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LENIN'S WORLD PLOT. DANGER TO THE WEST.
ENGLAND WARNED,
De: Harold Williams writes in the Times:
The Bolshevists have 'greatly increased their prestige outside Russia during the last few months. The new Power that has arisen in the East out of the wreck and ruin of the war-is-attracting the puzzled attention of war-weary peoples and Governments.
Lenia has every reason to congratulate himself on his success. Four years ago the hoad of a tiny coteris in La Carauge, the home of revolutionary exiles in Geneva, he now finds the Governments of Europe, the victors and the vanquished, watching his mavenients with respect not unmingled with lear; wanging his wireless with eager intereas trying to solve the difficult pro. blem of establishing regular relations with him and with his unprecedented form of
government.
44
OCTOBER 9TH, 1920.
be
to a movement whose foreign origin and SHOULD A MAN BE SINGLE toreign leadership" cannot fail to obvious that the soft and placid ontlines
OR" MARRIED? of England landscape are unfavourable to revolutionary passion, and that compromise A CHINESE UNDERGRADUATE'S" ix the characteristic feature of the British spirit in all classes
VIEWS.
Let us have peace, then," runs the argi ment, and let us finish with the trouble Chinese Undergraduate of the Hongkong The following essay was written by a ice and for all. Let Russia go her own University. It is hardly necessary to say chosen way, and let us go our way. Once the continual mence of war is removed, that the subject was not set.but chosen once the relations between Great Britain by the student himself.] and Russia cense to be acute, most people That the male and the female, are to be will cease to take an interest in Bal-coupled is so inevitable an event, and that hevism, it will no longer be a subject of the world must be peopled, so evident a violent controversy; and if it is no langet | truth, that the question of whether a man forced on public attention its opportuni- should be single or married surcely affords ties for propaganda will largely disap-any ground for discussion. It is men's pear.
Bolshevism is essentially an Interna tivaal moromeat, and has Low come des Baitely, out into the international arena. thrives on international complications and by virtue of these complications, which show no sign of coming to a speedy sad, it subtly infases its temper and methods into the internal processes of each country its leaders have a very keen apprehension of the international tactics required for their purposes.
lover
to
A
UF
must all
duty, as well as their privilege, „to get married in order that they may have des cendants to replenish the earth." family is a prescribed yoke to which une list submit one's neck. It can hardly be regarded as humane to elude the fate of sighing away Sundays and leave others Italy has established friendly relations
to Chant faint hymns to the cold fruit- and has begun to trade with him. Czecho
less moon." Evils arising out of apparen: Slovakia interested, and is making
singlenes can be checked only by legal friendly overtures, A Bobbevist enroy
marriage, and adulterous lust can be has taken up his residence in Berlin, "and It may Dr. Simons, the German Foreign Minis superduous to therefore, be altogether driven out only by " tredded love."
scrutinize, at this particular However, we have only been dweiling ter,
declares
that it is absurd to stigmatize moment, the methods by which the Bol upon morality so far. Looked at from the the members of the Soviet Government as shevists hope to attain their goal. And, practical point of view, apart from religious criminals. It is not impossible indeed, first of all, it must be emphasized that they doctrines. philosophical pustulates that
has been concluded between are perfectly serious in their purpose ethical maxima, the question, on hand the Governments of Moscow and Berlin. They are really out for a world revolu- must not be denied its value as a subject And the most remarkable fact of allion for the accomplishment of which they for debate. It is simply silly to belove Lenin's envoys are received in England would prefer to use the British Empire as that it is impossible to defy Cupid" and
They do not content their aim. In fact that the seven stages of inen they make itch a noise about it that be endured without a single exception. We ober-minded people in England imagine shall, therefore, approach our problem from that they canot be serious, that they are effects of singleness and marriage: If we the consideration of the immediate personal crying Wolf, bluffing, or performing some other anties necessary far demagogic set them to be weighed in the balance," Is is not that the Bolshevist doctrina in effect. We are assured that they really we find sufficient material to fill both scales its extreme form is accepted for the want peate for the purposes of internal On the one hand, "we bave the fact that moment by any but a small body of solidation and that, once they get a single man has a better chance of attain. extremists.
