The Taihape Daiiy Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1920. SOVIET GOVERNMENT OR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS?

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 11 August 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daiiy Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1920. SOVIET GOVERNMENT OR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS?

With which is incdrporated “The Taihape Post and’Waimarino News ”

The ‘Russian Soviet has spurned the ultimatum received from Britain, and has refused to grant any truce to the hard pressed Poles; the march on Warsaw is to continue; the land that has for a thousand years striven for freedom‘ is to once again be conquered by an enemy, -a power that has arisen from the most illiterate peopl_c in the highest civilised co»ntincn.'f. The great drama of the struggle for Polish liberty has been on the European stage for upwaxids of a thousand years, and it seems that the grand denouement is now just about to :take place. In the sevententh century Poland had reached the apex -of her power. So rapid and consistent had been the expansion of Polish rule that the territory then governed stretched from the Black Sea to the Baltic, but in little, over a century that leader of civilisation among the nations, towards the close of the eighrteenth century, all | claim to national status had vanished. 'Simult_aneously -attacked on the east , by_ Russia, ,on the west. by Genmanjr, 3 ‘and on the south, by Austria all nation- } al aspirations were crushed out or renidered hopeless. A ray of hope re‘vivified :the fragments of Polish patlriotism ‘as a result of the complete ’victory over Germany and Austria, in the great war and the collapse of goviternment in Russia. The three great destroyers of Poland were laid prostrate, and it appeared as though nothing stood betxveeii, the Poles and a freedom stripped of its fugitiveness in a thousand-yearsdong struggle. It is J’ apparent the dawn of freedom has not yet broken for the Polish people; their ‘ land is being overrun by a‘. new Russia on awakened Russia, and so confident ‘is it in its new found power that it l dares to flout. the i1l'llll1:ltl()'IlS of a comlbination of the greatest of European ' Governments. The moment has al'l~iiuecl when this new found. power has to be looked square in the face. The great nations of the earth. have dallied and trifled with-it, scorned it and treated lit. contexnpfuously, but it has continlued to flourish, expand and gather I military and territorial power, until it has become a gi-an't» that Britain and iF1'{1Il(?() fear to attack. This new Ilrffll Eaco to old forms of go-vermnent rind [society did not originzite. in Ru.-:si:1, -the country of the C;cul's‘ olTerov.l, at the psycl1ol()gi::al nioznent an i(|a:zl bN‘o«lillg-ground for 3, second form I;-‘1‘ German culture. After ‘Lire harei brnincd e.~Cupa.dos of the inilium-ilfie, i Kerensky, the \\':i._v ivns (t'le{lr for Herinmu revolulimiists to tlespatclu ili«2ir' F of.-,'onts to l’etrogl'a(l, and-after :1 very 3 Sllflhl period of pl"op:lg‘und:l. and or;;'::n----3 isulion Lenin. and 'l‘rotsky suco.~:.<l'nl:i,v planned :1 seizure of government, and the Bolslieviki have ruled Russia. curely from then to. the present. time. ’l‘ho:v have virtually <:leal'ed .\'.iln_-rin of all eneinius of the Soviet, including the driving out of the British from the enormously rich oil tr.-r-ritory around Baku. and tlieyr are now on the point of adding Poland to the rule of Soviotisrn. But Russia is not alone; Riissiaii zll'lnios’a:'e under control of German agxents, of this there no longer dt-übl”. Britain and France cannot go to Polish asistance via Germany, the (I‘(:rman people have left no misunrlorstnmlingr upon that aspee-l oi” the difficulty. Gernmns are the sumej Bolsheviks today as they were when‘ they de.~'pntelie<l tlzeir agents, Loninl and 'l.‘l'otsky, to oust the half-witiedi Kr>rr-nsky. The new ‘revolutionary power the Eritenté has to contend with is not Russia. alone but :1 c-ornbinationj of (-‘xerrnans and I—'{ussi-ans-——tho Govern-I ments of both these huge, populous‘! countries. 'From this it will he recog-I nised how grave the newly developed. menace to governnrenlts -and hocietyi really is. The world’s stage is tumul-I tons with :2. new drama, in which there slaml.-7 out lfloldly the struggle between. Bolshevism and civilisation. The ,r§r9:lt war illusion has lifted and the real destroyer, or reformer, confidently proclaims its inlteultions, and it is mldimz; to its successes almost daily. What are the nations going to do? It is not true that the Wealthy classes in

