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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

JOSEPH STALIN still has accomplices, paid and unpaid, in this country, where the truth is not hidden from them. their Leader. Their old pamphlets, speeches, articles, and mani- "Stalin's Men had at once changed their step and followed festos were consigned to their ample demagogic dustbins.

"They listened to the voice of Moscow, compared notes with Berlin, shouted that they wanted peace with Hitler, and joined the Unity Mitfords of the Right in a chorus of vituperation against the British and French war-mongers,

Party in a 28-page booklet issued for distribution to all

This is the official voice and warning of the British Labour

their members--booklet entitled "Finland. The criminal con- spiracy of Stalin and Hitler."

No ordinary political pamphlet, this. Far from it. "A apade shall be called a spade," say its authors, and it is probable that nothing so strong in denunciation has ever before been issued by any responsible British political party.

H'

"Blackmail And Brutality”

TERE are some examples of the phrases—justifiable phrases

-employed:

The real depth of iniquity of M. Joseph Stalin is still un- known. His 30 pieces of silver are already stained with the blood of his own nameless and countless Russian dead.

M. Joseph Stalin and Herr Adolf Hitler embraced over the prostrate

Mrs. S. D. Begg sincerely thanks all friends for their attendance at the funeral service and for their floral tributes and kind condo- | body of Poland. lences in her recent bereavement.

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Whether M. Joseph'Stalin devours those whom he loves, whether he was under the hypnotle spell of Adolf the Conqueror or Peter the Great, or whether he was now the victim of new morbid anxieties, the reader Is at liberly to speculate,

The Fins are the victims of a policy of deception, blackmail, tric- kery, cynicism, and brutality not dissimilar to the subtle cruelty of Japanese militarism, but exceeding in cunning and Hssimulation the diplomacy of Russian Czurdom and Nazi Germany,

"A new precedent in international perfidy"... "The grim joke of the Finnish People's Government” "The Red Czor is now the executor of the traditional Imperialism of Czaris! Russla"--such phrases drip Ilke vitriol from the pen.

MANY people in this and neutral countries must be puz- zled as well as astonished by the mad excesses of untruth in

And between them, interlacing a which the compounders of the well-told narrative of the events Nazi war bulletins are at pre-which led up to the rape of Finland" sent indulging. Recently they have easily surpassed all their own previous best, or worst, efforts,

-The campaign of lies has been conducted with clumsiness and recklessness that are bound to defent themselves. Everyone remembers the notorious case of the Ark Royal. The Nazis'

and to what else yet to come?--

there runs constantly the warning expressed to directly by quotation at the start of this article,

A New Slavery AWARNING against "Stalin's

Men"the description as a new title of shame is constantly repeated a warning against Stalin's Men in

our own land.

Mr. Harry Pollitt is named, that

The tougher the warplane's

petrol tank-

Tank slung inside

wing on 6 webbing straps

skul

Muckouter cowering of

tooth, inch sh

of lightly vultanised

The scent of the whole outfit a thick layer of Ribber which Swells upon contact with petrol from: a buller-hole, and Stops any (cakes

STRONGER altack; stronger de- doesn't get away with it for long. fence the race goes on at break Up comes a man with an acroplane neck speed. In the great battle of gun that can fire 300 lb, explosivo the air someone invents a bullet she's a minute. Elang goes your proof petrol tank. It is tied as machine gun bullet-proof petrul the nicet development in British tank.

and Cennas *plates, I'a a grand These shell guns are the biggest, idea, Ive layers thick, and lung newest thing in aircraft armainent. ke a man in a hammock on web. They have twice the range of most straps inside the plane's wings. machine-guns, but they weigh more it the attack is

sa fierce that a and have a heavy recall, so it's not bullet doen drive its way through, every one that can aland the then the hole automatically seals strain. Germany ures them in her itself (Caption 3).

