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LORD LYTTON'S FAMOUS STORY

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

The most spectacular film yet produced in Italy-the land of spectacular films—“The Last Days of Pompeii", took over a year to nake, and it has been hailed in London as the greatest picture of its kind ever pro- duced, the eruption scenes alone being described as colossal.

Coming to the

SOVIET RULE FOR TEN YEARS.

A SURVEY AND A CRITICISM.

MAXIM GORKY'S PANEGYRIC AND THEODOR DAN'S

REJOINDER.

[BY MAXIM GORKY.]"

The civil war would probably their wishes and needs. The army still be going on to-day if Vladimir of the "Komsomol" (Communist Lenin and his comrades, running Youth) is growing, and behind the risk of submerging the numeri them stand the Pioneers the cally small party of Bolshevik children who learn to think in workmen in the vast mass of the terms of the State. peasantry, had not come forward with this party and placed it at the head of the peasants. Lenin saved Russia from ultimate des #ruction and bondage at the hands of European capitalists, and his tory cannot but acknowledge this

service:

over

Amongst the peasant masses the striving for knowledge is growing Every year the participation, of women in political life is growing, Meslein women are being delivered from their state of servitude, and other races are being drawn into the general stream of civilizing labor.

What heritage did the Bolshevik

The Bolshevik Efort. party take over when it came into power and under what conditions

Every year many thousands of has it been working these six or well-schooled soldiers of the Red seven years? Several millions of Army go into the country districts healthy and able bodied Russians and thousands of workmen go there perished in the war. A consider on leave. They ate good teachers. able part of the revolutionary" The electric lamp has in itself a intellectuals went

to the vast educational significance in enemies of the Russian people. | the long winter nights it has begun Some of them proclaimed a strike, to illuminate thousands of peasant as they were unwilling to help the huts, and with its rays it gathers new Government in its struggle literates and illiterates for talk For freedom on behalf of the Rus-about life and the world. No one sian working masies. The former will accuse me of idealising the enemies of autocracy became the peasantry, but I do declare that enemy within the gates of their the Soviet Union has already Jwn people.. The half-ruined created a big class of peasants who agriculture of Russia suffered fur are more broadly acquainted with ther ruin beneath the goalaught the world and more actively cultur-

TO LEARN CHINESE,

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COMDR. KENWORTHY'S OPINION.

Comdr. J. M. Kenworthy, M.P., in a letter to the Morning Post, expressing interest in the announce ment that the Air. Ministry is giving special facilities to officers of the Royal Air Force to study foreign, languages, says: The need for in- guists is a great in the Navy as in the Air Force. For example, the condition of affairs in China for many years to come will necessitate British warships" being stationed in Chinese waters. To learn Chinees as a scholar is the work of a life- time; but to learn the Chinese vernacular is comparatively simple, and this system (the gramophone) can be used to give a great many of our officers, especially those with a natural aptitude for picking up languages, a working knowledge of Chinese.. .. Science has come to the aid of the teacher of languages ; and the adaptation of the gramo phone for the use of the student removes a handicap on the would- be linguist ashore and afloat.

KAISER'S GUILT

ESTABLISHED.

'LICHNOWSKY.

LONDON, Nov. 13th.

of the White armies. Industrialed than the peasants of any Euro-STARTLING REVELATIONS BY plant was worn out during the pean State. war, and even under the autocracy

The chief thing which the Euro- machinery was very deficient. The civil war killed a great number of pean visitor does not and will not abserve is the fact that in the politically and culturally educatedSoviet Union the whole mass of the The Berlin correspondent of the workmen. It conferred upon the population is being drawn into Daily News says that the publica Soviets the heritage of a wrecked public life, and that the people are tion of two volumes of Lichnowsky's generate men such as the capitalist logy produced by centuries of ser- system and of multitudes of de rapidly getting rid of the paycho-memoirs, containing correspondence

proving that the ex-Kaiser was re system in Europe has created in

vitude. They are beginning to aponsible for the war, may prove great numbers.

look upon the State as an or- epoch making in German politics. ganization of persons with equal rights, and not as, an anarchie and meetianistic union of persons who are split up into hostile classes and castes.

