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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 16, -1940-

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AN AMERICAN WARNS US

Don't take U.S. for granted!

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Minority armies are still working powerfully against Britain's cause.

BY ALAN A. MICH TE An American journalist working in London.

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ture called "Blockade" because it

was unfavourable to the France

regime.

Those tactica are bound to prove

effective when thinking propie do not combat them with similar

weapons.

Reading the news from America

German

Workers

Worse Than Serfs

German workers have been described in a Brookings Institution report as having less freedom in some re- spects under Nazi régi-

only in the British press, one might think that the United Statesmentation than the serfs

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to the cultured, the right people on Too Solidly lined up with Britain.of the Middle Ages, re-

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True. But those people do not into action. easily translate their sentiments

They do not organise huge rallies where

Colonel Lindbergh can adva.

much importance is placed on

quotations from the New York ports the "New York

"Timca and New York "Herald- Tribune."

Admittedly two of the best-in- formed papers in America, their 'Influence extends almost solely to

circles of the East.

cating Germany "before it the intellectual upper middle-class

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1205 march of totaliter- thinking: Americans-the educated, torism from Norway Paris brought about an her side by now, hasn't sha?" upheaval

American sentiment from Los Angeles to Now York.

Millions of ostrich-minded Americans who had hopefully, selfishly put their trust in the wide stretches of the Atlantic, in the British Navy, even in the fortresses of the Maginot Line, pulled their heads from the sands to discover that the sur- vival of Britala had become an immediate necessity for America. To-day there is no doubt where

They do not parade the streets with posters shouting "The Yanks Are Not Coming," or paate "Keep America Out of War" stickers on the car windshields.

America organisat

anation where the organisation of pressure by minority groups is professional job,

A word from Father Coughlin, the

idly growing number, when ques- tioned, favour extending material ald to Britain and the Allies, and the majority of the others have en- listed at least their emotions on the side of Britain.

Americans stand as a whole: a tap

SOTULI anti-Roosevelt radi.

Aware only of these sentiments from American reports in the Brit- lah Press, people in Britain may naturally begin to feel irritated that Ameries has not yet given a more concrete example of that aid, a more positivo demonstration of these sympathies,

Tell America Unfortunately. English people do not realise that while the voice of majority America is saying one thing, insidious minority groups are working furiously to achieve the opposite-te prevent ald to Britain by one means or another.

To my insistence that Britain must now, more than ever, uso every method to publicise the British case In America in order to combat these groups, a highly-placed Army officer recently replied:

"But, ourely, Britain has all the

priest, wvill sand hundreds of of almost identical wires flooding into the Capital in protest against intended legislation.

I have seen Catholic demonstra- tors take the streets with placards before New York's mammoth Radio Olty Musle Hall and successfully drive off the screen an excellent pic

FATHER COUGHLIN

Oba word from him sols the wirea humming.

Nazis' Big Guns Have Short And Dear Life

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Such aircraft can casily be dealt with by the R.A.F.

By F. G. H. SALUSBURY, of German aircraft. heavy artillery to shell Thirdly, the shell employed must England is more horrific have extraordinarily thick walls,

thus reducing his bursting charge

than effectual in a considerably, in order to withstand material way.

the terrific force of the propellant That is to say, the military charge which drives it out of the

results are not proportionate to the cost of the method employed.

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At Random

Above all, the life of these heavy: In the first place. 'nccuracy is guns la limited to a hundred impossible at such rangea as 22 rounds, after which a new barrel nules or more.

The height which the projectile ing of a countryside with this kind bas to be fitted. Prolonged plaster- reaches in its passage over the

of artillery is, therefore, out of the distance, precludes any sort of question, and while it lasts can' knowledge of weather conditions.enly be at random. which is a prime factor in gun. The effect of a shell-burst of this laying.

type can be very unpleasant, but Secondly, observation from the compared with aerial bombing. It ground is impossible and results is of little value, except to frighten must be checked from spolting a civilian population.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"We Interrupt this geography lesson with a special war bulletin!!

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To get the true perspective, Britons should be told what the isolationist Chicago Tribune" is toiling its Dany readers in

America's second largest elly, or what the Hearst "Journal-Ameri- can" is saying in New York.

A Queer Mixture Opposition to Britain and Ameri- can aid to her hes resulted in the retting together of the most curious group of pressure minorities ever ́assembled.

Government estimated that there Before the war the American

were at least 100 organisations with Fasciat-Nazi leanings" in the country.

Among the wore the followers of Father Coughlin; the Silver Shirts; the re-awakening Ku Klux Klan; the Christian Front; the Knights of the White Camelia; the German- American Bund, now renamed the German-American Alliance; the Vindicators, hended by demagozte Smator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina; and dozens of smaller groups.

