The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29
NEMESIS IS
CATCHING Up
With HUGHES
Things Break Bad for
Whiskered One
BY LAURENCE TODD.

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a
Discovery In Berlin Of a whole
sale forgery mill, specializing in
fake ZInovlev and Third Inter
national documents, has led the
Washington Post, edited by Col.
George Harvey, to twit secre-
tary Hughes with the possibility
that his alleged Zlnoviev letter
to American Communists, urg-
ing them to "plant the red flag
on the White House," was con-
cocted by the Berlin forgers.
The Post reminds its con-
sentative readers that Senator
Borah expressed doubts as to
the genuineness of this docu-
ment when Secretary Hughes
made it public, last winter, as
evidence that Moscow was ac-
lively plotting a violent revolu-
ton in the United States
Charlie Keeps His Flag.
This rude conduct on the part of
Harvey's paper is most annoying to
the state department pashas. They
cannot honestly suppress the thot that
Harvey wants to be secretary of state,
and that his editorial mask is now be-
ing employed in the process Of show
ing Hughes out of the nest.
They see that Harvey seems to
have developed an alarming degree
Of sympathy with the viewpoint Of
Sen. Borah, who will be chairman of
the foreign relations committee next
month--that foreign relations are not
the private affair of Hughes, but
are public matters that require great
deal Of open discussion and disclos-
ure Of sources of evidence. Hughes
sits down and says his Zinoviev red
flag document is genuine, and he
won't tell how he knows. That's be-
tween him and his spy service.
Just now Hughes is up to the ears
in a new attempt to swim across the
Chinese quagmire. Some weeks ago
the French government invited the
British, Italian, Japanese and Ameri-
can governments to join it in a con-
fab in Pekin, where the foreign di-
plomats meet every week anyhow to
discuss the pulse Of the patient. This
time they would discuss the entire
situation in China, trying to deter
mine which of the warning and par
leying factions had the best chance
of establishing itself as a permanent
government. OF course, the bankers
in Wall Street could not loan any
more money to China until there ex-
listed a government sufficiently strong
to be recognized and held to respon-
sibility for payment of its financial
obligations. Discussing the situation
and trying to make safe bet on a
winner, who would have the sup
port of foreign influence and foreign
money, is as far as the conference
seems to have gotten.
Sun Burns Charles Fingers.
China has been bit trying to Sec
rotary Hughes. anyhow. At first he
put thru the Washington Far Eastern
conference of imperial powers num-
Der Of resolutions instructing the Pc
kin government as to what it was
to do. He refused to pay any heed
to warnings that the South China gov
eminent of Sun Vat Sen must be con-
suited. Japan vouched for the peace
full disposition Of Chang Tso Lin, rul-
er of Manchuria. And then Chang and
Sun began to undermine the Pekin
regime. Fighting has been almost
continuous, in one region or another,
until now Chang and Sun are in con-
ference at Tientsin with other lead
ers, to determine what regime shall
be set up in place of the one which
was recognized and which has fled
WI Pei Flu, latest ruler at Pekin.
has set up his flag in central China,
at Wuchang, where Sun started the |
original revolution against the Manchu
Foreign backing has been handi- |
cap to Chinese leaders in the past
three years. And at each step to-
ward dissolution OF the old order,
the influence of the Soviet Union has
increased. Red flags are flying over
many Russian consulates thruout
China, and at each Of these points the
Soviet propaganda OF self-determina-
ton for Asiatic peoples is active.
Hughes doesn't like the drift OF China.
In few years she may sweep all for
eign concessions away, and assert her
independence as effectively as has
Turkey. Hence the conference in
Pekin.