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‘Subs At

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Underseas Craft
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By JORGE PERALTS

© BOGOTA, Colombia. —
»ICN). — Colombia’s national
~>olitics have been shaken by
he revelation that Japanese
bmarines have recently been
'ngaged in a clandestine study
>t the Panama canal.
» Presence of the submarines in
Scolombian waters was denounced
joy colonists in Bahai Salano, a
Pacific coast port bordering on
anama. Ther reports were cor-
-oborated by the priest at a neigh-
-oring Catholic Indian mission.

| Question of the Panama canal
> sain came to the forefront a little
ater when the Colombian army
‘eneral staff was invited by hign
/ailitary: circles in the United
“\tates to visit the fortress and
wmy headquarters of the canal
ene. This visit was returned a
ew days later by the American
fficials of the zone, who flew to
gogota in US nayy planes.

This interchange of visits has
ought about closer relations be-
ween the United States and Co-
_ ombia, welcomed by the majority
\£ the Colombian people and by
> he democratic forces of this coun-
ry, but viewed with fear and op-
‘osition by the fascists and reac-
ionary forces.
| Amones well-informed - circles
‘\ere, it is stated that a project
‘or defense of the canal has been
' oroposed, in which the US gov-
rnoment asks Colombia to agree to
stablishment of two air bases in
his country, for the purpose of
 trengthening canal defenses. One
-f£ these is to be established at
/tartagona on the Atlantic coast,

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iithough neither US nor Colum-
"ian governments has confirmed

hig proposer agreement, it is
'eing bitterly attacked by reac-
‘ionary forces, and the fascists

ave announced their intention of
-ighting it in the House of Repre-
_ sentatives.

Progressive and left-wing forces,
_s a whole, have been in favor of
ouch an agreement. It is clear
oe them that since Colombia is
‘me of the strongest democratic
"ations in Latin America, it must
| voperate in defense of the Amer-
‘sas apsinst threats of fascist in-
-ervention, especially since Colom-
ia occupies a strategic position
‘2 relation to the Panama canal.

) emarogically warn against armed
» <cupation, while others, playing
Sato fascist hands, adopt an ultra-
- evolutionist attitude and speak of
-he possibilities of the defeat of
"he good neighbor policy during
he 1940 elections, which they of-
er as an argument against the
“greement with the US. There is
xe doubt but that these people
“are acting as agents of American
' eaction.

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Nippon Tankers
Race For Oil

i LOS ANGELES, Cal—(McCN)

i
‘ear of an embargo by the Unit-
‘sd States has caused Japanese
‘war officials to supervise an un-
9 recedented series of record runs
Pmith highspeed tankers filled to
che brim with Standard oil

Fer the past six months, record
"uns between California ports and
Tokuyama, Japanese naval base,
neve been made by tankers ply-
‘ing the 5,000-mile route. Indica-
tion of the speed with which the
Japanese war machine is storing
up 011 came when the Nissyo Ma-
ru, Tokio oil tanker, docked here
recently for another load of ail,
the sixth in as many months.

ealthy British Organization Acts

Refugee Ninvectene Suicide

POLICE watch Karl Langer (extreme left) Jewish refugee

SSS SS: SS

from Frague, during the inquest into the suicide leap of his
wife and two children in Chicago recently. Fear that they
might have to return to Germany prompted the action.

he other at Turbo on the Pacific.”

Reactionary and fascist forces

Costigan Takes Strong
Stand Against Garner

SEATTLE, Wash—(ICN).—If John Nance Garner is nom-
inated as the Democratic standard-bearer in 1940, New Dealers
in Washington and the other 11 western states will form a third

party.

Call Six
CIO Meets

WASHINGTON, DC— dacNn) —
Six important CIO national un-
ions and two state CIO councils
will hold conventions in Septem-
ber.

On Sept. 4, the United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers will
hold its 5th convention in Spring-
field, Mass. The union, which has
a2 membership of nearly 158,000
was formed in 1935.

industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers, with a
membership of more than 24,500,
will open its convention jn Jersey
City NJ, Sept. 8. On Sept. 11 Unit-
ed Rubber Workers will meet in
LaCrosse,. Wis., and International
Oil Workers will convene in Ham-
mond, ind., the same day.

Another large CIO national un-
ion, the Transport Workers Union
ef America, with a membership of
more than 90,000, will meet in At-
lantie City Sept. 13. The Washings-
ton State Industrial Council will
hold its second convention in Ta-
coma, Sept. 16, and the Ohio coun-
cil will meet in Columbus, Sept. 29.

