Petain Regime Totters as Nazis Turn All France Into Slave State
Petain Regime Totters as Nazis Turn All France Into Slave State Special Correspondence to the New Leader VICHY, August 1, 1940.—Only a few weeks have passed since the conclusion of the...
...TTHE reader of these "peace terms" will confirm that they are in an astonishing accordance, with those planned or achieved by Adolf Hitler...
...There are, of eourse, many other Pan-Germanist publications which go beyond schemes for the extension of Germany's colonial empire and propose plans for the repartition of the world...
...The first news was favorable, but it soon developed that neither Goering nor Hess was there...
...The first had to do with the Jewish question...
...4) Russia cedes to Japan her possessions in the Far East...
...Our fathers have left us much to do...
...It is necessary to draw the inevitable conclusions...
...will then possess a colonial empire proportionate to its power...
...Furthermore, Germany demanded ioutright control of forty per cent of the theaters and film houses of Paris and that one of each two films shown in all other theaters be approved by the German authorities...
...Three ministries are located in one hotel, with whole divisions occupying a small room...
...Inside France TTHE author of this correspondence from France is a dis-* tinguished European journalist residing in Vichy...
...It is impossible to work at the very moment when the government is the only force from which the shattered, obedient country is expecting initiative...
...A LL this supplied new impetus for the "German" orientation...
...There followed diplomatic notes addressed to England, and then the final break...
...Tannenberg first states that South America, sooth of the Amazon, a territory of about five and a half million square kilometres, has only twelve million inhabitants (of whom eight million are colored, Indian...
...The translation and editorial notes are by Malcolm Hastings...
...France must embark upon a program of cooperation- with Germany and devote herself to sincere execution of that program...
...f That is the kernel of the prophetic program written by Otto Richard Tannenberg, thirty years ago...
...The superfluity, of . goods has been transformed into a general shortage...
...On August 1, the government radio announced that five prominent Jews who had gone abroad had been deprived by the courts of French citizenship and of all their property...
...the entire territory is to be evacuated by its French inhabitant...
...The restoration of France .is possible only through •cooperation with Germany...
...In addition, the Germans were to retain the press censorship...
...which would terminate a war between Germany and Italy against France and Rossis (Great Britain being neutral) in 1950, the peace term of which could be dictated by Hitler...
...Stenographers have their typewriters on soft chairs...
...Jews were dismissed from all newspaper offices under the subterfuge of economy...
...It is very likely'that'*-Hitler, in his Viennese days, read this book...
...Foreign Minister Boudoin made two public declarations against England, in which he demanded the restoration and return of the French fleet, etc...
...It will not be possible, however, unless we cseai our timid yielding to- every pomposity who rattiee «• tin sword...
...It is a tragic, yet not altogether hopeless picture...
...Because of this situation, the "German" orientation gained dominance soon after the transfer of the French government " to Vichy...
...Then Mr...
...One view emanates from the belief that military developments wiH soon decide the fate not only of Germany and England, but also of France, and that, for this reason, it is futile now to think of any stable regime,.L e., of any durable political system for France...
...They traveled or false passports, but their identity was revealed by Kuenstler...
...that no zigzags were admissible in foreign policy...
...What will remain if we pofiteey' before everyone weaker than ourselves as we hare •*¦• in the last thirty years, so that opposition w3l beat•» for the German people a screw without end,jfe...
...Those who hold this view believe that British successes, for example, would alter the entire' map of Europe, open new possibilities for France, lighten her burdens ana determine her role and function in the politics and economy of the European continent...
...The leading ideologist of this orientation is Marcel Deat, .- former Socialist, who quit his party altogether with Renaudel, Marquet and others some years ago and formed the "Neo-Socialist" Party...
...There must be no talk of revenge, no orientations of policy directed against Germany...
...T The American people should recognize that nothing in the world may prevent the realization of a German imperialistic program similar to what we find ^n Tan-nenberg's book—nothing but plain military power and most intelligent vigilance in the struggle against the millions of fanatic agents of Hitler and National Socialism in North and South America...
...to the unoccupied zone...
...This policy is all the more to be recommended since Russia is the natural enemy of Great Britain and also of the United States, and since we already, at the time of so clearsighted a ruler as Wilhelm I, and the greatest statesman of our history, Bismarck, stood in close friendship, or at least in treaty relationship with Russia.'' IN 1900 there appeared the book of Dr...
...As the author of the correspondence reveals, there is no hope for France or for any other country in a policy of conciliation where Nazi Germany is concerned...
