The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
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munists cannot make q reply. The
difficulty Of effective reply is OF
course still more increased by the
last decree forbidding circulation
at home and abroad OF news that
might be regarded by the Govern
ment as dangerous, even if untrue"
The Berlin correspondent Of the
conservative Lon ion Evening
Standard writes: Many consider
1t improbable that the Communists
should place 8 valuable weapon OF
propaganda in the hands Of their
opponents precisely before the
elections. Several Journalists
watching the fire expressed the
conviction that it was an under
taking of the Nazis, pursuing the
task Of gaining popularity for their
movement and Justification for
f1ercer measures against the Left"
The paper comments editoriallyS
eve should be surprised II the
world accepted as good coin the
statement OF Herr Hitler that the
Reichstag fire was the work OF
Communist incendiarisn1. The
German Communists are not en-
tirely deprived Of tactical common
sense"
NAZI LIE
SIMPLY FOOLISH
The Berlin correspondent Of the
London News Chronicle states:
1.-The statement that the German
Communists had any official re-
lation to the fire is simply foolish"
Sharing the common distrust OF
the official Nazi (fascist) version
of the Reichstag fire, the London
Times concludes: I'm the present
state, continuation Of this highly
strained situation constitutes q
menace to international peace"
FRENCH PRESS .
SKEPTICAL
The French bourgeois press also
rejects the fascist version OF the
arson. "Le Temps" is plainly
skeptica1 in its editorial comments,
and its Berlin correspondent dwells
mostly on evidence disproving the
fascist version. OF the charge
against the Communist fraction in
the Reichstag, he writes: '"These
are simply suspicious unsupported
by any evidence"
Tie paper lie Liberte" asks the
pointed question whether the fire
was not the work of provocateurS?
Hitler's threats OF dire punishment
to foreign correspondents who cir
cuIate news unfavorable to the
government came as a reply to
this universal exposure OF the fase
cist provocation.
SPOILED NEW
HITLER PLOT
The Hitlerites had it ali ready
TO stage their attempt to assas-
sinate Hitler" but the English cor
respondents got wind Of the plot
and informed their papers and this
spoiled the plans for the new
fraIne-up which was to serve as q
signal for a mass slaughter OF
revolutionary workers. London in
formation from reliable sources
states that the English cores
pondents requested their papers
not TO publish the news about the
fascist plans for q fake "assassina-
ton" for fear of fascist persecu-
tons.
The Polish and Czecho- SIovakiaIf
press join in dismissing Hitler's
version of the Reichstag fire as
untrue. The "A-Zet" of Prague
prints the news of the fire under
the caption Fire Made TO Order
The Prayer Tageblatt' compares
the Reichstag fire with the notoris
GUS forged ''Zinoviev letter"
The Vienna Press states that
Vanderlubbe was connected with
the German police in 1881. This
is a new edition Of the GosgIlov
Affair made up by the German
fascist, declares "Pravda." just
as the French Minister, Maio, who
made up the famous communiqus
about ''neo-B olshevisn" was ex-
posed, SO shall those be exposed
who affirm that Venderlubbe is a
Communist "just arrived from
| Russia"
The results Of the fascist pro-
vocation of Feb. q are already APP
parent, with the German prisons
filed with thousands OF workers.
WHAT has the party calling &C.
W self the National Socialist Party
done for the German workers and
peasants since Hitler came to
power? 1t started bloody terror
and exceptional oppression. 1t has
given up German workmen and
the poorest peasants entirely into
the hands of the manufacturers,
the landlords, the police and ex-
Kaiser's officers. What picture
have we III Germany? Ten mil
lion unemployed, starving workers,
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