The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-09-09


While it is undoubtedly true tina
the British Tories are seeking all nos
slble assistance in their effort to SUP
press American supremacy it is no
regarded as certain in Washington
That an Anglo-Japanese agreement
has been reached-yet. The situation
now IS that the three dominant worlC
powers are playing a crafty game OF
imperialism against each other will
forces so evenly matched that allianc.
es are hardly possible.
The Baldwin government is march.
ing ahead with the great iSngapore
nava lbase, a d eritcETAOINSHRDI
naval base, direct threat against ia
pans supremacy in eastern Asia. The
Tories are watching suspiciously the
canny moves Of the japanese in China
and the British secret service is mov-
ing Heaven and earth to keep japan
csc spies out of India. Under these
circumstances many we'll informed
WashlngtOnians feel that it is hard
ly Ekcly that the two governments
nave reached an entente. Their own
roles IN Asia are too antagonistic.
The Tories, following an inevitable
policy of suspicion and hatred against
all other world powers, see three main
obstacles to continued world domin-
ion. They are:
!. The youthful American imperi-
allsm, which is ruthlessly pushing the
British influence from the American
Continent and challenging it in the
Far East and the British dominions.
Every sign points to the "war I'M
thlnkable", the third British-Ameri-
can war, as the next great world con-
flagration.
z. The rising Imperialism of japan.
which is seeking to elbow England
out Oh China, the worlds greatest po-
tentlal market. In the Far East the
Tories play an evidently losing game
IN an arena half the world away from
nome. The Japanese fleet is now too
powerful to be openly opposed in the
emma Sea. Japan is working insid-
lously to head a Pan-Asiatic move
ment which would eventually throw
England out of India and the Nav
Iayan peninsula.
3. The vigorous and exnandinO
Union of Socialist Soviet RenubIics
however is the special Tory night
mare. America and Japan can be
fought by physical force, but the Sow
let Union is armed with a powerful
idea that not all the ships in the
british navy can suppress. Each year
TINS Idea of rule by the workers and
peasants, gains firmer foothold in In
ola, China and throughout the world
Massacre Of the opponents of the idea
Whlle typically imperialist method
Is hardly effective in the long run.
Inc Westminster government has
slashed out blindly at the Soviet
Union as the first and presumably
The weakest Of three foes. But the
diplomatic break has hardly been
more embarrassing to the Soviets
than to Britain herself, while the Tor
les ambition of Gripping Russia thru
curtailing the sale Of Russian oil. her
main cash commodity has failed. ac-
cordmg to the department of com
merce.
The Geneva Conference which was
Co limit naval ornaments has turned
OUT no better for the British. The
american congress seems committed
to II new 10000 ton cruisers in adj |
iition to eight now building and un-
doubtedly will sponsor within a few
years a program of outbuilding the
British navy. With the United States
under the thumb of reaction, the bio /
navy interests can put over their
point Of view and if they wish to. can
undoubtedly smother the British fleet
,pn. 1r a flow of dollars from the
United Sta,,ees treasury.
If it turns out tnaV America is the
thief foe of Britain's designing inn
the Tories may make a
Ticker with the Japanese, trading the
Singapore threat for a naval alliance
against the Yankees, who are none
100 we'll liked in Tokyo, Then Amer
can imperialism's navy will have to
oe bigger than the combined British
fleet to satisfy American
and warmongers.
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