The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES


WHY, it must be asked,
W should the so-called demo-
cratic elections in the U. S.,
which resulted in a landslide
for Roosevelt, evoke the
warmest praise from the fas-
cist forces throughout the world?
The main reason, of course, is
RooSevelt's remarkable ability to
mask his rapid strides toward fas-
cism with the most brazen demo-
cratic demagogy and shameless
promises.
From that distance which lends
enchantment, the European capi-
taliSt press is able to view the sig
nificance of Roosevelt's election VIC
tory with much of the fumes of
election promises, and the tons of
opium propaganda for the masses,
blotted out. Their political teIe-
scopes can visualize only the main
trends; and they are not mistaken
about them.
THE Hitler press hailed the victory
1 of Roosevelt as a gain for world
fascism. "One often hears Roose-
welt spoken of as dictator A." edi-
torializes the Fascist Berliner Tage-
blatt. HE has now won the power
of a dictator without giving them
the name, Now he has the liberty
of acting"
"Roosevelt's victory" writes the
Wiener zeitung, official organ of
the murderers of the Austrian
workers, was also a victory for
government of authority"
THE French press estimates the
L elections as a vote against CAPT.
talism, but in favor of an individual
who is doing everything in his
power to save the profit system.
1T is to the man and not to the
system that the confidence of
American citizens went" wrote the
leading French journalist, Jules
SauerWein in Paris Soir."
Taking up this thread of thought
quite independently, the organ Of
British finance capital, of the chief
imperialist Shareholders, the Lon
don Times declared:
President Roosevelt is laboring
to make the system of private en-
terprise workable by purging it of
the abuses. Leaders in business
and finance, if wise, will bow to
the inevitable and cooperate with
the President in making the system
workable as the means of preserv-
ing it,"
0F course, this advice is to re-
" stricted circle, mainly to the Lib
erty Leaguers, as the great bulk of
American finance capital long ago
saw what the Times seems to see
now, and recognized in Roosevelt's
program basically the most strin-
gent and drastic means to save
capitalism at the expense of low
ering the workers living standard.
In its later estimates, the British
ruling class saw in Roosevelt's cleo
ton victory the peculiar contradict
ton that out of this democratic
landslide the forces of fascism in
the United States would be i'm
measurably strengthened. Now to
the British eXploiterS the study Of
how to use democratic forms to
cover fascist content is very i'm
portant, as they have just put over
very vicious fascist measure
yesterday, signed and
sealed by parliament and endorsed
by the former Socialist, Ramsay
Macdonald. By vote of 241 to
IS the House of Commons only a
week before Roosevelt got his land
slide passed the Sedition Bill, which
is a flexible fascist weapon by
means of which at any time, under
the guise of protecting soldiers and
sailors from being seduced by Com
munist propaganda, can clamp
down on all revolutionary propa-
ganda and meetings.
THE bill makes it a crime even to
4 possess literature which might,
If read by member of the armed
forces of his Britanic Majesty, make
him less willing to serve his mas
tiers.
After studying British estimates
of the U. S. elections, Harold E.
Scarborough, Herald Tribune Lon
don correspondent, sums up his in
vestigations in an article that is
headed: British Believe Poll Heads
U. S. to Dictatorship"
IF, in private conversation with
friends" writes Mr.. Scar
borough, zone points out that the
President still consults the will of
the people as expressed through the
ballot boxes, he is likely to get the
answer: But so does Hitler 1t
should be understood" he adds,
that in expressing such view
point the British manifest no hos
tility toward the President.
In fact, we could say to Mr.. Scar
borough, your influential friends
ducedly admire him for his ability
to speed fascist developments while
at the same time giving the appear
ance of staying within the clap
trap of the democratic trimmings
which conceal the advance of the
dictatorship of finance capital to-
ward it's more open and brutal
forms.
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