Ukraine Control Would Cripple British Blockade, Put Nazis Near Orient
REYNARD, DICK
Ukraine Control Would Cripple British Blockade, Put Nazis Near Orient Area Is Russia's Vast Food, Steel, Tool, Textiles Reservoir By DICK REYNARD Because Moscow yielded to all German demands but...
...Events have revealed the bankruptcy of Moscow's policy...
...Russian Socialists Back Aid to Soviets, Say Only, c Democracy Can Win Nazi War The following deciaratiofi^sas issued this uteefc By the Russian Social Democratic Party, through its chairman, RaphaeT A fyramowitch: For all sincere opponents of Hitlerism, any force which takes arms against Hitler's divisions becomes an ally of democracy and of the working people of the world...
...The Ukraine yields 12,000,000...
...However, this is not the time to be settling accounts with Stalin...
...The Burma Road's capacity is 30,000 tons a month...
...five iron clads for coast defense...
...And he beHeveS "Aat the value of "adjustment"—that consummation devoutly sought by...
...Hitler's experts know this, of course, and have advised sacrificing the Transsiberian flow of food and munitions on the chance that the Ukraine will fall within a few months...
...In this respect, only the film utmi and the famous "fatal women" ean compete with presidents, atmy commanders and dictators...
...On the other hand, this latest Nazi aggression, portends for the peoples of our country terrible deprivation and suffering, a new form of economic, social and national oppression and the danger of becoming a slave colony of the Third Reich...
...Even if our rulers are only mummers of the genius of history, suppose—they bungle their lines...
...Prior to the war there had been a steady increase in Swedish imports from Germany for many years, but these were paid out of Swedish export surpluses to the Western countries including Great Britain and South America...
...At the same time we call upon the Soviet government for a clear cut declaration that it will consider no proposals of a compromise peace with Hitler...
...The new peril requires the unification of all Russians who place first the security and independence of their country...
...SDF Calls for British Blitz in West, Russia To Free Political Prisoners The following it the statement of tlJ*Exee*tive Committee of the Social Democratic Federation: . Without warning, without an ultimatum, without a declaration of war, the German armies have invaded .Russia...
...This is part of the aid the United States is lending to China...
...1 The three demands which Stalin turned down were incorporated in an ultimatum- stating that the Soviet Union must join the tripartite pact, return Bessarabia to Romania and give Germany control for 40 years over the Caucasian oil fields and Ukrainian agriculture...
...and Mr...
...From the Capitol to the Tarpean rock ? Or will Stalia h«vji.*y» to fly to England ? An exchange of reminiscences betWten Vnm tti Hess would be worth listening in...
...queror, ranting fanatical prophet—at their deadliest...
...Germany has few ships to spare for activity in'the Baltic...
...and I regard compulsion as a repression...
...Hellman recently completed a national truck line merger involving 5,500 vehicles...
...The .Germans have set up a Ukrainian government in "exile...
...Edited by Lawrence Fenu-worth...
...It follows an independent course in the direction of peace...
...Aside from its common-sense suggestions on delinquency lems, this book makes a stirring plea for the dignity and ficea* of the human personality...
...In the present struggle *between the Soviet and Nazi totalitarian systems, the chances of victory are on the side of the much stronger and better equipped Germany...
...As such, it must receive the maximum of all possible material and moral support...
...Stalin wanted to avoid war—now he has war, under the most adverse conditions...
...Stalin's betrayal of the democracies permitted Hitler to start the war in 1939...
...He is the dictator...
...To systematize the traffic the Nazis had agencies set up in Moscow, Tokyo, Shanghai, Tientsin, Dairen, Manchuli, Tsingtao and Harbin...
...Knickerbocker is trying to capture the elusive "qwtlityA the secret of Hitler, whom he has observed for years...
...We are consumed with eagerness to know: how have they done it, and how are they doing it...
...Soy beans are particularly important since they form the base for many ersatz foods...
...Four Swedish ships were lost in the first months of 1941 in trying to pierce the double blockade...
