The Daily Worker

BRITISH TRY TO USE CHINA AGAINST U.S.
Will Give Up "Rights"
Upon Conditions

(Special to The Daily Worker)

LONDON, Sept. 18.—That Great Britain is realizing that her imperialist interests make necessary that she hold out some bait to the Chinese to offset those baits offered by American imperialism and the Japanese, not to speak of the influence gained by Soviet Russia, is seen in the announcement today by Austen Chamberlain concerning Britain's attitude toward China.

That any "concessions" have a good stout string attached is, of course, a feature of the announcement to be read in between the lines. Chamberlain, foreign minister in the tory cabinet, said:

Two or Three "Ifs."

"We are ready to surrender our special rights in China, if China can guarantee our people ordinary protection and common justice. Great Britain has no territorial ambitions.

"Great Britain is willing to carry out the letter and spirit of the Washington conference upon two conditions: First, there must be initial good will and the putting aside of little suspicions engendered by those who see opportunity in other people's troubles, without regard for the prosperity of China herself. Second, China must make peace with herself and be united under a central authority."

Dig At Yankee Imperialism.

While the capitalist newspapers try to interpret that the arrow directed at "those who see opportunity in other people's troubles" means Soviet Russia, political observers are chuckling at this artful ambiguity which covers the real shaft directed at American imperialism which has deliberately played the Chinese against Britain to gain a foothold for American interest in China.

The other condition that "China must be united under a central authority" sounds as logical to the unthinking, but the sinister meaning of it is that Britain demands that the Pekin government, as a condition precedent to release from the clutches of Britain, wipe out by force of arms if necessary the Canton South China Republic, which is the center of all real nationalist revolution. In other words, if China "wants to be free" it must destroy the only force which guarantees its freedom.