Documents Show Vichy Police Help Axis Wipe Out Europe's Anti-Fascists
Documents Show Vichy Police Help Axis Wipe Out Europe's Anti-Fascists •?•HE cables from Vichy are silent concerning any in-. * ' vestigation into the recent assassination of Marx Dormoy, minister...
...Preparations for the trial are now under way...
...T^HE peoples of Russia are now paying dearly for the policy ¦ ¦ * of conquests and seizures embarked upon by the Bolshevist dictator when he gambled on Hitler's "stronger battalions" in 1939...
...induced the French police to ask for the replacement of some of the Spanish police officers in order that the work might be continued with the necessary discretion...
...Aside from purely political activity, the Democrats were active in workers' mutual aid societies, which provided sick and death benefits for their members ayi were the predominant type of iworkers' organization until ifUr the beginning of the twentieth century...
...Many have been ordered into forced residence at specific points, under constant police surveillance...
...However, in spite of these disagreements, the labor organizations prospered durir.g the remainder of the Alessandri regime...
...2—The French and Spanish police pledge themselves to exchange information likely to be useful, as well as index cards and files...
...His regime was a short and stormy one . There were constant rumors of revolts and uprisings...
...A split in the ranks of the newwegime soon appeared, however...
...However, Alessandri was unable to carry out most of his reforms, because of the conservative-controlled Senate's op...
...Ixvestia," official Soviet government organ, attempted, in «• issue of August 3...
...The French police is given seven days within which to locate the persons sought...
...On the basis of the agreement concluded with the Germans by Darlan, who likes to parade his Catholicism, Schiess, a Cath lie abbe, a Frenchman and French patriot, was surrendered to the German authorities, who then proceeded to take vengeance upon him for his loyalty to France...
...As a result, the "advanced positions for struggle against fascism" were transformed into springboards for Nazi invasion of Russia...
...This group was patterned after its U. S. namesake and was strongest among the maritime workers...
...Behind this complicated political facade the trade anion works and organizes...
...This situation ended rapidly...
...By this agreement these exiles were placed in a truly desperate situation...
...Stalin has been compelled to seek assistance and salvation from the Anglo-Saxon democracies—hence England's role as go-between in the conclusion of the Soviet-Polish pact, the first genuine peace treaty to be concluded after the series of dictates forced upon other nations by Hitler and Stalin...
...Negotiations conducted by Darlan with Germany and Spain, and, indirectly, with Italy, resulted in a new series of agreements having to do with foreigners...
...However, Altamirano moved closer to.the Conservatives, and the labor groups changed -from an attitude of neutrality to one of open opposition to the new regime...
...4—The Spanish engage themsalves to organize at Lisbon a system of spying upon the activities of General de Gaulle's agents in Portugal...
...Alessandri was backed by all liberal - and radical groups in Chile, and was elected on a reform program...
...Washing -1/ton will shortly be severed when the United States, atsto Department finds it can no longer maintain the %th of an independent France...
...Federal week-end raids netted arms caches, documents revealing that the Nazis were organized in cellular or unit form...
...Under the guidance of Grove they set about to carry out their promises...
...To put into practice this agreement Spain sent to France 30 inspectors of the Spanish Seguridad, among them Ramon Garcia, Andrea Peres and Miguel Yangaas...
...The principal.candidates were ex-President Alessandri and Col...
...It tightened up its organization, declared itself sympathetic to the Russian Bolshevik revolution and joined the Red International of Labor Unions...
...Not at all...
...Local officials have been instructed to obey all demands of the German, Spanish and Italian police...
...Stalin had managed to occupy the seized territories with large numbers of Red troops, but Hitler did not give him time to build any system of strong fortifications...
...Abandonment of the seizures which marked the past two years does not by any means imply, for example, that the small Eastern European states will continue, after the war, to maintain their former role of sovereign states, a role far beyond their strength...
...BE Soviet-Polish treaty of July 30, forced upon Stalin • is only a beginning, which should be followed by solemn abandonment by the Soviet government under guarantees by the democracies of all seizures perpetuated with Hitler's aid aad approval...
...This agreement provides, among other things, for: 1—A common struggle against subversive elements threatening the.government of either one or the other of the two countries...
