Isolationists' Tours. Polls. Catholic Drives Fail
ROGERS, VINCENT
Isolationists' Tours. Polls. Catholic Drives Fail Millions of Farmers Reveal Opposition To Lindbergh By VINCENT ROGERS Army officer* who have for many month* been close to the research division...
...A final report on the meeting indicates that under the direction of M. Gallagher of the American Honest Money Legion,'local Coughlin organization, a squad sold Social Justice...
...Only last week, only July 7th, General Wood, national America First chairman, used WGN and the Mutual Network to call for a national war referendum...
...Donovan spent nearly three months in Europe and North Africa on his second trip last year, investigating the Nazi spy" arid fifth-column techniques...
...and the outright anti-semitic and openly pro-Nazi „ group led by Father Coughlin and his eastern gau-Jeiter Edward Lodge Curran...
...When reports of Donovan's first appointment were first bruited about, the Army put its heat on the government...
...He miscalculated in his belief that die-hard isolationism would keep the United States indifferent and inactive regardless of what happened...
...the Most Reverend Francis J. L. Beck man, Archbishop of Dubuque...
...Here the AFL Chemical Workers had won an NLRB election, but the company, refused to bargain...
...the Patterson-McCor-mick newspapers, circulation 2323.000, and the Scripps-Howard papers with 1,784,000...
...layman editor of the' Tablet, official Brooklyn diocese newspaper, and Father Coughlin...
...Observers returning from Moscow in June, 1940, reported panic in,the Soviet capital...
...Meanwhile with the defense program prepared to shift into high gear, the Faddis Committee reports that on hand are only 35 per cent of required antimony...
...The latter appeared to be urging his followers to split off from the America Fiist group...
...The drive to win over the Catholic population to the America First Committee's anti-British campaigns not only has failed but received a semi-official rebuff from the Vatican...
...There has been much dissatisfaction expressed is many -circles over the failure of previous anti-espionage efforts.' Many thousands of foreign •gents are still active throughout the country, Jew of them are registered with the State De-Urtment as is required by federal law...
...Rein hold Kusche, former storm troop leader...
...The Nazi campaign against Soviet Russia has now entered its seecind and, perhaps, decisive phase...
...Tw...
...half enough tungsten: less than a third of tbe tin required, and only 55 per cent of safe rubber supplies...
...This forced a modification of the original plan, according to reports, which would , have made Colonel Donovan a major General, in charge of military intelligence, in addition to giving him undefined authority over FBI, Secret Service, the Courier Branch and special agents of the State Department...
...But an'Vditorial suggestion in the Daily News-Pattersoh chain that Hoover and Lindbergh be boomed for a 1944 national ticket aroused little comment and no political interest anywhere...
...We doubt it...
...The impetus to the appointment of Donovan, itfit...
...The German armies are poised in favorable positions for mighty thrusts at Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad...
...On the Aluminum priorities committee are two military officers, a General Motors official and an official of a small aluminum company under the thumb of ALOOA...
...Much more likely than not, considering the disparity in efficiency, equipment and leadership, the German armies will attain their military objectives...
...He has been reduced from triumphator to Italy's captive Quisling...
...Patrick Scanlan...
...Unlike Hitler, Stalin had expected that the contest between France and Germany would be long and bitter, that England, too, would bleed to death in the prolonged struggle, and that Germany would eventually disintegrate under the impact of the...
...He said there was no power shortage...
...Charles W. Boyce of the pulp and paper industry, Production...
...Stalin's first doubts as Jo the validity of his calculations appeared last summer, after the collapse of France...
...Last year steel was already running from 92 to 97 per cent capacity...
...It's well recognized today that critical shortages of raw materials comprise the greatest threat to the success of the American defense program...
...Of the SJWSC t*o .eua, one was returned to the ^"^¦ry of Labor as outside the Hoard's juris-"ktion, and the second is pending...
...In 45 of these, involving 700,343 Workers, the men have either returned to work w » result of agreements or postponed threatened strikes at the request of the Hoard...
...Many charge the round-up as part of a political' maneuver to prevent the appointment of Colonel Donovan...
...Under the NDMB award, the UAW secures a union shop, for all workers' must join the union to continue their employment...
...Most of this resistance comes from the FBI, the G-2 intelligence ser-" Yifce of the Army] and the Office of Naval Intelligence...
