Economic imperialism

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 30, 25 July 1923, Page 4

Economic imperialism

A fair, indication of the uses for which military and naAal preparations are intended Avas given by a little cable from Washington, dated July 15. 'This toTd us that America had rejected a BRITISH proposal for a joint naAal force of the PoAvers to patrol Chinese ; foreign administration and FINANCIAL. SUPERVISION OF THE : -S'HANGHAI-PUKOW RAIL/WAY. We hardly know what is contained in the proposal to "patrol Chinese foreign administration," but the other proposition .is clear enough—it simply means that the British navy is to look after a nice fat concession some financiers have succeeded in screwing out of the Chinese people. In otiier words, the money, poAver and organisation of the nation are to ye placed at the disposal of a group of private profiteers engaged" in exploiting the people of a foreign land. Notice too. that the nation that made this suggestion is the one that for years recently rent the welkin with cries about "self-de-.termination for Aveak nationalities"

and "non-interference Avith the internal affairs of foreign peoples." The ■hypocrisy and cynicism of it! When Labour holds power one of its first ;jobs Avill be to tell the boodlers that when "they go abroad to exploit they will do so at their own risk, and Avithout any possibility of profit through the exercise of the armed force of the nation.