Stalin Tries to Escape Responsibility As Nazis Drive Deeper Into Russia
LORING, EDWARD
Stalin Tries to Escape Responsibility As Nazis Drive Deeper Into Russia Anti-Administration Senators Control Vital Committees By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—the...
...D vid Walsh is typical of Bdston Irish sentiment and is-close to Cardinal O'Connell, the most a owed pro-fascist in the Catholic hierarchy asic e from Father Coughlin a'nid Edward^Lpdge Ct rran...
...no "tinted front...
...He said, in substance, "Now at last we feel that we can really prosecute this war with an absolutely clear conscience...
...It would tend to give validity to the argument of those who, like Lindbergh and other lying pro-Nazi propagandists, seek to make the American people believe that aid to the Russian people means support of Communism...
...Is Stalin to stay or is Russia to live...
...1 By helping the Russian people to repel their foreign foe,, we help ourselves...
...for i while the President contemplated its disbanding...
...The "ten days that shook the world" in November, 1917...
...This is so particularly in view of 'the fiasco of the Christian Front trial in that borough several nonths ago...
...He did not refer to his conspiracy to use 'Hitler as a means of provoking the war in order that it might open for the Bolsheviks the road to that mythical "world revolution" which Lenin believed he had started and Stalin wanted to lead...
...Hitler forced the war on Soviet Russia -—despite Stalin's meticulous observance of the treacherous pact, despite the fact that Stalin would have been willing to meet, any demands Hitler might have presented for extending his lease on life...
...Molotov declared that Fascism was "aft'er all a matter . of, taste," asserting that Soviet Russia had no intention whatever of "pulling the chestnuts out of the fire" for England and France...
...For labor and progressives to enter into 5. another "United front" with'the Communists *would be to betray the cause...
...seek to restore it now in orderto betray it once more when...
...Of the thirty-three iow under arrest,- the two most important defent ants are considered to be Herman Lang and Sverett Minster Roeder, whjo worked' in...
...Cable dispatches from other sources disclose the virtual liquidation, in one way or another, of the flower of the Red Army...
...from the United.States under the lease-lend law, would eagerly accept any proposal 'from Nazi Germany which would preserve intact his own dictatorship over the Russian people...
...And we „may be sure that .should Hitler, after grabbing such...
...It was a fair presumption that Westrick, in the role of economic appeaser, was also headman of the Nazi espionage campaign...
...THE last-time the Communists called for a "united front" against...
...It will be a united front of peoples standing for freedom and against enslavement and threats of enslavement by Hitler's Fascist armies.*' Stalin's record shows clearly enough that what is required to beat' back the peril that has descended upon Russia is, first and foremost, the elimination of Joseph Stalin...
...The frlleeler-Nye-CIark bloc may have found little Jopular support in .the «hinterland, but they tie having better luck in both Houses...
...The intense specking campaign, which will be wound up by Senator Wheeler on Jnly 4th, and in which all the committee's big guns participated, failed to revive interest in the isolationists' campaign...
...That was not cricket...
...During the past months the America First crowd "has been losing support rapidly...
...asked Stalin, as he proceeded to describe the war as no longer an "imperialist" war but as a war for the freedom of Russia and Europe, for the destruction of Fascism and for the victory of democracy...
...Having helped the Nazis wreck France, the Comintern machine did its best to smash the American defense program by a wave ofwildcat strikes, which the Communists were prepared to continue even on a larger scale if only Hitler had left Soviet Russia alone.' But now, because Hitler—hot Stalin—has broken the united front between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, Moscow finds it expedient to re-establish the old "united front" with democratic and labor elements in England and the United States...
...Peace is to be attained not through concessions to the aggressor and through efforts to placate him, but only by dealing two blows for each from the war-mongers...
...The appointment last week of Cel...
...Hoover indicated other rings would be broken up soon...
...The Russian people, enslaved by Bolshevism as no people have been...
