Show Opinions I Comment of the Am American rican Press Hands Across the Reich The new Franco Russian Franco treaty is at least frankly realistic Contrasted with the multiplicity of pacts and protocols which are supposed to safeguard the peace of or Europe this treaty is a plain agreement agreement agree agree- ment meat to fight whenever it seen seems ad ad- To be sure France and Russia only guarantee each other military assistance In the event of unprovoked unprovoked yoked aggression on the part of any state But But what is unprovoked aggression aggression sion Lion The phrase Is big enough to drive a whole team of horses through It will be recalled that Russia Russi a few years ago urged the league of nations to define an aggressor as the one whose armies first crossed a boundary line into ano another her na tion But suppose both Russia and France de decide ide that their safety safely depends depends depends de de- de- de on fighting lighting Germany before Germany is able to complete her rearmament program that program that is before before be be- fore she becomes too strong Would it be difficult to find some excuse for denouncing Germany as asan asan asan an ag aggressor And to define her aggression as unprovoked The chances are it would be no nomore nomore nomore more difficult th than ln it was for n nations na I lions to drift dritt into the World var war Ironically this treaty declares that it is consonant with obligations obliga of ot the high contracting parties par par- ties tics as members of the league of ot Ba nations So far the league of nations has dL discovered only one aggressor aggressor- Paraguay And Paraguay has gone right on aggressing in spite of or the league Philadelphia Record Progress in the U. U S. S S. S R. R A recent bulletin of ot the U. U S. S S. S R. R chamber of commerce Moscow to which attention is called b by the Associated Associated As As- Farmers of California sets forth with pride the remarkable industrial in and social progress being achieved in the land of the Soviets Consider the kulaks There were owning land or labor labor- employing farmers in in Russia in 1913 12 3 per cent of the entire population they have been liquidated liquidated liquidated liquid till only remain The bourgeoise anyone bourgeoise-anyone with m more o 0 r e than one shirt Is bourgeoise num bourgeoise num numbered in 1913 In in 1934 there were only Individual pe peasants and farmers once numbered numbered num num- I now there are The rest have been liquidated or communized The bulletin announces the completion completion com corn of a brick factory by the completion of one welded gantry crane for the Moscow Hoisting Hoist Hoist- ing irig Equipment works which can lift fifteen tons construction of ot one rubber mixer construction of ot one centrifugal pump and building of at six dump carts dump carts described as experimental ex ex- lI The village e of ot Kuss- Kuss bass k has been wired vired successfully for electric current and the coke and chemical chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal cal factory has a new coke battery One block in Pittsburgh can show more material accomplishment than that any day in the year Los Los Angeles An geles Times Tunes Purifying the Press Ramsay MacDonald t takes a k Ic e s another step on the path of re re- re- re action His latest utterance e foreshadows foreshadows fore fore- shadows an effort by the so-called so national government of ot England to perpetuate itself by control of ot the press and o of other political parties In the preface to a book on National National Na Labor Party policy MacDonald MacDonald Mac Mac- Donald attacks the sensational press as a menace to peace abroad and democracy at home He goes goeson goeson goeson on also to attack party tactics Secret diplomacy was bad he writes diplomacy of papers out for tor circulation and of parties partie out for votes is deadly As for lor the press the dangers are vivid It is true that the great treat sensational Journals of England like our own Hearst press are ore jingo warmongering war and marked by leanings toward fascism But ima imagine lne a British government acting acting act act- ing against a Beaverbrook or a with all the financial and economic power wielded by q OJ such publishers As easily imagine an American government acting against a Hearst A right to speak even if it he speaks trash is as sacred 3 as MacDonald's who often oHen speaks trash too The have as much right to lo speak 2 as those vho who hate them Suppression Suppression sion is a remedy far deadlier than the disease it is meant to cure New York Post Crossed Wires New York American Hearst Mr Roosevelt was a better Democrat Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- in 1930 than he is today with his kitchen cabinet so largely made up of Socialists and thinly disguised communist th New York Dally Daily Worker Communist Com Corn The purpose of Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's veils whole legislative program is to reduce the cost of the relief program for tor the capitalist class to speed war preparations and to protect monopoly profits |