The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
World Front
The U.S.S.R. and France
Archimbaud's Corrections
The Soviet Piece Policy
: By HARRY CANNES

Archimbaud's Corrections
The Soviet Piece Policy
WHAT " howl of lying dis
" tortions shot through
the world capitalist press
when the French deputy
Archimbaud, in the interest
of French Imperialism, sought
to sensationalize and tear out
of its true meaning, the Soviet
peace policy, and its concrete
moves. On the next day, however,
Archimbaud sought to clarity his
statements.
II never said that there was a
military agreement between France
and Russia" he declared. "A read
ing of the Journal Official shows
that never affirmed there was an
alliance or Franco-Soviet military
treaty.
What is the situation? The entire
capitalist world is arming and rush.
ing towards war It is no accident
that the capitalist press featured
this sensational and distorted news
from France just at this time. jap
anese imperialism has passed the
biggest war budget in all its history.
The London naval talks had reach
ed an impasse, with the U. S. rush.
ing its unprecedented naval build
ing program, The Balkans are in
a war fever. Hitler is preparing for
armed seizure Of the Saar and pre-
cipitating new world slaughter.
The Soviet Union, surrounded by
enemy capitalist countries, in the
East and West had long foreseen
the development and its inevitable
sharpening. Socialist construction
is advancing with seven League
boots.
THE imperiahst conflicts had
4 reached such stage that a rift
took place in the camp of world
imperialism. Japanese imperialism
and German Fascism could no
longer remain in the League of Ma
tons. The Soviet Union entered
this breach in order to utilize the
1mperialist conflicts to the last
shred in an effort to block war.
In this respect, France, fearing
that Hitler would seek a revision of
the Versailles treaty by war, was
forced to support the Soviet Unions
entry into the League of Nations,
and the efforts to block Hitler's
war moves in Poland and the Bal
kans, by supporting the Soviet
Unions proposal for an Eastern
Locarno pact.
To this extent, for the preserva-
ton of peace, for the utilization Of
all means to prevent the most bel
ligerant of the capitalist powers
from going to war, the Soviet Union
entered into cooperation with
France.
Archimbaud himself admits this
situation, saying: IF we consider
the state of Europe we are obliged
to admit that Hitler, since his ar
rival in power, has tried to set up
against the U.S.S.R., as adversaries,
first Poland and then Japan. Russia
and France, understanding that
peace was threatened wanted to
| guarantee their security"
WHEN the Communist Deputy,
7" Ramette, declared: 1.-THE Soviet
Union is the sole force for peace in
the world" Archimbaud was forced
to answer: That is just what I
said"
But that is not what the capital
ist press Haunted to the reading
public of the world. They left the
impression that the Soviet Union
was offering it's army to France,
whenever the French imperilists
thought they were endangered.
Lenin has pointed out in his letter
/, to the American workers, that when
the Soviet Union is attacked or
threatened by any imperialist power,
the proletarian dictatorship would
not hesitate to make use of the cap
italist conflicts and enter into mill
tary actions-for the preservation
of the proletarian revolution.
The French imperialists have no
more love for the Soviet Union, for
the fortress of the world revolution,
than have the japanese imperial
| lists of the German fascists. But
French imperialism is placed in
certain relationship because of the
conflict between Hitler and France,
which forces it to seek the support
of the Soviet peace policy in order
to stave off war.
The object of French Imperialism
is to keep what it has. The object
of the Soviet Union is, in order to
strengthen the forces of proletarian
revolution, by every means to pre-
vent war for a redivision of the
spoils of the last world war and
re-shuffling of the world colonies.
Both working for directly opposite
and Numerically opposed ends, fol-
lowing the same path in relation
to Germany and Japan, who want
war NOW in order to stave off their
collapse.
Every day of life and advance Of
| the Soviet Union helps speed the
death of world capitalism. The
growing power and strength of the