The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-03
u. S. Backing
British War
on China
Receives England's Support
In Latin Americas in Return
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press.)

NEeutEdteu ITeSS.J
WASHINGTON, CFP). Through
the dust and fog of state department
statements that say nothing, and
White House utterances that obscure
the facts, all the power of American
finance and the American navy is
emerging as an lily of British i'm
perialism iv assistance to the Chi
nese working class revolution. That
is the meaning Of the shipment of
1,20O American marines across the
Pacific.
Congress has given no sanction to
this Anglo-Mellon alliance, which
seems to have divided the world into
two spheres for exploitation of sub
ject peoples. But President Coolidge,
directed by Secretary Mellon, has as
sisted Secretary Kellogg to make
American policy in China subordinate
to that of Britain, while Britain has
made her policy in Latin America one
of sympathy with any coercion which
the Washington government may use
against Mexico, Nicaragua or any
other republic which may get out of
hand.
Here are some points in the recent
development of this pact of allotment
of loot:
The New Alignment.
In December the state department
aligned its forces to combat the en-
forcement of Mexico's oil land law,
and discovered that the Aguila Oil
Co., owned by Royal Dutch Shell,
which in turn is 81 per cent owned by
the British admiralty, was preparing
to accept the Mexican law. The
Doheny, Mellon and Sinclair interests
had agreed with the department to
resist the law. Their claims covered
only $4,000 to 100000 acres out of
the 28,000,000 acres to which the law
applied. On Dec. 81 the Aguila
changed its mind gnd joined the
Doheny -Melion-Snclair group, there-
by making the resistants appear as
speaking for the British as we'll as
the United States government.
In December, also, the British con-
sui in Managua, aided by the italian
consul britain and Mussolini are in
close harmony now) gave aid to Sec
rotary Kellogg's Nicaraguas interven-
ton by asking the American minister
for protection for their nationals in
Nicaragua.
Hearst Changes Front.
At about that time w. R. Hearst,
who for 80 years had been anti-Brit-
ish in his policy as a newspaper and
magazine publisher, began a cam
paign to advertise the idea of league
of English-speaking nations or an
Anglo-American imperial alliance. He
began to attack the Mexican govern
ment, to support the Kellogg policy
toward Nicaragua, and to emphasize
the "bolshevist peril" in China. He
began also the publication of series
of editorials and cartoons ridiculing
the independence ideal of the Filipi-
nos, and lauding General Leonard
Wood.
Britain's Fishy Offer.
China's revolution endangered Brit
ish commercial interests and imperial
prestige not merely in China but in
India and the mohammedan world in
Asia and Africa. Especially did it
threaten to bring about, after the fl
nal triumph of the Cantonese in
China, revolt in India that would
ruin British industries at home and
British trade in the East. Britain is
sued a vague offer of compromise
with China's demands. Secretary KEEL
logg waited month and then made
a similarly vague statement. Mean
while the British were compelled to
negotiate with Canton and to promise
surrender of their concessions in
China. Secretary Kellogg failed to
negotiate with Canton, so far as the
American people could learn. When
the house committee on foreign af-
fairs urged him to become more ex-
plicit in his friendly talk with the
Chinese, Kellogg became irritated.
The White House also intimated that
the administration wanted no advice
and no questioning.
SO Washington trails Britain in the
Orient, but it sends armed men to-
ward China while the British are send
ing an army there. And the British
assist in the resistance of Mellon to
a Mexican examination of the titles