The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-23

The Americans demand a favor
which our legislation forbids us to
grant without a reciprocity clause.
The United States legislation forbids
granting this clause, throwing the
negotiations into a vicious circle"
"The United States is demanding a
uni-lateral measure of u.s." was the
comment of LIE Matin.
French Capitalists In Fury.
This outburst from the French
press follows the delivery of the lat
est demands of the American finan-
ciers, working thru the government
in Washington, to the government of
France. While the terms of the note
have not been made public and will
not be, unless upon the express de-
sire of the American state depart
ment, it is pretty generally known
that the communication is in the ma
ture of commercial ultimatum and
the fury with which it is being re-
ceived by the French capitalists and
their puppets in the government is
difficult to overstate.
The note is said to open with a
statement of the disappointment and
surprise of the Washington govern
ment at the plans for tariff dis
elimination with which France is
threatening American goods, and
closes with the yelled threat that
France will do well to remember that
Article 317 of the Fordney Tariff
gives the American government the
right to raise its tariffs against any
nation which discriminates against it.
Bokanowski Non-Committal.
The question of tariff discrimina-
ton is being much more fiercely dis
cussed in American than in French
circles, however, the latter being now
entirely occupied with belaboring the
American ultimatum. Maurice Bo-
kanowski, French minister of COM
merce, who recently returned from
the United States shortly after his
review of the West Point cadets in
company with the American mill
tarist, Major General Charles Sum-
neral, refused to be drawn into any
discussion of the American note. He
expressed himself guardedly with the
wants to keep its independence in the
matter of how it imposes its tariffs"
France, it would seem has no inten-
tion of backing down before the big
stick of the American capitals, at
least not until a period has elapsed
sufficiently long to permit the Paris
government to surrender without
sacrificing the national honor"
The fury of the French imperial
lists against their rivals in the United
tion in the official attitude towards
States has had an immediate reflec-
the American Legion. Without de-
sisting from the fierce persecution
and terrorism which it instituted
against the French workers because
of their hatred for the murderers of
Sacco and Vanzetti, the French capi-
talists with the connivance of the
Paris government are turning cold
face towards the legionnaires.
While this change in the govern
ment's attitude has not yet gone so
far as to lead to official discourtesy
there is a new feeling that the Amer
lean Legion is a diplomatic burden
and a disgrace and that its actions
in Paris would be scandal to any
people.
U. S. Attitude Also Changed.
Meanwhile a subtle alteration is
also visible among the American
leaders and the feeling which they
have succeeded in inspiring among
the rank and file. The changed
American attitude was reflected to-
day in the curt speech with which
General "Black Jack" Pershing cut
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