The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-05
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

iAAIISA at INC opera
What is Behind the Confab?
War and Gable Monopoly
HITLER put on one of the
II greatest mystery thrilIers
in his whole blood-curdling
history Thursday afternoon
at the Prussian State Opera
House.
Every foreign newspaper
correspondent expresses his
puzzlement over the reasons for
Hitler's sudden calling of 1000 of
his chief Nazi butchers to a secret
meeting. Even the facts some of
the correspondents mentioned in
their original cable dispatches were
not published in the capitalist
newspapers. For example, thu
United Press correspondent cabIed
the fact that Hitler as he apl
preached the Opera House, instead
OF his usual comic-opera style Of
standing up in his auto greeting the
Populace, this time arrived in a
very worried state, Slumped back
IN his car. Goering arrived wear
ing a new uniform lit must ba
number 86 or 81 of a deep blue
color. He was greeted very coldlv
on his arrival Every inch Of tbs
road traversed by der fuehrer"
and his gangsters was patrolled by
3 double row Of Nazi armed guards
For fear that some airplane might
attempt to lombard the onera
house. a flock Of pursuit planes
were stationed around Berlin. All
air traffic was ordered stopped dur
ing the time of the meeting.
There Is nothing more inexplic.
able than this sudden meeting"
declared the Herald-T Tribune corr
respondent.
THE correspondent is mistaken.
l The bevildermen arises from the
fact that there is so much to meet
about that it is hard to pick out
the precise reason. The main
reason undoubtedly is the growing
dlslntegration in the Nazi ranks,
the undermining effect of the con-
slant reports of the defamation Of
the leaders at the hands of Hitler,
Hitler calls these gentlemen to-
gether to assure them that not so
many have been slaughtered. The
conflict between these butchers is
becoming so severe that to see them
called together is indeed a surprise,
But there are many other reasons,
The economic crisis in Germany is
growing worse and requires drastic
action of some sort or another.
The January 10 plebiscite in the
Saar rushes on, and the Nazis re-
quire war council to discuss their
future tactics.
Fascist Germanys isolation is
being further aggravated by the
darwing closer of French imperial
ism and Italy, with Laval visiting
Mussolini in Rome to talk over the
barring of Hitler from the intended
seizure of Austria.
In short, the iron ring of history
is drawing closer and closer around
the Fascist regime, like the walls in
the Pit and the Pendulum with the
sharp, swinging point of the pro-
letarian revolution coming ever
nearer to the heart of the degen-
crate, savage, final offspring Of
capitalism.
FOREIGN. correspondents in the
United States are very much
worried over certain developments
toward war and fascism in this
country that directly affect them.
They are particularly concerned
over recent moves to merge all tele-
graph, cable and radio corpora
tons into one gigantic organizes
ton under control of the govern
msnt's war department. R. j.
Cruikshank, president of the Asso-
citation of Foreign Press Core
Spondents, correspondent himself
for the London News Chronicle, re-
Gently wrote piece in his Assoc
cations Bulletin, entitled THE
Menace of the Merger" The Asso-
citation has membership of 83, in.
cI1ldincy coI.ro-oo,,d a,,te fro,,, Tooo1
Fascist Germany, Fascist Italy.
And of course these gentlemen
know the symptoms when they see
them. Cruikshank writes in dis
turbed mood as follows:
The merger of the cable and
wireless services to which I drew
attention last week will soon be-
come an accomplished fact. This
weekend it was announced from
Washington that the Federal Com
munications Commission will rec.
onlmend to Congress early in Janu-
airy legislation to analgamate all
the domestic and international
services into one mighty monopoly.
"As the scheme is backed by
President Roosevelt, the War De.
partment and all the companies
concerned there is no doubt it will.
run smoothly through Congress.
Within a short time we shall be
faced with a monopoly in place Of
the three competing services. This
is disturbing prospect.
"On the day the recommends
lions of the Commission we're made
public an official OF the companies
said to me: This is a bad BUSH
ness for you correspondents. 1t
means that you will be at the
mercy of a monopoly that can be
as high-handed as it pleases!"
Il notice that in the Herald
Tribune on Saturday it was stated