...The three truckmen will work with him...
...Territorial waters ^have been mined...
...Under the circumstances, our party which for more then twenty years has stood unalterably opposed to the terrorist dictatorship ruling Russia, wholeheartedly favors the defense of our country against the Nazi assault...
...America has a great opportunity...
...The Reich produces 50,000,000 tons of potatoes...
...This was the attitude of all Russian patriots at the outbreak of war in 1914...
...the U.S.S.R...
...The" conveyor system hi education can only produce standardized humans and strike s death-blow to individuality," he writes...
...Rumors of German troops congregating in the north fills, the capital...
...But Stalin is the victim of his own treacherous policy, both domestic and foreign...
...There has been little publicity...
...These desires are complicated •by Nazi pressure which comes, in the main, through trade threats...
...It is especially timely in the VttJ^_ ¦ emergency, when children's needs for understanding and sac***** may be neglected, and "when gains in fields of Child Welfa^•"•,,• education may be at a standstill...
...The Germans T- are supposed to be calm, the fiery Georgians, well—flamtojant...
...r Though a product of a dozen of experts, "Dictators and Demo-erats" is an informing and enteitaining book...
...McBride & Co...
...i, Where will Stalin and Hitler be six months hence ?; Who^lfll win this divorce-case...
...Because it failed to do so, it was ultimately destroyed...
...If these three truckmen can apply AmericaiMneEhods to the Burma road and "increase tonnage they can remove Japan's threat to the United States...
...An enormous battle line has been established...
...Justice Panken reminds us, "If democracy is to grow, «** pand and serve mankind, o*rr children must be initiated into n* purposes and allowed to share in its (blessings...
...Hitler is eyeing the Swedish navy...
...2.50...
...Sweden's total military expenses will mount to 2,055,000,-000 kroner, the government reported this week...
...This figure is high when it is noted that only six ships have left port, and that ten ships have arrived in Sweden...
...fOnee German army's have sliced off the Ukraine, Nazi troops ¦will be on the banks of the famous Don River and tha^ southeastern granary will automatically give the Reich control of Ttrrtay, the Caucasus, the Baku oil fields, the Black sea and the Crimea...
...From his long experience in the New York City ChirdtWl'l Court, Justice Panken cites numerous cases of children Who haw come into conflict with the taw because off overdisciplrhe and punishment at home, and the patriarchal attitude of parent* who regard the child as a possession...
...There were other shipments from -Manchuoko and Japan proper...
...twenty destroyers, about twenty submarines, and two powerful new pocket-battleships of 8,000 tons each...
...THE CHILD SPEAKS...
...And they will, for they are Marco Hellman, San Francisco Banker and transportation expert, Daniel G. Arnstein, who 6wns the New York City Terminal Cab Company and Harold C. Davis of West Hartford, Connecticut, who controls the Consolidated Motor Trucks company...
...None of them will be I paid...
...i • w • I YONS tells us of his famous interview with Stalin...
...Seeing in today's children the guardians of tomorrow's deno*" racy...
...Win or lose, Stalin will have to make explanatfon tD-ihe shadows of his executed generals...
...There is no hesitation about its aims...
...90 percent of its sugar beets...
...He is now jn Berlin, or possibly nearer to the actual war front, waiting for Nazi troops to create a gau for him...
...military loans have been asked Of the people...
...DICTATORS ASD DEMOCRATS...
...To be safe—perhaps "half-and-half" or both—4*, the strong personality and the "historical forces...
...The resistance of the Russian people cannot be effective unless their morale is restored by obtaining relief from the oppression and terrorism practiced upon them by their totalitarian government...
...most social workers—depends entirely on what the *MM adjusts to...
...Whatever the new zig-zag in the party line may be, they are not interested in the fight for freedom, but only in the survival of the Bolshevik government, whose agents they are...
...25 percent of its grain production...
...A good many- of these were lost when the Germans move suddenly on Sunday morning last...
...The three men were asked to go and agreed...
...Stalin is in the tightest fix of sus career...