...He will never obtain,a separate peace frorn^ngland at the expense1 of Russia...
...The new office will not control any of existing bureaus...
...He gave Hitler the green light in August, 1939, when-he concluded his unholy pact with the Nazi dictator, absolutely convinced that he was setting fire to the "capitalist" world, a fire which would clear the road to Moscow's domination of the earth...
...F. K. Ferenz, exhibitor of Nazi ' propaganda pictures, and tens of others...
...The German gains haveiieen considerable, but the Nazi task—as we write—is lead than half completed...
...Dunn or the American Iron and Steel Institute alone for the loss...
...Nothing is known of the originators of % 125,000,000 fire on the Jersey, docks, a foster larger, if less noisy, than the Black Tea incident...
...several tens of thousands are investigations: of civil service applicants...
...Mediation Board Record Shows All 47 Cases Settled to Labor's Satisfaction Special to The New Leader - WASHINGTON, D. C—The National Defense Mediation Board, which has been the subject of •ttacfc by John L. Lewis, this week released the 'nil details of all cases it has handled...
...The editorial stated that the choice offered by Lindbergh was on an equal level with the bromide, "Have You Stopped Beating Your...
...Their work will be far more important "*n collating information and reports received •T the State, War, Navy and Justice Depart-•Wts...
...Social Justice, Coughlin's magazine, last week attacked General Wood, head of the America First Committee...
...And the Russian people, the peasants and workers comprising the Russian army, are fighting stubbornly and bravely for their Iaind, despite the unfavorable circumstances under which they are compelled to fight because of Stalin's treachery and miscalculations...
...The Army and Navy have ',it*fct coordinated , intelligence services...
...And because the dictatorships miscalculated most and on the most vital factors, to say nothing of the imponderables, they wjll go down to de-Itruction...
...These changes may affect J. Edgar Hoover...
...president of the Edison Electric Institute, chief consultant to the Light and Heat Power Unit of the OPM...
...Stalin, the croupier, was to be the -sole winner in the bloody game...
...These propaganda stoat activities and campaigns have failed although they had the sup-port of the Hearst newspaper chain with a circulation of 5,500,000...
...He miscalculated again when he expected England to fold up after the collapse of France...
...In June, 1940, he crawled out from ambush to stab France in the back, believing that he was moving in safely on the kill, that the war was'over...
...The war poll technique was worked put recently at a strategy conference of isolationist leaders...
...Faddis is usually not accounted on the liberal side...
...His gstimate was wrong...
...Going are many of tne 140 dollar-a-year men who eagerly floeketf to Washington some months ago to put "business efficiency" into the government...
...But will Hitler attain his political and economic objectives...
...Upon his return he collaborated with Edgar Ansel Mowrer in writing a> report on German spy tactics...
...Typical is the crowd which came to hear Lindbergh in the Hollywood Bowl on June 20...
...Hermann Schwinn, West Coast director of the German-American Bund, and others...
...The TBI is building a sjtaff of 2,000 investigatory ex-Wtt...
...Wife Yet...
...Slated to go are Walter S. Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, a member of the priorities division...
...Other examples of low stock piles include: mercury, 20 per cer.t: mar.ila fiver, 16 per cent...
...The city is reputedly in the heart of the isolationist 'belt, but Editor iKirk Fox of Successful Farming, which has a Wide rural circulation, reports that a poll conducted by a national research organization among 6,000,000 farmers and reported in the magazine without comment, reveals that 65 percent of the farmers strongly disagree with Charles Lindbergh...
...Wheeler, whose influence is greater than the public knows...
...quartz crystals, 10 per cent, and industrial diamonds, one-half of one per cent...
...In addition the all-out speaking tours of Wheeler, Nye, Clark, Lillian Gish, and Kathleen N* orris, which was launched the last week in June for a climactic Wheeler rally in Buffalo on July 4th, drew audiences averaging 3000...
...To date the Board has received certification of 47 cases...
...The directors of these bureaus feel they have been superseded by the President's tew assistant...
...Donovan Heads New Office To Speed Counter Espionage ly EDWARD LORWG ."WISHINGTON, O. C—As part of the pre-jUt sweeping reorganizations now hitting f*hmgton, Colonel William J, Donovan, who jptbed fifth-column tactics in Europe for President Roosevelt, has been named Coordinator of Intelligence Information in a move to tighten Bp what has been considered by expert observers ineffectual anti-espionage and anti-isbotage activity by the ^existing agencies...
