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Why they

Behind the Mechanised Attila

chose Willkie NAZI PLUNDER

By Allan Michie

(an American journalist toorking in Britain)

B

Y far the ablest man the Be pubilenn Party could Inve chosen as its representative in the November Presidential election was the candidate selected at the convention in Philadelphia-tall.

crinkly-cyed, Willkie.

smiling Wendell

But if any seasoned American political observer had written two months ago that Willkie would walk off with the nomination and leave veteran aspirants for the job for behind, bis comments would not have been worth the paper they were written on.

Under ordinary conditions a presiden- tial nomination is something that mat be planned for years. Ambitious young Tom Dewey has had his eye it miner 1830 and tina been openly campaigning for the nomination for a year.

Benator Taft has been laying the groundwork for his mirction sinèr TUA first entry into politics years ago; and former President 11oover has bech scheming polllcally for a return to office ever since his crushing defeat in 1932,

£15,000-A-Year Job

Willkie's nomination is more surprising when it is remembered that he la noi eren n politician. He to n bilglly auc- cessful business man, the one-man bost of the powerful Commonwealth and Southern electric power company, whose holdings sprawl over 12 States from Michigan is Flørkin. He already draws a sainty equal to that of the President of the United States-£18,000 a year

He is not even a well-defined Repub- tican He has supported Democratic politicians in the past, nad in 1932 gave £30 and his voic to President Roose. velt's campaign.

Even the American Who's Who has not caught up with his amazing career. and stil Hats him na Democral

He became a Republicats in the public mind only around 1933. when the Roosevelt New Deul's programme of cheap electric power came into runflet with Wilkie's vast holdings in the southern part of America.

Why He Won

Two factors are mainly responsible for the Wilkie victory. The Drut in the fact that the delegates to the Repul

Party convention pledged to

Where Would You Find-

1. Elephant Butte Dam?

2. The legendary home of

Ulysses?

3. The Volunteer State?

4. A telega?

6. The Flume?

6. The Place Vendome?

7. Atlantic City?

8. Clinton's Ditch?

9. The Vosges Tunnel?

10. Alberta?

(Answers)

3. It is on the Rio Grande in New Mexico; built for irrigation in 1910, 300 feet hig

2. The island of Ithaca, one of the Ionian Group off the western coast of Greece.

3. Tennessee, "

4. A rude four-wheeled wagon, without

springs used in Russią.

B. A deep grille cleft in the side of

Mount Liberty, in Franconis Noten, New Hampshire,

6. A square in Paris, į

1.The most popular seaalde resort in the United Biates is in New Jersey; about 15,000,000 visit it annually. The Erie Canal; so called becausé of the perseverance of DeWitt Canton, who was largely responsible for it construction. dr Aseven-mile single track tunnel from Fransen to Alsace; it is of co sylomercial and military importance,

":16," 4" province' in western Canada.

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combitir 10 defeat the dark hurae co didate on the first three ballots, thereby Jetting him build up voles for Inter ballota

The second feel was fint, alibough many of the delegates were given then mandates muntha ago...when Amerien was virtually anti-Allied in le desire të stay out of war, they realised this werk that Willkie's pro-Allied stand was the atlitude the American prople wanted,

In domestic political affairs, 48-year old Mr. Wilkie has nothing to back him but his public and wellten ulteroneer

-which, on the whole, are commend able,

ta

to thoroughly approves the Roose vet-ul foreign rade policy. approves the New Deal efforia to brena American business combines and mono polies--always, of course insisting that bia Commonwealth and Bouthern La neither he has tracked such New Deal imenaurea as rejiet for the unemployed unemployment insurance, and old-nge prusions, Bruci le mutants that such socia lawn have come to stay

Two Pro-Allies Men

Laat April he raised reactionary American bushesamen to nquirii when ne said, “If free economie enterprise a unable to provide jobs and produzia fur (7118 COURILEY, then, obviously, some atlier systein should be tried "*

Te

Must important from Britoday's starud point, Wilkie is as deterinued na nideut Konseveil to extend aid to the Ailles. A World War veteran and father of n 20-year-old note Candidate Wilkie na no dratre to rusti America Lester WAT

But fir in the one Republican who has insisted that Amerien doen heve make the pontianer of the British and French way of life

Drineralic political managers ALV 1st o que salts thes

th Wendell Willkie na their opposition in November because thes will trave Par trouble in convincing the America J

ule that the presklenes is the last place in put an electric power Big Busines

But there with he tore te he calls paign than Bhat Domestic kurs kre certain to be buried under American Interest in foreita allwirs And st FUN il now appears. Candidate Willkte art the Democratic nominee wiso, antal this week, was eertain to be President Roose velt, are to be like us two pran 91 foreign affairs, and parijevilarly mad to Britain, then the wherent preaching vitamint lite turd term plus a popul feeling Buat Withức can do as well ave the President was well tip the scales in Wilkie's favour

F

GANGS

BY W. N. EWER

are Frenchmen, Poles,

RANCE will now bc systematically plundered the rest. by the German invaders as Czecho Slovakia and Poland, Denmark and Norway. Holland and Belgium have already been plundered.

