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shave imposed their authority. i Neither personal liberty, democratic : procedure nor consideration for in- : dividual rights has a place in the : picture. On the other hand, with : the possible exception of Vorishiloff, ! who still dominates the Red Army, ~ : Stalin’s concern for the dissenting : opinions of subordinate bureaucrats : is obviously of small consequence.

Most Just Disappear

<! Whatever doubt, fear or dissatis- : faction exists is among the members ; of the political and military hier- { archy. But since doubt or dissatis- : faction rates as treason or counter- ! revolutionary activity, to give vent : to such ideas in a manner traceable : by the GPU is equivalent to joining } a suicide club. Since criticism of i the Government is never voiced to : foreigners, knowledge that such { eriticism exists is seldom revealed i except through liquidations. These { Hquidations may take place via the i firing squad, announced exile, or, as { is more frequent, unannounced but i very complete disappearances. Pub- { lic trials account for but a small + fraction of those who disappear. The ¢ family and friends of the missing : person are seldom notified what ac- ; tion has-been taken, and it is bad *sform—or worse—to inquire. ++. Remarkably, these liquidations rei ‘ceive little consideration and are of ! slight popular interest. The atti- ‘ tude is roughly comparable to the ; popular disinterest in intergang #murders in a big American city. . Politics in Russia is looked upon as a game of dog eat dog. Those : who live by politics can expect to i-die by politics. { - Nor is the situation incomprei ‘hensible when viéwed on the scene. : No Soviet worker yearns for democi Tacy or political liberty. If he has v:ever heard of either it was being i denounced as an instrument of the «capitalists and the bourgeoisie for ‘the exploitation of labor. He has “been told that liberalism is some“thing which, if it gained a foothold 7 in Russia, might undermine the Sosviet State. They are more honest “here than Earl Browder is in Amer“ica, for they never attempt to tell you communism has anything in common with liberalism or democ“racy. i : Workers Expect No Trouble

What the Russian workers do know is that. the terrorism and tyranny of the Tsars have been ' abolished. He knows that if he at‘tends to his own affairs, asks no "questions, ventures no dissenting - opinions and collaborates in the - complete regimentation of his life, his work and all his affairs, he will have no troubles with the State. He knows he is miserably poor, but he always has been. As clothes and the . various creature comforts and material things which help elevate a . standard of living are not being pro- . duced to tempt him, he isn’t both- . ered by a gnawing desire. Neither - is he bothered by any driving ambi- + tion. . Most important, he is not haunted by fear of unemployment. This is . partly the result of his own inefficiency, plus the lack of a real incentive to improve craftsmanship, «as a result of which two or three men are required to equal the output of a single skilled European or American artisan. This resuits in a constant labor shortage. The occasional rare individual whese glands * endow him with more energy than his fellows can always work over-

JAPS SEEK ACCORD ~ WITH DEMOCRACIES

. TOKYO, March 30 (U. P.).—Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita intends . soon to invite the American, British and French Ambassadors to a con- . ference on outstanding Chinese problems, it was understood today. It was reported that Minister : Arita would seek the co-operation " of the Western powers to settle disputed questions. According to reports, Minister Arita would take cccasion to assure the Ambassadors that Japan did not intend entering a “totalitarian” bloc - against the democracies.

SHANGHAI, March 30 (U. P.). — The Nanking correspondent of : Domei, Japanese news agency, reported today that the reformed provisional government at Nanking : (Japanese-dominated) had approved .a statement denouncing foreign . powers still aiding the Nationalist Chinese Government. The de.nouncement included the United . States.

:U. S. Protests ‘Mission Bombing . HANKOW, China, March 30 (U. .P.) —United ' States Consular ‘authorities protested to the Jan{anese today against the bombing of -the American Covenant Mission at :Kiangling, Hopeh Province, un + March 18. :

‘Japanese Capture iRailway Terminus _ i HONGKONG, March 30 (U. P.).— ‘Japanese troops fortified themselves ‘today in Kongmoon, Pearl River ‘port and railway terminus they capitured yesterday after an eight-hour battle, and prepared for a campaign against the Chungshan district of fKwangtung Province, Nationalist iChina’s “holy land.”

