Nazi Charge Brings Polish-Soviet Rift; Spanish 'Peace' Offer Seen as Fake
DECKER, GEORGE
Nazi Charge Brings Polish-Soviet Rift; Spanish 'Peace' Offer Seen as Fake Inside Story On Plot to Split France By GEORGE DECKER The Hitler government has accused the Soviets of having murdered...
...We are still somewhat dumbfounded by the sudden conversion to patriotism of the Communist Party here which took place by a "strange coincidence" immediately after Hitler invaded Russia...
...Shigemitsu was ambassador to Russia, before going on to London, and is well acquainted with Premier Joseph Stalin, Foreign Commissar Molotov and other Soviet officials...
...defeatists and pro-Nmd, and as having JB tained relations with Vichy ambassador Kenr* Mm] V ncrr...
...Meanwhile, in Italy and Germany, a reactionary trend carried Fascism and Nazism into power...
...Til* fact remains, nevertheless, that up to now the fate of several thousand Polish officers has not been revealed...
...M. L. Polin, manager of the Chicago Forward, and others...
...formerly a Communist, participated in the Cased* coup in the dying days of the Spanish republic which replaced the Negrin government State CIO, More Unions Rap Erlich Murder Despite vigorous and noisy attempts by Communist forces, important sections of the Amearan labor movement are putting themselves on record as condemning the .....jssVii i of-'ssrlich and Alter, the leaders of the Polish labor and Jewish moveme»t JLejSt week, the New York State CIO, i a) i leMtang More than a million mipiiiri, voted overwhelmingly by more than 2 to 1 -"isCa35r*W,«WySo CoemaaL ether tenor bodies that con-domed the killttgs were the executive board of the United Auto Wuftiii...
...Japan will seek to sell Russia the idea that if Nippon is destroyed the United States will have full sway in the Orient and would come into conflict with the Soviets...
...Now a young Burmese author, Thien Pe, has published a hook, Wke-t Happened in Bum...
...freedom and fair play— that will assure . an tnduring peace...
...Whoa Japan attacked Burma, the tatt^mmvm Army fought with the — Continues Time: "Author Thine Pa's belief is that Allied amies never eon do well without help from taw^Buiwesi Ami said be: If Britain hopes to gain the acttee support of the* Burmese, ahe must capture their imagination.' " Time Goes By •THUMBING, through Time magazine is an ex * P iris* as m mingled emotions...
...On the one side are the Professors, and (snide implications are clear), who are dobs and dreamers, on the other side is Lou Maxon, the practical man with "hoss sense...
...She knows "that such revelations are used by the Axis to inflame the .people of Europe in a moment when invasion may be imminent" Miss Thompson is right, hot she .misses an important point The benefit of such "revela-" tions" will not go exclusively to Axis propaganda...
...With the certainty of eventual military victory now apparent, a growing concern is being msail feited by Americans of all groups ss to the winning of the peace...
...Lehman's office sent the first agricultural expert to North Africa—via slow convoy...
...All of this is very far from a Spanish offer of "her services for the immediate restoration of-world peace...
...They denounce M. Diethelme...
...The one that gets a foothold there stands a good chance of stepping into Europe with lap...
...Recently Andre Marty, the French Com...
...That is why tt i* tT«s> fying to mo on this ocessamflr only to congratulate thia P»sw cation on Hp twentieth sjnjJP aery bat to bespeak 3«t-*f*& friends associated with The Leader many mops year* " saietsi in ear common toss...
...Samuel Laderman, secretary-treasurer of the International Ladies Handbag, Luggage and Novelty Workers...
...Japanese saboteur* stalled old jalopies across the road to Pearl Harbor, blocking traffic,, etc.' Blake Clark investigated carefully, pestered officials and censors, and says that these stories ass , simply not true...
...The rest of the story is of such recent date that I do not propose to review it in detail here...
...Diego Martinez Barrio is the ex-President of the Cortes and a right-winger while General Miaja...
...The window-dressing of many of these'organizations wast so attractive that it became almost impossible to tell what was going on behind the scenes...
