The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
BarbuSSe Sounds Alarm
against Menace Of Var
Which Threatens USSR
Issues Passionate Appeal to Every Honest Person
For Unity in the Struggle Against the
Second World Slaughter

I strategic preparations along the So
Wet frontiers indiSputably prove
that Japan is determined to make
war on the Soviet Union at any
price"
The events of the last four weeks
have confirmed this declaration in
an alarming manner. Not week,
in fact not a day, passes without
provocations by the Japanese mill
tary clique and their puppets in
Manchukuo. officials of the Chinese
Eastern Railway are still being ar
rested. Never has a campaign of
robbery and lies been carried on so
far in order to convert a neighbor
into an enemy and force it to war.
1t is only because Japan has to deal
with such a powerful and peaceful
partner as the Soviet State, which
is master of itself, that this insolent
game which it is pursuing has not
achieved its aim. 1t is clear that
Japan is bent on Selling the Chinese
Eastern Railway not only in order
to save the purchase money, but in
order to continue its policy Of rob-
berry.
The Soviet government has given
plain and emphatic answer thru
its Ambassador in Tokyo to these
provocations. This document is such
damning indictment of the Jap
anese government and its Man
churian puppets that other pretexts
must be sought for the seizure of
the Chinese Eastern Railway than
the tragi-comedy staged hitherto.
The diplomats and the general
stats of nearly all the imperialist
powers are eagerly working in order
to launch an attack against the
Soviet Union from the East, the
South and the West. A short time
ago it was reported in certain news
papers that a military alliance was
in course of preparations between
Great Britain and Japan.
1t is clear that German imperi-
aliSm is doing its utmost to win over
Pilsudski Poland as an ally. AS an
inducement Germany has promised
Poland a large slice of the Soviet
Union, and in addition certain adj
vantageS from the dislnemberment
of the Baltic States. There is no
doubt that an agreement would be
reached with regard to the Polish
corridor. 1t seems that in the last
few days a secret agreement has
been concluded between Germany
and Poland according to which, in
the event Of war, Poland would sup
ply food and raw materials and
Germany war materials. Who could
deny that this agreement represents
war plan against the U.SS.R.?
In this very serious and threaten
ing situation the working masses of
the world must launch counter
offensive in order to Illustrate the
aims of the international war in
cendiarieS. The Soviet Union has
done its utmost in order to main
tain peace in the interests of the
masses of the whole world. The
moment has now come when the
masses of the people in the capt.
talist countries must come forward
in broad united front in order
to prevent the war against the So
Wet Union and to shatter the block
OF the imperialists. In various
countries Socialist and Communist,
Christian and non-party workers,
employees and intellectuals, women
and children, have unitedly ex-
pressed their determination to bring
to naught the war designs against
the workers and peasants Republic.
The World Movement against War
and Fascism has made it its historic
task to defend the Soviet Union
with the aid of the whole of hu-
mainly.
We are millions who are inspired
with the ambition to become the
world organ of united action. to
stand at the side of the great free
people and win the emancipation of
the subjected peoples. We address
a passionate appeal to all opponents
of war and oppression, no matter
to what party they belong, to join
our mass movement and, together
with us, fulfill their duty by defend
ing the Soviet Union,