America First Runs Joint Rally With Coushlin's Eastern Leaders
"America First" Runs Joint Rally With Coushlin's Eastern Leaders For the first time the America First Com-mittee is publicly cooperating with leaders of organizations avowedly fascist, pro-Hitler...
...Tokio' arrangement for a "new world" must come from a "bankruptcy inventory" of the British Empire...
...If further argument is needed to convince Turkey, Russia, in view of her friendship pact with Turkey, is the obvious partner to present the additional argument...
...Had he'been groomed as the instrument of a Trojan Horse plat, there would have been no such advance notice...
...A nation-wide door-to-door campaign is to be waged in an effort to calm the doubts and jitters of the population aroused by the fact that the Fuehrer's .darling has fled the country to seek protection from the enemy...
...Hess knows this better than Hitler...
...He has not tfljjiKf his activities to New York, frequently traveling to Boston for anti-Semitic rallies...
...There will be many other rats, reformed and unreformed, deserting the ship...
...While seeking to minimize the importance of Hess's flight, Hitler nevertheless finds it necessary to hold a conclave of party leaders to receive from them renewed assurances of loyalty...
...Turkey must make up her mind definitely and finally as to her place in the future scheme of things...
...The German army is as strong and confident today as it was yesterday...
...Russo-German friendship, said Molotov, was based "not on fortuitous considerations of a transient nature, but on fundamental state interests of both the U.S.S.R...
...The strongest contradiction of this view is the consternation which his desertion has produced in Germany...
...He knows only too well of the Nazi custom of hostage arrest...
...In past months both the National Defense Mediation Board and Sidney Hillman's department have been successful in keeping production going...
...Under the picturesque title, "Rats Leave a Sinking Ship," Albert Grzesinski, formerly Minister of the Interior of Prussia, gave the following explanation of this strange event: " 'Rudolf Hess lands by parachute near Glasgow!' Even during this period of hair-raising events this is an unparalleled announcement...
...In fact so many-sided are the possibilities involved in this dramatic event that one of these authorities, former Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, how a professor at Harvard University, hesitated to express any opinion at this , time...
...He never displayed any personality, or showed any opinion of his own...
...Seger says: "Perhaps there is a way of getting nearer to the real meaning of this unusual event of this unusual war: that is by eliminating the most' improbable interpretations, which leaves us the more likely ones to consider...
...Construc-Jtt of - the Chrysler tank arsenal, the naval •finance plant and new plant facilities at wtfyaler, Hudson and Packard motor companies *we halted...
...The ten had no union...
...As announced from Berlin on that occasion, Hitler and Molotov had agreed upon Soviet Russia's sphere of interest in the authoritarian "new order" for Europe, Africa and Asia...
...He wps one of the mightiest man of the Third Reich...
...In 25 cases, work already had stopped by the tone Madame Perkins called in the'Board...
...Whatever Stalin may think of himself as Lenin's true successor who has brought about the liquidation of Brest-Litovsk (at the price of world calamity), he remains Hitler's captive and must continue to do his bidding...
...When Curran said: "Lord God, we pray for peace," the audience whistled and cheered...
...To be sure, Hitler's plans haVe had*something to do with this, too...
...Hitler might figure that it is quite difficult to start fighting again once the negotiations have begun...
...But the sailors are good union men...
...Washington circles ask...
...A fleet of American ships is ready to carry this aid to Red Sea ports...
...Mrs...
...editor of the Neue Volkszeitung...
...i At the same time Molotov laughed at those "who saw in Russia's expansiop in the Baltic and Danubian regions the seeds of an early conflict between Russia and Germany or who attempted to "intimidate us with the prospect of Germany's growing might...
...The meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was truly amazing...
...Having given Japan a free hand in the Pacific, Stalin has now recognized the pro-Nazi government of Iraq, withdrawn Soviet recognition of conquered Jugoslavia, pronounced Norway and Belgium as lawfully conquered German territory, and repudiated any suggestions that Russia was mobilizing against Germany in Europe...
...Even his friendship with Hitler would not have protected him this time...
...Although Rev...
...The Mediation Board His been especially effective...
...What lies back of this flight to England...
