The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27

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I1Bng or Ap -ollc appointments IN the
western world on the king Of Spain,
which right 50 far as Argentine is con-
cerned passed to the government Of
that country after Spain was kicked
out. Thatt the catholic church is big
political machine is very clearly shown
by this fact. The pope appoints one
Mgr. Bcheo as apostolic governor of
the Buneos Aires diocese without con-
suiting the government. When the
papaI envoy arrived the government
demanded to see his credentials and
the Atoesaid envoy said Nothing do
ing" or words to that effect.
In the Afgehtinian Official who SO pc.
litAly requested the papal dignitary
to let him have squirt at his papers,
was bitten by small army Of New
Jersey mosquitoes. he would not or
could not be more excited. He talked
eIoquently in Spanish, swearing by the
virgins faithful and confiding spouse,
tliat he would knock his holiness for
string OF spaghetti even If the pope
happened to be st. Peters right hand
man dozen times over.
keEEING that according to the Ar
= gentinian constitution the presi-
dent OF that country must be Roman
catholic those who cannot be listed
among the faithful, or IN other words
adherents or ex-adherents of the Ro-
man church, will marvel exceedingly at
the cold, calculating and hostile man
ner in which portions Of his flock pro
coed to make life exciting for the shep-
herd on the Tiber. But to catholics ex
and otherwise it is only an added rea,
son for the pope's unpopularity. Athe-
lists grow in catholic countries where
there is mo protestant opposition
worthy Of the name as fast as flies
multiply on a heap OF dead fish. The
Argentinian authorities threaten to
drop Mgr. Boheo into the nearest cell
unless he shows his credentials. We
are hoping he does not show them.
n RISTIDE BRAND, former social
n list and premier Of France during
al period OF the world war, is now ap-
plying. the pulmotor of his eloquence
on the dying league Of nations. The
renegade socialist knows that the
league Is a farce comedy as long as
the United States is on the outside,
and the latter is too powerful and too
wealthy to join something that would
rot add to its power unless it could be
used to fasten its hegemony on the
rest of the world. The league would
only hinder Wall Streets ambitions, sc
itis given the frozen glove. BRAND
will boiler In vain, but he may bark
his way on the Wall Street payroll, as
his former social democratic German
Comrades" did.
The former secretary Of the young
peoples socialist league, a more
or leas fictitious organization, recently
became disguised with the socialist
PARTY and joined the Workers Party.
That in itself is scarce worthy of edi-
torial comment, such incidents being
very common particularly since our
party nominated It's own candidates
under the Communist banner in the
recent elections. The socialist press
was loud in its praise of the comrade
before he became a Communist, but
lel once 1t became known that he
had red card in the Workers Party
tucked away in his pocket the yellow
sheets began to spew their yomit at
him. lie is now. accused of being
thirsty for gore and a place at the
Communist boheading bee. The old
story Of the fox and the grapes.
n OMISSION was made recently to
~ an American journalist by anotfici
al OF the British foreign Office that the
''zinoviev" letter was fake and that
the tories knew that right along. He
burst into hearty laugh when the
Journalist cast doubt on the ethics of
this procedure. During the war" re-
marked the official "all countries prac-
iiced deception on each other and both
sides paid correspondents large salar-
les for sending out propaganda ninety
per cent.of which was lies. 1t was war
and self preservation rendered these
tAstics matter OF life and death. The
struesgle between the Soviet govern
ment and the capitalist nations is sim
liar. 1t {, tnnot be compromised. 1t is
ilght bet ween two systems. We felt
that the Macdonald government had
violated its Anwritten agreement with
ms when IL sanctioned guaranteed
loan to Russia. This we could not toll
uIT was quite possible that the Ia
Dor government might be re-
turned In the elections as 1t had sew
esal good talking points, and was
playing for the business vote on the
basis OF It's record in Office, demon
strating that business had nothing to