The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
JAPAN BOSSES,
AND j. S. BOSSES
IN WAR THREAT
World War Looms in
Pacific
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appeal for national unity was di-
rected especially against Japan's Wal
Street rivals for mastery of tht
Pacific and control over China. The
spokesman of the Japanese War De
partment accused the Wall Street
Government of mobilizing Worlc
opinion against Japan and seeking tx
force the League Of Nations to as.
, Sign to the U. S. the Japanese man
dated South Sea Islands He de.
clared:
1T is clear that the Z j I'd States
wants to obtain conu'.l of the
Japanese inundated South Sea
Islands in the event of Japan's Civ
ing them up, but withdrawal from
the League does not mean surren-
der of mandates"
The Japanese Minister Of the Navy
declared that Japan would defy any
attempt to block the realization o,
its robber aims in China He stated
:" if the foreign nations go to
the length of bringing pressure to
bear upon this country, Japan must
take the necessary measure for
self defense
The Japanese Minister of the
Navy issued orders two days ago
10 the navy TO stand ready for
any eventually" The Wall Street
Government already has cOncen-
trated its full battle fleet in the
Pacific and recently engaged in war
maneuvers eff the Hawaiian
Islands as a naval demonstration
against Japan. The U. S. Govern
ment recently decided to f0rtify
the Aleautian Islands off Alaska
and to rush the construct on of
naval bases in those islands, The
u. $. Government has just given
large order for bombing and pur-
Suis planes. The u. S. Congress is
speeding through a new appr0pria-
ion bill for S30S,000,000 for the
U. $. Navy. Ll0yd's and other in
surance companies have increased
their war risk rates on ships and
cargoes to the Far East.
Threat to Sc re Tientsin.
The rapid development Of the wal
situation in the Far East is further
emphasized in the japanese threa
to seize the Tientsin- Peiping area
one of the main spheres of U. S. in.
yestments in China. and to blockade
all Chinese ports. The Japanese al
the same time issued q warning Il
Britain and other imperialist power.
that support of the u S. would re.
suit in Japan taking steps for "se
curing the markets and products o
China exclusively for Japan"
BY its promise of concessions OF
the war debts, the u. S. Government
has secured a small degree of sup.
port from the British imperialists
That this support will not take any
active form is indicated by the speech
of Sir John Simon, British Foreign
Minister, in the House of Common:
yesterday, in which he evaded ques.
lions asked from the benches as tt
the policy of the British Government
on the proposed ban of arms exports
to Japan. British official statistic!
show that Britain has been selling
arms to both Japan and China, witt
40 shipments of arms to the Fal
East during 1882 alone.
French Japan Bloc.
The French imperialists, who have
p secret military alliance with Japar
for the maintenance of their loot il
the Far East, are giving very little
support to the efforts of the U. S
to get the League of Nations to bloch
Japans drive against the U. S
spheres of investments in China.
The imperialist antagonisms in the
Far East are now threatening to eX-
plode at any moment in a new worle
war for the re-division of the worle
among the imperialiSt bandit powers
and for a capitalist way out" of tbs
increasingly catastrophe crisis Of
world capitalism. The readiness o.
the Soviet masses ana their Rec
Army to defend the Soviet Union, the
militant sympathy OF the toilinl
masses Of all countries for the U. S
S. r. and the present revolutionary
upSurge of the starving masses
throughout the capitalist world are
the deciding factors in blocking 81
far the plans of the imperialists fol-
armed intervention against the prole-
tartan state. At the same time, the
sharpening of the imperialist antag-
onisms increase the danger of armed
intervention, as the imperialists des-
perately try to solve their differences
at the expense of the Soviet Unior
and the toiling masses Throughout
the world. Thus, Japanese imperial.
ism calls for imperialist unity agains
the Soviet Union, against the Sovier
Revolution in China. Japan is re.
sponsible for the maintenance o
peace and order in the Far East.
THE dispute Seizure Of Manchuria
invasion of Jehol Proyince) is due
primarily to the absence Of an au.
thoritative and efficient central gov.
eminent In China"
Toilers Fight War.
The Japanese proletariat are an.
swering the robber aims of japanese
imperialists with the most heroic
struggles, under the leadership of the
Japanese Communist Party, agains
the capitalist war-mongerS. The toll.
ers of the u. S. should show theil
solidarity with the Japanese working
class. Only the most decisive anc
immediate action by the world prole.
tariat can stop the drive of the CAPT.
talist war-mongers for new worlc
Slaughter.