...Under a mask of the usual Stalinist braggadocio and falsification, the blood-stained dictator in the Kremlin admitted that the peril confronting Russia but, tried at the same time to disclaim responsibility for the new calamity that has befallen the Russian people...
...The best means of defense is attack, attack to destroy the enemy in his own country...
...Stalin must give way to a Russian Churchill 1 The Soviet Government must immediately be reorganized to include all the loyal, patriotic, democratic elements of the country who can command the confidence of the peoples of Russia and of the democracies...
...The first is a mattex of military necessity, not only that of the Russian people, but of our own...
...It was the government of the United States which compelled Japanese imperialism to clear out of Siberia after the last war...
...But to do this effectively, Stalin must go...
...At the same time, Dr...
...That is the question...
...l^he Russian people...
...But why was Soviet Russia in an unfavorable position when Stalin's gangster pal decided to iisrifcjhjjiiBjppi Jdnp T r. i Btmmm by his betrayal of France and EngtMtf in AsgMt, 1M», Stalip had made it possible for Hitler to ww an easy victory over Franca and overrun the satire continent of Europe...
...Meanwhile, ten of |the defendants ha' e pleaded guilty to preliminary complaints...
...Some 170 Nazi divisions assembled on the Russian frontiers moved into action instantaneously upon receipt of orders while Soviet troops "had Little time to effect mobilization" and advance Reynolds is chairman f the Military Committee...
...Any hesitation on the part of the Russian people and their armed forces in driving Stalin from povwr means death to Russia...
...1 Stalin's hirelings in ^his country are interested in aid to Russia only insofar as it wbu}d help save the Stalin regime...
...In the war between Stalin and Hitler for hegemony over the totalitarian world and underworld, the "united front" with the democracies has again become a strategical necessity for Moscow...
...Recently he charged that the Robin Moor may have been sank by the British to get America into the war...
...The blunt fact is that there is a lack of organization in the direction of such investigations and that there have been wholesale petty jealousies and rivalries among groups, just as the national defense effort itself has faced similar hazards and bottlenecks...
...But what did Stalin say to the Russian people about all this...
...After several meetings at which only 1,600 to 2,000 turned out, Senator Wheeler canceled speeches scheduled for Atlanta and Louisville...
...The conscience i>f America, the conscience of the world will be fully free to help th* Russian people in their new ordeal only when Stalin and his fellow-murderers are eliminated and Russia is led once more by men who reflect the noblest ideals and aspjfations of her people...
...Economic appeasement, in preparation for a post-war German world, is enljypart of their work...
...The Office of Production Management is only One of the services due for housecleaning...
...Dunn of steel and Elliott in power are ilready out More will go...
...Frederick Joubert Duquesne, the colorful veteran-, with forty...
...Hitler was in the period between 1934 and 1939, during which Moscow posed as the only true champion of collective security and the only honest opponent of appeasement...
...Twenty-four years of Communist dictatorship have plunged Russia into the greatest catastrophe of her age-long, painful history...
...Reynolds' relationsh |) to the fascist fringe through his Vindicate r organization is well known to readers of he New Leader, which was the first to expose him years ago...
...as Stalin betrayed them to Hitler in 1939...
...They will accept gratefully whatever military aid Eng-V land and America can givej however limited it must of necessity be because of the des- . perate isolation into which Stalin's policy has driven their country, but they will never for- f give those abroad who once more grasp the j blood-stained hands of their, oppressors in dpoKHenl "limited front" designed to wash that blood froin the record...
...Hoover i or Harold Kennedy, the United States Attorr »y in Brooklyn, would comment on how mucl damage the spies might already havedolke, wi sther the valuable bombsight, for example, 1 ad already been stolen...
...J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director, in announcing the breaking up of the spy ring in New York during the week, told reporters it was the "most vicigus ring" he had ever heard- of...
...Frederick Joubert Duquesne, the colorful veteran-, with forty...
...fWderic Ernest Auhagan, organizer of the Nazi AmericanFellowship Zapp, head of the Nazi**«i<iized Transocean News Agency, will stand tnal July 14 f0r likewise violating the McCor¦ack Act which called for | the registration of Per»ons employed by foreign powers...
