The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-01
THE NEXT MOVE In RUSSIA.

minister Of foreign affairs at present in Paris represent
ing the provisional government Of Yekoternodar and the
Siberian government at Omsk to participate in any con-
ference at which the bOlshevd represented win prob
ably lead to the abandonment Of the proposed confer
ence OF Russian delegates Princes Island in the Sea
Of Marmora. NJ sazonOff's protest is backed up by
Prince Lvo former premied under the first duma gov
ernment who expresses surprise that the peace confer
ence should commence work by renewing relations with
Ryssias tyrants 1.-THE bOlsheyi,' he declares shave
won their greatest victory in Paris The decision of the
supreme council not only danger to US but to the
whole world It gives impulse to anarchy"
The Paris journal the Temps which is generally cred
tied with being the organ of the Quai d0ay not less
energetic in its condemnation of the proposal of the SUI
preme council which, declares permits traitors who
withdrew Russia from the and turned the entire Ger
man strength against France to be received the
footing as the faithful" The British press while less out
spoken than the French regarding the proposal damns
it with faint praise The Morning Post declares that it
displays more than Christian meekness" The Daily Tel
officially wrong" The only consolation the Times can
it that if the plan to naught the hands
the allies have been strengthened by its failure"
All this represents rscass funeral for the proposal
of the supreme council What is calculated to cause
establishment is that NJ SazonOf and Prince Lvo are in
Paris and M Paul Milukof, former foreign minister in
Russia is in London they not sounded before the
proposal officially published in view Of the fact that
their consent to participate just important that
of the bolsheviki Lenine and Trotzky have now the
beau role" they GEN. knowing there will be no Princes
Island conference gain cheap by accepting the
invitation and thus throw the responsibility for failure
on the bourgeois parties"
The word of command is therefore "as you were and
the peace conference faces an unchanged Russian stu
alton What will be it's next move? Some decision must
be taken attitude of mastery inactivity may be
observed under any circumstances excepting when facing
conhagration In regard to confagraton three poll
cies possible One is to attack it vigorously to turn
on the fire hose from every side until it is exnguished
second is to do nothing except to simply let it burn itself
out; when their is nothing left to the fire will
die out The third is to crcumscrbe the FIRE and reduce
far possible the Of destruction saving what
be saved and allowing the rest to burn.
In the Russian bolshevst conAagraton it has been pro-
posed to turn the hose all along the line This would
mobilizing American French Briti5h Italian and
Japanese expeditions and pouring troops into Russia
every possible point That is the heroic method The
effort might have been demanded of the war-weary allies
the call had been made once before the peoples had
been allowed to believe that armisce meant peace and il
dnnohiliz had hann hnUun Now ie ata
is becoming a problem to find men willing to constitute
the armies of occupation in Germany. 1t is therefore
possible to turn the international fire hose with the
necessary vgor 1t is equally impossible to simply throw
up hands and abandon Russia to bolshevism. In
twelve months time that plague will have swept over Eu
from end to end Repression and lassez fare be-
ing THEREFORE equally impossible the only hope is to take
instant measures crcumscrbe the area of the cona
grafton.
In order to do this immediate and urgent aid must be
given to all the parts of Russia that have escaped
giOn and reinforce the neighborng states Siberia Tx
rainia, Czccho-Sovaka, Jugoslava, Roumania Poland
Lhuania, Esthona and the Archange governments must
be encouraged morally and aided materially in their strug
gle with boshevsm These states ring boshevist Russia
round with ring of steel and what is more important
drive wedge between that cauntry and Germany, the
country which made bolshevism possible and still hopes
to profit by the Russian chaos Let question of red
tape hairsptng diplomacy interfere with the utili
zaon of the sane elements of SIavdoml When house
is burning any bucket that will hold water can be used
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