WHY THE PEACE PROTOCOL WAS DROPPED
NEARING, SCOTT
WHY THE PEACE PROTOCOL WAS DROPPED By SCOTT NEARING THE Geneva Protocol was drawn up by a special com-mi ttee of the League of Nations and approved by the League Assembly. The chairman of the...
...and Great Britain are the nucleus of the European struggle, and the struggle for security is a struggle to enable France to hold political dominion over the HdMic States ami continue her economic superiority over Germany...
...Some traitor in their midst, some snake at their very bosom, had leaked to the enemy...
...You know that perfectly, yet you disregard them...
...The chairman of the OBjnmittee, Dr...
...Another point in his statement concerns the desirability of not thinking of another war...
...Angry astonishment overcame the "party cleaners" next day when they read in the same anti-Bolshevik paper a full account of the Wexler count-martial...
...The Protocol is based on a falla ciouffidea—the ilea that modern em\ pires can be brought together in anj essential working agreement...
...Consequently, the Protocol was destined to be rejected when it was put up just as the League of Nations wss destined to fail...
...It is therefore engsged in the business of protecting its extra-territorial property rights, first, against local disturbances, and second, protecting its nationals against other nationals...
...Under the Protocol no State Will go to war except to resist aggression dr by direction of the League of Nations, and in case of aggression, the League is to proceed,, with military and economic sanctions, to punish the violating State...
...Ha has had excellent meetings all svar ih* country and has spoken at oaek en*) ¦¦ spit* of organized attempts of Cosamuniits to turn some meetings into riots...
...Finally he does not believe that the covenant, as suggested, will result in disarming the nations of the world...
...He called the Brownsville boys together imeediately and launched a scientific cross-examination to ferret ou...
...Vain attempt...
...Comrade" Wexler is out...
...The right to rob is decided at the point of 16-inch guns...
...He was especially upset by the report that Mother Moscow herself is directing the "scolding parties" against Abramowich...
...If it is true that conflicts arise from the character of financial imperialism, it is obviously absurd to try to adjust them by uniting political States...
...Comrade Abramowich will speak at a farewell meeting in Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon at 2.30 p. m-There i« little doubt that this meeting will be packed to the doors...
...Just at the point where the League wishes to be effective, Chamberlain Balls It a violation of sovereignty, and Objects to it...
...I an/a Russian...
...It is true I said Abramowich was not a liar," hv explained, "but I declared he was wrong, for all that...
...Comrades," he said, "Abramowich is not a liar...
...Just as the Dawes Plan provided for an economic "settlement" of this issue, the Protocol provides a political "settlement...
...The various nations are more thoroughly armed at the present time than they have been in any previous non-war period of modern histry...
...In view of this economic situation i', is easy W» understand why all Europe must be armed to the teeth, and why some new conference is calied each year Behind this great imperial dramaa there is a struggle to determine which empire shall dominate the economic life of the present day...
...I even denied my own words in a letter in Novy Mir...
...P.S.—That wretched newspaper seems to act on the theory that since every Communist gathering behind locked doors contains a couple of Department of Justice agents, there ought to be room for at least one good reporter...
...Instead of agreeing, however, Wexler stood up in public and met the fundamentalist doctrine with some modernist observations...
...Here is a situstion where France, a nation that is so poorly organized economically that it cannot even pay the cost of running its government, wants to hold a position of dominance over Germany, a nation economically strongly organized...
...Russia has turned Bolsheviks Germany has became a vassal...
...Ger-many is better supplied with raw materials, with production machinery, railroads, canals, factories, and the like, than France, and is far better organized productively...
...Our orders are to stop Abramowich from speaking...
...And next day the same blankety-blank anti-Bolshevik newspaper printed a full account of "Comrade" Holtman's spy hunt in Brownsville...
...Why not...
...goes on to "Murderer...
...Great Britain cannot afford to put up to the League of Nations what it la doing in Egypt—this is a domestic matter...
...Consider-¦iiKj that Confrade Abramowich speaks at q farnvrll meeting iu Carncyic Hall, Sunday afternoon, this story is timely...
...War has been testing oat the relative strength of the various nations until all but three hare been crippled-Great Britain, Japan, and the United States...
...Be nee...
...after jrt*ti>ig that the problems cnfThe Ruhr occupation, the reparations struggle, th* economiu life.pjf Germany, arid the inter-allied debts are being or have been solved, ,1 fd- : ?Ahd, finally, the question of security, on the basis of the Geneva Protocol, is solved...
