Ukrainian White Guard Generals Follow in Nazi Army's Wake, Prepare to Set Up Puppet State
Ukrainian White Guard Generals Follow in Nazi Army's Wake, Prepare to Set Up Puppet State British Gov't Sets Up Councils For Labor Voice in Production LONDON.—None of the recent cabinet changes...
...Besides equipping and supplying her own forces—now at nearly 500/KK) men— India is selling vast quantities of munitions and raw materials to other sections of the British Commonwealth...
...This force is being equipped largely byM Indian factories...
...and speed south along the Dneiper past Kiev and Kharkov towards the Black Sea, British military circles here have little hope for the Ukraine, the Baku and Batu oil fields and the Soviet territories bordering on Iran...
...Books and Writers Downfall of a Nation By Benjamin Protter IN France My Country,, the author outlines bis purpose as being * "to try to perceive and to say what is true...
...It was treason, puns and simple...
...Or when he says—and this .holds true for us as well—"Nations that want to survive and live in peace have to understand that neither of these two goals is to be attained without clearly facing the- risks of war...
...Every democracy whose rule of life is not heroic but hedonistic will grasp such thing too late...
...The book is one of eaaBuauto and analysis, written in a spirit of liberalism and phiioeophy...
...VTET, how much we must agree with him when he declarer tost * "the hypothesis of a France become Fascist presuppose...
...Houghton Mtffkn Co* Boston, 1941...
...Isaac Don Levine opened by suggesting that the U. S. strike a bargain with Joseph Stalin— that tanks and munitions be exchanged for the archives containing the names of all of the GPU agents in this country...
...Frank Kingdon, formerly president of the University of Newark, and Herbert Agar, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...The politicians and generals did everything in their power to help the traitors...
...Saposs' speech appears as a feature article on Page 4 this week.—Ed...
...J Role of Labor in War, Hemispheric Unity, Post- War Tasks Discussed at Tamiment By WILLIAM E. BOHN CAMP TAMINENT, Pa.—The 1941 Tamimefrtr Conference closed with the unanimous opinion that in program, attendance and spirit, this year's -sessions topped the achievements of any of the previous seven conferences...
...Lynch maintained that all except a tiny minority of \he ten million organized American workers are loyal and devoted i to the task of creating the tanks and planes and munitions...
...They sold us out...
...Coupled with a drive on Gibraltar the drive into the Near East may prove fatal to a good section of the British Fleet...
...THE DARKEST HOUR...
...More and more the invasion of Russia crystallizes as the first maneuver in the vast strategy involved in invading the British Isles...
...Reaching Marseilles, Lania located his wife and son, and the family were able to escape through Spain and Portugal te America...
...Dr.-David Saposs, former chief economist of the National labor* Relations Board, and Ben Stolberg, the well-known labor journalist and historian...
...Most of Lania's story takes place in the various French internment camps where he was imprisoned as an "enemy alien,* Yet from this vantage point ne reveals an almost unbelievable story of the corruption, greed and inefficiency of French bureaucracy...
...He is also the link between the Russian emigre groups whom Hitler has recruited to help him, particularly the anti-Semitic, fascist Russian National Committee with headquarters in Poland...
...Production, Strikes and Defense, the subject: of Saturday morning's session, brought together George Q. j^ynch, president of the Pattern Makers Union and an alternate on the U. S. Mediation Board...
...A good man to listen to these days is former War Minister Hore-Belisha...
...This accounts for a new wave1 of Killed • anxiety over the entire Near East, and the fear that the well-coordinated German forces will not stop once they sweep throug h the Ukraine towards Iran and Afghanistan...
...Now he and his pictures have been dusted off...
...By 1942, India will have well over 1,000.000 trained and equipped fighting men, who will be faced with the task of stopping a German drive down the famous Indian passes...
...Edited by Beatrice C. Brown, vitk e» Introduction by Jan Struther...
...It will devote itself to effecting smoother production and better working hours throughout Britain's defense industries by means of regular joint discussion between official representatives of the Ministry of Supply and the trade unions involved...
...He stressed the need of setting up a hard-boiled, practical league of nations instead of such a fanciful, unreal structure as the Geneva League...
