The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Nazi HanfStaengI
Reaches NY Today
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Against Fascism and Anti-semitism
American League Against War and
Fascism, National Student League
Student League for Industrial De
docracy trade unions and other Or
/ CARNATIONS.
Anti-fascist student organizations,
| the militant N. S. L. and the So
cialist-controlled S. L. I. D. have
issued q Joint statement calling on
the students to demonstrate this
afternoon against the arrival of
Hanfstaengl.
The issue of free speech is not
involved the statement reads. He
! is the representative and apologist
Of a government which is the sworn
enemy of art, culture and ciWliza-
ton. To tolerate Hanfstaengl is to
tolerate the barbarism he repre-
sents.
Demand Free Thaelmann"
At the same time, the demon
stration will raise the cry of Free
Ernst Thaelmann," the heroic lead
er of the German revolutionary
working class. Workers will carry
banners demanding his immediate
release, protesting against the i'm
prisonment of all political prisoners
in Germany, and hitting the spread
of poison Nazi propaganda in the
United States by German officials.
Hanfstaengl, in addition to being
major aid of Hitler, is well known
for his corrupt personal life. AS
Hitler's press agent he sold the
right to interview the bloody chan
cellor to the highest bidder and
pocketed $4,000 for himself. Hanf-
staengl is a graduate of Harvard
University and, although his pro-
tessed aim in coming to America
is for a class reunion" his real
motive is quite openly to spread
Na7i propaganda here.
The National Committee to Aid
Victims Of German Fascism yester-
day replied to the statement on
Hanfstaengl issued by the Joint
Council of American Jewish Con-
gress and American Jewish Com
mittee who urge that mo discour-
tesy of any kind" be shown "Hanf-
staengl.
BY urging officially and publicly
that no discourtesy be shown Hanf-
statenel, by swallowing whole and
supporting the shallow presence that
Hanfstaengls hurried visit to Amer
lea is solely for the purpose Of at
tending his class reunion at Har-
ward, the Joint Consultative Com
mittee of the American Jewish Con-
gress, the American Jewish Commit
tee and the B'nai Birth Lodge are
showing a fatal unwillingnesS to
face facts" the statement reads.
mo one aware of events happen
ing all over the world can subscribe
seriously to the view that Hitler's
lieutenant, Hanfstaengl, Foreign
Press Chief Of the Hitler Party, as
he describes himself, is coming over
here as a private citizen.
In the first place, HanfstaengI
is one Of the inner circle who made
the Nazi party and the regime OF
terror which has crushed all Ger
man liberty since Hitler came tc
power. AS such, he is not. and can
not be treated as a private citizen
"Hanfstaengl, as a Nazi and
Storm Trooper, is no more on pri-
vate business than was Hans Wiede-
mann a year ago when he officially
represented Germany at the Cen
fury Of Progress Fair in Chicago
and actually spent his time organ
izing and directing the activities Of
Storm Troop units and Nazi agents
in American cities.
Crisis in Germany Growing
"But beyond such personal con-
siderations-is the historical fact
that the Nazi regime in Germany il
faced with a desperate economic
crisis which is rapidly becoming e
political one.
1--WE submit that the Joint Con.
sultative Council does not represent
the organizations and membership
of the American Jewish Committee
the American Jewish Congress anc
B'nai Birth in supporting the f1c.
ton of the private character of the
Hanfstaengl visit.
This is another evidence, among
many which have come to our at