...Germany was fully mobilized and in a state of complete readiness...
...We are convinced that American labor sees ! and understands the problem in this light...
...The war of the Soviet Union against Fascism will be the most just and the most justified of all wars...
...It is concerned, as a matter of American security and defense' and as part of...
...That and that alone has always been Stilin's purpose...
...It happened because Hitler had 'perfidiously broken his pact with the U.S.S.R., said Stalin...
...The same holds true with si force • thousand times greater in the ease of Soviet "Russia...
...D. C—Isolationist leadlers, including well-ir.formed Senators who are aware that the military is rushing air, submarine, anti-aircraft and heavy artillery installations in Alaska to meet a possible German-Japanese threat from 25-mile distant Siberia, are nevertheless endorsing a national propaganda campaign designed to paint for the public the Nazi invasion of Russia as a "holy crusade for Christianity...
...Military, and economic aid'to the Russian people, even though that aid be extended through the official channels of the Soviet Government, is one thing...
...Ouster of Dictator Would Gain USSR Wider Support fy MALCOLM HASTINGS After ten days of war marked, by admitted disaster for Soviet Russia and crushing defeats inflicted upon the Red Army, Joseph Stalin finally deigned to address the Russian people by radio on Wednesday to inform them that "a grave danger hangs over our country...
...Qnly by such reorganization will it be possible to mobilise allaid to Russia jn the country and elsewhere aad form an enduring unieed front of all democratic people against Fascist aggression...
...The Amerjf ican and Russian peoples, therefore, have a f common task: the destruction of Hitlerism...
...ears' spy experience, is not as important a m •mber of the alleged ring as twas first supposed He was not the master spjf leader of the gr up...
...Here is what Pravda, official organ of the j Russian Communist Party, wrote on August 14, 1939: "The Bolsheviks are not pacifists...
...and paved the road for establishment of Bolshevik rule have culminated In the ten days which wrecked the might of Soviet Russia under the hammer blows of Stalin's ally of yesterday...
...FBI Fails to Get Nazi Ring Leaders As 33 Minor Spies Are Seized The arrest of thirty-three members of an alleged Nazi spy ring held responsible for relaying vital defense and shipping information to Germany is the largest round-up of its kind since the World Waf, but in the opinion of many close to the government, the F.B.I, has still only scratched the surface...
...After a long publicity campaign and the distribution of literature containing a picture of and a message from Mm Matt Neither Mr...
...England and the United States...
...the America)) people, acting in the interest of their own security, weie associated with Czarist Russia in the common struggle...
...No "united front" with Stalin...
...A victorious Germany dominating Russia's vast European resources of wheat, oil and minerals, and...
...The "flytrap" method, he added, enabled his men to watch the spies' activities, get as much evidence as possible, and then pounce on the defendants at the logical moment, after the foreign agents, he said, had proven their guilt...
...All possible aid to the Russian people...
...He did not tell the Russian people of the effect produced upon Russia's position in this war- by his wholesale purges and executions in the array, navy, air force and industry...
...Lang was a wmb-sight inspector...
...The masters behind the scheme operated, and still operate, in the German consulates, erhapsy in the German embassy, or independi ntly, as did Westrick and Rioth...
...From Stalin's repoTt to the Russian people it is clear now that if they escape again from the thraldom of the new Nazi German imperialism, it will be only with the assistance of the so-called capitalist "pluto-democracies" whom but yesterday Stalin had betrayed to Hitler and for whose help he now pleads...
...These ideals and aspirations are not dead...
...America First crowd...
...The job of breaking the "crusade" propaganda to the public was given to Charles Lindbergh, who before a San Francisco audience of several thousand called for a German victory over the Russians...
...This threat is being deliberately ignored by Senator Wheeler, who has important sources of military information: Senator Walsh, who is head of the Naval Affairs Committee and is in a position to know better than others' the dangers, of an Axis force in Siberia...
...I j These are the slogans under which Anjer»: j ican policy must proceed...