In addition, the American Fed-—
eration of Hosiery Workers Union,
division of the Textile Workers
Union of America, will meet in
Wew York City beginning Sept. 18.
Convention at which TWUA was
formed by a2 merger of the Textile
and the United Textile Workers,
was held in Philadelphia last May.

Aid Settlement
Of Refugees

MEXICO CITY, DE— (ICN) —
Three corporations with a capi-
tal of $160,000,000 have been set
up to finance settlement of refu-
gees in Mexico, the Spanish Re—
publican Refugee Committee has
announced.

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This was the challenge to Gar-
merites by Howard Costigan, exe-
cutive secretary of Washington
Commonwealth Federation, in an
article in the current issue of The
Nation.

Entitled The Maverick Far West,
the artirle deals with the attitude
of the west toward the Orient, de-—
feat of the Townsend Plan and
the New Deal works program and
the effect on the 1940 elections.

Roosevelt, Costigan says, is the
selection of political observers as
the Democrats one cinch bet in
the EF'ar West.

“The Republicans will hammer
the third-term tom-tom, but their
thumping will fall for the most
part on deaf ears. Westerners
are less easily influenced than
their eastern brothers.’

“There is every chance that a
western conference of progressives
may be called by administration
liberals and western New Dealers
for pre-primary action,’ Costigan
discloses.

“Tf such a conference is called
soon the New Deal states will have
a better chance. If such action is
not taken the outcome is unpredict-
able. Should 4 conservative get
the Democratic endorsement the
west will probably be split three
ways. The conservatives along
with some liberals, will go Repub-
lican, particularly if Dewey is the
choice. The cynics and syndical-
ists will stay home. —

“The New Deal insurgents will
undoubtedly be for a ‘third party’
which might prove a second or
possibly a first party so far as
this section of the country is con-
cerned, with the Democratic party

resuming its traditional role in
the west as an also-ran. In the
event of war all bets are off.

Roosevelt would be drafted and
he would be impossible to defeat.”

Joins Federation

COURTENAY, BC — Courtenay
city council has decided to join the
Canadian Federation of Mayors

and Municipalities.

India Singing New Song Of Bread, |
Freedom, Says Nationalist Leader

Charging Britain with uphold-
ing autocracy in India where fab-
ulously rich princes held millions
of peasants in ignorance and pov-
erty, Dr. Sadhu Singh Dhami,
MA, Ph D, told a meeting in
Moose Hall Sunday night how

_ these same peasants were singing
_ 2new song, a song, as he describ-
_€d it, of bread and butter.
For an audience composed
Partly of East Indians, who had
turned out in lange numbers to
hear their distinguished fellow-
countryman, Dr. Dhami traced
/ the development of India’s 5000
‘years of civilization down to the
present day.
: “For the first time in India’s
history peasants and workers are
organizing, with a new Song on
. their lips, a song of bread and
_ butter, of freedom,” he declared.
Casting aside romantic and fal-
lacious conceptions of tIndia, the
lecturer launched into a castiga-
tion of imperialism.

He scored British imperialists
as possessed of “a protuberance
in front and a protuberance be-
hind,” knowing nothing of Shake-
speare, Milton, Newton or Dar-
win, interested only in selling
cheap goods in India

“The animal that lies across
the path of peace and progress
is not dead, it is the monster of

imperialism, it is fascism,” he
said.
British imperialism, he con-

tinued, had allowed Ethiopians
to be regimented by Italian bay-
onets and connived to sell Spam
down the river. The same situa-
tion was developing in China.
“Fascism would have broken
down long ago had it not been

for Chamberlain and Daladier,”
the speaker declared in a scath-
ing denunciation of a “system
which makes funeral pyres of the
brain children of philosophers

and scientists.” In contrast, he
pointed to the great achieve
ments of the Soviet Union.

Dr. Dhami, while painting a
sordid picture of India, asserted
that a new hope was being born
in that country. He could think
of a world where fascism would
not drive people to destruction,
where labor would reap its own
reward and there would be jus-
tice between nations. Toward
this objective the peasants of In-
dia were organizing.

Born in Punjab, Dr. Dhami
was educated at the University
of Benares, later took extension
courses at the universities of Al-
berta, British Columbia, Califor—
nia and Toronto. He spoke un-
der the auspices of Khalsa Di-
wan Society. On the platform
were Sawarin Singh, secretary of
the society, and J. S. Hundahl,
Vancouver Youth Council secre-
tary.

