The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
World Front
= BY HARRY CANNES
Hitler Lets the Cat Out
British Cabinet Nervous
The Soviet Note

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British Cabinet Nervous
The Soviet Note
HITLER is queering the game Of
- the British die-hards whose aim
behind the Anglo French proposed
European pact was to drive it. more
or less speedily, in the direction of
war front against the Soviet
Union. The chief fascist was in
vited to come in on the deal in
return for legalized re-arming.
But because the proposals were
enshrouded in vague terms Of
peace" AND because the French
signers mad also signed mutual
assistance peace pact with the So
Wet Union, Hitler sought bluntly to
press the issue to an open, brutal
anti-Soviet end. In newspaper ar
ticles and diplomatic notes, the Hit
Ter gang declared they would accept
on condition that German Fascism
be allowed an air force sufficient
for war against the Soviet Union.
This idea was further ENCOURAGED
by the fact that the London pro-
posals neatly failed to mention a
single word about the Eastern Lo-
carno pacts for peace which the
Soviet Union had sponsored.
Besides, Hitler appealed to the
British imperialists for a private
conference in which the whole plot
would be worked out more con-
cretely.
The Soviet Union Immediately be-
gan to spike this drift by exposing
the trend to the entire world.
THE Soviet Ambassador to London,
L Comrade L NJ Maisky. branded
Hitler'S maneuvers around the An
glo-French pact as dangerous war
move, aimed at the Soviet Union.
His reference to the Eastern Locar-
no pact touched the sorest point in
the whole business. Without peace
in Eastern Europe, Maisky said.
there could be no peace anywhere.
And the Soviet Union was working
for peace in this area by its mutual
assistance pacts against war.
Maisky's speech, followed up by a
short but a many-barbed diplomatic
note to England and France, had
its effect. The London Cabinet met
to discuss the situation. Hitler was
told not to come to London to dis
cuss his anti-Soviet war aim, as
that would be too obvious.
There is strong desire res
marked Frederick T, Birchall, N. Y.
Times London correspondent, ito
urge upon the German government
that future exchanges should cover
the entire field rather than the air
proposal alone"
He further declared that the So
Wet Government lis beginning to
make itself heard regarding the
German attitude toward the Anglo
French proposal in no uncertain
terms"
Hitler's objective was to rupture
the Soviet French peace pact; and
in this respect he was aided by the
British imperialiSts who want a
sp edy war against the Soviet
Union.
DUT the British cabinet, sensing
u the growing upsurge among the
British proletariat, did not dare to
continue along this path OF open
provocation of Fascist war against
the Soviet Union. Their diplomacy
is now one Of a zig-zag-an appear
ance of disowning Hitler's idea of
solid Ellropean-Japanese united
front for war against the U.SS.R.
The sharpest barb in the Soviet
note is precisely the weakest point
in the Anglo-French pact.
"The organization Of security in
Europe says the Soviet note to
England and France, "can be at
tanned through realization of all the
accords and pacts cited in the Lon
don communique, and that to for
get this or that accord, far from
serving the consolidation Of peace,
might serve as provocation to open
violation of the agreement by an
interested party"
The Anglo-French pact merely
forgot" the Eastern Locarno pact.
Hitler saw in this a ''provocation to
open violation" and war against the
Soviet Union.
Concluding, the Soviet note, with
the knowledge that capitalist dips
lomats always say the opposite of
what they mean to do, states:
TN saluting the accord reached
at London the Soviet Government
hopes that it will be brought to re-
alization in the spirit it suggests"
Maisky's speech and the Soviet
note is meant, above all, for the at
tention of the toiling masses in
those imperialist countries who are
maneuvering for an anti-Soviet war
front.