The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

impending war for s. Waldman
new and old mar
kets are parallelled by equally in
tense attempts to conceal the
ornaments race behind q smoke
screen of disarmament chatter The
main antagonists have changed a
bit, but the technique is more or
less the same.
Disarmament Talks-War Plans
On the one hand, we see a
frantic search by the capitalist
powers for political and military
allies. accompanied by a tremend-
Gus increase in ornaments. On
the other, we see hypocritical pre-
tense Of support for disarmament"
From the Hague to Geneva
Geneva, in the form of the
League, took over the show previ-
ously run at the Hague-but with
one important difference. The pres
sure of the awakening masses made
it necessary to establish an elab-
crate permanent organization which
could put on large assortment of
colorful vaudeville acts every day
of the year instead of only one per-
Torrance every eight years.
Germany
Take Germany, for instance. If
Hitler, child and impresario of
Germany's bankers and industrial
list, is not yet accorded honor as a
leading pacifist, it is not because he
has not tried to steal the peace
thunder of his blood brother Mus
solini. For it is fact that some
paeifists actually consider MuSsolini
as the greatest force for peace in
Europe today, largely because for
every warlike speech, he has, for
the past ten years or so, made two
or three "statesmanlike" orations
eXtravagantly adorned with aDu-
sions to abstract peace and brother
hood-while at the same time mill
tarizing the whole country and en-
gaging in naval race with France
in preparation for a clash over
African possessions. If Hitler still
experiences trouble in making his
peace poses sound convincing, he
can take courage from the fact that
at least one prominent American
pacifst, Laura Puffer Morgan OF
the Rockefeller backed conservative
National Council for Prevention of
War has already jumped on his
bandwagon and sung public praises
to his pacific intentions.
What are the facts? The impe-
rialiSt program set forth by Adolf
in his MY Battle" and other Nazi
bibles is today the official, even
though only half-hearted program
Of the German Government. Hitler
has begun the realization of this
program in attempting to swallow
Fascist Austria at the price Of a
near collision with Mussolini. His
plan announced formally by Rosen-
berg of expansion to the East at
the expense of Soviet Russia is most
evident in his recent treaty of
friendship with Poland looking I'LL
timately towards an attempted par
tition of Soviet Ukraine. These
aims, Of course, cannot be achieved
without a great military apparatus.
Hence the rearmament of Germany
at rapid pace, partly openly, part
ly secretly.
France
Now, to democratic" France
which for years has posed as the
great defender of the principle of
disarmament always in general
terms and always with plenty of
strings attached. The French poll
ticians repeatedly point to their re-
duced army as proof that they have
disarmed, without mentioning, how
ever, that this reduction has been
many times compensated for by the
rapid INFLAMMATION of the French
forces, including the most powerful
air force in the world (about 5000
planes. Only a few days ago,
France sent a note to England in
which she again proclaimed her
faith in the League of Nations
method of disarmament chat be-
ing, of course, no disarmament and
demanding that the whole question
be returned to the League forum
from which Germanys withdrawal
had temporarily. removed it. If the
French imperialists have their way,
the more or less secret negotiations
of the past months lin which each
4; tried to vancouver the other into
taking the blame for failure to dis
arm will end in a splurge of &C.
neva oratory in which everybody
will once more proclaim that it
has already cut its ornaments be-
low the point of safety but is ready
to go still further If and-then the
usual excuses will follow with the
usual result. postpone the meeting
to some future date and, in the
meantime, continue the armament
scramble until the next imperialist
field day on which, according to the
prints, the workers will be pitted
against each other for re- sons no
more valid than those given be-
tween 1914 and 1918.
Great Britain
Consider Great Britain. The
Macdonald Government has been
the most prolific producer of plans
for the disarmament Of others