The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily .<QWorker | GRNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONNE “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4 - 7 9 5 4 Cable Address: “Dai N York, N. ¥ re Washington Burea N Press Building, iéth and F St.. W C. - © Midwest Bureau: 101 South We si Room 705, Cheago, Til. Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Man $6.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 m 5. Manhattan, Bronx, 39.00 6 months, $5.00; 3 By Carrier: Weekly, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934 For Strike Preparations in Textile HE conditions of the textile workers under the N.R.A. have become unbear- able. In the woolen, worsted, silk and cotton textile industry the workers are clamoring for a general strike. Only the treachery of the leaders of the United Textile Workers Union so far pre- vented a strike against the unbearable speedup, for higher es and union recognition. ional officials of the United Textile Wor! ed by Thos. MacMahon, president, and Fran Gorman, vice-president, and in silk, Eli Keller, the Lovestoneite, have tricked and fooled the textile workers. MacMahon early in May set a date for a general strike of 300,000 cotton tex- tile workers. He then, at the last moment, signed an agreement with the N.R.A. which gave up all of the cotton textile workers’ demands and called off the strike. He did the same thing on July 2 in the woolen and worsted industry. Eli Keller is now cooperating with the silk mill owners and the N.R.A. to reduce wages and prevent strikes through “arbitration” in the silk mills. At the national convention of the U.T.W., which Will take place August 13 in New York City, a new attempt to prevent a general strike will undoubted- ly be made. An appeal has been sent out by Mac- Mahon to all locals to “abstain” from all strikes wntil after this convention The textile workers must at once take steps to prevent the leadership of the United Textile Union from again defeating their demands. Even if the strike is formally declared by the convention, MacMahon has no intention of or- ganizing a real struggle. To date he has made no strike preparations whatever. The organization of the strike by the rank and file textile workers themselves is therefore an im- mediate task. In every mill, the textile workers should at once organize united front committees, representing all the workers in the mill, whether fn the National Textile Workers Union, the U.T.W. or whether un- organized. The united front mill committees, elected by all the workers, should take the strike preparations and strike leadership into their own hands, It is the task of the Communists in the textile industry to take the initiative and at once organize this united strike front inside the mills. Inside the United Textile Workers Union, all those willing to fight for their demands, should at once organize their militant opposition groups to guard against sellouts by the U.T.W. leaders. The strike must be organized on the basis of the broadest united front committees, elected by the workers themselves, having full control of the Strike and of all negotiations and settlements, with no settlement without a vote of all the workers. A united strike action of the rank and file, and elimination of the strikebreaking leaders, is the way to victory. Hail the Wisconsin Voice of Labor (Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party) IHE rapid development of the strike movement has brought a strengthen- ing of the Communist Party in Milwaukee. Now the Communist Party, the leadership of which has known how to make gains in building the Party in the struggles in Milwaukee, is about to launch a new Com- munist weekly paper—the Wisconsin Voice of Labor. The Central Committee of the Communist Party is keenly aware of the immense significance of this mew advance of the revolutionary cause and this strengthening of the power of the working class in its fight for its immediate interests in Milwaukee. ‘The heavy attacks against the workers in this coun- try have been none the less effective in that city because of the presence of a so-called “socialist” administration. Dan Hoan is the favorite stage property of the Socialist Party as the “Socialist Mayor” and is also a member of the Socialist Party National Executive Committee, where with Norman ‘Thomas he shared leadership of the “LEFT,” the “revolutionary” wing (!!!) of its leadership. Now he is being quickly transformed in the eyes of thou- sands of workers, by the sharp development of the recent class struggle, into a plain capitalist agent of violence against the working class. Ever sharper and clearer is the question opened up before the working class in Milwaukee, in Minneapolis and all the way to San Francisco: Instead of “Farmer-Labor” Olsons, “Socialist” Hoans, Trotskyist renegades and the classic Cali- fornia “labor-leader” hangmen of Tom Mooney— all of whom in the final test boil down to a mixture of tear gas and arbitration—what if we had the “Reds,” the Communists, in the leadership of these struggles?” More readily it becomes visible that this means the workers’ own class leadership of their struggles. And nowhere is this waukee, the traditional more true than in Mil- center of the old shell- game by which bankers and open-shop manufec- turers rule, exploit and starve the working class through “comrade” officials, always controlled in the final test by capitalist interests, and officially endorsed now and then by “business.” Awakening to the swindle of Milwaukee’s be- trayal of the working class is one of the prime necessities of the class struggle today. And an awakening in Milwaukee will mean more than in an “ordinary” city, because it is the “show village* of social-fascism. In founding a weekly organ in the city of Mil- waukee, the Communist Party of the Wisconsin District shows that it understands that the dis- Milusionment of the workers and the winning of _ them to the revolutionary cause is not an automatic "process that arises alone out of their experience in struggle, but that there is necessary also the most active, vigorous role of the Communist Party in leading, training, teaching and drawing political , conclusions from the ever higher experiences that American 1 is now ng through Committee of the Communist Party siastically gree e founding of the Wiscon- oice of Labor 2 lates not alone the rs rank e of the Milwaukee Com- ry bu ass brothers, the many of Soci ‘s of Milwaukee, who gain the igh the founding of the Wisconsin Voice of Labor. The Central Com- mittee calls upon all workers to port this paper. enth stand to The Communist Program: Only Way Out for Labor NOW The following statement on the position of the Communist Party in the West Coast strike, writ- ten by Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, U.S.A, and Sam Darcy, dis- trict organizer and Communist candidate for Gov- ernor of California, at the height of the terror, is reprinted from the special August 1 issue of the “Western Worker.” “MHE efforts of the Industrial Associ- ation, the shipowners, and Chamber of Commerce, to whip up a frenzy against the Communists, is a part of this drive to destroy the trade unions, to keep down wages, to build up their monopoly profits. Such shameless lies and slanders as fill the columns of the San Francisco daily press have rarely been seen before. This campaign is from the school of Hitler. “These gentlemen know full well that they are lying, and that their slanders cannot stand] a moment's investigation. That is why they carry on @ terror campaign which has converted San Fran- cisco into a kind of “Little Germany.” “While the vigilantes, organized by the police and paid by the shipowners, are raiding private homes, burning libraries and printing plants, chop- ping up pianos and smashing typewriters in work- ers’ halls, it is such a moment they choose to charge the Communists with advocating violence. “But they have been unable to bring one single definite case of a single act or word to support their charge, All concrete cases of violence are those where violence is used against the workers. “Why this frenzy of hate against the Commu- nists? Are the Communists proposing to make a revolution now, beginning in San Francisco? No, that is absurd nonsense. The Communists do not propose to make a revolution until, by comradely discussion and conviction of the toiling masses, they have majority support securely behind the Party. We have not yet got this support. But we will get it, and the more the bosses rage, the earlier. And the terror, suppression of the shipowners, the po- lice, the vigilantes, the gunmen, will only help us to convince the toiling masses quicker that this sys- tem of misery, starvation, suppression of the poor, has to be changed as quickly as possible in the in- terest of the overwhelming majority of the popu- lation of this country, against the handful of bank- ers, against Wall Street and their lackeys, Rossis, Vandeleurs, etc. WHAT WE FIGHT FOR “Now, the Communists are fighting to help the poor farmers who are being crushed beneath the burdens of mortgage charges, taxes, marketing monopolies and drought. “Now, the Communists are fighting to protect the small home-owners whose taxes are being doubled to pay the strikebreaking bills of the rich shipowners. “Now, the Communists are fighting to recover the savings of the small depositors, which have been confiscated by the big Wall Street banks who closed down the little banks. “Now, the Communists are helping the veterans to fight for their back-wages [the bonus]. “The Communist Party alone fights with all its energy for these things. “The monopoly capitalists fight against these things. That’s why they hate the Communists. That's why they lie about us. That’s why they raised a fund of five million dollars to ‘drive the Reds out of California.” But gentlemen, you won't succeed in making California yellow. “That is why the Luckenbacks and Fleischackers give such high praise to Vandeleur, Ryan, Lewis, Casey and their kind. These fakers, who pretend to be trade union leaders, use their position to break strikes, to defeat the demands of the work- ers. It is true these strikebreakers are not reds. They are also yellow. “LABOR LEADERS” SELL OUT “For the