Failure of Drive on Britain Turns Reich to Iran Oil Fields
REYNARD, DICK
Failure of Drive on Britain Turns Reich to Iran Oil Fields Nazi Invasion of Romania Thrusts at Dardanelles By DICK REYNARD With, German troops and technicians penetrating into Eastern Europe as...
...And if you're not allergic to journalistic pornography, you can turn to the back files of the Daily Worker and find that on September 6, 1933, Mr...
...The bishop's letter, and the rebuke to'Suner printed in the Os-servatore Romano, Vatican newspaper, indicates both the predicament and concern felt by the Pope over flagrant disregard for the Church in Europe...
...This party has patterned itself after the Brown shorts and the Fas-cisti...
...In addition, Ankara boaj?s of a small but hard hitting modern airforce, manned by 3,500 active pilots, with thousands more in reserve...
...the report said...
...but when sentiment turned against Bridges, Australia's gift to the American West Coast had their notes seised and the boys thrown oat...
...Tfiere was something more than that, something that has to do *fth a nasty but carefully censored scandal that has been for *9*s stirring the hot wrath of the masses now,in control of the British government...
...The full extent of these oil deposits which lie untapped in the Middle East is certainly not yet known...
...Besides the water route from Batum to Varna and then by rail through Hungary into the Reich, the Nazi engineers expect to open soon a route from the Russian port of Giurgi on the Danube across to the Bulgarian port of Ruase...
...Rightly or wrongly, Chamberlain, some of these men b** his friends, was made to bear the brunt of...
...While these developments, though novel and interesting, ¦ay not be regarded everywhere as indicative' of a marked eakural and intellectual advance, all must admit that they have an economic value...
...Taxes may have increased and »ppropriations may foreshadow national bankruptcy...
...lend'it $500,000, and continue to pat money into it until It begins to earn money...
...When ho returned from the Bolshevik Mecca about 1938...
...The Alpine water power region for ourf workshop...
...Danish" machinery is obviously German goods...
...I_IAS anyone noticed that the alpenstock is a cross between the hammer aad sickle...
...Touching indeed is the picture •f this happy accord,- Mussolini with his head on the bosom *? the man he once scorned and denounced, as today they #»euss in fraternal harmony the latest styles in banditry, ¦A^ups, assassination and purges...
...Following an almost complete stoppage of German cotton imports during the early months of the European war, Russia started cotton shipments to Germany capable of running to several hundred thousand, bales...
...In the year 1940, in the heart of Europe...
...How long, O Lords, how long...
...Tsfee Families Have 77 Billions j'HE number of unemployed may be as great now as it was seven •years ago...
...DURING the month ending September 13th nearly twenty thousand tons of once-refined oil was shipped through Varna...
...These forces, as a result of compulsory military training, will he a formidable force, even for.the Nazi military machine...
...that corner of Europe would arouse Soviet antagonism—unless Moscow were part of the scheme, which is apparently the case here...
...After the newspapermen were put oh the sidewalk...
...God is in the same manner Father of all nations, but He is not, in the same manner, arbiter of justice and injustice, of honesty and mendacity...
...A chorus of boos and cat calls refutes the charge...
...So for the staff Stalinites it begins to look like farewell to alms...
...Yito Mareantonio for Congreg...
...The new network to be part of the American Peace Mobilization, which this column was first to expose, will wwirtimBr be led by Mrs...
...A basket.of tomatoes, over ripe, handily disproves such an assertion...
...This crude oil is brought south by pipe line to Abadan on the Persian Gulf far to the Southeast, where the largest concentration of refinery capacity in the world is located...
...Heretofore in our appeals to the electorate, n have been accustomed to meet argument with argument, assertion with denial, and speech with speech...
...but the capacity of the fields is already something like 20 million tons, and if toe Germans and the Italians could lay their hands on this area, or even a part of it, they would find sufficient oil to apply all their needs...
...Does one say that the third term is fraught with grave dangers to the Hfptttlic...
...This came on the heels of the pro-Nazi pastoral letter issued to the German Catholic soldiers by Dr...
...Bridges was ruled oat of order- on his demand for an investigation of anti-Communist moves at the Washington State C.I.O...