...We know how the Communist edifice in this country collapsed with the signing of the Hither-Stalin pact We recall the desperate twistings and turnings of the party line...
...Ba Maw, a%rmer Premier mlpsteepod^^ .^Simp^British administrators 4*4 sa*j*sf effective to offset these preparations...
...They fear, such poet-war upheavals will he contagious...
...Sometime ago, before the North African invasion, Louis Levy, one of the French Socialist leaden, writing in the London Left -Voce denounced several men high in the de Gaulle entourage as having important links with Trench capitalist interests who were playing both sides of the fence...
...It is to the everlasting credit of The New Leader that it refused to succumb to the ever-changing fashions of thought, that were tailored to fit the purposes of anti-democratic movements, but remained steadfastly faithful to its own social-democratic principles throughout its history...
...Recently the Jsures group has made public Us charges...
...The American Jewish Congress, headed by Stephen 3. Wise, speaks out against the Communists editorially, in the current issue of its magazine Congress Weekly...
...To thtt...
...They have launched s concerted campaign to des tray the power of the trade union movement and to limit its Sphere of influence in the poet-war world...
...Therefore the suggestion of the Polish government fa wholly comprehensible...
...Bet our enemies are not relaxing their pressure for an instant...
...We expect to hear as* more the cry for vengeance *ft to encounter once again W thrust for territorial aggrsndhw meat Such developments ura *>J» anticipated but not totcrsSp Forewarned sad forearmed, » wiU enter the peace couferssco resolved not to permit an bw national grab-bag nor u> eonsa> nance exploitation ef smsn tions b/ their own psne*J» neighbors...
...Then came "the Moscow Trials," and the executions, and in their wake the.ebbtide of disillusionment...
...The Polish government has ' stated that three large prisoner-of-war camps were established in the U.S.S.R...
...Russia would be told about U.S...
...I'lived in France for 14 months after -the Armistice, and I know what the name of de Gau"« signifies to great masses ort-'rench-men as a symbol of resistance, ¦afl wonder whether these great groups of Prenchmen would voluntarily recognize any Imposed government—even one coming under the aegis of a popular name...
...it is their lack of coherence, organization sod discipline . . . and the existence of parties is but the translation on the political level of the social realities.* • • • Marty Mates Overtvres IF the Socialist groups are suspicious of as Gaulle sad fearful of the Peyroute*s asd Nogues, the Communists have no such compunctions...
...in November, 1939, one of them at Kozielsk, to the east or" Smolensk...
...that OPA has become a front for the big packers...
...invasion...
...What is called the 'single party' is one of the dictator- 1 ship's means...
...Mr agencies are jockeying for jurisdiction vot> North Africa the plum, the Wall St JmWJff reports...
...ambitions, in an effort to keep her neutral in the war in the east That seems to be the pattern of Japanese politics...
...Organised labor is America » .determined to make its vox* heard at the peace tables for Oil furtherance of these ohjecti*s through our own represent*"** We are under no delusion* W the problems confronting us sw be simple of solution...
...Its latest, April 7 issue, remarks: ". . . The analysis we made in August, 1942, of the political declaration of de Gaulle, remains valid...
...who was appointed Minister of Interior in the Free Preach Committee, as a representative of the Cornite des Forges...
...While the General was conducting a military fight, they were with him...
...Stajwart in its resistance to the blandishments of Communism, militant in,its ceaseless campaign against Nazi sad Fascist terror and unrelenting in its opposition to isolationism which would have rendered America helpless against the enemies of' democracy, The Now Leader has served valiantly and faithfully in the cause of justice, freedom and decency...
...Among the beneficiaries will be certain hypocritical French politicians wle...
...It is in a totalitarian state that everything i, the saSae and homogeneous...
...It is not the existence of political parties which ha* weighed heavily for nearly half a century upon French public lize...
...The document is a ma ring in that it appeals in part to elements that form tee rem core of the Nasi war machine: an appeal to factory owners and capitalists to join forces vita, the Communists, to storm troop members to army officers...
