The News Reel
RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD
By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel Mr* -11 Y|NE curious feature of this campaign that must have impressed V even the less observant is its total la* of zip. Not in the wemory of living...
...But of course if willfully and pridefujjywe reject this genialjy ttrnst-ont hand of fellowship and get blown out of the water, don't blame Japan, that's all...
...QNE of the curious'and* highly suspicious features of the hash , that has been made «fthe,,reporting of thia war is the scrupu-¦*» suppression of every indication of the popular reaction to treats...
...any, public discussion, is...
...Naturally it comes in weeks, even months late...
...There's a Bad Spot, Here, Too *|3IE glad New Europe that Herr Hitler has promised his in-* teresting followers seems to be already arriving in German-erintroHed Slovakia and to be doing quite well, thank you...
...Tokyo must keep at least 60 to 70 ear-cent of its planes in China, and perhaps more, as London and Washington increase aid' • to Chungking, while the United States can concentrate its entire air arm where ever necessary aa long as the R.A.F...
...Tokyo is low on foreign exchange...
...in the navy, empty •Pittoons...
...A magazine, "Spain, a monthly publication of Spanish Events," distributed from 2 East 34th Street, contains the propaganda in English...
...But ibis 1 .withdrawal served notice to Japan's industrial and commercial hierarchy that...
...Too much pot and fettle, what...
...Even the innovation of rotten eggslnd decayed tomatoes has failed to stir any real enthusiasm...
...In turn, the Stalin-ites apprised him, through Communist Party channels, of their decisions...
...Why is Willkie ^manifestly making his fight on his own, without the unseen but useful guiding hand* He teems to be getting no help from the gig Boys...
...They know that at least 25 Communists and fellow-travelers were placed by League officials on the...
...i I ' TTED R. POSTON, the jovial Harlem reporter, has taken a leave * of absence from the New York Post, to be field assistant to the administrative assistant in the Division of Labor Supply, National Defense Commission...
...Japan has neither the vessels or the provisions for such a force, nor the warships to defend the sea routes which, more than 1,000 miles long, must be kept open for constant war shipments...
...Geyer's alleged party name was either Walter or Bert Logan, according to Leech...
...Garfield is now in New York boasting «W over town of his anxiety to fight and "erase the menace of HUUr from the face of the earth...
...AMONG our curious habits is the reading of the London Daily Worker...
...As a previous ukase had «Wctly forbidden Jewish children to be admitted to the public fAobls, their one chance now to win any - education seems to be ^bat they can learn at home...
...American brother...
...political influence of the United States...
...The Republican strategists claim they can prove that there are Communists somewhere in the SEC apparatus...
...Marion Bachrach of the Washington Staff and Congressman Lee Geyer's office has been fired...
...Eapt Indies, and see how kvingly Japan will snuggle'down, beside its big...
...Only last winter he approved the eWorts nf folk to prevent dispatch of aid to Finland during the OaHst invasion...
...Quietly the Spanish government has just signed a commercial arrangement ..wjth London, agreeing to...
...ii-i • '¦ _' Wio Votes in a Gallup Poll...
...Before he left he signed a union shop contract with the American Newspaper Guild...
...South America, in which Spain's cultural links with the republics of...
...Spanish tongue and civilization will be backed 'by Germany's material and military strength, to oust the economic and...
...By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel Mr* -11 Y|NE curious feature of this campaign that must have impressed V even the less observant is its total la* of zip...
...There was much more than a routine warning involved in the 16,000 American citizens in China and Japan being ordered home...
...who also columns, flew to Washington two- Tuesdays ago to inform...
...Again, I am moved to remark the odd fact that in all this /snow guicfattop back to the jungle it has been the Latins that haa* admitted the truth about it without camouflage...
...In our own happy and favored land, committed to democracy, fourteen million American citizens are virtually excluded from the service of their native country, except in toe most menial capaca-t|W, In the amy they can-clean officers' boots...
...Ship for ship the American Navy is heavier than Japan's fleet, with more armament, bigger guns and long cruising radius...
...The American Navy is Of 1,280,000 tons as compared with the /ape' 745,000...