...The oldest and most important of these Eastern oil producers is Iran ranks fourth among the world's (Persia), whose exports of oil oil producers...
...Here the whole range of finished oil products is manufactured...
...Easily, therefore, we can understand the emotions with Wnieh our old friend, Signor Gayda, that delicate and response-Creature that operates Fascism's" press agency, when he •^templates the blissful state of harmony that now prevails between Mussolinj and Stalin...
...Franziskus Rarkowski, German army field bishop...
...Millie, who up to last week told friends that he wouldn't take the job if offered, now says that he will accept...
...1 Daring the confession cycle, Herr Miss worked in Moscow...
...These works also represent compact targets should Italian and Nazi forces set up air bases in supposedly French-owned Syria...
...In Washington the office of Foreign Agricultural Relations >f "the Department of Agriculture stated that German imports of raw cotton have increased as a result of trade arrangements between the Soviet Union and the Reich...
...Styda Dreams of Stalin's Land TJBIS life of ours, so full of vicissitudes and sorrows, of strife 'itid disillusions, affords few episodes more truly appealing to A* sensitive of soul than the reconciliation of former' enemies, the-handclasp of those once estranged but now come to have two '!**rts that beat as one...
...la the midst of the growing uproar of clashing arms' and exploding bombs, we need not lose sight of the fact that if in 1931 Secretary Stimson's proposal of a genuine quarantining at the aggressors had been adopted, we should have "none of this chaos today...
...The "pones councils" win begin agitation aimed at a final demonstration on November 11, Armistice Day . . . unless Washington and Moscow go pacting together...
...Is it not so...
...But the unspeakable-Halifax-remains, overdue to walk the plank...
...A sign that Germany intends to enlarge the volume of this trade is the building of two ten-thousand-ton 'Storage tanks by Nazi engineers near the Varna waterfront...
...t all this dnrhtf America's Free Press Week, too...
...Iran's oil reserves are immense, probably the largest in the world...
...But be not •Jwneast, O patient, .long-suffering American, neither be ye fear-fah All is well -with our beloted land...
...Under the new arrangement...
...The company's oil is chiefly produced in the Masjid-i-Sulaiman and Haft Kel-di districts, delight of the travelogue editors and geographic magazines...
...Chamberlain is gone...
...much to his credit challenged Bridges' action bat was overruled...
...Because those who control Turkey are in immediately strategic positions for a drive on the Soviets, any German campaign aimed at control of...
...Anyway, he is out, glory be, and it be said of him that nothing in his official life became him "¦"the leaving of it...
...On that day PM's stockholders will vote to decide Whether or not to accept Marshall Field's reorganisation phan' necessitated by Ralph Ingersoli's running through the original 16 investors' $1,500,000...
...A half dozen witeu eggs, skillfully projected, is the sufficient answer...
...It is not by inevitable decree that these brigands are clothed vitk power to attempt the iniquity they design...
...For seven hundred years freedom has ivtlt in and lighted up that beautiful country...
...the whale length of the Rhine for our highway...
...Today, does one lay that the present administration has been extravagant, wasteful and productive of huge national debt...
...And Germany gets all the rest—which means the industrial towns, the Alpine water power and the upper reaches of theRnine...
...Last week, bundled cp in his trench-coat, he told ship news reporters, who boarded taw Exeeiibur down the bay, of the "horror" which was Republican France...
...They are Russia's back door to warm water, long coveted by the Czarist regime...
...The fatal flaw in it was that it would interfere with Trade...
...With the failure to crack the British Isles after more than 35 days of intensified large scale bombing, the Germans may use the coming months to strike at the Persian Gulf oil fields—the most important petroleum source in the world—a prize very tempting to the blockaded Nazis...
...It is understood that German engineers are in the Caucauses studying means of increasing the output of Soviet fields...
...l^EWSPAPERMEN and columnists in New York knew of *^ Dorothy Thompson's decision to back FDR early last week, many days before she made public announcement of it in bar Wednesday's column...
...The Straits lie across Germany's Drang nach Osten to Bagdad, and beyond to the succulent Orient...
...Willkie, Preparedness, etc...