...Swedish exports to Germany depends on the Swedish purchasing power of German goods and the latter, in turn, is certain to decline if Sweden cannot continue its exports to the West...
...And they report with both malice and charity...
...John Earl Baker...
...one powerful modern aircraft carrier, the 4,000 ton Gottland, in service since 1933...
...Hitler's calculated fury or - ?tali»*s cold perfidy and tenacity ? Even if Russia manages to wjthaflM) Hitler's deadly lunge, Stalin will have a lot to answer to theyofcnfj Red army officers: his honeymoon with Hitler has brought Rossis into mortal peril: the Red army must now, almost sihgleh Muted, face Hitler's whole might...
...A quick victory over Russia would strengthen Hitler immeasurably...
...for it is only by democracy that successful combat- against world fascism is possible...
...He is the only man wbofeels at ease is Russia...
...What are they: the tiger, rattlesnake and lion...
...It is .the main production center for tools, machines, engines, textiles, glassware, and many armament plants have been concentrated in the Ukraine...
...Now he must look for help from the democracies and "plutocracies" against which • he had conspired with Hitler...
...H. R. Knickerbocker, Emil Ludwig, Louis Adamic, Eugene Lyons and a host of other contemporary Plutarchs telling us all they know—and that is a good deal—about Mussolini, Chiang Kai-Shek, Stalin, Churchill, Hitler and other captains and kings...
...In foreign policy he pretended for years to be seeking an alliance with France and England, but at the last moment he concluded a pact with Hitler which had been, in secret preparation for a long time...
...Alexander Kerensky Asks Unity of Russians Against Nazis Four Freedoms Within USSR •Russia stands against Hitler's panzer1 divisions...
...And still we feel, almost superstitiously, that Napoleon's cold • had something to do with his failure to achieve victory at Borodino and with his defeat at Waterloo...
...This is a powerful stimulus for Hitler to force Sweden into his camp...
...He sought to share in the Nasi loot—he gambled on a war in which both sides would be bled white...
...economic factors," "Wall Street bankers" and other such mysterious divinities...
...Industrially Germany would gain 69,000,000 tons of coal compared with its own consumption of .186,000,000...
...She cannot expect direct assistance from anyone...
...Suppose Hitler has made a mistake in attacking Russia at this time...
...This may occur with six to eight weeks, just, as soon at Russia's heavily over-mechanized army and farms are strained to the breaking point After this, just as the whole course of the war daring the past year has been dominated by the fall of France the nest months strategy will be guided by German success in ldww Russia, gateway to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, India and the Orient...
...The first step in this direction must be a decisive change in the policy of the Soviet government toward the peasant majority of the population...
...It now handles about 17,000 tons* leaving huge stocks of arms and material piled up on the docks at Rangoon...
...This' move is intended to guard against future unemployment...
...Without altering our position, we subordinate the struggle for the liquidation of Stalin's despotism to the supreme requirements of the war against world fascism as the most malevolent enemy of all mankind...
...the Communist International served Hitler by creating confusion and fostering sabotage in the defense efforts of the democracies...
...He asks the correspondent's opinion on the question, and then says: "By God, I think so myself...
...The teacher of the ftfcte must be taught to teach, and teaching is possible only when W* understands and loves...
...If, in fanatical devotion to his own totalitarian rule, he remains stubborn in defiance of the people's fervent desire to save the country, the Russian people will accomplish this aim without him, relying upon the support of the free democracies, which will now, at lgst come to understand the importance of a free Russia in the task of building a new international order based upon freedom and-wsidwiny peace...
...All this was not enough...
...Churchill apparently does most of the interviewing...
...Xciv~X°rk, 1941...
...The reader will find the essays on Churchill diverting end human...
...The reports that Russia has decentralized its production and munition factories are cons idered propaganda by U. S. m i 1 i t a ry intelligence...
...Another obstacle is the independent province of Yunnan, buffer between Burma and Chungking...
...We sympathize with the fate of the Russian people who, exploited and enslaved for almost a quarter of a century by their own Bolshevik despotism, now face the additional horrors of war and Nazi invasion...
