The daily worker., 1927-04-09
The Common Enemy
CONTINUED from last week)

CONTINUED from last week.
The military successes of the national army have
not yet compelled American imperialism to abandon
its position of Liberal onooker." Even the first
stages of Britains struggle to retain its concession
in Hankow left the White House relatively calm
The victory of the revolutionary troops the deter
mined action of the National government against
extra-terrtoriaty, did not in themselves imply that
those social forces which will upset the calculation
of American capitalism for the peaceful conquest of
China have ripened, taken definite form and become
strengthened. Only when the activity and the per-
sstence of the working class and its influence upon
the progress Of events were revealed was Washing
ton aroused.
OF course the United States has mo imperialst
aims in China" The official declaration of Mr..
Coolidge advances the pious formula of the protec-
ton of the life and interests of American citizens
but as experience in Nicaragua teaches behind this
sentence there trails long train of gunboats.
Washington liberalism is dead.
A T the time when the White House still occupied
\ the position of the impartial observer the Bri-
tsh press could hardly conceal its irritation The
Washington correspondent of the "Times' writes:
IF it were not for the amazing willingness to be-
heve that the Chinese mob would distinguish be-
tween red-headed barbarian and another, always
to the advantage of the American, there would be
less complexity in the present problem as the ad-
ninstration sees it, 1t is not the fear of the ex-
Of the mob but the contrary the undoubted
proof that the state of organization and the activity
of the workers will prevent the bourgeois elements
putting stopper the revolution, that compes
American Imperialism to resort to threats of in
tervention.
What is the point of the proposals which the
United States government has made about China?
The key to the vague and contradictory statements
of Messrs. Kellogg and Coolidge is provided by the
NJ 4, - r
ing remarkable suggestion: Chang Tso-lin, Chang
Kei-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang being the strongest
men in China at the present time should each ap-
point delegate, who in conjunction with the Chin
ese minister in Washington, Alfred Shih should ne
gotiate a treaty between Shanghai and the
United States" American Imperialism not only
strives for peace and harmony between the revolu-
tionary government and the Mukden reactionaries
but also to revive the moribund Peking government
Of Wa Pei-Fu. At whose expense do. the peace
makers of the White House propose to abolish the
civil war all fronts in China? Is any proof re-
quired that it is to be at the expense of the workers
and peasants who are interested in uprooting the
economic foundations of imperalist domination in
China?
Only few months ago when America had every
ground for believing that if the Chinese revolution
left to itself it would inevitably come to a halt
in the capitalist ca,t de sac, American policy may
have been practical and that is why the tactics of
Washington differed from the tactics of London by
appearing to be more "liberal." Now however, this
view is proving to be more and more Utopian, and
the Washington government is not disincned to
borrow weapons from the London arsenal. The Bri-
tsh slogan: to break the worker and peasant back
bone Of the Chinese revolution by the threat of in
tervention, by direct intervention is gradually
being adopted by American Imperialism.
n all the imperialist powers, Japan alone has
- managed to maintain in China a powerful and
as yet mistaken military base Whatever the diff
ferences between Chang Tso-lin and Japan may
have been over the speculation in currency and the
super-predatory economic policy of Japanese cap-
talists in Manchuria, the Mukden militarists have
nevertheless remained vassals to Toxic. On the
other hand the disntegration and internal quarres
within the Mukden camp must not be exaggerated.
Chang Tso-lin's army still represents powerful
factor of covert japanese Intervention in China
This explains why Japan so magnanimously abstans
from open intervention Moreover, owing to her
geographical situation Japan does not need to make
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