THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA. - ' ■ • ■ ' ■ Hf Nobody can yet claim to have either learned or spoken > “the whole truth and nothing but the;,truth”,about Riui-. sia, . ..The country is .so vast and the problem that, ib present - to.,the,> investigator is so many-sided and-, .complex that even the most conscientious observer may, prove ignorant,.of ;partisan.. One can only, draw inferences from the evidence, .to the best .of one!stability, and the testimony of Mr HesselL Tiltman, recently cabled from London, seems authentic enough. Mr Tiliman has written a life of Ramsay MacDonald, and he travelled recently for a month in Russia. He tells us that the people are either “fanatics” or “hopeless and apathetic,” and his description of the country certainly suggests that the inhabitants have little to be cheerful or hopeful about. Privation and famine seem to be the 1 universal lot,, and. the. only, thing .■>that keeps: Bolshevism going is the enthusiasm of the Communist, minority, who 'fire eagerly learning English to “Spread the light” in the outer, world.'/!-' Mr Tiltman’s words mayiserve as renewed warning of the danger of Communist propaganda., . . . •-|
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 4
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184THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 4
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