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Labor Must Defend
Its Rights

OT the least of the purposes of the campaign now being
N stimulated across Canada is to produce a wave of hys-
teria, dulling the critical faculties of the people and stamped-
ing them into actions contrary to their own best interests.

This campaign has already evoked some openly anti-
democratic statements from provincial and civic officials. In
Ontario, Attorney General Gordon Conant has blandly pro-
posed that ‘fwe sacrilice temporarily the time-honored princi-
ple of British justice that a man is imnocent until he is proven
ouilty.”’ Mayor William Morrison of Hamilton would <‘like
fo add pacifism, disarmament and brotherly love as the things
we are against.’ In British Columbia, Ald. George Muir of
Nanaimo, refers contemptuously to ‘hunks and aliens’ (mem-
bers of the UMWA.) employed in the mines while ‘our own
men’ are on the relief rolls.

There has been an imexhaustible spate of propaganda
about ‘fifth column” activities in terms of glittering gener-
alities. The original application of the term has been so dis-
torted that today a “fifth columnist’ apparently is any indiv-
jdual with the temerity to defend the bastions of Canadian
democracy against those who would destroy them from within.
Franco’s ‘fiith column’ of fascist sympathizers in Spain has
its counterpart in Canada among those who are striving to
destroy the rights of the people. And, as in Spain, they are
to be found in high places, not among those who have con-
sistently opposed fascism, wherever and in whatever form it
might be found, but among those who so short a time ago were
praising Hitler, who still laud Mussolini and Franco.

But the main objective of the present ‘spontaneous’ cam-
paign which has proven to be so well organized goes far be-
yond its original demand for mternment of Nazis and their
sympathizers. Already the sharp edge of its threat to the
liberties of the Canadian people is visible. Was it a coinci-
dence that at a time when slashes im relief appropriations
were centering attention upon unemployment problems, a
wave of agitation diverted resentment against foreign-born
workers? Was it a coincidence that at a time when there was
widespread demand demand for repeal or amendment of the
War Measures Act, a campaion calculated to defeat this de-
mand was launched and that the same daily press which de-
yoted columns to “antififth column’ meetings virtually
ignored the National Conference for Defense of Civil Liberties
in Wartime? Was it a coincidence that the same voices raised
against the ‘fifth column’ (although they did not look for it
where it will be found) are now demanding registration and
conseription, economi¢e and military.

HE present campaign is similar in many respects to that

organized in 1917 to put over conscription. Many of the
organizations which called for conscription then are again
calling for it. Then as now, most of them urged conscription
ot ‘men and wealth’. Then, those who opposed it were ac-
cused of being party to German intrigue, of taking German
money. Now, they are branded as ‘fifth columnists’.

In 1917, the Borden Conservative government defeated
78-61 a motion introduced by Hon. G P. Graham (Lib) urgme
it to bring before parliament ‘‘measures providing that those
best able to pay will be asked to contribute their full share to
the cost of the war and by which all agricultural, industrial,
transportation and natural resources of Canada will be organ-
ized so as to insure the greatest possible assistance to the em-
‘pire in the war, and to reduce the cost of living to the Cana-
dian people.”’

In 1940, there are strong indications that the King Lib-
eral government is plannine to introduce economic conscrip-
tion first. According to Bruce Hutchinson, Ottawa correspon-
dent of the Vancouver Sun, the ““next step will probably be
sweeping legislation like that mtroduced in Britain this week
to put the entire economy of Canada, all its citizens, its labor,
capital and all its private property within the call of the gov-
ernment for war purposes. The government, it was learned
today, has under consideration a bill along these lines more
drastic than anything ever contemplated in the history of the
country. If it goes ahead with such a measure, as generally
anticipated, the new policy will stop only at the conscription
of man-power for military service. Against that the present
government is irreyocably pledged.”’

IKE ‘fifth column,’ the term ‘conscription of wealth’ is
a glittering generality. In the minds of many it im-
plies that big business is temporarily obliged to sacrifice its
profits for perpetuation of the system which makes those
profits possible. Actually, there is no conscription of profits.
Ts it conceivable that those big interests which, at the begin-
ning of the war, refused to accept the 514 percent limit on war
contract profits set by the government would now be advo-
eating conscription of ‘men and wealth’, as indirectly they
are doing, if such a measure menaced their profits? Some will
point to the 100 percent taxation of excess profits in Britain.
Yet, in Canada in 1917, the government imposed a 50 percent
tax on all profits in excess of 15 percent and under 20 percent
and of 75 percent on all excess profits over 20 percent, and
still huge fortunes were made.

