Neutral Nations Await FDR's Promised Action; Only A, E. F. Can Keep Nazis Out of Dakar
LORING, EDWARD
Neutral Nations Await FDR's Promised Action; Only A, E. F. Can Keep Nazis Out of Dakar By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D.' C—With the Navy Department broadening its...
...There, both Han't husband and J. H. Hammond are implicated in a bit of imperialietit conspiracy against the Transvaal republic, the famous unsnecea-ful Jan^eson raid...
...Which leaves the rest of the neutral world to wonder just bow President Roosevelt plans to defeat Hitler if we refuse to chance a fracas at Dakar, now defended only by the fortified Isle of Goree at the harbor entrance, the French battleship Richelieu and about five outmoded French warships...
...She seems to understand and enjoy . that "variety of customs...
...Russia's sphere would extend to Iran and Afghanistan...
...Loeb's statement follows in part: The U.D.A...
...The conclusion to be drawn, th&y said, is that any military defense of Portugal' with its feeble forces would be foredoomed to lightning defeat An unavoidable factor, it is pointed out, is the question of Germany's intentions...
...If they can't sell their total output to the United States, they will sell to Japan and Germany...
...Russia has been conducting trade negotiations with Iran concerning the latter's rice crop...
...The portraits of important industrial and political as> sonalities in various countries are unpretentiously lifelike...
...Japan is out of the Atlantic picture, with only ' eight old capital shins and two modern vessels, which- will be sought out and destroyed by the Royal Navy the moment Tokyo is sufficiently foolish to declare war...
...Turkey now certainly will not keep her promise to Britain to resist a Nazi invasion-along Asia Minor coast...
...Under JJB*-operate Nazi, Italian and Jap industrial, propaganda and es'JHonage agents, in addition to local German leaders...
...For, not only does she tefl the stay of an interesting' and active life, but she tells it with simplicity, ' candor and picturesqueness...
...A Dane who sat beside him was astonished at this but said nothing...
...Brazil is within easier flying distance from Dakar than England is from Newfoundland...
...If the implied threat is implemented, Secretary Hull can cripple Japanese industrial as well as military machinery by fully embargoing U. S. products now going to Japan, and sending to Latin America purchasing agents authorized to buy everything in sight and, if necessary, to pay millions more than the Japs and Germans are offering...
...Otherwise, the Germans feel hopelessly alone...
...Highlight of the sessions was the speech by Labor Party leader and Prime Minister of the Dominion, Peter Fraser...
...Early in May, at the height of Soviet-inspired rumors of a break with the Reidi— spread obviously to place the Russians in .a better bargaining position—the Yugoslavian, Belgian and Norwegian envoys were asked to leave Moscow...
...The fact is, decrees by the thousands have been sent to the press forbidding the mention of various items...
...Observers said the general understanding is that Germany has notified Portugal that its neutrality would be respected so long as other powers made no move to occupy island territories and Portugal herself avoided any treaty with the democratic countries...
...In addition, some American warships are wasted by the necessity of guarding the island...
...Still, U. S. naval authorities consider academic talk of seizing Dakar, it is learned from a good source...
...The most interesting feature of the book are its social life *U manners panels...
...Denmark lives under a pressure harder and fiercer than ever before...
...Meeting a week previous to the party conference, W New Zealand Federation of Labor in its annual eenfelm overwhelmingly defeated a resolution which declared that "the interests of the working class demand the withdrew] of New Zealand from the war...
...This iwill come to 60,000 tons this year...
...I'D LIVE IT OVER...
...Citing the role of individual European pacifists now cooperating in Hitler's "New Order," Dr...
...The two great totalitarian countries are not perhaps in slavish accord, but their interests neatly coincide—and so do their actions...
...This week occurs the assent to the Nazi, rule in Greece, which isolates Turkey...
...Like the wily Ulysses, she "has visited the cities of many men and seen their customs," from miners to kings and from a pioneer farm in Wisconsin to Johannesburg sad the Court of Saint James...
