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October 1926 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL When You Come EDUCATION to This Problem MOHTULV By A. Berdnikov and F. Svetlof I'uder the ijeneral editorship of N. I. BUCHARIN With explanatory notes to the American edition by Alexander Bittelman A NEW publication offering a complete course in the elements of political education to every worker. This unusual work has served as a text-book in the schools of Soviet Russia. Written in the form of questions and answers, it in- "Yes,but Which am I to read?" cludes a complete reference list to literature on all sub- jects dealt with. Consult the new descriptive The bibliography refers to literature in three lan- guages. CATALOGUE Following the text of the book there is a complete •Just Off the Prcsx! table of contents reformulating every question raised. Hundreds of books and pamphlets on all subjects. IN THIS VOLUME TRADE UNIONS — RUSSIA — HIS- FOR TORY — SOCIAL STUDIES — PO- The Philosophy, Economics LITICAL ECONOMY — SCIENCE — and Politics of Marxism. 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V. 290 OCTOBER, 1926 No. 12 Uncle Shylock By Maurice Mendelsohn "TjtRANCE is not for sale!"—was the hysterical cry is- prospect of gradually increasing payments has proven to •*• sued on August 8th ;by Georges Clemenceau, one of be so distasteful that the agreement on France's debt the chief authors of the treaty of Versailles. "Not even to the United States has not been ratified as yet. Ac- to her friends," (meaning Americans) ran the ironical cording to the provisions of that agreement (Mellon- addition to the "Tiger's" declaration. Berenger) now awaiting ratification, France is to pay "The British nation has turned into a detot collector an amount, the present value of which is $2,008,122,624 to the United States of America; but unlike (most debt instead of the original total of $4,211,000,000. But with collectors we get all the odium but .none of the bene- the interest of from 1 to 3% per cent, averaging 1.58 fits"—recently remarked the London "Daily Mail." per cent added, the total that France must pay in 62 The capitalist papers of the United States, in their turn years according to the agreement, is $6,847,674,104.17. report with varying degrees of alarm that "we have be- come extremely unpopular in Europe." "Europe is form- A Dawes' Plan For France. ing alliances against us"—says the less dignified yel- So much for France's war debt as such. But in that low press, partly forecasting events for the sake of same letter of Clemenceau's there is a phrase which sensationalism. Certainly alarming signs of opposition points towards something even more disturbing to the to the more and more aggressive American policy in equilibrium of the capitalist world. With the frankness Europe, are aplenty. About three months ago, the Cen- of one who has little to lose, France's aged war premier ter and even the Right, as well as the Left, of the French says: Chamber of Deputies applauded the speech by Marcel "The secret of the comedy lies in the fact that here Cachin, a Communist deputy, in which he denounced the is only a matter of fictitious dates of settlement (of war position of imperialist America on the debt question, and debts) in order to bring a loan with good mortgages on demanded a cancellation of all war debts. The "un- our property." This means that being unable to make popularity" of America is obviously, not confined to a payments according to the provisions of the debt agree- single quarter. ment, France 'will have to borrow money under good se- It was Germany which a few years ago stood in the curity and pay on it with far higher interest than that limelight in connection with America's economic ad- paid on the original debt. The money-lender in the lat- vances. But it is France, "victorious" France, that oc- ter case will again prove to be the same United States of cupies that rather uncomfortable position now. The im- America, though now not in the form of the official gov- mediate cause precipitating the present situation was the ernment of this country, 'but in the form of the real demand of the U.
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