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ANAC

® The partisan tradition has an
American beginning: it is not a
Yugoslav development and defin-
itely is not a Russian invention.
The partisan tradition originated
in the pre-revolutionary period of
America, and there is proof that
partisans fought as regular soldiers
in the Revolutionary War, the
French Revolution and in the
Napoleonic Wars——Louis Adamic,
author, in a speech to the Sloven-
ian-American National Council at

Cleveland.
TICE
@ The French-Canadian people

will be the first to lose their na-
tional rights and liberties if ele-
ments like Duplessis or the reac-
tionary leaders of the Bloc Popu-
laire succeed in coming to power.
Divide and rule is their slogan.
That is why they spread vile anti-_
semitism to set Canadians against
each other.—Evariste Dube, nation-
al chairman of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party, in the Canadian
Tribune.

LA OA TTT

@ Never in British history have
the ordinary people of Britain so
suddenly and completely fallen in
love as they have with the Russian
people in this war.—J. B. Priestley,
British author and radio commen-
tator.

HALA TTT

@ The Russian victories are the
measure of German inadequacy.
The Germans are not retreating
according to their own plan, but
according to the Russian plan. They
are retreating into a strategie wild-
erness, with neither a natural nor
an artificial defense Jine—-Max
Werner in Reynolds News, London.

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© We still need ships and more
ships. We do not need them to
avert disaster, but to speed the day
of victory.—Sir Arthur Salter, head
of the British Shipping Mission to
Washington, in a speech to Van-
couver Board of Trade.

ANAC

@ The time has come for that
vast group which stands for the
general welfare in the United
States to rise in its Iajesty to
adopt methods which will prevent
pressure groups from leading us
to a temporary peace or a partial
employment. — U.S. Vice-President
Henry Wallace.

- chieftains

Latin America

March On Mexico City

pees Confederation of Mexican
Workers (CTM) has announced
that it will oppose “with every
available means” the proposed
“March on Mexico City” on De-
cember 5, by the National Sin-
archist Union, founded by Falange
and Nazi agents and now the main
proponent in Mexico of the “New
Christian Order.”

The Sinarchist “march,” accord-
ing to CTM General Secretary
Fidel Velazquez, is part of a plan
to set up a rival central labor
body, to be known as the Confed-
eration of Catholic Workers. A
huge propaganda Campaign, financ-
ed from unknown sources, is being
Carried on in preparation for the
“march,” through leaflets and post-
ers, aS well as through paid articles
attacking labor inserted in local
papers.

Qwen Roche, correspondent for
Allied Labor News in Mexico City
learned meanwhile that Sinarchist
met during the past
week with representatives of U.S.
Coughlinite organizations, two of
whom arrived in Mexico early this
month. The sudden influx of wealth
into the
Was coincident with this meeting,
but no specific data is available to
prove that money changed hands.

The Sinarchist leaflets attempted
to create the impression that the
new organization would have the
support of the Catholic Church, to

Sinarchist organization -

which nine-tenths of all Mexican
union members belong.

Catholic Archbishop Luis M.
Martinez, however, emphasizes that
the _Sinarchist movement is in no
Way Sponsored or supported by the
Church, nor is the Church respon-
sible for anything the Sinarchists
express or try to accomplish.

In a statement this week, the
Archbishop declared: “At these
moments, when Mexico takes
Part in a transcendental war
which signals a new route of
human history, it is inopportune
and anti-patriotic to stir up dis-
cussions, as important as they
may appear, to divide Mexicans.”
One of the recently issued leaf-

lets describes how the proposed
Sinarchist-sponsored rival union
would function.

“Members will carry on a sys-
tematic campaign to win over mem-
bers of the communist unions, in
union halis, homes and churches,”
it states. “They will obey blindly
and by faith the orders of their
superiors, who are the representa-
tives of God on earth.”

Commenting on the Sinarchist
plans, Velazquez said: “The object
of the ‘Mrach on Mexico City’ is
to initiate an aggressive campaign
against labor organizations in order
to split the labor movement and
set up in its stead a confederation
organized on fascist corporative
lines.”

Free France

Independence for Lebanon

Acces Lebanon was the scene

this week of a crisis involving
the relations of the semi-colonial
Arab peoples with the ruling
Powers, and a sharp conflict among
the ruling powers themselves.