...News of this surveillance comes several years late but still in time-to swing South America's vast raw material sources behind the United States...
...The French can prove troublesome with their new battleship...
...It all ends well, but is a prelude to the tragic Boer war...
...8 p. m., in the Thomas JefeW* High School, Pennsylfasaa-A*' near Livonia Ave., Br«*b»-,#r Books and Writers By ELIAS L. TARTAK Capitate* Paradise Lost LjAD lbs...
...The presence of German troops in Syria however blows sky-high the version fostered by pro-Soviet apologists in the state department that German troops would not land on the Asia Minor coast because of Russian opposition, and that because the Soviets had blocked a Reich thrust in the near east the Germans would be foolish to take the more hazardous sea route across Crete...
...Then came the recognition of the Nazi-inspired coup in Iraq...
...Communists, had before September 1939 been quite vociferous in their ciation of Hitler, today are Mr ing agitation against NeWW land soldiers going *jp!S Theirs was the only oppo*ftl#* the conference...
...While the vast majority of European liberals and Socialists tried vainly to stem the tide of defeatism, individual leaders served as a "liberal" front of those reactionary representatives of monopoly primarily responsible for democracy's collapse because of their refusal to make the social concessions necessary to defeat fascism...
...UDA Cites French Pacifists Aid To Nazis to Thomas, Flynn The short step from "pacifism" to outright collaboration with Hitler was emphasized this week by the Union for Democratic Action in replying to 37 American socialists and pacifists of the Keep America Out of War congress who had criticized the "war if necessary" policy of the Union...
...At that city's airport there arrived by clipper both Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Dr...
...After the husband's brief imprisonment, the Clements retars to safer mining enterprises in the United States and Mexico...
...this .cannot be definitely proven...
...In these moves diplomatic circles see the culmination of the Nazi-Soviet drive...
...Unless' the United States seizes Dakar, Martinique, French Guiana, and thereby prove to the skeptical and oft-times sneering Latin Americans that Washington means business, the President's last speech will mean nothing...
...America—-that the President meant what he said when he broadcast: "We re-assert the ancient American doctrine of freedom of the seas...
...As a personal record, "I'd Live It 0"s* reveals a resilient and colorful personality against a rapidly sMsV ing background of pre-1914 life in America, England and otha countries...
...The Union for Democratic Action unhesitatingly chooses to follow Morrison, Bevin and Laski rather than Deat, Faure and De Man...
...At least two large cruisers of the Atlanta .type will soon be ready...
...Cloman, brings her in touch with the military and diplomatic '^•orld...
...more, Iran abutts India and dominates the western end of the Arabian sea...
...She had sss share of danger and excitement...
...Her very story is an almost perfect argument ist socialism...
...Through her luck and vigor of personality, Flora Cloman took part in some of the most mterestair...
...Dakar's strategic position has often been outlined...
...It should have, anyway...
...Yet a number of brave Danish gave their lives to defend Denmark's right to existence...
...Farrar & ftt»«as»t New York, 1941...
...They sell us- at least $12,000,000 worth of their produce...
...The vote was 229 to 27...
...Speculation is rife as to the extent of the new Nazi-Soviet cooperation...
...Here, as the reader would expect,^ is where romance must step in., So far, it is almost a perfect "well deserved success" nonL Flora marries the young and capable mining engineer and manager, Victor Clement, also obviously meant to "go places...
...There are now five countries whose envoys have been asked to withdraw from Moscow, because of Soviet approval of Nazi aggressions...
...The only disturbance at the sessions was caused by the expulsion of two delegates from the party...
...All this must nave made her a charming woman, eves if her views on labor are not those of this column...
...Key note of his address was the statement that wealth was being conscripted as freely as men, and that no one would escape sacrifice...
...We can guarantee no "millen-ium," even in the event of a British victory, but recent history guarantees death if Hitler is allowed to succeed in his avowed . aim of wprld domination...
