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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-28

the (NazD party. Hermann
didn't mind. He didn't mind
that I helped Jews and half
Jews. He didn't mind that I
preferred gramophone records
made by Jewish musicians or
singers such as Bruno Walther,
Jascha Heifetz, Richard Tauber.
He liked the = himself, and often
jokingly suggested:
Lets play some Jewish mu-
Sic"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-28

Frau Emmy denied stories
that Goering and Goebbels did
not get along well. They never
had serious quarrels, she said.
Goering invariably Gale d
Martin Bormann, Nazi party
chief. "Mephistopheles."
TRUSTING AND NAIVE
Goering, on the other hand
was trusting, naive, and the best
husband in the world. That is
what his wife told me. Listen
ing to Emmy, one has to remind
himself of recent history to keep
from thinking of the Reichs-
marshal as a genuine democrat
victimized by clever, unscrupu-
lous associates.
.Often he said to me: IF ever
my chance comes, I'll appoint
numerous good men to help me
run the country. Never again
should Germany be ruled .by
one man and delivered to one
mans whims. Never again must
it be forbidden to anyone to
speak ones mind. Believe me,
If Hermann had been in charge
everything would have been diff
ferent."
A rather menacing phase OF
the Goering situation is the es-
TEEN in which both Hermann
and Emmy seem still to be held.
Frau Goering has long been
known for generosity and active
desire to help others, including
Jews and anti-Nazis. / have no
intention of withdrawing her,
but numerous witnesses have
told me Of her Intervention,
throughout the Third Reich, for
Jews and those who were mar
ried to Jews. The fact that she
has been freed by American au-
thorities indicates thai she is in
the clear with them.
But / find that many Ger
mans, particularly in this vicin-
ity, who condemn other Nazis
express open sympathy for her
husband. They claim that ne
never was anti-Jewish, bought
from Jewish stores until 1896
and duringsthe last two years OF
the war was a prisoner Of the
SIS in the very castle where
interviewed his wife.
There is a Goering legend
growing up which, Under eeF-
tain circumstances, could make
him, Willingly or otherwise. the
rallying point for new Ger
man movement that could be
very troublesome.
For this reason, II no other
it is particularly important that
every phase of his party activ-
ity should be brought out at his
trial, and that the defense in
dictated by his wife's statements
to me should be offset by the
full truth.
The essential weakness of part
OF that defense is suggested by
Emmy's apparent complete OBJ
liviousness of the viciousness OF
Nazi pre-war domestic atrocities
and the naivete of her apolog-
ium:
! None of my servants was in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-28
Goering's Wife Says Hitler
Blocked Pre-Wur Peace Moves

This is the second Of three
dispatches by Curt Riess,
NEA foreign correspond
emit. based on an exclusive
interview with Frau Emmy
Goeing, wife of the No. 2
Nazi leader.
BY CURT RlESS
NEAR GERMAN CZECHO-
SLOvAK BORDER Frau
Emmy Goering believes that II
Adolf Hitler had not held up
a message from Winston Church
i'll, her husband could have pre-
vented World War II. Hermann
Goering was opposed to the war,
she claims, but she did not give
me any idea what he could have
done about it.
Albert Forster, later gauleiter
OF Danzig, was in England shorty
ly before hostilities broke out in
1899, Emmy told me. He was
asked by Churchill to tell Goer-
ing that the Briton (not yet
prime minister at that time)
would like to talk to him.
Tell Goering to come to Eng
land" Churchill urged Forster,
according to Emmy.
The message was relayed to
Hitler, and Goering heard moth
ing about it until a year later,
Emmy says. Forster mentioned
it to Goering only after the war
was in full swing.
"Why didn't you tell me-" the
Reichsmarshal asked then. This
might have prevented the war"
Goering soon realized that the
air blitz of England could not
win the war, she told me. He
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-28

The ring-necked pheasant. an
immigrant from China, II the
official state bird of South Da-
kota.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

