Nazis Slaughter 2 Million Jews in Europe in Exterminartoh Drive
Nazis Slaughter 2 Million Jews in Europe in Exterminartoh Drive FDft Promises Aid to Halt Massacres WASHINGTON, D. C—President Roosevelt this week assured representatives of leading Jewish...
...In times of social crisis and catastrophe larger numbers of people turn to the spiritual and supernstural, in the deeply religious —and the deeply charlatan sense...
...And of the 186,000 deported to the prison camps at Transnistria, some 75,-000...
...Voliva died, but bis fears go marching on...
...The station has just started* a campaign against "favoritism and corruption at Nazi' headquarters," Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL UENRY LUCE'S Fortune has entered the lists * * in the debate on the "mbsed economy''—or the mixed-up economy, as C. Wright Mills puts it—in its current December issue...
...Said McNutt: "Were the employment practices of many railroads to be applied to American industry as a whole, millions of American Negroes, instead of turning out ships, planes and guns would be immobilized for the duration of the war...
...Asher depends on reprinting, editorials from the "Chicago Tribune" for his anti-British, anti-New Deal attacks...
...The radio station is still a mystery to broadcasting circles...
...Cramer said the Army and Navy bad been asked to help in the enforcement of the order...
...On November 18th, from Omaha, Charlie Hudson sent out another of his scurrilous bulletins...
...Pattern of Politics JhTEXT to tbe Darlan deal, tbe most puzzling * v. problem in international politics is the situation in Spain...
...The places of tbe Riga Jews in the old Ghetto were taken by German Jews, deported from Berlin Dusseldorf, Cologne, etc...
...Instead cf going to governmental fountains for advice, thousands of the populace have taken to consulting fortune-tellew...
...The newsletter says that Franco has sent his ablest military man, General Juan Yague y Blanco, to Spanish Morocco...
...Hungary recently concluded a non-aggression pact with- Bulgaria, guaranteeing her...
...General Luiz Oraz, Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco, appointed in May 1941, is reported to be pro-Nazi, while Ceuta and Mel villa are reported as bases from which the Nazis are spying on Gibraltar and United Nations shipping...
...Whole provinces are completely without Jews...
...Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria have long been embroiled in quarrels over territory taken from Hungary by tbe Treaty of Trianon...
...Heinz Guderian, the army's chief tank expert, and Field Marshal Erwin von Witxleben, who formerly held a chief command on the western front...
...Of the 340,000 Jews more than 65,000 have already been deported...
...Schmitz and Col...
...Adolf Strauss, Col...
...to wait anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour...
...Adolph Held, president of the Jewish Labor Committee...
...Netherlands...
...He attacked "decadent liberalism," attacked the democracies, and said that a new era in the world had begun succeeding the liberal era of the French Revolution...
...Belgium...
...Lyndoe in The People, Naylor in the Sunday Express, Old Moore and Nostradamus II in the Sunday Dispatch, Petulengo in the ¦Sims'Of Chronicle, Adrienne Arden in the News of World are the leaders of their craft With others they make Sunday a day when millions of readers find relief from the harshness and difficulties of the world, with doses of self-confident optimism, p In the Pelican book, Britain by Moos Observation, an excellent survey of social attitudes, published in 1939, author Harrisson writes in a chapter entitled...
...The freezing of German assets put an end to that...
...Of, the 78,000 Jews, all of the ages of 18-45 have been drafted-for slave labor...
...1941, the 16,000 persons in the old Ghetto were led into the woods, stripped of their valuables, including their clothes, and then machine-gunned- This action left 4,000 slave laborers in-the small Ghetto of Riga and several hundred women...
...27 war contractors have been indicted for defrauding the government Cases involving more than 100 defendants have been presented to grand juries...
...Crowded into what are termed "caravans of death," strewn with chloride of lime, sealed, 80% of the victims die of suffocation or starvation...
...Henry Monsky...
...southern border...