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time, and frequently he can fill two jobs. Meanwhile, in a desperate effort to speed up profitless production, the piecework bugaboo of American organized labor has been reintroduced in this land where labor is supposed to reign supreme. The young Bolshevik is proud of the fact that he has been emancipated from religion, “the opiate of the people.” He has deified Lenin and the other Soviet saints. He has substituted Lenin's tomb and the Red Star of communism for the Holy Sepulcher and Cross of his fathers. His hope of reward in heaven has given way to the promise of rewards at the end of an unspecified number of five-year plans. He has learned to read but he has been denied the 1s new talent at pronaganda glorify-

Pities Rast of World

Because of his cultivated ignorance of what is occurring-i-ske outside world, the Russian worker has only pity for those who are denied the blessings of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Since under existing laws he cannot move from one job to another or from one place to another without a Government permit, his is truly a situaticn in which it would be folly to be wise. Meanwhile it is fair to ask where does sovietism—it is ridiculous to refer to it any longer as communism —stand vis a vis the democracies and the totalitarian - states. The Italians and Germans get blue in the face with anger at any suggestion that there ideologies are cut from the same holt as the Russian brand. The suggestion is equally resented by the Russians. But the facts are indisputable. ]

variants from the same broad concept of state socialism, sold under different trade names. Adl are based on the principle of the subordination of the individual to a state dominated by the military, All are dependent for their existence upon the maintenance of self-ap-pointed, self-perpetuated, revolutionary dictatorships. All hate democratic processes, and hold in contempt the will of the people. All would turn the clock back centuries.

One Issue Remains

At present one major issue separates the Rome-Berlin axis from Moscow. Germany and Italy, lacking territories and raw materials, are in the “have-not” group, along with Japan. Russia, bountifully supplied with undeveloped resources, is aligned with France, Great Britain and the United States in the “have” group. When this one circumstance is checked off, the common interests of Russia and the democracies have been disposed of. To Stalin, the idea of a widely informed, free-thinking, democratic electorate debating isSues, determining its own fate, is fully as repugnant as it is to Hitler and Mussolini. The ideas that the three dictatorships entertain jointly constitute a more natural common bond than any that exists between any of the dictatorships and any of the tiaree great republics.

Tomorrow—Nazi Germany.

CZECHS AND SLOVAKS

CHICAGO, March 30 (U.P.)— Leaders of Czech and Slovak organizations in North and South America planned today to convene in New York or Chicago soon in the hope of unifying their followings for a rebirth of the Czechoslovak Republic. Bohus Benes, nephew and private secretary of Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia, announced last night that the meeting will be held in about a month. He said it would be attended by representatives of 1,500,000 Czechs and Slovaks from both continents. “We hope to lay the groundwork Top a new Czechoslovak state,” he said.

MSGR. HAAS TALKED ~ FOR POST ON NLRB

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Haas is being considered by President Roosevelt for appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. Msgr. Haas is dean of the School of Social Science at Catholic University here. Senator Wagner (D. N. Y) is said to be sponsoring his name. In the early New Deal days, when Senator Wagner was chairman of the old National Labor Board, Msgr. Haas was a member. He also has served on the Wisconsin State Labor Board'and on the WPA. Labor Policies Board, and has written several books on labor problems.

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PLAN CONVENTION

ITALY TO BREAK PRISON’ BONDS, DUCE DECLARES

No Blanket Concessions but Free Negotiations Are Daladier’s Terms.

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of M. Daladier’s speech was plain. High Fascist Party circles said M. Daladier’s insistence on’ using the

1935 Italian-French agreement as a

basis for negotiations made it difficult for the Italian Government to find any means of inaugurating friendly talks, because Italy denounced this agreement in a note last December.