Prophets of gloom who have been proclaining the futiGty of the
Yata declaration pointing to free elections in liberated countries must
have been joted considerably by the outcome of the Finnish elections.
1t was widely claimed that Russia, never having experienced free cleo
lions herself, would not be likely to permit one in any neighboring
land where she could easily prevent it. But Soviet occupied and de-
teated Finland, under the armistice, has just completed what reports
from Helsinki generally describe a a free eechon-and the results
of the banoting tend to confirm the reports. L
Russian influence, of course. a felt, and strognly. The Soviet
press had indicated in advance that Finlands intentions would be
Judged by the election returns. So had Finnish political leaders who
recognize the necessity for cooperation with the USSR. Doubtless
many voters were influenced by those facts-and a good many Argen-
tine voters might be influenced by similar statements in the United
States and Argentina about elections in that country. But the outcome
in Finland would seem to indicate that voters were free to vote IS
they chose, and did SO, .8
The elections constituted a swing to the left, but not a n extreme
swing. The new pro-Soviet Popular Democratic coalition, largely Com
munist and Socialist, won 81 of 200 parliamentary seats. With the old
line Social Democrats, whose seats were reduced to So, they might form
a working majority. But the Conservative parties, although cut down,
took almost half the total. Moreover, the Social Democrats include a
faction which still follows Vaino A. Tanner, the anti-Soviet de-hard
Who's outlook was revealed in a Berlin interview in 1941 when he
declared that Europe should unite after eliminating. Bo1shevsm.
The composition of the e government remains to be known, and
so does the effect of the election OF Soviet Finnish relations. Nor does
the Finnish example prove how free elections are going to be in Poland
or elsewhere. But on the basis of available information it is an en-
couragmg sign for the future of Eastern Europe-The Chicago Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

We have been expecting it for weeks and, 10 and behalf, here it is
oh Friday, Representative John w. Greer, of Lanier County, intro
convention to move for a n amendment to the Constitution which would
unit Federal income and inheritance taxes to 25 per cent.
M IS a local manifestation of a national movement which has
pee denounced on the floor of the Congress by one of its abest and
most respected members as the most sinister lobby organized
ana at the mlionaires' amendment to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer" The Congressman who exposed the scheme is Wright
CONVICTED GERMAN AGENT INVOLVED
The national movement is the scheme of a organization calling
Iset The committee for Constitutional Government, sometimes func-
toning under the alias of the Committee to Uphold the Constitution
been identified to Congress by MI. Patman as Frank Gannet. a New
York publisher reputed to be a millionaire; Sam B. Pettngil, a former
congressman who has conducted al active propaganda campaign in
ecent years against all New Deal measures; Edward A. Rumely
a convicted German agent during World War I ana the reputed brain
of the movement.
Resolutions similar to that which now has been presented to the
georgia General Assembly have been slipped through the Legislatures
OF II States.We say Slipped because there is record of declarations
by many members of those Legislatures that they were unaware Of
the action that was taken.
Congressman Patman told the House quiet but extremely effect
I've lobbyists kept their hands covered until the right moment for u
yelling their final attack Fourteen States had acted before the scheme
reached the attention of the Congress. The States which have passed
such a resolution are Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Ilonis. Indiana
Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missis-
sppI New jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The Penn
sylVama Legislature passed one in June of 1913, but the Governor
vetoed il.
income of $1,0O0,O00 now pays income tax of about $500 600 the
ceiling would be $25OOo0. The man with So, 900 income, who now pays
Sl1o, probably would have to pay up to the limit, that is: $500.
le' ne ove1hme would be unable to finance its operations without
the levy of a national sales tax and other imposts which would bear
with especial severity o those of low income.
THE UNPLEASANT REAL AIM
IF 81 States should pass such a resolution. a opst;tutjona nor
Venlon must be called to draft and submit a tWenty-second amend
ment. One half the necessary number already have been guued into
action.
This move is a effort of special interests to revise the principles
those best able to pay onto the shoulders of those less able to pay.
From The Atlanta Journa1D
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
Jour" BIG BUSINESS AND
~INTER-AMERICAN COOPERATION