...that Maxon's advertising agency has big food clients...
...end, they are devoting all their skill and energy to the production of the weapons of war...
...But Lea-man is handicapped by a low priority rating...
...U Saw "Was the Burmese nationalist leader who carried on negotiations -in London but was arrested on the easy back to the Orient as being J»S% BaSdOB in his Retreat With StilteeU has told seme of the inside story on the incredible short-sighted British policy in Burma and why the Burmese became an effective fifth-column for Japan...
...Pravda's editorial entitled "Hitler's Polish Partners," declared that the Polish request cannot be regarded as ctphr'than as direct and outright helb to Hitlerite provocateurs in concocting vile frauds...
...Our domestic nest-war program calk for jobs for all and social inminsftae for all...
...according to the current Usee of Time, which ¦»tf nm+Wl tylWmt asstos that Burma can hoi mill ssftog ftafeass: policy changes . Writes Time's correspondent reporting On the *sok: "Aft...
...the \*t»mi ******* fleers of the American Newspaper Guild (CIO), end the Sailors Union of the Pacific (A...
...Russia is fighting in the west and does not want to get involved in the east...
...Jap Cabinet Shift Seen...
...But Moscow chose another way...
...Speakers included Harry E. O'Reilly, speaking for the Chicago Federation of Laker...
...When The New Leader was established twenty years ago, it was confronted with a mounting tide of adulation for the Communist regime in Russia, then in its ascendancy...
...A labor-sponsored mass meeting in Chieago last week heard labor leaders of that city denounce the murders...
...Motivated by such dread, reactionary interests are firing s constant barrage of propaganda ageinst eegeosssed lobar...
...Likewise, the American people insistf...
...He also expressed the hope "that-serene and rational men of all countries will approve the intentions that inspire Spain to seek peace and prepare for it as soon as possible...
...This is said without any animosity against General de Gaulle...
...that victory in this war be followed by the establishment of an international order ¦steed on justiee...
...Reports from South America indicate that Spanish Loyalist groups will shortly convene the Republic Cortet to create a government-in-exile...
...TTHE question of "who will rule the food suapsj ** reconstruction" abroad is still being argued In Washington...
...They say: "But no democracies without parties...
...Morris Bialia, vice-president ILGWU...
...Says the Congrees Weekly: "The Communists in America have seised "upon the' Brhch- After case to...
...They have succeeded in soaktog America the arsenal of democracy-^-an arsenal that will inevitably crush ¦nd destroy the enemies of dent i-rasy...
...Restrictions of the war economy on the capitalists will be annulled, there will at constitutional guarantees for private property...
...We hold that the international tradition of the workers' movement must be guarded against any nationalistic contamination...
...Now, after the' German accusations, the Polish government has suggested an impartial investigation by a Red Cross commission...
...the Moody suppression by the . Btitieh of Burssssst ertraelirt >n>« tra-atebs in lft» andlfflk?, Japanese agents found little ¦ difficulty in organizing their own Burmese Notionalist Revolutionary Party...
...Two of the names mentioned in e dispatch are Diego Martinez Barrio end General Miaja...
...munist leader, nicknamed "the butcher" in Spain, issued a pamphlet in French calling for a "national front" in Prance that would reach frets the Communists to the extremist right Marty, who is now reported in London, has also sought to open negotiations with Girsud for Communist representation in the North African government...
...Opposed to them is the attitude of the Caaait* d'Action Jbcialispe (CAB) which esathnna underground the French Socialist Party...
...s.sa s*sia delanse alone, if for no other reasen, we must abandon forever s» policy of isolationism...
...Of course, the Communists here and abroad were quick to take advantage of this opportunity, Their representatives wormed their way into control over organizations designed" to combat Fascism...
...This is the answer of the fasces of reaction in our own country to the anticipated threat of revolutionary advances in Europe after the war is over...
...Pravda attacked the suggestion of the Polfsh government with extreme violence...
...According to the version of Pravda, the Polish prisoners were murdered by the Germans themselves in the $um*ier of 1941 after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the Smoler.sk area...
