The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-04
On the
World Front
by HARRY CANNES III
Military Pamphleteers
For War Against the U.S.S.R.
Their Friends in the U. S.

ing has been reached with the
Soviet Union for the sale of
the Chinese Eastern Railway,
the japanese army drives re-
lentlessly for war against the
U. S. S. R.
The latest evidence of this fact,
which has caused an international
Juror, is an official army pamphlet
issued by the commanding staff of
the Japanese army flat-footedly call
ing for immediate preparations Of
the whole country for war against
the Soviet Union.
''The Basic Principles of National
Defense and Proposal fer Strength
ening It," is the title of the PAM
phlet, 100000 copies of which have
been distributed throughout Japan.
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CPEAKING the real aims of the
~ Japanese militarists, who have
blood bonds with the big trusts and
the Emperor, this pamphlet en-
phasizes the fact that the whole at
tack on the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way as well as the breaking off of
negotiations, and their re-opening,
are only marking time, while the
Japanese war lords pick the day for
the bloody assault on the workers
fatherland.
In China, the press is openly dis
cuSsing, not the probability of the
war of Japanese imperialism against
the Soviet Union, but the tactics
and concrete steps Of this war. For
them, Japan has already opened the
first phase of the war. The Jap
anese press is already publishing
spy material on the readiness Of
the Red Army to meet the planned
drive of the japanese war lords.
The only thing left open is the date,
and even that is narrowed down
by the Far Eastern observers.
The China Weekly Review, for ex-
ample, in the latest issue coming
to these shores, points out that it
is always the tactics of Japanese
imperialism to strike suddenly and
at the most unexpected moment.
THAT a pamphlet appears in Ja-
pan officially calling on tbs
whole country to be ready for this
war is evidence of its nearnesS.
One thing worries the japanese
war lords, and that is the inner
crisis, the growing strike struggles,
the increased peasant discomfort,
and the necessity of allaying this
upsurge. At the same time, the
very fact of growing dicciculties in
Japan, drives them forward to an
imperialist adventure against the
Soviet Union.
Politicians par excellence, the
japanese commanding staff dis
cusses the internal conditions of
Japan as follows, and offers rem
edies not entirely alien to Fascist
theology:
"If only part of the people enjoy
profits, especially profits without
labor, and the majority are in dis
tress and misery, class opposition
results which the State cannot ig-
more from the standpoint of ma
tional defense.
cit is desirable for the people to
abandon the selfish, indiyidualistic
economic sense, to awaken to moral
principles and to hasten to estab-
lish an economy embodying the en-
pire's ideals.
THE military wants the national
consciousness built up sufficiently
to prevent radical thoughts from
gaining foothold in peoples minds
and it would cultivate the spirit of
personal sacrifice in which the
country'S welfare alone counts,
while ruling out extreme interna-
tionaliSm and individualism."
IT SEEMS the contact of the Jap
anese military with Hitler has
resulted in more than a military
alliance; it has resulted in an adop-
ton of Fascist demagogy and aims.
Now because the same pamphlet
has a reference to the United States
Army'S 5000 airplanes as against
Japan's claimed 1000, the American
capitalist press tries to make it APP
pear that the threat is aimed not
alone against the Soviet Union but
the United States as we'll Without
Understanding or belittling in the
slightest the growing antagonism
between the United States and
Japan, this effort is sheer popycock.
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POWERFUL forces in the United
1 States, in fact, are helping ia
pans war plans against the Soviet
Union. We have repeatedly men,
toned the du Pont, General Motors
assistance to Japan's war plans.
Now we have information that the
forces leading the fight against
Americas recognition of the U. S.
S. R. are still in the State Depart
ment and are the ones blocking
every effort at the Soviet debt
settlement at this time. And there
is not a word of disagreement from
Roosevelt.
The following comes from THE
Daily Washington Merry Go
Round" by Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
1.-THE real story of the Russian
debt stalemate is in the attitude
of the career boys who opposed
Russian recognition in the first
place. After Roosevelt had ironed
out the main feature of Soviet
recognition last October he turned
the rest of the details over to
State Department functionaries.
Chief among these are Robert F.
Kelley, the man who supplied
anti-S0viet ammunition to Sec
retaries Kellogg and Hughes. With
him has worked Assistant Secre-