Vichy-Reich Military Alliance Would Give Nazis Bases in Caribbean, West Africa to Strike at Panama
REYNARD, DICK
Vichy-Reich Military Alliance Would Give Nazis Bases in Caribbean, West Africa to Strike at Panama France Builds New Huge Navy By DICK REYNARD Long expected by Washington and London diplomatic...
...Disorganization of Ankara^ normal channel's of trade in Europe resulting from war developments is making that nation increasingly dependent on the United States both as a source of imports and an outlet for certain of its exports, according to an economic survey of the Turkish Republic just issued by the Department of Commerce...
...Industrial production in Japan has been generally lagging as a "result of such restrictive factors - as acute shortage of raw materials and labor...
...A negotiated pesee with Hitler is dangerous visionariness...
...Most of this was war materials: machine tools, oil drilling and refining equipment and other metal working machinery...
...And despite Gestapo and Petain vigilance, representatives of the free C.G.T., the large So-'cialist trade union of France, led by Jouhaux now hiding in France, and leaders of the Catholic CJP.T.C...
...This has weakened the force patrolling the Mediterranean off Crete, Libya and Syria, end-points of the three-pronged pitchfork drive into the heart of the British Empire...
...But who would refute a negotiated peace with Germany in revolt against Hitlert'V negotiated peace with Hitler...
...February shipments to these areas included 258 planes valued at $16,726,284...
...Use of these materials permitted the Russians to increase important war shipments to Germany...
...Another news item indicating a similar tendency comes out of Chicago...
...Contrary to public impression...
...Unions Clean Own House of Communists As New Jersey Labor League, AFT Open Drive That members of American trade unions can attend to their own affairs and clean disloyal elements out of their organizations is indicated by an increasing number of items appearing in the daily press...
...f Of course, the above is too crude a summary of even a, pan of Thomas's book...
...Are the Czechoslovaks who AMt fight better off than the French who did...
...More than 750,000 tons ofi\ rice had to ibe purchased from 1 French Indo-China, and additional orders were placed in Thailand...
...Petain's action gives Germany bases stretching from the Caribbean islands down to the northern coast of South America, across the Atlantic to Dakar, through Senegal, across to Togoland and the Cameroons and then up to Syria...
...Just as revolt in the Near East was prepared by three German propaganda and espionage specialists during the "phoney" war period and the months of air battles over Britain, so Reich experts have been at work in the western hemisphere setting up an espionage and agitation apparatus functioning out of (Dakar, Martinique, French Guiana...
...Admiral Leahy, United States Ambassador to Vichy, has .informed President Roosevelt that Petain's France will become an actual belligerent partner in...
...From airports at various points along this line French and German planes and war ships can strike easily at the Panama Canal, most of the new United States Caribbean bases, South America, West African allied cities, the Suez Canal and Iraq...
...With France cooperating with Germany, this possession might be used as a fueling station for submarines or heavy bombers...
...Then, what...
...War with a Nazi-directed France-will mean that England will be faced by another large power whose factories are being resurrected, whose mines are being opened, whose armies are being retrained, and 'whoso warships ¦provide Germany with the one weapon the Reich lacks—a powerful navy...
...Organizations whose leaders are not freely elected," it says, "and arc only allowed to act under the tutelage of the state, cannot be recognized as genuine workers organizations...
...Hence, tfcis column finds it agreeable to disagree with Norman Thomas...
...His methods and tactics are literary and dangerous to hit very aims...
...Ships being built include 4 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 3 cruisers, 30 destroyers and 22 submarines...
...Many of these Nazi agents are now part of the official government apparatus...
...Yes, we—or most of us—have blundered about Ruaiu, Germany, Spain...
...This law was passed by the House of Commons after many years of strenuous agitation by J. S. Woodworth, leader of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation...
...Even wi„r America's active participation in the war, Thomas thinks that ar...
...But he has written a very readable and—50 per cent of iV-hs thought-quickening book...
...Is it because in his speeches there, is too much moralistic emotionalism and evangelistic ardor , and' not enough cool .political thinking to suit this hard-boiled columnist's taste...
...SHANGHAI (By Mail).—The troubled economic situation in Japan today reflects tile conflict of business elements, and' the combination of army and pro-Nazi forces whose ideological program—patterned after the Rfeich —seeks to impose a*totalitarian economy...