Entcnte nations have persisted in what "they must. have seen would estrangc the great. masses of workers from {-1. cause in which men. of wealth. had everytliing to lose? Daily newspapers now bear the news «that the 801- ‘ sheviki are dafring the Entcnete nations to do their worst; the Soviets will have no truce; they are as successful in Poland. as they have -been in Siberia ‘and Trails-Caspiu; they care. nothing for the llireatened blo-ckade; they [‘.['Q3_l; iUl|l‘1I111{l«11Il'1S with scorn; their red arlmics are surging over Poland to join lup with the red armies of Germany; the astute Lenin knows that greed has lmadei labour its enemy in all Entcnte countries; he knows that Sound the , tocsin of \\‘al‘o.s they may the response lwill do lilftle more than create conltli‘6iollS Of civil war amongst the en- : eniies of Sovietism. That. “Lenin forelisaw what would result from propa-lg-amlu. and success of anus, is pni.n~ lfully obvious. The German g‘ovurnl HIE‘-I\"' 55 OPCDIY «‘ISSE‘-rting its intention to keep Entcntc hands Off Soviet red iFll‘llll'3S at all costs VViif.h 01- without I‘csortixlg to arms. Cablegl-ams .1-3. loci‘./'€e('.l yesterday from England state that the situation is extreznely g-ave. A military and naval eo~n+'erence in London referred lithe situation to the Empire "s military and naval .:ulvisers lbut the’ decision has not yet been proHiiulguted. Will Britain declare war on lßolshevism in face of the course all lfhe 11930111’ Unions of Britain =llu.\'e exlpressed their determination to -lake? ’on Monday night all British Labour ‘Executives met. in conference to con‘sider the «attitude towa.rds'tllc 80lShevists, and a. general strike is threadenecl on railways, in coal mines, in Ship-building yards, ‘in -t/ransport, in ‘munition factories, and in other indus'tl'ieS.~ if ‘War is declared. on Russia. It is beyond doubt that the British Government finds itself in a terrifying quandary; “a house divided against‘: litself cannot stand.” Britain is in a critical position, if nothing is done Russia and Germany will have con: quercd while Entcnte greed has been cncrvating the Entente masses, and the 11‘d4'C-u]‘{llLSe(]llollCe will assuredly be :1. combination of Russians and Ger'i'n.'nns in '2, l-revolutionary campaign of Bolshevising the whole world. Lenin Sis repented in the Berner Tagwaclit to have stated in an address to the AllRussian Central Executive Connnitice of the Moscow.-Soviet, “that. we never ‘before stood ‘so near to the international proletarian revoluition as at present.” His speech was :1 lengthy one and it undoubtedly proclnirncil. n lcleveriiess and a tena.cit’y of purpose flint Entente peoples have d‘isn,slrolis‘l_v failed to take due notice of-. We are on the eve of great liistory-nmlzing liuppeniugs, and only a few days may sul’f’ice to indicate wlicther the Russo‘Gcrmun Bolshevik cult is‘ to be forced upon the xvorl'd.. or whether AngloSnxon peoples with the assistance of other Entcntc ll:ll’.~lO~IlS will take up arms to save civilisation as ‘people of the world know it? In this connection the wol'ds_of Engla.nd"s greatest. proplict, 'l.‘ennyson, are worth 'repent.in,n;. He wrote:—« A

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