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...Representative Hatton W. Sumners, a Democrat from Texas, rises to say: "The States must discharge their responsibility with reference to crimes of this sort or the power to control the situation will be taken away from them...

...On the other, we were constantly receiving from British experts and some of our own observers reports that in this or that category vze were sending out definitely inferior products...

...At .least, there is no euch awareness except in one quarter...

...A candidate for the Congress or Senate should be considered gravely as to whether he has a mind of his own, or whether he will permit Roosevelt to order him in his duties...

...There must be a Germany to contain Germans unwanted by the civilized world, at least for the present...

...That is as experience will demonstrate...

...Up to leas than a year ago, r>ur manufacturers produced war planes chiefly on definite specifications set by foreign powers...

...What would you say, Herr Hitler, to the proposition that no nation but your own can quit the war and escape retribution, not even your Japanese ally, and we have already told you that we cannot quit as long as you are armed ? California...

...This document is the very model of what such a report should be...

...As one head is lopped off by indictment or conviction, another takes its place...

...The consequences of this situation are inevitable and instantaneous...

...Joseph P. Kamp, whose Constitutional Educational League was named as one of the transmission belts for the conspiracy against the morale of the armed forces, has written a pamphlet purporting to expose a sinister plot against these congressmen...

...At that time, however, there was a public realization of the fact that the fate of the Union hung Upon the election returns...

...We have had too much propaganda...

...In Mississippi there have been three lynch-ings of Negro youths in one week...

...It contains no alibis and no ambiguities...

...THE pro-Fascist bloc, deprived of so many of * its standard-bearers, has rallied to the defense of certain Congressmen who were in the forefront of the America First movement and who are now under attack for their pre- and post-Pearl Harbor records...

...The Fascists do not surrender...

...Gerald B. Winrod and William R. Lyman...

...The 0·*» of Civilian Defense has publishes a handbook designed to V0*M the question, "What Can I D«T which has been uppermost W the minds of many civilians...

...Included were Leon de Aryan and Winrod, whose plans for Congressional campaigns were thus rudely interrupted...

...Certain Republicans, dominated by tne' spirit and philosophy of that New Deal Fifth Columnist within the Republican Party, Wendell Willkie, think that the way to be loyal to the war effort is to 'rubber stamp' everything that is being done by the bureaucratic politicians in Washington...

...Members of organised laker throughout the country ?*** given generously of their the* and efforts in civilian defease work...

...Not another German, American, English or Russian soldier need die, once this agreement was accepted by Germany...

...This sort of thing is dangerous to morele...

...In the "Gali-' lean" of February 9, 1942, the since-convicted William Dudley Pelley called for the election to Congress of fifty men who would defend the Republic instead of pursuing a policy of internationalism, stating: ". . . our American people can easily decide to repudiate the Rooseveltians, put the internationalists on ice, turn out the Judaists, and restore government to the home-grown Constitutionalists...

...The fate of the farm-factories which depend on hired workers is unimportant from every point of view...

...This will have to be a solemn guarantee...

...Thus the United States stands on the verge of an election that is the most momentous since Abraham Lincoln ran for his second term in 1864...

...Her petty allies would collapse without her and suffer the same fate of disarmament and disgorgement of territorial loot, but even Germany would have no concern for the fate of jackal nations...

...PROBLEM OF FARM PRODUCTION "THE Farm Bureau Federation and the con-* gressional farm bloc have led many of us up a blind alley with regard to the basic business of producing enough food for these war years...

...Congressman Tolan's group, after careful study, is of the opinion that in the field of industrial manpower no legal coercion is immediately necessary...

...We can imagine but little resentment from the German common people at this certain loss of what has never been any good to the plain man...

...To all who have been puzzled or misled by this contention, we commend the article by Mr...

...If it can take the...

...They forget that a noted Fascist leader was reported to have told a private party of America Firsters one week after Pearl Harbor that, although America First could not be publicly active on account of the declaration of war, it could be a political-force...

...The elections on November 3rdi are...

...On July 23, 1942, twenty-eight persons were indicted for conspiracy to impair the morale of the armed forces of the United States...

...Davis will cover other segments of war activity with a similar care and even-handedness, he will be rendering an unparalleled service to his country...

...Separate occupational deferment boards would be set up to prevent the costly channeling away from industry of essential personnel...

...Elmer Davis has now been settled long enough in his place as head of the Office of War Information so that this masterly summary may be supposed to represent his policies...

...We had our elections in 1941 and we are having them again this year so that innocent Americans, unaware of the tactics of the Native Fascists, see no need to worry...

...This board would act as the policy-making body in its field...

