SOVIET RUSSIA
NEGOTIATIONS WITH GERMANY INSTITUTED TRAINS FOR EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright . (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) I Paris, February 2fi. j Negotiations, instituted with Britain's e assent, between the Soviet and the German Governments are proceeding. Germany has arranged to run ivcelily trains 3 between Berlin and Moscow for the pur- . pose of exchanging prisoners. Germany i takes over the Prussian railways for t thirty-four thousand million marks.— - Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. I PEACE OFFERS - ™ THE SOVIET 1 TO AMERICA. JAPAN, AND J RUMANIA. [ (Ree. February 2!), 11.45 p.m.) Lor.don, February 2G. , A wireless message from Moscow state, 1 ! > that the Soviet has sent Notes to Amer- ! ica, Japan, and Rumania offering peace, —Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i LORD HALDANE'S VIEWS ON BOLSHEVISM : RUSSIAN PEOPLE MUST WORK OUT OWN SALVATION. 1 That Britain was somewhat deficient in the "international mind" was claimed 'by Lord Haldane, who presided at a lecture given by Mr. W. S. Sander on Bolshevism, under the. auspices of the Fabian Society in the King's Ilall, Coveut Garden, London. They were. Lord ITaldano declared, rather apt to take the standards that had been handed down to them by their granmothers and to think there was no question about them. Bolshevism had done very terrible things, it had committed many outrages and out off the head of an innocent king. They, too. liad cut off the head of a king; a king, according to his lights, no doubt as innocent, and possibly more innocent. The ouestion was, what was the value of his lights? Looking back after two and a half centuries opinion was clearer to-day than "twenty years after the event. t „ ~ Then again France had cut oft the head of the king, and a very innocent and good king he had been in many respects; and, so far as good intentions went, when tliev rend the modern iTenoli stories, and he" had been reading lately some of the work that had been done aff the result of research by members of the Academy, thev found a clearer light on the meaning of the Vrench Revolution only after 100 years had elapsed, Ihey found that the revolution hart not.really been against Louis XVI. The Trench nation had wanted onlv i constitution and that, constitution to work out its own salvation, and the reason why it had fought for the constitution with violence had not been due merely to the resistance of the old governing class, but to the hateful traditions of the periods of Louis XIV and XV. When there was a great revolution it was directed against a great deal more than the matters ot the moment, —it was directed against t ban past. That had been the ease in Russia ]USt as in the case of Franco, and as in their own country, when it had uprisen against the Stuarts. What was the nior.il of this' Tt was that when they camo to deal with the question of the dements and the merits of ft revolutionary movement the dominant test wis what din the people themselves concerned, wfiat did the democracy which was engaged, make of the matter in the end. In the time of the French Revolution thev had been carried away with the eloquence of Burke and many other «lomient men. What had bofin the result r The Allies had begun a war against the Revolution on a scale much larger than any that had ever been begun against the Bolshevist Revolution. And what had happened after the battle of Valmy? There had begun a drill through France which had turned the French Nation into one of tho most tremendous fighting nations the world had ever seen, The people had pulled themselves together as soon as foreign powers threatened to invade their territory and showed that they had the consciousness of their title as a nation to liberty and had put that consciousness and that title beyond anything else. He thought the growing opinion in Great Britain was that no greater act of folly could be committed than to try to nut dow» the state of things that, to-day existed in Russia by foreign intervention. How, then,' was Bolshevism, assuming it was as bad as it was mado out, to be, to be put.down? How were all thiwa outrages and atrocities to bo ended? lb the pcoplf, themselves. They were the only ones who could do it. They mr c t. leave it to Russia, and the reason why was because there was one faith so far in the world's historv that had never beti'aved those who held it and that was that in the main the instincts of the people were right. The way of dealing with it. was to let the people of Russia work it out themselves and not to make thintrs worse by attempts to interfere, which were certain to be feeble and ineffective) and even it thej were much more powerful than they promised to be, could not hope to attain success.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 5
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