...In South America, if the supremacy of any of the great mercantile powers can be recognized at all, Germany is the most powerful factor in commerce and she is also on the way to capturing the shipping trade...
...It became increasingly clear that France, almost hermetically sealed, and squeezed as in a vice •' between German and Italian troops, isolated from the world and even from a large portion of her own colonies, was completely at Germany's mercy...
...and this territory is to form a German province of Weft Franconia, with Nancy as its capital...
...Laval had to return to Vichy empty-handed...
...Under these circumstances, the.: - French banks would have been compelled to sell their holdings, valued at one billion dollars, for only two-and-a-half billion marks...
...General Huntzinger flew back to • " Wiesbaden* but returned in a few days in a rather pessimistic "state of mind...
...In the opinion of Prince Bismarck the Monroe Doctrine was an incredible impertinence...
...In connection with fhis demand, and as a condition of lifting the occupation of Paris, they demanded also that the orders expelling "undesirables" from Paris be issued by the French authorities, i. «., by the Paris police...
...were Col...
...Socialist, counsel for the Communists, and partner of . Maurice Thorez, Communist leader and prominent attorney, and several prominent persons of the extreme Right...
...Petain Regime Totters as Nazis Turn All France Into Slave State Special Correspondence to the New Leader VICHY, August 1, 1940.—Only a few weeks have passed since the conclusion of the Franco-German armistice in the Forest of Campiegnei But what a tremendous change there has taken place in the internal life of France...
...The German Empire wants to win back its rapidly disappearing second position amongst the leading powers of the world, it must endeavor to acquire decisive influence where it is still to be had, namely in South America, yet not in the form of acquisitions of territory which would embitter the population as in Kiao-chow but through politico-commercial and industrial and, if necessary, also military assistance to the South American States against the growing covetousness of the United States...
...This program, approved by the government, is founded upon the idea that as a consequence of her defeat France has become largely an agrarian country, destined to supply Germany with farm products and raw materials from the French . - colonies in exchange for manufactured goods...
...Tannenberg has so accurately anticipated car-rent events that it is worth finding out what be hai to say about South America...
...In other words, Germany demanded...
...In 1927 it was revealed oa tie floor of the Reichstag by BtaMfa Deputy Kuenstler that Dr...
...He succeeded only in meeting the notorious Abetz (German agent and spy, who was expelled from France in the summer of 1939 for systematic efforts to corrupt the French press...
...In distributing benevolence one should begin with one's own people...
...Moreover, Laval considered the trip to Paris essential because of reports concerning the proposed formation of a separate French goiaerament for the occupied zone, in connection with which several names were being mentioned (among whom it is interesting to note, those of Selier, former...
...A speedy and total solution of the Jewish question is a condition essential to our rebirth...
...At one time, early in July, it even appeared that a new Franco-British diplomatic agreement would he concluded...
...For the first time there appeared in the press of unoccupied France the following item (quoted from "Paris-Soir"): "We have witnessed the penetration of Jews through the nerve-centers of the country in .search of government orders...
...It is quite evident, however, that anti-Jewish sentiments have begun to penetrate, under pressure from without, into the most influential spheres...
...1 To facilitate a more conciliatory attitude on the part of Germany Laval determined to go to Paris to confer with the Germans...
...von der Liedt tad Major Tschunke...
...Those holding the opposite view believe, oh the contrary, that the war is definitely lost, at least so far as France is concerned...
...Hup, Stolzenberg, an ultra-reactioBaiy Hamburg manufacturer who wu then contributing money to the Nazis as well as to Nationalist military organizations such at the Stahlhelm and the Wehrwolf,^ operating a poison gas plant m Trotsk, a city on the Volga, fat Soviet Russia...
...23rd as a leading member of the Russian-Reich Trade Com...
...The Germans had made the Vichy government's return to Paris conditioned upon acceptance of a series of difficult « proposals...
...They demanded the right of exiling* from Paris all "undesirables," including Frenchmen...
...nations of the earth are weaker than we —- i**j] England alone will remain, because of her eaaaisa* a* sea armaments of a kind with which we are as***" tonight...
...These and other conditions .were such as to give the Germans complete domination of the capital...
...George Hartmann, whose work, "War or' Peace with England,"' was edited in 1912, says of the Monroe Doctrine that the Germans refused to recognize the Monroe Doctrine at the Hague Conference...
...The necessary materials and documents are not available...
...This plant manufactured tan types of phosgene gas knows « blue and yellow cross...
