TYRANNY IN A NEW DRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1921, Page 9

TYRANNY IN A NEW DRESS.

MRS. SNOWDEN ON THE HORRORS OF BOLSHEVISM. Mrs. Snowden, at a dinner of the British Russia Club in London, said that as a believer in Socialism, she confessed herself a determined opponent of Bolshevism. The conditions of the cities in Russia was simuly appalling. That of the villages was less bad, but production was declining in the country. Government requisitioning discouraged the peasants from producing more than they required. The impression made on her was so terrible that she believed she would have her mind if she had. been compelled to stay much longer. There were many varieties of Communists, some much worse than Lenin, who, indeed, was showing signs of willingness to compromise. If the moder-

ates could get the upper hand there would be some hope for Russia. She had said nothing since she came home that she did not say to the face of the Bolsheviks. Kamenoff was in the chair at a meeting she addressed in Moscow, and he wss pink with misery. Bolshevism was just the old tyranny dressed in new clothes. Dictation by the minority always meant terrorism. The wrong was. in departing from methods of democracy. She believed in development from within. It was absolute wickedness and madness for the Bolsheviks to repudiate the Russian National Debt, and it was as wicked to destroy faith and trust between nations as between individuals.

As'long as outside Governments tried to interfere Russians would support their Government, and unless we could get Europe back to normal relationships we should have Bolshevism all over the world.