The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
ByIrandust

In England's policy in the Near
East, the Anglo-American bloc which
has SO obviously collapsed in China,
continues as before to play an impor
tant part It finds expression In
series Of agreements between the In
terested capitalist groups OF both
countries, in the first place between
the petroleum companies English
Persian Oil" and standard Or which
have come to an agreement as to the
dividing of the treasures of native OIL
Of North Persia, and are offering unit
ted resistance TO other competitors,
especially France. Preparations are
being made for the transference Ok
Persian finances to Anglo-Amefican
control, for which object the Issue OF
an Anglo-American loan to Persia ID
planned. Further Anglo-American
cooperation in the question Of rail-
ways and concessions can be observed.
A similar picture is to be observed
in Turkey and the Iraq. The Stan
dard Oil" and the "English-Persian"
have come to an agreement with re-
gard to a common exploitation OF the
native oil of Iraq, and short time ago
a concession treaty was signed in
Bagdad with the Government Of Iraq.
England is trying by this agreement
20 get America to guarantee the Dor
lers Of Iraq.
Hand in hand with this tendency
san be observed for the relations be-
ween England and France In the
asst to become strained; this CORE
spends to a certain degree to the situ,
alton in Europe. Thus the attempts
Of the French to gain a share in the
affairs connected with anatives oil and
railways in North Persia Is met by
England's violent opposition. When
communications were published with
regard to negotiations between Tur-
key and France as to the adjustment
OF the frontiers OF Syria, the English
press very plainly gave expression to
the opinion that France had no right
to dispose of Syria. The English press
showed similar anxiety during the
last visit of Franklin Bouillon, the
French politician, to Angora-
England's attempts to strengthen
her position in the East and to create
in the East a hostile front to Soviet
Russia are, in their very nature, full
of contradictions and therefore doomed
to failure. The Turkish Government
has already declined to have the Tur-
kish navy recognized by an English
mission. The Arabian movement in
Palestine and Transjordania against
the English rule continues.
The Eastern peoples cannot be de-
ceived by the new mask Of English
Imperialism. This became evident at
the Conference for the Limitation OF
Trade in Arms which took place re-
Gently at Geneva, a Grass example of
cynical farce, at which the military
great powers who hold all the achieve
ments of the modern technique should
limit their ornaments. In accordance
with the interests Of England and
France, the conference provided for
the establishment of forbidden zones
in Morocco, on the Red Sea, in the
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Persian Gulf and in the Gulf of Oman
as well as in the Indian Ocean. 1t
endeavored to isolate and weaken the
national movement in the East After
series of protests on the part OF
representatives of the Eastern coun-
tries, the Persian delegate demonstra-
lively left the conference and de-
clined to sign the minutes. Accord
ing to a communication OF the Morn
ing Post, in which hidden threat
is contained, this incident might lead
to Persia resigning from the League
of Nations. AS yet there are no com
munications as to whether the Geneva
protocol will be signed by Turkey and
Afghanistan. This shows us what the
forerunners Of the success of English
Sterilization" in the Near East look
like.