State Dep't Appeasement Game Allows Japs To Buy War Material in U. S., Latin America
REYNARD, DICK
State Dep't Appeasement Game Allows Japs To Buy War Material in U. S., Latin America By DICK REYNARD Washington observers are watching to see whether the State Department will be Included in the...
...Secondary characters, the poor German Communist Richard, . are present with compassionate intelligence...
...Furthermore, during the past 11 months Chile sent Japan 48,-383,040 pounds of electrolytic copper bars...
...inquisitors still fully believe that the party is infallible...
...Also in the race is avowed-pro-fascist Dr...
...The interrogation dialogues have a sinister fatal quality: they are fencing for more than life arid death...
...The decree of December 21—outlawed the zloty and- did net even allow a- nominal exchange of zlotys for rouble...
...By Arthur KeestUr...
...Pravda of December 28...
...The-drive to sweep this type of establishments into a state trust in Soviet occupied Poland has resulted-in an enormous decline in production...
...Reverend Gustat Aulen, Bishop of the ancient...
...One factor which impoverished nearly the entire population was the decree of December 21, 1939, withdrawing the z\oty—Polish money—from circulation...
...From Soviet figures it appears that not more than 1% million hectares of land has been allocated...
...Much of Norwayjs patriotic activity is continued on Swedish, soil...
...man of ths "newer," merciless generation, is a deadly combination of Neanderthal man and Saint-Just...
...Consequently there is a serious inadequacy of clothi rag and footwear...
...One of the factors which caused huge shortage in textiles, shoes, and other such consumer goods in the Soviet Union following the first world war was the ruthless destruction of the petty artisan and handicraft establishments, in the drive for indutrialization and the abolition of private property and small trading...
...This department also reveals that the shipments to Japan were made up of steel mill manufactures, among which were • structural shapes, rails, tubular products and fittings, wire and manufactures, iron and steel manufactures, which included: ferroalloys, refined copper, old and1 scrap copper...
...The ncvel is almost perfect in its balance, swing ' and coordination...
...Early in Oct, 1939, some peasants were in a favorable frame of mind towards the Soviet troops...
...With fifteen years of Stalin, can there htttftif prominent Communist in Russia naive enough to believe that the regime is anything but a cynical one-man Oriental despotism...
...What is needed is more of the type of action taken when the Metals Reserve Company, a subsidiary ofl the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, guaranteed the Bolivian government that it would take its entire output of tungsten for the next three years...
...Is it enough to know something of the Soviet law to understand that the causes of the confessions were of a more diversified and realistic nature—by and large...
...Despite pressure, taxation on individual holdings, and obigation to turn a certain stated percentage of kind over to the government, the forced collectivization is meeting with little success...
...During the past two months further sales have run proportionately as high...
...Commerce figures, released last week...
...His "confession" becomes a redemption gesture,, his last beau gest.e to the party...
...That pattern today has solidified into a grim war between the peasantry and the Soviet authorities who seek to establish collective farms in the occupied areas...
...Stalin is out to destroy the Bolshevist old guard, and RubasnW knows that he is- on the list...
...The final "confession" to crimes he had never committed becomes a mere detail...
...and about 367,000 cubic meters pfe-crude oil, 6,442,000 kilograms of-, zinc, 96,000 kilograms of antimony, 5,086,000 kilograms of lead and 128,000 cubic meters of combustible petroleum to Italy...
...Once an oppositionist is caught, he faces death under almas* any circumstances...
...1940...
...Although Japanese trttg...
...Pro-Ally, Axis, Jap Agents Baffle For Control of Shanghai Caunat SHANGHAI (By Mail...
...The run-off was necessitated when Quin barely failed of a majority in the' primaries last week...
...The pre-war output' was 406 million zlotys...
...It is too simple, over-simple...
...German sure has been able to swing* Swiss and Dutch votes Ofl man* issues...
...Almost, the reader has a feeling that he, in RubaghoVs place, would also confess to all the crimes of which Rubashor was not guilty, or, for that matter—to any crime...
...Step by step, Rubashov gives up his positions, and surrenders...
...Thus an industry accounting for neary one-fourth of all of Polish production has been crushed...
...Maverick got 16,142, Quin had 17,437 while four minor candidates took 2000 votes between them...
...And Koestler hM written a good novak "Darkness at Noon" avoids all the .pitfalls of a novel dealing with such a sensational and melodramatic subject...
...rennrt-j that- flu n„tmit for 1940 amounted to 215 roubles Utilizing the standard exchange, this -indicated a decline of 50 per cent...
...Victor was Charles Quin, San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years until Maverick beat him in 1939 by hurling the charge of graft, incompetence, and reaction...
