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Mr. Bertrand Russell write in the New
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Before I wont to Romain. I imagined that I was going to woo ESTE
resting experimens in a new form of tive government, Everyone who is inter ented in Bolshevism knows the series of elections, from the village meeting to the All-Russian Soviet by which the people commisaarios are mapposed to derive thair powon We were told that, by the recall, the occupational constituencies, an₫ 19 on
ante per a are merely acted by custom and dislike of novelty. They have ever heard of the blockade many bardly know that there is a war with Poland, consequently they cannot understand why the Government is able to give theat the clothes and agiicultural implements that they
their land and being ignorant of affair outside their own nei
they wish their own village to be independent, and
a new and far more perfect machinery had would resent the demands of any govern been devised for ascertaining and register.ment whatever. ing the pular will. One of the things we hoped to study way the questi ther the Soviet system is really superior to parliamentarisis in this respect.
1920:
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STORY DE DISGUISED ANIMAE AT RACE.
A remarkable story of daekonlig a boras as a disguise in order to win bets br
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other day when the case in which Peter Christian - Barrie und Walter Hopking were charged with substituting a three year-old for a two-year-old at Stockton Taces, was before the Cours."
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Mansions”......... Hampstead, motor engineer, were charged with conspiring with, Batrie to obtain, müney by" frond at Chosen ham races,
Mr. C. F. Gil, KC, prosecuting, said Lawley wrote to Messrs Weatherby, the "THE QUMMUSTEST SURMAUCBAT,"
Jockey Club agents, asking them to Within the Communist Party there are register a mara in the name of Silver de course, ua always in' a bureauracy. Badge. Lawley said he bought the horse at cucereas factions, though hitherto the er Bristol Bemounts Disposal sales, and that We were not able to make any such ternal pressure has prevented damnion.its pedigree was unknown. The mare wa study because the, Boviet spatem is norisi 11 seemed to me that the persone of the entered for the Malveru Hurdle Selling bund. No conceivable gratem of frem elec-burenneracy could be divided into three Race at Cheltenham Tast December,, tion would give majorities to the Com classes. "There are fras the olj revola- About a quarter of an hour before the
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either, town or country. tionista, tested by years of persecution, race, continued Mr. Gill Barrie
appeared Various methods are therefore adopted for These men have most of the highest posts on the course with a.mare wrapped in giving the victory, to government endi. Prison and exila, have made them tongh blankets. She won vaaily, and was after- dates. In the fires place, the voting is by and fanatical and rather out of touch wards sold to Weitz for 310 guace Silver show of hands, so that all who vote against with their own country. They are honest Badge had never been heard of since that the government are marked men. In the men, with a profound belief that come and the case for the prosecution was that Lawley on Barrie's Instructions wcond place, no candidate who in rot & munism will regenerate the world. They registeral a fictitious horse, and that Communist can have any printing done, think theres utterly free from senti Barrie disguised's hors of his own known as 8bining & More, and ran her as Silver the printing works being, all in the lands ment, but in fact they are sentimental of the state. In the third place, he can about communism and about the regime Tor mare was subjected to some mani.. not address any mecting because the halls that they are creating they cannot fare pulating which made her colour exceed.
ingly dark. The result was that Barrie all belong to the state. The whole of the the fact that what they are creating is not and the others thought the mare could preme is of course, edicial; ao independent communism, had that communism is not be recognized when she
ran "After daily le permitted. In spite of all these anthem to the peasant, who wants bisinning the race it became necessary to obtain the 10 seats out of 1300 in own land and nothing else. They are calcur. There was no such horns as Silver W NEAR FUTURE & furnished apart obstacles, Mensheviki have mucceeded
restore Shining Morn to her origins! ANTED IMMEDIATELY OR THE pitiless in punishing corruption or Badge at allment or house in a desirable neighbourhood. drunkenness when they find either among Mr. Gill was to enable the prisoners to desires their place to be well Tookes after by
The object of the alleged, frand, added Willing to pay good price to anyone who officials; but hey have built up a system ber with the certainty that they would win responsible party. in which the lemptations to petty corrup and use of the defendants won £1,100 tion are tremendous, and their own uste rialistic theory should perenade thear that under such a system corruption must be rampant.
the Moscow Soviet by being knows in certain large factories where the electoral campaign could be condute by word of mouth
THE KINE OLIGARCHA "But although the Moscow Soviet is Domitially sovereign in Moscow, it is really only a body of cloctors who choose the executive committee of forts, out of which in turn, is chosen the Presidium, consist ing of nine men who meet daily and have all the power The Moscow Soviet is a whole is supposed to meet once a week, but did not meet while we were in Moscow, The Presidium, on the contrary, meets daily. Of course, it is easy for the Government to exercise pressure over the election of the execative committee, and again over the election of the Frendus It must be remember that effective pro test impossible asing to the abrahutely complete suppression of free speech and Tree
The result is that the Presidiom of the Moscow Bovies consists only of orthodox Communista,
POLICEMIS, FRIES,
BECRET AGENTS.
