Stalin and Hitler-Behind the Soviet Call for a "free Germany"
Stalin and Hitler-Behind the Soviet Call for a "free Germany" Nichols Sees Moscow Manifesto as Bolstering German Nationalist Groups By BURTON NICHOLS | KNIN once Mid in characterization of...
...I think he is the one man in the country who can bridge this gap between management and labor—not by outpromising the New Deal but by creating means whereby both work together to increase production and balanced consumption...
...In the . past he was a man of marked individuality...
...It is reasonable to presume that if the German generals were convinced that they could obtain peace on sack terms they would not delay in removing Hitler and his satellites...
...He knows perfectly well what he will he np against if he becomes President on the Republican ticket He knows.too—and acknowledges it with a frank, wry smile—that angelic Intentions never come oat of tie peHBial grinder in their pristine state...
...Now tha Ja mmllDml' against Hitler are heaped high...
...The members of The New Leader staff and the trade unionists of this country are interested in fortunes of neither of them...
...WiTrkie were elected in 1944...
...There is not s single Wort in the whole Manifesto about the maltreatment of the Jews by the Hitler gangD The men of the Moscow Committee vhlW everything from the German nationalistic standpoint exclusively...
...I like the notion of a fourth term even less...
...in view ef the magnitude of Hitler's iilaw-f " The -Manifesto stresses another point mare clearly...
...But he knows that if he had to face what Wilson faced or what Biseeutlt is facing it would coma oat smeared by human selfishness...
...Democratic Socialists are by no means enamored of bnreaucrscy as such...
...The progressive administration would be palling ahead and the oH Republican wheel-horses would be straining the other way...
...It comes down to this...
...Stalin has sought to swing a number of German officers on to his committee...
...There is among the Free Germany Committee members a man of a quite different stature, vis...
...In 1996-1987, at the start of the wholesale purge of Communists who did not wholeheartedy agree with Stalin's poHey...
...Gallup poll shows statistically what all of us have known...
...That column brought forth the following letter, written by a prominent political writer and Republican liberal...
...had been active in the trade union field...
...He has irresponsibly challenged tpe three greatest world powers, with th* result that they have united for wMW straggle against Hitleriem...
...But the notion that we are dependent on any one man—no matter how great—ia bad...
...His favorite field of activity became the struggle against the "reformist" trsdes unions, the ' unions under Social Democratic leadership...
...Therefore, all and every means waa to be need in the fight against these Social Fascism...
...1*0 be sure, the contents and the language of 1 the Free German Manifesto of July l»tt, which was drawn up at the peak of the SovietGerman war, are at variance with, th* srfide which Ulbricht published in February 1*4*, fn the honeymoon of "the policy ef friendship" between Stalin and Hitler...
...look" I said "this is a new one on me...
...Willkie is that «he does not blink this situation...
...It is of mdeh greater importance that there is ae pnisglhjml' no single sentence in the Manifesto of 1943 which directly and openly contradicts Ulbricht's article of 1940...
...Of course, this line was in full accord with the directives Ulbricht was given ty Stalfe himself...
...There can be no shadow of doobt that it ia he who plays the leading role in the Moscow Committee and who functions there as "Stalin's eye...
...But it is not the Democratic Party which the trade unions are supporting...
...They are irate only because Hitler has prepared the war hi a way that has brought Germany to the brink of aa abyss...
...But both of us were conscious of the fact that without that tricky brain we would still be living in one of those side-streets we could see between the Harlem river and the entrance to the Park Avenue tunnel...
...Following his orders, the German Communists started the work of blowing up the democratic republic,.in Germany...
...clique" which aimed at a war of Germany against Russia...
...The only step these men would have to take "in good time" would consist far joining' the "Free Germany" which Ulbricht and his minions have spawned in Moscow...
...Stalin adopted a firm "leftist" course toward "the second period of wars' and revolutions...
...Yon too can be beautiful...
...That is what the trade unionists of this country believe...
...AND of course we both knew her case-history...
...Bonn, in his Home Front column last issue, discussed the personality of Willkie and his impressions of the msn...
