The daily worker., 1927-04-02

made for war. Ramsay Macdonald is trying to
throw golden bridge for the retreat of the govern
ment in the event of General Duncan having to re-
peat in Shanghai in 1927 the same gnominious man
oeuvre that he was compelled to make in Odessa in
1919. 1 observe" declares Macdonald in the DAILY
Herald, on January 25, about the military prepara-
hOns, an air quite different from that of the for
eign office communications that suspect that once
again we are faced with the problem of whether,
IN circumstances such as those in which we now
are, the military is to be the servant of the State
or the State the plaything of the military Hence,
it is quite possible that even after the sangunary
conflict has broken out Macdonald will desire to
act the part of honest broker between the right
wing of the national movement if the latter proves
to be sufficiently terrorized to agree to make a
treacherous deal with the British government (which
of course, will have hand in the game of the
military authorities and will remain as pure white
as the Alpine snows).
THE tactics of American Imperialism contain the
elements Of the same game, but in different pro-
portions. Powerful American capital does not stand
IN need of artifically created privileges in order
to maintain its domination in Chna-on condition,
of course, that bourgeois Flaw and order" is firmly
established. This explains the "1iberal" tinge of
American policy in China. Washington adopted a
waiting policy with regard to the successes Of the
revolutionary movement, in the conviction that it
will develop along capitalist lines. Wise Mr. KeI-
logg in his official statement, described this policy
WHICH Is uTecVeo TOWARDS SuDJecJlnR an economical
ly weak country to the powerful pressure Of Amer
lean capital, the United States having mo inn
perialist interest in China" If that is the case
then it has to be explained why the Washington
government was the first to beat the alarm
corning the colonial conference that was be held
in Brussels. and called upon the Belgian govern
ment to prohibit it.
The European press is dazzled with the brilliance
Of American successes and is urging their bour-
geoisie to adopt the "beral" policy in China.
The German press particularly is broadcasting
these wise counsels, and is positively goating at
the sight of its neghbors house burning Even
the French press is sufficiently imbued with hatred
towards England to give her advice in the most
friendly manner to how to rest on a dislocated
foot. Sauerwein, the journalist, commenting on
the speech of Comrade Tang Ping-tshan, writes in
the "Matin"; "The Bolsheviks fear most Of all
politics of the American type, which strengthen the
position of the right wing of the Kuomintang. The
League of Nations must abandon excessive caution,
and seek the for avoiding conflict which
will be to the advantage only of the IT, S. s. R."
This wise counsellor, who recalls to mind the hero
of the Russian story who danced at a funeral, fails
to observe that the development of the Chinese
revolution has reached a stage which is causing
American Imperialism to revise its "libera tactics
and to call up infantry for a landing in Shanghai
Continued next week)