The daily worker., 1934-08-06
From the First World War to the Second
By Gropper

1881 Italy occupies Tripon region.
1882 Japan occupies Manchuria fighting at
Shanghai; French war in Morocco.
1928, Japan Chinese war; War between Peru
and Columbia War between Bolivia and Paraguay.
1888 France occupies Yunnan, and nine South
Sea Islands; Britain advances into Tibet.
1884, Spanish French war against North Africa
tribes War in Arabia; japanese advance into
Mongolia.
THIRTY military actions in fifteen years Thirty
wars under the auspices of the League of Ma
tions. We can ask, has that been peace3 No,
this first world war, which passed over into wars
of Intervention against Soviet Russia and Soviet
Hungary into colonial wars against the awaken
ing peoples of Asia and Africa and into civil wars
against the toilers, this world has in reality
led only to an armed peace. Where in all this
was the League of Nations Covenant the Locarno
Treaty, the outlawing of war and agreement for
peace?
From 1917 to 1920 Soviet Russia was immersed
in war by the armies of world imperialism. More
than once in the course of the last fifteen years
new Intervention has been imminent, more than
once the imperialsts have conjured up the danger
of a world conf1agration From 1919 to 1884
the colonial and semi-colonial world shaken
by the plundering expeditions of the imperialsts.
Waves of national revolution mounted high in
China and seized India and Indonesia. For
fifteen years there has been incessant war in the
colonies The French shooting in Damascus alone
left behind thousand dead In Iraq and in
Morocco war has never ceased. Hundreds have
been killed in the promised land" of Palestine
and in Egypt. The imperialists have poured out
seas of blood in China, India and in Indonesia.
The Latin American continent where the advance
guard fighting between American and British i'm
perialism has taken place, was never tranquil; in
surrectons and wars followed one after the other
Did not the actions of the imperialists against
the oppressed national minorities in civilized"
Europe bear resemblance to wars? Did not the
massacres in Macedonia and Carpstho Russia, the
suppression of the risings in ireland, the pogroms
against Jews in Rumania the Polish Uhlan
petitions in West Ukraine and "pacifcation ex-
petitions" in Western White Russia cost tens of
thousands of lives, convert whole villages into
smoking heaps of ruins and lead to humiliating
oppressive DEGREES? Do not the occupants of the
regions of national minorities still today live
in an enemy country?
From the robbery of Bessarabia by Rumania
of Wilma by Poland, of Meme by Lthuania right
up to the occupation of the Ruhr, from the sharp
conflict over DanAg and Austria up to the recent
struggle over the Ssar region and the war advance
of the Japanese, there has occurred endless
chain of onslaughts robberies and conflicts
which have again and again threatened the out
break of war. The Italo- o-Jugoslavian frontier
fict almost led to war The ncessant friction be-
tween Danzig and Poland caused Marshall Foch
to designate the Polish Corridor as the future
theatre of war of Europe. The problem of Austria
has threatened to become the Sarajevo of the
second world war The struggle over the Danube
and the Balkans raised the antagonism be-
tween France, Italy and Germany almost to boil
ing point and drew the whole of South Eastern
Europe into the main stream of war.
Ito Be Continued)