The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
6 NATIONS MOVE
TOWARDS WAR
Troops, Warships Are
Rushed to Battle Area

The two lndeclared wars raging In
South America are threatening to
spread into a general conflagration
throughout that continent as the
governments of six South American
countries continue to rush troops
and warships to the Gran Chaca and
Putumayo districts, scene of the two
conflicts.
The government of Colombia Is
disposing troops and warships along
a 375-mile front of land and rivers in
the undeclared war between Colombia
and Peru. The government of the
latter country is likewise rushing
troops and warships to the Putu-
mayo regoin and is negotiating with
the Argentina Government for sup
port in the armed conflict. The gov
ernments Of Brazil and Ecuador are
mohihzing their armed forces on the
Peruvian borders for support Of Col
ombia. Further to the South the
Bolivian command has started q
general offensive against the Para
guyan forces as the result of huge
shipments of arms received from the
U. S.
U. S. ImperialistS InStigate War
The role of the U. S. imperialistS
as the main instigators of the two
undeclared wars which now threaten
to become continent-wide can be
clearly seen in the following dispatch
in the New York Times of yesterday:
another Colombian troop trans
port escorted by a gunboat has
arrived at Para Ia Brazilian port on
the Amazon River and three other
gunbOats are on the way. The
fIotiIIa Of five gunbOats and two
army transports is expected TO sail
up the Amazon soon. This naval
fleet, which Colombia recently ac-
quired in France and the United
States by private individuals, is
coming into Para under command
of French and American officers
and there will be delivered to the
Colombian General Vasquez, Colo,
who will command the Leticia ex-
petition"
The naval units purchased in the
United States by the Colombian
Government was sold with the
knowledge and consent Of the State
Department of the Wall Street gov
eminent. Their crews and officers
were recruited in this country with
the knowledge and consent of the
U. S. Government. Recruiting is
sill being conducted openly in New
York City for the Colombian armed
forces. U. S. munition makers and
airplane manufacturers are selling
war material to the Colombian Gov
ernment-again with the knowl-
edge and consent of the Wall Street
government!
The two undeclared wars raging in
South America are part of the in
creasingly bitter struggle by U. S.
imperialism against its British rivals
for control of the markets and nat
ural resources of these semi colonial
countries. U. S. and British i'm
perialists are fighting each other
through their puppet governments
in South Amreica, while rushing their
frantic war preparations for re-
division of the world, for capitalist
way out" of the crisis gripping the
entire capitalist world, q, capitalist
way out at the expense of the toll
ing masses of the imperialist coun-
tries as we'll as the masses Of the
semi colonial and colonial countries.
War Debts, Tariffs Are Part
This inner-imperialist struggle is
reflected both in the South American
wars and in the fierce struggle Of
U. S. imperialism with its imperialist
rivals over the. war debts and in the
sharpening tariff war Their sharp
ening antagonisms do not, however,
prevent the imperialists from at
tempting to solve their present diff
ferenceS at the expense of the Soviet
Union. On the contrary, the present
inner-imperialist struggles greatly in
crease the danger of war to the Soviet
Union as the possibility of any COM
mon ground between the imperialist
bandits is increasingly narrowed
down to their common hatred of that
country where the toiling masses
have overthrow the yoke of inn
perialist oppression and capitalist
plumber and exploitation.
The present wars and the frantic
arming Of the imperiaists menace
the toiling masses of all countries.
The workers, farmers and inteilec-
tuals of the U. S. must answer the
u. S. inperialist war nongers by
a stern fight against imperialist warsl
Every person honestly opposed to i'm
perialist war should rally Immediately
to the support of the South American
anti-war Congress for Feb. % at
Montevideo, Uruguay.