Reich Goal in Africa Not Oil, But Moslem Violence in Heart of Britain's Empire
REYNARD, DICK
Reich Goal in Africa Not Oil, But Moslem Violence in Heart of Britain's Empire Nazi Conquests in Europe Created Sufficient Oil Supply By DICK REYNARD Revolt in the Near Eastern deserts, not...
...Oil Sales to Japan Seen As US Warning to Russia By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C—Hy seizing between $2,Q00,000 and $5,000,000 worth of vital machinery, waiting crated on docks for loading aboard Soviet freighters...
...Last year, pilgrims to Mecca openly and spontaneously prayed for such a victory...
...I am rather cerfljp that its roots will be found in Blake...
...Last week seizure of important machinery, for which the Russians had already paid, and the arrest of Gaik Badalovitch Ova-kimian, indicates some knowledge in Washington of plans by Russia for anti - British, anti - Chinese moves...
...Whoever Ovakimian is, the FBI must think him important, for he is being held in the unprece-dentedly high bail of $25,000— which was paid upon the arrival of the Russian consul-general Victor Fediuchine...
...The total value of exports of partly manufactured iron and steel was $165,000 compared with $6,605,000 in the first two months of last year...
...Translated from the German by Maurice Samuel...
...The British were the most serious, but what they offered was not acceptable to the Zionists...
...The enactment of April, 1940, prohibiting the sale of Arab lands to non-Arabs won more friends., as did purchases of citrus crops and the release of some Arabs from concentration camps, where they had been placed for attacking—frequently slaying—Jewish settlers...
...In the same period German production was 4,000,000 from oil wells and 30,000,000 barrels from synthetic production...
...The movement had its roots in the economic and political conditions of Europe and in the cultural and spiritual transform*, tions which took place in the ghetto...
...This parallels current fears here of "inflation," due to rising demands...
...These gains in employment spread from the defense to rion-defense industries...
...The proceeds of Wagner's levy will be used as subsidies to cheapen production...
...More than 250,000 new jobs were created in the military aircraft field...
...This is a permanent industry, government production offices point out, since the entire nation is now air-minded and receptive towards a huge commercial aircraft industry which after the war will continue to turn out planes on a comparatively cheap, mass production basis...
...Germany, therefore, has taken a second step: commandeering supplies...
...In Poland, Germany seized the Jaslo oil fields, which now yield 1,500,000 barrels...
...And if his technique limps now and then, missing often enough the relaxed integration of line and the inevitability of phrai...
...179 pp...
...The Germljt invasion campaigns, and also the successful British rash through Libya early this year, were exactly calked on the plans for tfet war of the future laid down by a modest French qaptain uv'| book published in France as far back as 1934...
...By reducing Arab unemployment, by donating $250,000 for direct relief among poor Arabs, another $250,000 for village reconstruction, and other large sums for various municipal activities and road-making, the British have won over much of the non-Jewish population in Palestine...
...The entire matter has considerably upset Mr...
...the Netherlands East Indies nearly 8,000,000 tons, and Bahrein, British North Borneo and Burma about 1,000,000 tons each...
...There has been a striking change in the relative importance of leading commodities in our exports to China so far this year, the Department of Commerce reports...
...It is intended as a warning to Russia, some political circles here believe...
...POEMS, 1925-1940, by Louis MacNiece...
...It is not a book to read if one does not know at least the bare outline of the Zionist movement...
...For more than a year now the Arabs have been headed for more active cooperation with the British, although they were impressed by the efficiency of the German war machine...
...It liT the story of the most fascinating figure in modern Jewish history, and it is weB presented...
...Nazi tactics have always been based on the theory of outflanking supposedly impregnable positions...
...Poet in Transition By RALPH DE TOLEDANO THE critics will not relish the work of Louis MacNiecc.* He is no man to mount on the point of an epigram...
...The State, now blanketing the entire field of production and distribution, tends to get further away from economic factors, and policy is determined in terms of political and social needs...
...organization wiS an imposing apparatus...
...The War of the Future By BENJAMIN PROTTER TPHE blitzkrieg methods the Nazis have so successfully employed * in Poland, the lowlands of Holland and Belgium, in Franfi: and once again in Yugoslavia did not originate, as we may ha«e been tempted to believe, in the unscrupulous but fertile imagination of Hitler, Goering or some Reichswehr general...
...In the Near East this takes the form of inciting Moslem rebellion against the British in the Suez sector...
...THE WAR OF THE Fl TIRE...