...While organized labor has been preoccupied with the immediate teak of winning the production battle, our enemies have at-,tempted to steal a march on us...
...American Jews will continue to give their full-hearted support to the Red Army and the Soviet people...
...However, Jordana's words, "at no distant date" and "as soon as possible" may have been used with a special purpose...
...In one of the latest speeches of General de Gaulle, speaking of what this war will have brought to France, he said: 'A purer and harder nation wiU emerge, a nation taking advice only of herself.' < "We do not think that the interests of the French people and of the peoples in the colonies under French tutelage can be defended during the war and after the war in the name of such narrow nationalism...
...Eari Browder were 'destroyers of Jewish unity1 and 'Jewish fascists,' "Mr...
...I know that A marks* labor ess count upon bV#J tinned support and the intalli*** constructive counsel ef The Leader...
...And, St the same time, they are carrying on a campaign for the adoption of anti-labor legiststion in the states which already has resulted in the adoption of restrictive laws in six or seven states...
...Among these are persons around de Gaulle who in-sinuste that a provisional French government is necessary to prevent the carrying oat of hvsisHoas "Anglo-Saxon" plane...
...John A. Lapp, chairman of the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee...
...And this is precisely the purpose which animates some of those who surround de Gaulle...
...This week the Los Angeles Central Trades and Labor Council voted almost unanimously to protest the deaths...
...P. of IV...
...But nowhere in its over-long story does Time mention the fact thgt the fight is over grade-labelling, a step which would permit consumers to know exactly what quality of goods they were getting...
...But this is ah" argument for rather than against the investigation...
...The threat of a protracted war would be held up to the United States as a peace feeler...
...French Socialists and de Gou/le 1JRENCH Socialist and Labor opinion towards * de Gaulle is in a turmoil...
...rmmm&m W.000 werhse...
...Te win the peace, we make certain that sggrssaiatW say nation and of any nsmw» hsnishsd once sad for nil inissw national relations...
...Til* Jockeying on Mfcadk Politics 'Roosevelt and Churchill are not —as is asserted by some—preparing for the "dismemberment" of France or of the French Empire...
...The speech of the Spanish Foreign Minister, Jordana, was interesting indeed, but Jordana did not propose to use the "good offices" of Spain for the promotion of peace...
...In the latest issue of Le Popwfaii i' to reach hare, toe Decemher-Janqary-nimdi ar, the French Socialist* condemn the moo...
...The imported provisional government would have to in»ose itself, and in that case it wool be a dictatorship which might prevent the re-establishment of French democracy...
...been shunted into the background by the aggressive army cliques...
...in fact the chief FBI agent in Hawaii told him: 'You can say without fear of contradiction that there has not been a single act of sabotage either before December 71% during the day of the attack or at any thee since.'" Who Will Rale Food Supply...
...AT this moment the first objective of the mom than, sik million members of the American Federation of Labor is to win the war in the shortest possible time...
...The record since Pearl Harbor an—as eloquently of the achievements of America's workers...
...The pattern of a "national front" was first worked out by the Communists in Germany .A supposed "secret conference" held in the Rhine-land, adopted a document (published by the German Communist magazine Freie* D+uUcUma) in Mexico) calls for a national front in Germany from Communists to Catholics to disgruntles Nazi groups...
...The impression is distinct that Stalin has pot out certain feelers towards some Nasi circles...
...kse* that selfish and conflict sg 'tasP ests will seek to frustrate o» purposes...
...For instance, these words may be quoted in the future to support the claim that Spain had proposed' peace and that the powers which had ign/>r^ her proposal are responsible for the consequences...
...European Emigres Demand Socialist Peace Delegations representing workers' groups in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, the Sudetenland and Sweden have met in Stockholm and issued a manifesto calling-lor a socialist democracy based on planned economy, according to an Associated Press dispatch from the Norwegian capital, received here . ' While the report carries a full account of the program, no names of the participants are mentioned nor are there any identifications regarding political groupings...