same reason that the capitalists praise the “labor leaders,” the Communists fight against them and expose them. They are yellow. They are paid stool-pigeons of the capitalists. So long as the workers follow them, defeat is inevitable. When they stand at the head of a strike, it is not to win it, but to smash it—just as they did in the San Francisco General Strike. Just as the British labor fakers did in the British general strike, “But every time these gentlemen hit the workers, and every time they hit the Communist Party, they are only furnishing new proof to the workers that what the Communist Party told them is correct. “The Communist Party has pointed out to the longshoremen and sailors how arbitration was used to smash and defeat the auto workers, the Min- neapolis drivers, and the steel workers. By soldiers, police, clubs, gas, bullets, terror, the employers have forced the workers to accept arbitration. Now, they will have to prove to the workers that the Commu- nists were right when they warned them against arbitration. “The workers are learning by bitter experience that if they do not want yellow leadership, then they must choose Red leaders, and the fully mili- tant workers, “The shipowners boast that they will drive out all Communists. It can’t be done. Hitler tried it in Germany and failed. So also the little Hitler imitations in California will fail. The Communist Party is of the bone, blood and flesh of the work- ing class. The capitalists must always have the workers to feed them—that’s why they can never get rid of the Reds. “It is to be regretted that free speech and civil rights in California are so crushed at the moment that it was impossible to obtain a hall for a meet- ing so Comrade Browder could publicly discuss these questions. But this will not always be so. Cali- fornia workers will not be content until they regain freedom of speech and sweep aside the fascist as- semblage. “We are certain that many tens of thousands of California workers will register their indignation at the Hitlerism of the powers that now are in California by voting for the Communist ticket in the coming elections—and that this will be the first step for thousands of them to join the Communist Party. “Long live the brave Longshoremen and Sea- men of California! “Long live the heroic battle of the California workers! “California workers! Forward to victory against the capitalists and their yellow helpers!” San Francisco, Calif, July 24, 1934, (Signed) EARL BROWDER, 8AM DARCY. Gs SNMP ‘Chinese Red Army Rings DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934 F oochow Aided Bs. Peasants. U. S., British War- ships Approach SHANGHAI, Aug. 8—Recent re- ports that the Chinese Red Army had been repulsed by the troops of the Nanking Government are ut- terly discredited by the latest news that the Red Army is within three miles of Foochow, leading seacoast town in the Kiangsi Province. Something akin to panic is spreading among the ruling class merchants, landlords and foreign business concessionaires who dom- inate the city as the workers and peasants army moves steadily near- er the city with the whole-hearted support of the peasant population. Warships are being rushed to the scene by French, British and Amer- ican officials. The Chinese Red Army, made up of peasants and workers has re- pulsed six anti-Red campaigns of the bloody Chiang Kai-Shek, N azi Troops ‘Get Leaflets of Communists BERLIN, Aug. 8.—Work of the Communist Party among the Storm Troopers is bearing fruit. In West Wedding, a district in Berlin, Storm Troopers openly dis- tributed about 200 copies of the Communist Party leaflet called “Storm Trooper—What Now?” More than 20,000 leafiets issued by the Communist Party have found \their way into the ranks of the Storm Troopers, the Fascist armed regiments, Unrest and dissatisfaction with Hitler continues to grow to such a degree that the Nazi officials have just issued an order establishing a special status for the Guard Troops of the Storm Troopers in order that the growing rebelliousness be re- stricted. German Capitalists Pleased With Nazi Economic Policies BERLIN, Aug. 8.—The recent ap- pointment of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht to the leading economic post in the Hitler government is meeting with satisfaction in the most powerful financial and industrial cliques. “German Leaders’ Letters,” per- mitted to reach the hands of only @ small circle of the most impor- tant personages of public life, still form the leading organ of the Ger- man economic captains. It is char- acteristic that the letters now show the heavy industrialists accord an unconditional welcome to the changes in the leadership of Ger- man economy, referring to them as “a relaxation of the authoritative methods hitherto employed,” and dealing with refreshing candour with the failure of the agitation phase of “corporative construction.” The “Leaders’ Letters” state: “This means that in actual practice, and for the immediate future, corporative construction, and the question of economic and especially of industrial association will be withdrawn from a position of decisive importance,” and that “abrupt initiative, at times in the form of the issue of commands To Probe Tortures In Mussolini Jails PARIS, Aug. 8.