The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-10


THE coming Disarmament Conference at Ge-
neva in 1882 is in the minds Of many states
men. Hoover plans to economic" on the naval
building program; Borah urges five-year naval
holiday; the Assembly OF the League of Ma
tons urges a one-year's holiday on all arms.
All this is canoufage 1t is intended to hide
the preparations of the inperialists for war.
This is the same peace talk, always before an
approaching disarmament conference, with
which the ruling class attempts to lull the
masses to Sleep The capitalist countries are
preparing for war, SO in order to hide this, they
try to appear as peace angels before the eyes
of the workers.
A few citations from the press will show that
the capitalist nations are getting ready not for
any peace confab but for war
Concerning the proposed visit Of Laval to see
Hoover, the N. Y. Times of September 20 car
ried the following word from Washington:
'CThe attitude of France towards this con-
ference (Geneva) has been construed as far
from cordial, and no doubt is felt here that
President Hoover would be glad of an OPP
portunity of discussing the armament situa-
ton with Premier Laval, with view to con- :
vincing him that, as far as the United States
is concerned, there is no desire to put France
in position where her security might be en-
dangered."
In the Baltimore Sun of August there ap-
peared dispatch from Washington which stated
that "the chief thing the State Department is
interested in. is Russia's stand on disarma-
ment. the State Department has taken note Of
the repeated statements of France that there
can be no disarmament as long as the Russian
Army remains as threat to the French allies
Poland, Runania and Czecho-Slovakia."
The Herald Tribune correspondent from Paris
writes the following (Sept. 90 about Lavals
visit:
1.-THE third point uppermost in Layars
thought is disarmament. 1t Is believed that
he feels strongly. that Europe's greatest dam
ger is Bolshevism, that great French army
is the best possible bulwark against this, and
that any weakening of Frances armed forces
would be playing into the hands of the Com
munists."
IF Laval should come to Washington the
foremost subject of discussion would be arm
aments. Winston Churchill made speech in
the House of Common in June in which he
said that it was not IN the interests Of Eu-
rope that the French army - the bulwark
against BoIshevism-should be seriously weak
ened or that we should press unreasonably for
its reduction"
The Paris correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian Weekly of September 10, reports the
following:
There can be no longer any doubt that
the French Government Is determined that II
possible the Disarmament Conference shall re-
suit in reduction of ornaments or at any
rate of the ornaments of France and her
allies"
The French allies which border on the Soviet
Union are being armed feverishly by France to
attack the Soviet Union. Rumania and Poland
have a defense" alliance aimed at the us.
SIR. Officers of the French General Staff and
its allies of Poland Rumania and Lituania, ETC.
are in constant touch preparing to wage war
on the Soviet Union. The Schneider Creusot
munition works In France are closely aligned
with the Skoda munition works in Czecho-
slovakia. They supply their allies with milit-
airy equipment.
Robert Dell Paris correspondent OF the Man
chester Guardian, in an article about France In
the Nation Of September %, says: =. But it Is
reported that motor factories are now in many
cases making munitions. have not been able
to verify the report, which have only just
heard, but 1t is not at all improbable for the
French General Staff is making feverish pre-
parations, which if we did not know that France
has signed the treaty of Locarno and the KEEL
log Pact, would suggest, let us say military pss-
peratdous In tbs near xazraS !, ss..,,