...Wasn't Napoleon beaten...
...As Molotov assured the world on the day 'when Hitler invaded Russia, the Soviet Government had loyally observed its part of the bargain under the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...tory Senator Walt X George is head of the Foreign Relations Con mittee, and the veteran isolationist, Angiophobi : Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts is i hairman of the Naval Affairs Committee...
...The intelligence Krvice is being coordinated under William Donovan, who more and more is emerging as a presidential trouble shooter...
...ears' spy experience, is not as important a m •mber of the alleged ring as twas first supposed He was not the master spjf leader of the gr up...
...German control of Russia's Far Eastern territory would put the Reich on the Bering Straits, 30 to 50 miles from Alaska's Seward Peninsula...
...Stalin himself had overrun and ravished email ; states whose peoples, hating Hitler no less than they hate Stalin, are now thirstisg for revenge...
...Partly as a result of this apparent incapacity to obtain results, in turn seemingly due to an inability to understand the real Nazi techniques, there have been numerous reports in Washington during the last two months that an over-all . body will be set up to direct investigation of subversive activities...
...The Nazi drives on Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Murmansk are proceeding with blitzkrieg speed in the face of such brave resistance as the Red Army, composed of peasants and workers betrayed by Stalin, can still continue to demonstrate...
...Moral and political aid to the Communist dictatorship is another...
...The' Civil Service Commission has been asked 0 open a campaign for high-grade administrabrs...
...Senator < leorge was one of the m^n whom...
...He changed further that the reports of British bombings of Germany were probably not true...
...Jllthough the grouj -now in custody, mostly coiiriers and "gathen rs of information," may not be the most iropoi ant Nazi spies'in America, it is apparent th t Mr...
...Increasing bottlenecks, mistaken estimates on raw material reserves and a persistent increasing muddle has brought about, in proper circles, pressure for more centralization and more competent direction...
...Stalin, like Hitter, must ^perish in order that Russia and human freedom eveifurhere might live...
...the' ousting of Smith would clean from the ward all traces of its former bias...
...Hoover's personal refutation rests on th ir successful prosecution in 'Brooklyn...
...For that tfiey...
...Tf:these are war year: the-government will be faced with the situatic ? of its most important legislative sub-groups falling under control of men not unfriendly to|Germany...
...They know who their enemy within is, as they know their foreign foe...
...He did not mention that it was he who not only signed the pact with Hitler but who had actually and deliberately made Hitler when he ordered the German Communist Party to help Hitler destroy the German Republic...
...But how did this new catastrophe that has befallen Russia come to pass, asked Stalin...
...Rejection of did efforts to have the openly biased rlr...
...The masters behind the scheme operated, and still operate, in the German consulates, erhapsy in the German embassy, or independi ntly, as did Westrick and Rioth...
...They are the ideals and aspirations fcf all democratic peoples...
...as regards observance of this treaty...
...Jllthough the grouj -now in custody, mostly coiiriers and "gathen rs of information," may not be the most iropoi ant Nazi spies'in America, it is apparent th t Mr...
...The two cannot march together successfully with thl peoples of democratic states...
...Until the very last moment the German government had aof presented any claims to the Russian government," whined Molotov in that humiliating, cowardly 'radio address on 4 June 22 in which he practically let it be ' understood that Germany could have obtained peacefully from Soviet Russia what she set out to seize by force, that the Soviet'% government was ready and {willing to continue its betrayal of the democracies if only Hitler had permitted it .to do so...
...Ten days later Stalin signed his pact with Hitler...
...American democracy is not interested in the preservation of Stalin's dictatorship...
...Senator Nye's recent interviews nave alienated many former supporters of the...
...1 Stalin and his agents proceed on the principle that the Communists should have a monopoly on betrayal, a monopoly which they had enjoyed and practiced with great success until the advent of Hitler to power...
...the preservation of Stalin's1 dictatorship and \he exigencies of . Communist strategy may require <it...
...It is true that in the battle against German imperialism in the last war...