—A special com- mission to investigate and make known to the world the conditions in the jails of the Mussolini fascist government has been organized here. An attempt will be’ made to in- vestigate the notorious convict is- lands on which Mussolini keeps political prisoners. ° Rumors of in- describable cruelties and atrocities perpetrated on the political prison- ers there have come through even the iron censorship of the Italian government. The investigating commission has the support of the following groups: Central Committee of the Patron- age over the Italian Anti-Fascist prisoners, Committee of the Italian Anti-Fascist Party, the Communist Party of France, the Italian Com- mission of the Amsterdam Pleyel movement, the Communist Party of Italy, the Italian General Federa- tion of Workers, and the Italian section of the International Red Aid. Italian Fascist Party Splits, Paris Hears PARIS, Aug. 8. — Party battles within the Italian Fascist fold were revealed here yesterday by the Journal des Debats which explained the expulsion of former Minister of the Interior Leandro Arpinati as due to a fist fight he staged with Achille Starace, General Secretary of the Fascist Party, Arpinati was sent to the Lipari Islands for five years, and 20 of his followers were expelled from the party and probably face criminal charges. Arpinati was considered very close to Mussolini before his resig- nation as Minister of the Interior a few months ago. N. T. W. TO HOLD PICNIC PATERSON, N. J.—Workers and sympathizers of the revolutionary trade union movement here will gather at the Village Barn, North Haledon, N. J., on Sunday at the fifth annual picnic of the National Textile Workers’ Union. Ann Bur- Jak will speak, |certainly well informed, “WE ARE HEADING FOR PEACE”’—Roosevelt. By Burck PRES. ROOSEVELT From the Firet World War to the Seouivl By NEMO VIN. THE WORLD IN ARMS “In the present position, Europe is condemned to destruction if it begins an armament race,” de- clared the French Prime Minister Daladier in Parlia- ment, in the calm certainty that his country was sufficiently armed. What, however, is the appear- ance, not of Europe, but of the whole capitalist world on the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of war? An armament competition unknown in the pre-war period has been established and the whole capitalist world converted into an armed camp bristling with weapons. The standing armies of the five leading imperial ist big powers have grown from 1,541,500 men in 1914 to 2,123,500 men in 1934. Looked at superficially this enlargement of the armies does not appear so very great. Actually, however, the present-day armies cannot be compared with the armies of the pre-war period either quantitatively or qualitatively. The five leading big powers, which in 1934 con- trolled eight millions of trained reserves have today @ reserve army of twenty million men behind them. To this must be added the further reserve of millions consisting of fascist and semi-military organizations. Thus, Germany has besides its regular army of 350,00 men (Reichswehr and police) a further reserve of one million men from the World War, and yet a further. million from the fascist storm troops. Strongly militarized police armies and colonial armies and the militarization of women and youth, have strengthened the imperialist armies by several mil- lion more. The standing armies, half of which con- sist of professional soldier, have an enormous fight- ing force at their disposal; the framework of their organization can absorb millions of reserves. The number of reserves embodied in all the fascist unions in the world would amount today to about ten million men. Of even wider import ts the revolution in the sphere of the technique of war, of firing capacity and the mobility of armies. If, for example, an American division in 1914 could fire 163,000 shots per minute from its guns and machine-guns, or a French division 103,000 shots, today they could fire 442,000 and 212,000 shots respectively, The fir- ing capacity of an American division has thus been increased by 258 per cent and that of a French division by 206 per cent. If the German army alone during the World War fired 286,000,000 shells and 8,000,000,000 cartridges, one can get an idea of the material which will be used in the coming war when three times the amounts used in the past war will be consumed and correspondingly more victims claimed. While in the course of the Franco-German War of 1870-71 about half a million shells were used up, the fighting on the Somme alone required a million shells. But what will the coming war be like, when one takes into account that an American division which in 1914 fired 8.1 tons out of all its guns, today is able to fire 17.6 tons? i The engine in an atsiomobile, tank and aero- plane will be the heart of the future war. The average daily marching capacity of twenty-five kilometers for a division can be increased to 200 kilometers by motor-lorry transport, as a result of which the fighting capacity