...11 New Zealand Labor Parley Reaffirms Support of Britain Special to The New Leader WELLINGTON, New Zealand (By Mail).—Tha.lP Zealand Labor Party, ruling party in this British donwg recently concluded its twenty-fifth annual confareaflMjJ* a declaration that New Zealand labor is solidly behind fiW Britain in its war on Hitlerism...
...U.S...
...Typical of the ineffectiveness of U. S. policy in Latin America is what occurred in Santiago, Chile, last week...
...chapters of American industrial history...
...t It will be valued by future American hUtorisa...
...Climax and Crash HER second marriage, a few years later, this time to Coi...
...The South Americans want to sell their metals and build their industrial plants if possible...
...Spinasse, former Socialist cabinet minister, who has joined with the former Communist, Jacques Doriot, in launching a French version of the Nazi totalitarian party...
...Kings and Millionaires "THE daughter of the unsuccessful Wisconsin farmer wag meant to walk with millionaires and kings—and on terms of equality...
...A few years after the *r Mrs...
...If she doesn't like Bill Haywood, she says it with moderation...
...Cloman shows remsrktHl courage and serenity...
...A joint board from these Reich puppets will be in charge...
...Paul Faure, former General-Secretary of the French Socialist Party, whose appeasement program led him into intimate collaboration with Pierre Laval and George Bonnet in their "anti-war" policy of "peace" with Hitler, and others...
...It is in Mexico that the young and successful Clement falls ill and dies...
...In addition, the South Dakota, oar third powerful 35,000-ton battleship, will be launched shortly, four months ahead of schedule...
...It is believed that a formal note has informed Portugal somewhat ominously that .Germany might be "forced" to occupy Portugal but that the occupation would be limited to harbors and airfields...
...if the Ottomans decide to fight how, it will be on Anatolian soil, and this means the complete abandonment of the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits...
...It is a story of a sensitive woman, and «f t "selfmade woman...
...Denmark could not defend herself, as Sweden could today, against this enormous superiority of force...
...In 1929 comes the eflfc, and her fortune is'wiped out...
...Imperialist Conspiracy COON, Victor Clement and his wife are moved "higher-op" to 1st gold mines of Johannesburg, South Africa...
...Anyone Interested in the "paradise lost" period of America* business, in the great booms of America's mining industry of the 90*s and 1900*s, will read "I'd Live It Over" with unflagging ». terest, and will be amply rewarded for the pleasure of reading h. There are, at least, two considerations which would have mas* "I'd Live It Over" a good novel, had its author selected the "she" instead of the "I...
...it is the culmination of more than three months of dickering, and by its timing isolated Turkey and places the Soviet's seal of ap- : proval on the Nazi sweep towards Suez through the Asia Minor coast—this is the insight of well-informed diplomatic circles here...
...United States foreign traders have begun to evince greater interest in that central American country, both as a market for our products and a source of supply of certain items required by our industries, according to the Department of Commerce...
...James Loeb, Jr., executive Secretary of the U.D.A., of which Dr...
...Hoys, Lor*, Kobbt Spot* At Aid Ames Rellf at « Jefferson Ht§h Scfcool Arthur Garfield Hays, BmM0 Kobbe, Ralph Bates, I*** Lore, Herbert Bayard SMI** Irwin Jaffe, and Stanley I**" rer, chairman, speak at * •JP meeting, arranged by thr 0"*" mittee to Defend America**.** ing the Allies, Friday, jff...
...The circle is complete: back te fits again...
...Cloman loses her second husband...
...50,000 Yank* Abroad Approximately 51,000 Americans are in Europe today—5,100 in Germany, 14,570 in Italy, and 6,145 in the British Isles...
...Paul Barandon, former consul general of Germany in Valparaiso...
...When the Danish 'Freedom Station' broadcasts on short wave, the announcer invariably concludes the evening's program with these words: 'Long live our King...