...In 1917-22 there were many strikes, including general walkouts in the port towns under the leadership of the I.W.W., two coal strikes which lasted a fmr, and three months respectively, general strikes against the high cost of living, and even walkouts on the great agricultural estates...
...The most im-portant figure in this second Alessandri period was Col...
...In nearly all the cases they met with complete failure, but their attempts became known and...
...Stalin's annexations, carried, out as part of the division of military spoils, must be annulled...
...These latter have in fact tried to recruit among the political refugees informers and agents.provocateurs...
...However, the mutiny was suppressed after a week, and things returned to "normal...
...Davila even moved to outlaw the Communists—who had opposed Grove, a socialist, as a "tool of Britain.\ , However, the Davila regime lasted but three months...
...MOT by means of forcible absorption of small nations by • big states but by means Of federative union will it be possible to solve the problems of national self-determination without a new Balkanization of Europe...
...tJOW sadly mistaken were all these illusionists...
...These actions were due largely to its control by and close association with the Socialist Labor Party, -which also moved left and joined the Communist International, changing its name to the Communist Party...
...Grove...
...Although Ibanez did not openly take the Presidency until the spring of 1927, he was virtual dictator after the autumn of 1925...
...a loosely-knit group, in which the railroad workers' organizations played a leading rAle...
...They also forked in such organizations as workers' musical and educational societies...
...Finally, on June 2, a coup occurred, led by Col...
...f\S the occasion of Franco's visit to Petain at Montpellier...
...v, Utilizing this eagerness of the French government to oblige, the Germans have extended their police network throughout France, usually under the camouflage of the German Red Cross...
...These authors are none other, if you please, than the French League of Human Rights and other French and American organizations fighting anti-Semitism The Nazis will charge that these organizations formed a secret committee for the assassination of* leading representatives of the Nazi movement, with Victor Basch, noted French republican jjurist, Moro-Giafferi, celebrated lawyer, Mayor LaGuardia of New York and others as members...
...adeed...
...But he remained true to the thesis _of "Mein Kampf...
...This support was not forthcoming, and the labor groups became dissatisfied with the Alessandri regime...
...Moreover, specific agreements were concluded by the Vichy government with Spain and Italy as regards exiles—agreements which Vichy was not at all obligated to conclude...
...Such treaties as the treaty of Riga (1921) between Poland and Soviet Russia, and such annexations as that of Bessarabia by Romania in 1918 should be subject to revision but only by peaceful means, by means of agreements, arbitration or decision of the future peace conference...
...This organization will at the same time track down elements hostile to the German government...
...The democracies must now insist upon complete repudiation by the Kremlin of all policies of conquest, in order that the world may have confidence in the sincerity of the Soviet Union's switch from the camp of the aggressors to the camp of the enemies of aggression...
...The Davila regime then took energetic measures against the Grovists and against the unions...
...With the retirement of Alessandri, Ibanez became the real power in the government...
...Web Over Vichy iVPbOMATIC relatione between Vichy and...
...to North Africa (Morocco-and Algiers), the great majority of them to be employed in cons traction Of t^e trans-Sahara railroad...
...2—The French government undertakes to surrender to Madrid all exiles on lists to be presented by the Apasthrir authorities...
...Republican tradition is still strong in tjie ranks of the French police, and the Germans frequently met with sabotage aad resistance on the part of the lower officials...
...In the ensuing election in November, Conservative Juan Esteban Montero was elected President...
...He set about to carry out the measures which he had been promising for four years...
...After their arrest, these persons are brought to any one of three camps situated near the demarcation line (Moulins, Macon and Saint Martial d'Artenset) From these camps the victims are turned over to the Germans...
...Many were those, both on the "right" and on the "left,' who were confused and misled by the Soviet expansion...
...6—French police agents will be appointed to assist their Spanish colleagues...
...Its provisions were ss follows: 1—The French government obligates itself to extradite women and children to Spain, specific lists to be provided by the Spanish government...
...An agreement concluded in February between Darlan ahd the German ambassador in Paris through the French envoy, de Brinon, established an extradition procedure which functions with great rapidity...