...W. K. Harrington, of the U. S. Army...
...The establishment of this council is bound to have a tremendous effect on industry .generally...
...engineering equipment...
...Regardless of what the Soviet army does, and the points to which it retreats, once the Ukraine, the Black Sea littoral and the Caucasian oil are taken and consolidated, Genmany can move at will in the Near East and the Orient...
...2. The existence of a world military force...
...Navy...
...There has been, some criticism of Ernest 3evin's Labor Ministry, but this is a result of the typical British habit of checking on its ministers in times of crisis, and the days before the German invasion of Russia were gloomy ones here...
...Other possible candidates for fuehrership in the Ukraine and later in Moscow, if the Soviets fall, are General Diskupsky and Adjutant Chouhoutoff, former colonel of the Russian Imperial Guard...
...Nor will Hitler wait until 1942 if Russia falls this summer...
...Some of them have been from men in the arses' forces, others from Englishmen and women known all over the world, still others from Americans working abroad...
...Before svar broke Parliament, in London, allotted $3,000,000 for the completely mechanization of the Indian army...
...German seiaure of the Ukraine is closely tied to a possible drive on India despite the distances involved...
...But some errors, the only factual ones I could find, are irrelevant to the substance of the t>ook...
...The businessmen have long been the moBt articulate in . their opposition to the war, for they have carried the burden of taxation, while the army regulates and reaps the profit of the China trade...
...Instead of holding the unions at arms' length,- the government brings them into active association with its administration of a huge industrial organization...
...In Lemburg recently General Mejnyk set up headquarters for an Ukranian National Army...
...WOMEN OF BRITAIN...
...But the loss of Suez and India would prove fatal...
...Dr...
...3. An international military force...
...Jacques Maritain has the courage to seek why his country weju down to defeat, and to say it...
...Drive on Southeast Russia Part of Long Range-Plan to Encircle British By DICK REYNARD With the German armies in a position to fan out in typical panzer strategy...
...The second group is more integrated and in a better position to push its ideas...
...His criticism is hitting home, irritating the Prime Minister considerably...
...The first group is made up of persons who are temperamentally opposed to totalitarian doctrines...
...Saposs devoted his address to a discussion of "the enemy within," referring to disloyal elements in the trade unions...
...On the other hand, how our heart warms to +1 irr> when the Frenchman' in him defends the French people in a passionate outburst: "This people was...
...Speakers were Captain O. L. Wolfard, of the U.'S...
...The text of Mr...
...By December, 1941, mechanicals transport will have been equipped with 62,0#0 vehicles where only 5,000 existed previously...
...The fall of India would mean encirclement and captUre^of Suez first...
...The recent announcement that a new Industrial Council was about to be created with equal representation of Labor and government officials was greeted here with satisfaction...
...3.50...
...The staff of the escape of Lania and two friends across France, on foot ant by bicyefe, read like a melodrama...
...If the Russians are dispersed, whole divisions may retreat into that sector to cooperate with the Allies...
...2.75...
...Over his door is the Ukranian flag with its black trident on a blue and yellow background...
...The final session was held on "Sunday morning, June 29, on "The New Order and the War...
...Isaac Don Levine, prominent author and journalist...
...An introduction by Jan Struther and enlightening dunning commentary by Pantries' Curtis Brown provide the necessary connecting links which mek# of these letters perhaps the best view of England seen through civilian eyes^yet published vin America...
...The camp where Lania spent most of his internment was fir from any water supply and built on low clay soil which became a morass when it rained...
...Among these refurbished leaders are .former enemies like General Pavel Skoropadsky' and General Andrei Melnyk, who as General Petlura's Chief of Staff ousted Skoropadsky when the White Armies disintegrated in 1922...
...The scope of the council's work covers not only the questions indicated above, but systematic consideration of such problems as welfare, industrial fatigue, factory and workshop equipment in their relation to health, and safety - of the workers...
...and still is...
...to speak justly and objectively of things...
...Eugeniio . Ansorena, of the Mexican EmVbassy in Washington, and Mr...
...National Defense...
...MANILA (By [Hail...
