The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
On the
World Front
Big Navy Guns Speak
MussOhni-'' peace Modef'
Anti-War ManeHveFs
y HARRY CANNES


ALL of the big naval powers
IA are Numbering their
heaviest diplomatic guns in
preparation for the forth.
coming naval arms conference.
Toxic and London have fired
their first broadsides, and we
can expect fusillade from Wash.
ington soon.
For London, Lord Earl Beatty.
Admiral Of the fleet, spoke. Gen.
eral Kunishige Tanake, former
Military Attache in Washington.
stated the aims of Japanese i'm.
perialism. Roosevelt speaks every
day on naval disarmament through
rushing his billion dollar warshiu
building program. And Secretary
Of the Navy Swanson has put words
to the tune Of the clatter of mil.
lions Of rivets, the refrain of which
reads: "A navy second to none"
THE gist Of Lord Beatty's and
General Tanake's pronounce.
ments on the approaching naval
conference is that all barriers are
down. From now on there will be
a race to the finish for naval SUE
premacy. The speeches and articles
show that the preliminary, secret
pourparleurs have failed on the
most elementary points. The gem
erals and admirals are preparing
public opinion in advance for the
failure of the conference, and the
most rabid race for naval arms for
the onrushing imperialist war.
AL the imperialist conflicts have
become so severe that they cannot
be kept even within the hypocriti-
cal bounds of treaties of limitation
which never were intended to limit
anybody.
TAKE Lord Beatty, for instance.
4 He Eliminates against the
"Shackles of international agree
ments." He is for a reversion to
the days of Lord Palmerstone, when
Brittania ruled the waves and the
world markets, which is precisely
what both the United States and
Japan want to do.
But this can be attempted not
in speeches or in naval theorizing
but in the practice of unleasing a
new imperiahst war to decide i'm
perialist hegemony, and for a re-
division of the world markets, naval
bases, and naval strength.
The Lord Admiral is a very
peaceful gentleman and cites as the
outstanding model of his idea Of
peace Mussolini's war mobilization
on the border of Austria: we
recently have seen an example Of
a use of power by the head
of the government of Italy, who
preserved the peace of central Eu-
rope by moving Italian forces to
the frontier to preserve the inde-
pendence Of Austria"
DERFIDIOUS Beatty has in mind,
of course, the utilization of the
British navy in the same way; and
Roosevelt long ago took similar
step of prevention" by moving the
entire U. S. fleet into the Pacific.
The Japanese, likewise, believe in
the same sort of preventative"
measures by moving armies into
Manchuria, provoking the Soviet
Union, and generally preparing for
armed invasion of the workers
fatherland.
Admirals, proverbially, are not
men of words. They prefer speak
ing through the mouths of cannon.
That Beatty, Tanake, and Swan
sons brood speak at all is just
another indication that the con-
flicts are speeding ahead so rapidly
that there will soon be a change
of loudspeakers.
AN EXCELLENT, practical anti.
n war demonstration, one that
forecasts some of the methods of
the revolutionary workers in strive
ing for the deefat of their own irns
perialist masters in the event Of
war, took place on Aug. 4 in Vile
leneufe-les-Avignon, France.
We quote the Associated Press
dispatch relating the incident:
frances air maneuvers above
this city were halted last night
by crowd Of demonstrators led
by Communists Undoubtedly it
was a united front demonstration
of both the Communist Party and
the Socialist Party in the ethyl
who were protesting against war
preparations.
when the signal came for all
lights in the town to be extine
guished, as though air raiders
were attacking, the crowd lighted
big bonfires in the square and
defied the police to extinguish
them. The police failed"
This is war rehearsal that
should be multiplied a thousand
fold.
THE prize headline of the year,
one we recommend to the Pull
itzer Committee, is that in the New
York Times of Sunday, Aug. 5. 1t
reads: Hitler Is Pressed To Give
Assurance He Is Not Radical" The
American capitalist press, of course,
uses the word radical as con-
noting militant or revolutionary
workers. Hitler's butchery of the
German workers, his imperialist
war preparations, his slashing OF
the standard of living of the Ger
man people, and his wholesale SUBJ
sides to Krupp and other million-
aires can't convince the cautious
Times.