...Maverick Beaten in Texas...
...Now, this provides the first touch of grim irony for Koestler'g novel None of- the eritics seems to expect a good psychological portrayal of the Russian purges- to come from- some outstanding Soviet novelist...
...From sueN secret verbal opposition to direct sabotage there is only a technical step...
...On May 17, Norway's day of independence, celebrations were held in Sweden...
...Shanghai's newly named Municipal Council governs only the international settlement with' no authority in the French or Chinese areas...
...the cutting off of yn of it...
...power-driven metal working machinery...
...But it is a fight with himself, with his jMrty pod and conscience—rather than with Ivanov and Gletkin, thf is* quisitors...
...to Italy went 12,000 kilograms of mica and 2,000-tons of raw cotton...
...Sixteen candidates are- in the race, all making fantastic promises...
...Beth admit that heresy in such high places "must be ruthlessly' «u(»iK**wlr* Methods are only a matter of expediency...
...The pre-twar output was valued at 400 million zlotys, out of a total valued output of 2 billion zlotys...
...Theft of any government property invokes the death penalty »» Soviet Russia...
...The story of People's Commissar Rubashov's imprisonment, the inquisitorial dialogues with his G.P.U...
...all workers . were paid by the Soviet authorities in zlotys...
...1, Stalin himself, Once this major premise is granted, "Darkness at NoW becomes an excellent novel...
...The Latin-Americans are laughing at the efforts of Nelson A. Rockefeller's commission, pointing out that they enjoyed the visits of American movies and movie stars but as long as a "business as usual" psychology pervaded the United States they . were not going to cut themselves Off from Germany or Japan...
...This see-saw position it to continue for sometime...
...DARKNESS AT NOON...
...On this subject they are silent, and, even if they were not, their version of the purges would be taken by a skeptical world as Goebbeli and Soviet kvass...
...could step in and take over in 20 minutes, the Internatw"1* Settlement here exists as an "island of democracy ** circled.by the Axis...
...Here we come to the novelist's most difficult assumption...
...It is sober in tone and singularly compact for its wealth of material...
...Cooperation with the Norwegians has taken varied forms...
...The critics «r* praising* it* jjjl "a profound and brilliant novel...
...The relatives of the culprit are involved for non-reporting...
...In six months Colombia sold Italy 66,000,000 kilograms of crude petroleum...
...Lee OlDaniel who is promising Texan old-age pensioners more money from the Federal treasury...
...Axis via the .Soviet's Trans-Siberian railroad...
...The characters are sharply and deftly drawn...
...16 in Field for Senate Seat ii SAN ANTONIO.—Colorful Maury Maverick was defeated in the run-off .primary election late this week...
...and a struggle between the artisans and factory workers against the low wages and destruction of production...
...1 Shanghai is divided into three sectors: the Ch i ne w *2JJ5 the Freneh concession, and the International Settlement-The puppet Wang Ching-Wei government acting directly under the Japanese authorities administers the Chinese areas...
...lead...
...At the' same time we bolstered Japanese credit abroad by permitting the Nipponese to sell $29,006,000 worth of1 their products in the United States...
...He knows of pro-Soviet elements, and is aware of officials still urging the appeasement of Japan...
...aluminum in ingot and scrap shape...
...If he had ever talked about' escaping from Russia, we must remember that "attempted flight abroad" is atow a death-sentence matter in Sovietland...
...In the several months previous to the decree, the Soviets made all their purchases in zlotys...
...John R. Brinkley, who until recently operated one of the most powerful radio stations in the world from Mexico—away from FOC supervision—and who has flooded the midwest with pro-Nazi propaganda...
...Any show of resistance now would precipitate hopeless and • short lived conflict with Germany, probably resulting in the wiping out of Stockholm and other large cities...
...Sholohov...
...YNCE Rubashov admits this postulate, he is condemned in his own eyes...
...plates, slab and block zinc...
...Rubakhov's duel with his twe inquisitors assumes truly heroic dignity,' for both sides are sincere and both fight for their common' church, and faith...
...and the* final act, the trial and pre-arranged "confession-," develop with * certain smooth inevitability which all but' keeps the reader ¦ off his feet...
...Under**** present set-up, the Japanese *¦*> a slight edge, for the Amsriss* and British camps are .sure of their six votes...
...T. ET us admit the book's artistic quality, even its merit, as s *¦* partial explanation of the "confessions...
...All this opens room for deals and "confessions...
...Maemttlan O, New York, 1941...