...If Marshall Field is the busy man we think he is, then he hasn't read carefully the recent series on Germany by Dick Boyer, in which Dick found it possible, in discussing the German army, to point to the beauties of "democracy" in the Russian army...
...IF we hear right, Roy Hudson, Stalinite whip of the National * Maritime Union, is being...
...J At the time the Daily Worker story appeared...
...Walter Winchell...
...This knowledge was communicated to President Roosevelt in the past two weeks by State, War and Naval Departments' experts, Admirals Stark, Leahy, Richardson and Yarn ell, former chief of the Eastern fleet They told the President that Japan cannot risk war with the United States because her navy has fuel for only two and a half months...
...This country has five more completed battleships, 78 more destroyers and 38 more submarines than the Japanese...
...And there was a paragraph which takes on significance today—especially since the London Dairy, even more than its New York counterpart, is a carbon copy of Pravda...
...Similarly, there has been no index of the state of the public *m4 in England, except such as could be guessed by th-e-^u" <* children...
...We have not been allowed at any time, for example, to fearn how the Danes, Norwegians, Hollanders,.Belgians or even *e French took.their loss of national independence, though that something one would naturally most wish to know...
...Most of them work with or close to thousands of important Japanese business executives who* go along with the government in toe - how that Britain and the United States can be bluffed...
...Now the showdown in she Pacific is inevitable...
...But a story which the court hasn't heard was contained in an affidavit submitted to Governor Olson in April 1939, which said that a group of Communists, comprising the white-collar division of the Workers' Alliance fraction, had Bent a request to the Communist fraction of the Teachers' Union in the Spring of 1937 to meet jointly and work out Communist jurisdiction over W.P.A...
...The Committee of Publishers' treasurer is Louis Birk of Modern Age Books, whose recent catalogues listed books 75 per cent of which are by prominent Stalinites...
...If he will look over a list of the laws passed in W«aat years \ncreasing the powers of the executive and abolishing ttosis 0/ the legislature, I think he will feel fairly satisfied...
...The other day we picked up a copy of the September 5th edition...
...Much of the PM staff is being reorganized to suit the New Boss, Marshall Field the Third, Dick Boyer will displace our over biased friend, Frank Jellinek, south of the border...
...So far as one can discern, the Power Trust has disowned its white-haired boy, and how can that be without our gpecial wonder1Portentous but neglected fact...
...the real stake, too, is the preservation of the British Empire'a far flung outposts in labor controlled New Zealand, in Australia where Labor is the strong political party...
...A Nazi regime was scheduled for South Africa with General Hertzog cast for the Quisling role...
...But if he still laujt for absolute and irresponsible power, he will find in the fWiidmtfs Conscription Act a provision that in war time the Prtsident's orders shall have the validity of law, and I don't see how we could go much farther in plain and fancy dictatoring...
...This particular edition worked itself into a heat objecting to the transfer of the fifty American, destroyers to the British Navy —and the government didn't censure, much'less censor the Communist daily which was arguing against the strengthening of the nation's forces...
...12, there was much verbal'expression in Spain's large cities, for the "lost American empire...
...But Wl feel no envy, only, in fact, a serene elation, if you ~ succeed where we failed...
...They know that neutral Spain will come in for consideration regardless of who wins —and before they move and expose themselves to another civil war...
...Ted's work involves the integration of Neg^o workers into the national defense program...
...that the cruiser Bartol-omeo Colleonia was easily sunk along with destroyers and supply ships by the British navy guarding the .Libyan passages...
...If the bombs miss him Ralph will be back by the time this column, and its typographical errors, are" read...
...These industrialists snow that Japan now is faced with-the daily loss of thousands of its 1,500,000 men in China because there is little or no food...
...There is now little doubt that Lundeen spoke at the Waldorf-Astoria dinner tendered to Hitler's emissary, the Duke,of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha...
...Very few government officials had seen the report when Washington men were startled by a Daily Worker story, which printed a digest of the Commission's findings and then boasted that it had "managed to obtain access to one of the few and carefully guarded copies of the SEC studies...
...EITHER the line, or Julie (John) Garfield, Warner Bros, film hero, has changed...
...There is no Liberty League this par...