...But you can {hardly imagine such a catastrophe arising from a continuation -of the New Deal in power...
...You remark that Roosevelt with a New Deal Congress behind him "might carry out a program of reconstruction...
...Bat the conductor stepped her and made her wait while ho himself got out and made ready to help her down the steep steps...
...for here of the Four Freedoms had suddenly walked ¦ en us and had taken a seat right in front of *.next to the door through which a hot and **P draught was' pouring into our hot and *J?«ear...
...but, as the result of repeated cases of ineptitude on the part of our war-time bureaucracy, I hope that you and ether leaders of labor thought will give the individual solution a chance...
...It will surely go to smash in Mr...
...We beth anew that it wan as it had to be, and no nee getting sentimental about something which to other people was just an everyday aad oodinary "most" and aomrthiug that had to he expected and must be arorptorT because that was the way the world happened to be and herefore yon could do nothing about it Just before 126th Street the baby began to sputter arid to make faces and did its best to rub its tiny lists into Ha half asleep eyes...
...His 'One World sounds wonderfal...
...By W/UJAM ?. IOWN WE have read your letter with a good deal . of sympathetic understanding...
...The Commimists . in all the lands immediately expressed a rapture . of delight because of Moscow's wise step...
...Trad* union people are sceptical...
...We are deeply interested in th* part which he is playing—aad may play —in America life...
...They are acting op the basis of experience...
...The thing that I like most about Mr...
...They will support the man or th* group or the party which goes the stralghtest road toward that goal So far as they can see now, Mr...
...P This charge is extremely moderate iemealt...
...In his article Hilferding took strong issue with the silly and spurious assertion that the war was caused by the "imperialist" mmieats of Great Britain and France...
...Thar* is one psasaga ia particular which deserves attention...
...I am, however, somewhat surprised at your conclusions...
...He stressed the issue of freedom and democracy and their defense against militarism, urging all socialists and democrats to give "full and unrestrained" support to France and Great Britain in their straggle until the day of complete victory...
...But I don't need to tell you that the pendulum has already begun to swing, and that the deadlocks which now threaten to disrupt the home front would certainly increase in the event of his re-election...
...Then these non-descript jobs without the ambition or the ability to do anything else...
...It is true, also, that to yeu or me or any other intelligent man the Democratic Party looks like a sad mess...
...Maybe th* returning soldier*—after having toppled Mussolini aad Hitter—was want a dictator for America...
...On Tne other hand, "th* Social Democratic and Catholic leaders" were in opposition to the Stalin-Hitler pact Ulbricht urges upon the-Communists to "unmask" this group of opponents, i. e. to deliver them in one may or another into the hands of the Gestapo...
...President Roosevelt has taraad oat to be such a magnificent Commander-inChief that I am thankful we pat him where he is...
...These opponents went being recruited from two strata of the ntfalg tion...
...However the age of consent in Connecticut is more than sixteen, as far as I aefemeaibir from one case or another and so let as make her eighteen and then let it go at She was small for her age, whatever it was, tad tke poor creature looked as if it never had iad an awful lot to eat and had now come out of a hospital only a few days or weeks before, let hair, which was the most noticeable part of her, wss of a non-descript color...
...Apparently you are much more uncritical in yOur support of the Fourth Term than either the Nation or the New Republic, which have dealt pretty harshly with the Washington situation during the past few weeks...
...Our refusal to recognise the French National Committee today is absolutely inconsistent with our recognition of the Czechoslovak government Demaree Bess in the Saturday Evening Post recently published the text of an agreement made between Murphy and Giraud, promising the latter he could be commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in North Africa and could keep out if he wished both the British and Free French...
...There are 33 signatures under the Manifesto...
...As for hoisting that infant (already half her size) into a bus or carrying it all the way to her home or her parents' home, we just did not want to let our imagination run that far...
...At Cos Cob something metis that was well worth the studying...
...It came nearest to "tawny" but it had been badly tanned with uneven streaks of light and dark and it th* sad been very badly cut...
