Iraq, Near East Pivot, Rallies Arab World to Allied War Offensive

LOW, MATTHEW

Iraq, Near East Pivot, Rallies Arab World to Allied War Offensive Axis Confused by fading Support Of Moslems By MATTHEW LOW What impact and effect is Iraq's declaration of war against the >?xis...

...Hitler refuses to recognize the state of war, and insists that Premier Nuries Said Pasha "should be ashamed of himself...
...They are the fulcrum for the largest, most self-conscious, most extended block of native peoples in the Orient—the Moslem bloc...
...A table on German stock companies (a partnership arrangement* shows that a total of 9.148 companies in 1933 (Germany alone) was reduced to 5,397 at the end of 1040 (including Austria and the Sudetenland...
...Reich corporations of private capitalist firms were formed for the most important branches of industry and invested with public authority...
...Will we permit the Krupps and Flicks to retain control, or will England and America permit a Socialist Germany...
...J. L. Afres was moderator...
...important pro-Allied fturtr Abdullah of Trans-Jordan (WJuth of Syria, and West of IMq), Who has publicly expressed his hopes for an Arab confederacy...
...The Arab National League...
...Stadsklev accompanied Smith to the St...
...World Service, on its own part, recommended Winrod, Edmondson, James True, Mrs...
...Labor must hold its geias « » | increase them...
...Landis (Republ., Indiana) to outlaw political contribution by labor unions...
...Would the members of Congress, including Senators Wheeler, Nye, Taft and Representative Clare Hoffman, now so busily attacking the thirty-three indictments, bestir themselves with equal energy to attack the indictments against the co-defendant, Lieut...
...ResolwfloR ee AssossieotioR of Carlo Tresce The regular business sessions of the conference were devoted to the discussion and adoption of resolutions outlining the stand of the Federation on various political and social problems and defining forms of activity to be carried on by the local organizations in the various states...
...This concise account is, I believe, one of the most fascinating and important documents of the war...
...Or in exchange manipulations and arbitrary fixing of rates of exchange, resulting in the overvaluation of the German mark and an unjustified undervaluation of the local currencies...
...with GOP support they will pass...
...To control the mind and outlook of the Moslem Near East is to have entree to a mass mind which penetrates every country in Asia and Africa . . . " Fall of Tripoli Raises Issues Of 'Free Italy Special to THE NEW LEAME LONDON—The making .of a new political problem in North Africa were seen this week as the fall of Tripoli gave relevance and even sharp military point to the demands for a "Fighting Italy...
...Here Ss rn instance of how the tentacles of German banking reach into Europe: the Deutsche Bank controls or directly administers banks in Vienna, Belgrade, Prague...
...The conference was prefaced by panel discussions...
...Today that central is complete...
...He is Lieut...
...Pressburg Cseehoslovakia), Sofia, Bucharest, Zagreb, Athens, Amsterdam Madrid, Luxembourg, Brussels, Cracow, Lwow and 11 other Polish cities...
...3—An amendment to the Hatch Act by Congr...
...That pervasive shift, completed through confiscation, "purchase," legal manipulation, etc., becomes the knottiest spool to be untangled, by the post-war planners...
...For those who want to mull over this stew, there is at band, published by the United Nations, a 53-page report on the German economic banditry...
...The authenr...
...Delegates were present from Boston, San Francisco, R e a d i n g , Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Connecticut and from many of the cities and states in between...
...2—The Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Bill, aimed primarily at the teamsters union...
...That this rate has accelerated this year is shown by the official Reich Office of Statistics whose figures show that by September, 1942...
...mrid...
...The second problem is political: to whom are we going to restore these industries...
...It will strengthen the fBeral^y forces who in Turkey have 'made the government "neutM agaiiist the A x i s ; " it will undermine' tjh:e secret Axis intrigues Which, as" in the case of Rashid Afl-r alfo^ted coup, are major dangers...
...Leslie Fry...
...6—A bill to give legislative status to the War Labor Board and to impose limitations upon its policies, with particular aim to the closed shop and maintenance of membership clauses...
