The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-24
TORIES
Join MORGAN IN
PLANS FOR war.
Signal to Hughes for
AngIO-American Unity
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press STAR Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-
Britain's tory government,
working in perfect accord with
the plans of the Morgan banking
group, has called a halt on the
disarmament program agreed
upon at Geneva and is talking
vaguely of offering a substitute
plan which will hold the British
empire together.
In political circles in Wash
ington this is held to mean that
Morgan & Co. have decided to
have Coolidge and Hughes call
a disarmament conference early
in the spring-preferably in
March, when congress is not in
session-and relegate the league
disarmament conference to a
merely European significance.
Engllsh-speaklng Powers Pact.
This British tory move may be the
signal for Hughes to proclaim his de-
sire for closer Anglo-American unity
virtually an alliance of the two Eng
disappearing powers-or 1t may sim
ply be a warning to continental Eu-
rope and Asia that the league of ma
tions cannot hope to exercise real
power in international affairs SO long
as it does not ask for instructions
from Anglo-American financiers. In
either case the authority of Morgan &
Co. has been asserted; France and
Italy and the rest of the continent can
protest as they please, but they must
obey if they want credits in future
And France needs another loan. So
do her satellite states-Poland, Rou
mania, Jugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia.
Another arms conference at Wash
ington would be held under tory aus
pices, and under the eyes of the all
powerful international bankers. It
would ignore the league of nations,
and would presumably set up a new
series of barriers to discussion of So
called domestic questions such as the
issue of immigration. Only a miracle
of foresight would prevent it from lay
ing the basis for a war on the Paci-
fic, since it would seek to dictate to
the Chinese and Russians and Japan
csc without giving them an equal
voice in the discussion. Nobody in
Washington thinks that an invitation
to Russia to take part in disarma-
ment conference in America would be
issued by Hughes or Coolidge.
Won't Admit Conference.
To date, the administration has re-
fused to admit that it plans to call
an arms conference prior to the one
which the league plans to hold next
June. British politicians are trying
to smooth out their own disputes as
to how such gathering shall be ar
ranged, and the bankers have not
spoken the decisive word. The most
that is known is that the two govern
ments are expected by the Banners to
stop the Geneva disarmament move
ment and discredit the league, while
building up what appears to be de-
finite alliance of the Anglo-Saxon en-
pires for control of the Pacific.
Because the appropriation commit
tees Of the house are now preparing
the army and navy budgets, the adj
ministration will not talk of disarma-
ment in precise terms that would re-
strict the expenditures for warships
and munitions and STATS for the COM
ing year. Army and navy Hobbies are
busy, propaganda for a bigger navy
and stronger army is being hammered
home in the administration press, and
the usual rake-offs are in sight. When
this little matter is settled Mr.. Hughes
will get the floor for his appeal to
the selected powers to come and talk
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