The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-19


departments of government, espec-
tally the departments of state, war
and navy, are making detailed
preparations for the conferences
that are to be held with ENJOYS of
the foreign powers. Representatives
from two score or more nations
of the world are converging on
Washington. The first converse
tions will be held with Prime Min
lister j. Ramsay Macdonald of Eng
land, to be followed by those with
former premier Eduard Herriot of
France.
Conferences will be held later
with DR.. Hans Luther, German
ambassador to Washington; Guido
Jung, Mussolini's finance minister,
and Viscount -Kikujiro Ishii, for
eign minister of Japan. Later,
over a period of weeks, will come
conferences with all the other rep
resentatives.
Part of Drive Toward War.
These conferences with rep
resentatiYes Of individual powers
preceding the arms conference
and the world economic conference
to be held in Europe are clearly an
attempt of United States imperial
ism to reach agreements favor
able t. its general world imperial
ist policy. That is why the state,
var and naval departments are
playing leading roles in their prep
arati9r. Then, also the wide pub
Lefty attending these conferences
helps to conceal from the masses
in the United States the fact that
the Roosevelt program in every
sphere e. activity has made mat
tiers worse instead of better. AS
the effect of the worsenipg of the
conditions of the workers and farm
ers ,eM& sde sections Of the lower
Riddle class now impoverished be-
comes plain the Roosevelt admin
istration tries to create th" illusion
that these conferences will in some
way aid in economic recovery. in
reality the holding of this series
of conferences shows that Wall St.
is taking an increasingly aggressive
role in the frantic drive toward
world war for a redivision of the
world between the bandit powers
"a war that has already begun in
the Far East. Economic aspects
are subordinatcd to the politics of
imperiaiist aggression.
Disarm the Other Fellow.
The conversation with both Her
riot and Macdonald will involve
detailed discussion of limitation of
ornaments. Both these imperial
ist agents have long been recog-
nized as experts in using pacifist
gestures to conceal war prepara-
tions.
Roosevelt will strive to use the
inter-allied debts as means of
trying TO induce both France and
England TO reduce their arma-
ments. In trying to get France TO
reduce ornaments Roosevelt will
have the support of Macdonald; in
trying to induce American imper-
ialism's greatest rival, England, to
cut down her ornaments Roose-
welt will have the support Of Her
riot, Thus all those involved will
try to induce their imperialist riv-
ais to cut down ornaments,
French Press Exposes Game.
How cynically the Paris press
views the conversations with
Roosevelt is best shown by the car
toonist in ole Cri de Paris, which
depicts Macdonald on the eve of
sailing for Washington, standing
before the super dreadnaughts of
the British navy, holding up his
hand and saying: eyes, Great
Britain is ready to suppress the
French navy. said nothing about
the navies of the world. The
cartoon is sardonically headed
Apostle of Disarmament"
This characterizes the tone of
the French press since Macdonald
visited Mussolini and together these
worthless Matched what they called
a plan for a four-power pact in
Guiding England, Italy, Germany
and France. The French imper-
ialists understood that France was
only included as a blind to cover
up the attempt to align Germany
by the side of England and Italy
against France.
France Distrusts Roosevelt.
At the same time France thor
oughly distrusts Roosevelt, especi-
ally in view of the fact that tho
first invitations to Washington ex-
cluded those vassal states OF France
in Europe, the Little Entente -
zecho-Slovakia, Yugoslsyia and
Rumania-and Poland. Both
France and England have we'll
founded suspicion that one of the
aims of Roosevelt's conversations
is to try to align Italy and Ger
many on the side of American i'm