...By using its political ps*» wisely and effectively, it can contribute to the defeat of those reactionary elements that would destroy the gains of Labor...
...And would the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times-Herald, now so actively supporting the efforts of these members of Congress, give equal support to a defense of Lieut...
...But it is likely to be of major significance on the strategical and diplomatic level off which it is planned and executed...
...and at the end of 1940 to nearly 4 million RM...
...Hitlerism, our enemy, is not only the Nazi party, but the Industrialist, the Army, the Bureaucracy, the Landowners, etc...
...Jugoslavia, the Baltic states and occupied sections of the USSR, the technique is simple robbery of industrial enter, prises with no attempt at creating new tricky legal forms, or consolidating industry intc new companies...
...The alleged conspiratorial netWork, i f proved, may have been oftly a small section of a gigantic world plot, master-minded by the accused co-conspirator...
...New Jersey...
...The report, tangentially, also shed* much light on the position o f B i g Business in the Nasi war social structure, a problem that has been wracking our economist* and intellectuals for the past several years...
...Evidence that Fleischauer's Er ~ f d r t offices were the hub of a network designed to split the people, and through the people the armed forces of the United States and other - countries on the rock of anti-Semitism, is implicit in the files of World Service and some of the publications and statements of many of the alleged American conspirators...
...The following were chosen to serve as members of the committee during the coming year: Jasper McLevy...
...New York...
...But any anaiysis which seeks to prove that Big Business plays a subordinate role in the German state—an analysis made by varied heterogeneous groups of economic thinkers from Peter Drucker and Paul Einzig on the e'enco- and conservativeright to the Hiiferding followers and MacdonaU on the left—breaks down in the face of the evidence at hand...
...Yet it is widely believed that a suitable administration could be established on the spot, with far-reaching propagandist effects...
...Leslie F r y ) , Lieut...
...William Karlin, New York...
...RetOfoftoR on PoMftotJ Actio* After outlining the Hne-ttp • political and big-business forrit now moving into the field against labor organizations, the sMk gates declared: "Thus M M stands to lose much of its gains if the reaction that is in foil vte| succeeds in r-pm^teting its eyelet specifically, a smashing RssnssaV, can victory at the next elettiej would in all probability wipe all of Labor's gains...
...There are almost a quarter-ofamillion Italian settlers, and hundreds of thousands of Italian war prisoners...
...In many cases, the absorption of "foreign" industry by the Naais...
...Cit izens of the U.S.A...
...All should take a hand before it is too late...
...We will work sW the abolition of the poll tax B»f other measures that cksfraeeais)l the Negroes...
...was formerly known as the "Committee to Keep the United States out of War" which sponsored a Soldier's Stadium anti-war rally in 1939 at which Charles Lindbergh made his speaking debut on the appeasement rostrum...
...but the consolidation of insurance companies and funds, banks, etc...
...What are we going to do with the wealth and the magnificent technological equipment...
...Just as the latter is part of metropolitan France, Tripolitania is a "provincia" of Italy...
...But no long-range perspective of political war aims has yet been opened up among the elements of seventy millions Semitic-Moslems...
...The Socialists' letter emphasized the fact that the Peyrouton appointment would cause the loss of Allied prestige-in Europe...
...Yet less has been said and even lees i^imfcing done about a problem whose solution ••til outline she scope and shape of the politics of the next inter-bellum era...
...Chairman of the rally was the Reverend C. 0. Stadsklev whose hall in Minneapolis was also turned over to Smith to speak...
...Our avowed aim is to smash these groups...
...Edward H. Hunter) ; American Nationalist Confederation, St Albans, W. Va...
...We favor...
...None of these factors seems to be recognized in the organization of democratic forces in this strange, foreign area...
...The basic steel, chemical and oil industries of Europe have seen integrated into German con;erns (Goring, Farben, Kontinental O i l ) . The result has been a field-day for the private industrialists and their party allies...
...The tig (usines...
...Now by Iraq's declaration of war he becomes one of the chief Arab spokesmen in Allied councils...