...The statement that he took flight in an airplane because of mental derangement is merely a quickly devised Nazi lie...
...It should be welcomed as an indication of the stresses and strains now making themselves manifest in Nazi Germany...
...His flight was Obviously long considered and carefully prepared...
...In his telegram Dr...
...But what does it all mean...
...Curran was supposed to be delivering a prayer, the audience punctuated his invocation with cheers, whistling, stamping and howls...
...That something cracked in Hess may be assumed without questioning in the least his mental processes, however much they were, and may remain, deranged by Nazi thinking...
...Said a Berlin dispatch of November 14 dealing with Molotov's conversations with Hitler: "An exchange of views was carried out in an atmosphere of mutual trust and led to mutual accord on all important questions of interest to Germany and the U.S.S.R...
...Hess is a Catholic and more recently has been reported as having returned to devout worship...
...To date, the most active sponsor of such meetings is the America First Committee...
...The NMU is Communist controlled...
...Why should it be so'inconceivable that he would resort to the most extraordinary devices to accomplish what he is after...
...Hitler has won much by taking risks, but they have always been well calculated...
...Third: While it is possible that Hess was fed up with Hitler's opportunism tendingfcfar-ther and farther away from original Nazi principles, it is quite improbable that Hess, as faithful to Hitler as Himmler and not having the personal 'political ambition of Goering or Goeb-bels, should fly to Britain, which is fighting to crush the principles he holds...
...Are we to believe that Hess goes as a 'Trojan horse' or as a trouble-shooter in order to break down the British home-front through interviews or colored news reports...
...Hitler's aim is to defeat England, not only from without but from within as well...
...Only a few days before, his...
...Ob--viously either the NMU administration or the shipowners are voiding a presidential.: decree which has the majority of the American people behind it...
...Second: If there was, or is, a serious split within the Nazi Party, Hess was 'one of the most unlikely men to be part of it...
...So blatant was this abuse in Hartford that the Colt' strike broke spontaneously...
...Hitler and his' gang will find it impossible to explain the defection of so big a Nazi from their ranks...
...His man Molotov retains the post of commissar of foreign affairs and becomes vice-premier...
...Since Lindbergh's April 30 speech at Manhattan Center, approximately thirty such demonstrations have been held, usually in the better residential districts of the city...
...It is asserted, too, that he went with Hitler's consent—and perhaps with the connivance of other Nazis to win credence for new peace • feelers...
...T v...
...The events of the past few days have quickly shattered that dream by bringing into bold relief the significance of the understanding between Hitler and Molotov last November...
...Neither Joe Curran nor the American Merchant Marine Institute speaks for the American people...
...sian Communist Party and.has become officially the premier of Soviet Russia...
...However, there is no reason to jubilate...
...Dr...
...Action on Iraq and Serbia Sign Of Speedy Soviet...
...Consequently I believe it to be not impossible at all that Rudolf Hess, willing to sacrifice himself as a one-man suicide squad, was catapulted into England, as Hitler's first missile of moral poison gas, to poison the domestic atmosphere in England by starting discussions and speculations so disturbing that the war of nerves waged by Hitler may profit from it...
...It was a bold, uncommon feat...
...The astonishment was greater among the Nazi hierarchy...
...The result of a jurisdictional squabble em strike mediation inside government bureaus his bait a -corporate sitdown forcing-long-pa-fotl&fcs both in AFL and CIO to call their h^Kishipyards, arsenals and munitions (letoPfWithout production in these plants the ASki'sea lanes will be choked off, tanks «af|SSf'v,ill not flow into England, and there iHjPBO anti-aircraft gtms forHhis Ttatioh...
...f -—^^rVhat does-ihis m conspiracy .against the democracies is moving forward with the inexorable logic inherent in the...
...It could not have been executed without careful preparation^id assistance from others...
...According to some, he disapproved of Hitler's collaboration with Stalin, fearing that the Nazis were leading Germany and Europe to Bolshevist domination...
...More than ever Hitler and his gang must under, stand, now that there is no retreat for them, that they must win or perish...
...Officially she is known as the executive secretary of Women United, an isolationist-appeasement group...
...pact of August 23, 1939...
