The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-02-28

Ludwell Denny, chief editorial !
writer for the Scripps-Howard
chain of papers, and author of
eve Fight for OIL has just pub
lished another book = America
Conquers Britain; A Record of
Economic War" (Alfred A.
Knopf, New York. $40
Publication occurs in the midst
of the naval conference, and the
book is issued both in England
and the United States. The title
may well awaken lingo emotions
among the unthinking, and be US
ed by big-navy advocates to drown
the whispers of working class in
ternationalism on either side of
the Atlantic. The text begins
with a chaper on Thinking the
Unthinkable" - which is war be-
tween the two nations. 1t closes
with a declaration which is sadly
fatalistic:
1--WE were Britain's colony once.
She will be our colony before she
is done; not in name, but in fact.
Machines gave Britain power over
the world. Now better machines
are giving America power over
the world and Britain. Too wise
to try to govern the world, we
shall merely own it. Nothing can
stop us. Nothing until our finan-
cial empire rots at its heart, as
empires have a way of doing. If
Britain is foolish enough to fight
US, she will go down more quickly,
that it all.
"Of course American world su-
premacy is rather horrible to
think about-quite unthinkable, as
they say of an Anglo-American
war. But American supremacy
can hardly be worse than British
and others gone before. Our
weapons are money and machines.
But the other nations of the world
want money and machines. Our
materialism, though not our pow
er, is matched by theirs. That is
why our conquest is SO easy, SO
inevitable.
"What chance has Britain
against America? Or what chance
has the world?
Through more than 400 pages
closely-written and documenteC
argument, Denny pursues his
theme of American commercial
victory over commercial Britain il
the resources and markets of the
globe. He recognizes that the
British people do not want tx
fight the American people, nor d.
the American people want to en-
gage in the massacre of the PEG
pie closest to them in ties O.
blood and common culture. Blu
always he sees a struggle between
rival oil companies, copper com
panies, rubber exploiters, banker
or other members of the world al
istocracy of money, and agains
their greedy preparation for pro
fit he sees no warning cloud of in
ternational working-class punish
ment arising. Throughout thi
book America is only greed, orga
iiized in Wall Street, whipped int
war-mobs by a plant press, an
captained by Hoover. Britain
not the Labor Party nor its Sc
cialist hopes; it is not the lon
centuries of struggle of the e.
plotted masses to win decent liz
ing standards and civic freedom
it is British capital, slowly dyin;
and carrying with it into inevi
able ruin the British people.
If humanity has become a mel
collection of robots, then Denny
logic of "inevitability" is SCUM,
If humanity still has courage, in
agination, the quick loyalty
brotherhood in face of sufferin,
then it is unsound. Experience
change these past two decade
with all its wars and revolution
has surely demonstrated that me
in the mass are playing a COZ
stantly more important part in Il
making of peace as well as wa
Before the red socialist tide