The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-18
Cuyy9ntEUentJ
By t. J. o'FLAHERrY.

The ocOClanu lara DurBlaIS WIN
broke into the headquarters of the
Russian Trade Delegation did not find
the important official documents they
were looking for according to state
ment made by the Home Secretary,
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, in the
house of commons last Monday. I'm
less this failure to supply by forgery
what could not be produced legiti-
mately-if such a term can be used in
connection with the raid-results in
the immediate retirement of Hicks
from public life, then the British Lab
or Party is even more toothless than
we suspected and the tory government
has lost its pride in the art of forgery.
DUT we must not assume that be-
~ cause Hicks made an open confess
sion of his failure to produce par
ticular document that the matter rests
there Indeed there is reason to be-
lieve that the object of this SUSPECT
ously candid confession is to prepare
the public for the publication of prop
uganda material alleged to be discov-
cred in the raid. The discredited tory
burglars are trying to rebuild a bat
tered reputation so that the masses
may say: those documents must be
genuine since the government was
honest enough to admit that they did
not find the document they were look
ing for.
OF course the government was not
- looking for any particular docu-
ment. That was simply an excuse for
.fa raid. Every government in the
world is spying on the other, in peace
as we'll as in war. When a French
spy is caught by the British in peace
time or a British spy caught by the
French, both governments officially
dsavow the victims but indirectly pull
wires for a comparatively light pun
ishment. There are no raids conducted
on the embassies or consulates of the
respective nations. The aim of the
ARGOS raid was to prepare the ground
for rupture of diplomatic relations.
THE officials of the Soviet Govern
ment are oftentimes accused of
scaremongering when they insist that
the capitalist powers are continually
conspiring against the peace of the
Soviet Union. But even the politically
blind must admit that they are right.
The visit of the French president and
foreign minister to London bodies i'll
for the peace of Europe and coming
Immediately after the raids on the
Soviet embassy in Picking, on the
headquarters Of the Communist party
of France and on ARGOS, there is
reasonable justification for the sus
picion that the two governments are
trying to patch up their differences
with a view to making united front
against Russia. Time will tell.
THE most farsighted of the capitalist
statesmen are not extracting too
much consolation from the split in the
Koumintang Party of China. Better
a split than fake unity. The foreign
editor of a French daily who has
DdSSeU uCIG Ou Ills ICIulH lIOtll
China declares that unless the powers
take common action against the Chi
nese revolution that the best disci-
plined and most ideologically homo
Eenous group will ultimately get the
masses and conquer power. He stated
emphatically that the Hankow gov
eminent, combination Of the Com
munists and the Let's will win out
unless drastic action is taken by the
imperialists.
1T is not wise to predict what is liable
to happen in China in the immediate
future, but it appears that the most
versatile of the capitalist reporters
have failed to make CHARACTERISTICS
stand up to our satisfaction. So far
he has been unable to form a cabinet.
He Is In the same boat with the north
ern militarists having snapped the
confidence of the masses fer the, dol
lars, pounds and yen of the imperial
lists.
;. MUDDLE-headed people are prone to
WI assume that the Chinese will never
p able to achieve national unity, be-
iag too much addicted to wrangling
aid domestic head-chopping. Those
people are in the habit OF saying:
Lets get together and forget our
differences" Might as we'll say to a
sick man: Forget you're i'll. Come on
out and have hot dog with me and
a mug of hard CIDER" The sick man
must have it out with the disease that
has him on his back before he can for
get or ignore it. The same applies to
n nation or to a party.
uOW often have the Communists
IL been accused Of quarreling among
themselves over what their critics
consider trivialities! Lenin was
branded M a hairan1ittar hv oppon-