of the soldiers has been considerably raised. The motorization of the French army has, for example, advanced so far that a possible destruction of the entire French railway network would lead to no delay in the ad- vance of the army. Even the development of the tank weapon has made enormous progress. The first tank attack in 1917 was even then able to accomplish in three hours what would otherwise have required three months. Today, France alone Possesses 8,400 tanks, ie., more than all the powers together at the end of the war. The heavy, ninety ton tanks carry two guns, two howitzers, 18 machine-guns and up to 100 men, and represent real mobile fortresses, “I have for a long time been convinced that the decision in future wars will be brought about by the aerial weapon.” This conviction of the former Italian air-minister Balbo is shared by nearly all soldiers and reflects itself in the com- prehensive aerial armaments. The number of war aeroplanes has been doubled in the period 1923-33. Today, the total number of war planes amounts to 16,796 with reserves of about 25,000 planes. The transition to mass production has today been pre- pared for and assured to the last detail. The fig- ures of bomb-carrying capacity has been quad- rupled within the period mentioned above.. Today, the bombing aeroplanes of the five leading great powers can carry ten times as many bombs as were dropped by the German air force during the whole period of the war. The technical advances of war aviation come crowding on one another. Speeds of 400 kilometers per hour, climbing capa- cities of 8,000 meters in seven minutes, transport possibilities of 100 soldiers with full equipment and effective range of 1,000 kilometers, have today be- come an ordinary phenomenon. In recent weeks, aerial armaments have un- dergone a renewed acceleration. Hitler Germany ‘will soon belong to the first aerial powers of Europe. France has allotted about ten thousand million franks for aerial armaments during 1930-34. In England, the well-known instigator of interven- tion, Lord Rothermere, demanded the construction of 25,000 aeroplanes; the British air budget for 1934 has been increased by £135,000, compared with 1933 to a figure of £17,561,000, in order to build four new squadrons. America has adopted a con- struction plan for doubling its air fleet consisting of 2,000 units, In the sphere of naval armaments also, the imperialist powers are developing feverish efforts. On May 15, 1914, the five leading great Powers Possessed 1,453 ships with 4,806,710 tons. Although this naval power had sunk to half by the end of the war, and the Washington Conference limited the construction of heavy battleships, these powers built altogether 618 ships of 1,843,533 tons during 1922-32, so that on May 15, 1932, they again had at their disposal more than 1,393 vessels with a tonnage of 4,138,130. _This navy contains not only 50 per cent of new constructions but also pre- dominantly consists of smaller, more mobile units with simultaneously an unheard of increased fight- ing capacity and enlarged radius of action through the carrying of war planes. For the development of naval armaments in the post-war period, the following table is of special interest. It gives the expenditure of armaments in the last decade be- fore the war in comparison with the first decade after the war (in thousand gold marks): Country 1905-14 1922-32 England . 7,991,910,000 —11,440,486,000 America . 5,308,946,000 — 14,621,541,000 Japan . 1,589,731,000 5 305,743,000 France . 3,191,350,000 3,397,041,000 Italy ... 1,747,032,000 2,157,026,000 Total .... 19,828,969,000 — 36,921,637,000 The expenditure of the five leading naval powers in the first decade of the World War is seen to be over 17,000,000.000 gold marks higher than in the last decade before the World War! Since, also, Germany during this time expended 1,500,000,000 gold marks on naval armaments and since numerous subsidiary and colonial fleets have come into being, it can be said that up to the end of 1932, some 40,000,000,000 gold marks had been expended. If the naval conference for prolonging the Washington Treaty is convened in 1935, the total balance of naval expenditure for the post- war period up to then may be given at the hand- some sum of 59,000,000,000 gold marks. (To Be Continued.) AG SRE nenscemmee eeepc EM SY SAI ANC Ne nt Pe OI Oat AL and instructions, will come to an end... . Hence it appears to us somewhat mistaken when the Es- sen ‘National Zeitung’ combines that now the door will be opened for a stricter Socialist course in German economic policy.” tive ruthlessness by parties who are |Ported today. Vienna Accepts Papen As New Hitler Envoy VIENNA, Aug. 8—The new Schu- schnigg government in Austria has Here the lying nature of Nazi accepted Von Papen as the Hitler agitations is exposed with instruc-|CNvoy from Germany, it was re- At first, the Austrian Fascist gov- ernment, under the domination of the Mussolini government, had in- dicated that it would not accept Von Papen, as being too close to Hitler and a probable organizer of Nazi influence in Austria. The arrival of Von Papen in Vienna will mean