...Since there has been no over-all planning board to give orders and distribute the product, it is small wonder if many of our planes designed for special purposes and with special limitations have been sent to places where they did not function with 100% efficiency...

...He calls upon "citizens of every walk of life to fight off these disturbing elements...

...eminent...

...What is required, we are told, is an overall plan with overall authority...

...As-soon as Wendell Willkie gave his support to the Roosevelt war effort he became a hate symbol in the eyes of the Fascist press...

...WANTS SPOTLIGHT OH BROOKS From ROBERT DUN LAP To the Editor: I am enclosing two dollars...

...If Mr...

...It was fourteen months ago that America First and its kindred groups first gave public notice of their intentions when they held up a bogey of "no elections" in the United States after 1941...

...At primary elections, they are being repudiated by the voters...

...Both/these conditions worked to our disadvantage when we started to produce for all-out war after Pearl Harbor...

...Attached to thia office, according to this plan, would be a board for war mobilization consisting of Ave representatives of industry, agriculture and labor...

...This cornauttet of the House is now, on this point, in advance of the President...

...The mails denied to them, the ordinary organizational activities becoming more risky every day, the professional Fascists and pro-Nazis turned to the primary campaigns then getting under way to provide themselves with new channels for propaganda...

...The United States, as one of the three allied powers, could obtain the agreement of England and Russia to these terms in advance of any overtures from Germany and any popular movement inside Germany to end the war would have something to build on...

...The American Fascists know full well that this year presents their golden opportunity...

...So far as they catered to our own forces, their designs were kept within the .confines of the defensive purposes of our own military and naval leaders...

...As the war prolonged itself into Spring, it became ever more apparent that there was building a new party, as yet unofficial and without an admitted leadsr, but identifiable through its determination to combat all efforts to smash totalitarianism and to insure economic security .and political and religious freedom for all...

...The Now Deal has succeeded in putting thousands of regular farm families an their feet, and so stepping up the amounts of food and fiber which they contribute to the nation...

...or with the vision and intellectuality of A. Dennis Lewis as a labor leader, can ever glorify John L. Lewis...

...On Tim i— the Tolan Committee, famous for its fine work on the subject of migratory labor, proposed "tat statutory creation of an Office of War Mobil...

...The movement goes steadily on, combatted only by those alert, groups of liberals and intelligent citizens who know what this war is all about...

...To speak of John Lewis as fearless, as I did last week, is to portray him truthfully without glorification...

...This pamphlet, "The Native Nazi Purge Plot," is being widely icirculated and used as a money-raiser by many of the twenty-eight under indictment...

...From now on we want reliable information...

...Complete disarmament would be enforced upon Germany, which would mean that every weapon from a pistol to a battleship would have to be surrendered to the allied nations...

...Smith, second in a three-cornered race, received nearly 110,000 votes to the winner's 196,000, and is now running as an independent...

...Last week, in connection with the passage of the anti-poll tax bill in the House, southern Congressmen complained bitterly that the North was interfering with home rule, with states' rights, with the prerogatives and dignity of ancient commonwealths...

...But certainly the first step is to have a supreme body—not one man—at the top with authority to work the problems out...

...Those wk* complained should grant that tbei line is as wrong as any attempt to glorify Lewis would have bees-Washington...

...Nor would a foot of German soil be taken from her, except that which she has acquired in this war...

...It goes down the list of air machines from the B-17 Flying Fortress to the Grumman TBF and tells the good and the bad about each...

...Surely no one familiar with Lewis' past collaboration with the Communist Party...

...IT is now up to the State of Mississippi to * prove that the South is capable of self-government...

...The Office of Wer Production, the Office of Economic Stabilisation, a new Office of War Supply and the directors of manpower both for the Army and for industry would fit into their places in this comprehensive scheme...

...Court Asher, editor of the subyersive weekly "X-Ray," reflected in his issue of February 17, 1942, the breaking down of party lines resulting from the fierce fight over America's foreign policy, when he said: "In the coming election it should not matter if a candidate is a Republican or a Democrat...

...If the authorities of Mississippi do not act quickly and decisively, no amount of oratorical tears will save for that state and the adjoining regions the ancient privileges which they hold so dear...

...His fearlessness will entangle him in jurisdictional raiding, organizing efforts, and power politics which bode ill for labor peace and war-time production...

...OCD Publikes Booklet "Wkai...

...For the Republican Party to permit its most flagrant betrayer is to court defeat all down the line and that is undoubtedly the purpose the skunk has in mind...

...Last week's story should be reread in the light of this note...

...What is important now is the .continuance aad expansion of the New Deal agricultural policies which have achieved these results...

...The Tolan plan envisions the subordination of most of the vital war agencies to its supreme Office of War Mobilization...

...the Republic by Electing Sound Congressmen in 1942...

