The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-11

LIST, but to rush the $1,000,O00,
London disarmament" naval
treaty, and make a fuss about
the great peace" achievement
to serve as republican party
campaign blah in the elections
this November, spent hours yester-
day arguing over the Mcclellan
resolution.
This resolution requesting"
Hoover to turn over the secret
correspondence between this and
other governments in connection
with the London disarmament"
treaty, is being amended to death,
and the whole question stinks to
heaven with hypocrisy.
Firstly, as all will remember,
Secretary Stimson, when leaving
from New York for the London
Conference, flatly declared that the
United States would not consent to
any "secret diplomacy" would have
nothing to do with any secret in
trigue" and would not enter into
any "secret political alliances"
Secondly, everyone knows that no
sooner had Stimson landed in Eng
land, than by his own request, the
whole conference went into hiding,
became a conspiracy against the
Soviet Union as everyone knows
and as was admitted by capitalist
correspondents in guarded language,
who also, serving as propaganda
agents for Stimson, plainly said as
the Conference was ending, chat
after all, the United States chad to
yield" to the general demand for
secret political agreements.
The flight" in the Senate is just
as hypocritical. Democratic sena-
tors, Robinson and Reed, who went
with Stimson to Lon don, are
amending the Mcclellan resolution,
which is offered by some of the
fake "oppositionists," to make the
turning over of the secret docu-
ments dependent on whether Hoover
thinks it compatible with public
interest"-which means Hoover can
do as he pleases.
Robinson reached the apex of
hypocrisy yesterday by saying that
there is nothing at all in the docu-
ments, that if he had his way he
would let every Senator read them
but he is trying like hell to keep
them from being read.
In order to give the appearance
of reality to this fake fight" the
argument is being shifted from the
whole secret correspondence with
England, France, Italy and Japan,
to some cables between Hoover and
the U. s. ambassadors at Tokyo and
London, so that when the fake
fight" gives a victory to the OPP
position they can read these in
consequential cables and declare to
the world that they are mot i'm
portant, after all"
1t is certain that Hoover will be
playing a smooth game by appar-
emily "surrendering" and turning
over what may appear to be the
whole correspondence, with an air
of mystery given it by caution
being observed that it be consid-
cred in secret session. The sem
ators can then give it a nice white
wash, and the well-known agree
ment made at London by all the
imperialist powers against the
Soviet Union can be hidden behind
this curtain of hypocrisy.
Senator Swanson, who read his
speech Tuesday, plainly showed
that the treaty aids U. S. imper-
ialism, especially in armed control
of Latin America. For example, he
said:
From a military and selfisi
standpoint, the United States can
not afford to reject this treaty
Under the treaty, the navy becomes
sufficiently strong to enforce the
Monroe Doctrone everywhere in the
Western World"
| The treaty itself thus, from 6
military standpoint" will give
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that American ism will be
sufficiently ST. rule Latir
American trad gainst Great
Britain-also I Britain from
stealing more net territory
than was agreed vn when the wal
against the Soviet Union was sec.
reilly plotted at London.
| Against this nefarious imperial