The average practical man peace, they will become moderate, censo ing a high standard of living that he is certainly does not like what he knows of their revolutionary effort, and concentrate allowed the time to pursue profound
on internal reform. Bolshev, and is just a little afraid of it,
studies that he is capable of being a But an atmosphere favourable to Bul Nothing of the sort. What will happen cosmopolitan as a means of broadening his shevisin has been created in many circles in Busia after peace is concluded I do not knowledge that he, by being single, ex- that reject Lenin's doctrine and would know. That depends on a number of tenuates the bitterness of the tragedy of resent the idea of lifa system being estab. factors that need not be discussed here, his life; and finally that he is fit for great lished in England. These very circles Bals that the Bolshevists, having secured undertakings and ambitions achievements. ardently support Legin at every stage of peace, will abandon their revolutionary thome.
difficult and complicated later effort no one who knows the Bolsheviats national negotiations that are preparing can for a moment admit. The world re- for him a triumphant march into Westernvolution is the raison d'être of their exist Europe.
with an interest and an attention more marki than that accorded to the repre- sentatives of any foreign Power. There is a pressing demand in many quarters for pence with Russia, the establishment of noriral trade relations, and the recogni. tion of the Soviet Giovernment.
ence
EMPIRE UNREST.
single man can have lofty aims Hei lives in a high altitude, while the married nian is tethered to the trivialifies of woczes and children, and is thereby obliged to crawl on a low level. It is true that, they that have wives should be as though they had none." it is obviously no business of the single man to hurry into marriage. On the other hand, we have the facts that a married life is not without its joys; that a marriage founded in discretion resulta oftener in the mutual help of the husband and wife, than in their mutual interference.
That in this process those shall nationali. ¦- ties, whose independence a short time ago In Russia it was the war that gave Learn was one of the chief articles of their creed, bis opportunity. 1. England it the will inevitably be sacrificed is apparently peace. It is singular that England at the not a consideration that seriously troubles provat moment afords such wide scope their sense of consistency. They are in the tor Bolshevist activities, but there it is power of an emotion" that makes them re whas with Poland, Russia, Ireland, gard everything that the Bolshevists de Mesopotanrial, our troublem with Germuity in international politics- right, and and our differences with France with overything that their opponents do as Labour inclined to be restive in the back sweetness of home, which only the Wrong. Lenin's battles are being fought ground. It does not matter, that the bulk married man can tell. is enough to counter- for him by Governmens, which he openly of English people know and, care little balance all the advantages gained by the defies and insults, and by Liberals, Labour about these questions, just as the great single aan. As much might be said on Leaders, and Socialists on whose persons majority of the Russian people knew and both sides." the reader is laft to see for And whose policy he pours continual scorn. cared nothing about the question-of un-himself how long the balance is to remain This "Piper of Moscow" plays a wonder nexations and indemnities that formed the is equilibrium. ful tune that makes a most motley crowd main theme of "Bolshevist agitation in dance down the broad was, whose end he 1917. sriumphantly and contemptrongly foretells
A WORLD REVOLUTION,
:
':
There pathy for oppressed
feeling of
a wideoples and distrust leaders these considerations are reinforced
In the case of the moderate Labour.
For this in stor figure who is now becom Imperialism, and these feelings the
of anything that save or by the necessity of making continual con ing a controlbag force in European polishevists know very well how to exploit. sessions to the extremists in their move tics makes no secret of his plans. Vladimir They play on generous humanitarian sentiment in order that these, by inflammatory Ulianon, the son of a Veiga schoolmaster,ment and fun it to white heat on behalf agitation, should not wrest from them the hus, or the last 25 years, thought and of repote causes of which very few know power they wield over the masses. studies and worked, and is now working the rights and the wrongs. Partisan feel
reached 7
Is it
truths.
class
17.
CRAFTY, TACTICS.