Daladier Marks

‘End of Concessions’ PARIS, March 30 (U. P.).—Premier Daladier’'s speech on Italy’s aspirations marked the end of a period of blanket concessions to European dictators but left a way open for friendly negotiations, it

today. M. Daladier made it clear that France stood by previous agreements—specifically the 1935 pact which Italy denounced — and had nothing to offer. It was up to Premier Mussolini to state what he desired. His firmness had 8a significant background—the British announcement of a major increase in the Army, the current visit of Viscount Gort, British General Staff chief, to Gen. Maurice Gamelin, Generalissimo of the French armies, and a prospective visit to Lodon next week by Guy la Chambre, French Air Minister, and a group of French Air Force staff officers to discuss war plans with the British.

Notes Are Published

Further, M. Daladier laid the diplomatic basis for any future Italian negotiations by publishing the texts of- Italy’s secret note of Dec. 17, denouncing the 1935 agreement, and the French reply of Dec. 25. ‘He maintained that the notes showed that Italy—in contradiction to Sig. Mussolini's assertions—had not outlined “aspirations.” He made it plain, also, that if there were any negotiations they would be real ones and not merely concessions to Italy. ; M. Daladier took the view that concessions, regardless of right, carried the germ of endless demands. He definéd the French position as follows: 1. “France hopes peace will be preserved because she hates war. But if war is imposed upon her, or if it were offered her as the only alternative to decline or dishonor she would surge forth in defense of her liberty.” 2. “I have said and I maintain that we shall not cede an inch of our territories nor a single one of our rights.” : 3. “France signed the 1935 accord. Faithful to her commitments France is ready to continue their complete and loyal enforcement. France does not refuse to examine propositions that might be made to her in the spiirt of equity of these accords, on the basis I have defined.” 1915 Treaty Mentioned As his speech was interpreted here, M. Daladier practically challenged Mussolini's veracity over the meaning of Italy's note of last December. M. Daladier held: “The essential argument invoked by the Italian note is: The Ethiopian conquest and the creation of an Italian Empire created new rights in favor of Italy. I have no need to say that we cannot accept this argument. What does it signify? It means that each new conquest or each new concession opens new rights. Thus the demands which would be presented to us would be practically limitless, since each one satisfied would bear within it the germ of future demands.” The Italian note of Dec. 17, revealed, in the opinion of French observers, that Premier Mussolini intended to revive the secret clauses of the 1915 Treaty of London, which provided that in the event Britain, France or Russia obtained colonial expansion at Germany's expense, Italy would have her just share. By the Versailles Treaty, Britain, France and Japan shared all of Germany's prewar colonies. Elsewhere Italy got - more than she had been promised. The Italian note denounced the Franco-Italian agreement of 1935 and implied that a new settlement would have to be based on the Treaty of London. The French note ‘contested the

Italian argument that the 1935 agreement was void.

—— i ABORTION RACKET CHARGED _ NEW YORK, March 30 (U. P.).— Special Prosecutor John Harlan Amen indicated today that several arrests were imminent in Brooklyn where he has discovered an abortion

racket involving 100,000 illegal operations a year. At Mr, Amen’s request, Dr. Abraham M. Ditchik, 43, a dentist and’ father of six children, was jailed last night under $50,000 bond as a

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.Count Karolyi BUDAPEST, March 30 (U. P.).— Former Premier Count Julius Karolyi has resigned the chairmanship as well as his seat in the Hungarian Upper House in protest against Count Paul Teleki’s refusal to agree to modifications in the Jew laws.

NAZIS REPORTED MOVING TROOPS

Britain Offers Poland Aid; Army to Be Increased By Chamberlain.