The Governments of Europe do all they can to impede the work of the Soviets for the economic and cultural reorganization. of the country. The Russian émigrés, with the help of the European bourgeoisie, are waging a partisan struggle against their own people, sending spies and hired assassins to Russia. Nor must the "hungry year of the great famine be for gotten.

I shall be told that this is a panegyric.

Yes, it is a panegyric.

All my life I have regarded as heroes only those who love and understand work, those whose aim is the liberation of all human This is a brief and necessarily power for creative activity, for incomplete summary of the con-organizing these modes of life ditions under which the Soviets are, which are most worthy of mankind. working. All those who speak of This is what the Bolsheviks are modern Russia should beat these striving for, with a success that is things in mind.

apparent to all who are not blind. ed by hate, and with admirable energy. Workers all the world. over are beginning to realize the significance of this effort.

The Work of Russian Scientists. What have the Soviets achieved "during these six years?

The Russian workmen and pea- sants are really learning to con duct affairs of State. They are be-

II. A REJOINDER.

TUESDAY TO SATURDAY ginning to feel that the State is [BY THEODOR DAY, THE LEADER OF THE

WORLD December 20th to 24th.

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their own business, and that the only road to freedom is the labour of all, united by the consciousness

RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC..

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of the magnitude and difficulty of

I two writer-Socialists, Bernard the tasks which they are bravely Shaw and Maxim Gorky, simul endeavouring to perform. The taneously praise Mussolini and working masses of the world are Stalin respectively, it does not beginning, though slowly, 50 follow that the one is a Fascist and realize the vast significance of this the other a Communist. In their fact.

panegyrics they both ignore the social processes that go on under the mantle of the Fascist and the Bolshevik dictatorship and show their reverence of dictatorships as such.

and

No per could describe the terrible blow it has dealt the country. Germany's insatiable desire for the withdrawal of the imputation of war guilt must cease henceforward. Letter from Berlin replying to Lichnowsky's letters from London in 1912 to 1914 were unaccountably | stolen when lent to the German archives.

Lichnowsky describes Sir Edward Grey na a wise, sane and upright politician and a peace maker. He says Winston Churchill is a bril liant leader though sly as a fox.

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todegenerates" who joined in the Dictatorship. In this way all the specific characteristics of the Dicta- torship disappear from sight-its criminal Utopiarism, the Terror, had the destruction of all liberty. In this way the complete paralysis of industry and the decay of agri- culture in the years of "war Com- munism" are attributed not to the Utopianism (the nonsensical character at which was admitted

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the White armies. In this way it is possible to apostrophise the uniqueness" of the Bolshevik European intellectuals, who, for the most part, are indifferent to

Press, ignore its depressing Com- munist uniformity, and to conceal the fate of their own people, might

the fact that none other than the well eavy Russia for many things

Bolshevik press is allowed in Rus- she has achieved if only they knew

sia and that Gorky's own paper. of them. The work of scientists, The Bolshevik Dictatorship con-

was suppressed in 1018. In this su all-important for human life, a frouts millions of working men held in high honour in the Soviet and women throughout the world way Gorky is able to emphasise the *་ enviable position of Russian Union. To this the representatives with problems to which the solu- intellectuals and to forget his own of Russian science

themselves tions are of vital importance for words about "the criminal exter testify At a time when, after the their own social liberation.