Atesserschmitts, Dorniers. Heinkel. But the self-sealing tank Inventor Britain, of course, liss them too,

-the bigger the gun to pierce it

20mm. shell

I gun firing 300 1⁄4/4 lb. cxplosive shells per minute

Stalin so short a time ago as March of last year, when he said:

"We stand for peaceful, close and friendly relations with all the neigh bouring countries which have com- mon frontiers with the U.S.S.R."?

Section through Truck

And so to the blood bath of the from the Labour Publication Depart- Mannerheim Line.

ment, Transport House, London, S.W.1. Price, including postage, 214d.

Certainly a document that every one should read. Those to whom it is not distributed (as members of the

Labour Party) can obtain a

And then

copy

John Crofton

they'll go

back to sea

again

YOU will soon see them on the could not get to their famille traight enough that way, then the Shipping news reels, seven or eight away: Australians and New Zealand-Federation and the National Union of

300-and-odd bedroomed Empire Mem-}

Mr. Hurry Pollitt who is now Com-young fellows in clothes that es among them. They went to the Seamen are ready to help them. [ attempts to prove that she had munist candidate. In the Silvertown don't quite fit, and you will hear ortal Hall of the British Sailorsnooping round docks for a ship just

them say how nice it is to be a Society at Limehouse, E. sailor home from the sea.

been sunk were a serious blun- | by-election. der, The British Admiralty

Or him this pamphlet. notes that could easily produce the aircraft among the birthday congratulations sent to Stalin and published in the Soviet newspaper Pravda on Decem- ber 24 lust appeared a message from Mr. Harry Pollitt among "a torrent of congratulations."

the who return

There is not much need to go-

now-not If you are an experienced This super-hostel for* seafarers seafarer. And the men who have Those won't be hackneyed senti- where Taffy Jenkins and his ship-survived raiders and U-boats and ments, for they come from men who mates found "safe anchor" shares magnetic mines can count themselves. carrier; and her recent appear-

for three months or more have been with the Sailors' Home In Stepney the immersed in experience. Especi

Jolly the 300 who survived the

Altmark, ande in South African waters

battened down under tron hutches responsibility of caring for all and in the South Atlantic gave

with 300 other British seamen in the war-shipwrecked men

homeless from sen.

These rescued men are just about Nazi prison ship Altmark.

to draw two months' pay-for they fresh piquancy to this particular

A second list, is. record adds, Four days ago, unwashed and un- Here the men are lodged, fed, and haven't, you realise, had a day's example of German mendacity.

cards wages since they were intercepted. appeared under the heading "Grect- slaven, wearing tattered and torn entertained billiards-rooms, Then there was the reportings from the Central Committee of clothes that had survived hours in and domino rooms, and a cinema by the Grof Spee in her sea-going. that a heavy cruiser of the 11 Communist Parties, including the open boats, days or weeks in the chow are just incidental to the hos

Graf Spce, and the Horrible Hundred

Some of them had their pay eut British. "The texts are not printed. Days in the Altmark, they were with-pitality-until they go home or find London class had been sunk by M. Joseph Stalin 'has a new sense of out hope of wash, shave, new clothes, a new ship. If they have no money, short by the Nazis ns long ago as

the Arst week in October. or a square meal-much less their their food, lodging, and clothes are those whose vessels were most re- Commander Prien, the hero of relative values."

treedom.

bought by the Shipwrecked Mariners cently sunk have not been paid for Society. The Sailors' Society bear three months. Then the Navy arrived...but you the other expenses. know all that...

Scapa Flow, The Nazis did not follow up this particular wild- goose with the determination they showed in the case of the Ark Royal. Still, these stories serve their fleeting purpose, which is the gulling of the credulous section of the German public until some other canard Is produced to send them into fresh patriotic raptures..

Already neutral countries have begun to perceive clearly that nothing coming from the

Listen, too, to this:

days.

Even

What The Law Says?

