Behind Europe's Fronts

...Regimental or flight number 2345B...

...in four months of bold initiative democratic England, at last awakened, has accomplished more than Nazi Germany, with all her over-advertised efficiency, did in any two years...

...Browder, Coughlin, Ford, Hoover, Lindbergh, Mooney, and Rieber endorse both statements...

...They know that if Hitler is defeated, we shall be in no danger of war, and that no amount of servility on our part would save the Americas from attack if Britain should be beaten...

...been put on the House, which this week gave Hitler a 60-day advantage in the Battle for America...

...It is a fact, nevertheless, that insofar as Trotsky was preparing :fpr a comeback through the rise of new revolutionary forces inherent in the war, he accentuated Stalin's determination to kill him...

...Like all mistakes committed by the democratic forces in this war, the fatal misjudgment of the fifth column's nature and danger is caused by a stubborn conservatism which refuses to recognize the ordeal for what it is—an international civil war...

...Unemployment is shown to be more general in Par?» than in most parts of the country, which is not surprising, since both the production of luxury goods, by which that city largely subsists in normal times, and the munitions industry, in which three-fourths of the capital's working population before the breakdown of the French defense were employed, are completely suspended...

...apparatus guiding the activities and propaganda of the CP...

...THE MEN OF VICHY *J*HE latest dispatches from Vichy contain several item which throw light on the political situation in France and the true nature of the insecure puppet government ? Laval, Retain, and Weygand...

...But we are so few, some will say...

...They sit in fact black reactionaries, representing the same cooJbi nation of the clericals and the military clique with l*fh finance, which concocted the Dreyfus affair at the dote ot the last nineteenth century and was defeated in the early years of the twentieth...

...Stalin made a similar deal with Hitler, and on a scale even more criminal...

...The Nazis, so .far, are winning precisely because they have violated every time-honored rule of military strategy...

...No effort can safely be spared by those who desire the forces of social progress ano of democratic peace to be in control both in the WW* House and in the Capitol...

...This seemingly mystical paradox's quite rational explanation is to be found in the f8ct that a civil war's strategy differs completely from the teachings of the military academies...

...Nothing but the obituary of Europe and Democracy is necessary to prove the need for this sacrifice...

...What the President and his cabinet have accomplished, by releasing these vessels for active service and by acquiring a line ofjnaval and air bases stretching from Newfoundland to Guiana, is to strengthen our defenses both for the present and the-/uture...

...Jlr All of this confirms our view that it is quite incorrect to describe Laval, Petain, and Weygand as fascists...

...That may be why some of the first settlers left Matanuska...

...The distinction is an important one...

...For good or for...

...Our government U au toe weak...

...But what we are accustomed -now to call the fifth column is rather a mass movement than a secret organization of agents', rather a state of mind than a matter of bribed traitors...

...Alaska has 40,000,000 acres of agricultural and grazing land that is comparable in soil and climate to Norway, Sweden and Finland, which support several millions of people...

...In the upper left hand pocket of his tunic (coat) was a list of dates with the months written in -German...

...It was a sad, perverse, futile hope, but it emanated from the logic of Leninism, long shattered by its own inner falsehood and the judgment of history...

...What they do not realize is that there may be no "beyond the period of emergency" if they don't get busy soon...

...In a repetition of those events—on a larger, European scale—-he foresaw his political resurrection and his revenge upon Stalin, his justification and his triumph...

...this week's work will tend to keep the fighting at a distance from our shores while increasing our power to strike backTHE TROTSKY ASSASSINATION THE assassination of Leon Trotsky is much more than the tragic finale in the career of a leading actor in the Russian Revolution...

...Interior Alaska is warm in the summer and cold in the winter, a better climate and better winter weather than I experienced in the early days in North Dakota and Minnesota...

...But whatever the outcome may be,—one thing is established beyond all discussion...

...New York...

...It is time that Alaska gets a break in publicity—not all ice and snow—not Seward's Folly, but a great big wonderful country that some day will be the home of millions of happy American families...

