The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-25

perialists at Shanghai are confident
that the japanese would soon pro-
coed from open provocation to actual
war against the Soviet Union. The
same imperialists are reported as ex-
pressing regret that the Japanese by
their action at Shanghai have alien
ated the sympathy and strained the
forbearance of nations which, in the
ordinary course Of events, were ex-
pected to view her policy with toll
erance or even sympathy"
This refers to the attempts Of the
Japanese to grab some Of the desired
loot OF the other imperialist powers.
This has caused the greatest sharp
ening Of the imperialist antagor1isms
at times threatening even an armed
conflict between the iInperiahsts over
the division of the loot in China. The
dispatch admits that under ordinary
circumstances the Japanese grab-all
policy would have brought the other
imperialists down on their heads. But
the existence of the Soviet Union and
the challenge Of rising, flourishing
Socialism to the dying world Of CAPT
talism force the United States, Brit
ain and France to tolerate the Jap
anese actions in order to maintain
the united. front against the Soviet
Union. The hope Of the imperialists
that by submerging their own differ
ences they can push the Soviet Union
into war is brutally admitted in the
dispatch, which states:
Behind the smoke screens in
Manchuria and Shanghai, Japan
and Russia appear TO be drifting
closer TO q military clash"
The dispatch then states the views
Of the imperiaIists that II they "at-
tempted a punitive blockade against
Japan" or active Intervention to pro-
tect their own loot In China, "they
might soon unwillingly find them
selves fighting with Russia against
Japan, all ostensibly in China's be-
half (sicD, but in reality assisting
Russia to destroy Japan as a powerful
capitalist nation, thereby furtherlng
RusSia's designs of ultimately spread
ing the Soviet system in China.
Considerations of this character
are unquestionably playing part
in the American and European dip
Iomatic attitude toward the Far
Eastern crisis, where Japan girding
herself against Russia and attempt
Ing to cope with Chins's chaos, has
Numbered so hopeIessly time and
again since last September -
This is the most brazen admission
of the support by United States,
British and French imperiahsts for
the Japanese robber war on China
and the cold-blooded butchery of I'M
armed Chinese men, women and chill
dren as deliberate policy on the
part of the imperialists to crush the
heroic resistance of the Chinese mass
es. 1t is an open admission of the
sinister plot Of the inperialists to
plunge the world working class into
a bloody slaughter in the desperate
attempt of dying capitalism OF save
itself at, the expense Of the lfe-blood
of the toiling masses and at the ex-
pense OF the brilliant achievements
OF the working class in the Soviet
Union. 1t is an open admission of
the plot Of the imperialists to attempt
the destruction of the Soviet Union
where unemployment has been abol-
ished and the living conditions OF the
toiling masses constantly improved at
the very time that tens of millions
Of workers are sentenced to starvation
and mass misery N tbs eapitalist