The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-10
|Nazis Trade On Anti:Semetic Feeling In The Balkans
British Business Envoys Said
 To Be Stymied
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service StafH COrreSpOndent

London, July 10 Germany is exporting anti-Semitism, according to reports from British business agents in the Balkans.
 By money, by subsidy to anti Semitic parties and clubs, by shipments of books on the sub- ject, the Nazi regime is systemati- cally making a commercial, If not political conquest of southeast ern Europe.
 The Nazis find a field in Yugo- slavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ru- mania and Greece tha has al- ready, 50 to say, been prepared for them. In all the Balkan lands there has always been a latent anti-Semitsm and political organ- izations which preach it. Part of this is due to the busi- ness set-up of those countries. The predominating element Is the peasantry and the main industries are agriculture and cattle and pig raising. The intellectuals, who are "racially pure", mainly hold the posts in the army and the gov- ernment. Finance, commerce and industry are mainly in the hands of the non-Aryans.
 "NON-ARYANs" RESISTED GERMANS Even before the Nazis came into power 1t was these mons" who formed barrier to greater sales manship on the part of the Ger mans. The non-Aryan element In the Balkans created for themselves a home market which employed home labor and resisted German penetration.
 With the coming of the Nazis and the persecution of the Jews, these non-Aryan merchants and manufacturers more than ever re- ssited the flood of German goods They boycotted Made Ger many" products. What they could not make or obtain in the Balkan country where they lived, they I tended to import from England and France and in slight degree, from America. They were an ob- stacle in the path of the Nazi ma chine.
 Nazi Germany has a distinct program for the Balkans commer- cially, If 1t cannot seize them po- litically. It wants to keep all the Balkans from industriallzation. It wants them to continue to be agricultural states. It wants their wheat and rye and pigs and cat- tle.
 It won't pay real money for them Its whole financial system is based on shoe string so far as actual gold holdings are con- cerned. But 1t can and will pay with manufactured goods. Some times these goods are really valu- able to the countries destined to receive them. Sometimes, when they are tons of mouth organs and accordeons, they are not so good. But the whole Idea is to 1 find 8 barter market for German wares and thus keep German workmen employed.
 ANTI SEMITES MAKE
 IT HARD FOR BRITAIN
 To further this plan, the Nazis subsidize the anti-Semitlc propa- ganda. It has curious result The native anti-Semitism is directed against people and not enterprises. But through this, the Nazis propose to destroy the enterprises by the persecution of those who own and direct them. Shut up the factories in the Balkans--and the chance for German goods becomes better. For instance, Germany recently concluded a one-sided commercial treaty with Rumania. The Germans think 1t gives them a strangle-hold on Rumanian wheat and oil. Alarmed at this commercial pen- etration which may lead to politi- cal mastery, the British sent out a business mission. The British are prepared to pay cash for the things they buy. But they also hope to sell manufactured goods to Rumania.
 The difference from the Nazis is that they would provide what the Rumanians really need. But the British have found 1t hard go- ing. On every hand they have found the native anti-Semites boost- ing for Germany as against Eng land. And what is true of Ruman- ians is pretty much true of the bai- ance of the Balkans.
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