The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-02
CURRENT EVENTS
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY


d RITAIN will not reply to the
- Soviet governments note in an
swer to Chamberlain's. The foreign
office got itself into bad mess but
the wing of the cabinet that Cham
berlain belongs to strengthened it.
self against the die-hards led by
Winston Churchill that want break
with the Soviet Union. In quoting
anti-imperialist speeches delivered
by leaders Of the Communist Party
Of the Soviet Union Chamberlain
rightly guessed that the Soviet for
eign office would come back with a
choice collection of venomous anti
Soviet attacks delivered by Churchill
and his gang. Since Churchill does
not care how he can ease Chamber
lain and Baldwin out of the tory
leadership the willy Chamberlain was
willing to allow the prestige of his
office to suffer deflation in return
for a strengthening of his position
at home.
Even the British tory newspapers
admit that the Litvinoff reply was
clever. This does not necessarily
mean that Litvinoff has more brains
than Chamberlain. First of all, he
has a better case and secondly, the
internal position of the Soviet Gov
ernment is stronger than that of
Britain and Litvinoff was not
obliged to write the note with view
to dropping a few peoples commits
sars into the soup. The conflicts
within the various capitalist groups
make it extremely difficult for them
to act with unanimity.
On the other hand the people of
the Soviet Union, represented by the
industrial workers and the peasant
~, are behind the government,
which guards their interests against
the bowling wolves of imperialism.
We are informed by Moscow dis
patch that Leon Trotsky, former
Commissar of War, was cheered for
fifteen minutes when he appeared to
speak in Trades Union Hall, former
| the homo of dissolute Russian
l.obles. Trotsky declared that the
oviet Government had good reason
protest against anti-Soviet propa-
{ anda and said that Chamberlain not
only applauded the hanging of Lith-
uanian Communists but that he
helped to grease the ropes. The op-
timistic capitalist hacks that pre-
,.sotef, -Troess<y ard oeferA wnc WIS.,
? greed with the majority Of the |
communist Party on policy would
organize revolts against the Soviet
Government will receive little con-
solation from this news item.
THE Births h government has
L agreed to accept the fake naval
disarmament conference proposed by
Calvin Coolidge. But while Coolidge
waves the olive leaf of peace, con-
ress hammers on the anvil of war.
Coolidge proposes that the naval
overs reduce naval armament. The
Louise turns around and votes to ele-
vate the guns on United States bat
tleships, something that Great Brit
Gin does not at all like. It is a
Great game of deceit and hypo-
cracy. The two greatest imperialist
overs in the world, England and
ne United States, pretend to be on
GOOD terms, and are ostentatiously
friendly, yet they are preparing to
leap at each others threats. They
viii eventually.
Q ENAToR BORAH appears to
- have definitely broken with Cool
idge. The senator is chairman of
the Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
lations, a committee that is clothed
with considerable power. But Wall
street looks on it as nuisance since
Borah became chairman. The Idaho
an, tho supporter of the capitalist
system, is somewhat of bull in the
administration China shop. He does
not want to see United States sol
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