The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
The State Department Under Kellogg
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TT is related of Senator Borah that
l at one of the White House break
fasts to which he was invited last
winter he urged President Coolidge
to take an independent and hands-off
stand in his Chinese policy. 1t is
said he bluntly warned the president
that if he followed the British he
was piling up trouble for himself
and the United States.
To these observations Coolidge is
declared to have nasaled:
"Well, the British usually know
what they are doing in foreign af-
fairs. They use their heads"
eyes, they may use their heads"
Borah is quoted as replying, "But
the trouble with the British right
now is that those who are running
their affairs either have no heads or
are letting their Tory prejudices un-
do their reasoning"
Using British" Methods.
The story is interesting for the
light it throws upon the Coolidge
Kellogg foreign policy, not only in
China, but elsewhere. For not only
is the United States playing the
British game in China, but we are
using British methods and admins
tering British policies in Central
America. One particular British
practice the Coolidge-Kellogg admin
istration has taken over
That is, conducting what literally
amounts to war in various places.
particularly against helpless peoples,
without the authorization Of the nat
ional legislature to do so. In two
hemispheres United States troops
and battleships are today engaged in
warfare. Of course it is not called
that Just as the warfare these
troops and armament are conducting
is modern in the nth degree so too
are the subterfuges and lies mouthed
by Coolidge and his palsied Secretary
of State, Kellogg.
"To protect American lives and
property" is the favorite cutlery.
Second to it, but only by the narrow
est of margins is the one about, "Bol-
shevistic revolt, red danger, world
revolution"
In years past it was the complaint
of American military and naval Off
GERS that the United States of all
great powers, alone offered no regu-
lar foreign service to its soldiery.
Unlike France, Germany, Italy, Eng
land, always engaged in putting down
revolt or conquering a new colony,
the United States offered no such OPP
portunity for adventure. 1t is true
that there were Negroes to massacre
in Haiti and natives to shoot-up in
Nicaragua, but these were hardly
man-sized jobs.
Troops Are Massing.
But today the services are bright
ened up. There is talk of "going I'M
in China. Of taking over" Mexico
and "Cubanizing" Nicaragua. Today
American newspapers resound with
stories and pictures of troop move
ments. Marines, sailors, doughboys,
artillery to China, to Nicaragua, to
the Mexican border Troop trains
are massing, the man in uniform is
seen on the streets, in the movies.
Talk is of war. The business of
fighting is picking up.
And all the time, Mr.. Coolidge
through the sham of his alleged
spokesman" is pontifically proclaim
ing his good intentions and every
time Nervous Nellie" Kellogg gets
ready to order out another batch of
soldiers and ships, he crates specious-
ly of peace and settlement.
Certainly the history of the Ameri-
can State Department is not one of
many outstanding. examples of decen-
cy and intelligence, but seldom in the
$50 years of its existence has it sunk
to the depths it has attained under
Kellogg. 1t is as palsied an agency
as is its so-called Secretary. No lie
is to petty or too bald for Kellogg
and his underlings to put forth and
solemnly reiterate; no meanness too
small for them to engage in.
While Congress was in session,
Kellogg curbed to heel if the protest
ing became too insistent. When he
would hear that Borah was getting
restless, he would dash out to see
him, and craftily tie him up with con-
fidences. But with congress gone
and Borah only languidly interested
in calling the Senate Foreign Rela-
tons committee into session during
the recess in order to consider for
eign affairs, Kellogg has in his ner-
vous excitement taken holder stand
Denying Important Facts.
Last week during one of his press
conferences he was queried concern.
ing his conference with the returned
Mexican Ambassador, Teller. 1t hac
developed he had held conference
with Teller, though he had denied do
ing so when asked about the matter
the day previous. Kellogg bridlet
under the questioning after insist
ing that he had not denied he haC