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THE REVOLUTION PLANNED

IN LONDON,

When the news was brought to Lenin of the capture of the Winter Palace in Petrograd, which meant the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, be much the sign of the Cross before his fier."

How strange that this great apostle of atheism, should so far forget him

jf in the excitement of the moment as to resort to n mechanical exercise of the most sacredly signficant of all Chris tian ritual.

-AMERICAN GLASSES.

"In relaxed moments ore sometimes gets an inklog that the defects and handicaps, the inhibitions, the pitiable hawan failures, tragedies, and entastrophes from which the modern world is suffering may be largely traced to the need of a new estimate of motherhood in the mothers of men, since they are the master chemists of the labora tories where men are in the making, or, better, the master alchemists, since there

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Lenin's body is now lying in a dust always be some amgic in their art." coffin with a glass lid in a specially-Anne Sturges Duryea in the Century built mäusalena in the Red Square, the centre of Moscaw. "Sometimes the pea sants who go to view it cross themselves in its presence, and the Red Guarda at once come forward and reprimand them. "You must not do that here♫ they command.

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But the simple peasants are bewildered. In theis pilgrimages to the monasteries they are accustomed to cross themselves before the open coffins of departed saints. And when they see the body of Lenin laid out amid such pomp and circums tance sume of them naturally think that he, too, must be a saint.;

"; THE REVERSE. Not far from the Bed Squaro is a shop where" "caricatures of ✡ revolting blasphemous character are exhibited; and only the other day an official academy for propagandists of scientific atheism was opener in Petrograd, But the Bolshevik's realise the truth of the saying that if there had been no God man would have had to invent one.. The God which they are trying to invent is Leuin.

Trotsky, who is much in the public eye at present, has written an sporen much about Lenin, and some of his con- tributions have just been translated and published in book form by Messrs. Girarge FU. Harrap (Levin: by Leon Trotsky, 7 kl.) It is from this book, that we take the litt incident of the sign of

the Cross...

Since the Great War and the some- times apparently futile peace, the worlt faces the realization that wen, the best and most adequate men yet resulting from the best and most advaticed methods of produc tion, have barely measured up to the large demands of the complex situations which the ultra-complex world of to-day has

red.

"

There may be inspiration and a very wholesome hope in the possibility that we have looked to the wrong place for the solution of our manhood problem,

"No more great men we say. No one wise enough to handle batting world afuiry!" Men are not big enough!'.

Men are as big as ever they were; bigger by so much as that they have irre trievably welded together by trade, wireless, aeroplane, and a new international spirit the hitherto separate parts of the world which must henceforth be regarded and dealt with

ass unit.

"We are to-day handicapped not by hecessarily smaller men, but by more ex tensive and complex situations, which call truly for a new product in the art of man- umking, and nothing so abnormal as some monster superman will meet our require-

wents.

"In some way. coming mothers must learn to get larger ontlook, wider inspirations, ceeper values of the immense significance of the human spirits committed to their care anel of a mother's relation to them. They will look upon themselves as temporary custodians of these lives which belong first to themselves and then to the

future.

Trotsky believes that Lenin and Kart Mars are the two greatest men who ever lived, and it is not hard to guess who he imagines is fit to be the third in that illustrious company. It is of ing terest to relate that all three spent a

"They will not see their, children as of considerable part of their revolutionary interest in relation to themselves, but them- career as exiles in London.

selves as of an only temporary interest in Lenin lived in Bloomsbury, and com-relation to their children. The physical Maited

his revolutionary of philosophy in the Reading Room of the love will claim less emphasis;" personal British Museum. It was be who showed sensibilities, even moril ones, will be submerged: they will be looked upon as Trotsky round London.

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When in England in 1902 Lenin took "Will they not, then, create a race of some part in working-class activity, beings who need never seek their coveted But he had no very high opinion of joy in unusually perfect methods of killing, the British proletariaz (the Holaheyiks but in richer and completer ways of living are very fand of the word proletariat) and of fostering, the life of others in its

"Among them,” he said, there are many revolutionary and Socialist ele ments, but it is all so intertwined with Conservatism, religion, and prejudices that it cannot reach the surface, and become the property of all."'

It was while in London that Lenin got his fixed ïden of universal revolu. tion in the form of proletarian dicta torship. And from London he directed secret activities in Russia in accordance with their principle.

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"If we cannot ace to develop this sort of being from the human specimens pro- duced by the good old mothers of the past, why not look to a new and revalued mother- hood for the hope of the future?

Mothers of the coming day will find thrown into their crucible by rapidly changing modern conditions about every element needed for not a new chemistry of manhood, but the new alchemy of mother- hood:

"If old-time mothers will empty out their stale decoctions, if they can wash away their early Victorian sentimentalities, their stupidly virtuous, though essentially selfish, crystallizations, they may distil some new and potent magic of motherhood, some spiritually utilitarian essence, in which the coming world-infant may KTOW and take on some sort of world proportions and with which he may in safety primarily identify himself.

.. BRED IN LONDON. Thus it may be said that the Bolshevik revolution was planned in London more than 20 years ago. One of Lenin's col- leagues remarked of him. at that time: "From their dough comes Robespierres.” Thus Lenin was a man who had one faith from beginning to end of his life and he was determined from the outset to stop at nothing to realise it. It is clear that he was the author of the serret. He was always insisting upon the need "Such a mother would it a truly for shooting and dictatorship. At abnegating catalysis, by eliminating her- every passing opportunity," so Trocky self, precipitate for the young Narcissus of

tells us.

He emphasized the absolutnecessity

His sanguineness

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of the terror; all signs of sentiment-self-image worthy of his own regard, because expanding to the dimensions of the ality enraged him. Kiew

no bounds. In 1918 he was normally balanced and inely adjusted citizen of the universe, whom the whole preaching that, within half a year. Socialism would be successful, and creation is just now groaning and travail. Russia would be the greatest State in ing to bring forth. thi world.

Yet he said of Wells, who "If the complacent, egocentric mother, told him that Communism was acting who personalizes and sentimentalizes her too hastily, "What a Philistine! What motherhood according to gross and physical

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Trotsky adds that Lenin could not inte ber kingdom, does it occur to as that THE stand Wells's pompous self-satisfaction, her mantle might just possibly fall upon his narrownese, his civilised haughtiness the shoulders of the much despised and his civilised ignorance on his own dapper brief, decade the should be

account.

"In a

He adds that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald mothering the world-man. Will she, less is "a more settled and gloomy puritasei personally than her Victorian predecessor, al variety of the same type," ending since, her sense of liberty is larger; casually, up by predicting that one day statues

will be erected to Lenin and Kiri Mar perhaps gaily, almost fanntily one might in Trafalgar-square-only if the Bol. imagine, and perhaps even with honour, sheviks are so faithful to such bourgeois rise to the very great occasion?" monuments as statues it is hard to ex

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Trotsky played a theatrical condary part. But this face which is not published in the book under review, ought to be mentioned: The Trium Kilos," whose members are all men of virate that governs, Russia boiday exceptional corpulence and must weigh wero against the Bolshevik revolution over 100 kiloei (nearly 18 stone) when it occurred, and they only went The competition was held to decide who with the stream when power, had netually could make one gramme of tobacco Inst been conquered. Perhaps it would have the longest. (A gramme is 1-28th, part been better for them had they persisted of an ounce.) Each competitor there- in their boycott, for what have Lenin fore had to put in his pipe us much and Trotsky done to entitle them to tobacco as would be, received by each

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