...Carl B. Spaeth, Assistant Director of the Office for the Coordination of Relations between the American Republics...
...Showing that Hitler, after'having conquered the important parts of -Russia, might be able to establish a powerful slave state, Buell laid down several criteria which should guide the United States in its policy toward Russia: 1. While following a determined anti-Communist policy at home, we should extend material aid to Russia...
...HOW the Nazi soldiers, like a swarm of locusts, immediately swept every little town clean of tobacco, needles and thread and other supplies is one of the details that goes to make up this intimate picture of a bewildered people trying to grasp the significance of their betrayal...
...Here we have the government, as the ' largest single employer of labor, setting an example to all other employers in this field...
...235 pp...
...Lania was finally released, only to be interned again ir% a cam) on the Western tip of Brittany...
...Despite the highly-colored propaganda which describes Nippon as a monolithic unity, with each subject completely...
...The first to be released from internment were those Germans who bad) French wives...
...The British are talking of invading Iran to prevent the Germans from getting there first...
...The cabinet is under more constant fire than is known abroad...
...This was evident in the opening remarks -of Chairman Louis jWaldman...
...FRASCE MY COUNTRY...
...He brings forth no new and rltnjujt^ facts relative to the fall of France, but neither are we lad to to* lieve that such was Ms intention...
...Neither Maritain or any of the amy at writers who since June 194© have'treated the subject of the Fneaeli catastrophe have really tackled this vital cause of French weakness...
...There is to be an executive committee to deal with urgent matters, and probably afnumber of standing committees...
...117 pp...
...By Leo Lania...
...First step then is consolidation of the Ukraine...
...The core of Jan Valtin's address is evinced by his statement that: "If a fanatic creed of world domination plus state discipline constitute the strength of a total regime, then nothing short of coordinated mass determination to reassert and restate men's right to freedom coupled with voluntary discipline can lead democracy's still greater potential material and spiritual strength to victory...
...2. The American and British governments should urge the Russian regime, under Stalin or his successor, to restore full religious freedom and abolish the Third International...
...bttween the economic, political and social structures and the uigeat need to recreate a harmony between them if France as a nation were t* continue to exist...
...He lived poorly in Prague until recently when Berlin put him in charge of supervising Ukranian military training camps in the Protectorate and German-occupied Poland...
...Half of them wjll be Supply Ministry representatives, including one officer of the Labor, ministry...
...The Nazis' Russian support is drawn almost entirely from the extreme right-wing Su. preme Monarchist Council, including officers of the former Imperial Array who have lived in Paris since the exodus from Turkey at the end of the Civil War...
...The new Industrial Council will consist of 24 members...
...Union-management cooperation is developing on new lines under the stress of war emergency...
...4. A complete re-examination and revision of the doctrine of economic nationalism...
...When the Nazi troops' eatena) the district, he and his fellow-prisoners made a break...
...Kingdon and Herbert Agar brought the large audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm with appeals for devotion and/ sacrifice on the basis qf patriotism and idealism...
...as its sine qua nan a Nazi peace forced on Europe by a cone usive German victory...
...Sadao Araki, one of the most violent nationalists in the Empire, has spoken out sharply against those who would, denigrate Emperor worship...
...Already India is manufacturing 90 per cent of Iter jarmy's equipment...
...We urge that the gov'fe.of the United States immediately >rder the Atlantic fleet and the -naval air force to aid the British sa that the battle of .the Atlantic may be quickly won, thus assuring the defeat of Hitler...
...He also seek* reasons, with which ths reader may or may not agree, in the political and social sei up ef France, and here he declares that "the leftists failed democracy, the rightists failed Frtaaee...
...To achieve this, fat* volume is divided first of all into subject-matter categories—dayto-day life, decisions and changes, London and the Blitzkrieg...
...Since his retreat from Kiev, Skoropadsky has led an obscure existence in Berlin...
...Assisting Skoropadsky is General Pavlenko, former leader of the short-lived Ukranian nationalist Rada...
...Jan Valtin, author of "Out of the Night...
...That would be fine if some of the Conservative political dead wood were cut from the cabinet...
...The British can lose Suez and still have a chance for eventual . victory...
