The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-30
D A N GER A He A D!

question of the control of the Mediter-
ranean Sea, that is the route to India,
the question of Turkey and the whole
Near East including on the one side
Persia and Afghanistan, on the other
Egypt.
1t touches at once on the memora-
bic project of the Berlin-Bagdad rail-
way that thanks to Yugo-Slavia's
overtures to Germany is being again
preached there.
IN word, powder magazine of a
myriad imperialist coverings and
rapacities was apt to be stirred to a
point of explosion in a world whose
stability-as a result of the last war
is surely very shaky.
WE do not know the secrets of the
" conversations between Chamber
lain and BRAND, but despite the fact
that the negotiations between Chich-
erin and the French in the matter
of Russian debts and presumably also
regarding Frances attitude towards
the Soviet Union, have not met with
success and despite also the hateful
and noisy clamoring of the French
capitalist press and some members of
the French cabinet for the suppress
sion of the French Communist Party,
BRAND could not afford to appear as
absolutely tied to England in his pol
icy. Then if the French Nationalist
had nothing against and possibly even
encouraged a break with the Soviet
Union, these very same Nationalist
were against any Cancellation with
Germany.
This meant for BRAND that he could
not pay a too high price for his
"Thoiry policy; he could not give
satisfaction to the German demand of
an effective evacuation of the Rhine
land. But this was in it's turn MAX
ing it difficult for BRAND to come to
tri-partite understanding with Eng
land and Germany about policy
against the Soviet Union.
HOWEVER, despite all the Difficult
IL ties, it is more than probable chat
Chamberlain and BRAND have reached
in London an agreement as to their
policy at the coming League session.
1t is said that BRAND was offered by
Chamberlain compensation in China
through extension of the French
Sphere of influence" from Indo-China
into the Chinese province of Yunan.
BRAND was probably assured also
of a continued French partnership in
the control of Mediterranean Sea as
well as of England's readiness to
check somewhat the too troublesome
Mussolini. Furthermore both powers
agreed probably on the number of
troops to be evacuated from the
Rhineland as well as about the ques-
ton of Germany's colonial aspirations.
THE fact that France has supported
England's policy in Egypt during
the recent clash between the British
imperialists and the Egyptian Nation
alists coupled with the planned visit
of the French fleet to Portsmouth and
the cordialities of the French state
visit to England, is indicative of some
common policy.
The key to this common policy lies
in the often disregarded fact that
France is the second largest colonial
empire. In this respect an "entente
cordiale" between England and France
serves as a basis for common sup
preston of colonial peoples. If France
supports Great Britain in keeping
Egypt in check it is because she gets
British cooperation in suppressing the
"plottings" of the Syrian revolution
lists living in Egypt, directed against
French rule in her inundated" ter
ritory.
THUS it would seem that Chamber
l lain and BRAND were prepared to
present united front in Geneva.
But two factors apparently were not
sufficiently discounted in this com
bination; the entrance of the German
Nationalist into the government and
the role of Poincare. To these two
factors may be added yet two occur
rences that took place Immediately be-
fore the session of the League Coun-
Gil: the rupture between Yugo-Slavia
and Albania and the fall of the
Avarescu government in Rumania
supplanted by a henchman of the
Rumanian "boss" Bratiano, Stirbey
Qater by Bratiano himself). While
the first meant highly provocative
act of Yugo-Slavia against Italy, the
second meant return back to
French orientation in Rumania. The
League Council stood thus before
new tense situation in the Balkans.
However, it was primarily the ques-
ton of Germany, more correct of the
German price" demanded for her
western orientation" that broke up
that memorable meeting.
Ito be continued)
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