The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16

tenn WORKS IN the newspaper nelQ
controlled by the press monopoists.
In this respect, the newspaper
kings have the same interests as
the munitions manufacturers. Be
tween du Pont, who is arming for
and provoking wars, spreading cor
ruption and briberies in every con-
tinent, and Mr.. Hearst (both of
whose profits increase with war;
there is no essential difference.
Hearst, the producer of reactionary,
dirty i-workingclass campaigns,
which he peddles as public opin-
ion" does not even wait for
favorable moment for war, but
he strives with the tremendous
might of his newspapers. magazines,
radio stations, as best he can, to
create the situation for war, to
incite war.
Hearst's campaign against the
Soviet Union and the Communist
Party of the United States, which
he stated with the greatest ferocity
after his return from Fascist Ger
many, and which reached a high
point after the assassination of
Comrade Kirov, is a conscious prep
aration for a moral atmosphere for
war against the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
Impossible! The United States
which just such short time ago
recognized the Soviet Union is not
now going to make war against
the Soviet Union some people will
answer. Some others will as incred-
ulcuSly add: In the present sit
uation, with tremendous increase of
imperialist contradictions between
the United States and Japan, for
example, is not the Soviet Union 2
sort of natural ally of the United
States?"
The question is quite different
than pictured in the heads of these
good people. 1t is true that the
"well-intentioned" Roosevelt gov
ern, so highly lauded by the liberals
of the Nation" and New Repub-
lic,' is involved in very aggressive
imperialist policy against japanese
imperialism. This government has
started a, struggle with the equally
aggressive japanese imperialists on
many diplomatic fields. a naval race,
etc.,-a policy that will inevitably
lead to a war if not prevented by
the toilers. The p-e-War contradic-
ton between England and Germany
is being here repeated to a wider
extent. And the liberal" Roosevelt
regime, the regime Of the New Deal,
is preparing consciously for the
very old deal of new imperialist
war, for the domination of the Chi
nese markets. About these facts
there are not the slightest doubts.
But from this follows by no
means that the Soviet Union is con-
sidered by the American capitalists
as their natural ally"
On the contrary. AS the impe-
rielist contradictions between Jap
anese and American imperialism
mount, at the same time, the ten
dency increases among the Amer
lean eXploiters, or at least among
certain important and decisive sec
tons, to do everything to encour-
age and provoke an attack by Jap
Ianese imperialism against the Soviet
Union.
The American capitalists are not
yet thoroughly prepared for war
against japanese imperialism They
feel they must build more warships,
naval bases, ai1planes, that they
must make further diplomatic prep
arations and clarity their relations
toward the British imperialists.
There's capitalists reason in this
manner.
If in the meantime, japanese i'm
perialism we're to attack the work
ers' fatherland, that would mean a
tremendous weakening of the Jap
anese imperialistS, which they hope
could be used to advantage of the
American robbers in China. If, at
the same time, the Soviet Union
were to be weakened. or perhaps as
capitalist "ortimists" hope, the So
Wet Union would even be destroyed,
then from their viewpoint, two
biyds could be killed with one stone
Then the American imperialsts
would not only have at their mercy
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