...No schooling to speak of and that of the wholesale kind which is as bad as no schooling at all...
...And then with his little paper suitcase in his hand he had disappeared into the dark entrance of the subway and She had gene home to make ready for the baby...
...e. the apparatus of the Hitler government...
...Of course," Hendrik Willem fan Loon writes us, "you are a serious jourMi, conscious of its serious social obligations, lat I hope that more persons will remember this jathetic and bedraggled bit of humanity than pay do statistics about the gain of the labor anions...
...We both ?*fflbered our years in those streets With a J*** of obscene humiliation, for it had not 7** bninan to pack men and women and chilli...
...Under New Deal leadership we have seen Democratic majorities do good things...
...Have wn ever seen them-" and I showed him a green ? east postage stamp with a female head and Hoething that looked like a torch and the engraved information that this was one of the Four Freedoms...
...At Cos &a friend came in and sat down beside me...
...No...
...The climax of Ulbricht's activities was the strike of Berlin's city employees at the said let*, la hie memoirs, watch ware pehjmhml sfter the Nazis seised power, Dir...
...Not a bad...
...j . : Ja»t then the train stopped again...
...Among the signatories are five former Communist Deputies of the German Reichstag...
...Nature showed them more, and over the soda they had decided to get married, and their parents could nqt say "no" for the boy was going to be a Hero (such as you saw every day in the papers with a cross being pinned on him by the President of the United States, and his wife holding the baby), and the girl was going to be a Hero's Wife, and she was to keep house for him while he was away...
...Those trains stop every moment No use, taking the 1st one from Stamford as Stamford is too far hr ear limited gas supply and besides the trains free Boston are now always late...
...Th* main charges against Hitler, mv far a* the past ia tontei aad, are the fallowing: "Hitler led Germany to political wplm.•tion...
...Frits Thysson, one of Germany's nidus trial magnates, was opposed to the assault upon Poland...
...The study of this Manifesto 1a tap light of the records of those people whehave signed it, makes it clear that this alarm is fully justified...
...Be has train the whole of Europe into an enemy of the German people...
...It was not the ewvtSfm of the majority within the trades unions but rsther their destruction that Stalin demanded He created a theory of' his awn in order to support this demand...
...B0HN: Congratulations on your article summarizing the interview with Willkie...
...Roosevelt at heart, I feel, is an imperialist Willkie has the same world and social aspirations at Roosevelt But the fundamental difference between the two men is that Roeeevelt ami his advisers believe these aspirations can be realized by the activities of a growing bureaucracy, in contrast to Willkie who, while favoring positive government controls and functions (in his radio speech Saturday night he came out for public housing for Negroes where private industry couldn't do the job) favors the release Tdnr- encouragement cf individual energies and incentives on a competitive market No doubt you as an old Social Democrat have leaned toward the bureaucrattic solution...
...If the demobilised soldiers ard not decently token care of and if there is enormous unemployment—together with a Hooverian lack of leadership in Washington— there may be civil war...
...It must have been a boy on the same block on which she lived...
...arrival hsd...
...Not much of a boy but suddenly elevated to manhood now that he had to go into the Army and fight for the American Way of Life and Democracy and the Four Freedoms...
...Th* majority in the present Congress has worked against them...
...Stalin and Hitler-Behind the Soviet Call for a "free Germany" Nichols Sees Moscow Manifesto as Bolstering German Nationalist Groups By BURTON NICHOLS | KNIN once Mid in characterization of Sulin **• that "this cook will make only spicy diahea.* Th* National Committe* of Pre* Germany which has been bred in Moscow is just such a dish...
...That is why the crumbling of thai policy at the time of Hitler's assault samtatt Russia did not affect Ulbricht's posibo* th Moscow...
...It speaks of a "last and inexorable (rial" of aH these who have been guilty...
...Ml present-day terminology, Hilferding advocated a war until the fee's "unconditional surrender...
...I suspect that your picture of what may happen after the war is a little oa the frenetic side...