...More than 15 salesmen sold Social Justice and Senator Reynold's Vindicator...
...CIO's Communist dominated ¦ United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers' Union got there first...
...It will resemble the parade led some weeks ago by Nazi-admirer Elizabeth Dilling...
...Toil squabbling is keeping vital aid from -fcttafaj...
...Without decisive military reverses the dictator and his system will not fall...
...in other words, those powers will raise no objection...
...Women United is planning to hold a march on Washington toward the end of this month...
...Picketing of the White House and of the Senate are to be part of the program...
...The America First Committee is taking over workers dismissed fom Verne Marshall's No Foreign War Committee, which has completely collapsed...
...Most important of all, Soviet pressure upon Turkey is being increased to facilitate the passage of Nazi troops to Syria and Iraq, all in accordance with the Moscow-Berlin understanding of November, 1940, while Stalin is preparing to obtain his compensation in Iran, Afghanistan, and possibly India...
...That Hitler and Stalin had entered upon a collaboration from which there was no retreat for Moscow was foreshadowed by Molotov in an " address before the Supreme Soviet, on August 1, 1940...
...There has been much publicity on President Roosevelt's opening the Red Sea to American . shipping...
...Recent events in the Balkans have demonstrated how-ill-founded were the expectations on the part of incurable wishful thinkers of a break between Stalin and Hitler...
...He felt the inevitability of a clash with Hitler which would endanger his own neck...
...flight he sat on the front bench in the Reichstag, together with the other pseudo-Olympians of the Nazi camarilla, lending the support of his presence to Hitler's latest declaration...
...So pleased is Stalin with the success of his policy that he has now found it expedient to abandon his ambiguous position as general secretary of the Communist Party and to assume Lenin's role as president of the Soviet of People's Commissars...
...If he is as fond of his little son as his Scotch discoverer reveals .in his touching story, Hess would not have left behind wife and child...
...We await confirmation of the astounding report...
...Mysterious Flight of No...
...Production was delayed by strikes * howitzers, gun mounts, secondary aluminum and .brass, spark plugs, telegraph equipment, machine tools, pumps, parts for Diesel engines, airplane parts, gas mask canisters, ships, army ordnance plants, piers, drydocks and shop buildings at navy yards, and automatic hand weapons...
...Just as Hitler hopes that the bombing of British cities, carried on indiscriminately, will soften the will to resist— he might reason that a tremendous internal dis-xussTon, based, on the assumption of a Nazi split (which the beginning of serious peace talks may deepen) may lead to an armistice, to negotiations...
...Without strong government intervention, the employers can sit tight holding up as much as $500,000,000 in defense orders...
...All parties concerned will join in efforts to bring about a non-aggression pact between Russia and Japan, as a result of which Japan, too, will show her "disinterest" in those regions which Russia regards as part of her "grossraum...
...And more than ever, therefore, must be the determination of the democracies, not by word but by deed, to encompass the enemy's destruction...
...ft was-William...
...If Hess was in a position to board a military plane, being made ready for a flight of 826 miles (military planes do not stand around in Germany for any hallucinatory gentleman to fly away with), hC would have been in a position to take his wife and child with' him...
...The rest has followed in accordance with the supplementary Russo-Ger-man understanding reached on the occasion of Molotov's visit to Berlin in November of that year...
...These are only some of the considerations which probably played a part in the flight...
...German sources seem to feel certain that Molotov, speaking for Stalin, considers Great Britain already defeated, just as does the Axis...
...As to motives for this sudden flight we are forced into the region of guess-work...
...Are insiders under the influence of Hess to deceive the British about Hitler's military objectives ? "It is much more probable that Rudolf Hess feared a new purge which would include him...
...America First" Runs Joint Rally With Coushlin's Eastern Leaders For the first time the America First Com-mittee is publicly cooperating with leaders of organizations avowedly fascist, pro-Hitler and anti-Semitic...
...This was the information frankly made available to the world by the Nazis in November, 1940...
...At the same time arrangements have been completed for expansion of Russo-German trade, and Soviet ships are being leased to carry war supplies to Italy...
