The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
ASKS CHALLENGE
TO BRITAIN FOR
LATIN america
Reed Reservation to
peace" Pact Would
Demand Showdown
Pacifists Aid Deceit
Any War Justified by
Fake Treaty


WASHINGTON. Dec. 9.-Sena-
tor James A. Reed. Missouri demo-
Graf. wants an immediate ard open
challenge by U. S. Imperialism to
British imperialism, by inserting a
reservation in its own treatv pro-
posal, known as the fake kellogg
neace pact" openly stating that
the United States will go to war to
protect or advance its imperialist
interests in Latin America under
the Monroe Doctrine.
"PN"ce" Treaty Justifies Amy War.
While numerous pacifist organi-
cations, including the churches,
which Loyalty supported the last
war and will with equal loyalty
SUPPORT the next war, are fooling
millions of the unwary by lying
propaganda that ratification by the
U. S. Senate of the fake peace pact
means a moral" advance, observers
point out that any war could be
construed as coming under or or
another OF. the reservations tackled on
by the various powers, and that the
treatv itself was promulgated by
the United States, to deceive the
American people into thinking the
government wants peace at the very
moment it is rushing all possible
preparations for war. The pacifists
are assisting we'll in this tricking of
the American population.
Senator Reed, differing with the
Coolidge-Kellogg administration only
on the question of how explicitly and
when the U. S. shall assert its i'm
perialist purposes, wants Yankee
imperialism to make a definite
statement right now that it will
make war REGARDLESS Of its own
"peace" nact, if English imreriol lism
resists U. S. interests in Latin
| America. ~
Wants War t-halieaoo Now.
Reed points out that British i'm
perialism definitely declared its in
tention to go to war if any of its in
terests were menaced by the United
States or any other country in lands
clearly under British domination,
Reeds proposal is essential chal-
lenge to Great Britain to withdraw
any claim to even equal share in the
exploitation Of Latin-America, a
section of the world the control of
which is under dispute between the
two rival imperialisms.
Reed cites Sir Austen Chamber
lain's upholding of what he terms
the British Monroe Doctrine" which
Chamberlain sail Britain claims
over Egynt, India and "other re-
gions vital to the empire" Reed
wants to provoke England into a
categoric claim to Latin America "a
mart of these vital regions" for
which England will fight.
In referring to such regions
Chamberlain stated on May 10, 1928,
as follows;
Defense" Means War.
"Their protection against attack
is to the British empire a measure
of self-defense. 1t must be clearly
understood that his Majesty's gov
ernment in Great Britain accept the
new treaty upon the distinct under
standing that it does not prejudice
their freedom of action in this re-
spect."
Kellogg so far has met such argu-
ments as Reeds by vague statements
that reservations don't matter, as
they are not a part of the treaty
text. thus trying to put the burden
of blame on the British who re'ter-
ate their reservations. Thus the
working class both of British and
United States are being led straight
into the shambles of imperialist war
against each other under the most
hypocritical of pacifist phraseology.