that Hitler will strive to strengthen his ties with the Austrian ruling cliques now under; the thumb of Italian Fascism. | On the World Front HARRY GANNES-. By 2 Letters from Germany Fischer and Lieut. Scheringer “A Last ‘Red Front’!” ITH Hitler so busy broad. casting his filth to the world these days, we take the opportunity of letting two of his victims speak. One is the worker, Hermann Fischer, who was beheaded, and wrote to his wife and children just be- fore he was put to death. The other is Lieutenant Richard Scheringer who was slaughtered during the Bloody Week. Fischer was charged with sedition and membership in the Communist Party. Scheringer was shot down without any charges at all. ee ie OME time before Hitler came to power Lieutenant Scheringer, who was an officer in the Storm Troops, was in prison together with members of the Communist Party of Germany. He became convinced that Fascism was the creature of finance capital and that all of Hit- lez’s promises were lies. As a re+ sult, he wrote a bitter letter against the chief Nazi butcher, calling on the Storm Troopers to support the proletarian revolution and the Com- munist Party. When Hitler came to power, though his life was in constant danger, Scheringer did not: leave the country. He was caught in a movie and slaughtered whert! Hitler gave the signal for massacr-' ing the Storm Troop leaders. Our comrade Fischer, the day bes fore his head was severed from hia body, wrote to his wife, and hig two children, Edith and Egon, ry follows: ee 8 ie «¢— SEND you my last thanks fos the years which you gave mt, happy years I spent by your side, sharing joys and sorrows. I am, proud in the certainty that when I thank you for your love, this love is strong enough to bear with cour<, age what you have to bear now, Words are no means of expressing! the happiness which you have given me, Egon and Edith, but ¥ know you will understand, for at! our last meeting I felt how strong and deep your love is, and it gave me the courage to face the execu< tioner, thinking of you. All my wishes accompany you on your furs ther path through life. May you have the power to smooth the path of the children, that they may make their lives as happy as ours have been. Dear Henny, I have fully realized the great happiness which you gave me. I have nothing to reproach myself with. ie ee “| ANSWER for my deeds with the utmost which I have to give, my, life. May you live to see the happi- ness for which I die. Although f fall, the flag stands strong and de- fiant. All those who trod this path before me have shown themselves to be men. I shall do so too. May, Communism bring emancipation to all humanity. An idea which in- spires men to give, their lives for unity, love, and the highest aims of the working class, will one day be realized all over the globe. * “My last farewell to you and tha children. A last ‘Red Front!’ to all friends and comrades.” comet st ST a few days before he was butchered, Lieutenant Scheringer, wrote to some of his friends, as follows: “Dear Friends: t “I am sending this letter by......, who will report to you on all tha important matters, so that I do ni need to write in my present posi tion. The next few weeks wil show whether my view of things ial, right. Perhaps the tension of tha Storm Troops is not so strong al over Germany as it is here. Every. one agrees with me that Hitler wi not bring socialism — they eve agree when I maintain that he nev had the intention of bringing So4 cialism. (He refers to his conversa tions with duped Nazi followers), We speak freely and often about the Leipzig trial. The best of the Storm Troop comrades approve of _ ° my going over to the Communist 5 Party. This is very important. Rea oe por I fear that you have a very *" inadequate idea of the rexel with which the ideological trans. .|not understand, but I believe this talions doing? Remember me ta all friends,” 4 formation for socialism is ‘ This transformation is tine fe nod only among the workers, but among many Storm Troop leaders. You must not suppose that I am only speaking of those with whom I come in personal contact ... I shall name a few examples. We must speak of these things in de- tail when we meet, and draw up final plans for autumn and winter. PE MORES “CONSIDERING its history, South Germany should be much more rapidly radicalized than the moze phlegmatic North. If we adopt the right methods, the club-footed Goebbels will soon tire of quoting Hutten. “How can you ask if I have changed? “You seem to be influenced if some dirty scoundrel writes (as you hint) that I have gone over to the Black front. How could I go over to .. . when everyone knows that he is an... agent? It is true there are many things which I do is due to my being unable to gain a@ survey of the whole situation. { re 4 AM once moze astonished to ‘ see to what extent the people are setting their hope on the Soviet Union. I am continually tempted to work there for a year or two, but events make it impossible. “Have you a photo of .. .? Have you heard anything about Th. . .? Is it true that the trial will com- mence soon? What aze ...... and the comrades from the Red Bat-