A new Big Business Pan American propaganda outfit is being
formed with the aid of the office of the Coordnator of mter-American
Affairs. 1t is called the Council for Inter American Cooperation, Inc.
and is headed by Joseph C. Rovensky, former assistant coordinator.
Rovensky, a vice president of the Chase National Bank, has a deep
interest in the welfare of the Latin American masses, as is shown by
MS connection with the Patino tin mining empire. Patno, one of the
worlds richest men, and at least runnerup for the prize If the worlds
leading labor expoiters, has Rovensky IS a vice president of his Patino
Mines d Enterprises Consolidated, Inc. Rovensky was also implicated
Mexican government two years ago.
w.. Randolph Burgess, head of the American Bankers Assn. and
ace chairman of the National City Bank (Which has wide experience
In latin American affairsD is head of the board of trustees of the new
outfit
The coordinators office is actively promoting the new outfit ito
foster hemisphere cooperation" which has announced it will assume
the functions of this government office. The millions of dollars
spent by the government in building up contacts in the field will be
turned over to this group.
Raymond Rich, professional fund-raiser for Big Business. is in
charge of shifting over anything of value from the CIAA to the Roven-
sky group.
(emphasls ours) will be enlisted according to Rovensky, speaking from
ms office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Thus will labor and progressive
forces pay for not having formed their own inter-American organiza
ton with being swallowed up in a group headed by the worst type of
labor expoiter and old style inpenaist dressed up in the garments of
cooperation"
O Y. D eXplolters of Latin American labor it will be at the expense
OF present efforts to build a working unity of all labor forces in the
Western Hemisphere. The Call.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
AFL IS RIGHT : UNFORTUNATELY!

A statement by the American Federation of Labor, issued this
month, warns against a n attempt by organized workers to dictate this
governments policies on for foreign relations. The Federation's top
Tight spokesman agree that citizens have a right to express their views,
but add that to negotiate with citizens of other nations on the terms
OF international political and economic commitments, goes far beyond
the legitimate functions of trade unions or the privileges of citizenship.
We believe that the American Federation of Labor spokesman are
right But to that statement we hasten to add the word: "Unfortun-
aely"
The reason they are right is because the working class of this country
is not the dominant class. If it was, then it would be not only the right
but the responsibility, of organized workers to make commitments ana
establish policies.
Stated another way, we might say that workers must first gain
the power to rule their own several countries before they can cooperate
for the better management of the world.
And that's why we say unfortunately" The misfortune lies OF
the failure of labor to use its power to set standards and establish
policies here at home.
However, if workers do not cooperate to manage the world, the
job will nevertheless be done. 1t will be done by that section of the
owning class, which still does dominate at home and abroad.
If the workers can't form an international of their own the cap
ltahsts will. They are planning to do that very thing now-at Dunn
barton Ooaks, at Breton Woods and at the international conferences
that ar to come. True, they will write the rules of international cap
iaism as authori ed representatives of sovereign governments. But
The reason workers won't be able to work together without going
beyond the legitimate functions of trade unions" is because workers
still continue to accept the issues, the economic principles and the
political candidates handed to them by the expoiters of labor.
We Socialists view with sadness the minor role played by labor
during the present crtical" times. We would like @ SEE an International
Of workers. u how can workers unite o a worldwide front unless
they first establish themselves as the poHcy-makers at home?--ReadingI
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
A Man of the "Firsters", Who is
Hunting for Opportunities

Nearly 1000 America Firsters gathered at the Plasterers' Bene-
violent and Protective Association "a. F. of L) Hall in Chicago IN
March Is to listen to Gerald L. K. Smith. who has been irving fr some
months to hold a meeting iii the cityA heavy picket line surrounded
the hau;S some rocks were thrown, but an adequate police detail ire
vented disorder. Engaging in his usual antics, Smith announced the for
nation OF a Nationalist News Service to compete With the APP and UP
Rea onah lobby IN Washington, and stressed the future importance
OIL IN Nationalist Veterans of World War Ia group that he has q
Gently organized. Waving "the new flag" which he charges had been
oeslgneo by lnternatonaIst"- combination of the Rising Sun.
me Union Jack, and the Stars and Stripes-he loudly denounced com
nIunlsm president Roosevelt, Walter Winchell, Dumbarton Oaks, and
the 4alta conference. Sprnkled through his TRADE were the familiar
ant1-Semlt1c remarks: denuncaion of the Bnai Birth: casigaHon of
NIorgenthau; and references to a list of names he could not read. so he
Sald, tear o. being called an and-Semite! With various polls indi-
eating a fairly high incidence of latent antiSemiism in the Middle
west, the potential threat which Smith represents should not be- mini
mixed. Currently he is bidding his time, content. merely IN keen The
Old fires and calumnies alive. The crowd in Chicago was largely made
u Of elderly people trailing, IS Robert Lasch of the Chicago "Srn"
sad, the fragrance of Towsendism" Should a mood IF rustratio and
olsenchantment sweep the ranks of younger Americans after the war
ne would have the opportunity that he S % obviously. and confidently
expects-one more powerful argument for a postwar program of full
employment-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
DOCTORS ASKED TO
BOYCOTT ALL MEDICAL
CARE PLANS

