The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09

United States.)
The well advertised joint maneu-
vers of the Army and Navy in New
England and off its coast line, are be-
ing conducted not for the sole pur-
pose Of war practice as the press in
dicates or as military leaders profess.
But in addition to providing excellent
training for Commanding Staffs and
the ranks of the armed forces, as well
as invaluable practical and theoretical
data for the War College and War
Department the outcome of the man
euvers, in harmony with the general
militarization plan, will soon be de-
cided and broadcasted by the umpires,
War College and the multitude of
lesser agencies, as to create basis
and give great momentum to a wide
spread preparedness propaganda and
activities particularly in relation to
the Atlantic.
To protect its unscrupulously and
arrogantly acquired economic suprem-
acy and to enable it TO further weaken
it's present and potential rivals so as
to bring them more completely under
it's domination, American Imperialism
has set out to develop military
strength that will be enabled to sue
cessfully fight, if necessary, even
against combined armies and navies
of a number of countries who, due to
the growth and crowding of American
Imperialism, may deem it wise and
necessary to temporarily reconcile
their own differences and contradic-
tions long enough to give military at
tention to the curbing of the limitless
appetite of the giant that threatens to
eventually swallow them all.
The propaganda for which the pres
ent maneuvers are paving the road
vantageous naval bases of which
will enable American Imperialism to
fight on both coasts with equal adj
vantage. 1t is intensely DESTROYS to
prepare for such an eventuality, par
ticularly since Britain, disappointed
at Americas Chinese policies, is again
making gestures at an alliance with
Japan
There was a time, not so long ago
when the ambitions of American I'M
perialism did not extend beyond Latin
America. 1t was then quite content
to limit its protective program to the
Pacific where it has obtained most adj
vantageous naval basis of which
Honolulu is the most important. But
now, not only did it come into fric-
tional contact with Japan and par
ticularly with Britain in China but il
has via the Dawes plan, the loan to
Italy, the pressure of its war loans
etc, entered the very front door of its
European competitors; to say nothing
OF having financially annexed Canada
and at least partially other British
dominions.
This development of American dom
nance calls for gigantic naval ano
military preparation orientated botf
on the Pacific and the Atlantic. AND
since the Pacific has already received
adequate attention and fortification
the large scale naval maneuvers usu.
ally conducted on the Pacific have
been transferred to the Atlantic. In g
word, the military eye of American
Imperialism has been focused upor
Europe. And the spectacular front.
PACED maneuvers afford an excellent
medium with which to attract the pub.
lie ear to propaganda for preparedness:
on the Atlantic.
1t matters but little what conclu.
sions the War Department arrives a
as a result of these maneuvers, one
thing is reasonably certain and thai
is that the American people will b.
told in most skillful sentiment mould
ing language that unless great prep
arations are undertaken at once, there
is grave danger that some foreign FOE
will come and steal New York from
under our very noses. Many will b.
made to believe this not as a remote
possibility, but as an eventualit,