...Henry D. Allen, former convict and Silver Shirt strong-arm man, conferred with George Deatherage and Winrod and was paid by Mrs...
...Thus the native fascists, through their publications and bulletins, increased the propaganda power of Fleischauer by helping to expand the circulation of World Service, and Fleischauer pyra) mided the propaganda power by helping to expand the influence t of the native American fascists, i all of whom are charged with participating in the same conspiracy...
...Trick* or t i e Goal* TTHE report outlines the method, and documents T the way the Nazis have acquired the key concerns of Europe, such as, the creation of mixed companies with German capital and capita from occupied countries, as for example, the Francolor (French dyes indust r y ) and the I. G. Farben (the German dye trust), and numerous mixed Geyman - Rumania firms...
...Frank Woodruff Johnson), Mrs...
...this will be the hardest problem...
...Benjamin Gruenberg, Dr...
...Industrial Defense Association, Boston, Mass...
...Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, as allies of the Reich, have no claim upon the United Nations for the return of property as other countries have...
...in 1941, 22 stock companies and 1400 corporations were liquidated...
...James Oneal, California...
...One of the turning points was the appointment early in 1942 of the president of the German Industrialists Association, General Director Zangen of the Mannesmann Concern, to be in charge of the concentration of industry for wet purposes...
...The Defender Publishers, Wichita, Kansas (Winrod...
...Martin must weigh the political considerations of being attacked as antiTabor in the north, a critical decision in the light of 1944...
...The astounding story of the subtle and insistent Nazi penetration of ali phases of the financial and industrial life of Europe is still to be pictured to the minds of Americans and Englishmen...
...Tories Sponsor Six Bills to Cripple Unions By GEOGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Congressional anti-Labor bloc is preparing to sponsor six measures designed to hamstring organised labor in line with the Tory program...
...Parenthetically, the Hiiferding followers, i. e. the Russian Socialist economists, base their analysis of Germany as a new type of class state on two premises both of which seem to me wrong: the first of correctly constructing a new concept of a state economy, based on Russia, but mistakenly—and more by deduction than fact—seeing certain trends in Germany as leading to a variant of the Russian model...
...state insurance paid to firms closed by war in 1942 had reached 44 million Reichsmark—more than double the amount paid in 1941...
...Through the Erfurt offices, the Hitlerian racial divisionist campaign in the United States was linked up with similar campaigns in forty-five other countries, including France, Spain, Great Britain, Morocco (note reference above to the Arab National League^ and Japan (note reference to Japanese Chamber of Commerce...
...In many cases, of course, there has been simple seizure and plundering, and the headache there is the tracing of the "stolen goods"—this means not only industrial equipment taken over by Nazi business gauledters...
...The protest was made in a letter to Clement Attlee, Lord of the> Privy Seal and President of the Labor Party...
...Smith advanced the name of Charles Lindbergh as his candidate for President on the "America First Party" in 1944...
...And the fall of this last outpost of II Duce's Empire may be handled in different ways than the losses of the other Italian colonies...
...With regard to racial discrf* ination the delegates pledged their organizations to work federal and state legislation • punish those guilty of racial diecrimination...
...And leading factors in the war decision include the brilliant Montgomery advance with the British 8th Army on the one side, and considerable Russian advances in the Stalingrad area— not to mention the penetration of American forces and- supplies throughout the Near East But it was only two years ago that these oil fields, embracing some of the world's richest petroleum deposits, were almost put into the Axis focus by the political maneuver which put the wily, debased RsshidAli el Gailani into office as Prime Minister...
...Increasing Axis i activity prompted the British occupation...
...William Feigenbaum who read a letter from Abraham Cahan and presented to Algernon Lee a handsomely bound volume containing letters of congratulation on his anniversary...
...And this week a token of success was noted in the Reich-Arab broadcasts which alternated between anger and confusion...
...CoL I Fleischauer ? SDF Conference Maps Plans For Country-Wide Organization 22-24 delegates of the Social Democratic Federation from all over the country met at the Rand School...