But to labor economic conscription means regimentation
depriving it of all those rights hardly won in more than half
a century of struggle. Not for nothing did Vancouver Trades
and Labor Council in May, 1917, adopt a resolution declaring
that conscription ‘‘would not only sacrifice the workers with-

out their consent, but would also annul those protective meas-
ures which organized labor has been able to force from the
employers.’’

Then as now, the organized labor movement had to fight
Some of its leaders, for J. H. McVety, then president of the
council, advocated the registration plan which proved to be a
step to conscription. And, at the Trades and Labor Congress
convention in 1917, delegates, all but 20 of whom voted against
conscription on a standing vote, were betrayed by their lead-
ers, who took the stand that they could not oppose military
conscription simce it was already law and went on record
against economic conscription only.

ecunne aber Movement make no mistake. Success of the
present campaign will lead to a blackout of its rights as, with
Saee of its leaders readily relaXine trade union wages, TOTES
Hae cate “ts Protest and *Pposition to worsened condi-
i suppressed by SWeeping powers conferred by
economic conscription measures: 3

BRITAIN’S ‘FIFTH COLUMN’ ;

By William Lawson

DDED significance is given to this article by the arrest in London last week of Sir
Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists; John Beckett, former Labor
M.P. who is now secretary of the so-called British People’s party, and Capt. A. H. M
Ramsay, Conservative M.P. for Peebles and Southern. Hint of what may presently be dis-

closed was given by William H. Stoneman, Chicago Dail

S

y News correspondent, when he radio-

ed from London that “when the story of the British ‘fifth column’ is finally revealed—as
it cannot be at this moment—the whole western world will have a profound shock, and the
consequences may easily be appalling in character.’’ :

OME eighteen months ago, in Dec. 1938,.a British writer in a book entitled Tory MP.
made a social and economic study of the members of the British national government.

_ Since then the personnel of the Tory members has undergone a few changes, but the
main conclusions drawn in this book, remain valid. At that date there were 415 Tory M.

P.s, all drawn exclusively from what we call the upper classes.

The majority were from

aristocratie families—some 236 were members of the peerage and the higher aristocracy
ih ey 5 ~ 4 iz x oe
Thirty percent were products of Eton and Harrow; all were graduates of expensive private

schools and leading universities.

tees of the House.

There was not a single worker amone these 415 Tory MP’s.
wealthy men, all of them well off, because it is impossible to gain

The old school tie was prominent on all leading

commit-

Most of them were very
nomination for a Con-

servative seat without spending liberally from one’s own pocket. :
Evidence of their wealth is found in the fact that 33 Tory MPs who died between 1931
and 1938 left estates totalling over $36,000,000—an average of more than a million dollars

apiece.

Income tax returns show that the smallest income en

joyed by any Tory MP is $10,-

000, the majority have more than $50,000; some have as high as $500,000 a year.

There is truth in Alfred Duff Cooper’s remark that
if he is a Conservative, to get into the House o
the eye of a needle.”’ Copper did not explain why a poor

servative in the first place.

ar] eal is as difficult for a poor man,
{ Commons as it is for a camel to get through
man would want to be a Con-

The Tory MPs are for the most part directly connected with big business and finance.

Every large bank, finance company, and industrial coneern in Britain has

on the Tory benches. Tory MPs
who are directors of big industri-
al firms mumber 181. Among
them they hold 775 directorships.
Forty-three are directors of in-
surance companies, 16 are bank
directors, and 36 directors of fin-
ance companies. Many more are
members of banking and industri-
al families. The Tory MPs repre-
sent every big railway, bank, pub-
lic utility, steel and iron, coal,
chemical, and shipping concern in
the British Isles.

Many are directly linked with
the munitions industry. Fifty-one
are directors of coal, iron and steel
trusts. Twenty-three are directors
of airplane works, others are on
the boards of munitions plants
themselves. Former Prime Min-
ister Neville Chamberlain and Sir
John Simon are former directors
of Vickers; as was also Home Sec-
retary Sir John Anderson who re-
signed a few days before accept-
ing his recent position.