...The prosecution of twenty-seven key German Bund leaders eliminated the central banking agents...
...Sixty thousand of the 180,000 Jews have already been deported...
...W eye-witness accounts receierfjy Jewish agencies in free eoemljjji <d> first-hand reports appear** in the underground pnsss...
...Although the grinding process of extermination has never abated, it was pointed out that the process of mass extermination has not followed a uniform course, and there are clear-cut indications that the Nazi regime has sometimes retreated in the face of energetic and clear-cut warnings on the part of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill...
...1942...
...In the three years before the war, hundreds of pro-Nazis purchased these Marks on the promise of their usefulness in post-war victorious Germany...
...In June of 1942, not a single trace was left of these German-Jewish deportees...
...Israel Goldstein, president of the Synagogue Council of America, and Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, chairman of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States...
...Lores* "Peace" Rumor OTOCKHOLM circles report rumors in the gomiftoh capital which bare Hermann Goering as appi sariiing tbe aged* Bag Pastev to saeeteav granted by the King to tbe Bm nfsji Nazi loader Svea Oas/ Lindbobn...
...Dilling...
...Subsequently, all Jews between the ages of 18-60 were segregated in a special Ghetto and the remainder sent to camps...
...U. S. to Crock Down on Union Contracts Excluding Negroes Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. 0,—Trade unions which discriminate against Negro workers may face government crackdown, a test case showed this week...
...0) "War profiteers are as much a threat to internal security on the economic front as spies and saboteurs are on the military," Biddle reported...
...Bund Had 20 Million Dollar Propaganda Fund, Report Shows Reports on the Federal campaign against spies, saboteurs, alien enemies and foreign agents were submitted this week by Attorney General Francis Biddle and United States Attorney Mathias Correa...
...A week later, in December...
...Renegade *THE campaign for the expulsion of the Jetei from Nazi-occupied territories is now being taken up in Belgium, where the drive has heal opened by the renegade Henri do Man...
...One round of stories has it that Franco has secretly been swung to the Allied side and is rendering aid to United Nations operation...
...problem is brought to mind by a report on the situation in Washington by George Dixon of the Times-Herald...
...Under the heading of "Thanksgiving" he says: "Those who may have been afraid of the Talmudist Gestapo, should have courage...
...naye' perished...
...Such a move was foreshadowed this week in a speech by Manpower Cxar Paul McNutt while speaking to a group of railroad executives meeting in New York...
...Highlights of the surveys of the Department of Justice's annual record included: • Some $20,000,000 was made available in this country for Nazi propaganda and subversive activities through the purchase by Germans in this country of Rueck-wanderer Marks, a kind of Nazi war bond scheme...
...Astrology aad Politics TTHE obituary page recorded the death of Wil* bur Voliva of Zion City recently, the man who believed that the world was fiat and who once gathered his flock to the mountains one depression year after predicting new floods and the end of the world...
...The major issue, the land of Transylvania, may become the occasion tor aa explosion into war between Hungary and Rumania...
...3, yet it seems to be op everyone's lips—provipg 'control' over press and radio—: 'My vote against FDR-blessed candidates was a protest against the Jewish Nudeal...
...Government was something to be utilized, yet kept away from the real loci of power — business...
...Austria...
...This action is known to have produced strong political repercussions in Italy and-throughout occupied Europe...
...Yugoslavia where some 100,000 Jews lived, 400 escaped to Italy and the remainder were deported, killed or imprisoned in labor camps...
...c) special gas chambers...
...The total number of Jews under German-domination in Poland, after deduction of some 5,000,000 refugees in Russia, therefore, should have approximated 2,800,000...
...It is obvious," the letter to Mr...
...Following this is a long editorial lauding Clare B. Hoffman and it is,entitled, "More Clare Hoffmans Neeo>d> "The X-Ray" continues, on its anti-Semitic way merrily by printing vicious anti-Jewish "humorous" tales...
