The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27

Britain Is surely carrying ChO "NAN~
mans burden these days. Tho weary
and low in spirit from defending the
interests of civilization against the
Chinese. the Hindoos and other
wicked people that insist on claiming
the right to live according t., their
own standards, the British ruling
classes can afford to expend a little
surplus energy looking after the m
terests of American imperialism.
IN the raid made on ARGOS, the stool
l pieeons of Scotland Yard claim to
have seized certain documents indi-
eating that the Communist Inter-
national is conducting Communist
prouaganda in the United States.
This information was Immediately
dispatched to Washington. Perhaps
the battered aristocrats of old Eng
land expect that in return for this
hit Of linking their wealthy cousins
NAV become amenable to suggestion
for a cancellation of the debt that
Great Britain owes the United States.
IN order to discover that the Commu-
! mist International is carrying on
agitation against the capitalist sys-
+en in the United States as well as
in every other country IN the world
all the clever detectives of the United
States government have to do IS to
read The DAILY WORKER which
Is published quite openly. In fact the
Communists of the United States go
To great trouble to distribute the
statements of the Communist inter-
national on current events, because
thew know that those statements have
great educational value for the work
ing class.
WHETHER the British government
w succeeds in hooking up serious
combination of powers in its present
anti-Soviet drive remains to be seen
There are runors that France is about
Ia break off relations with Moscow
Ttalv is almost certain to follow
Downing Street and few other little
powers may yelp at the cllnk OF
British gold. But there ID strong
likelihood that the conspiracy of Great
Britain will fall flat. The record OF
her ruling classes for treachery and
deceit which earned her the title Of
eperfidious Albion" is too well known
TO lead honest people into believing
the statements of British govern
ment official.
AS one writer in the New York Iele-
n gram points out premier Baldwin. s
speech indicated that the break witt
the Soviet Union was based on the
alleged activities of Soviet Officials
in the stealing of British government
official documents not intended fo1
public consumption. Yet, as the
writer points out, Scotland Yard re.
sorted to burglary and second story
work in attempting to make this
charge stick.
ALL governments spy on each other
r. and important secret documents
are constantly disappearing from gov
eminent archives. Only quite re-
Gently, president Gales of Mexico
came into possession Of secret in
structions issued by the state depart
ment to United States agents il
Mexico, urging them to conduct al
aggressive campaign against the Cal
les government. The military at
tache attached to the United States
embassy in Mexico from whose SAT-
the documents were stolen was re
called and the matter was hushed up
Gales used the incident to good ad
vantage in his dickering with Wash
ington. From the point of view O
capitalist ethics the thing was al
right.
THE fact is that Great Britain's de
cision to break with the Sovie
1Inion is an act of desperation t.
which she is driven owing to the de
feat she has sustained in China an
+he fea1 that a revolt in India woult
bring the rotten imperialist edific
lettering to its base. She fears tn
Soviet Union because it is a govern
ment Of free workers and peasant
\ that stretches out a friendly hand t
\ the oppressed Of all lands. 1t is no
Soviet Union "agents" that are men
acing British Imperialism but tn
Communist idea which finds fertil
soil in the countries that are unde
the heel of British militarism.
THE German press with one voic
l declares for neutrality in the pres
ent Anglo-Soviet crisis. The Ger
mans are not willing to risk the los
of much business with Russia by join
ing the anti-Soviet Bloc tho Englan
is ready to make heavy concessions i
return for assistance. In the mean
time we may expect to see the column
of our capitalist papers filled wit
rehashed discoveries" Of Sovie
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