The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
From the First World War to the Second
BY Burck

tries the theological preparation for intervention
has undergone a significant increase during recent
weeks.
Why have not the imperialists in spite of their
stubborn efforts for many years, still today not
undertaken an attack upon the Soviet Union? Well
the question of intervention is not only question
of desire, it is also question of ability The whole
inner weakness and historically outlved character
of the bourgeois social order is laid bare by the
problem of the Soviet Union The world bourgeoise,
internally divided and split up and weakened by
the crisis, has encountered unforeseen difficulties in
the establishment of a united front of intervention.
The toilers of all countries have placed themselves
like mighty wall around the socialist fortress and
they have shown that they regard an attack on the
Soviet Union as an attack on their own fatherland
Supported by this readiness for defence the part
of the world proletariat the thorough going peace
policy of the Soviet government has finally been
able to achieve enormous successes and again and
again to prevent the execution of the plans of inter-
vention. Protected by it's growing economic poll
tical and military strength and with the moral and
active support of the millions in the capitalist coun
tries who are interested in peace, the Soviet Union
was able to carry out its complicated and difficult
struggle for peace successfully that it has proven
to be the strongest brake the execution of the
imperialst plans of war. If humanity is still not
celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the out
break of the war in the trenches it this excu-
sively to the revolutionary peace policy of the Soviet
Union From the first day of its accession to power
the Soviet government stood in the forefront of the
struggle for peace The powerful role of the Soviet
Union in the maintenance of world peace found
expression in its recognition by all the states in the
world in the conclusion of numerous non aggression
pacts, in the exposure of the war makers and the
combating of those sabotaging disarmament in the
warding off of all war provocations and in the
assiduous struggle for disarmament. The Soviet
government does not orientate itself on any i'm
perialist power, but exclusively on the peace in
terests of the world prolearat 1t has not pursued
policy of annexatons and bloc making. for only
socialism, which does not base itself on the ex-
ploitation of man by man and the oppression of
peoples, can renounce an imperialist policy of con-
quest. The Soviet government as the sole govern
ment in the world to do so, has demanded universal
immediate and complete disarmament Only the
Soviet Union has fought for security against war in
place of the imperiast security against disarmament
and peace. The the inperialists desire to
provoke the Soviet government into war; the more
calmly has the latter continued its persistent peace
policy, at every moment prepared to successfully
defend its socialist achievements with the keen
edged sword of the Red workers and peasants army
1T is not for who have experienced the
shame of the Brest-Litovsk Peace to sing the
praises of the Versailles Treaty. We merely do not
agree to the world being flung into the throes of
a for the sake of this treaty The same
thing must be sad in regard to the alleged new
orentation taken by the u. S. S. r. We never had
any orientation towards Germany nor have we anv
orientatjon towards Poland and France Our
erientation towards Poland and France Our
present time is towards the U. S. S. r. and towards
the U. s. S. R. alone. loud applause). And If the
interests of the U. S. S. r. demand rapproach-
ment with this that country which is not in
terested in disturbing peace, we shall take this
step without hesitation
Ito Be Contnued)