British foreign investments are
well represented. Thirty-five Tory
MPs are directors of industrial
and banking concerns in the Brit-
ish dominions, including nine
directors of Canadian firms.
Twenty-nine are directors of Brit-
ish concerns in India; hundreds
more hold shares in Indian con-
cerns. Twenty-four MPs are di-
rectors of British firms operating
in foreign countries. These foreign
investments are of the utmost im-
portance in determining British
foreign policy. Remember that one
reason advanced by Chamberlain
for support of Franco was that
opposition might endanger the
£40,000,000 of British capital in-
vested in Spain.

HE fact that the Conservat-

ive party, representing big
business, consistently opposes the
interests of the working class and
the common people is generally
known. Its attitude towards the
workers can be gleaned from a
typical remark made by a typical
Tory MP, Austin Hopkinson, about
the unemployed:

The money taken from the
better educated sections of so-
ciety is distributed in doles to
those who have no objections
to becoming parasites, and breed
like rabbits because they do not
care what becomes of their
children.

This is a fair sample of the
class mentality of the members of
the National Government. It does
not fundamentally differ from, the
class viewpoint of our own Tory
and Liberal politicians, or from
the editorial writers of the Van-
couyer Sun.

Naturally, the attitude of the
Tory MPs to democracy and de-
mocratic institutions is one of
contempt. From hundreds of quo-
tations indicating that the mem-
bers of the national government
yearn for some form of dictator-
ship in Britain, I haye selected
only one. In April 1934, Sir
Thomas Moore, Conservative MP
for Ayr Burghs, described a Mos-
ley Blackshirt meeting in the fol-
lowing terms, according to the
London Daily Telegraph:

What is there in a black shirt
which gives apparent dignity
and intelligence to its wearer?
As I listened to the vibrant
tones of Sir Oswald Mosley f
got my answer. There was little
if any of his policy which could
not be accepted by the most
loyal follower of our present
Conservative leaders. The maj-
ority of the essentials and many
of the details are part and
parcel of strict Tory doctrines.
In truth much of the Black-
shirt policy has already been
initiated by the national gov-
ernment. Surely there cannot
be any fundamental difference
of outlook between the Black-
shirts and their parents the
Conservatives? For let us make
no mistake about the parent-
age. The briefest study of the
movement satisfy one that it is
largely derived from the Con-
servative party. This is per-
haps natural for the instincts
are the same, loyalty to the
throne and fove of country.
With these two powerful bonds,
surely the relationship can be
made closer and more friendly.

Why should there not be con-
cord and agreement between-the
old historic party and this new
and virile offshoot? The coun-
try would be safeguarded from
danger within and made more

secure from danger without.
The national government would
get a new lease of vigorous and
successful life.

Sir Thomas Moore was Tfre-
endorsed as official Tory candidate
in the 1935 election, and still sits
in the House of Commons. But
many Tories were embarrassed by

his frankness. They knew that
Mosley’s imitation of Hitler would
never win the British public.
Walter Elliott, Conservative MP
for Kelvingrove, explained:

If one wants to do a new
thing in this country, one must
do it as if it were an old thing.
For that reason it is courting
failure to tell people that. they
have to put on black shirts and
throw their opponents down-
stairs in order to get to the
corporate state . The new
economic order, the corporate
state has already developed
further in England than is gen-
erally recognized.

@
HE majority of Tory MPs, at
least until September of
jlast year, were as strongly pro-
fascist in foreign policy as they
Were anti-democratic and anti-
working class on the home front.

One of the most influential Tory
politicians, held in highest esteem
by national government leaders,
is Lord Londonderry. Lord Lon-
donderry is a direct descendant
of Viscount Castlereagh, the most
hated statesman in British history,
Whose suicide was greeted with
wild delight by the English peo-
ple.

Until 1938 the present Lord
Londonderry was national chair-
man of the Conservative party.
Oliver Stanley, minister of war in
the Chamberlain cabinet, is his
son-in-law; his son, the present
Viscount Castlereagh, is Tory MP
for County Down. His family and
personal connections bring him in
close contact with the entire
leadership of the national govern-
ment.

