The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

irlnged upon, ana lndt the
threats of the imperialist pow
ers ''to invoke the pact of
Paris cannot frighten us"
"The big imperialist pow
ers," Litvinoff is reported to
have said, "whose troops par
ade their colonies, in spite of
the Kellogg pact, cannot init
midate the Soviet Union, under
the guise of peace.
Litvinoff pointed out that the
Stimson threatening note was sent
when an agreement had been
reached between the Soviet Union
and the Mukden government, and
that the imperialist powers were in
jcctin~ their ,fluence to prevent a
peacable settlement of the Manchur-
ian question. "If foreign capitalist
powers interfere" said Litvinoff
"the Soviet Union is depending upor
the workers and peasants and the
Red Army for the establishment Of
peace and settlement of the conflict
in Manchuria.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Secre
tary of State Stimson issued state
ment today continuing his threa
against the Soviet Union. Stimson''
statement is a weak reply to th'
note sent by the Soviet Union re
jecting the "advice" and interfer
ence of the imperialist powers VIII
supported the Stimson threat.
Stimson hypocritically declares
that "The message of the American
government was sent not from un
! friendly motives" Stimson's state
ment is paltry effort to cover th'
imperialist ambitions of Unitet
States capitalism in Mahchuria.
The note which the Soviet UnioI
SER in reply to Stimson's threat il
as follows:
The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics from the first day of its
existence has pursued a policy o.
peace, and unlike other powers has
never resorted to military actor
except as necessary step for de
fense, due to direct attack on the
Union or armed intervention in its
internal affairs. The Soviet Unior
has consistently pursued this policy
and intends to pursue it independ
emily of the Paris pact for aboli
tion of war.
During recent years the Marking
government, eyading by its usua
methods settlement of the conflic
by diplomatic ways, has carried OF
toward the Soviet Union a provoca
tive policy of violation Of the Gus
tomary rules and treaties, notwith
standing the fact that these treat
les were. not imposed on China b!
force, but were concluded on th'
basis of full equality and free will
and that the Soviet Union volun
tarily surrendered in these treatie
extraterritorial consular jurisdic
tion and other privileges which th
Chinese government until now ha
been vainly trying to abolish in re
gard to other powers.
The climax of this policy wa
the seizure of the Chinese Easter
Railway without any warning o
preliminary presentation of an,
claims, in violation of existin,
agreements regarding the joint ad
ministration of the railway,
| The Soviet Government believe
that if action such as that of tn
Marking government were take
toward the United States, Grea
Britain or France it would be con
sidered by their governments SUI
ficient cause for putting into fore
reservations they made when sign
ing the pact.
The Soviet Government declare
when signing that it did not recog
nize the reservations and did nc
intend to use them
The Marking government nc
only resorted to illegal seizure @
the Chinese Eastern Railway
but mobilized along the Sovie
Manchurian Railway an army, VAR
GUS sections of which, together wit
counter-revolutionary Russian band
included therein, made systemati
attacks on the u. S. S. R., crossin
the frontier and firing on units O
the Red Army and frontier village,
rObbing and violating a peacefr
population. causing thereby losse
of lives and population.
Despite frequent warning
through the German government
these attacks did not cease, bu
rather increased and compelled tn
Soviet Far-Eastern Army, in tn
(! interests of defense, protection 0