Armenian Dashnag Collaborationists?
Carlson, John Roy
Armenian Dashnag Collaborationists? from JOHN ROY CARLSON To tht EditOr; THERE is now irrefutable proof of. collaboration between the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnag) ami the Nasi*. It...
...The Popular Front coalition accounted for approximately B6 percent of the new Chamber of Deputies with Socialist* roughly 26 percent...
...Rebuke...
...Sincerely yours, REUBEN DARBINrAN, Editor-in-chief, Hairenik...
...Their main issue is at present a "monetary reform" by which they attract indeed many people...
...Testimony from Reader* Fram DANIEL BOKO 1A To the Editor: Enclosed please find check for ths amount of $.1.00 for 7'fle New Leader, America's leading liberal-labor weekly, for subscription for one year...
...This fact should have been known to you...
...of CMO...
...Elizabeth Hilling thought the ARF "patriotic...
...Unfortunately, describing the political developments in that country, Silln has distorted the facts to such an extent that hi* article provides enemies of fras, democratic Latvia with a good opportunity to arouse suspicion against the suthor and the truthfulness of hi* statement...
...The war has eliminated temporarily *h* first of these propositions...
...John Roy Carlson To th* Kditor: I was surprised and pained seeing in the current issue of The New Leader a fall-page article by tha notorious fallow-traveler John Roy Carlson, in which he hat- devoted two paragraphs to tha Pashnsgs, representing them as a Fascist organization...
...The government wss composed of democrats supported by ths absolute majority of the parliament...
...It is necessary to watch the further activity of Gerald Smith and consorts, and It would be interesting and important If George Kellman ar another impartial reporter would attend tha neat meet ing...
...It is a matter of fact that we have a powerful money monopoly in the world which, together with the not less powerful land monopoly, is the main cause of the endles* world trouble* and wars for thousand* of year* and is now approaching a peak...
...The ARF has followed the course of political chameleons, working with clerical Fascists, America Firsters, catering to Nazi ideology, and also posing as Socialists...
...LU1Z I like your paper very much...
...Among the bscker* of Binderup's plan sppesr in his fin most point* valuable) book, Unrobing th* Ghosts of Wall Sheet, the jeauitically educated, anti-Semitic "Father" Coughlin, who ha* written a book, Money, exactly based upon Hitler'* money reform, and Pro-fe**or Irving Fisher, who has repeatedly tried to disparage Gesell's unhoardable money...
...To understand this allegedly "Innocuous" money reform movement, a brief explanation is requisite...
...De Gaulle, '* a bid to regain French power ami •reatige, turned first toward Russia, but ¦ew, under the influence <of the Foreign Minister Ifulaglt and Ilium, has swung back into the Anglo-Saxon sphere...
...They have the common qualities of Communists everywhere: they are vociferous, agitate constantly, ars clever in mixing foreign policy with domestic issues snd are never short of means to finance their propaganda...
...The ARF has also sympathized with America Firsters...
...There were three unequal current* of opinion: ths proponents of sn •llianc* with another continental power (Laval), with Great Britain (Daladier, Bllim), with Soviet Russia (Communists...
...Ths anti-Soviet attitude of the ARF was opportunist, for with the turning of the Nazi tide at Stalingrad, ARF policy underwent a change...
...Before 1989, the French public was divided on who should be France'* principal ally...
...I would not be caught without its true new...
...Silvio Gesell discovered ths wsya snd mesns to eliminst* those monopolies Hitler'* shrewd monetary expert, II jalmai Schacht, found out that this reform systsm could be properly trsnsformed snd adapted to National Socialism and would then wonderfully promote the aim* of Hitler...
...The excuse offored was that the Quislings were "noble" men who acted in an "individual capacity" and not in the name of the ARF...
...Aaasterdsm, Holland Money Reform and Fascism From ANDREW COHDIAN To the Editor: TllE article of George Kellnian in the October 20 issue of The New Leader concerning tin aid Smith is indeed of great importance, because it give* some intelligence of how the American Fascists or Nazi* are going to permeate into all ranks of the people...