...President Con ant in the May Atlantic was not fanciful when he predicted civil war unless this growing breach between management and labor between Right and Left, can be crossed...
...She had maid it a thousand times from her radio and every railroad station informed her of the same apt:And now that she was a married woman a* must do her best to live up to the slogan "Keep yourself beautiful for your soldier-husitat" Bat the best the beauty parlor can do fw fifty cants is not soi very much and the girl looked more like a half-drnwn«H v«llnv Irietwi than anything else...
...Although they used ultra-revolutionary catchwords, it was the hjaxis who benefited...
...He was one of the founders of the German Communist Party and a Reichstag Deputy...
...They are putting their man-power behind the New Deal, which is a horse of a contrssting color...
...Even the prospect of sn eventual Fascist victory did not cause Stalin much concern...
...In such an eventuality Fascism would perform the role of "the revolution's icebreaker...
...He lost it, however, a long time ago...
...The German workers know the capitalist* of England and the 200 Families of France, and they know what an English victory would mean for them...
...Promise* mean little...
...The best that, too could hope for would be a situation somewhat paralleling what we sea in Wsshington today...
...Neither of us spoke...
...Neither of these assumptions rests on solid ground The recently announced...
...They could save Germany, its army, aad Ha industry...
...Obviously, it is the latter who will play the leading role in the Committee., All of them—without any exception—are Communists and at that Communists who for many years (no leas than five, and often more) have been living in Moscow with the material support of the Soviet government...
...Suppose the mea and women of labor were to accept your reasoning...
...It was these ideas which Ulbricht made the target of his determined attack...
...Ulbricht was one of the leading figures in carrying out this policy of collaboration with the Nazis in the destruction of labor organizations and in the preparations for the overthrow of the German democratic republic "The mobilization of the unorganised" against the trades unions and admittedly senseless and harmful wildcat strikes were instigated...
...The first is that Roosevelt—come hell or high water—will have a reactionary and cantankerous Congress to deal with during his hypothetical fourth term...
...The second amounts to implicit faith that Wendell Willkie—if we elect hint—will have a Congress of wise and boacficient angels...
...But all that we have is a healthy aad normal amount of scepticism...
...movement for a Free Germany...
...We both sat J*^rtared and both probably had the same * wis all so obvious...
...The youngster, bowever, had done her best and had had it cut a watt undoubtedly aspired to be • fashionable style...
...And they believe i^ for a very simple reason...
...We did not try to seethe proud father, fighting the red ants of New Guinea or the boredom of Iceland's endless rains in a tin hat without books ( " I just never took very much to readin'") or buried these last throe months underneath a tiny mount fa the land of the Berbers...
...Never a man ef political acumen, he held to Stalin, and Stalin reciprocated by entrusting him with ever more prominent positions in the German Communist Party and in the Comintern...
...To be sure, if the world* goes to smash all bets are off...
...Essentially, Ulbricht, the author of the Manifesto, remains strictly on this line he adhered to in 1940...
...Thte- kind of blame against Hitler is interestinf from still another viewpoint, i t reveals the strata of the German people whose opinions the authors of the Manifesto ore concerned with...
...y . Under such conformity of mind, there ia no need indeed fee preserving the "obsolete font*" of international interconrse...
...Without their aid Hitler wawM never have eeese t* power nor have been give* the epamrfaulty Of preparing for war...
...Fundamentally I did not like the third term idea...
...never yet experienced anything «t tne steamy atmosphere of the lying-in room * eakh it had made its original appearance •» earth...
...Willkie—whatever his character or intentions —is in no position to offer leadership along that road...
...Stalin made a speech declaring that while the Nazi state would be destroyed, the German state, the German people aad the German Army weald not be destroyed...
...However, the facts mentioned above sufficiently prove that the alarm which this Manifesto aroused in the press is fully Justified...
...First, what do we know about this GermanMoscow action...
...He can see, too, hie good intentions toward the working class and the farmers and the Negroes and aH the under-privileged groups lopped and limping after the inevitable collision with the Republican moguls...
