Iceland's 120,000 Persons Live Off the Sea
Iceland's 120,000 Persons Live Off the Sea Fish Products Provide 85% of All Exports The Kingdom of Iceland lies far out in the north Atlantic, about 900 miles west of Bergen, Norway, and 2,500...
...British center of propaganda in the Near East is Ankara, where the efficiency ol Germany's apparatus, set up by Baron Max Oppenheim and Von Papen, is hard to surpass...
...Ufc the spare and vigorous in parts lyrical, account of the growth, dfF ing the first World War and for some time after, of a spirited beja1 school gang in the Bitterroot country of Montana, the suspeaw interest being supplied by the ups and downs of the knasrinatm Pauly Craig in' his efforts'To come to terms with the gang...
...A number of other small manufacturing industries were also fostered by the State...
...About 860,000 tons of Swedish bottoms outside of Swedish waters are in the British convoy system...
...He was air attache at Moscow in 1934 and served there for several years...
...Through all these maneuvers looms the problem of British prestige...
...This policy has the support of all groups in Sweden and has been hailed editorially by such diverse newspapers as the liberal "Morgonbladet" and the conservative "Svenska Dagbladet...
...On Hay 16, 1941, the Parliament of Iceland resolved to dissolve this union with Denmark...
...This is at the rate of $4,200,000 a year, sufficient to absorb the slack caused by the losses to the other Americas of continental Europe...
...The island is in roughly the same- latitude as Nome, Alaska, and...
...Griffiths, who is 51, was president of the South Wales Miners Federation from 1934 to 1936...
...An entire apparatus, hitherto hostile to Roosevelt, will now be turned into, vigorous anti-Nazism...
...Washington-last week urged that all the AmericMe^republics subscribe to Vru*J^^»i-PWpo8al that the : WesresaBPetnisphere nations take ! joint positive action' toward their common defense...
...As British shipping to India, Australia and the Far East is now routed via the Cape, Germany would be merely closing an inlet and outlet that have not been used in an important way for many months...
...More than half of this was prevented from returning to Sweden when war arose, because of blockades...
...The United Kingdom was also Zealand's best customer hi 1939 wish 17 percent of all: exports, followed by Denmark with 11 percent, and Germany, 11 percent...
...LABOR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE...
...but only 15 percent in 1939...
...there is the callous drowning of small Honey Face by the bullies, Stiff Sullivan and Augie, the Pastor's son...
...In placing ^the large part of her merchant fleet at Britain's disposal she was acting in accordance with her sympathies...
...His characters stand out clear, vital and interesting...
...the formation of a European Cellulose and Timber Cartel under German domination cannot provide sufficient markets within the areas ruled by Germany...
...The tetter nation's press is notorious for its subsidized adherence to the Axis...
...IN their treatment of matters connected with labor standards and industrial efficiency the authors offer some very interesting sad important observations...
...Germany gains dairy products and steel from her northern neighbors in return for manufactured goods...
...He was educated at the Labor College in London...
...The United Kingdom was first in that year with 22 percent, and Germany, Onty One-Fourth of Area k Habitable which had been, gaining rapidly for several years under a special trade agreement, was third with 16i percent All imports are rigidly controlled and were directed as far as pmaiala to the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain, thr principal buyers of Icelandic fish...
...Prime objectives of this triple politico-diplomatic-propaganda drive are the immobilization of Tokyo, the curtailment of rapid infiltration in South America — especially in Argentina, Latin bellweather — and bolstering of the blasted British reputation in the Near East and other sections of the Moslem world...
...This the second one, in which the committee advises the establishment of a Federal Emergency Mediation Board...
...There are hundreds of- thousands of Germans in Patagonia...
...Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, who in tile past has be;en somewhat lukewarm in his support of the U.S., recently joined Vargas and Batista- in good-neighbor broadcasts on July 4th...
...From such a uniform block, the author extracts distinct individuals by confronting his subjects with a succession ef episodes, each of which clarifies with a few, vivid strokes an eddfc tional facet of personality...