Lindbergh's Sponsors

Not consciously Faceist but flour- thing on the isolationism of the American hinterland are such powerful organisations as the Vete- cans of Foreign Wars, the Gold Star Mothers, and the American Legion, peddlers of superpatriotiem.

Organised since the war, and spenser of Colonel Lingbergh's radio chats, 15 the Citizen* Keep- America-Out-of-the-War Commit-

tee.

Many of these groups, particularly the LR.A. in America, have come under the

wing of German agents reporting directly to German Emunssy or Consu- lar omcials,

The "Keep Out of War" demand is being actively pushed by some of the followers of John L Lewin, leader of the Congress of Industrial Organisations, by the Communist-controlled American Youth Congress, and by sincere collego students who have grown up in ar nimesphere of militant pac10am.

Anti-British activity dees not stop at street parades and sp32ch-making. Cov ernment investigation has revented

that Communial-Nazi agents have 81- tered into atreraft factories, particularly in California, to organise zabolago.

Sabotage

According to private reports from America, so far unrevealed, there have

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00 suspicious “neeldents" in. national defence works since the war started.

These men, these organisations, do nol speak for the real America, but real America is slow to become articulate. Its vo.ce has been choked ox in the con- fusion and doubt of the past six weeks. From the fall of France until inst week thinking Amerleaus were asking themselves: Will Britaip survive? And If Britain is going to go under, why send her supplies and material badly needed at home?

Can Britain, they asked, stand up to the treatment Goering's Luftwafle gave Poland, the Low Countries, and France? The events of the past ten days have answered one of the questions. next month or twe should provide the answer to the other.

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It is not too much to hope that by that time tits voice of real America wil begin to be heard.

Germans Try Out New Fire Bomb

Herald-Tribune." This conclusion was present- ed in a survey made by Dr. L. Hamburger, formerly pro fessor of Inbour legislation, in the University of Geneva, now a visiting scholar at the institu- tion, who based his study al- most entirely on official Nazi

sources,

Not only is the German worker employed entirely at the will of the state, Dr. Hamburger found, but he is attached by law to a particular industry and to a particular job, and in praction changes of jobs are permitted only when it is to the interest of the state. Even unpaid family workers are now subject to rigid regulation.

Yet labour regimentation as it exiata to-day was not fully plan- ned in advance, Dr. Hamburger reported. The development of labour control to its present de- gree was a gradual movement, ond step leading to another. It began in steps taken to relieve unemployment when the Nazi regime came to power. Pro- minent among these steps was the Increase of the military forces, followed by compulsory labour service.

As the Nazi regime thus de- creased the number of unemploy- ed by taking men from the labour markets, it increased the number of available jobs by an

works, largely of extended programme of public a military

nature.

The first actual restriction of freedom to choose employment was decreed in 1984, when. Bon- agricultural employers were ordered to discharge formar agricultural workers in order to relieve a shortage of farm labour, which existed despite general unemployment. From then on, Dr. Hamburger related, ns shortages of workers develop ed in various. trades with the progress of rearmament, the government office

receive greater and more detailed au- thority, amounting eventually to complete control. An important instrument of control is the work book, a kind of labour passport containing a complete vocational record of the work.

The labour programme effect- ed a wholesale closing down of small, independent businesses and the transfer of such bu. siness. men to, the rank and filo of workers. This programme began with reducing the number of peddlers and itinerant sales- men, and was broadened to in- clude shopkeepers and indepen- dent artisans. Many artisans operating small establishments' found their employees ordered to other work, and as no subati- tute employees were provided, they were impelled to close up shop and take employment offer ed by the government office.

By July, of last year, 100,000 independent artisans had been made industrial workers, and the transfer of altogether 500,- 000 was officially forcast.

Now and queer types of bombs fare being improvised by Goer

ing's arms experts for experi- ments in fire-raising raids оп Britain. Air Ministry and Home came more acute because of war As the labour shortago be Security technicians are examin- preparation, the young were ing reports from A.R.P. au- mobilized as they left school.. thorities and the military on the Workers who reached retirement effect of these new weapons. age in relatively good health' The latest incendiary bomb is re- could no longer claim benefits ported to be a thin metal cylinder due to them, but had to continuo carrying an Inflammable mixture of working. Jews were out to work pitch and parama. It is an off-shoot to some extent, Criminals were of the Molotov cocktail-the battle of burning petrol and paraffin which the employed outside penitentiaries, Finns devised and used with success and their hope of pardon was against the Russian tariks

related to their output: Retiredi While the Ministry of Home Professionals and independent Security has no intention of indicati persons were finally reached by ing to the enemy, to what degree is open labour conscription. Under fattempts have succeeded or failed, conscription,400,000, besides, They are confident that the present) Atul and labour service detach-,. equipment of the fire-fighting can deal adequately and aweedis, with iments, were put to work on the

LWest Wall' fortifications.

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