Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-08
Watch Reds
In New Deal
Is Warning
Increased Since War in
Soviet Is Charged

IF ANY one should snap the
question at me, right sudden,
what about Russia. them" I
would have TO 60 into huddle
with myself to unscramble the
issue. but l think l could deliver,
nevertheless.
OF course that is a dumb,
lumpy way of stating the ques-
ton, but that is the way people
do state it except that usually
they start ii off with the word
yah" Like this:
yah, what about Russia.
them" It is as If any one who
is pro-Russian in the war must
also be pro-Communist and
therefore anti-American and all
that.
Well, I think Adolf Hitler has
been our best friend in thjS war
from the hour that he attacked
Stain. because he certainly
took the heat off our friends,
the British. by so doing and
some of the heat off us. too.
and recruited an enormously
tough and surprisingly smart
player for our teams. meaning
Ivan. the faceless man from
Moscow.
Politically, 7 trust Ivan no
further than / trust Hitler. but
this is war. not politics, and the
Russians certainly can't he
accused Of engaging in monkey
business this time just 10 de-
ceive us.
They wouldn't sacrifice all
those men and all that territory
and military material Just 10
delude the fool Americans and
] subscribe TO the hope that
appears 10 have been expressed
by that British official. and
seems 10 have raised so much
hell among the British Commu-
nitts and unioneers. that the
Russians and the Nazis will
chAw one another 10 tatters.
THK future politics we just
i have 10 leave 10 the future.
but / insist that we ought 10
remind ourselves every day that
the Russians are no friends of
any one, even though they
happen 10 he on our team. They
can't quit our team now and
thus for once we hold the upper
hand on them. II they throw
us down they throw themselves
right into the sausage grinder
and il they do that they are
Just nuts and nobody can antic-
ipate and plan against acts OF
a crazy country.
But meantime, ~ home. I
think We ought 10 keep after
the Communists and the fellow
travellers who lack the courage
of their political convictions
and show them up as Martin
Dies has been ding persistently
all this time and throw them
out Of government jobs and ride
them out Of private employ
ment, too. and out Of dominant
positions in the unions.
This brings me 10 the subject
NJ Communists and fellow
travellers in the, government and
the unions. know the Presi-
dent has taken occasion a
couple Of times 10 dcnounce
communism. but the NaZis and
FaCiSts never have had any,
thing like the numerical repre-
Sentation and influence in our
government and the social and.
for lack Of more correct word,
intellectual life of Washington
that the Communists have had.
NO QUESTION about il. the
~ President and Mrs. Roose-
welt and Mr.. Ickes certainly
have a high tolerance for Com
munists and fellow-travelers and
l am very sorry. After Hitler
attacked Stain and Winston
Churchill hoped on 10 the air
with his quick salute and well
come to the Russians in which
he specifically rejected commu-
nism. our President made a
similar distinction. but that was
the last we heard of il.
Since then our government
has been more emphatically
anti-Nazi than ever before. but
our anti-communiSm is no more
than just stipulation in the
record. You may be absolutely
certain that our Kremlnites
are crawling into the admins
tration in ever-greater numbers.
see no excuse for gratitude
10 the Communists who we're
knitting our country up 10 the
hour of Hitler's war on Russia.
but then dropped their oppos'-
ton 10 American defense and
their clamor Of capitalist i'm
perialism and started yelling up
the war in the United States
for RusSia's sake.
We had their number before.
but we checked and confirmed
it then. and / think we ought 10
regard them. like our bundists
and other Nazis. as enemies. il
fba,, aro aliops apd ae tra;tor.