The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31

That they were gong up against lot
eign machine guns, mustard gas and
bombing planes in order to win for
eign markets and raw material reser-
voirs for the great corporations, in
order to preserve and increase the
wealth of the great nlillionaires, in
order to rivet upon larger areas of
the world the greedy control Of Wall
Street, would they fight?
If the people of the United States
realized that the war was an i'm
perialist war for the redivision Of
the world, would they send their
sons, husbands and brothers to the
slaughter?
Ugly Truths Hidden
They would not. Those ugly truths
must be hidden. The sailors, soldiers
and civilians must be hoodwinked
again, as they were hoodwinked in
| 1917, into believing the war just
and glorious war, or at the very least
necessary and inevitable war.
DR.. Brownson's article, with its
speciously simple analysis of world
history. past and present, is a tell
ing bit Of propaganda for this pur-
pose. A few quotations will show its
trend:
Nov the nation is commencing
that sharp internal readjustment
which has inevitably led in the past
to another period of great outward
expansion-1776, 1872, 1S45, 1898, and
1917"
Foreign governments, appreciative
of the significance of the Latin revo-
lutions, Japanese action in Manchu-
ria and Shanghai, the Importance OF
war debts and reparations, and the
danger Of a BolsheviSt outbreak, are
building their naval forces to the
highest level in world history"
A Few Quotations
Under Racial Consideration" -
TN the course of centuries Aryan
civilization, eliminating in Puritan
Protestant Christianity in the United
States, has become world dominant,
with only Japan as remnant OF
non-Aryan and non-Christian So
ciety."
| Under New World Expansion
Commencing with the American
Revolution, the United States en-
tered upon a period of outward ex-
pansion in succession of outward
and inward waves: outward in the
Revolution, Napoleonic period, the
Mexican War, Spanish American
War, and World War; inward in the
period of internal development fol-
lowing these conflicts. These success
sive advances have broken down Old
World influence in the Americas;
Old-World imperialism except for the
British, French and Japanese en-
pires; and in the World War and
League Of Nations inaugurated pc
Rod of American world dominance"
Under Conflict Of the Old and
New WorldS"-"The rising tide Of
American expansion sets in motion
opposing forces of reaction bringing
about conflict between the New
and the Old World. British civiliza-
ton, checked by the World War, is
making a final bid for world suprem-
acy in growing British French
Japanese Entente under the League
Of Nations, opposed by the discon-
tent Of the masses of the population
centering in Bolshevism. American
civilization, impregnating the world
with American ideals after the World
War, has received a temporary check
in the economic depression; is un-
dergoing drastic internal readjust-
ment expressed by the Democratic
upheaval of 1882; and seems prepar-
ing for another wave Of outward ex-
panSion similar to that of the World
| War"
Economic depression can be reme-
died only by the establishment of
international peace and order in a
universal world society; the United
States is the only nation capable Of
establishing such a society; there
fore, the American public in its eff
fort to restore American economic
development must ultimately COM
plete the cycle of American democ-
racy in the fulfillment of the Wilson
policies Of an American dominated
world state. Such world state can
be established and maintained only
on the basis Of a world-supreme
American navy. Obviously, the Unit
ed States must carry through to
completion the Wilson program OF
universal democracy, an effective
League Of Nations, and world DOM
inant American fleet"
Final paragraph-"Th naval pol
icy of the United States under the
new Democratic administration is
necessarily the realization of Presi-
dent Wilson's vision Of world DOM
inant American navy establishing
world peace"
Notice that the Old World is 'im-
perialistic", but the New World is
merely "expansionist" Notice that
American expansion" is a "rising
tide, but the Old Worlds resistance
is reaction. Notice the cool tax
ing for granted of American ideals"
of universal democracy.
But not word about capitalism,
not word about colonial exploita-
ton, not word about the trusts and
monopolies, not a word about Oil,
Wall Street or Fascism, not a word
about attacking the Soviet Union,
not word about the danger that
another world war may destroy all
civilized life.
No, these things are merely the
realities, merely the ugly face behind
the GLORIOUS" mask of patriotism and
destiny.