...Field will bay PM for $300,000...
...There was a steady increase in tonnage during this period from 4,095 in the first week to 4,400 in the last...
...IF you go up Harlem way, you can glimpse evidence of co-* operation between the Republican and Communist pni Use Dear old Vito Mareantonio, who so detests American defense efforts, has his name plastered all ever Willkie for President eigne...
...COMETIME next Thursday afternoon PM'a staff will know *"* "whether or not they will continue to he members of the working press...
...Neatly and competently we have improved upon these crudities...
...The first step will be a virulent press attack on the Ankara government, following which the Russian Foreign Office will swing into action...
...In size, Turkey is a little smaller than California, Oregon and Washington combined but it has a powerful army, the backbone of which are about 1,000,000 hardened fighters, trained in modern warfare...
...it can be revealed now that she had seen the President in the White House, October first, where the entire matter was arranged...
...By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel DEGRADING, obscene and ill-omened, the spectacle of Brenner f-pass went by and left a residuum of moife disgust than jjgnn...
...And thus is to go down at last the oldest of the democracies sad the most democratic...
...Adolph Germer...
...Now he works the 'United State...
...Instantly, with a slam and a snort, this weapon of peace was flown out of the window...
...Qgesf for Profits Balks Peace CIVILIZATION "aad then in its hands one weapon with which it'could have defended itself against resurrected barbarism, a weapon bloodless, humane, effective...
...CHrtain Behind the Chamberlain Ouster QORTOUS stories float over from England now to the effect that 'when Mr...
...The Nazis hope to receive at least seven hundred thousand tons annually along this route...
...But the row up at the Willkie-supporting Herald Tribune, for whom she writes, made the boys hesitate to break the story lest she change her mind...
...With an output last year prise in Iran, and the most im-of just over 10 million tons, Iran portant contributor to the Iranian -¦ treasury, which, of course, makes Iran a virtual, subsidiary of the oil corporation...
...charge of organizing newspapermen, instead of which hs has helped organize a score of Communist fronts...
...Obviously this letter was dictated to the German Catholics by Herr Goebbels' propaganda ministry which is not at all concerned with the dissemination of news abroad that the Catholics are in a dangerous position in Germany today, perhaps in as serious a predicament as were the Jews in 1934...
...A survey juet completed by a government agency brings forth the radiant fact that three American families have fortunes that Mel eleven billion dollars, and being in control of some of the «Wt important productive enterprises in the country are steadily thriftily augmenting that tidy sum...
...One of these corporations, ""ted by the duPonts, did in the World War a neat little busi-**** of $1,245,000,000 in war material and paid dividends totalling tfl per cent...
...On 109th Street, a huge potter urge* that you "Vote for Defense...
...la the1 name of the League of American Writers ha greeted Tovarisch Fescht-waager, who is so much comesnnrsd of democracy that bs endorsed the Moscow "trials...
...The Soviet Union recently announced the conclusion of a trade pact with Nazi-controlled Denmark providing for a minimum of 2,200,000 Danish kroner on each side during the six months covered by the pact , Russia will"supply Denmark with cotton, cotton waste, petroleum, benzine, apatite and other goods...
...Beyond Turkey and Syria, controlled by a government subservient to the Nazis, lies Iraq with its Mosul oil fields, from which run petroleum pipe, lines south west to Transjordan, and slightly north by northwest to Palestine and the key part of Haifa...
...Not for any such reason* but merely be-aWH the democracies were timid, stupid, grossly selfish, blinder fjun bats, and bedeviled about balance sheets...
...that our under-exposed friend James J. Mattes, who.lies so close to the acre-size heart of John Lewie, was a member of the District Committee of the Communist Party...
...Matles assisted him as commissar in charge of organizing the metal trades for the Communist Party...
...The agreement was signed by Foreign Trade Commissar Mik-oyan for Russia, and Minister of Public Works Larsen and Ambassador Hasle of Denmark...
...A drive against the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmora, andrthe Dardanelles, collectively known as the "Straits," connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, is in the cards as a result of the Brenner Pass conferences, according to well informed diplomatic circles in Washington...