...The Soviet people and the toiling people in Germany are against the spreading of the war," etc...
...can understand why you think it would be 1 a good thong to have a ma* like Wendell Willkie for president when the war is over...
...Up to that time, men of the "right-wing opposition" in the Communist Party, August Thalheimer, Jacob Walcher at ai...
...In other words, Ulbricht laid great stress upon defending Hitler's government -g-'~*f the accusation that it was the initiator of the war,, He passed over in silence Germany's seizure of Poland...
...The movie showed them all about love...
...j ? In other words...
...In ether 'words, • the pendulum will swing back with a violence unprecedented in our history...
...her arms the child carried a still smaller «fld which looked as if it had come only •"¦tiy from the assembly line...
...Working people are reasoning in a simple and direct manner...
...Tha, fundamental underlying ideas, however, do lilt' seem to have undergone any change...
...During the first period of the war, when the Stalin-Hitler pact was in full sway, Ulbricht's articles were the directing cue of the Comintern for its German branch...
...Roosevelt aad a Democratic Congress did—and not so long ago—put through a "program of reconstruction...
...He proclaimed the Socislists to be "Social Fascists" who were even more dangerous than the Fascists...
...If Roosevelt could get a New Deal Congress which he could completely dominate, he might carry out a program of reconstruction after this war...
...Since Theodore Roosevelt's time the Republican machine has been in the control of the wrong crowd...
...I believe s Willkie administration could do it, while I see only growing dissension ahead for America if we have a Fourth Term...
...However, they regarded the Social Democrats as men who, although "led astray," were devoted to the labor movement...
...Bonn follows.] ¦The Fourth Reich •THE formation of the .'"M Free Germany Committee fat Moscow has censed wide comment, i raveased in meat frequest farm, "what will happea if the Russians r e e e a Berlin ahead of Anglo-American troops...
...Ulbricht insisted that tha members of this clique must be stripped of their positions in the army and in the gnvernamat apparatus (i...
...When referring to the past, the National Committee of Free Germany brings Hitler to book for having bungled the preparation for thefwar in the diplomatic field, so that in the end...
...I don't know of any more reprehensible agreement in the whele of our diplomatic history, yet the President supports Murphy—our policy apparently is te double-cross both Giraud and de Gaulle...
...It has been the mm- ' fortune of Germany that Hitler joined 'the "clique...
...Tke Mew Deal administration has worked along with them better than any other we have ever had...
...Willkie and believe in his honesty, intelligence and good intentions...
...Hitler's crime is not that it waa he who started the war and, by so doing, plunged all tha world into-an unprecedented ordeal of horror and suffering, not the fact that be has btid waste the whole of Europe and massacred millions of men, women and children...
...And I believe he would think more in terms of international institutions than does Roosevelt...
...We like Mr...
...A family that needed a bit of extra support, and so he had had to get his working papers the day the law permitted him to leave school...
...The writer felt he could speak more freely by leaving the article unsigned...
...I repeat I don't think Willkie would indulge in such compromises—as his attack on the Darlan policy showed...
...A small child, not un?~mctive I suppose as long as it had had some W* could see the street in which she 7*1 been brought np...
...and that day they had had porkchops for dinner and all the friends had been there and had said what a lovely idea for now the boy had something to live for and fight for...
...Spongier and his crowd of Republicans are pot in charge...
...Recent performance means a lot | Your reasoning is based on two political assumptions...
...kid probably, and no tendencies towards gangsterism or other evils, such as playing the juke-boxes or petty pilferings from unguarded lots...
...The struggle for the preservation and strengthening of this (HitlerStalin) treaty must become the maul task of Communists...
...Informed emigre circles report that efforts wore made te have Marshal von Paulua, a Russian prisoner, head this committee...
...This condition could be applied to everyone, including not only Fieldmarshal Brauehitch but even Goering...
...She wore a cheap little blue cotton dress, no stockings and low-heeled shoes of the varirty that were worn in,the bedroom before the we style in war clothes which now allows their Waters to take them into the St...