...The report of the International Transport Workers Federation quotes the press to show that these employers association's are to be anaed with "extraordinary powers...
...Sana, alias Colonel Bennett, alias J. G. Francis), George Deatherage and William Dudley Pelley...
...H. Harold...
...Swindle TPHE United Nations report shows how Small Business is being wiped out in Germany while Big Business waxes fat...
...Circles which used to cheer the appeasement saturated words of Charles Lindbergh and the hymns of hate of Father Charles E. Coughlin, tentatively put Smith's appearance in New York sometimes in late Pebuary or early March...
...Ulrich Fleischauer, director of World Service, of Erfurt, Germany...
...The story of the power and activity, of the Mannesmann "family" combine is related in Franz Neumann's Behemoth...
...it will ease the po•ffcSwi ot the British 9th Army, Watch is guarding Jhe back doors eT Turkey and Russia and protecting tie oil fields against sabotage...
...What its mass roots would would be is another and generally ignored problem...
...Denouncing this deed as political assassination, the conference declared : "The SDF supports the courageous stand taken on the matter by Luigi Antonini, President of the Italian-American Labor Council and by all democratic anti-Fasieets, and adds its voice in asking Attorney-General Biddie to start an investigation on the question of political assassinations in the U.S.A...
...The National Executive Committee met at'four o'clock on Saturday afternoon aad received the report of the Secretary...
...The association fe» hemp and flax, for example, has power to lay down prices, profit margins, terms of supply and payment...
...Once dingy Moslem towns, the cities now gleamed in transformation with their wide, sweeping parkways and smart esplanades...
...In response to the ovation which he had re ceived, Algernon Lee brought the banquet and the conference to an end with a short but very effective address on the history, meaning and future of the socialist movement in the United States...
...The six proposals are: 1—The Smith Anti-Strike Bill, passed last year but buried in a Senate committee...
...Charles B. Hudson, Omaha, Nebr...
...Said a statement issued by the Trades and Labor Assembly of the A F L , : "This man Smith has made himself obnoxious to most good Americans over a long period of time, and since the passing of Huey Long, with whom he was associated...
...In such states we advise the formation of Labor Political committees or leagues with which our comrades can affiliate or help to organise and select such progressive candidates of the other dominant parties and work for their election...
...the Pelley Publishers, Asheville, N . C (Win...
...King Carol of Rumania was a secret partner and shared in the profits, he in turn used his position to further Mr...
...Figures on the rationalization program of industrial dictator Albert Speer, show, for example, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special artillery shells was reduced from 54 to 4. The year 1942 showed that within the economic sphere the German industrialists received freer power of action, while in the larger political sphere there has been a growing fusion of the Nazi party and Big Business...
...Chicago: Dr...
...The greatest decline (more than 50', t was among these companies with a capital below a halfmillion Reichsmarks but the number of companies capitalized above o*" million increased...
...Leslie Fry (indicted as Paquita de Shishmareff, alias Mrs...
...Raphael Abramowitch...
...Iraq, Near East Pivot, Rallies Arab World to Allied War Offensive Axis Confused by fading Support Of Moslems By MATTHEW LOW What impact and effect is Iraq's declaration of war against the >?xis likely to have in the highly self-conscious native world of millions of Moslems in Africa and the East...
...Little has been heard of any "peoples' movement...
...Smith also spoke at Saint Paul on January 18, before the same group that cheered the indicted Mrs...
...Here, it is claimed, is an unprecedented Allied opportunity to launch a psychological offensive, calculated to activate the Italian people against Fascism— for now a "constructive, positive" call for the overthrow of Mussolini could be launched from major Italian territory...
...Maiaxa* schemes Are we going to restore Malaxa to Malaxa...
...In 1940, 364 stock companies and 1900 corporations went under...
...The Libyanan colonies — Tripolitania and Cyrenaica—which had been the granaries of ancient Rome, were after all the greatest of all the Italian possessions...
...In Algiers tradeunionists even held political office...