Loyalists
Still Led
By Negrin

Faise Statements

Spread Abroad By

Deserters Group

By SAM RUSSELL.
PARIS, France — (ICN —
The Negrin government is still
the only legal government of
Spain, headed by Dr. Juan Ne-
grin, Loyalist Spain’s premier,
and Julio Alvarez del Vayo,

his foreign minister.

, This statement was made to
me this week by a leading Span-
ish republican in refuting the
falsehoods contained in state—
ments circulated in Britain and
the US by the traitor Luis Ara-
quistain and Indalecio Prieto,
Loyalist Spain's ambitious failure
as a4 war minister, regarding the
So-called meeting of the perman-

ent delegation of the Cortes in
Paris.
Araquistain circulated state-

ments that Negrin and del Vayo
had been “deposed” from their
functions, which they still legally
hold.

, My informant pointed out that
the Negrin government was still
the only legal government of
Spain. Still united, it comprised,
Ke said, every section of the Span-
ish people’s front, representing
Spaniards in concentration camps
in Hrance, in Gestapo torture
chambers on the peninsula and
thousands more jin the Spanish
Phalanx who were enemies of the
Franco regime and friends of the

republic despite their Phalanx
party card.

Extent of the generals’ rebel-
lion against foreign control of

Branco and Ramon Serano Sun-—
er, puppet of Berlin, has been re-
vealed by information received
across the frontier. General Gon-
zZzaiez Quiepo de Llano is support—
ed by generals Yague, Moscardo,
Aranda and Solchaga.
DESERTERS’ MEETING

In view of the growing antas-

onism in Spain towards Franco,
Loyalists consider unfortunate
-croppings up of the Prieto-—
Araquistain attack, which is de-

void of all legal basis.

im no case could a Cortes dele-
gation meeting assume functions
of the government or executive.
Supposed to have eased out We-
€rin were not even composed of
Cortes delegation members, for of
the 14 who were supposed to have
voted in favor of the ‘deposing,’
12 were not members of the dele-
gation but individuals who de-
Serted Spain before the end of the
war, while Nesrin, Del Yayo and
the army commanders now slan-
dered by the deserters protected
the retreat to the EKrench border.

Leading Republicans likewise
Strongly object to the splitters’ at-
tacks on the Communist party of
Spain. Responsible leaders of the
Spanish republic, though far from
Communists, make no secret of
the fact that the Communists pro-
vided the finest soldiers of the
republican army, their members
being among the most loyal sup-
porters of the government.

Likewise were exposed Ara-
quistain’s fantastie stories ap-
Bearing in the US press regarding
huge sums of gold allegedly en-
trusted by the Spanish govern-
meént to the USSR.

Although the Spanish situation
at the moment is very confused,
it is considered that the elements
of crack-up in the Hranco camp
have siven an opportunity to
those conducting magnificent il-
legal work in the heart of the
Phalanx party itself

Reports state that Franco is
unable to cope with the problem
of 10,000 loyalists in the hills of
Asturias, who are armed, fed and
Supported by the population.

Wor is the economic situation
helping him either. The Gestapo
is refusing to employ any former

skilled workers in Spain’s war
factories, and industry is at a
Standstill, Barcelona alone hay-

ing 100,000 unemployed.

The end ofthe war has brought
the Spaniards not previously in
loyalist-held territory into contact
with the realities of the republic
and the desire for the overthrow
of Nazi-run Franco grows apace.
This is the real heart of much of
the monarchist agitation in Spain.

Two Unions Ask
President To Run
For Third Term

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal — By a
vote of 108-8, delegates to the 6th
annual convention of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Guild here adopt-
€d a resolution asking President
Roosevelt to run for a third term.
Resolution was introduced by the
Seattle delegation, headed by
Robert Camozzi, international
vice-president.

NEW YORE, NY¥—Acting upon
request of a number of its locals,
the American
Associations (CIO) this week
pledged full support of President
Roosevelt for re-election

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As Agent Of Nazis

THE WEEK ABROAD

Hoare Forced To
Admit Activities
Nazi- Inspired

By GEORGE TATE

LONDON, Pagland—(CN)-—while the tension erowel aa

Europe as Hitler threatens war, and reaction in the democra-
cies prepares for a new climb-down, the startling French expo-
sure of politicians and journalists in the pay of the Nazis was

followed in Britain by admission of

Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare
that The Link, an Anglo-German
organization, “is being used as an
instrument of the German propa-
ganda service, the money having
been received from Germany by
one of the active organizers.”

The Link is connected with the
wealthiest and most powerful reac-
tionary groups of British finance
capital. Its chairman is Admiral
Sir Barry Domville, former assist-—
ant secretary of the Committee of
Imperial Defense and director of
Waval Intelligence, known as ‘a
friend of Hitler, von Ribbentrop,
Himmler and other leaders of the
New Germany.”