...Melnyk is central contact/man between the various local organizational centers and the headquarters for the .whole movement, which until recently was in Rome...
...Both agreed that the fight is on two fronts/one abroad to defeat Hitler and one at home to make ourselves more completely a democratic people...
...Here is a vast prize—400,000,000 factwrjf hands and farmers in one of the most opulentf lands...
...Frank Bohn outlined briefly the failure of peac* settlements, starting with the thirty Years' War in 1648...
...That many of these were professed Nazis, some living on their wives' earnings as prostitutes, made no difference...
...He ateo arrives at the eotelusicn that one of the principal reasons for the debacle ware the military tactics "planned in France for a war and an enemy obsolete fey • 20 years," just as the armistice "was planned for an enemy t*4 a peace of 50 years ago...
...Mr, Waldman outlined a minimum program for a new world order: 1. The limitation of the sovereignty of independent states...
...The fact that the conference 'met four days after the start of Hitler's smash across the Russian frontier gave dramatic intensity to the discussions and, to a considerable extent, redirected the attack of the addresses...
...So strong is this fear that Gen...
...More than 700,000,000 sandbags, together with 57 million yards of sackitg and 29,000 tons of raw jute were supplied to the British in the first nine months of the vaa Work is proceeding rapidly on $172,000,000 worth df sandbags, khaki, boots (200,000 per montjh, jumber, Cigarettes, lubricating oils, textiles, and...
...A very small percentage of the lime lost through strikes, he said, had any effect on armament production...
...There are not sufficient men and material to stop the heavily equipped mechanized millions which the Reich can then throw against the British armies of the Near East...
...Escape Across France By MABEL TRAVIS WOOD A CLOSEtfP of France from the outbreak of the war until just after the Nazi conquest is given in the thrilling adventures of Leo Lania, anti-Nazi journalist who had come from Vienna te Paris...
...Most ef them, however, have been like these, simple, personal notes from bat anonymous civilians of the besieged island telling how dairy hi* is being carried on under conditions of unbelievable hardship and strain...
...The growing influence...
...The feeling is that if the younger army hotheads have their way, under German prompting a shogunate or military dictatorship might -be established, with the Emperor and the older army families relegated to the background...
...Hundreds of million rounds of ammunition have been bought by the Hritiish for the Middle East forces together with steel, pig iron, railway equipment, chlorine, glycerine and medical stores...
...These, he said, must be cleaned out by the loyal rank and file...
...The significance of this development in the sphere of industrial relations cannot easily foe exaggerated...
...Once the Ukraine falls, and Turkey automatically falls in line, there is little to stop the Wehsrmacht from sweeping towards the Orient...
...Resolution by Louis Waldman, unanimously adopted by the Tamiment Economic and Social Institute at the closing session: This conference notes the concerted drive now being made by Stalin's agents in America, the Communist Party, to identify the cause of American democracy with that of the Soviet regime in the fight against Hitler...
...It is composed of men who have totalitarian ideas themselves, but are so strongly nationalist, that they ' resent German ideas...
...But to find why leftists and rightists brought France to tSM impasse where she now finds herself, it would have been necessary for Maritain to delve deep into the economic problems of the world and of France, to show as the djsharmonious relations exist i.e...
...Obscured by left-wing propaganda and movie scenario men's ideas of the Orient, India's vast industrialization is little known to the publics This sub-continent of 400,000,000 persons contains such a wealth of raw material and skilled technicians that it was rated by the International Labor Office as one of the world's six leading industrial countries...
...One' French fisherman told the runaways ¦ "Our army isn't a pack of cowards...
...For this is the French people as we knew them before tee defeat and as we hope to find them agtain after the victory...
...For a long time to come the government will probably remain the biggest employer of industrial labor...
...4 Guarantee the delivery of these products' to Britain...
...Ukrainian White Guard Generals Follow in Nazi Army's Wake, Prepare to Set Up Puppet State British Gov't Sets Up Councils For Labor Voice in Production LONDON.—None of the recent cabinet changes hare in any way reduced the importance, prestige or influence in the -government of the Labor Party's representatives...
...Diskupsky met Alfred Rosenb%-g, Petersburg...