are
with uncrn.chad resources and prestige, to ing in rod to its highest pitch on issues. Now suppose the Bolshevists, with their bring about a world revelatan. The den that to most people are obscure Cateh- now greatly enhanced resources, with to is, course, incredible and absurd. But wards are sell a motion, and soon come to provoke a social revolution in England- three years ago the idea that Lenin would be accepted by thousands as indisputable and that that is their intention their own attam she position he has now, attamed seemed hardly crudible and hardly less steady undermined. Efforts are made to point of blinding the eyes of those who The authority of government is uherança make dazzlingly clear, to the absurd. He is sceeded to far beyond put the Government openly in the wrong; will not believe. all expectation. Is it possible that his to make it appear ridiculous or treacher 16eir tactics are obvious. They buye success will develop till his goal is eas It is persistently represented as a undertaken a definite strategic action
President Wilson's programme has fail-even though it be the
government, government, universal are fomenting rebellion in Ireland, in
British Empire. against the
They ed. An intractable Europe has refused to suffrage. submit to the Fourteen Point
Amid all the complications that
India, and in Egypt. Arizo possible that it is Lenin after all who has over such issues the doctrine of class war
undermining British Lattuence. Per- guessed the secret of the historical pro kept to the front, and puopio who are plays on all the string of British whim, By a subtle propaganda, that cess in which we are involved, and that no Socialists and have no interest in prejudies, and party feeling, they have!. the new world that is to come after the sociological theory are subily influenced by created in British union a hopeless coa war will be moulded after bis fantastic this propaganda. Democratic sentimentsion 4s to the nature of their wr conception
It is time to determine our attitude to doctrine of class war, which is the negmost advintage of after-the-war discon becomes gradually imbued with the égime in Russia. They have taken the this question, which is really, the ona imtion of democracy. Labour organizations portant question at issue. What primarily are drawn into an international move tents, disappointments, and rivalries. They bursting corn-bins or whether Poland was sernational ends. The economic struggle tave played in it a most skilful and suc. nf the international diplomatic game, and right or wrong in the various stages of her is complicated with political issues. conflict with the Soviets. The only thing ingenious manipulation conflicts per ques the British Labour movement, and
Bycessful part.. They work in the heart of that really matters now is whether Leniu tions of wages, hours, and industrial policy only British Labour daily is cleverly run will need in plunging Europe into A are arranged and combined to embarrass in their interests. · J sers of civil and int rnational wars in the action of the Government in foreign his efforts to bring about universal affairs. revolution and to establish in a world just come to a conscious of its unity, the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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The sympathies of a cer- attack on property in all its forms, and tain section of Liberals are engaged in the dimensions and on the present system of administrative coercion are subtly appeal. struggle. Their antipathy to war and to order and civilization, there would be ed to in order to range them on the Bol.
The divisions of Europe, the incoherence of opinon in every country, the absorption of petulant parties in minor sues, favour the development of the Holsbevist plan. Bolshevism is no longer a Russian pheno menon, and, indeed, it has never professed and was Dover. intended to be simply Husejn.
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powerful forces that would
If the question of Ireland, of India, or International conflicts give just thờ of Egypt is discussed, their most passionate opportunity needed to obscure, the real endeavour is to prevent anything that the international arena, and immediately Bolshevist propaganda
issue. The most remarkable feature of suggests the use of force. If, in the pro affect, us
is the way in which Bress of disturbance, a movement of revolt Lenin's plans are of vitalit rallies to its support a large mass of were to arise in England they could be importance for our own future. Is the future of England going to be ns we would progressive opinion that would be empha trusted to raise a violent ortery against
Lically anti Belabevist if the question arose the use of coercion here. bas deficile Plus Tould like it. Lenin of establishing the so-called dictatorship of strange incongruity, they are always engor
plans. Have wa?"
the proletariat in England. Tam fully aware that to many the ques The moderate Enbour leaders, and eveni tion, thus sharply put, may savour of an a certain number of Liberais, are willing on the part of the Bolshevista, exaggerated anxiety; & wilful pessimism and eager at certain moments and in that has no warrant in the present situa-varying ways to support Bolluviat tactics. Polish conflat is settled Bolshevist pro- It is short-sighted to imagine that if the tion. I shall be told that Bolshevism is not such a great danger as it seems, that appears to me to be this Lalled into one form or another, in connection with
In the enge of the Liberal, the situation paganda will die, down in England, in Russia Bolshevism is bound to Int, and security by prosperity and by the seeming ever multiplying international conflicts, that the best way to hasten its fall, s toalidity of the institutions and the the Bolsheviks will find increasing oppor bring it into as close touch as is possible economic structure in which they have tunity for propaganda and action on their
althier world,.
their being they indulge their humani chosen lines. tarian sentiments to the full: They bou
I do not believe that if it came to an There are a hundred arguments, both live whole heartedly in the power of moral open fight a Bolshevist revolution in Eng facile and subtle, to prove that Bolshevismasion. They believe in the fundamental land would success. But the attempt is does not constitute a danger to England: goodness of mankind, and they are bitterly imminent and we are capidly drifting inn that the British works by reason of opposed to the exercise of coercion, or a position in which strategic advantages his habits, his temperament, his, sporting particularly by their own Government, are accumdatng in the hands of the Bol instinct and his sense of humour is in whether this inke the form of a war shovists. It is well to gerutinize their pervious to the abstruse and essentially abroad oz. administrative measures at tactics closely, for in a world of weakness,
home, nilen Bokhevist doctrine, and that his dis
vacillation and compromise they alone trust of foreiguers will render him hostile (Continued at foot of next column.) hare a policy and a purpose.
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