The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

GOering Goes Admitting
Spanish Fascism in Crisis
MussOlini Fires Himself
IF revolutionary artist were
L to portray some leading
N axis meeting representa-
tives of their allies at a diplo-
matte conference with rifles
in their hands, the critics
would call it crude symbolism.
Yet that precisely Is the setting
Of the next anti-Soviet conversation
arranged by the dope fiend Prime
Minister of Prussia, Herr Goering,
and several members Of the Polish
cabinet.
Now the Polish ruling class.
though it flirts warmly with the
Nazis, does not always want to be
seen in the company Of Hitler's
agents under circumstances which
the rest of the world may consider
of political Importance.
So they resort to old Polish aristo.
cratic diplomacy, A friend sends
Herr Goering an invitation to go
hunting and shooting in the Polish
forests. The same friend quite ac-
cidently, quite without malice afore-
thought, with not the slightest vul-
gar thought of politics or diplomacy
in mind, sends similar invitation
to leading members of the Polish
Cabinet to join the same party.
The Nazi-Polish mon aggression"
pact-non-a aggression between the
two powers but for aggression
against the Soviet Union-now one
year old, of course will not be dis
cussed between the swilling and the
guzzling.
The present Japanese drive in
Chahar towards the Barga caravan
route, and the road to the Trans
Siberian Railway will, of course, not
even so much as be mentioned be-
tween the rabbit, deer and fox
hunting.
No Polish gentleman or German
hunter in his gay uniforms could
ever think of what bothers them
night and day while chasing animals
in the crisp air through the deep
glades of a Polish forest.
FOR the past week, the Lerroux
L Fascist regime in Spain has been
undergoing a crisis. The conflict of
the ruling forces is making it diff
cult to establish cabinet that can
stay in power more than 10 days.
Lerroux, of course, is only the facade
who uses liberal phrases, to cover
the real fascist forces. Behind him
stands the wire-puller Gil Robes of
Popular Accom- a Fascist alliance,
directed mainly by the Catholic Or
der of Jesuits. Gil Robes is Father
Coughlin's ideal and model-a sort
of a Second-rate Torquemada, Ma
chiavelli and Hitler rolled into one.
Gil Robes does not yet want to step
out into the open as the dictator of
the Fascist government, because he
has not yet built up for himself q
sufficient mass base. He feels the
government would be too top heavy
and collapse. The cabinet crisis,
very much like Mussolinis cabinet
crisis, is a reflection of the fact that
the maneuvering field for Spanish
fascism is narrowing even in this
short period after its victory"
THINGS must be pretty bad for
1 Fascist Italy when Mussolini has
to fire cabinet in which he holds
out of 10 portfolios. The other
six, of course, are mere puppets.
What could they do to incur the
wrath of Mussolini when they never
do anything without consultation
with the Fascist leaders.
But things are getting SO bad in
italy Mussolini has to give the APP
pearance of disgust and action.
Hence he fires everybody, including
himself, and reconsitutes the cab
met, taking again his 7 portfolios.
This, however, will not stabilize the
! Ira. 1t will not increase italian for
eign trade. 1t will not make the
masses satisfied with lower wages
and lowered living conditions.
Mussolini was the guy who about
six months ago said, in justifying war
preparations. that humanity had no
idea of its ability to suffer. He said
1 the masses were becoming more
sto,cal and would have to undergo
tortures that m kin d never
dreamed it could live through be-
/ fore.
But the self -immolation h a t
Mussolini is planning for the Italian
people will be paradise to what he
has in store for the Abyssinian
Negro masses. While the French
were ready to accept the Abyssinian
ambassadors regrets" over the little
killing incident on the French So
mali border, MuSsolini insists that
doesn't satisfy him. TIe hasn't got
the patience, to wait for some better
pretext. He wants to invade Abyss
sinia now.