The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-07
MR.. KELLOGG EXPLAINS THAT
"PEACE" MEANS WAR

There is something genuinely appropriate in the fact
that the repository for the official documents of the
mperast Kellogg Paca is in the capital of the country
whore hole the WORLDS gold supply is-the United
StateSI al" .any bourgeois newspapers in European
countries already Interpreting the Kellogg maneuver
as one which takes the wind of the sails of the
League of Nations, tending to transfer from Great
Britain to the United States the leading role in the
imperialist struggle for world domination
Kellogg's trip to Ireland on United States warship
Immediately after signing the Pact is explained by his
longing to play the beautiful golf grounds" of the
American legation at Dublin and his wife's desire
visit lady friend there, but diplomacy is not such
game can be explained with such Gopher Prairie
motives. The formalities of visits on warships by
heads of departments of state to heads of foreign
states invariably taken seriously in capitalist dip
lomacy. When the u S. warship Detroit takes Ke-
logg to Ireland without touching at an English port
we do not suddenly lose memory for the fact that
the antagonism of English and American Imperialism
is the pivot around which all the contradictions within
the capitalist world revolve at the present time
The lead is forced out of the hands of England and
into the hands of the Wall Street clerk in the White
House. Not that England is paid nothing in the deal
She is given what will be called in the coming worlC
war, legal sanction for military action to carry
through her imperiais program as against the Unior
OF Socialist Soviet Republics and in certain field
colonial depredations So is France given concession
hegemony is taken into the hands of Wall Street gov
eminent
The Kellogg Pact altogether marks a sharp pus
forward in the development of the world situation
alignment and intrigue for war. (That is the onl
sense in which it is forward step.")
Several capitalist correspondents have pointed oil
that it is absolutely certain that all nations of IL
world will be involved in the next The fact TIL
larger number of governments have signed the Ke
logg Pact than signed the League of Nations
is only another expression of such situation. The
doubt that the central point of the information
relations of the whole world is the policy of the mpe
ialis nations of encircng the Union of Socialist Sow
Republics. series of treaties establishing allanc
for hostile action against the Union of Socialist Sow
Republics, is the central point of what is called
"status quo' in international relations Bear this
mind when thinking of Kelogg's assurances to Frar
and England that there is Inconsistency betwe
the Kellogg Pact and previously existing treaties.
member that the Pact just signed at Paris is qualf
by preamble declaring its purpose to perpetuate
existing" relations between nations
Then take look at Kellogg's letter to the As
tons drumming from Albania to Venezuela but excl
ing the Soviet Union) conveying the ivitation to S
the already fixed terms of the Pact Kellogg expla
perhaps more clearly than he intended the reason
the 10 governments exclusively were picked as priv
ed to fern the terms of the Pact and to be the orig
signatories. The choice of the same nations that 81
ed the imperialist treaty of Locarno is explained
part by Kellogg's letter which says:
g. it also settled satisfactorily the cues
ton whether there any inconsistency be-
tween the new treaty and the treaty of Locar-
no, thus meeting the observations of the
French government to the necessity of ex-
tending the number of original signatories /"
Unless one is 81 naive as to think the Locarno tr
was not part of the imperialist war maneuvers Of
i recent past, Kellogg's words written lust be
sailing on the warship to visit his lady friends in
: nm are convincing The "peace" pact is stem in
preparations for imperialist war.
y The necessity of defense of the Union of Soc
l. Soviet Republics by the working class and exnl
II farmers of all countries becomes by these even
living reality greater than ever before