...3. Through cremation of Jews in the crematoriums near Cases* or burning alive in buildings sit afire...
...Ernst Busch, Col...
...Round-up Fascist Papers S$ft Circulate By WALTER K. LEWIS Despite the fact that they are indicted by tile Washington Grand Jury along with 28 others on charges of sedition, Pro-fascist publishers Charles B. Hudson, Mrs...
...The port of Ceuta can control the Straits of Gibraltar as effectively as the British fortress...
...Albert Dilling, her husband, who reconciled, with her on the track of a hotly contested divorce action, is assisting Mrs...
...Laissez-faire meant not so much competition between business, as actually that government should keep hand-off business, that there be no government in business...
...Official figures show that there were 934,100 German, Italian, and Japanese aliens living in the United States when war broke out...
...The war stress and emotional upsets has...
...Eight thousand were kiHed in one night...
...Historically, capitalism has been suspicious of "the State...
...An analysis issued by the Labor Division of Citizens for Victory warns on events in Spain...
...France...
...Biddle said, "that the several hundred-thousand refugees from Germany are loyal to the democratic cause...
...Of the 80,000 in the protectorate 15.000 Jews remain...
...neologies Moke Sfroege Bedfellows "THIS is taken from a Washington newspaper * of December 3rd: "Senator Gerald P. Nye (R...
...Nazis Slaughter 2 Million Jews in Europe in Exterminartoh Drive FDft Promises Aid to Halt Massacres WASHINGTON, D. C—President Roosevelt this week assured representatives of leading Jewish groups thst the perpetrators of the crimes against the Jews would °* brought to strict ax$oontabus*dexa$ioni%> the c^rgahtenrfc at an American commission to examine, evidence of Nasi barbarities...
...An lefereorioeoJ Blanker "THOMAS H. McKITTRICK undoubtedly is a * name that is not known to most people, yet McKittrick is one of the most interesting men in, the world...
...Hitler Purged 34 Generals, Radio Reports Thirty-four field marshals and generals of the German army have been dismissed in the last three months, according to secret German radio station Gustaf Siegried Eins, listening posts here report Among those dismissed, the station said, are Field Marshal Fedor von Bock and Field Marshal Bitter von Lieb, formerly among the chief commanders on the Russian front...
...The order followed oral directions given to George Googe, Southern representative of the AFL, after a hearing in Birmingham last June, to admit the Negro union as a co-signer...
...After the Pope, the King of flow dm has been considered the most suitable international figure to play the part of a peacemaker...
...Not more than 270,-000 Jews are left of the 900,000 who lived in Rumania- proper in 1939...
...ACLU Ask End of Enemy Alien Policy On the score of "enemy aliens," an appeal has been lodged by the American Civil Liberties Union for an extension to other, "friend* ly enemy alien groups" of the new Biddle policy which exempted Italian nationals from wartime restrictions...
...Of the 90.000 Slovak-ian Jews, 70.000 have already been deported and the remainder are expected to follow soon...
...Hudson then reprints portions of a letter sent to President Roose-vjtfe**B*> George E. Sullivan of Weak leg stm, D. C. '*0*»h** Aeher, whose Second Claao .mailing privilege has not been suspended despite the fact that he has been indicted, in his Thpsnilisi 6th issue of "The X-Ray" published in Muncie, Indiana, asks this question editori-sft0B,e*O» the back of my 'A' gas rgtfan ticket rt asks: Is this trip necessary?' This makes me wonder, if Mrs...
...M Poland and other occupied lsas» and (e) corroborative evidonot received by the GoverarooahWa* ExSe through their undetgrwms channels...
...The issue was raised when the committee ordered the American Federation of Labor and the Mc-Avoy shipbuilding company of Georgia to permit the Savannah Negro local of the AFL Carpenters Union to become a party to the closed shop agreement between the company and the white local...
...given the business a tremendous boost hereabouts...
...b) carbon monoxide from army trucks...
...That's the lowest on record, except for January immediately after Pearl Harher...
