Although thoro bus yet boon
no overt act which would put coop
erative <ji‘ borv/ay or of tin Noth
erl-neus out of business, th ? Nazi
measures being lore, d upon agri
culture rcun slow autt for the
ina op undone-; and the livohoou of
fur.nors’ co-op ..retives in tlieso
countries, iJuzi decrees enforced
in the tiothorlunus by its agon.ts
who I'uv b ;..ei sent into the coun
try froii Gomuiii end acting as
local core is sinners, a1’ * suen as
to : ak ; til..' functioning of fam
ors ’ co-op ,'r-tiv.- s aifficult.
In sen. instances these ci-oper
or ..tiv .'3 can no longer perform
the ;unctions for which they wore
organiz ..o..
Is tlicooperative never, ant
in Pure; . a*id the rest oi til2
v/orlcl going to suffer the fate
which th „ Nazis have in nine, for
it?
Ip pic ..I of the absolute con
trol tint tliNazis are endeavor
ing to gain over furriers in the
occupied ur. us _.ro decrees that
lav. b.nn recently issued in the
Netherlands. Dutch dairy farmers
for .n,stance, are tola that they
can no long jr s GL1 or process any
milk that tl> ey produco without
P mission from the authorities,
largely controlled by Nazis. If
a far. r is ^ member of a local
co-op mti v.. he rust ask the Nazi
repres nt:.tive in control of his
local govmnnent v.’h -th-r he cun
sell it to the particular cooper
ativ ? oi which iia is «, member or
not. Gnaar the Nazi oyster, a
bout tie: only function the farmer
is permit Leo. to perform is to i::ilk
his cows. Ivm his ova. consump
tion of milk at home is a subject
for Nazi ov.rbrds to direct.
Hitler is working according
to well-laid plans to bring about
the absorption of the agriculture
of the occupied countries into
that of Germany. His program for
drafting a large part of European
agriculture into that of Germany
varies Iron country to country.
V/hen the Nazis took over Luxem
burg, a German officer laughingly
said that in ten days they had con
plctoly reconstructed the country
from cow's milk to foreigi. ..x
change. I*.: J j?'\ uy, D..m--irk and
thNetherlands, tue Nazis attemp
ted to give the impression that
whatis ooing done is rsally in
the interest of the poool. of the
occupied ureas. No attempt, how
ever, was mad„ to give this im
pression when Poland was i Iren
over, .^t that time hr. 1.. simp
ly saio, in speaking cW' th Nazi
enslavement of the Polos, "a low
er race needs less room, .1 ss
clothing, less feed, 1,ss •ulture."
The seriousness of this threat
not only to the agricultu" of Eu
rope but ultimately tth' agri
culture of the V; os tern Hemisplero,
and the United States in p n ticu~
lur,must be obvious. Ho h wo is
bcinglost by Hitler t reo vwnizo
the agriculture of the occu m i
ureas in the interest of .?i Gor
r.any and ta the aisadvent;g of
agriculture everywhere sis : in ths
world. This program has h-ocu and
sinister implications. It is air;
od at famors in th uni4' a States.
Hitler is taking e ire os Ger
many's agricultural ficl -ncy at
the expense of Norwegians, Varies,
Hollanders, Pole?, axid B.SL;’ ms.
V'ith' agrlcnltur : rutal .ssi;, organ
ised on the Had basis, hit. v
ery vestige oi individual el ht
and fr e:uou uostroy-ea, tl • .j-icri
can fan .or has sone idea of tLe
type of coupe titer he is giuu to
have ia the future if Hitl er is
permitted to organize . peon
agriculture.
Dr. Burro was not joking when
he said that H v. ? will ini dues in
our now living space couplet .ly new
methods.’* These ar? not no* meth
ods. They are revolutions that
show no rosoect for the rights of
the individual. In the y -s of Na
zi 1 eaders the fam'or, in. .utter
where he r.ay bo, is no r.or th.an a
machine to be fed just enough to
sustain life, so tnat h. uy go on
to serve his purpose as a .slave of
*;he Hitler "nastor class' and sup
port it in ats n ew-found’H."istocra
cy. '
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