The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES -
Enormous Force for Peace"
The U.S.S.R. in Action
How It's Policy Works
By HARRY CANNES

~ babble of chauvinist war
cries could cover up the pow
erful peace role of the Soviet
Union in the recent Jugoslav-
Hungarian near-expIosion.
We want to point out EN-.
phatically that this was not an iso-
lated instance of the war danger.
1t is a small mosaic that fits into
a whole dangerous pattern of war.
The key to the puzzle is German
fascism, which since it came to
power has not moved-except with
the aim of war; First it was the
slaughter of Dollfuss. Then the as
assassination of King Alexander. In
each case, the aim was to add fuel
so that the blaze Of war could be
the hotter and the razing of past
peace treaties and boundary lines
the greater.
GO far as the Soviet Union is con-
~ cerned here is the situation:
The U.SS.R. went into the League
of Nations to utilize the imperialist
conflicts to the last ounce to aid
the preservation of peace. The Sow
let Union had entered into a secur-
lily pact with France, in order to
bolster peace. The workers father
land, realizing the aims of Fascist
Germany, still further proposed an
Eastern Locarno pact (open to all
East European countries) in order
to strive to prevent a bloody change
of the border of those countries
constructed after the Versailles
treaty.
The German Fascists, viewing the
progress of these peace moves, strove
to overcome them. They tried first
by seeking to build up an anti
Soviet war block, using Poland as
the buffer and Hungary as a tool.
They financed and plotted the
assassination of King Alexander, to
precipitate rupture between
France and Jugoslavia, and to speed
war among and against the little
Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania
and Jugoslavia).
THEN on the Saar question, in
1 order to give the impression that
a new Impeachment had been
reached between France and Fas-
cist Germany. Hitler completely
agreed to all of the French terms
in the Saar. This was followed by
the bitter conflicts inspired in
Hungary and Jugoslavia.
When the war danger was at its
height here, the Soviet Union and
France re-emphasized their peace
pact by signing a supplementary
document Qater joined in by
Czechoslovakia) declaring that no
other agreements would be made
that would be inimical or against
the spirit of the Soviet-French Sc
curity pact nor the aims of the
Eastern Locarno security pact.
This had tremendously sober
ing effect on the war-made forces.
For once, the American capitalist
press began to talk about the
"peace efficacy" of the League Of
Nations.
We want to quote just one or
these expressions and indicate the
means by which its true significance
is distorted. For example, Edwin L.
James, writing in the New York
Times of Sunday, Dec 9, declares:
"Since the League of Nations
was organized it has not better
shown its possibilities for good
than in the Jugoslav Hungarian
quarrel. A dispute which once
upon time probably would have
led directly TO war is now, 1t IS
hoped, spending itself in words
across table in Geneva on which
the spotlight Of world publicity
is directed. In the mere system
by which this is being done re-
sides an enormous force for the
preservation of peace"
But this pundit of Wall Street for
gets to mention that all this
Change" came about only when
the Soviet Union-the land of the
victorious proletarian revolution
was invited into and accepted mem
i bership in the League of Nations.
Nor were the words that passed
across the green baize tables the
force that brought about a tenn
porary halt of the war moves. It
was first of all the mighty power
: of Socialist fatherland behind the
peace efforts of the Soviet Union,
the Soviet peace treaties and pacts,
plus the readiness of the Soviet
Union to defend itself against any
attack by its effective Red Army.
And Furthermore, there is the reyo-
. lutionary proletariat and the OPP
: pressed people of the whole world
standing behind and fighting along
with the Soviet Union in its efforts
| for peace and against the imperial
| ist war plotters.
1t is these relationships that inn
pei the capitalist journalists to re-
: League of Nations. But they do not
see, and cannot see, what the lead
). ers in the Soviet Union point cut
> time and time again. No amount
of striving for peace can change
: the fundamental fact that capital
ism breeds war and will sooner or
! later plunge the world into new
. bloody slaughter unless it is itself
E crushed by the revolutionary pro-
letariat. The Soviet Union strives
{ for peace to help the proletariat
a strengthen its forces SO that if and
u when the day of war comes the
u workers can answer the exploiters
IS by effective revolutionary action.