...That Stalin has a consistent nation of the future ef Germany is clear from has statemeats M-dA <Wlsr« tie* of the Free German committees...
...He is merely a decorative figure whose signature is placed under sny document which is ordered by Stalin...
...A strong group wants to dismember Germany, other psrassm feel that a desaocratie Germany can be created...
...Walter I'lbrieht...
...he answered "but it sacs pretty terrible...
...As a matter of fact the girl got off at 126th street and God knows how she reached her further destination, for she dropped her purse and it opened and a few nickles and pennies fell out, and a few nickels and pennies do not carry one far in a taxi...
...This becomes dear first of aH in/the Meade festo's references to the past...
...The whole country is sceptical of politicians...
...Of course' ahe Ceraimaaials have not ! . . i...
...The Republicans, on the contrary, must carry on their campaign exclusively on the basis of premises...
...On November 7, 1942...
...That ia, nobody except you aad me and a few fellows ike us...
...Their intention is to keep the New Deal administration and change the Congress...
...MOW, of course, if the choice is between a * ' Fourth Term and a reactionary and stupid Old Guard Republican, the Fourth Term would probably win...
...The orientation towards the opinion* Of these nationalistic circles becomes evident in several other parte Of the Manifesto...
...It would crush the sheet of ice of the old bourgeois society and pave the Way for the Oommuhist revolution...
...England is the "most reactionary country is the whole world...
...another former Reichstag Deputy...
...Both parties are nothing but great political machines made ap of mutually antagonistic aad loosely tied together local machines...
...But that would not be the choice if Willkie wins the nomination...
...There war* opponents of this treaty ohm within German...
...Great Britain was straining tw her efforts to achieve the severance of She "treaty of friendship" (This was the edkial characterization of the treaty of August between Stalin and Hitler...
...fJITLER's victory caused asaay Communists ** to recover their senses...
...J** was something entirely beyond our own J**011- It just had happened that way and TJ *e were enjoying the fresh air and the peace ¦* Wietof Greenwich Cove...
...It was a retort to an article by Rudolph Hilferding who later perished tragically in a German Jan...
...You caught the spirit and intentions of the man better than anybody I have seen for a long time...
...Regis...
...It is rather the criticism of the nationalist* at the Fieldmarsha...
...A key article published carry in 1944 is particularly instructive...
...Anyway I am sending it to you as it is...
...So we kind d lyscopste to New York by way of the locals std rtudy our neigbhors...
...The histcry of European democracies shows that the longer this kind of stalemated liberalism persists, the greater the danger of a fascist reaction...
...On th* one hand, it was "th* Thysson clique...
...been alarmed in the least Though the Cam in- , tern has been "dissolved" the solidarity of the Comintern thus carries ea...
...And the simple fact is that your Republican Party hat no New Deal...
...and that aU tboir prepjorty should be smaftscated...
...Certainly Willkie's international views are just as enlightened as those of Roosevelt—in fact more so...
...Both of us, during' the "'¦nti'e years of our literary careers, had .obliged to live in such streets, though then z7...
...The other twelve a^e German writers and politicians...
...He advocated the conclusion of peace with the Fascist government, without referring in any way to the fact that that government would have to free all the foreign territories which it seised during the war...
...I did see that girl, and I hope you see her too...
...He waa brought into the "trio" which was entrusted with th* supreme direction of the party's activities...
...In the early twenties he was in close connection with the leader of the "right-wing" Communists, Brandler...
...I must say that what they are doing: looks like good sense to me, I am conscious of the fact that much is to be said hi favor of the liberal elements in the Republican Party...
...They are b#nt oa doing their utmost to bring our national industrial Ufa under the control ef .the people...
...The* Manifesto obviously could not by-pass the question of Hitler's and his henchmen's responsibility...
...Anglo-American policy is not so clear...
...By HENDRIK WILLEM YAM LOOM • BAD taken the ten thirty-three at Old Green1 wich and I was doing the mail which Jimmie fc| collected on our way to the station...
...He parted company with Hitler because of this assault He fled abroad and waa later arrested in France and handed awmWW Hitler...