...advanced strategic positions against fascism...
...Itmay be said all this is academic since all these territories have now fallen into Hitler's hands...
...But the assimilation was only superficial...
...Long lists of suspected persons have already been exchanged between the three countries...
...For this reason some members of the Polish government in London refused to vote for the treaty concluded by Mai sky and Sikorsky.- But the compromise formulation ¦ of the treaty agreed upon speaks clearly of Stalin's abandonment of his share of the loot seized in Poland under his former pact...
...To understand the situation, we must keep in mind the various agreements concluded within the past six months between the French government (under Laval), on one side, and Ribbentrop and Serano Siiner, on the other...
...Until recently, this county was able to keep envoys and consuls inside unoccupied France in order to have direct contact with the defeated nation...
...Both sides mutually agreed "to render one to another aid and support of all kinds in the present war against Hitlerite - Germany...
...This group was stronger in the nitrate regions than elsewhere, and in11913 it succeeded in electing Lois Recabarren as deputy...
...The Dictatorship was overthrown in the summer of 1931, and more than a year cf turmoil followed...
...Carlos Ibanez, Alessandri's Minister of War...
...In deciding that^it was necessary "to die for Danzig," the democracies embarked upon a war against Hitler's gangster plan of world reorganization by force and violence...
...It would be difficult to find a more shameful incident in the whole history of France...
...At the same time the I.W.W...
...Darlan signed another afree meat providing for close cooperation between the French Second Bureau and the German authorities against the British Intelligence Service and in the task of watching Alsatians and Lotharingians expelled by the Germans, and who may seek to maintain communication with their friends and folks at home...
...The International Brigade members balked at the transfer by passive resistance...
...The F.O.Ch...
...a junta of young officers, led by Colonels Carlos Ibanez and Marmaduque Grove, engineered another revolt...
...contemporary European socialist parties...
...The Ibanistas were frightened by the radical measures of the new government, and ten days after the revolt, Davila and his followers withdrew...
...solemnly acknowledged that "the Soviet-German treaties of 1939 as to territorial changes in Poland have lost their validity...
...During the, war, he escaped to Pau, in the unoccupied zone...
...The revolt put power in the hands of General Altamirano, Inspector-General of the Army, and two associates...
...It is the first, •tip "'toward liquidation of the policy of forcible seizures, and the substitution of international law for the right of Wxpieat...
...Both politically and strategically Russia only suffered injury by the seizure of other peoples' lands, lands which had separated Russia from Germany...
...So do his contacts...
...bayonets, to the peoples of Eastern Europe of the "proletarian dictatorship...
...and Communist Party...
...was during his administration that the great numerical gains in the unions and in the Communist Party occurred...
...The police collaboration between France, Spain and Germany is thus complete, giving the Reich full opportunity of investigation, information and action...
...The new regime hastened to'carry out many of the promises of the Alessandri administration—including the issuance of a Labor Code...
...1 - Here is exposed for the first ' time in an-American newspaper the complete story of Gestapo control of French police—and the manner in which Mussolini and' eftn Franco have been able to order Petain about as If •k, were a -precinct poliee captain in Rome or Madrid...
...T*HE following letter is dated the end of April, 1941: * The -situation became increasingly difficult for foreigners in unoccupied France, both for those in concentration camps and persons not interned...
...Much of the growth of labor organizations can probably be attributed to the administration of President Arturo Ales-sandri...
...Great public meetings were held and union and Socialist spokesmen from neighboring countries addressed the crowds and lauded the Grove regime...
...grew...
...The Soviet government agreed also to the formation on Soviet territory of i a Polish army and granted "amnesty to all Polish citizens' now detained on Soviet territory either as prisoners of war or on other sufficient grounds...
...The accompanying article is another by Robert Alexander tracing the growth of the Chilean labor aad Socialist movements...
...The team is subdivided m four groups, the biggest of which is composed of 20 poliee officers and is particularly active in the Toulouse, Marseilles and Toakon districts...
...in reality the bolshevization of their countries had roused in the conquered peoples, especially in the villages, deep disillusionment and fierce hatred against the Soviet -regime...
...was still holding out...
