How the Bloody International Makes Mere Pacifim Futile
Matthew, J. B.
By J. B. Matthew. How the Bloody International Makes Mere Pacifim Futile Sir Basil Zaharoff Can Laugh at Narrow Nationalism—It Feeds His Coffers — Socialist Action Alone Can End Wars. glR...
...The only thing secret about him is the extent of his terrible machinations with governments and his traffic in death...
...i In other words, Hoover says that capitalism has not yet done its worst '" ¦¦ . ,e e Hoover told how he lived through s depression when he was a boy in the 1870s and how "the family tightened its belt and, with confidence, voted for James A. Garfield, a Republican president...
...The Socialist Party offers to the United States the only realistic peace measures...
...Workers are a class and as a class they must formulate their own philosophy of emancipation...
...That means to move away from the working class and toward an unreliable ally...
...Three ef my children had the measles snd I just kept feeding them ehickory...
...A vote is a vote no matter who casts it and the more liberals who support your party the stronger it is...
...By the way, how Sre your three children who 1 , .; "0* they died , *j Hoover's 4 tempt the <urn just to check I that things ad...
...I'm restrainng my enthusiasm, Joe," said Bill...
...i from a yresi tnaladiti...
...This period corresponded with the transition to the factory system in England and the rise of middle class manufacturers and capitalists...
...When, in 1917, there was a possibility that peace negotiations might be undertaken Zaharoff was consulted...
...with the e« collapse...
...factories in Rumania (and Sir Herbert Lawrence is a director of the Bank of Rumania...
...Newspapers are similarly important in the scheme of the Bloody International...
...Culture and Revolutionary Aims "It does," Bill replied, "and if we were interested only in getting votes we would strive for the liberal vote but to get that vote it is necessary for us to water our Socialism...
...In that year he reaped the profits of the struggle between Russia and Turkey for power in the Near East...
...r "I guess I'll have to try your remedy...
...The Bloody International is obviously not the official title of any organization...
...Simple enough," Bill responded...
...Which reminds me of the story of the peasant woman who had a child suffering from.measles but didn't know what remedy to apply...
...If you ssy that the chair on which I am sitting is short it is short only in comparison with the high-chair in which the baby sits...
...Have you followed the course of the liberals in this election...
...The socialisation of all major industries, including aviation, item leafs, steel, shipbuilding, banks, explosives, radio, newspapers, and oil, removing the .profit motive a s the organizing principle of these, industries, is the only Intelligent peace program...
...It includes armaments, shipbuilding, docks, railways, general engineering, aviation, oil, hydraulic plants and steel...
...However, its parentage is generally ascribed to Jeremy Bcntham who lived in the last half of the eighteenth century and into the third decade of the nineteenth...
...two concerns in Spain...
...Long ago-the farcial nature of efforts at disarmament should have been clear, so long as private profit-making interests are left free to exploit internationr 1 suspicions,, and actually to stimulate international fears in order to sell their deadly products to governments...
...I never thought of it that way...
...The Bloody inter national Drill soeeessfally defy all sentimentalists...
...Tht might have bt • On reading...
...What a slogan for a re-election campaign...
...Mujor-Oeneral G. P. Dawnay, a director of Vickers, is also a director of Financial Newspapers Proprietors, Ltd., and his brother, Col...
...How do you account for it...
...It can be for Hoover and for Al Smith and even half for one and half for the other...
...Sir Herbert Lawrence, chairman of Vickers, Ltd., said on April 4, 1932: "Vickers-Armstrongs depends very largely on armament orders for its existence, while the capacity of its works for armaments production is an important factor in the defence of the country...
...I'm willing to welcome the support of every sincere person we can win, but liberalism has the substance of the froth on that beer you are drinking...
...Liberalism had and has all the instability that belongs to an intermediate class in a society that is constsntly changing...
...Enough was revealed, however, to connect Beth- . lehem Steel and other armaments interests with Shearer's work at Geneva...
...Like many ideas associated with the Reformation, liberalism floated into the modern period after its original economic basis had been...