...The time for decisive action has arrived...
...The mining industry provides raw material and power on which most of Russia's industries are being run, in addition to the 45 per cent of all...
...In addition to outflanking completely the British, the Reich would add to its captured territory an area slightly smaller than Spain, although the Ukraine is barely one fiftieth of the Soviet Union's entire mileage...
...The "book review" idea, conceived fcf Justice Panken, accomplishes several purposes...
...Did Lenin make the October revolution and the rest of it, or did the revolution makt him...
...The writers saw these "actors of history" not only from the front row, but in the dressing room...
...German planes have attempted to reconoiter along the coast of Sweden, but have been driven off by the Swedish neutrality defense guard...
...From the moment they reach ^the Burma Road they will be on dangerous transportation jobs— the transformation of the Burma Road into a smooth - flowing supplies to Chi-r ang Kai-Shek...
...His court experiences deepened bM conviction that fear of punishment breaks the spirit and be*** either hypocrisy or cowardice in the child...
...Between the lines of tf» !¦* ters and book reviews these children sent, often crudely coiaf1** and badly spelled, can be read a heartening story of bow Imf****^ girls have developed confidence, self-respect and new »ttf*ad*e toward life when they knew they had an understanding frieadwho wanted to hear from them...
...Arnstein owns a taxi fleet and 2,000 trucks in New York, Boston...
...To repel the Nazi invaders and to expiate his crimes before the Roas'ian people he must turn to them, he must end his regime of oppression and terror and let the Russian people have, the four freedoms of which President Roosevelt has spoken...
...it encourages him to put his thoughts on #af*> and it keeps him in touch with his friend at court...
...And here you are: Stalin, in temper and manners, i» tab* fery opposite of Hitler: easy, simple, calm good fellow, r el a Bed and relating, interested in your family...
...Sweden Seeks to Hotd Neutrality fit War Crisis Special to The New Leader , STOCKHOLM, June 17 (by cable).—Sweden is battling hard to maintain its neutrality in the rising swirl of war which threatens again to engulf Scandinavia...
...Davis owns a large trucking corporation...
...20 percent of the Soviets' sown area...
...The great ones of the past fascinate us no- less than our present rulers: Caesar and Napoleon—as much as Stalin-, Hitler and Chtfrchill...
...Pigs, potatoes and iron, all add up to the fact that a German victory in the.Ukraine would immediately make useless the British blockade...
...Germany produces only 12,000,000 tons of iron ore, and the Ukraine will give him 16,400,000...
...An even greater loss than these vast foodstuffs would be the Ukraine's industrial centers, wherein thousands of factories and industries make this "republic" one of the richest production centers in the world...
...He succeeded in plunging the rest of the world into war in the hope of remaining untouched while playing the role of- Hitler's jackal...
...The men have had wide experience in handling large quantities of trucks and motors...
...or even act as a deterrent to it...
...Summoning the laboring masses of Russia for an heroic struggle against Hitlerite aggression, calling upon the democracies of the world to rally to the support of Russia in this struggle, the Russian Social Democratic Patry-^ecclaims the decision of the British Government to aid Russia withVall available military and technical means, and its unequivocal refusal to entertain any offer of a compromise peace at the expense of Russia...
...If the Germans succeed in setting up a Ukrainian state, its official borders are expected to react from the juncture of Bessarabia and Poland southeast to the Black Sea, then northeast along the Black Sea littoral, past Crimea, to the Don River, and then back again along a rough line to the point where the Dneiper River crosses the old Polish border...
...The United States delegation will be faced by the difficulties of obtaining skilled drivers, who are even scarce in this country, and by lack of repair facilities...
...prior to 1936 the normal defense budget was about 126,000,000 kroner...
...The Russian people must know that they are called upon to fight, not for the preservation of the Bolshevik tyranny^ but for freedom...
...The second half of the book is devoted to case histories of children who have passed through Justice Panken's court, aa* to their communications with him...
...3.00...