...Second place was taken by petroleum products to the value of $2,017,000 while raw cotton, which is used for military purposes, came third...
...Average earnings in the aircraft industry are now at $1,600 a year and are rapidly increasing as unions continue to organize the major factories in the field...
...Little merchandise can be found...
...Random House, lM-$3.50...
...The shock of war and the examination of himself as man and poet has led him away from the concentric intellectualisms ,*i his former leader, Auden, and in placid disillusion, he has accepts* tautology as the only valid definition of his particular universe, "And man from false communion dwindles back Into a mere man under a mere sky...
...Price is no longer depended upon to perform its normal functions...
...he falls into no category and disturbs the intellectualist tendency to label ami thus damn...
...New Zealand is ruled by a Labor Party government, headed by Prime Minister Peter Fraser...
...for ,in ail utterances is the social protest of his voluble contemporaries the nostalgia for the defined object of the war-struck Georgian*, the self-mocking plangence of the earlier Eliot, the affection for cliche which has started to elbow aside the dislocated innovation...
...This was evidenced by the riots in Damascus which resulted in the destruction of the British consulate...
...Slow-moving, cumbersome masses oi...
...This is an increase of 80 per cent pver March of last year...
...Any person who needs medicine can get it from a druggist free, and the government payB the druggist...
...Defense orders have resulted in an increase in income fox 300,000 textile workers...
...The costs of "ersatz" products are several times those of regular materials...
...Price control as an economic mechanism has long been used in Germany...
...It was provided that prices of goods and services must be adjusted to the demands of war economy...
...Transjordan, the important buffer state between Palestine, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, is another danger spot...
...This indicates that in addition to a small amount of copper and lead, oil is being held out as a bait to Japan to keep her from swinging into the Axis orbit and from moving down from China into the Dutch Indies out 0? sheer necessity...
...Secretary of Labor Perkins told reporters last week that her department had data proving that another 300,000 workers will be required in factories, mines, on railroads and in other transportation facilities Further evidence that the* national defense program was exerting an effect on commercial businesses and industries was seen in the work of the New York State Employment Office, which filled close to 40,000 new jobs in March alone...
...Transjordan is important because it controls the port of Aquaba, on the Red Sea...
...New industries have been started recently...
...Reich Goal in Africa Not Oil, But Moslem Violence in Heart of Britain's Empire Nazi Conquests in Europe Created Sufficient Oil Supply By DICK REYNARD Revolt in the Near Eastern deserts, not control of the fabulous Mosul and Kirkuk oil fields, is the goal of the German-directed Iraqi rebellion...
...Lip-pincott...
...Fears of inflation cause a rush to buy goods...
...But the Mohammedan world is also as full of intrigue as Hollywood's version of Pepe Le Moko and the Casbah...
...David Dub-insky, president of the AFL's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, and a member of tbe Trade Union Division, revealed last week that demand f* labor in defense industries to **" suiting in important g»*n* I" organized workers in tfce facture of women's clothing¦ • W said that 10.000 new mew*** had been admitted by Ine¦'¦JJJ in the last two montka^aad **»' increasing success had the efforts of the union to e*fl*V the low-standard section industry to bargain vttl •* union...
...The Romanian oil fields turned out more than 34,000,000 in the . first nine months of 1940...
...The British have been countering this for some time by appeasing and wooing the Arabs...
...He is matter-of-fact, even in passion—as Englishmen have been since the blight of "manliness struck the Northern world—-but there stirs in his better lines the rhetorical motion which is one of the touch-stones of great poetry...
...The supply of consumption goods has shrunk because of the blockade, and because of the conscription of one industry after another for the manufacture of armaments...
...3.00...
...This man, Theodore Herzl, organized the vag»e anj groping movement for colonisation into a work...
...It cannot be used efficiently in dealing with the prices of imported goods, it does not prevent the withholding of goods from the market, it does not influence supply when the entire supply is short of demand...
...T*HE period which found cosmic significane in badly-Cadenced * "proletarian" effusions and the versified dialectics of an ill' digested historical materialism created more excitement thM poetry...
...At the same time the Division's breakdown of the defense production's effect on American workingmen revealed that so rapidly are the jobless being absorbed that within a year this nation will be able to speak of itself as without an unemployment problem any more serious than in 1929...
...Working for Berlin are hundreds of exiled Syrian agitators...
...forcing production in certain channels by rationing and by eliminating tbe economic waste and uneconomic channels of distribution...