...On 106th Street, one of that* familiar banners whieh stretch across the street from house to -house aetneanooe: Wendell Willkie far President...
...The German nation has a great duty to fulfill in the face of the Eternal Almighty.'Abroad, and at home, the Fiihrer has thanked God that his plea for His blessing for our good and just cause was expressed mace than once and was understood," the pastoral letter reads...
...Elimination of Saposs' division will cripple the Board's work...
...It is unlikely that the Germans will attempt a frontal military attack against the Turks...
...If there is left in Europe •"single erring small nation with a dollar in its safe, let it hok upon this spectacle and surrender in time...
...7kf Dictators to Carve Up Switzerland ACCORDING to the despatches, among the joyous results of •V the new fraternity developed at Brenner is the completed plan for the partition of Switzerland...
...The campaign is more apt to take the form of a diplomatic squeeze play, such as was used on Romania...
...are now many times more valu- Operations are in the hands of able than its exports of the in- the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, ternationally known Persian car- by far the largest single enter-pets...
...The flood poured in upon them firm ftw sides and overwhelmed them, but they stood immovable wit* Ufted heads and eyes still tou-ard the light They did net tirsof their republic aiid under the leadership of some Swiss George Serris or Mayor LaGuardia, run violently down a steep place into the sea...
...Should Russia and Germany decide to divide the near east as they did Poland, the Soviets could take Iran by moving down through the Caucasus, where a well armed force is already posted, while the Nazis handle the other end of the pincer, using Romania, Bulgaria and the Black Sea as a jumping-off place against Turkey...
...Northeastern Turkey is a strategic jumping off place for any attack planned to capture the vital Sovjet Baku oil fields and cut the Baku-Kiev railroad, which German military engineers are fortifying as they did the Odessa-Lwow line...
...They offer a new market for waste Material aad should therefore cheer the drooping heart of arrieolrure, if not of the disinterested patriot...
...And if John Lewis will stop carrying the torch for Madame Perkins' job long enough to read, he can get a back copy of the Daily Worker—which Lev DeCaux or Lee Pressman may accidentally have around—dated October 30, 1931, page 2, or November 3, 1931, page 6, and see for himself that James Luetig, in charge «f the New York district of the United Electrical, Radio and Metal...
...Many of these men were powerful in the old Cliveden Wn...
...Does one suggest that the President is seeking dictatorial powers...
...It meant that the civilized nations should stop all intercourse with any nation that attacked, invaded or oppressed its weaker neighbor, and with it Japan would have been more effectively barred from Manchuria than with all the armies, fleets and all the air raiders in the world...
...In return, Denmark will supply the Soviet Union with heavy machinery, diesel motors for ships, electric motors and compressors...
...Chamberlain was> flung out of the Cabinet boat, *Vas not, as we generally assumed, only because of the mighty *nd final disillusion as to "appeasement" and the,crime of Munich...
...Cotton and cotton waste, vital products in manufacturing munitions gun cotton, and petroleum are needed by the German, war machine which dominates Denmark...
...DEFORE October really settles on this neck of the woods, New " York City will break out in a rash of "peace oouncile...
...THERE now is talk that the Dies Committee will wind up Hs * work next January and that the new Congress will set up a new committee to probe un-American activities, but with a different personnel...
...Newspaper Guild .cards, paid up, too, were forcibly ejected (which is diplomatic talk for being kicked down the stairs) last October 3 from a meeting of the International Longshoremen's and War shoal ¦men's Union, at the personal direction of Harry Bridges...
...This work was begun as early as February 12, 1940...
...Falangist control of Spain will mean starvation for the country, now in the throes of rehabilitation...
...Workers of America, and one of the ruling triumvirate, was Communist Party candidate for Alderman in the 26th District of New York City...
...this, in turn, enabling: the Axis high command to turn to Jugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, the Dardanelles, and the vital Anglo-Iranian oil fields...
...But the Swiss npy find at least this consolation...
...They had come to cover the meeting...
...More anti-Catholic activity was evidenced by the government's seizure of 110,000 bibles, which were then used for pulp...
