The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-25
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
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possible that what urged the queen
to cut her panhandling trip was a re-
verse in the fortunes of her faction in
the royal court of Roumania. 1t is
not at all unlikely that the fireworks
will begin to crackle before Marie is
able to get her orbs working on the
susceptible politicians of Bucharest.
ME repeat that the charge that the
W capitalist press is a conspiracy
against truth so often that 1t SONS.
times seems as if we protest too
much. Occasionally, a CLEAN of truth
breaks thru, but it is quite accidental
and can be explained by the cupidity
of the individual publisher who will
cash in on news beat even tho its
publication may injure the capitalist
system as a whole. Two Sunday pa
pers are before me as I write. One
is the New York Times; the other,
The Herald-Examiner oil Chicago.
Both have articles on Russo-Turco re.
lations.
THE special correspondent of the
Times cables from Constantinople
that there was nothing In the discus
sion that took place in Odessa, be
tween the foreign ministers Of the
Soviet Union and Turkey that need
alarm the capitalist powers. 1t is true
that all the Orient was humming with
excitement over the prospect of gil
gantic Oriental combination against
western imperialism. But the Times
correspondent took another suck out
Of the pipe and dispelled the illusion.
He discovered that the Turk is a con-
summate political actor and cannot be
fooled, even by the willy diplomats of
the Soviet Union. What has Russia
to offer anyway, he asks.
GO much for that. We turn to the
- Herald-Examiner and read an in
terview with Mustapha Renal Pasha,
in which that individual talks in
manner calculated to give the imper-
ialist foreign ministers heart failure.
Renal calls Mussolini a silk-hatted
bucanneer and charges Britain with
plotting against Turkey from the out
side, having failed to disrupt the re-
public from within. The Turkish
president said that his government
finally decided to accept the Soviet
Unions suggestions for an alliance
to protect their joint interests and
dwelt fondly on the prospects of q
Pan-Oriental League of Nations in op-
position to the imperialist league Of
nations which England dominates.
WHEN Renal Pasha talks he is
w talking for the Turkish govern.
ment and his language indicates that
he realizes that Turkey cannot have
an opportunity to develop independ.
entity while she is at the mercy Of
the western powers. Therefore Ke-
NAL hailed with Joy the idea of an
alliance between the oppressed peo-
pies Of the east, the alliance to be
under the leadership of the powerful
Soviet Union. In this alliance there
would be Russia, Turkey, China, AT
ghanistan, inundated countries like
Syria, and semi-independen Egypt.
This must give Britain uneasy Stun.
Der. SO, 1t does not appear that The.
Times correspondent in CONSTANT.
nople was doing anything but lying
when he peddled his stuff about the
failure of the Odessa conference.
COLONEL THOMPSON, Calvin Coo
- lidge's special envoy in the Phil
ippines found many reasons why the
natives should not be givon their lib
erty. They are too poor in the first
place and speak diverse languages.
Therefore out OF consideration for the
poor things, the benevolent imperial.
lists Of the United States must pro.
tect them for a while even against
the wishes Of the Fllipinos But Gen.
eral Chang Kai Shek OF China, the
Cantonese military genius who has
led his revolutionary troops over two.
thirds Of China against the tools OF
the imperialists. declared that the
United states has no right 10 be In
the Philippines. This declaration
should mako our militarists sit up
and think. OF course Uncle Sam will
not quit the Philippines OF his own
treo will but imperialists Just az
proud as oars have been humbled.