The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

ny hhEChL OhRNES -
Norman Thomas and theUSSR
His Place on the War Front
TheBraveMan and theCoward.
WE ARE sure Norman
W Thomas would become
violently indignant if his
name were linked with Hearst
and the Japanese militarists,
each in their own way provok-
ing war against the Soviet
Union. Norman Thomas, the So
cialist leader, would insist he ia
against such war. Yet Norman
Thomas actions and propaganda
against the workers fatherland be-
come one of the powerful cogs of
| the anti-Soviet machine in this
country working to rupture diplo-
matte relations with the Soviet
Union.
1t is not just a question Of this
Socialist leader making a speech at
Columbia University insidiously con-
trasting American liberty" with
Russian terrorism" Norman
Thomas is not living in vacuum,
but in world in which the war
tocsin against the U.S.SR. sounds
louder every day.
Hearst foams at the mouth yelp-
ing for war moves against the Soviet
Union
Hitler constantly prepares for a
drive to the East to assist japanese
imperialism.
The japanese imperialists alons
a hundred roads in Manchukuo,
Chahar, Mongolia and on the border
of the Monaghan Peoples Republic
move ceaselessly toward the Soviet
land.
And on top of all this Secretary
of State Cordell Hull demonstrates
to the entire world that the Roose-
velt government would not be averse
to a war against the workers father
land.
AND in this scheme of things Nor
"A man Thomas lends his assistance
to besmirch the Soviet Union. to
encourage and justify war against
Russian terrorism"
For Wall Street. for the most
reactionary and fascist elements in
the United States who are openly
for war against the U.S.S.R.. this
Is the greatest single service that
could possibly be performed in the
ranks of labor.
Were an open fascist to speak in
this manner, the workers would dis
trust him and be on their guard.
But when Norman Thomas, with his
unctuous pose Of pacif1sm and love
for socialism, takes up the anti
Soviet cry, the fascists feel he Is
doing them the greatest service.
THE brave man does it with a
sword, the coward with word"
Secretary of State Hull has his
own dirty way Of provoking the anti
Soviet war front. He rakes up the
old Czarist and Kerensky debt ques-
ton, and in a four and one-half
minute conversation rejects all of
the Soviet Unions offers of nego-
tiationS.
These debts have the slimiest
record in the whole unsavory history
of war debts. The U. S. government
under Wilson loaned $187 100000 to
Kerensky to keep Russia in the war
in order that Morgan could be sure
Of getting his war profits. When the
/ Soviets took power, the Wilson gov
eminent turned this money over to
Kolchak's agents to buy guns and
ammunition to kill revolutionary
workers and peasants.
CONGRESSMAN McFADDEN Of
" Pennsylvania. just before he took
$4,000 bride from Hitler's agents
in the United States, discussing the
johnson Bill, admitted that the
Kerensky loans never went to Rus
STA but went to the American bank
ers for ammunition to Koltchak,
whose agent in the United States
was a Czarist CRATER by the name
of Bakhmetiev. Here is the fascist
McFadden's statement, contained in
the Congressional Record of the
73rd Congress:
81 am frank to say that the ex-
animation which i and other MEM
hers of that committee made in-
dictated that very little of the
s1S7,090,0G0 went to Russia. It
went to nav the cr--t~-"ts CT ne
,::----;c.;a...l fiscal cgcnt il -
country for munitions. and the
bulk of the money was used for
the purpose of paying these muni-
tons contracts which the fiscal
agent had placed here. Then the
I goods did not go to Russia, and
were resold and manipulated by
Mr.. Bakhmetiev, Kerensky's agent
and Mr.. Serge Ughet, the liquidat-
ing agent; and what became Of
the money? When we started to
investigate there was over $780,
00o,000 in deposit with the [Mor-
gan] National City Bank of New
York, and when we completed our
examination, in about two weeks
time funds had been drawn down
to one million dollars"
And this is the moral" reason
for HulPs rebuff" to the Soviet
Union used by every enemy of the
workers country to provoke war.
And Norman Thomas does his bit.