Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-19
In THE WIND
From FIJI NATION

NEW 1OlA, lOIIIIeEly Dy
the Military. Committee for the Lii
beration of Austria, sponsor of the
abortive plan for a Hapsburg Le-
gion in the United States army, are
now occupied by the Austian In
stitute. Founders of the institute
r Hans Rott and Egon Ranshofen-
Wertheimer, Supporters of the Arch
duke Otto. They are trying to get
the State Department to make the
institute its official adviser on
Austria.
Fire-Insurance companies still
stipulate that their contracts do not
cover fires caused by invasion,
Amenities of competition: The
March 81 issue of Time devoted a
column and a picture to publicizing
the appointment of a British Major
General, J.. F. C. Fuller, as a mill
tary commentator by its rival,
Newsweek. The picture was a pre-
war shot of Fuller chatting with
Lord Haw Haw," the British
traitor who broadcasts from Berlin;
the text recalled both Fuller's re-
putatiOn as an expert in mechanic
ed warfare and his former candi-
dacy for Parliament on the British
Fascist ticket.
Headline of the week, from the
New York Times: "Will Hays
Stresses Freedom of Screen"
Scientific exactitute, from a
speech by Walter S.. Lands, vice
president of the American Cyana-
mid Company, reported in Chemic-
al and Engineering News; "The So
cialistic movement is founded upon
a completely false doctrine. -. It
goes under many names, Socialism,
Communism, Labor, New Deal,
Fascism, Nazism, and a host Of
lesser-know designations. 1t is a
very potent force in America to-
day"
A new organization, the Gentle
League, has been chartered in Wis
consin. One of its incorporatiors,
asked if it was a~nti-Semitic, replied
that it was pro-Gentile and pro-
American.
, The Rubicon, an Italian Ameri-
can news letter of extremely con-
~servative views, offers this post
morten ON Wilkes 1910 campaign:
"Willkie made some mistakes about
foreign policy. Had he stuck to the
sort of speeches he made for the
Commonwealth and Southern, how
ever, he would have won"
Undertakers have been asked by
the OPA to return any ration books
found on the deceased.
interchange between two girls
overheard in New York (but it
might have been overheard any
Where):
DO you know of any unattached
men?" Eyes, but I'm not passing
them around"
German farmers have become so
accustomed to exploiting foreign
workers that the government re-
Gently reminded them that native
Germans evacuated from bombed
cities should not be treated like
cheap labor" -. A special prison
camp has been established in Hol-
land for factory women who, in the
opinion of the Nazis, do not work
hard enough.
Festung Europa: The last theolo-
gical school in Norway has been
closed -. Tobacco is SIS an ounce
in Germany -. The official Nazi
press advises Dutch mothers not to
worry about the total lack of soap;
soap, it says, is not necessary any
how. The official Nazi press also
makes this report on scabies in the
Netherlands: Before the war a
doctor had hardly one case a year,
but now is may happen that he has
ten a week. The spread of the
disease is attributed to the fact that
the population comes into contact
with less hygienic persons from
other countries" -. Posters have
appeared in public places through
out Holland advising the people to
get their axes ready and to select
Nazis for execution on lax Day."
the day of liberation.