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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1930, Page 4

Thtu'.e was a time in the (/rent War when Russia was considered the “tho steam roller” destined to roll over Europe and annihilate the enemy forces and /so promote an'early peace. Those hopes were not realised. Russia %vas soon to be the scene of a horrible and relentless revolution, and the whole aspect of Russia’s part in tb> war changed. Rut to-day f despite the ordeal which Russia paused through, and is still 'passing through, the country is considered an international menace. The situation was summed up lately by the “gloomy” Dean of St. Raul’s, Dean Inge, who in his most pessimistic strain hats given out his estimate of Russia’s powet' for evil; A very docile people, iaplcty increasing in numbers. and viewing fife, like all fatalists, ‘‘with Olieiltttl hopelessness aild papsivity." the Rnsuian periple, if once fatriy launched >by their rulers %m a mu sadc against Western civilisation, might conceivably change tho whole course of the 'world’s history. AP Dean Tnge has said, the danger lies not only in Bolshevism or Communism, but in the ruthless strength of a t liuae nation, insnired by a sincere hostility toward the rest of the world, .lohn Sparge, the American Socialist, in a recent analysis of Sovietism, maintains that the danger which Russia threatens to the whole community of civilised nations is so menacing and formidable that it is reallv impossible for other Governments or States to maintain any sort of intercourse with her. “The central aim and purpose of the Soviet Government,” he isays, “openly avowed by its responsible statesmen, is to promote world revolution and bring about the overthrow of all other governments.” It follows that “recognition and the friendly relations which are (Drived from recognition are impossible between us and a regime which we can never trust, and which can never trust us.” Great Britain through the Labour Government has renewed intercourse with Russia, 'but all the while there are rumblings of an ever present danger. From time to time reports go out of the designs of the Soviet regime which pursues its conns© with unabated . vigour. True, there are divergent reports at times about life within Russia, but the substance of the stories are at ileaist very disquieting, and suggest that all is not well. Russia is a, changing country, and it would appear is not changing for the better, qtis vastness spreading from Europe into Asia is most impressive, and gives colour to the remarks of Dean Inge even if regarded only as possibilities. The warning of the Dean of St. Paul’s is influential enough to stir u,p serious thought as to the real position, which is sure to be probed to the fullest extent, in the search for confirmation or otherwise of the ever present evil brooding within so great an area of the northern hemisphere in tho Old World.