...Kurt Heinrich Rieth is proof enough that in the Nazi spy and propa^ ganda campaign in this country, efficient and experienced leaders, with ample purse-strings, are directing a smooth, nation-wide efftfrt to undermine the American war effort from every possible standpoint...
...an aggressive Japan in c'ontrol of the Russian Far East, , clear to the waters adjacent td Alaska, would i be a deadly peril to the security of this a country...
...It collaborated with Hitler at every step, from his assault on Poland, through to the collapse of France, and down to the Nazi conquest of the Balkans...
...Hoover's personal refutation rests on th ir successful prosecution in 'Brooklyn...
...More than 1.000,000 Soviet troops are reported killed, hopelessly trapped or taken prisoner...
...The Comintern propaganda aid sabotage machine synchronized its "anti-war" activities in the democratic countries with the requirements and objectives of Adolph Hitler...
...It would contribute to the preservation of Stalin's dictatorship in Russia and to the destruction of democracy in our own land...
...But what did President Wilson say when the Czarist regime was overthrown and Russia became free...
...This icar taw been forced ix/JOn ICS," cried Molotov...
...Indicative of the rapid dwindling of America First popularity is a recent isolationist rally in Des Moines, Iowa, supposedly the heart of the isolationist belt...
...Yes...
...Since the * government is ready to pay m!y |8000 as a top while the lowest adminisrative position carry a'salary of only $3,800 i-year, it is-expected that little improvement MM be effected by the new appointments...
...Hoover i or Harold Kennedy, the United States Attorr »y in Brooklyn, would comment on how mucl damage the spies might already havedolke, wi sther the valuable bombsight, for example, 1 ad already been stolen...
...Tl »se are themost important committees in th Senate...
...Last week he warned against further aid to England on the ground that the invasion of Russia was a joint British-German sortie into the Soviets and that Downing Street planned to make peace shortly with Germany...
...It was the power of the United States which made possible Allied victory in 1918 and the consequent liquidation of Lenin's Brest-Litovsk...
...German plans call for overrunning Russia in three months—all Russia...
...fighting against the tremendous odds created by the Communist dictatorship, will resist the foreign foe to the extreme limit of their abiljty...
...The interests of the workers and peasants, of small traders and intellectuals, and the hopes of the small states, of colonies and protectorates rebel against the unleashing of mass murder, against Fascism...
...Besause by bis treacherous collaboration with Hitler in the critical months of 1939-40 and down to the Nazi conquest of the Balkans, Statin made it possible for Hitler to concentrate the bulk of the vast and mighty German military machine an the frontiers of Russia, .ready to strike at a moment's notice...
...In the short spaee of^en days the "invincible" U.S.S.R...
...Suph questions kre lil 5ly to be answered when indictments are handi I up and the trial starts, .expected in about urn month...
...These are the* slo| gans which, combined with intensified all-out I aid for England, will bring victory...
...What excuse, what explanation did he give...
...That was Stalin's explanation...
...This is now an academic ¦ration...
...Such a; person could ^establish full labor backing for''the board...
...William J. Donovan to direct military intelligence is a strong indication that some shifts and transformations are on the way...
...The life of America wiM be imperiled if Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan dominate the vast resources of Russia...
...Gerhard Alois Westrick and Dr...
...He must go without a moment's delay...
...He admitted that Nazi armies have overrun Lithuania, captured a considerable part of Latvia, occupied the western part of White Russia and seized part of the Western Ukraine...
...The conviction ofrthe heads of Bookniga, one J» the first trials of this sort, government agents will force into the open many more propagents who watched to see how strongly •^Mjwernment would press the case...
...Military reports reveal that there id tot one division ready for warfare against the ype of army...
...President Roosevelt is now the last head of 1 Urge power' not directing a war...
...The war is no longer an "imperialist" war...
...They were in a position to sabotage the deiense effort by relaying valuable industrial secrets to Germany, such as the Norden bomb-sigh...
...Only a free, democratic Russia oan I be an effective and reliable ally of AmericanI democracy" in the struggle for an enduring I peace and world reconstruction...