...proposed to de Deque rice, the Spanish ambassador, that the transports - bearing Spanish exiles to North Africa put in at Barcelona or Tangier, where the Spanish authorities themselves would have an opportunity to pick these desired for extradition direct to Spain...
...The policy of the Bolshevist dictatorship in Moscow has always increased general distrust of Soviet Russia because of its Red imperialist aims...
...Other articles on South America will appear in the next few weeks completely outlining and explaining what is what and who fa who in Chilean public life...
...This very phrase liquidated the partition of Poland as it had been carried out jointly by the Nazi and Soviet dictators...
...New Leader...
...At the same time there were, unfortunately, some on the "left" who while considering Stalin's seizures as crimes in form were nevertheless inclined to regard them as blessings tn substance...
...These agreements go far beyond the rights accorded to the Germans under the armistice...
...The most sanguinary of these walkouts was a strike ate nitrate-fields in 1907, which resulted in the deaths of...
...Upon Alessandri's return the unions had launched a great organizational campaign, counting on support from him...
...These order* from above and German money below have quickly transformed the French police into an obedient servant of the Nazis, even to the extent of going beyond orders from Vichy...
...his only book, the thesis that the sole radical solution of the problem of "lebensraum" for overpopulated Germany lay in the colonization and planned exploitation of the measureless territories of Russia inhabited by the "lower" Slav race...
...In spite of the precision and ingenuity of the mechanism, some .incidents.have nevertheless arisen up to now, incidents due to the "sans-gene" and the clumsy initiatives of certain Spanish policemen...
...was plotting against the government...
...Of course, abandonment of annexations and seizures does not imply waiving of re-examination of the unjust treaties which marked the separation from Russia of territories situated on her frontiers...
...The Germans did not find this entirely easy...
...The Ibanez regime collapsed with the advent of the Great ' Depression in Chile...
...3—-The Information Services agree on mutual assistance in this field...
...Special attention is being paid by the Germans to organisations fighting anti-semitism Incidentally, it has become known recently from a statement by a Gestapo agent that Germany is preparing a monster "trial" of Hershel Grynzspan, the young Polish Jew who assassinated Von Roth, attache of the German embassy In Paris, in 1988...
...The Democratic Party, meanwhile, lost all pretensions of being a socialist organization...
...3—The French government obligates itself to surrender also Spaniards long resident in France who, in the opinion of the Spanish government, may prove embarrassing to Franco—Spanish relations...
...DaMan, therewpen...
...There was a stalemate which lasted almost four . years, and culminated in September 1924 in a leftist army * revolt This" occurred primarily because of the sympathy of the army rank and file for the aims of the Alessandri administration...
...As" disclosed in last week's New Leader, they have also created, as a special instrument, the Doriot terrorist organization for the extermination of French Socialist and republican, leaders...
...Since March, hundreds of persons have been arrested...
...The eagerness of the French poliee to oblige the German police is well illustrated by the case of the Abbe Schiess, former vice-mayor of Strassburg...
...Residence permits are being refused...
...an agreement was concluded with Serrano Suner concerning the entire question of Spanish exiles...
...On the French side special inspectors were directly designated by Vichy...
...They likewise disapproved of the method in which the new constitution was drawn up and promulgated...
...y A NOT HER communication from JM...
...To be sure, Stalin had succeeded within the time allotted him by Hitler to Sovietize and bolshevize the seized countries...
...in opposition to the dictatorship, and the Communist Party had the audacity to run a candidate against Ibanez, both groups were soon forced underground...
...The first incident was the naval mutiny of September . 1931...
...A quarter of a century later there was formed the first ivowedly socialist party in South America—the Democratic Party...
...Labor organization spread rapidly...
...A special clause provided for the mutual extradition of political or other persons falling into the hands of the German err Spanish authorities (example: Company's arrest by the Germans in Belgium and his extradition to Spain...
...The two communications from M. Villard present the tragic picture of France under Marshal Petain...
...He remains annomymous f„i obvious reasons...
...The -Spaniard took the initiative of proposing an agreement to Laval similar to the one concluded with Germany...
...meanwhile moved to the left...
...It was dictated to him by military necessity—Hitler's invasion of Soviet Russia...