...Time, the very early 90's...
...He pledged continuance and extension of New Zealand's labor reforms-achievements which have placed this island first in the world...
...Only A, E. F. Can Keep Nazis Out of Dakar By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D.' C—With the Navy Department broadening its policies of cloaking warship movements from the''press—and rightly so—it becomes difficult to interpret official actions in the Atlantic, but it is definitely learned that the Washington high command has no intention of seizing Dakar or of using American warships where they might run into a "shooting'' fray...
...Saddened and hurt, the young woman doesn't lose coinage...
...The United States now has the world's strongest naval battle line, with 15 capital ships ot MfiOQ to 33,400 tons completed between 1912 and 1923, and two new battleships completed this year...
...The ^experiences stt observations, frem a rough mining community ¦Tthe Court ef Saint James, are depicted with gusto and shrewdness...
...The fact is that London is discouraged and angered with the crawling pace at which the recently acquired U. S. Atlantic bases are being built, and with the apparent certainty that U. S. naval and military forces will-not move for months—if ever—to seize Dakar and French and neutral Atlantic .islands Reports show that after six months the bases acquired from the British in return for the 50 destroyers are still useless for defensive or offensive action by the United States...
...Danes Boycott Nazis, Stand Behind King LONDON (passed by the censor).—A report of conditions in Denmark in the second year of Reich occupation and o* how the Danes, united behind their King, are maintaining a stubborn though passive boycott of the Nazis is contained in a recent outspoken article in the Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Handels-och Sjofartsstidning...
...In France, Marcel Deat, editor of the liberal L'Oeuvre, whose widely " disseminated editorial "Why Die for Danzig...
...Nippon is purchasing heavily {or Germany in Chile, Peru and Bolivia...
...Denmark has her Quislingitos too, but happily —as in Norway and Sweden— they are only a tiny minority of the population...
...Whether this is done to the continued hesitancy of the President, to the much-rumored peace feelers in Washington and Madrid, or to the isolationist influence high in White House circles, is difficult to determine...
...State department circles are also watching with interest Rus-, sia's attitude towards the lawful Iraq government of Regent Emir Abdul Hah...
...Two more *45,0O0-tonner8 will leave the ways within six months...
...Diplomatic key for the British is Iran...
...USSR Recognition Of Greek Victory Aids Nazi Plans WASHINGTON.—Russia's recognition of Germany's conquest of Greece throws into bold relief the dovetaiing of Nazi-Communist policy in the near east...
...Latest measures such as free medical care, and free medicine for the people would be con-tinned, Fraser declared, despite the onslaughts of the conservative ^opposition...
...How the United 'States can cut the Axis off from South American produce is revealed in our dealings with Guatemala...
...Her husband was American military attache in UeHma More travel and experiences follow...
...But the democracies are now building 21 new huge battle sea wagons...
...The more than 500 delegates at the Labor Party conference were almost solidly unanimous in the support of the government...
...planes there which could take to the air with slight renovation...
...When he returned an hour later, and found the soldier still there talking to the ducks, he asked him why he did this...
...Here are oil fields and an entrance to the Persian Gulf...
...The whole Danish people today stand -united behind- King Christian, and he stands deter-minodly at his exposed post...
...Barandon is one of the most notorious Nazi agents in South America...
...Cloman written her autobiography* in the foris of t* ** novel, it would, in all probability, hay* attracted more attes...
...Soviets Ban Travel In Certain Areas The Soviet Russian Foreign Office has sent a circular to embassies and legations advising...
...The circular inclosed a list of regions where travel is banned, including the frontier zones, the Baltic States, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, and other sections...
...Results are gratifying...
...Iran's Shah, Riza Khan Pahlevi, under Nazi and Soviet influence, is intensely anti-British and is seeking to wipe out the Anglo-Persian oil agreements...
...The genial, charming Douglas Fairbanks, now on a special "good will" mission for President Roosevelt, is useless against such organization men...
