TROTSKY'S VISIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1918, Page 5

TROTSKY'S VISIONS.

WORLD PEACE IN FEW WEEKS. PACIFISTS WIIiL RISE: ALL THRONES .MUST YIELD. / . London, Dec. 11. The Times'correspondent at Petrograd states that the programme of M. Trotsky j (Foreign is ,based on the belief that the vtfhole Eirropaa'proletariat will

insist in the next few weeks on the conclusion of a general peace. His emphatic repudiation of a separate peace and his expressed intention to negotiate a general peace in concert with tile Allies indicate his perfect confidence in the near approach of a simultaneous outburst of pacifism, beforo which all thrones and powers must yield. Trotsky did not explain what would happen if the revolutionary cataclysm did not occur, but the Ministerial paper Pravda supplies the answer to tlie question as follows: ':\Ve will make general peace if possible. If we cannot we will have a, separate one. Peace is coming, and Dukhonin (the murdered leader), Haig, and Hindenburg cannot retard it." There is a growing and dangerous feeling of resentment against British residents, due to the retention of Russians in England. British workmen in a Petrograd factory were lately warned that they had better leave the country, as trouble was brewing. In an interview M. Trotsky repudiated any intention of negotiating to the Kaiser's or Germany's advantage. Replying to a question of the no-annexation formula to Turkey, who had long misgoverned alien races like the Armenians and Arabs, M. Trotsky advocated the creation of independent states or confederations. He said he approved of the settlement of the Jews in Palestine, but remained silent when he was reminded that the British occupation of Bagdad was due to the necessity for preventing its seizure by another power. , Trotsky communicated a telegram received from certain Mongolian tribes, asking the protection of the new Bolshevik Government. Trotsky said that he replied to the effect that he considered it a humiliation for any nation to ask the protection of another, but he was, nevertheless, ready to accord support. The Ukraine Republic ignores the armistice announcement, because it does not recognise the Ukraine Republic. The Ukraine Secretariat is negotiating the foundation of a new Russian Government, consisting of all Russian nationalities. This Government will be authorised to initiate negotiations for an armistice.