The Potters Herald

THE NAZI-COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY FOR
POLAND'S DESTRUCTION
THE despicable conspiracy between the Nazi
government of Germany and the Communist
government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to conquer and appropriate Poland and
the contemptible support given by Communists
in the United States to this use of force to subjugate a nation were strongly condemned by
President Green of the American Federation of
Labor in his address before the American Legion
convention in Chicago.
Pointing out that for a considerable period another war in Europe seemed inevitable because of
"the rise of dictators in European countries, the
establishment of totalitarian states and the substitution of autocracy for democracy in the administration of governmental affairs," Mr. Green
said:
"The preparations for war which were going
on in the Nazi and Communist states during the
last two or three years, made it clear to all thinking and observing people that the clash was inevitable. The seizure of the neutral zone established in the Rhineland, by the Versailles treaty,
the invasion of Austria, the subjugation of
Czechoslovakia, the demand for the surrender of
Danzig and the Polish Corridor--all taking place
in consecutive order--revealed the determination
of the German Dictator to destroy the independence of Poland and annex a large portion of it
to the German territory.
"We were told by leaders of the Communist
movement in the United States that an irreconcilable conflict existed between the philosophy of
Nazism and that of Communism, and that no basis
of accommodation could be established between
them.
"Now, we learn that a secret agreement was
reached between the dictators of Germany and
Russia which provided for the partition of Poland.
There was no clashing over political philosophies.
The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat
and the dictatorship of so-called national Socialism are the same. The dictators of both countries
were brought together in a common cause and
for a common purpose. They are comrades in
arms robbing the helpless people of Poland of
their homes and their Homeland and are guilty of
launching a war which may mean the destruction
of modern civilization.
"How contradictory is the position assumed
by Communists in the United States! They now
approve and attempt to justify an action which
only a short time ago they loudly denounced. They
praise and approve the pact which Stalin and Hitler made after declaring a short time ago that it
never could be made."