...Ulmanis Not a Democrat f, mm f. DVIMOV lo the Editor: The article on The Baltie Plebiscite, published in The New Loader of October 27, was mainly devoted to tha plight ef Latvia...
...The party organs began to reprint from the official organ of Soviet Armenia and used propaganda handouts of the Soviet Embassy...
...The last genersl elections prior to the war were held in April-May, 1936...
...Infarmatioa i* rather scarce in the European press, particularly about Russia...
...The fact that these parties won respectively the same percentage of seats in the recent cantonal elections proves that despite the war, the general low level of the national economy and ths addition of the woman's vote, all favor-sble elements for Communist propa-gsnda, ths French on the whole hsve ¦emalned true to their prewsr psrty affiliations...
...Ha Is strictly opposed to the compulsory method fat scientific reasons, as his delegate* in thst meeting explained...
...Radical Socialists 20 percent and Communists from 6 to 10 percent...
...The author undertook th* important task of proving by facta that Stalin's dictatorship deceived, raped and falsified the will of the Latvian people...
...These leading pseudo-money reformer* sre now going to reconcile sll ths conflicting opinion* of sll other money reformers by the foundation of th* "Congress of Monstsry Organizations" (CMO), which held Its first meeting at Detroit, August 17-19, th* same which Kellman i« referring to In his article...
...One proof more as to what these former America Firsters are aiming at...
...The question of Latvia's independence is certainly important enough to deserve the attention of American public opinion and a careful study in The New Leader...
...It is sifted ss it were by sn Invisible censorship...
...France Looks for an Ally From fEN PROTTER T» the Editor: In his recent articles in Tfie .Veto Leader, Paul Dugan ascribe* too much importance* to the role of the Communists in France...
...Unfortunately, th* leading propagator of Geasll'a reform systsm, Dr.H.R.Fack, who has with great success propagated this in hi* paper, Freedom and Pleuig, for about 16 ysars, has been captivated by those pseudo-money reformers, because he hoped to convert them to Gesell'* rstional reform...
...He, of course, did not know the other more or less sscrot aims of Smith, et al...
...Armbands seized in a Paris Nazi warehouse show the insignia used by A RF volunteers fighting with the Wehrmacht...
...The deadlock, if ever there wa* one, has been broken and not in their favor...
...By mesns of terror, Ulmanis maintained his rule until tha time when the Bolsheviks arrived, and the Fascist dictatorship was replaced by tha Bolshevist...
...A program of fanatic nationalism and "race wot ship" for their youth corps has since then been an integral part of the ARF ideology...
...All the Hearst papers reprinted the ARF letter...
...Thi* was first recognized by Silvio Gesell snd Herbert Spencer about 50 year* ago...
...lit pattern, used in Nazi-Germany with astounding temporary success...
...The author does not explain why the constitution prevented him from safeguarding national interests...
...Disclaiming responsibility on this basis or slyly professing a "we didn't know" attitude is an old gag...
...from W ff...
...A few weeks ago the Armenian National Committee, an ARF agency, sent him a letter of gratitude for the publicity given ARF endeavors...
...in order to safeguard the national independence in anticipation of the approaching world crisis...
...12, 1942, eight top ARF leader*, headed by General Dro Ganayan, entered into an agreement with Alfred Rosenberg to aerve a* Quisling puppets upon Germany's conquest of Caucasus Armenia...
...The cantonal elections are a stiaw showing that the wind is definitely not blowing toward the Communist...
...From JOHN HAYMMS HOLMS Congratulations on the fine paper you ami your aswiciste* are getting out these days...
...It is just what I have been looking for...
...ARF leaders in Boston at first frantically denied the authenticity of these documents, but finally admitted the truth in the party organ, Hairenik...
...After Hitler's advent, however, they became intensely nationalist...
...In year paper I found a lot af material that la quite unknown here...
...You give su angle to the news thst one does not get from the newspsper...
