The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
French Press Sees Pacific War


The conflict between American and Japanese
imperialist interests in the Pacific is having it's
international repercussions.
From France comes the news that portion at
least of the French press is announcing that a
choice must be made-that the nation must decide
soon which of the contestants it is. to support
The Sans Fill, an influential Paris paper, edited
by Hyancithe Philouze a close friend of Premier
Herriot says:
Nov with the Russo-Japanese treaty
signed it is clear to anyone studying the
International situation that France is called
morally and geographically to take up a
position in the Pacific battle which will de-
eide the hegemony of the east
In the towards which the imperialists of
the United States and Japan are driving at head
long speed, in spite of the recent expressions of
accord designed to lull the masses into sense of
security, there will be fewer neutral nations than
in the last holocaust. Every one of the great cap
itast powers has vested interests in the Far East
and the expression of the French press is, like the
attitude of the Italian government in the last
struggle nothing more or less than notification
to the world that the French imperialists are will
ing to throw their support to the highes bidder.
They come into the arena of international politics
like prostitute to a county fair
1t is significant that the French press also has
stated categorically recently that one of the
clauses of the RussoJapanese treaty provides that
Japan shall, as partial return for concessions in
the iron, coal and oil of Saghalien island, build
for Soviet Russia certain number of battleships
of the latest type and in other ways is trying in
American parlance, "to throw a scare into' the
allies and the United States
1t makes little difference whether the battleship
story is true. The fact remains that Japan, on
friendly terms with Soviet Russia, the dominant
power in the Far East, and with the Saghalien
iron, coal and Oil-the essentials of modern war
fare-as a foundation for her national economy,
is in far stronger position than ever before in
her history and, in this wicked world, with it's
doctrine of the survival of the slickest it is quite
possible that by building battleships for Soviet
Russia, Japan sees an easy way to get around the
5-53 Washington pact.
Soviet Russia looks with great interest but
little worry at the storm that is brewing in the cap
ialist world She feels assured that whatever dan
ger for the workers and peasants of Russia lies in
giving the japanese government accession to raw
materials on Saghalin, it is but temporary one.
The growing strength and militancy of the Jap
anese workers and peasants is a guarantee that
whatever the japanese capitalists get will within
a few years be the possession of another member
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
The situation of the workers of America is diff
Ierent from thaC OF the RUSSIAN workers. Inc
American government is an imperialist government
the creature of the finance capitalists and the
big industrialists. 1t will every means to drive
the American workers to slaughter in the Pacific
when the need arises, and the open expectation of
war voiced by the French press is proof that the
Workers Communist Party of America is in
dulging in no idle Numbering when it warns the
American workers of the coming conflict and urges
them to organize against the bloody plans of their
rulers.