...The full force of the Atlantic fleet and all available aircraft should be ordered into action against German submarines and raiders to help clear the Atlantic for British merchantmen...
...A better picture of the importance of this traffic is seen from the following figures: in one month alone the Soviets permitted the Japs to ship to Germany 400 tons of meat, 400 tons of tea, 250 tons of nee, 200 tons of cotton, 700 tons of hides, 40 tons of leather and 22 tons of tobacco...
...The liberal "Dagens Nyheter," frankly discussing the reported tension between^ Germany and Russia, reflects the views of the nation when it says editorially, "To some extent Swedish foreign policy faces perhaps new problems...
...Its reportage is of high quality It is the very breath of contemporary history with its nightmarish impossibilities and with the underworld figures become the rulers of half of the world, from Vladivostok to Boulogne...
...Four planes attempted to fly along the coast last week...
...What "green pastures" for future Ph...
...But that fiftieth part of the Soviet is 20 percent of the USSR's population...
...The hetman is General Skorapadksi, one of the minor leaders of the White Armies which fought the Bolsheviks until 1920...
...This is no occasion to raise the thorniest problem of philosophy of history: are these Napoleons and Stalins the makers of history, its playwrights and producers—or only the actors for whom the text and gesture have been prescribed by the "historical forces...
...The Russian Social Democratic Party expresses its deepest conviction that the armed struggle of the Soviet Union will become the more successful the sooner the process of abandoning the dictatorship in favor of democracy and freedom is realized...
...All three are wealthy...
...It familiartaat"* child with inspiring books, especially those telling the °* great Americans...
...30 percept of its potatoes, and 25 per cent of its pigs, which mean fat, a foodstuff which has practically vanished from Europe...
...It is an interesting book...
...Today Stalin is bankrupt...
...Despite the terrific outlays necessitated by military needs, the government has asked the Riksdag for aid in launching the greatest building program ever undertaken in Sweden...
...The future for Swedish trade is far from bright...
...This column shrewdly guesses that at this juncture the reader would, above all, like to know—or refresh himself—about three "leading men"—Hitler, Stalin, Churchill...
...To carry this freight the Russians had allotted 8,000 freight cars...
...Now, while the German armies are engaged on the eastern front, all available war material must be shipped to England, under American convoys, to harass Germany in the West...
...Judge Panken Speaks By MABEL TRAVIS WOOD IUST as the hate, fear and blind obedience instilled in its youth produce the mass gangsterism and violence of at dictator state, so dictatorship in the home and school is one of the chief -cMM* of aggressive and anti-social behavior among children in oar-tun democracy, Justice Jacob Panken points out in his wise and hennsn book on juvenile delinquency and its prevention...
...The road is now in charge of an American, Dr...
...He also plunged the entire nation—workers and peasants—into a state of economic slavery and chronic famine...
...Stalin would have • gone to the limit in meeting any demands, hut Hitler wanted war...
...Their loss would render Russia practically helpless...
...Frankly," he comments, "if a spirited child *adja**J¦*» institutionalization, that adjustment is harmful, for it destSBJW the spirit of the child, his adventurous nature, his smrttition^*'* traits which make up his individual personality...
...Neither the part between the Kremlin,and Berlin dictators, nor Stalin's loyal collaboration appeased Hitler...
...Our Rulers, Bless (Some of) Themr By ttJ4* L fAHTM* t /VP all our curiosities, the desire to ksaw more about our ralers 7^ is perhaps the strongest...
...it would deliver to him an enormous supply of munitions, put the Russian industries, granaries and oil wells at his disposal, and equip him for the final onslaught on Britain and the United States...
...On June 3, reports from Tokyo indicated that efforts were being made by the German resident agents to increase this traffic despite a 500 per cent advance in freight rates to Berlin on the Transsiberian...
...the Balkan States were delivered to the Nazis...
...Yunnan officials charge exorbitant tolls and frequently accept bribes from the Japanese...
...The expert men writing in "Dictators and Democrats" have done/ a fine job...
...Repression is a powerful factor in child delinquency...
