The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

W hitherto unequalled, the
past week has seen a sharp
aning of the major conflicts
of world capitalism. We
mention the most outstand-
ing facts:
II Japanese imperialism's drive
10 war against the Soviet Union
to the actual point of war mObili-
zation and preparation of the en-
tire country for invasion of the
U.S.S.R.
q MussoIini's war mobilization,
and his specific declaration that
war will break out at any moment.
Without mincing words, he picked
the exact location of the war for
which he told 5000 officers to be
prepared at the drop Of the hat.
81 A bitter and venomOus sharp
ening of the struggle for world
financial and trade hegemony be-
tween the two leading bandit
powers, the United States and
Great Britain, inaugurated by the
most drastic battle of the pound
and dollar yet seen.
a. Increase in the catastrophe
crisis of German capitalism, with
bankruptcy and starvation facing
the country; rise of open class
battles, as shown by the workers
on the streets to the Mani Storm
Troops wholesale arrests.
THE upshot of this situation is that
1 as the economic crisis through
out the capitalist world grows worse
with Winter approaching, as hunger
and misery for the greatest bulk Of
the world population looms, the ma
jor imperialist powers are preparing
for a drastic blood-letting in an eff
fort to stave off internal disaster.
AS the facts of the past week
show, the conflict of all the imperi-
alist robbers against the Soviet
Union grows simultaneously with
their bitter antagonisms between
themselves. In this situation, Jap
anese imperialism plays the role of
the lightning rod, catching the rag
ing world storms of war and direct
ing them along the path of a crirni-
nal adventure against the Soviet
Union. German fascism is already
plighted to this STEP British inn
perialism has long waited for the
moment. The deeds of the Roosevelt
regime rejection Of the Soviet
Unions debt solution offer, approval
of the heavy and rapid arming of
Japanese imperialism, advocacy of
red-baiting campaign against the
Soviet Union) show that the New
Deal would favor war against the
Soviet Union.
NEVER before, since the soldiers in
IN the last imperialist war actually
marched to the battle-f1elds, has the
world been confronted with the inn
minent danger of another imperial
list holocaust as confronts it today
This is the situation that looms
before the Second U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism to be held
in Chicago, September %, 90 and
30 The Congress may we'll be q
Congress, not against the war dam
ger but against an actual war.
WHEN before has a Congress
W against war met in an atmos-
phere indicated only specifically by
the following:
TOXIC, Aug. "a Universal
Service. - "OminouSly silent, the
japanese government today con-
sidered Russia's singing diplo-
matte rebuke in the Chinese East
ern Railway dispute as war fever
swept the islands of the empire"
The poisonous germs of the war
fever was deliberately injected by
the japanese military clique along
with the most gigantic air maneu--
vers ever held in Japan.
From Bologna, Italy, comes just
as open talk of war. Speaking to
5000 officers and military attaches,
Mussolini declared:
"War can break out from one
moment to the other. !. 1t is not
necessary to be ready for the war
of tomorrow but the war of to-
day. This is the slogan that con-
fronts the Second U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism, "the
war Of today!")
1--WE must become military ma
ton, even militaristic nation.
We might even ada warlike
nation"
MUSSOLINI went ever further, ac-
lN tually indicating where the war
of today is to be fought. He pointed
to the East and declared:
Il call your attention to the fact
that the ground which has been
chosen for the maneuvers resembles
that of the Italian Eastern frontier
the same broken terrain and even
the same lack of water"
He was referring specifically to
Austria and Jugoslavia
THE engineered fall in the pound
is bringing extreme nervousness
to London and Wall Street because
it portends a vicious battle of the
two financial powers and further
.ggravation of the world financial
instability. Both the British and
American imperialists have begun a
war to the death for markets, and
the pounds chute is the first gun.
An infiationary bombardment Of
dollars, already under way, will fol-
low with terrific roar. Meanwhile,
both countries speed their navy and
air forces as never before.
The situation in Germany is sum-