...Under Soviet pressure, Turkey will amend the Montreux convention of 1936 which made her the sole keeper ofifthe Dardanelles...
...It may be that Sweden has heard more about conditions in Norway, and that these seem hard enough, but Denmark has its own heavy burden to bear and has done it without a murmur...
...There are 100 much-needed fighter...
...Both men...
...The Guatemalan market absorbs about $9,000,000 worth of American industrial products...
...Guatemala is the most populous of the Central American group of Republics and the nearest to the United States of the continental Latin American countries, other than Mexico...
...it is the sentiment of a whole nation...
...The Danish people recognize as their brothers only the Swedes, Finns and Norwegians—minus the Quislingitos...
...Long live our Fatherland.' Although it is the voice of a single individual...
...The Greek peninsula has always been Turkey's "zone of security...
...3.00...
...It has not made her hard-hearted...
...She "takes over" he husband's investments and becomes a wealthy woman is her owa right...
...The long list also includes Gaston Bergery, editor of the radical La Fleche, who is now carrying out Vichy policy as ambassador in Moscow...
...Life on a Wisconsin farm in the 7fi's and 80% b given with affection, humor and freshness...
...What the Nazis have achieved is that the old hatred of Germany, which had partly disappeared in Denmark, has revived...
...in the Americas will be decided for ourselves whether and when and where our American interests are attacked or our security threatened...
...Only a few girls in Copenhagen and Aalborg have received the Nazis with friendship...
...Russia's interests conflict directly with Britain...
...There the girls established the first bakery in the place, and made more money thai most of the miners...
...The 26,000-ton Schoenhorst and Gneisenau have been partly destroyed by the RAF...
...The latter was declared persona non grata some months ago for issuing false passports to allow a nu^nber of German marines from the Admiral Graf Spee to board a Japanese ship under false names...
...this is a blind for diplomatic moves-1—the Soviets have also 'long been seeking a port on the Persian gulf...
...All the Nazi-propaganda about Germanic brotherhood has been coldly rejected...
...Germany may not use them to take the Brazilian naval base at Natal-—but the Brazilians know that many an impossibility became routine tactics between Sedan and Olympus...
...Her book is one of the most interesting feminine biographies thh column has seen...
...Not only does the United States buy nearly all of Guatemala's coffee, bananas, chicle and hardwoods, but we sell them less than we buy from them...
...She has a sense of humor, a woman's heart and, apparently, bad plenty of mmt looks...
...Portugal Fears Nazi Threat Of Occupation The .Portugese government is preparing to flee Lisbon and is ready to set up a refugee government overseas according to recently returned travelers...
...CLOMAN'S views on labor and social problems are, on tk whole, conservative...
...She has children and responsibilities...
...The answer is that Dakar could be taken by the navy, but would have to be held by an armored division, a motorized infantry division and planes from the American army...
...The article says in part: "It must be borne in minbVthat Denmark had a non-aggression pact with Germany—the only one of the four northern countries— none the less she was attacked and occupied by German troops...
...Signatories to this treaty were Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece, now in Nazi hands...
...If the liner America and the scores at transports now ready to mere soldiers are not just to much wasted effort, what 'is restraining the President from sending men to ports which they could take now with little loss of life and which they will have to take next year with heavy casualties...
...A number of conspirators are imprisoned by fee Boers, and pass uncomfortably close to the gallows...
...The soldier answered: 'There is no one else in Copenhagen who will talk to me.' "The Danish worker looks coldly through the Germans he meets on his walks...
...them that foreign officials must notify authorities of any travel in Russia...
...In Belgium, the former head of the Socialist Party, Henri de Man, is now Hitler's Gauleiter in that country...
...According to the Times, Chilean statistics showed exports 6f 16,173 tons of bar copper to Japan in the first three months of this year, 2,000 tons more than Japan bought there in all of 1940...
