SECRET ARMIES
SO
for
"national organization"
and the wisdom of
"national
regis
National registration, as the history of fascist countries
has shown, is the first step in the conscription of labor. With this
opening gun having been fired, it is a safe prophecy that if the
tration."
Chamberlain government remains in office British labor will
witness one of the most determined attacks ever made upon it
history. All indications point to the ground being laid and
it may result in splitting the trade-union movement, for some of
the leaders are willing to go with the government while others
in
its
have already indicated that they will refuse unless they know
that it s for democracy and not for fascism.
The second important decision is to exert pressure upon France
to break her pact with the Soviet Union something Hitler has
been unsuccessfully trying to accomplish for a long time. At the
moment it appears that Great Britain will succeed just as she
has already succeeded in breaking the Czechoslovakian-Soviet
pact another rupture Hitler was determined upon.
England has a reputation for shrewd diplomacy. In the past
she has used nations and peoples, played one against the other,
betrayed, sacrificed, double-crossed in the march of her empire.
Since the Cliveden week-end, however, with its resultant in
trigues,
herself.
England
has, to all appearances, finally double-crossed
Those who guide her destiny and the destinies of her millions
of subjects have apparently come to the conclusion that democ
racy, as England has known it, cannot survive and that it is a
choice between fascism and
communism.
Under communism,
the ruling class to which the Cliveden week-end guests belong,
stand to lose their wealth and power. It is the fatuous hope of the
royalists that under fascism they will still sit on top of
the roost, and so the Cliveden week-enders move toward fascism.
Hitler s Fifth Column finds strange allies.
economic