The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
PAGEANT OF PEACE
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economic advantage over a rival
mower. Great Britain is for the
league of nations (which she DOM
mates. and for the freedom of the
seas british Variety. The United |
States is for the Kellogg pact, her
own instrument, and for the free
dom of the seas, american brandy
Both are for naval limitation and
parity-if these can be so arranged
as to guarantee their own superb
ority. Both are for peace" mean
ing their own domination of the
world and its markets. Both are
preparing frantically for war.
Proofs of War
What are the proofs of these
statements?
The evidence is at hand on every
side but such IL the influence of
the propaganda issued by every
agency of publicity, and such the
inherent desire of the average cit
izen for peace, that facts seldom
get a hearing anc lies pass for
gospel. But the price of gullibility
and faith in the big business poll
ticians, in the issue of peas as in
the issue of farm relief, is bank
ruptcy and war. To solve the one
issue as we'll as the other it is nee
essary to open ones eyes to the
facts.
Facts are Simple =.
The essential facts are simple.
No one need fear his inability to
understand or interpret them. Be-
fore the war Great Britain was
the worlds greatest economic and
commercial power. Today the
world is dominated by the United
States. Before 1914 England was
threatened by Germany and the
world rang with the issue of Brit
ish need for superior sea power
German has been put out of the
race and British sea power is be-
ing challenged bv another rival.
We hear much about the need OF
naval parity between England anC
America. Why did this issue arise
: only after the war? The answer is
inevitable: Because it was only
with the end of the world war thai
American economic and commercial
power began to menace British
: domination. From the example Of
| Great Britain, the United States
: Germany, Japan and every othel
large power we conclude that arm
| aments and war preparations ar,
/ not mere policies which these ma
: tons adopt at will or may will
! equal freedom throw off, as tn,
current propaganda would have u
believe. Armaments are the reflec
ton of economic and political con
ditions. They are effects, not choic
es.
Basic Facts
This is the first basic fact whicl
: Mr.. Average Citizen must bear il
: mind. AS a sufficient proof of it
: truth we have the recognition tina
wars today are caused by ecOnomi
: forces. 1t is interesting in this con
nection to point out that in all tn
: talk about peace and naval reduc
] ton, great care is taken to avoi
any reference to the basic econom
ic disputes and the commercial ri
5 valries which are making ever
I country of South America and Eu
5 rope a virtual battle ground be
tween England and the Unite
e States.
S The second basic fact to bear i
Z, mind is that the failure of tn
: United States to join the league Q
5, nations has been the nightmare G
e Great Britain from the very BIZ
ginning. AS long as the Unite
States maintains its isolation, II
IS fuses to bind itself to any futui
) decision of the league, leaves itse,
free to trade with, or even sid
with any nation or group of M
tions which the league (read Gres
; Brittany in the event of a futul
, clash may proclaim the aggresso
then England may at any momeI
? find herself opposed to the flee
n and military power of the Unite
3. States. She is not really free
? make war or to exercise her don
r nation over backward countriC
1t lacking the knowledge of how Il
1t United States will act in the sp
cific isue.
N 1t is, of course, as certain /;
lie that the head of the Harvest,
+ Trust will not solve the farm pro
\ lem, that American Big Busine
is will not subject itself to the Bri
,e ish dominated league of nation
The recent Tory government fe
10 so sure of this fact that it consi
e. cred its only safety to lie in Il
ID building of a superior fleet. II
r Macdonald government with Il
v. same ends in view hopes to secu
some sort of modification of Anne
m ica's independence in the case
- a League dispute.
" Facts Determine International
Politics
These are the two basic fac
which today determine internatio
al politics, the world scale econon
rivalry between England and t
United States, and the social
policy of isolation adopted by t
xs United States. One other prir
OF factor, the existence of the Russii
CT Soviet government should be me
er toned but this issue need not co
ne Germ us here. There is no soluti
a. of this basic economic and polite
40 clash notwithstanding all the pea
40 talk and the carefully planned n
en- val conferences to be staged nC
an or in the future. "Given the facts
ng says Frank H. Simmons, first ella