Indiana Group Adopts Brutal
Method in Drive to Prevent
Liberalization of Social Security
System
An organization calling itself the
Association of American Physicians
and Surgeons, with headquarters in
Indiana, has launched a nation
wide drive against liberalization
of the Federal social security sys-
tenn and other plans to provide
more medical care for Americans.
Physicians Throughout the coun-
try are being asked to pledge they
will deny medical aid to the sick
and will boycott doctors cooperat-
ing in group health plans-a sug-
gestion as brutal as anything Hit
Ter ever proposed.
A letter signed by DR.. A. j. Sui
livan, president of the Association.
says:
Our members shall not associ-
ate professionally, or otherwise
cooperate with. physicians, hos
pitfalls or other institutions that do
participate in schemes for the dis
tribution of medical care opposed
by the A. A. P. S."
Once a majority of physicians
take this stand, DR.. Sullivan ar
CUES, such plans for government
medicine as the Wagner-Dingell
bill would be doomed to failure,
even if Congress passed them.
Refusal to cooperate, combined
with intimidation by boycott of
physicians or hospitals wishing to
cooperate, would leave the govern
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
ILLlON-DOLLAR
CHiCAGO-WIDE
COOP FORMED

CHICAGO (CLNS) = The Chi
cago Consumers Cooperative, a
city-Wide retail society, has been
organized as a step toward greater
expansion and to provide a method
of bringing cooperative goods and
services to sections of the city not
now served by the 81 cooperative
stores in Chicago and its immedi-
ate suburbs.
Harlan H. Allen, consulting
economist and a director of the
National Cooperative Finance AS
ISOLATION will be chairman of the
board Of the new association that
is being Incorporated with an
authorized capital for one million
dollars. Other officers include: j.
L. Liukku, general manager of the
Coop Trading Co., Waukegan, one
of the largest and most successful
retail co-ops in the u. S.; Thomas
G. Mcbride, Chiacgo attorney:
Raymond G. Briesenmeister, a di-
rector of the North Shore Coop;
Lawrie L. Lehtin, manager of Cen
trail States Co-operatives; John l..
Yancy, secretary-treasurer of the
United Transport Service Employ
es; James L. Protesting and An
thony Pierce of National Cooper
atives; and K. S. Alanne, coop
perative auditor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
THAT EXPLAINS 1T

The hard : working gift-shop
clerk had vainly ransacked the
whole of his shop in his efforts
to please an old lady who wanted
to purchase a present for her
granddaughter. For the fifteenth
time she picked up and critically
examined a neat little satchel.
Are you quite sure that this is
genuine alligator skim" she in
quired.
Positive, madam quoth the
dealer Il shot that alligator my
self"
1T looks rather soiled," said the
lady.
That, madam, is where it struck
the ground when it fell off the
tree
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
UNRRA TO BEGIN FUNC-
TlONING IN GREECE
AMI JUGOSlAVIA

