The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-13

being dragged in the dirty plan. And
what is the actual import of the
above arrangement? Its object is the
ousting of the French bourgeoisie
from Syria, from all times the door
to the East, to Mesopotamia, Egypt,
and so forth. From Syria, Great
Britain can be harmed both in the
Suez Canal region and in Mesopo-
tamia. Now Chamberlain obviously
desires to put an end to this disagree
able situation. Without doubt, the
garded as a mere matter of chance.
The value of this fact consists in the
publication of this plan cannot be re-
circumstance that it is highly charac-
/ teristic of the quarrels, conflicts, and
military collisions preparing in the
present relations among the so-called
great powers"
AS regards the present state of the
oil problem and the fight for naph-
tina, the October issue of the we'll
known American publication World S
Work" outlines the situation pretty
clearly.
"There is very real danger to
peace and mutual understanding be-
tween the Anglo-Saxon peoples. The
support of american business cir
| cles by the Ministry will inevitably
be emphasized according to neces-
sity. If the British government
| identifies itself with the oil indus
| try of Great Britain, the American
government is bound sooner or lat
er to identify itself with the Amer
ican oil industry. The struggle, how
ever, cannot pass into the realm of
} the two governments without a
| serious aggravation of the menace
or war;"
There cannot be any further doubt
on the subject. The organization of
new coalitions of power for the prepa-
ration of new wars for foreign mar
kets, for raw-material sources, and
for the control of traffic-routes is al
ready in progress.
(b) Were there in the period under
review any attempts at peaceful
settlement" of the approaching war;
like complications There We're in
deed several such attempts, but they
led to no result. Nay, these very at
tempts served as a cover for the prep
arations of the Powers for further
wars and as blind for the purpose
of duping the workers and peasants.
Let US take the League of Nations,
which the mendacious bourgeois press
and the no less mendacious press of
the Social Democrats call an instru-
ment of peace. To what end has the
twaddle of the League of Nations
about peace, disarmament, and the
restriction of ornaments really led?
To no good, at any rate. To nothing
but deceiving of the masses, to rival
armaments, to an aggravation of the
coming conflict. Can it be looked
upon as mere matter Of chance that
the League of Nations should talk of
peace and disarmament for three
years, with the support of the So
called Second International, and that
at the same time the nations" should
arm and arm again, aggravating their
old quarrels and creating new ones
and thereby undermining the cause
of peace? What is proved by the
failure of the Three-Power Confer
ence for the restriction of armaments
(Great Britain, America and Japan,
if not the fact that the Pacific prob
lem is a source of new imperialist
wars, and that the Powers will
neither disarm nor restrict their arm
aments? What has the League of
Nations done to obviate this danger?
The corruptible bourgeois press of
all countries, from England to Japan
and from France to America, shouts
vociferously about the ''insincerity"
of the disarmament proposals of the
Soviet Union. Why should the sim
cerity of these suggestions not be
tested and serious steps be taken to-
wards disarmament, or at least to-
wards a restriction of armaments? ?
On what does it depend? Or what
is, e. g., the present system of "amic-
able alliances" among the capitalist
countries, the Franco-Jugoslav agree
ment, the Italo-Albanian agreement,
the "amicable" agreement prepared
by Pildsudski for Poland and Lithu-
ania, the "Locarno SYSTEM" the "Lo-