...Social Democrats in every state and locality must be on the job all through the next eta** weeks...

...And the time to start is new—not t?m election, but now...

...The prospect that Trotsky, his intellectual superior, might have wrested from him the leadership of the world masses formed his determination to end Trotsky's life...

...But there is danger in being too confident, especially • a presidential contest under our queer system, which mea*» it possible for a minority of the popular vote to ss»t• majority in the electoral college...

...A GOOD WEEK'S WORK THHE German press says that in selling fifty destroyers to Great Britain the United States has committed an unneutral act...

...Working in organized groups where possible' as individuals where there is no organization, they must co their part to defeat reaction...

...an airs, me starueu democratic world is treating the fifth column simply as a copy of the old-fashioned espionage conspiracies...

...These abuses should not be permitted by Congress or by the people, to reoccur in-ah emergency, the outcome of which may mean death to the British and American progressive and labor movements—upon which are based the hopes for effective democracy...

...knows what we mean...

...The handicap of six years, spent by England in lazy blindness, may prove to be too big a mortgage even for the nation of Bevins...

...A thorough exposure of all the facts would be a death blow to the entire Communist movement in the Western Hemisphere and, hence, to the entire Stalin-Hitler conspiracy to undermine the defense and security of all the American Republics...

...The Nazis and their Communist allies can congratulate themselves if the democratic world, instead of accepting the real challenge and fighting the political battle against the appeasers and fellow travelers and crackpots of all sorts, limits its precautions to police vigilance...

...Although this is but a pale imitation of the British cabinet's action—which has resulted in 15,000 English factories being taken out of private control within six weeks of the law's enactment—American industrialists are howling "anarchy , . . Socialism . . . dictatorship...

...A million wage workers in the Paris area, it is reported, are now idle and facing dire need...

...If our Uncle Sam had taken the same interest in the farmer fifty years ago there would be a far different picture than the one that confronts the farmer today...

...I shall be happy to acquaint our friends in the Far West with the importance of this enterprise from the time of our arrival in California...

...More roads are needed and they are going to get them...

...Letters To the Editor Reich Propaganda Sets Reports Of Plane Victories 'In Advance' From JOHN BRANT To the Editor: While not a Socialist, please accept my heartiest congratulations" on the fearless tone of your paper i n exposing the N. M. U. The writer has worked on the mat-fte r along parallel lines and knows only too well the truth of the assertions...

...We hope the American Government will cooperate fully with President Cardenas in the investigation...

...Scythia...

...They don't feel a bit neutral...

...Certain democrats prefer to think that they are doomed...

...But an expert has less than a Chinaman's chance to predict the next day's events when a revolutionary split of experiences happens, when the generally accepted rules of the game are suddenly changed for entirely new ones...

...For flavor and quality, the potatoes and almost every type of garden vegetable are not surpassed elsewhere in the world...

...Patriotism which is sold at so much per unit augurs ill for a nation about to break with fifteen decades of pacifist tradition and create.a peace-time army by training a million young men a year...

...And we are glad to note that President Cardenas is determined to sift the assassination to the bottom...

...Enemies of democracy, they as* also opponents of the totalitarian system represented by Stalin...

...Chancing being called names, even to the extent of being'called arT'"idealist" (which in certain circles values apparently means something between a cretin and a crook), this writer wants to express his conviction that this war has little to do with export quotas, markets, capital expansion and all that...

...An obscene masochism is spreading throughout the democratic world,— a self-torturing admiration for the totalitarian marvels...

...This law, on* o? the fruits of the victory won by the democratic eieaust* over- the clericals in the days of Combes and Wsjiatt-Rousseau, has indeed not been rigidly enforsed sir»ce Assad of the World War...

...Lenin made a deal with Ludendorf as a maneuver designed to promote "world revolution...

...jimumus&a y ajiey nas a growing period of 132 days...

...When this occurs, industrialist pressure machinery will swing into action...

...opposite same was a numeral...

...It will demand liberty, reconstruction and peace...

...No wonder the Communist press in Mexico and in the United states is foaming at the mouth...

