The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

The Song of Machie Guns
Suddenly and TerrficaIIy"
GERMANY is thelwitches'
u cauldron of world capital.
ism, and it is now hising and
boiling. Hitler has lust re-
turned from his visit 10 Mis-.
solini where new schemes were
Matched out to attemptto save
world capitalism from its toom bv
criminal imperialist wT The
Nazi fiends are working with
breakneck speed because under.
meath them the ground is Aaking.
Officially nothing was said about
what actual agreements werereach-
ed between the two fascist didators.
But from the inspired cabl.d re-
ports of their conversations APPEAR
ing in the Fascist press, it is clear
that new war alliance against
the Soviet Union was the main
accomplishment.
According to reports three point
understanding was reached: - Hit
Ter is to abandon the Nazis drive
for an AnschluSs with Austria. Civ
ing Italian imperialism the upper
hand there To save Filters face.
Nazis would be drawn into the DOLL
fuss fascist regime. o. In return
Mussolini will support German Fas-
cism's demand for complete re-arm-
ing on the British plan, with the
aid and cooperation of the League
OF Nations. 80 The forging of
world capitalist alliance to preserve
capitalism from doom by a war
against the Soviet Union.
Mussolini himself made the lat
ter the central point of the con-
ferences, according to the reports Of
the New York Times Rome CORE
spondent, Arnaldo Coresti. Cortesi
said, commenting on Mussolini's
speech after Hitler's return to
Munich:
He (MusSolini) said that
the object of the meetings was to
obtain minimum of coIIabora-
ton to save Europe from DOOM"
How is Europe chat is, Euro
pean capitalism to be saved from
doom? Mussolini answers. if per-
suasion will not do it then other
wise, with the song of our machine
guns"
IN THE day Hitler returned to
" Germany, Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, Hitler's personal emmissary.
went to France to offer French i'm
perlalism concessions to join the
rapidly consolidating anti Soviet
war front, led by the two Fascist
dictators with the support of Britih
imperialism. Won Ribbentrop is e
same gentleman who recently WI t
to London and was closeted hr
hours with Sir John Simon pro-
posing the anti-Soviet war front,
and receiving assurances from
Simon that Britain would support
German re-arming for the war
against the workers fatherland. The
Nazis are working fast to organize
the capitalist alliance for war
against the US.S.R.
Hitler goes to Italy. Goering 70
the Baltic and Balkan states, Cod
bells to Poland, Won Ribbentrop II
England and now to France.
But the Nazi plans for war have
advanced far beyond the stage of
talk or diplomatic Vaccinations,
Germany is already in a posi-
ton to strike whenever she feels
it would be to her advantage to
do so-suddenly and terrificalIy,"
writes William Philip Simnns,
Scripps- Howard foreign editor. in
a cable from London.
Fundamentally" cont inues
Slnims, lit seems the idea is to
win by knockout in the very
first round-to strike SO hard, so
unexpectedly, that the enemy
would be paralyzed by the initial
blow. )"
Fascist Germany, he avs, has
prepared for the most gigantic air
war, having secretly constructed the
largest air force in the world.
UITLER'S feverish drive to forge
IL the anti-Soviet war alliance
comes at the very moment when the
financial crash in Germany is
sharpening all of the imperialist
antagonists, plunging the world
into worse economic chaos, and the
masses into greater starvation and
misery. Hitler feels that at this
point, when the conflicts between
the imperialist powers become
greater, is the moment to transfer
them into the unity Of common &C
ton against the Soviet Union-in
order by mighty, criminal stroke
to attempt to solve the difficulties
of world capitalism at the expense
of the victorious proletarian revolu-
ticn
The whole essence of the Nazis,
bloody plans is haste and dispatch
because at home initiation and al
economic catastrophe cannot h
STAYED Off The German toilir1
masses who as far back as last Oc-
tober had their living conditions
smashed down to the lowest point
in SO years are now faced with
coolie conditions or starvation for
millions. The Nazi butchers are
working on the theory that they
cannot risk q catastrophic harvest.