...ii "Sentimental politics are stupid...
...The government thereupon announced that its removal to Paris was only a question of a short time...
...To this end the German Empire must be strong enough to oppose the United States energetically and to take account of the commercial hostility of Great Britain, which already exists sufficiently, and it must therefore seek to ally itself unreservedly with that Power which has practically no interest at all in South America, namely Russia, which would naturally in return be given a free hand in Asia...
...Tannenberg continues: "This great territory will bring us the second poa"-bility of founding an agricultural colony (the ant was to be a part of Africa...
...There are two currents of thought, both among the people and in the government, two views concerning future developments and the orientation they make incumbent upon French policy...
...Wilhehn Win-* zer, "The Struggle of Germanism—The Germans in Tropical America...
...There are no reference books, no files, no records...
...The bank holdings - remain in the unoccupied zone...
...And why...
...The Vichy government turned them down...
...Their ruin would have been complete...
...It is quite Impossible, to work...
...But, as in all other occupied countries, Germany ¦ 'makes payment in her own restricted- marks, and on the basis -¦of the official rate of exchange...
...The picture presented here is, incidentally, also a proper answer to those in the United States who believe with Charles A. Lindbergh, and those inclined to follow him, that this country can escape a collision with Nazi Germany by, trying to propitiate and conciliate the madmen in Berlin...
...This only moved him and other members of the government to firmer determination to gain Germany's good will...
...Tannenberg outlines the program of a "German Peace" (1911...
...Mr...
...ployed German workers, a Bomber of German army physicians and German technicians...
...Of course, all these would have been paid for and -> even in fall...
...that France expel political leaders, journalists, etc, unpalatable to Germany...
...There ' is no doubt that Hitler thinks in the same manner of this fundamental principle...
...It was decided to set up a commission to study the part played by Jews in the life of France, political and economic...
...within a year from the signing of peace...
...Deat's program is based, of course, upon the preservation intact of the great French empire, constituting the source of raw materials for the industry of Greater Germany...
...Laval spent two days in, Paris—July 19 and 20...
...Government circles concluded that closer collaboration with Germany was absolutely necessary...
...that the control of the German armistice commission in 1 -Wiesbaden, constituting the actual government of France, was • becoming daily more systematic, more determined, and more brazen...
...In the following only a few features of that "Treaty of P***" are quoted: "(1) France cedes to Germany eastern departments and portions of departments having an area of 17,114 square kilometres and a population of 1,192,453...
...Among these was one concerning the French banks...
...The Reichswehr Ministry and the German Communist Party branded the revelations as a fairy tale, denied the existence of Major Tschunke, etc Now his asm reappears as a leading member cf the Russian-Reich Trade Commis-sion, revealing the Soviets' tone association with men use were part of the Nazi party, asd -who are now prominent indnstrisl and military oflicials by V* °* Adolf Hitler...
...L'appetit vient en mangeant is 'an old French proverb...
...Two German officers went to Trotsk periodically to supervise the workings of the Bersol Chemical Factory...
...This economic program was presented to Germany at Wiesbaden...
...For years many German politicians, especially the leaders of the AUdeutschen, ancestors of the Nazis, worked energetically for Germani-zation and possession of South America...
...In the partition of the world by the author of this -pamphlet, Germany receives Mexico, Guatemala, British Honduras, all Brazil south of the Amazon, Uruguay, part of Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and North Chili...
...Deat is editor of "L'Oeuvre...
...Sievers wrote in his book that South America was the only continent whose future "has not yet been determined, while Asia for the most part falls to Russia and perhaps one day will fall to her altogether, Australia belongs to England, and Africa to several States—particularly France and England—whose readjustments of power will influence and decide the fate of various parts of that continent...
...ALL previous quotes mean nothing compared with a book by Otto Richard Tannenberg which ap-* pea red in 1911, entitled "Greater Germany: The Work of the 20th Century...
...are problems which but two months, ago no one could have possibly imagined...
...In the end they would have had in exchange a mass of paper...
...i At first, the Vichy government would not'believe that the Germans had really put forward any such condition, i, Very soon, however, this was confirmed...
...mission...
...The move was undertaken on the advice of some of the most confirmed advocates of the "German" orientation, such as de Brinon, who had been for seven years chairman of the Franco-German Committee in Paris and is regarded as a probable candidate for French ambassador to Berlin...
...The reader will be able to judge for himself, after reading them, how well informed and .objective he is...
...Wilhelm Sievers, wrote a pamphlet "South America and German Interests" (1903), which shows South America as a field for German influence and the increase of German power...
