The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
By II. NJ WICKS


Yosuke Matsuoko, head Of the ia
paneSe delegation to the League Of
Nations, has proved during the few
days he has been in the United
States that he is as accomplished in
using peace talk to justify war moves
as are the agents of American I'M
perialism.
NTatSuoko speaks for a government
OF imperialist butchers that, since
October, 1881, has been carrying on
a campaign Of wholesale murder
against the Manchurian and Chinese
masses that has seldom been eouailed
in the annals of imperiahst conquest.
Even though the Japanese deIega-
ton walked out Of the League of Ma
tons in a demonstratiye manner
when a resolution was adopted "criti-
cising" the motives of that govern
ment in Manchuria, the imperialist
spokesman tries to maintain the fic-
ton that the League itself, COM
bination Of imperialist bandit nations,
Systematically preying upon smaller
nations and the colonial and semi
colonial masses, is in reality an in
strument of peace. In his interview
to the press Matsuoko said:
Japan is serving the cause OF
peace. We are no longer on the
same road as the League of Nations,
bat our goal is the same. We are
also serving the cause Of human
itr."
With the cynicism typical OF i'm
periahsm throughout the world Mat
suoko says that japanese drenching
Of the soil Of Manchuria with the
blood Of whole populations was for
the benefit Of the people Of that land
Describing the puppet government
set up by Japanese boyonets, Mat
suoSo says
"The people of Manchuria-Man-
ehuS, Mongols and Chinese are
now enjoying such good govern
nnent as they have never known be-
fore"
Indeed the goal of Japanese i'm
perialism is the same, in the broad
sense. as that of all imperialist mem
bers of the League is the same and
tire language of diplomacy in pursuit
Of that goal is the same. What Mat
suolio says about Manchuria was said
By French imperialism when it
stormed Damascus, the Oldest city in
the world and the capitol of the
League Of Nations inundated country,
Syria. 1t repeats the same story in
regard to Morocco. Britain said the
same thing about its bandit raids in
Irak, its murder drive against Egypt,
its cently-old tyranny in India.
No matter what language they
speak, the political meaning is al
ways the ssme-inperialist apologists
pose as benefactors Of the colonial
and semi colonial masses they de-
praye.
The United States is no exception.
This fact was pointed out during the
League session on Japan by this
same Matsuoko, who drew q parallel
between the rayaging of Manchuria
and the storIning of Chapel, and the
policy of United States imperialist
9anditry in Nicaragua, Cuba, Panama,
Haiti and the Philippines. In reply
70 wellington Koo, the Chinese
spokesman at the League, Matsuoko,
for the Japanese delegation rejected
the proposal for international control
over Manchuria and asked
what justification is there for
such an attempt? Would America
agree TO such control over the
Panama Canal 1One?.. Would
Britain permit it over Egypt
This same Matsuoko, has continu-
ally in Europe and here, repeatedly
shown that American Imperialism is
Of the same stripe as Japanese I'M
perialisnl He openly declares that
relations might be improved if the
United States feet we're Withdrawn
from the Pacific. He says Japan's
position is stronger morally "even
han that of the United States in the
Caribbean under the Monroe Doc
trine. He rejects the 9-power treaty
signed at Washington on the grounds
that it is based upon the fiction that
China is unified nation. In his
every utterance he shows clearly the
increased determination of Japan to
challenge American imperalist sg-
erosion in the Pacific Yet, in face
Of all this, the capitalist press unauf-
rnously refers 10 his stay here as a
1iysion Of peace" a visit Of friend