...put forth by British representatives to the Moslem world, as unbeatable strategists who, with large Russian manpower to direct, will stall the German blitz...
...The real prize goes to Colombia—the return of Panama with the Canal thrown in...
...Deputy Raul Damonte Taborda's newly formed equivalent of the Dies Committee recently staged a series of raids on suspected German houses, seizing thirty as spies...
...Mufti of Jerusalem, would have 250,000,-000 Moslems in asms or working against the British...
...The author is detached from "IJ youth but intimate with it This detachment, aided by an evieae* artistic integrity which refuses to emphasize market-vahaaa inherent in the story, operates through a particular use of h-BsajSK the reader is made to experience situation and character from eat . inside to be suddenly yanked away to contemplate them from oat-side...
...Another is . Mexico, wh;ch at present is pro-U...
...Economically and ideologically Sweden has always been linked to England, and she is maintaining those links despite tremendous pressure...
...Pauly's roots are bitter enough...
...Only about one-half of one percent of the country's total area is under cultivation and the 'short summers limit crops largely to"hay and potatoes...
...At the same time the J Nazis are promising the Germans in...
...The backbone of Icelandic economy is its fishing and fish-products industry, furnishing a living to nearly 30 percent of the population...
...f Books and Writers Labor Policy in Emergency Iv *iluAM B. BOW* - ANE of the most impressive statements with regard to the whofe ^ -matter of labor policies during tins emergency perioc has eaaav out of an investigation instituted and financed by the TwsjmZZ" Century Fund, and undertaken by Lloyd G. Reynolds, of Joh*, 9W...
...it is an indulgence in sensation which setqeff is sufficient reparation, in his own eyes, for his gradual dodaa* Pauly, angular and cunning, grows on one with his labored schemes for advancement in the gang always turning the joke on We* clumsily...
...Recently the United States provided Ecuador with military, naval, and aerial.aid and advice, just as it has offered to other countries on the continent...
...Face, for instance, Stiff, Augie and Pauly are fixed* in attitudes, respectively, of callousness, repentance and evasion...
...To beat the Nazis in Latin America the United States will first be forced to clamp down on American industrialists who are providing South American Nazis with the merchandise which is used for trade wars on England and the U. S. In addition this country will have to spend much more than it is in the southern continent Carl B. Spaeth, assistant coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, speaking at Camp Tamiment, Pa., said that during "the first four months of 1941 the United States purchased from Latin America $340,000,000 worth of goods—GO per cent more than its purchases for the same period of 1940, and nearly twice as much as those for the same period of 1938...
...a • CUSFENSE, absent from the story as such, is cunningly realise* in the delineation of character...
...Wavell's successor, General Au-ehinleck, is a veteran in dealing with the Mohammedans...
...But no one knows what is ths...
...There they haive set up a supernumerary government replete with secret courts, armies...
...These countries were...
...There's no lore loa> and anyone who does not arsV scribe to this value is "slapped down"—with a diverting inconee-quentiality...
...Imports in 1939 totaled $10,879,000 and exports $12,-294,000 as against $10,812,000 and $12,717,000, respectively, in 1938...
...Brazil is expected' to take similar action...
...But the British fleet und Nazi submarine blockades prevent any trade...
...The codfish catch in 1938 was poor for the third successive year, stocks were inadequate and prices for fish products were much lower...
...Drive By DICK REYNARD • Increased millions in purchases, movie^ actors' good-will'tours, and...
...Its largest city is the capital, Reykjavik, with a population of 36,100...
...It is to look to the "matching of production facilities and the lajpr supply...
...But the first oh is much more important, and there is no sign that Washington bat taken cognisance of that...
...The Uruguayan formula has already been rejected byi Argentina and Chile...
...President Roosevelt's statement that Said would be sent to Russia, is being explointed there to paint United States as Communist, and aligned on the wrong side of tb« "Christ ot jthe anti-Christ" fight...
...Meanwhile General Wavell will be working out of Delhi, some 1,400 miles distant from the Northern Iran Oil Fields...