In March, 1938 Lord London-
derry published a book entitled
Ourselves and Germany which was
brought up to date after Munich
and reprinted in the Penguin
series. The aim of this book is “to
convince the British people tto
adopt a policy of closer friendship
to Nazi Germany.” In plain Eng-
lish, the book is Nazi propaganda.

It defends Hitler’s domestic and
foreign policies, whitewashes Nazi
aggression, praises the dictator-
ship and the concentration camps.
It describes friendly visits to Hit-
ler and Goering, praises these
men, justifies every single one of
their actions against democracy
and civilization. Its author sup-
ports anti-semitism (p 97, p 144)
and justifies the Nazi persecution
of the German church (p 145).
The book concludes with letters of
praise from Hitler, Goering, Von
Papen, Count Grandi, and many
leading British Conservatives.
@

HE Tory MPs do not confine

themselves to abstract propa-
ganda work. They also took part
in organizing pro-Nazi groups in
Britain.

Chief of these was the Anglo-
German Fellowship, organized
after Hitler seized power, with the
aim of strengthening relations be-
tween the Nazis and the British
government. This organization
conducted Nazi propaganda on a
big scale, inviting such guests as
Ribbentrop and Von Blomberg
to Britain and sending large dele-
gations to confer with Nazi lead-
ers in Berlin.

It made no attempt to conceal
its strong pro-fascist, anti-demo-
eratic leanings. Its members in-
cluded 29 Tory MPs, representing
the biggest banks and industrial

a representative

concerns in Britain, and 28 mem-
bers of the House of Lords. Among
them were Lord Runciman, the
impartial representative to
Czechoslovakia. Lord Halifax was
& guest of the organization. Other
members included Lord Redesdale,

father of Unity Mitford and
father-in-law of Sir Oswald
Mosley; Lord Lothian, British

ambassador to the United States;
Lord Mount Temple, Lord Stamp
and other prominent Tories.

An offshoot of this organization
was: The Link, which carried on
Nazi propaganda even more open-
ly, and set up fascist membership
groups throughout the country. Its
Jeading council were all members
of the Anglo-German Fellowship.
and its members included dozens
of Tory MPs and members of the
House of Lords. It published the
Anglo-German Review, which was
indistineuishable in tone and con-
tent from a Nazi propaganda sheet
edited in Berlin.

Here are a few quotations from
this paper, written and edited by
British Conservatives: After Mu-
nich, abuse was heaped on Premier
Benes:

So exit Dr.

ficial of the

Lodge of Freemasonry,

Benes, high of-
Grand Oriental
patron

of the anti-god congress, and
outpost of Bolshevism.
Czechoslovakia, a tumor in

the heart of Europe, ruled by
the Communist Benes, which re-
quired a surgical operation to
prevent its poisoning the life
stream of Europe.

This paper even boasted of the
military secrets which Germany
learnt from the Czech fortifica-

tions:
Meanwhile, Germany has
learnt much from the sur-

rendered fortifications, of which
some were built by French En-
gineers who had built the
Maginot Line, and thanks to
that Imowledge the Seigfried
Line is likely to be the strong-
est in the world.

Lord Baldwin is attacked for
proposing to help Jewish refugees.
Hitler is hailed as a man of
peace; Sir Arnold Wilson, Tory
MP for Hitchin, says: “I have
met Hitler repeatedly. I believe
him to be a great instrument for
peace in the world.” Japanese ag-
eression is defended, and lavish
praise heaped on fascist Italy.

@

It is among these high circles
and not among the Communists
and other working class organiza-
tions that the ‘fifth column’ will
be found.

While the Anglo-German Review
was slandering Benes, the Com-
munists were opposing ‘appease-
ment’ as epitomized in the Munich
pact. While the Tory MPs were
praising Hitler, the Communists
were fighting Nazi aggression.

True, the Anglo-German Fellow-
ship and its offshoot, The Link,
were hastily disbanded at the out-
set of the war, but their members
are still occupying key positions
in Britain.

Tf Sir John Anderson really
wants to find a ‘fifth column’ in
Britain, let him look where he
will have some hope of finding it
—among those Tory MPs, those
bankers and industrialists and
aristocrats who spread Nazi prop-
geanda in Britain, who create or-
ganizations like the Angol-Ger-
man Fellowship, who published
pro-fascist books and newspapers.

