The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-11

lSh government OF the day, In the
policy of organizing a hostile ring
around Germany, which at that
period was Great Britain's foremost
commercial and naval rival. Navies
have way of following sea-borne
commerce. The British lion never
ceased to growl at Germany until
the German fleet was either sunk
or divided among the victors and
Germany's magnificent commercial
navy almost entirely driven from the
sea.
THE courtesy calls now being
made by Mr.. Chamberlain on the
foreign offices of European govern
ments have for their object the for
nation Of steel ring around the
Soviet Union. The demand for
Rakovskys recall made upon Moscow
by the French government is in large
| part of the result of British pressure
on France which does not feel strong
enough to resist. Britain is playing
Italy against France and Chamber
lain's present tete tete with Primo
de Rivera is undoubtedly related to
the British anti-Soviet policy.
THE sudden development in the
Chinese civil war which has brought
the nationalist forces of General Feng
and of the Shansi governor almost
to the walls of Picking has created
near-panic in the chancellories of
Japan and Great Britain, the two
governments whose immediate inter-
ests are most seriously affected by
/ crisis in China. 1t is matter of
life and death for imperialist Japan
to hold on to Manchuria, and Britain
| is vitality concerned in the loss of
her spheres of influence in China
and in the damaging effect victory
for the Chinese revolution would have
on the oppressed peoples who are
exploited by British imperialism in
India and other Oriental countries.
| britain attributes the Chinese ma
e tionalist revolution to Soviet in
trigue. Not that the British gov
eminent believes this, except in so
far as it is true that the Soviet Union
is in active sympathy with the ef~
forts of the Chinese workers and
peasants to throw off the yoke Of
the foreign imperialists and the ma
tive militarists. Britain knows that
the Chinese masses would revolt if
the Soviet Union had never come into
existence. But it also knows that
but for the existence of the Work
ers' Republic, the Chinese revolution
would be crushed by the imperialist
power with little difficulty.
1t is aware that the Soviet Union
pursues no imperialistic aim in
China; that it is true to the principle
on which it based itself when it came
into being in 1917, the right of the
workers, peasants and all oppressed
peoples to all that life can give them,
without having to pay toll to ex-
ploiters.
/ HINDER the influence of this gospel
of freedom the foundation of i'm
perialism in the Orient has begun to
crumble. AS German commercial
competition threatened Britain in the
worlds markets until 1914, the anti
imperialist policy of the Soviet Union
threatens her colonial empire today.
In 1914 her struggle was against a
rival imperialist power, that was it.
self rotten at it's social core. Today
her problem is more serious, because
unlike the German government of
the Kaiser, the Soviet Union has al
lies, as well as enemies in all capital
ist countries, in Britain as we'll as in
India. So, Sir Austen Chamberlain
is visiting the officials of European
governments, threatening, cajoling,
bribing. He wants united front Of
European capitalism against the u.
S. S. R. When this object is &C !,
complished the war against the
Soviet Union Will be opened with all
the latest implements of war.
GAS safe as in bank" does not
"a mean much any more, if it ever
meant anything. The president of
an Aurora, Illinois bank, who rose
from lowly position to head the
institution, disappointed his friends
and particularly those who used Go
point with pride" to his meteoric
rise, by embezzling 100000 of the
banks money. Or rather of the
money thrifty citizens deposited in
the bank for safe keeping. The err
ring president was a member of the
Knights of Columbus, shot craps
and played poker. In fact he was a