...and the military experts all over the world were wrong in their predictions precisely because they knew their business...

...We have sufficient faith in the good sense of the American people to believe that our wishes will come true...

...assuredly we have our work cut out for us Our task W* not be easy, but we cannot shirk it...

...The significant thing-Ms that-walls in At industrial sections are covered with placards, avowedly issued by the Communist Party, denouncing the "old men at Vichy" for this condition...

...of war, it will be in large measure the result of this week's work...

...Let the investigation go on...

...Let's have all the facts...

...If, against ^our desire, we do become involved...

...And in doing so, the investigation will expose the workings of the entire Stalinist machine abroad, particularly in Mexico and in this country...

...des forges" has learned nothing from France, that it hasn't the slightest conception of the totality of German victory, that it harbors illusions of dealing with'the Nazi R5eieh,' can be discerned in its "horror" at government control of private industry "beyond the period of emergency...

...The endless list of victories scored by the totalitarian alliance since September, 1939, discourages the democratic forces and seduces them into believing in some inevitable necessity of their being defeated...

...Simultaneously comes the news that the Vichy govern ment has abrogated the law of 1904, which prohibited At monastic orders from conducting schools...

...That done, with the democrats: forces broken and terrorized and the reactionary leaden thoroughly discredited by their own acts...

...Wheat, rye, oats and barley grow well, fill out and mature and are of first-rate quality...

...BUILD THE S.D.F...

...Intellectuals, as usual, once more live up to their time-honored calling by confusing simple things through shrewd, sophisticated and skillful misrepresentation of facts...

...Trotsky's Fourth International was a hopelessly romantic and, in essence, deeply reactionary, attempt to revive the adventurist, criminal Third International of Lenin...

...That's why "all analysts of this war's developments (the writer not excluded, of course) so often and so terribly turned out wrong in their examinations and predictions,—not because they were not experts, but because they were experts...

...All these miracles are just the result of the fact that Hitler - has been conducting a war for seven years while his victims started to strike back but one year ago...

...The Huns are so methodical they even arrange their fight winnings in advance...

...what can we accomplish ? Yes, we are all too few...

...to the contrary, I am of the opinion that England, after France's shameful collapse, has less than even chances so long as the outside world does not furnish her with overwhelming material aid,—and that will take, at best, another year, which England must survive in sinister isolation...

...You can check on my statements at the Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Jim Oneal Acknowledges ManyGreet'mgs From JAMES ONEAL To the Editor: Please permit me to thank the many friends who sent telegrams, cards or letters to the dinner given to myself and family recently...

...Because they otherwise would have to admit that they were, and still are, fooled...

...Information reaching the writer during the current1 week" showed the following authenticated story: On July 23, 1940 a German aviator taken prisoner in England was searched at a military camp near Surrey...

...The CP...

...This time, succeeding more than ever, they mariaged to produce in a few months enormously large quantities of books, the sole purpose of which is _to drown the two simple syllables "yes" and "no" in an ocean of complicated words...

...Nevertheless, the assassination of Trotsky will prove an important factor in mankind's struggle to find a way to a better social and international order than that of the Bolsheviks, For Trotsky's murder has served to illumine like a stroke of lightning the entire conspiracy of Stalinism against the democracies...

...Editorials i PROFITS AND PATRIOTISM BECAUSE it would take a Walt Disney to illustrate graph-really serried rows of factories, drilling soldier-like to the barks of some bellicose top sergeant, millions of Americana are being taken in by industrialist publicity designed to eradicate any hint of government control over private industry...

...Neither Leninism nor Hitlerism—two sides of the same coin—has any future, regarless of the sufferings and tribulations mankind has yet to face...

...Hitler, and Mussolini...

...In all probability, when it has served his purpose, it will be thrown on the junkpfle This will hardly be done, however, until it has completed the state trials at Riom and doomed a number of the fot* most democratic and patriotic statesmen of France to death or lifelong imprisonment...

...There is little fog in these sections...

