Mme. Chiang, ‘woman of death’

_seeks U.S. help to crush people

By ISRAEL EPSTEIN

So Mme. Chiang Kai-shek is in this country again. On her last visit, in wartime, she made some appeals fof the genuinely starved, genuinely heroic Chinese people fight- ‘ing Japan. ‘Between those speeches she made ultra-expensive shopping tours to buy the chorcest furs and gowns in America for herself and her friends, who took good care, war

or no war, to be neither starved hor even uncomfortable, Americans were at first dazzled by the costly pageantry of Mme. Chiang’s well press-agented tours and undoubted personal style. Finally, however, they decided that she had a little too much style and glitter to really represent her country. But that ‘Was on the morning after.

Today Mme. Chiang is franker. She is appealing not for her people but for herself and her grafting, fat-cat friends, whom the Chinese people no longer want. She is ask- ing not only for more American arms to blast those people, but also for American boys to kill and be killed by them One project she will try to sell is : an alliance of the U.S., colon- ial Britain and . ex-enemy Japan with what re- mains of the corrupt govern- ment headed by her dictator husband, to build a wall against her peo-~ ple’'s victorious wrath, /

Helen of Troy had, the books Say, ‘the face that launched a thou- sand ships.” Mayling Soong Chi- ang, who rese from a lay preacher’s daughter to something of an em- Press, also likes to see herself against the background of history.

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Norway seamen top war losses

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Seamen and women: workers of the merchant marine accounted for more World War II casualties than any other group in Norway includ- ing the armed forces, according to final figures just published here.

Over 3,600 maritime workers lost their lives in the conflict, as compared with just over 2,000 battle deaths in the army and navy serv- ing both in Norway and abroad.

Deaths in action further included 2,001 underground resistance fight- ers against the Nazi occupation, 883 of whom were women. Other “war victims were 1,092 Norwegians who died in concentration camps within the country and in Germany, 93 killed while trying to escape by sea to England and 43 who commit- _ ted suicide after capture by the Nazis,

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Sure that she is no slouch com- pared to Helen, she certainly be- lieves that her, face is good for some ships too—50 or 60 U.S. trans- ports and aircraft carriers with plenty of marines and explosives aboard. Ships have grown bigger and more murderous since Trojan days. And while poor Helen let her heart lead her into an awful mess before things got moving, Mayling Soong Chiang does not in- tend to suffer any personal pain. Her simpler plan is to sell her country down the river—and bring home the bacon.

Those are the morals of the whole disintegrating gang that calls itself the Nanking govern- ment. Consider the inaugural statements of its new Premier, Sun Fo, who appealed to the U.S_ for “a Gen. MacArthur” to take supreme Charge in China. Think how that sounds to any Chinese. MacArthur is a military gover- nor appointed by World War II’s victors to rule a defeated country, Japan. China was one of the vic- tors in World War II. She sits as one of the Big Five in the United Nations. Now the man who calls himself a Chinese leader appeals for a foreign military governor over his own country, because there is no other way for his mob to stay in power.

Sun Fo said further, according to the United Press, that “China must be prepared to make any rea- sonable concession to obtain major American military assistance.” He remarked that he had been edu- eated largely in the U.S. and that “with this background, it was na- tural to assume that his govern- ment would reflect in many ways the American point of view.’ The Chinese people as a whole have not

their self-seeking government has so far failed to provide even grade schools to teach more ‘than a tiny proportion to read and write. These people will ask, “What about the Chinese point of view.” Many of them are fighting for a govern- ment to “reflect” that.

Nor was this the limit of Sun’s self-abasement. He said he now favors “opening of the Yangtze River and other inland waterways to American and other foreign shipping” and would have “no ob- jection to American .warships op- erating on the Yangtze as a patrol.” Internal shipping rights are re- Served to home-owned vessels in all independent nations. China only rid herself in 1942 of forcefully im- posed treaties that had laid all her waters open to alien ships since the 1840's. Sun’s offer is the same as an American government asking foreign warships to patrol the Mis- sissippi to help it hold power. ©

Furthermore, Sun said he favored “a new deal for foreign business in China.” The Chinese, for 100 years, were under the impression that it was Chinese business that needed

new deal in the face of foreign competition backed by foreign armies in their own land. Sun’s (and Mme. Chiang’s) idea, of course, is to hold the promise of rich colonial profits under Wall

Street’s nose. All that is necessary to get these profits is more billions of the U.S. taxpayers’ money and some bleeding by non-Wall Street Americans in uniform. That is the siren song of Nanking.

