Ford and McCormick Tie Willkie to U. S. Clivedens
ROGERS, VINCENT
Ford and McCormick Tie Willkie to U. S. Clivedens By VINCENT ROGERS Recent statement* of support by Henry Ford, America's Fritz Thyssen, consultations with Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher...
...IWithin a week the world will probably learn whether or not the liberty-loving nation which turned back the Spanish Armada and Napoleon, will turn back the brown • hordes from across the channel, or whether democracy—and all it implies to the progressive movements—has died in Europe...
...ap in large American cities...
...agenda of the conference is not yet known, but there is a troubled suspicion in Washington that whatever the formal agenda may turn out to be the meeting will institute the creation of an official Quintuple Alliance, designed to present a solid allied front against the United States...
...Duce Hails Coughlin For Anti-Semitic Action As one news story from Rome tells of vast destruction of Catholic Cathedrals in the Nazi blitzkrieg through France, another dispatch reported that Robert Farracini, ardent pro-Nazi secretary of the Fascist Party of Italy, lauded Father Coughlin "for his understanding of fascist principles...
...IT...
...There a "German Tourist Bureau...
...Earlier last week Supreme Court Judge Mills of Rochester, after hearing a 4 H-hour argument on the motion, dismissed the Communists' restraining injunction on the grounds that their claims were fictitious and that hey had been suing the same American Labor Party leaders, on the same spurious charges, all over the state...
...From now on there are only those who are for Britain or for the Nazis...
...With Movie Propaganda Special Correspondence to THE new leader WASHINGTON, DC—A form of Nazi propaganda, new and unpublicized, which has been flooding the country in recent months is the miniature 8 mm and 16 mm film distributed by subsidiaries of the German Libraries of Information, which the Nazi government has set...
...Just how much of this material has come into the United States cannot be determined...
...She fights alone, but she should not be deprived of the machines and the technicians with I • which to fight...
...Army planes and 50: Naval bombers—transferred before Vichy to the French republican government by the United States—locked on the French Island of Martinique while women and children, and their men die in the ruins of a once mighty city—which sooner or later may be New York...
...Whatever occurs, Secretary Hull will have his hands full...
...The largest concentration, naturally is in New York City...
...Any heed paid to those who still talk of "imperialist war" is attention paid to those who consciously or not are aiding the Nazi government...
...The government recognizes this type of propaganda as legal and takes no action against it...
...There lustiee1 McCurn ordered new arguments on . Septe~r 4, on which day Judge Morehouse of Osweco llee.rd arguments and reserved decision, which never was handed down, preventing the meeting on the 'seventh...
...Farracini concludes his pean of praise on Coughlin's rabble-rousing with "Never before has Coughlin taken such a strong stand...
...Argentina Leads 5 Latin Nations In Anti-U.S...
...Many of these film bureaus are located in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St...
...add this week's authentic report that there have been talks in Wall Street by Nazi business emissaries which lead British businessmen to believe that American financiers and industrialists may make a deal with Hitler...
...These are available in abundance - on this side of the big ditcn—which ;may not prove as-big as isolationists would-like.to believe if the R.A.F...
...It is suspected that the River Plate Conference, inspired by Castillo during the illness of Ortiz, and while the Palomar land scandal was fanning the flames of totalitarianism, is primarily for the purpose of uniting the five nations involved for trade and friendly relations with Nazi Germany...
...the other extolling the efficiency of the Nazi blitzkrieg tactics...
...Gimlet-eyed, self - assertive Castillo represents the growing faction of Argentine Conservatives (Tories) who, like the big business appeasers of the United States, demand an open door of trade for a possibly victorious Hitler...
...Accordingly, they argue, it will be best for Brazil to throw in ita lot with a policy which would aim at defending the rich areas drained by the Plate, the Parana and the ' PBnlguay...
...Prior to the January meeting hey sought an ex-parte injunction in Troy...
...And if, argue Brazilians, defense of this region im'plies friendship with a victorious Germany-,well...
...then moved in Rochester before Supreme Court Judge Mills for permanent dis~ al of the Communist complaint...
...Their next elfort, ln Rome on August 30 was temporarily ~ successful...
...This was grll'Hted...
...The A.L.P...
...Of these 2,300 are combat ships— V enough to keep Nazi raiders at a distance from the world's greatest city, enough to help save the fate of the empire to which our philosophy, our way of life, the very essence ' of our political concepts, tie us irrevocably, isolationists and pacifists to the contrary...
...Cameron's Sunday night sermons were notoriously reactionary...
...As a matter of fact, the President of the United States recently vetoed a bill to naturalize one of Mr...