DIES’ AGENTS

ACTIVE IN MEXICO

By Alfred Miller

MEXICO CITY

- for education and less and less for war, only,

SHORT
JABS

by Of Bill

Educational Programs In Two Worlds

RECENT Sunday edition of the New York Times carri v
: i ied a news
A item which would seem to justify such writings as oa
Spengler's Decline of the West. 4
€ story tells us that as a result of the economy drive of the
New York Board of Education, 1,118 teaching and supervisory celta
BANE tea nogtsaen in the board’s jurisdiction. The staff of the New
School system has been reduced from 38,646 a year a '
at the present time. y Bn ge
On top of that, Mayor LaGuardia has ordered 600 more reducti :
in the elementary branch and 500 in other branch i sta
staff reduction of 2,218. ge

So also In Mexico. The Cardenas government spen
of its total budget on education, 90 percent of which is = Sea
education. This educational program is threatened in the comin:
presidential elections, Almazan, the ‘favorite son’ of the big land
owners, the foreign oil interests and the Trotskyist reactionaries, i
going to put an end to such foolishness as educating peons and laborer:
“This is a fine dream of utopia,” he says to the Mexican people, ani
like the demagogue he is, adds, “but are you getting enough to eat?!
Compare these two items with what has happened in the Wester
va and Wesern Byelorussia since they became part of -the Sovie d
nion. ;
In three months after the entry of the Red army, 1,300 schools Wert,
opened in Western Ukraine and 800 in Western Byelorussia. One thon
sand additional students were admitted to the iniversity of Lvov. Aly |
sey Sacre aes been made free to the sudents, the total che:
orne by the state—and the student i gi ive ai
while they are being educated. pee ae "

The West—plenty for war, but little for education; the Hast—lot

from the outside! epee net see

Congressional Timber

O NE does not have to be a baseball fan to remember names like
Hans Wagner, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Frank Ghance, Chrish
Mathewson and Walter Johnson. Walter Johnson, in his day, was oni
of the outstanding pitchers of the baseball game. As the star hurle
for the Senators. he was as well, or better, known than the parade o
Big Shots at the White House,—Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hooye
—which passed across the stage during the generation in which he wa
heaving fast ones on the Washington ballyard.

If Walter Johnson would quit at that, he might remain a herc
but it appears he is not to be allowed that happy fate. The basebal
moguls exploited him until he was of no further use to them. But nov
the Republican political bosses of Maryland have discovered furthe
possibilities of exploitation of the ‘Big Train, as he was known in hi
baseball days.

They are going to make him a congressman, at least they are goin}
to try. Banking on Johnson’s great popularity they hope to snare ¢
seat now held by the Democrats. So Walter Johnson will be the Rep
ublican candidate for Congress in the sixth Maryland district nex |
November.

if the boys who provide the wordage for the sports pages are 4
be believed, Johnson will be some help in solving the problems of ¢
country with thirteen millions of unemployed. According to the}
scanty reports, the great pitcher’s message to America reads, “Gee
whiz, the folks sure have been nice about this whole thing. Even if ©
lost, gee whiz!” And to the district he may represent in the Coneres.
sional debates, he makes no promises, “I just tell ‘em that Til ty &
do my best and hope they will believe me.”

If Walter Johnson could go back to the mound and make a come
back, or even fail to do so, he would still remain one of America‘
‘greats, but if this is a true report of his political savvy, some frien:
of his should whisper in his ear, “cobbler stick to your last, for yoi
are being used by Hamilton’s machine.”

The Word Of A Fascist

As weeks ago the local press carried a news item saying tha
accusations were being made in the Soviet press that the Finn
were not carrying out their part of the bargain laid down in the recen
treaty. On the front page of the same local paper there was a denis
on behalf of the Finnish government.

In the last Advocate there was a news paragraph, stating tha
Juhu Paasikivi, the Finnish ambassador at Moscow, had admitte:
the wrecking and that all claims would be made good by his govern
ment,

I have just received a letter from a friend telling of some of thi |
wrecking. The Finnish Whites destroyed factories and plants, pro
claiming to the Russians that the damage had been done by air bomb
ard and artillery fire.