...jm$pls.1 of the employers-*"strategy is that Jlfch forced a spontaneous walkout of 5,600 fR from the Colt Patent Firearms Company ij Hartford, Connecticut...
...Geraldine Parker, who was one of Verne Marshall's key asistants, is at (present working in close co-operation with the America First Committee...
...An example of the intimate relationship liilw— ahasr tw» groups is the fact that the America First Committee offices handled the extensive mailings made by Women United in connection with a meeting they sponsored, at Carnegie Hall on April 14...
...The new strategy (insists of ignoring all union demands, forcing the men to walk out...
...In other words,, the British Government was not quite surprised by his arrival...
...It would be very hard to conceive that the most unobtrusive Nazi would take the most conspicuous step to express his dissatisfaction...
...He wants Moscow to become officially part, and parcel of the Axis, as a further step in the expansion of the war from a European to a world conflict...
...Such action took place last Wednesday nigjht in the Brooklyn . Academy of Mask when ftf America First rally, at which ex-Governor "Phil LaFoilette was featured, heard the invocation delivered by the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran...
...But it would be a mistake, it seems to us, to take the view that Hess flew to England on a Trojan Horse mission...
...The immediate consequence, so far as the Hitler regime is concerned, will be a violent accentuation of the German war effort...
...He suggested his coming to Scotland on a .peace mission...
...Up to last week ibere were only 7,000 to 10,000 men out in some amor defense factories...
...Meanwhile, isolationist forces continued to fail to attract any meaningful support throughout the nation...
...Leiserson, NLRB member, who **t week pointed out that there are now five •^arste agencies attempting to mediate labor Pupates, all competing^for jurisdiction over a kb» dispute...
...In many political circles he is considered the '-e "tern spokesman for Cotighlin...
...Stalin's accession to the premiership, so soon after the conclusion of the Moscow-Tokyo pact, was hailed by the illusionists as evidence of a change in Soviet policy...
...Germany, Italy and Russia all feel confident that Turkey will, in due time, seek an understanding with the totalitarian powers...
...Bruening said: "Regret very much not being able to send required statement as not sufficient evidence available so far...
...Curran has on many occasions expressed himelf against full civil, social and economic rights for Jews...
...Any such enterprise requires the element of surprise...
...if Hitler's policy of closer cooperation with Stalin met with opposition in the Nazi Party, Alfred Rosenberg, for example, would be a much more likely person to lead it, being about as violently anti-bolshevist as Hess was loyal to Hitler...
...3 0m Not until Churchill speaks to Commons on the arrival of Rudolph Hess in Scotland will we have some reliable factual data upon which to form some clear judgment on this astounding event...
...But there is no need—there is a definite danger—of exaggerating the importance of the incident...
...f Meanwhile, street-comer meetings sponsored by the various appeasement, pro-fascist groups have begun to make their appearance in New York City...
...He knows that in the great cities, the clean-up squadrons of the party and the police every'morning are -put to work Ire-moving the leaflets and inscriptions which give • open expression to the people's opposition to the war and the Nazi regime...
...Several of his old associates have accompanied him...
...The '.Nazis thought, him quite sane until the moment of his disappearance...
...In ; -fi of these the Board was successful in obtaining resumption, of production...
...Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue has become a favorite spot for these "peace" rallies...
...The British now tell us that they encouraged the Duke of Hamilton to invite Hess to come over...
...This in a city reputed to be one of the eastern isolationist strongholds...
...In six weeks of operation the Board has been requested- to interfile in only 32 cases, out of hundreds of strikes tilled...
...Only seven of the 32 reached the Board before production had been halted and a strike fegon...
...His flight started from Augsburg, his family was in Munich—^hly one hour distance, and he could have escaped without surrendering1 hostages to Hitler...
...Crazy men do not fly straight from Augsburg to a destination in Scotland previously determined...
...Move Into Axis i By MALCOLM HASTINGS Joseph Stalin has abandoned his "modest" role-as general secretary of the Rus...
...Note, therefore, the attempts of Goebbels to picture Hess as a poor victim of a wild idea, the idea that he, singlehanded, could bring about peace between Germany and England...