...Nye delighted his audience of Anglophiles when he acclaimed Winston Churchill as a fellow nationalist and commended the British prime minister's recent declaration that Britain intends to keep her empire...
...Some $15,000,000 from royalties on special guns, according to the Anti-Trust Division, found its way through- devious corporate channels in neutral countries to ' German patent holders in the Third Reich...
...In view of the exceptional behavior of Italian aliens—less than one-half of 1 per cent of whom have had to be interned—the Attorney General on Oct...
...Perhaps it is some atavistic animism or other, but both here and in England clairvoyance and, quackery have flourished during the war...
...Dilling is making a cross-the-country tour of Mother's clubs on a fund-raising basis...
...president of the B'nai B'rith...
...Astrology and tbe British Ass: "From the horoscope data of the 1938 press it is possible to construct a whole ethic of contemporary England, and through those columns much editorial policy is promoted as advice for your future...
...Cramer said these directions had not been observed up to Nov...
...Ho intimated that this country would be much better off if we had more nationalists with Churchill's sound patriotism and solid realism and less quixotic talk about fighting this war to establish the Four Feedorrrs throughout the world, to give everybody a quart of milk a day and to put an end to imperialism...
...A notice in an early November issue announces...
...The pea* of Herman Baeke was based on economic reasons in order to ease in part the difficult food situation by the annihilation of at least four million persons who would otherwise have to be fed...
...The second memorandum set forth in detail how almost two million Jews have been done to death through mass murders, planned starvation, deportation, slave labor, epidemics in disease-ridden ghettos, penal labor colonies and slave reservations...
...Was it really necessary that she visit with the 'royal highnessess' of England...
...The talk of Franco aiding the Allies is part of the analysis which projects a long-range Vatican plan tor a south European bloc at favorable' nations...
...The Division has compiled an exhaustive file on the ramifications of international corporate structures.' It has also made it possible for a "great number of trade secrets and technical processes, many of which were known to our enemies but were not available to our own industrialists" to be thrown open to American arsenals and manufacturers through the breaking up of "international cartels and illegal patent pools...
...The delegation, the first of Us kind received in audience by the President since the outbreak of the war, presented to him two memoranda The first set forth the hopes of the Jews of the world that the President as "the symbol of humanity's will to fight for freedom" "would speak and act now in behalf of the Jews of Europe, and pointed out that unless action is taken immediately to save them, "the Jews of Hitler Europe are doomed...
...and how the five million Jews who may still be alive in Nazi-occupied Europe are thratened with total extermination under the terms of a new Hitler edict These memoranda were signed in behalf of their organizations by Maurice Wertheim, president of the American Jewish Committee...
...about 40 per cent of the people, mainly women, have some belief in astrological prediction...
...McNutt with one of his major headaches in the months to come...
...Meanwhile, the Department "of Labor released an analysis of strikes during the entire defense program—from the.start in Jane, 1940, to...
...Detailing the ways by whieh the mass extermination of the Jewish population in Europe is being accomplished, the memoranda point out that the following methods are employed: 1. The method of mass deportations...
...One of the versions of Old Moore's Almanack sells over 3,000,000 copies a year...
...In a sense, what Fortune is proposing is an institutional merger of business and government...
...One was the disclosure by the National War Labor'Board that organized labor has observed its "no^etrihe" pledge almost to "perfection," During October, the board said, man-day losses from stoppages in war .production fell to one-twentieth of 1 per cent—or the equivalent .of about one day's idleness for each eight years worked...
...In England however, Mass Observation, an experiment directed by Tom Harrison, reported after extensive investigation that no less than nearly two-thisds of the adult population takes some interest in astrological prediction...
...The Tory die-hards, however, will still roar at "government in business...
...is president of the Bank of International Settlement where , amidst war and strife he sits perched high above - the battle, transacting limited business with all warring nations...
