The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14
MANY ARM PLANS
AID WAR MOVES
All Aim at Anti USSR
Bloc; More Arms

A new plan ultimately marking
a further step toward the conson-
dation Of the anti-Soyiet bloc under
the leadership Of French imperial
ism viii be approved today nv the
French Cabinet and published in the
afternoon according to a dispatch
from Paris.
This plan YVES already approved by
the French Parliament, with 400
votes against 90. The plan thus re-
ceived the support of all but the
Communist members of the French
Parliament, from the outspoken
RIGHTS to the socialists and renegades
from Communism.
The Features G the French Plan
Through Thu plan Eerriot, on be-
half Of French Imperialism, tries to
reconcile Flowers program for the
reduction Of ornaments by the rivals
Of the United States, with the Ger
man cry for ornaments equality and
the French need of security against
aggTessors.
As outlined in an official commu-
nique, the new French program states
that French imperialism is pre-
pared to accept by a definite date the
generalization and reduction of the
period of service of land and inter-
national forces" under the following
conditions:
1. That all other governments
would agree to dissolve all contrary
formations (such as the German
Reichswehr and the Fascist Militia !;
2. That International control would
be organized to investigate national
armies;
8. That the Locarno Pact should
be supplemented by a regional pact
of mutual assistance" to which each
European government should be a
party, and the collective force pro-
vided by which should comprise "spe-
cialized national contingents, imme-
diately available and well equipped;
4. That the United States should
guarantee security, (which they have
themselves considered
These are the fundamental fea-
lures of the Frnch plan, virtually
calling for an international army and
for a general short term compulsory
service" that far from reducing the
belligerent efficiency Of each i'm
perialism, increases it many fold.
Through its new plan, French inn
perialism strives to uphold the Yer
sailles system, strengthen the anti
Soviet bloc under its hegemony and
bring German imperialism into the
system of war alignments under its
leadership.
German Approval Conditional
Recognizing and approaching these
general features of the French plan,
German capitalism has no objection
to the proposed formation of an in
ternational police force if sit were to
participate in it to the same extent
as Others" Of course, in German
political circles close to the Govern
ment of Won Papen, it is said that
not all the features of the Herriot
Plan can be accepted without discus
sion. German capitalism bargaining
with the French Government on the
problem of ornaments equality, con-
tinues to consider favorably Hoover's
disarmament" plan.
Although with more or less similar
objections, the German Socialist
Party also approves in general the
French program which the Socialist
paper. "Vorwarts" describes as sen
sationaP' and in agreement with the
principle of equality"
Challenging the F'rench bid for the
hegemony Of the antizSoviet bloc, the
British Government is ready to an
nounce its own disarmament plan, a
dispatch from London indicates. The
plan calls for a reduction of capital
ships, the outlawing of air warfare,
the reduction of European armies,
and the reduction in the size and
number of submarines. The plan is
primarily directed against the posi-
ion of United States Imperialism.
A dispatch from Geneva declares
that Norman B. Davis, the American
representative, had something to do"
with the indirect bid for italian sup
port made by Herriot in his speech