...of shameful defeat I Can there be any doubt that Stalin, whose henchmen ijn America are now again pleading for a "united front" with ,'labor and progressives and whose Ambassador Oumansky is seeking' aid for the U.S.S.R...
...which the French can put into he field, let alone the Germans...
...It is a known fact that immigration men, secret service employees, State Department operatives, Dies investigators and others bear no great affection for the FBI...
...For that the Communists concluded their '.'united front" 'before the war as a means, of moving [Hitler.to the pact ;of August, 1939...
...pact...
...But the admitted fact is that neither the FBI, immigration officials or the State Departmenf have 'been able to get to the bottom of the plots...
...Lang was a wmb-sight inspector...
...That is why they seek to couple such aid with the new "united front...
...2?°*°** distributed Soviet literature in this J*"*** at a fraction qf cost ,and was an agency Veshkniga, official Soviet state publishing r*«J»ly- With the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact, j?*j?ga changed its name to Four Continents j^WiQp, although retaining it*.headquarters, •"WVand unchanged window display...
...Of the thirty-three iow under arrest,- the two most important defent ants are considered to be Herman Lang and Sverett Minster Roeder, whjo worked' in...
...They know how to evaluate Stalin's hypocritical and lying apologia for his pact with Hitler...
...Both were in a positioh to give away the most vital type of information...
...under Stalin's rule has been reduced to the necessity of fighting the tremendous Naai military machine with the primitive methods of guerrilla war and partisan detachments...
...the world struggle against Nazi and Fascist .tyranny, with the preservation of the integrity of Russia and the liberation of the Russian people...
...Long live Free Germany and Free Russia!'' Long live World Democracy 'and its leaders, the United States of America and the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...The rovernment now needs several hundred execuiies who can take the muddled defense situaion, rip out the red tape and smash the bottlelecks...
...He did not tell them that the "unfavorable" position in which Russia found herself when the Nazi armies struck was prepared by him when he executed Marshal Tuchachevsky, Russia's most brilliant military leader, and all of her ablest military minds...
...On June 22, 1941, Molotov pleaded that Hitler's attack upon Russia "was perpetrated despite the fact that during the entire period of operation «>f this treaty the German government could not find grounds for a single complaint against the U.S.S.R...
...Kil recently the many labor conciliation aftces were clogging ihe way to effective jpstrial peace...
...To add a the administration's defense difficulties, the southern bloc appears not as solidly behind bwsevelt as it was until two or three months 'go...
...The Russian people cannot resist the foreign invader successfully under the leadership of the traitorous, counter-revolutionary appeaaer Stalin...
...But by helping Stalin to restore his moral and political standing through conclusion of a new "united front" with the Communists, we stultify ourselves ahd cripple the efforts of the Russian people pa, free themselves from their Communist oppressors at home...
...Thus spoke the official organ of the Russian Communist Party...
...President Roosevelt will have the' chance to nerfctore the National Labor Relations Board rithln several weeks, for Edwin Smith's term xpires during the first days in August...
...It had no intention or desire to violate that...
...Stalin said nothing of all this...
...A 1941 Barney Baruch is seeded, according to those who have watched toe defense efforts since last September...
...He has not hesitated to permit anti-semitic material to bft published by The Vindicator, his private newspaper...
...Suph questions kre lil 5ly to be answered when indictments are handi I up and the trial starts, .expected in about urn month...
...Meanwhile, ten of |the defendants ha' e pleaded guilty to preliminary complaints...
...the 1 orden and Sperry-Gyroscqpe plants respectiv ly...
...Nor did he Cell them that the Kaiser's armies were finally compelled to quit not by the efforts of the Bolsheviks, who betrayed Russia and the A:lies in 1917...
...The British people knew that Hitler eonld not bo loach* with a Tory government which had sought to collaborate with him until it was toe late to avert war...