...Prtncisco Bilbao, a native Chilean who had had some experience in the European Revolutions of 1848, was the first freat Utopian Socialist in Chile...
...It is a step toward a new world order based upon the principle of right and international cooperation...
...Chile, several years ago...
...Even those Spaniards who .had"previously received permission-to'leanre were detained...
...He founded a Society of Equals in 1850, which had for its purpose the education and organization of the workers...
...More recently the change in line—1939 style—brought a concerted attack against the Communists by the Socialists...
...The alleged leaders of the resjgtance were taken to a fort in the vicinity of iPerpig-nan, where they are awaiting trial...
...Laval accepted it without informing Petain, declaring that the latter would certainly have no objection whatsoever to it...
...A military coup overthrew it and paved the way for an election...
...Its strength was greatly augmented during the early twenties and by 1924 it elected eight members ¦ to the Chamber of Deputies...
...But the Germans are masters in the art of demoralizing their enemies—they have not confined themselves to using political weapons only...
...This'' trend led to a split in the party in 1913, when its national secretary led a secession movement and established the Socialist Labor Party, which affiliated with the International Socialist Bureau...
...vestigation into the recent assassination of Marx Dormoy, minister of the interior in the Blum government, by Jacque Doriot's gang of killers...
...In March there were many incidents at the Argeles concentration camp arising from the transfer of former members of the International Brigade interned at the camp to Africa to work on the construction of the trans-Sahara railroad...
...An Alsatian and Francophile, he had behaved during the French occupation of Alsace like a passionate French patriot and thus attracted the attention of German agents in Alsace...
...Various labor spokesmen took part in these reforms, but labor was not satisfied...
...Divisionary Commissioner Nicola Alibert, formerly in the Dordogne area but lately operating at Marseilles, Divisionary Commissioner Laguery, and Divisionary Commissioner Fourtou are among them...
...In the concentration camps at Le Vernet there were incidents arising from bad food, which likewise led to the arrest of the alleged leaders, who are also to be trijed...
...fJ_fITH the" aid of the machinery " thus established, the Germans are gathering material dealing with the activities past and present, of French republicans, Masons and Socialists, and they are not ashamed to declare from time to time that they will use these materials as evidence in a series of trials to be staged after the war to discredit republican France and to prove to the world that the French and the British were responsible for the war...
...Bore is the background of the trials which will break Into the news this fall, as Petain, Darlan and cringing >en of Vichy seek "legal" justification for the execution of the Leon Blums, the Reynauds, the Mandela — the very essence of Republican sentiment which the current French rulers fear will soon bubble over snd destroy I them before the Gestapo can swoop down to save them...
...Here for the first time are revealed' the names, dates,-facta and details of agreements to which Marshall Petain pledged truncated'France...
...Surreptitiously the Communists and Nazis worked against the democratic parties which were urging collaboration with the United States...
...Grynespan is to be tried at the conclusion of the war, after Germany will have won the final victory, when she intends to demand the extradition of the "chief culprits...
...A special Gestapo commission, under the chairmanship of Himler "himself," has "established" the real authors of the assassination, according to the boasts of the aforementioned Gestapo agent...
...Soviet-Polish Pact Marks Beginning If New Deal for Small Nations By PETER GARVY !"¦»• Soviet-Polish agreement of July 30 of this year.goes'\ •Beyond ordinary diplomatic agreements...
...Labor did not fare well under the dictatorship...
...Although in the spring of 1927 the F.O.Ch...
...These elements actually regarded Stalin's annexations by the grace of Hitler as "occupation of strategic positions against fascist Germany," expansion -westward of the "springboard of world revolution" and extension, on tihe points of Jled...
...The first middle-class president, he was chosen in a very close election in 1920...
...Under this agreement, the German government presents to de Brinon the papers in all cases concerning persons to be extradited...
...After being received by Vichy, these papers are sent to a central office at Clermont-Ferrand, where Germany is represented by a Gestapo agent who has the right to examine all papers and correspondence and oversee procedure...
...The sailors put forth demands for political changes as well as for better conditions for themselves...
...6—Special police agents chosen among the.most "expert" will be sent to France by Spain...