...He was opposed to the upper aristocracy of the landed nobility and equally opposed to the working classes...
...It does seem absurd," said Joe...
...he was against the upper group but no violence should be done to it...
...Hugh Dalton, speaking on the Naval Estimates in the House of Commons on March 11, 192(1, told how Vickers supplied the Turks with munitions: "Vickers had been supplying the Turkish artillery with shells which were fired into tbe Australian, New Zealand and British troops ss they were scrambling up Ansae Cove and Cape Holies...
...Bentham formulated the philosophy of this rising capitalist class...
...Another news item from Paris reports a great1 increase : In the export of arms from France in 1932, especially to Rumania, Poland and Jugoslavia...
...But, sad to say, there are still hosts of deluded pacifists who, fancy they can reduce armaments and snd wars without touching the capitalistic system whose morality...
...Zaharoff has important interests in French and Greek newspapers...
...That's the only remedy I've ever used...
...A Ghost in the Modern Period "But the class for whom Bentham spoke according to your own interpretation," said Joe, "is no longer a middle class...
...It,is impartial because it has no fundamental convictions...
...aHugh Dalton cortscMy- pointed t, ttache* its highsst and com Vltim cxPWsipn in the activities of armaments firms...
...So it is with what you call narrow...
...he would teach the working class not to rebel against the 'eternal laws' that made workers sn 'inferior' class...
...The liberals are bioad enough to spread themselves over all parties and candidates regardless of the fundamental contrasts that parties, candidates and programs may present...
...You will find liberal support of Roosevelt, Foster, Thomas and Hoover...
...Joe inquired...
...glR BASIL ZAHAROFE is the dominant figure today in the Bloody International...
...Ever since then he has been the master salesman in applying the principle of "keeping up with the Joneses" to government purchases of armaments, playing one off against the other with nothing but an eye for the profits...
...and holdings in Poland along with the French firm of Schneider...
...Well, the liberals are so 'broad' in their views that they can shift from one election to another, making individual choices in politics and even then never presenting unity of views or in support of candidates...
...asked Bill...
...A news story of very recent . date reports the sale of twentyfour war planes by firms in the United States to the Turkish Government...
...ssid Joe with some impstience...
...eWell, maybe, you're right...
...They may have forgotten that Senator Shortridge who headed a committee of ! investigation on Shearer's activities never presented a report to the United States Senate...
...It survives as a ghost of the past and assumes a modern cultural dress that appears learned and imposing...
...It is the upper class, so how do you explain the liberalism we are now discussing...
...It would require a substantial volume to explain the inter-relations of the armaments firms today...
...Japan has been plentifully supplied with m>dern war equipment from England to carry on her war in China...
...The rising class between these two classes appeared to Bentham to be the carrier of all the political and economic virtues...
...It is liberal because it isn't against anything definite nor for anything positive...
...No Narrow Nationalists If any one imagines that the makers of armaments are afflicted with the narrow nationalism or patriotism of the D. A. R. brand he should learn that the Harvey United Steel Company was a vast .international armament trust which operated across all national boundaries and included in its circle four British firms, the two great German firms of Krupp and Dillcngen Steel, Bethlehem...
...His views were 'broad...
...He is the much-touted "mystery man" of Europe, though there is nothing mysterious about the role he has played in the history of Europe during the last half century...
...But is ehickory really a remedy for measles...
...a subsidiary in Japan which is allied with the powerful Mitsui armament industry in that country...
...It's a good sign of the progress you are making...
...removed by important industrial changes...
...Did H matter to the directors of these Armament firms, so long as they did business snd expanded the defined jfirpcndlture of Turkey, thai...
...It cannot long defy S Utase" natty of workers beat on malat|l|)nt pear* by ending the • r a f t * ef I murderous capitalism...
...The workers'need culture, don't they...
...Sells to Both Sides Then he won the distinction, as an agent of Nordenfeldt, of selling Greece the first submarine built for practical war purpose...
...gets the iinpres Republican Ps all the danger...
...Yes, the proletarian culture of a Socialist movement, not the mushy collection of views associated with a liberalIsm that has no revolutionary aim...