...It later developed that nearly 100 other Soviet agents were leaving with him...
...Without resorting to the fashionable semi-fiction of modern biography, the author of this book, by meticulous documentation and by judicious sifting of voluminous evidence, succeeded in presenting before the public the person of the greatest Jewish leader of modern times, Theodore Herzl, a man who captivated the imagination of millions as no man had <}one since the days of the pseudo-Messiah, Sabbatai Zevi in the seventeenth century, The book reads exceptionally well...
...In 1939 he went to Berlin to buy rifles for Ibn Saud, and had a two-hour talk with Adolph Hitler...
...If the Suez ' Canal is clogged with bombed snips, or materials sunK by saDo-teurs, Aquaba and the roads through Transjordan make up a substitute land-sea route tb India and the Americas...
...Its first drastic application was during World War I. This device, however, can never give full control of the market, so necessary in a totalitarian state...
...Egypt and India combined had an output of 1,000,000 tons...
...There is no mysticism here, nor romantic horrors, but SB attempt to gather the scattered fragments of existence a*4 set them up as final and self-explanatory...
...The external conditions are not treated in this book by Alex Bein except as explaining the development of the leader...
...The French High Command refused to listen to de Gaulle, proving again the old adage that no man is a prophet in hit country...
...Other reasons for the price rise can be found in the replacement of many products formerly made from natural raw materials by those made from synthetic materials...
...Permitting Tokyo to purchase heavily in the United States must be part of some administration stratagem, some believe, for it is improbable that Washington at this time would otherwise have allowed Japan to buy 1,553,000 barrels of petroleum products in the United States during March, 1,279.000 during February, and l,49n>00 in JanuaryA clue is seen in the agreement between Japan and Anglo-American oil companies in Batavia, Netherlands East Indies...
...Within eight years «f his activity the Zionist movement was in a position to negotiate with several European powers, to carry out its program...
...People have more money to spend than ever, but they find less than ever to buy...
...Under the arrangement, citizens register with the governfamily doctor, who, after treatment, sends the cards to local health officials...
...army employing great numbers of tanks and airplanes hi cjuiqi surprise moves against the enemy...
...The riots there ran true to the pattern set in Mexico City by German agents who were in charge of arranging the demonstration against Vice-President Wallace...
...Many hundreds of thousands more will be absorbed during the next half year as the government continues to disburse all of the $4,029,-700,000 it plans to spend on aircraft...
...Another more technical factor is the lack of long-tern investments for those who have accumulated war profits...
...Defense Program Rockets Employment, Labor Income to New Highs, Survey Reveals Labor in the United States is achieving new and far-reaching industrial power and income as a result of the defense program, according to a analysis made public this week by the Trade Union Division of the'Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
...Automobiles and parts held fourth place and were valued at $1,045,000 against $200, 000 in the first two months of 1940...
...By Alex Bein...
...Total shipments were valued at $11,-108,000 compared with $11,588,000 in January and $15,399,000 in February, 1940...
...securing equitable distribution through Government supply agencies...
...Price reductions on consumption goods were avoided during the first year so as to...
...This new pact was approved in Downing Street, and the action undoubtedly affected policy here in Washington...
...If the marshals and generals of France had had the same clearsighted vision of the war that was to come as did this subalters officer, France would not in all likelihood be wher* it is wd»J De Gaulle shows in this book strong powers of analysis tai description which we ordinarily would expect from a militttt man...
...escape the "harmful effects of increased purchasing power...
...Today, - with Iraq in mind, these stratagems are not so ludicrous...
...For this reason there has been no Jewish army, despite the knowledge that a German success in Northern Africa would unloose upon the Zionists wild butchery by extremist Arabs...
...The War Economic Ordinance of September 4, 1939, sums up the decrees...
...Meanwhile total, exports to Japan continued in a downward trend during February...
...At the initiative of Reich Price Commissar Joseph Wagner, an extraordinary levy on the profits of all German industrial undertaking was promulgated on March 19...
...Not that his voice is sharply individual...
...In Saudi Arabia there rules Ibn Saud, a powerful figure of a man, six foot three, as romantic looking a man in his desert clothes as any movie studio casting office could produce...
...by permitting the increase of oil sales to Japan, and dispatching millions of dollars worth of aircraft and parts to China, the Administration appears to have doubled back on its former policy and is determined to warn Russia against involving Japan in a war with the U.S.A...
...Despite the immense prestige of the French army, Charles de Gaulle, who now leads the Free French forces in exile, saw id fundamental weakness...
