The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-08-01
THE FOREIGN
SCENE
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KUIBYSHEv, USSR -(ANP)--
Fifth columning' Is a morbid OBJ
session not restricted to any race
nationality. color or country as
current history and international
events reveal. Thus colored India
has her fifth column under the
mountebank. demagogue and rene
gade, Subkhas Chandra Bose, whose
forward bloc party" In India has
Just been exposed as an agent OF
the axis powers in India and declar-
ed outside the law.
Norway has her Quisling fifth
columnists who betray. Cypress and
help enslave the Norgewian peo-
pie. In less than two months the
great and proud nation of France
was humbled. due to the undermin-
ing work of Frances fifth column
list traitors. In the orient strugg-
ling China has her fifth columnists
in the form OF the puppet govern
ment' in the occupied parts. Rus
STA, however, is free from fifth col
umnists.
For all we know there may be
some budding and potential fifth
columnists among certain Negro
adventures. isolationists and APP
peasers who are so befuddled.
hidebound or plainly bankrupt in
principle as not to be able or In
clined to bring themselves 10 see
that the whole character and mean.
ing OF war has been charged and
war in its present stage is of vital
concern TO the best interests OF the
Negro people as we'll as all people
who desire and uphold freedom
and democracy.
Fortunately fifth columnists are
the extreme-albeit highly danger
ous-exception which goes to prove
the rule that the overwhelming ma
jority OF honest progressive and
freedom loving peoples of all col
ors and races belong TO the anti
Hitler, anti-fascist columns.
From Vichy, France, we have Just
learned that the Germans are at
tempting TO recruit North African
Negroes TO work in Germany along
with Hitler's white Italian, Nor
wegian. Polish. Czech. Ukranian
and other slaves. There is some
thing sadistically conveyer-like in
the Nazi labor" problems: the ex-
1t conveyor pours hundreds OF
thousands OF Germans to death as
cannon fodder in Russia and the
incoming conveyor hauls in hun
dreds OF thousands OF foreign work.
ers from occupied and vasal coun-
tries.
How systematic and methodlcal
these Germans are. AS for what
ever potential Negro recruits
there may be, they should not for
get "Mein Kampf' and Dante's
abandon all hope We who enter
here inscription over the gates OF
hell.
We can hardly imagine any
country which is using its man.
power resources OF all nationalities
10 the utmost broad and extreme
extent and possibilities as Soviet
Russia is doing in this terrible and
titanic totalitarian war.
Unity everywhere, at the front
and in the rear. At one anti-air-
craft battery just behind the bat
tie line this column found crew
composed OF Russians, Ukranians,
Georgians, Armenians, etc. Indeed
one Of the members was gypsy!
On recent journey on the volga
river (the boat was named "A. s.
Pushkin") this writer found eight
different nationalities in the crew
One OF the vessels officers was O
Tartar. The Soviet armed forces
land, naval and air--are honey
combed with representatives OF a
dozen nationalities inhabiting THE
vast country. This goes, too, for
all plants and factories. war and
otherwise, which this column Wis
tied.
An American Negro. Robert Rob.
inson, is skilled expert at a gian;
ball bearing plant which turns out
millions OF ball and rolled bearings
for those Red Army tanks armadas
which are blocking the eastward
drive OF the fascist machine.
All Soviet nationallties are unit.
eddy fighting this war with closed
ranks at the front. in the rear and
everywhere that an observer may
poke his nose: and after all ISM
that the way to win this war agains
Hitlerism?