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WHAT BOLSHEVISM IS.
CALL TO COMRADESHIP.
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The general ideas of the thinking' MR. WINSTON CHURCHILLS public on what really constitutes
Bolshevism are so vague that the following passages taken from Dr, C.
MESSAGE.“
Hagberg Wright's article "Bolshevik contributed to the February number In a special message. the Army Ideals and their Failure," appearing in the December number of The of the Comrades fournal, the journal Living Age, may help
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We must get rkl, once and for all of the misleading notion that the Bolshevik leaders are mere thrown up by a vicious ferment. Mr. Hamilton Fyfe wrote 'We must not think of men like Lenia. Trotsky and
of the Comrades of the Great War, Mr. Winston Churchill. M,P... Secres tary of State for War, says: You will have realised that, in order to demobilise, the large part of the armies which have won the war, it is absolutely necessary for the Empire
to maintain well-trained and well-
Chicherin as men of ao account, disciplined forces for the par- mere mob-leaders and hooligans." Lenin is a student, thinker, writer, pose of securing the fruits of Vic and he has for many years been tory. Our great Empire, too, must Cirector of the Bolshevik Party. Were it not that the old Regular be strong throughout the world. chiefly in exile."
Army, the Old Contemptibles."" had
· LENIN'S AIMS.
spent itself almost to the last man "Lenin is not merely an iconoclast. on the battlefields of France, Gallipoli, He has a constructive thought: Mesopotamia and Palestine, it would beyond the destruction he interids he not now be necessary, to retain with sees a new polity, a new civilization. the colours any duration-of-the-war The new avilisation would be one men; but as things are, a certain based upon a rew order industry; number must be kept until a regular the new pohty would be one based permanent army can be constituted, upon the workers, upon those, whe, "It is the spirit of comradeship are now, but then, would not be, the which has carried us to victory, and, proletariat. The Soviet republic which we count da to carry us intends such a polity and such a through the troublesome period of civilization. The word 'Soviet' means peace negotiations-the comradeship Council and the present day, Russian which brought the Territorials and Soviet Government is really only the, the New "Armies to the help of the Executive Committee of 2 vast old armies, and which must now sumber, of cai" village, town and endure a little longer until the old city Soviets in which there exists Army, revighed by new blood, areal, sound, democratic idea of can in turn relieve those who come majority rule. This is what Lenin to their aid at the time of intended it to be.. The Soviets were peril. Hardship in many individual not invented by the Bolsheviks, but cases there must be, and these. I can Lenin, their chief mind, saw at a assure every comrade, are fully glance their large possibilities. The realised. Our thoughts and plans Russian people has in the travait of fare continually aimed at securing the the revolution given birth to a new early return home of all who have creation--the Soviet-a child of the fought so well, who in many cases Petle's awakening consciousness. have sacrificed their all to serve their "in brief, these are the three King and country; but impossibilities "phases passed through by the Soviet cannot be achieved. Every theatre of from birth to manhead:(1) It war and garrison, from East to West, issued from the very heart of the requires relieving and the special people as guardian of the revolution; necessities of each are taken into 20 (2) while growing, it served as the count,since climatic conditions have to i pendulum, the interpreter of the be considered before long journeys by revolution; (3) fully matured, as the rail and sea can be ordered. I would velitional and intellectual organ af say to those whose demobilisation its parent, the people, it became the is near that now, as in battle, is instrument for realizing the issues of their opportunity to show their troe the revolution.
comradeship for those whose dem- THE CONSTITUTION OF JULY obilisation is further off. This com "The Constitution of July, which, fadeship can be shown by those who are able to do so, volunteering for amongst other measures, enacted that the Armies of Occupation, or re in order to establish the socialization of land, private land property is enlisting for the Regular Army, and
soenabling us to replace others or
abrogated and all land is declared to again, by those who return to civil be the common property of the peo-life ensuring employment in the ple, and is handed over to the workers future for their comrades who cannot without compensation to the previous join them yet." private owners, on the basis of
equalization of rights to the common
Charter
use of the land; and that the nation- THE CHARTER MARKET, alization of all banks is confirmed as One of the means for the emancipa Man of the tong masses from the 4oke of capitalism, points to the fact tha: Bolshevik revolution was not merely the victory of a destructive torce, it was also the victory of a constructive idea:
rates for small-sized steamers for "near seas" services are quoted at from Y6.50 to Y7, and similar rates for middle-sized steamers also.