...On frequent occasions he volubly criticized former Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, for publicly flaying the Soviets...
...Two factors were necessary to bring about such an amazing change in the situation of thej Jews, hitherto unorganized and unrecognized : the conditions of the times^, and the personality of the leader...
...This never bothered the Russian agents before...
...Although admitting that the cutting off of the Iraqi supplies would present some inconvenience, British authorities here inform this writer that Iraq is not the only source from which the Imperial Forces in the Middle East draw their oil supplies...
...This occurred in Norway, Holland, Belgium, Denmark'and France, where large stocks were seized...
...Suddenly the movement acquired a leader from Western Europe, a thoroughly German* ized Jew...
...But in Iraq the Germans have always "made headway...
...During 1939, Iraq produced about 4,000,00 tons of oil...
...it is no great matter...
...THEODORE HERZL...
...Russian and German agents in Iraq...
...The poetic inflation of the years since 1912, *>*M9 its excesses, ends here—and only in the limbo of discarded seBosP can the sociological poets set up their tablets...
...I mean that MacNiecc writes like a post who has a great deal to say and prefers learning his metier saying it, rather than succumbing to the method of our young Americas poets: all technique while content goes a-begging...
...But despite this tactic, expenditure of huge funds and smuggling of guns—one German armament factory alone sent 50,000 rifles and 1,000,000 rounds of cartridges into North Africa year ago—the Arab remains democratic in sympathy...
...With the British busy elsewhere, the temptation to overrun Transjordan might prove too much for Ibn Saud, who has wanted the area .for years...
...France did not go dawn because there was treason in or out of the ranks or because of labor troubles in 1936 or 1938...
...But even bef(*« the Pact and the outbreak of war had put an end to the nonijen* of poetic communism, he was already moving in a direct perMBll line...
...Just why the administration permitted Japan to buy more oil in this country during March than she did in January and February, remains a diplomatic mysteny...
...This is the impetus behind the constant tendency of rising prices...
...The Germans probably hold the state out as a prize to Saud...
...Apparently, German effort to set the Mohammedans in revolt has failed, saving the British the necessity of fighting on a score of fronts running from India, through Palestine, on to Tobruk...
...This sum, which is not stipulated, is to be over and above that already raised by taxation provided for by law...
...And there is always Russia...
...Only exceptions to this plan are serums, vaccines, antitoxins, and patent medicines...
...By exploiting the Axis' anti-Semitism, Berlin's agents have been using a powerful lever on the Arabic world...
...Too frequently have men like General Maitland Wilson and other Near Eastern commanders been taken by surprise...
...New Zealand Adds Free Medicine to Health Program WELLINGTON, New Zealand...
...The Sultan of Turkey, the Kaiser of Germany, and lastly, the British .government, carried on negotiations with the head of the Zionist movement...
...Rather, this fifteen-years of MacNiece's poetry is an eclectie accumulation of moods and puzzles, the record of a mar who, not being able to sound the downbeat for his nation, fiddles for himself a bewildering score...
...Shipments of raw cotton alone fell by $13,000,000 dropping to a value of slightly over $1,100,000...
...Jewish Publication Society, 554 pp...
...In addition, the British have now bestirred themselves to take some action against the Italian...
...There is much more danger in Syria...
...This figure is 3,000,000 below the Board's total for March of 1940 and is the smallest March total recorded since 1930...
...The plan has met with opposition from the medical bigwigs who denounce it as 'state helotry.' Reich Levies NewBigTaxes On Capitalists By MURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON, D. C. — Already severely throttled by price and wage restrictions, Reich capitalists face a new onslaught from the Nazi war state, accordinjiKto information gathered here by gov-ernment economists...
...Also, London has finally become aware of the inept handling of intelligence work in the Near East...
...MacNiece was part of the communism-and-uplift movement which seized English letters at the time, and you will ftni its attitudes reflected in his" poems of that time...
...The German envoy there, General von Hintig, has just told Von Papen in Ankara that he has the local German propaganda machinery working perfectly...
...The main responsibility for the disaster which befell that country lies on the shoulders of the High Command which insisted on" fighting the war along the lines of the campaigns of 1917 and 1818...
...Industries normally producing civilian goods were catapulted into the production of war goods...
...Books and Writers The First Jewish Statesman By M. Z. R. FRANK •"TOWARDS the end of the nineteenth century the Jews o? * Eastern Europe evolved _a movement for colonization i» Palestine...