...But those in control of the industry did not like to think of a coming shortage because it meant we should have to build new plants, each of whi/h would be a competitive threat to the orderly control of the industry after the war -fay (hose already established is it...
...Catholic Drives Fail Millions of Farmers Reveal Opposition To Lindbergh By VINCENT ROGERS Army officer* who have for many month* been close to the research division and Washington representatives of .the America First Committee, are thought responsible for leakage of military secrets to the isolationists to such a degree that Senator Wheeler and his colleagues remain constantly informed of the latest moves planned by the armed forces-of'this nation...
...Among them are Cardinal O'Co-.nell, of Boston...
...Analysis *^Wed that .Practic*Uy a11 settlements were of •wantage to labor, and that agreements were |>Peedily retched, the average being two to three •wys of negotiation...
...A few important Catholics are left to the pro-Nazis in this country...
...He miscalculated in the expectation that he would not "lave to fight the war on more than one front M any given time...
...case was the first instance of an employer defying the industrial disputes machinery...
...Whether or not they have, will be learned when the full scope of the Intelligence Information office is revealed...
...But Stalin helped Hitler smash the Poles...
...The precise economic losses are hard to predict...
...Mussolini miscalculated as only a shyster puffed up with a ridiculously exaggerated sense of his own importance can miscalculate...
...Another isolationist setback came late last week when Bishop Joseph P. Hurley, formerly a member of the Papal Secretariat of State in the Vatican, urged American Catholics not to succumb to Nazi propaganda that the German invasion of the Soviet Union is not a holy crusade against Communism...
...He broadcast his message over the Columbia Broadcasting System, denouncing "CathuMcN^pubUcistS in America who have been giving expression to views which are comforting to the Axis powers...
...Government economists state that "business as usual" estimates by dollar-a-year men have caused greater losses than strikes...
...The drive into Russia, whatever its final outcome, has already proven costly in lives, in equipment and in prestige—both at home and abroad...
...Ha may grant Stalin a separate peace and turn once more against England—with less chances than ever of success—but what would become of his cry that he was saving the world from Bolshevism...
...With the speedy collapse of France, totally unexpected in Moscow as elsewhere, the spectre of a Nazi onslaught against Soviet Russia dawned grim and ominous...
...Coughlin's western Gauleiter, H. J. Whitmore, was present, along with George A. Nusang, official distributing agent for Social Justice...
...Each newspaper is asking one out of every ten registered voters the question, "Shall the United States enter the war to help Great Britain...
...Hans Diebel, proprietor of the Aryan Book Store, located in the German House in Los Angeles...
...today much of our energy is being spent in releasing these brakes from the spokes...
...A flat 10 cents an hour wage increase is granted, while for trainees a graduated scale was instituted starting at 60 cents and increasing every four weeks by 5 cents until 75 cents an hour is...
...Continuing the analysis, it is stated that if attention is confined to steel, the six-month delay in reaching a decision to expand steel capacity —due to Dunn's two surveys—will cost the country in 1942: 5,000,000__tons of steel $5,000,000,000__in national income 1,250,000 _jobs 350,000,000_man-days of work It may not be fair to fully assess Mr...
...German atmosphere was supplied in abundance by the active participation of Schwinn...
...They could have had the French armies as their allies, but Stalin helped Hitler smash France...
...This incident and Prime Minister Churchill's criticism of Wheeler's statement contributed to what appears to he the rapid disintegration or organized influence throughout the country...
...Meanwhile, America First rallies are still demonstrations packed by openly pro-Nazi audiences...
...This conclusion was stated last week by a sub-committee of the Housa Military Affairs Committee, headed by Representative Charles I. Faddis of Pennsylvania, after a month of quiet investigation...
...The recent arrest of 33 spies by the Federal Bureau of Investigation is considered an ineffectual* pickup of underlings...
...The first is the North American Aviation Co...
...After a Board request, the company decided to bargaiu with th?i njuon.Stalin and Hitler Face Destruction After Miscalculating British and French Resistance By MALCOLM HASTINGS This war will be known in history as the w8r of great miscalculations...