...Its "Manifesto" has put all the press on she qui vive...
...Ulbricht however, waa not among them...
...Ulbricht gained prominence in the German Communist Party in 1928-1929, t. at the time of Stalin's ascendancy to unlimited power in the Comintern...
...Since 19S2 the Democratic machine has been in eontrol of the right crowd...
...Twenty-one ar,e prisoners of war, i. e. men who play a more or leas accidental row...
...y friend and I were fascinated...
...For we noticed that the ehild carried a little medal around its throat aad where there are little medals there is also little thought for tomorrow and even less respect for die mortality rate of "infants under one...
...Ulbricht climbed to one of the top places of the German Communist hierarchy...
...We did not let oar imagination run too far afield...
...THERE are many highly significant parts in * the Moscow-German Manifesto which give cause for worry...
...Willkie' would not have got in"" the political mess in which the Administration finds itself in French Africa...
...Indeed the, whole preservation of political freedom, in my mind, is bound up with whether we can restore the principle of opportunity and unleash individual energies, while preventing' social abuses...
...Certainly, several parte at the Manifesto have been formulated splendidly...
...We want more assurance with regard to his program on such vital mattars as labor legislation and the public control of industry...
...This is the crime he has to he punished for...
...In kit opinion, the present war was an openly "impertaHsti*" one...
...Bet I doubt K. The bey who said his war aim ia a good piece of blueberry pie meant that he wants old American way...
...Hitter is accused* of having "prepared for this predatory wag...
...It has been so long since the Republicans have done anything good that no one can remember when it waa or what it Was...
...At that time he regarded as the main danger threatening the- "German toilers" the efforts of the "Thyssen dicfoe" to sever the Hitler-Stalin pact Had this pact net been severed, Germany would not have been brought , to the impasse of isolation and would not have been -compelled to fight against three worldpowers simultaneously...
...This line of the charges against Hitler is best proof of a highly significant attitude...
...For the life of me I could not reconstruct him in the flesh, but he must have existed in one form or another, and he must have met this little neighbor some warm and muggy evening, and since he was going away soon to the army, he must have decided to go in for a big party and to take her to a movie and a soda afterwards...
...Ia aharpeat farm, ho wants not a democratic or socialist Germany but a Strang nationalistic Germany...
...Germany has to wage war against the three greatest world powers simultaneously...
...They too fought against the Social Democrats within the labor unions...
...In 1930-1941 all of them in one way or another expressed their agreement with the Hitler-Stalin pact, vindicated and supported it • • • '¦'"HE foremost political figure among the * members of the Committee is W'ilhelm Pieck...
...Ah amnesty for "all Hitler adherents"—without any exception!—provided Only that "in good time" they "Join' tke...
...Th* n*W -fmmts Van Loon's Diary - Those Four Freedoms and a Girl on a Train [Vos Leon'* Uxary has its entries in "a new -vie"—in preparation for his work on the Awrage Man...
...Tha Soviet people and the toiling people in Germany are interested in foiling the English plans/for war...
...In order to achieve...
...Th* supreme object of both of them is to get members into office and keep them there...
...It let the baby lick the chocolate...
...Then it got up aad was about to get out of the ear...
...To this end they started the "boring from below" of the Jabor organisations which were the very backbone of that republic...
...Willkie can overcome this tendency is beyond ma ' ¦ * [Last week, several members of The New Leader staff spent an hour with Wendell Willkie in an off-the-reeord chat on current political problems...
...Undoubtedly he had held a few non-descript jobs...
...R was a fiendishly hot and damp day...
...However, it adda a highly important qualification: 'But at the tame time it means amnesty for all Hitler adherents who in good time win renounce him and join the movement for a Free Germany...
...It nil girl, and she may have been eighteen or riaeteen hut then again she- may have been eerdy sixteen...
