The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
On the
World Front
-Bv HARRY CANNES.

Soviet Enemy No. l
His Unemployment Situation
A Step To War
FNEMY No. l of the Soviet
u Union, Sir Henry w. A.
Defending, K.B.E., together
with his wife, Lady Deter
ling, has arrived in the United
States. The British oil king
arrived on the Berengaria
Saturday to talk things over" with
John D. Rockefeler's man, Walter
C. Teagle of the Standard OIL Gem
pany.
Sir Henry is a modern Cato, who
if he isn't awakened every morning
BY a phonoTaph refrain, THE So
Wet Union must be dastroyed!' GER
tainly never permits this sentiment
to escare his consciousness.
MOI a Single unG6E-r6FO1uCiOAiSAy
N expedition against the Soviet
Union, not a plot for armed inter-
vention, that Sir Henry does not
play significant part. Fabulously
rich, he has financed every white
guard organization and army that
seriously undertook the task OF de-
stroying the workers fatherland.
A great deal of Henry's money
went to Hitler, before Hitler came
to power. What this Director Cen
eral of the Royal Dutch Petroleum
Co.. is interested in is Baku oil.
Night and day he covets the ire
mendous oil fields developed by the
Soviet Union.
WHEN questioned by newspaper
" reporters on what his mission
in the United States was, Sir Henry
was somewhat reticent and an
swered: There is always enough to
talk about when oil men get to-
gether"
Now we happen to know that the
Standard Oil Co. has on file a let
ter signed by Deterding in which
appears the following phrase:
IF you think I have in any way
changed my mind on Baku oil, you
are very badly mistaken" Sir Hem
ry, by the way, types these letters
himself on specially constructed
typewriter that is as distinctive as
his face.
DECENTLY this British oil king
II became an author, telling some
thing of his life and views. We do
not have the book at hand, as it
has not yet reached these shores,
but Fortune" in its August issue
quotes something from this book
can International Oilman') that
will interest every unemployed and
employed worker in the United
States. Sir Henry, besides having
his own solution for the Soviet
Union (the robbing of its oil fields.
has a special one for the unem-
ployed.
'If 1 were dictator of the world"
he writes, and please, Mr..
Printer, set this in larger type
WOULD SHOOT ALL OILERS
AT SIGHT" (The printers in
structions, comments Fortune"
are Sir Henry's.)
But that's nothing compared to
what Sir Henry would like to do to
the leaders of the Soviet Union.
NETERDING'S arrival in the
" United States comedies with the
alarming war moves of Japanese
imperialism against the Soviet
Union on the borders of Manchukuo.
He will have lot to say to Mr..
Teagle, and President Roosevelt,
about what spoils can be gained by
destroying the workers fatherland.
IN the very day that Sir Henry
v reached these shores, the New
York Herald Tribune published an
Associated Press dispatch from
Toxic telling of new Anglo-Jap-
anese secret treaty concerning colo
NAL plumber in the Far East and
war against the Soviet Union.
After discussing this secret pact,
the Herald Tribune story goes on
to say:
THE Japanese Government, a
foreign Office spokesman said here
today, is considering the posi-
bility of sending general warn
ing to Soviet Russia as the next
step in the gravely strained rela-
tiOns between the two countries.
The procedure has not been de-
cided upon, the spokesman said"
THE rumored Anglo-Japanese pact.
1 also, is said to contain clause
that in the event of war against
the Soviet Union, British imperial
ism would do all it could to help
Japanese imperialism win a victory
over the workers fatherland.
Sir Henry's mission in the United
States, whatever the newspapers
may announce, is to line up those
forces in this country actively work.
ing now for the united action of all
imperialist bandits in the war
against the Soviet Union.
THE news from Shanghai on the
l war plans of Japan against the
Soviet Union are already ominous.
Victor Keen, Heral- Tribune cor
respondent in Shanghai, reports
that Manchukuo, the japanese
puppet government. has already
broken off diplomatic relations with
the Soviet Union Though no diplo-
matte recognition ever existed, the
Soviet Union dealing directly with
Japan, the real power and agrees