Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-10
By JAN VALTW

the comintetrn would make a
serious bid for power in Chile.
The country became paralyzed
by strikes and riots.
The slogan "All power TO
the comintern would make a
Chilean feet mutined and the
mutineers seized naval bases.
Martial law was declared
and 80 government airplanes
bombed and machine-gunned
the mutineers.
The revolt was crushed.
Three hundred and twenty
mutineers died in the battle.
A score of ringleaders were
sentenced 10 death, and many
more sent 10 prison.
My job was done. / crossed
10 Buenos Aires and there
embarked on the Cap Arcona
for Europe. No letter from
Firelei had reached me. This
deeply worried me. The fast
liner hammered northward. no
man aboard her more irnpa-
tient TO get home than l.
Aboard the Cap Arcona l
made a disquieting discovery.
The German Reichstag cleo
tons had taken place during
my absence from Europe.
The Communist party had
gained a million votes. and
had become the third strong
est party in the land. The
Socialists had lost many hun
dred thousands Of their fol-
lowers. The comintern policy
OF wrecking them had not
been in vain.
But the surprise that came
like a thunderclap from the
clear skies was the tremen-
dous advance OF the Hitler
movement. which up to this
time had been regarded
worthy only of disdain.
RISE OF NAZI POWER
In one gigantic leap the
National Socialists had in
creased their mandates in the
Reichstag from IL TO l07; they
who only two years earlier
had but one-fifth of the Com
munist strength now ranked
as the second strongest politi-
cal party in the country.
Some new. hitherto tIn-
known force was rising with
the ominous roar Of yet dis
tant tide-rip. And ! first saw
its signs aboard the Cap Ar
coma.
The crew Of the ship. one
OF the largest in the German
merchant fleet. contained a
strong. disciplined. well-or-
ganized cell of Nazi storm
troopers, who flooded the ves-
sci with their propaganda.
I observed them doing drills
and gymnastics during their
watch below. They were
hand whose elan and defiance
Of all outsiders compared with
nothing / had as yet perceived
under the German flag. They
exercised their rule through a
combination of propaganda
and terror.
All Of them were young,
representing A high type OF
German youth. / came 10 the
conclusion that il was time 10
do something. 10 do il soon, 10
do il with all the energy and
persistence at our command.
/ remembered the warning
voice OF Arthur Ewert.
I'VE shall he destroyedw
Upon my arrival in Ham
burg l submitted my report
and was Immediately given
new assignment which
called for my presence for
some months in. Bremen and
the Weser country.
WOLLWEBER AT TOP
Ernst Wollweber in addition
to his many other controlling
functions. had acquired the
craftsmanship of all Communist
forces in German shipping,
railroads and communications.
Ernst Thaelmann and his
satellites were more often in
Moscow than in Berlin. Ma
neuvering in the dark with
much patience and genuine
ability. Ernst Wollweber. the
saturnine ex-mutineer whose
cradle had been rocked among
the coal mines Of Silesia. be-
came more and more the
dominating force behind the
scenes of the strongest and
best -organized Communist
movement outside OF Russia.
/ was now directly responsible
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