...Shortly afterwards he profited by tbe enlargement and re-equipment of the Greek army...
...Before the war Zaharoff was the close personal friend and adviser of Lloyd George, who became England's war-time Minister of Munitions, and of such eminent statesmen ss Clemenceau and Briand...
...It can spend much time weighing the 'qualities' of candidates and give its preference to the candidate of one party and to the platform of another...
...A. G. C. Dawnay, is a member of the Land Commission of the Disarmament Conference...
...Narrow and Broad Views "I am narrow in my views only in comparison with something else," said Bill...
...It was closely allied with the Nobel Dynamite Trust (source of the fabulous Peace Prise 1) which controlled the explosive side of armament manufacture...
...That in the result of having 'broad' views...
...Vickers-Armstrongs has a company in Italy...
...one in Canada...
...While the old Harvey United Steel Company was dissolved in 1913 the international ring in armaments is even more powerful today...
...The range of activities of Vickers alone is illuminating and also typical...
...Vickers, Ltd...
...I cr.nnot say that I have," Joe replied...
...Big Bass Drum The people of the United States have not forgotten the activities of William B. Shearer at Geneva in 1927 Which Wrecked that Disarmament Conference...
...A Farce in Politics "It's amusing," said Bill...
...Schneider, and the Italian Terni Steel works...
...it is used to describe the hideous international traffic in death-dealing instruments of war...
...While Hoevi Perils of N Moines audio Roosevelt we* to make one ef Of costume H famous, frank bati mtsi Frank vdlfil...
...Important connections with banks are easily maintained through such directorships as that of Sir Herbert Lawrence in Rumania...
...It's a long story, too long to elaborate during the lunch hour," Bill replied...
...But what application to the liberals do you make of those remarks...
...Bill Says Liberation it Like a Dead Man All Dressed Up and No Where To Go and Shocks Joe *s Broad View lb AUTOLYCUS "| SEE that the liberals are coming your way, Bill," said * Joe, as they sat down to lunch...
...their weapons mashed up into bloody pulp all the mor^ glor7that was* the flower of Onm the Jfoth of Australia Snd New Zealand, ,«/ g/d of the 1 youth of ourow?country T These men, these directors of armament firms, are the highest and completest embodiment of capitalist morality...
...Of course, it is...
...Liberalism is like the dead man who rejected heaven and hell...
...Hoover rode into power four years ago as a braggart, proclaiming the Republican Party as a divine force, and now tries to keep, power as A bully, threatening the people with "worse...
...Steel of the United States, three French firms led by...
...1 Another peasant woman advised her to feed her child ehickory three times a day...
...He was for the middle group but it should not abuse its power...
...As a cohesive force liberalism is a farce in politics...
...The phyniei* the tiek-ehem spared the ft amputating hi have also pre ¦hardening of ti titnt is dead, ( to my tforte, tix diteate...
...Lord Bertie, then the British Ambassador in Paris, wrote in his diary on June 25, 1917: "Zaharoff is all for continuing the war jutqu'dlt bout...
...He was born in Greece in 1849, and as early as 1877 came into prominence in the international traffic in weapons of war...
...The next step of selling two submarines to Turkey was an easy one...
...It is erudite, sentimental, impressionistic and never consistent but it is consistent with a cloistered life of ease above the class struggle in which the.working class must live and fight-its battles, .for .release from capitalist exploitation!*' "And yet the liberal's vote counts as much as the worker's vote," Joe objected...
...an associate in the Fokkers aviation firm in Holland and the United States...
...So-called broad views may be precisely the views that will not serve the working class...
...When we do that we forfeit the respect and confidence of the workers and abandon our revolutionary aim of abolishing capitalism...
...It ia all dressed up and no where to go," said Bill as they parted...
...Zaharoff's official connection today is with the most powerful armaments fin.i in the world, Vickers, Ltd...
...comments the .worried mother...
...There you go with your narrow views," Joe responded...
...But Could I "I ET no nan tell you it could, not *-* be worse/' i says President Hoover of' the depression...
...factories in Ireland...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 15
