News on the Four Winds
News on the Four Winds Word smuggled out of Holland reveals that even artists have found practical ways of working against the occupying Nazi forces. They maintain a secret publication entitled...
...Right now their chief activity ia in the direction of obtaining entrance visas for Spaniards who, though they may not be actually members of the Falange, are definitely tied to the Franco regime by services rendered...
...The consignment was, apparently, designed to arm an insurrection against the democratic government of President Guardia...
...rPHERE are signs of a real invasion of Latin America by Falangists...
...He received the support of the Popular Vanguard— the new nsme of the Communist Party...
...The Spanish refugees are of th* opinion that Franco, brought into power.by the Axis and surrounded by Axis agents, cannot under any circumstances really break with his over-lords and escape from their influence...
...A Spanish Republican was heard to remark: "Perhaps they are getting ready to build up for us a Spanish Tito...
...Mexicans are naturally curious to know what is in the wind...
...It is said in these reports that the various Latin American consulates in Madrid are swamped by the demand for visas for such persons...
...One way of increasing agricultural production being tried in Jamaica is the settlement of natives on small land holdings...
...Richard Armour...
...They maintain a secret publication entitled "The Free Artist," an eight-page printed publication, which not only outlines forms of resistance but proposes methods of post-war unity among artists for democratic political and social activity...
...INDALECIO PRIETO, in statements published recently, expresses the opinion that the denial of petroleum * to Spain by Great Britain and the United States may lead to the downfall of the Franco regime...
...The loss of the great manganese center of Nikopol, in the South, will be a greater disaster for German arms than many a larger city...
...in 1937, even, Russia supplied 11 per cent of Germany's need...
...Accidente to British women employed in war industries rose from 22,542 in 1941 to 48,861 in 1942, and the 1943 trend is still upward though complete figures have not been compiled...
...Thousands more, of course, are helped...
...Among them are officials, commercial agents, industrialists and university professors...
...The information about this affair is not very clear, but it appears that a steamer, the Dolphin, actually did leave for Costa Rica with a cargo which was not above suspicion...
...This blockade has grave results for Spanish industry, transport and fisheries...
...Russia's advance toward Germany is less measurable in terms of territory thsn in terms of manganese...
...MEXICAN papers comment on a bizarre incident involving a shipment of arms by water to Costa Rica...
...In the presidential elections then taking place in Costa Rica, th* candidate representing the democratic parties was Teodoro Ficado, the chairman of the National Republican Party...
...VIEWED WITH ALARM Critical Shortage of Alarm Glocks Hampers War Production.— Newspsper headline...
...Chinese industrial cooperatives, despite the acute stress of wartime conditions, now number some 1,800, with nearly 23,000 members...
...The number of women workers has increased too, but not In proportion to accidents, which are attributed to weariness, inadequate training, and emphasis on apead ahead of everything...
...Of all the paradox** And inconsistencies...
...At the early stage of Hitler's rearmament, Russia sold 52 per cent of the manganese needed by the Nasis for steel...
...The pace has been accelerated since the last report was made available, but thla showed that to March 31, 1942, 16,104 small holder- had been allotted 75,590 acres...
...Ten per cent is paid by the holder at the start, the balance being paid during the next ten years...
...This man spoke recently in a public meeting on the aubject of the refusal of the Spanish Committee of Liberation to admit Communists, He insisted that this mistake might in the end lead to another Spanish Civil War...
...Everyone is familiar with his part In the * campaign which led up to the assassination of Andres Nin...
...Mexican papers publish stories about the activities of emissaries in sympathy with Franco...
...For when there's need ef rising To outproduce the foe, There's no way of apprising The time to rise and go...
...Notes on Spanish Affairs By VICTOR SERGE •THE Catalan Communist leader Comorera is well known...
...This shortage, now, ef clocks is Th* winner, in a breeze...
...But when there's end to anger, And peace is come to men, That esrly morning clangor Will be with us again...
...But," added the Spanish Socialist, "if the United Nations depend upon threats, Franco may be able to keep himself in power despite all that the Spaniards may be able to do...
...These co-ops are now producing more than 250 different kind of articles, from shoes and blankets to carts and candles...
...A change of government would certainly result, said Prieto, if, to the blockade of oil, there were added one on cotton and grain...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 9