...IT is-necessary to emphasize at this point that the conditions -under which the government is functioning in Vichy are quite ¦ . impossible, i The tremendous apparatus of twelve ministries, occu-uying normally many blocks in Paris, cannot possibly find room in the resort's hotels...
...Paris-Soir," which published the aforementioned item (with the approval of the censorship, of course) was ordered to omit it from subsequent editions, while the government's decision concerning the study of the Jewish questioned remained officially unpublished...
...should it be maintained, however, it will give to the American States, from North to South, a stability and cohesion which cannot be easily shaken by Europe...
...There is not even a minimum of the required facilities...
...Politics and business^ right and wrong, are ideas necessary in civil life, but the German nation is always right because it is German and numbers a population of 87 millions...
...The Germans informed him, however, that Hitler would have to make the final decision...
...Winzer defends the German "right" to oppose the Monroe Doctrine of Greater America with the Greater German doctrine...
...Dr...
...There are five or six people in a room...
...And Ernst Hasse, author of "World-Policy, Imperialism, and Colonial Policy" (1908) asserted that "the Monroe Doctrine has merely the importance of-a one-sided demand similar to the English demand of "Africa English from Cape to the Nile...
...The decision on this question was not taken by the government without opposition, however...
...The Germans how demanded the return of these banks to Paris, together with all their holdings, making . this the first condition for granting permission for the return of : .the government to the capital...
...Laval's suggestion that he meet them at Wiesbaden met with a refusal...
...France will remain for a long time to come a weak, conquered, subjugated country...
...With the occupation of Pfcris, all banks closed their doors and transferred their funds (stocks, bonds, foreign obligations, etc...
...if ¦ Other conditions set by the Germans were also interesting and characteristic...
...Encouraged by General Huntzinger's report, the Vichy government was certain that other current problems would be solved in a manner favorable to France, particularly the burning problem of the necessity of moving the government back to Paris...
...At this moment its status remains unknown (it has since been put into effect—Ed...
...Picked Ogpu men kept strangers at t safe distance from the plant The poison gas was produced for the benefit of the Reichiwehr as a part of the secret military agreement entered into shortly before the Treaty of Rapallo in 1922...
...tion, returned to Vichy in a very optimistic state of mind...
...Guided by this belief, the French government had sought at the beginning to maintain as much as possible an attitude of politeness toward England, to continue friendly relations, and to avoid a break...
...Because of lack of space it is not possible to quote the entire "peace terms" of Mr...
...i OF these two orientations, which for convenience may be termed "British" and "German," the first was dominant after conclusion of the armistice, both in the government and in the press...
...This astonishing volume, today forgotten and known only by a few specialists, is the most extraordinary prophecy ever written about Hitler and his age...
...It was opposed by four ministers belonging to the conservative right...
...Several days after his return from Paris the government adopted two measures...
...Never before and never afterward'"have^ the real aims of German imperialism been described with such tremendous accuracy...
...IJNDER their occupation rights, the German military authorities w could have compelled the banks to "sell" to Germany all their foreign currency, all their French industrial shares, stocks and -bonds, etc...
...Jtoth in the press and to . the government he has presented an elaborate economic program based upon cooperation with Germany within the framework of a continental bloc...
...It is clear that the German victories have strengthened the German appetites...
...So runs the opposite view...
...Because the interests of maritime intercourse are valued more highly than even a powerful tradition like ¦.the Monroe Doctrine, because it is desired to assert supremacy over the trade routes with East Asia from Hawaii and Samoa...
...Tannenberg...
...Studying these claims we learn that all present utterances of Nazi leaders on South America are based upon the old German plans of 1880 to 1914...
...At first, the indication at Wiesbaden was that the request would be granted, particularly because of the favorable impression' produced by Deat's economic program...
...3) Russia is to cede Germany territory is Lithuania and the Baltic provinces to the extent of 202.MO square kilometres and to take over the Slavi, Lttha-anians, and Esthonians therein...
...The basks have since returned to Paris, but the government remains in Vichy...
...Negroes, and half-breeds), and that half a million « the four million whites are Germans...
...There is ho question that these millions are ready to perpetrate any crime from bombing the New York World's 'Fair to blowing up skyscrapers and ships in American harbors, poisoning the water services and scattering bacteria in the subways...
...Everything depends upon the outcome of the war, for the successes of England would favor the interests of France...
...For obvious reasons, we cannot disclose the name of the author of the articles...
