The daily worker., 1926-11-27

TMPBRIALIST diplomacy is losing
L much sleep over the situation in
China, with the Cantonese armies
bringing new sections of the repub-
lie almost daily under the/stand-
ards of the revolution.
The def issued by General Chang
Kai Shek forces the next move up
on the diplomats of Washington,
London and Paris.
The New York Times tries to dis
cuss what that move shall be. 1t
indicates that it ought to be very
conciliatory. That is, of course, to
be expected of imperialsst diplom-
acy when it is on the defensive.
But the Chinese, under the leader
ship of Canton, will not be fooled
by imperialism's soft words that al
ways have spiked club in reserve.
The moving of the revolutionary
capital from Canton to Wuchang
isn't considered so bad, by The
Times. 1t admits the political and
geographical reasons for the change
saying "Wuchang is the heart OF
China" but it is rather skeptical
about how "the outside world" will
accept it. This doesn't seem to be
troubling the Chinese. Peking has
been a capital city in the north in
name only. 1t remains in the eyes
Of the imperialist diplomats the
symbol Of "the imperial splendor of
China" that passed with the over
throw of the Manchu Dynasty Is
years ago. 1t is in Peking that the
imperialist invaders. maintain their
costly establishments. for which
enslaved Chinese labor has been
forced to pay, over and over,
1t is bitter indeed for the bandit
agents of foreign greed to give up
all this show of power and move to
Wuchang, railroad center, beehive
of rising Chinese industry, where
the living and clenched fist of New
China battles its way forward in
contradistinction to the dead hand
of things past loosening its grip
forever on progress in Pekin:
Foreign diplomats we're compel
led to forget the glories, as they
viewed them, of the czars is st.
Petersburg (now Leningrad) and
accommodate themselves to work
ers' and peasants rule in Red Mos
COW, capital city Of the Soviet I'm
ion.
But that does not mean that the
imperialists quit their attack on the
Chinese National Revolution any
more than that they have given up
hope that they will be able in time
to achieve the crushing Of the
Workers Republic.
1t is to their interests, therefore,
to misrepresent. before the world,
as they are able thru their own
press, the actual situation in China.
1t is here that The New York
Times is at its best. 1t now raises
the question:
HAS the government of Canton
the right to move the capital from
Pekin? VIII it at the same time
assume the international obliga-
tions of the Pekin government?
Will it take over the latter's flnan-
cial responsibilities"
Revolutions have a way of assum-
ing rights distasteful to the rem
nants of the order of things that
have been overthrow. 1t also has
an uncomfortable way Of repudiat-
ing all connections with the past.
The revolution has the right to
establish it's capital at Wuchang be-
cause it has the power to do so. 1t
certainly is not compelled to as
sumo the international obligations
imposed by gun and bayonet upon
the Chinese people. 1t has no f.
nancial responsibilities to world
Imperialism. The Chinese might
instead demand the return Of the
loot taken from them. 1t is not for
Imperialism to dictate its terms,
That time is gone. General Chang
has clearly stated the intention to
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