THE EUROPEAN CHESSBOARD
THE EUROPEAN CHESSBOARD 1UATCH the manouvers in Europe. Hitler is arming his cannon fodder and there is little doubt that he wants a fight. The economic condition of Germany continues bad and...
...We wonder...
...The statesmen are caught in the grip of contradictions growing out of the world depression and the aims each one seeks...
...With this infantile game played by Congressmen at the top and Capone vandals swarming at the bottom of capitalist politics, "one wonders if there is any lower level to which it can sink...
...The French imperialists for years maintained an alliance of little vassal states against Russia...
...A Geneva correspondent of the New York Times cables the following: "The majority is so very disunited both in aims and methods, so lacking in determination to come to grips with realities, so prone to catch at straws and temporary expedients, so certain that verbal formulate will bridge factual chasms instead of merely concealing them until the wayfarer falls through...
...The imperialist statesmen have the jitters, all moving to a precipice, yet not wanting to fall into the abyss...
...CAPON E POLITICS CAPITALIST polities in Oiicagd has entered a new...
...The rightwing scholar of Communism must have lately made great progress in winning back the confidence ¦ of Stalin if ho, recently appointed, editor-in-chief of the party organ Pruvda, was also entrusted with the editorship of Izvettia...
...One statesman won an election by promising to cut down funeral expenses of dead Congressmen, and another won by delivering one speech throughout his district on the beauties of the city of Washington...
...This refers to Congressmen who seek re-election...
...PLAY-BOY POLITICS A NOTHER phase of our ruling politics is described in the New York Times Magazine...
...JITTERS DIPLOMACY A LTHOUGH the disarmament conferenc is to continue, the only agreement is the solid opinion that the delegates disagree...
...Here is an evolution of capitalist politics that we commend to the "best minds" in other cities and states...
...We don't know who the taxpayer is, but if he is the poor little timid shrimp pictured by the cartoonists he gets all that is coming to him...
...THE NAVAL DISPLAY COR those who may think that the masses are looking for Socialist leadership or any other leadership against war today, the appearance of the fleet in New York waters will sober them...
...The economic condition of Germany continues bad and a war, he thinks, may divert attention from internal discontent...
...With the growing isolation of Germany there are also hints of "friendly cooperation" between Germany and Japan...
...We are opposed to war, we agitate against it and hold demonstrations in protest against it, and yet there are vast numbers who as yet have not been influenced by our agitation...
...The world drifts to a tragedy parallel to that of '1914...
...Are the silk hats now ruling the powers on the road to padded cells...
...One Negro Congressman from the North keeps track of birth records in his district and a card goes to each voter on his birthday...
...Mass psychology in favor of patriotic banners, slogans and ceremonials continues On a vast scale and he who does not realize it is living in a dream world...
...Instead of Russia being isolated, it is now Germany...
...With the rise of Hitler, France considers Germany the most dangerous menace, so France and the Little Entente make peace with Russia...
...Even children of less than ten yean old receive a card...
...If this is true, what an anticlimax it is for Hitler's pure "Nordics" lining up with tli* old bogey, the "yellow peril...
...He refuses and is told that hi$ little daughter will be kidnapped...
...He surrenders and a Capone hoodlum gets the nomination by a large majority...
...The peace arrangement with Russia followed a tenyear non-aggression treaty by Germany with Poland...
...As many as 150,000 people have visited the fleet in a single day and thousands have been turned away each day...
...phase with votes stabilized at a price satisfactory1 to the new brokers...
...r In another district a nomination is taken away from a sitting member by a man whose residence i* not even known and who could not be found the day after his nomination...
...Pefz M. Melsitoff Dies Soc...
...This week Hitler conferjpd with Mussolini, probably about arms and an "understanding" if Hitler gets into a fight, but Mussolini is also the ally of Austrian Fascism, and the Doll fuss gang is militant against Hitler...
...More astonishing, this candidate received every vote cast in three precincts and in one he received nine more votes than there are voters...
...The menace of an armed Reich has also caused some queer alignments that no one would have predicted a year or two ago...
...The interest in the navy after the experience of the imperialist war and the agitation against war indicates that Sorialist education for years is before us before even a sober minority of the masses can be mobilized against another war...
...Too often we are influenced by a romantic wishfulfillment by, assuming that what we want actually is...
...What has become of the political economists who held that capital takes special risks and is entitled to big rewards ? Perhaps they are consoling the working masses who produced the big rewards and have nothing themselves to show for a lifetime of labor...
...It is reported that gangsters and racketeers have entered the game...
...More of this play-boy stuff is placed before the reader...
...The dry spell among the farmers of the Middle West promises them nothing but as they have often voted for promises that have brought them nothing this will be no unusual experience for them...
...Vestnik, bi-monthly of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, announces in its last issue the death of one of its oldest members, Petz M. Melsitoff, an active and devoted Socialist, who died.in Semlpalatinsk, Soviet Siberia, after 12 years of Communist prison and exile—without trial or charges, k Socialist member of the Rostov* Don Soviet, he was arrested Bucharin Promoted hvutid, official organ of the Soviet government in Moscow, announces in its issue of May 2!> the appointment of Nicholei Bucharin as the editor-in-chief...
...A membeT of the legislature seeking another nomination is told by a gunman to withdraw...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 24