...Failure of Drive on Britain Turns Reich to Iran Oil Fields Nazi Invasion of Romania Thrusts at Dardanelles By DICK REYNARD With, German troops and technicians penetrating into Eastern Europe as far as Constanta and Romania on the vital Black Sea, Reich economists have completed their plans for a German-controlled "Grossraumwirtschaft" In Southeastern Europe, which will serve Germany's need for raw materials and develop an economy which will keep Germany fed' and equipped for years...
...This letter, which always receives worldwide attention, told the Reichs-wehr that it was waging "a just war," and praised the "Christian attitude it has shown on the battlefield...
...And Turkey, no longer the ^^^^^^^^^^ is ^ 1: e e p i n g VOH Popen Turkey from activelythrow-ing its armed forces behind the " m British...
...This trade, which is safe from the British blockade, is handled by the Italian,tankers, Coleno, Torcello and Maya, of five thousand tons each, which shuttle constantly from Varna to Batum in the Soviet Union...
...The Petain government gets the city of Geneva and the French cantons thereabouts...
...This makes reasonable the prediction that the next theatre of war will be set in those territories which will make possible the control of Aden, the Red Sea, Suez and the Levant...
...It is not, if you (Otto to that, in the process of any fated or unavoidable destiny {Att London is shattered with bombs and its men, women and children torn to pieces...
...Local New York, according to Joe Zack, who was then Eastern District Industrial Organizer of the Communist Party (and secretary of the Trade Union Unity League...
...There are other vast fields...
...Certainly other nations opposed to us pray to God and beg Him to grant them victory...
...Arid the march into Romania may eventually prove the first- step in that direction...
...This work has been going on with the aid of British and American raw materials and finances—which will now be cut off as Washington and London see their men in Madrid gradually driven from office...
...Across the path of every move-nnt or hope to make life in this world decent, peaceful and sane, evfty effort for Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men, rises the mm blank wall of Profits...
...is to the effect that British industrialists and financiers, Waning true to form, and there, as, everywhere, loyal first (and >***) to dividends, have been sabotaging production to keep up 5*68...
...convention which John Lewis had declared illegal...
...An aged cantaloupe, accurately thrown, dcauueLates the falsity of such an accusation...
...Suner's action reveals that the 'pro - Franco forces, which have been trying to d n i v e Spain even closer to the Vatiean than the nation was after the Civil War, have lost out to the pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic, anticlerical, pro-war Falangists...
...Nazi-puppet Larsen made a formal call on Soviet Premier Molotov this week...
...HPHEY'RE taking the gay lanterns down in some circles here and * in Washington since word has gone around that Warren Madden is through on the National Labor Board...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL I ION KEUCHTWANGER'S intellectual rigor mortis set in when " the Soviets imported him to offset Andre Gide's searing criticism of the Bolsheviks...
...He served in Moscow's propaganda department sort of a liaison rasa between what passes for the Kremlin's literary sales a—esse aad the German section of the G.P.U.'s activity...
...Of equal importance is the House Committee's rider to the general deficiency appropriation bill which puts the Sapeos Division of Technical Assistance out of existence—if it goes through —by prohibiting the use of funds appropriated by Congress tor such a Division...
...AND while we're on the C.I.O., my colleague*^the Xews-¦** paper Guild—aad the public, too—should know that Ave Seattle reporters, all holding C.I.O...
...But there was little chance for that...
...Turkey, hampered by fear of a combined Russo-German attack, may he forced to follow the lead of other erstwhile non-belligerent allies of Great Britain and fall into the Nazi orbit...
...Thus is to be fulfilled the German dream of forty yean...
...Soviet Oil, Danish Pact, Aids Nazi War Machine THE Reich is drawing more heavily on the Soviet Union to ease the loss of vital war materials consumed in the Battle of ¦Britain...
...The President will probably appoint Professor Harry A. Millie of the University of Chicago...
...Herr Feuchtwanger is keeping unpleasant company, and km knows it...
...More interesting than Herr Feuchtwanger't arrival are those members of t^p League of American Writen from whieh ew» the not-so-very-literary critic Malcolm Cowley was forced to resign—who met the exiled author at the pier...
...Profits, Profits—always Profits...