...The auto chief was the first to hire Fritz Kuhn in this country...
...Liepold is on intimate terms with Detroit's Consul Heiler and attends all social and political events arranged by the German consulate in and about the auto city...
...Trade union leaders here estimate that these meetings attract from 70 to 100 Germanbom engineers employed by the Ford factories...
...For this reason, the military and naval plan now envisages what is known as a "quarter-sphere" defense--that is, a defense of South America only as far south as the mouth of tbe Amazon...
...McCormick has been a close friend and advisor to the aviator and had much to do with the recent radio talks delivered by Lindbergh...
...sought to prevent the sesSiO~" by securing -an injunction against it...
...Genix, of Pont de Beauvoisin and of Donessin...
...Courts Void CP Attempt to Block ALP Nomination of FDR, Mead Despite constant attempts of the Communist Party to manipulate New York's judical machinery and prevent its meeting, the American Labor Party State Committee will meet this Saturday, September 14, at the Hotel Martin in Utica to nominate President Roosevelt, Henry A. Wallace, Senator James Mead and other state-wide candidates...
...in New York, run by a Mr...
...Unless Willkie repudiates Ford's support, he has accepted the backing of the nation's leading isolationist, a man who has refused to build planes for England, who accepted on his 75th birthday a medal from Adolf Hitler, a man who has contributed much to Germany's Nazified auto industry, and who permitted himself to be photographed • with Fritz Heifcr, German consul in Detroit, and Karl Kapp, German consul in Cleveland, as the latter pinned the Nazi ribbon on him...
...Willkie's repudiation of Father Coughlin is nullified by his collaboration with Ford...
...Herr Gpering the ebulliently "pleasant" Nazi air chief, cheerfully announces that Germany plans to send over four daily relays of 2,500 fully laden bombers . . . and the Nazis' bite has been well proven worse than their bark...
...No words can vivify the horror of living in death streaked across a city by the wild shriek, the curdling crescendo whistle, the sepulchral thud and burst of aerial torpedos...
...carries the war to Germany...
...One stomach-turning shot is a dive with a Stuka...
...Maclou in Rouen, the thirteenth-century church in Gisros, and the church at Adleys, which was a Renaissance masterpiece...
...Every isolated drone, high in the skies, means death to working people below, hints of the death to visit what remains of the British and exiled labor movements, the cooperatives, Europe's last effective parliamentary government, the easy way of life which is traditionally British, the ' Anglo-Saxon democracy upon which America patterned itself . . . this death will come if Germany with the aid of her powerful airforce crosses the narrow strip of a channel on which now floats the hope of world democracy and America's chances to keep its cities from becoming another rubble stacked Warsaw, Rotterdam . . . and London...
...Practical minded BraziliaM, who know the . plans, believe this leaves ,them out in the, eold...
...Ford arrived in a private railway car, protected by 11 bodyguards, and made every effort to keep the visit secret...
...is crippled...
...Former Judge Matthew Levy, counsel in this action for the American Labor Party, revealed this week that an injunction has been obtained preventing the Communist controlled Committee to Rebuild the ALP from further interfering with the State Committee sessions...
...The mail sacks taken off by the British censors revealed that sixteen of the "newsreels" seized were shots taken in the trenches by German soldier photographers...
...By including Bolivia in a quintuple alliance, Argentina could Iwpe also to divert Bolivian tin to whatever market she desired...
...This order resulted in the voiding of the injunction issued in Rome, New York, by Judge Cross on August 30, and enables the regular American Labor Party Committee to meet before election law deadline would prevent filing of nomination papers...
...to a meeting of the State Committee, M ris Watson, Eugene Connolly and Hyman G : ekstein, Communist leaders of the '':reOuil~rs'' committee...
...The inelusion of Bolivia-andthe evidente1fort to control distribution of , Bolivian wealth-means tbat Chite, furnishing free ports to Bolivia, is being frozen out...
...Farracini hailed Coughlin's statement that "Mussolini is the world's best statesman...
...There can be no neutrality as the fog rises over the English...
...America's armed forces have 4,900 such craft on hand...
...Henry Ford's endorsement, announced this week, came after the auto manufacturer traveled to the Rushville...
...The conference, already known by the name, "River Plate Conference," will bring together the foreign office representatives—possibly the foreign ministers themselves — of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia...
...This is the big business crowd Which endorsed Hoover and Landon...
...The A.L.P...
...The planes .for British relief sit idly in U.S...
...Louis, Detroit, Los Angeles and Northern New Jersey, wherever there are crowded German districts...
