The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
On the
World Front
L. By HARRY CANNES -
Hitler's Filters
Liberal, ReactiOnary Views
SOya Rean Diet

Germany. They feel them
selves on the edge of a preci-
pice. Their dangerous posi-
ton, the full impact of which
they dare not see or admit to
themselves, is startling the entire
world bourgeoisie. The press of
world capitalism is writhing in the
agony of writing Of German fas-
| ciSm's onrushing doom. They look
aghast at Germany because here,
in the weakest link of world inn
periailsm, they see the abyss that
threatens to swallow their whole
system.
These facts, which the exploiters
in other parts of the world can
analyze with more cold blooded-
ness and objectivity, are having a
dual effect on the Hitlerites. On
the one hand, they drive them to
vertiable frenzy of terrorism
against the Communist Party of
Germany. Furiously, like mad
men, they hunt for prey to safe
their lust for the destruction of
this ever-growing, ever-present, in
destructible force Ernst Thaelmann,
chained in their dungeons, is for
them the living symbol of that rev.
dictionary party which in their
mounting difficulties, with the Wis
ible catastrophe upon them, can no
longer be denied as the chief anti
fascist enemy its avowed grave
digger.
On the other hand, feeling the
masses slipping away from them,
they return to their original shame
less demagogy, their campaign
phrases against the rich" Butt
this time it falls on ears deafened
by sustained hunger.
IN the estimation of the present
L situation of German fascism by
various journals of the bourgeois
world, there is a strange contradi-
ton. The more reactionary preaB,
that closest to Hitler, contains the
most devastating adn1issions-per-
haps precisely because it is so close
in sympathy and yet so far geogra-
phically that it speaks for its own
edif1cation.
While the so-called liberal press,
as for example, the New York
Nation" which kow-tows daily to
the false gods of democracy" re-
sorts to the veriest lies in order to
make the American workers believe
that mass support behind Hitler, If
anything, is today stronger than
when the Nazis first came to power
by the light of the burning Reich
stag.
For example, Charles Farmer,
correspondent of the extremely chau-
whist and pro-fascist Chicago
Tribune, on May 16, cabled his paper
long story of German fascism
which from beginning to end speaks
of an impending catastrophe under
Hitler. ''HitIer Jittery as Reich
Faith in Him Wanes," reads the
headline. In fact, Hitler himself,
says Farmer, feeling the coming coll
lapse of fascism, himself suffered a
severe nervous collapse. To stem
the tremendous anti-fascist swing,
Hitler's windbags resort to radical
phrases.
But the worker is skeptical,"
cables Mr.. Farmer, who himself is
no friend of the worker. "He looks
at his pay envelope, sees less pay,
and his wife tells him food has
gone up 10 per cent. Soya beans
and similar 'coolie food is being
prepared for German workers"
Then he relates some details Of
the factory elections, a comprehen-
siye story of which has already app
peared in the Daily Worker. TN
quite number of factories in the
Ruhr chat is, the German Pitts
burgh), rs per cent of the workers
voted against the men chosen as
their trustees
THE following from the European
l boss press hardly needs comment.
Temps, leading French newspaper:
THE Nazi regime is entering its
critical stage-the difficulties with
which it is beset become greater
from day 10 day All in all, the
enthusiasm on the other side of
| the Rhine has markedly decreased.
Besides, the Communist opposition,
although hidden and underground,
is nevertheless profound, and far
more effective than most imagine.
It is the constant worry of the Nazi
leaders" The Prayer PresSe: 1.-THE
immediate cause of the widespread
campaign against grrmblers and
fault finders seems to have been the
course of the voting in the con-
fldence council lists in industrial
occupations. After all, as far as
we know, it resulted unfavorably
for National Socialism. The results
were not published because they
showed that German labor is far
from submitting to RECOMMENDATION.
After a year the mood has changed.
The situation has become worse.
The workers refuse to be fooled by
the rising employment statistics.
The first terror of the upheaval has
gradually diminished. Now they
know the weaknesses of the regime.
But they do not underestimate it's
strength. The foreign audience
which heard DR. Goebbels speech
last Friday in the Sport Palace, were
shaken and in fact terrified. by the
hollow echo that answered Goebbels
from all the rows of the huge hall"
We regret exceedingly we have
space for only a few choice morsels
from the London Times of May 9:
"The picture (of Germany would
be incomplete without mention of a