The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-27

quo, but even to work for the inn
provement of her relations with these
states--this was due to the truly
peaceful policy of the workers re-
public, as exemplified in the proposed
treaties of "non-aggression."
Latvia has been on the verge of
signing neutrality pact with the
Soviet Union; a report had it that
Finland and Esthonia-surely not
without tip from Britain ~ have
raised the alarm that this act would
be contrary to Latvia's obligations as
a member of the League of Nations
In the case of Poland the Polish
government itself admitted that the
slain Soviet Ambassador Voikoff had
been working together with the Polish
diplomats upon treaty of "non-ag-
gression." 1t can be judged from
Polish sources this treaty would put
Poland in the orbit of the states uni
ted with Russia in a so-called EAST
ern Locarno Pact" so dreaded by inn
perial Britain.
CIMILARLY the tory government of
y England has been using all its in
fluence and exercising pressure upon
Afghanistan, Persia and even in Tur-
key to change their friendly attitude
towards the Soviet Union. The huge
cry and propaganda let loose in the
fall of last year about an "Asiatic
League" centering around the Soviet
Union will be surely yet remembered
The occasion for that outpouring of
the capitalist press was meeting be-
tween Chicherin and the Turkish For
eign Minister, Tewfik Rushdy Bey, re-
affirming the good relations between
the two states.
WITH Afghanistan the Soviet Union
F" has concluded a non-aggression
and neutrality treaty while with Per-
STA the negotiations were somewhat
more prolonged; recent news dis
patches from Moscow spoke of the
clearing up of all disputed questions
which finds its confederation in re-
ported threat on the part of the Bri-
fish government against the Persian
Shah, Reza Khan Pahlevi.
Britain threatens the Shah with de-
thronement if the latter persists in his
friendly policy towards the govern
ment of the Soviet Union. In a later
article we shall show that new man.
ipulations are being instituted now in
Turkey by the powers with the double
purpose of drawing Turkey away
from the Soviet Union and of play
ing her off in the imperialist game of
rivalry between the first class"
powers.
THE rumors connected with the visit
1 of Renal Pasha to Constantinople,
the new French approach to Turkey to
counteract the influence of Italy in
the Balkans, particularly in Greece,
and last but not least the recent ac-
ton of the U. S. government that de-
cided to send an ambassador to Tur-
key although the senate had rejected
the Lausanne treaty-all these facts
are not without their significance as
to a new Turkish policy" to be
launched now by the imperialist pow
ers.
MOST Of these intrigues were but a
W. part of the British Vaccinations
against the Soviet Union, aiming at
a creation of. a continental block
against the Soviet Union. In the
case of some states like Poland and
particularly Rumania, united with
Czecho- Slovakia and Yugo-Slavia in
the so-called Little Entente" this
continental" program of Gre a t
Britain has created bad blood on the
part of France whose interests are
tied up with that postwar baby over
which she is trying to exercise a
jealous control. Moreover, with put
ting its foot into the Balkan affairs
Great Britain has antagonized
France by supporting various claims
of Italy directed against France and
Yugoslavia. Thus the anti-Soviet
policy. of Great Britain was inter-
twined with the rivalries between the
imperialist powers themselves.
A most important field of the Bri-
"A tish anti-Soviet activity lay how
ever in China where England was
partly successful in forming a united
front against the Soviet Republic. 1t
was and is China that is the sore
spot of British politics now. And it
must be most emphatically under
lined here-against the assertions of
the capitalist press-that it was the
failure of England in China and not
the Soviet activities in the Far East
that have determined the action of the
British government.
The first sharp note of Great Bri-
tain to the Soviet Republic, in Feb
ruary Of this year, that gave already
an mixing Of the British intentions,
was sent because, and after, the fir
tations Of the British diplomacy with
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