...The subject of Friday night's session, "Civilian Defense and National Morale," was dealt with by Col...
...This group has a wide following among the older army and naval men, and is reputedly close to the Emperor who-shares their views...
...The other 12 members will be chosen by the unions...
...Frank Bohn, National Chairman of the German-American Congress for Democracy, and Louis Waldman, prominent New . York labor attorney spoke...
...Also part of this loosely formed, unorganized bloc are men who have studied in America, busif'nessmen who think Japan's future is linked' with peaceful trade -with America, leaders of the Japanese Christian movement, and others iwho simply de^sire peace...
...For this work Germany has long planned the setting up of a puppet state under some of the Ukrainian Nationalists who have been living in obscurity inside Germany...
...We urge our government and the American people to intensify its aid to British democracy as the one sure, means of attaining our objective...
...Once consolidated, the Germans can look east to Iran, Afghanistan and India...
...Its influence in this capacity will not diminish, >but is- in fact certain to grow in the post-war reconstruction period...
...We believe that the cause of democracy, here and throughout the world, will suffer if the United States allows itself to become identified with the cause of Communist totalitarianism, in our determination to destroy Hitlerism...
...Harcourt, Bract and Company334 pp...
...Rosenberg has told friends that Diskupsky was his mentor and Hitler's in Russian revolutionary tactics and propaganda...
...the most civilized, tolerant, hospitable, peaceful, industrious and generous in the works of mine, the most spiritualized in spite of its failings, the most Christian without boast, the closest to the soil and to reality, the richest in inner resources, the most able to profit from misfortune and to scoff at fa3se gods...
...of Nazi officials and doctrines in Japanese affairs is meeting opposition from two sources...
...The important thing is that the employer-employee relationships thus formed during the war will not be, (cannot be, sundered when the war ends...
...At the same time, we must resist every effort of the Communists to inject their poison into the life of our country...
...In Women of Britain, an attempt has been made to present a more coherent and continuous picture of life in England than is commonly derived from isolated letters...
...devoted to the Emperor, trade union and cooperative groups have long spread liberal ideas...
...By now we have become familiar with letters 1mm Britain — letters of all types reproduced in newspapers and journals a!though most of them were not originally intended far publication...
...In the occupied zone thsf found the going better, for in there every peasant was glad to give them food, shelter and tips on where the "Bbches" were stationed, while in the unoccupied they were regarded with suspicion as enemies...
...Stolberg took issue on this point, asserting that strikes by a small number of men in a key plant may cause harm all;out of proportion to the number of mandays spent in idleness...
...The unions willJ>e called in to discuss the introduction of new inventions, improvements in machinery and methods of organizing the workshops...
...He noted that it was unfair to count the harm done to the armament program in terms of man-days lost in strikes...
...note...
...Lania and other proven antiNazis, who were ready to fight for France, were kept on for wear/ months of hardship and suspense...
...The Liberals want a realignment along party lines, so that Liberal leader Sir Archibald Sinclair would be added to the inner circle...
...By Jacqiies Maritain...
...Longman*, G.refn & Co...
...The Prime Minister has fought this move on the grounds that the best men avail-" able should be used, without regard for party linos...
...3. Speed up the production of bombers and tanks for'Britain...
...Woman of Britain By EVELYN UCHTEMBEBQ WOMEN OF BRITAIN is a collection of personal letters from English women 67 all classes to friends and relatives in America...
...Within these groups, the letters are sub-divided largely along socio-economic lines so that we find in one section an upper middle class group including Londoners in exile, suburbanites, sod country dwellers, then a working-class group including repnssentatives of the North and South of England...
...Frequent efforts are being made for the revamping of the high war council...
...The dissidents, he said, are only a few Communists and Fascists who have been able to worm their way into positions of influence...
...The first session,1 on Thursday evening, June 26, heard Raymond Leslie iBuell,' Round-Table Editor of Fortune Magazine, set the tone for what was to follow...
...The Friday morning session ' dealt with "Hemisphere Unity and...
...Edgar Ansel Mowrer has written in his introduction to the book that he hopes many Americans will read it because "better than anything else I have read, it illustrates why the French fought so feebly...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 27