...A substantial part of the money spent to settle the Matanuska Colony was spent for roads, clearings and bridges, which were necessary if the country was ever to be settled, and should not be charged against the colonists...

...These four months of democratic efforts have exploded the poisonous legend of totalitarian superiority over the democratic process...

...And if, on the other hand, the reactionaries win...

...Alaska is a wonderful country and her people are real pioneers with what it takes to do whatever is necessary to do the job right...

...It is of course impossible for any such open propaganda to be carried on in Pans without the tacit consent of the German military authorities, who directly control the policing and other administrative functions there as in all the other occupied territory of northern and western France...

...But the adored Nati efficiency is by far less marvelous than the timid democratic souls believe...

...Note: This story is easily corroborated, and arrived in...

...Let us use it well, and our movement will S**^*j If our wishes are fulfilled on election day...

...It is a civil war, but neither * conflict of opposite material interests, nor a clash between social classes...

...The ^jvj must be built up...

...I do not contend that Alaska is a farmer's paradise...

...It is about time to comprehend that this war i? a civil war,—history's first international civil war...

...Chances for success are much better than they were in many of our states in the pioneer days...

...Still sticking to the traditional point of view in mnitary...

...They did not have the 'stuff pioneers are made of...

...So far the battles were not won by Hitler, but merely lost by his foes...

...An expert, you know, is a man whose intimate knowledge of facts, systematically collected in a certain field, enables him to foresee a bit of his particular field's future develon-??ent—as long as the past's traditions still count...

...The Italian press says that it "involves the United States more dangerously in the European war...

...Big businss pressure has...

...What mankind will demand at the end of this war will be a repudiation of all dictatorship...

...He had hoped to play again a direct part in the unfolding of events arising from the war and the internal situation in Russia...

...Most Americans approve the government's action...

...Take for example this much-discussed fifth colnmn business...

...But the government which expects its draftee army to prepare for democratic defense at thirty dollars a month must find some way to draft industrialists and factories at as great a financial sacrifice as that about to be made by the lads who will shortly man our anti-aircraft guns, our tanks and planes...

...Much has been exposed of steel corporation profits, much has been written of munition makers' machinations...

...The reception to myself, my wife and daughter will also remain vivid in my memory and to those who, at the dinner, thought my work worth some commendation I can only say that I hope to be worthy of their confidence...

...The stormy petrel that was Trotsky continues to influence, even in death, the flow of events in our turbulent, revolutionary epoch...

...It will expose the activities of the gang of American Communists now resident in Mexico as part of the inner, secret G.P.U...

...Refutes Charge That Alaska Is Not Fit for Colonization From J. C. GAFFNEY (President, Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Club) To the Editor: I have just returned from my vacation and find a number of requests from Alaskans to answer the letter written by F. G. R. Gordon, "Hard Winters Bar Alaska as Refugee Colony...

...The moral and political bankruptcy of Leninism is so complete that not even a thousand social earthquakes can revive it as a major force...

...Also for your fearless j ~ — - -——— editorials on the German propaganda being circulated through this country...

...And the inability to conceive that primarily important fact includes all the mistaken judgments concerning the war...

...The House is expected to submit a counter-proposal to the Russell-Overton amendment and completely void it...

...Much to its credit the Senate—by voting 69 to 16 for the Russell-Overton amendment — recognized the strong national urge for conscripting of wealth if manpower is to be conscripted for defense...

...It is a war between two types of men, between two conceptions of life—and the two armies, faeing each other, are both recruiting their troops from all social strata, all traditional political parties, all nations and air religions...

...i We must be prepared for either emergency...

...France will, the totalitarians of all three colors hope, be completely at their mercy...

...its character, its conduct, and its prospects...

...For the present the Vichy government exists by ¦* grace of Hitler, to do his dirty work on one line while At Communists do it on another...

...There is not one word of truth in it...

...the So**" Democratic Federation will have an important function W perform through the coming years, it is not for us to** mere "yes men" to the Democratic administration...

...the choice made on the fifth of November will be the m*>* momentous one in the history of the nation since 1864...