...A Hawaiian-Japanese fifth columnist cut a broad arrow in a cane field...
...They are trying to mako the American people forget the tremendous contributions made bp organised labor to the American way of life-Following up those propaganda assaults, die enemies of labor have caused to be introduced in the Congress and in the Legislatures of almost every state a flood of repressive legislation which would make it impossible for trade unions to function freely...
...The manifesto stated that intervention against such a tread would be contrary to the Atlantic charter...
...We pointed out then a nationalism which has been fortified since...
...Once more the headlines have provoked a short-lived sensation...
...It seems difficult to discover any well-founded objection to a genuinely impartial investigation—if, of course, such an investigation is technically possible...
...Ranfcis Pops Up Again FROM the Washington Timee-Hcrmld: "Representative John E. Rankin (D) of Mississippi, said yesterday that it was a 'grave and serious mistake' for this country to train Ra-waiin-born Japanese for military service, "Instead of training these Japanese who aided in the fifth-column work before the attack on Peas) Harbor, they should be put into labor battalions, Rankin said...
...Those of us who detected totalitarian tendencies in the structure of the Soviet Government were shouted down by eager admirers of the five-year plans who filled the self-styled liberal magazines with their adoring praise...
...Its far-flung staff, alive to the rhythms and pulse-beats of the "little pot significant things" of politics, such as the story on Thine Pe above, can scrape and find mScmH>*erit staff...
...with his political alms, revealed as a narrow nationalist dogma, they are in complete disagreement French Socialist attitude here is reflected in a statement by France Speak...
...Organized labor knows that the best guarantees for the future are social and economic security...
...The account is heeded "slide-rulers v. Maxon, and the picture is immediately drown is Urge black-and-white strokes...
...The Soviet government, in its own interest, should cooperate in the investigation rather than object to it At any rate, this new complication underlines once more the fact thai the So viet-Pol i sh tension has very deep roots and that it is necessary to try to clear the relations between these two allied governments before it is too late, r'* * » • Dismemberment of France...
...Spanish 'Peace' Offer Seen as Fake Inside Story On Plot to Split France By GEORGE DECKER The Hitler government has accused the Soviets of having murdered near Smolensk in the Spring of 1940, 10,000 Polish officers who were Soviet war prisoners...
...Actually they are anxious to constitute themselves this provisional government which wiU enter on the shoulders of the Allied forces and set up a government...
...Set they will not surrender to dictation from Thirteenth Street and will not be terrorised by a group of totalitarian demagogues...
...A so-called 'Committee of Jewish Writers and Artists' called a mass-meeting at Carnegie Hall on April 4 and proclaimed that those American Jews who had the audacity to refuse to he guided by the line laid down by Mr...
...The International Red Cross at Geneva received a similar request from the German Red Cross and "immediately took the question under consideration...
...As Move to 'Win' Soviets Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — The shift in the Japanese cabinet this week, with the introduction of so-called "moderate" elements in the cabinet, headed by Mamoru Shigemitsu as new foreign minister, presages a change in Japanese political and military tactics, observes here feet...
...for aassaxaiaha* M|IM i. „i» ^fP, *¦^••*****>a» two mas >r^-asasBs...
...HpO bring this shout, it is be-* tiling iasveaejipgly clear that ws in America, despite our traditional reluctance to intervene in fascism Sdtajrs, must sesame our s hare of the lias 11 JallM...
...Efforts to check the story by cable to Sweden have been unavailing as The New Leader goes to press...
...Dorothy Thompson say* that tin effect of such assertions "is terrible...
...The Federation ffe%ot, origan of the Chicago Federation of Labor reported that 1,000 parsons attended the meeting...
...At the same time, Japan fears Russian strength and the large airfleet that the Soviets have assembled within easy striking distance of Nipponese papier-mache cities...
...The New "Leader, along with the American labor movement immediately sounded warnings against the menace of these dictatorships...
...The problems presented by the necessary adjustment* to postwar conditions within odr own borders sad the problems of establishing a iHiauafel order among the nations of the world see increasingly demanding consideration...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL OEMEMBER the cleverly sa-irical verses about V Saw that peppered the pages of fit, The Sim and other papers with humor columists...