...Now I must make amends/And tryo to correlate evtjrt with instinct," MacNiece said in Autumn Journal, 1938...
...Whatever this is, Washington correspondents are not being let in on state secrets...
...This would throw both Saudi Arabia and Transjordan against the British...
...The translation dose by Maurice Samuel, or rather condensed from a more voluminous work, contributes to the charm of the style...
...The measures instituted by Wagner are intended to cope with a problem crucial to a to-' talitarian war economy: the rising prices of" all consumption goods in persistent defiance of the Belch's system of rigorous control, operative since 1936...
...The German troops are already half-way down along the Turkish coast.So the question of oil, strategic as it is, takes a secondary position...
...Last year this correspondent laughed at the German whispering drive to convince the Near East that Hitler is secretly a Moslem, in fact the Mahdi or Messiah...
...However, he writes with a clarity and simplicity of 1«S guage and a literary turn of the phrase which makes for pleasant reading...
...But it is an interesting book to read once one ha* grasped the idea of the Zionist movement...
...By Charles de Gaulle...
...The largest shipbuilding program in the history of the nation, which is now under way in commercial shipyards and United States government navy centers, will require the employment of approximately',310,000 additional workers by September, 1942...
...With 934,000 more persons at work in March, total employment climbed to 49,373,000, the highest point since September, 1929, when 49,715,000 persons had jobs...
...The action follows a speech to the directors of the Reichsbank by Dr...
...Walthar Funk, Reich Minister of Economics, who declared that no German company would, in the future, pay more than a maximum dividend of 6 per cent...
...in the same year, Iran produced over 10.000..000 tons...
...He does not shudder at stated sentiment, nor does be cloak it in ambiguity and that introverted phraseology which i» pat in moderiuverse...
...A month ago the government started a plan of free medical care...
...A National Industrial Conference Board report lists the total of unemployed at 6,142,000...
...2.00...
...New Zealand, long a world pioneer in social insurance, recently has added a new wrinkle in its social security plan: free medicine...
...It has never been recognized by Ibn Saud, and is nominally ruled by Amir Abdullu...
...It provides for the freezing of wages, salaries and working conditions at pre-war levels'and abolishes payment for overtime, Sunday, night and holiday work...
...He is a friend of the British—but has a mysterious advisor, a little-seen chap called El Korkani, exiled from Lybia...
...Germany now can also tap the fields of Hungary...
...This was further corroborated by the cancellation of further talks between Undersecretary Welles and Constantine Oumans-ky, Soviet Ambassador in the United States...
...Allied trades feeding this industry have given fjobs to a minimum of 500,000 men and women during the past six months...
...Most of the Mohammedan world wants Britain to win...
...More than 2,000,000 have found work directly or indirectly affecting defense during the past eight months, according to government statistics...
...With Britain at war with the Arabic world, it would be fairly simple to land troops in Syria without testing Turkish willingness to fight...
...They have subsidized "sport" clubs, contacted Arab youth movements, like the Iraq Al-Futuwa, and feasted and feted their members in Berlin...
...What will after is a matter for pleasant conjecture...
...Exports for the first two months of the year, however, declined by nearly 50 per cent, to a value of only $22.-696.000 against $45,106,000 in the same period of 1940...
...Obviously there is some basis for this premise, for the New York ticker brings in news of a general exodus from this country of Soviet purchasing agents ostensibly as a result "of new government restrictions clamped down on exports to Russia...
...Thus the Iraq production represents only about 15 per cent of the total oil production of the Near and Middle East Meanwhile, the German conquests bring the Reich more oil than they consumed...
...It is throilgt content that he becomes a man to read...
...everyone seeks to get rid of his paper marks and buy goods...
...This is a heajtW symptom...
...troops, introduced into modern warfare in Napoleon's time and developed to its culminating point in the War of 1914-1918, we?l for him an anachronism in this age of the machine and speed, git saw in their place a highly-trained, extremely mobile professions...
...But the personal element is adequately dealt with...
...Whereas raw cotton and tobacco leaf led all others in thve first two months of 1940, with total values of nearly ten million dollars, exports of these commodities in the first two months of this year declined to some million and a half, while aircraft and parts moved forward to first place with a total value of $2,885,000...
...Welles, it is understood here, since he had taken the matter of appeasing the Soviets almost as a personal project...
...Ovakimian was ready to leave the country when the FBI detained him forcibly...
...What the Nazis want in the Near East is Moslem violence...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 19