LONDON, March 30 (U. P), — The British Government was reported today to have received reports of new German troop movements near the Polish frontier. With Nazis warning Poles against purported mistreatment of the German minority, diplomatic circles attached importance to suggestions (that Britain was making new proposals to Poland for possible military co-operation in event of aggression against that country in the future, : Cabinet Meets

The Cabinet, meeting to study the European situation, was understood to have discussed preparations for the coming visit of Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck to London. Whether the reported German troop movements were taken up was not known. The. Polish Ambassador, however, conferred at the Foreign Office this afternoon. : In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Chamberlain said the Government was planning to stimulate recruiting for the regular as well as the Territorial Army.

Million at Once

Increase of the Territorial Army, corresponding to the American National Guard, meant that Great Britain was providing for a force of a million trained men who could be put into action at once in event of war. These would include the regular Army, the Territorials—now to total 340,000 men instead of 130,000 —and reservists. : Poland has been cold to British and French suggestions for an antiaggression declaration, because it felt a declaration ought to be backed up by military agreements. Warning to Germany Diplomatic quarters interpreted Mr. Chamberlain’s announcement as an indirect admonition to Germany as well as an implied assurance to Poland that Great Britain was ready to do its share in any “stop Hitler” bloc. It was estimated that Great Britain, because of increases proposed in army strength, would be able to send 38 divisions of men to France as an expeditionary force in event of war,

FALL INJURES WPA FOREMAN Charles Sanderson, 48, a WPA foreman of 259 E. Iowa St., received back injuries today when he fell 12 feet from the Crooked Creek bridge on which he was working. He was taken to the Methodist Hospital.

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OLIS TIMES FRANCO PLACES MADRID UNDER MILITARY LAW

Thousands of Prisoners Fall Into Nationalists’ Hands During Day.

MADRID, March 30 (U. P.).—The triumphant Nationalist Government declared military law in the Madrid area today as Generalissimo Franco’s armies took over all key cities of Spain and rounded up many thousands of Republican prisoners. Every section of the Nationalist Army, spreading cut through territory surrendered by the Republicans as- the long civil war ended, reported the capture of thousands of military and political prisoners. Most were sent to concentration camps. The Southern Army alone reported it had taken 60,000 men, including the entire general staff.of the former Republican Army in Estremadura. Besteiro “In Custody” At Burgos, it was reported by radio that Julian Besteiro, Interior Minister in the last Republican regime at Madrid, had been placed in custody, although previously the Nationalist officials had said he was merely under guard at the Finance Ministry. Senor Besteiro was one of the moderate Republicans active in bringing an end to the war. Senor Besteiro and other moderale Republican leaders were understood to have been taken to the Nationalist military headquarters at Burgos, where they were shown “every courtesy.” At the same time Col. Segismundo Casado, War Minister in the last Republican Council, was reported to be holding hundreds of Communists captured during the recent counterrebellion in Republican territory for delivery to Gen. Franco, - Gen. Miaja Escapes No announcements were made in regard to search by nationalist police for persons guilty of “crimes” and scheduled by Gen. Franco for trial before Nationalist tribunals, but it was understood that many fugitives had been unable to escape. The principal Republican leaders, including Gen. Jose Miaja, fled by airplane yesterday to French territory in North Africa. The military law declaration put Madrid under the same form of rule effective in the rest of the territory taken over by the Nationalists. : Military - officials said that it might take Nationalist armies until Easter to complete occupation of all Spain but the main cities such as Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Guadalajara were rapidly taken over. Alicante and -Murcia were among the last to be occupied by Nationalists or Falangists,

Bowers to Testify

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WASHINGTON, March 30 (U. P.). —The House Foreign Affairs Committee called Claude Bowers, native of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Ambassador to Spain, to give it a secret report today on the possibility of Spain

and Italy. Mr. Bowers recently returned to the United States. A new Ambassador probably will be appointed, if, as has been predicted, the United States recognizes the Nationalist regime, Washington also showed interest in the revelation made at Hartford, Conn., yesterday that a 14-million-dollar order for 1000 airplane motors has been placed by the French Government. It was said that the French also had taken an option for 200 engines more at a cost of three million dollars, and that arrangements have been completed for a credit of 15 million dollars to Na-

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