The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-18
RevOIutiOnist Predicts Ger
tain Failure for the Boil
sheviki Government
SEP ARATE PEACE
is NOT EXPECTED

ASsimilate Russia Would Result III
the Ultimate Undoing of Germany It
self, Is the Assertion.
LONDON, Dec. 1S.-A Russian revo-
Iutionist, one OF the intcllectuals,
recently gave newspaper correspond
emit an interesting impression of what
persons of his class in Russia think |
and want He is one Of those who arc |
equally at home in Moscow, Cleveland, |
Petrograd or Pittsburg; he could acquit |
himself equally well lccturing from a
soap box in Homestead, Pa, or before
n class i'm social economies AT Harvard !
Earnest, impractical, with a vast vision
of the next century and neither eoneep
tion OF nor regard for tomorrow; him
self an avowcd international socialist
and 4 firm believer that international
i'm Will emerge from the war the dom
inant force in the world, he insists that
great fundamental mistake was made
when the allied powers suppressed the
/ Stockholm conference
He believes that the war will 90 on
1 until social revolution in the western
countries shall bring them into line
/ with the ideals OF the Russian revolu-
tion. He is sure that even the fighting
forces Of Germany, and to much great
er extent the civil population. have
been impregnated with the sentiments
Of the Russian revolution. H is equal
~ confident that he can discern the
premoHition Of an approaching social
upheayal in the western countries.
though he does not presume that it will
involve any such disintegratiOn Of SO
ciotv rs has taken place in Russia. On
the day of our conversation the cables
from Pctroogad had Just brought word
that conflict seemed inevitable between
the provisional Government and tlc
Petrograd extremists
~ am as devoted an internatioualist
as anybody, but l am not a Bolsne-
vik, he said on this point THE Boil
Shevik are the extreme radicals who
propose that in the reconstruction Of
society all power shall be in the hands
of the proletariat. They would exclude
! the bourgeoisic and the old ruling class
entirely. They never can succeed sim
n ply because not more than > or per
4 cent of the whole Russian people sym
! uathize with such views IN the end
4 though il may Ice long way off. the
4 great bourgcoisic viii reorganize Rus
sia along the lines Of much more mod
q crate radicalism.
"Only in Petrograd are the BolsheyiI
4 able to dominate the local population
In Moscow, although 60 per cent of tia
I people are international socialists. thu
Rolsbevlk are utterly unimr ortaut
hardly 10 be found
1.-The real power OF Russia lies will
the great middle class which up to thi
time has not effectively made itsel
I felt 1t win at last come to the surfact
aud take control Of affairs.
\ "Whateyer happens Russia ncvc
4 viii make Il separate peace with Gen
! many. You can be sure of that. Wheth
\ or it viii Ice able to present an etfectiv
y offensive or even considerable defcn
4 SIvc against Germany IS another qucs
A tlon. That depends on the time il ma
4 take to bring about the reorganizatio
q that will enable the nation to preSen
united front to its enemy. III Their
l should eusuc a long period of utter &
4 clal dIslntegration such as is possibl,
! then Russia would be mt the mercy Q
4 Germany, and there would be nothin
10 prevent Germany ovcrrunning it i
military way during the war an
I subjccting it economically and social
4 after the war. Russia would in tina
\ event become nothing but great cas-
4 ern province of Germany.
But Germany could not hold il il
\ definitely because the Russians are Il
determined to save the fruits of the
m revolution. They have had a taste