...Abraham Miller...
...Do you think that all this can be forgotten by our people...
...August Claessens...
...Elizabeth Dilling several weeks before...
...Stadsklev played host to Mrs...
...Throughout the network, the fundamental dictum, as promulgated by the Erfurt control office, was "Democracy is Jewish-dominated, hence democracy must go...
...Meanwhile Smith is touring the Midwest and West in an effort to gain support for his projected "America First Party...
...Both of these sessions were eminently successful, being attended by large and enthusiastic audiences...
...Christian Free Press (Fry...
...Beginning with forum discussions, the sessions concluded with a dinner to Algernon Lee at the Hotel Commodore attended by 800 guests...
...In general terms the average capital of a German joint stock company amounted in 1938 to approximately 2.2 million RM...
...in honor of his reaching his seventieth year, was an exceptionally large and joyous gathering of old-time socialists and younger supporters of socialist ideals...
...But all the time Anglo-American diplomacy in Baghdad was working overtime...
...6—A bill to end the overtime provision...
...Similar associations exist in chemical, coal mining and textile finishing...
...The toastmaster, August Claessens, introduced Mr...
...Savale Syrjala, Massachusetts...
...There is a real danger to which you cannot remain indifferent, for it is with such misunderstandings that rifts open between people, rifts which it is difficult to fill in' later...
...It is conceded, of course, that Algeria's political and administrative problem was of a different character insofar as the.French cooperated with Allied maneuvers...
...Appeasement Groups Tour Gerald Smith By WALTER K. LEWIS Gerald L. K. Smith, Detroit rabble-rouser, publisher of the native fascist "Cross and the Flag," is expected to speak in New York publicly in the near future...
...particularly in the chemical industry'— a familiar process at which the Germans are particularly adept after years of practice on American companies...
...But there is this tremendous wealth amassed, little of which can be "given back" to where it once belonged, in the case of foreign expropriation and much of which belongs directly to the Nazi industrialist machine...
...H E L P T H E M !" Here follows a partial list— some indicted, some not—of those recommended: Industrial C o n t r o l Reports (James True...
...Writing in the Wall St Journal, Raymond Holey, the soured New Dealer, says: "These measures, taken together would provide for the country a fairly clear-cut and coherent labor policy Sure, a straight program for Tory reaction...
...This bill has the best chance of passage, for the GOP will line up behind i t ' 4—A prohibition of "featherbed" rules and/ practices...
...The letter said in part: "No French socialist and, I shall go further, no French republican is unaware of this ma/i's black career...
...Louis Reiss...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL is the question of what to do with C v nn industry after the war...
...Free Italian circles here have called on" the United Nations to turn Tripolitania into a base of operations to be organized more or less on the lines of Fighting France in North Africa...
...It is he who created the first concentration camps, into which were thrown, at his orders, the patriots whose hearts hated Germany and the Vichy dictatorship...
...BIRKHEAD and BRYCE OLIVER Thirty-three individuals have new been indicted by the District of Columbia grand jury for conspiracy to impair the morale of the armed forces...
...And to confound it ail, it is doubtful whether the integrated pattern thus creased can be pulled apart (should it be pulled a p a r t ? ) to restore, as the United Nations have resolved, all property seiezed by the 'Nazis to its "rightful" owners...
...Fast-moving military strategy necessarily operates with the existing relations of friendly and enemy forces...
...The Banquet to Algernon Lee...
...The business sessions of the National Executive Committee and of the delegates to the Conference were held on Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
...Geo...
...As Hitler's "intellectual expert" on anti-Semitism, Fleischauer came into world prominence in 1935 when he appeared before a Swiss court as an expert witness to testify as to the authenticity of a maliciously spurious- document known as the "Protocols of the Elders o f Zion...
...The session on Friday evening, Jan...
...On Saturday afternoon, similar sessions was led by Raphael Abramowitch, George S, Counts, John Chamberlain and Abba P. Lerner, wtih Sidney Hook in the moderator's seat The subject was: "Is Collectivism Compatible with Democracy...