The second class in the bureaucracy, among whom are to be found most of the men occupying political pena just below the top, consist of young Arrivistes who are enthusiastic Bolsheviks, because of the material succese, of, bolshevism. It is these men who make the regime, so odives in many ways. With them must be reckon
the army of policemen aple, and secret agents, largely inherited from
the Tsarist times, who wake their profit out the fact that no one can be exceps breaking the law. This aspect of bel Uslovism. is exemplified by. the Extraordin. Kamenov, the Fresident of the Moscowary Commision, & body practically in dependent of the Government, possessing Soviet, informed us that the recall is very its own regiments, which are better fed freequently employed, he said that in than the Red Army. This body has the Moscow there are on an average, thirty power of imprimming any man or woman recalls a mouth faked him what were without trial on such charges as specula the principal reasons for the recall, and tion or counter-revolutionary activity.
It he mentioned four drinking, going to has shot thousands without trial and the front (and being, therefore, incapable though now it has cominally lost the of performing the duties change of power of inciting the death penalty, it is politics on the part of the electors, and by no mean, certain that it has altogether Failure to make a report to the electors lost it in fact it has spies everywhere, once a fortnight, which all members of the and ordinary mortals live in terror of it. Soviet are expected to do From what I BUSINES WITHOUT CAPITALJATINA saw of Russians, I should judge that almost all would be guilty in this last respect. It is evident that the recall affords opportunities for Government pres aure, but I had no chance of finding "dut whether it is used for this purpose ASASTRE UN REPRESENTED PEASANTS
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Alexander Macfarlane, of Canterbury, who said he had been employed by Barrie at Epsom to look after his horse, described bow be took Shining More from Epsom to Hampstead on Barrie's instructions. Barrie said he would notice diference in her appearance, as he had had her rubbed over with some American "dope, The witness asid that when he saw the mare she was mish darker, and a white star on her forehead and a white hind fetlock had disappeared beneath the brown "dope
Barrie anked him to buy some patrol to see if he could get the stuff off. He tried petrol, but it was not very successful.
omia then brought, jame stuff in a bottle, and that was pretty successful
The defendants were remanded. Lawley was allowed bail of one surety in £100 and Weitz in two sureties of £300 each, Barrie was refused bail,
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The third sinus in the bureaucracy conf: those interested in the University is, The question chiefly exercising the winds Leists of men who are not ardest coz I believe, one concerning the extension of manista, who have rallied to the Govern its practical usefulness. Some of the more ment since has proved itself stable, and academic amongst us are horrified at the work for it-sither out of pairiotism suggestion that the University should because they enjoy the opportunity of develop into a glorified technical school, developing their ideas freely without the but I think that many business men are till end of May In country districts the method employ obstacles of traditional initations inclined to believe that a technical educa ed is somewhat different. It is impossible Among this class are to be found men of tion, crowned with the balo of a Sziver: to insure that the village Soviet shall com the type of the nccessful business maalty degree would admirably meet Wist of Communists because, as a rule, aten with the same sort of ability as in
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any rate in the villages I saw, there are found in the American self-ride trust There is Testing that more might be done no Communists. But when I asked in the magnate, but working for and towards equipp.sg villages how they were represented on the power, not for money. There is no doubt for particular careers
Chinesa Fonng and the Gubernia Soviet (the next that, the Bolshevika aro nccessfully solving in training them for commercial life. End.especially langit above the Foloet). I was met the problem of enlisting this kind of We read of bendreds of Chinese going always with the reply that they were ability in the public service without per to the Universities of America, not represented at all I could not verify mitting it to amass wealth as does in France and Japan and wonder why Hong this, and it is probably an over-statement, capitalist communities. This is perhaps ng does not make a stronger appeal and but all concurred in the assertion that if their greater access so far antude the whether the advantages it offers are suffic- they sected a non-Commanist representa domain of war. It makes it possible to ently well-known Having regard to the tive he could not obtain a pass on the suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have population from which it can draw is railway and, therefore could not attend peace, an Anuzing industrial development.
JUTLAND VICTORY":
the Velost or Guberais. Sovietės I saw a may take plɛe, making Russia i rival of Judas, and the increasing number of good meeting of the Grberain Soviet of the United States. The Bolshevik are secos in all parts of Chins, there should Baralov______The___representation in industrialists in all their aims, they love never be a vacancy in any of its hotels, arranged that the town" workers have an everything la modern industry except the The competition for admission should be so enormon preponderance over the sur- excessive rewards of the capitalute, And strong has the process of elimination should rounding peasants; but even allowing for the harsh discipline: to which the) are sub be one of the dosi dificult tasks with which this, the proportion of peasants seemed lecting the workers is calculated if any the authorities would have to contend. astonbingly azhall for the important agricultural areas, to give then the habits of infu theme circumstances, surely there and honesty which have hitherto would be little heard of financial troužne, The All-Rian Soviet, which is con- been lacking and wij alone preventa It is hoped that, spart from their advice stitutionally the suprema body, to which, But from being one of the foremost in regarding the immediate Bnancial problem the People's Commars are responsible, dustrial countries.
the members of the Commission will deal meet seldom and hay become increasingly
adequately with these questions and with formal Its sole ftuction at present
frethods for rushing the University more far as I could discover, is to ratify, with aus dicussions previous decisions of the
popular Communist Party on matters (especially concerning foreign policy) upon which the Codatitution requires its decision,
SPOTHECLUSIVE COMMUNIST. All real power is in the Binada of the Com manist Party, who number about 600,000 in population
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