendered eligible claimants for benefits...
...A detailed plan for making the family self-sufficient is worked out, and with it a budget and system of bookkeeping which is submitted to thi FSA for approval...
...The export cartel adapted to Nazi suzerainty over Greater Europe would in short order become the efficient entering, wedge of economic Nazism into the internal affairs of the United States...
...If the practices of headchopping...
...Each com•**ftywas originally designed *° flWrat considerable future ex^*a*i<m and the sewerage -plants, JJ...
...And if the United States cooperates with a victorious Germany, representing the greatest war Five Years of Social Security Laws Bolster U.S...
...The Pacific Ocean is, in the main, a European ocean, although in the Pacific European hegemony is now in serious dispute...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 33