...Police admitted yesterday that the situation is showing symptoms of getting out of hand, Apart from scattered reportorial observation there is little systematic evidence on the widespread nature of this phenomenon...
...One theory holds the radio station to be operated by Goeb-bels in his"inner circle intrigues...
...Lithuania...
...Stephen S. Wise presented the memoranda to the President in behalf of the delegation which included Mr...
...Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress...
...The business of peering into the i>eyond, however, has now assumed proportions never known hereabouts before...
...Others reported dismissed are Col...
...Readers of The New Leader who have followed some, slants of the debate in the discussions by John Cbamte«a>ow afeenL ^ The Fortune editors present a digest of modern John Maynard Keynes, and advance the notion— also presented by A. PL texner in T,k* How tpojkf two weeks' ago—that «u| employment is possible in our economic system if we have tbe will to- guide our future...
...This quiet Boston banker, formerly a partner in Lee, Higginson & Co...
...Picture Post, a London illustrated magazine, reports that the newspaper astrologer in some Sunday newspapers wields far wider influence than the leading article...
...Hubert Weise of the air force...
...It is pro-Hitler and pro-army, yet-it derides the Nazi chief s who have sought to dominate the army, especially Heinrich Himm-ler...
...Leon de Aryan's "The Broom" has thoroughly swept out its rabidly anti-Semitic...
...Hitter's sUNiwiaaHaa Order The Hitler order calling for the extermination of the lews by December...
...12 ordered their removal from the category of alien enemies...
...Bohemia and Moravia...
...Latvia, In Latvia, where 100.-000 Jwwa formerly lived, all Jews were segregated in Ghettos, In the City of Riga, where formally 32,000 Jews lived, 15,000 were immediately registered for slave labor...
...another theory has it as an underground or outside-operated station run by anti-Nans but cleverly purporting' to speak for the army in an effort to divide the various groups...
...2. Through extermination centers—where the method employed is asphyxiation either through (s) the fumes of sulphur mines...
...Among the documents one assembled through the facilities of the State Department summarized the situation in each country: Germany...
...Like the "Broom" it too has become rather quiet...
...Poland: Of the 3.300,000 Jews living at the beginning, of the war, there were left following the German invasion 1,300,000 in the General Government and 700,000 in the Polish towns annexed by Germany, the remainder having fled or...
...Of 7(3,000 Jews at the outbreak of the war, no more than 12,000 to 15,000 remain...
...Fortune proposes that "the Government underwrite the whole economy, using fiscal controls, public works and a broader Social-Security program, so that everyone who wants and is able to work may have a reasonable chance at a job...
...Lawrence Cramer, secretary of the War Manpower Commission's fair employment practices committee, said that the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission would seek to stop unions from barring men oh the job for color reasons...
...It is no "exaggeration to say that holiday travel, city investments, the success of advertisers, rumors of war can he more powerfully influenced by the paper's astrologer than its leader writer or news editor...
...was issued in the late Summer, following the presentation of the plan by Herman Backs, Secretary of State fox- Boon—ica...
...It is reported that only 5,000 Jews remain in Brussels, and 300 in Antwerp, of the 85,000 who resided in Belgium at the beginning of the war in 1940...
...Uncle Sam, through *^ the army and navy, will haw* acquired for army camps, newal bases, air fields and other military purposes, more than 30,000,000 acres of land, equalling the entire area of the Now England states, a government report reveals...
...At the beginning of the summer, 1942, there were still in Poland only 2,206,000, six hundred thousand having perished, but in the meantime large scale evacuations and massacres took place so that, for instance, tbe Ghetto of Wax-saw, with a peak population of 550,000 (early 1941) harbors today less than 60,000...
...Rumania...
...In press nor over radio have I heard mentioned the 'real' answer to the Republican landslide of Nov...
...the outbreak of war on December 7, 1941—and disclosed that losses due to work stoppages wene far...
...It is not likely that the roads and the unions will act voluntarily—which may provide Mr...
...Linde-mann, Col...
