The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-02
By JORGE RAMIREZ

THE Japanese imperialiSt robber war on China
which has accumulated the antagonisInS be-
tween the imperialist powers, and which brings,
above all, sharply to the forefront the immediate
danger of war against the Soviet Union, has been
made the occasion by the United States to
tighten its grip Latin America, to bring
closer under its military wings its puppet govern
ments. to widen its war preparations against its
rivals and build under its hegemony the anti
Soviet front in the American Continent.
Since the Japanese offensive upon China, the
bourgeois press Of Latin America that speaks for
Yankee Imperialism has been expressing its
"disapproval" of Japan's actions, obviously not
against the partition of China and the whole
sale massacre Of Chinese people in Shanghai and
Manchuria but on the contrary, with the sole
intention to arouse public sentiment in favor of
Wall Street and pave the way for more American
supremacy in Latin America against its rivals
and especially to help the building up of an
anti-Soviet warfront in these countries.
The hypocr1tical "anti-Japanese" campaign is
serving the American imperialist bandits to build
their own war front and with it widen their
domination of Latin America. The so-called
and-Japanese campaign of the counter-reVolu-
tionary, Mexican bourgeoisie is perhaps the
sharpest expression OF the denagogoy which it is
making use Of before the masses in order to
make it easier for the United States to strengthen
its control on Mexico and widen its war base
there. The Mexican deputy Jose Maria Davila
requested the Congress to stop the campaign of
prosecutions and deportations of Chinese resi-
dents In Mexico "as gesture of sympathy" The
request Of this demagogue is obviously cynical.
The Chinese workers and peasants of Mexico
have been for the last year the object of expro-
priations and prosecutions by the Mexican gov
eminent. Davilia's hypocritical request is in
tended to bring Mexico more under the heg-
emory Of United States imperialism as it is seen
in the statement which appeared in Ell Excelsior
of Mexico City which says
Mexico, in view of her geographic situation,
her commercial relations, her points of view on
social and political matters, and her culture,
of western origin, should feel more interested
in the fortune of the United States than in
that of Japan"
A prominent South American, quoted in the
Chile PAN Am magazine of March, 1882 has the
following to say with regard to a possible war
between the United States and Japan: I'm case
of a conflict between Japan and the q. S. A,
Latin Americas lot will undoubtedly be thrown
with the latter"
The fact that the Mexican government, with
the approval of Yankee imperialism, is shipping
petroleum to Japan for war purposes, skaters the
paign. The reason for this seeming contradic-
ton is explained by the fact that the United
States Imperialism, while allowing the Japanese
imperialists to carry on war against China is
trying to develop it into war against the Soviet
Union. 1t supports the Japanese war on China
in so far as building war base against the
socialist fatherland and the destruction of the
Chinese Revolution.
Yankee imperialism has sent its emissary, the
ex-Secretary Of War, Baker, to Mexico for the
conclusion of a secret pact by which the ports
of Manzanillo and Acapulco are turned into war
bases for the United States. The Mexican gov
eminent has revised the petroleum concessions
including the federal oil reserves in favor of the
American oil magnateS in exchange for loosening
somewhat the payments Of the foreign debts.
The tightening of the economic and financial
control over Mexico is now accompanied by the
United States extending its military war base
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