...To be sure, Poland did not succeed in obtaining from Moscow the restoration of the peace of Riga, concluded in 1921...
...Guided by purely strategic considerations designed to avoid war, at the beginning, on two fronts, Hitler had concluded his pact .with Stalin, feeding his "friend" temporarily with slices of other peoples' territories...
...The history a* this movement runs back almost one hundred years...
...The text of the agreement was drawn up in the building of the Spanish embassy in Paris and signed during a second conversation...
...A few days after concluding this agreement with the German envoy in Paris...
...Viiiard reads: . " On July itiifSaC*year, von RSbbonttop and the Spanish Ambassador in Berlin signed a secret agreement by which they fixed the conditions of common action by Germany and Spain against subversive activities likely to threaten the Nazi and Franco regimes...
...This new regime immediately invited Alessandri to return to power, and launched a program of social measures which included housing, medical and health activities...
...A short time ago the Socialists ousted the Communists from the Popular Front for the latters' attack on "Yanqui imperialism...
...Only by violating all tommon sense and perverting obvious and well-known facts is it possible t0*u>»jfithe participation of theOAS;Rv4n the fourth r*r«jt^i^^l^W^^and,^to!r^repudlBte,•' a*'does -Stalin's official organ, the parallel between the'^partitioa of Poland by Hitler and Stalin in 1939 and the~similar action of absolutist monarchs in 1795...
...A Lessandri resigned in September 1925...
...Stalin failed to save Russia from war by his hypocritical policy of fictitious "neutrality" and apparent non-participation in...
...responsibility in the fourth partition of Poland as a farsighted strategic maneuver designed, to •hengthen the frontiers of the U.S.S.R...
...It is interesting to examine this question a bit closer, for the reason that it deals with matters in which the French authorities are cooperating closely with the Germans...
...2—Exchange of information between the Secret Services of the two countries with -relation to everything connected with activities of hostile elements...
...Party tried to halt'this swing to the right, they were unsuccessful...
...THE economic dislocations of the first World War period I led to much labor unrest and resulted in a general growth of labor organizations...
...n Soviet Russia's abandonment of the "territorial changes" ¦ instituted through the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 also ended formally the state of war'between Soviet Russia and Poland...
...In the new, united Europe frontiers will change their significance and the establishment of a new, revitalized League of Nations will facilitate the solution of the complex frontier problems...
...The unions wiiicb^grdw^p as r-result.of this series of strikes were brought together in 1909 into the Federation Obrera Chilena (FjO.Ch...
...The agreement provided' fort 1—-Exchange of police information...
...Many have been transferred from ordinary concentration camps to penal camps...
...It was not until after a series'ni spontaneoueystrikes dur* a} the first year of the^twehtietrf century^hat^sde nnTotrs'' apn...
...2—Furthermore, France undertakes to surrender to Spa is and Italy all Spanish and Italian exiles, respectively, as well as any other exiles on lists to be compiled by these eouwtrieo —these lists not to be subject to any limitation, objection or control by France...
...However, the dsmoeratimUon of Russia is incompatible with the continuation of Stalin's regime of absolution ana lawlessness...
...No foreign exile is now safe from arrest and persecution...
...As was to have been expected, the murderers'will not be apprehended, for Petain's police have not the, slightest intention of doing anything in the matter, for the reason that the assassins had carried out the orders ef the Germans, and Petain's police are now merely the obedient servant of the Nazis...
...This group had a program similar to those of...
...jiow it becomes obvious that even the slight traces' rf independence, the alleged bravado of General Weygand jad the iatransigeance of Marshal Petain were nothing hat camouflage characteristic of the governmental rot which destroyed Paris.The actual subservience of Vichy to Berlin has never fully been told...
...Last week the Investigation Department discovered evidence that a German National Socialist Party existed in Chile and with the aid of "some foreign diplomats...
...It carried out a series of strikes in 1918-19, several of which developed into general walkouts in the port towns...
...He had the ardent backing of the workers, and Bj...
...The basis for the present close cooperation between Petain's police and the Gestapo was laid in negotiations between various political leaders on important political questions...