...These negotiations will decide how soon American ships leave with heavy war cargoes to the British campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...in other words no further slice will be taken out of Finland, nor Will the Dardanelles be taken from Turkey, provided she behaves in a manner not inimical to the Axis and Russia...
...Recent events have confirmed the truth of the characterization...
...If Hess is crazy, as the Nazis in Berlin suggest, he is no more crazy than the rest of them...
...Surely, Hitler would not have given the British three months to think it over...
...The NMU wants %2 a day bonus and $50 payment for each port of call up to four ports in the danger area.( The present bonus payment is $1 a day...
...It unleashed the war and freed Hitler's hands for the conquest of Western Europe as the . first step in the Berlin-Moscow deal...
...Yet, the wishful thinkers would not abandon their illusions...
...Employers Sitdown forces 200,000 to Strike in War Plants " By EDWARD LORJNG T4SH;INGTON, D. ^.^Responsibility for the current wave of strikes which have taken, ¦ate than 200,000 men out of the nation's most ntal war factories and yards, rests squarely ._ the employing corporations which have ada-ltntly refused to grant increases as little as tree cents an hour...
...In the past ten days, work has stopped g more, than 40 defense projects...
...Former volunteer workers for the No Foreign War Committee are also being routed to the America First Committee offices...
...Wilhelm Sollmann, Reich's Minister of Interior i ntwo Streseman cabintes, interpreted the meaning of Herr Hess's strange adventure as follows: • - "Rudolf Hess entered political life as Hitler's worst terrorist...
...There may be valid reasons for the administration's hesitancy in forging its foreign policy, but decentralization and squabbling have little place in a nation which is unanimous on the issue of immediate defense production, political circles in Washington are saying...
...All this is entirely logical...
...Neither should be permitted- to hold up these vital sailings...
...Events have shown how closely Stalin has collaborated with Hitler in the Nazi conquest of the Balkans and how he has betrayed the hopes of assistance from Russia entertained by the conquered Balkan peoples...
...I think the real motive of this dramatic flight is the desire of Hess to find safety before the time of reckoning and breakdown in Germany...
...Liberal circles heard with amazement that the meeting was arranged by the New York Chapter of the America First Committee, headed by John T. Flynn, long one of the nation's leading progresives...
...The agreement was on a basis of "strictly business give and take...
...Red Star," the Soviet Army organ, said the exchange of views would bring "a strengthening and development of Soviet-Russian relations in the interest of both countries...
...Eliminating those three interpretations — which, for lack of authentic information, are still possible—there remains but one more possibility: Hess's flight was undertaken deliberately, with the knowledge and consent of Hitler...
...Similar sentiments were expressed when it was learned that ex-Governor LaFoilette of Wisconsin had spoken from the same platform with Reverend Curran...
...The soldiers will be told that Hess is a traitor and a deserter...
...The • shipowners are being well paid for carrying cargoes...
...The flight of Hess to England will increase the growing doubts in Germany as to the outcome of the war...
...Prominent at the meeting was John F. Cas-sidv, Brooklyn leader of the Christian Front, and one of the 16 indicted last year for conspiracy to overthrow the government...
...In the years since 1920 the . chief difference between Hess and -his fellow terrorists was that he knew how to conceal his . friie character behind urbane lorms in conversa...
...The British tell us that Hess had been in communication with the Duke of Hamilton...
...Having contributed much to the Revolution of Nihilism, he recoiled from the spectacle of its consequences as they presented themselves in the second year of the war...
...Former Leaders of German Republic Voice Conflicting Opinion of Hess9 Flight Four high-ranking officials of the former German Republic, when asked their opinions by The New Leader, appeared to differ widely in their interpretation of the flight of Rudolf Hess, third ranking Nazi in the state hierarchy, from Germany...
...Judgments by German exiles, anyhow -at this moment, premature and might have effects in Germany th'at^ you might not desire...
...Up to yesterday Rudolf Hess was not merely the closest friend of Hitler and co-author of the Nazi Bible, "Mein Kampf," he was also a minister of the Reich, personal representative of Hitler and, as such, chief, of the Nazi Party and of all the party organization...
...They want payment for risks, and they want to sail...
...Observers learn that this, organization is actually the women's auxiliary of the America First Committee...