Washington. - In Cairo it was
recently announced that the mill
tary responsibility for relief to
Greece will end on April /, when
a UNRRA mission will take over
all relief functions, BIC said in a
broadcast relayed to Owl by FEC
monitors.
Another UNRRA mission is
ready to take v services to Jul
goslavia, and most of the key mem
bers of UNRRA mission for the
Balkans already are at their posts,
the broadcast added.
Concerning relief supplies for
Jugoslavia, the minister of trade
and supplies, Nikola Petrovic, in
an interview recently published in
Belgrad's Politika. declared, "We
have received help from the Allies,
and thanks to this aid, the food
crisis in Dalmatia has been elimin-
ated to a certain degree. Food con-
ditions are somewhat better now.
although not yet satisfactory. The
limited number of trucks and the
small quantities of food available
prevented us up until a few days
ago from sending anything to
other parts"
On January 10, 1945," minister
Petrovic continued, as reported in
a TANJUG transmission and relay
ed to Owl, I'VE signed an agree
ment with the military liaison of
the Allied relief organization pro
viding for a monthly delivery of
10000 tons in food, medicines, and
other needs of civilians in Jugo-
slavia. At the beginning of March
sorne. 10000 tons of supplies, in
Guiding 1000 tons of food, have
been delivered"
This initial supply was suffi-
cient to alleviate the difficult CON
ditions in Dalmatia," Petrovic de-
clared, but it was too small to
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
NEW SENATOR!

North Dakota has a new United
States Senator. Governor Fred
Aandahl picked Milton r. Young,
a leading Republican member of
the state legislature to succeed the
late Senator John Moses, Demo
crat.
Young is Al, a farmer and is
prepared to back a world organ
ization for the preservation of
peace.
The Republicans now have 40
members is the Upper Chamber,
the highest for many years. In
January, 1887, they had only Is
Senators.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

My friend and Socialist comrade
Ambrose Stengelhite, is a news
paper clipper and an optimist.
When he drops in at the office his
face wears a smile and his first
words are, Did you see?" Then
he'll haul out a clipping that
proves beyond any further quest
ton that Socialism, like Herbert
H oover's prosperity, is lust
around the corner" and that all
we Socialists have to do is sit tight
and await the call of an outraged
and enlightened people.
Ambrose came in again this
week to ask whether saw what
Congressman Engel, a Michigan
Republican, said, l had, but l read
his clipping anyway and listened
patiently to his enthusiastic dec
laration that it all shows that peo-
pie are going to turn to Socialism
as soon as the war is owe
1t was all very depressing to the
editor, however.
For what that man Engel said
was merely that low and inequi-
table living standards are making
millions of loW-income American
families ready to turn to Social
ism, Communism or some other
ISM The prophecy was couched
in such general terms that just
coundn't understand how anybody
who wanted both security AND
freedom coud draw hope from the
warning sounded by the gentle
man from Michigan.
Will injustice and insecurity and
poverty cause people to turn some
thing different?
You bet your life they will. We
needn't prove that now, because
we've seen it happen-in Italy, in
Germany and in the United States
of America.
But will it be democratic So
cialism TO which the people will
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

meet the needs of the country sup
piled through Adriatic ports. There
are indications, however, that we
VIII 0 on receive some supplies by
owned all the cement factories in
quirements of liberated Jugoslavia
via"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

The average wage in the USA
was $1,031 in 1943. This is 1913
percent higher than the SSH aver
age in 1888; So percent higher
than in 1929. In 1943, per capita
incomes ranged from $484 in Miss
issippi to $1,452 in Connecticut.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

turn?
Keep your fingers crossed when
you answer that one.
Frankly, / have scant confidence
in a people who wait until condi-
tons become unbearable before
they are ready to make a change.
Such people are merely saying
ouch when something hurts
them, and that is a reaction that
requires neither initiative nor in
telligence.
What those desperate people
will be wanting when conditions
become unbearable will be relief.
Unless they hear and understand
the message of Socialism, they
won't know exactly what they
want o how to get it. Above all,
they won't want to get anything
by their w action. They will
want somebody to save them. And
they will be ready to follow the
leader who sounds the best and
promises the most.
The danger in all that is that
the person who does something
FOR them just simply will have
to do everything WITH them. And
that sounds more like the road to
fascism than to Socialism.
| am streSsing the point that
there is danger in the desperation
of an unenlightened people for a
more important reason than that
| wish to be gloomy.
More than anything else, the
point | want to make concerns my
Socialist comrades, What l say to
them is that congressman EngePs
warning is valuable only if they
recognize it as a call to action.
But it merely increases the danger
# fascism if Socialists get the idea
hat all they have to do now is to
ait until the people are ready to
adopt an ism"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04

ment unable to honor its pledge of
complete medical care for every
American, DR.. Sullivan makes
clear.