...Bookniga Heads Guilty Of Failing to Register WASHINGTON, D. C—The three heads of We Bookniga Corporation, distributors of Soviet TOrature fan "this country, were cpavicted this in the Federal District Court of failing to register with the State Department as agents J** foreign power...
...j The defeat of Hitler will also be the defeat i of Stalin...
...Senators Nye and Clark...
...When the British had finally perceived, in the mast oi wax, wis cows not sc prosecuted successfully nnder'an iniell ient, appeaaar governsftent, they dismissed Clmjnbeflsln and his group and pnt Churchill fend like labor democracy of Britain hi power...
...Because by acting the jackal to the Nazi tiger...
...OESPONDING to the crack of" the whip from Moscow, Stalin's agents in the United States are again calling for a united front against Hitler...
...The Russian people cannot he united among themselves and - with the peoples of democratic countries in a war for democracy under the leadership of a ruthless dictator whose hands are dripping with the blood of countless victims in Russia and of the slain soldiers, sailors and airmen of the democratic countries who gave their lives in order that the world may be free...
...That the disaster that has befallen Russia is very great, indeed, was revealed by Stalin himself not only in his disclosure of the advances already achieved by the Germans, but also in his hysterical appeal to the Russian people to destroy everything of value in the enemy's path—the "scorched earth" panacea—and to organize themselves for guerrilla warfare against the enemy...
...But they count without the host.'Wrath and hatred against Fascism are mounting throughout the world...
...It will be a war for the emancipation of mankind from Fascism, for the liberation of enslaved peoples, for the defense of the international proletariat, for the protection' of culture and human progress against Fascist barbarism...
...No, it was not Stalin who had any intention of abrogating the unholy pact with Hitler...
...Stalin Tries to Escape Responsibility As Nazis Drive Deeper Into Russia Anti-Administration Senators Control Vital Committees By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—the air here is filled with talk of reorganization of many high government bureaus and defense production headquarters...
...Smith reappointed would leave room for he naming of a man with, a veteran knowledge if the labor movement...
...That is the meaning of the new "united front" maneuver...
...portions bf Russia as he needs for his military purposes and reducing her toHhe i status of Italy or Bulgaria, find it expedient to permit Stalin to retain, his power, the Kremlin dictator Will sign another pact" of "peace :and friendship" with Hitler, as Lenin signed the Brcst-Litovsk treaty with the Kaiser'k government, in -the hope that the victory ofj the democracies 'will rescue the U.S.S.R.' from the consequences...
...J"r "The people of the Soviet Union, united under the leadership of the great military chieftain Stalin, will hurl the entire power of the iron battalions of the Red Army and its advanced technique against the Fascist barbarians...
...Our war for the freedom of our country will merge with the struggle of the peoples of ' Europe and America for Jheir independence, for democratic liberties...
...He spoke not a word about^ the slavery and ruin he had brought upon Russia in his mad scheme of "socialism in one country...
...Their unrepresentati re presence in the chairmanship of thesje\thi ;e powerful committees islthe result of Seriie) ty tradition...
...He did not speak of the corrupt, inefficient, parasitic economic system and political bureaucracy he had imposed upon Russia as a means of establishing his personal dictatorship over the country...
...Izvestia," official organ of the Soviet government, spoke with enthusiasm of the new friendship and collaboration between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany...
...The thirty-three taken into custody this week after two years' investigation very likely are dangerous elements...
...In the Westrick case, for example, it will be remembered that during the weeks of investigation, before the Herald Tribune broke the story, its reporters saw streams of cars drive up to the Westchester estate where Westrick was living...
...A foreign power need hold only the Transsiberian Railroad to control all of the Asiatic Soviet Union...
...the 1 orden and Sperry-Gyroscqpe plants respectiv ly...
...The Maritime Commission has been operating far behind •dole...
...The American people must and will help Russia...
...of democracy, to compromise the principles j and ideals for which democracy is fighting, to desert the Russian people, betrayed by Staliri to their Communist -and Nazi enemies...
...Neither Mr...
