Soviet-German Military Drive Seen In Iran to Outflank Allies in Syria
REYNARD, DICK
Soviet-German Military Drive Seen In Iran to Outflank Allies in Syria By DICK REYNARD IN the test day* of 1939, Auguf, New York times cwwapowiwrt, wrote from London that "it is a long way from...
...Vincent Witis, leader of the Peasants' Party, made the same choice, and is reported as slowly dying in prison...
...Nearly a million men are dead, crippled or prisoners as a result of wars in Ethiopia, Spain, France, Greece, Albania, North Africa and East Africa...
...It also appeals for the aid of American democracy...
...5-Oth Aves...
...At present, Iran's 10,000,000 tons a year are handled by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company for Great Britain...
...13.00._ 7,200 Police Radio Stations Now Operate Today's nearly 1,200 police radio stations are a marked contrast to the handful of such stations a decade ago...
...If well organized and well supported from this country, the underground movements in all Europe, among which the Polish underground movement is one of the most vital, can provide a sufficient harassment and trouble for the Fascist dictators in Europe to prevent them from seeking new conquests...
...The Spaniards already are calling for their share...
...The happy ending of each of the chapters of "WheiMtt<i Dared to Tread" is the collapse of the venture, from the LaMK1 "Utopia in Torso," the Rappite and Zoarite colonies up to 01 through Mormonism, Brook Farm, the Oneida "love •tat' "Modern Times" and wacky John Alexander Dowie's "Zioa Of Father Divine, Calverton wrote: "It is easy for intellectuals who make a fetish qrf rationalitj* dismiss him as a lunatic, which in part he perhaps is, but ft »¦ kind of lunacy, embodied m higher but more sinister foflBl b 1 person like Hitler, that has so often influenced a considerable!* of the world...
...their fanatkHj it clined alike with the physical failing of their dictators and tk> economic rise of the community...
...Virginio Gayda, loud and profilic official editor, has quieted down and is reported fearful he will be dealt the same fate which put the others in the discard...
...These mountains, the forces of Reza Shah, numberiag approximately 100,000 trained men equipped with about 200 airplanes, 100 new Skoda tanks, and other modem weapons, might hold for a week against the Russians until Britain could bring up support—if Britain wanted to get into a shooting war with Russia...
...After 1 Year of War Wide Purges, Loss of Army, Colonies, Navy Make Italy Third Rate Power Special to The New Leader LISBON (via Clipper).—Italy faces its second year of war as a minor power, its navy virtually destroyed...
...James Oneal, former Editor of The New Leader and lifelong friend of Debs...
...This combination of France, Italy and Spain was Laval's trump card...
...In all, the Allies have about 600.000 of the world's best soldiers in the Near East...
...These armies could move down into Iran with ease, as they did in Poland and the Balkans...
...Active Anti-War Socialists Of 1917 Urge Fight on Nazis Leading American laborites and Socialists who maintained their opposition to the last war in the face of ousters from government posts, fines or imprisonment, this week issued a statement urging that America do its full part to destroy the Nazi menace, "before the American people can once more proceed with its orderly pursuit of greater security and freedom...
...Robert Owen said: "Our pi imHhi tj spread from community to community, from state to atatfe, ftj...
...Therefore, the Polish underground movement seeks to cooperate in full solidarity with similar movements of other nations which are subjected to Nazist domination...
...John Panz-ner, former Socialist candidate for Governor in Michigan...
...WHERE ANGELS DARED TO TREAD...
...The Spanish foreign office is boasting...
...Correspondents returning from north Africa speak of the constant German propaganda...
...News could not be denied them...
...Most interesting of all from the point of view of present worfc" poKtics is the fact that the spiritual and "irrational" colonies that limited the possibility of great gain among the members progptju far better than any of the intellectual and "rational" venture The fanatical strength of Morraonism, for example, wag fa spiritual leadership...
...But because they were sot anrid i world into which they could come and go they were not robjeefct to the blighting evils imposed upon present-day Russians j» Germans...
...its empire nearly gone, and what remains is in German hands...
...If German infiltration via Russia continues, the British will be faced with splitting their forces, and throwing them east from Mosul and Kirkuk...
...Judging from reports of German-Russian tension, another Moscow-Berlin deaf is also due...
...Allied circles are puzzled at the lack of resistance shown in Syria...
