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TWO BREEDS OF

BOLSHEVISM

By the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper

all nations such dreams

IT would be folly for one who con--jshall be equal both in status and in

sistently advocated; an agreement wealth and in which with Russia to prefend that the new shall be friends. No relationship between the Soviet and haunt the baser imagination of the the German Governments: is not un-Nazi. He, while rejecting Christ- pleasant. But in war, even more than ianity, has returned to the primi- in peace, there is no time to cry over❘tive tribal paganism of his barbar- ous ancestors. He has no faith in spilt milk.

When the position for which both humanity but only in a particular he has sides were contending is Irretrie-branch of it out of which vably lost, the wise commander of created an idol, unknown to ethni- the less fortunate faction centres his cal science, whom he calls the Nor- he worships. attention on the disadvantages rath- dic man and whom

er than the advantages which his This god, whom the Nazi has creat- adversary has acquired and recon- ed in his own image, is a brutal god. noitres the vulnerability of the new Mercy, humility and loving kindness evil position. The fox showed himself he despises and denounces as

into a good leader when he informed his forms of weakness imported followers-if he had any—that the European from Palestine, the breed- Inaccessible grapes were sour.

ing ground of everything he hates.

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Certain it is that Germany has for- The higher ideals of communism feited as much on the moral as she won't work. and the Bolshevists of has gained on the material side by Moscow have long abandoned them. the latest development of her for- It is not easy to make men work eign policy. There have long exist for the love of working without hope Russians were ed people in Great Britain, and else- of gain, and the where, who have attempted to de-never experts in organisation. The ad- fend the abominations of the Nazi lower ideals of Nazism work regime by maintaining that it was mirably, because it is not difficult to better than Bolshevism; and when persuade a man he belongs to Hitler: first obtained power, by superior race and that therefore he fraud and cunning, some of his ad- is justified in persecuting and rob- mirers explained that he had de- bing a powerless minority-and the livered Europe-from the red menace. Germans have always shown them- There were many even a year ago selves efficient in the minor arts of who still believed that Hitler was administration. In small matters It is a man of principles and that how they are invariably first rate. ever ignorant his theory of race only their blunders that are colos- might be, however ugly his anti-sal: semitism, however crude his politi- The two revolutions have follow- have in- cal theories, he nevertheless sincerely ed similar paths. Both he'd the opinions which he so fre- dulged in a blood bath at the ex- quently expressed.

pense of the original leaders. Trot- When therefore he gave his solemn sky, the right man of Lenin, got away assurance that he not only had no-Roehm, the right man of Hitler, wish to include Czechs within fhe was murdered-almost before Reich but added that he would hot eyes of his master. Stalin still seeks take them as a gift, there were many to pretend that he is the authentic who thought that for once he was heir of Lenin, who earlier fell speaking the truth and that for once victim to disease, and Hitler, whose his word could be relled on. The hands are deeply dyed not only with events of March 15th struck blink the blood of the innocent but also ers from the eyes of millions, for with that of his own intimate and not only did Hitler break his word, vile associates, is still regarded by which he had often done before, but the submissive multitudes of enslav- he proved that one at least of his ed Germans as the true prophet of aft repeated principles was arrant the new religion. humbug.

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The Russians have hitherto been

Even then there were some who the more ruthless. They have, in persisted in retaining their admirá- theory, abolished all private pro- tion. It is indeed surprising how. perty and openly attacked religion. many admirers Hitler had in Eng-They have massacred, on a large Iand I know, because they tre-scale and put to death, the creators quently honoured me with abusive of their existing naval and military letters And the faith of these ad-orces.. The Germans proved timid mirers was founded on their hatred imitators of their great Russian of Communists and. Jews, a hatred 'exemplar. They stole all the pri- which they believed was sincerely vate property of the Jews and are shared by their Fuehrer.

gradually acquiring that of others Now they behold, this same Fuè- as they need it. They made a con- hrer forming a close and intimate cord at with the Pope, every clause alliance with the one communist of which they broke. They impri- state in Europe and protesting his soned the noblest of their. Protest- affection for. Joseph Stalin, who in ant clergymen, but they founded a association with numerous Jewish new sect of "German Christians",. colleagues, has helped to create that which is pastored by time-serving, Comintern which was supposed to lick spittle sycophants and which is be the object of Hitler's most violent loathed and despised, by Catholic and animosity.

Protestant. alike.. They dismissed While Hitler's conversion con- their most, distinguished

rénerals tinues an eternal surprise to his ad- but (except possibly von Fritsch) mirers, those who never shared their have. not killed them, and they pre- admiration have equally little shareferred the slow forfure, of the con- in the surprise. I more than once centration camp, to the mass mas- referred to the possibility of an al- sacre method of their Russian allies. liance; and is: indeed the most: nat- In the last war the support of

world ural thing in the

because Russia was of great material. assist- there is no fundamental. difference ance to the Allies, but Russia was between: the creeds of Moscow and always a moral liability. At a time Berlin.

when we were anxious to persuade These two breeds of Bolshevism the world that Great Britain; and are fundamentally akin. Both are France stood for the principles of historically revolutionary, both are democracy in opposition to German admittedly socialistic, both seek to militarism, the presence of what was break away from all ties with the I then the most tyrannical Govern- past, to abolish all class distinction, ment in Europe in our ranks was a to destroy all old traditions and source of considerable...énibarrass- both are bitterly anti-Christian, ment: Neutrals. asked themselves Where they differ the Russian whether the friends of the Czar brand is the less ignoble of the two, could also be the sincere supporters the German is the more efficient. of democracy. For this reason it The Communism of Karl Marx does was easier for the United States: to in theory, if not in practice, aim at come Into, after Imperial Russia had international peace and good will, gone out of the picture, "It envisages a world in which'all' men (Continued on Page 21).

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