...This is the government's chief "¦bless in handling industrial relations...
...Sharp criticism is being voiced of the administration for not centralizing industrial relations machinery...
...No, if Hess's flight was designed as a plot to divide British opinion and stimulate a demand for peace in England, it was an enterprise more daring than even Hitler could be expected to undertake...
...Some of them were working for is low as 38 cents an hour under conditions ttminisoent of 1910...
...He has actively cooperated with Father Coughlin's Social Justice organization and the Christian Front...
...A much-publicized meeting for Senator Tobey on the Boston Commons last Sunday attracted only 3,000 persons...
...Stalin has defined the compact between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia as "sealed in blood...
...Informed Berlin sources declared that "complete agreement" had been reached and that "it might be taken for granted that Russia had agreed not to interfere with Axis projects in Europe and Africa...
...Although the affair will be staged under the auspices of Women United, it is quite apparent that the America First Committee is in the background pulling the strings...
...i ¦. Jr...
...First: If Hess actually intended to escape Nazi Germany, either because he saw the hand-i writing on the wall or because he was to be purged for his presumable opposition to the policy of collaboration with Stalin, he would have taken his wife'and son with him...
...Hitler himself pictures him so in his book, "Mein Kampf" (page 120, Edition Stagkpole Sons...
...But in Washington Secretary Hull has again received Soviet jfmbassador Oumansky, and it is reported that Moscow will, after all, be permitted to purchase machine tools in the United States...
...He wants to make doubly sure that Stalin will not repudiate any of the obligations assumed by Moscow toward the Axis...
...He especially charmed religious people...
...I have no confidence in Hess...
...Among the Marshall men who have now joined the Lindbergh organization is Walter Springer...
...Despite the long succession of victories, the morale of Germany is low...
...Only twelve days ago he was the Number 3 man in the Nazi hierarchy, enjoying all the glories, responsibilities' and perquisites of his position...
...Inquiry by reliable American correspondents in Berlin on the day of Molotov's departure from the German capital elicited the following information from sources which the correspondents found usually reliable: Russia will have her space of domination just as Germany, Italy and Japan arranged to have theirs under the pact they signed last September 27...
...If the Soviet Union should desire to attain her age-long dream of obtaining access to the world's oceans, say via Iran (Persia) or Afghanistan and British India, she will find the Axis powers "disinterested...
...But the National Maritime Union announced early this week that their negotiations with the American Merchant Marine Institute have been broken off...
...In all seven cases, the Board- has been luecessful in., preventing or ^ postponing.'the stoppage...
...It means, we believe, that Hess had seen the handwriting on the wall months ago, that he wanted to get away from Germany while there was yet time, that he,-had come to doubt the wisdom "of Hitler's policies and had come to believe in the ultimate defeat of Germany...
...He assured Germany that she could proceed with her war program in a "calm feeling of security in the East," predicted closer understandings with Italy and Japan, and ridiculed objections in the United States to continued Russo-German collaboration...
...One does well to suspect the Nazis of anything and everything—nothing is too farfetched or fantastic...
...That Hess has physical disabilities, heart trouble, and gallbladder trouble is well known...
...This Russian "grossraum" will not be created at the expense of parties not involved in the present conflict...
...Why then has J?tiitH§ecretary of Labor made more use of ^Mediation Board...
...Whatever compensation Russia may desire in return for her support of the Berlin-Rome...
...The government shares in this responsibility, telthas failed to provide sufficiently central-hrfsjmprity capable of bringing the employers into line...
...His flight for his life and his leaving of his fellow criminals behind is a'sign that this National Socialist Party is weaker than most people thought It may be a lesson for men like Lindbergh who only count machines and forget the human side of the German problem...
...In sharp contrast to this explanation is that offered by Gerhart Seger, World War flyer, former member of, the German Reichstag and now...
...and Germany...
...All these are needed by Britain within the next four months...
...To say that Hess embarked upon a Trojan Horse adventure is no more tenable than the contention of the Daily Worker that it ~is all a Ttotskyist plot As regards Hess's sanity, it will be easy enough for British psychiatrists to determine that...
...The men have legitimate .frievances...
Vol. 24 • June 1941 • No. 20