...Ssfcg ^m^m'eM^^^mm^terl^^ re^Mfkiic j^l^Bi j ^e*jjjh tke "^^HHiiJft B^^^^^J^ ¦cite" ia Amnmt 19*1, whoa the Cam em' nmta gave their snjpert to the Nasi campaign against the Social Democrstk ProsMaMaamt^mmfimiim^SSli en es of the tierman Communists- political activities...
...I see no chance of a sound program of full employment after this war—or a program combatting wild inflation not to mention world rehabilitation—if the present political situation in the U. S. continues...
...Imagine the sort of National Committee aad the sort of Congress he would have behind him...
...A reply by Dr...
...All of them have more than once given evidence, of their unrestrained fealty to Stalin...
...We are supporting the New -Pool— not the Democratic Party...
...years in advance without consulting the Wfll ef the people...
...The brunt ef hit attack, was directed against Great srttjpfh alone, which he characterised as "array number one...
...You implied as much in your letter...
...But this way was a too long drawn out process from tne viewpoint of -tne seeono penoo fff wars and revolutions...
...In 19SS-I936, many of them began to waver...
...Whan he came back into the car he looked at as, "Jesus" he said and then informed the occupants of the ear that the next staaaation was o Controverys: Should Labor Swftch to Willkie - eenttcveuy: A challenge anil a Reply FNEAR DR...
...int° those ghetto's of the disinherited...
...j**tt even'hotter and damper than it had*been *• previous three weeks, and very likely this j...
...After the latter fell into disgrace, th* terrified Pieck published s humiliating statement of penitence and contrition...
...Keen the London Tessas, which of late has adopted a very benevolent attitude toward all ef Moscow's extravagances, 'dees not conceal its alarm...
...The mother took.a piece of hah* melted .chocolate oat of the small hag from -which the nickles and pennies had oeted a few minutes before...
...this end, even collaboration with the Nazis intone fight against the common foe seemed admissible...
...The German government decided in favor of peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the Anglo-French war bloc wanted war against the Socialist Soviet Union...
...L^jnetely for us we had been born with a J?!* tort of brains, and so we had escaped...
...Their criticism of Hitler is not the one which German workers or sincere German democrats wholeheartedly share tn...
...and he cetrainly would be stronger in demanding changes in the colonial system...
...Brauchrtch type, and of those Nazis, who have never been adherents of the "Thyssen clique...
...It was a pink"h bit of flesh, in a cheap little dress that should •"•been clean and fresh but that was neither, mother held ber offspring the way small e*dren often drag well-disposed cats around, ¦tag this wsy and the other leg the other way "•their heads hanging down and their tails •Wdag out any old fashion...
...There is not a scintilla of indignation because of the bestial atrocities which Hitler and his henchmen have committed against Jews alt the world over...
...All of them were "England's agents" and Ulbricht celled far an implacable struggle against them...
...As for her i'ace, she, had a face of course, but it was so pathetically thin, so completely without the stamp of any sort of character that she, might just as well have had a blur as a face...
...When the armed forces return home they will certainly be attracted to a Man-on-Horsebaek, unless there is convincing and positive leadership in Washington...
...Strangely enough, the Manifesto passes over all theme facte m silence...
...Informed Washington commentator Ernest K. Lindley, writing in Newsweek of August 2nd on the Free German Manifesto, writes: "These proposals are even wore generous than Wilson's Fourteen Points...
...In this case* the "Wf bundle of love appeared to be too exhausted "e*r...
...Ulbricht was one of the most reckless adherents of this policy...
...Under these circumstances it is plain good sense for people Who want to plan for a better life to stick to Roosevelt and the New Deal Hew you and Mr...
...In my humble opinion, organized labor stands to lose more from the Fourth Term than any other group in tne country...
...One theme -runs through your letter which ntuaes a very favorable response so far as I lit concerned...
...Indeed it had been rumored that the latter was in opposition to "the Thyssen...
...This politically eviscerated man has been living in Russia for more than a decade as a pensioner of rhe Soviet government...
...pretended to have been reclaimed for a Pj-kr class of occupants, a fact which had "* proclaimed from the housetops and had •* observed by everybody except the bedbugs,, continued to function as before...
...Suppose Mr...
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