Socialist and Nationalist

Dr. Robert Ley, Nazi Labor Front leader, cribbed a few words from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, stole a sentence from Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried and made a speech last week. Right in line with the Nazis' new face-Lefting, Dr. Ley cried:

"Workers of all lands, unite to smash the rule of English capitalism!" He also urged: "You young, upward-striving nations of the earth, combine to annihilate the old English dragon, who blocks the treasures of the earth and withholds from you the riches of the world."

Dr. Ley, who represents the extreme "Socialist" element of National Socialism and who talks all the time, was only continuing his week-old speaking tour to explain the Nazis' "social revolution" to German industrial workers. Same week Field Marshal Hermann Goring, on the other hand, who is more nationalist than socialist and who for a Nazi speaks very little, made his first public speech since last September. And he acted as if he still had faith in the profit system.

The Field Marshal, hoping to induce farmers to produce more and consume less, upped the price of butter 8-c- a pound, of milk 1-c- a quart and promised a bonus of $40 for every idle German acre brought under cultivation. Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours is victory! Hail our Fuehrer!"

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