It is not a question of sporadic Tooting by soldiers temporarily out of hand. It is a coldly, deliberately and efciently organised system of billage

Behind the armies come the Nazi locuste, charged with the task of collecting and carrying off for the use of the Oerman war machine everything which seems destrable,

That stocks of such things as vil and Important raw materials are taken goes without saying. But the plunder res inuch Turther than this

Prom Taeteries and shops and fatta and private houses every

thing that veema worth taking E taken

PITIFUL AND PITILESS

Mo. Title by in hetzell either for un w to be broken up as scrap Cloth Ing. men, boots and shoes metai everying is

noted, collected, carier}

The wretched owners are given i teluri promissory notes In pay r tuture time ridiculously sin | suma, reckoned in mark- at a frite!

rate of exchange

ulent rate

The principle on wh

when the plun derers work is that the lihabitarı

י.

are to be left only What absolutely need. And the Germa estimate of what any non-Germani needs is both pitiful and pitiless

"A lower ruce." Dr. Leg has fuld it down, "needs less living space less clothing, lesa food than a higher race.*

Nazi まだいます。 Fare,"

The lower races"

"Hagber invwvia Gier

1

THE EAGLES MATE

Danes

STARVE OR SLAVE

and

In enemy occupied countries a strict rationing of everything is im- posed. And the standard is lower than the standard (low enough) jo

Nazi Germany itself.

In Poland, where there are many Germans, who lived there before the war or were sent as settlers since, there are two sets of ration cards-red fur Germans, green for Poles and Jews.

A

· green card geta litle more than hall the amount per coupon that a red card gata.

But the Nazi troops and the Nazl police and the Nazi officials need no coupons They can buy what they will. And always they pay in marks at a faked exchange,

In Denmark, for example, one Now mark was worth one krone it is

The order "worth" two German buys everything at hall

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prie

Strlet rationing and le or no muney to buy anything with that In the lot of the peoples who have been conquered by, or have surten dered to the Nazis.

Industry and commerce have begn dislocated. Unemployment risen to funtastic heights, incomes and wages have vanished. Property has been seized Such household possessions as remain can only be sold at the wretchedest knock-out prices to greedy Germans

The peasant may, must, continue to work his land. But the Nazl assessor will take the produce, and lenve only what he chooses to regard as the family's need.

The factory worker, if the factory LA In regarded as useful and machinery has not been removed, has to work at wages and under conditions fixed by Nazi task- masters.

The product of their work-other than the barest needs of the popu- lation is taken for Oerman use.

And the rest? They can slarve or they can join the labour gangs.

WORK AS SERFS

In some cases and for the Ume work being they may be put to repairing war damage.

In some they are put to work in their own countries to serve new preparations of the German war machine,

But uften they are carted off to Germany, away from their homes and familles, to work there as seris. This is no highly coloured picture of what is happening over half It is based on cold Europe to-day. objective reports of what is hap- pening from Poland to Northern France.

There has never been anything like it in history. There have been horrors enough in war. There have been devastations and wild plunder- ing raids of barbarous peoples.

But never before has a state cg tipped with the resources and the organisation of a civilized people mule war in this fashion.

This no war of conquest after the

manner of eurber conquerore. It is conquest turned into the ruthless plundering an enslavement of half the European continent.

It is clear enough what the Nazis hope to gain by this great organised pillage of half a dozen countries.

They hope to make up for their

And there is no relief. All puble own economie deflcieneles and for and trade union funds have been the effects of the blockade which still cuts them off from the world seized.

acroan the seas

All relief for the able-bodied has been stopped.

For children, the sick and aged st has been mercilessly out.

Men and women must starve of work under slave conditions at star- vation rutes for their conquerors.

A GRIM TRAGEDY

They hope to be able to live on plunder jong enough to avoid the collapse which is going to lose thern the war.

It is a vain hope. Plunder cannot continue. fur there is nothing left Lo plunder, Nor can slave labour adequately

what replace

they destroy and consume.

Everywhere the momentarily vic- torious Swastika flag flies, produc- of every kind has fallen, is falling, and will go on falling.

They are driving Europe to penury and starvation. But they them- selves, however ruthless in their pillage, are moving to starvation along with their victims.

The grim tragedy is that they are bringing half Europe to collapse, so that they themselves may be buried in its ruins.

If Baby Cries In

The Night-

IF a baby cries at night mothers must leave it to cry till they have seen the curtains are. drawn.

Thus the magistrate, Sir Gervain Rentoul, at West London Police Court after hearing the case against Mrs. Rose Edith Bryant, of Atalanta- street, Fulham, who was awakened by the crying of her baby,

Swliching on the lights, she went to comfort the child when there was a loud banging on the door.

"Pat that light out,”. ordered a constable, who told her she would be summoned.

"The constable told the Court · Mrs. Bryant's house overlooked a

ceme

tory. He saw a bright light when he was more than 150 yards away,

I had to climb over the wall into the cemetery to trace the light,” he `added,

Mrs. Bryant was fined £1

£1...

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