Hus-

mination of the intellectuals by READ THIS DOCTOR'S LETTER war, Europe was cutting down its dreds of thousands, if not millions,

the Soviet Government (contained expenditure on scientific institutes have already died fighting for and in his letter to Rykoff in the year. 24, May, 1927. a number of research institutes against this dictatorship. Its 100% on the occasion of the proceed- were founded in Russia; several prisons and its places of exile areings against the Social Revolu "I have been a martyr to Hay Fever new universities were organized, even now overcrowded with people tionaries). And such instances "for the last seventeen years and have the exploration of the natural re- whom even Gorky should not could be multiplied indefinitely.

sources of the soil was taken in suspect of emotional hostility found nothing to do me good. To hand, deposits of several kinds of towards the revolutionary and cul-

The Russian Revolution is mag. "day I have taken six of your Velocium ore were discovered, and a series taral processes which are going on

nificent and deserves to be defend- "tablets, and even already I feel freer of important scientific discoveries in Russia.

technical inventions were Ten years have passed since ed. But it is permissible to hold than I have been for the last few made's new methods in fighting Gorky, on the eve of the Bolshevik that its achievements would have pests harmful to crops were appli- upheaval, published in his news been greater and more enduring "weeks, and begin to feel that at longed, swamps were drained, breeds of paper (The New Life of 18-31 and that an enormous number of

last I have found a cure."

cattle improved, and so on: The October, 1917) the article" Let Us lives destroyed in vain would have electrification of the land is mak- Not be Bilent." Gorky accused been spared if the Bolsheviks bad (Signed), M.B., Ch.B. ing steady progress, new factories Lenin and his comrades of playing responded to Gorky's appeal in the are being built, and new branches the part of a tool in the hands year 1917 and, instead of initiating of industry are being developed. of impudent adventurers or insane civil war and the Dictatorship of fanatics" He now looks upon their party, they had agreed to the these ad renturers and fanatics" Icrmation of a united Government A unique press has come into 38 "real heroes," and "it even of all Bocialist parties on a demo existence which pays special atten- seems to him he has so regarded cratic basis. Opinions may differ tion to workmen and peasants, them all his life.

on this point. The fact remains penetrating into the smallest de tails of their daily lives. The Characteristics Of The Dictatorship. that the Russian Revolution passed through the stage of the Bolshevik countless little newspapers which Gorky's method is extremely sim Dictatorship, and that this Dicta. are published by the workmen in plc. The Russian Revolution is torship, in spite of its Utopianism, the factories, printing works, tram- one of the most tremendous social its mistakes, and crimes, played a ways, and so on, in which the and political upheavals mankind workmen themselves learn how to has ever experienced. Its achieve revolutionary part during a cer- write about vital questions, aboutments are

enormous. Its whole in period.

But what seems indisputable to increasing productivity, and in significance will be clear only when me is that this, revolutionary which the self-criticism of the the Revolution has completed its period of the Dictatorship is now workmen is the best witness of course and can assess ite gains over, and that now there is no their growing self-respect, of their Even now it is unfortunately clear "sabotage," no "White armies,", developing cultural demands of that its achievements are by no no blockades or military interven-LONDON SELLING AGENTS their striving after knowledge all mente identical with Socialism. tions every justification for the these little papers and periodicals But there is no doubt at all that Dictatorship has gone. What have a cultural importance that is they are very great, t seems indisputable is that by the The panegyrical method con Terror, by the suppression of all perhaps no less than that of the

sists in this the successes and liberty, and by upholding the rem big newspapers.”

An army of "Rabkory" (work- achievements of the Revolution nants of its Utopianism the Dieta correspondents) and Belkory" (that is to say, of a movement in torship is beginning to play in (peasants correspondents), men which millions of caen and women increasingly reactionary part that and women, and.

GUME, AND An army of took part) are represented as the is hampering the development of "Women's Delegates" are busy sole achievements of the Bolshevik Russia's productive forces, stiling throughout the country. In other Dictatorship, while failures, suffer the revolutionary energy of the words, the Russian people are inge, defects are represented as a masses, and so preparing the way being taught and are learning to heritage of the past and attributed for political counter-revolution speak freely about themselves, (Continued on next Column.): Manchester Guardian:

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