...Inscriptions demanding the cession to Spain of Casablanca, Algiers, Oran, and Fez, all belonging to France, appeared in the Streets of Madrid two weeks ago...
...OEPORTS on the Iraq and Palestinian situations Reaching British military and political authorities in Cairo say that the RAF has full command of the air over Syria and Iraq...
...Other German agents who have disappeared into Iran are Herr von Hoenting, a specialist in agitation in the Orient, and Max von Oppenheim, an important archeologist and astute propagandist...
...Thefce group* vanished or were swallowed up in the stream of American life because they lacked the inner strSi to go on /as separate en title* in most cases...
...But so are German and Italian guns and men...
...they withered and died in similar fashion...
...VeritalfcC*> munism has become the opium of some of the people...
...Maclver Heads Group Aiding Secret Anti-Nazis in Poland Inspired by trustworthy reports of underground activity of democratic and patriotic elements in Poland, on both the German and the Russian side of the partition line, a number, of American citizens have organized under the name of American Friends of Polish Democracy to support this movement and to inform the people of the United States about the heroic i struggle which is being waged against the Nazist and Bolshevist oppressors...
...its cities more vulnerable to Britain's new large-scale bombers...
...The summer climate of the desert being what it is, this amounts to a virtual death sentence...
...Iran has no fortified line, only its formidable barriers of mountains, as a defense against Soviet invasion...
...The bulletin points out that all decent elements in Poland are firmly opposing the brown and red regimes...
...These Germans used Russian passports to get in...
...Mussolini has shown that his armies and navy are useless for this work...
...Joseph M. Caldwell, jailed with Eugene V. Debs...
...Bome marked its first year of war by talking of its "victories" and prisoners...
...bet...
...with all of Hitler's other monstrosities dc not accept hi* concw of everlasting war and conquest and would welcome the chanceK get out of his clutches...
...From- the very beginning, this has taken the form of production for Nazi use of military supplies...
...Unless the Germans were so badly knocked out at Crete that they have no ready transports left, they have Soviet assurance of action in Iran...
...Wilham M. Reivo, leading Finnish Socialist, jailed during the last war...
...This would save the Teheran oil fields in Iran, and prevent the Germans and Russians from moving south towards Basra and the Persian Gulf...
...Auspices: Youth Section-Mazzini Society...
...The Russians may not want German troops near Baku or Batum, where some of the world's most valuable oil fields are located...
...Why haven't they...
...Jrftm'v ¦ f *,Whl the bushes and trees, dispersing them down the hills, and flbi hallelujahs as they watched them descend and be consul***?1 Tie contemporary shakers obtain their catharsis by shuttng^&W* airplane plants and other defense industries in order to'•(at!* blessings of their twin gods, Hitler and Stalin...
...Its relations with Egypt are very close, since the Crown Prince married Farouk's sister...
...5 these pages <**c*pt for the one wfcoM leader, FatfaerlJiX...
...Iran for years has been the center of Aiis espionage and -propaganda activity in the Near East...
...Berlin has promised aid...
...It is thought that the Turks will not resist...
...With Spain at one end and Greece at the other, both German controlled, Italy is a shrunken, hungry peninsula, hemmed in by an expanding Germany...
...In place of the megalomaGSjjL terings of Smith read the egomaniac "Mein Kampf,^' reaches heights of the irrational not overreached by any of% cranks and crackpots, fools and fanatics, studied by CaNwht...
...Hitler's government made strenuous efforts, immediately after the conquest in 1939, to induce prominent Poles to head a puppet government...
...The Fascist dictators do not spare any efforts in order to build up organizations of their own supporters in other countries, including the United States...
...Bronson Alcott regardedl*^** as a genius, if not a god, who would "make an era in the of man...
...f*jr virtues and defects were the virtues and defects of dictatoratia: and fortunately for them they lived within the greater nwdhmi of American democratic traditions...
...There are scores of sites on which the Germans could land troops as they did in Crete...
...We recognize, however, that today America is faced with a Nazi world counter-revolution that threatens democratic institution* in this country as well aa in the rest of the world...
...German Jews, Czechs", Poles, and other anti-Nazi nationals, who are not considered important enough to ship to concentration camps, are being rounded up and sent to North African labor camps...
...None of the American Utopian colonies was democratic...