...The bank were nationalized, a committee was set up to nationalize the nitrate industry, workers were given a voice in the management of industry and a National Socialist Economic Council, with representatives of the unions on it, was established to study the question of nationalization of all of industry- The new regime called upon the workers for support, and most unions rallied vigorously to the aid of the government...
...to whitewash "the first working class iwernment" of...
...It means simply that the population of these-states emancipated from Hitler's yoke, will have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they wish to join a democratized and truly free Russian Federation or join some regional federation as members of a general European Confederation...
...Following are the provisions of these agreements: 1—France undertakes to surrender to the Germans not only such German exiles and exiles of German origin whe may be demanded by the German authorities, but also former Austrians, Czechs...
...and Lithuania, and the seizure of Bessarabia and Bucowina...
...Nazi Red Cross representatives have established offices everywhere, with German police agents and French assistants at their side...
...A week later they led a counter-revolt, which overthrew Grove, and ended the Socialist Republic...
...We declare categorically that this is a falsehood adding another contemptible touch to the conduct of Vichy criminals...
...Marmaduque Grove, former head of the Air Force, and Ibanistas under the leadership of Carlos Davila, former Ambassador to the U. S. The new rulers declared a Socialist .Republic...
...On the other hand, a resolute democratization of Russia even before the end of this war would unquestionably improve the chances of voluntary adherence to a Russian Federation of many frontier states which had separated themselves from Russia after the Bolshevist revolution and which were forcibly reunited with Soviet Russia by the Stalin under his unholy pact with Hitler...
...more dangerous- and dspperafe...
...The Democratic Party, meanwhile, grew continually more conservative, and although groups within the...
...More than that: the Germans 'were given possession of all papers and documents found on Schiess dealing with the activities of Francophils Alsatians, which enabled the Nazis to carry out mass arrests in Alsace...
...became the second nation ruled by a Popular Front government Although this included Communists and Socialists it was supported by a native Nazi party which had grievances against the Conservatives...
...But such officials were soon dealt with effectively...
...Another agreement concluded between Vichy and Spain provided exiles were to be shipped by 'August 1, 1-941...
...against the Reich, •ft one were to believe "Izvestia," the stab in the back was *haost designed to save Poland...
...The agreement they concluded with the Petain government concerning foreigners residing in France not only made it possible for them to obtain the extradition of foreigners but also to send Nazi police commissions and agents into unoccupied France for dose collaboration with French police officials, 'whom, they very soon perverted to their purposes...
...No direct, agreement affecting extradition of-exiles has been signed with .Italy, but an indirect understanding, through Nazi Ambassador Abets, is in force, under which Italian exiles are surrendered upon demand by the Germans...
...Both the unions and the Communist Party losing ground , rapidly, were soon disorganized...
...Among the 30 police agents sent by the-Spanish government.are four Germans who had been sent to Spain during the civil war as instructors to the-epantsh political police...
...and who wag taken to Germany after the collapse of France...
...The liquidation of that regime is the command of history...
...Having embarked upon this road, the Petain government has undermined, by virtue of this very fact, its own capacity to resist 'the Germans on any Question...
...The Ftderacion Obrera Chilena and its affiliates spread into hew fields...
...On June 21, 1941, Hitler moved into Russia^and it became clear immediately that Stalin's seizures and annexations along Russia's western frontiers were not "guarantees of security or...
...After the fall of Laval and the appointment of Darlan this policy with respect to political exiles was made more drastic...
...In an effort to escape responsibility for Dormoy's murder, Vichy has let it be known that Dormoy's death was not political but the consequence of a sordid love affair...
...Dartzigers, Saarlanders, as well as exiles from the regions now occupied by the Germans, such as Belgians and Poles as well as citizens of neutral or non-belligerent countries, such as Hungarians, Romanians and Russians, etc...
...Alessandri was the candidate of a liberal-conservative coalition, while Grove rallied around himself all of those elements which had supported the Socialist Republic...
...Here we present the additional letters from M. Villard.— Ed., New Leader...
...UNDER this pact, the government of the U.S.S.R...
...the war of imperialists.*' Two years ; rafter conclusion ef his-pact with Hitler, Stalin was compelled to accept war under immeasurably more difficult circumstances, when Russia's possible allies, Poland and France, to say nothing of many small peoples, were already crushed and enslaved...