...with Max Eastman, Sidney Hook, A l gernon Lee and Bert rand Russell participating...
...Ulrich Fleischauer, of Erfurt, Germany...
...In many cases the ' German partkripa"patent rights...
...Italians feel quite differently about the loss of Tripoli—which was popularly referred to as the "fourth shore" of Italy (the other three being the Tyrrhenian, Ionian, and Adriatic shores...
...S. M. Neistadt, Baltimore...
...Doling...
...thty declared, "the enactment of e»dlynching laws...
...Do you think that these people will be so weak as to forget such acts, which mark the infamy of the man who accomplished them...
...The Iraq government, of course, situated as it is between the North Africa-Egypt lines and the South Russia-Turkey boundary to the North, was in a squeeze...
...In Poland...
...Example*: Gerald B. Winrod's Defender and Robert Edward Edmondson's Vigilante Bulletins (millions circulated) urged the public to become acquainted with World Service news letters...
...French Socialists Protests App't of Peyrouton The French Socialist parliamentary group, speaking through Felix Gouin its acting President, has protested the appointment of Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria...
...Deatherage, president), which sold and encouraged the sale of anti-Semitic literature...
...Among speakers were: Dr...
...The Tomahawks, Walla Walla, Wash...
...August Claessens...
...Three of the six proposals are in bill form, the others are under discussion...
...Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, InjL...
...Here is an example of World Service aid to approved individuals and organizations in the United States: "You can help 1 save America, yourself and your family from the folly of other i nations (France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, et al ? ) by making the truth known to your friends and neighbors . . . join a fighting organization in your area and i become active in spreading the truth...
...has been a step towards the rationalisation of industry ( i . e. the principle o f efficiency), and the creation of magnificent technological equipment...
...Connecticut, chairman...
...The gathering combined the characteristics of a convention with those of a membership conference...
...and the second that the functions of the exchange market—a .distinctive feature of capitalism—is taken over by the state...
...William Karlin...
...This area is reduced to an agricultural and feeding area of Germany...
...Sidonie Gruenberg, Professor George S. Counts, Mayor Jasper McLevy...
...Records of U. S. Fascists Reveal Vast Network of "Appeasement International By L.M...
...Hans Diebel of Los Angeles sent American reports to World Service and advised on methods of presenting propaganda...
...An action which roused special interest was the adoption of a sharp resolution dealing with the murder of Carlo Tresca...
...Shortly after, the German business press reported that German industrial magnates have partly taken over control of industry hitherto exercised by the state...
...As the Election Laws in a number of states make it impossible or difficult to organize a Labor Party our comrades must make other political adjustments...
...An article by Paul Sering in the November 28 New Statesman and Nation reviews the fusion of industrialist and party officials mainly in the S.S.-Funk groups...
...Lastly, it is he who dissolved thousands of town councils and dismissed thousands of mayors who were guilty of being republicans and friends of the Allied nations...
...Judge Jacob Panken, Judge Matthew Levy...
...One pixieish example is the gigantic Malaxa steel works of Rumania -which were taken over by the Hermann Gdring Werke...
...A recently returned resident of Cairo has said: "Even more important than immediate military victory is the attitude of the Near Eastern people toward the war and its ideals...
...In states where genuine progressive or liberal groups organize parties our comrades should affiliate...
...ticity of the document, purporting to disclose a Jewish world conspiracy, had been challenged in a legal proceeding, and the testimony, ending in a verdict which branded the document a fraud...
...Destour, the Tunisian liberation movement, was once a substantial power in the Near East...
...For example, there are a number of states wherein a Labor Party can get on the ballot but only with independent candidates...
...Japanese Chamber of Commerce, N ew York...
...Dilling several weeks ago...
...DudleyPeUsy...
...Smith's entry into Saint Paul was met with a barrage of protest from the A FL unions in that city...
...Edmondson...
...In the last tiro years, the entire European economy, industry and finance, have been almost completely overhauled, and integrated into the German cartel and banking life...
...22, was devoted to discussion of the topic, "Is Socialism Still Valid...