...There . are other manifestations of a growing imperialism on the part of the Spaniards...
...It is only possible if Russia and Turkey permit their borders to be opened to such infiltration...
...Therefore Italy is permanently relegated to vassalage...
...Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School...
...It is also known that the German Army, shocked at the vulnerability of its tanks against British guns, has turned over large numbers of them to the French for refitting with additional armor-plating...
...Italo Balbo was killed in a airplane crash...
...But Russia may agree to the Germans crossing Turkish territory...
...economic success followed the zealotry of Smith and Brigham Young...
...This would mean crossing the Caucasus or Turkey...
...S. Penzik, executive director of the A.F.P.D., states that the Peasants' Party, the Polish Socialist Party, the well-known Bund, and the Federation of Democratic Clubs, composed very largely of intellectuals, have united to form an underground organization under the title "Swoboda" (Freedom), which is gaining an enormous membership in all parts of the country...
...These are constantly being reinforced...
...The British think this pact dead...
...With the upswing in Britain's air offensive against the invasion bases, Germany has found that its principal repair yards in Holland and Belgium were too exposed to RAF attack...
...During the middle of May, shipping interests in Istanbul received news of negotiations between Germany and Russia for the use by the Nazis of Soviet ships^ on the Black Sea to transport war materials to Russian ports for trans-shipment to Iran...
...He warned wealthy Syrians that Syria would soon come under German domination, and that those who had not lined up with the Germans would go to a concentration camp...
...As important is the destruction of the so-called "Latin-BJoc" which -was the dream of Pierre Laval and Mussolini...
...Tangier, "Oran, all of Morocco, the rest of Algeria and part of British Nigeria are in Franco's scheme...
...The formidable Nazi military machine is the advance guard of a vicious counter-revolution which must' be destroyed before the American people can once more proceed with its orderly pursuit of greater security and freedom...
...Manv°d them believed their ideas were destined to sweep over all the earrt An apostfe of Joseph Smith, the Mormon leader, bbrJ "wTJIr fesae8 to his people to intend taking the United State* and ria matery the whole world...
...American democracy must build up its own allies in a Nazi-dominated Europe...
...Egypt will never be delivered to Italy...
...We were ousted from government posts, fined or imprisoned, because of our denunciation of that war a* an imperialistic struggle...
...Admission free...
...Copies of its secretly printed leaflets have been received in New York, including an eloquent "Manifesto of Freedom," which not only calls for national independence, but declares that there must be a New Poland, "basing her existence on the principles of democracy and social justice...
...They borrowed the *ti*a,U, of America in material purchases and sales...
...Headquarters have been opened at 55 West 42nd Street, New York City...
...Laval promised to deliver...
...It has been the base of operations for the mysterious Dr...
...Many others braved the same fate, and the effort to find worthwhile Quislings or Petains was a fiat failure...
...The Polish people realize today," says a bulletin issued from the office of the American Friends of Polish Democracy, at 55 West 42nd Street, "the connection of their fate with that of world democracy...
...His failure to deliver immediate voluntary action by Madrid and Vichy, the collapse of all Italian military and na-val power, have wiped him out of the picture...
...Word has just come that the drive on Suez from Cyrenaica is about due...
...But it is such men in times of crisis that wrest *H* from the shrewd and cunning statesmen and diplomat*, heta* they can hypnotize the masses—their very incoherency *nd Of icality is their strength...
...Iran is not an Arab country, but Moslem...
...Just as the appeals of these relatively minor zealots pere « swered by the economically depressed or the mentally ffl or m. stable, so the followers of Stalin and Hitler present the aa* characteristics in flaunting er embracing death in order to e*ct» a fate that they believe might be worse—that is to say, mskjtg their own way in the world, with or without the help of organ)*, tion, in cooperation with the vast body of their fellow-men alt...
...There they will be compelled to work on the proposed trans-Sahara railroad to Dakar...
...5 This will put large mechanized forces on the rear and flanks of the Allied armies now moving cautiously into Syria...
...The Germans could have had two divisions in Syria by this time, well annfed, well motorized...
...Moreover, Berlin has other plans for the Arabs...
...Gaetano Salvemini, noted exiled Italian professor, now at Harvard University, will apeak in English on "Italy—America and the War" Friday, June 13, 8 p. m. at New School of Social Re-Research, 66 /West 12th St...