...The growing manpower need in all likelihood will be strong pressure to force some break in the discrimination...
...Uncle Sam's Estate DEFORE thg war is over...
...Wertheim, Mr...
...The memoranda pomtodj eat that "confirmation of the *aMf ence of this program of 4bW mination is offered in (a) dejf*" tions made to repusenta?jpj?# the United States Govenuasot abroad and transmitted thsoofb the State Department to AffSt ican Jewish agencies, (b) oflDfl German admissions ss well a» confident;.-1 G.rman reports...
...Bulgaria, where 50,000 Jews have lived, 8,600 of them are already engaged in slave labor and the remainder threatened with deportation and forced labor...
...Slovakia...
...Elizabeth Dilling, Court Asher, Gerald B. Win rod and Leon de Aryan are still very, much oa the loose via public meetings, and their own private publications circulate freely through the mails...
...Monsky and Rabbi Rosenberg...
...The remainder have bean deported- to Eastern Europe...
...It is expected that be will return to Switzerland in a few months...
...Roosevelt had one of those stickers on the windshield of the plane whieh carried her to England and back...
...less than pictured either in official figures or in the propaganda^ labor-haters...
...They say his official declarations are "blinds...
...one of the most irreconciliable pre-war non-interventionists iu tbe United States, was guest speaker last night at a meeting of the English Speaking Union, one of the foremost pre-war interventionist organizations in the country...
...11, when tbe hearing, findings were drafted...
...0 Almost 4,000 alien enemies have been interned, including a Gestapo agent an Italian prince (whose brother was head of the Italian intelligence in the Western Hemisphere), a Hungarian prince closely associated with Captain Fritz Weidemann (former German Consul General in San Francisco), a leading Nazi Storm Trooper here to foment discontent in association with George Sylvester Viereck who succeeded in purchasing millions of gallons of gasoline for the Nazi high command before the rupture...
...Tronsy/voflio Poker 117AR behind Hitler's fronts this winter is a possibility, according to the usual crop of reliable rumors from abroad...
...Such practices, he warned, must go...
...4. Through the injection df sbr bubbles into the veins of vieJIMk 5. Through machine-gunning...
...Mrs...
...Of 200,000 Jews at the outbreak of the war in 1939, mass deportations, suicides and starvation have reduced their number to 40,000...
...Now, with increasing government controls becoming necessary under ceonomic complexities, one section of industrialist thinking proposes a merger...
...The biggest discrimination not to crack is in the railroads, where Negroes are restricted to steward and porter work...
...Franz Haider, former chief of staff of the high command...
...Reports have it that the Jews of Lithuania numbering some 150,000 at the outbreak of the war suffered the same fate as_the Latvian Jews...
...anti-Democratic articles...
...remained in the territories occupied by Russia, which were later reoccupied by Germany...
...Labor Kept Pledge Gov't Report Shows WASHINGTON, D. C—Official government reports this week gave the lie to anti-labor propagandists regarding strikes...
...Held, Mr...
...Yet Drew Pearson, in his December 7th column says, "Dictator Franco is getting material U. S. help on the Q. T. . . . Warren Lee Piersen, head of the Export-Import Bank, returned from Spain with word that the Spanish Army is strongly behind the U.S., would oppose Hitler...
...We have no doubt that public opinion would approve your further action in this respect, and that it would greatly aid the morale of the democratic forces not only here but throughout the world...
...Greece...
...Fortune outlines a tri-part program of aid to private business, security for the individual, and s flexible public works program...
...that de Aryan's son has taken over Gerald B. Winrod's "The Defender"' has gone underneath its Fundamentalist cloak and has stood there without barking against the administration dr the Jews...
...In a speech this week General Franco left little doubt oratorically where he stands...
...These assurances were given after he had received a delegation who presented to him a plea for action by the United States, in concert with the United Nations, to save the Jewg of Europe from extermination by the Nazis...
...McKittrick arrived here last week...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 50