...Board lettlementa exemplify the prolabor attitude of its members...
...Jones introduced a bill which would prohibit the employment as an official, employe or advisor anyone who was previously engaged by a company found guilty of pleading no defense of violating anti-trust laws or related gtatutes...
...conflict...
...As' for Stalin and his regime, the thing he had feared most—-active participation in the war—will bfe the force that will send him, too, into the limbo of history...
...Valentine Bibo, Bund storm trooper...
...The dollar-a-year men collectively must be assessed...
...There must be no ' illusions concerning Soviet Russia's ability to withstand indefinitely the pressure of the German war machine...
...The Russia* people will continue to fight and to harass the Germans even if the bulk of the Red armies...
...In the balance sheet of liberal-conservative votes on the House ledger, Mr...
...The America First crowd's drive for the Catholics on a "holy crusade" appeal failed when the Pope refused to yield to Berlin pressure and order Bishops throughout the world to oppose aid to Britain on the grounds that such aid, in turn, was being lent to a godless nation...
...The Daily News received 50,000 replies, at which some 15,500 were for war, 333*0 against...
...They put "business as usual" into the defense wheels...
...As for Stalin's miscalculations, they have been no less fatal and...
...Hitler miscalculated fatally when he began the war in August, 1939, in the belief that England would not fight...
...if they had said "yes," six months ago, other errors of their colleagues in other fields would have sufficed to curtail production...
...The price of the Russian adventure is bound to be so great as to wreck any hope of winning a decision in the West This fact may before long become *o patent as to provoke a serious conflict between the German high command and Hitler, with' consequences that may prove unexpectedly decisive...
...He certainly cannot exploit them if even a portion of the Russian military establishment remains intact and a new Russian front, with or without Stalin, is established on the Volga or in the Urals...
...Incidentally, regardless of the work to be . done by the new office, changes are due in the FBIV Those close to solicitor General Biddle hear that he has plans of his own when he becomes Attorney General within a few weeks...
...The Western Cartridge Co...
...The only attraction in the America First list now is Charles Lindbergh...
...In many Capitol circles the Senator's revelations that a United States force was on its way to Iceland is considered a treasonable act which jeopardized the lives of many thousands of American and British boys...
...They are fighting against Hitler—and for the freedom and independence of their country...
...advertising" making friends in the schools, and the little capitol hills of the nation...
...at this writing the Chicago Tribune has received 11,155 ballots with 2,405 for war and 8,655 against...
...the political axegrinders like Mr...
...believed, was the situation revealed by the FBI that it had 90,000 cases of all kinds pending...
...In some informed quarters the reports indicated- a' concerted Papal effort to offset the effect of Germany's sudden turning on the Soviets...
...One observer claims that a hundred million man days of work will be lost in 1941 because of the avoidable errors of the dollar-a-year men...
...They would not have had the Romanians and the Finns fighting as allies of Hitler, if Stalin had not wronged and deeply injured these peoples...
...Stalin also concluded a non-aggression treaty with Japan, in the hope that this would draw the United States into the vortex of the war and thus prepare the ground for Communist revolution in America...
...Augustine (Florida) diocese and is re-« portedly close to the Vatican...
...Tom F. Smith of the American Bankers Ass'n, of the Purchase division;, W. Ray Bell, Ass'n of Cotton Textile Merchants, attached to the Production division...
...scarcely a third of the needed manganese...
...Reports contradicting this sentiment came from Des Moines, Iowa, this week...
...One of the first to go was Gano Dunn, whose report on the steel situation stated that no expansion was needed to fill all demands...
...A compromise appears to have been made brtweeri~the President, the agencies, and G-2 of 1«* Army...
...Representative Robert F. Jones of Ohio contended recently the^t the personnel of the defense agencies "looks more like Thurman Arnold's anti-trust docket than a list of persons employed to safeguard the public interest and welfare...
...reached...
...The Russian people are not fighting for Stalin...
...The war has just begun, under circumstances growing increasingly more desperate and more dangerous for Germajny...
...At that time we wrote thatr a German drive against Soviet Russia was certain in 1941 if England remained unbeaten and the prospect of a successful storming of the British Isles appeared illusory...
...dispute which developed into a wildcat strike, the other the defiance of negotiation machinery by the Western Cartridge Co...