...Where no other means is possible, we advise our comrades to nominate their own ticket under whatever party name or emblem is practical...
...Of aft she p—we* poszles, I submit that this is the hardest nut to lie cracked...
...In states where genuine Labor or Farmer-Labor parties are organized, Social Democrats should affiliate as an organization or join as individual members...
...The whole affair does not—as so man j' commentators- have glibly observed—signify a profound ideological revolution in the Moslem world...
...Its position has some resemblance to that of Algeria...
...Elizabeth Dilling (alias Rev...
...Put this latter point"4s not singularly characteristic of the German economy but a necessary component of any war economy— a tact demonstrated by ours and Britain's experiences in the last two and three years...
...The Malaxa combine was built by political patronage and manipulation...
...German financial penetration, through "normal" channels, has absorbed practically the whole economic life of these countries...
...In the central and South-Eastern European countries (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Hungary, etc...
...A good deal of attention was given to the matter of how Social Democratic groups in the various states can most effectively mobilize their forces for political purposes, and after thorough discussion the following lines of actions were laid down: "As organized labor is rapidly becoming politically conscious and active, both defensively and aggressively, Social Democrats must ally themselves closely with labor...
...With great sorrow I tell you that, by such leniency towards our French Hitlerites, the Allies are in the process of losing all the prestige which until now they had enjoyed through the admirable moral position which they had assumed in the eyes of Europe...
...The union assembly called upon the FBI to investigate the backers of the Smith rally...
...Commenting on Iraq's decision, the-'important Turkish paper Tan wrote thts week: "Iraq's entry into the | war will affect other Moslem countries . . . " Some observers have posed as a concrete possibility the prospect of a union it Arab States.* Among the movers and shakers are Iraq's Nuri, aiid the...
...The Fate of the Money-Bags T H E tremendous German cartels are an integral part of the German war machine...
...Darlington Hoopes, Reading...
...This creates difficulties, as progressives on other tickets must be opposed or at best voted for on a split ticket This militates against an independent ticket and drives workers away from a Labor Party...
...Paul rally and to the radio stations where 'Smith broadcast four times during his stay in the Twin Cities...
...We also urge upon the OWI not to permit its officials to further the interest of the Communist Party by favoring the inclusion o f Communists in the socalled Victory Councils, formed among the foreign language groups...
...II Duce's dream of Empire is fading in African fire...
...We stand with the democraticanti anti - Fascists a nd anti • Nee groups in their opposition to tst Communist-inspired attempts &} take control of anti-Fascist aw anti-Nazi movements both sew and in Europe...
...Count Cherep-Spiridivitch (indicted as H. Victor Boenstrupp, alias the Duke of St...
...on the 40 hour week...
...Should this be destroyed...
...In the western countries (France, Belgium, Holland) penetration has been mainly through the national banking institutions...
...But to hold Oaf) gains, it must work for labor unity, a unity that will be ieel...
...That it was calculated to rally the Arab masses, so long the prey of fascist propagandists, is beyond doubt The official grounds set JSorth for the declaration were opal interferences by Germany in domestic affairs, instigation and promotion via agents and radio of unrest 'and disaffection, etc...
...The question of should raises complex economic and political problems...
...Whether these bills pass or not depends in the large on the decision of House minority leader Joe Martin...
...It prohibits strikes during the present emergency...
...T Indicative of the appeal Smith is making, are the speeches at two meetings Smith addressed...
...The publications and organizations listed below are fighting the battle with us with all they have...
...The southern Democratic bloc is lined up behind these bills...
...In Chicago, January 15, Smith addressed a meeting of 500 calling themselves "Citizens of the U.S.A.," at a ball on Wacker Street in Chicago...
...David Gertler...
...The incumbent Premier, the capable Said N'url was tone of the closest Arab collaborators with Colonel Lawnance in fVorld War I , and has long dreamed of a confederation of Arab States...
...A l gernon Lee, N ew York...
...It is he who signed the first Hitlerite decree against the Jews...

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