...That means that the statesmen of the world believe we are facing not a too much abom the improbable event period pf peace bat a period of war...
...A court-martial created by local Communists gave Wexler the...
...judge advocate insisted...
...Empires cannot disarm as long as they are plundering people who refuse to give up without being shot...
...The Protocol contains no proposition for handling the economic problems of the world...
...So Wexler was stripped of his party membership and turned out into the cold capitalist streets of New York...
...If the French and German steel interests conld be represented at a world court their differences could be adjudicated, providing the world court could enforce its decisions...
...He forgets to tell you, however, that the blockade, the civil war and the counter-revolution makes it necessary to put critics in prison and that freedom of the press is impossible in Russia...
...Hi* last meeting last week in Los Angeles wa a tremendous success and the audience contributed $700 for the relief of Socialist prisoners in Russia...
...and ends in a thundering "Counter-revolutionist...
...I am a member of the/Russian Communist party, and ha/e just returned from Russia...
...These are not merely orders from the national office at Chicago...
...So I know that Abramowich is telling the truth...
...freat Britain, through iti Fob-eigrf Secretary Austen Chamberlain, has rejected the Protocol, first, because it-extotHlx the power of the League Wd threatens the sovereignty of QpMirieTual States, If Grea> Britain,, under the Protocol were to declare W'»r on another nation, the League might establish an economic or political blockade, and call on other States to make war against Great Britain...
...The Geneva Protocol aims at ending wait and, at limitation of arma mefits through the mo|tiation of the organization or tne League of Nation!!*""*" " a-'iaaaa, fcUrmsr...
...These heretical statements sounded very bad as they fell from Wexler's lips, but they looked positively frightful wh'en they appeared next day in an anti-Bolshevik newspaper which is read by thousands of people born in Russia...
...As long as there can be no enforcement of decisions, obviously the decision carries with it no weight...
...The lack of economic equilibrium is the basis on which the stability of /Europe is resting...
...On that occasion various addicts of "Leninism" denounced Abramowich with the familiar string of epithets which begins with a ladylike "Liar...
...The solution must lie in some sort of economic organization...
...Abramowich's list Meeting Rafael AbrasaoWiili, repietrnting the Russian Social Deraotretic Party, returns to New York Ibis week for his final meeting before sailing for Europe...
...some papers is the short article which follows...
...The Protocol is aimed to eliminate the danger of war, to puniah aggressors who make war and to reduce armaments...
...His second objection is that the machinery of the League is already atrained as much as is safe, that it might break down, not because it is weak, nor because it has the wrong idea, but because so many great States are not in the League...
...They are the orders of the Third Intei> nctionale at Moscow...
...So far there is no such basts becsuse there is no super-national power...
...Oyl . . ; Borzhai Moi...
...He does not lie, but he...
...Austria is dismembered...
...Wexler should have agreed with that denunciation...
...Cbamberlain'a leading objection— that the nation is a sovereign group with absolute right to make war and peace—destroys any possibility of peace while sovereign nations per-si»i An imperial nation, in its foreign policy, is engaged primarily in the protection of its economic interests and in seeking foreign markets for iu exportable surplus...
...When the court-martial came Wexler protested his devotion to Soviet Russia and the Communist ^arty...
...It will remain the basis of peace in Europe...
...Two nations cannot come together unless there is some basis on which their economic grrups can make an agreement...
...He denounces the Cheka...
...COURT-MARTIALED By PAUL HANNA ' One of the very last contributions written for The New Leader by the late Paul Ilanna and which was recently found amoni...
...gate a few days after ha made some unwise comment in public at the recent Abramowich meeting in Brownsville...
...You violated orders," the...
...That struggle is the dominant element in present-day imperial circles...
...Consequently, the world is in the midst of an economic and political cycle in the course of which all except one will be eliminated...
...Comrade" Holtman, organixer in New York of 100 per cent Leninism (Jewish Federation of the Workers' Party), was too mad for utterance...
...Italy, France, and Belgium are bankrupt...
...Chamberlain points to the fact that the world has not reduced armament...
...France won a military victory over Germany because of outside economic support, so tliis "question <•* security" involves the maintenance of a State of unstable equilibrium for a period of 1 half a century...
...Yes, but he is not a liar...
...He tells us bad things atout the state of political prisoners in Russia, and says there is no freedom of\he press...
...the traitor who had reported the Wexler court-martial so accurately to an enemy newspaper...
...forgets to tell you that these things are unavoidable...
...The ruling class in each empire is aspiring to rule the world...
Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 16