...Since British law is firmly based on "precedents," this decision protecting the workers' right to organize becomes of great significance...
...This is the positisi-* the Emperor as the Leader" of the nation...
...Martinique is in the heart of our new Caribbean base sector designed to protect the entrance to the Canal area...
...For the first time a belligerent power has bases in the Western Hemisphere...
...Here, too, the French in' North Africa and France can aid by turning over Marseilles, Toulon and Algiers to the Germans...
...This movement is not limited either to the AFofL or the CIO, and it stretches clear across the country...
...Dakar — to cripple efforts to keep war material flowing into England...
...But, again, this is tied up with the necessity of first beating back the Persian invasion, i.e., Hitler...
...CGT, Catholic Unions Unite Against Vichy LONDON (Passed by the Censor), by Mail.—Trade Union resistance to Vichy has grown in the last several months, and under the nose of rigorous surveillance local trade unions have succeeded in maintaining their organizations...
...Canada's New Law Fines Firm for Firing Union Men Special to The New Leader VANCOUVER, Canada.—Organized Canadian Labor won a signal victory for the protection of labor's right to organize during war time when a Vancouver court last week fined the anti-union Langley Manufacturing Co...
...Thomas's advocacy of pushing our social .eollectivist revola-tion, as he calls it, is the best part of his book...
...U.S...
...And there were Norman Thomases at the time, too...
...The document issued jointly by the leaders of the Free Labor and Catholic trade unions poses the grave problem of recognizing mistakes in the past...
...Lucia, Antigua, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico...
...It is estimated by government agencies that the Soviet purchases here were more than the stipulated $40,000,000 in less than six months under the operation of the trade pact...
...While admitting that the trade unions will lose many members because of its inability to function freely the declaration challenges the ability of the Nazi or Petain leadership to take on the function of piptecting the workers...
...Meanwhile, heavy shipments of American aeronautical products continued to pour into the British and Netherland empires...
...In part, it is quite convincing...
...His position is, as he * himself puts it, Freda Utley's position...
...Already the Allies have had to meet this threat, according to advices from our n a va1 o b s e rv e r s abroad, by •concentrating more of their fleet in the Atlantic...
...Admiral Darlan controls a fleet sufficiently powerful — especially when coupled with bases in the Mediterranean and...
...The Greeks preferred to fight rather thati submit.- The result was not so sad...
...Under thejleadership of Carl Holderman, w|io was re-elected State Chairman, and a number of other outstanding New Jersey unionists, the convention put the Communists to rout on every issue raised...
...The output of the Japanese machine industry remains below requirements, and indications arc that this branch will soon be placed under the control of one central producing organization...
...Most of os would prefer England, France and Czecho-Slovakia after 1918 to the same* countries under Hitler...
...This corild be used to bolster Nazi credit in the Americas...
...Confederation Francaise des Travailleurs Chretiens) met in a town in Northern France to issue a joint manifesto in defiance of the Vichy regime...
...All these are strategically located for drives of this nature against the United States...
...Hence the efforts tfi the jut-Nazis to deprive the ?mper# 4 temporal power and luutuft Hel as a powerless god like W» » cestors before the restoratiea...
...for firing a worker who had attempted to organize a union...
...Is Thomas historical...
...POR all his brave words, Thomas's advice is in reality one of * doing nothing...
...The book under review* is one of the most acceptable statements of the isolationist position this column has seen in"-Mnr months...
...All his arguments would have been just as applicable the...
...All this is possible, but, still, what about an out-and-out Hitier victory...
...983 engines valued at $13,589,030...
...In connection with this announcement, Mark Starr, the AFofT Vice-President published the fact that Local 5, the New York Local included in the ouster proceedings, has lost more than ' 1,230 members in the past year because of Communist tactics...
...This came as a surprise since it was generally known that the administration had tightened up on exports to the U.S.S.R...
...Lifts on Exports to Russia As Soviet-Reich Trade Grows By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Whether or not Washington is appeasing or teasing Moscow is one of the capital's mysteries...
...His aims are eminently attractive...
...His introductory survey of the blunders committed all around by the democracies and labor are temperate am sadly true...
...The order to permit exports came on May 14, only three days after government circles learned from Stockholm that during the past four weeks huge deliveries of Russian grain and raw materials were being made to Germany...
...Typical of nations which Washington can control through their dependence on our business is Turkey...