Many writers have glamorized Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a “femme fatale.” This French ex- pression can be transalted in

several ways. One translation, ‘very apt today, is “woman of

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Dulles’ nazi colleague draws light sentence

Life on a country estate

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was the chief “punishment”

Allied victory brought to Nazi banker Kurt von Schroeder, in whose home Adolf Hitler made his first contacts with the Ruhr valley coal and steel men who financed Nazism’s rise

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This was revealed in Schroeder’s current retrial before a State de- nazification court, after another similar court at Bielefeld had let him off with three months impri- sonment and a fine that made no dent at all in his fortune. Follow- ing his short prison spell, Schroe- der returned to his palatial 1,250- acre farm despite a protest strike by 25,000 Bielefeld workers against the lightness of his sentence, :

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held high rank in the Nazi SS (Elite Storm Troops). Even at his retrial he had the audacity to testify that he had once visited the notorious Dachau death camp and been “favorably impressed” with the arrangements there.

One reason for Schroeder’s confi- dent behavior may be that he is head of the powerful Cologne I. G. Stein Bank and chief German partner in the ‘banking firm of J. Henry Schroeder, New York.

The legal adviser of J. Henry Schroeder in its jnternational cartel arrangements has long been John Foster Dulles, leading ‘U.S. Republican corporation law- yer and chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations in Paris dur- ing Sec. of State George C. Mar- shall’s absence. A top executive

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Another contingent of U.S. marines has been dispatched from Guam to Tsingtao (1) under the pretext of ation” of American citizens. Chiang Kai-shek’s encircled troops in Suchow (2) refused to obey his orders to withdraw and help

the “evacu-

While Madame Chiang is in the U.S. seeking aid for her hus- band’s tottering dictatorship, Kuomintang preparing to flee to Canton (4).

leaders were reported

tration camp inmate, Gustay Weg- erer, was interviewed by the Frank- furt correspondent of The National Guardian, which carried the exclu- sive story in its Noy. 29 issue.

Wegerer, a skilled chemist, was in Buchenwald from 1938 until liberation and worked in the camp’s pathology department where bodies of dead or murdered prisoners were prepared for Nazi “scientific” experiments.

Here is what Wegerer would tes- tify to about Ilse Koch if given the opportunity:

“Gen. Clay is freeing Ilse Koch because he says there is no con- vincing evidence against her. Yet Dr. Kurt Sitte, Czech uni- versity teacher, former Buchen- wald prisoner and now assistant to 1948 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Blackett, testified under oath be- fore an American tribunal that he himself had to work on the project of producing ‘useful ob- jects’ of tattooed human skins for Ilse Koch. And I, Gustav Weg- erer, was forced to work on the same project,

“From Dr. Lolling, chief of the medical division of the Reich Se- curity H.Q., we prisoners received in 1941 the first order to skin dead prisoners who were tattooed.

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If General Lurius Clay is still looking for proof that Ilse Koch, mistress of Buchenwald, skin lampshades and other crimes, he can get incontrovertible evidence from a former Buchenwald prisoner. The concen-

is guilty of collecting human-

ted skins, thin as parch- ment, destined for Berlin. He said to his hangers-on: show this to my wife. She can

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of them.’

“Next day I got orders to report to Koch with a case of treated skins. Frau Koch was there in his room and personally picked out 12 skins that were especially obscene.

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_ “Commandant Koch and his wife kept putting in new requests for treated human skin, until finally there came from Berlin a sharp query as to why so few tattooed skins were arriving. :

“After this censure Dr. Mueller kept the Security Office satisfied. Previously only dead prisoners

were inspected to find tattoos. Now

living prisoners were sought out to provide more ‘raw material.’ to keep both the Security Office and the Koch family supplied. d “Beside Dr. Mueller and myself there are innumerable former Bu- chenwald prisoners who can prove the ‘unproven’ crimes of Ilse Koch.” Gen. Clay can get in touch

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Within the Nazi party Schroeder was known to be a mamber of the notorious “Himmler circle,” headed by Hitler’s bloodthirstry Gestapo chief When asked why he had con- tributed one million marks an- “special tasks,” Schroeder told the court that he did not know that the SS and Gestapo committed atrocities and that his bank had acted as cashier for Himmler’s funds for

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punishable by death, national youth bodies in five Asiatic coun- tries charge in an appeal to the people of Britain.

The appeal, signed by the Natl. Student Federation of China, Lib- erated China Youth Assn., All-India Student’ Federation, Indonesian Youth Movement and Viet Nam (Indc-China) Democratic Youth, calls on democratic-minded Britons to stop their government’s war against Malaya. British military operations against Malayan inde-

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