The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
BY s. YAVoRsKY.

! GERMANY'S entry into the league
~ OF nations formally concludes the
work of those English diplomatist:
who have been aiming at opposing tc
the Soviet Union a bloc of capitalist
I states subservient to England thru the
agency of the league of nations, and
Of number of greater and lesser 10.
earnos But the British statesmen. as
is usual with bourgeois politicians,
have laid their plans without reckon
ing with the antagonisms existing
among the capitalist states, and have
not taken into account the develop
ment of national and class struggles
in the bourgeois states. Thus by the
time Germany was really initiated into
1.-THE mysteries of the league Of nations.
and made a knight Of the "Order of
the Geneva Peace these processes OF
development had already led to a
radical change In the conditions OBJ
tanning in Europe, and Chamberlain
had every reason to refrain from MAX
ing festive speeches, at the moment
when Stresemann and BRAND we're
exchanging expressions of cordial
friendship"
The European Steel Trust, this first
economic expression of the political
cooperation being prepared between
France and Germany at the same
time denotes the liquidation of the
first move in the crusade planned by
British diplomacy against the Soviet
Union. Germany had already endeav-
ored to secure itself by means of a
neutrality agreement witS the Soviet
Union, against the danger Of serving
as cockpit in the case of an attack
against the Soviet Union. And now
Ge>panys foreign policy is to seek
in France a counter-weight against the
demands of England British diplom-
acy must now turn its attention to
creating united front against the SO.
Wet Union by means Of a rapproche-
ment not to Germany, but to France.
Franeo-erItish Rapprochement
tho all outward appearance conditions
l. appear to favor British efforts in
this direction. The Poincare govern.
ment. tho containing the ''pacihsts"
Herriot and BRAND, bears the sharp
stamp Of its aggressive leader. Dur.
ing the two years which have elapsed
since the defeat OF the national bloc,
nothing has occurred TO change the
attitude OF the obstinate reactionary
and convinced imperialist Poincare to.
wards the Soviet Union. France has
pursued a moro active foreign policy
Of Late and II has been inevitable that
in leading circles In England there has
been a revival of plans for encircling
and strangling the Soviet Union with
the aid OF France
But can France take any important
position in the ranks OF the bourgeois
states against the Soviet Onion?
France and England are at logger
heads along tho whole line or foreign
policy, and there Is not a single spot
in all thu world where these two
states have mutual interests. Ger
many's rapprochement to France and
the impending combination OF German
coal with French ore, threaten the
prosperity and even the existence OF
English heavy industry. In the Med
Iterranean the aggressive anti-French
policy OF the Italian fascist initiates
the endeavors OF British diplomacy,
which is exerting no inconsiderable eff
Tort for the firm establishment OF the
Italo-Spanish alliance, which Is again
directed against France. In the South
East of Europe. and in tho Balkans.