The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08
COMMUNIST PAPER EXPOSES new
eECRET FRANCO-GEE:RI2IvlbN ACCORD
FOR WAR ON the SOVIET union
,ason Revealed for Recent German-P Polish
Pact to Settle Polish Corridor Row
'int Military Action Planned Secretly "To
Destroy Bolshevism" By War

Melchett (Sir Alfred Mond), the
friend of the leaders of the British
trade unions, welcomed Rechberg's
initiative with great pleasures.
The journey of the German indus
trialist was not without result. A
few weeks later de Monzje took up
Rechberg's ideas as meeting of
French foreign commerce council.
The late Jacques Seddoux developed
them in the "Temps" and caused
the Russian counter-revolutionary
Augur to comment upon them. in
the French Revue "Pax." The
French Ambassador in Berlin, Mag
gerie, discussed them with the lead
ing personages in the Wilhelm
strasse.
What was, in short, the program
Of the large-scale industrialists
from the other side Of the Rhine?
Rechberg himself took the trouble
f, to lay down the main lines of his
programs about year ago in the
! NOSSlSc1e AelIunS.
Rechberg wants to see the eco
nomic cooperation between France
and Germany as expressed in the
formation of the Chemical Trust
and the Steel Trust, crowned by a
political and military alliance.
Germany and France would then
guarantee their frontiers mutually
against any attack from third
party" A ratio of power would be
agreed upon between the French
and German armies of 5:3, that is
TO say, a French army Of 100000
men would mean Germany army
OF 100000 men, teachnical equip
ment being equal. A General Staff
would be formed of French and Ger
man officers and this General Staff
would command both armies.
This General Staff would have the
right to inspect all French and Ger
man troops, and would work out the
plans for the joint defence of the
French and German frontiers. The
Belgian army would be drawn into
tie Franco-G German, military ALI
ance. And finally, the French war
industries would supply the new
Germany with ornaments to an ex-
tent ranging from one-quarter to
one. third, irrespective of whether
such supplies represented the first
supply of weapons or the permanent
regular supplies Of the new Ger
| man army.
This proposal is apparently very
seductive, for the French Industrial
lists regard it with growing favor.
Even Marshal Foch was caught
by this plan of the nitrate, indus
triaIist. As the spokesman of the
Comite DIES FORCES the French mar
shall recognized the Franco-German
military alliance as a valuable in
strument for the organization of a
war against the Soviet Union. AL
ways under the influence Of his idea
of destroying oBlshevism at one
blow" ne gave an interview to the
"Neue Wiener cJurnal' in which he
declared: eve cannot permit a
handful of criminal tyrants to rule
over more than half the European
continent and over wide areas of
Asia. But until France and Ger
many are united, nothing is to be
dcne ir the matter" Foch con-
Guided his interview with the words:
"Please give General Hoffman, the
great pioneer of military alliance
against Bolshevism, my very best
greetings"
Rechherg's plans were however
faced with serious obstacles, the
RhinelaDd was still occupied and