THE HIDDEN HAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 213, 3 June 1920, Page 5

THE HIDDEN HAND

GERMANY AND THE FRENCH STRIKE. London, May 22. "Was the hidden, hand of Germany behind the abortive revolutionary strikes in France, the reckless unpatriotism of which surprised everyone familiar with tho splendid devotion, of the workers in war timo? _ Emphatically, yes!" says Adolphe Smith, who has served 28 years as an Anglo-French interpreter at Internal ional Socialist congresses. "The Times" gives prominence to a striking letter, in which Smith, a eelfprofessed Socialist, insists on tho impossibilty of simultaneous organised revolutionary movements in several countries, due to the nattol impulse of tho average worker. A crowd of newc< Micro, ho says, preaching the doctrines which Germany sent Lenin to spread in Russia suddenly swamped tho old French unionists and the revolutionary socialists alike, and swamped tho Confederation of Labour, while Sorel nnd the notorious Grilfuelhues again emerged from their temporary obscurity, promoting semiai archism.

Smith says that a swarm of agents of Bolshevism and the German intriguers, supplied with plenty of xnoney, are clearly using the young workers to promote strikes and the destruction of industry. The estrangements between Prance, England and America are calculated to continue till' Germany defeats tho claims of the Allies and reaps tho fruits of peace. •

Smith points out that a section of tha English Labour Party IB anti-Polisli, and is obviously playing- (ho Gorman militarists' game, lie urges all parties and newspapers to join :n a rigorous campaign for exposing revolutionary conspiracies Otherwise thoy will soon bo dangerously intensified.

"The Times," in :i leading article supporting Smith, refers to the existence of detailed evidence of Germany's complicity in Lenin's and Trotsky's constant attempts to work through the Socialist oonferences, „nd to create trouble for the Allied countries during the war.—"The Times."