...For it is a series of studies in'microcosm of such movent^ as Hitlerism and Stalinism (I do not mention Fascism reason that it is now completely and tragically discredite*^^* the Italian people and a laughing-stock among all other* significant that all the Utopian or fanatical eohmie* tes&L...
...But no one spoke of Madrid and even Vichy looming more strongly as powers in the German scheme of things than does Rome...
...Industrial co-operation" ha's gone to even greater lengths, subtly camouflaged for American consumption, in the guise of a "tri-partite" automobile pact to coordinate production of cars in Germany, Italy, and France...
...And to keep it subjected Hitler will need control of the Mediterranean and the North African littorial...
...Today, pacifism must give way to realism if man is to save his dignity and his cherished rights, and America must stand ready to do it* full and vigorous ¦part toward the defeat of Hitlerism now...
...It is alleged that many thousands of copies of this document have already been districted and are being passed from hand to hand until they are literally worn out 800,000 French To Make Tanks For Reichswehr Collaboration between Vichy and ' Germany, dramatically underlined by recent events in the Levant, has been going on co*v-ertly for some time...
...By V. F. CW**' The Bobbs-Merrill Compavy...
...Germany knows that the French have only 35,000 poorly equipped men in Syria, that oil supplies are low and food is scarce...
...Huge convoys of British and American materials are getting through...
...The Nazis are reported to have inspired Russian pressure on the Iran government for the sale to Germany of all its oil...
...This is utterly ridiculous when one considers that France has over 2 million cars, utterly useless because of the gasoline famine...
...This is what 18 years of Mussolini's dictatorship has brought...
...the paths of democracy...
...The honorable peace which is leading inexorably to war against /Britain .and the democracies is also forcing Admiral Darlan and the Vichy government into some of the Gestapo's worst work...
...In his place is Admiral Darlan, who can deliver a navy which is still loyal to him...
...The Reich promises a pan-Arabic state...
...Frank Kingdon and Algernon Lee as members of the ^executive committee...
...But this air control would not prevent the Germans from using the Black Sea...
...It does so in the conviction that not only does the fate of the Polish people ultimately depend on the strength and power of American democracy, but also that it can make its own modest contribution to the peace and safety of the American nation...
...its Fascist Party bereft of its leaders...
...King Farouk is considered Egypt's leading pro-German by competent observers...
...American press reports that Hitler promised Mussolini Egypt have appeared here...
...Mare Nostrum may no longer be entirely British, but it is partly German, not partly Italian...
...when their zeal Wind under the softening influence of economic gain they were g liberty to withdraw and take up a life of individual hsjafaeai away from the group...
...The French auto works will, in fact, manufacture army trucks and airplane parts for the Reichswehr . A committee, composed of five members from each country, met in Berlin, on June 5 to organize the functioning of the "auto. mobile" pact...
...In 1937, Iran signed the Pact of Sa'adebad with Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan for consaltation in case of aggression...
...Professor Estreicher, of the Cracow University, preferred death in a concentration camp to a premiership under the Nazis...
...Professor Robert M. Maclver of Columbia University is chairman of the new organization, with Louis Adamic, Paul Douglas and Oscar W. Lange as vice-chairmen, and Professor George Counts, David Dubinsky, Paul Kellogg, Dr...
...It is much too valuable as a granary and as the crucible containing Suez...
...Special planes are used to fly Persian caviar to Berlin for Ribben-trop banquets...
...The British, much less equipped for air transport than the Nazis, ferried large numbers of men by air from India to Iraq during the recent fighting...
...From a personal visit to Russia I can say that thoasandl spot thousands of Soviet citizens would like nothing better than i chance to escape to other countries, especially the United SUta, and it is equally certain that millions of Germans who went the...
...Just how this could be moved is another problem, but it would put Iran under German control...
...If Germany wins, that may be accomplished—with the usual Nazi methods...
...They have received information revealing that nearly half a division of German troops and technicians are already in Iran...
...Such allies can now be found in the underground movements...
...Once this occurs, the entire Allied force under General Maitland Wilson will be forced to wheel about and race either for the sea or the Palestinian and Transjordan borders...
...Instead of Italy, Germany is now dealing with Vichy and Madrid...