“Herr Hitler himself is very keen
on the movement,” said Domville in
a@ press interview.

The whole Link council consists
of members of the Anglo-German
Hellowship. Sir Raymond Beazley,
vice-chairman of the Link, is a
member of the Fellowship council
with Domyille.

In 1936 Elwin Wright, secretary
the Fellowship said, “It is not
numbers that matter. We want
names. Otherwise, how can we
have influence with the govern-

ment and the Foreign Office?”
The Fellowship has the 20 most
reactionary members of the House
of Commons and even more from
the House of Lords. Bank directors
are members of the Fellowship: the
Bank of England is represented by
EF. C. Tiarks and Lord Stamp, the
Midland Bank by Lord MeGowan
and Lieut-Col. G K. M. Mason,
Lloyd’s Bank by Walter Runciman,
the Wational Bank of Scotland by
Lord DLothian and Farl Tarrowby.
Industrial companies are also
represented: Inever Bros. and Uni-
lever, Ltd., by Chairman F. D’Arcy
Cooper, a member of the Hellow-—
Ship council, and three directors,
including one peer and one member

ef the Commons.

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Feer Betrayal Planned

PARIS, Hrance—(iGNn) — State-
ments that no pressure will be exer-
eised on men who do not want to be
repatriated have in no way dissi-
pated alarm and suspicion aroused
by the Franco regime’s announce-
ment of its readiness to take back
100,000 Spanish republican militia-
men now interned in French con-
centration camps. it is stated here
that Spain’s defenders are to be re—
turmed to Franco in two daily con-
voys of 2500 each.

This tragic turn of events in the
problem of the Spanish refugees is
Swift sequel to the handing over of
the $42,500,000 of Spanish gold de-
posited in the Bank of HWrance by
Republican government of Spain
before the fascist revolt and in-—
vasion. :

in return for the money Franco
had previously arranged to accept

the Men who took up arms against
him and his allies to defend their
eountry's freedom. it needs no
imagination to realize what awaits
them at Franco’s hands.

Home Secretary Sarraut has giy=
en favorable consideration to pro-
posals for settlement of Spanish
refugees and their absorption in the
nalional life of Hrance and other
democratic states, which were
adopted at the World Conference to
Aid Spanish Refugees held here
last month. Orders, issued from his
ministry, for better treatment and
assistance to the refugees have
been overruled by orders from other
and unspecified members of the
cabinet. Today it is no longer 4
secret who the latter are. Horeien
Minister Georges Bonnet’s traitor
ous role has become all too ap-
parent.

Oppose Election Delay

PARIS, France—(IGN — One of
the first results of the postpone—
ment of the general elections in
France until 1942, by decree law,
has been the spontaneous forma-
tion all over the country of commit-
tees for defense of universal suff
rage. Freneh democrats have not
been slow to react to this attack
on demoeratic liberties, first of its
kind in the Third Republie’s history.

There is no doubt that the de—
cision has caused considerable
pleasure amone certain eircles,
Which had everything to fear from
an election. Failure of the govern-
ments foreign policy and the re-
eent scandal over Nazi espionage
and propaganda, together with un-
popularity of the government’s fi-
nancial measures, which hit the
small man, while the amament mak-
ers increase their profits, would all
have contributed to the thorough
defeat of the sovernment. At the
Same time the system of propor-
tional representation would have
increased the strength of the left
wing parties, and of the French
Communist party in particular.

Communist party of France has
adopted a resolution protesting
“vigorously against the prorogation
of the parliamentary mandate for
two years, which puts off the 1940
elections to 1942.”

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“Never before has such 4 measure
been taken against the principles
of democracy,” the resolution
states. “Never before have the
rights of universal suffrage been
trampled underfoot so eynically.

“By depriving the country of the
right of control which it has under
the laws of the republic, the sov-
ernment seeks to prevent its policy
from being judged by the nation.
It wishes to preserve the Possibility
of increasing the measures taken
against the workers, peasants,
Small shopkeepers and against
working people Senerally, without
having to account to the French
people, who are deprived of their
sovreignty.

“Apart from this, there is no
doubt that the prorogation of the
parliamentary mandate is part of
an anti-democratic plan, tending to

discredit the republican resime and
to open the way to personal power

for the benefit of the banks and
trusts.”’
The national council Gt the

French Socialist Party has joined
the political bureau of the Com-
munist party in its protest
against prorogation of the French
parliamentary mandate.

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