The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-24

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I mense significance. The Big Five
are five capitalist empires, each o
!, which is struggling for markets am
for investment opportunities. Britain
> and Germany fought the recent wa
! because Germany challenged Britain
economic supremacy. Today each O
the Big Five is busy with just sucl
: an economic battle as that which pre-
: coded the war of 1914. British ant
} American oil interests are in Opel
conflict; Japan is seeking to exclude
: western bankers from the Chinese
field; France and Italy are bitter ri
walls for the control of the Mediter
7 ranean; Britain and France are con
tending for the resources of centra
Europe and of the near East. Besides
J that, it must not be forgotten that
naval and military appropriations are
. larger among the Big Five than they
were before the World war.
ANY one of these issues may lead
to war-between the Allies and Rus
STA; between the Allies and the Cen
trail Powers; between the Allies and
the victims of their exploitation; be-
tween the Allies themselves. One or
more of them is sure to result in war
within a decade, If the treaty and
the League Covenant are enforced.
The League of Nations is league
of war; its present form, its very
existence spells war.
81 have another reason for insist
ling that the League will make for
war rather than for peace-a reason
growing out of the Leagues own rec
ord During it's brief existence, the
League has witnessed more than a
score of wars in Europe, Africa and
! in Asia. These wars have been parti-
cipated in by Great Britain, France,
Italy and Japan-the leading expon-
ents of the League. France has sent
men and money to back Poland and
to uphold General WrangeIs insur-
rection against the Russian govern
ment, while her armies are busy con-
quering and subjugating Syria. Great
Britain is fighting in Ireland and in
Mesopotamia. Spain, France and
| Italy all are fighting in North Africa,
and Thrace is being ravaged by con-
| tending armies.
"Since the League came into being,
Europe has blazed with war. The
League is not a war prevention, but a
war maker.
$50 much for the character and his
tory of the League. Now as to its
purposes. These are three in num-
Der:
81. To crush out socialism.
"2. To safeguard the British EN-
pre-
49, To unite the exploiters against
the exploited.
1.-THE relation of the League and of
its principal members toward Soviet
Russia is a sufficient guarantee of the
first point. The position of the Bri-
fish Empire combined with the work
ing of Article x of the League Gov
enant establishes the second.
British statesmen insisted that they
desired nothing as result of the
war. AS things turned out, however,
they received over two million square
miles, including important possessions
in East Africa, Mesopotamia, the lands
bordering the Red Sea and the Per-
sian gulf, Persia, Thibet, and the Ger
man possessions in the south Pacific.
This gives the British Empire con-
troll over something like a third of |
the earth, including a continuous
stretch of territory from the Cape of |
Good Hope to Cairo and from Cairo |
to Bengal These things are guaran- |
teed under the treaty, and Article x |
of the Covenant provides that: The |
members of the League undertake to |
respect and preserve against external |
aggression, the territorial integrity |
and existing political independence of |
all members of the League This
clause commits all members of the
League to back the British Empire in
it's efforts to hold hundreds of mil
lions of human beings in subsection.
1.-THE original Holy Alliance organ
lied in 1915 between Austria, Russia,
Prussia and France, carried a mutual
guarantee to protect from internal dis
like the French revolution,
The members of the Alliance This
1ow Alliance guarantees it's members
against the possible loss OF their col
)nies and possessions by any form of
external oppression. They bind each
,ther to help hold what they have
stolen in this and previous wars. Ac-
,ording to the original plan, the
United States was to furnish the men
md the money necessary to carry
his Covenant into effect.
1.-THE League is intended to organ
re and unite the exploiter nations. Il
Under Covenant provisions, the ex- ]
dotted nations have no rights that =,
he exploiters are bound to respect. :
japanese troops will remain in Korea; t
British rule stays in India and Amer :
can Marines hold their ground in
Iayti The robbers will unite and
lunder their victims in severalty.
"Thus, the League is intended, not .
0 secure freedom and self-determina-
ion, but to perpetuate autocracy and
he rule of force of which the leading :
lembers of the League are the chief
xponents.
1.-THE treaty and the League Cove
ant intensity every cause that led
p to the World war. International
capitalism, with it's economic rivalries 1
nd commercial struggles is perpetu
ted and consecrated; the exploita- Z
on of the weak by the rich and the
trong is provided for; out of such
situation there can come nothing r