...Meanwhile the entire 4,000,000 tons of Japanese merchant marine is busy running men, supplies and guns into China...
...Speaking with feeling of the emergency said to be upon us, Admiral Standley demanded in a public address at "^Uhjafton, that "full emergency powers" be granted the President, and Congress to step aside...
...THE Republican National Committee plans to push a campaign * for the investigation of the Securities and' Exchange Commission because the Daily Worker was the only newspaper in tke country to secure one of the few copies of the 285-page SEC report which had been quietly prepared for the Monopoly Investigating Committee...
...and 10S submarines to Tokyo's 66...
...Committee of Sponsors...
...But we are now allowed to gather ma^und^°u* J»Lthat there is a steadily growing demand-that Chamberlain §?peHed altogether fxipx.tho\cabta«t.-From tbjs we may sur-»%#atthe essential truth ofIfce .situation has been*el^J* Jpntish pabMc: ind it Wne->fe»«o*stp^chances on any pnejglBaiB...
...Plans Were also made, according to ' well informed London newspaper circles, for a colonial new deal in Africa and great stress is being laid on the presence in Berlin of General Teruzzi, the Italian minister for colonies and of Senor Garcia Figueras, secretary-general to the High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco...
...So we'll continue to keep an eye on PM's dispatches from Mexico...
...To get out from under some of the dirty work, Ralph Ingersoll took the Dixie Clipper to London for a "general survey...
...As this American condition was brought last week once more to the attention of President Roosevelt, peerless commander of «nny and navy, and he once more declined to remedy it, perhaps •fcmjght be well to go a little slow in our denunciations of conditional Hitlerdom...
...of,UvinAligbvjiLtha-amfrntm London, Madrid Sign Pact Despite Nazis By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C. — Despite Berlin and Rome ballyhoo, and the presence of 60,000 Reich soldiers on the borders and in Spain, Madrid appears to be still in the hands of Generalisimo Franco, while his brother-in-law, and foreign minister, Serrano Suner fumes over his inability to swing the still unreconstructed nation directly into Germany's war machine...
...teachers...
...there is no revolt of Big Business...
...And there wmld be no more equality in France...
...WW* aid Fancy Dictatoring IN these days of confusion and uncertainty, refreshing indeed '^^ft is » come upon an example of clear thinking, and for that endneace my favorite today is Admiral William H. Standley, U.S.N., retired...
...197 destroyers to the Japs' 119...
...But then, of course, they are what are called Negroes— ,*|ateyer that may mean...
...Japan has never been bombed...
...The American navy, supplemented by some British and Dutch forces working out of Singapore, to which U. S. oil companies are transfering their Orient oil reserves, could sweep the seas clear of Japan's merchant and transports, which in turn would prevent an invasion of Singapore and the Malayan peninsula...
...GENERAL HUGH JOHNSON is conducting a campaign to V discover anybody that ever voted in a Gallup poll, or anybody " tfcet ever heard", of anybody that had heard of anybody that had IP*"*?Sj fleoaluck to your fishing, General...
...What Germany did get out of Suner's attention-diverting visit was: the promise OI Madrid's cooperation in a vast scheme of Axis- penetration in...
...IT now appears that Senate isolationists will force a probe of the anti-fascist columnists Robert Allen and Drew Pearson, authors of Washington Merry-Go-Round, .which appears in some 300 newspapers...
...Just for a time, I mean...
...and in the Orient, warehouse for Lon-dons where democracy is...
...v But while tweet and cheering it may %e, to see the white-ringed dove hovering thus in unexpected places, the inquiring mind wants to know why the unwonted presence...
...Business kept him from the meeting bat he sent his regrets...
...being tried by incendiary bomb fire...
...Not in the wemory of living man has there been another presidential fight j, listless and woozy...
...The United States Navy's "air force is considered without rival by experts- ;. Tokyo has 4*000 planes, so has the United States...
...exists...
...Several other publications are issued in Spanish...
...Germany...
...Geyer, Lee E. Geyer signed an application card for membership in the Communist Party of the United States, Los Angeles Section, which card was sponsored by myself in my official capacity as Los Angeles County organizer of the Communist Party and .by Jack Johnson, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States...
