The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 7

ae? nerme~ me DAILY WORKER. Becond Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. erick Menoere SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1926 : teepw 290 No Team Work! The Interests of Capitalist Powers Clash, says Maurice Becker, to Pull Together; Their Mascot-Bird, Named “Locarno,” Hovering A More Like a Vulture. DAILY WORKER Cartoonist, and They Just Can’t Seem bove for Good Luck, Begins to Look Strangely More and The Red Peril - By JOSEPH FREEMAN. R many years we have heard of the Yellow Peril, Japan was pic- tured as the monstrous dragon girding its loins for the conquest of the world. The Yellow Peril has been more than a nightmare of the Yellow Press. It has represented the fears of Amefican finance and in- dustry seeking to expioit China. imperial America and Imperial Japan have faced each other across the unexploited treasures of China, often exchanging, those polite and ambiguous phrases of diplomatic friendship that are meant to conceal deadly economic feuds. America and Japan have been each others’ perils in the sense that imperialism is the con- stant peril of capitalist civilization. The slant-eyed Jap began to appear loaded with arms in American cartoons precisely at the time when Standard Oil and the Morgan group of banks sought to exploit Manchuria as their “sphere of influence.” For thirty years American bankers have tried to obtain railway and financial concessions in China. During those thirty years they met the competition and opposition of Japanése capital. Today, the Interna- tional Chinese Consortium (America, Japan, Great Britain, and France) represents a united front of bankers for the financial exploitation of China. Today also, the governments serving these four banking groups present a united diplomatic front in the political manipulation of China. United fronts are known to contain internal friction, and the united front of imperialist powers in China is not without its troubles; but so far they have, openly at least, co-operated in an attempt to set up a puppet govern- - ment that will allow them to build railways and establish banks and _ make loans at usurious rates without interference. Despite Japanese, British and American rivalry, the recent naval demonstration was a fine example of “international co-operation,” in a pirating expedition, | pe all'the Imperialist powers, the peril in the Far East has changed Hts color. It is no longer yellow, but red. America’s celebrated friend. ship for China was accompanied by the maintainance of the — special treaties, by attempts to break into the Hukuapg loan, put over the Man- churian Bank (E. H. Harriman and Co., Kuhn, Loeb and Co.), to obtain the concession for the Chinchow-Aigun Railway (J. P. Morgan & Co.). Russia has given up the special treaties. She does not seek to exploit China; she is not a capitalist country; she is the leader of forces op posed to imperialism. That seems a greater peril to the capitalist “friends” of China than the rivalry of some fellow-imperialist country. This has furnished the “national defense” salesmen in the United States with a new selling point. The argument for a bigger army, navy and air force now runs: We must be prepared. Against whom? Against Soviet Russia. One of the star publicity men for a bigger and better American air force is Col. William Mitchell, former Assistant Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. He recently resigned after a sensational court-martial for criticising the present air service administration. Now he is spend- ing part of his civilian leisure writing aircraft propaganda in the Hearst press. He seeks to terrify the American citizen into supporting a bigger air service by waving two danger flags, red and yellow, Russia and Japan. “The Russians,” Col. Mitchell says, “have and are developing air craft in a manner which the world knows little of and some day, possibly in combination with other Far Eastern powers, they will make a sudden and savage gesture to conquer western civilization. While their ‘aerial strategists are evolving this new technique, their engineers are construct- ing air fleets unknown to any other power.” / ’ HERE lies the danger, according to Col. Mitchell, is China. Russlan: ¥ instructors are training Chinese aviators; an agreement exists be- tween Soviet Russia and certain northwtetiien Chinese chieftains by which the latter will help Russia in case of war by lending her trained Chinese aviators. In fact, Col. Mitchell has it from secret and authentic sources that China is altogether guided by the “geniuses of the Steppes who are seeking to shatter the fabric of our civilization.". Russia is “pianning to conquer new worlds”; Japan harbors “ancient grudges”; god (Continued on newt page—page’2) » . 3 ’