...With the United States in the" lead,' it can hardly be expected that the much-wooed Latin nations will dump their surpluses into the seas to prevent war goods- from reaching any part of the Axis...
...but in a recent equivalent of the American Gallup Poll some 88.6 per cent of the people answered that they would back a declaration of \ . war against any power which breached its national rights...
...All of which shows that Koestler's theory is—at best—only" a partial explanation...
...Where are Pilnyak, Leonov...
...The general disruption of Soviet industry and the lack of raw materials has carried over into Polish industry...
...Compare this* figure with plans to supply China with only a little less than $100,000,000 worth of war goods under the lend-lease bill, -During the same period only about $20,000,000 in, war supplies left the United States for China...
...Within these confines be has written » remarkably intelligent and moving novel...
...Some of this can be with the west, but most of it is with Germany...
...For the most part, the explanations still left the world wondering...
...Borax, and other goods...
...In Stockholm, the Norwegian society attended a special service in the Engel-brecht Church at which the speaker was the Righ...
...Inthe ' .1 lead is Gov...
...The overwhelming number of Chinese living here hate the Japanese and dislike Wang second only to Nippon...
...These are Department of...
...In addition Swedish-Norwegian liaison was maintained via the passenger air service between Stockholm and Oslo...
...For, even in form, in' its numerous dialogues, and surely in intent, "Darkness at Noon" is technically more a drama' than a novel...
...WbSt ir amazing is not that a few "confessed," but that so many important Communists were executed after secret- trials without the benefit of public confession...
...automobiles, parts, trucks,busses...
...The council has 16 members: four Chinese, three Japanese, three Americans, three Britons, one German, one-Swiss and one Netherlander...
...The Soviet law is such that any oppositionist who had evef»„ diverted some government property—be it only a few sheets of-paper—for his opposition work, is subject to the death penalty...
...Perhaps some befuddled American Stalini«es...
...This line was run by the German Lufthansa "Company until recently, when it was suddenly cut off despite the abundance' of passengers...
...aircraft and parts...
...According to the Wall-Street Journal, Mexico has sold' pearly all its mercury to Japan...
...Despite Finland's apparent freedom, cooperation with Helsinki is a complicated affair, with Russia and Germany watching that little strategic nation carefully...
...Unless the State Department cuts off all potential enemies from sources of war material in the United States aggressor nations will soon be drawing reserves out of Latin America...
...The annexed Polish area is fundamentally agricultural in nature with the exception of the Boryslaw oil fields and the textile and light industrial area of Bial-stok-Grodno...
...Both he and the reader feel that Rubashov is equal to the challenge of fate, to Stalin's inquisition and firing, squad...
...Now, where is the hero's weakness which brings him, a brave and highly intelligent man, to his downfall, to the final confession...
...friends...
...Meanwhile Sweden treads thin ice...
...State Dep't Appeasement Game Allows Japs To Buy War Material in U. S., Latin America By DICK REYNARD Washington observers are watching to see whether the State Department will be Included in the "State of Emergency" about to cover every corner of the nation...
...There are reports current that Finland has rebuilt fortifications along the Soviet borders and that should the time be opportune, and the British in a position.of possible victory, both, Finland and Sweden are ready to fight to clear the north of totalitarian threats...
...This has cracked the invaders morale so much that Hein-rich Himmler has had to go to Oslo at least three times...
...and 26,45&,20G pounds of standard copper bars went to Italy...
...WF we grant Koestler his major postulate, his novel is a master-* piece of psychological and dramatic development and denouement...
...Roosevelt knew of this during the Spanish civil war, he knows of it today...
...During the first: three months of 1941 that department authorized to Japan the sale of $32,-808,000...
...third leader in the race is ex-football star Gerald Mann, state's attorney-general, while Martin Dies comes fourth in strength...
...He is prepared to die, but woaM not disgrace himself with stupid and cowardly confessions...
...These are some of the achievements of the Soviets in Poland...
...However this was quickly suppressed by the Soviets...
...On the other hand it is being forced by the necessities of national survival to reopen its seaborne trade...
...These sales were made during the first five months of 1941...
...Textile mills nave been working only three or four days a week with four hour shifts...
...Swedish diocese of Strang-nas...
...That is-why unusual importance was attached to Swedish Foreign Minister Christian E. -Guenther's visit to Helsinki...
...RubashovV communistic soul and the infallibility of the church are at stato...
...IF the claims made for "Darkness at Noon"-be admitted, it has *" been given to a Hungarian and not to a Soviet novelist to provide us with final light on the purges...
...banks which had been closed after Soviet troops marched in were re-opened and persons permitted to withdraw their savings in zlotys...