...The'wise would rule and the rest keep.still...
...Jus* let the United States •Pprove of everything Japan has done and will do, including the hold-up of Indo-China and ihe Dutch...
...CERTAIN Washington newspapermen who have a reputation for accuracy will tell you that three Cabinet members, Harold E. Ickes, Secretary of War Stimson, and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, art putting heavy pressure on President Roosevelt for close cooperation with the Soviet government now...
...Hew Do ihe People React...
...ftfa/a Has a Virtue—He's Brutally Frank ^TOU may not admire Marshal Petain in his present role of Dictator of France, but you must hand it to him for a certain . tirtue of candor...
...Spanish American diplomats were wined and dined and awarded Catholic medals...
...During a recent field day of this sort, last Oct...
...the wide-range bombing of Nippon's paper-mache cities by U. S. flying Iciitwsiea, iluese could" Dcstaponediin the Philippines m_ anyone, of a sense of: excellent, flying, fields...
...That was because there had been injected into the match the energy of the element that then "hated" fposevelt Not only did it openly proclaim its fierce animosity i W it came across with the necessary long green to make things JWnP- Notably, most notably, there is no hatred of Roosevelt now even in our most influential circles...
...According to these reports, Italy and Spain are to divide North Africa, while Central Africa falls to...
...According to this affidavit, the present Congressman Lee E. Geyer was named by party officials as one of the members of the joint committee...
...Senator 0'Mahoney of Wyoming, chairman of the Monopoly Investigating Committee, had not seen ejther the report or a summary of it...
...Nearly two year* ago, Mussolini announced that one of the objects of the ~4&^wa* to obliterate in Europe the last traces of the French Revolution, and now Petain tells us it is an accomplished fact, a isielopment I commend to the prayerful heeding of the School of the Short Circuit, if any be left on its overturned benches...
...A Spanish Library of Information and a Peninsular News Service has been set up in New York City for the dissemination of official Spanish fascist propaganda...
...As for all this stuff about Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, • ''''forget it That was all'over the dam...
...Admiral should try to develop the virtue of patience...
...And to obtain these inestimable treasures, it is willing to make enticing terms...
...Another hint, presaging the Moscow-Tokyo deal, was seen Ai its regret that the American Navy would turn be able to concentrate its strength in this Pacific...
...any severe strafing and destruction of cities would widen the rift between the pro-United States and pro-British Prince Konoye, who has popular support, and the pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Matsuoka...
...Lundeen's speech is on record—as friendly to the German government...
...We once offered a reward in mis column for the same discovery, and...
...In his'reeent address to the people of his country, he told them where they were to get off, and no mealy-mouth about it, cither...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL Il/E thought we could kiss PM's boys goodbye, but the lads insist on turning up with the juiciest bits of news, so well stop thumbing our draftee's registration card and record what's happening down Ralph Ingersoll's way...
...The crowds demonstrating before the British embassy in Madrid, the thousands of bragging posters demanding the cession not only to Gibraltar but of all North Africa, are belied by the caution and friendliness of Franco...
...groomed for the general secretaryship of the Communist Party when the much bemused Earl Browder leavea for a four-year reapite, at Leavenworth, from the burdensome proletariat...
...the same amount of aircraft carriers, but toe six American ships are more modern and larger...
...Hudson is official commissar in charge of marine work for the Comintern...
...The Gentleman from California, about a month ago, filed a $60,000 suit for libel, naming as defendant the Pro-American Committee, which in a booklet "The Fifth Column in California" called Geyer a Communist...
...that her mechanized army—that part of it which isn't already hopelessly ' bogged down in China—has oil for only three months...
...Well, they wouldn't vote any more and were in for a new demonstration as to what liberty meant...
...Bob Minor is not being considered for the post because of his lack of organization sense...
...German agents are loose in Morocco, stirring anti-British sentiment, but the Spaniards are ambitious and not quite sure that the Axis will control the Mediterranean...
...And Mr...
...Senatorial officials that he was ready to appear before any Congressional.committee which may be assigned to probe into the Washington Merry-Go-Round's charges that the late Farmer-Labor Senator Lundeen was being trailed by G-men when he was killed in the Lovettsville, Va., air crash...