...the steel, and over 70 per cent of all the cast iron of...
...Easy on both...
...Not—perhaps—just now...
...A vulgar, but ferocious combination of Borgia and Savonarola...
...The cabinet has called into session the Council on Public Affairs, a consultative body of party leaders and experts...
...Until a few days ago, Japan was supplying Germany with 1,500 tons of essential foodstuffs and commodities daily...
...We will keep up our struggle against the American Communists and will continue to insist that they must be driven out of all key positions...
...The only condition they made Was that the then existing government collaborate honestly with the people...
...Once this area and the Batu and Baku oil fields are cut off, the Russians are helpless and completely isolated from contact with the world...
...All this came from occupied China alone...
...Sweden, on the other hand, has three seven-thousand-ton - pocket - battleships of the "Sverige" class...
...To achieve his personal dictatorship he destroyed not only the democratic elements, but also all the leaders of his own party and themilitary and naval leaders of the coontry...
...In a' chapter on "Standardization in Our Schools," Justice Panken warns against the danger of regimentation that lief i» a uniform approach to child education...
...ThreeYankeeTruckmen toRoll Arms Over Burma Road SAN FRANCISCO.—The wagons wilt roll at night — over the Burma road—if Jhree Americans, now on their way to China, have anything to say about traffic regulations...
...Our foreign correspondents are the plutocrats of our times...
...345 pp...
...I ONG before Justice Panken came to the Children's Court he had discarded the theory that punishment can cure crime...
...By Justice Jacob PunJten...
...Russia furnished material aid to Germany...
...300,000,-000 kroner will be spent, more than one-third of which will be used as low rate loans for persons to build their own homes...
...As a first and immediate step, an amnesty for all political prisoners must be granted...
...The ¦Hm'si hysterics, cunning, tenacity, infectious self-intoxication, exptaaivj and sinister power—they are all there...
...D.'s...
...Nevertheless, we Russian patriots are grateful to Prime Minister Churchill for his promise to give the Russian, people whatever help may be within the power of England...
...which comes from that sector...
...Once the huge Chinese army now camped around the Yellow and Yangtse Rivers are provided with planes and large artillery, Tokyo will be forced to make peace or ship another large army...
...Not for long, it seems now...
...MOW that Stalin and Hitler are—at last—arguing their grievances before the divorce-court of history, on the old battlefields between Brest-Litovsk and Smolensk, with Churchill—ae it were— ' pleading Stalin's case, and Mussolini entering rebuttals for Germany, we have an almost providential book before us.* There is Dorothy Thompson...
...Ukraine Control Would Cripple British Blockade, Put Nazis Near Orient Area Is Russia's Vast Food, Steel, Tool, Textiles Reservoir By DICK REYNARD Because Moscow yielded to all German demands but three the United States military high command is not ruling out the possibility of separate peace between Russia and Germany once the Nazis pinch off the Baltic coantries, the Ukraine and the Baku oi fields...
...Among the shipment were soy beans, oils, meats, rice and cotton...
...We are grateful for his pledge to help preserve the integrity of Russian territory, and for the fact that he recalled the untold sacrifices made by Russia, both under the old regime and- under her democratic government in 1917, in the common cause of the Allied peoples in the repelling of German aggression...
...Compulsion destroys "the thing the child wants to do-by making him do something »h» instead," he states...
...Iletrf B* ttttd-Co.,Nev York, tHl...
...The three men are going to China to speed traffic over the Burma Road and do what they_ can to get an increasing amount of food, munitions, tools and planes into Chungking for the long awaited offensive against the Japs...
...But everything must be subordinated to the defeat of Nazism...
...Stalin now has' the last chance...
...eonv...
...The gain*to Germany would more than offset.the tonnage it rMefve3,J;roTri*"Russia proper and from abroad via the Transsiberian Railroad.' Germany now has about 28,000,000 hectares of sown area," and the Ukraine would add 25,000,000 more giving the Nazis ^23,000,000 tons of grain in addition to Germany's regular , production of 27,500,000...
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