...Raging all over the world, in technically neutral countries as well as between the formally involved nations, this war is fought over the most primitive and, at the same time, most essential issue: Shall man or the Taw material of politics be the goal...

...Evidence that our native "comit...

...After continued questioning he admitted that the number of British planes he was to report as destroyed by him was fixed by the German air ministry in advance and the proof of same was shown in rhat on the date of his capture (July 23, 1940), the dates he carried were for the two weeks following...

...Like all other pioneer countries, it requires -plenty of hard work and guts...

...Our supreme duty will be educating public opinion, whose active and int•Ifc|•n, support and guidance a forward-looking adnunarf*t*oB needs every day in the year...

...We ardently hope for the election of Roosevelt and Wallace, with a majority in each house wholeheartfdo committed to the maintenance of the program of social and labor legislation which has been got under way since the summer of 1933 and equally committed against action or appeasement in the field of foreign politics...

...I am informed that the colonists are not receiving a "handout" now...

...A thorough investigation as to who hired the assassin and engineered the murder will place the responsibility squarely on Stalin's shoulders...

...J*WO months from today we shall know who is to be the chief executive of the United States for the next tout years and what elements are to control the two houses of Congress through 1941 and "42...

...The mechanical dialectics that guided his thinking inspired him with the vision of a repetition of 1917-1 &— of the historical circumstances that had brought him to the pinnacle of power...

...This amendment merely gives the Army or Navy power to condemn private factories for-government use, subject to a later court decision, when the Secretary of War or Navy cannot agree with owners on terms of defense...

...Upon arriving home I found that there were so many of these fraternal messages that it is simply impossible for me to personally acknowledge all of them and I take this means of extending to all of these friends my hearty appreciation of their kindness and expressions of good will...

...But it will not gain strength by neglecting its oM-Already we have an influence out of all proportion to members...

...but it was shown, for all time, and for all nations who are intelligent enough to profit from Europe's lessons, that democracy is neither doomed nor inefficient, that it can out-arm and smash the totalitarian threat—if only the will to live, conquers in time the "appeasemental" disease...

...The prisoner's name was Otto DansmUeller, rank of Ueber Flight Lieutenant, 234 Aerial Combat Division, Home Station at Innsbruck...

...If we succeed in keeping out...

...the U. S. on the S.S...

...J** because we are volunteers, seeking no favors, we hat* right and shall have the opportunity to advise and «• occasion to dissent...

...History alone will show how far the Trotsky-Stalin (Leninist) conception of the consequences of the present war is justified...

...For Stalin, too, is a Leninist...

...As a former very humble agent of the United States in the last war, and one who has seen the working of the Huns in this country for the past year may I be able to suggest that such papers as yours are needed now as never before...

...Stalin, too, believes that the present war, which he helped unleash through his pact with Hitler, will bring "world revolution...

...I hope that our friends and friendly organizations throughout the nation will cooperate in building up this fund and that it will be the beginning of the publication of new literature, now so urgently needed...

...I do not venture to believe that England is on her straight road to victory...

...In the unoccupied territory the Vichy government u being attacked by such former "leftists" as Marcel Deal, as well as by the French fascist elements, who demand unreserved collaboration with the German government is a Europe reconstructed by Germany, while the old royaba party, with Charles Maurras as its leading spokesman, it advocating nationalistic isolationism under the slogan "Think French before thinking European...

...Added, of course, was Stalin's unquenchable thirst for vengeance, the motive power, among others, that moved him to destroy the entire Leninist Old Guard...

...Now it is openly wiped out...

...They are completely on their own...

...here...

...The' threads of the murder plot extend to New York It is here that a great deal of the information is to be obtained cok cerning Jackson, the assassin, and American Communists who helped him execute the murder...

...It is about time to realize the full implication of England's achievements during the last four months (since Churchill and Bevin started to organize the nation...

...Finally, nothing could have pleased me more than the action taken at the dinner to establish a permanent literature fund for the purpose of publishing Labor and Social Democratic pamphlets and books...