The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-31
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

THE French and British govern
ments are still feeling each other
OUT on the German offer for the bar
sis Of a security pact. Like pugilists
in a ring they shake hands, more or
less cordially, and then try to sneak
the horse shoe into the gloves. Brit
ain favors the German proposals prin-
cipally because France does not.
France now has the draft of counter
proposal ready and is sounding out its
Corner allies with view to unanimity
in offering it to the German govern
nent A rather frank Paris dispatch
tells us how France regards the whole
business. "The French negotiators
view the German proposals as valu-
able only insofar as they reafirm in
volatility of the Rhineland as neu-
raj zone and comprmise England in
case of German aggression" How
those capitalist nations love each
ether!
THEY love each other like hungry
L dogs qparrelling over bone. Blu
yet they can always find basis for
unity in their hostility to the interna-
tinonal working class movement. 1t
is reported that Poland and Paris have
patched up their differences again.
Millerand, who was recently kicked
out Of Office of president of the French
republic is agitating for breaking off
relations with Soviet Russia.
THERE is no likelihood of France sew
Il ering diplomatic relations with the
Soviet governmental least not at
this time Frances big fight just now
is with England, and England is the
most powerful enemy of the workers
republic and the most dangerous.
Those who have developed taste for
reading foreign news may note that
the Kurds and Turks are waging war
on each other. England as usual is
on the side of "self-determination"
end supports the Kurds. Being rather
suspicious of British gifts we learn
that there is lots of oil in the ground
where the British want to see native
government established. England
wants the oil.
7 ORD BALFOUR is wandering thru
~ the Holy Land on business bent.
He is one of the best trained political
bagmen of the British ruling class.
Balfour went to Egypt and took the
Port Said express from Cairo to Pal
estine travelling in a special car sent
by the Palestine government. This is
he British governments Palestine
government. 1t is so thru right of
purchase. The British paid pounds
sterling for it. They own it in the
same way that the Irish Free State
and the governments of Jugo-Slavia,
Esthonia and Greece belong to them,
and as the Polish, Checko-Slovakian
and Turkish governments belong to
ii e French.
D9IT Balfour did not find an enthusi-
Ia tic popslace turning out to greet
him. He was well protected against
the D. ople he went to honor with his
preseI &C. Soldiers guarded him. His
route. as suddenly changed for fear
of .unttward incidents. Jerusalem,
which. did not cut much of figure in
world history since the crusaders
stopped fighting over the route to
Asia is once more breaking into the
news. Balfour was scheduled to az
rive in Jerusalem from Cairo but he
changed his mind.
THERE was a general strike in the
l. holy city so the noble lord thot the
longest way around was the shortest
way home. II is far cry from Rich
ard the Lion Hearted. to George the
lmbecile, but the mission of the
former was no different fundamentally
TO that Of Balfour, who is the latter's
envoy. Richard went to the Holy
Land, ostensibly to wrench the sacred
sepulchre from the hands of the inf
del Turk. Balfour goes to assure the
people that the mighty power Of the
British empire is behind them and
their government.
NAl
DUT unfortunately-for the British
ID empire-the people don't believe
Balfour. They we're not 80 numerous
and not so skeptical in the days OF
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