...To^be concluded next week) Nazi Trade Envoy Long a Friend Of the Soviets A MAJOR TSCHtTNKE ii scribed in Ludwig l^., column in the New York "Poet of Sept...
...Nevertheless, Washington now disregards and makes holes in the Monroe Doctrine, by taking possession of < the Hawaiian Islands and retaining Samoa...
...No doubt is allowed that this theory of 1900 has strongly influenced the German claims of today...
...the Malay Islands in Southeast Asia, and the Southern' half of South America...
...On July 18, General Huntzinger returned from Wiesbaden with the report that agreement was impossible, that the Germans refused to answer various . counter-proposals, and that, in general, they were dissatisfied with the policy of the French government...
...5) Germany taking the German portion of the Austrian monarchy, becoming a Continental Empire of 115 million inhabitants...
...and swa as Russia possesses in South Siberia and Northers Asia In my opinion there exists no possibility of quiring for Germany a colonial empire projaartion*» to her European power and the extent of her POP0**" tion...
...fjUnder the armistice, the French government was permitted to ¦ return to Paris at any time it desired, with the proviso, of course, that the German occupation of the city would continue...
...Negotiations were continued...
...A great empire has been reduced to a little corner, of the earth, embracing in unoccupied France a population of 114,000,000, and 7,000,000 refugees...
...He reported that the program had been received by the Germans with warm approval and that it appeared to...
...Humanitarianism is idiocy...
...But Me Brinon promised to arrange a meeting with Goering or Hess, with whom Laval hoped to make arrangements for the final peace treaty...
...It exposes the flimsy basis of the reasoning and expectations of those Frenchmen who believed that by surrender to Germany they would save' their country from the dire effects of continuing the war...
...Paul Dehn writes: * "One may think of the Monroe Doctrine as one will...
...One of the earliest of these publications is a, pamphlet which appeared in 1895 entitled "Germany Triumphant—A Retrospect of the World-Historical Events of the Years 1900-1915...
...Another German author, Dr...
...Stohw-berg's concern was known si the Bersol Chemical Factory...
...Abetz is now back in France as German ambassador.—Ed...
...The German nation must take possession of veBB** Africa from the mouth of the Orange River to Lake Chad, and from the Cameroon Mountains to the mouth of the Revuma River, also of Near Asia...
...Paul Dehn, who wrote the book, "Coming Policy of World-Economy" which appeared in Germany in 1898, devoted one chapter to the Monroe Doctrine...
...The roar of cannon and air bombs has ceased...
...This situation has radically changed . -. -within the past few weeks...
...such as Eaajand" P» sesses- in Canada, South Africa and Australia, its American branch in the United States...
...open the road for a genu- • ine understanding...
...British military successes would not alter radically the relationship of forces on the continent to any such degree as to restore the equality of France, to make her independent of Germany...
...2) Italy receives from France, Corsica and the Maritime Alps, an area of 12,460 square kilometres, with a population bf 55,000...
...In regard to South America the author declares that Germany must oppose the Monroe Doctrine on the theory of equal treatment with the Us S. A., and that this theory must be defended with force...
...On the order of the da...
...All that .the Vichy government has requested frlom the Germans was permission to occupy a small corner of | Paris and Versailles, the government areas to be freed of the military occupation, so that the French authorities could function undisturbed in an "unoccupied" zone...
...Members of the French armistice delegation at Wiesbaden, on the "other hand, attempted to dissuade Laval from making the* trip to Paris, fearing it would only lead to new humiliations...
...This was all the more natural, because for a number of years, particularly during the war, a general impression had been created concerning the invincibility of the British fleet, the limitless wealth and resources of Great Britain, the wisdom and farsightedness of her political leaders...
...It...
...Blueprints for Nazi Conquest of Latin America Seen in 60-Year-Old German Documents By JUUUS EPSTEIN THE Nazi claims for political and economic influence in South America, which threaten the western hemisphere, are not new...
...We are glad to print his articles, which, although written August 2, present a picture of the situation in which France made herself today more clear and illuminating than anything that has yet appeared in the United States...
...Among them was Maurice Rothschild...
...General Huntzinger, head of the French armistice delega...
...It is difficult to imagine a deeper, more profound change in the life of a nation...
...France is to declare her acquiescence to the entrance of Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland into the German Empire and to transpatriate the Walloon* «f Belgium Into the thinly populated French districts-She is also to band over her navy and all, bar colonies except Algeria to Germany and to pay the sane a war indemnity of 23 billion marks in cash or specie...
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