...One branch of the government—the military—learns that the Soviets are supplying men and materials to the Iraqi...
...Principal markets for March were the British Empire and Egypt, which received 414 planes valued at $25,241,303...
...Immediately after one detailed analysis has revealed that our export* to anti-Nazi countries of aeronautical products and machinery had reached an all-time high during the first quarter of 1941, correspondents learned that the State Department has once more lifted the ban on the sale of vital machine tools to the Soviets...
...As a whole, its counse contains a desperate gamble, for it proposes to keep America put of war under any circumstance...
...As a rute, it is a 50-50 disagreement: the column usually agrees sith his ultimate aims, but finds his proposed methods and tactics unrealistic and visionary...
...Another prong will,shortly be added by assault on Gibraltar...
...2.50...
...So, «E just must pray for British victory...
...The last restrictions on consumption of electric power for industrial purposes were recently lifted, but current for illumination will continue to be curtailed indefinitely...
...Organization of these latter forces is loosely-banded Imperial Rule Assistance Ass'n...
...What is to be done now...
...This action appears inexplicable to most veteran Washington . observers...
...Last week-end, for example, Labor's Nonpartisan League of New' Jersey held its convention at Trenton...
...We have been the creators of our own mis fortune...
...The renewal of licenses came only eight days after Secretary Hull halted all exports to Russia of machinery or equipment which can be used in defense production...
...Of completed ships the French now have one battleship, one aircraft carrier, 14 cruisers, 50 destroyers and 60 submarines, says the best naval information...
...A negotiated peace with Xerxct...
...He advocates two major policies, both of whicb are policies of omission...
...And prayer alone may *<,t be enough...
...WE HAVE A FUTURE...
...A touch of color was lent to the proceedings when it was known that the worker in question, Edward Sturgeon, was one of the heroes of Dunkirk, and had gotten the job through the Veterans' Rehabilitation Commission...
...The referendum vote of the members of Local 1, the Chicago local, and the largest in the organization, shows 5,258 for the ouster and 892 against...
...He is flexible, pragmatic and convincing...
...This is the first conviction registered in Canada under Section 502a of the Criminal Code, an amendment directed at employers using discrimination and intimidation against workers for union activity...
...Princeton^ rersity Press...
...Between 50,OOO-6?,OOO tons of wheat have been bought in Australia...
...An agent of the Gestapo* sits in the Department of Home Affairs, helping the Nipponese ;check on foreign agents in Japan, Exchange, trade and economic restrictions were planned by German financial agents in Tokyo...
...The shipments to the Netherlands Indies in March totaled $1,444,709, practically all of which represented the value of 35 planes exported...
...By Norman Thomas...
...There is also a French aircraft carrier and nearly a billidR dollars in French gold...
...K In contradistinction to the \ manifesto of Belgian laborite " Henri de "Man, who hais swallowed Nazi propaganda, the document refuses to repudiate the past role of trade unions, citing that only union" activity has brought increased improvement in working conditions...
...Thomas on War and Peace By ELI AS L. TARTAK SOMEHOW, Norman Thomas's books or tracts read better than his speeches either read or sound...
...Again, this column finds \tself in a state of 50 per cent agreement with Norman Thomas...
...In addition, there were exported in March 10 engines to China valued at $101,450, and 8 engines to Brazil valued at $27,885...
...In the course of the discussion Peter Flynn of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers made the significant charge that the Communists are endeavoring to sabotage the negotiations now being carried on to stabilize labor conditions in the shipbuilding industry along the eastern seabord...
...Most important is Martinique, an island in the heart of the Caribbean...
...Even if victory .be achieved, it will involve such bloodshed, destruction and chaos that, instead of a reasonable post-war reconstruction of Europe, we may have the all around fascism that we intend to fight— ir its no less nasty twin—a Stalinite regime...
...He calls for a*>democratic reconstruction of our society...
...More or less in the same position is French Guiana on the north coast of South America, not " far from the American base at Trinidad and within range of the Panama Canal...
...This is caused by the scarcity of shipping bottoms, particularly tankers, with the consequent need for allocation of cargo shipments...
...Vichy-Reich Military Alliance Would Give Nazis Bases in Caribbean, West Africa to Strike at Panama France Builds New Huge Navy By DICK REYNARD Long expected by Washington and London diplomatic circles, the French military and naval alliance with Germany brings the war closer to the United States than has any single event since September, 1939...
