Iranian Rabbit Threatens the Russian Bear
Iranian Rabbit Threatens the Russian Bear THE American Communist answer to the Iranian question is simplicity KsetfMt ain't so. A Daily Worker headline of March 1« reads, "The Red Army That Isn't...
...Rudolf Hess was his pupil, and when Hess flew to England, Haushofer lost his only friend among the Nazis, and spent six months in the Dachau concentration camp in 1945...
...Obviously all that the U3SR wants is security—plus a little oil...
...The generals told us that precision bombing was precise: it was not...
...Thus Prince Firous of Iran declared: "We have absolutely no fear of Russia whatsoever...
...It seems to be the only fair compromise, the only way to avoid civil war, to achieve Jewish-Arab cooperation, and to give refuge to 100,000 European Jewa immediately...
...And within the USSR are vast oil resources, about 10 percent more than In the United States, and American reserves are being depleted far more rapidly than those of Russia...
...The economic recovery and industrial development of Europe is more dependent upon Near Eastern oil than ever before...
...Karl Heushofer, whose geopolitical ideas were borrowed, caricatured, but never understood by Hitler, committed auicide with his wife on March IS...
...Prieto has rejected an invitation from Vincent Auriol and other French Socialists who seek to effect a reconciliation with the Negrin group, who are in a tiny minority and who have been rebuked by the Socialists within Spain...
...meet the threat of a Communisi Germany, the British and Americam have no effective policy...
...This ?mounts to the repudiation by the Socialist* within Spain of their falsa leaders abroad who have maneuvered With the Communists sgainat the SP...
...The most accomplished liars are the diplomats...
...And everywhere, except Japan, we continue the policy of appeasement, officially eschewed in Washington and London...
...84.1 percent of the, bombs fell outside the area aimed at, When the target was German oil plants...
...TROTSKY AND HESS met and plotted the destruction of the Soviet Union, according to the testimony of Piatakov during the Moscow purge trial in 1937...
...The Communists are exploiting the slogan of a united Germany, as forecast here...
...For instance, C. L. Sulzberger reports in the NY Timet of March 19 that the Soviet administrators In the Russian tone have been violating the terms of the' Potsdam agreement for the past six months...
...like Henry Wallace, they apologise for Russian expansion and rape as necessary for "security...
...I'm willing to take the rap," he wrote...
...Hoover, off to Europe for a survey, said "this world-wide famine, the inevitable result of war, ia the worst since the ThiHy Years War, when one-third of the people died...
...The average was about' 3.6 percent of hits...
...Lehman insists that only by a return to rationing can the USA feed the starv-ing...
...The Russian Jews simply do not want to go to that frontier in the Far Eastern wilderness...
...The tragedy of Haushofer ia measured by the fact that he betrayed his son, who participated in the July 20, 1944 putsch against Hitler, to the Gestapo...
...Judah Magnes seem to me to be the most reasonable—for a bi-national state with numerical equality between Jews and Arabs...
...Worst of all, Social Democrats in the American and British tones arc kidnapped for apposing totalitarianism am the "united front...
...Sidney Flatew, chief welfars officer at the Zellshelm csmp for displaced persons, saved 300 Jewe by ignoring orders not to register any more refugees...
...At the very moment that the threat of war increases, Britain announces that the Polish Army in Italy under General Anders will soon be dissolved...
...Iranians talk this way .because they are not sure of Anglo-American support against Russian aggression—beyond words—at the ¦ coming UNO session at which the Iranian protest will be discussed, and any proposed action vetoed by the Soviet deley • • » Negri* Expelled by Socialists Adelante, the organ of the Spanish Socialist Party in exile in Mexico, haa published the ratication by the Spanish Anti-Franco Underground Socialist Party Of a resolution to expel from the party those who speak in the neme of the party without authorisation — namely Juan Negrin, Alvarez del Vayo, A gel Galarsa, Amaro del Rosa), Gonzales Pens, and Ramon Lamoneda...
...The Spanish Socialists in Mexico have Cabled Dr...
...Persia, it seems, ia nearly as much of a menace-to peace as Finland waa before a "friendly" government was installed there...
...Thus when Russia gets control of Iranian oil, all Europe will have to listen to the voice of the Kremlin...
...Now H. G. Wells and Arthur Koestier are among the prominent Britons who have urged the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials to interrogate Hess about the alleged meeting with Trotsky before the Nasi is found guilty and shot...
...The testimony is overwhelming — every correspondent in the Far East reports the same facta about the rape of Manchuria by the Red Army: Robert Martin and Andrew Freeman of the N. Y. Poet, A. T. Steele of the Herald Tribune, William Gray of Time, Richard Cuahing of the AP, John Graham Dowling of PM — 22 newspapermen in ell who have gone to Manchuria report that the looting of that part of China was systematic and complete Bat the facts as reported by their correspondents have made no impression on the editorials in PM and the Post...
