The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28
World Front
A Brochure on Navies
Some Words on the U. S. S. r.
Gambling on the Saar
By HARRY CANNES

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"A fine, handmade paper,
with a message from the
Japanese government, has
gone out to American read
ers. Of course, it wasn't sent
to factory workers, or farm
ers. What Captain Tamon Yama-
guchi, naval attache to the En-
basSy of Japan in Washington, DC.
had to say was for the eyes and
ears of the American wealthy class.
Now, learned as he is in the WAYS
OF diplomacy as well as war, Cap
tain Yams%uchi doesn't speak en-
tirely what's in his mind, or what
his government wants the American
capitalists to consider. He does not
say right openly: Your government
is building the biggest navy, pre-
pairing for domination of the Far
Eastern colonies in contest with us.
and we demand, therefore, an end
of the treaty which keeps our navy
down to the 1858 ratio"
But he does hold out the most
attractive bait that one imperialist
power can to hook its rival. That
bait is to allow Japanese imperial
lists to build more powerful navy
Gas well as to prepare for war more
rapidly without the hindrance of
Wall Street antagonisms, in order
to hit the chief blow at the Soviet
Union.
HERE'S how the Naval Attache
IL does it, and here also is how
ne gives his little game away:
On page 6 of the elegantly printed
brochure already mentioned, Cap
tain Yamaguchi tells the influential
American readers:
Behind Japan's insistence upon
parity, there is the problem of
our relations with the Union of
Soviet Russia. 1t is no secret
that the Soviet Government in
recent years has revived its naval
force with renewed vigor. There
are more than twenty submarines
at Vladivostock and great fleet
of modern fighting planes is also
stationed in that vicinity"
The picture here that this special
ist in war wants to create in the
minds of his readers is that the
Soviet Union international fortress
of the world revolution) is building
up its armed forces, and Japanese
imperialism should be allowed to
strike it down, in the interest Of
all capitalists.
THE Captain relates what he says
is mo secret" that the Soviet
Government has revived its naval
force with renewed vigor" What
does this revived" naval force con-
siSt of that confronts the imperial
japanese navy, with its ships that
are the equal of the American and
British armadas? Twenty subma-
rinesl Now the Naval Attache may
know his airplane carriers, his Nell
sons, Skaggeracks, and the claw Of
the N square," as it operates in
naval warfare, but he doesn't know
logic. For on page 9, after trying
to show the aggressiyeness of the
Soviet Union by its construction Of
20 submarines, he writes, referring
to the right of Japan to build more
submarines:
However, in spite of their
(submarines0 slow speed they
have strong attacking power, and
in case an enemy's fleet comes,
they can be an ideal and most
effective defensive Weapon. In
other words, submarines are not
essential in offensive warfare, but
are indispensable in defensive
operations"
Which, of course, helps to sustain
Comrade Stains slogan of the So
Wet peace policy: I'VE do not want
foot of foreign territory but will
not cede an inch of ours" All of
the Soviet Unions preparations are
for defensive operations" against
the open offensive attacks of jap
anese imperialism in Manchuria,
and avowed aims of invading the
Soviet Union.
The question of planes does not
enter Captain Yamaguchi's discus
sion, as the Washington treaty does
not restrict Japan from building as
many planes as 1t can, which 1t is
of course, doing.
THE Saarland industrialists are
L making huge fortunes in Fascist
Germany through stock exchange
gambling, fostered by the Nazi gov
eminent. The "Weltfront" in its
December End number gives figures
showing the enormous stock pur-
chases on the Berlin exchange by
Rochling, one of the wealthiest cap
italists in the Saar. This business
is done In blocked marks" marks
which can be spent or used only in
Germany. Rochling gets the
blocked marks at one third of their
value, since the German govern
ment is forced by the shortage Of
foreign currency to pay one blocked
mark for two French francs. These
blocked marks will be released at
the moment the Saar district is
seized by the Fascists, giving Roch-
ling the equivalent of the foreign.
exchange mark with the blocked
marks" he got at one-third the
value.
While doing business on the one
hand with the French war indus