...In addition unfortunate deaths have •ebbed the President of some of his best Con(resRional leaders and have pufc'irhportant posts R the hands of men for whom the word isola*»ist is a charitable description^ .'The alien-baiting, Hitler-praising Senator to inert the fee...
...More and more posts will ; fall to the .isolationist and aniti-Roosevelt bloc dui ng the next four years...
...They will prove unconquerable only when the erstwhile allies of Hifler are driven from the Kremlin and the flag of freedom, torn down and denied by the Communists, waves again over Russia...
...Rieth, whose role here was as important as Westrick's, was most likely sesving in the same capacity as master spy tactician...
...And, as the apparent advantages of the pact for Soviet Russia manifested themselves in the loot which Moscow was permitted to extract from the arrangement with Berlin at the expense of small nations, Stalin himself spoke of his pact with Hitler as indissoluble, "sealed in the blood" of the German and Soviet peoples...
...Down with Hitlerism!* Down with Communism...
...The American people are vitally concerned with the preservation of the integrity, freedom and independence oi Russia...
...Reports innate that there will be no significant, if any, Urease-m plane production during June...
...The Fascists hope to reach an understanding with the imperialist leaders of the so-called democratic powers...
...Stalin must go...
...His recent tatement that there is hope of remaining out 'as issued to counteract surprisingly successful MhUionist propaganda inside Congress...
...For-that tjkey betrayed the oil "united front...
...That there are additional men of the WestrickRieth stripe now working in the east and west coasts is the opinion of government officials in all departments, in off-the-record conversations...
...Both were in a positioh to give away the most vital type of information...
...began under condition* favorable for the German forces and unfavorable for the Soviet forces...
...It happened because "the war of Fascist Ge#many on the U.S.S.R...
...What is required to put an end to the danger hovering over our country, and what measures must be taken to smash the enemy...
...All these things and -more Stalin did not tell the Russian people...
...enslaved in modern history, know and understand that the source of their sufferings and misery lies in Stalin and hisregime...
...It has become a holy war because Stalin's partner'in crime of yesterday has found it to his interests,, as was to have been expected, to double-cross the Kremlin...
...The,' second would be against the vital interests of Russian and world democracy...
...The feeling persists, however, that the higher-ups in the Nazi espionage scheme here are still loose, and that they have under their direction a host of operatives, of the same relatively "small-fry" stature as those arrested...
...He did not speak of the millions of peasants he had starved to death by his deliberately inflicted, government-made famines...
...but by the persistence and power ef the combined armies and navies of Franca...
...It is either Stalin or Russia...
...Did not the Kaiser's armies finally suffer defeat0 The monumental Kremlin liar did net tell his people the vast difference between the circumstances under which Napoleon invaded Russia and those of the Nazi onslaught...
...Particularly late at night was this so, and a majority of the cars werej driven by up-state factory workers, apparently "reporting" to the good doctor...
...There will be no more rebel strikes, 'or flU fflliifllii Invasion of the Soviets has hanged the entire labor relations picture...
...President Roosevelt opposed for re4electiorr in 1938...
...America First Chiefs See Reich Invasion as 'Holy Christian Crusade' By GEORGE SHORT Special to THE NEW LEADER WASHINGTON...
...But "the Russian people know it...
...He was forced to retract this by consequent reports...
...The exposure of such men as Dr...
...Hitler's betrayal of Soviet Russia must be punished...
...The monopoly on betrayal must be restored to the Communists...
...This is so particularly in view of 'the fiasco of the Christian Front trial in that borough several nonths ago...
...Because, as part of his collaboration with Hitler, Stalin and his Comintern machine did ail in their power to weaken and disorganize the resistance of the very democracies upon whose %id the life of Russia now depends...
...July it estimates, made last year, called for protection several hundred per cent higher than he present figure...
...Neverfc mind, he said, in effect, the enemy will yet be beaten...
...The FBI director, under fire in Congress and elsewhere as his organization maintained continued silence and made no spy arrests, justified his policy by explaining that his operatives had the spies under careful scrutiny for two years, working: the "flytrap" method on them...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 27