...This -means that a viciorioo' Hitler and Japan may conceivably forgive us our many past and present trespasses...
...The members of the American Federation of Teachers are voting on the proposal submitted by their Executive Committee to revoke the charters of three locals charged as being "under Communist control...
...ii This column wonders what Thomas would have advised the ancient Greeks, whom he loves, when they stood up against ttfe totalitarian Persian Empire...
...In an effort to coordinate all business into the government, a control organization will shortly be set up by the economic ministry m the shipping industry...
...headed by Premier Konoye...
...His anti-war argument is humane and appealing...
...First, we must keep out of this 'Wfcr Secondly, we must proceed *to reorganize our society along Jj...
...Yet Washington permits Ankara to slip steadily under Soviet-Nazi influence...
...In his books, however, he cools off and presents an attractive argument with much style and grace...
...THOMAS is for a negotiated peace—now...
...Licenses for export of more than $1,000,000 worth of these materials were issued last week to Russian agents, according to one important source...
...the war on England, according to authentic Washington sources...
...It lies in the right side of an oblong formed by our bases in Cuba at Guatan-amo, Jamaica, Trinidad, St...
...It was generally believed here that the subject of this important conversation was the renewal of the United States-Russian trade agreement which expires on August 5. Under this pact the Soviets were3obliged to purchase more than $40,000,000 worth of U. S. products...
...today: bloodshed, destruction, possible loss of democracy, etc...
...lectivist lines...
...A further value of this case is its establishment of a precedent...
...Nippon Faces Economic Crisis The report below on changes in Japanese economy indicates the type of "managerial revohrtion," which is taking place in the totalitarian states...
...Or, 'else . . . he—and not Norman Thomas—will reconstruct us...
...German influence has been felt most heavily in the army: But the objective of uniting Japanese industry into a high- • powered defense state with speculative and monopolistic profit eliminated has not been carried out with the thoroughness seemingly made in Germany...
...shortly after official Moscow statements revealed that the Russian-Japanese pact was directed at the United States...
...The food problem is acute in Japan today...
...on the other hand, President Roosevel^ is desperately attempting to gather enough shipping to rush gans, tanks and planes to the Near East to crush the Iraqi and stop the Nazis...
...This force, coupled with the proximity of French possessions in the Western Hemisphere, brings the war right home to the Americans...
...On it are 100 American-made planes...
...The latter risk gives this column colder shivers...
...Meanwhile, plans are proceeding for an extensive absorption of private Dower companies by the state-owned Japan Electric Transmission Company...
...It is this group that imported into Japan German experts and "tourists...
...1941...
...The visit which Moscow's envoy, Constantine Oumansky, paid to Secretary Hull last week was the first in many months...
...As the cardinal point of its call, this document—issued from occupied France, and signed by Catholic labor leaders — states "the trade union movement is based upon the principle of freedom...
...It is high time...
...Again, they may not...
...out-and-ont victory over Hitler is doubtful...
...and other aeronautical equipment amounting to $4,932,847...
...engine parts and '• accessories valued at $1,567,198, and other aeronautical products amounting to $4,106,269...
...In March the situation was so threatening that ru-e : was placed under a rationing system...
...Secretary Hull's decision came shortly after his long, cordial talk with Oumansky...
...But while these pressuripfc state control of industryirrwjjfc one factor remains as a grest'fc-stacle to those poshing' 'isfS totalitarian economy and sx|l system...
...Trade Union freedom* must comprise the right of all workers -to their own opinions and freely to defend their opinions on industrial questions at meetings, the ¦jight to entrust the defense of ^their interests to elected representatives...
...This goes even for Poland...
...engine parts and accessories valued at $2,670,969...
...632 engines totaling $8,190,014...
...This answer to Petain's attempt ¦ to undermine the trade unions represents a blow at those employers who have been slashing wages in disregard of the decree that wage rates in force September 1939 were to be effective today, and hits the Paul Faure-Rene Belin group...
...The convention pledged support to "all steps that may be taken by our government within the framework of democracy" to help the British and Chinese people prosecute the war to a successful close...
...All are .placed astride the 'sea lanes -most vital to the flow of American materiel to war fronts in Britain.and the Near East...
...The vote was two to one for a straight American trade union policy...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 21