...Firs' of these actions came in January, 1940, on a 'few 'months after the Communist line had~' n switched against President Roosevelt by the pact...
...At the same time the official Italian press in Rome and other large cities ran features and news stories lauding the Willkie candidacy...
...His call coincided with the G.O.P...
...For a complete picture of appeaser and totalitarian support of the G.O.P...
...The broadcaster helped launch and still cooperates with the Anglo-Saxon Federation, an anti-Semitic organization dedicated to the same principles which motivate the Christian Mobilizers...
...Just what the preparations in five South American eapitalg for that week may portend I have no way of knowing and no intention of guessing...
...There will be a meeting of foreign office representatives at Montevideo, beginning October 12th, which will other in a new chapter of Pan-American relationships—a chapter in which the United States will be told, at distinct from the old relationships in which Washington did all the telling...
...candidates...
...There are many explanations of this—in fact, this is the real direction of the Brazilian drift for some time— but quite possibly the determining reason for Brazilian adherence is the fact that all LatinAmerican capitals now know that in case of real war the United States will not actually attempt to defend the entire hemisphere...
...We can no longer tolerate the vote seeking stupidity such as that which keeps 80 U.S...
...All of tbese were thrown out of court...
...But if...
...Already there are.-insufficient fliers, to man the few reserve planes which can fight off Nazi squardron while the R.A.F...
...The European Picture Service, of 353 Fifth Ave...
...In the Congressional Record of June 6th, 1940, page 11760, Congressman John Lesinski of Michigan said: "Mr...
...Judge l;ross, a#er issuing his order on August 3Q, set ;S-ep'teni>er 9, two days after the scheduled meetings...
...nominee's statement that "I shall never lead the United States into any European war" and redoubled "Willkie efforts to smear Roosevelt as the "warparty's man" and make "American peace" the fundamental issue of the campaign...
...they are idle, they are strong...
...It is reported that in Yorkville...
...One of the unpleasant surprises of the preparations is that Brazil should now outwardly adhere to the Argentine bloc...
...II Duce's partner destroyed the Church of St...
...of St...
...The clue to this organization was seen when the Lisbon-LaGuardia Field Clipper^ stopped at Bermuda...
...What else can they do...
...the raiders come, drop their loads from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, and scurry back to France...
...America has the planes, America has the pilots...
...This the rich agricultral part of temperate Sooth America, where most of the German settlers have located...
...It is almost no secret whatsoever, that military and naval experts at Washington say an attempt to patrol the hemisphere would scatter our forces so badly that we would become helpless...
...Feldzug in Polen" has been running for months...
...t1 ,,: The final ,injunction, secured for t he A-l;'P, by Judge Levy, who is ~ mem,ber ; 0t lithe Party's State Law Committee, Vlce-chalIi an of the Bronx County Committee and chairwan of the Bronx Section of ' the Libe;al and L~or Committee to Safeguard the A.L.p.,culmi: " tes ~nong series of court actions begun in iTan ry of tllis year by the Communist party fro , in th~tt::ry opportunity, usually just prioi...
...Two main themes run through this film...
...rior to the April meeting the~ sued in New 1'0rk...
...This week, or the next, contains the key to Britain's life and death, to democracy's continuance further into the 20th century, to American peace...
...Planes 5,000 Idle U.S...
...One the bestiality of the Poles to the fair-haired, sturdy German women...
...There is evidence that the week of October 12th may mark some sort of a Western Hemisphere deadline for the United States...
...Judge Levy then took counter &etion in the Appelate division...
...of Chanez, in the diocese of Chambery...
...I They should not be wasted...
...with offices on West 57th Street, does a flourishing business relasing anti-semitic motion pictures for showings at church, social and political functions...
...Hitler's citizens for illegal entry, who at the present time is employed in the engineering department of the Ford Motor Company...
...They were addressed to the European Picture Service...
...By accepting the support of Colonel McCormick, Willkie links himself directly to the appeaser groups sponsoring Charles A. Lindbergh...
...Haas, also distributes German propaganda films...
...It is recalled that the Germans used similar tactics in Norway and Sweden' to "sober" those officials and army officers who entertained thoughts of fighting the Nazis...
...mention of Chile haVing anything to do with the River Plate Conference...
...Authentic dispatches and diplomatic sources report that the R.A.F...
...Britain should get all of these the moment they can be put into the air and delivered...
...Most significant is the fact that the River Plate Conference was proposed by the Government of Argentina immediately after the reins of government fell by natural processes into the hands of Vice President Ramon Castillo, whose sympathy with the Axis Powers is as Well known in Washington as throughout Latin-America...
...Indiana, personal hcadqnsrters of Wendell Willkie...