But there had neyer been any military operations in the districh
where some of these plants were destroyed. At Kexholm, for instance
there is a cellulose plant. There had been no fighting in that dis:
trict, yet the plant was completely disabled. Examination showed tha’
the machinery had been smashed with hammers. All the damage wa
on the ground floor. The roof and the upper floors were intact. Nc
bombs had dropped through the roof and there were no shell holes ir
the walls. :

Thousands of pounds of high explosives which had been set bui
not detonated, were found. The ‘shot-firers’ had had to run out before
they did their job. These charges were sufficient to destroy the whole
plant.

Some of the buildings had been robbed with great thoroughness)

More that 1000 motors were missing from parts of the plants. Apart-
ment houses, too, had been dynamited.

Deserters from the Finnish army informed the Reds that this
work of destruction had been organized and executed by the Schutz-
corps, Mannerheim’s storm troopers, after the signing of the peace
treaty.

Petsamo on the other hand, was restored without anythins being
damaged. :

The word of a Fascist Finn is worth no more than the word of a
Fascist Hitler or Mussolini.

iginated, the ‘fifth column’ were
Franco’s people hiding in Madrid
conspiring against the defenders
of this heroic city, giving inform-
ation to the enemies, acting as
armed traitors, ready to attack
the people’s army in the back

ition,’ Renteria concluded, “the
defense committee has taken the
information and is proceeding
immediately to investigate the
conspiracy of the Mexican ene-
mies of Mexico hiding behind
such propaganda. Unmasking
them, we shall show that their when four military columns
action is not only directed against threateningly converged upon Ma-"
the progressive sectors of the drid... . And siding with this)
country but against the entire ‘fifth column’ there were Ultimas’
nation.” Noticias and its colleagues.

@ “In the case of the peoples’

GITATION in Mexican papers over existence of a “fifth
column’ in Mexico, composed of Spanish Republican
Veterans and the workers militia of the Confederation of
Mexican Workers (CTM), is being developed here by the

Dies Committee which has established a ‘branch office’ im this
city, Deputy Salvador Ochoa Renteria told newspapermen
this week. Ochoa Renteria is president of the Committee of
Workers’ Defense of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies.

“From several organizations of
workers and government employ=
ees this committee has received

“information that a branch oftice

of the Dies Committee has been
set up here,” Renteria said. “We
are trying to locate its offices and
we know some of the agents.”

“From the United States the
Dies Committee has sent down
instructions that an extensive
campaign of agitation against the
government of General Cardenas
and against organizations like the
National Confederation of Peas-

ants (GNC) and the Confedera-
iton of Mexican Workers (CTM)
be developed,” he charged.

“Gements of the Gold Shirts,
the Mexican Civic Action, the
Wationalist Vanguard, the Anti-
Communist party and other sim-
ilar organizations have taken part
in meetings with Dies agents,”
Renteria told reporters. “In these
meetings an agreement was
reached to work up public opinion
in this country and to create the
belief in the existence of this
fantastic ‘Gfth column’

“True to its revolutionary trad-

HE Mexican Communist party

made the following statement
in reference to the existence of a
‘fifth column’ in Mexico:

“The mercenary press of the
country is talking about the poss-
ible existence of a ‘fifth column’
in Mexico. Ambassador Daniels
has informed President Roosevelt
that he does not believe that an
effort to create a ‘fifth columm’ in
Mexico would be suecessiul: Min-,
ister of ¥Foreign Relations Hay
also has shown himself to be
sceptical in this respect. How-
ever, Ultimas Noticias declares in
an editorial that ‘through the
weakening of the idea of patriot-
ism proclaimed by the Commun-
ist doctrine, nazism has been
counting upon and continues to
count upon in all countries the
efficient services of a ‘fifth col-
umn’ serying its ends...

“In Spain, where the word or-

struggle for liberty and independ-:
ence a ‘fifth column’ has been set
up in Mexico by those who today)
are cunningly speaking against!
the oil expropriation and who are)
favoring arbitration, by those who.
are storing arms to play the;
bloody game of the oil companies, !
by the enemies of all social andj}
economic conquests which benefit 7
the great majority of the Mexican js
people. The ‘fifth column’ in Mex~
ico is being constiuted by the re-

actionaries, the Almazanistas, by |
all those who in one form or the
other defend and aid them, pre-%}
cisely by the enemies of the Com-

munists. :

“The ‘fifth column’ stands at
the right and not at the left. And
it can act in favor of Anglo-
French imperialism and Yankee
imperialism as it has acted in fa-
vor of German fascism. It is al-
ways against the people.”