Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
MACDONALD'S LABOR PLAN
. COMPLETES WITH RUSSIA
England's Orderly Democracy Puts Pre-.
mier i'm Lead of Race With Stain
for Approval of Masses.

probable that If Egyptian Moslems had
not had such recent proof of the good
will of England they would have been
actively against English efforts to re-
store peace in Palestine.
Policy Noted in India.
The same fortuitious effect of Mac
Donald's foreign policy. was noted IN
India and other Moslem areas, where.
although sporadic criticism was IN. mace es, o,
England, the masses seemed to feel 1rom
the Egyptian gesture that England
wanted to work with the nations tied
up to her to reach mutually Satisfac-
tory relations. Macdonald in his open
ing speech at the League Of Nations
struck this note in memorable language
when he said:
"You. will have seen in the press that
we have offered an agreement to Egypt.
the effect of which will be to put Egypt
in a position to apply for membership
we are making by this action, think,
is very important one.
There is an old world. old Inc CIV
ilization, old in philosophy. old In re-
ligion, old In culture, which has hltn-
erto been weak in those material pow
erS that have characterized the western
peoples. But that old world, wrapped
in slumber, as we thought. has now
become awake, Is now beginning to UNI
derstand what national self-respect is
taught and tutored very largely by us.
The great danger of war, then, Is
this, that we may be too long In per-
forming the act of recognition, that by
our delays, by our half-heartedneSS, by
our lack of courage, there may accumu-
late forces In the political and social
life of those nations that will present
to us no request, but an ultimatun1.
1.-THE great East never ought to be
put in a position where 1t will say:
Our only chance of becoming free from
the undertakings that are too old to
be observed now Is to tear them up IN
the faces of those with whom we made
them
THAT is the danger of war between
one side of the world and the other,
and by meeting the problem In time
we will extend the realm Of peaceful
negotiation, resulting in the liberties OF
the peoples Of the earth. We will make
allies instead of enemies when the peo-
Piles get free"
Utterance Significant.
Now the significance of this bold ut
terance in favor Of revising British re-
lationS with China, India, Egypt, Malaga
and other areas under Britich control,
or in which Britain has special extra
territorial privileges, lies In the blow 1t
strikes at Russian propaganda. In
'every such area communists have been
working to create antagonism toward
England-and, of course, toward the
United States and other powerS-on the
charge that England had no other mo-
tive than exploitation of the peoples
and holding them indefinitely in bond
age. -.
Macdonald virtually tells them that
so far as his administration can effect
1t. the move will be progressively toward
questionably will wet the powder OF
communist agitators. It is a program
that Macdonald may not be able to put
through as fully as he would desire,
and, besides, 1t is not to be a program
of yielding before mere mob action, as
Macdonald plainly showed In the Wig
orous suppression of mobs in Palestine,
once the British got into action.
1t will be, nevertheless, still another
contrast between the methods Of Mac
Donald and the methods of Stain. and
the working classes of the world can
and will make their choice here as be-
tween the domestic methods cited. The.
insistence by Macdonald that IL Russia
is recognized by England, Russia must
cease hostile propaganda IN any part
of the British Empire Is reinforced by
this aggressive move by Macdonald to
make such propaganda harmless in any
big way by removing the fears of the
old world peoples regarding ultimate
British intentions toward them.
There never has been a serious COM
munist peril in the United States; still
the nucleus of communism here Is feel
ing the stiffening of working class OPP
position to radicalism Just as certainly
as communists in England are feeling
it and communists on the continent Of
Europe and in Asia. This opposition
grows as labor sees that progress for
labor can be achieved peacefully.
Russia itself in time may conclude
that the world will leave it alone to
work out its salvation as 1t pleases, and
asks nothing more than that Russia
give up the vain dream of inducing
revolutions on the Russian model in all
other countries. Macdonald so far Is
outgeneraling Stain.