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

sive than the last one. The only alternative Is
return to cannibalism.
1t is not often that the masses of the people
are able to listen to such cynical confessions as
that which finds expression here. In whichever di-
rection looks encounters the spectre of war
Sir Austen Chamberlain drily records that the posi-
ton in Europe, public opinion and the actions of
the governments are today more threatening to
peace than at any time since the ending of the
World War, while Mussolini pathetically declares
that war is an accompaniment Of the evolution of
humanity and that war is to the man what mother
hood is to the woman. II not only 90 not believe
in permanent peace, but find the thought of per-
manent peace depressing one. Permanent peace
is denial of the fundamental human virtues which
only attain their full expression through bloody
exertion of force" Thus, Mussolni announced in
the summer of 1884, amid the applause Of his as
sembled satellites
1--WE do not say that it is certainly war, but we
do say that 1t looks If it was coming to the
next war;" writes the organ Of the French general
staff, L'Echo de Paris The correspondent of the
Evening Standard, on his return from the Cont
nent recently reported that in well-nformed circles
of Berlin, Paris and Warsaw all the talk was about
the moment of outbreak or the field Of operation
Of the next European war.
Finally, we may note what is written by the
Poster Lloyd:
Everyone in Europe is saying to himself: new
war would be suicidal madness And yet every
has the instructive feeling that such danger
is imminent. It is exactly it in the spring
Of 1914 At that time every side in Europe
people were dominated by fear of war and from
this fear Of war; war resulted by inevitable neces-
sity.
To-day Europe again constitutes a great powder
barrel. And around this powder barrel sparks are
necessarily flying which alght now here and now
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blow into the air the whole Of the stored-up ex-
posiye materials
1t is exactly it in the spring of 1914
says this bourgeois paper. And, in fact exactly as
in 1914, the war parties pressing forward, but
the imperalists talk and talk OF peace and wash
their hands with gesture Of innocence in order
to make an alibi in good time for themselves for
the Judgment of the world Exactly as in 1914, the
capitalist world in 1884 stands fully armed for war;
if 1t is still making the last preparations
Exactly in 1914, the imperialist powers stand
in arms split into hostile camps, partly allied by
secret war alliances and ready at any moment to
hurl themselves on their adversary and on their
prey. Whether it is question Of Japanese or Ger
man fascisn, of French Anglo-Saxon dem
ocracy," of big powers little "neutras they all
stand so heavily armed that it would be wonder
if they were to celebrate the twentieth anniversary
of the outbreak of the in the trenches.
Remember the imperialist war" cried Lenn to
the toiling masses of the people in every country.
Very well then, on the twentieth anniversary of
the outbreak of war remember more than ever the
first imperialist war it's causes and victims its his
tory and It's resIllts Remember that the war made
the rich still richer, but the poor still poorer Re-
member that the brought, not tranquility and
peace not work and bread but new conflicts and
struggle, new suffering and new oppression! Re
member that the first world war will be followed
by second world war unless the wide masses of
toers at the eleventh hour deliver the death blow
to the imperialist Moloch
Ito Be Continued