Stalin's apologists defend tyranny either because they do not know,

All For 2s. 6d. A Day or those who know refuse to tell, Now you see them transformed,

THE low says that the shipowners clothes, that Faselsm and Bolshevism have washed, shaved, in new

having had a square meal, and talis to discover that the British sea-months' wages to a merchant scamon PUT you have only to talk to him are liable for the payment of two identical political systems. The ing at their freedom Into a British Russian Communist Party is no Movietone microphone at

a Sallora dog is a

very independent fellow. after his ship has been lost through When he gets his money he insists enemy action. Alternatively, they longer even the semblance of a Home in the East End..

on paying for himself, whether he can find the man a new berth in Blou Parly,

"We are made to feel like, Holly- has been sunk or not. He can live of Indenuity, wood film stars," grins Taffy Jenkins, “like a sea lord" at the Empire Hall of the Dorle Star and the Queen's or the Saltors' Home for 2s. 6d. n

totel, Carmarthen.

day—a sloeping cabin and four incals "Never before has, there been a a day inclusive.

case of men from vessels sunk by the enemy returning as late as three The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society months after the sinking. Hitherto

sco

Even now these emissaries of a foreign despotism refuse to through the disguise of the Red Czar, who has used a new social and political system to invent a

But here is the rub:

Who has earned the tribute? The Altmark's prisoners owe their new kind of slavery for the Russian rescue to the Navy, but credit for have already spent £13,000 on "war the men from Just British ships have

their present newly groomed and relief" for 3,808 survivors from 140 always returned within the two- well-fed condition goes to organisa- British and 38 neutral ships, months covered by indemnity pay tions whose work for survivors of

ment." The British Sailors' Society spends

people,

official ranks.

+

· Food And Clothes

That was how un official of the

But I don't expect there'll be any matter, of negotiation."- dimculty," he said. "It's just

Well, the leaders of the Labour torpedoed and mined Brits £110,000 a year in peace time, t Nazi news machine can be ha. Party ought to know. For years chantmen has cost them some £60,000 war-time bili is going to be at least National Union of Seamen put it.

they have fought a successful run-since the war began.

£150,000 a year, lieved. Like much clsc in Ger-ning night against the insidious in-

Mr. Herbert Barker, the society's many,

it is ersatz. If, every struction of Communists into their

sceretary, says the job of entering for ONE

NE of these organisations is the the men who come shipless to shore time the Germans' experience

In the meantime they collect the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. Is leading to the creation of new and two months' pay... the misfortunes of war, there is Less Than A Year Ago Others include the British Sailors larger hostels at almost every centre. to be an orgy of lying. Munch-TALIN'S division of spoils with Society and the Sailors' Home and South Shields now has a club ex-

Red Ensign Club. nuson himself will be displaced methods of propaganda, the pretence

clusively for the use of mined or Hitler, the faithful copy of Nazi

torpedoed mariners, When the men from the Altmark from his hitherto unchallenged or provocation as an excuse for war, were landed at Leith they were met eminence by that other notori the presentation of Impossible de by agents of the Shipwrecked Marin-that none of these war-sunk, sailors ous Baron, the Great Heo-Haw mands, the pretence of "liberationers' Society. Those agents provided wants to stay ashore. All are eager all of the vile technique is revealed the men flest of all with clothing, to get to sea again, regardless of of Hamburg, and Dr. Goebbels's by the booklet with the bitter, incl-then beranged for their hospitality or Naal mines and U-bonts. other obedient

supplied them with railway warrants to catal mouthpieces.siveness of completed truth.

and money to get home. "To He like a Nazi" will pass

Usually thoir companies find them But what, after all, could be more mordant now than the quotation, in London offered a "home-coming" line then with some other. But if anotlier ship, if not with their own into a proverb.

the preface, of a speech made by to those who for one reason or other it is not possible to get a berth, soon

The funny thing is (or lan't (17)

"And after we've had a bit bf a. holiday on that," obseries Tally Jenkins, "back to sea we'll go nguin, We can't let the Navy down now."

Daniel Gosling, a00-years-old- lamp-rimmer from the Talora," con- firmed that sentiment: "I've had 40 years at aca," he said: "You don't think I'm going to chuck it now, do you?"

Arthur Pugh