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fascist nations and the pro-fascist elements in the Democratic countries were no less openly on the side of Mussolini.

TORIES AND FASCISM

In Great Britain, the link between the growing labor and progressive movement and the anti-imperialist struggle in the colonies has been abundantly shown in numerous demonstrations and acts of solidarity with the Chinese, Indian, and African peoples. Here the mass indignation at the proposed treacherous sell-out of the Tory Baldwin government to Mussolini, at the expense of Ethiopia, almost caused a governmental crisis, which was staved off only by the ousting of the then Foreign Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare.

The present Tory Chamberlain government has made concession after concession to the fascist aggressors. This government, representing the most reactionary imperialist circles of Great Britain, continually sought to reach a corrupt agreement with Mussolini at the expense of Ethiopia, and has up to the present time worked in close alliance with Hitler in every move of the Nazi drive.

Just as they aid Mussolini in Ethiopia, so the British Tories seek to help the Japanese fascist-militarists out of the difficulties they are encountering from the heroic resistance of a united China. At this very moment they are assisting Japan with loans and credits and exerting pressure upon China to accept the robber "peace" terms laid down by Tokyo. The Chamberlain government feels that the defeat of Japan in China would strengthen the democratic forces throughout the world, encourage the national liberation movements in the Asiatic colonies, weaken the hold of imperialism on Africa, and raise the possibility of a democratic Japan, thus taking out of the hands of the imperialists their main stalking-horse in the far east against the U.S.S.R.

But opposition to Chamberlain's pro-fascist policy is growing

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among the British people, as ever larger masses are coming to realize that the Tory program menaces not only the colonial and weaker people but the Democratic liberties and interests of the British people itself.

Recently this opposition has assumed tremendous proportions as shown in the wave of indignation which swept the nation at the time of the negotiation of the Anglo-Italian agreement. This took the form of militant large-scale demonstrations in London and throughout the country in which Chamberlain's attempts to aid Italian fascism at the expense of the Ethiopian and Spanish peoples was bitterly denounced. It was also manifested in the defeat of the Tory government in a number of important by-elections.

The line of unity of the labor movement and the building of the common front of all liberty-loving people for peace and the defense of democracy has won the support of millions in Great Britain. At the head of this movement and its foremost spokesmen is the valiant Communist Party of Great Britain.

THE FRENCH PEOPLE'S FRONT AND THE COLONIES

In France, the Popular Front, led by a solid militant labor movement and uniting through the progressive parties and organizations the majority of the French people, is waging a successful struggle against the financial oligarchy represented by the two hundred families who control the economic life of the country. This latter group, working hand in hand with the British Tories, seeks to preserve its rule of plunder and profit by wiping out democracy and imposing a regime of fascism upon the people. This is the group which, during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, stood for an alliance with Mussolini, backing up the infamous Laval-Hoare-Il Duce agreement, whereby Ethiopia was to be divided into "spheres of influence" between Italy, France, and England. This group also worked in cooperation with Hitler against the Franco-Soviet

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