...The Icelandic State budget for 1938 with revenue at $4,385,000 and expenditures at $4,300,000 again returned a small surplus...
...At the drowning of Beat...
...j> In 'South American diplomatic circles it is known' that German .' representatives are close to Lima's chiefs and have promised them wide territory as booty if Peru swings its support behind Axis efforts in Latin America...
...General F. N. Mason MacFar-lane is_ Britain's greatest authority on German military tactics...
...No such board with anything like this purpose sad this authority exists at the present time...
...The authors agree heartily with the spirit of the) order, and especially emphasise the point that no high degtec ef efficiency can be expected unless labor's cooperation is on the bsstt of cooperation and goodwill...
...pressure has caused the Argentine government to act against , the Nazis...
...As of June 30, a total of 106 Swedish ships aggregating approximately 400,000 tons have been sunk...
...Argentina has wanted these bases fer a long tame...
...If you are a Christian, help Germany -win...
...Statistics give powerful support to General Crozier's oontennea From 189 to 1937, just when production per man-hour was increasing enormously, average weekly hours in American factories 0*-creased from 60 to 43...
...It is to "formulate a wage policy for the defense period...
...Sweetish Ships Aid England Despite Nazis Special to Ths New Leadkk STOCKHOLM.—Invasion is not the only means of throttling a nation, as recent German economic pressure on Sweden shows...
...It is true that we now have a Labor Advisory Board, but» Policy Committee is an entirely different thing...
...Substantial charges have bee* leveled revealing that German "editorial advisors" are not infrequently inside Lima's newspapers...
...Its population qf 120,000, almost entirely of pure Scandinavian stock, literally lives off the sea, as fish and fish products constitute about 86 percent of all exports...
...One is the United States and Canada...
...The budget included $697,000 for service of the national debt which totaled $10,228,000 at the end of 1938...
...Although our trade with Iceland in the past has been largely by transshipment over Hamburg and Copenhagen, in November, 1939, direct shipping connections with the United States were established...
...climate is influenced by the Polar ice packs, which occasionally blockade its numerous, harbors on the North Coast, but do not materially affect the principal harbor of Reykjavik located on the West Coast There are no mineral resources and almost all of Iceland's water power, estimated ' at 2.500,000 horsepower, remains unharnessed...
...It is a fair assumption that for the* most part these safeguards are the mechanisms of efficiency...
...The loss of the British market for lumber, cellulose and paper resulted in further widespread unemployment in Sweden and Norway...
...In this work now...
...Not the-least of this power is exercised among the officialdom of Peru,' which was finally goaded last week into attacking the prc-United States Ecuadorean army over the unexploited, unmarked district of Western Amazonia...
...This scheme calls for handing Argentine Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and the much wanted Falk-land Islands which the British use as an important naval base off the lower tip of the continent...
...The Icelandic fish trade was severely affected by the-depression and the Spanish civil '¦ war...
...Puo/itW by t*# few, tietk Ctntury Fund...
...Before the war was many weeks old, the vast majority of Swedish ships outside the blockade were in British service...
...One false move in the Near East and Ha j Ami n El Hus-seini...
...He entered Parliament for Llanelly in 1936...
...the British have the assistance of Soviet agents specially trained in the Lenin and Eastern Universities for propaganda activity in South America, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan: and Egypt...
...Some new backing for the United States is seen in < the statement by Lombardo Toledano, former head of the...
...Danish livestock is dependent on imported feedings stuffs...
...By the time our defense program started the 40-hour week was accepted as normal...
...The more remarkable aspect is the amount of aid Sweden has been giving to Britain, despite the body of field-gray troops poised to blitz at her shores...
...Up against this type of planned penetration United States tactics appear puerile...
...Its capture would be a prize, for propaganda purposes among the Arabs...
...there is the railway policeman whose pleasure is shooting boys, one of whom, caught in a coal wasgt he clubs about the head, malting him permanently silly, There sea more such instances...
...its mode of action, the cunning and entirely self-dependent atnsf-gle by each to win, with the glorified brute body, the envious inspect of all...