...While the Vichy government occasionally makes difficulties where German demands affecting French citizens are concerned, it hastens to anticipate such demands where foreigners are involved...
...Russian reactionaries and even some bourgeois democrats professed to see in that expansion at the expense of Russia's weak neighbors "a constructive, national work," the restoration of the Russian empire within its historic confines...
...The signing of this agreement nullified the pact previously concluded between France and Mexico for the immigration of Spanish exiles'to Mexico...
...Six prominent leaders of totalitarian activity were arrested...
...The day will come—soon—when they will be compelled to appear before the Tribunal of the French people and answer for the murder of M. Dormoy and all the other crimes of which they are guilty...
...For example: Vladimir -Vochoe, formerly Czechoslovak consul-general at Marseilles,-has-been arrested despite sharp protests from the diplomatic corps, and ordered into forced • residence in the ;. Department of* CourezeJ The situation Of foreign, exiles has become...
...This is the third in a series by sn important Writer' recently arrived from France...
...More recently, Spain filed a protest against alleged delays in the execution of the aforementioned agreements, particularly as regards the surrender of exiles...
...l_:_:---------------;—-------------Hitler Over the Andes ALTHOUGH fast moving political situations in Chile have aroused the interests of United States political and journalistic observers and commentators, there is little authentic information available on what is happening in Santiago, its capital...
...The other three groups operate in the Lyons district, the region of Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Grronde and Basses-Pyrenees, and the north-western region with the town of Mouline as center...
...Now even the blind can see that Hitler had lured Russia deeper into Europe in order that he might later all the easier hurl her back farther to the Urals, into Asia...
...He appointed a commission which drew up a new Constitution, the Labor Code was revised, Church and State were separated...
...France also banned the exit of Spaniards between the agesfcf 17 and 48...
...Finally, -in January, 1925...
...position...
...Russian moral prestige among the common people and the workers of the entire world was recklessly destroyed during the yesrs marked by Stalin's move against a Poland at war and his participation in her partition, the attack on Finland, the occupation and annexation of Estonia, Latvia...
...iAe^,ctf neoplet *hen, the' workers clashed-with troops-m*n'to break the Jtme...
...Hitler wages his desperate game'not only with military but also with political weapons...
...We print below additional letters by Andre Villard (the pseudonym of a French Socialist) whose communications from France published in last week's issue of the New Leader dealt with the manner in which the French police force has been transformed into an instrument of the Gestapo...
...Further comment on the French situation will be found in the editorial columns OEd...
...On the occasion of the visit of Serrano Suner to Paris, a conversation took place between the Spanish foreign minister and Laval...
...Although the Communists probably had no part in the actual mutiny, they , took full advantage of it ashore to advocate the overthrow of the regime...
...Of course, the Soviet-Polish agreement of July, 1941, was not the consequence of any political awakening or moral repentance on the part of Stalin...
...The union* attempted a revolt in order to restore Grove, but were unsuccessful...
...Upon his return Alessandri was greeted by all liberal and radical groups—including the F.O.Ch...
...A special fund, on the importance Of which it is impossible to obtain precise information, has been provided by the Spanish government in order to finance the costs of this ¦ poliee organization...
...In 1894 it elected its first deputy to Congress...
...He was not seated, as he refused to take the customary oath of office...
...Contrary to the assertions of Socialist renegades like Deat in France, of confused pacifists like Norman Thomas in the United States, and Communists everywhere, the Western democracies, in Embarking upon this wsfr in 1939, determined to appose by force of arms the policy of seizures, the policy df substituting the law of the jungle for international law...
...it was only after troops and marines were brought into play that it was possible to load the victims on ships at Port Vendre...
...Rite's Posf-Wa r HistckyE*sK^^ .F Revolts of Army Groups in Leftist-Rightist Tug-of-War 1 By ROBERT ALEXANDER 'tfke first of a short series on the" Chilean labor movement) /UTILE is industrially perhaps the most advanced nation -V in Latin America and it is quite logical that it should possess a strong labor and socialist movement...
Vol. 24 • August 1941 • No. 33