...The allocation of land to the peasants has been made dependent on their agreement to join a collective farm...
...The Soviet purges, in their bulk, took place three and- four years ago...
...There is, of course, nothing to prevent a Hungarian man of letters who lived in Russia—as Koestler did—from writing « good novel on the Soviets...
...In the Western Ukraine there were only 400 collective farms in the early months of 1941, with an arable acreage of 80,000 hectares...
...it is also supposed to provide us with the true and convincing explanation of the Soviet pnrgtafc If so, this makes the novel doubly important...
...equaled 60 million zlotys...
...The hersy-Rubashov, is strong, brave, incorruptible, devoted to his ideal of revolution, a true hero...
...When all land was confiscated through the decree of the National Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western White Ruthenia in October 1939, peasants set up a committee to parcel out the land...
...A survey of Scandinavia finds comparatively unhampered Sweden as the only possible northern front...
...The total arable land in that area is over four million hectares...
...Brazil sent Japan 64,000 tons of raw cotton, 64,000 kilograms of mica...
...lt&* has no desire to completelf trol the city, for that would **f...
...Quin's success came through the fusing of his political machine —the typical small-town imitation Tammany type—with Negro-Mexican outfit built by Harvard-educated Negro boss Valmo Bellinger...
...All these materiel got safely across the Atlantic or reached the...
...On one hand the Hansson Social Democratic government is working closely with exiled Norwegian groups and with the Finnish government...
...favorite of President Roosevelt is Republican Lydon Johnson of Austin...
...inlets for foreign exchange** the closing of one of ita-«*J* arteries of trade...
...Betakes it that both Rubaghov and his GJ.U...
...If one calculated realistically, in terms of the actual purchasing power of the rouble, production of textiles, shoes, etc...
...This has hit the great masses of workers and peasants...
...Meanwhile the Senatorial campaign for the seat vacated by tbe death of Morris Sheppard is turning the state jittery...
...Forced Collectivization Brings Food, Clothing Shortages in Soviet Poland (STOCKHOLM (By Mail) — The stripping of industrial plants, the carting off of foodstuffs, currency inflation, the expropriation of small peasant holdings—sounds like the usual Nazi pattern in despoiling small countries—but this is the picture.emerging from the Soviet occupation of Poland...
...The more important the Communist, the greater his guilt of doubt and dissemination of skepticism...
...Gletkin, the G.P.U...
...Hence, any opposition and obstruction is rebellion and treason which deserves destruction of the guilty...
...Similar ceremonies were held in Upsala and other historic cities...
...There are still grave doubts as to its central hypothesis...
...It has to be done in order to provide the starving masses with a convenient "traitor," sabo-tageur and plotter against the life of No...
...They hoped for the promised re-division of the land...
...worth of vital war material...
...OTJBA5HOV puts up a stubborn fight, else there would be n» *^ drama...
...Ever since 1933, that department has been playing- a diplomatic and trade game curiously inconsistent with the President's avowed policies...
...In the pre-war days, the agricultural area now under occupation amounted to 12 million hectares...
...The Japs were bidding heavily for this ingredient of hard steel...
...Books and Writers A Greek Drama on Soviet Purges By ELIAS L. TARTAX WITHIN a few days of its appearance, Arthur KeestlerVn*»»jA has had an excellent press...
...Swedish Aid . Spurs Norse Fight on Nazis STOCKHOLM (by Mail).—Although the .world closely watches fighting far to the south, this war has shown strange tendencies to crop up thousands of miles away from the front along which it was expected...
...all stocks requisitioned were paid in that medium...
...Guns are smuggled into northern Norway, permitting the Norwegians in that part of their occupied nation to continue armed insurec-tion, which according to authentic reports fills trainload after train-load with wounded German soldiers...
...She goes through the motions of accepting the "new order" as long as it remains an economic one...
...The Germans will not permit trade with England and have been wary of Swedish promises that all materials assigned to America will be delivered there...
...Wha^oday believeS in the ideals of Soviet Communism...
...He has been aware of the frequent efforts to appease Spain, France and other sections of occupied Europe...
...Whole libraries have since been written outside of Soviet Russia, in explanation of this puzzle of ages: the political, intellectual and military leaders cf a great country executed en masn as traitors, murderers and spies...
...Literally scores of Jap trade missions are -loose in South America, cooperating with German, Russian, Italian and Spanish consular and industrial agents in anti-United States campaigns...
...Their abject confessions at the trials were a peculiarly harrowing feature...
...It has other features of a Greek tragedy...
...With these limitations, the novel is exciting...
...Only ¦ 3.6 per cent were opposed to fight- . ing...
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Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 22
