GERMANY: 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...

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