...Since we Snipped PM from our private war department, we had hoped that we could avoid sordid details, but we ran up the flags again when we learned that should PM be reorganized, Ralph Ingersoll— weekly salary $800 (in cash, toe...
...and Mareantonio for Cengrett...
...My girl Thursday wonders what the taxes are)— will lose the contract which gave him complete editorial control for five years...
...each of which will be controlled by the Communist Party's genera: headquarters...
...New, Mr...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, who is also leader of the League of Women Shoppers...
...Does some one say that the worse of the administration is leading us into war...
...There may be as many persons on relief, and as nneh stagnation in...
...Among then fw Leonard Mins, late of Moscow...
...The Dardenelles, which Turkey controls under the terms of the Montreux Convention, are heavily fortified, almost impregnable despite Ambassador Von Papen's laying the groundwork of Fifth Column work...
...business...
...E*OR a moment we'd like to step into the outhouse department, *" to remind you who wend your weary way through left-wing intrigue with us...
...Mins is an interesting lad...
...Other signs of Nazi control of Spain were seen this week in the announcement of the ¦ visit of Heinrich Himmler, chief of Germany's police, to Madrid, where he will set up a Gestapo-like organization to assure Suner more complete control...
...But while we face in humiliation this ripe and rotten fruit of BUT present civaization, we need not be blind to the fact that jjje whole filthy drama is unnecessary...
...Matles was careless enough to publicly endorse the Communist Party...
...Along the southern coast of Europe dispatches cite the increasing amounts of Soviet oil exported from the Russian Caucauses oil fields by way of the Black Sea and Vana, Bulgaria, carried in Italian oil tankers...
...he became the Daily Worker', foreign expert, later to be succeeded by the vanished and unlamented Harry Gannes, who was collapsed by the pact Not thai'we want to get personal, bat Mins m\the son of the gentleman who owned the iron shop in the Union Square district, about 1920-21, which woe used as the underground headquarters of the Communist Party, New York District...
...Hobody pretended that it would] not work, thai it was fraught cith danger or that its principle was unsound...
...the implacable Ie*W»tment of the workers...
...Advertising will be accosted shortly...
...i Pope's Loss of Spain Seen in Suner Snub Special to THE NEW Leader BERNE, Switzerland.—Widespread concern has been apparent in European circles friendly to the Vatican, since Spanish Foreign Minister Serrano Suner deliberately snubbed the Pope by sight-seeing during his Rome visit instead of seeking an audience with the Holy See, an indication that Suner felt his political power inside Spain so strong he could afford such action, although he represents the last Catholic stronghold in Europe...
...Mussolini is to have the southern canton, Ticino, and the south shore o^ Lake Geneva...
...If your heart doesn't leap with joy when you con-***tplate that glorimts fact, dead you must be Jo all the finer "totems of life and no better than one of these blame' Reds...
...or psalms...
...And then tkhik of the intriguing innovation of • electing a president • through the medium of rotten fruit...
...The German-occupied sections of Europe are comparatively deficient in oil, while the little nations of the middle East have it in great abundance...
...Prodsce for the Presidency 1 TJHILOSOPHERS and students of sociology would do well to * consider attentively the new technique we have developed in wlitieal campaigning and the practical economics it effects in ime, effort and words...
...PM has been spending large sums these last weeks, but has failed to push its circulation above a daily average of IWl.Mft copies—70,000 of which are newsstand tales...
...On the board is Morris Watson, paid functionary of the C.I.O...
...Qcite a habit, the old boy's acquiring...
...These sectors are about 56 and 40 square miles respectively: compact targets for air raids and a military drive...
...And yet there are men otherwise normal that are able to delade themselves with the fantastic nightmare that you can maintain the Capitalist System and avoid war— keep the cause and escape the consequences...
...two paranoiac jjwnturers that "have made themselves absolute • monarchs meet on the confines of the territories that respectively they have BMtered by chicanery, force and fraud, and cold-bloodedly they ftcfe out plans for wholesale slaughters and illimitable^ destruc-tka...
...that preferred Fascism to the rabble and was responsible lot Munich...
...If these lines 'are cut, or these wells destroyed, this winter, Britain's jugular yeinC will have been severed...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 41