...Oe,$ shadowy plane behind stand the adults, parents living in their o«n} world, and the miners of violent Butte, who shape somehow, upas reflection, as figures in a magnified boys' prank...
...This was not because of the standards set in the Wages and Hours Act...
...maximum-output week...
...These men are being...
...This was picked up by Nazi agents and expoited as a Washington plot to back Ecuadorean claims against Peru...
...lies in, but near the outer edge,of, the Gulf Stream...
...Oft the basis of this study a Labor Comaaiasm under the chairmanship of William H. Davis reached a series...
...In son\e industries it may be 48 hours...
...The export excess was the fifth in succession...
...Of the three specific recommendations in which the work eliminates one has already been incorporated in our national setup...
...1.00...
...At the same time UjS...
...Only billions in purchase can cure these dislikes...
...He has long been an enthusiastic exponent of the tank...
...he was also a member of the British Military Mission that was in Moscow in August, 1939...
...All Naii propaganda in South America is coordinated and dispatched from Buenos Aires, center of one of three regions into which the Germans have cut the continent for operating convenience...
...the whole u thrown against an historical background, conveyed by a running commentary of newspaper clippings suggesting the effect of ths war on American life...
...Hence its...
...Chief ol the central headquarters there is General Guentber Niedenfuhr...
...Labori** to Com* to U.S...
...At Embatsy Attache LONDON...
...these unfavorable factors were only partially offset by increased exports of fresh and salt fish...
...Stripped of all propaganda about Pan-American common interests, the western hemisphere appears divided into several camps...
...4> There is now a natural tendency to think that a lengthening of hours would increase production...
...Many of the buildings in Reykjavik are heated by hot springs...
...About 20 percent of exports is cooperatively marketed...
...Air Vice-Marshal A. C. Collier, an Australian, has an intimate knowledge of Russian affairs...
...and t*i» is a difficult achievement both because adolescence shies off frop definition and because his little society is narrowed by the government of a few, rigid conventions...
...So it is clear that lengthening hours is a dangerous thing, a thing that may lead to increase in fatigue and in absences because of iUnssj and to worsening of morale...
...Ow own expert/ ences during the World War and the various policies m recent years in France, Germany and Britain are carefully analysed and appraised...
...conclusions which are of greatest interest to labor, managassasj and the general public...
...Much depends on them...
...To ease the position of its fishing population the Icelandic Government, on April 5, 1939, devalued the crown by 18 percent from the pegged rate of 22.15 to 27.0 to the pound stering, a decline from approximately 21 cents to 17 cents...
...Acting Colonel K. G. Exham...
...heavy buyers of dried split cod, so, to compensate for the drop in sales of this commodity, the manufacture of fish products, such as herring oil, cod liver oil, and fish meal was expanded...
...With the hostilities about over in Syria, the British are - prepared to occupy Iran and so organize the entire Near East against a thrust .through Turkey or the Caucasus...
...The fourth member of the mission, Rear Admiral G. J. N. Miles, was in command of the mighty British warship Nelson and was flag captain to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet at the time of his appointment...
...Prestige is the bone of contention between General iWavell andfPrimeMin-ister Churchill, —it forced the latter to order the defense of Crete over the head of the general, and is keeping large Imperial forces tied up ip the protection of the almost useless Suez Canal against Wavell's advice...
...Shooting on I the Peruvian front coincides with a German drive ' to line up South American Catholics—about 80 per cent of the population—with' the .Axis, with the appeal that "the entire Spanish world is at the side of Hitler in his,fight against Russia," and "the issue now is between Communism and Christianity...
...the lower end of Argentina* that Patagonia will be made an independent' province, subject only to Berlin...
...TOE BITTER ROOTS...
...There are large tracts of grass lands, however, and sheep raising- is important...
...Recently on the way into Russia some members of London's military mission stopped over to meet Ankara's leaders...
...i British Use New Nazi War for Consolidation Among Moslems LONDON.—Warfare along the Stalin line has given British political and propaganda bureaus unforeseen aid along a wide front reaching from Buenos Aires to Tokyo...
