Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-03
PegIer Finds
Reds. Nazis
Twin PeriIs
Quotes Leaders Of Allies
Who Have Said So
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER


i utterances of Vice President
Wallace and Joseph f. Davies,
who served a spell as our am
bassador to Soviet Russia, that
these men take not unpleasant,
and trustful view of Russian
communism and would like to
sell the American people bill
of goods.
When Adolf Hitler broke his
treaty with Joseph Stain and
attacked Russia on June II,
1941, Winston Churchill took to
the air at once with a promise
of material, financial and mill
tary aid to the Soviet govern
ment because any enemy OK
Hitler was friend of Britain.
Nevertheless, as one who has
often written vigorous opinions
OF communism in the past, he
was compelled to say also:
1.-THE Naxi regime In indistin-
guishable from the worst fea-
lures of communism. II In
devoid of all theme and prin-
ciple except appetite and racial
domination. No one has been i.
a more consistent opponent Of
communism than have for the
last 25 years. I will unsay NO
words that / have spoken
against It,"
On DEC. 1, 1899, President
" Roosevelt denounced Russia
as an aggressor against Finland
and denounced also Russia's
policy of force in disregard OF
law. The next day he declared
moral embargo against Soviet
Russia and asked American 1
firms to shut of sales OF war
equipment TO an aggressor who
had bombarded and machine.
gunned civilians from the air.
On June /, 1871, 10 days be-
fore the invasion of Russia, when
the President found IL necessary
TO use troops OF the regular army
to disperse rioters who were
blocking the gates of the North
American Aviation plant outside
Los Angeles, Robert Jackson,
then attorney general and now a
justice of the Supreme Court. a
Roosevelt appointee, said:
The situation more nearly
resembles insurrection than q
labor strike. The distinction be-
tween loyal labor leaders and
those following the Communist
Party line In easy to observe.
Loyal labor leaders fight for q
settlement of grievances. Dis
loyal men who have wormed
their way into the labor move
ment don't want settlements.
They want strikes. That II the
Communist Party line"
WITHIN a month of that date.
w American Communists who
had cheered the strike were
bowling for more weapons and
tools for Russia and a few
months ago. Charlie Chaplin. the
disting uished. unnaturalized
-al!anrPFe Communist paying
guest Of the United States, was
demanding that American men
be sent against the Nazi guns on
second front 10 relieve the
pressure on Russia.
One of the leaders OF the Cali
fornia Instruction fomented by
I the disloyal men OF the Conmu-
mist Party line was Wyndham
Mortimer. a veteran disturber.
For his part in this Instruction,
Richard Frankensteen. national 4
director of the aviation division
of the United Auto Workers
Union of the CIO found il neces-
sary to fire him.
However, not long afterward.
the Cleveland Communists took
Mortimer on as an organizer Of
the aluminium workers on the
ground that in consideration OF
his past performances as q
leader of Instruction, he de-
served a break.
| OUR governments view Of
~ communism was about the
same as Churchill's at the time
of Hitler's invasion, for Sumner
Welles of the state department
said:
This government has often
stated and, in many of his pub
lie statements. President Roose-
welt has declared that freedom
to worship rs their own con-
science dictates II the great and
fundamental right Of all peoples.
This right has been denied tn
their peoples by both the Nszi
and Soviet governments. To tho
people of the United States, this
and other doctrines of the COM
munistic dictatorship are ne In
tolerable and rs alien to their
own beliefs rs are the principles
and the Nazi dictatorship"
Last spring Francis Biddle,
the present attorney general,
upheld the finding that Harry
Bridges was, by legal proof, a
Communist and that he was,
therefore. an enemy of this gov
eminent. A few months later
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt recog-
nized that the Communists OF
the United States were obedient
to the rule of a foreign power.
Nevertheless, although any
person who fraternized with or
followed the line" of the Nazis
before Pearl Harbor is now sus-