...All the known oil resources of Europe are now in the Soviet sphere...
...people are sleeping three and four a a bed...
...Dr...
...The Jews fleeing the current terror in Poland arrive here ill, ia tatters, exhausted...
...CORRECTION.—In the March 9 issue it was stated that there are now 115,000 Jews in Birobidjan...
...They have jailed anti-Naais for no other reason than criticism of Soviet Russia and Communism, or for Opposing a merger ei Hie Communist and Social Democratic par* ties...
...Herbert Lehmen, retiring as UNRRA director, warned that It is already too late to prevent wholesale starvation in Europe...
...On March 14 the Iranian War Minister declared that his army Would defend Teheran to the last soldier and that Iran would appeal to the UNO Security Council...
...Among others, the developments in Germany...
...The need far food all over the world is greater than we have been told, h« added...
...see • Goering, on the witness stand at Nuremberg, said the Nazis plagiarized the idea of concentration camps from th« Bolsheviks...
...Tragedy In Germany Confirmation of facts, first reported in The New Leader a few months ago, and of trends predicted, comes in so often now that it has become boreeome to record them...
...The Russian troops in Iran are just imaginary, and besides, they have to protect the Soviet Union (population 100,000,<>00) from the imperialists in Iran (population 15,000,000...
...A Daily Worker headline of March 1« reads, "The Red Army That Isn't There...
...To prove that he is willing to cooperate and compromise, Stalin promised to withdraw the, Red Army from the Danish island of Bornholm in April...
...t , --- i -""~!*r^~Mgi I— MISCELLANY News Worth Reprinting EUROPE'S wheat harvest will be 20,000,000 tons less than the prewar average...
...The Socialists argue that the Premier, Giral, has no constitutional power to enlarge the government as elected by the Cortes at its recent meeting ia Mexico City without another meeting of the Cortes...
...Meantime the German Social Democrats in the USA are still begging ear State Department for visaa to return to their homeland and aid in building German democracy—and to resist the preaaure for fusion ef the Communist and Social Democratic Parties...
...Famine threatens to reduce a continent to chaos, to defeat any effort to build democracy an the ruins of war...
...There is no threat by Russia and there never has been one...
...The heartrendering task ef turning them away is mine...
...Just at the moment that many Ifberal-Iabor-socialist forces are discussing the need of a third party similar to the British Labor Party or the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, an earlier effort at a third party, the Progreesivea of Wisconsin led by the la Follettes, decided to go back into the Republican Party, from which they seceded 12 years ago...
...The pro-Soviet feewca , even ex-Nazis ana former Junkers, an recipients of special privileges incrudini increased rations...
...Their editorial policy remains pro-Soviet...
...it ie still necessary for the USA and other countries to offer asylum to persecuted Jews...
...Jose Giral, head of the Spanish Republican Government in exile \n Paris, an energetic protest against the proposal to enlarge the government by Inclusion of Communists like Dolorea ^barruri (Passionaria) and of pro-Communist "Socialists" like Negrin...
...Truman's program of voluntary conservation ia utterly inadequate, he said...
...The Near East contains about half the world's known oil resources, controlled, up to now, largely by Anglo-American' Arms...
...Izvettia recounted the history of Iran's threats to Russian security...
...Even the devil can tell the truth...
...Of all the conflicting claims and viewpoints presented to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, the views of Dr...
...And the future oi Europe will be decided by the fate ei two nations—France and, more im portantly, Germany...
...Simultaneously the Soviet Government warned Iran that, an .appeal to the UNO would be considered an "unfriendly act...
...Children, survivors of the Nazi terror, knock an oar doers...
...We are offering the Germans, and the people of many othei countries, nothing but Mood, sweat ami tears...
...The Commission of Enquiry headed by John Dewey investigated this charge and found Trotsky not guilty...
...For starving millions, food ia an obsession, crowding out all intelligent thought about politics...
...But that alone will not be sufficient...
...Our troubles are internal...
...They blundei along, driving the Germans into th« Communist camp...
...We are sending food, but toe little and too late...
...The fact is that there are only about 26,000 Jews there in a population of 115,000...
...The csmp is jammed...
...Governmental help Is urgently demanded...
...Tinier America responds to this challenge, the results-may be catastrophic...
...They act arbitrarily and unilaterally on economic, military, and political matters...
...How can i do it...
...Whether in a trad* union or in a disputed nation, the onlj way to defeat Communism is to offer a better program...
...There are IM German Communists, all members of the Free German Committee, now la Louden all ready to ge te Germany—with.the approval of the British Government—to aid Russia in extending her influence there...
...Surely Britain and the USA should be reassured by this magnanimous act...
...The Army made extravagant claima driving the, war which civilians could not check...
...A similar request will be made by an American group soon...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 12