...I Do...

...There is nothing more certain than that the Allies would not plan to dismember a German state so ideal for future peace and now we would frankly ask you what you think of such an "out" if you were a German worker or peasant farmer at this moment...

...He has treated the citizens as responsible persons...

...One obvious advantage would be the termination of competition for materials end finished products among rival government agencies...

...But then the mob broke into the jail, took the boy out and murdered him...

...Fewer citizens qualified themselves to vote on November 3rd than at any time in the past.six or eight years...

...TELLS THE TRUTH ALL of our enemies and allies have had years of practical experience in war...

...One of these boy's had been tried and convicted...

...Former Congressman Jacob Thor-kelson, Leon de Aryan, editor of 'The Broom," and Gerald B. Winrod, announced their candidacies for Congress . Gerald L. K. Smith published the first number of ^'The .Cross and the Flag" in April, 1942, with the blessing of Senators .Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina...

...The committee is convinced "that the people of this country want clear and simple direction* which they are prepared to follow voluntarily " That remains to be seen...

...CINCE then all the opponents of what we call the American Way of Life have concentrated upon 'the elections of 1942...

...After a regular trial, he had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment...

...zation as supreme authority for directing war economy, military and civil...

...Increasing the production of American agriculture depends upon the millions of family-size farms...

...Only a minority of American farmers hire enough labor to make wages an important element in their production costs...

...But we shall not be ready for any sort of attempt to solve the basic manpower problems until some such authority as that here outlined has been set up and given all the power which it needs...

...I believe the U. S. government would instantly agree to such a statement of principle and that the British government would, be as willing...

...The Negroes area* oa trial The State of Mississippi i...

...There was an attempt made in last week's story to be analytical and objective...

...Cicero, Illinois...

...The Hot Springs (New Mexico) "Herald," April 23, 1942, said of him, "now the dirty scoundrel is attempting to dominate the party that he betrayed...

...The Michigan, primary resulted in defeat for Gerald Smith, although the strength of the pro-Fascist forces in that state is indicated by the vote...

...It is obvious that the victors, having totally disarmed Germany, would have^to agree to protect her frontiers, by armed force, if necessary, since any petty neighbor nation might invade a disarmed Germany unless prevented by the knowledge of resistance by the victorious democracies, England, America and Russia...

...German armies in Russia and the occupied countries would be permitted to retire and even retain their arms to be surrendered in Germany and there would be no need of the horrors attendant upon Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...

...This year there is no stich awareness...

...And so the fight continues with tne American Fascists ever conscious of their objective...

...Stalin...

...We have had ten months...

...Thanks for your relentless exposure of American pro-fascists: Father Coughlin, Winrod, Fi**, Hoffman, etc., etc...

...It is unfortunate that some of the phraseology was misinterpreted...

...Justice to Negroes is now more than ever a common responsibility of these states...

...A federal grand jury in Washington called for questioning a number of prominent pro-Nazi propagandists, among them Elizabeth Dilling, Charles B. Hudson, David Baxter, E. J. Garner, the Rev...

...Gceene Explains Lewis Story From T. R. GREENE To tk* Editor: A surprising number of complaints have been received by the editorial department, protesting that in my story of last week I glorified John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers...

...Elizabeth Dilling chimed in with the slogan "Regain...

...Still they ask, what ???» they can do to help...

...Winrod and the other Fundamentalist .Christians are becoming a symbol—representing Christ's cause, pitted against agencies of evil with roots in faraway Moscow...

...No military occupation would be necessary, except for 'civilian treaty commissioners who would act as economic analysts and auditors of Germany's post-war activities and to insure that treaty terms would be lived up to...

...An Office of Manpower would control both the military draft and mobilization for manufacture, agriculture and mining...

...But what about Russia...

...It is vital that the voice of as honest journal such ae yours be kept alive during this crisis in the history of our country...

...No word—even—of defending the majesty of the law, of clearing the skirts of his own administration...

...So far as he is concerned, there is no longer any such thing as honor in the South...

...We have been loudly told that the way to fill the national bread-basket is to boost prices and so enable farmers to pay higher wages to their employees...

...They must perform in all climates, at all altitudes, based on land and on carriers...

...Less than 20% of registered voters voted at the recent primaries throughout the country...

...The governor, the prosecuting attorneys and the courts of that commonwealth must act in self-defense...

...If Germany fought on to the end and then lost the result would be the same as to what would be done to her by the victors...

...Its obvious purpose would be to represent the men and women whose observance of the policies laid down would give effect to the whole process envisaged...

...They know, also, that the confusion in the minds of millions of those still at home has clouded the meaning of the present election...

