The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

IN THE same day that t
" Japanese Privy Coun,
answered Roosevelt's nav
arms race challenge by d
nouncing the Washingtc
Naval Treaty, the Japanes
army in Manchukuo opene
the new military railroad leadil
to the Soviet border.
Here symbolically we have an e.
preston of the relation of the grow
ing conflicts between the imperia
ist bandits and their war move
against the Soviet Union. Japa
takes up Wall Streets gauntlet &c
a naval arms race. But at the sam
time it loads its biggest gun &c
firing at the Soviet Union.
The upshot of this situation
that though the growing clash be
tween the imperialist colony ant
market in the Far Eas
makes it more difficult to carry OF
the war against the Soviet Union
there goes on the simultaneous
movement to try to end these
clashes by merging their common
interest in war against the work.
ers' fatherland.
THE League Against War and Fas-
l cism has tripped up Roosevelt's
pacific claims with regard to the
Chaco war. In its latest release,
Facts and Figures on War and
Fascism," the League points out:
'The United States decided to &C.
cept the role Of 'peacemaker' in the
Chaco dispute on Dec. 7. This
would seem to be in accordance
with the policy enunciated by the
when it placed an en-
barge on all munitions shipments
to Paraguay and Bolivia-but::
"On Nov. 6, it was reported that
arms shipments to the Chaco bel
ligerents have continued despite
the embargo and thus far the U. S.
Government has done nothing
about it. The West Coast Leader
of Lima, Peru, reports that the
Paraguayan minister in Washing
ton requested the State Department.
to investigate the shipment Of 1874
cases of machine guns from Nor
folk, Va, to Bolivia via africa dur
ing the week previous. The en-
barge was supposed to go into effect
in May 1884 The Paraguayan
minister pointed out that it was
entirely improbable that this con-
signment formed part Of the
munitions shipments permitted on
the ground that the contract had
been signed prior to the embargo.
ut has been estimated that over
10000 men have been killed and
another 10000 disabled by jungle
diseases in the present dispute over
the rich Chaco oil deposits and
grazing lands. Standard Oil Co.
GU. s. and Bolivian Concessions
Limited (British) have been the
most interested in the oil, despite
Standard Oil denials
CPEAKING of ornaments, reminds
- us Of Ramsay Macdonald. There
are no political depths too low for
that man, erstwhile pride of the
Second International. One could
write modern version of Dante's
Inferno listing his crimes and sins
against the toiling and colonial
peoples. But his latest service to
British imperialism is his protec-
ton of cabinet members holding
war stocks and shares.
Under no circumstances, declared
Macdonald in the House of Com
mons last Wednesday. would he
issue ruling or countenance one,
forbidding cabinet members from
holding stocks in armament corpora
tions.
Incidentally, I might say" de-
clared Macdonald with that SUI
preme RIGHTEOUSNESS which typifies
him, ut is impossible to differen-
tiate between many munitions firms
and firms producing materials for
use in war time"
Which is the reverse Of the medal
flipped to us by Vincent Aston in
this country who made millions
during the war but denied it was
in munitions stocks. When 1t is
to their immediate interests Gas in
the case of MacDonald) they argue,
why discriminate against war stocks
and other materials supplied in war
time? When they want to disaso-
ciate themselves from unsavory ex-
posures Of arms investigating COM
mittees, then war munitions stocks
are sharply distinguished from other
war supplies.
SIS January 10, the date of the
n Saar plebiscite, approaches,
rumors come thicker. faster and
more ominously out of Fascist Ger
many, 1t seems that the whole
top structure of the Nazi regime is
due for new explosion, and that
the Hitler forces are barely able
to hold it down with all their might
awaiting the outcome of the Saar
plebiscite. Rumors of Hitler being
shot are reported and denied. Other
rumors have it that Goering is to
take command of the Reichswehr,
with Werner Won Blomberg, min
lister of the Reichswehr, stepping
out. This change, however, is not
quite possible without some blood
flowing in order to ease Goering
into the job.
But the rumors, forecasts as well
as the actual speeches of the Nazis
sound like the language of the Del
phic oracle. There is something