The issue raised is only a pre-
lude to issues that are coming to
the surface even before the war
ends. They are war issues, of vital
interest to the peoples of the
United Nations, and have to be
handled as such.

The peoples of Lebanon, which
is really part of Syria, were handed
over to a French mandate after the
first World War. French influence
had long been growing there, and
the secret treaties of the first World
War were there enforced without
giving the peoples their say.

The Lebanese and Syrians were
never reconciled to French rule.
In 1925 and 1926 a liberation battle
cost thousands of Freneh lives.
After a six-week general strike the
Blum government finally negotiat-
ed a treaty acknowledging the in-
dependence of the Lebanese and

Syrian peoples. But the French
Chamber failed to ratify the treaty
in January, 1939, and the war post-
poned the matter.

In June, 1941, British and Free

‘French troops ousted the Vichymen

from control—at a moment when
Hitler seemed to be driving toward
the Near East. And the Arab peo-
ples were again promised an end
to the mandate, and their independ-
ence was formally acknowledged.
French rule continued, however,
with British support until the
Lebanese Chamber of Deputies re-
cently voted an end to the man-
datory rule, insisted on cultural and
political freedom for the Lebanese
nation,

The outstanding fact about this
vote is the unanimity of all Leb-

anese groups—there are Christian
- Arabs, Moslem Arabs, Catholic Ma-

ronites and other groups in this
Small nation, French policy (like
British policy in India) has always
been able to play these groups
against one another. But on the
heels of the Moscow conference,

the Lebanese decided to wait no

longer and they cancelled the man-
date. : ae

At this point, the delegate of the
French committee of Liberation,
Jean Heileu, acted with unusual
stupidity. He ordered the arrest of
the president, Bechara El Khoury,
disbanded the Chamber of Depu-

ties and apparently commanded

Senegalese troops to fire on the
protesting population. The French
declared that they could not end
the mandate by themselves, since
it was given them by the now-
defunct League of Nations.

Meanwhile, the entire Moslem
world reacted strongly, Egypt,
Iraq, Saudi Arabia and even far-
away Moslems in India protested
the arbitrary French action, and
a vast sympathy movement swept
the Middle East.

This movement is in part moti-

~ vated by plans for an all-Arab fed-

eration, in which varying forces are
striving for leadership among the
Arabs themselves. But this does
not alter the significance of the
Moslem protests, as a symptom o£
the desires of all the Arab peoples
for full independence.

But the story doesn’t end at that.
Britain’s reaction was exception-
ally quick and severe with the
French, an evidence of the old
Anglo-French rivalry in the Near
East.
ish circles see the opportunity of
humbling the French Committee of
National Liberation, which is itself

“themselves in the colon

- Frenchmen—to esta

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empire from many qua
days. And certainly, 5
protest from Egypt and
flects also the hand of B

lomats, who are by no meq.
ing the end of the war to

And the arbitrary ‘;
French delegate in Teh
undoubtedly motivated by
the stronger British’ jp,
unwillingness of many Pp
ments — even among

The Erench specialist
lem affairs, Gen. Ge
troux, is now in the

is their war of liberation —
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against another. It is up §:
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the peoples in the Moslem

Spain

Franco's Anti-Fascist Victims

N prisons and concentration

camps throughout Spain, Hitler’s
Gestapo agents review the lists of
prisoners and select their victims.
Franco’s firing squads do the rest.
Every day scores are added to the
thousands who have already been
executed, their only crime that
they fought to prevent fascism from

destroying their country.

This is the story of what is hap-
pening in Spain today, nearly five
years after the fall of the repub-
lic, as reported by seven young
Cubans, members of the Interna
tional Brigade, who returned home
recently. ~ :

In a moving statement recount-

Red Army Chases Nazis Througl!

Soviet troops armed with sub-machine guns keep on
pol. Capture of this important city helped the Red /#
bottle up the Crimea. With this section of the Dnier

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ing their experiences, the
young men, who thanked ©
stant efforts of the Cuban
Ment, its people, and the ¢~
the United States” for
their release, appealed —
doubled efforts to save th
ands still held behind ]
barbed wire.

“From the Cuban ne;
we have learned that Fra
Falange have declared tha
iod of pardon” will be gr
all Spaniards who find thi
in prisons and conc |
camps — the first step tc |
policy which would finally
the liberation of a great
of internees,’ the group,
ment said, and continued:

were able to sweep on westward to within a few of
Polish border and closer to a decisive rout of the a