...Browser's Jewish disciples will not intimidate those American Jews by calling them 'Jewish fascists' in 1943 any more than they frightened the Zionists her* by accusing them of complicity with the Yishuv in Palestine in 'making pogroms upon the Arabs' in 1929...
...Jordana's motive, obviously, Is to secure continued respect for Spanish neutrality...
...Nobody would be surprised if the investi-gStfoh were to prove one more German crime, to establish the fact that the Russian version corresponds to the truth...
...crease the false issue of loyalty to the Soviet cause in the war...
...A majority of the French Socialists, represented in the Jean Jsures group in London, have sharply condemned de Gaulle's political alms...
...openly swear by democracy but secretly prepare for dictatorship...
...All Polish requests, made after the conclusion of the Polish-Soviett pact of July, 1941, went unheeded...
...The most immediate tactic may be an attempt at closer relations with Russia...
...In the struggle for theeMjr jectivea...
...But Tim* can also be mean and narrow to other stories—the esse is point being the story in the same issue, on the OPA dispute...
...Iaft\ the State Department and the Board of Econoiafc Warfare top him in authority...
...His purpose seems to have been, first of all, to reassure his own people, who want peace and who fear the war...
...At the New Leader Dinner Green Urges Labor Role in Peace Parleys By WILLIAM GREEN President, American Federation of Labor IN offering my felicitations to The New Leader on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, I wish to emphasise the fact that it has helped the whole course of liberal thought in America to come of age...
...They have polluted the air with reckless denuniation of anyone who dared to voice his protest against the execution of the two Socialist leaders in Soviet Russia...
...It is usual, of course, for the German government to broadcast false accusations against its enemies...
...This new group feels that Japan aggression must halt and that the Nipponese tasks ahead consist mainly of building defenses and economic exploitation...
...Under such circumstances any government would have the duty of trying to discover the truth...
...De Gaulle's political program is nourished fro* two sources: one, from the views of Pierre Broa-aoleto sod Andre Philip, former Socialist kaom, who proclaimed the necessity of dissolving old parties and creating a national front in Preset-the other from expressions from Cc-mbat aaa' Liberation, two underground groups that ar» alas antagonistic to the old party system...
...On April 5, 1940, according to this statement, the Soviet authorities begsn-^to"empty the camps, but 8,300 officers and 7,000 non-commissioned officers were missing and never found...
...They also fostered an underground Burma Independence Assay sod acquired the support of Dr...
...Loyalists Group Pleps Govt...
...This debate may ultimately be the most Important one in post-war terms, for food is, strongest weapon for or against revolution at crucial times, as the last war shoared...
...The statement, suggesting that workers organizations proclaim the socialist peace aims on May 1, predicts that democratic and socialist movements would emerge in Germany and other European countries after an Allied victory...
...who deserted France aad pledge that they will not accept them again, bat state that any new France must be built on a basis of many parties...
...They accuse Andre Meyer, treasurer of the Free French Relief Fund in ¦ New York, of having been intimate with George, Bonnet and Ferdinand Brinon, both of whom pa...
...My purpose in referring to these fSmiiiar matters is to emphasize by contrast the straightforward, undeviating and consistent policy carried on by The New Lesder through these dangerous times...
...The A. F.v of L. will exert all of its power to carry this program into effect We will mobilise our strength for the election of public officials who can be trusted to advance those objectives...
...From Samuel Halper's book review ef g*> member Pearl Harbor, in the New York Past: ' "Since Pearl Harbor, legends have grown ' up about a Japenese fifth column...
...Fortunately, labor thus far has succeeded is causing the defeat of every anti-labor bill considered by Congress...
...He expressed the belief that "the noble motives that inspire us . . . will become realities at no distant date and will give the enormous benefits of a just and fraternal peace...
...The cabinet shift, which involves five other officials, is akin seen as the re-emergence of the large financial groups to power, after they had...
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