...The air invasion of Crete is now seen as a mere military mopping up, the securing of a rear flank against British air attacks on German troops in Greece from bases on Crete...
...Textbook in Socialism ^ ftjtRS...
...Action Against Axis Trade With Latin A merica Still Weak THE State Department's policy of permitting export business as usual, which The New Leader has frequently criticized, is finally being scrutinized by Secretary Hull...
...The Soviets had already recognized the pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali Gail-ani, who is now in Iran after his unsuccessful coup...
...Her father's early death made her, a very young gh-k together with her older and married sister, move to the then newly opened and booming Coeur d' Alene mining district...
...Again—it must be admitted—Mrs...
...V * • * i (••talry and Diplomacy IJER book, however, has other qualities to recommend it to the ** historically minded reader...
...Reports persistently filter in of -Russian planes flying with the Germans in northern Iraq...
...They bought "lots" and made some siort money...
...Italy has only two new and one old battleships, none of which-dares to venture out to sea...
...Martinique, only 1,400 miles from the Panama Canal and Key West, Florida, is rapidly becoming a German stronghold in the Caribbean...
...Japan is reported trying to contract for all Chilean manganese...
...They report the bulk of Portugal's official records already has been sent overseas for safekeeping and several thousand troops of the country's inadequately equipped army of 35,000 have been sent to the Azores and the Cape Verde islands to reinforce the garrisons of those outposts of the empire...
...She also saw hiilmj and diplomacy at dose ranee in South Africa and London...
...In England, however, the great masses of the Labor Party not only saw the necessity of resisting Hitler, but were directly responsible for the fall of the Chamberlain Government and the end of appeasement...
...Largely through her own merits, Flora Cloman rose from "rtfi to riches," from a poor child on a_ Wisconsin farm to s successful' mine owner...
...All this gives Great Britain and the United States 33 battleships as compared with 17 for Germany, Japan, Italy and France.1 Germany has the Tirpitx, sister ship of the Bismarck, ready for action...
...played no small role in weakening French resistance, is today a leading French pro-Nazi...
...Is the President prepared to send troops to these fronts...
...Goebbels has said that Denmark is still a soverign power with the right to decide things for itself...
...The Latin American nations, all of whom are struggling with a secret supernumerary Nazi government and army inside their .borders, know that Germany has a minimum of 3,000 to 4,000 transport planes, each capable of carrying 20 to 40 fully equipped soldiers...
...There is a story.of a German soldier who sat in a Copenhagen park and talked to the ducks on the pond...
...does not consider war in itself a path to social progress-^ But it asks its critics how they expect to effect social progress in the event of Nazi world domination...
...By Flora Cloman...
...Reinhold Niebuhr is chairman, warned that the attack, signed by John T. Flynn, Norman Thomas, Oswald Garrisort Villard, and others, represents the same intellectual and moral confusion that played so tragic a role in the collapse of European democracies, particularly in view of their American First collaboration...
...It is being used as an espionage and propaganda base for the Axis...
...On June 3, President Querico Ubico of Guatemala issued a decree prohibiting the export or re-export of all articles subject to export control in the United States, and the exportation of them to the Axis nations was prohibited...
...This tonnage is then shipped to Germany via the Soviet's Trans-Siberian Railroad...
...LJIROHITO^S land is supplying Germany with 1,500 tons of ** essential foodstuffs and other commodities every day, according to a New York Times dispatch...
...With this line-up, only action will convince the Germans—and more important, the "neutral" Japs and South...
...Much of this material is bought by numerous trade missions in South America...
...we reassert the solidarity of the 21 American republics...
...Hi ii the favorite lieutenant of John Hays Hammond, \be great mining ^industrialist to be...
...But her own book is such a perfect flhfr tration of the mirage of capitalist "success," "from rags to riche/1 and back, that one can enjoy the matter while disagreeing with ti* authors views...
...She has had an interesting and rich Ut She makes no complaints...
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