Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
WHO BACKED HITLER AND MUss0uNI?
Impressive Facts Revealed Within Last Few Days, Conf
Part PLAYED bY Financiers. Industrialists and Dinlnn1ats

Part Played by Financiers, Industriahsts and Diplomats
How III own fnanciers and diplomats smoothed the way for the
advance of Mussolini and Hitler, of Fascism and Nazism, is impresdv
ely revealed by facts Which came to light Within the last week.
FIRST a story from Europe. Amerigo Dumini is under arrest in
Italy. He was born in St. Louis, but went to Italy and became of
the BLACK Shirt" gangsters used by Italian industriaHsts to break
strikes and smash unions after the first World War. In that way, he
came Ito the attention of Mussolini and II Duce paid him S5 to murder
Aatteotti. the gallant member of the Italian Parliament, who fought
Fa5cism to his last breath.
At the time Matteotti was struck down by Dumini and his gang
he was or his wav to Parliament to expose a crooked deal by which
American oil companies had supplied Mussoini with several millions
of dollars, in return for concessions"
Dumini w tried, out, of course, acquitted, and continued his
career of violence and thievery until Fascism collapsed. Whenever he
got into trouble, he appealed to Mussoini and was released. He could
blackmail II Duce because he had been smart enough to write the story
with instructions to make the bloody narrative public in case he dis
appeared"
Even more impressive are documents concerning foreign re-
Iations, just made public by our State Department In 1880, interna-
tional bankers proposed to loan 100000 900 to Germany. The House
of Morgan wished to get in on the deal. There was a big profit in it.
Some of our abest representatives abroad protested, but Thomas
W. Lamont, spokesman for the Morgans, got in touch with the State
Department, then headed by Henry l.. Stlmson, TO- our secretary o.
War. Tie loan was o. KID. THOSE who protested were ridiculed, and
even charged with playing into the hands of French finanders.
Little later, George A. Gordon, then our charge daffairs in Berlin,
wrote or State Department, explaining that industrial interests in
Germany were raising money to put Hitler in power. The State De-
partment didn't move a finger!
There is nothing particularly new in the foregoing. LABOR was
practically the only paper in this country to tell the truth about the
time, and he gave us the facts which other papers were ignoring.
Time and time again LABOR has presented evidence showing that
Germany and Italian indusna1sts placed Hitler and MussoIni in
power and that American and British, and probably French, fnanciers
and industialists supplied generous loans and other encouragement
The important thing is that these sensational statements are nov
being confirmed, up to the hit' by unimpeachabie authority.
Hitler and Mussolni could not have precipitated this World War
if it had not been for the aid they received from these big bankers and
their allies, the industrial overlords.
Now we are once more laying plans for peace and economic
sterilization.
We will permit u financiers and industriaIsts, hungry for profits
g pave the way for another world war, IS they certainly paved tn,
way for this World War?-Labor, Washington, Z. c.