...A tactic which could be used against the Japanese, and which hasn't had...
...Japs Too Weak to Hit U.S., F.D.R Told Must Supply 1,500,000 Men Deep in China Tokyo Navy Has Fuel For 2 Months By DICK REYNARD Japan's -navy and air forces are so vulnerable today that the American fleet, without the assistance of the powerful Nether* hand East Indian and Ansae units, could blow the ships fly-ing'the flag of Rising Sun out of the Pacific the first moment Tokyo attempts to implement its bluff and commit an act of war or aggression against American territory or United States defease posts in the Orient...
...Washington means business this time...
...The logical spot for a Japanese attack would be somewhere in the Philippines, but this would require transport for at least a hundred thousand men and their equipment, a physical impossi bility for Tokyo...
...But then, of course, they are Jews...
...Far different we may recall, was the Battling of four years ,go...
...We are coming along the road he favors and making good speed in it...
...The worthy...
...But Tokyo's are battered and outmoded, while the American force is being augmented at the rate of some 400 a month (600 to 600 are going monthly to England...
...Jappa Wants Peace—and Territories JAPAN yearns, its foreign minister tells us, for peace and friend-**^ship with: the United States—yearns* with a fiery and unquenchable yearning...
...With, their 3,000 mile flying range they bring Japan directly under the bomb racks of the U. S. Army...
...Incidentally, the thanks of this column are due to the Marshal ' fir so cogently verifying what has been said here from the beginning about the origin, nature and purpose of this war...
...only to cruiser...
...It is true that inside Japan there are sizeable stocks of accumulated raw materials for war goods, but these would be quickly exhausted in large scale conflict...
...The seal stake is not China, but the protection of U. S. defense material lines to the rubber and tin-centers of Malaya...
...A recent •fltdej m that corner of the new earthly paradise decrees the ^¦ajediate closing of all Jewish.schools...
...Madrid needed no effective secret police to bring in the knowledee that the Italian fleet is a colossal failure...
...Nobody '^sems to give a hoot...
...An actual count shows that the United States has 16 battleships .to Japan's' 10...
...Or, in other words, the way to avoid having a dictator is to have a dictator, which seems to be logic's purest gem to date...
...While the British fleet is in the Atlantic the U. S. Navy is more than a match for the Japs' fleet...
...in the words of the dear old classical song, we never caught a blame' blame thing...
...Madrid knows that the Royal Air Force has been bombing Italian cities and that among the Italian people a wave of disillusion and defeatism has had to be countered by mass arrests...
...a 1 imited amount of oil and foodstuffs in exchange for its Neutrality...
...Then there was verve and vigor and aman could eet a kick •ut of what was going on...
...Or he might contemplate., the extent to which patronage has alreddy reduced Congress tcTthe rubber stamp function...
...I TP for reelection in California's 17th Congressional district is ^ Lee Geyer, one of the few Congressmen the Daily Worker mentions favorably and frequently...
...are we numerically inferior, she United State having 87 to the Japs' 4L Japan tried to bluff, but the technique came several years toe late...
...Garfield's friends 1b*r« much surprised (or were they) to hear*that this "is a necessary war...
...Last week John L. Leech, former Communist Party organizer, filed an affidavit with the court charging that, "In the month of April or May, 1936, in his home in Gardens, in the presence of Mrs...
...They thought in what - ke called the old regime that they had liberty because they could vote...
...The dollar capitalists," laid the- Louden Daily Worker, "now command the-Western Atlantic and secure the teUase of their fleet for work 1* thf Pemific,.if-n«eeM*r}i e#aimt-Japan " - PUBLISHERS in charge of the Pan-American Dinner for Writers * in Exile, which has been arranged by the Exiled Writers Committee of the Stalinite League of American Writers, will follow through after the dinner, to make certain that the funds sj* distributed without regard for political creed...
...This propaganda is picked up and) revoiced here in the United States...
...Since there can be no harm in yelling for South America, Mexico, the West Indies and sections of the United States, the Spanish propaganda ministry permits the Falangists to shout themselves hoarse...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 42