...In others it may be 40...
...And there is a lifting, lyrical content, *| yeasty gusto of mountain country expressing in its own right essential of the story, the boys* rest for life...
...Under him will be 500,000 to 1,000,000 well equipped troops, many of them Moslems...
...respectively...
...kins University...
...This is all contingent on a German.victory...
...S. but is selling to the Axis and Japan...
...Nazi offers of whole slices of Ecuador to Peru undoubtedly gained wide support for Germany in Lima, and, was responsible for the orders to Peruvian batteries to open fire...
...As a result drastic bread, meat and fat rationing have been introduced...
...But the genacal , policies recommended have been so well thought out that much * attention should be given to them...
...It is to take measures calculated to secure "for both ma*, agers and workers throughout defense industries a voice in the determination of labor policies through a network of joint agencies...
...They are not interested in good-will tours and pan-American defense...
...Italy, Spain, and Portugal took 52 percent of all Icelandic exports in 1929...
...The urusualness consists in the timing which surprises a #f and friendly laugh...
...This is laughed at in Buenos .Aires and Rio de Janeiro...
...For the author* I have taken into account a wide range of facts...
...Niedenfuhr's -plan has gained some support among high Argentine officials...
...He commands all the Gestapo, Stormj Troop and Labor Front or-, gantzatibns in all countries on this continent...
...The violence though is robbed of its sting by the gay, courageous spectacle the author makes of the boys' struggle to piece eat of'its fragments, each his own material for development and assistance...
...one realises with a jolt that their depravity hi barely noticeable and that it seems almost dandified to advert te It in these violent times...
...Although Icelandic foreign trade was a Danish monopoly until 1864 Denmark dropped to second place as a supplier, with 21 percent of total imports...
...Another is in Argentina which is virtually proJ*Iazi, Anglophobic because of the heavy British investments and their occupation of the Falkland;, anti-U...
...The Nazis have redrawn the map of South America and are offering the bigger powers slices of thVsmaller countries...
...As a study of adolescence, this book is not marred, like «eet such, by any nudging self-pity...
...The little book, "Labor and National Defense," into which tab survey and these recommendations have been condensed sJssssswBJ required reading for congressmen and senators...
...In the month of April alone, he said, Latin America sold $101,000,000 worth of goods to the United States...
...Tjie act roerts* legalized the going custom...
...in fact, he has particularly championed the heavy tank, having been greatly impressed by the monsters that were being turned off production lines in Nazi Germany during his period as military attache in Berlin...
...It is interesting to note that as far bade as 1917 General Crozier, Chief of Ordinance, issued an order wniefc began: "In view of the urgent necessity for a prompt JSJSlsaM in the volumne of production vigilance is demanded of all those in say way associated with industry lest the safeguards with wbka the people of this country have sought to protect labor should be unwisely and unnecessarily broken down...
...In yielding to the German threat for troop transit privileges, Sweden acted reluctantly and -in self-defense...
...It is a new job in the British diplomatic service...
...in all about 36 percent of the population derives its living from agriculture...
...Smith A Peeve* $2.50...
...The least satisfactory Part of the treatment is thft deaftag with the training and distribution of labor supply...
...The failure of the invasion to proceed on time-table schedule is being fully exploited by special British agents as the first indication that a Hitler victory is not inevitable...
...even airfields...
...I The Moslem world must be consolidated before Hitler wins in Russia, or is forced by the exigencies of his conflict with England to make a separate peace with Stalin...
...Denmark, Norway and Sweden depended more upon foreign trade than most other European countries...
...This recommendation is, "That then be set up in connection with the OPM a National Defense Labor Policy Committee . . . nominated in equal numbers by the national organizations of labor and the national organizations of manas> ment...
...But Pauly has his episodes served whole and live: he is stripped naked before the gang...
...The more intense the labor, the lower it must be...
...bread grain is also imported...
...Exports to the United States totaled $1,302,000 (about 80 percent of this was cod liver- oil), as compared with $1,286,000 in 1938, while imports totaled $406,000 and $142,000...