...The report is that 'Donovan will coordinate a staff of in-_ vestigatore from the Justice, Treasury and State' Departments and the military intelligence services...
...Both Hitler and Stalin are now hopelessly the prisoners of their miscalculations...
...He was hopelessly wrong Shis confident belief that it would be a quick war and an easy victory...
...The America First Committee itself is split several ways: sincere pacifists like the John T. Flynn group in New York...
...The Edison Institute, a trade association, is a huge lobbying organization which has spent millions in "institution...
...In addition Colonel McCormick, owner of the ultra-conservative Chicago Tribune and WGN, one of the first radio stations used by Lindbergh, has used his influence to make easily and frequently available the Mutual Broadcasting system—to some degree dominated by WGN—to the America First Committee...
...The OPM said he must have been talking as head of the institute since the OPM recognized a serious power shortage...
...All others were to do the gambling...
...E. A. Brand, Tanners Council, Production, and others...
...They will remain under Department of Jutice jurisdiction...
...The war-poll stunt of isolationist newspapers is fizzling...
...William L. Finger, Rubber Manufacturers Ass'n, in Production...
...Bishop Hurley heads the St...
...In the former, left-wing CIO leaders had uttered dire warnings of the result if the NDMB heard the case...
...They, like the peoples of all countries fighting for liberty, have not miscalculated...
...Sidney Hillman said this week:, "I can't think " » strike affecting national defense orders at BP Moment...
...They could be fighting with the Poles beside them...
...After achieving initial successes which swept Stalin out of most of the terri-toi ies he had seized when he was playing jackal to the Nazi tiger, and driving a considerable distance into Russian territory, the Nazi leaders have found themselves confronted with unexpected resistance...
...This was taken to mean that the Brooklyn America First, which is led by Curran, and the Queens America First, which is led by Coughlin campaigner William Goodwin—long exposed by The New Leader—will/ drop out to work more openly with the Christian Front...
...His talk came one day after the Bishops of Greater Germany appealed to German Catholics to stand fast in their faith at a time when "existence or non-existence of Christianity" was at stake in Germany...
...These were undertaken by Congressmen Hamilton Fish, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, owned by Joseph Medill Patterson...
...mica, 67 per cent...
...no less contemptible...
...Little tadway has been made on a score of sabotage Pfbes...
...Next was Charles W. Kellog...
...only fealf enough chromium...
...There is, however, organized opposition to the creation of an office of Coordinator of Intelligence Information...
...However it is well undep» •tood in Washington that Colonel Donovan and his staff will^do more than become ihe glorified 8* keepers which the present statement ingles...
...One ojjier sore spot is the personnel of the prkvitiefl committees which determine requisite allotments...
...In recent months, despite the crucial aluminum shortages, General Motors and »du Pont have obtained needed amounts—-while competitors were restricted...
...A very great portion of the Nazi military machine must remain engaged in Russia regardless of the victories'it liay yet achieve...
...But Hitler has discovered that he made one more miscalcu-lation: he had failed to take into account that in addition to the Communists there were also the Russian people...
...Edward Lodge Cur ran, head of the Catholic Truth Society...
...Three of them started at a boot the same time...
...Further evidence of the slowing appeal of Lindbergh was seen in the July 5 editorial in the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, ridiculing the flyer's statement that he would rather see this nation allied with Germany than with Russia...
...He traveled nearly 25,000 miles visiting England, the Balkans, Turkey, Malta, Egypt, Iraq and Syria...
...That was the peychology which pervaded- the estimates in aluminum, power, freight cars et al...
...are destroyed...
...H. A. Gebhardt, head of the German-American League and, attorney for the German Consulate...
...20,000 are under the Selective Service Act...
...Business as Usual' Dollar-a-Year Men Fired by OPM-to Spur Production By DANIEL BELL There is an exodus on from Washington—and it isn't due to ths summer heat...
...Now the estimates are revised downward to somewhere between 84 to .88 billions...
...And without such a peace he cannot successfully exploit the resources of occupied Russian territories...
...Before the shortages in capacity and raw material were fully realized government economists estimated a 90 billion dollar national income in 1941 under the impact of arms spending...
...So, Kellog went.< Now the OPM has ruled that paid officials of trade associations must get off OPM...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 28