...MEN AND PROfttJCTtON ?T is pleasant for a change, to give Caserne* * a great big hand...

...Nothing could be worse than the notion that our boys are being sent into dangerous skies in ill-equipped fighting planes...

...The morale of colored citizens is an important (element in our national fighting and working strength...

...mighty significant, and if the citizens of the United States do not wake up, 1942 may Well prove to be Fascism's "golden year...

...The public is taken into the confidence of military and naval authorities and brought up-to-date on which types have proved satisfactory, which have been improved on, and which have been discarded...

...They know that there are millions of voters too busy fighting or producing in strange localities to be able to vote...

...The quotation marks are deliberate, because every report from all parts of the country indicates a lethargy on the part of the voters unparalleled in recent times...

...It is on this account that Monday's report on the performance of our planes is of the utmost importance...

...COLONEL LYNCH RIDES AGAIN...

...In a quarrel he had killed a man...

...A PRIL and May, 1942, marked the denial of second-class mailing privileges to some of the more flagrantly pro-Nazi and Fascist publications, including "Social Justice," the "Galilean," "X-Ray," "Publicity" and "Money...

...Please renew my subscription to your straightforward publication at once...

...Thorkelson and incumbent Congressman Martin L. Sweeney were eliminated in the primaries...

...Once clear rules are drawn up and the people have faith in the directives issued, we can depend upon voluntary compliance for effective results...

...There will be such interferences on the part of the federal government as they have not known since reconstruction days...

...I would reeeea-mend focusing the spotlight ea ?» coming elections in Illinois, wtath the isolationist Wayland C? Brooks, is emitting an awfaf stench, along with his runniflg mate, Stephen A. Day, the obaeej oue little playmate of the Naff agent Viereck...

...If the delinquencies of the State Jnf Mississippi cut into this morale, the* federal government moat step in...

...Nothing is more certain than that any idea of reparations would be entirely out of the question, as this would entail the enslavement of many future generations of innocent persons and such a prospect would only compel Germans to fight on to the end...

...On the one hand,' Edward Rickenbacker told us that our machines were among the best...

...Nothing was further from this writer's intentions...

...We must have more of everything— wheat, meat, vegetables, milk...

...A common enough tale...

...initiative, it will be possible once more for Congress to reassert itself and to assume once more its proper place in our national scheme of got...

...He is to be congratulated...

...The report was an accurate account of Lewis' plans and his determination to counter his political and trade union enemies who are still attempting to dftl* acterize him as an isolationist asa friend of the Nazis...

...Candidates find it difficult to arouse enthusiasm and even loyal party workers do not' respond with eagerness and energy...

...No one with any sense would ever again believe anything he would say or trust him under any circumstance...

...T. Swann Harding on page 4 of this issue of The New Leader...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Proposes Post-War Total Disarmament of Reich From WALTER R. CARTER To the Editor: Although every intelligent person knows that the Allied Nations cannot withdraw from the war without suffering the fate of Poland, Czechoslovakia or Greece, yet few people realize today that Germany can withdraw without any form of punishment 6r retribution by a negotiated peace agreed upon by the Allies...

...Last week The New Lastke said: "We must have a supreme ??????* with authority over both military draft aim labor on farm and in factory...

...Another disadvantage still remains...

...The results of actual fighting experience are told in detail...

...The Federal Bureau of Investigation has gone into action...

...His crime was a comparatively ordinary one...

...In the face of this crucial situation, the Governor, Paul B. Johnson, sets up a feeble cry against "subversive elements...

...Talk of reviving the federal anti-lynching bill has become insistent in Washington...

...what would you say ? Would you be willing to relinquish Russians share of Poland to the Polish people and to withdraw from the Baltic States and every other territorial gain you have made since this war began if you could so suddenly end it...

...Winrod urges his followers to buy it, commenting: "This book spreads before the public, the plain truth—not only regarding the indictment, but also the schemes used for seeking to ruin a large number of Senators and Representatives...

...In his May issue, Smith announced that he was running for the Michigan senatorial nomination, because "We face the danger of a one-party government in the United States...

...of November 3rd, 1942, al clear to the ringleaders of Amer-They have had their eyes on the after the first of November, 1942, 'for some time...

...Cursory investigations were made, and, of course, no one knew who did it...

...or with his daughter's role in the America First Committee...

...EDITORIAL COMMENT O.W.I...

...But things are not developing like they expect...

...Under these circumstances, it is natural that reports on performance drove the public into a state of complete confusion...

...The fact that a promise is now made that miners will be released from military ^ to resume places In industry from which they were torn by local draft boards is a measure of the confusion into which we have run with our eyes wide open...

...No attempt to find the criminals and bring them to justice...

...We must design and construct planes for all parts of the world...