...Pietro Badoglio and the half-dead, bomb torn Rodolfo Graziani are "retired...
...On January 1, 1940, 28 States were operating 251 police radio stations and, in addition, there were 913 municipal police radio systems involving more than 6,000 radio transmitters...
...It was hailed by a leading Vichy industrialist as a sign that France was being treated as an equal by her conquerors and as a way of putting 800,000 Frenchmen back to work...
...Prosperity is healthy neither fc dictators nor their followers...
...This war is distinguished from those that preceded it because Nazism and its allies, Fascism and Communism, seek to extend their systems of government to every part of the globe...
...Safvefirr'iri Speaks for Maxxiui Youth Group, June 13 Prof...
...The statement follows: "We opposed America's participation in the last war...
...That may be so, but if II Duce expects that slice of territory then it is true that his" brain is affected...
...The French newspaper published in Teheran gets all its news from Germany...
...He was recently reported at Aberdan, which is just across the Iraq border and is the site of the world's third biggest oil refinery...
...To the poor Arabs he pictured Hitler as the protector of Islam, sent by Allah to aid the devout...
...That this is probable is learned from Washington military circles...
...The declaration, released through the New York -Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, was signed by August Claes-sens, Samuel Orr, Magistrate Charles Solomon and Louis Wald-man, four Socialists ousted from the State Assembly...
...These are the fanatics—and in this cdtrrrtry they tfl mostly Communists and those wealthier ilk who look for a dittlta to save their estates—who make common cause with the cftetaton with a zeal that recalls the rhapsodic activities of The Woman in the Wilderness group, who, "pursuant to the practices ofajHte German mythology, celebrated the ritestrf St...
...And that mass hypnoo* is possible only because they both believe they are men of WiW to believe that, one has to be abnormal, irrational, and p*rfl«t mystical...
...Herr von Hoenting went to Syria as the head of a commercial mission but devoted himself to stirring up unrest...
...Great as is the danger to the democracies from German Ma and whatever may remain of Russian Communisrn, a greater pet still is that totalitarian section in the democratic countriei tat takes spiritual strength from the world Nazi-Communist W* ment...
...Books and Writer By HERMAN H. DINSMORE P*ROM a political-philosophical point of view, few boaktfya^ greater timeliness than this last contribution* of V. F CaW ton...
...Soviet-German Military Drive Seen In Iran to Outflank Allies in Syria By DICK REYNARD IN the test day* of 1939, Auguf, New York times cwwapowiwrt, wrote from London that "it is a long way from Finland to Iran, yet . . . if the Finns had not pat up a resistance that surprised Russia, Iran would have been exposed to a Russian threat, perhaps armed invasion-" Today, as anti-Axis -mflitary leaders uneasily trace on 'their maps the practically unopposed match of the Allies into Syria, little-known Iran once more is faced with an invasion threat—that of a joint German-Russian march into the oil country...
...its national apparatus and police under German Gauleiters, and its Duce an ulcerous, tired man of 57...
...It was with the connivance of Laval and his colleagues that Mussolini, early in 1939, formulated his demands: "Tunisia, Djibouti, and the Suez Qanal...
...Robert Farinacci, Fascist party leader is reported dead in Albania: former party secretary Achille Starace, chief of staff of the fascist Militia since 1939, was removed two weeks ago...
...So the British will probably be faced with a Soviet march down from the Caucasus towards Pahlevi and Teheran in Iran, and German drives east from Halfaya Pass and west from Iran...
...J still living) bave either disappeared entirely or lost their eharacter-^ith the death of their leaders...
...They roatrnt prospered ^vith the life and physical prosperity of those who > eeived them...
...For years the Nazis have been wooing Iran, third largest oil producing country...
...It is not unreasonable to assume that this may mark the beginning of open military collaboration between Moscow and Berlin...
...continent p6 continent, until this system and these principle «2 overshadow the whole earth...
...Max Eastman, author, indicted under the anti-sedition laws...
...Grobba, who was German Minister in Baghdad when war broke out...
...In short, dissimilar though the two me* IK* most respects, they are the same in one, namely, in the HNKli their power, which is mass hypotism...
...Part of France's "economic" co-operation has been the establishment of new repair yards as far inland and as . much concealed as possible...
...POR sbme years now the Russians have been concentrating a *^ force in the Caucasus...
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