...ja Nazis Offer Large Latin Nations Small Countries in Anti-U.S...
...They were carrying materials under British convoy...
...This desperate effort at creating a round-robin economy is necessitated because of the collapse of Scandinavia's trade...
...James Griffiths, Welsh Laborite Member of Parliament, is expected to go to Washington as labor attache of the British Embassy...
...This propaganda is flooding all Latin nations, pouring out of Spanish Falangist offices...
...In the end, however, shaded and rounded, Stiff's callousness is seen as dH obverse of his conviction that emotion should be economised towards practical results: it is with pleasure he beats up the railway policeman- but the object is to inhibit the man's tMWj Augie's sense of guilt is later seen to have been unattached to esf moral convictions...
...much time and energy on the part of the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics have failed to cut the Axis influence in many governments in South America...
...Adolescent Savagery By Of WiS DfVUH WITH this novel.* a new region, with a human climate all its awn, is added to the modern American fictional scene...
...This is the type of action the Latin-American nations understand...
...General MacFarlane, assistant, is well-versed in Baltic and Polish affairs and has a fluent command of the Russian language...
...They have been promised too much by the Germans, and have too long hated the "Colossus of .the North...
...If these schemes sound fantastic, it should be remembered that .they are merely localized versions of the bribes offered by the Nazis to Hungarian, Bulgarian, Italian, Romanian and Serbian statesmen within the past two years...
...It is certain that precisely in the mechanical trades in which we are liable to develop bottlenecks it tends to be lowest...
...If they succeed the British will have consolidated themselves throughout the lands of the Mohammadens, especially in Egypt where King Farouk is an unwilling semi-belligerent...
...S. because of the ban on canned', beef, and the fact that Buenos Aires fancies itself a potential Washington, D. C, of the Latin Nations...
...Reich policy aims at increasing what her press calls Inter-Scandinavian trade: Norwegian fertiliser to Denmark, Norwegian fish chemicals and oils to Sweden in exchange for foodstuffs...
...Mexican CTM and- now chief of the Confederation of Latin American Workers, backing aid to the Soviets and to Britain...
...The title is a lucky gift to the author...
...Iceland, a part of Denmark since 1380, became a sovereign state in 1918—united in Denmark only in that the Danish King also was King of Iceland...
...Its only hero is the "tough guy...
...Niedenfuhr is reportedly responsible for the plan which is having the greatest effect on some of the large Latin nations...
...Iceland's 120,000 Persons Live Off the Sea Fish Products Provide 85% of All Exports The Kingdom of Iceland lies far out in the north Atlantic, about 900 miles west of Bergen, Norway, and 2,500 mile* -northeast of Mew York City...
...Heavy purchases of cod liver oil placed the United States fourth in 1939, with It percent...
...Brazil would get the northern oppulent half of Bolivia, and French and Dutch Guiana...
...Macleod's knowledge of adolescence is delicate and sure...
...The committee sees the board as doing things on its own initiative...
...By Norman Macleod...
...one-fifth of the exports went to Great Britain, while the English supplied one-fifth of Scandinavia's imports...
...the rations are smaller than that in Germany...
...Hitler would like to seize the "ditch" not so much for what it is actually worth but to deal British prestige a staggering blow...
...He has been in India intermittently ever since 1904...
...At the outset of the war Sweden's merchant fleet totaled 2,400,000 tons...
...This eubbct is much too complicated for such a. brief treatment...
...it does not surely come the way of every boy to have his inevitable odyssey to social acceptance composed of episodes of real savagery, episodes whose necessity as test and training for existence can be usually acknowledged in the propitiatory gesture ef children's games...
...Another consists of the email nations like Uruguay, Ecuador and: Guatemala, which have been bribed into the U. S. orbit Another is in Brazil and some of her surrounding countries, who want to sell to the best paying customer...
...Iceland is about the size of Kentucky, with approximately 40,000 .square miles, but only one-fourth of its area is habitable, as it is a country of mountains, lava fields, glaciers, and high plateaus which slope to the coastal lowlands...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 28