...Bloc By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at Station...
...Berlin radio commentator, who speaks nightly to the British via short-wave...
...with the camera apparently immediately behind the propeller...
...youngsters are going thirty and forty hours without sleep in the jneiorable aerial destruction) of German war plants and possible channel invasion jumping oft* spots...
...These are rolling off the assembly belts now—slowly but consistently...
...It is an efficient weapon of the "strategy of terror...
...Soon these English, Canadian and Anzac lads must crack...
...Naval and Army airdromes...
...Ford's personal secretary, Henry Liepold, is closely associated with the German-American V o c a t i onal Society (Deutsch - Amerikanische Beruftsgemeinschaft), which is considered a Nazi industrial agency devoted to place men in U. S. industry...
...Recently German agents succeeded in convincing a Congressman to issue invitations to his colleagues for a private showing of "Feldzug in Polen" (Campaign in Poland) which is now running in a Nazi movie house in New York's Yorkville district...
...While Hitler's Axis partner lavished praise on Father Coughlin's "firm stand against Jewish democratic propaganda in the U. S. and Anglophile President Roosevelt and renegade Mayor LaGuardie," French ecclesiastical authorities reported the Cathedrals at Rouen, Evreux, Arras and Cambrai "virtually destroyed...
...State Committee session scheduled for September 7 had to be postponed because of the order obtained from Judge Crosi by the Watson-Communist-"rebuilders" committee which has been seeking to prevent th« renomination of President Roosevelt and senator Mead by the A.L.P...
...But no conceivable words can incarnate the cold terrifying whine of the air-raid signal which jerks you out: of your routine, puts you in dank, stinking shelters from which there may be no exit...
...Henry Ford, it will be recalled, also endorsed the two previously unsuccessful G.O.P...
...as .. ~ ', the date for argument on the order...
...President Roberto Ortiz, democratic, easy-going, was able to hold this mob in check through the efforts of his minister of war, General Marquez, until illness forced Ortiz to relinquish power temporarily...
...WEVD, New York...
...But the Londoners know it, as they know now that their homes are the front line trenches, democracy's last outposts...
...Quite likely, no announcement of this kind will be made between now and October 12th, if the British are still holding their island...
...The effect of the picture is clearly to horrify, to sow fear and insecurity...
...He still employs William J. Cameron as his radib mouthpiece...
...This differs from original Willkie strategy devised by Russell Davenport, former editor of Fortune...
...I Britain faces America's crisis as well as her own...
...Hence, there is lI...
...Paul and of Notre Dame de Recouvrance in Orleans...
...William Knudsen, in charge of industrial production for defense, this week told ~ the nation that within 18 months American factories will have produced 11,000 planes...
...But these are indiscriminate bombings...
...Others badly damaged were the churches of St...
...Accompanying these terrifying shots is the bland voice of Lord Haw-Haw...
...Any hesitancy on the part of the American people and their leaders, now, is worth millions of guns and thousands of planes to Hitler...
...As the campaign progresses it becomes more obvious that the backbone of Willkie's machine support is the industrialist appeasement groups typified by such men as Ford, Rieber and McCormick, all of whom have in the past been friendly to the Nazi Reich...
...There should be ;-, no political pussfooting...
...And as you ride complacently to work this morning, 8,000,000 persons, red-eyed and dirty, sleepy and nerve-wracked, in mourning for friend or husband, or child, or wife disintegrated by a Stuke "egg," trudge wearily past gutted apartment houses and office . buildings which are all walls and no floors...
...II . In May they went to Syracuse, where a ~ear~ ng was set but- never held...
...by that time, it should begin to appear that England is doomed, and that the United States must prepare for defense of the hemisphere, it is more than likely that the result of the conference will be obstructionism...
...But these are indiscriminate bombings...
...If the most ancient capital of contemporary democracy is not to be ground to bits the Royal Air Force must...
...Nazis Flood U.S...
...Hitler has engineers from his country employed in the Ford Motor Company today...
...Ford and McCormick Tie Willkie to U. S. Clivedens By VINCENT ROGERS Recent statement* of support by Henry Ford, America's Fritz Thyssen, consultations with Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the notorious Chicago Tribune and friend of Elizabeth (Red Network) Dilling, revealed that Wendell Willkie was rapidly turning isolationist and seeking the support of America's **»^wg tones, pro-Nazis and official fascists...
...have planes and pilots...
...Craft and Pilots Can Save British Democracy A hundred homes—and the women and kids in them—are churned into debris .each time Nazi pilots, trained into fanaticism, drop 1,000-pound bombs over London...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 37