...This could be don* by substituting ruthless Nasi method* with the sld of th* Gestapo for ths democratic and automatic method* of Gesell's system, tha main (sine sf which I* making currency unsoardsbl...
...The impression is thus created that in May, 1934, Ulmanis was still head of the government, and that in suspending tha constitution, he acted within the legal limits of hi* powers and in the best interests of his country...
...I trust, there will be no Ispse in my subscription, for I do not want to ml** sn issue...
...To serve th* intrest* of free Latvia in this manner mean* to do them disservice...
...The Dashnag organization, namely, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, has been a member of the Second Socialist International ever since 1997 and is as much Social Democrat as is the Social Democratic Federation, whose organ i* The New Leader...
...The ARF started out as Socialists...
...am surprised that you have permitted yourselves to entertain material which slanders a sister organization...
...Further proof is provided ip a series of photographs showing Dro with high-ranking Nazi officials and other AUK chiefs charged with training ARF spies to penetrate Soviet ranks...
...Of course, thi* can work only ** long ss such a forcible method ia tolerated...
...The two groups of Smith and Reynolds, together with Charles G. Binderup's "Constitutional Money Leogue," will form one new party and they hope to get 15,000.000 votes...
...They want to know, very simply, if he is willing to co-ordinate French foreign policy with and subordinate it if necessary to Moscow's...
...They have been all things to all men—whichever seemed the most opportune...
...Could you send me the further issue*7 1 wss specially interested In Max Eastman'* articles on Socialism, sine* I hsve known his former views...
...Now former Congressman Binderup's "Constitutional Money League" Is based upon the asms principle a* Hitler's monetary reform...
...The enemies of free, democratic Latvia will certainly not fall to use Silin's article as proof of how American public opinion is being misled and what "democracy" mean* to ths Latvians THI NIW If ADM IN HOLLAND Fram 8. T AS To th* Editor: I WAS glad to receive The New Lemdar...
...All trsds uniona were disbanded, as was ths Socialist Youth League, whose Isader, Bruno Kalnln, member of parliament, was jailed for three years, ate Under Silin's pen, this assumes an innocent appearance of "temporary suspension" of ths constitution by Ulmanis...
...They hsve reprinted articles by John T. Flynn, notorious America Firster snd pal of Merwin K. Hart, who referred to them as "patriotic...
...Their program for many years was Socialist...
...In reality at that time Ulmanis was a member of the Sejm but not of ths government...
...Hearst is also a friend...
...Thus, after having stated that the Ulmanis Government in May, 1920, had summoned the Constituent Assembly which adopted a democratic constitution guaranteeing a democratic vote to the electorate and a cultural autonomy to national minorities, Silln proceeds to say that "on May 15, 1934, this constitution was temporarily suspended by Ulmanis...
...Mrs...
...It will be sn essy job for them to show that he has misrepresented generally known events...
...They regarded "the political protection of the German Reich over Armenia the most secure guarantee" and looked upon Nazis as "liberators of Armenia...
...Which I shall thank you to send to m* at mice...
...The coming national election* will surely confirm it...
...On ths night of Msy li, 1984, Ulmanis, head of a military clique, performed a fascist coup d'efat, disbanded ths Sejm, arrested member* of the government, abolished freedom of the press, drove tks Socialist psrtisi into the undegrvund, and let loose politicsl police in the GPU and Geatspd style...
...But it* reel main points sre sl-most identical with thoss of Hitler's reform...
...As soon ss sn opportunity presents itself, we sre going to reprint a aeries of your srtirles in the Dutch Labor press...
...To make it appear justifiable and sttrsrtive to many people, this league demands the restoration of the eliminated Article J, Section 8, of our Constitution as main point, a demand tine qua nun of every money reform...
...It reats on the discovery of a German document showing that on Ihsc...
...And this is in nowise "innocuous," as KeMman believes, because the kind of money reform Smith is referring to is exactly copied from the II il lei S.ha...
...I rs-ceived The New Leader tor January ami Febraary...
...The Communists ate not concerned whether de I.anile i* demon at or dictator, whether he is or is not for nationalization of any particular industry...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