As to steamers of large size, Messrs. Kuhara are reported to have? chartered the Toyo-man (24 years) Unfortunately the Soviet Govern- oid) 6,000 tons, for about six months ment has never had fair play.. Had for one voyage to Europe at the rate it been recognized by the Allied of Y6.75 per ton, the, lowest figure Powers, there would have been noin charter rates so far recorded for need for it to call in the sanguinary ocean-going stearners. In these circum safeguard of the Red Terror. As a stances as already reported, ocean matter of fact, we did not object to steamers are encroaching on the the Russian Revolution. Even when sphere of middle-sized or small-sized a continuing revolution made Ker- steamers. But of late there are signs ersky a Minister Kerensky the of increased exports for Europe. Red, as he called himself-our plau. Further, the Supreme Council of the dits did not cease, but when the Peace Conference passed a resolution destructive character of the Russian to supply 270,000 tons of food-stuffs rey.ution became clear our thoughts every month to Germany until next rebounded to that palladium" of the crop. For these reasons there may comfortable, law and order, and we be demands for steamers of large withheld recognition. The with site, but however large the "demand holding of recognition tacitly en may te, it will be some time before couraged all those heterogeneous the ocean-going vessels are well- elements in Russia that were ad filled verse" to the Soviet Republic. The The Ocean Transport Co,'s come Leaders of the Bolsheviks felt "that petition with the OS.K. and the their position was being undermined. NYK. on the Australian run is now The moment carne when they had to less brisk owing to the inactivity of choose between flight and force. To shipping but there is stil said to be save the revolution they chose 'force an undercurrent of hostility between band in their hands force became them. The NYK. Has decided to terror. Terrorism is wholly abborrent reduce the freights by 40 shillings to and cannot in the long run achieve 110 shillings from the extra steamer even a seeming success.
for next month, and the O.S.K. is ex- pected to make a reduction in concert) with the NY.K. It appears that: the Ocean Transport Company has decided to place the Faiei-mar on
THE GREAT ERROR. "Herein lies the Bolsheviks' grave and fatal mistake, but it is only fair to bear in mind the nature of the the run in the latter part of this month, task which the Bolsheviks imposed and it is searching for cargo at Y15 * upon themselves when they defen- against the 50 shillings of the N.Y.K. sively assumed force. The antiaers. Since the N.7.K. Hiner. Soviet camp was a diffused enmity-Tango-maru, whichstarted from Kobe an enmity which lived in a mood on the 19th, made a clean sweep of and was communicated by a word. goods for, Australia, the Kaiei-maru Moreover, the reaction against is expected to find it very difficult, the Soviet Republic, W29
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merely a reaction by individuals being a very low rate, the experiment it was a reaction by groups and is being watched with great interest. "classes which the republic had not Japan Chronicle.
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"One word, however, on the litant the destructive life of accusation levelled at the Bolsheviks -Lose tinassimilated groups and that they are pro German. The truth lasses. The Bolsheviks chose force is that they hated. Germany much and used it radically. In other less than they hated capitalism. The örds, they set out to stop the military collapse and the Brest action by rooting out the poople Litovsk Treaty were Tsardom's whose life was its energy. The deathbed gifts to the Russian people. deeds of the Bolsheviks have been in Great Russia the Bolsheviks are terly wicked. To destroy wantonly still the strongest party. It may be the intelligence and industry Russia is the act of madmen, but from outside will bring them down, of that some foreign force or influence haring adopted the policy of force but nothing in Great Russia itself is in what other way could the Bol strong enough to overturn them, or sheviks make it effective? The could take their place. However, siniation which turned the Bolsheviks the Soviet Republic is no longer a icto Terrorists was partly a result suficient authority for itself and I find the the policy of the Allies, and it hard to believe that a government the men who used the terror used if which has used the Red Terrer can to save the revolution, to see what become permanent or can heal the seemed to them the highest earthly wounds of Russia." good.
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